Welcome to the first official week...well, the halfway mark of the first official week of May. And that means the offseason is right around the corner for both Bob’s Burgers and The Great North. And I have to admit, despite that we may be looking at a shortened season for both shows, your boy is cooked. Not kidding, your boy is cooked and fried because of everything that is going on that I wished for the offseason to arrive. I know that it almost sounded like a cry for help, but as someone who I guess you could say is somewhat of a content creator, just through the blogs of course, I for one can hardly wait for the offseason even though I can be easily be distracted at times. So there’s that.
In this week’s episode of The Great North, it’s one of those episodes where a main character has to go to different places in one night in hopes of not upsetting certain people, or in Judy’s case, going into three places in one day in hopes for her to get a smooch as Beef makes a new friend online, only to have beef once deciding to meet in real life when finding out that he’s a cruise ship captain in my spoilerific review of the thirteenth episode of Season 4 of The Great North, titled “You’ve Got Sail Adventure”.
Alright, stop me if you heard this one before. A character, primarily the main character, has to go through one place after another for one day after making one too many arrangements that they can’t keep up with and doesn’t want to disappoint either party. It’s a tale as old as time when it comes to the world of sitcom series regarding this trope, dating back to...well, I guess when all of this started back around the 1950s and 1960s, even though books and plays in theaters long before the invention of television and the radio. Although, the easiest way to define the trope would be the “teenage kid asked both people to the dance but can’t choose which one to go with”. That’s what is with one of the story plots for this episode regarding Judy when having to go on a date with three boys in a single day and having to go back and forth. It’s a trope that I guess has been beaten to death but every episode has its own identity and we have to see what the episode from any series had in store. I mean, in recent memory that I can remember was Bob’s Burgers with “The Plight Before Christmas” and we all know that episode was a different kind of animal than what it was originally advertised leading up to that episode’s premiere. Not saying that this episode is going to be on the same level as Plight, spoiler alert, it’s not but it was held well and we’ll get to that in the breakdown portion of the episode review, but again, every episode has its own identity and might as well see what it had in store for anyone who hadn’t watched the episode, which I highly ask you to do.
Aside from the trope of one character going from one arrangement to another, the subplot has a hint of a West Side Story vibe with Beef when ready to meet a new friend that he met online, only to find out that he had to hate that person because of his profession and the beef between fishing boat captains and cruise ship captains as if this was this show’s version of the ongoing beef between Kendrick and Drake. Oh yeah, and there’s also the C-plot with Ham, Dirt, and Moon selling moose milk as part of a scam that Dirt cooked up. All three plots tie in as Lone Moose welcomes people visiting from their respective cruise ships. This is “You’ve Got Sail Adventure”.
The episode starts with Judy in the middle of the night talking to Alanis through the sky about a predicament that she is currently in and out of the blue. Judy’s in the dumps because it’s the spring season, hence the landscape of the setting of the show already has less snow on the trees and ground, and with the spring season, comes the teenage hormones that decided to have their chains broken. And it looks like Judy’s hormones decided to crank it up to overdrive because the season should be Judy’s window of opportunity to find someone to go on a date that would end with a smooch on the lips. And she knows the signs that would serve as her opportunity: the change of seasons, a full moon, and a billboard from a personal injury attorney that Judy and most people can’t get their eyes off. Though the way the conversation goes when it comes to context, sounded like there are some innuendos as if Judy wants something more than just a smooch because when it comes to teenagers, especially high schoolers, they don’t know what they’re doing and the risks that came with it. So, again, comes down to context regarding the conversion with Judy and Alanis about Judy’s situation of her wanting to find herself a boy to date and smooch.
Judy tried to find someone through the school yearbook that she and her friends read through but Judy had no luck finding the right person for her to smooch. Thinking that her window may have already been shut before it opened. That was before she heard the sound of a ship horn and the window was back open because Lone Moose is expected to have an influx of visitors from various cruise ships for their spring break. All poised and ready to go for Judy to get herself a couple of BFOTs, boys from other towns, with Judy’s hormones ready to go on the offensive and thus, we have the main plot all set up with Judy having her hormones going through the roof and about to go boy crazy. And it looks like it’s not just Judy who had plans for the day as the town is expecting an influx of visitors through the cruise ships since we have three plots for the episode and the first one has already been cemented...
You have two other plots for the episode that are also being cemented for the episode once everyone is at the breakfast table, though the first time for Aunt Dirt, in her normal clothing, without a jacket on because knowing that spring has arrived and the snow melted from the warmer temperatures because mind you that Alaska sits near the North Pole, so they would get equal daylight and nighttime hours, and speaking of Dirt, she, along with Ham and Moon are plotting something and just in time for the influx of spring breakers from various cruise ships. A bit of a scamming for them to commit by the docks to make some money because only Aunt Dirt can do something like doing some illegal stuff like selling stuff without a permit and robbing people blind by having to drag her great-nephews along for the ride. And the item in question, once Wolf brought it up while everyone was eating their breakfast, is milk. But not just any milk, the trio conducted something they came up with called “moose milk”. And no, they didn’t go and milk a moose unless they had their death warrants signed. But no, it’s pretty much store-bought milk, and insert a couple of hairs, human hair, into the drink to have people fooled that it came from moose. Which already sounded disgusting to even think of what it looks like just by hearing. More disgusting than the Wet Wolf a few episodes ago? Actually...no, that sandwich was an abomination. The moose milk that Dirt, Ham, and Moon cooked up and ready to sell feels like something coming out of Impractical Jokers or losing a championship in your fantasy football league. So, that’s the second plot of the episode that is all set up, to serve as the C-plot because the B-plot is reserved for one Tobin member regarding the incoming visitors from their cruise ships...
That, of course, Beef. He doesn’t like the idea of people coming out of cruise ships visiting the town because both cruise ship captains and fishing boat captains have some beef with each other regarding ocean space. It’s the same as how you’re on the road, a narrow road where there’s only one lane, whether in a rural or residential area and a big truck, primarily an 18-wheeler blocking your way to your destination. But despite the deep hatred towards the cruise ships and especially the captains, I don’t even want to know his reaction in the event the family watched Titanic and right at the moment the ship got hit by an iceberg, it looks like Beef has some plans and a big one at that because he is expected to finally meet someone who he chatted online and the Toe in the Snow Tavern is the place to be for the location without having to deal with the possibility of being catfished. God knows if Beef wants to go through that again. But aside from that, as long as he focuses on meeting his new friend and not on the influx of cruise ships docking on the piers, then things should be good for the guy to meet a new friend in person.
Going back into the Judy plotline as we switch over to the next scene, right after storming out of the house, skipping breakfast, with her going through what is pretty much her Tina Belcher phase, and trying to find any guy for her to catch in her radar as everyone leave their respective cruise ships and stroll through the town, but ends up having no luck to find anyone for her to find. That was until she bumped into someone who just come out of the gift shop named Graham, voiced by Tim Baltz, who picked her up from the ground after being bumped into him. Thus, Judy’s boy radar, her boy-dar for short, decides to go out of whack, and for Judy, it looks like she may have found her ticket to get some springtime smooching during Graham’s visit. Judy had some second thoughts at first when looking at the guy through her eyes because Graham does strike someone who is from a snobby, wealthy family and doesn’t fit her style. I mean, the scarf over his shoulder does scream rich folk and Judy was about to swipe right on the guy, all because of his style. Not wanting to be around someone who is in the 1%. Then again...
Your counterpart from your sister show did date a guy who is from a rich family. I know that Graham and two other boys that Judy came across later in the episode are deemed as one-off characters, but it looks like Judy doesn’t have any other choice. She doesn’t like the guy at first because he looks rich, he acts rich...anything rich that irks Judy to the brim, but since she wants to get the monkey off of her back and wants to punch a one-way ticket to Smooch City, it looks like Judy has found her date and is ready to take him across town during his visit. Especially when your first idea of a date is going to an ATM at the grocery store, in which he laughs because, knowing his kind, being rich folk, it’s how poor people use because the rich folk thinks they got it easy.
We check up on the subplot with Beef and Wolf on the Mighthy Kathleen with the two men working on the boat while having to deal with the influx of cruise ships coming into the docks since it is visitation day in the town. All this while at the same time, Beef is searching through his binoculars to find which boat is the new friend that Beef wants to meet for the two to meet at the tavern. But is having a hard time finding the boat through the influx of cruise ships coming into the premises. Especially with the cruise ships coming through to dock at the pier, not knowing and also not caring about the small boats, primarily fishing boats, in harm’s way that Beef thought it would be a repeat of a massive disaster known as the Lone Moose Massacre of 1997. Though, it’s not technically a massacre because no one died but it would’ve been the worst-case scenario, unlike the other two deadly encounters like what happened in Death Cliff in 2002 and Seward in 2009. Once again, treating the cruise ships to small boats like a car to an 18-wheeler on a one-lane road. Beef searches for the boat that his new friend he met online somewhere in the water. And the clue that he got when searching for the guy is a boat named the “Chilly Princess”. And boy, that didn’t take long for Beef to finally locate the ship. The only problem for Beef when searching for the vessel is that it’s not on any of the small fishing boats. In fact, it’s not even on any small boats at all when searching for the vessel in question. And to Beef’s shock the moment he looked through the binoculars once more when seeing a giant cruise ship passing through, seeing the name of the said ship...
It looks like Beef’s new friend he is expected to meet later in the episode, especially going into the second act, is now, in his point of view, an enemy to his liking...or disliking because again, fisherfolk and cruise ship captains have beef with each other and it looks like Beef and his new buddy might as well be caught in the crossfire. In short, if the main plot with Judy is the typical trope of one person having to go from one location to another back and forth in one day, then the subplot with Beef is going to be taking the playbook from West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet. Especially when going into the second act and back on land for both Beef and Wolf after catching the boat through the binoculars. Two sides feuding and you have two people from both parties caught in the crossfire and hopefully that this silly feud will come to an end.
Checking back at Judy over at the pharmacy store at the end of the first act of the episode with her trying to find the right eyeliner for her to use to get ready for her date with Graham where she comes across another boy who was also searching for some eyeliner and it looks like Judy might’ve landed herself with another boy who is visiting the town, despite that she was getting ready to go out with one that she met earlier in the first act. The boy’s name is Rayne, voiced by Jon Daly, who lost his pencil when leaving the ship and is currently searching for a new one before coming across with Judy by the shelves and currently doing some art about feminism and thinks that he would get into the zone on the topic in question by purchasing makeup, which caught her attention and now, to wrap up the first act of the episode, it looks like Judy has two boys to go on a date and the same day. It’s like Judy can’t control herself because she found one boy earlier in the episode and shouldn’t have any problem like with Graham, only to end up meeting Rayne and thus, Judy is in quite a predicament by going through the ol’ sitcom trope of multiple tasks in a single day at the same time. Pretty much hitting a dead horse if you ask me but once again, every episode has its own identity, and might as well judge it on its own merit.
Going into the second act of the episode outside of the Scone Moose coffee place with Honeybee checking up on Judy after being called in to deal with her situation. Telling her about what happened from the first act regarding Judy meeting with Graham and later Rayne during her search to find someone to go out and smooch, I still think that the conversation with her regarding the context is her wanting more than just smooching because her hormones, like flowers in the spring, grow out of control and here we are with her having two dates in one day. That’s where Honeybee comes in and decides to help Judy with her predicament as she prepares to go on a date with Graham while at the same time with Rayne. It’s mostly Honeybee giving Judy some advice to make sure things go smoothly when going in between two boys at two different locations because Honeybee, before meeting Wolf, had some experience with dating apps and tells Judy how to juggle through two boys in one day by following the ABB method, ABB stands for always be babe-ing, which according to Honeybee, you don’t refer your date by their first name and instead, you call them “babe” to avoid confusion when being around one boy after another. Honeybee also suggested other pet names like “cutie” if the “babe” approach gets dragged out, but Judy might as well take it into consideration and take up Honeybee’s advice to help her get through the day.
We check up on the C-plot because that hasn’t been touched upon for a short while after the first few minutes of the episode with Dirt, Ham, and Moon starting selling their fake milk and hoping that some sucker, that being the people who are visiting the town while being docked, spend their money on drinking an abomination of a refreshment. And lord, that didn’t take long for the trio to have their first set of customers, that being a couple who were thirsty and walked up to the table to get themselves a cup and you already know that they were visitors from the cruise ship because you have the woman who asked Dirt, Ham, and Moon if the milk in moose milk doesn’t contain actual milk because she’s currently on a diet to clean out of her gut. However, it would’ve been simple to just say that she’s lactose intolerant, just putting it out there. But she ends up taking the milk anyway and looking at the milk, and you’ll go see it for yourself, it seems disgusting just by looking at the one frame that shows the milk with the hair covering the top of the cup. But the fact that they took the bait and later everyone else as the episode progresses, pretty much tells you that the visitors are pretty oblivious to connect the dots that the drink that they’re drinking isn’t all what it was supposed to be advertised. The power of scams, everyone. And I do hope that everyone learns that you shouldn’t fall for shit that looks suspicious, even if it’s on the cheap.
Away from the docks and into the land with Beef and Wolf at the doorstep of the tavern with Beef seeing the man in question who would eventually be the person whom he is supposed to be meeting through the window. Beef has conflicting thoughts about the meeting because, on one hand, he finally gets the chance to meet someone new, in the friendship variety, and in-person after chatting things up online without the possibility of being catfished. But on the other hand, his new pal is a cruise ship captain, and Beef, as a fisherman, loathes cruise ship captains because their ships hog the fishing space for him and every other fisherfolk across the harbor as if they’re being squashed like ants. Beef was planning on running away before meeting the guy, only to be stopped by Wolf and telling his father that despite the beef that is going on between the cruise ship captains and the fishing captains, the window of opportunity is open and Beef only has one shot to make the friendship happen. Once again, Beef has conflicting thoughts on the meeting and it has gotten to the point where Londra comes in as she makes her way to the entrance of the tavern and has to tell a lie to her face of him poking fun at him despite not telling the truth that he’s only there just to have a full-on meeting. Although, when going into the next scene, with Beef going into the bar and finally coming face to face with his new pal, she’s there in the background at her table, head turned away and everything as if she’s not listening to what is happening. Other than that, Beef takes Wolf’s word and decides to man up and meet with the guy who happens to be a cruise ship captain.
Going back to the main plot with Judy now taking Honeybee’s advice as she prepares to go on a double date, but not really a double date but more of a date that she would have to go back and forth from one location to another. Judy makes her move by meeting up with Graham outside of the museum because Graham wants to see a defunct quarter design of George Washington blinking. Just as they were about to go inside, Judy asked him to wait a moment and create an excuse to go to the bathroom on the other side of town, which is pretty much her way of saying that she leaves Graham hanging for a bit so she can meet up with Rayne at the coffee shop to get themselves a cup and quite on time too for the business to host open mic day and for Santiago to perform his sonnet. And that’s more than enough for Judy to give Honeybee the thumbs up through the window that the plan is working. To the point where Honeybee sheds a single tear of joy that Judy is easily handling the situation as long everything becomes stable throughout the day and saying that her job is done for the day...for now. Though gotta mention that brief moment from the C-plot with Dirt, Ham, and Moon getting a lot of turnout from the visitors from the cruise ships wanting to get their hands on the moose milk with Dirt seeing Judy running from the museum with Graham to the coffee shop with Rayne and have everyone believe that seeing her great-niece running from one location to another is a result of the milk that they conducted.
Back at the tavern, Beef is finally coming across his new buddy at the tavern, FisherMan#1, real name Captain Cornelius Jazzy Fisher, voiced by Gary Anthony Williams, and oh boy, the first interaction almost turned ugly between him and Beef because of their different possessions and how Beef, when it comes to his online profile, angering Beef and would have what would be a possible friendship to be dead as if they’re canceled projects. That was until they overheard at a nearby table where one of the cruise ship captains from another cruise ship talked about his shrimp in a knot, but it was the wrong kind of knot that irked both Beef and Fisher, along with any other stuff that they have in common like a Pride and Prejudice reference, and lo and behold, it looked like we got ourselves a friendship between the two men despite their different possession. And that’s where we enter the montage portion of the episode to bypass through the rest of the second act and near the end of the first half.
Might as well get to the C-plot of the episode in this montage first since it was the shortest of the bunch with Dirt, Moon, and Ham continuing to make money out of the scam of selling moose milk. Selling them like counterfeit hotcakes as the supplies of both milk and hair start to dwindle as everyone continues to buy them. And you have that one shot with Dirt counting the money as her great-nephews are selling the milk to the visitors, again, the scam business seems to be working as if they have no problem that is about to soon bite them in the ass, that’s by the end of the episode. But for now, it seems that the business seems to be going well, despite, of course, the drink looks disgusting just by adding human hair into the cup, and despite that they’re about to go through low supplies as the day progresses, it didn’t stop the three, mostly Dirt, to earn a lot of money that they collected from the visiting crowd. Though, if, and big if, Bob’s Burgers and The Great North were to have a crossover, which we all know that ain’t happening and we’ll leave that to fanfiction writers and fan artists, good God...the team-up between Louise and Dirt would be a match made from Hell. I know that Louise in the later seasons feels like a shell of her former self, but the possibilities are there, and knowing Aunt Dirt, I would not be surprised if back in her day that she had some sort of criminal record. I would also not be surprised if Dirt does get the chance to meet Danica. Just putting it out there.
Then we get to Judy’s plot and much like the trio that I mentioned, it looks like things are going steady for her going back and forth between Graham and Rayne when having to go back and forth from one boy to another. Whether it’s at a museum or above the pier where that binoculars-looking device is with Graham to listening to Santiago’s sonnet at the coffee shop or below the pier by the waters with Rayne, it is safe to say that Honeybee’s advice to Judy when dealing with two boys in two different locations seems to be going well...for now as of this exact moment in the episode. And if it means hoping to please Judy’s hormones and completing her goal for the day of getting a smooch from as of this moment two boys, the plan needs to be steadily held without having anything extra to put a dent in it. Though there were a few close calls for Judy from having her day going through a complete 180, probably around the docks with Graham above the pier and Rayne below that Judy tried to juggle from one location to another without the latter discovering what was going on. So, for the time being, it looks like things are going well for Judy and hopefully this will last until the evening hours when she makes her move.
But the highlight from the montage as we are nearing the end of the first half of the episode is with Beef and Captain Fisher with the two, along with Wolf, hanging out. The development of a friendship between two men with two different job occupations and you already know that it feels like something coming out of West Side Story or Romeo and Juliet. A secret friendship between a fisherman and cruise ship captain is something you didn’t expect to fill into your 2024 bingo card but this episode did the impossible despite the hatred between the two communities and it seems that things are going well between Beef and Fisher as Fisher gives Beef a tour of the cruise ship and trying out a few things. Mostly on tying knots with Wolf having some issues with him having his hands accidentally tied and trying out the control room panel with Beef playing with the ship horn like a kid playing around with the front seat of a fire truck or 18-wheeler. Aside from all of that, it looks like things are going well between Beef and Fisher...
And going into the end of the first half of the episode, with the tour wrapping up for Beef and Wolf to show Fisher the ropes across the town, as well as Beef bringing up the incidents that ignited the feud between the fishermen and cruise ship captains that once again, brought up by Wolf, that no one got sent packing, despite their differences because of their different job occupations and on who really rule the oceanside, it does feel like an actual friendship is developing between Beef and Fisher. They may be from opposing sides, but for anyone who is familiar with either West Side Story or Romeo and Juliet, you already know the storyline and I’m not going to repeat myself saying it. But it seems that things are going well between Beef and Fisher and despite that the two are at odds because of their job profession, it looks like he has made a genuine friend who is not from town and has a lot in common. Taking the phrase “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to a literal turn. However, knowing that we’re at the end of the first half of the episode, just as the newfound friendship is blossoming, the script decides to take a shit on it once Londra appears and walks up to Beef on why he didn’t bother picking up his phone to read her messages, not knowing that he was stabbing the fishing community in the back because of him hanging out with his new friend who is an enemy to the fisherfolk. Londra invites Beef for a night out at her boat to join her and every other fisherman to poke fun at the cruise ships once they all leave the docks, which Beef has to put on a brave face and not make himself look suspicious around her by joining in the fun of making fun of cruise ship captains because he’s a fisherman. Not knowing, once we get to the end of the first half of the episode and going into the second...
You know that it’s early. You know, you know that it’s early in the episode that we got to have some drama into the mix to put a hamper into things. Fisher overheard the entire conversation between Beef and Londra just as he was getting two snowcones, one for him and the other for Beef, before ending up accidentally dropping Beef’s snowcone when coming across him, just as Londra left the scene about the two and other fisherman ready to have an outing and poke fun at the cruise ships just as they’re about to leave Lone Moose for the night. And Fisher knew what was going on because of the feud between the fishermen and the cruise ship captains but upon hearing everything he heard from Beef’s conversation with Londra, mostly because the guy seems to have incredible hearing, the emotional damage may have been committed once coming back towards Beef with the snowcones in hand and now leaving with only one snowcone. Thus, Beef now has to go to him and apologize. Making sure that what happened is all one big misunderstanding and we’ll get to that later in the third act.
Going back to the Judy plot of the episode with both her and Rayne leaving the coffee shop after going through Santiago’s sonnet that hit Rayne with the emotional gut punch but they got a good showing once leaving the place with Judy planning on asking Rayne to go out for dinner for tonight, mostly due to her seeing Graham leaving at the same time and fastly asks him out without giving Rayne some thoughts, but he politely accepts Judy’s offer to be her date to the restaurant. And just in time for Judy to also make Graham her date for the night as well at a restaurant, though probably at the same restaurant because...well, where else should Judy go when having to go from one spot to another with the two boys in different locations? Regardless, as long as the advice that she got from Honeybee works, as soon as Judy makes a phone call to her after both boys agree to RSVP to be her date for the night, and is on the verge of punching her ticket into a one-way trip to Smooch Town with two boys on the same night. Too bad that Judy’s hormones decide to have other plans leading up to the night of the not-so-double date...
Judy...you can’t control your boy crazy side for one minute, for one minute. Things were going well with you handling two boys in one day without any problems and now, your teenage hormones decided to control your mind and ask another boy, who is also visiting Lone Moose, named Tyler, who is an engineer at one of the ships, at age 17, so I’m guessing child labor laws doesn’t apply to the cruise ships, to dinner despite already making dinner plans with Graham, after making dinner plans with Rayne. The synopsis did state that Judy had to juggle through three boys during the visit and the entirety of the first half focused on the first two as if two seemed to be the bare minimum for her but we had to play the waiting game for the third boy to arrive and thus, midway through the third act of the episode, it feels like we’re back to square one and it looks like Judy might as well call Honeybee for assistance once more.
We check up for a bit with the C-plot of the episode with the business of selling milk going completely well for Dirt, Ham, and Moon once dusk hits and after a long day’s work, you’d think by now that they should start packing things up and ran off without any suspicion. I’d say that because Moon tells Dirt that they’re running low on human hair to be put into the cup of milk, mostly because some cups took more than the usual amount for each cup according to Dirt. The supplies are running low and with the demand currently on the fritz, Dirt needs to improvise to get the additional human hair to be placed into the milk. I would say she would run off to a nearby dumpster by a salon or barber shop but because people are coming towards the table in droves with nighttime ready to hit and for the visitors preparing to leave the town. She can’t use her hair to add to the supply chain and the same goes for Moon. She ain’t gonna use Moon’s hair to be put into the cup. So that leaves one other Tobin to be used as a sacrifice.
And it’s Ham who volunteers, or rather, is forced to use his own hair to be put into the milk to continue selling the cups to the visitors. I mean, Ham would probably be against the idea, and it does feel like he does when being told by his great-aunt that his hair would have to serve as backup to resupply. Though Ham’s line of saying that he knows what it is like to be an intern...I mean...is he wrong though? Although looking at Ham in this scene by putting his hair into the cup and again by the end of the episode, he does look like a completely different person with his locks being cut down to size. He does look like a completely different person with the short hair on his head. I know that he’ll regrow back in a snap come the next episode, but seeing Ham with very short hair after having his locks being clipped feels weird if you ask me. And we all remember the first time we saw Moon without his bear onesie on back in Season 1.
We go back to Beef’s side of the episode as we prepare to close out the third act of the episode with him catching up to Fisher by the docks. Telling him what happened back there when overhearing his conversation with Londra earlier in the second half was one big misunderstanding and Fisher, you’d think that he would be telling Beef that his apology will not be accepted and thought that the apology tour would last all the way to the fourth act, but no, he takes Beef’s word and agrees that what happened back there when overhearing the conversation was one big misunderstanding. He just wishes, and Beef can agree to this, that a cruise ship captain and a fisherman shouldn’t have a feud between them and just this once, hoping that both sides can see eye to eye without having any beef regarding who rules the ocean, whose ship is bigger, everything about the social hierarchy, and all the bullshit, and make amends. I mean, it’s 2024, time to squash the beef. But because of the three incidents that took place in the past that would’ve contained a lot of bodies, primarily towards the fishing vessels, it looks like the hatred is going to continue for generations to come. A haunting thought that is going to stick with Beef for a while, possibly for the rest of his life, as the nighttime hits and for Fisher to get ready to depart from the docks of Lone Moose.
This leads us to the end of the third act of the episode with Beef seeing the Chilly Princess boat from afar while not hearing any of Londra’s jokes about the cruise ships because his thoughts were heavily focused on Fisher and the thoughts of not being able to see him again just because of the deep hatred between the fishermen and the cruise ship captains. It’s like, damn...the man for once found someone who has similar interests despite having different job occupations but because of the feud between the two communities, they might never get the chance to have a proper friendship...I mean, they could, but without having the possibility of being seen, they’re on some real Romeo and Juliet timing. Londra decides to strike back at the cruise ship before taking off as we end the third act of the episode and going into the fourth, once the group sneaks into the Chilly Princess with everyone carrying a bucket of chum and Beef a pitchfork, poised to deflate the princess figurine...
Only to not do the job and tell the truth to everyone that he’s friends with a cruise ship captain behind their back. It’s the fourth act of the episode, so, might as well let Beef tell the truth because we’re less than five minutes left in the episode. So yeah, Beef finally lets it out and tells Londra and the rest of the fisherfolk that he’s friends with a cruise ship captain, shocking everyone before Beef storms past through them and makes his way to where the mess hall is, only to be stopped by a security guard because he doesn’t have a wristband, thus denying him to get into the room. But ends up letting him in any way because it’s the heart that it wants when planning on meeting up with Fisher before the ship’s departure. And thus, we get to the hour of judgment...
Right after we get through the Judy plot once more with Judy in full-on panic mode once Honeybee arrives at the parking lot of the restaurant and is surprised that Judy asked another boy out despite asking the other two to be her dinner date. However, it’s not surprising because Judy’s hormones can’t be contained and mess up everything. Though, again, context with the way Judy is saying about wanting to meet up with three boys because it does look like Judy wants more than just smooching, and mind you, she’s 16. And the way she talks when talking to Honeybee...once again, context is key and it may be getting to the point where the Kathleen side of her is starting to wake up from its slumber. But by god, Judy, calm down. I know that there are a lot of boys who are visitors from other towns who are planning on leaving Lone Moose once the night ends, but chill.
Now we go back to Beef’s plot with him entering the mess hall with a lot of cruise personnel shocked to see Beef entering their private time, adding a lot of fuel to the fire of the ongoing feud between the cruise ship personnel and fisherfolk as if you’re hoping for a possible diss track to drop from either party. Surprised to see Beef, a fisherman, entering their space and even more surprising for the members of the ship that their captain is friends with a fisherman once Captain Fisher appears, telling the other captain of the ship to stand down as he walks up to Beef and joins him in solidarity that maybe it is time for both parties to set aside their differences. Because...and I might as well go and say it: it’s a friend story and baby, they’ll say yes. There, I said it. But so much for the moment of peace as if we’re expecting a truce between the two parties once Londra and the other fisherfolk stormed into the mess hall with a bucket of chum for them to throw and the captains ready to arm themselves with caviar, resulting themselves in a food fight...okay, not technically a food fight because chum ain’t even food but it’s something that they have to arm themselves with. All we know is that things are going to get messy...literally. Speaking of messy...
The C-plot because it looks like shit is about to bite the trio up their ass once packing things up for the night with the money they collected and Ham not having his full lock of hair, again, looking like a different person, with the couple from earlier came up to them and ask them for a refund. Because they didn’t even notice that the moose milk they bought had actual milk in it. Referring to cow milk that Dirt, Moon, and Ham brought from the store for them to use for the scam business. Though you’d think that if they bought something like lactose-free milk or almond milk or any other milk that doesn’t contain lactose but that’s mostly their fault for believing in their bullshit when not noticing what was in the milk before it was too late. So now, they want their money back from the three Tobins. Not just the couple who bought the milk first, but almost every patron who pretty much got robbed blind that felt like an angry mob is about to form, resulting in, you guessed it, Dirt, Moon, and Ham getting their things and running off. And we don’t see that until the very end of the episode.
We go back to the Judy plot with her on a date at the two-minute warning and already, it looks like things are quickly falling apart for her in her shot to get some springtime smooching with all three boys. Having to jump from table to table to table. One moment, she’s with Tyler at the booth and preparing to order some food with Judy heading out and creating an excuse that she had to go to use the bathroom. Only for her to jump over to another table where Graham is and gift her a corsage on her wrist to signify a relationship between the two as if they’re going out for prom. Only for Judy to spot Rayne and run off to join him at the table. And now, the plan has quickly fallen apart for Judy when having to go through three different tables and go as fast as she can as if she can run fast like Sonic the Hedgehog or hopefully stop time like DIO from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. That’s the first domino to fall. The second is, of course, mistaking each of the boys' names. And here comes strike three...
All three boys spotting her at the table and now, Judy tells the truth to Graham, Rayne, and Tyler that she asked all three at the same time because she can’t control herself. Shades of Kathleen that Judy might’ve been heading throughout the day thanks in part to the change of seasons, seeing a billboard advertising a personal injury lawyer, and a full moon. You’d think that with Judy telling them the truth, your thoughts would be either the three boys ask Judy which one should she take, without pulling the Tina Belcher card and going for a multiple relationship, or walk away and leave her in her lonesome. Apparently, that’s not the case because much like Judy, all three boys also got hit with the spring love bug and are on a date with Judy and a lot of other patrons at the bar with Graham telling Judy that she’s not the first who asked him out.
That title goes to Kima, whom Judy spotted and tells her that she’s on a date with Graham and some other guys that she asked out. And it’s not just her who got bit by the spring love bug, but every other high schooler at the bar to the point where we get the final scene of this plot of the episode with every teen kissing their dates, regardless of gender because you have boys kissing girls, boys kissing boys, and girls kissing girls. And if y’all don’t like it, oh well, too bad, so sad. The scene of the restaurant turned into an all-kissing melee with every teenager from Lone Moose, including some from the cruise ships, where you have Judy kissing Tyler, but also you have Graham kissing Rayne in the corner, so that’s interesting to see there. All four along with Kima with her date smooching and every other teen in the building, also spotting Bethany in that one shot, and like that, it’s an all-kissing melee for everyone. Enough for the restaurant owner Zoya to tell Mateo, one of the workers, to get the hose because it looks like things are about to get wild. Again, they’re like 16-17 years old, calm down, folks. Calm down. Not unless you want Chris Hansen dialed up on speed dial.
And then, we go back to the plotline with Beef along with Fisher hiding under the table as both the cruise ship personnel and the fisherfolk throw things at each other (chum from the fisherfolk and caviar from the cruise ship personnel), turning the mess hall into...well, a mess and the idea of both parties living in harmony...looks like that’s going to have to wait for some other time. This means that Beef and Fisher are pretty much doomed to not have an in-person friendship with each other if the two parties from their respective workspace have to act like little kids. But it’s not absolute zero because Beef does have another shot at being around the guy the next time he arrives in about a month and a half during I guess the summertime but they’re free to chat online all the time. So, once again, while it does seem that them having a proper friendship in person seems to be difficult because of the beef that is going on between the fisherfolk and the cruise ship personnel, their friendship is not actually dead because Beef does have another shot in being around the guy, just that he had to wait for a month and a half for his return or chat online and that’s more than enough for Beef to accept. Especially once we get to the final scene of the episode with him seeing the cruise ship leaving Lone Moose before heading back home...
Only to see Dirt, Moon, and Ham with the short hair running away with their stuff along with the money that Dirt collected while trying to evade an angry mob, especially towards Beef’s van where they’re actually heading. Ending the episode before going into the credits with the three telling Beef to give them time to escape to the van by tripping the mob. Once again, it’s their fault for falling into bullshit like the moose milk that the three Tobin members conducted. Hopefully, there’s a lesson in all of this, and that is to not fall to bullshit. Especially if the bullshit in question is a cup of milk with human hair on it that almost looked like something coming out of a dare, a stunt from a Jackass segment, or losing a bet/season at fantasy football.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So all and all, what do I think about this week’s episode of The Great North? Once again, it’s an alright, if not, a good episode as we’re nearing the offseason for the summer. All three plots were alright but it’s the main two, that being the first plot with Judy going out with three boys and the second with Beef meeting with a new friend despite the feud between the two men’s workspace. But out of the two or three because of the C-plot with Ham, Dirt, and Moon selling the moose milk, it has to be Beef’s plot that is the best out of the three.
Yeah, the B-plot with Beef was interesting to watch with him meeting up with a new friend who is different from him regarding the job profession and the long beef between the two parties dating back to the three incidents that would’ve resulted in sending a couple of bodies packing. But it was a good plot for the episode to go full West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet from start to finish. And sure, while it does feel like the in-person friendship between the two by the end of the episode feels like it’s never going to happen, despite that Fisher is poised to be a one-off, to Beef, the window is still open despite the feud and it was interesting to see through with this episode, whether it’s Beef having a secret friendship despite being a fisherman himself or Wolf for some scenes, mostly around the second act, being the voice of reason.
Judy’s plot was also interesting to gloss through despite that the whole “one person running around in different locations in a single day at the same time” trope does feel a bit dulled out within the confines of history. It’s mostly because of Judy going out of control as if the Kathleen side of her is ready to appear when going on a mission to find a guy, or in Judy’s case throughout the episode, a couple of guys for her to smooch. Or in Judy’s case when it comes to context, more than just smooching. Sure, the thing does fall apart as predicted by the end of the episode, but at least things did work out at the end with all parties, including Judy, to go on an all-kissing melee at the restaurant, regardless of gender. So both plots are alright, if not, good. The C-plot with Moon, Dirt, and Ham was alright but can oftentimes be forgettable at times. Mostly because the focus was on Judy and Beef with their respective plots. So I’ll give “You’ve Got Sail Adventure”...
A 7.5 out of 10. But that’s my opinion and I wanna hear yours in the comments below. We’re nearing the offseason, folks. We’re nearing the finish line for the season and we have an episode coming up this upcoming Sunday, May 12, Mother’s Day Sunday here in the States, with the family attempting to get Beef to visit the doctor, mostly for him, in his age, to go through a physical and the rest of the family researching a grave in the fourteenth episode of Season 4 of The Great North, “Doctor? No! Adventure”.
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