We finally enter the Daylight Savings era of the year with the clocks going forward. Though after getting through nearly two months under the second Trump presidency, it felt like we spring forward to 50 years than an hour once the clock hits 2:00 in the morning. And speaking of skipping forward: this episode. Especially when it comes to what kind of episode we have for this week. It feels like this episode would air in October rather than March. And speaking of this week’s episode...
In this week’s episode of The Great North, coming straight out of your standard horror film, Honeybee messes with the forces by accidentally destroying a tribute, resulting in her getting a curse and a being that is nothing to mess with following through that would put her and the Tobin family in harm’s way in the fourth episode of Season 5 of The Great North, titled “Silence of the Dams Adventure”.
With an episode that has a horror aesthetic like the one that we got for this week, this feels like something that would’ve aired in October in time for Halloween instead of a normal month like March. Almost feels as if FOX hasn’t screwed around with the scheduling following the strikes, and also the higher-ups to not be greedy assholes and not go scorched Earth at the meetings as if you landed on someone’s property on a Monopoly board and don’t want to do a dumbass decision, then yeah, it does feels like it would be better suited to air in October rather than March. But then again, Rick and Morty had a Thanksgiving episode that aired in July 2021 and another in September the following year in 2022. And I guess the same goes for the two horror-esque episodes of Bob’s Burgers with Season 14 with “Escape from Which Island” in November 2023 and the following month in December 2023 with “Fraud of the Dead”. So why not us with this week’s episode?
It was a wild ride for sure with this week’s episode by having the Tobins deal with something that it felt like it was impossible to deal with but made it through the end. As if when watching it when it first came out that it should be treated as your typical horror movie. And that is exactly what it is with this week’s episode. To make it feel like you’re watching a horror film and that is exactly what it was. Mostly because you see the typical setup of a horror film and all it takes is a backstory at the start of the movie and the protagonist or a random character messing things up that would put them and everyone else in harm’s way just because of a dumbass decision like it’s the movie “It Follows” for example.
And that is what you’re seeing in this week’s episode of The Great North with Honeybee accidentally bumping into the “tribute” that results in her (and later the Tobins) in harm’s way an animal going through demonic behavior. I’ve never seen a horror movie in my lifetime but you get the gist of how the formula works and you see it unfold in this week’s episode regarding the so-called “tribute” and the reign of terror that came with the accidental destruction. That being said, it’s time to break the episode down piece and piece and to “Honor the tribute”, #NotAClut by the way, this is “Silence of the Dams Adventure”. Or as the review title suggests: “The Beavers: Lone Moose’s Generational Haters”.
The episode starts with how most horror movies begin, with the setup of what is about to come for some poor sucker to mess with it in the coming hours. You have three people dressed in robes, consisting of Roy, Vera, and Stephanie, ready to burn the tower of wood as if it's the small-town version of Burning Man or maybe a Klan meeting with them mentioning a tribute to something like something coming out from a cult. That is cult language right there. They were about to burn the tower, only to be stopped because of an argument between the three residents of the town, mainly because Roy forgot his lines when doing the chant before lighting the tower. A few times to be exact, causing both Vera and Stephanie to scold him, and because of that, the tribute is being put on hold until the next night. They prepare to leave, but not before Roy runs off to get his sunglasses because he knows how bright the bonfire is going to be illuminating the night sky and the title of the episode appears reads “Silence of the Dams: A Terrifying Lone Moose Adventure”. Treating it in the form of a horror film from the olden days, minus the “in color” subtext beneath it as if we would expect the whole episode to be in black and white.
We skip over just a few hours later going into the early morning hours, 5:00 AM to be exact, with everyone in the Tobin household getting up and early because they have something they’re excited about this Saturday morning that they have circled on their calendars for I guess a year now but it’s that time of year for the Tobins to spend their Saturday. And that is playing a board game. A marathon of board games to spend their day and not having to go out for the whole day. And that’s about it. That’s pretty much the family planning to spend their Saturday by staying put and playing a couple of board games. Dramatization of what life was like during the lockdowns. Hard to believe that it’s been five years now since that whole thing happened. Holy shit, folks.
But yeah, the Tobins are planning to waste their Saturday playing board games. All but Honeybee and Dirt are participating in the game and wasting away their day locked in. Honeybee doesn’t want to join the others playing because she doesn’t want to waste her day just being locked inside and playing a marathon of board games from dawn to dusk because she has other things to do. To the Tobins, it feels like a temptation in their point of view, and want Honeybee to at least give it a try for once since becoming a part of the family. Of course, Honeybee won’t budge and decides to give a rain check and since everyone is going to be locked in, she might as well head off to the store to make personal pizzas for them and herself using the pizza oven that Wolf ordered online. And also used her cup to serve as a seat to hold Judy’s chair after Judy noticed something was off about her seat just as she was sitting at the table.
As for Dirt, who is absent in this episode, and a little fact about this, if you follow the episode production code-wise, her appearance streak ends at 16 episodes. And I said production code-wise because remember, Season 4 was scattered-shotted when it comes to the production order with its episodes since her debut in “Aunt Misbehavin’ Adventure”. I mean, it’s like the cast and crew sort of knew what kind of excuse the fans would create for why Aunt Dirt wasn’t around in some episodes post-Aunt Misbehavin’ because some of the episodes (Ready Mayor Won, Idita-Ruth, Excess Cabbage, and Worst Drives Club) were from the previous production order is that she would probably be busy in her bunker. And that’s the excuse they’re going with for the lack of Dirt in this episode. All because she, like Honeybee, doesn’t want to be a part of wanting to play board games despite all of this being a Tobin thing. Who knows, I mean in the last episode, she stated that she has a gambling addiction, so, I’m guessing she wanted to raise the stakes by turning game day into an at-home version of a weekend at a Vegas casino, only for Beef or someone to tell her it’s nothing like that. Oh, she’ll get around when it comes to playing an in-person game alright. Especially since there’s an upcoming episode regarding a certain popular roleplaying game.
Hours later on the open road, Honeybee got the supplies she needed to make the pizzas, only to get caught in a traffic jam on the only road that can get to and from Lone Moose on her way back to the Tobin household from the store. The cause for the traffic that is holding Honeybee on the open road? Well, according to Edna, there was a spillage from the truck’s cargo filled with mannequins that were supposed to be delivered to the mall. As for the wait time for when the spillage will be cleared up and for the road to be open again: according to Edna, it’s gonna take a while because she or someone else could do and get the mannequins off the road but legally, they can’t do that and they would have to alert the owners of the various department stores about the whole mess. Of course, Honeybee knows that it’s code for Edna not planning to do her job and instead to sleep in her car. This causes Honeybee to take the fire access road, the one blocked off by traffic cones, to use as a detour to get out of the jam.
But Vera, who is one of the three people who were there for the would-be bonfire initiation of the tribute, tries to warn Honeybee not to take that route because the damn tower is there. And if we’re going to treat the episode like it’s a horror film, then we might as well know how these things work. We saw it at the beginning of the episode with Vera, Roy, and Stephanie at the tower as the setup for what is about to come. Then we’re at the point where someone like Honeybee decides to act like a total dumbass and ignore the warning that would eventually bring some consequences to her and later the Tobins. Vera, being Vera, decides to be a Karen and places a so-called curse on Honeybee as she ignores the warnings and drives through the fire road to pass the traffic.
And for the residents of Lone Moose, this is pretty much almost the equivalent of the Pentagon being hit. Now, Honeybee doesn’t know anything about what is coming across and the background behind it because she’s still new to Alaska even though it’s been... what? A year now in the in-universe setting for the show? She doesn’t know about all of this later in the episode because she probably thinks that it’s all nonsense and shouldn’t bring any negative consequences. But oh boy, she’s gonna learn that the hard way as the episode progresses once she drives through the shortcut after accidentally destroying the wooden tower like it’s a Jenga tower on her way home. And one creature hidden deep in the woods who saw what happened ain’t having it and could soon become Honeybee’s biggest op.
Honeybee returned home just moments later and began prepping up the pizzas as the Tobins continued to play their game. Well, the family got their thanks to Honeybee and is currently making Moon’s pizza once she finishes putting in the sauce, the cheese, and the toppings before heading outside to place it in the oven. Though the game is NOT deep when it comes to enjoyment where the game itself is about growing crops for someone like Moon to let out a swear, censored of course by the networks. The game itself almost feels like something someone from the retirement home would play. How is this intended for all ages that could last you for what I guess is almost six hours tops? The game of Risk shouldn’t last you that long and people get confused over how the game works without having to go all out without even reading the rules.
Honeybee places the pizza once she makes it outside as she hears something in the background. A gnawing sound to be exact that spooked Honeybee and quickly decided to go into the “Get out of my house” mode when trying to get the mysterious creature out of the property. Of course, a quick reminder for Honeybee from Vera when trying to get the creature out of the property thinks that she is cursed and the effects are starting to kick in. But Honeybee, of course, since we’re following horror movie logic, decided to brush it off and thinks it’s some random animal attracted to the scent of the oven cooking the pizza. That’s probably one way to put it regarding the situation.
Of course, that little spook got Honeybee distracted to cause her oven mitt to catch on fire when noticing her arm inside the open when trying to scare away the creature. She did put out the fire and yes, she was distracted to the point where she didn’t see the arm in the oven with the oven mitt on, and yes, you can catch fire with an oven mitt as it can only withstand the heat when trying to pull the dish out of the oven, so wearing it doesn’t make you invincible from catching on fire by accident of course the same way you think that getting struck by lightning would give psychic powers or switch bodies.
Moon gets his pizza consisting of pepperoni, hot dogs, and... gummy worms. Why? Just why? Like... okay, pepperoni, that’s fine. A basic topping but I do eat that shit when getting pizza myself. But hot dogs and gummy worms? This is who y’all voted for in the last election, folks. This is who y’all voted for. Moon got his pizza and noticed a weird taste when he took one bite, everyone knows the rules, that it has a liquidy taste as if lighter fluid was used. Honeybee replied that she used starter logs to make the heating process faster to heat the pizza. Normally, Beef would hate it but because Honeybee used it to make the pizza heat up faster in microwave speed as she puts it as the “Bee-line”, which is her way to get things fast yet perfect without any problems. Except for one moment just hours ago but we’ll get to that later in the episode once the chaos takes over. For now, Honeybee plans on going to Maude’s to get herself coffee as she prepares to leave the Tobins hanging to continue playing their game. Only for a flat tire to stop her from getting into her car to close out the first act of the episode when noticing a stick that mysteriously came out of nowhere and slashed her tire and now, she needs to go get a replacement on her way to Maude’s. And so it begins, the consequences of the dumbassery that was committed.
The second act starts with Honeybee getting her tire replaced at the junkyard. She tells Kyle how a stick ended up attached to her tire and flattened it. Honeybee already concludes that it might be Vera’s doing because she was upset with her using the fire road and getting out of traffic. But Kyle doesn’t think it’s Vera who threw or I guess stabbed the tire with the stick serving as a wooden stake because she would get her nephew to do the job for her and also stated that Vera’s nephew is currently in prison, so that list gets checked out. Kyle asks Honeybee if she has other enemies that caused the flat tire as if someone is out to get her for some whatever reason. This is where the tone shift begins to take place once Honeybee mentions the fire route she used as a shortcut to get out of a traffic jam and brings up the wooden tower that she came across and accidentally hit while swerving, not realizing that it collapsed, kinda like the world’s view of America as of this moment. This causes Kyle to say something that confuses Honeybee by saying that she has to go alert council, guessing it’s the three people who tried to light the tower but didn’t and now, has to be alerted that one of their own accidentally knocked it down. As well as not wanting to catch any smoke when being around Honeybee. Treating her as if she got the plague or something enough to avoid not being around her.
We had to check up on the Tobins for a little bit to see the progress they’re making while locking themselves in to spend the rest of their Saturday playing the game with Ham now taking I guess the lead or something with him getting three additional acres. And looking at it, even though the first half of the episode put the entire Tobin family on the backburner with the spotlight focusing on Honeybee, with the shit that is about to place, apparently locking yourself inside the house for the whole day seems to be the way to go. Because they don’t want to deal with the shit that is about to transpire with Honeybee... yet, but it does almost feels like the episode’s way of saying “Nah, I’m good. I’m staying put and don’t want to deal with bullshit even though it would bite me in the ass once you return home”. Now you know why J. Cole during the Kendrick and Drake beef last year made the right decision to not get caught in the crossfire.
Honeybee made it to Maude’s just a couple of minutes later after getting her tire replaced and getting on her phone and scrolling through and minding her business while having a cup of coffee. Yep, just minding her business despite that in the background, you have Zoya coming in and telling Maude and some random background character talking among themselves regarding what is happening. Talking behind Honeybee’s back as if they’re saying they have a terrorist living among them because Kyle told the council and that got the people’s attention that Honeybee destroyed the tower that was meant for something really important to the point where it’s now putting the town on edge and not want to come across her within an X amount of degrees radius.
It’s the movie “It Follows”. There’s no other explanation for what the episode is parodying but that movie. Most of us should know what the movie is about. If not, well then... go Google it or watch it. But to sum it the movie’s summary, basically, it’s about a woman who is reckless and has intercourse with a guy whom she just hooked up with. The only problem is that the guy had a curse and passed it on to her and now had to find a way to get rid of it by passing it around after people think that she’s paranoid and doesn’t want to catch any of the smoke. I could also take “Smile” since it does feel like it’s similar to having to read that movie’s synopsis but either way, this is what this episode is going with. And how do I know this even though I have never seen any of those films?
The Doctor Who episode from last year called “73 Yards”. In that episode, The Doctor’s latest companion Ruby Sunday goes through an “It Follows” or “Smile” situation after she and The Doctor land in Wales and Ruby, without even looking where she is walking, accidentally steps on something that happens to be a grave, and her life gets turned upside down from The Doctor disappearing and leaving the TARDIS hanging to her adoptive mother not wanting to do with her. Hell, not even UNIT, who are known to deal with the paranormal since its humble beginnings, doesn’t want to catch the smoke from the mysterious figure that followed Ruby. Oh yeah, and also involves the dangers of a politician, a Welsh politician to be exact whose name escapes me, running to become Prime Minister who is deemed as the most dangerous politician to take charge. Boy, that was an episode from the previous season of Doctor Who. And yeah, can’t wait to see what the new season will hold come April 12, i.e., my birthday.
Honeybee makes her way to the bathroom as she continues to scroll through her phone where she notices that something is off while she's using the bathroom. Remember that gnawing sound that followed her to the Tobin household and thought it almost went up to her just because she was using the pizza oven outside? Well, it followed her. It followed to Maude’s and the reign of terror for Honeybee has officially begun. Trashing across the bathroom, meaning it snuck into the restaurant from what I’m guessing are the air ducts and is ready for the kill towards Honeybee. Of course, Honeybee is armed with a plunger, wrong choice for a weapon there, and awaits for whoever or whatever to come in and attack. Of course, the mysterious being mysteriously left, giving Honeybee time to alert Maude about the would-be attacker...
Only to come out of the bathroom and see the place empty as if the Rapture had just taken place. No one was in their seats and Maude was nowhere to be found. And if you remember before Honeybee went to the bathroom, you have the conversation in the background between Maude, Zoya, and a random guy potentially talking about the wooden tower being hit and they pointed and looked at Honeybee as the prime suspect for the hell that is about to be unleashed to the town and the person responsible for accidental destruction. And since we’re treating the episode as a horror film, Honeybee decides to treat it as one and go through the next item on the list in the formula on how to make a horror film and that would be to get the fuck out.
She makes it to her car and starts turning it on and attempts to rush her way back home. She tries to call Wolf on the phone, only to leave him with a voice message recording because, of course, he and the other Tobins are locked in playing their board game marathon. More than 12 hours since starting playing a round of two. I mean, they had to at least have a minute break or something to stretch or use the bathroom at least without having to rely on a bottle and a tube to take a leak. Honeybee drives as fast as she can as the mysterious creature that followed her decides to go on the attack, hoping for Honeybee to become a statistic out on the open road. Honeybee tries to swerve to get it off the hood of her car and luckily enough, she makes it back home but when she gets up, of course, she notices the damage caused by the creature and also, once again, the creature left and could be getting ready for the kill.
She made it back inside the house and yes, the Tobins are still playing the game. You’d thought they’d be done by now, but nope. Alert the media, we’re going long for this bitch. And they don’t have dinner as well and at this point, they might as well bring out DoorDash or Uber Eats to get them their food while staying put and playing the game like we’re reliving the early days of the pandemic. Five years, folks. It’s been five years. Yeah, not a Throwback Tuesday or a Wayback Wednesday to ever think about that. Honeybee is scared that someone or something, turned out it’s a something, that decide to go after her and nearly become a statistic for animal-related car accidents on the open road. And this is where Honeybee should at least know what she did that got the whole town to ignore her and not want to catch any smoke from the creature that is following and nearly attacks her once she tells the Tobins about the situation.
Getting into some weird cult language from this town once the Tobins found out what Honeybee did by coming across the wooden tower and accidentally hitting it, resulting in the damn thing collapsing, uttering the phrase “Honor the Tribute” that got Honeybee confused as they take a look outside to see the creature themselves from the comfort from their home while, of course, scolding Honeybee for the hell that she might’ve unleashed just by using the so-called “bee-line” to get out of that traffic jam earlier in the episode. Wolf was like, “Honeybee, what the fuck have you done?!” when talking about the hell that Honeybee might’ve unleashed that got the whole town scrambling as if a nuclear bomb is about to hit. And the creature in question that decided to go on the offensive toward Honeybee as if it just put on a pair of black Air Forces... we got the name of the creature named Steven Beaver. And it’s not a human who went on the attack, which would feel like a different story if it was a person who turned out to be some sort of serial killer who escaped from prison, which would’ve been horrifying to think about and they had an episode where they thought there was a zombie attack at the school. No, Steven Beaver, guess this...
It’s a beaver. An actual beaver who decided to go on the warpath and declare open season on the humans, especially Honeybee. Okay, time out. A beaver? A beaver? A freaking beaver? That’s the reign of terror that the people of Lone Moose are afraid of? I get that beavers are nothing to fuck with. They’re nothing to fuck with and you could probably explain why Canada chose that as the national animal. But leading up to the episode, when reading the synopsis about a curse that Honeybee brought to her and the Tobins, I thought it would be in the way of how Poltergeist played out when it comes to the episode and how it’s supposed to be a horror-based one but is not technically a Halloween episode because it’s March.
And I had to Google search the types of myths Alaska has to offer like the Keelut, which is a mythical figure in the form of a black, hairless dog with hair only on its feet... which almost sounded like the chupacabra just describing how it looks; The Tizheruk, which is a giant sea serpent living in the waters that has a long ass tail that ends with a flipper... almost sounded like the Loch Ness Monster from Scotland; and the Kushtaka, who is a mythical creature only the Tlingit people should know, that can shapeshift. Which I know that sounded weird and calling cap on that one, but I bet, I bet some of y’all come across a few videos on TikTok or your Facebook feed regarding skinwalkers and we’re talking about a state where you normally found bigfoot, has a movie set there that came out in 2009 regarding aliens, and their state bird happened to be freaking mosquitoes. It’s like we’re trying to paint Alaska as the Florida of the North... minus the politics. I thought it was gonna be any of those items and they could be in good use in a future episode if we were to get another episode like this or a Halloween episode for sure, but a beaver? Fine, I guess. Might as well rock with it. And oh boy, there’s a reason why this particular beaver went after Honeybee and why the whole town is afraid of it.
Going into the second half of the episode and the Tobins and Honeybee are now officially locked in and surrounded by a lone hating’ ass beaver, waiting for Honeybee and now the rest of the Tobins to catch the smoke from the killer rodent. The Tobins continue to utter the phrase “Honor the Tribute”, once again, sounding like something coming out from a cult to the point where the #NotACult needs to be included in a sentence for the residents of Lone Moose, and this, of course, confuses Honeybee because she doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about. Why are the townsfolk freaking out as if a zombie apocalypse was breaking out? And why a beaver of all the animals living in Alaska that they’re afraid of the most? And oh boy, we got ourselves a story behind the generational beef between the humans and beavers as Judy tells the history behind the whole shindig when it comes to Lone Moose’s history.
Turns out that it’s not a Steven issue that Lone Moose had to deal with as we show his family tree to start the backstory. It’s a generational hatred with the Beavers that lasted for more than 100 years in Lone Moose’s history. And Steven wasn’t the first hating ass beaver that Lone Moose had to deal within its history because there are others long before him as the camera pans up the tree from Steven to Tyler to Archibald to Billy to Bruce to Heebner to Cornelius, down to Herbert who has only one eye and we’ll get to that one eye in a bit, to the original hater in all of Lone Moose: Steven’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Phineus Beaver. And you can already guess what is the root cause of the Beavers putting on a pair of Black Air Forces. Say it with me, folks...
White people. Yep, not a surprise that them white folks, settlers to be exact, had to go and fuck everything up to the point where the consequence of their actions is about to come and bite them and future generations in the ass. And this is one example regarding the situation we’re in. You have a couple of white settlers being super drunk on their asses after drinking one too much booze while walking by the river where they spotted the piles of wood used as a dam. Because if there is one thing that beavers are known for, it’s building miniature dams by using sticks. And that is what they did by stealing the sticks that were used for the dam that held the river. And this is where shit begins to go downhill for the settlers once they begin to take the sticks for themselves and according to Judy, those sticks that they stole were used to build the old town hall.
Now, you’re probably thinking that they’re in a forest where the settlers were setting up shop to create Lone Moose. So why won’t they use the trees to chop down and use the logs to build the buildings? Well, for starters, flashing forward for a bit after stealing the sticks, they did just that. But mostly because the three people who stole the sticks from the beavers were drunk. Handing a drunk person a saw, long before chainsaws were a thing, would be the same as handing your 2-year-old an active rocket launcher as a birthday gift. And for one Phineus Beaver who watched the settlers creating Lone Moose by invading their territory and stealing the wood used for the dam to build the town hall...
That is one angry beaver ready to go on a killing spree. Saying to himself, “Nuh-uh, how dare you steal my wood from that dam me and my brethren made over there. Today, your white asses are gonna die.” And that is exactly what Phineus is planning on doing and is ready to move. Just sitting there menacingly, the dark aura surrounding the rodent, and skips straight ahead to kick off what will the residents of Lone Moose throughout the town’s history will remember as the Beavers’ generational hatred. And they do just that once one piece of the wood gets removed from the wall and for the former mayor at the time, Mayor Pecan...
It’s GGs. It is straight GGs. Ain’t no way Mayor Pecan might’ve survived knowing the weight of each log was used to build the old town hall but should probably have left the guy trapped and knowing that it’s the olden times, where medical science is not yet advanced to today’s standards, once again, it’s GGs. And folks, this is just the start of this generational hatred for the Beavers as their way to send a message to the settlers to not fuck with their property or simply to tell them of how some Southerns would say that I’m likely going to get canceled, “You ain’t welcome here. Get the fuck out back to where you came from.”
And so, begins the hell that was being unleashed by the beavers and making the residents of Lone Moose as the years progress... well, a living hell. Whether it’s trying to enjoy a nice day on the river or opening up the mailbox, the beavers don’t give a shit about your daily life because you missed with their territory, you took their wood, and you’re going to get it, even if you haven’t done anything. They just hate humans just for coming into the area. It’s pretty much open season for the beavers as the population I guess struggles to grow because people want to move there but because of these pissed-off beavers that a couple of white folks triggered their hatred just by stealing causes them to rethink their decision of ever wanting to move there. Honeybee, when listening to the story, suggests why the people didn’t have the thought to just shoot them so they wouldn’t be a bother, only for Judy to reply that they did... and oh boy, those hating-ass rodents don’t take people shooting at them lightly.
Especially once the year 1915 hits as the beaver situation continues to take over the town and by then, Phineus is pretty much long gone, and his hater successor, his son Herbert, becomes the target after the residents grow tired of the rodents making their lives a living hell that was razed upon them for something their ancestors during the early years of the town have done. Enter Myrtle Jones, coming in with a blicky and shooting the beaver, thought she killed him. This causes the townsfolk to celebrate over what they thought that the beaver’s reign of terror came to an abrupt end after Mrytle shoots the rodent... only for the celebration to be short-lived because Herbert survived the blast, just got his left eye blown out and all of a sudden, he’s back at full HP, brought his crew with him, and is ready to jump Mrytle, who happened to be unarmed. And for Herbert and his gang of unmerry beavers, it’s free eats. As for Mrytle after that second confrontation with Herbert...
She got the #PackWatch #RIPBozo treatment from the beavers. Like bro... this is some elite hating coming from the animal. And all of this is because a couple of white folks stole a couple of wood from their dam to build the old city hall while drunk. The likes I have never seen in my life and I’ve recently seen a video from a YouTuber called CJ DaChamp on Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 2012 version of the franchise, and he was the ultimate hater when it comes to the world of fiction next to DIO from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. I know that it feels like a joke entry, and it does, but if you’re coming across with this, just to get The Great North on everyone’s radar so we can get a Season 6... give them a trial. Give the beavers a trial. Hell, Casual Geographic, you did those animal videos on YouTube, please do a take on beavers in light of this episode.
Other than that, Jesus fucking Christ, man... Jesus fucking Christ. This is an excessive amount of hatred the likes I have never seen in my life. The type of hatred that could give Kendrick Lamar a run for his money. And this shit lasted all throughout the rest of the 20th century and going into the current century that we’re in, so I have to guess Dirt would have to go through this but probably knows best not to mess with it if that were to be the case. If only the Tobins later in the episode would bring in an extra arm to deal with it but knowing that someone tried and failed to shoot the beaver and we know that Dirt is armed with a gun, shooting it dead would be off the table. And honestly, since the rest of the Tobins are now caught in the crossfire thanks to Honeybee, Dirt right now must be having the time in her life hiding away in her bunker and not wanting to deal with the shit that is about to take place. Probably thinks it’s all part of the game and says to herself, “Not my problem. I’ll see y’all next week if you need me.” After running out of ideas to get rid of the beaver, as if calling in the National Guard or the US military would have to play pest control against a killer beaver...
That’s where the idea of the tribute comes into play thanks to the disgraced former mayor of the town using the idea of bribery that Mayor Peppers picked up when having to deal with this mess. Having the council and a few townsfolk chant their sins and have various types of wood for the current beaver Steven takes the bait so he doesn’t bother Lone Moose and make the next town over, i.e. Ted’s Folly, his problem. AKA, the “It Follows” playbook with this episode. It was going well every year just to get the small, furry boogeyman off of their backs so they don’t want to catch the smoke... up until this exact moment with Honeybee accidentally destroying the tower after using a shortcut to get out of a traffic jam. The backstory of Lone Moose’s generational haters comes to an end and just in time too..
For a nearby tree to come crashing down and for Steven to come invade the Tobins and is ready for the kill towards Honeybee and now the family getting involved in the smoke. Steven decides to jump on Ham, who tripped while planning to go on the run along with the family and Honeybee, with some of the spit landed on his mouth while he is being attacked by the rodent before Beef comes in and hits it with a wall ornament to buy them time to make their way to the panic room.
And they do just that for the rest of the third act of the episode. Hoping for a miracle and some anime plot armor to kick into their system. Ham starts to become paranoid by thinking that he’s about to transform into a beaver just because some of his spit landed into his mouth... which I can tell you that’s not even the case because it doesn’t do that. It’s just a normal animal who is just pissed off and not held from some sort of chemical plant that can give him mutant powers. Hell, when Steven tries to claw himself through the door by the end of the third act, he suggests that he wants to serve as a sacrifice because again, paranoia, thinks that he could transform into a beaver and... plans on marrying him. Yeah, Ham, you are not beating the furry allegations. Last week with the yeti despite being mechanical and now with Steven the Hating-Ass Beaver? You’re not beating the allegations, man. You’re not helping with your case.
So yeah, the family is screwed with Steven now inside the house and Honeybee feels bad that she accidentally destroyed the tower without even noticing and is now unleashing death and destruction on herself and bringing it to the Tobins upon returning from Maude’s. Blaming herself for using the so-called “Bee-lines” and swearing that if they do survive this, that she’s going to stop doing that. Of course, the Tobins tell Honeybee to not blame herself just for doing things her way even though it did bring hell into her and the family without even noticing the consequences that came with the destruction, even if it was accidental. They only say that because we are nearing the fourth and final act of the episode and they’re on the verge of getting packed by an angry rodent and now, they need to think of a plan to get Steven out of the house.
And that’s where the idea of the Tobins playing the game with Moon in his part flooded his own land just to mess with Wolf’s crops, so basically, Moon got caught cheating at board games, but that is the idea that everyone is rocking with in hopes to get Steven off of their backs. Wash away Steven to another location by, yes, rebuilding the tribute and serving it as a raft and sending him to the nearest location to make the rodent the next town’s problem. And remember the plot of the movie “It Follows” where the woman who had intercourse with the guy who ultimately got the curse from him and tries to find someone to pass it over, it’s like that with the Tobins’ plan to get rid of Steven by making it the next town down by the river, Ted’s Folly, their problem. Of course, ending the third act of the episode and going into the fourth and final act, someone needs to serve as the distraction so everyone can get to the river and get the wooden raft going once Steven is lured to take the bait.
And that is exactly what Judy, Wolf, and Moon are doing to buy time for Honeybee, Beef, and Ham to get the supplies ready to build the raft. Just putting it out there, if only there were someone who is currently absent in the episode and currently resides in her bunker to at least serve as an extra arm to help everyone dealing with Steven. I’m just putting it out there. Judy, Wolf, and Moon serve as the distraction to buy the rest of the family time to get the supplies they need for the plan to work by getting a box of matches and starter logs to get things going. As for Ham... he continues to be paranoid by thinking that he’s turning into a beaver by gnawing at the shelf. At some point, they might as well take Moon’s suggestion by chaining Ham up just to make sure. They got their things once they left the house but they needed the wood to build the rafts and in a short amount of time too because I don’t think finding random sticks or chopping down a few trees to make the sticks. Luckily for the Tobins courtesy of Beef...
They got their supply and it’s a hoard of freshly made chairs that were meant for Judy because remember at the start of the episode, Judy had trouble sitting when noticing something was off with the chair which resulted in Honeybee putting in a cup to serve as the leg so she doesn’t fall in the event it breaks. 27 backup chairs to be exact solely to fix the wobbling issue, in which Honeybee suggests that Beef should buy Judy a chair. And Beef’s response to all of this: he’s not a well man. Yeah... I guess the excessive chair making sort of proved that and for cheap too without having to spend the money on a single chair that you could find at an IKEA or possibly a Walmart. How long until we get to the conclusion that Beef made all the chairs for the table for the family like what we saw with the backup chairs for Judy that will soon become sticks for the raft?
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