Out goes the Bob’s Burgers review with “The Lost City of Atlantic”, and now, onto the double episodes of The Great North. And with no new episodes this week for June 26, it’s all hands on deck just to at least make it a full season when doing these reviews. The irony is there because the episodes from last season, “Welcome to Miami Adventure” and “Worst Drives Club Adventure” are not being out, but still. I'm just one guy here. I'm doing the best I can do here. Especially when trying to help y’all get invested in the show.
In this week’s episode of The Great North, the second of the week but the first in this double header, the second episode’s review will be out by no later than Monday, but in this week’s episode of The Great North, the first of the two episodes that came out this week, the Guest Cabin that Wolf and Honeybee resides in gets a massive makeover with Wolf and Honeybee taking charge of the remodel as Judy, Ham, and Moon rethink their lives after a life-changing experience in my spoilerific review of the sixteenth episode of Season 5 of The Great North, titled “Super Smash Lovers Adventure”.
When it comes to buying a house, whether it’s for yourself or as a married couple, as if you’re expecting to be there for the long run, or in the event you want to have kids of your own, you might as well treat it like it’s a blank art canvas and how you want things to look. Even if the canvas has lines drawn for you, as if you’re doing a coloring book back in the day. Decorating is one way to determine how each room should look by placing the couch on either side of the wall where you think it fits nicely, or what color is better suited, that is both energy efficient and keeps a place cool for the summer. Well, aside from having to worry about mortgages and all, but still.
But one of the things that comes with the responsibility of getting a house of your own is how you want to redecorate. We’re not talking about a simple paint job for each room inside the house. No, no, we’re talking about how you want the house to look like if the floor and everything else look brand new, as if you saw it from a house improvement show, probably on a network like HGTV. And for Wolf and Honeybee, it’s going to be like this for the first of the two episodes of The Great North that came out this week, or last week, but I'm still considering it because there’s no new one this week and that might as well be the plan for this week in having to do these. Oh yeah, and there’s also the subplot of the Tobin kids having to rethink their lives after an experience they encountered, so there’s that.
And once again, here we go, a shift in the status quo of the series. Season 5 has been a season where changes have to be made, whether it’s a good thing, like changing the boat from the Mighty Kathleen to the Mighty Beef, or a bad thing, like having Ham and Crispin call off their relationship. And the guest cabin that Wolf and Honeybee have resided in since the start of the show is next on the docket. Y’all already know what the outcome is at the end of the episode when y’all watched it when it came out, whether on the air this past Thursday or when it came out on streaming. So, we might as well get this one going and get through this thing piece by piece. This is “Super Smash Lovers Adventure”.
The episode starts with a flashback to one year ago, and yes, we have Wolf and Honeybee in their wedding outfits after being dropped off at their cabin. They’re fresh out of their wedding. As in the wedding that happened on the Mighty Kathleen at the end of Season 1’s “My Fart Will Go On Adventure” and if y’all remember that episode, that was where Wolf and Honeybee are about to tie the knot and make it official while at the same time, worried that a certain someone, i.e. Kathleen, could be crashing the party via RSVP, but ultimately missed it because she was stuck at a Tulsa airport. So, false alarm there. And besides, if we’re going to be honest here, it almost feels like the episode there has everyone think that they’re not going to get another season leading up to the premiere, but we got more seasons after that, so that’s that.
But good to know at least that the episode takes place a year after the events of Season 1, which almost feels like we’re moving the goal post a bit when it comes to the setting of the show because the show came out in 2021, so you’d think that Season 1 would be set in 2021, minus the COVID masks and social distancing. 2021 or 2022, to be exact, but no, it has been a full year, so Season 1 would probably be around 2023 or 2024 and would make the current season, Season 5, around 2024 or 2025. The prime example would be the moment Dirt was discovered and that she was hiding for 60 years since the Great Alaskan Earthquake, that she thought it was the Soviets invading the US. Just pray The Great North or Bob’s Burgers doesn’t move the goal post when it comes to the setting of the current timeline to the point where it could fuck up the adult characters’ past. Thinking that they grew up in the 70s or 80s and would have to change to the 90s or 2000s. I don’t want to imagine if we change the setting once again, going into the 2030s.
Other than that, it’s been a year since Wolf and Honeybee got married, as they’re being dropped off from their wedding on the boat. Would not expect their honeymoon to be back at the cabin and not at a hotel or some resort. But that should be more than enough for them to enjoy their honeymoon phase of their newfound marriage from a year ago, as we enter the montage to bypass the first few minutes of the episode of them enjoying their time living together, for better or for worse. From watching a movie to having to dress up in Donkey Pajamas to having to play around with their VR headsets, to even some bad stuff like Wolf’s towel falling while Honeybee is video chatting her family or having to Honeybee having to endure the sounds of farts from Wolf, with the door open, they had no problems, okay, some problems while living together, but hey, at least they know how to keep a marriage strong and healthy. And we see that throughout the past five seasons of this show, and with some difficulties, they know how to take care of each other. They know how to keep each other happy. And despite the limited space that the guest cabin where they have to live in, it beats better than moving to an apartment or a house and having to pay the rent.
This leads us to the end of the montage, where the decision has to be made about their living conditions once Honeybee wakes up from her sleep after hearing Wolf talking to himself while looking at a laptop while watching a live stream of a bodybuilding contest out in Finland. This is where the conversation comes into play once Honeybee joins him on the couch about their future post-wedding, since it looks like the honeymoon phase has officially passed them, because Honeybee says that the cabin they’re residing starting to feel cramped and thinks that it’s time for a change. A massive change as part of their five-year plan that they cooked up ahead of their wedding. Their own Project 2025, to be exact to keep this marriage healthy and balanced. And this is one of them, with the two now about to enter phase two of the plan, which is housing. And there are two options when it comes to their housing situation: it’s either remodel the cabin to their liking, you know, move around some stuff, and tear down a few walls to add extra space to expand the house, or pack their bags and move into a house or apartment either in Lone Moose or in the neighboring towns.
Which is something that Wolf wishes the second option wouldn’t get picked when talking about the marriage going into phase two of their five-year plan. Especially when it comes to the cost of the rent, because the renters can see their credit score, with Wolf bringing up that his credit score still needs to recover from buying an NFT. So, they both agree on picking the remodeling option to save them the cost and time if they choose to leave the property and into a different location. Of course, they don’t want any help because getting a contractor would be considered expensive, though you could at least ask Beef for help, just asking, so they would rather do the remodeling themselves. Besides, what’s the worst that could happen with a married couple having an episode of wanting to remodel the house? And it’s pretty much a Phase 1.5 rather than a Phase 2, even though Phase 2 is all about the housing situation, but at least the remodeling job is now all drawn out and is about to be activated going into the next day.
It’s the next day, and Ham, Judy, and Moon, after returning home from school, got a bit of a scare upon entering the house. Spotting a random coffin in the living room and are feeling concerned about why the coffin is there. Who the coffin is for, as if they’re living in a nightmare of some sort. Of course, turns out the coffin is not meant for either of the three kids who returned home from school and instead...
It’s Beef who rose from the dead... or just resting in the coffin as he was waiting for him to show off to Ham, Judy, and Moon like he’s the freaking Undertaker. Turns out the coffin that was placed in the living room was for him. And according to him, when explaining to his kids, he got it from a sale of a coffin story called the Burial Barn on the cheap and, you know, found his dream coffin for when he decides to meet the big man upstairs at the ripe age of 80, or at least that is what Beef thought would be his expected age of when he bites the big one. But he got a coffin for when the day comes. Of course, not a usual graveyard, but instead, in the part of the property where the gravestones are marked. Oh yeah, y’all kind of forgot there was supposed to be a plot where there’s a slot of gravestones for each Tobin by having their own private cemetery. The point is that Beef got himself a coffin and shows it off to the kids. Hell, he even asks the kids to give it a shot, which almost feels like a bad idea because getting a first taste of what death is like. I mean, Judy and Ham, along with their friends, almost got packed during the prom disaster back in Season 3. Hell, Judy, she was close to letting the cult that she didn’t even know was a cult from slamming the boat into the iceberg. And who wouldn’t forget the beaver from earlier this season? But still, it’s a bad idea to let your kids give the coffin shot as if it’s a trip to the museum and going into an exhibit to experience the science of death.
Especially with the aftermath, 15 minutes later, after each one gives the coffin a try for five minutes. And the results speak for themselves. Just five minutes in the coffin for each Tobin child can change their lives and their likelihood altogether. I mean, we, as human beings, know a thing or two about fears. And death, along with the thought of the afterlife, is one of the biggest fears for anyone to have. Because you don’t know what is about to be expected once you get sent to the lobby, regardless of whether you’re religious or not, it can be a scary experience because no one, and I mean no one, knows what it holds or what it would look like if we got no answer for that, which we don’t. It’s a scary thought. Especially with what just happened this past weekend in the Middle East, and the fear that World War III is about to become a reality. Anything can happen because the universe is a fucking asshole.
Okay, so starting with Ham’s reaction, whimpering with tears in his eyes after going through the coffin experience. Crying over the idea that his youth is quickly slipping away, and he feels like he might not be getting it back as time progresses. And that is a scary thought for... well, everyone, because you see everyone in the world, well, not everyone, but most people, having to live their life to the fullest, and the stuff you saw on TV or online or in-person when walking around the town, while you on the other hand, feels like you’re wasting your life away as if you haven’t achieved anything. And from Ham’s perspective, it does feel like that. And most of us know that feeling as if we know that our livelihoods are slipping away, and we didn’t even notice with age as the world turns, but before you know it, it’d be too late. Time can be a bitch, but that’s life.
Then we get to Judy’s reaction, with her acting as if she became an insomniac. Her saying that she saw nothing but darkness, as if she thinks that the moment she dies, there will be no afterlife. Just darkness. That’s it. That’s lights out. And this is not the show’s way of saying that she was feeling some signs of claustrophobic behavior when being inside a dark box like a coffin, even if it’s for five minutes, and treating it like it’s a challenge from the show Fear Factor. I’m not saying that she’s an atheist of some sort, and I know one or two people who don’t believe in that stuff, just because she saw nothing when spending her five minutes inside the coffin, as if it’s that one Simpsons episode where Homer and Lisa having to go to that capsule filled with water after a bit of a falling out between the two after Homer let a cell phone company turn Lisa’s room into a server room for a cell tower. Pure darkness once the lid is closed.
And then came Moon, who also had a similar feeling of having to go through five minutes of being in the life-sized dark box, but seems rather unfazed by it. And we’re talking about the same guy who knows how to play dead back to Season 1’s “Feast of Not People Adventure”, so you could say that this is nothing for Moon, but mind you, this is nothing to play pretend because that shit can happen in real life. So, like Judy, Moon saw nothing when being placed inside the coffin. But along the way, he also saw everything as if he were going for the yin-yang type of statement when talking about the balance of life and death. That feels like something that is straight out of a cult. That is cult language that is Moon is saying after being placed inside Beef’s coffin for five minutes, as if what happened back there didn’t affect him, while at the same time, it does. Getting to the point where the next time we get to the subplot, going into the next day, is where Moon enters his guru cult phase, and Judy serves as his follower.
We check up on Wolf and Honeybee back at the guest cabin, and the remodeling is starting to take effect as we see the kitchen of the cabin having its walls painted and a new window installed. A small change, but at least things are about to take place with the whole remodeling aspect of the plan that the two have been planning out since tying the knot. And that little change to the place in place, it looks like they don’t need a contractor to come in and patch up the cabin on their behalf. Thinking that shit is going to be sweet going forward despite it’s only one side of the cabin having its wall painted and a window having to be installed and would just call it a day.
Not unless you’re Honeybee who after having to hear Wolf’s farts once more with the door open to let the smell out is where she needs more than just a simple paint job and a window being installed. Wishing for Phase Two of their plan to be enacted, to go all out on the remodeling. Thinking to herself that it’s not enough. It’s not enough according to her, and she thinks that repainting the kitchen wall and adding a new window won’t do when it comes to the remodeling process. Treating as if she is about to go overboard with this process.
So, we go into the second act of the episode with Honeybee preparing to head out to get more supplies from the junkyard to continue the efforts of the remodeling process. Hoping for both of them to work on the cabin for the day, but Wolf has other plans because he’ll be out and about with Cheesecake to have some breakfast beers, because it’s never too early to crack open a couple of brewskis. Leaving Honeybee to do the work to remodel and now expand the guest cabin, since it looks like the plan now is to install an additional room for an office space. And knowing that Honeybee wishes for Phase Two to take place as if she’s experiencing some sort of itch for wanting to do more than just the office space that she wants to have, which could turn a small itch into an out-of-control rash.
We head over to the main cabin, and Moon has embraced cult leader status. He has officially embraced the status of cult leader when dressing up in a robe as if he’s the second coming of Jesus Christ. Already embracing the role after spending five minutes, mind you, just five minutes inside the coffin, seeing nothing but darkness as if they put on the headset and undergo the experience of what death is like. And you can tell that Beef is already regretting inviting his kids to give the coffin a try, which causes his kids’ livelihoods to undergo a drastic change. And he is seeing the changes firsthand for Moon after thinking that he’s God and knows all the answers after being crammed for five minutes. And it looks like Moon isn’t the only one who embraced the change after living inside the box for all of five minutes...
Judy is also undergoing the change by deciding to be Moon’s disciple for this so-called experience. Once again, Moon thinks he’s the second coming of Jesus just for being locked inside the coffin for five minutes, treating that experience like it’s... well, Jesus Christ after three days after being crucified. So, we have Moon and Judy embracing the cult-lite lifestyle that Moon is now starting to lead since the coffin experience. And then you have Ham, who is still latching on to, in his point of view, what’s left of his youth after being spotted by Beef in his childhood bed. Shades of what Gene had gone through in “Seven-tween Again” when he thought his youth was slipping away. Just hoping Ham doesn’t end up joining a daycare and relive his time as a 7-year-old just to relive his youth. I mean, you might as well treat this as a mid-life crisis, even though he’s only 16-17. That is what it is if you sum up Ham’s situation after going through the coffin experience.
Hours later, back at the guest cabin with Honeybee and Kyle unloading the lumber from Kyle’s truck that was once the floor from a now shut-down bowling alley in Ted’s Folly to serve as the floor or wall of the expanded space for the remodeling process. And Kyle knows right away that there might be some turmoil for Wolf and Honeybee’s marriage now that they’re out of the honeymoon phase. Because usually when doing something like this, it would spell that either the married couple are expected to have a kid, which I doubt that Wolf and Honeybee would have the thought of having one, even if we do get Season 6 greenlit and NOT World War III, hopefully that doesn’t result in a jinx, I doubt they’ll have themselves a kid and it would suck if Season 5 were to end and ends it in a cliffhanger with Honeybee out of the blue announcing that she’s pregnant and not get a fucking renewal, then that would really suck; or their marriage is about to be down in the dumps.
That’s what Kyle is suspecting of Wolf and Honeybee when doing the remodeling, because she had gone through that with her ex-husband, Junkyard Jim, which led to their marriage getting called off. Honeybee don’t think that’s the reason for remodeling the cabin, because they both agree on the option going into their second phase of their five-year plan, but there were some problems when it comes to wanting to have their own space. Especially Honeybee, when seeing the montage at the start of the episode. But it wouldn’t go as far as if their marriage is about to go off a cliff or something, just because of the thought process of wanting to remodel the place. And besides, we already have two breakups this season. We do not need Season 5 to go for a hat trick.
We check up on the kids going into lunchtime at the cafeteria, with Moon and Judy having lunch with Henry and Russell, who are weirded out and confused by what is going on with the two Tobin siblings, just as Principal Gibbons was making an announcement of an assembly at the gym for later this week. Especially Russell, who is easily frightened by Moon’s new outlook on life since trapping himself in Beef’s coffin for five minutes, in which Moon thinks that it’s all part of the process of having to reach enlightenment. And he decides to test that theory by throwing his roll towards Gibbons, who plans on punishing him for that. But Moon has other ideas to serve as his get out of trouble free card by claiming that he may have saved his life for whatever shit the universe may throw at him to cut his life subscription off early.
And, I have to hand it to The Great North for this one and the next episode for using this style of animation to tell the different situations that could end Gibbons’ life. Something coming out of the cartoon style of the 1940s, like Popeye, is the prime example. Faces all over the background and going for the colorful route rather than going for black and white. You could say Popeye. You could say Cuphead as the next example when looking at the style of animation for this episode and the following episode after that, and in comparison, to what Bob’s Burgers was doing with stick figures as visuals, they really outdid themselves with this when doing the thought bubble, storytelling visuals when explaining a lot of things. Especially this late in the series. And this is in comparison to last season, when it comes to the visuals in “A Chug’s Life Adventure” with the usual style, just with dotted eyes and making things look simple.
Anyway, Moon pulls out the “get out of trouble” free card after throwing his roll towards Gibbons by telling him that he claimed that he might’ve saved his principal from meeting an unlikely demise. And Moon lists out various ways the universe could go after Gibbons as if it put out a hit on him. Ranging from tripping on the floor that could have chowder spilled on his scarf to moving to Florida when not wanting to deal with the cold, and the next thing you know, pop goes the alligator that storms through the Welcome to Florida sign and is about to put his face on a t-shirt and a statistic, what Moon is listing out pretty much haunts him. Treating this like it’s an episode of Scared Straight by having him imagine the various ways he could die, and that alone got Moon (and Judy) out of trouble. And if there’s one way to tell that you’re facing face-to-face with a cult member, let alone a cult leader that would cause you to join their cult, it is manipulation. Moon just manipulated Gibbons by telling him the various ways the universe might throw at him just to get out of trouble. And this is right after spending five minutes the day prior with him and his siblings, spending five minutes in the coffin.
It didn’t take long for Ham to finally find what he wanted to do when it comes to him worrying about his youth slipping away, once he spots Mr. Golovkin jamming to the radio from the comfort of his desk. Turns out that Mr. Golovkin is only doing this because he is in the middle of his mid-life crisis, as if his youth is slipping away, and he wishes he could relive that. Something that Ham wants after spending five minutes inside Beef’s coffin, and the firm realization that his youth is slipping away, even though he’s a year or two away from reaching the age that considers you an adult. Once again, what Ham is feeling after that experience feels like something that screams mid-life crisis. So, the two bond over them, wishing they could relive their youth as they continue to jam out through the radio. Took a little while for Ham to decide what he wanted to do after that experience, but here we are when tying in with the rest of his siblings’ outlooks being changed after what was a preview of what death is like.
So, we reached the end of the first half of the episode, with Wolf returning home from spending all day getting drunk after what was supposed to be him and Cheesecake getting breakfast beers, and hopefully return home to help with Honeybee with the remodeling process. Well, it looks like Honeybee decided to do that without him, once she saw her doing the remodeling herself. Her building a set of stairs and a portion of the wall now open as if it’s more than just an office space that Honeybee is aiming for once she decides to build herself a stairway. A simple paint job or floor replacement would be just fine, and you can get away with it. What Honeybee is doing by wanting to create a room with the hole in the wall and now, the set of stairs as if she plans on building a second floor, like it’s coming out of Animal Crossing or The Sims... I don’t know if it’s required in your city where you would need an inspector to step in and see if you’re good to go, to see if the house you’re living in or plans on moving into would require a massive makeover. And looking at it, once we go into the second half of the episode, it’s pretty much the personal space issue.
We enter the second half of the episode with Wolf confused and concerned with what is going on with the remodeling process of the house. Especially with what Honeybee is doing when trying to create an office space, but instead, she goes overboard by taking the extra step of building a stairway, as if she were planning on building a second floor. Honeybee thinks that it’s part of Phase Two, but Wolf, of course, as we thought when watching this unfolding, feels like she’s taking things a little too far. Way beyond Phase Two of their five-year plan, which, of course, draws some concerns from Wolf because it was supposed to be a small redesign, like adding an office space. He just didn’t expect this to be the outcome, as there was something that needed to be worked out between the two.
Especially once we get to the montage to bypass the third act of the episode, starting with, of course, Wolf and Honeybee, once they have to huddle together and having to share each other’s body warmth for who knows how long because of the hole in the wall that Honeybee left open. As if a tarp is going to fix things? Especially when having to survive the frigid Alaskan air going through the cabin. I don’t know why, when it comes to the sleeping situation, that they should’ve at least gone to the main house for the night while everything is undergoing remodeling, wasn’t the first choice? I mean, they could, but then one of the kids would have to give up their room, and they have their own stuff to go through with the subplot after being locked in a coffin for five minutes. And I can’t say Aunt Dirt’s bunker either because she’s not in this episode.
But yeah, going into the montage, first up being Wolf and Honeybee, and y’all remember the start of the episode where space would become a problem when living together in a cramped cabin for over a year, with some parts of it showing Wolf invading Honeybee’s space whenever he was doing something? It almost feels like Wolf is getting a taste of his own medicine thanks to the hole in the wall left by Honeybee during the rebuilding phase. Especially when having to go through the laptop, and he has to add extra layers to keep himself warm while the frigid air continues to blow through the building. Not to mention, animals coming into the premises like the crows entering the cabin and straight up attacking Wolf, causing him to be chased out of the house with his towel falling off. It does feel like what happened with Honeybee at the beginning of the episode has just been catapulted onto him like it’s some sort of punishment. Pretty much screams that they’re even as the montage progresses all the way to the next time we see them, which is later in the night.
We check up on what the other Tobin siblings are doing during the montage. Starting with Moon and Judy, with Moon’s cult quickly getting a rise in followers as he continues to preach bullshit to the masses. The masses being students. Kids, mind you, and if you know cults or development, if you’re a psychology or sociology major, their brains are like sponges and can absorb anything because they didn’t develop common sense. That and the repetitiveness that can drill into their brains that make them easy to manipulate. Especially if one of their own is running the show because he thinks he know all of the answers after spending five minutes in the coffin without having to piss his pants over the fear of death and the afterlife. It’s pretty much a power struggle between Moon and the teachers, with the way he was doing with, again, Moon running the show and pretty much having the school in a chokehold.
You also have Ham in his part of the episode with him hanging around with Golovkin as we see the two going around the school and at the mall picking hats, as well as buying a car from the junkyard. Them trying to relive their youth and such as if they’re going through a mid-life crisis of their own. Even though Golovkin is going through a mid-life crisis of his own because he is a middle-aged man who feels like his youth is slipping away, and his age and body show it. Ham is only tagging along because, like Moon and Judy, because he thinks his youth is slipping away despite being 16-17 years old, but his thoughts after spending time in Beef’s coffin speak otherwise and he wants to recapture that as we’re treating it as if he’s going through a mid-life crisis or a preview of it.
Especially with one of the scenes showing them at the library and reading through the school yearbook, and you have younger versions of Ham and Golovkin in their respective yearbooks. Both in their ninth-grade year, with a younger version of Ham holding up a strawberry cake, a precursor to her being selected as the town’s cake lady, since the yearbook has him as the Cake Club Captain. And you also have Golovkin in his younger days, who I’m guessing that he’s pretty much an alumnus at Lone Moose School since the yearbook belongs to the school and has the school colors on it, as the Train Club Captain, and we know a lot that Golovkin has an interest in trains. Good God, imagine him seeing the trains passing through with Beef and Walt in the previous episode.
We’re staying with the subplot once the montage comes to an end, with everyone waiting in line to get a turn at getting a fortune from Moon in the bathroom, of all places, like it’s a line outside for a fortune telling. And, okay, what the fuck is going on in the Bupatutti household for Bethany to not want to spend time with her family. Like... something has to be up for Bethany in not wanting to be around her family to the point where she would go as far as taking refuge at school, other than her saying, “Nah, I just don’t feel like it” whenever her family wants to do something and just want to bond with their daughter for once. I know that we’ve only got five episodes left in the season, mind you, five left because there were supposed to be four more in the mix but got shelved due to the strikes, which would’ve got us to 101 episodes. God forbid if one of those episodes that got shelved is a Bethany episode. God fucking forbid. So, Bethany hands Moon a gift as an offering to help with her issue, and right as she leaves the bathroom...
Moon got stopped by Mc. Namara, who saw the long line at the bathroom and noticed everyone was not in their first-period class, already detailing that it was the next morning since the end of the montage, and tells everyone to get to their class, which includes Moon and Judy. Hoping for this little charade to be put away. And remember when Moon pulled out the “get out of trouble” free card onto Gibbons by telling him endless ways of how the universe would put him on a t-shirt and somehow work? Yeah, that didn’t help to get him out of trouble from McNamara, as she tells everyone, including Moon and Judy, to leave the bathroom since everyone is late for their classes. So much for that trick, but it only applies to her as this little cult train ride continues going into the fourth act.
We reached the end of the third act of the episode with Wolf and Honeybee continuing to sleep through the morning while huddling together in a shared sleeping bag. Still having to reel with the damage control that Honeybee caused, it looks like they got themselves an uninvited guest invading their home. As if the hole left open in the wall would be open space that is meant to be for an office space, already drawn unwelcomed guests like a flock of crows coming in and attacking Wolf after coming out of the shower wasn’t enough.
It looks like they got a wolf in the building. Not our Wolf, who is sleeping next to Honeybee, but an actual wolf straight from the wild, entering the house as if the creature was expecting a red carpet for the wolf to enter and probably make the place for itself. And now Honeybee realizes that she took things too far, to the point where a wild animal like a wolf would come in and could pose a threat to the couple from the comfort of their own home, thanks in part to the hole in the wall because space is the name of the game when it comes to the decision to redo the house. The two squirm their way to the bathroom for shelter, hoping for the wolf to not go after them, spoiler alert, the wolf noticed and almost went on the attack once Wolf and Honeybee hid themselves in the bathroom as we end the third act and now going into the fourth and final act of the episode...
They’re stuck in the sleeping bag and now hiding inside the bathroom, hoping for someone to come in and get the wolf out of the house. Honeybee apologizes to Wolf for going overboard with the remodeling in what was supposed to be a small expansion by adding an office space before adding the stairs, as if she’s planning on building a second floor, with Wolf wondering why she went overboard in this process. This causes Honeybee to reveal that she needs some space. She has no problem living with Wolf at the cabin, but she hasn’t gotten any space because of how cramped the cabin is since the day they were married. Actually, no, scratch that, since the moment in the very first episode of the series when they try to tell Beef that they want to move out of the house and into the guest cabin. And that was when a moose came in and stormed through the house on Judy’s birthday. So, yeah, not having enough space is the main issue for why remodeling has to become an answer. But it’s also because she got annoyed by him all the time whenever he did something, and she thought adding an extra space would get the privacy she needed. But it appears it’s not just a Honeybee problem with Wolf invading her space, as we saw in the montage from the start of the episode.
Because it looks like Wolf, too, has some problems when it comes to wanting some space and getting annoyed by his spouse’s activities as seen with Honeybee wearing and playing with the VR set while Wolf is busy building a Lego set of the house from Home Alone and was about to complete it before Honeybee knocked it down while wearing her headset because it was in close proximity. That, and also the whole door being open to let a fart out isn’t a Wolf problem either. So, both partners are pretty much accountable for not giving each other space to the point where they have to agree on wanting to remodel the place from top to bottom. But at least what they did didn’t cause any turmoil in their marriage. They both agreed that they’re not perfect, mostly because of the living conditions they’re in, but they like living with each other, and one phase in their plan isn’t going to come across that. So, they both bury the hatchet, but they still need the wolf out of their lives. Of course, their asses get bailed by Beef, who noticed what was going on with the guest cabin, and, of course, the wolf itself. Surprising that no one within the family saw that this was happening. Not Beef. Not the kids. Hell, not even the absent Aunt Dirt, who would probably see this and, I guess, shoot the wolf in plain sight.
We go back to the subplot where we do a quick check up on Ham and Golovkin, who are in their purchased used car with them missing their classes and continuing to listen to the radio and wearing the hats that they bought. They continue to relive their youth that they’re looking for while being parked at the school parking lot. To the point where Golovkin and Ham think it would be a good idea to give the car a spin across the lot, not knowing that shit is about to go down once the foot is on the pedal. And while that is happening, you we go to inside the school in Mrs. Hill’s classroom with the fifth graders who are about to take their test...
Only for the students in the class to turn in their test papers with nothing written on it as they all fallen to Moon’s spell of enlightenment, especially once Moon and Judy tells Mrs. Hill that the students don’t want to do the test because they think that the real test is life itself on some Disney Channel writing if it means getting out of a test that got Moon’s classmates’ attention if it means not wanting to do that test and ends up joining him and Judy in their little crusade. Tell that to the other religious crusades in history that blew up in their faces. They think shit was going to be sweet. Spoiler alert, it’s not.
And we stay with the crusade with Moon and his followers now invading the assembly with... not a lot of people in attendance, as if the school assembly is trying to rival the attendance number of Trump’s military parade or the Oklahoma City Thunder championship parade. Especially when the assembly in question is a performance by a quartet who happen to be inmates from a minimum-security prison called the Embezzle-tones. Makes you question where the fuck the security guards are at to take care of these guys in case they make their escape. The assembly, of course, gets interrupted by Moon, who leads the charge with his peers during his tour of enlightenment, hoping to recruit more people to join his cause. I mean, at some point, I can’t tell the percentage of the student body who fell into Moon’s brainwashing because once again, they’re kids. Their minds are like sponges and can absorb that shit and can be easily manipulated like what we are seeing. Too bad that this little experience has to come to an end, going into the two-minute warning of the episode.
Once the car that Ham and Golovkin rammed through the school and into the gym. Nearly sent people packing and were seconds away from becoming statistics. The hole in the wall caused by the car got the four inmates making their escape as if they’re about to be the would-be escapees from the Louisiana prison, though I can’t tell if at the time of finishing up and posting, if the final escapee who hasn’t been caught is currently on the run because we forgot this was still going on, but other than that, the inmates make their escape, but that’s not important. What is important is that this little near-death experience got Moon, Judy, and Ham to knock some sense into them after Moon and Judy nearly got run over and Ham was about to become a statistic himself in a potential car crash. And the same would go for Golovkin, who was behind the wheel when that happened. Everyone was this close to being sent to the lobby, but at least this little experience has to come to a close after giving the students a taste of what death is like.
We enter the two-minute warning of the episode with Beef getting a better understanding of what just happened throughout the week with the guest cabin, with Honeybee apologizing to him for nearly destroying it because she went overboard. Tying in with the issue of not having enough space when living in a cramped space like the guest cabin. But, as expected, since we’re already at the end of the episode, the first of the two episodes of this double header, Beef knows this all too well, with where Wolf and Honeybee are coming from when it comes to couples needing space. He knows that because... well, he was living with Kathleen for a long time. So, not really that surprising to tell when it comes to experience. So, everything is pretty much water under the bridge as we prepare to wrap up the episode, but not before Beef decides to tell the two that they should leave the remodeling to Beef, as he plans on doing the job for them. And with that, we’re in business, going into the final scene of the episode. But not before Wolf spots the coffin and uh... It’s well advised for Beef to not let his eldest son go near it.
So, onto the final scene of the episode, and from here on out, we've got ourselves an updated look of the cabin that is now a two-story house. But only the outside of it, not the full tour inside, which... wow, okay. Guess we’re not going to get the full tour inside? Then again, that’s what we thought about Beef’s new boat at the end of “The Lies Aquatic Adventure”, and we didn’t get to see the inside of it until the intro of the following up from the captain’s deck and we didn’t get the full tour until the subplot of “It’s Compli-skated Adventure” and the full thing in “Ghouls Rush In Adventure”. And I think, and this is just based on the EDIR, just waiting for FoxFlash or The Futon Critic for official wording, there’s an episode coming up on July 17, yes, July 17 because it looks like The Great North will be in reruns on July 3 and July 10, called “Heel-raiser Adventure”, which should be a Wolf episode. Meaning that we should get to see the inside of the newly built guest cabin. But other than that, we got the newly designed guest cabin, all thanks to Beef, and Beef alone, since he did most of the work, and yeah, we got a new guest cabin going forward. And seriously, do your fucking part to support the show so we can get a Season 6 at least. And yeah, moral of this story: respect your partners’ space, that hopefully doesn’t result in your relationship going through the rocks. Especially when having to rebuild the house to your and your partner’s liking.
Reaction/Thoughts:
So, all and all, what do I think about this week’s episode of The Great North? The first of the two from the double header, to be exact. This was an interesting episode from the first of the two episodes that we got this past Thursday, mainly coming from the two plots that we got with the main plot of Wolf and Honeybee having to redo the house with Honeybee going overboard and Ham, Moon, and Judy having to change their outlooks after spending a few minutes inside the coffin. It’s an interesting episode for sure, but it’s not a bad one. I guess average to say the least, other than the wildness that we got coming from some parts of the two plots that we have.
It’s interesting that we would have another status quo change this late in the series, with the guest cabin being the next item up on the list once Wolf and Honeybee agree that they need more space because the place they’re staying for over a year feels cramped. And y’all know that feeling when having to live in a location for a year, and you’re starting to feel like the walls are starting to crumple together, whether by the atmosphere, or you have to live with a roommate or romantic partner and not get any space. Not getting any privacy. Even if yes, Honeybee had to go overboard with the rebuilding because of her getting annoyed by Wolf and the lack of space she’s getting while living in the guest cabin for a year since getting engaged. So, it’s interesting that we got a status quo change with the cabin, and you can see that at the beginning of the next episode from the outside. And hopefully, we get an inside look at the place come the next episode.
The subplot was something alright with the Tobin kids each having their own different lifestyles, a change of how they see the world, after being invited by Beef to try out the coffin, which they deny the request at first, before ending up doing it. Pretty much shoving Beef to the backseat for the rest of the episode. You’d think that all three would have their separate plots because the promotional images show Moon going full cult and Ham having to relive his youth with Golovkin, with God knows what Judy would be doing God knows what she would be doing. But instead, it’s two halves of the subplot because Judy had to follow Moon, becoming his disciple, after seeing nothing but darkness when spending her time inside the coffin. But it was something for Moon to have a mass following, with him thinking he knows all of the answers after spending time inside the coffin. And it was also something for Ham and Golovkin to bond after Ham thought his youth was slipping away before his eyes, which sums up mid-life crisis, despite Ham being 16-17 years old. So, that’s something to watch. Other than that, it’s an alright episode and interesting to have a status quo change this late in the series with the guest cabin, and I guess we’re going to have to wait until we get to see the inside look of the newly built guest cabin. So, I’ll give “Super Smash Lovers Adventure”...
A 7 out of 10. But that’s my opinion, and I want to hear yours in the comments below. This is the first of the two episodes that came out this past Thursday from the double header, and the second that came out this past Thursday aside from the Bob’s Burgers episode we got with “The Lost City of Atlantic”. But it’s off to “Serendipi-Beef Adventure” now, and oh boy, there are some moments in the main plot that I’ve got something to say. So, stay tuned for that later this week because there are no new episodes of Bob’s Burgers and The Great North this week.
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