A Merry Chrysler to you all as we have finally entered the halfway point of the year-end countdown. Funny enough, we’re going from the seventh spot of the countdown to the sixth, where these two fandoms in back-to-back spots took on each other not too long ago in the Final Round of the voting tournament that led to a back-to-back championship title for this particular fandom as a send-off. Going from Blue Exorcist at number 7 to The Great North at number 6, and it’s “Serendipi-Beef Adventure” taking that spot.
This might as well be “Autumn If You Got Em” 2.0 for this episode... or should’ve been when it comes to the romance angle of the episode on the night of the twin comets, the Curlew Kissin’ Comets, passing through Lone Moose, and it’s an event that the townsfolk can’t miss—developing comet fever on the night of as everyone prepares to skywatch the 23-year celestial event. Shades of “Comet-y of Errors” from Bob’s Burgers, with everyone watching a once-in-a-lifetime event. And you can tell that it does feel like it was borrowing the playbook from “Comet-y of Errors” because you have Beef, like Teddy in that episode, had a string of bad luck following the comet's passing through the night sky. Mainly in the ol’ romance department because the last time Beef saw the comets, he thought that he was going to live happily with Kathleen... or, so we thought, if Beef isn’t too dense to see the red flags surrounding her on what he was signing up for. But, yeah, sure, blame the comets for Kathleen for being a terrible person, even though everyone knows it a mile away—all but him. Great example to give to your kids once the 23 years are up since the twin comets' last pass through town.
But the universe has other plans for Beef in this episode, since the focus of the episode, and like “Autumn If You Got Em Adventure”, it wants to be like that Season 3 episode. And the central theme, at least with the main plot, two side plots in the same main plot, to be exact, with Beef’s plot and Moon’s plot, and we’ll get to Moon in a bit. Still, with Beef, much like “Autumn If You Got Em Adventure”, he just had to run across his former love interests on his way to the state park because Judy and Ham forgot to take their antibiotics while recovering from their wisdom teeth removal surgery. Not once, not twice... four times. Four times on his way to deliver the antibiotics while hoping to tell the universe to go fuck itself on the night of the comets.
The first being his former one-night stand too many partner, Greta Meatweep, after nearly running her over while trying to put on her sweater, as one of the many people who plan on seeing the comets. An awkward ride to the state park where the viewing party is held, when being with someone who used him as content for her poems in the newspaper, talking about his meat before moving on to someone else. Which I’m guessing that’s how Taylor Swift got the idea when working on her song “Wood” when talking about Travis Kelce. But it was an awkward ride to the state park for Beef to drop her off. Luckily survived the awkward carpool ride once he finally arrived at the park.
Before coming across his second of the four former love interests, Alyson. And yeah, some of y’all are not going to get used to not having Mullally voicing her in the episode, especially since it is an episode to have both her and Beef together. Both in the meetup after dropping Greta off and, of course, the moment Beef’s opinions on the comets changed later on in the episode. But she is the second of the four that Beef had to come across. And at least Alyson is on Beef’s side when it comes to not believing in the whole mythos of the comets bringing people together and would have their souls twined once the twin comets pass through each other. All Alyson wants to do with the comets is to take photos of them for her calendar. But it’s not going to stop her from being flirty towards Beef on his way to the campsite to deliver the antibiotics to Judy and Ham.
Then comes former love interest number three, Del. It was a short encounter once Beef arrived at the campsite, but he saw only Gibbons and Russell since most of the students fucked off to do their own thing. Mainly to make out since the majority of the students who attend the viewing party are only doing this just to make it a make-out session. What do you expect from a majority of students being high schoolers? But yeah, Del was the third. Kind of surprised some of y’all didn’t know that was Del who was driving the bus when looking at the arm and the color of the sleeve of the jacket, to at least pick up who was driving the bus to the campsite. But coming across three of his former flames... well, not out of the ordinary because we saw that in “Autumn If You Got Em Adventure”, minus the shared dance moment.
But then comes former flame number 4, Carissa, whom Beef recently broke up with, mutually, of course, as of “Dial M for Moon-der Adventure”. And this pretty much tells you that the writers are feeling diabolical when writing this episode. Sure, there was never an interaction between the two since the break-up, especially with Beef seeing Carissa coming out of the car with Debbie to go watch the comets, but for Beef, despite never coming across each other when searching for Judy and Ham, and later Moon when finding out his plans for the comets, once again, it feels diabolical when coming across four of his love interests in one setting on one of Lone Moose’s biggest nights.
Luckily for Beef, his opinions on the comets changed by the end of the episode, thanks in part to Moon telling him, to his face, that the comets are not to blame for Kathleen being... well, Kathleen, if I had a nickel each time any Tobin brings up the reckless actions Kathleen did back when she was living with them, this is right as Moon was about to make Quinn his girlfriend, and we’ll get to that later, but for now, with Beef’s side of things, it was expected that he would have a change of mind about what he thinks about the comets once getting some sense from Moon right as he was about to make it official with Quinn.
And yeah, it was expected that Beef would go after Alyson as his preferred choice to make out with once the twin comets pass by each other. But it was giving more development towards Beef in his attempt to move on from Kathleen, and he, along with the family, has been the name of the game throughout the show. And the comets are that one painful memory that Beef had to get through, and despite coming across four of his former flames in one setting during a celestial event, it all came back to Alyson for Beef as the one he wanted to make kissy faces with at the end of the episode before the comets leave the vicinity for another 23 years. Besides, they’re pretty much endgame anyway. So, there’s that. Even if the line from Alyson saying that she’s already married, though nothing too serious, and could be ready to call that off, did throw me off. Then again, she was almost getting married when meeting someone online back in Season 3, a la what Gayle did recently in “Til Death Do Us Art”, though Alyson did that before Gayle did.
We also have the other side of the aisle of the main plot with Judy and Ham. And once again, I’m going to say this: this episode would’ve been written differently if Ham and Crispin hadn’t broken up earlier in the season. Let alone Judy finding a fella to be her make-out partner for the night. Of course, they both got hit with wisdom tooth removal, and in the midst of recovering from surgery. It might as well be a big what-if for Judy and Ham if they didn’t go for the wisdom teeth removal idea, just so this episode doesn’t feel like a rehash of “Autumn If You Got Em Adventure”. Go read my review of the episode to save you the trouble of what I have to say on what could’ve been with Ham and Judy in this episode. But a big what-if for the Alaskan Twins if they hadn’t gotten their wisdom teeth removed on the night of the twin comets passing through. Maybe Ham would bump into a random guy or at least bump into Crispin. As long as it doesn’t turn into a Season 2 Fionna situation. Or maybe Judy would find someone she wants to smooch with. Girl, guy, whatever.
But instead, they got the short end of the stick with the three plots of the episode, with them tagging along with Bethany to find a bag filled with a substance called “gank”. Which, according to the credits, doesn’t exist. So, definitely a waste once Beef caught up to Judy, Ham, and Bethany to deliver the antibiotics before catching up to Moon on top of the hill. Of course, it took until Principal Gibbons to find the lost stash, but once again, Judy and Ham got the short end of the stick in the episode, and pretty much a big what-if for the Alaskan Twins.
We might as well get a palate cleanser after going through Judy and Ham’s side plot of the episode, so we have the subplot with Dirt at the retirement home. It was a fine little subplot with her, along with Wolf and Honeybee, dealing with the car being totaled on their way to the bar, but Wolf can’t make a call to a tow truck due to, of course, the incoming comets that messed with the communication lines. And the retirement home was nearby to use the phone to call the tow truck.
However, much like any random elderly person being tricked into moving into a retirement home like a kid to the doctor's office, Dirt was not having it when starting to believe that this was all Wolf and Honeybee’s plan to dump her off at the retirement home. Not wanting to be a part of the community where they just get bored and do nothing but wait for their time to die. So, of course, Dirt doesn’t want to stick around for the long haul and plans on escaping the retirement home and making a break for it. Mainly to her bunker. And she was about to do just that... before spotting a random selection of retirement home residents, one of whom was Goldie from “As Goldie As It Gets Adventure”, playing a round of poker and deciding to jump in.
And the picture speaks for itself once Wolf and Honeybee spot Dirt, who happened to be fully naked since deciding to make the poker game interesting with her gambling habits by turning it into a game of strip poker. Reassuring Dirt that there was no plan to drop Dirt off at the retirement home with the other retirees. Mostly due to the cost of keeping her there. Yeah, that’s one way to put it, to keep Dirt away from spending time with the other retirees. But that’s not going to stop her from making plans for possible game nights there, so it won’t be the last of that. And probably making things more interesting if she plans on dragging Gloria to the game. But after going through two-thirds of the plots for this episode, there is a reason why this made number 6 of the countdown.
And what else, or rather, who else, but the 2x defending champion getting his shawty. Yet another status quo change for the show. And mind you that this episode came out on the same night as the other status quo change with the renovation of the guest cabin. But this was the episode for the show to make a massive move for Moon. And after two break-ups that we had to endure earlier in the season with Ham and Crispin, and later, Beef and Carissa, it was only a matter of time for the writers to say, “You know, we already have two characters (Ham and Beef) in the Tobin family to endure a break-up this season. And one (Dirt) is on the verge of being in a relationship. You know what... let’s give the bear boy the love of his life.” And the Curlew Kissin’ Comets is the perfect event to do the job once Moon heard about the background and the mythos behind the twin comets when it comes to the romance department, where they come across around 9:23 PM, and that is where their souls twine with each other to make it official. And that is pretty much what Moon’s objective for the night was when doing his chaperone job as part of his, Russell, and Quinn’s part as Lil Preppers.
And Moon knows that he cannot mess this one up. He is not waiting for another 23 years for when the comets arrive back at Lone Moose. He already told Russell, it makes sense that he was the one who was being told the plan, since he was apparently the first person who knew about Moon’s crush on Quinn, that the night of the twin comets is the night that he plans on making Quinn his girlfriend. And it was a foolproof plan at first, despite the anxiety being built up in his body when asking Quinn, who is busy attempting to best her record time of constructing a tent, to join him up the hill to get a better view of the comets, while trying to keep himself together in front of her when inviting her. And as long as he doesn’t mess everything up to make Quinn uncomfortable, then he should be good to make a do-or-die move.
Of course, Beef had to come and crash the occasion after finding out what he was preparing to do from Judy. Believing that Moon is about to make the same mistake, as he did the last time the twin comets passed through the night skies. Causing Moon to stand his foot down and telling him to his face that what happened with Kathleen and her actions was not caused by the comets. And instead, it was all Kathleen. It was just Beef not seeing the red flags surrounding her, but ends up going for it anyway despite the heartbreak that comes with it later on. But also reassuring his father that even though Kathleen is a terrible wife and mother, no lies detected there, but if it weren’t for that, he would not have four wonderful kids, all having to be raised by his lonesome, with one of them getting ready to make a move for himself to make Quinn his girlfriend, who, while that was happening, quickly made a tent and a fire pit in record time. Calling her the smartest, coolest, most unlike-mom person in the world. And you can see why. The boy is down bad for her and only has one shot to get the job done as he prepares to join Quinn underneath the man-made tent. And for Beef, of course, a change of opinion and plans on smooching Alyson.
Now, I said in my review of the episode back in late June, when this moment played out, that maybe there should be some emotion in the mix, mainly anxiety, after Moon joined Quinn underneath the tent and started confessing his feelings to her right as the comets are moments away from crossing each other. Hoping for things to go right once confessing that would result in Moon having to close his eyes in anticipation of whether or not Quinn would return his feelings for her. Especially when saying that he hopes that both of them would live their lives together until they reach their 100s and be surrounded by a pack of wolves who accepted them as their leaders. You know, making it sentimental and emotional and whatnot for the moment he was anxiously waiting to make the right decision.
Luckily for Moon, Quinn accepts Moon’s feelings and decides to be his girlfriend because, wouldn’t you guess it? She, like Moon, was planning on using the comets to make him her boyfriend. Repeating the same thing as what Moon said just now, only replace the idea of being the leader of wolves with the leader of bears, as Quinn would imagine. Took two seasons since we first met her back in Season 3’s “Autumn If You Got Em Adventure”, and despite that we barely know her as a character other than being a part of the Lil Preppers, had to switch camps to Moon’s group because her other friends were getting into things she don’t like, despite being a former beauty pageant contestant herself, and has shared interests as Moon, cue up Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”, because we have ourselves a canon relationship.
I did say back in June when that moment played out, while it’s not as shocking as when Louise and Rudy kissed at the end of “Bob Actually”, it was more of the line of Molly and Brendan in Central Park because of how close they are, and didn’t tease us with the will they/won’t they shtick. Something that the Tina pairing debate needs to make up their freaking minds for once. Looking back, while it was somewhat comparable to Molly and Brendan in Central Park, just because you knew that they would get together...
It was more like the line of Sprig and Ivy from Amphibia when comparing Moon and Quinn. Both couples are under the young love trope. They look cute together. Having shared interests. Hoping for their relationship to go on in the long run for the rest of their lives. What else can to say about them? And it sucks that we just got this relationship upgrade for Moon and Quinn since Season 3, and the fact that the show got canceled back in October following the end of Season 5, makes you wish you wanted to see where their relationship goes if the series had been renewed. Especially when reading that one comment I read on Reddit that with the crew making the move to do this as if they knew the show wouldn’t be getting another season. So, I guess might as well treat it as a happy ending for Moon, or rather, Quinn, or both, because of the puppy love between them. Oh boy, the Tobin family discussion series is going to be a whopper. Especially when having to talk about Moon’s character.
But yeah, this made the number 6 spot in the countdown, mainly due to the highlight of the episode with Moon professing his love to Quinn and Quinn doing the same once Moon confessed his feelings to her. Again, it sucks that we just got it, and the show had to come to an end after its fifth season. But it is a cute scene, and despite that, we barely know Quinn without getting to deeply know her as a character. It was a cute scene and nice to see that Moon finally got his girl at the end of this. And Beef had some moments, too. Really want to turn it into “Autumn If You Got Em” 2.0 with him coming across four of his former flames in one setting on Lone Moose’s biggest night in 23 years. Predictable to some that he would have a change of heart about the comets, as we saw with Teddy in “Comet-y of Errors”, and, of course, would choose Alyson instead of Greta, Del, or Carissa, but it was an interesting scene to see despite that it is pretty obvious that those two, if the series were to continue, would probably be endgame for sure. Other than that, two of the three sideplots are fine, along with the subplot, with Dirt thinking that she is put away in a retirement home. This would’ve been a 9 out of 10 for the episode... if it weren’t for the Judy and Ham side plot and once again, a big what-if if the wisdom tooth removal idea wasn’t brought into play for them. But a nice episode nonetheless to reach the number 6 on the countdown.
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