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...all long pig, all the time... ([personal profile] froodle) wrote2015-08-13 08:03 am
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Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015

Hi guys,

So I'm scheduling the posts for the rewatch and I know Broken Record is at the end of the last disc, but for me it seems like it clearly belongs in the pre-Dash, pre-John Astin part of the show, and that Reality Takes a Holiday is the show's finale. So I'm gonna schedule it to be the thirteenth episode we rewatch, and then follow it with the Hole in the Head gang as number fourteen.

Obviously if anyone has especially strong feelings about this, you are absolutely entitled to skip over it and/or rewatch Hole in the Head Gang in week thirteen, and that will still be awesome because it will still be Eerie. I'm just laying it out there now in case it causes confusion hen Broken Record pops up on October 24th and peeps were expecting Grungy Bill and haunted toasters.

[identity profile] diello.livejournal.com 2015-08-13 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, yeah. So I don't know if this is still a thing with kid shows, but back then it was protocol for at least one episode (either every season or every series or something) to be a kind of PSA episode. Most shows did a bullying or smoking/drinking/drugs episode, but Record, to me, was that episode for EI, showing how damaging emotional abuse can be on kids. It was wildly different than ALL other PSA episodes, not only in theme, but also that it was a message directed at parents, not kids.

[identity profile] diello.livejournal.com 2015-08-13 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhhhhhhhhh, I forgot about that part D: