Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015: episode three, ATM with a Heart of Gold

[froodle]

Strap on your Sky Monsters part 2 (with bubble sole!), and strut like a sky-walking machine down to First Eerie Savings to sing 99 Bottles of Beer with Mister Wilson. Ladies, gentlemen, ain't it good to know you got a friend? Put your white plastic cash dispensing hands together for... ATM with a Heart of Gold!

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[froodle]

I love how enthusiastic the municiple powers of Eerie are about new stuff they get for the town. They have bunting and music and a girl in a bathing suit twirling batons bedecked in ribbons... for a cash maschine.

Okay, the actual citizens of Eerie aren't that fussed, but Mayor Chisel is ridiculously pumped about it, and about Edgar for inventing it.

Also, I love how Marilyn is so proud that she kind of launches herself on Edgar during the unveiling. It's a bit silly when the Mayor is so happy over a cash machine, but it's lovely that Marilyn is so happy for him, and Syndi and Mars are there to share that moment with him, even though Mars is a bit non-plussed internally.

Eww, Mister Wilson giving the side-eye, so creepy.

So Simon's name on a keypad is 74666. I wonder if the last 3 letters of his name didnt correspond to 666, would Mister Wilson even have reacted?

So Edgar programmed Mister Wilson to be "not unlike" himself. I hope that doesn't mean Edgar is also clingy as shit... "Welcome, friiiieeeeennnnddddd..."

Eeeew, look at that old dude in the background creeping on teeenage Miss. Eerie. Also, they have a Miss. Eerie. I bet that gets pretty murderous in the final stages. That fourteen year old girl has probably killed like a dozen classmates already.

First introducion of Mr. Radford One/Fred Suggs, compulsive imposter.

There's an episode of Adventure Time where Jake uses that line about his big guts eating his little guts. I have no problems believing the people who write AT as adults were fans of Eerie as kids.

Ugh. UGH. That thing where you hang out in a group, and they talk about somethi g you're not familiar with, and when you ask about it they make fun of you. Sorry for a) not knowing everything and b) not just pretending I know it to fit in. Especially because most of Nick and Eddie's dialogue revolves around quoting adverts, so it's hardly something to be superior about.

The big brothers name is Ace. I already think he's a tool. Also, are his parents in the Congo, or gone to a condo? I can't quite make it out.

How horrible is that scene where Simon wheels his bike home and you can not only hear his parents screaming at each other, but smashing crockery too? And the next scene is him wandering around the town late at night, alone, in the dark.

Why does the cash machine have options for users to tell Mister Wilson they're having a shitty day, only to have him offer platitudes in response?

Those ice cream troughs are insane. Also, check out Marilyn's face when Simon opts to hamg around with Nick and Eddie, but only after they check he has money left. She is just itching to lay down some maternal advice. By the time the Lost Hour rolls around, she's including Simon in references to "our kids", but I guess at this stage she doesn't know him well enough and is making the effort not to overstep.

Edgar, only one person is using Mister Wilson because you gave him a weird uncanny valley face, you programmed him to be needy as fuck, and when he dispenses money he does an eye-popping bow-tie spinning thing that makes him look like an old Tex Avery cartoon of a guy getting a blowjob.

"Mister Wilson: he's better than Brussel sprouts." It lacks something. Ask Nick and Eddie,seems like all they do is watch adverts and receipt them verbatim, maybe they can give you some hints.

Love the Julia and Keifer cake. That completely slipped by me the first time I saw it; I didn't actually get it until my mum was watching it with me and started wetting herself laughing. Fortunately she's not Nick and Eddy, so she actually explained it to me I.stead of making me feel like a loser for not.understandi.g Hollywood scandals that happened before I hit double digits.

"My mum's not home." Ugh. UGH. Right in my heart, Simon, you are breaking me.

I love how Justin Shenkarow says "yeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" when the money falls out of his cupboard. It just really makes me laugh.

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So Simon's name on a keypad is 74666. I wonder if the last 3 letters of his name didnt correspond to 666, would Mister Wilson even have reacted?

Woah...... Nice attention to detail on your behalf! I hadn't noticed the buttons he was pressing! Did the writers realise that would be what he'd press ahead of time, or was it a happy coincidence I wonder?

I knew I'd heard that line about the big guts and little guts eating each other somewhere! Awesome! Its nice to think there might be some influence crossover there.

[froodle]

The camera kind of zooms in on him hitting the last three numbers, and this was early enough from the shows inception for me to believe it was probably deliberate. If they wanted it enough to put it on the town sign in the opening credits, and they had the idea for this epiosde planned ahead of time, he may have been called Simon specifically for that reason.

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Population 16661 ;)

[froodle]

Joe Dante does love throwing his number of the beast references in...

[lipstickcat.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. A writer had probably been sitting on that idea for a while and was desperate to be able to use it in some context. it makes me a little sad that modern phones tend to have their own qwerty keypads these days so Simons can no longer summon the antichrist with their names.... XD

[froodle]

Oh. OH! Remember the old Nokia mobile phones from the 90s where you really would have had to use the number of the beast to write Simon? There needs to be fic about the boys getting their first mobiles and everytime they try to mention Simon in a text, the Devil appears and Mars is like, "Oh for... FUCK OFF MATE, I am just texting me friend!" and the Devil is super bitter about it because inztead of taking souls he's just getting accidentally mis-dialled by everyone with a mobile...

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LMAO!!! And Omri is suddenly doing a Dick Van Dyke style accent with an Inbetweeners twist XD That would be hilarious in a fic though... Like maybe a reoccuring side joke kind of thing XD

[froodle]

It would be AMAZING. Just a super irritated Old Nick and a super irritated Marshall who only wanted to call Simon to seee if he wanted to hang out and instead, HEY DO YOU WANNA MAKE A FAUSTIAN BARGAIN KID?!