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]

Mars is all, oh, spending that money just didnt feel right. Don't be a dick, Marshall, Simon probably bought food with some of that cash. It's easier to be sensible with your money if you're someone who's actually grown up having it.

Slow mo, hat-throwing, cool-walking Simon! And those girls at the World o' Stuff counter hitting on Simon is so creepy - they have got to be Syndi's age. It would be like being creeped on by your babysitter.

"Use Hammerin when you wanna say 'thank God I don't have a headache any more!'" is the best headache advert ever. Seriously, that needs to be a t-shirt.

Syndi, don't be weird and flirty with the Mayor. Combined with sixteen year olds in tight skirts getting all come-hither at a nine year old, I'm way too skeeved out right now.

Love how Sergeant Knight just locks Chisel up "on general principle", and how the Mayor just takes it in stride. Also, Sergeant Knight's "don't leave town, Mr. Teller" combined with a super creepy fake grin.

Oh goodie, more creepy teenage girls dressed.like Cyndi Lauper and rubbing up on a nine year old. Also, Simon's gold chain and unbuttoned shirt, oh my God.

Oh my God, when they don't even know Simon's name. Justin Shenkarow's FACE, my heart!

I'm really disturbed by the way Mister Wilson sort of checks out and starts monotonously chanting 99 Bottles of Beer when Simon gives him the money back.It really does read like someone undergoing a massive trauma and having a nervous breakdown as a result.

And Mayor Chisel gets community service, "just in case", and is still just totally chill about the whole thing.

The episode ends with Simon having a birthday party, but at the start of the episode he tells Mars he was lying about it being a birthday, only to later buy himself a "birthday" cake.

My take on this is that it really was his birthday, he mentioned it, realises Mars doesn't know when his birthday is, and pretends to have lied about it so his mate doesn't feel awkward about having forgotten. His mate that then immediately ditches him to hang out with two older kids.

There is something unbelievably heartbreaking about that; this poor kid is so used to making himself inconspicuous and not drawing attention that he erases his own birthday so that other people don't have to momentarily feel bad.

And then Simon calls bullshit on shitty friends and designer shoes. Shitty friends, definately. Designer shoes, I dunno... he's probably just more mature about shoes at 9 than I am at 31.

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

Don't be a dick, Marshall, Simon probably bought food with some of that cash. It's easier to be sensible with your money if you're someone who's actually grown up having it.

He's the same with Dash later, iirc (but hilariously has sympathy for Radford for his tax evasion.)

[froodle]

Well, Mars refusing to get eaten duri.lng the Harvest King festival is probably the reason Radford has to pay his taxes now, so maybe he feels a bit responsible for his situation at that point...

[lipstickcat.livejournal.com]

It struck me as weird (but funny) that Mayor Chisel is so easy going about getting arrested for something that has nothing to do with him (If you're going to arrest someone, why not someone that runs the bank?) and the just in case community service. At first I wrote it off at the creative licence allowed in a show for kids, but thinking about it now, I guess that the Mayor is actually involved in quite a bit of dodgy stuff with the town and if he kicks up a stink over stuff that he's innocent for people might just start digging into the real stuff he could get in a lot more trouble over....

[froodle]

He is feeding people to a werewolf every 13 years; compared to that, a night in the cells and a few evenings and weekends picking up rubbish for something he wasn't involved in counts as getting off lightly...

Apparently he appears in some of the books and they dive a bit deeper into the various sketchy biz he's involved in. I really need to read them at some point, but I'm worried that they won't live up to the show and I'll be disappointed,which is why I've not made the effort yet.

[lipstickcat.livejournal.com]

I've got a couple of the books - the two that Dash appear in, specifically. I've read one of them, and its okay. It's a kids book, and it's weird to read something that doesn't care too much about details (its no G.R.R. Martin epic...) or whether something is actually possible (like, Dash flying a handglider and using a chainsaw with precision....). But its a fast read and it does reference the show and already established eps, and they seem to carry on where the show left off.

[froodle]

...does he fly a handglider and use the chainsaw at the same time? cos that might push it from dumb to so dumb its epic..

[lipstickcat.livejournal.com]

Yep. Both at the same time. Considering he was reluctant to even do the handglider and Marshall had to blackmail/shame him into doing, it turns out he's pretty skillful XD

[froodle]

What was that book called? Loads.of them are a penny on Amazon, I may need to invest in at least this volume...

[lipstickcat.livejournal.com]

"Bureau of Lost" is the one I just read with the handglider. It's book 2 Dash is in the second half of the book.

The other one that I've not started yet is book 4: "Simon and Marshall's Excellent Adventure."

I love that the covers are "torn" http://comingovertookish.tumblr.com/post/121584719925/having-binge-watched-eerie-indiana-in-a-fit-of

[froodle]

Love the creepy mis-proportioned Elvis and Marilyn inside as well!