Episode 20
Davey and Goliath are making a golly whopper of a snowball, when Elaine has to remind them that it is time to start their paper route. While out on the route, Davey notices that a previously empty store now has a new tenant. Davey tries to enter the store but the door is locked. Goliath knocks with his tail and out pops a frog with a "No Comprende" and a door slam in their faces. Apparently he didn't want to buy no newspapers.
Swearing Frog
Goliath poses the question: "Was he swearing at us?" Davey states that he was and Goliath barks him up something fierce. Teddy rolls up and Davey tells him about the jerk in the shop. They
scrape some frost off and peer in the window just to see the Frog go into a back room. In the backroom is is a sick lady that nags this "Pierre" about speaking English. Back out front, Jimmy
appears out of thin air is also looking in the shop. Davey has had just about all he can stand and busts into the shop to kick some Gallic ass. He muffs his sneak attack when he trips and
makes a noise. Pierre comes roaring out of the back room, arms waving and screaming. Davey beats a hasty retreat.
Davey decides that this Pierre is a low down, dirty rotten, stealer and and that he is fencing goods in there. They start pelting the building with snowballs and then haul ass. Davey returns with Sally and they peer in again. To test the frog out they bring a shoe as a cobbler shop is the supposed front for this stolen goods operation. Davey tries to touch the buffer wheel when Pierre grabs him. The kids bolt, leaving Pierre with a nasty shoe. Pierre then has to deal with the whiny Woman again.
Back at the ranch, Davey and Sally tell Elaine that the frog is bad news and that he hit Sally in the head. The next day, they go back to the shop and hear sobbing coming from the back room. Goliath starts to sniff the situation out as the frog hands over the repaired shoe. Goliath gets too close to the truth when the frog freaks out and they flee with the shoe without settling up. Pierre comes out on his front stoop and yells about being stiffed.
There is a crisis back home as Sally is missing. Remember the sobbing from the back room, Davey is convinced that she is being held for ransom in the back room of franco-horror. He spins a pretty good yarn - good enough that Hansen decides to go over to the shop to save Sally. He confronts the frog and busts into the shop with rage in his heart.

Hansen finds the backroom and sees the crippled woman. Sally returns home - she was out sledding as a pissed off Hansen returns. He gives Davey the sternest lecture of the serious so far. So much so that Davey is reduced to a quivering blog of "Yes Sir." "No Sir." Hansen then drops the "Bearing false witness" bomb on him and drags him to the store to see the crippled broad that is
kept in the back room. The episode ends with the lads bringing a pile of mucked up shoes to the frog and everything is rainbows and unicorns once again.
It is a good message, delivered in a clever way but...I hate this episode. Just loath it. I don't know why really. The frog always waving his arms in a "Oui Oui Mother F'er" manner. The broad out
back whining. Davey acting like a little shit. Possibly a foreshadowing of more SJW crap down the road? I can't say really. I just don't like it.
One and half roses.
