Davey and Goliath

[Jennie]

Fear not!  Harry O saves her.

Thank Goodness for Davey Janssen.

[K_Dubb]

Spectacular episode!  The effects were great: the scenery, Davey's tears, the rocks falling down the shaft really had heft to them, the jeep thing.  Strange they would leave the two kids alone in the desert and then go back home -- I assumed it was a vacation house nearby but he's mowing the lawn?  I suppose that would be the first thing you would do if you owned the place and hadn't been there for a while, but that would be their second vacation home including the cool A-frame.  Maybe a timeshare?  Very odd.  Seals the deal for Mountain West, though.

Also odd how they took their helmets off when they went in the mine where they probably needed them the most.  Stupid kids; they're lucky they didn't get clobbered.  Also Davey's head is bigger than his father's.  Thanks, Walks!

[Jennie]

Pay back is a bitch!  Ha Ha. While I thought the fish part strange, I didn't call it out but I missed the blanket totally!  I must have wrote and rewrote the googly eyed Goliath bit five times. Felt that I shouldn't go with what was initially written but finally threw decorum to the wind and went with it. 

I'm glad that the thread followers have had some fun with these.  I've had fun doing them. The episodes aren't as preachy as I remember but perhaps that is do to timing. Season 1 and 2 were made during How much is that Doggie in the Window America while the later seasons are made in Bridge over Troubled Waters America.

Episode 13  The storyline is predictable. Most storylines are predictable. Didja' ever see a surprise Scooby-Doo ending? 
 Yep, the cinematography, the costumes the special effects are all first rate. WAN has his eyes on the stone fireplace. Hillbilly Jim is given a shout out. I appreciated the works of the cooper. So many barrels!
Is Samoset from the Iroquois Confederacy? Looks like a Mohawk hair cut to me.
 My 2 favorite comments-Death to the Witch Demon & Here, little girl, have some smallpox."

[pate]

Many Indians died 12 moons ago, then he wants to wrap her in a blanket?  "Here, little girl, have some smallpox" haha this episode is problematic!

At first glance it looked like the Indian (feather-not-dot) dude was "flashing" that kid!



Nautical Shore...

[Walks_At_Night]

Episode 15

Davey is decked out in some sort of groovy, Mod Squad kind of a shirt instead of his usual AJ Foyt checkered shirt. He is trying to jump over a stick and he is failing at it. Badly. Goliath can't do it either and bemoans his plight with a heart rending: "Wish I could do something good".

Davey climbs a rope with ease and cranks out a bunch of chin ups on a tree branch without issue. Sally comes out with a sucker the size of Utah and states she wants to chin too. She fails and Davey laughs at her of course but what is disturbing is that she sets the sucker down apparently in the lawn. We never see it again so I guess she didn't end up having to lick a bunch of grubs and dirt off it.  Davey moves on to a ladder hung up between the tree and the fence and he navigates it is as smoothly as a Marine boot at Parris Island. The Old Man comes out to watch and we learn that Davey is trying to make the  "playground" team for Eastside so that he can go beat Westside ass. As a native son of the Detroit area's Eastside, I sympathize with this greatly. Doctors, Lawyers and Accountants drool.  Autoworkers rule! Go Eastside! Davey tries to jump the stick again and still doesn't come close. The Old Man points out that his footwork was off. Goliath decides that he wants to be a break dancing Dog and sits on his head but he to fails.

Elaine pops out and sends Davey to the store. We then see Davey booking along on his red Huffy when he notices that there is a new bowling alley having its grand opening that very night. There is some slick looking dude out front in a plaid sports jacket, juggling a coin with Kung Fu Grip fingers. and he calls Davey over. There is some discussion about a "snappy Indian suit" as a prize to anyone that bowls six straight strikes. I struggle with Slick's accent. He is most definitely is not from the  mountain west. He sounds sort of like Tennessee Tuxedo but not quite. "Take dis bawhl". "Shore he can".  I don't think it is an NYC accent. Long Island maybe? Or perhaps western New York. Where is Inglorious Bitch when we need her most?  Whatever. I wouldn't want to talk like him but that sports jacket is an ass kicker. I'd hang one in my closet any day.

Hey Sonny  C'mere


Back at the ranch, Davey is working on Hansen hard. He wants that Indian suit! Hansen explains that it is not all that easy to roll six straight strikes but Davey has all the confidence in the world in the Old Man. Meanwhile in a fantastic bit of technical work, Elaine is tickling the ivories! Foot pumping. She's hitting white keys. She's hitting black keys. It is really quite well done. She stops and reminds Davey that it is time for the Playground team tryouts.

Kicking out the jams!


At the playground tryouts, Jimmy and the Polka Dot [whom has a much darker skin tone for some reason] are cheering up for Davey. Coach is there looking as a coach should. Not an ounce of fat on him. Gray sweatshirt. Clipboard. Little beady eyes darting back and forth missing nothing. The effect is ruined by his hair. Oh deal Lord what is going on with his hair? It defies accurate description - I think the closest I can come to it is that he skinned a Harbor Seal and started rocking the hide on his head.

Yes. Yes! The Harbor Seal look is good.


Davey gets off to great start. Scampers up the rope like an Orangutan. No sweat. The basket ball hoop is next and Davey doesn't quite nail it but the ball goes around the world and topples in. Good enough. Goliaths eyeballs do weird shit in awe.

🎵🎵 He's got stars in his eyes 🎵🎵


It's now nut cutting time as the high jump awaits. Harbor Seal tells him to watch his footwork but it is no good.  Davey does not come within an AU of clearing that bar. Shaking his head slowly in disgust, Harbor Seal cuts his ass. Davey takes it hard and the tears flow. He frets that Hansen won't love him anymore because he is such a loser. Back home, Hansen assures him that is not the case at all. He will love Davey even when he does not succeed just as God will. This actually works and Davey snaps out of his funk.

We cut to the bowling alley where Slick tells Hansen that the boy claims that he can drill the six strikes. Hansen exclaims that is a tall order indeed but then Slick brings out the "indian suit". It's not a suit but a head dress and it's a dandy. Slick allows Davey to put it on and he does look good in it - Sally of course says that he looks "pretty". Slick removes the headdress with a "Naw lets give Pop a chance to win dis fore ya". Hansen is not real big on axis rotation and the use of the pocket but it matters not. He icily nails
five straight strikes. 

Steeeee-Rike! 🎳 🎳 🎳 🎳 🎳


On the sixth attempt, his leg kicks out and Hansen leaves the 1-2-3-5 and it is over. Hansen apologizes but Davey is shattered. It's bedtime and Davey is just wilted. Goliath tries to stand on his head to cheer Davey up but fails for the umpteenth time in the episode. Hansen comes in to apologize again but it is clear that Davey doesn't think he is a failure and  that God loves him. So we have come full circle as the episode ends.



This is really a nice little episode. The message is relevant for all and delivered in a unique way. The storyline is solid and the technical details are outstanding. The balls rolling down the alley and striking the pins. Elaine playing the piano. The rope climbing. Also liked that they worked in Slick with his plaid coat and nasally accent.  Three and half roses.

[Walks_At_Night]

For anyone not as old as dirt.  GI Joe used to come with "Kung Fu Grip".   You could move his fingers around. Like maybe even five times before the wire inside busted and the fingers fell off. Then Joe just had two paddles for hands.

[Master Trollda]

[K_Dubb]

Thank you WAN!  Saving this for a bedtime story.

[Robert Mugabe]

I don't get this thread at all. Are you all speaking in code? Are you all going out for a pizza later?

[Walks_At_Night]

I don't get this thread at all. Are you all speaking in code? Are you all going out for a pizza later?

Of course you don't get it. You can't get it as you are one of those Dr. Who idiots. Way too consumed with why that Tristan Farnon dude was *the best* Doctor to be bothered with anything else.

There is nothing wrong with a little fellowship over pizza as we discuss the lessons learned from the latest episode. We would invite you but we know you are too tied up trying to convince the NHS that they should invest the quarter million pounds it would cost to cut out that TARDis that inexplicably got shoved up your backside somehow. The cost benefit analysis is not in your favor and trending toward dumping you in the Irish Sea where you will eventually wash up on a beach and some dude named Mickey will cut you up for Grouper bait. 

[Jennie]

Before I read this thread, I watch the show. Reading WAN’s comments seals the deal.
 “Yes! The Harbor Seal look is good.” 
I enjoyed the snazzy music being played at the Ten Pin Alley for the GRAND Opening. Excellent choice, Slick.
Who could forget the fuzzy head "Kung Fu Grip" Joe?

[Jennie]

Episode 15 16?

[Laser]

Walks_At_Night
Hall Of Famer, Morg!
Ellevated

A couple of days after I graduated High School, my folks moved out of Detroit to a small town in Northern Michigan. During the summers while I was going to college, I lived there and worked at a big golf course and resort. Worked in the bag drop area - pulled golf carts out of the barn, parked golf carts back into the barn, gassed golf carts, cleaned golf carts, loaded golf bags onto carts, cleaned golf shoes and clubs. Summers are beautiful up that way so not a bad gig at all.

One time this group pulls up in their carts after finishing their day. There is some burly guy passed out in the passenger seat of one of the carts. He's sun burned like a lobster and reeking of Meister Brau. His buddies say "That's The Moose. We're going into the bar, just leave him be. We'll be back for him later". This is not good because we wanna get the cart cleaned up, the 10,000 Meister Brau empties put in the can return thingy [10 cents a can in the MI] and the cart put back in the barn, but whatever.

After a while sounds start emanating from deep in inside The Moose. Growling, churning, sloshing sounds. We're all like "Whoa baby. He's gonna spew". Sure enough he wakes up, staggers over to the rubbish barrel we keep in the bag drop area - it's one of those big Rubbermaid 32 Gallon deals. The Moose grabs both handles of it looks down and we are all relieved as it looks like he is gonna hurl into the rubbish can, which is easily the best case scenario at this point. Suddenly,  The Moose focuses and notices our little buddy in there - Rocky the Raccoon. All thoughts of vomiting are gone from The Moose now as he is absolutely livid. Filled with pure hatred, he reaches into the rubbish can and grabs Rocky by the scruff of the neck!

He pulls Rocky out and starts shaking the hell out the hapless beast. He then holds it up by his face and he starts to holler at it. He is yelling things...awful things. Things no human should say to an animal "You little bastard. I'm gonna ram my c*ck up your tight little Coon ass. Then I'm gonna rip your head off, skin you and nail your hide to that God D*mned tree".  Obviously, Rocky has had enough of that treatment - he was used to us feeding him marshmallows and being kind to him - kind of like a bag drop area mascot. Rocky struggles, reaches back and nails The Moose's hand. Lays it open like a Fillet-O-Fish. Dripping an incredible amount of blood, The Moose collapses in a heap, pukes and passes out again.

So now what? We can get the cart cleaned up, gassed and put away. So that's good. However, now we've got a drunken disaster in our area. "Is that Moose dude dead?". "I dunno - maybe we should check on him". "Well if he ain't breathing, I'm not giving him mouth-to-mouth". "Screw that - I ain't either". So eventually, I go over and kind of toe The Moose with my shoe and it is established that he's still breathing. Great but now what?  We discuss the options: We can go into the bar and inform his posse, we can report the situation to our supervisor or we can just pretend it never happened.  Obviously the third choice is the way to go - we don't know nothing.

Eventually the guys come out the bar to retrieve The Moose and find him lying in a pool of blood and vomit. "What the hell happened to The Moose".  "Uhm - we're not really sure. We think, like, he got attacked by an animal".  "Looks like he may need stitches, is their a Doctor in this town?" "Well there was, but he killed himself last Winter in a snowmobile wreck and we never got a new one. Not too many Doc's wanna live up this way. You'll have to take him the hospital". "Well where's that?" "Oh its not too far. Two counties over - like 60 miles one way". "!$%$@%$@ Moose. You are such a pain in the ass". So they scrape The Moose off the ground, dump into the back of their van and drive away.

A pointless story but the best I can come up with during this never ending work call that I'm stuck on.

[Walks_At_Night]

Episode 16

It is Davey's birthday. Elaine is decorating a sweet looking cake, Sally is wrapping a present, Goliath has a bone all wrapped up and ready to go. We learn that the old man is taking Davey to the carnival and soon Davey, Hansen and Goliath are off in the Jeep. There is a brief but really cool scene where they pull into the carnival parking lot. It is an eclectic mix of vehicles in there: two slick looking roadsters, a `32 Ford pickup, a Summer of Love van, another Willy's and a late 50's Chevy that is a total abomination.

`57 Chevy Abomination of Desolation


They pay up, enter the Carnival and immediately are transfixed by a carney barker. Oh what a barker! He's barking it up for the freaks and he's damn good at it. "Only 25 cents, a fourth of a dollar". I'd so be going into that tent post haste and thankfully the Hansen's feel the same. Sadly the freaks are pretty tame, a fire eater, the son of Tarzan handling 45 pound weights with ease, an 8 footer of a cow poke with a 40 gallon hat and chaps. The barker does introduce a tattooed lady which might be edgy but she turns out to be a total Miss America type. Very odd and a bit of a let down. In a stunning rebuke of the current state of affairs in modern America, there is also Dottie Dimples - the 400 pound lady.  The sad thing is if you saw a lady built like a fireplug these days at the Dollar Tree you wouldn't even bat an eye. Yet here she is a carnival freak.

What happened to you America?



We then get into a long, somewhat boring stretch of Davey doing carnival kinds of things - Merry-Go-Round, Ferris Wheel, Bumper Cars and a reminder from Hansen that it is crowded and that they need to stay together. There is also a Shooting Gallery scene where we get to see Hansen in action! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Down go the ducks one after another. Again we wonder, how many Japanese did Hansen nail with his trusty M1 Garand on Guadalcanal?

Dead Ducks


Hansen stops to buy ice cream. Goliath powers his whole cone down with one lick and one gulp. Soon enough Davey and Goliath wander off into the crowd to check out Tom Gargantua the 8 footer some more. Hansen can not find them of course and we enter a loooong stretch of Davey and Goliath riding rides and going into the Fun House but bitching that it isn't any fun without the Old Man. Technically these scenes are marvelous - roller coaster, flying saucer and that gorgeous demented laugh in the fun house. They just aren't compelling  story wise and tend to drag. The most interesting things are some of the people in the crowd seem to be afflicted with leprosy and have deformed faces.

"When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body like a leprous sore" Leviticus 13


Time is moving on and it is almost time for Davey's party. After some churn and an instance of Goliath copping a lick of a babies ice cream cone, the Hansen's are reunited. Instead of beating Davey's ass like most parents would do all after spending most of the day searching, all Hansen has to say is "God takes good care of us". They cruise on home, the party starts and the episode ends.



Another case where one really wants to pan the episode but when push comes to shove you can't. The message that God takes good care of us is not really compelling in the context but by golly a huge amount of work went into making this one. Three Roses.

[K_Dubb]

BEDTIME STORY!!! Thank you Walks!