History Recap / TheSimpsonsS5E8BoyScoutzNTheHood

* {{GASP}}: Bart and Milhouse take a 20$ bill to the Kwik-E-Mart and order a Super Squishee. Cue a collective gasp from everyone in the store -- including Snake holding Sanjay at gunpoint.

'''CouchGag:''' The lights are out with only the Simpsons' eyes visible as they enter. The lights turn on revealing it's only their eyes, until the family rushes in and sits down, reconnecting with their eyes.

-->'''Homer:''' The foul stench of death is upon us! ''[Sniffs]'' [[MadLibsCatchPhrase Mmm, hamburgers]].

** When the surveillance crew at Noiseland Arcade takes action upon hearing Bart and Milhouse ran out of money, [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E08/74673.jpg the apparent silhouette of an intimidating, broad-shouldered bouncer falls upon the boys]]. The figure who emerges [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E08/79678.jpg turns out to be the Squeaky-Voiced Teen]], who politely tells them to leave.

!!Tropes:

-->'''Bart:''' ''[Through gritted teeth]'' Dad, I ''really'' want you to come on this trip with me.
-->'''Homer:''' ''[Through equally gritted teeth]'' Bart, I'd be ''delighted'' to go on your trip with you.
-->'''Homer & Bart, simultaneously:''' D'oh!

-->'''Homer''': The foul stench of death is upon us! ''[Sniffs]'' [[MadLibsCatchPhrase Mmm, hamburgers]].

* BaitAndSwitch: When Homer drops the Swiss Army knife on the inflatable raft with a number of sharp blades and tools folded outwards, it keeps bouncing around with everyone alternately making terrified and relieved gasps, until it finally stops without puncturing the raft... only for the sun to hit the now-perfectly aligned magnifying glass tool and burn a hole through the raft anyway.

* CouchGag: The lights are out with only the Simpsons' eyes visible as they enter. The lights turn on revealing it's only their eyes, until the family rushes in and sits down, reconnecting with their eyes.
* DeviousDolphins: When Bart, Homer, Flanders and Flanders' kids remain stranded at sea, they're eventually approached by a trio of dolphins. Flanders is relieved, stating that dolphins always help people lost at sea. Instead, the dolphins merely chitter to each other that the castaways are all going to die, laugh a bit, and then leave them to their fate.

-->'''Bart:''' ''[Sigh]'' They could have made this clearer.

--->'''[=Captain McCallister=]''': Argh. I don't know what I'm doin...

* IHaveNoSon: Homer's reaction when Bart laughs at a joke told by Flanders.
* ImagineSpot:

--->'''Imaginary!Homer:''' ''(paddling the wrong way)'' Duh... I'm the captain! ''(paddles some more, splashing other rafters)'' My son is Bart!

* InstantlyProvenWrong: Flanders notes that a seagull in the air means they're close to land, because seagulls only go out to sea when they're about to die. The seagull immediately drops from the sky, dead.

-->'''Nelson:''' Hey look, Sergeant Dork! Ha ha!
-->'''Bart:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Enjoy your test.]]
-->'''Nelson:''' Ha h- [[OhCrap ...oh.]]

-->'''Bart''': The guys who wrote this show don't know squat. Itchy should've tied Scratchy's tongue with a taut-line hitch, not a sheet bend.

-->'''Bart''': Don't take this the wrong way Dad, but your expression doesn't fill me with confidence.

* PetTheDog: Bart defends Flanders from Homer by stating that Flanders is at least trying to keep everyone alive and sane while stranded at sea, while his father is making things worse and giving Flanders a hard time.

--->'''Bart''': New York's that-a way, man!
--->'''Sailor''': Thanks kid!
** The scene where Hans Moleman draws out a knife and says: "You call that a knife? ''This'' is a knife" is a parody of a famous scene in ''Film/CrocodileDundee''. The (nearly) blind man having a cane sword is a reference to {{Franchise/Zatoichi}}.
** The scene where Ernest Borgnine and the campers travel through the backwoods by boat, while mysterious giggling people are hiding themselves behind the trees is a nod to ''Film/{{Deliverance}}''.
** The scene where Ernest Borgnine and the campers are attacked near the campfire references ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''.

-->'''Milhouses''': What's it like...
-->'''Milhouse 1''': Bart?
-->'''Milhouse 2''': Bart?
-->'''Milhouse 3''': Bart?
* SkewedPriorities: Homer is a lot more concerned about gloating over Flanders being wrong than the fact they're still miles out to sea.
-->'''Homer''': What does it matter? We're doomed!
-->''(A seagull caws.)''
-->'''Ned''': Wrong, we're saved! Seagulls always stay near land, they only come out to sea to die!
-->''(The seagull immediately plunges to a watery grave.)''
-->'''Homer''': Woo-hoo! See that, boy? Your old man was right, not Flanders! We ''are'' doomed!

* ThreatBackfire: Subverted. The bullies of Springfield Elementary try to bully Bart by taking away his scout uniform and Bart tries to show he does not cares about it, only to be threatened with a beat down if he does not plays along with the "keep away" bullying.

* ImagineSpot: Homer briefly imagines himself dancing with some anthropomorphic candy while listening to "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies.

* MeritBadgesForEverything: ZigZagged. Bart is seen sewing on badges for "debt collecting", "embalming", and "TV trivia", but also "badge forgery", indicating that he may have made at least some of his badges himself.

After Bart and Milhouse go on a sugar bender after finding a $20 bill (that Homer found under the couch while looking for a peanut and lost when he slipped on the very peanut he was trying to find) and spending most of the money on a Squishee made of syrup, Bart wakes to find that he's a member of the geekiest club known to man: The Junior Campers (not affiliated with The Boy Scouts of America). Bart ends up bringing Homer on a father-son rafting trip where they share a raft with Ned and Todd Flanders. Meanwhile, Creator/ErnestBorgnine fills in for one of the other kids' dads.

* AbandonedCampRuins: While Homer, Bart, Ned, and Todd are rescued ([[AccidentalHero accidentally because of Homer]]), [[AsHimself celebrity guest]] for the father son rafting trip Creator/ErnestBorgnine, and the other Junior campers get lost during the river expedition and stumble into an abandoned summer camp to rest before continuing their trek. As they sing a round of "Bingo was his Name-O'", a slasher stalks the camp, and the last shot of the episode is horror music playing while the camera pans into a screaming Borgine.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Homer curses this trope when he taunts Bart about his Junior Camper activities, asking if he learned to "build crappy furniture out of useless wooden logs," only for his chair to collapse.

** Homer subverts this trope when Bart joins the Junior Campers and has to take Homer along on a father-son river rafting trip. They're paired with Ned and Todd Flanders, and Homer makes things go FromBadToWorse. Homer loses their map and gets them separated from all the other father-son pairs, and they end up drifting out to sea. They quickly run out of food and water because of Homer's {{Jerkass}} behavior, and he makes their raft spring a leak. However, Homer ultimately saves them when he realizes that there's a Krusty Burger on a nearby offshore oil rig, and his amazing sense of smell leads them to it. They get food and a ride back to Springfield, and Bart congratulates his father. It also turns out that Homer actually did Bart and the Flanderses a ''favour'' by getting them separated from the other rafts. We see what the other father-son teams go through, and it turns out to be a rather unpleasant series of experiences which apparently ends with all of them killed.

* OrganAutonomy: When Homer gets disappointed that he found twenty dollars instead of his dropped last peanut, his brain argues that he can use the money to buy more peanuts. Later, when Homer reasons that he doesn't want to go on the father-son rafting trip with Bart and thus should answer yes when he asks, his brain points out that that's not how it works. Homer responds, "Shut up, brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!"

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: PlayedForLaughs that $20 in 1993 (worth approximately $40 as of 2023) would give two young kids the ability to afford an experimental all-syrup squishee, be treated like a wealthy person at a yuppie-looking skateboard store (it wasn't established if Milhouse and/or Bart actually bought any skateboard from the store), reserve the VIP section at an arcade and be catered to by a personal tuxedo wearing waiter, and afford transportation to NYC and tickets to go see the Broadway show {{Theatre/Cats}}.

* ThreatBackfire: Subverted. The bullies of Springfield Elementary try to bully Bart by taking away his scout uniform and Bart tries to show he does not cares, only to be threatened with a beat down if he does not plays along with the "keep away" bullying.

* SurpriseCreepy: The final scene, wherein an apparent slasher monster (heavily implied to be Jason Voorhees) attacks the scouts, beginning with Ernest Borgnine.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: The [[DrunkOnMilk age-appropriate]] sendup of AlcoholInducedIdiocy tropes when Bart and Milhouse consume a Squishee made of pure syrup is topped off by Bart waking up to realize that he's joined...[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a junior scout troop]]. Driven home by the fact that adult alcoholic Barney really ''does'' join the navy the same night.

* DanBrowned: Referenced in-universe when Bart cannot laugh at an ''Itchy & Scratchy'' episode after joining the Junior Campers because now he knows the characters use the wrong camping equipment.
-->'''Bart''': The guys who wrote this show don't know squat. Itchy should've tied Scratchy's tongue with a taut-line hitch, not a sheet bend.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: PlayedForLaughs that $20 in 1993 (worth approximately $40 as of 2023) would give two young kids the ability to afford an experimental all-syrup squishee, be treated like a wealthy person at a yuppie-looking skateboard store (it wasn't established if Milhouse and/or Bart actually bought any skateboard from the store), reserve the VIP section at an arcade and be catered to by a personal tuxedo wearing waiter, and afford transportation to NYC and tickets to go see the Broadway show Theatre/Cats.

--->'''Lisa:''' Tsk, tsk, tsk. The remorse of the sugar junkie.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: {{Parodied}} when Bart and Milhouse go on a squishee bender. The next day, Bart discovers he's joined the Junior Campers, and Milhouse has a dirty word shaved into the back of his head. Barney, who drank some of the Squishee, wound up joining the Navy, and apparently [[OhNoNotAgain not for the first time]].

* DrunkOnMilk: Bart and Milhouse buy a Squishy that is all syrup, and proceed to get "drunk" from the extreme sugar rush. Bart wakes up the next morning with a hangover, and discovers to his horror that he joined the Junior Campers during their binge. Lisa offers NoSympathy. Milhouse (who also drank that same Squishy with Bart) woke up with a profanity shaved into the back of his head. As for Barney (who was briefly shown sharing the boys' Squishy), he wakes up on a Navy ship wearing a sailor suit and exclaims "OhNoNotAgain!"

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: The [[DrunkOnMilk age-appropriate]] sendup of AlcoholInducedIdiocy tropes when Bart and Milhouse consume a Squishy made of pure syrup is topped off by Bart waking up to realize that he's joined...[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a junior scout troop]]. Driven home by the fact that adult alcoholic Barney really ''does'' join the navy the same night.