Original air date: October 17, 2021
Written by: Mike Olsen
Directed by: Tom King
Directed by: Tom King
After Delmer suffers a concussion after bonking his head after eating soup too fast and slipping out of his chair, Beef brings him to his home and he and the rest of the Tobins tell him stories about the adventure he and Beef had together to keep him awake where the first story is about Delmer and Beef and Brain, as kids, taking on poop-obsessed aliens, the second story is about Delmer and a teenage Beef working at a summer camp where they fight a mutated squirrel, and the third story is about Delmer and a father-to-be Beef encountering a giant sea monster.
Tropes In General:
- Artistic License – History: A Running Gag with the Tobin kids where they have historical inaccuracies in their stories.
- Moon thinks jukebox, waitress on roller skaters, and poodle skirts started in The '80s instead of the The '50s.
- Wolf has his story set in The '80s, despite Beef telling him he didn't work at the camp at that year and he's not that old.
- Beef's story includes a salty, old sea captain who acts like he's from the 1880s. When Moon calls him out on that, Beef tells him he allowed their historical inaccuracies in their stories and so he's allowed to have this.
- Couch Gag: The boat in the opening is named Tom's Cruise.
- Pun-Based Title: The episode title is based on "Wanted: Dead or Alive".
- Tall Tale: Each of the stories told in this episode is an ordinary story about Beef and Delmer that was spiced up for the kids (who now acknowledge the exaggerations). So young Beef & Brian living with Delmer becomes them stopping an alien invasion, Beef as a camp counselor becomes a horror story about a mutated squirrel, and Beef and Delmer fishing becomes an encounter with a sea monster.
Tropes that applies to Judy, Ham, and Moon's Story
- Alien Invasion: The first story is about aliens taking over Lone Moose.
- Dramatic Unmask: When Delmar, Beef, and Brian go to administrative office to figure out where all the adults in town went, one of the administrators has an itchy nose and takes her human head off to scratch it while unintentionally revealing she's an alien. When she asks the other administrator if she just revealed she's an alien in front of the trio, the other administrator has trouble seeing through her human head and stupidly takes her human head off to confirm it herself and also revealed she's an alien.
- One-Word Vocabulary: The aliens in the first story can only say "Bork" but only when they're not impersonating humans. Even their writing consists of nothing but "Bork". Delmer is somehow fluent in their language.
- Toilet Humor: The first story has the aliens build a giant poop bomb; this was done for the sake of Judy, who finds poop hilarious. The first story also has Delmar, Beef, and Brian defeat the aliens with water balloons filled with pee because pee was the aliens’ weakness.
Tropes that applies to Wolf and Honeybee's Story
- Attack of the Killer Whatever: Wolf's story is about a mutant squirrel attacking a summer camp.
- Chekhov's Gun: Delmer's trick of using a Swiss army knife like a throwing star in the second story. Honeybee invokes it by saying that in movies this type of thing will come up later.
- Freeze-Frame Ending: Wolf ends the story by having Beef, Delmar, and Deppy jumping in the air for a hi-five but Deppy misses and the screen freezes while "The End" pops up.
- Impending Doom P.O.V.: Honeybee lampshades this when explaining how we get the POV of the mutant squirrel moments before it kills Lawler.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: In Wolf's story, a squirrel eats toxic chili that turns it into a giant monster hungry for skunky chili... and human blood.
- Too Dumb to Live: The second story, taking place during a summer camp in the 80's, has teenagers doing every stupid mistake seen in horror movies, from trying to deal with the mutant squirrel by themselves without adult supervision and splitting up instead of staying in a group.
Tropes that applies to Beef's Story
- Monster Is a Mommy: The sea monster in Beef's story is actually trying to get to its baby on the other side of the cove. Delmer, however, points out that it's actually a daddy.
♫ Bork is the word
It's a noun, it's a verb
It means every single thing
Tulips, turnips and turds
Bork is the word
Sister, have you heard?
There's nothing that it doesn't mean
Now Bork me as I swerve
Bork, Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork
Bork, Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork
Bork, Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork
Ba-Bork, Ba-Bork, Ba-Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork, Bork
A Bork is a cork, a fork is a Bork
When you have a little Borkie it's brought by the stork
Bork is the word
A noun and a verb
It means every single thing
Now Bork me while I swerve! Bork! ♫
It's a noun, it's a verb
It means every single thing
Tulips, turnips and turds
Bork is the word
Sister, have you heard?
There's nothing that it doesn't mean
Now Bork me as I swerve
Bork, Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork
Bork, Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork
Bork, Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork
Ba-Bork, Ba-Bork, Ba-Bork, Ba-Bork, Bork, Bork
A Bork is a cork, a fork is a Bork
When you have a little Borkie it's brought by the stork
Bork is the word
A noun and a verb
It means every single thing
Now Bork me while I swerve! Bork! ♫
—Aliens
