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Original air date: November 28, 2021

Written by: Kevin Avery
Directed by: Mario D'Anna

When Tusk Johnson returns to tell Beef and Wolf that he's gone clean and wants them to throw him a bachelor party, they both agree but Beef is still hesitant to trust Tusk again, especially when his former sidekick, Dan, returns and tries to warn him about Tusk. Meanwhile, Honeybee enters the "Kiss the Kiosk" competition, where competitors are required touch a kiosk and the last person touching it wins, and meets some competitors where one of them is willing to do whatever it takes to win.


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  • A Cappella: For Tusk's bachelor party, Wolf has an A cappella group called "The New Kids on the Docks" who sings song where they include boats in the lyrics.
  • Best Served Cold: After a deal goes wrong and Tusk let Dan take the fall and goes to jail in the past, Dan used his time in prison to think of ways to get revenge on Tusk. When Dan got an invite from Tusk to his bachelor party, Dan accepts it so he can enact his revenge.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Honeybee's friend Leslie turns out to be this. She cheats at the "Kiss the Kiosk" contest by rigging the thermometer in the mall to turn off during the contest while she was the only one bundled up in warm clothes and tells the pregnant lady ghost stories to get her to quit.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Among the things Wolf has at Tusk's bachelor party include a cake that Ham baked with a special surprise inside for Tusk, an inflatable bouncy slide for Moon, and laser light dubstep show for the finale. After Cal and Jennifer takeover Beef's boat and plans to move everyone (minus Tusk and Dan) to their disable boat, Moon and Ham request that they can keep the bouncy slide and the cake, respectively, with them. When Beef and Wolf plan on rescuing Tusk and Dan and get their boat back, they use the bouncy slide to float there, Ham reveals the surprise he has for Tusk inside his cake is a stainless steel tusk and hands it to Wolf so he can use it as a weapon which helps Tusk during the fight, and they use the laser light dubstep show to distract Cal and Jennifer as they board the boat.
  • Code Emergency: Moon has multiple different color codes for every possible emergencies which he keeps in a binder whenever he sees a bogey.
  • Couch Gag: The boat in the opening is "Mrs. Troutfire."
  • "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Beef admits that had he just listen to Wolf about giving Tusk a real second chance, it wouldn't lead to them being taken hostage by Dan and get his boat stolen.
  • Easily Forgiven: Wolf forgives Tusk for nearly having him killed the last time they met, acting like it wasn't a big deal.
  • Epic Fail: Tusk was not lying when he said Dan is terrible with a spear. After Tusk disarms Cal's trident and it lands in Dan's hand, he tries to throw it at Cal, who's standing right in front of him, and fails. Not only did he completely miss him but he throws it too high and off the boat at a different direction.
    Tusk: I'm telling you, he couldn't stab the broad side of a barn, and we tried. I literally tried to make him stab a barn, and he couldn't do it.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Played for laughs. Cal and Jennifer may be smugglers who plan on taking Tusk and Dan away and steal Beef's boat and leave the others on their disabled boat, but they allow them to keep the inflatable bouncy slide because they understand how expensive the deposit on them is and they let them keep Ham's cake since they're on a keto diet.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Wolf goes to look up Code Chartreuse in Moon's emergency binder, there are several other emergencies that can be seen in the binder.
  • Honorable Marriage Proposal: Tusk is marrying Doris, the woman he met at a bar and was his "camera woman" back in "Tusk in the Wind Adventure", because while they were going clean, things happen and Doris got pregnant despite being 53 years old.
  • "I Am" Song: For the end credits, Jarvis Dufraine sings "I'm Jarvis Dufraine", explaining who he is with Honeybee, Lotion Leslie, Ruthina, and Dabbie sing in the background.
  • Improvised Weapon: Ham baked a stainless steel tusk into a cake as a surprise for Tusk and he hands it to Wolf so he can use it to fight against Cal and Jennifer. Once on the boat, Wolf throws the tusk towards Tusk so he can defend himself against Cal's trident and he uses the tusk to disarm him and knock him out.
  • It's All My Fault: After Dan takes everyone hostage on the boat, Wolf blames himself for this because he chose to throw Tusk's bachelor party on their boat, Beef blames himself because he trusted Dan over Tusk and told him everything he needed to take them hostage, and Tusk blames himself for inviting Dan in the first place.
  • Look Behind You: Wolf tells Honeybee that during the kiosk competition when it gets down to the final wire to use the "Tortoise Move", where you shout to your competitors "Hey look, a tortoise!" to break their concentration because who wouldn't want to see a tortoise. When kiosk competition is down to three people left with Honeybee among them, wanting to help Ruthina win, Honeybee uses the "Tortoise Move" on Leslie and it surprisingly works on her since she's been tricking people to leave.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Because he still doesn't fully trust Tusk, Beef completely trusts Dan despite meeting him for the first time and he reveals what he has on his boat, including a trident. Dan would later use this knowledge to hold everyone on the boat hostage and he later contact some smugglers to take Tusk away. After the smugglers take Tusk and Dan and Beef's boat and they leave the others on their disabled boat, Beef blames himself for this whole mess because he let his guard down around Dan and he let him trick him into giving him everything he needed to take everyone hostage all because his mistrust of Tusk blinded him.
  • Noodle Implements: After Tusk tells the others his plan on taking down Dan, Wolf comments it's better than his plan which involves a detonator and nuclear materials.
  • Not Quite Dead: Despite Beef and Wolf thinking Dan was killed by Tusk's recklessness, it is revealed that he actually used as a Scapegoat and was imprisoned for a crooked land deal.
  • One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Tusk reveals before he sold his boat to buy a family car, he rented out his boat for porno shoots and said if they ever seen a porno it's been shot on his boat and he asks Beef, Wolf, Ham, Moon, and Crispin to name a porn. They don't try to name any pornos but their sentences are actual titles of pornos shot on Tusk's boat.
  • Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title is a reference to the 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn.
  • Rejected Apology: Tusk invites his former sidekick Dan to his bachelor party to make amends with him after he has him thrown in jail. During the party, Dan takes everyone hostage and plans on handing Tusk over to two smugglers. After dealing with the smugglers, Tusk understands why he did that to him and offers his amends once more but Dan rejects it by jumping overboard and try escaping by using the smuggler's boat, not realizing it's disabled.
  • Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Dan takes everyone hostage on Beef's boat and plans on handing Tusk over to two smugglers Tusk screwed over in the past for money and revenge. When Cal and Jennifer board Beef's boat to take Tusk, they betray Dan since Dan was with Tusk when they got screwed over.
  • Shout-Out: The A cappella group called "The New Kids on the Docks" sings boat-pun version of "Whatta Man" by Salt-N-Pepa and "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper.
  • Special Guest: Guy Fieri appears As Himself in Honeybee's dream asking her if she really wants to have a kiosk and end up bitter and miserable like Lotion Leslie.
  • Stupid Crooks: The smugglers Cal and Jennifer and even Dan aren't the brightest criminals, but Cal and Jennifer are both big offenders.
    • Tusk tricked Cal and Jennifer into buying baby ostriches by telling them that they're baby pterodactyl and they could open a Jurassic Park franchise. As they sail away with Beef's boat, they steer the boat into the wind which will make the boat go around in a circles which gives Beef and Wolf a chance to board their boat. And Cal doesn't even know what the word "engine" is and how to pronounce it.
    • While Dan did trick Beef into revealing some important details he needs to take everyone hostage, he did a lousy job at negotiating money when handing Tusk over to Cal and Jennifer with Tusk pointing out he could have asked for more money since they really hate him. He was too trusting of Cal and Jennifer and they betray him because he forgot that he was still working with Tusk at the time Tusk ripped them off. When he gets a hold of Cal's trident and he tries to throw it at him, he misses him completely and throws it off the boat in the wrong direction. And when he tries to escape Beef's boat, he badly swims towards Cal and Jennifer's boat and doesn't realize their boat is disabled.
  • Theme Music Power-Up: The New Boys on the Dock sings Tusk's theme song with dubstep music in the background when Beef and Wolf takes on the smugglers and rescue Tusk and Dan.
  • Twincest: Implied between the smuggler twins Cal and Jennifer. Jerry tries to question their relationship but they ignore his questions. For example, when Jennifer reveals they have kids, Jerry asks them if they have kids with each other and they remain silent while their eyes look elsewhere.
  • Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer: When the wind starts making the boat rock too hard, Beef plans to turn to the boat back home. When Tusk agrees with Beef, Beef thinks Tusk wants to continue the bachelor party until he realizes that Tusk actually agrees with him.

Jarvis:
♫ I'm the mall administrator
You can see me now or catch me later
For those who haven't met me, here is my name
It's Jarvis Dufraine ♫

Honeybee, Lotion Leslie, Ruthina, & Dabbie: ♫ It's Jarvis Dufraine ♫
Jarvis:
♫ That's my name, people shout it
Got a new haircut, but I'm not sure about it
Just really quickly, here's the refrain
I'm Jarvis Dufraine ♫

Honeybee, Lotion Leslie, Ruthina, & Dabbie: ♫ He's Jarvis Dufraine ♫
Jarvis:
♫ I love this mall, it's my all, that's the truth
Raise a toast to the ghost near the Gags and Goofs
I worked here for ten years, but if you don't know my name
It's Jarvis Dufraine. ♫

Jarvis: Oh, are we not, are we not doing the backup thing anymore? Okay.

 
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Cal & Jennifer Aren't Monsters

Played for laughs. Cal and Jennifer may be smugglers who plan on taking Tusk and Dan away and steal Beef's boat and leave everyone on their disabled boat, but they allow them to keep the inflatable bouncy slide because they understand how expensive the deposit on them is and they let them keep Ham's cake since they're on a keto diet.

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