Original air date: April 30, 2023
Written by: Laura Hooper Beck
Directed by: Michael Baylis
Directed by: Michael Baylis
The Rear Gifts Festival, a festival that celebrates moose droppings, is happening in Lone Moose and Mayor Peppers wants the Tobins, Tuntleys, and Evanoffs to cease their competitive rivalry to win the Turd Drop so he can enjoy his one vacation day. But when they learn Mayor Ted Folly has snuck in the festival and plans to cheat to win the Turd Drop, the three family must work together to prevent Ted Folly from winning by cheating together. Meanwhile, Ham tries to make new male friends his own age but can only make friends with old ladies so Crispin tries to help him.
Tropes:
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Wolf's strategy for cheating on the Turd Drop is to make his own moose dropping by eating grass and twigs just like a moose would.
- Call-Back: Ham is still singing for the Messenger of Chaos since "The Great Punkin' Adventure".
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: While the wind turbine exposes Mayor Ted Folly’s infiltration, it also ends up stripping several people down to their underwear or completely naked.
- Couch Gag:
- The boat in the opening says "No Ship, Sherlock"
- Wolf's T-Shirt says "MILF: Man I Love Farts".
- Disguised in Drag: Mayor Ted Folly disguised himself as a British woman named Barbara Baconbottom who moved into Lone Moose for two months so he can infiltrate the Rear Gifts Festival to enter the Turd Drop and cheat to win so he can ruin Mayor Peppers' day-off.
- Enemy Mine: After discovering that Mayor Ted Folly had infiltrated the festival and was cheating to win the Turd Drop, the Tobins, Tuntleys and Evanoffs decide to combine their owns schemes to expose Folly's.
- Exact Eavesdropping:
- When Judy goes to use Kima's bathroom and she walks by her parents' room, she overhears Walt saying he's going to cheat during the Turd Drop and had his finger crossed when the three families promise not to cheat. Judy immediately leaves Kima's house to warn her family.
- When Wolf is about to poop out his turd for the Turd Drop, he overhears Barbara Baconbottom complaining her wig is making her to hot and reveal she is actually Mayor Ted Folly who disguised himself as a woman so he can infiltrate the festival to cheat to win the Turd Drop.
- Feuding Families: The Tobins, Tuntleys, and Evanoffs are normally friendly with each other, but during the Rear Gifts Festival, all three families would get into a huge feud on winning the Turd Drop by cheating and it would usually end in violence according to Mayor Peppers.
- Five-Aces Cheater: The Tobins, Tuntleys, and Evanoffs make it blatantly clear they will cheat to win the Turd Drop even if they try denying it or make bad attempts to hide it.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The yeti can be seen hiding in the woods after Santiago loses his coat to the generator-created wind.
- Funeral Cut: In the video explaining the origin of the Rear Gifts Festival, one person is shown actually trying to eat moose droppings. It cuts straight to his tombstone, which reads "He died."
- Given Name Reveal: In previous episodes, Mrs. Tuntley has been only addressed as Mrs. Tuntley, with her first name never revealed. Her first name is finally revealed to be Dorothy after Beef said her name after complimenting her plan to cheat the Turd Drop.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: After the wind turbine blows off everyone's clothe off their body, everyone who lost all their clothe had to cover themselves with discarded clothe on the ground.
- Humble Goal: All Mayor Peppers wants on his one day off (besides peace between the Tobins, Evanoffs, and Tuntleys) is to eat a weed gummy and hang out in the bouncy castle.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Ham states that while he does have friends, most of them are old ladies so he spends most of the episode trying to make male friends his own age.
- Noodle Incident: During previous Rear Gifts Festivals, most likely thanks to the Tobins, Tuntleys, and Evanoffs' rivalry, Mayor Peppers had to call the S.W.A.T. team, reset a broken femur, and figure out how anticipate a lawsuit.
- The Nudifier: The Tuntleys' fan is so powerful it blows off the clothes off most of the festival goers, including Mayor Peppers.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Walt is an environmental scientist who typically does the best he can to take care of the earth, but he’s so desperate to have the Evanoffs win that he’s willing to put on poisonous metal paint and wash it off in the river to avoid its side effects.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a play on Real Genius.
- Road Apples: Lone Moose has a festival celebrating moose droppings, commemorating a time when they helped the town survive a harsh winter.
- Serious Business: The Tobins, Tuntleys, and Evanoffs take the Turd Drop so seriously that they're willing to cheat to win no matter how dangerous or crazy their plan is. What's even more ridiculous is the prize for winning the Turd Drop is a mani-pedi gift certificate.
- Stating the Simple Solution: When the three Tobins, Tuntleys, and Evanoffs discover Ted Folly’s plan to cheat, Mr. Evanoff asks what they should do about it.Honeybee: Uh, go right to Mayor Peppers and tell him, and then do the Turd Drop without cheating like you promised.
Dorothy Tuntley: Well that’s dumb. Any other ideas? - Strange Minds Think Alike: The teenage boy Ham befriends at the end is also interested in hearing about Regina’s story about her friend Nancy’s divorce and fight over a beach house.
- Too Dumb to Live:
- The introductory video mentions that one Lone Moose resident tried to eat moose droppings, and died because of it.
- Walter is so serious on winning the Turd Drop that he's willing to spray poisonous metal paint on himself, knowing full well of the dangerous side effects on having it on his skin, just to ensure the magnet he stuck in the moose turd will move onto the target.
- Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Downplayed. Beef explains the plan on how they're going to stop Mayor Folly from winning the Turd Drop and their plan is successful, but they were unable to turn off the wind turbine causing everyone to have their clothes blown away.
- Why Didn't I Think of That?: When the Tobins reveal Mayor Folly’s plan to cheat at the Turd Drop using a turd-shaped mini-drone to the Evanoffs and the Tuntleys, Kima and Dane immediately ask Walter why he didn’t think of that. He responds by sincerely apologizing, indicating he was thinking the same thing.
♫ Older lady friend
She's just what I want
She knows what to order in every single restaurant
Yeah!
She recently stopped shaving her pits
Her ideal boyfriend is Jimmy Smits
Oh, there's just something about her
Something that tells me I would die
Oh, without her!
Older lady friend! ♫
She's just what I want
She knows what to order in every single restaurant
Yeah!
She recently stopped shaving her pits
Her ideal boyfriend is Jimmy Smits
Oh, there's just something about her
Something that tells me I would die
Oh, without her!
Older lady friend! ♫
—Ham
