Recap / The Great North S4E05 "Cheese All That Adventure"

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Original air date: March 10, 2024

Written by: Kevin Seccia
Directed by: Damil Bryant

When Cheesecake gets evicted from his trailer for not paying his bills and he's running low on money, Wolf invites him to live with the Tobins and he and Honeybee try to find him a job in Lone Moose, but he always botches it. Meanwhile, when Beef hears that Carissa's coffee shop isn't doing well, he decides to attend her shop every day to support her business, which ends up attracting a lot of tourists thanks to his Alaskan appearance.

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Tropes:

• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Wolf tries to be this to Cheesecake, who really needs it. As soon as Wolf tries to let him handle himself, he commits an Epic Fail.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Moon's plant disguise is the Audrey II costume Ham wore in "A Beartiful Find Adventure".
  • Beef is still hanging out with the Mom's group from "Beef Mommas House Adventure".
• Couch Gag:
  • The boat in the opening is "Mackerel Number Five".
  • Wolf's T-Shirt says "Fartbreak Hotel".
• Crush Blush: Beef and Carissa are shown blushing a couple of times when they start showing attraction towards each other.
• Disposing of a Body: When Mr. Slimsac thinks Cheesecake is dead after drowning in a vat of white chocolate, Slimsac was planning to dispose his body by burying him somewhere, as indicated by the shovel in his backseat, but Cheesecake wakes up before that could happen.
• Earpiece Conversation: To help Cheesecake get a full-time job at the pretzel company, Wolf and Honeybee enlist the help of the Tobin kids (Aunt Dirt is just there because she fell asleep in the van) to tell him what to do through their earpiece. When Cheesecake accidentally swallows the earpiece, Moon is sent in with a camera and an earpiece while disguised as a plant to tell Cheesecake what to do.
• Eating Solves Everything: Subverted. When Cheesecake is accidentally dropped in a vat of white chocolate, he tries eating his way out but it doesn't work and he admits that only works in cartoons.
• Epic Fail: After Wolf decides to let Cheesecake do things on his own without his help at work, he's immediately fired the next day for accidentally shredding important documents and somehow shredding the shredder itself.
• Forgot to Pay the Bill: The whole plot kicks off when Wolf and Honeybee discover that Cheesecake hasn't been paying his bills that are overdue and his trailer gets repossessed while they're still inside.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: After Mr. Slimsac hands Cheesecake a check in his car to remain quiet about his accident and seeing all the health violations in his factory, the Yeti can be seen on the left side of the screen peeping from behind the car.
• Funny Phone Misunderstanding: When Wolf is helping Cheesecake alone and he plans to tell him what to say to his boss, a police officer walks up to Wolf's van and tells him he can't park in a red zone and he has to move his vehicle. While talking with the officer, Cheesecake ends up repeating what Wolf said to his boss, and after a couple of miscommunication, Wolf accidentally steps on the accelerator pedal and drives the van into a utility pole while screaming, which Cheesecake still repeats.
• No OSHA Compliance: Alaska Pretzels apparently has had a lot of health violations, and after Cheesecake accidentally walks into the factory floor and gets dipped in the white chocolate vat, the CEO, Mr. Slimsac, just pays him off.
• Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title is based off of She's All That.
• Serious Business: When a coffee patron asks Beef to watch his laptop while he uses the restroom, Beef treats it very seriously and acts like a guard towards his laptop. The end credit song is about Beef imagining himself as a knight guarding his laptop against orcs.
• Ship Tease: Beef and Carissa get a boatload of it in this episode.
• Shout-Out:
  • Judy jokes that Cheesecake might have to be puppeteered like Linguini in Ratatouille, which gives Wolf the idea to use an earpiece to coach him through his interview.
  • In the same scene, Ham tells Beef to give his name as "Jean-Luc Picard" for his coffee order.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: During the end credit song, Beef acts as a knight who wields a Flaming Sword that also sprouts out a flaming battle axe and a flaming morning star.
• Too Dumb to Live: Cheesecake makes a lot of questionable decisions in this episode:
  • He was warned that his trailer would be towed but he did not take it seriously even though a uniformed police officer told this to his face several times.
  • He openly admitted in his job interview to his excessive drinking even showing that he will drink during work hours.
  • He was warned that the blue liquid under the sink was not Blue Curacao but Windex, he did not believe Honeybee and still took a sip.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: While Beef and Carissa both like each other, neither of them wants to admit it and they try to downplay their attraction to each other.

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♫ I am the watcher
(The watcher)
The watcher of the laptop
For a man named Todd
I am the protector
(Protector)
Of his screenplay
About a sex dragon who's a god
Todd is free now
Knowing that his laptop's with me
He doesn't worry about computer thieves
As he takes a nice long pee
I am the watcher
(The watcher)
The watcher of the laptop
For a man named Todd
Don't ask me for his password or I'll kick your assword
I'm a laptop watching God! ♫

—Beef