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"Not much to see, but you can see it for miles."

A Plot: To help repair a dilapidated play park, Brent, Emma and Karen devise a jellybean jar contest as a fundraiser. After several failed attempts to count the beans themselves, they devise a nefarious plot to estimate the count. This plan comes crashing down when the town figures out the ruse.

B Plot: Word has come down the trucker pipeline that the Ruby is a good place to eat, so suddenly it is full of burly truck drivers. Having seen trucker movies, Davis is leery of their presence, while Oscar just wants to ride in one of their semis. Lacey ruins her good fortune by accidentally driving them away.

C Plot: Hank drags Wanda along to a meet-up of Lamborghini owners, but they get caught in a web of lies when the subject of their (non-existent) Lamborghinis is brought up.

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  • Brick Joke: Karen suggests abandoning the jellybean jar contest in favour of a raffle, saying that old people will buy tickets to win anything. Cue a Cutaway Gag where an old couple are excited about the possibility of winning a jet ski. Later, when the jellybean contest fails and Karen relinquishes the chair position to Emma, she has an idea. Cue another Cutaway Gag where the same couple is excited that they could win... a big jar full of jellybeans.
  • Comically Missing the Point:
    Brent: How about this for an idea? Jellybean jar contest.
    Karen: So people bring in their jellybean jars and we judge them?
  • Distinction Without a Difference: After Lacey finds out that the truckers are under the impression she's "in a bad way".
    Lacey: Did you tell the truckers I was in a bad way?
    Davis: [confused] I don't think so. [Beat] I said you were dyin'.
  • Felony Misdemeanor: Lacey noting that the truckers are "a little slovenly" is offensive enough to drive them all away from the Ruby.
    Davis: You used the S-word?!
  • Ironic Nickname: Lampshaded by Davis when he points out that one of the truckers, Tiny Joe, isn't even tiny. He thinks it's one of many trucker ploys.
  • "Jar of Jellybeans" Contest: The A-Plot is all about one of these.
  • Lame Comeback: Emma when complaining that Karen was made the Chair of the Fundraising Committee, a position usually given to Emma every year.
    Karen: This year I'm Chair. They wanted to shake things up a bit.
    Emma: I'm twice the Chair you are! I'm almost a... couch.
  • Maintain the Lie:
    • To keep from looking like posers in front of the Lamborghini club, Hank pretends that Wanda has a Lamborghini. Of course, they want to come to town to see it, leading Wanda into a panic. Subverted when Hank actually procures a Lamborghini with the help of some truckers and they successfully to fool the other drivers.
    • Meanwhile, the fundraising committee spectacularly fails to do this right off the bat. After agreeing to lie and make up a number for the jellybean jar contest, they don't bother to decide what number to make up. This results in them being caught immediately, because they each give different lies when asked for an estimate. Brent says there are over 1000, Karen says there are fewer than 600, and Emma says it's between 600 and 1000.
  • Product Placement: The producers had to get permission from Lamborghini’s Canadian division to use the brand in the episode.
  • Pun-Based Title: As in "been there, done that".
  • Rhyming List: Wanda plays with the word Lamborghini to mess with Hank.
    Wanda: You'll never have a Lamborghini, you weenie, because your brain is teeny.
  • Running Gag:
    • Any time the play park is mentioned, a Whip Pan shows just how broken-down it has become.
      Brent: In many ways, it's not a good play park.
    • Subverted when the Whip Pan shows that the tetherball pole is still in good shape.
      Oscar: They got tetherball!
      Brent: Well, that's true.
      [Whip Pan back to the pole]
      Girl: I hate tetherball!
      Boy: I wish this would break!
  • Sarcasm-Blind:
    Emma: [looking at the jar full of jellybeans] So how many are there?
    Karen: What, jellybeans?
    Emma: No, jars.
    Karen: Well, there's only one.
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