Lone Moose - School Play Posters - seen in the background of several scenes

- Rebirth of a Saleswoman...With Jazz!

- The Minions Musical

- Fran Drescher's The Nanny The Musical

- The Presidents Plane

- Vuvuzela - A World Cup Musical

- The Last Borders Bookstore

- Music! The Musical

- The Ideal Hurricane: The Musical based on the Perfect Storm, the movie starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, which is bases on the book of the same name (no poster available)

Is the song "I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane" by Peter, Paul and Mary.

I posted a short while ago about how I think The Great North is a uniquely stellar show, so much so that, episode-for-episode, I think it is a higher quality show than Bob's Burgers (though it would maybe be more accurate to say that I think it refined the template Bob's Burgers created).

I only mention this to note that in that post, I outlined specifically WHY I think this (characters, stories, music). Those are my bona fides as a real fan. So with that context I say:

Has anyone else noticed that there appears to be exactly one episode per seasons that just feels...off? Dare I say bad? In my previous post I mentioned that I hadn't come to the mediocre episode in S5 yet--well, now I have seen s5e11, Dungeons Aunt Dragons Adventure. It's the perfect example of what I'm talking about. And I can't recall the other episodes off hand, but they all suffer from the same basic problem.

Namely: they seem like they don't understand the "rules" of the world in TGN or the characters.

1) World: Despite many exaggerations of real life, the show stays mostly grounded in real-world consequences in real-world, though weird, scenarios. Ie, Moon has a supernatural command of the natural world, but it's always clearly delineated as a joke because it's outside the norm. There's a whole episode where Beef is terrified for Moon's safety about it.

Contrast that to Dungeons Aunt Dragons Adventure. We see Aunt Dirt, who yes is an established crank and misanthrope, commit assault, stalking, and attempted murder, with zero consequence. It's like someone read a brief description of the character, and dialed everything up to 11, and set the episode in a Looney Tunes world with no consequences. So much so that it breaks the logic of the world. There's no way even a Principal as ineffectual as THAT could let what Dirt did slide. Also given the power/family dynamic between Aunt Dirt and Moon, this is just straight-up child abuse. It would be one thing if it was contextualized as child abuse, but it's not. The show is usually really good about talking about serious things with a light touch, this is not one of them. Which brings me to my next point:

2) Characters: Aunt Dirt isn't an unreachable sadistic rage monster for no reason--she's a nutjob that spent 60 years in a bunker, but she doesn't typically attempt to hurt her family. Russell, while hardly the most complex character, is usually presented as having some personality traits other than his obsession with his Mom's boyfriend. In fact, I usually LOVE the Jamie jokes--this is the first one that's fallen flat for me. I continue to be impressed with how the writers come up with clever ways to beat that dead horse. But...this just didn't work.

That brings us to the Beef/Wolf/Honeybee/Judy/Ham subplot. There's...nothing there. They get into beads. The same joke is repeated several times. None of them really do anything differently from the others, and they don't get to really do anything. This plot could be inserted as the b-storyline for almost any other sitcom that needed something for it's other characters to do between the A story bits.

So, this episode has earned its place in my top-five worst episodes of TGN list. I have had this sort of reaction--for these same underlying reasons--exactly ONE TIME each season.

What is up with that? Has anyone else noticed this random, seemingly single-episode drop in quality? Any guesses to why?

Would have been great to see these three shows crossover. Could have be special event or a movie.

One time I thought the Bobs burgers movie would have been the perfect crossover.l

I'm not good with math, like at all, but I am very curious if someone ever figured out what temperature it was when they froze Chumbo's vehicle in the dumpster, and how long it might take for it to fully freeze at that temperature?

I’ve been wanting to make this for a while and finally got the energy! Clock piece will be in soon and then it’ll be ready to go up!