The Last Hurrah
Lola tells a lame ghost story and throws a cabbage head at Amanda. The boys raid the cabin at about that time, causing her to wet her bed. The actors on this show really were up for any kind of humiliation, weren't they? Busy actually tells Lola about it and doesn't defend her when Lola calls Amanda a wimp.
It turns out the boys stole Lola's bra and hung it on the flagpole. The kids (except Jessica) all blame Amanda for not turning on the light and the counselor makes them promise not to try to retaliate against the boys.
Amanda sees Busy and Lola talking together and gets jealous. I went for as long as I could without saying it, but this whole thing looks like a love triangle. Wouldn't you think so if Busy were a boy? Anyway, the girls were merely planning a counter attack on the boys' cabin. After more ribbing about her bed wetting incident, Lola reluctantly agrees to have Amanda along.
Amanda and Lola disagree over a strategy to get to the boys' cabin. Lola wants to wait until lights out and Amanda thinks this would be too predicable and they would get caught. They finally agree to try Amanda's plan.
There's one girl in the cabin who's supposed to be really fat and eats everything in sight, like Lola's ghost story cabbage. Moving on. There is some foreshadowing in the form of dialogue about Amanda having stomach cramps.
The girls find a canoe, but after a while it proves to have a leak in it. They paddle to some little island that Lola thinks is the haunted beach from her story. Everyone blames Amanda again.
A spider lands on Busy's arm and she freaks out until Amanda picks it off her with her bare hand. Amanda needs to use the bathroom and doesn't want to do it in front of the other girls. When a TV character has to pee, it's usually for a good reason.
...But not this time. Amanda just got her period is all. And boy is she excited about it, even under the circumstances. Why would you blurt out that you got your period in front of someone who's been teasing you about wetting the bed? Busy tells Amanda she doesn't give a shit about her reproductive organs maturing because the canoe just floated away. Lola is still freaking out about her ghost story. Amanda sits her down and gives her a Walkman to listen to, which is a weird way of calming someone down. Busy trips over a log and sprains her ankle.
Amanda wraps Busy's ankle as Lola is still vegged out on the Walkman. Busy suggests Amanda do what Ora in Cabin 5 did when she got her period - go out into the woods with her mother and dance naked. This almost sounds like a clever plot to get to see someone's dim-witted friend and her mother dance naked. I'll bet there isn't even an Ora in Cabin 5. Busy finally apologizes. Not for being a bad friend, but for thinking Amanda was a wimp.
Busy sits back in a very unladylike fashion while Amanda talks about what scares her the most - her mother dying. This has nothing to do with the episode or the show in general, but it's such a common kid fear that I'll let it pass. Amanda claims her period gave her "woman power." Amanda uses her powers to get up before the others and find the boys cabin.
Cherry rides up on a boat later to rescue the girls. She is none too happy, of course, and tells them they'll probably never get into another summer camp again. That's pretty harsh.
It turns out that Jessica, fearful for the girls' lives, had to tell on them. She wrote this cute message in Amanda's autograph book about being pen pals 4-ever. Busy's friends are still too busy harping on Amanda to share any heartfelt goodbyes. Amanda sits quietly off to her self the whole time.
Then after the mean girls leave, she unfurls the boys' flag for Busy. There's no way she wouldn't have rubbed it in Lola's face. It doesn't even make sense. Busy talks about how yucky boys are as the credits roll.
There was really nothing accomplished with these camp episodes except to show that both Busy and Amanda can be assholes sometimes, but the location was a nice change of pace.
Next episode: Some French guys are visiting and Busy misinterprets things into thinking they're saying she has small breasts.
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