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Thursday, July 06, 2023

Weekendering: The Weekenders: Season 3: Episode 1:Crushin' Roulette/Lucky Shoes

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        We've reached season 3 of "The Weekenders".  We've covered season 1 and season2 . Season 3 first premiered on September 9, 2001. This also of note because that's a Sunday, and the show switched networks from ABC to UPN. The Disney One Too block ran Sundays-Fridays on UPN. Though, the repeats continued on ABC. This would be the last season to broadcast on a broadcast network as well. Like season 2,  it has 13 half hours. 

    Basic premise of the show in case you want to jump into season 3 without reading about seasons  1 and 2, is 4 friends hanging out and doing things on the weekend. The show mostly takes place from Friday afternoon to Sunday night. The episodes are about middle schoolers named Tino Tonitini, Lor McQuarrie, Carver Descartes, and Tish Katsufrakis who hang out and life lessons on the best days of kid life.

           The episodes are mostly self contained, but may call back to the past things if they want to. So, now let's dip into the first two segments of season 3. 




Episode 1a: Crushin' Roulette 
   
         This episode is already breaking the mold by having it be Tish, break the 4th wall instead of Tino. (I'm a bit nervous) She tells us that's she's hungry. (So she should have a Snickers) She's been waiting for her friends for pizza. Apparently her other friends have crushes and want to do stuff with those crushes (concerned about Carver and the TV shoe model)  instead of having pizza with her.  This episode is set up with Tish feeling left out from her friends and being surrounded by love. 

        This is pretty interesting to have Tish in the lead role of the episode and having it from her point of view.  The next day, she calls her friends to decide to have a crush.  (I'm not commenting on her list) Her friends say she can't just force a crush, mostly Carver, and he's right, but they are going to help her find a crush because they are good friends. 

            The trio go to find Tish's crush. Lor's questions are amazing and scary.  After that fails, Tino decides he going to find some guys from school for Tish. Using his own probably better questions. (There's like three guys)  Also don't look up Lor's question the one about the brown, blue, cheese.  Probably don't. 

          Tish decides to pick to random things and stare and find love. (That's how people used to find their spouses)  That didn't work but she did get a guy to confess to being a spy. This is episode is weird. Anyway, she tries Percy and tells him she loves him and the boy is ready to have her child, I know what I wrote. He actually did that because he didn't want her to have a crush on him. Tish runs off.

        At the pizza place, Tish laments about not having a crush like her friends then the plot ends where Lor reads the pizza menu and this causes Tish to realize she doesn't need to have a crush yet, she will when she's ready. The episode ends with music shop guy getting arrested. 
        
          This episode was pretty fun.  Tish's plight in feeling left out from her friends , by not having a crush  is something that happens  and you feel for her.  I liked how her friends helped anyway. Though, it can be a little strange that she also wanted to find an adult to have a crush on as option,  but this is also comes from an era where shows had plots where a kid would have a crush on their teacher. The episode is pretty funny,  Lor's questions were great along with the reactions and Tish's stuff was fun. It really works well as an episode.  I give it 9/10. 

More after the jump 


Episode 1b: Lucky Shoes 

            This episode starts with my favorite pizza shop gag, where the pizza shop is discount pizza where everyone fights over pizza at discount prices. Carver comes in with the plot, he has bet a kid named Laird that he could beat him in a race, and made a bet, a bet that Tino, Lor, and Tish would become Laird's personal assistants. Carver says that his lucky shoes (roll credits) will help him win. Lor and Tino tell Tish they shouldn't break his mind on the lucky shoes or he'll lose confidence and lose. 

                 Uh oh his lucky shoes are missing and he found out his mom donated his shoes to charity. (charity no!!!!)  He wants to track them down and find them (like some mad man).  The best place to look at the charity shop to see if there's anywhere the shoes could be, the friends decide to buy some new shoes, and paint them to convince him.  That was a plan.

            It's racing day and  he's wearing the not his shoe shoes. (They even past a no running sign)  It seems to be working well for him until the paint gets splashed off. (Next time, use better paint) Lor gives him a pep talk and tells him it's not the shoes, it's the you. She didn't say that, but that's kind of what she said, just my own version of the words.  Carver becomes confidence 100 and is able to lose the race, by a smidge.  Actually, thanks to Laird being a coward when Tish shows the picture she took that Lor, who was running to pep up Carver, had beaten him- running backwards- he decides to kill the bet, like a coward. (cowardly) 
  

        This is a basic, episode of the luck/skill is inside you and not whatever object or thing you think is lucky. Though I do like that the friends, that weren't Carver, understood to not have Carver's confidence be shook so he could do well.  It wasn't a bad episode, but it was very typical in the idea. The discount food stuff gag was fun, and the idea of ending the bet that way was inventive. I give it 7.5/10. 

        That's it for now, tune in next time when we have a sale on burgers, 90% off!  Later days! 

        

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