Episode Report Card Shack: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jock Trap
By Shack | Season 4 | Episode 26 | Aired on 07.23.1998
He catches up with Porno's car, still being chased by the kids (and executes a perfect motorcycle jump over a small hill). They're on the same overlook where the movie started. Porno stops the car to talk to Steve. Porno tells him that the kids have to be stopped, because they can't let them go out into the real world with their mental problems. Steve thinks they can be helped, but Porno says they can't, because he would know something like that. Remove the chips, maybe? Well, that doesn't make for a dramatic conclusion. Also, Porno's been shot in the torso. So he figures the best way to end all this is to have all the Blue Ribbon kids clamber on to the top of the car to trash the boomboxes; then he'll drive over the cliff and kill everyone. Before he goes over, he shouts out, "Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone!" That's just wrong on so many levels. But hey, those are his last words, so it's not my problem. Steve, left alone on the cliff, turns around to see that Dr. Caldicott isn't dead after all and has managed to limp all the way out here to the cliff, even though everybody else either drove a vehicle or ran. Steve tells Caldicott that he's through. Caldicott gives some ludicrously bad speech about there being other towns and other troubled children and worried parents for him to play with. Really, they should have played up the camp value in this movie if they were going to write a villain like this who's so silly. Steve attacks him, and the two of them fight and roll around on the ground. The doctor nearly tosses Steve off the cliff, but Steve breaks free. They end up rolling around some more. Steve punches Caldicott, and he rolls off the cliff, but manages to grab Steve's leg. Steve kicks him and knocks him off the cliff to his death. Steve also says another one of those typically stupid goodbye lines, because if you're not going to have ironic music when you die, somebody has to say something "clever." Steve zooms back to the ferry on the motorcycle, reaching it just as it's leaving and performing another motorcycle jump off the loading ramp to land on the other side. At least he crashes the motorcycle this time, so there's a bit more realism. He finds Rachel and they hug. Rachel asks what happened. Steve says they're the only ones left. Umm...what about all the kids who weren't brainwashed at the school? There were, like, hundreds of them? And your parents? Now that Caldicott is gone, what are you running away from? Rachel wants to know where they're going. Steve says they're going "home," which is wherever they end up. Four runaway teenagers? I'd say Social Services. This is pretty stupid. They beat the bad guys. Why are they running? Rachel and Steve kiss, and U.V. repeats Gavin's line about them having sparks and firing up the power ballad. Please don't, thanks.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Next