Episode Report Card Pamie: C- | 1 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Dangers of Danielworld
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.15.2002
Cardigan Man's store. By the way, Taylor's market offers about three hundred different juices and teas. Just look at the back row. A woman asks where his brussels sprouts are. He says his supplier was out this week, but that he should have some next week. She says she wanted to make them tonight, so she'll try the vendor across the street. Cardigan Man apparently hasn't walked by a window all day long and has no idea what she's talking about. He walks out the door and sees a Farmer's Market set up in the middle of the town. Wouldn't Cardigan Man have to authorize any community activity that would use the green area like that?
Taylor storms up and demands to know who the proprietor is. It's the guy who didn't get voted town troubadour again. We have to hear Cardigan Man remember who he is. He also calls him a "long-haired freak." My friends inform me that the actor is better known as Naked Trucker, who opens for Tenacious D sometimes. That's easier to remember and funnier than "Long-Haired Freak," so "Naked Trucker" it is. Naked Trucker moves in for a hug, but Cardigan Man tells him to let go of him. Naked Trucker says that Cardigan Man's "got a little 'David and Lisa' thing going on." I hate when I don't know what that means. Then I have to look it up. Here it is. David and Lisa, by James Reach. It's a movie that was rewritten for the stage:
It retells, by use of the most modern stage techniques, the strange, appealing and utterly fascinating story of two mentally-disturbed adolescents: David, only son of wealthy parents, over-protected by a dominating mother, who is tortured by his mania against being touched; and Lisa, the waif who has never known parental love, who has developed a split personality and is in effect two different girls, one of whom will speak only in childish rhymes and insists upon being spoken to in the same manner.
We learn something new every day. Cardigan Man asks Naked Trucker why he opened a produce stand across the street from Cardigan Man's market. Naked Trucker compliments Cardigan Man's tissues. He likes to say everything twice, with the emphasis on the second repetition. Miss Patty asks if the parsley is priced by bunch or pound. Naked Trucker calls Miss Patty beautiful and tells her it's by pound. I'll leave that joke alone. She tells him it's a very good deal. Cardigan Man moans to Patty about the knife sticking in his back. Miss Patty blows him off. Cardigan Man says this can't be right. Naked Trucker says he has all the proper permits and he followed the rules just like his father taught him. His dad was a cop for twenty years, who got shot in the butt. "Good man. Tips over sometimes when he sits, but good man." The woman we saw in the store earlier tells Naked Trucker that he has beautiful sprouts. "For a beautiful lady," he answers. Cardigan Man says he feels sick.