Rave On Commentary"Rave On"--This is not exactly a direct reference to anything, just something people say. i say that every day A "Council Meeting" is announced on a poster in the background. Illegal rave?! Illegal?! That would mean ecstacy and acid. Of course Mr. Feeny would tear down that sign. In fact, if it were really an illegal rave, he could probably suspend Eric and Eric would have probably gone with underground promotion only. "[Eric] hasn't said a word to me...since fifth grade, actually." Come on, Cory. You know you're exaggerating. We have proof. Near the phone is one of those "Right decisions, right now" posters that would take over John Adams High like termites by the time graduation rolled around. Eric calls Cory short. But he really isn't so short anymore. In fact, he's gaining on Eric. There is another conspicuous poster advertizing the rave, which Mr. Feeny did not tear down. If anyone would let the boys throw a party in his restaraunt, it would be Chubbie. I thought they were really tight with him. I doubt that whoever is watching the restaraunt while he's away would trust two teens to hold a rave there. As we learned in "Career Day," Jedediah's "Unicorn Rainbow Bookstore" obviously went under and he moved on to making and selling guitars. Apparantly, Alan has also moved on--from electric to acoustic. Amy and Alan's anniversary has changed from approximatly January 6th to approximatly November 17. This was obviously done to drive the point home that Cory and Eric have no idea when their parents' anniversary is. The writers have made the audience as confused as the characters. And wasn't their last anniversary their 17th? Though it's only been ten months since their last anniversary, Alan has already learned his lesson about getting more special gifts for his wife on their special day. Morgan still appears in the family portrait, yet she is doing a good job of staying out of the way. No one expects her to remember Alan and Amy's anniversary, nor does Cory invite her to the party. Nice try, Reg. But Cory looks nothing like his parents if you ask me, and Cory knows it, too. Okay, stay with me on this one. If it's 1995 and Alan and Amy have been married for 20 years, then 1974 (the year of the picture) must have been the year before they were married. Reg described this as their "college backpacking trip through Europe." I thought they were, at most, 18 when they eloped. Eric was supposedly born in 1978. They have mentioned that they were not ready to have kids when Eric was born, but it was about three years into their marriage. Also, Amy tricked Alan into keeping his "promise" to someday take her to Europe in "I Am Not A Crook." They'd obviously been to Europe together in college. And, one more thing: Alan has said a few times that he never went to college! Liars, all of them! Interestingly, Eric chose Thursday to throw his rave. Perhaps he thought there was less of a chance of getting caught. Or maybe he didn't want his party to conflict with people's other plans. But it's still odd that he picked a school night. Lo and behold, Chubbie does know about the party. Eric's on his way to "give him the deposit." You've got to tell Mr. Turner to not wear jeans. If the party's at 8pm and it's six hours away, it must be 2 in the afternoon. Then how could Feeny have a full morning of classes before lunch? Lunch should be long over. Reg seems to think it is lunchtime. The mall doesn't seem to be the most logical place for Shawn to hang out. He doesn't have much money and doesn't seem to think that kind of thing is cool. I guess Mr. Feeny doesn't know his students as well as he thinks he does. It would be much easier for the balloon guys to mess up Alan's name if it were spelled "A-l-l-e-n," which is just one letter away from "Ellen." If Mr. Feeny was the one to rip down the other sign, how do the students know he didn't put the "cancelled" sign over the one he clearly was having trouble removing? Eric was so concerned with his parents not finding out about this horribly illegal rave, yet he's bringing them and all of his older reletives right into the midst of the crazy, chaotic, illegal mess. Aunt Liz is the only one to get her hand stamped. Chubbie's supports both the Eagles and the Patriots. "It's too late."--Maybe in Cory and Topanga's eyes, but give just about anyone else in the world two seconds and they could clear out that party. In fact, they might be able to apply for the world record for tamest rave of all time. "Mr. Bull?"--I have no idea what the reference is here. I wouldn't call my brother that. From the back entrance, Chubbie's is supposedly downstairs and there is a room for rent upstairs. It sure doesn't look that way from the normal outside view. That Bicycle poster stays on the Chubbie's wall basically through Chubbies' entire existence. "Remember Uncle Howard...those are his kids!" Uncle Howard is either Alan's brother/ brother-in-law, or uncle. Either way, those guys would be his cousins or nephews. I think he would know whether or not they existed. Frankie's tag says "SECURITY." Yet, he's the one stealing watches. The Antique store in the background is closed. Makes sense. It's a weeknight. "This mallrat sent the band away." Ethan Suplee (Frankie) did play a mallrat in Mallrats. Anyone who's been in touch with pop culture at any time during the past 35 years could tell you that the band that's forming here is the fictional Beatles-style spoof band The Monkees from the popular t.v. show with the same name. "They're playing our song." "How did they know?" "Eric told them."--Alan and Amy must know that Eric had no way of knowing what their wedding song was but that their best man who's playing the guitar would have every way of knowing. Television magic: We hear drums and many background vocal parts, yet only see a bass, guitar, tamborine, and three guys singing. The more rowdy guests don't seem to mind that the "rave" now feels even more like an anniversary party than before The Monkees began playing (if you can believe that). This party has not once looked like a rave, yet everyone is having a great time and Eric still seems to think his schoolmates will like him for this. Amazingly, the band launches right into another song in which everyone knows their parts. They have never rehearsed together, some have never met each other, and there wasn't more than 3 seconds of prep time between songs. The manager who approaches them played the manager for The Partridge Family, another, even more fictional television band. "You guys could be bigger than The Beatles."--NAH! They already did that. Back |