"It's No Picnic" is a Camp Lazlo episode from season 1. In this episode, the Bean scouts want to play the mud puddle, but the Squirrel Scouts managed to reach first causing the two to argue and would eventually settle the dispute with the pinecone contest.
Plot[]
After some rain, the Bean Scouts are about to play in a mud puddle, but the Squirrel Scouts are in it, and they say the puddle is theirs.
Lumpus, who is in love with Ms. Doe, goes across Leaky Lake to Acorn Flats and Ms. Mucus shoots watermelons from the lookout tower at his boat. Lumpus and Slinkman and their boat sinks, and when they arrive Lumpus asks Ms. Doe to a picnic and so she decides to have the Bean and Squirrel Scouts have a picnic together (Lumpus meant just the two of them).
The Bean Scouts have pinecone sittings all the time even with each other Lumpus is annoyed like the Bean Scouts. They are all sitting at a long table Gretchen mentions “I didn’t know we were having melon for dinner” which was a reference that they would be having a pinecone sitting comp and a food fight eventually begins between the Squirrel Scouts and the Bean Scouts.
After the food fight, the pinecone-sitting contest began as a battle to see who gets the mud puddle. During the pinecone sitting competition, Ping-Pong, Dave, Samson, Raj, Gretchen, bottoms hurt so bad it shows their bottoms Raj was in the most pain. However, Lazlo and Patsy Smiles are unaffected and remain completely still. As it comes down to the final two, Lazlo begins to notice he is having hallucinations (because Patsy is using her love for Lazlo to her advantage), thus making him lose. After the match, Patsy checks on Lazlo before taking off for the mud puddle. The episode concludes with the mud puddle completely dried up and the scouts arguing for a tree that eventually falls on Lumpus.
Music[]
• Clouds Are Rolling Away (v1) - Andy Paley [Opening]
‣ Miss McCloud's Reel - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin ["Mud puddles!"]
‣ The Petulant Penguin - Dennis Farnon ["What are you doing here?"]
‣ Timpani - Glissandos (A) - Gary Kettel [Lazlo points to another mud puddle]
‣ Kitsano [#13] - Arthur Titcomb [Patsy in the shadows]
‣ Mud Bathing - Otto Sieben and John Charles [Patsy comes out]
‣ Dance of the Hours - Amilcare Ponchielli ["Oh good, Slinkman. It's not raining!"]
‣ Bugle Fanfare 1 - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin [Miss Mucus looking at Lumpus through binoculars]
‣ Colonial March - Larry Hochman [The Squirrel Scouts shoot a watermelon at Lumpus]
• Steel Licks 2 - Andy Paley [The boat sinks]
‣ Sweet And Lovely - Alan Braden [Lumpus talks to Miss Doe]
• The Worms Crawl In (v3) - Andy Paley ["Uh... the picnic, Sir."]
• Banjo Link 1 - Andy Paley [Everyone laughs]
‣ Tread Carefully - Keith Papworth [Lumpus is hit with another watermelon]
‣ Bounty Hunter - Larry Hochman [Note from Squirrel Scouts]
‣ Synchrostings - Part 11 - Trevor Duncan [Everybody is scared]
‣ Heroes Return - Larry Hochman [Lazlo’s speech]
‣ Glory Road - Sam Fonteyn ["Fire!"]
• Banjo Bit - Andy Paley [Everybody sinks]
• Turkey in the Straw (v2) - Andy Paley [Miss Doe mentions Lumpus]
‣ Railroad Hoe Down - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin [The Scouts have a food fight]
‣ Spaghetti Cowboy - Jakko Jakszyk [The pine cone sitting competition is about to begin]
‣ Buffalo Girls - Robert White [The Squirrel Scouts win]
‣ Tomorrow [#38] - Martyn Laight ["You okay, Lazlo?"]
‣ The Petulant Penguin - Dennis Farnon [The mud puddle is dried up]
‣ Dance of the Hours - Amilcare Ponchielli [Ending]
Trivia[]
- This was the first appearance of the Squirrel Scouts, Jane Doe and Miss Mucus.
- This episode aired on "Cartoon Network On-Demand" through Comcast on July 15, 2005.
- Honey was seen throughout the entire episode, yet she skipped the pinecone sitting but she was at the long table and seen after the contest.
- When the Bean Scouts read the note from the Squirrel Scouts about the pinecone sitting, Ping Pong falls to the ground, Dave mentions “It’s hind side suicide” Samson shouts in fear “Not the pinecone Sitting” then Raj rubs his bottom and says “My Rumpus hasn’t recovered since the last one we had” if you notice this is also the same characters that have their bottoms shown while sitting on the big piles of pinecones.
- When it shows Chip and Skip close up you can see Almondine between two other Squirrel Scouts and she has her arms out but bends over a bit and pushes herself more into the pinecones.
- All the Bean Scouts weren’t wearing pants during the pinecone sitting except Lazlo, Raj and Clam were wearing black tights, you can see this as they are standing in front of the pinecones and when they one by one push down on them.
- Amber Covers her bottom must of the time during the pinecone sitting, she puts her hands underneath her skirt.
- The Pinecone Sitting Contest was an idea that the Squirrel Scouts thought of because the mountainous of pinecones at acorn flats, which is where the picnic was and seen in the Cartoon Network game “Squirreled Away”
- After winning the pinecone sitting the scouts will receive a “Pinecone Sitting Badge” contestants, so it is most likely that the scouts frequently have these contests.
- Originally producers were going to also show Amber, Almondine and Nina's bottoms but this idea was scrapped.
- The only scouts who have ever won this contest was Patsy in the series and Lazlo in the video games, Samson and Edward have always failed.
- The Squirrel Scouts do not have a camp nurse or medical attention, so it is unlikely that they received it after the contest.
- According to Raj's reply about his bottom not recovering from the last time, The Bean Scouts and The Squirrel Scouts have had multiple pinecones sitting contests.
- This is the list of scouts that have been eliminated in the following order. Also, note some scouts' elimination had never been show.
Goof[]
Quotes[]
- Patsy: Did you do something to your hair, Lazlo?
- Lumpus: Ooooh,that is a tender area.
- Raj: Look! Lazlo's still sitting on the pinecone!
- Dave: Just like Napoleon!
- Lumpus: (holding flowers) Yoo-Hoo! Miss Doe, Is that you? (Tree is about to break) Uh-Oh! (Cuts to black screen, episode ends.)
Transcript[]
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