The Great North (TV Series) The Yawn of the Dead Adventure (2021) User Reviews

The Zombie apocalypse comes to the town of lone Moose or does it

[garciayadi · 8/10 · 11 October 2021]

This Zombie themed episode begins with the Tobin family at the breakfast table. The dark days have come...24 hours of constant night...which has the family and everybody else in the Town of Lone Moose on edge

Wolf scares his younger siblings by telling them the legend of "Lumber Zombies" the Lumber company wanted to create a workforce that never slept and could work all day and through experiments created lumber Zombies.

Beef takes his annual "Beef Sleep" similar to the Odin sleep...24 hours of uninterrupted sleep where he goes to his own private Nirvana where he works all day long cutting wood , mending nets and shoveling snow.

Wolf finds his fathers favorite shirt "shrimp pimp" which he won by eating 200 shrimp in a challenge...it takes Wolf all of five seconds to completely destroy the shirt...Wolf is crestfallen but Honeybee has the solution ...enter another shrimp eating contest

At the school, with a mist covering the town...Ham and Judy think they see Zombies ...they go to check on Moon and find him in the library studying ...then the lights go out and everybody gets spooked ...then a garbled intercom message that Ham interprets as a warning about the Zombie apocalypse

The kids are hiding under tables ....but Ham wants to go to his boyfriend Crispin who he meets everyday in the science lab...so a small group which includes all the Tobin kids heads through the darkened school towards the science lab...along the way they see all kinds of creepy things ...including a shambling figure that groans...kids stretched out on tables and covered in sheets ....Ham comes up with a theory that the teachers want to create an army of student zombies so they can teach 24 hours a day

Meanwhile Wolf and Honeybee are going through hell to win those shirts

The kids meet up with Hams boyfriend in the science lab and tell him about the zombie Apocalypse....they all try to calm Moon by singing him his favorite song " Betty David eyes" but he's calmer then them. Moon climbs into the overhead air vents to see exactly what is happening in the outside world

Somebody is now pounding on the door of the science lab trying to get in...with the zombie apocalypse rescuing its culmination...Ham wants to marry Crispin...Judy can do that

The door bursts open ...and it's...Moon and the School principal.

Later in his office everything has a logical answer...the shambling moaning figure was the custodian who has a broken foot and just had dental surgery ...everything has a similar answer

But Judy and Ham are very proud of Moon and how brave he acted ...they think he is now grown up and there is no need to treat him as a child...they no longer have to read bedtime stories to him. Moon is fine with that but asks his siblings to read him a story ...so he can sleep....and the story should have Dinosaurs in it...his siblings are happy to do so .

Wolf puts a shrimp pimp shirt over his sleeping dads body...proud of his accomplishment ...he went through heck but mission accomplished.

It's a hilarious episode that hits all the right notes ...hilarious with a touching ending .

The darkest day of the year is always a scary thing for Alaska.

[adampkalb · 10/10 · 31 October 2021]

I wish I could sleep for 2 nights in a row like Beef. I would feel very re-energized and sleep through all the danger everyone else is facing. Even though I have only known The Great North for 8 months, this is their funniest episode yet. I felt the same way about the Close Enough episode Man Up after I watched it when that show turned 8 months old. It was very funny when Beef Tobin was taking a long rest break from all his usual household chores, and his dreams were heightened versions of those tasks, so he literally did them in his sleep! I was also really invested in Judy and Ham's horror mystery where they were afraid that the school was turning them into lumber zombies. Wolf and Honeybee eating shrimp to win a new shrimp T-shirt for Beef, I found that plot to be the least interesting of this episode. Something I noticed about the early two seasons of The Great North is that, unlike the early two/three seasons of Bob's Burgers and Central Park, stories taking place at the school have to carry too many recurring characters with dialogue in a single episode. I have to keep track of as many kids in The Great North as I have in Craig of the Creek, and The Great North's kids are harder to tell apart because they have less unique outfits and appearances, but they all show some distinct personality traits for the one minute they have on screen. Fortunately, Fox has been kind enough to Bob's Burgers to let it be the 5th animated series they kept on the air for 10+ years, so I believe Duncanville and The Great North have the same potential in character mileage to stay fresh for a whole decade. I am beginning to like The Great North a lot more than Bob's Burgers, but still less than Central Park.