Why say anything more? So damn funny I pulled a muscle in my side from LOLing which may be concerning or from a previous injury but I digress...how funny is this show!? Writing is killer.
3 Reviews
FUNNIEST EVER
moronstreet30 March 2022
A heartfelt message about making time for special moments with loved ones - this is as "Goldie" as it gets!
adampkalb8 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I thought the musical premiere of Brace/Off Adventure, the Halloween episode The Yawn of the Dead Adventure, and Say it Again Ham would be The Great North's best Season 2 episodes, and they still are - but this episode (along with its guest star Holland Taylor) is the real breakout star of Season 2, sort of like Liliana Mumy and her character from Higglytown Heroes. I consider this episode a breakout star because Phil Payton did not rank this as one of the 5 best Season 2 episodes for The Great North like he did the other three aforementioned titles, but it had a very good lesson and an end credits song that made me want to rewatch it many times. While Crispin Cienfuegos got promoted at Smoothie Boss and Judy Tobin volunteered at making ceramic stuff, Ham Tobin became good friends with Goldie, an old woman at the Lone Moose retirement home. He was so focused on Goldie, he forgot to call and text Crispin, which was excusable when Ham was driving, but not when Crispin called at a later time when Goldie and Ham were asking other senior citizens to come to their party and Ham was not driving. When Goldie tells Ham about her dead husband Paul, Ham decides to help Goldie honor Paul by throwing Paul the 70th birthday party he never had...on his 80th birthday.
Ham becoming close friends with Goldie throughout the episode was very sweet and wholesome. This is what the Family Guy episode Mom's the Word should have been. Phyllis Diller's death was written into Family Guy by having a funeral for Peter Griffin's mother, Thelma Griffin, and Lauren Bacall played Evelyn, who was a friend of Thelma's. Evelyn and Peter were new friends at first, but then Evelyn kept perving on Peter because he reminded Evelyn of her late husband, Walter, which did not track well for Peter when he just wanted Evelyn to be his new mom. This reminds me to not take for granted the fact that Goldie never thought of Ham as a new Paul just because she may have wanted to dance and party with another guy. Unlike Peter Griffin's mom Thelma, Ham and Judy Tobin's mom Kathleen is not dead in this episode, since she was last mentioned by Wolf to be in Tulsa in the Season 1 finale, so I never thought Ham and Judy Tobin viewed Goldie as a replacement mom the whole time they spent with her at Paul's 70th/80th birthday party. At Judy and Ham's age, Goldie is more like a grandmother who teaches them how to dance and gives good dating advice. Maybe they did view her as a grandmotherly figure, but it was never an important part of the plot for them to bring it up.
While Ham and Judy celebrate Paul's 80th birthday with Goldie, the other Tobins and Honeybee try to tell Kurt to not let Judy make pottery again, but instead he talks them into making pottery like Judy. Goldie successfully gets her 23 fellow seniors to sneak out of the retirement home and party with Ham and Judy in her former home. I really liked Goldie and Ham's duet song about making good moments last, which tied into her message to Ham Tobin at the end. Her husband Paul worked a lot, so she did not get much time with him and then he died two days before his 70th birthday. Ham lets Goldie's story about Paul be a lesson to him and make more time to have special moments with Crispin Cienfuegos. When I get a steady girlfriend, I will let As Goldie as It Gets be a lesson to me and not wait through too much work to get closer to her. If The Great North makes it to 12 seasons like Bob's Burgers, you can bet this will go down in history as one of The Great North's best episodes because of Goldie's lesson to Ham. That and Judy Tobin's 90s rap song in the end credits. I found it kind of funny that the voice actors of Drama John, Bethany, Steven Huang and Mr. Golovkin were only credited for being part of Judy's Slammin' song.
The only secondary characters who talk in the main story of As Goldie as It Gets Adventure before the end credits were Officer Edna and Crispin Cienfuegos. After listening to the Slammin' song for the 87th time, I get the feeling that Drama John, Bethany, Steven Huang and Mr. Golovkin were written into the credits of As Goldie as It Gets Adventure at the last minute because many of The Great North's secondary voice actors who were not in the main storylines wanted to be the tiniest part of As Goldie as It Gets just so they could meet Holland Taylor, since she is older than all of The Great North's primary and secondary actors. The Family Guy episode Mom's the Word aged terribly well because while it wrote Phyllis Diller's death into the series by having Peter Griffin lose his mother and then meet a friend of hers played by Lauren Bacall, an actress of a similar age to Phyllis, it also predicted Lauren Bacall's death 4 months after it aired when Peter hugged Evelyn and broke her back. It was sadly fitting how this was Lauren's final acting credit before she died, and it appears that she died with the last character she ever played. Fortunately, Holland Taylor was still alive the day I wrote this review, in which this episode of The Great North was her final acting credit in 4 months. Hopefully, she will live to take on another new acting credit next year or play Goldie again in a second The Great North episode 3 years from now. Holland Taylor still has 10 more years before she turns 89 like Lauren Bacall, and I am happy that Goldie survived her first episode because Ham did not kill her with a hug. We could learn more about her life with Paul if she has useful stories to tell Wolf, Judy or Moon for how to have better relationships with Honeybee, Gill and Bethany in the same way she taught Ham a lesson for making time to play with Crispin. If there comes a next time for Holland Taylor to voice Goldie, whom I found to very memorable in a good way as a special guest character, I do not want her second or third storyline to be limited to Ham & Judy Tobin again. Even if Holland Taylor's name and voice never appear in The Great North again, I hope she lives to see many more years of this show in her lifetime.
Ham becoming close friends with Goldie throughout the episode was very sweet and wholesome. This is what the Family Guy episode Mom's the Word should have been. Phyllis Diller's death was written into Family Guy by having a funeral for Peter Griffin's mother, Thelma Griffin, and Lauren Bacall played Evelyn, who was a friend of Thelma's. Evelyn and Peter were new friends at first, but then Evelyn kept perving on Peter because he reminded Evelyn of her late husband, Walter, which did not track well for Peter when he just wanted Evelyn to be his new mom. This reminds me to not take for granted the fact that Goldie never thought of Ham as a new Paul just because she may have wanted to dance and party with another guy. Unlike Peter Griffin's mom Thelma, Ham and Judy Tobin's mom Kathleen is not dead in this episode, since she was last mentioned by Wolf to be in Tulsa in the Season 1 finale, so I never thought Ham and Judy Tobin viewed Goldie as a replacement mom the whole time they spent with her at Paul's 70th/80th birthday party. At Judy and Ham's age, Goldie is more like a grandmother who teaches them how to dance and gives good dating advice. Maybe they did view her as a grandmotherly figure, but it was never an important part of the plot for them to bring it up.
While Ham and Judy celebrate Paul's 80th birthday with Goldie, the other Tobins and Honeybee try to tell Kurt to not let Judy make pottery again, but instead he talks them into making pottery like Judy. Goldie successfully gets her 23 fellow seniors to sneak out of the retirement home and party with Ham and Judy in her former home. I really liked Goldie and Ham's duet song about making good moments last, which tied into her message to Ham Tobin at the end. Her husband Paul worked a lot, so she did not get much time with him and then he died two days before his 70th birthday. Ham lets Goldie's story about Paul be a lesson to him and make more time to have special moments with Crispin Cienfuegos. When I get a steady girlfriend, I will let As Goldie as It Gets be a lesson to me and not wait through too much work to get closer to her. If The Great North makes it to 12 seasons like Bob's Burgers, you can bet this will go down in history as one of The Great North's best episodes because of Goldie's lesson to Ham. That and Judy Tobin's 90s rap song in the end credits. I found it kind of funny that the voice actors of Drama John, Bethany, Steven Huang and Mr. Golovkin were only credited for being part of Judy's Slammin' song.
The only secondary characters who talk in the main story of As Goldie as It Gets Adventure before the end credits were Officer Edna and Crispin Cienfuegos. After listening to the Slammin' song for the 87th time, I get the feeling that Drama John, Bethany, Steven Huang and Mr. Golovkin were written into the credits of As Goldie as It Gets Adventure at the last minute because many of The Great North's secondary voice actors who were not in the main storylines wanted to be the tiniest part of As Goldie as It Gets just so they could meet Holland Taylor, since she is older than all of The Great North's primary and secondary actors. The Family Guy episode Mom's the Word aged terribly well because while it wrote Phyllis Diller's death into the series by having Peter Griffin lose his mother and then meet a friend of hers played by Lauren Bacall, an actress of a similar age to Phyllis, it also predicted Lauren Bacall's death 4 months after it aired when Peter hugged Evelyn and broke her back. It was sadly fitting how this was Lauren's final acting credit before she died, and it appears that she died with the last character she ever played. Fortunately, Holland Taylor was still alive the day I wrote this review, in which this episode of The Great North was her final acting credit in 4 months. Hopefully, she will live to take on another new acting credit next year or play Goldie again in a second The Great North episode 3 years from now. Holland Taylor still has 10 more years before she turns 89 like Lauren Bacall, and I am happy that Goldie survived her first episode because Ham did not kill her with a hug. We could learn more about her life with Paul if she has useful stories to tell Wolf, Judy or Moon for how to have better relationships with Honeybee, Gill and Bethany in the same way she taught Ham a lesson for making time to play with Crispin. If there comes a next time for Holland Taylor to voice Goldie, whom I found to very memorable in a good way as a special guest character, I do not want her second or third storyline to be limited to Ham & Judy Tobin again. Even if Holland Taylor's name and voice never appear in The Great North again, I hope she lives to see many more years of this show in her lifetime.
Wait, no no no.
3HK29 March 2022
I thought Ham's phone was broken in the episode Tasteful Noods Adventure. So why is it making another appearance in this episode? What's going on with the inconsistencies? How the hell did the producers of this episode forget that? Smh.
Realistically, I would have expected Ham to have gotten a new phone in this episode, but NO! IT'S THE SAME PHONE FROM THE EPISODE TASTEFUL NOODS ADVENTURE! Same make and model, same IMEI number, same everything. This makes absolutely no sense at all!
Realistically, I would have expected Ham to have gotten a new phone in this episode, but NO! IT'S THE SAME PHONE FROM THE EPISODE TASTEFUL NOODS ADVENTURE! Same make and model, same IMEI number, same everything. This makes absolutely no sense at all!
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