I Slap Floor

440: I Slap Floor

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Airdate

April 1, 2000

Last Aired

Date Recorded

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Album

34: In Your Wildest Dreams
AIO Encore Collection

Cassette No.

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Theme

Not believing everything you hear

Genre

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Scripture

Proverbs 15:21

Written By

Marshal Younger

Directed By

Phil Lollar

Produced By

Rob Jorgensen
Phil Lollar

Executive Producer

Al Janssen

Post-Production

Rob Jorgensen

Engineer

Rob Jorgensen

Music By

John Campbell

Songs By

Unknown

Inventions Used

Strateflyer

Rating

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I Slap Floor

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Summary

Bernard Walton tells David and Mandy Straussberg what they've missed in the week they were gone.

Plot

Bernard is in Whit's End, when Mandy and David walk in. Bernard asks Mandy and David if they knew about the strange week in Odyssey. They reply no, and Bernard tells them about it. In the story, Richard Maxwell returns to town and gets jobs at various places in town, from the Timothy Center to the Electric Palace. At the same time, people begin acting strangely: Eugene and Connie prepare to get married, Edwin becomes engaged to a now very domestic Margaret Faye, and Harlow Doyle actually solves a case. Bernard got everyone together and they tried to hash out why everyone was acting so strangely. The only connection was revealed to be Richard, who then revealed himself to be Regis Blackgaard, and claimed to have always been Blackgaard. Bernard then told how, satisfied to hide under the disguise of Richard, Regis left the country and the doctors got everyone back to normal. Then Whit walks in, and David and Mandy ask him why they didn't tell them about the week. Whit just smiles and says, "Don't believe everything you hear."

Discussion Questions

1. What was so strange about Whit's behavior? Eugene's? Tom's? Edwin's? Harlow's?
2. Why did Whit tell the kids "Don't believe everything you hear"?
3. Have you figured out what "I Slap Floor" means?

Cast

Characters	Actors
Tom Riley	Walker Edmiston
Sarah Prachett	Scarlett Pomers
Richard Maxwell	Nathan Carlson
Regis Blackgaard	Earl Boen
Mandy Straussberg	Aria Curzon
John Whittaker	Paul Herlinger
Harlow Doyle	Will Ryan
Eugene Meltsner	Will Ryan
Edwin Blackgaard	Earl Boen
David Straussberg	Jeff Ellison
Connie Kendall	Katie Leigh
Bernard Walton	Dave Madden
Bart Rathbone	Walker Edmiston

Notes

Trivia

• I Slap Floor was first broadcast on April 1 and was an elaborate April Fool's joke by Bernard. "I Slap Floor" is an anagram of "April Fools."
• This episode was meant to have Tasha Forbes in it, but the actress wasn't available so they used Richard Maxwell instead.
• If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy reading this article...Novacom Rules the Earth!
• During the scene where Bernard calls everyone to order, a clock in the background strikes 8 times.
• This isn't the only episode with a presumed, romantic relationship between Eugene and Connie. Episodes include, 260: Naturally, I Assumed..., 335: Love is in the Air, Part 1, 336: Love is in the Air, Part 2, and 440: I Slap Floor.

References

• While explaining what inspired him to take up crowd-pleasers over Shakespeare, Edwin Blackgaard describes the famous "chocolate factory" scene from the 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy.
• This episode references other AIO episodes and events:
  • When Connie and Eugene discover their love for one another, they reference events in "A License to Drive" and "Truth, Trivia, and 'Trina."
  • Edwin asks Whit for permission to date Margaret Faye, referencing the event in For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll, Part 1
  • Eugene states that "there is no sense in a long, drawn-out, seemingly never to end engagement" exactly like the one between Katrina and himself.
  • Tom Riley tells Whit that he met an angel named Haggai who convinced him to change his life--a reference to Malachi's Message
  • When Eugene tells Connie the Spanish for "bathroom" is "el baño," it is a reference to The Cross of Cortes, Part 1
  • The mind-altering cologne is a possible reference to the strange perfume Eugene concocts in The Boy Who Cried 'Destructo!'
  • Richard Maxwell turning into Dr. Blackgaard is a reference to Blackgaard's Revenge.
  • Connie references "that time when I was, like, 16," an in-joke about Connie's nearly perpetual status as a teenager.
  • Whit describes a new invention of his that sounds like the Strateflyer from the video series.

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Quotes

Edwin Blackgaard: Would any of you care to join Margaret and I tonight? We're dining on cheeseburgers and then...then we're going to see that new action adventure movie with lots of explosions and automobile chases...hoo hoo! Looks exquisite!

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Harlow Doyle: Great Monroe doctrine of 1823! So that's what killed the dinosaurs!

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Harlow Doyle: And we all know I've never been this lucid and deductive before!
Everyone: That's for sure!

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Connie Kendall: Oh Eugene, your words just slide off your tongue like poetry.
Eugene Meltsner: You mean, mellifluously?
Connie Kendall: I think so.

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John Whittaker: There is nothing wrong with my advice.
Sarah: Mr Whittaker, look! I pierced my own ears, just like you said.
John Whittaker: Oh, very good Sarah! Your parents will be so proud.

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John Whittaker: Oh, yeah? Well, you'll all be sorry next time someone falls off a clock tower.

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Richard Maxwell: What are you accusing me of?
Bernard Walton: I don't know, what are you guilty of?
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