So the gang goes on a camping trip to Yosemite. Somehow Jim and Cindy have no problem with 8 teenagers going camping, unsupervised, to Yosemite, which is super far away from LA but I digress.
Anyway the kids get caught in a rainstorm and have to stay the night at a shady camping place that only has one cabin left, one cabin with not nearly enough beds for 8 kids, no hot water, and nothing to eat but cheese puffs. Somehow they meet the honeymooners from a neighboring cabin and get way involved in their personal life. Turns out the woman is pregnant and hasn't told her new husband yet, and when he brings up how he's so glad they are not going to have kids she loses her shit and turns to the gang for comfort. She comes over, in her nightgown, and is like "do you guys have room for one more?" NO! But of course they take her in and she tells them all about her dilemma. Then the guy comes over, who has no idea what the wife is upset about, and the gang gets them back together by getting them to, um, have a conversation with each other? These grown people couldn't have figured that out for themselves?
Dylan is wounded because him mom let him down, I think she was supposed to visit him that weekend and didn't show or something? Anyway he is acting like a little bitch because he is out of sorts. He storms out more times than we could count, slamming a seemingly endless amount of doors, doors which couldn't possible exist in real life because they are staying in a one room cabin. Hilarious.
So after his final storm off Dylan goes out and gets "wasted" off of two nips he pinched of the troubled honeymooners. TWO NIPS people. Like literally four ounces of liquor. Brandon finds him in the morning passed out on a tree stump. He is so hungover. See pictures. It's fucking hilarious.
So of course Brandon's remedy for this is for them to go hiking, even though we have heard him bitch and moan the whole episode about how Brenda forgot to pack his hiking boots for him and he is going to have to go hiking in his slippery wet sneakers. We see him take a few tumbles (dammit Brenda!) and we wonder what this could possibly all be leading to. Well turns out despite the slippery shoes he and Dylan decide to climb a super tall sketchy rock. They get to the top and are enjoying a bromance moment until Brandon slips OFF THE EDGE! Darn those shoes! and Dylan has to save his life and pull him up. An amazing scene which goes on for too long, and includes some prop master off camera throwing rocks at Brandon's face the whole time. In the end Dylan saves his life and those dudes are closer than ever. They finally get back to the gang, who have been worried about them all day. They are both bruised and dirty. hone asked what happened, Brandon replies..."Oh, we were just hanging out" which seems a satisfactory explanation to everyone. Ok great let's get going!
Mark here... Laurel did a great job of summing up the episode...TERRIBLE yet AMAZING! You never see Jim or Cindy, perhaps because no parents would ever allow their teenagers to drive off to Yosemite for a weekend! The show makes it seem like Yosemite is just around the corner from Beverly Hills...its at least 5 hours away!
Anyway, at first it seems like we're in for a perpetually "Wacky" episode with the rain and the honeymooners next door...who by the way can't seem to get enough of the teenagers next door. I mean what honeymooner doesn't want advice from some 16 year olds? Also, we get a little moralizing as Steve hopelessly tries to buy booze unsuccessfully ( a 6 pack...for 8 of them...) But things get fun when Dylan goes on his 2 nip bender, followed by the life and death hike. If only Brenda had packed those hiking boots!
In any case, Brandon shows up scarred and gashed, but it's no big deal, the gang just wants breakfast...
The style award goes to David Silver's american spirit ensemble...
The cocktail moment is clearly when Dylan falls of the wagon with his 2 nips!
And the quote has to be Dylan after his all night bender..."I got mine though...puked my guts out"....AFTER 2 NIPS!!!
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