Episode Discussion - "The Little Peas" (11/22/07)

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Originally Posted by koosie

I don't know about 'revisionist' history as the episodes themeslves are a sort of akshantic record of what transpired at Fosters. It's not so much revising history so much as clarifying it as now you know more about what happened than you did previously. You merely assumed without all the full facts that Frankie came up with the idea of using this disaster to beg for money.

It's a revision in that Peas wasn't even thought of by the writers until long after The Big Cheese had aired. By the same argument, we can't ever know if it was really Mac's plan to battle the extremeasaurus way back in the pilot episode; how do we know Peas wasn't there, whispering the plan in his ear? Or perhaps Wilt would never had made that fateful call to Foul Larry without Peas's encouragement. Did we see Peas in House Of Bloo's or Good Wilt Hunting? No. Nor did we see him in The Big Cheese. But apparently just because we didn't see him doesn't mean he wasn't there, right? No, The Little Peas is a revision, a rewrite, as surely as some of the later Star Trek series occasionally rewrote what had been canon in the original classic. But now, having aired, it's canon, and Frankie and her fans are a little poorer for it.