Episode Discussion: The Buck Swaps Here (05/18/2007)

[pitbulllady]

Those Cobra/Mongoose taxidermy things used to be EVERYWHERE; you could buy 'em at places like Pier One Imports at any mall. Every bar had to have one. Fortunately, they seemed to have fallen out of vogue. They were bad examples of taxidermy, they were tacky, and a horrible waste of a perfectly good reptile and mammal that would have both been better off devouring rats in their native land.

pitbulllady

[koosie]

You know I forget Benny Hill had been massive overseas. The french are supposed to be crazy for him too. Everybody watched it when I was a kid but there was only 2 other channels at that point. How strange to see it in Fosters used to good effect.

I bet Wilt going all floppy wasn't too popular. Hehe. Can't believe he had to apologise with everybody else. I felt sorry for Mac again because I had all that stuff when I was a kid too - lots of little dolls really though I certainly never kept them in their box. Never could stand kids who did that but they all had the last laugh when ebay was invented.

Nice to see Americans having what we call flea markets or car boot sales. I sometimes sell plants at these things and its true you don't see the human at its most noble. In fact you get a sense of we're all human-rats scurrying amongst our own rubbish but it's all fun nonetheless.

Can't believe how much money Eduardo has...

[Chaos Wielder]

Originally Posted by koosie

Can't believe how much money Eduardo has...

Yeah, he should be a banker!

Well, like I said earlier, I also felt sorry for Wilt in this episode....especially when he was all shrivelled up toward the end of it. It made me feel so awful for him that I just wanted to run to a lemonade stand and get him something to drink! At least he was ok at the end of it, though.

I recently watched this episode again on TV and almost forgot about the Mario Bros. reference. That was great!

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by koosie

You know I forget Benny Hill had been massive overseas. The french are supposed to be crazy for him too. Everybody watched it when I was a kid but there was only 2 other channels at that point. How strange to see it in Fosters used to good effect.

I bet Wilt going all floppy wasn't too popular. Hehe. Can't believe he had to apologise with everybody else. I felt sorry for Mac again because I had all that stuff when I was a kid too - lots of little dolls really though I certainly never kept them in their box. Never could stand kids who did that but they all had the last laugh when ebay was invented.

Nice to see Americans having what we call flea markets or car boot sales. I sometimes sell plants at these things and its true you don't see the human at its most noble. In fact you get a sense of we're all human-rats scurrying amongst our own rubbish but it's all fun nonetheless.

Can't believe how much money Eduardo has...

Actually, here in the Southeastern US, we call 'em "flea markets", too, and some are very popular and have gotten really large over the years. To me, a "swap meet" is a get-together where people who share like interests in a particular thing meet up to swap stuff, like when us Studebaker enthusiasts gather to swap and sell car parts and/or actual vehicles or like when us arachnophiles get together to swap and sell spiders and scorpions. I guess different parts of the country have different names for what I've always called a flea market, though.

pitbulllady

[Sparky]

Us California rednecks call 'em flea markets too, lol.

[Ub3rD4n]

See, I thought that "flea market" was a wholly American term. You don't often hear it down here.

[KazooBloo]

It felt weird to see all of the main characters get greedy over someone else's fortune. Though Wilt and Frankie deserved it the most. Lemonade would have only been like $1 probably. Poor Wilt was parched.