A boy named Paul flees his oppressive private school when he receives a warning that his father is in danger. Paul rescues his father and has a wilderness adventure with his old friend Bigfoot.
The Episode[]
Host Segments[]
Prologue:Gypsy is busy doing repairs, but keeps dropping her tools. Crow attempts to catch a tool with his netting but misses. The Bots are taken off-guard by Jonah being swept up by The Tube soon after.
Segment One: Jonah explains that Kinga's Liquid Television cannot record footage, so he has to keep recreating the show opening or he gets cattle prodded. For the Invention Exchange, Jonah introduces a turkey-based Theremin because of the lack of Thanksgiving-centric music. Kinga and Max introduce the Carvel Cake Clock, which repurposes a dozen Fudgie the Whale ice cream cakes, each altered into a different character or object.
Segment Two: Crow and Tom dress up as raccoons and make a mess throughout the bridge, inspired by the scene in the movie where baby raccoons go on a rampage in a kitchen.
Bumper: "My Creepy Girl" w/ description of the Show Trap
Segment Three: Jonah reveals his dream of going on a spacewalk and his quest to build his own spacesuit. When Crow and Tom start to question how the character-to-animal ratio in the movie has gone off the charts, Jonah uses cutouts to try to figure it all out.
Segment Four: At Moon 13, Kinga and Max try to figure out why Jonah hasn't cracked after two episodes. To their surprise, Pearl Forrester, Professor Bobo and Brain Guy drop in - accidentally, as they had attempted to avoid the Moon. Kinga invites them over to Moon 13, but they refuse. Bobo welcomes Max into the Second-Bananas Club through VR grooming. Instead of genuine familial contact, Pearl encourages Kinga to bond with Synthia, a clone of Pearl.
Segment Five: Crow and Tom attempt to manipulate Max into giving them the keys to Jonah's ship. Kinga catches him before he can do so and he hopes that pushing the button will get him out of trouble.
Liquid Television is a show that ran on MTV during the early 1990s. It primarily consists of animated shorts, but also includes live-action segments.
"Homo erectus galifianakis"
Homo erectus is the Latin term for an extinct species of early human beings, dating from approximately 1.8 million years ago. Zach Galifianakis is a comedian and actor best-known for his distinctive hirsute appearance and his role in the Hangover film franchise.
"Hi Large Marge!"
'Large' Marge is a ghostly truck driver that gives Pee Wee Herman a ride in the film Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
"Maybe that light's coming from the new Kenny Rogers Roasters."
A reference to the Seinfeld episode "The Chicken Roaster", in which a Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurant opens directly across the street from Kramer's apartment, with a large neon sign that fills his apartment with red light that keeps him awake.
"Also, 'cougar' is an ageist concept."
"Cougar" is a slang term for women who pursue younger men.
A recurring gag (said in unison and in a sing-songy voice) from the comedy trio Stella, known for a series of shorts screened at their live performances and released online in the early to mid-2000s, as well as a short-lived Comedy Central series from 2005.
"One of these days, bang! Zoom!"
This is a quote of the empty threat that the character Ralph Kramden would make to his wife on the TV sitcom The Honeymooners (the implication being that he would hit her hard enough to send her to the Moon).
"Did they run all the way to Mayberry?"
Mayberry is a fictitious rural community that was the setting for two popular American television sitcoms, The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. It was the quintessential All-American small town.
"I love to laugh, loud and long and clear."
These are lyrics to the song "I Love to Laugh" from the movie musical Mary Poppins.
"I think this is where all those E.T. games get buried."
This refers to the E.T. video game for the Atari 2600 that was critically-panned. Despite good sales, Atari was left with many unsold copies due to overproduction. In 1983, copies of E.T. and other unsold titles were buried in the desert in New Mexico. The producers of a documentary later unearthed them.
"Dr. Zaius, you're nude!"
Dr. Zaius is a humanoid orangutan that is the main antagonist of the 1968 film Planet of the Apes.
"I wonder if he wakes up, he'll want to kill Superman."
Har Mar Superstar (Bandleader), Tony Bevilacqua, Matthew Compton, Denver Dalley, Jason Fabus, Charlie Erickson, Andris Mattson, Amanda MNDR Warner, Josiah Steinbeck
Executive Producers - Joel Hodgson, Elliott Kalan, Harold Buchholz, Bob Emmer, Garson Foos, Richard Foos, Jonathan Stern, Tom Gates, Dan Lanigan, John T. Lyons, Amelia Kane Shannon, Greg & Meredith Tally, Impact Environmental, Larry Tanz
Co-Executive Producers - David McIntosh, Aaron Meyerson
Associate Producers - Jordan Fields, Lesley Kinzel, Matt McGinnis, Michael Ribas, Ryan Ritchey, Seth Robinson, Paul Sabourin, Aaron Somers & Sharyl Volpe
First Assistant Camera - Francis Capone & Harrison Reynolds
Camera Operators - Francisco Bulgarelli & Steven LT Smith
Second Assistant Cameras - Drew Ganyer & Ryan Grzelak
Miniatures Sequence Team - Ethan Marak, David H. Brooks, Helder K. Sun, Emily Calderone, Leigh Kelly, Savannah Ward, Jon Boal, Ezequiel Casares, Byron Echeverria, Cooper James, Aaron Umetami, Lee Young
Miniatures Model Fabrication Team - Michael Murnane, Huy Vu, Bill Boes, Lenny Criswell, Frank Duran, Chris Hearndon, Brett Horn, Zach Manchester, John Marcu, Shayna Rae, Tara Spadaro
Fabrication and Design Services - Aaron Somers Design Studio Ltd.
Patton Oswalt had previously used Carvel Ice Cream's Fudgie the Whale as the inspiration for an extended chunk of material on his standup album Feelin' Kinda' Patton and other appearances.
In response to this episode, Carvel Ice Cream tweeted a photo of a Money Bag Cake.
Cry Wilderness was the first episode of the revival included in a Turkey Day marathon when it closed out Turkey Day '18.
