| The Wall | |
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| Season 5, Episode 8 | |
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Quote[]
"It's like Burning Man for right wing rednecks."
Summary[]
Junior and Garcia take a personal day to build a portion of the wall with Mexico.
Cold Open[]
Jumping the Shark for Autism: Third time's the charm! Jim jumps the shark and successfully lands on the other side of the tank, then loses his balance and falls backwards on to it. Once again, he is punctured with glass and coughing up blood.
Plot[]
Dangle announces that there are working cats in the building to deal with the rodent problem.
Jones and Garcia are participating in the "Good Fences Build Good Neighbors" program, an effort to put up 1/8th of a mile of fencing on the border as a symbolic gesture (it is literal fencing but it is not going to stop anybody). Jones asks to be the "voice of smartness" and says it's wrong, as he believes it is racist. Wiegel taunts him by imitating Martin Luther King Jr.
Ranger: A distraught ranger displays his rattlesnake bite on his penis to Jones, Johnson, Wiegel and Kimball. He suddenly says he's much better and runs off. A real ranger appears and says he is the one who call them about a man showing people his wiener.
Garcia's Accuracy: During the shooting festivities in Yuma, Garcia is handed "Condi Rice" (Junior's nickname for a fully automatic weapon he owns) and encouraged to open fire on a gas can sitting on the burned-out wreck of a car. He unleashes hell but never once hits the gas can.
Dangle's bike: Dangle visits a little girl's lemonade stand but can't get her to give him a free lemonade. When he tries to intimidate her, she squirts lemon in his eyes and shoves his bike under a truck while he's crying.
Dangle rides a bus disguised as a construction worker hoping to catch the pervert(s) who has been harassing young women on the bus, but the only bait they have is Trudy pretending to be a ponytailed schoolgirl. After a great deal of ostentatious goofing around by Weigel, a young woman approaches her and, pretty certain that Trudy is a cop, reports that the manspreading Dangle has been displaying his testicles to her the whole time.
Traffic Stop: Johnson chastises a driver for going only three miles an hour. he falls out, unconscious. She puts a traffic cone in front of him and urges him to come back from the light because she needs to give him that ticket to meet her quota.
An amnesiac man covered in blood sits with Jones and Williams, trying to recall what happened. He keeps trying to recover his memories but he first thinks he's Michael Knight from Knight Rider, then he's a member of the A-Team. The he remembers he killed his wife that morning...and runs from the room. He returns a moment later with no memory of it.
A man attempts to jump off a bridge, but Jones successfully handcuffs him to the man (like in Lethal Weapon). When Jones loses his balance, they both fall.
Dangle announces that the new nightsticks have arrived. A very long, sleek metallic item, it is possibly also a taser and it gets very hot. Clemmie enters and asks the others what they're doing with her vibrator.
The Fence: In Yuma, AZ, Junior and Garcia arrive to find eight other men waiting for them. One of them is Gary the Klansman, wearing a white t-shirt and an American Flag safety helmet; Gary annoys the others by being more appreciative of other cultures. The group says the national anthem, shoots up junker cars, and puts in a little bit of fence before calling the work too hard in the heat. A stunning Mexican woman sets up a food cart on the Mexican side of the border, with the smell of the food wafting toward them. As Mexican men approach, they ask her to translate and see whether they'd like to put up fencing. In the end, the Mexicans build the fence, with them on the USA side and the rednecks in Mexico needing to crawl underneath the fence. Gary stays in Mexico with the food truck hottie, which Lyle totally understands. The Border Patrol arrives as the rednecks cross the fence.
Junior reveals that his last name is actually "Junier" (joon-yay) and they were French beaver resellers who came over in the early 1800s.
PSA[]
Washoe County Animal Shelter: Kimball introduces Scooter, who needs a family after his last family died in a fire. She talks to him in baby talk about his old family is burned and dead.
Notes[]
- Ripped from the headlines: For the younger viewers who may not remember this, the private fencing program was a news item at the time. Citizens concerned about border insecurity and the constant flow of ground traffic from Mexico, and their sense of a lack of will from their government representatives in the early 2000s, were putting up fences on private lands as a form of protest and getting attention to the issue (since an incomplete and/or inadequate fence does little to stop traffic). This was around the same era that organizations such as the Minutemen were doing volunteer guard duty to spot coyotes leading groups across the border and alerting the Border Patrol. Naturally, all of this was seen as motivated by racism by many in the media.
- The deleted scenes show more of Gary respectfully talking about other cultures, annoying his more redneck friend Lyle.
- "Lyle, do you wanna eat, or do you wanna be a f***in' jackass?!" was an alternate featured quote.
Cast[]
Blood-covered man: Marc Evan Jackson