Feb 19, 2017 12:34
I love Eerie, Indiana. It's one of my favourite TV programmes, and I’m convinced it heavily influenced me and my writing as a child and I’m forever grateful that such an intelligent show was made and that I got to see it when I was a kid. I adored it. I really did. Except...
One of the earliest episodes, ‘The Retainer’, is about this kid who gets one of those massive external retainers (brace) and somehow this allows him to understand what dogs are saying.
No big deal, except it turns out that dogs hate humans and are planning a glorious revolution. At one point Simon is playfully wrestling with a German Shepherd, unaware that the dog wants to eat him. Later the dogs escape the pound and kill and eat the mean dog catcher. And during the climax, they insist that the kid remove his retainer so he can no longer hear them. Scared, he struggles with it as the dogs get more threatening and finally panics and runs for it. The dogs give chase. We never seen him again, but at the end, the German Shepherd brings the retainer back to Marshall. How did those dogs get the retainer that was attached to that boy’s face? Well I know how.
THIS is why I’m not a dog person.
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ep: the retainer