Big Wolf on Campus S02E11 - Blame it on the Haim

Big Wolf on Campus - Blame it on the Haim

Premiered June 10, 2000

Season 2, Episode 11

What is Big Wolf on Campus?

Big Wolf on Campus was a Canadian produced tv series about a high school football star turned werewolf and his outcast best friend and his girlfriend or girl that is friend. It ran from 1999 to 2002 on Fox Family in the United States. 

It was kind of your basic monster of the episode style supernatural series. One week vampires show up, another week Tommy's brother is sucked into a television and in other episodes Tommy is struggling with his werewolfism.

My Impressions

I love this show. I watched every episode. I might have actually seen The Lost Boys because of this show. I had a very long stretch of avoiding scary movies. I didn't know! I didn't know it was so good. I didn't know it wasn't scary. No one told me. Anyway, Big Wolf on Campus is a fun, campy show. 

Quickly

Corey Haim is in Pleasantville to shoot a vampire film.

Way Too Much Detail Recap

Tommy, Lori and Merton are really bored. Merton offers to read them his 200 page script (the rule of thumb is a script is 1 minute per page, that would make this an almost 3 and a half movie). They hear a woman screaming for help. Corey Haim in a costume store Dracula cape is about to bite a woman's neck. Haim yells cut. He's about to get upset until he sees Lori (the adult and the teenager thing would bother me but they were both in their 20s). 

Corey Haim is in town filming Sorority Vampire Beach Party (I don't think the town has a beach). Corey offers Lori a job as his personal assistant. She turns it down but he hires Merton instead. TNT threaten to assault Haim (the man with the spikiest of spiky hair) for not answering their fan mail. He defuses the situation gracefully. Corey casts Lori in the film, Curse of the Vampire Bride (name change). 

Tommy begins wolfing out in jealousy over Lori playing a love interest to Corey. They find a coffin in Corey's trailer while picking up a pot of turkey soup for the soup kitchen. They don't notice a bat hanging on the ceiling. The bat transforms into a very vampiric looking vampire Corey. Of course, Corey's a vampire. It's impossible to not anticipate that. The makeup is pretty well done. The details are a little overly elaborate especially considering other vampires on the show have just had teeth. The ears have tons of ridges. I like the bat nose. It must have been fun.

Tommy grows suspicious of Corey for no good reason. He's just jealous. 

Merton walks in on Corey drinking from a blood bag. He comments on the blood being vintage 1997. Since this aired in 2000 and I don't think the show was dark enough to elude to a three year old being the source of his snack, I think it was that wine vintage joke about blood. Either way, I've never understood it because why would a vampire drink old blood? And I can hear Dr Texas in my head telling me it's just a television show. Corey lies to Merton about the blood being his own. Merton accepts the explanation. Merton is apologizing to Corey for bringing him a garlic pizza when he notices Corey doesn't have a reflection. Why have a mirror then? He could customize the trailer enough to have a coffin. Geez, I need to stop thinking so deeply about this.

Tommy tries to tell Lori about Corey being a vampire but he can't remember the evidence Merton related to him and Lori calls him out for being jealous. Merton gears up to kill Corey. Merton doesn't get far. Corey tells Merton he's going to turn Lori into a vampire. Then buries him alive. That situation escalated quickly.

Merton wrote a multiple page letter to Tommy explaining his life story and telling him he was going to kill Corey. Fortunately Merton has the walkie talkie he's been using to work with Corey. He tells Tommy that Corey buried him alive. Tommy doesn't act with a ton a haste.

Vampire Corey and Werewolf Tommy get into a fist fight. Tommy stakes Corey. Lori and Tommy dig up Merton.