Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Big Wolf on Campus S03E19 What's the Story, Morning Corey

The Lost Boys: What's the Story, Morning Corey

Season 3, Episode 19

Premiered March 24, 2002

Quickly

Feldman arrives in Pleasantville to avenge Haim.

About the Show

Big Wolf on Campus was a supernatural comedy that ran from 1999 to 2002. After Tommy Dawkins, the captain of the football team, gets bit by a werewolf, he turns to Merton Dingle, the president of gothic fantasy guild, for help.

Way Too Much Detail Recap

Tommy, Merton and Lori are preparing for graduation. They're all looking forward to college. Merton is really looking forward to college. He's also resentful of Tommy's continuing popularity. Unbeknownst to them, a mysterious figure is plotting against them. This is not resolved in this episode.

Corey Feldman is in Pleasantville looking for Tommy and Merton from his limousine. He meets up with Merton and tells him he's in town to produce the script Merton sent him. This pays off the end of the Haim episode which showed Merton emailing Feldman about the script.

Feldman helps Merton charm the object of his and Tommy's affection. He tells them he's interested in looking for Haim. This is completely reasonable because his old friend is missing and was last seen in Pleasantville. They try to deny knowing him but Merton was credited on the film Haim was making.

They try to get answers out of Feldman by...playing Truth or Dare (hard sigh). Feldman admits he knew Haim was a vampire and he tells them he's in town to potentially stake him because he think Haim gave into the bloodlust. They all instantly admit to the events of the previous episode.

Feldman tells them he's going to throw a party. It's unsurprising when this turns out to be a trap. They realize all of the guests are vampires. They flee the party to Merton's basement. 

Feldman calls and reveals he's abducted their romantic interest of the episode, Sloan. They go to save Sloan. They stake a bunch of vampires. There's a funny stunt double gag. Feldman explains how Haim was his friend. Corey Haim has passed since this episode first aired and that gives the moment an unintentional somber note. Feldman says, he's going to avenge him by killing one of them. Merton volunteers and he stakes Feldman.

The ending was kind of weird after that. A big part of the show is Tommy struggling to hide his identity. He doesn't even try to hide from Sloan. He apologizes that she had to see him wolfed out. It's a moment senioritis in the penultimate episode of the show (there's a clip show after it but it's not a real episode). It's kind of lazy to drop his secret identity for no reason.

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