Pilot Episode
| # | Title | Original airdate | Prod. Code |
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| 1 | "Bring Me the Head of Boba Fett" | March 3, 2002 | 34-6201 |
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The pilot introduces the four members of the Eltingville Club: Bill Dickey, Josh Levy, Pete DiNunzio and Jerry Stokes. The episode begins with the Eltingville Club playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons, where they are introduced as losers even in their own fantasy world. They argue with Jerry over who gets resurrected, wake up Bill's mom and Bill and Josh get into a fight after blaming each other. Afterward the members go through their business: Jerry has collected 300 letters of support to get a Captain Sulu show, Pete built a Thing with Two Heads model, and Bill failed to contact Gene Roddenberry from the beyond the grave. All of their accounts are put to shame by Josh's build up of his Sexy Sirens video tape until they actually view the tape; it turns out to be a video of The Hair Bear Bunch. Josh is made fun of by the others making him angry and causing him to choke Pete and Jerry. They all get into a fight, wake up Bill's mom (again) and Bill kicks Josh out of the club. The next day, Bill awakes from a nightmare which he called a "freaky premonition," and decides to let Josh back into the club. The club reconvenes at the movie theater, where they plan on hopping movies, After two hours they were discovered and tossed out. After that, they go to a toy store, play video games, and steal a kid's toy at a fast food restaurant. They end their day at a comic book shop. Inside the store, Josh and Bill discover a mint condition Kenner 12-inch Boba Fett from the 1980s, Wookiee scalps and all. They both jump to buy it from Joe, who sees the opportunity to take advantage of them and charges them $300 for the toy. Since the two cannot settle their differences, Josh challenges Bill to a trivia-off, with Fett as the prize. The contest rages on with questions until Bill defeats Josh by asking "Who says 'bidi bidi bidi'?" Josh accidentally answers Jerry (who commonly repeats the phrase) although he knowingly meant Twiki from Buck Rogers. Josh declares that he's going home to get the money for the toy before Bill can. The two race back to their homes, causing many incidents on the way. Bill finds his mother's checkbook and Josh takes his mother's purse. When they get back to the store they learn Joe won't take checks nor credit cards, and the two get into a fight over Fett. They accidentally snap off his head resulting in the both of them having to combine their funds to purchase the expensive, now worthless toy. All four are then kicked out of the store. Bill angrily walks away with Fett's head and leaves Josh with the body. While Josh weeps on the ground, Willoughby breaks the fourth wall to ask if this is the "end of the Eltingville Club?!", which, ironically enough, seeing as this was the only episode, it was. |
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