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"Beyond a Reasonable Scout" is the first segment of the fifty-ninth episode of Recess.

Synopsis[]

Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

Plot[]

Mikey and Gus are playing on the teeter totter only to find that Mikey is weighing his end down. Mikey offers to get off but Gus fears to be slammed down from three feet into the sand. Fortunately, Phil comes to their rescue by using his Woodchuck Scout training to tie a rope to stabilize their teeter totter. Mikey and Gus are impressed by Phil's tales of adventure with the scouts and decide to go to his house to request to join the Woodchuck Scouts. Phil is surprised by their request and tries making up excuses to discourage them but they notice he's in his pajamas and assume he's having a scout party. Realizing the two weren't going to give up, Phil instructs them to meet him tomorrow behind the playground to put their skills to the test.

Next day at recess, they tell their friends about their upcoming meetup with Phil, though Gretchen finds his behaviour from last night most unkind. T.J. relates that he and Vince once Woodchuck Scouts only to be kicked out for scaring elderly birdwatchers. Nevertheless, their friends support their dreams. Phil then appears to show everyone a proving ground he set up before school. However, while Mikey and Gus are allowed him, he refuses to allow the others to observe, even refusing to be intimidated by Spinelli, saying that if she injures him, he could easily treat himself with first aid. Gus assures their friends they'll be fine as he quote from the Woodchuck handbook from the organization founder Edmond P. Edmonton that a scout is brave and fearless. Phil quickly loses his patience and uses the bush to obscure the others from view.

Phil starts by going on about how tough a scout's life is but since the two boys are still determined, he resorts to putting pails on their heads, spins them around and puts compasses in their hands, telling them to imagine being lost in the forest and to come find him. After bumping into a couple of trees and each other, they end up colliding into Phil. Next, he has them perform a flag raising, which ends with Gus pulling Mikey up to the pole's height by the seat of his pants while he was holding the flag. Phil then shows them a chopping axe but decides to skip it in favour of a hike. He purposely gives them the slip but they catch up to him by taking the canoe across the lake. Frustrated by their persistence, Phil orders Gus to take three steps forward only to suddenly trip him, claiming it was a first aid test much to the boys' shock. When they call him out on his actions, he takes their refusal to act as a means to disqualify them for his troop.

When they return to the others to tell what happened, they are outraged, but Gus reminds that so long as Phil is leader of the local troop, he decides who gets to join. However, Gretchen decides to go over Phil's head and has Galileo send a complaint to the Woodchuck Scouts headquarters in Washington, who telephone an outpost of theirs in the wilderness to drum a message to Edmond P. Edmonton himself, pulling him off his hunt for the Sasquatch.

After a week trekking through the wilderness, a disheveled Edmonton arrives at Third Street, asking the gang where to find Phil. Upon confronting him over why he rejected Mikey and Gus, he claims their character was not up to Woodchuck standards, drawing rebuttals from T.J. and the others. Phil then begins to react nervously, claiming that his troop is full but when Edmonton presses him for how many other scouts were in his troop, he confesses that there are no other scouts. He explains that since he's the only Woodchuck Scout at school, it made him feel special and that to allow other kids to join up would make him another regular kid. Edmonton counsels him with metaphors, comparing him to a redwood and a lone wolf who are never truly alone in the forest. He refers to the gang as a example of how good it is to stick together and encourages him to learn from them and he might make a better scout for it. Phil then assumes that Edmonton was going to kick him out for everything he did. However, Edmonton points out that he managed to uphold the Woodchuck principle of honesty and that he'd be willing to share a bag of trail mix with him any time.

Later that night, around a campfire, Phil and Edmonton oversee Mikey and Gus taking the scout pledge when they hear Mr. Coyote howls in the night. Mikey asks for a translation. Phil starts off by boasting of how more senior he is than them, but, catching Edmonton's stern gaze, humbly explains that Mr. Coyote says, "Congratulations and welcome to the Woodchuck Scouts." The boys then start yelping into the night.

Cast[]

Trivia[]

  • On Disney+, this episode is first next to "The Army Navy Game".
  • The title is a play on the phrase "Beyond a reasonable doubt".

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Recess (Videography) • Recess: School's Out (Soundtrack) • Recess: All Growed DownRecess: Taking the Fifth GradeRecess: Miracle on Third Street"Lax" (Lilo & Stitch: The Series crossover episode)"Codename: Electric Haircut" (Fillmore! crossover episode)
Characters
T.J. DetweilerVince LaSalleAshley SpinelliMikey BlumbergGretchen GrundlerGus GriswaldCaptain BradleyCornchip GirlThe KindergartnersThe DiggersHustler KidErwin LawsonMiss GrotkeMuriel FinsterBecky DetweilerDr. Phillium BenedictMenloBrockPeter PricklyKojakMiss SalamoneButchAshley ArmbrusterAshley BouletAshley QuinlanAshley TomassianFenwickBrandon the SingerGelmanKing BobChuckoJockoRandall WeemsKing Freddie IICheaySpencerThe MegansThe BrittanysThe TylersBob and Flo Spinelli
Episodes
Season One: "The Break In/The New Kid" • "The Experiment/The Great Jungle Gym Standoff" • "Jinxed/Officer Mikey" • "First Name Ashley/To Finster with Love" • "King Gus/Big Brother Chad" • "My Fair Gretchen/Speedy, We Hardly Knew Ye" • "I Will Kick No More Forever/The Kid Came Back" • "The Pest/The Legend of Big Kid" • "The Box/The Trial" • "Teacher's Lounge/Randall's Reform" • "Rainy Days/The Great Can Drive" • "The Voice/Kids in the Mist" • "Parents' Night/Swing on Thru to the Other Side"

Season Two: "The Break-up/The Hypnotist" • "Mama's Girl/Outcast Ashley" • "The Game/The Lost Ball" • "Gus' Last Stand/Operation Field Trip" • "The Challenge/Wild Child" • "The Substitute/Gretchen and the Secret of Yo" • "The Girl Was Trouble/Copycat Kid" • "Operation Stuart/Pharaoh Bob" • "The Story of Whomps/Weekend at Muriel's" • "Economics of Recess/Omega Kids" • "Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave" • "Bad Hair Day/Dance Lessons" • "Principal for a Day/The Beauty Contest"
Season Three: "One Stayed Clean/A Genius Among Us" • "Dodgeball City/A Career to Remember" • "Kindergarten Derby/The Bet" • "Space Cadet/Stand Up Randall" • "The Shiner/Lord of the Nerds" • "That Stinking Feeling/My Funny Valentines" • "The Barnaby Boys/Buried Treasure" • "The Library Kid/The Ratings Game"
Season Four: "The First Picture Show/The Big Prank" • "Hustler's Apprentice/The Spy Who Came in from the Playground" • "Gus' Fortune/Rumor Mill" • "Recess is Cancelled/Tattletale Heart" • "The Madness of King Bob/Call Me Guy" • "Prickly is Leaving/Randall's Friends" • "The Biggest Trouble Ever/The Rules" • "Gus and Misdemeanors/A Science Fair to Remember" • "Mikey's Pants/Here Comes Mr. Perfect" • "Good Luck Charm/Diggers Split Up" • "Schoolworld/Bachelor Gus" • "The Dude/Partners in Crime" • "The Candidates/This Brain for Hire" • "Spinelli's Masterpiece/Nobody Doesn't Like T.J." • "A Great State Fair/The A.V. Kid" • "Yope from Norway/Bonky Fever" • "Don't Ask Me/The Secret Life of Grotke" • "The Fuss Over Finster/Soccer Boy" • "Fort Tender/Germ Warfare" • "More Like Gretchen/Prince Randall" • "Me No Know/Good Ole T.J." • "Chez Vince/Tucked in Mikey" • "Old Folks Home/Some Friend"
Season Five: "The Coolest Heatwave Ever/No Strings Attached" • "Beyond a Reasonable Scout/The C Note" • "The Army Navy Game/Big Ol' Mikey" • "The Principals of Golf/All the Principal's Men" • "Lawson and his Crew"
Season Six: "Terrifying Tales of Recess" • "Kurst the Not So Bad/League of Randalls" • "Mundy, Mundy/Lost Leader"

Locations
Third Street SchoolOld RustyFifth and Sixth Grader ClubAshley's ClubhouseKing's Jungle Gym
Songs
We Shall Not Be MovedBorn to Be WildGreen TambourineDancing in the Street
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