"It's No Picnic" is a Camp Lazlo episode from season 1. In this episode, the Bean scouts want to play the mud puddle, but the Squirrel Scouts managed to reach first causing the two to argue and would eventually settle the dispute with the pinecone contest.
Characters[]
Plot[]
After some rain, the Bean Scouts are about to play in a mud puddle, but the Squirrel Scouts are in it, and they say the puddle is theirs.
Lumpus, who is in love with Ms. Doe, goes across Leaky Lake to Acorn Flats and Ms. Mucus shoots watermelons from the lookout tower at his boat. Lumpus and Slinkman and their boat sinks, and when they arrive Lumpus asks Ms. Doe to a picnic and so she decides to have the Bean and Squirrel Scouts have a picnic together (Lumpus meant just the two of them).
The Bean Scouts have pinecone sittings all the time even with each other Lumpus is annoyed like the Bean Scouts. They are all sitting at a long table Gretchen mentions “I didn’t know we were having melon for dinner” which was a reference that they would be having a pinecone sitting comp and a food fight eventually begins between the Squirrel Scouts and the Bean Scouts.
After the food fight, the pinecone-sitting contest began as a battle to see who gets the mud puddle. During the pinecone sitting competition, Ping-Pong, Dave, Samson, Raj, Gretchen, bottoms hurt so bad it shows their bottoms Raj was in the most pain. However, Lazlo and Patsy Smiles are unaffected and remain completely still. As it comes down to the final two, Lazlo begins to notice he is having hallucinations (because Patsy is using her love for Lazlo to her advantage), thus making him lose. After the match, Patsy checks on Lazlo before taking off for the mud puddle. The episode concludes with the mud puddle completely dried up and the scouts arguing for a tree that eventually falls on Lumpus.
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) Camp Lazlo music |
• Clouds Are Rolling Away (v1) - Andy Paley [Opening]
‣ Miss McCloud's Reel - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin ["Mud puddles!"]
‣ The Petulant Penguin - Dennis Farnon ["What are you doing here?"]
‣ Timpani - Glissandos (A) - Gary Kettel [Lazlo points to another mud puddle]
‣ Kitsano [#13] - Arthur Titcomb [Patsy in the shadows]
‣ Mud Bathing - Otto Sieben and John Charles [Patsy comes out]
‣ Dance of the Hours - Amilcare Ponchielli ["Oh good, Slinkman. It's not raining!"]
‣ Bugle Fanfare 1 - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin [Miss Mucus looking at Lumpus through binoculars]
‣ Colonial March - Larry Hochman [The Squirrel Scouts shoot a watermelon at Lumpus]
• Steel Licks 2 - Andy Paley [The boat sinks]
‣ Sweet and Lovely - Alan Braden [Lumpus talks to Miss Doe]
• The Worms Crawl In (v3) - Andy Paley ["Uh... the picnic, Sir."]
• Banjo Link 1 - Andy Paley [Everyone laughs]
‣ Tread Carefully - Keith Papworth [Lumpus is hit with another watermelon]
‣ Bounty Hunter - Larry Hochman [Note from Squirrel Scouts]
‣ Synchrostings - Part 11 - Trevor Duncan [Everybody is scared]
‣ Heroes Return - Larry Hochman [Lazlo’s speech]
‣ Glory Road - Sam Fonteyn ["Fire!"]
• Banjo Bit - Andy Paley [Everybody sinks]
• Turkey in the Straw (v2) - Andy Paley [Miss Doe mentions Lumpus]
‣ Railroad Hoe Down - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin [The Scouts have a food fight]
‣ Spaghetti Cowboy - Jakko Jakszyk [The pine cone sitting competition is about to begin]
‣ Buffalo Girls - Robert White [The Squirrel Scouts win]
‣ Tomorrow [#38] - Martyn Laight ["You okay, Lazlo?"]
‣ The Petulant Penguin - Dennis Farnon [The mud puddle is dried up]
‣ Dance of the Hours - Amilcare Ponchielli [Ending]
Trivia[]
- This was the first appearance of the Squirrel Scouts, Jane Doe and Miss Mucus (in production order).
- This episode aired on "Cartoon Network On-Demand" through Comcast on July 15, 2005.
- Honey was seen throughout the entire episode, yet she skipped the pinecone sitting even though she was at the long table and seen after the contest.
- When the Bean Scouts read the note from the Squirrel Scouts about the pinecone sitting, Ping Pong falls to the ground, Dave mentions “It’s hind side suicide” Samson shouts in fear “Not the pinecone sitting!” then Raj rubs his bottom and says “My rumpus hasn’t been recovered since the last one we had” if you notice this is also the same characters that have their bottoms shown while sitting on the big piles of pinecones.
- When the shot of the close-up of Chip and Skip you can see Almondine between two other Squirrel Scouts and she has her arms out but bends over a bit and pushes herself more into the pinecones.
- All the Bean Scouts weren’t wearing pants during the pinecone sitting except Lazlo, Raj and Clam were wearing black tights, you can see this as they are standing in front of the pinecones and when they one by one push down on them.
- Amber covers her bottom most of the time during the pinecone sitting, she puts her hands underneath her skirt.
- The Pinecone Sitting Contest was an idea that the Squirrel Scouts thought of because the mountainous of pinecones at Acorn Flats, which is where the picnic was and seen in the online Flash game “Squirreled Away” on the Cartoon Network website.
- After winning the pinecone sitting the scouts will receive a “Pinecone Sitting Badge” contestants, so it is most likely that the scouts frequently have these contests.
- Close-ups of the buttocks of Amber, Almondine and Nina were originally going to be shown on-screen, but the idea was scrapped.
- The only scouts who have ever won this contest was Patsy in the series and Lazlo in the video games, Samson and Edward have always failed.
- Another show that has used "It's No Picnic" for an episode title was Phineas and Ferb.
- The Squirrel Scouts do not have a camp nurse or medical attention, so it is unlikely that they received it after the contest.
- According to Raj's reply about his bottom not recovering from the last time, the Bean Scouts and the Squirrel Scouts have had multiple pinecones sitting contests.
- This is the list of scouts that have been eliminated in the following order. Also, note some scouts' elimination had never been shown.
- This episode appears on the Cartoon Network Summer 2005 DVD, along with Seeing Red from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Koi Fish from Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, and It's Your Party and I'll Whine If I Want To from The Life and Times of Juniper Lee.
Goof[]
Quotes[]
- Patsy: Did you do something to your hair, Lazlo?
- Lumpus: Ooooh,that is a tender area.
- Raj: Look! Lazlo's still sitting on the pinecone!
- Dave: Just like Napoleon!
- Lumpus: (holding flowers) Yoo-hoo! Miss Doe! Is that you? (Tree is about to break) Uh oh. (Cuts to black screen, episode ends.)
Transcript[]
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Gallery
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| Episode 1 Gone Fishin' (Sort of) |
Episode 2 Beans Are from Mars |
Episode 3 Snake Eyes |
Episode 4 Racing Slicks |
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| Episode 5 Lights Out |
Episode 6 Swimming Buddy |
Episode 7 Parasitic Pal |
Episode 8 It's No Picnic |
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| Episode 9 The Weakest Link |
Episode 10 Lumpy Treasure |
Episode 11 Tree Hugger |
Episode 12 Marshmallow Jones |
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| Episode 13 Dosey Doe |
Episode 14 Prodigious Clamus |
Episode 15 The Nothing Club |
Episode 16 Loogie Llama |
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| Episode 17 Float Trippers |
Episode 18 The Wig of Why |
Episode 19 Prickly Pining Dining |
Episode 20 Camp Kidney Stinks |
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| Episode 21 Slugfest |
Episode 22 Beans and Weenies |
Episode 23 Beans and Pranks |
Episode 24 Movie Night |
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| Episode 25 The Big Cheese |
Episode 26 Campers All Pull Pants |
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| Episode 1 Hallobeanies |
Episode 2 Meatman |
Episode 3 No Beads, No Business |
Episode 4 Miss Fru Fru |
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| Episode 5 Parent's Day |
Episode 6 Club Kidney-Ki |
Episode 7 Handy Helper |
Episode 8 Love Sick |
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| Episode 9 Hello Dolly |
Episode 10 Over Cooked Beans |
Episode 11 The Battle of Pimpleback Mountain |
Episode 12 Dead Bean Drop |
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| Episode 13 I've Never Bean in a Sub |
Episode 14 The Great Snipe Hunt |
Episode 15 Burpless Bean |
Episode 16 Slap Happy |
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| Episode 17 Snow Beans |
Episode 18 Irreconcilable Dungferences |
Episode 19 Mascot Madness |
Episode 20 Tomato Paste |
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| Episode 21 Camp Samson |
Episode 22 Beany Weenies |
Episode 23 There's No Place Like Gnome |
Episode 24 Hot Spring Fever |
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| Episode 1 7 Deadly Sandwiches |
Episode 2 The Big Weigh In |
Episode 3 Hard Days Samson |
Episode 4 Waiting for Edward |
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| Episode 5 Beans in Toyland |
Episode 6 Where's Clam |
Episode 7 Bowling for Dinosaurs |
Episode 8 Squirrel Seats |
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| Episode 9 Creepy Crawly Campy |
Episode 10 Sweet Dream Baby |
Episode 11 Dirt Nappers |
Episode 12 Spacemates |
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| Episode 13 Temper Tee Pee |
Episode 14 Lazlo Loves a Parade |
Episode 15 Are You There S.M.I.T.S? It's Me Samson |
Episode 16 Tusk Wizard |
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| Episode 17 Squirrel Scout Slinkman |
Episode 18 Bear-l-y a Vacation |
Episode 19 Radio Free Edward |
Episode 20 Valentine's Day |
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| Episode 21 A Job Well Dung |
Episode 22 The Bean Tree |
Episode 23 Taking Care of Gretchen |
Episode 24 Scoop of the Century |
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| Episode 25 Boxing Edward | |||
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| Episode 1 Strange Trout from Outer Space |
Episode 2 Cheese Orbs |
Episode 3 Hold It Lazlo |
Episode 4 Being Edward |
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| Episode 5 Award to the Wise |
Episode 6 Cave Chatter |
Episode 7 Ed's Benedict |
Episode 8 The Book of Slinkman |
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| Episode 9 Never Bean on the Map |
Episode 10 Harold and Raj |
Episode 11 Lumpus vs. the Volcano |
Episode 12 Nursemaster |
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| Episode 13 Dungs in Candyland |
Episode 14 Tour Wars |
Episode 15 Lazlo's First Crush |
Episode 16 Livin' La Vida Lumpus |
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| Episode 17 Samson's Mail Fraud |
Episode 18 The Haunted Coffee Table |
Episode 19 Friendward |
Episode 20 Camp Dinkey |
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| Episode 21 Doting Doe-Eyed Deerest |
Episode 22 Clown Camp |
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| Episode 1 Edward's Big Bag |
Episode 2 The List |
Episode 3 Camp Complain |
Episode 4 The Engagement |
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| Episode 5 Call Me Almondine |
Episode 6 Clam the Outlaw |
Episode 7 Penny for Your Dung |
Episode 8 Baby Bean |
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| Episode 9 Bad Luck Be a Camper Tonight |
Episode 10 Step Clam |
Episode 11 S Is for Crazy |
Episode 12 Samson Needs a Hug |
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| Episode 13 Wedding Bell Blues |
Episode 14 O Brother, Who Art Thou |
Episode 15 Peace Frog |
Episode 16 Lumpus' Last Stand |
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| Episode 1 Empty Nest |
Episode 2 The Eternal Flame |
Episode 3 Nudist Camp |
Episode 4 Hiccups |
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| Episode 5 Survival of the Lamest |
Episode 6 Marooned Maroons |
Episode 7 Tales from the Campfire |
Episode 8 Mail Dominance |
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| Episode 9 Outhouse on Haunted Hill |
Episode 10 Laid Off Lumpus |
Episode 11 My Brother's Eater |
Episode 12 Hair And Gone |
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| Episode 13 Mi Casa, Eew Casa |
Episode 14 The Amazing Race |
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