"Parasitic Pal" is a Camp Lazlo episode from season 1. In this episode, Lazlo comes out of Leaky Lake with a sea lamprey attached to his head. Lazlo attempts to have fun with "Lamar" (the sea lamprey) until he sucks away Lazlo's blood.
Plot[]
Lazlo goes swimming in Leaky Lake, and a bloodsucking sea lamprey attaches itself onto Lazlo's head. Unaware of this, Lazlo thinks it is a special day at Camp Kidney because everyone is grossed out. Raj tells Lazlo about the lamprey and Lazlo goes to Nurse Leslie to receive help. Nurse Leslie's charts indicate that the sea lamprey is sucking Lazlo's blood; however Nurse Leslie tells Lazlo he is fine.
After that, Lazlo names it Lamar. At this point, a song named "My Buddy Wuddy" is heard. Lazlo extolls his affection for his new "little buddy" for Buddy Day (a special day at Camp Kidney), by playing games, such as ping-pong. Edward wants Lamar off Lazlo's head, so he tells Chip and Skip to jump out of a bush and pull Lamar off. They pull hard but Lamar remains on his head.
Then, Lamar sucks all the blood from him, causing him to be tired and drowsy. Because of this, Lazlo is forced to throw him back into the water, but he discovers that those are Lamar's babies and that he was a female all along. Lamar's name is changed to Lauren, Clam is seen "feeding" his blood to the baby sea lampreys and everyone else (except the Jelly Beans) ends up in Nurse Leslie's office.
At the end, When Nurse Leslie sees how many patients there are, he turns the lights off and rolls away in his chair.
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) Camp Lazlo music |
Episode[]
• Clouds Are Rolling Away (v2) - Andy Paley [Opening]
‣ Did Anybody Spook 2 - Johnny Hawksworth [Lamprey on Lazlo's head]
• Bingo - Andy Paley [Lazlo taken to the hospital]
‣ Nick & Nora - John Cacavas [Music in the waiting]
‣ Tiroler Jodler 2 - Werner Brueggemann [Lazlo's alarm clock]
• Turkey in the Straw (v2) - Andy Paley [Lamar tickling Lazlo]
◦ My Buddy Wuddy - Martin Olson [Lazlo spends the day with Lamar]
• Oh Boy Link - Andy Paley ["Oh boy! Team Teeter Totter!"]
‣ Romeo and Juliet Overture - Fiachra Trench & Peter Tchaikovosky [Lazlo says he loves Lamar]
‣ Turkey in the Straw - Martyn Laight ["Okay. On three!"]
‣ Banjo Stomp - Larry Hochman [Edward tries to rip Lamar off of Lazlo]
‣ Down in the Valley - Martyn Laight ["Raj, why can't anyone see that Lamar and I belong together?"]
• Charge - Andy Paley ["Attention, campers!"]
• Lazlo Sad Cello - Andy Paley [Lazlo taking Lamar to Leaky Lake]
• Home on the Range - Andy Paley [Lazlo is about to pass out]
‣ My Sweetheart - Javier Fioramonti, Toby Herschmann [Lazlo passing out]
• Old Time Religion - Andy Paley [Lazlo hallucinating]
‣ Square Dance - Martyn Laight, Cary Beare [Lazlo's cart moves]
‣ Banjo Stomp - Larry Hochman [Lazlo rides down the hill]
‣ Nick & Nora - John Cacavas [Plays in waiting room]
‣ Banjo Stomp - Larry Hochman [Lazlo still going]
‣ ? - ? [Drum roll]
‣ Banjo Stomp - Larry Hochman [Lazlo approaches the lake]
‣ Romantic Closing [#28] - Harry Bluestone [Lazlo being dragged away]
‣ Romantic Opening [#26] - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin ["Babies!"]
• Goodnight Ladies (v2) - Andy Paley [The babies now live with Lazlo]
‣ Fashion Fair - John Cacavas [Ending]
End credits scene[]
• Camp Lazlo Opening Theme - Joe Murray, Andy Paley [End credits scene]
Quotes[]
- Lazlo: (after figuring out Lamar's gender) "Lamar wasn't a Lamar, she was a Lauren!"
Trivia[]
General[]
- The song played about Lamar in this episode is written by staff writer Martin Olson. The song's rhythm is close to the song "Knee Deep", except with different lyrics to match Lamar's description.
- The name "Lamar" is a possible reference to Half-Life. In the game, Isaac Kleiner, a scientist, owns a head crab named Lamarr. In the game, head crabs are parasites that attach to people's heads and turn them into zombies.
- In the end credits scene from this episode, the instrumental version of the theme song plays with some notes being left out in the chorus after the second verse.
Goofs[]
- When the leech first attaches itself to Lazlo, it is on the left side of his face. Later on, when Lazlo is on the teeter totter with Raj, it has switched to the right.
- In the Buddy Day Egg Toss event, if you look closely on Ping Pong's neckerchief, instead of the abbreviation of "BS" for Bean Scout, it says "AS".
- When Lazlo crashes through the lunch hall, there are a couple of Squirrel Scouts eating.
- When Lazlo comes out of the Mess Hall on the animal farm, when everybody is running away, Clam looks bigger. Also, on the next scene, when the swim race was about to begin, Clam is one of the contestants.
- When everyone was running out of the mess hall, there were three Freddies (Harold). Also, Edward was running out too, even though he was a contestant.
- When it showed the scene of the swimming race, Harold was a bystander, then he was running with the crowd again.
- After Lazlo falls to the water with Lamar, when he is searching for Lamar, he has no bathing costume. When the lifeguards get him out of the lake, he has his bathing costume back.
Production Notes[]
- Joe Murray said that he intended for "Parasitic Pal" to be "one of the first" episodes broadcast. Cartoon Network believed that Lazlo should be established as a character "without a leech stuck to his head", so the network broadcast "Parasitic Pal" about "4 episodes in".
- This episode alongside with "It's No Picnic" were the first episodes of this series to be produced, despite "Gone Fishin' (Sort of)" and "Beans Are from Mars" being the series premiered.
Transcript[]
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Gallery[]
| Camp Lazlo Episodes |
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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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