Lazlo showing to Scoutmaster Lumpus that the pizza-french fry technique can facilitate skiing.
Snow Beans is the episode 22a of second season.
Plot
All the Bean Scouts and Squirrel Scouts are going on a ski trip to Mt. Whitehead with Scoutmaster Lumpus, Miss Doe, Ms. Mucus and Slinkman, who's driving the bus. Once they get to Mt. Whitehead, Slinkman informs Scoutmaster Lumpus and Miss Doe that they have to divide the children, and that there are two beginning skiers this year: Lazlo and Scoutmaster Lumpus (Slinkman explains to Lumpus that he's also a beginner due to an accident from the previous year). At first, Lumpus is embarrassed about it, but then decides that he has to do it to impress Jane Doe.
Later, while on the Bunny Slope, Lazlo explains a skiing technique he read in the Bean Scout Handbook: to ski slowly, pretend your skis are a slice of pizza, and to ski faster, pretend that they're two french fries. Lumpus doesn't take the advice, feeling he's already a good skier, but did poorly while Lazlo did well using the pizza-french fry technique. By the afternoon, Lumpus gets excited about riding with Miss Doe, but when Lazlo interrupts him while he's talking to her, he snaps at Lazlo and tells him to ride with a bear. Jane gets angry at Lumpus and refuses to ride with him. Lumpus gets angry at Lazlo, feeling its his fault, but then the chairlift scoops them up, and they later get stuck up on the chairlift.
Three hours later, Miss Doe and Slinkman get worried about Scoutmaster Lumpus and Lazlo, and tells everyone to split up into "very small, leaderless search parties" to go look for them. Naturally, the rest of the campers get lost, but after the chairlift that Lumpus and Lazlo are stuck on breaks and falls to the ground, it slides down the mountain, and they end up (accidentally) rescuing all the other campers too. Jane's relieved that all the children are safe and is impressed that Lumpus rescued them (though she doesn't know it was purely by accident). She asks to sit by him on the bus, and Lumpus says yes but his fingers are welded to the chairlift (he was holding it so tightly), and Jane comes back out and says she's already sitting next to Lazlo. Slinkman decides that for Lazlo's safety to leave Lumpus where he is, which, naturally, angers Lumpus.
Trivia
- First winter episode of the series.
- While Lumpus and Lazlo are stuck in the ski lift, Lumpus attempts to use Lazlo's jacket to signal for help. It is blown away, but later on, Lazlo still has his jacket.
- Credits: Lumpus keeps trying to stand up in his skiis while Lazlo skiis down the slope and up again.
- Goof: In the beginning, the hippo Bean Scout was sitting in the row where the Beans sit. However, when they show the scene of Ms. Doe and Lumpus, he's behind them. Later, they show him back to the original seat he was sitting.
- At the end of the episode after Lazlo, Lumpus, and the rest of the scouts were done riding on the ski lift the dung beetles were sitting next to Lumpus, in the next scene they were gone.
Notes
- This marks the first time Jane Doe scolds at Lumpus
- The place that the Bean Scouts and the Squirrel Scouts went to ski was called Mount Whitehead.
- The episode shows that Lumpus has the fear of heights.
Quotes
- (While looking for Lazlo and Lumpus, Chip and Skip go near a tree)
Chip: Maybe they're behind the tree. (They go around the tree) Skip: Look! Footprints! They must be behind that tree! (They go around the tree again) Chip: Footprints!
- Lazlo (About Ms. Doe): She's spunky.
- Lazlo: Pizza, french fry.
- Lazlo (to Ms. Doe): Hi sweetie