Old 29 (Episode)

This page is about the episode. For the titular school bus, see "Old 29 (School Bus)". For the song about the school bus, see "Old 29 (Song)".
"Old 29" is the ninth episode of Season 3 of "Barhambots", and the 29th episode overall. It is also the Halloween special for the show.
== Synopsis ==
An old school bus known as Old 29 haunts the roads of New Kent County.
== Plot ==
Lucy and Luan are preparing for a Halloween party hosted by Faina at her house. As they leave their apartment, they notice Connor Banjoper setting up a surveillance camera on the sidewalk to catch a school bus known as Old 29 on video. Connor Banjoper tells Lucy and Luan the story of Old 29, and even sings a song he wrote about it in 2014. Lucy then recalls a moment earlier in the year where she was driving home from an event when a school bus matching Old 29's description (which was indeed Old 29) sped past her, startling her. Connor Banjoper warns Lucy and Luan to watch out for Old 29 that night, and Lucy and Luan gladly heed it.
That night, after Lucy and Luan finish trick-or-treating throughout Barhamsville, they proceed to make their way to Faina's house for the Halloween party. At the same time, however, Old 29 awakens at the nearest junkyard, and begins its nightly journey throughout New Kent County, running a red light and wrecking an SUV in the process.
At the party, the female Blaze the Cat characters are performing their cover of "I'm In Love With A Monster!" by Fifth Harmony. At the same time, Luan visits with the male Blaze characters, the male Barhambots look at some of Faina's Halloween decorations (real corpses from previously assassinated Steam Community users), and other guests are dancing along to the song. Once the song is finished, the female Blaze characters go backstage, where Lucy and Luan visit them. Luan asks Strawberry the Fox if she (Strawberry) is okay with her (Luan) wearing a costume of her (Strawberry), to which Strawberry assures her that she is okay with it, and mentions that she also happens to be wearing a Luan costume, to which Luan is delighted by.
Meanwhile, Faina is on her couch hanging (and making) out with Davide. Ruby comes in to inform Faina that she is out of ginger ale. Davide offers to get the remaining soda bottles out of Faina's car, and Faina gives him the keys. As Davide walks out to Faina's car, Ruby notices that she and Luna Bamfield (who also notices) are dressed as each other. Davide unlocks Faina's car and grabs the soda bottles to take into the house. He then notices an orange light coming from a distance. He questions what it is as it gets brighter, before seeing the two headlights of Old 29 rapidly approaching him. Davide fails to get out of the road and is struck down by Old 29. As Ruby and Luna compliment each other's costumes, Lunar the Chipmunk alerts Faina that Davide has been run over by Old 29. Greatly horrified, Faina runs outside to check on him.
After Davide is taken to the hospital via an ambulance, Faina is dismayed at the incident because Davide is a member of Faina's favorite species (which Faina is also a member of). Ruby assures Faina that Davide will be alright. Faina then decides to avenge her boyfriend by going after Old 29 and taking it down once and for all. Skinnydog Bamfield calls Connor Banjoper to loan his RV to the gang, and they begin their hunt for Old 29.
As they are searching for Old 29, they come across the SUV that Old 29 wrecked earlier. Moments later, as they continue their search, Old 29 speeds past them, and Ruby accelerates to catch up with it. The chase makes its way on Interstate 64, and the RV has to dodge traffic in order to catch up to Old 29. As soon as the RV catches up with Old 29, Ruby performs a PIT manuever to run Old 29 off the road, knocking it into a tree.
Everyone briefly celebrates what they think to be the defeat of Old 29, but as soon as they prepare to head home, Old 29 drives across the Interstate (causing a 5-car pileup) and rear-ends the RV. The possessor of Old 29, Warren G. Harding's ghost declares that he going to have his revenge on the gang for disrupting his nightly drive and proceeds to pursue them further down the Interstate. The RV then continues down the Interstate until it reaches Exit #227 and gets on Barhamsville Road/Old Stage Road, with Old 29 following close behind. Shortly before the New Kent County/James City County border, there is a grassy field where Ruby turns the RV onto the nearest driveway. Old 29 soon follows suit, but unfortunately pulls out in front of a United States military car, causing the two vehicles to collide, resulting in Old 29 overturning in the field. Having the advantage, Ruby grabs a vacuum cleaner and runs out to Old 29, where she then sucks Warren G. Harding's ghost out of it, thus putting an end to his reign of terror on New Kent County's roads.
An hour later, Connor Banjoper congratulates Faina and Ruby for defeating Old 29 and rewards them with $250,00 each. Connor Banjoper then asks to speak with Faina in private, and Connor Banjoper secretly tells her that she is his favorite Barhambot, much to her delight. He also tells her that Davide is will be okay in 2 weeks, and he then compliments Faina's costume. Enlightened, Faina wishes Connor Banjoper a good night, and vice versa. Connor Banjoper then tells the police department to bring Old 29 to his house, where he will find a good use for it.
The next morning, Faina visits Davide in the hospital and checks on him. The two cheetahs then make out with each other before Faina leaves Davide alone. Davide then says to himself how much he loves Faina.
== Characters ==
=== Main/Major ===
* Lucy the Cat
* Luan the Fox
* Faina the Cheetah
* Ruby the Weasel
* Old 29 {DEBUT}
* Warren Gamaliel Harding's Ghost {DEBUT}
=== Supporting ===
* Connor Banjoper
* Rags the Raccoon
* Frida the Weasel
*Davide the Cheetah
* Gertorn the Grizzly Bear
* Tomas Cuyler
* Samar the Chinchilla
* Blaze The Cat Characters
** Blaze the Cat
** Colette the Mouse
** Lapis the Vulture
** Lunar the Chipmunk
** Gloomy the Cat
** Bronze the Cat
** Orris the Fox
** Rust the Alligator
** Grigio the Lizard
** Calla the Butterfly
** Strawberry the Fox
** Chocolate the Rabbit
* Skinnydog Bamfield
* Luna Bamfield
=== Minor ===
* Vangelis the Numbat
* An unnamed man who got run over by Old 29 - {ONLY APPEARANCE, SONG FOOTAGE ONLY}
* Rye Rye - {DEBUT, VOICE ONLY, FLASHBACK}
* Jeremias Cuyler
* An unnamed SUV driver - {ONLY APPEARENCE}
* Doris the Fox - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Randa the Raccoon - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Ricardo the Rat - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Erin the Mouse - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Jade the Chipmunk - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Evie the Deer - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Serena the Skunk - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Molly the Mongoose - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Haylee the Sheep - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Floris the Pig - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Antony the Giant Panda - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Ginger the Mongoose - {AMONG THE PARTYGOERS}
* Three unnamed Steam users - {CORPSES ONLY}
* Two unnamed paramedics
* Three unnamed New Kent County police officers - {DEBUT}
* Two unnamed United States soldiers - {DEBUT}
* Barhamsville Police Department
** Christopher P. Crame
** Duncan Dounets
** 7 unshown officers
=== Absent, But Mentioned ===
* Catra (She-Ra & The Princesses Of Power)
* Luan Loud
* Miley Cyrus
* Mervin Hence (Indirectly mentioned as "the bus director".)
* Lester Plesko
* Josefina O'Rava
== Trivia ==
* This is the Halloween episode of "Barhambots".
* This is the 29th episode of the show; this was done intentionally to line up with the number of the titular school bus.
* Connor Banjoper originally came up with the concept of a story about Old 29 during the second half of his 7th grade, when he realized the C2 buses were replacing the older buses.
* Randa the Raccoon, Doris the Fox, Ricardo the Rat, Erin the Mouse, Jade the Chipmunk, and Evie the Deer appear in this episode, but they have no lines.
** Ginger the Mongoose is also among the Blaze the Cat characters who attended the party, and she is the only one without any individual lines in this episode.
* The song Connor Banjoper wrote about Old 29 is a parody of the "Penguins Of Madagascar" song "Graveyard 8", which is also about a haunted bus.
** The difference is that Graveyard 8 is a city bus, while Old 29 is a school bus.
* It is revealed that Faina becomes mortified when a member of her (favorite) species is harmed in any way, including fatally, since she shows a vast amount of empathy when Davide is hit by Old 29.
* It is also revealed that Connor Banjoper and Faina share the same two favorite Halloween songs: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Fifth Harmony's "I'm In Love With A Monster!" (in that order).
* Warren G. Harding's ghost was chosen to be the possessor of Old 29 because Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States of America.
* According to Connor Banjoper, the buses that were replaced by the C2 buses were originally sent to Mexico prior to the day Old 29 returned to New Kent County. He found this out one day in August 2018, when Mervin Hence - the director of the transportation at the time - suggested this to him when he visited the bus depot that day.
* In the original script for this episode, Old 29 was shown to reside at Philbates Auto Wrecking Inc, which was a junkyard in New Kent County. Unfortunately, that junkyard unexpectedly closed down in March 2022, forcing Connor Banjoper to have Old 29 reside in (whatever junkyard Philbates sent the scrapped cars to).
* At one point, the male Blaze characters point out the fact that Blaze the Cat hates being shipped with characters who aren't Lester Plesko.
* At another point, Rust reveals that all the Blaze Characters live in Barhamsville, Virginia, United States, but they have to work in Irvine, California, United States because SEGA is still the legal owner of Blaze the Cat.
* When Skinnydog and Luna are dancing to the female Blaze characters' version of "I'm In Love With A Monster!", they say it reminds them about October 2016 AD, which is when that song became popular in Connor Banjoper's life.
** Skinnydog and Luna also mention that 2016 was 14 years prior to the events of this episode, indicating that this episode takes place in 2030.
* The corpses of the Steam Community users that Faina uses as Halloween decorations might be a callback to Episodes #20 & #21 ("One-Eyed Ruby Vs. Buddy Latex" & "War! Good Heavens, Y'all!" respectively), as both of those episodes involve Barhamsville in some conflict with the Steam Community.
* This episode was originally going to have a recreation of "All Hail All Hallow's Eve!" from the episode of "The Amazing World Of Gumball" titled "The Ghoul", but it was later scrapped, most likely to avoid making the episode too long.
* When Ruby runs out to suck Warren G. Harding's ghost into the vacuum cleaner, Luna Bamfield and Lunar the Chipmunk point out the similarity of their first names, prompting the latter to question why Connor Banjoper named her that way.
* Besides Barhamsville, there are several real-world places in New Kent County (or the surrounding area) that are seen and/or mentioned in this episode.
** Providence Forge, VA, United States
** Pocahontas Trail - {In Lucy's flashback}
** New Kent High School - {In Lucy's flashback}
** (The junkyard Old 29 was sent to.)
** (The road the aforementioned junkyard is on.)
** (One of the roads that intersect with the road the aforementioned junkyard is on.)
** Interstate 64
** Exit #227 (The exit that leads to both Barhamsville and Toano.)
** Barhamsville Road (Which is ironically outside of Barhamsville.)
** New Kent Highway/Old Stage Road
** The field near 11153 Old Stage Rd, Toano, Virginia, United States.
== References ==
* All the Barhambots who make appearances in this episode are dressed up as pre-existing characters - real and fictional.
** Lucy = Catra (She-Ra & The Princesses Of Power (Netflix Version))
** Luan = Strawberry the Fox (Blaze the Cat franchise)
** Doris = Princess Daisy (Mario franchise)
** Rags = Jennifer Lawrence
** Randa = Katy Perry
** Faina = Crimson (The Ridonculous Race)
** Ruby = Luna Loud (The Loud House)
** Frida = Captain Marvel (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
** Davide = Amazon delivery guy
** Gertorn = Harold Green (The Red Green Show)
** Samar = Hugh Neutron (Jimmy Neutron)
** Tomas = Seymour Skinner (The Simpsons)
** Ricardo =  Speedy Gonzales (Looney Tunes)
** Erin = Erin Hannon (The Office)
** Jade = Generic witch; no makeup.
** Evie = Generic cowgirl
* The Blaze the Cat characters also have their own costumes.
** Blaze the Cat = Catrine DeMew (Monster High)
** Colette the Mouse = Starfire (Teen Titans Go!)
** Lapis the Vulture = Chris Griffin (Family Guy)
** Lunar the Chipmunk = Zelda (Legend Of Zelda franchise)
** Gloomy the Cat = Edward Cullen (Twilight Saga)
** Bronze the Cat = Michael Jackson
** Orris the Fox = Gwen (Total Drama franchise)
** Rust the Alligator = (TBA)
** Grigio the Lizard = Stephen Hawking
** Calla the Butterfly = (TBA)
** Strawberry the Fox = Luan the Fox
** Chocolate the Rabbit = Hershey's bar
** Ginger the Mongoose = (TBA)
* Skinnydog Bamfield is dressed as Ozzy Osbourne.
* Luna Bamfield is dressed as Ruby the Weasel (which isn't really a reference, considering Ruby's from this show).
* In the beginning, Lucy and Luan compare Blaze the Cat to Miley Cyrus.
* They also mention that Blaze has an album from the "Essentials" series.
* The song "Old 29" is a parody of "Graveyard 8" from the "Penguins Of Madagascar" TV series.
* The song that Lucy is listening to in her flashback about Old 29 is "Hardcore Girls" by Rye Rye.
* While listening to the Blaze girls' cover of "I'm In Love With A Monster!", Skinnydog mentions that 2016 was "the year Luna's family was introduced to the rest of the world". He may be referring to the fact that Luna is heavily based on (and probably is) Luna Loud from "The Loud House", which first aired on May 2, 2016.
* The music that plays at the party between the end of the Blaze girls' cover of "I'm In Love With A Monster!" and the time Lunar the Chipmunk alerts Faina of Davide getting hit by Old 29 is the instrumental track of Mysto and Pizzi's version of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me!".
*Faina says the universe's safest driver is Josefina O'Rava. Josefina O'Rava is one of the titular group of characters of "Mannequinimals", which is another Banjoper-made franchise.
* While she is chasing Old 29, Ruby says "Friends don't let friends become rate-suckers.", referring to the Progressive commercials that depict bad drivers as literal rate suckers.
* Another thing Ruby says is "Road safety laws, prepare to be ignored!", referring to the "Gravity Falls" episode "Boyz Crazy", where Stanley and Dipper Pines rush to Lookout Point to stop Wendy Corduroy from being brainwashed by Robbie Valentino.
* When Old 29 strikes the back of the RV, Blaze can be heard saying "Great balls of fire!", which is likely a reference to the 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis song "Great Balls Of Fire".
* Right before Ruby sucks Warren G. Harding's ghost into the vacuum, she shouts "Suck on this, phantom menace!", which is a reference to "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace".
== Errors ==
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== Gallery ==
(To be added once the episode actually comes out.)
== Transcript ==
Transcript can be viewed here.
Category:Halloween Episodes
Category:Holiday Specials
Category:Season 3 Episodes