A Finger in Time

**A Finger in Time** is the tenth episode of Season 7 of *Big Mouth*. It is the 71st episode, overall.

## Synopsis

It's finally the first day of high school, the day of reckoning for Andrew, who plans on sticking his finger in Pumbaa's asshole to avoid getting beaten up.

## Plot

It's the first day of high school for all the kids and they all have their various emotions on it. Jessi, Jay, and Andrew all start on their journey into Bridgeton High School. Andrew still plans on sticking his finger up Pumbaa's asshole, which Jessi fears is a recipe for disaster. Jessi tells Andrew that a better idea would be to apologize to Timon but Jay argues that apologizing is for sucks and socialists, as stated by Guy Bilzerian in one of his law commercials.

Missy is still overwhelmed by her Dread Blob about going to school, so she fakes sick to get out of it. Monica believes her but Cyrus sees right through the charade. Cyrus fears that this whole lying to get out of school thing is the beginning of the end but he plays along with it to see how long she can keep up the jig. Missy doubles down and goes along with it too.

Nick starts his first day at Cobblestones Academy, where he tries to talk to Danni. However, he kind of embarrasses himself in front of Danni and her friends, by acting loud and silly in front of her, the same way he used to with his old friends. Danni tells Nick that they shouldn't hang out anymore, leaving Nick all alone at his new school.

As soon as Andrew goes into his new school, he gets abandoned by Jessi, who goes to hang out with Leah and her friends, only for her friends to make fun of her for her outfit. However, when Lulu comes in, she proves to be much nicer to Jessi. Just then, Andrew gets pinned against the locker by Pumbaa but before anything can happen, a teacher comes in and demands to put a stop to it. The teacher tells them that there's no fighting allowed in school and that they should reschedule their little fight for after school hours, when all the teachers have cleared the parking lot.

Cyrus and Monica take Missy to Dr. Wendy Ingle, who diagnoses her with cancer and plans to run a bunch of tests on her. Missy goes through with all the tests so that she can keep lying to Cyrus. She then commits a huge sin by lying during a sacred pinky swear with Cyrus.

Jessi ditches Leah's friend group, after seeing just how basic they all are to go hang out with Lulu and her friends instead. Jessi goes to the bleachers outback, where she smokes and vapes with the other cool kids. She also meets a boy there, who is cultured, as he reads the works of *Albert Camus*, who she starts to have a thing for, probably thanks to the sexual encouragement of Connie. Lulu initiates her into the club, by giving her the military jacket of some random dead soldier for her to wear.

Andrew hides in the bathroom and contemplates with Maury about what to do. He ends up barfing in the toilet and out comes his future self. Future Andrew shows Andrew that he has a missing finger from the incident, where he tried fingering Pumbaa's anus. He proves to Andrew that he's his future self by showing his unmistakable planters wart that looks just like a young *Tom Colicchio*. Future Andrew details that after sticking his finger in Pumbaa's butthole, Pumbaa breaks it off of him with the flex of his sphincter. Andrew asks why Future Andrew didn't just go back in time to before he grabbed Timon's boobs, making him realize how much of an idiot he's been.

Nick sits alone at lunch and is greeted by the school librarian, Miss Cornhill, who takes him to the library, which turns out to be a "Sad Boys Club", where Miss Cornhill creepishly grooms a bunch of sad children to cater to her every need, doing weird shit like feeding her pistachios, brushing her hair, and massaging her bare feet. One of these sad boys turns out to be named "Andrew", who's in The Sad Boys Club after splitting up with his best friend, Edgar Ramos at his old school. It doesn't take long for him and Nick to hit it off.

Future Andrew uses his time machine to take Andrew back to the titty-grabbing event and pushes Andrew out of the way, eventually leading to Lump getting pushed into Timon's tits so that he can get his ass kicked instead. However, Future Andrew is still missing his finger, proving that this doesn't solve their problems, so they go back a little further to Lewis Glouberman's funeral to stop Andrew from jerking off there. This doesn't work either, so they go back to the Valentine's Day party, to stop Andrew from yanking Lars out of his wheelchair. Once again, nothing happens.

Dr. Ingle determines that Missy is unfortunately in perfectly good health. Tired of playing the game, Cyrus tells Missy that she lied to get out of going to school. Missy admits that she lied but confesses that it's because she's scared of going to high school and growing up. This makes Cyrus break down and cry, admtting that he's scared of losing his little girl. They both admit that they haven't been honest and try to make things right. This nice little moment causes the dread blob to die down and disappear.

The time-travelling Andrews finally go back to when Andrew first learned to masturbate and stop him from jerking off but still, nothing happens. Maury deduces that Andrew can't change the past and the best way out of this situation is to apologize to Timon in the present. Andrew time travels back to the present, while the rest of the time-travelling Andrews all get into a 7-way circle jerk.

Jessi walks down the hallway, high as fuck with her new friends. Leah sees her and judges her for hanging out with these people, begging her to come back to her and her friends but Jessi chooses to go with Lulu and the potheads.

At exactly 3:05 PM, Caleb announces that the public beatdown is about to begin and the entire school gathers around to watch. Jessi, still flying like a kite, worries that watching Andrew getting beaten might harsh her buzz and Jay agrees that he's probably gunna laugh too hard at Andrew's downfall and hurt himself. Matthew gives Andrew a final warning to run like hell but Andrew ignores him. When Pumbaa steps up to the fight, he gets one last tongue-kiss from Timon for good luck. Andrew walks up and makes a sincere apology to Timon, saying that although his fondling of her tits was an accident, he understands that it still made her feel uncomfortable. Timon feels so much better now and Andrew is praised by his friends for becoming a better person. However, still still doesn't stop Pumbaa from punching the shit out of him.

Back at the Sad Boys club, Nick and New Andrew laugh about how weird Mrs. Cornhill's feet are and she scolds them for enjoying themselves. Nick and Andrew decide they're above this club and they walk out on her. Mrs. Cornhill freaks out and floats in the air in the middle of a tornado of terror. She foretells that Nick and Andrew will be back in the Sad Boys club eventually. Nick and Andrew completely ignore her and leave the room, giggling.

Andrew regains consciousness and his friends help him up and tell him about all the hilariously embarrassing things that happened to him, while he was blacked out. Lola tells Andrew that she shat his pants, Jay mentions that his fecal matter was so "everywhere" that the janitor had to hose him down, but Jessi looked on the bright side and said that Timon forgave him. Matthew also says that everybody in the school hates him slightly less. Andrew is delighted to see Future Andrew with his finger back, proving that he finally did the right thing. Andrew learns from this event, that he needs to live in the present and be accountable for his actions. Maury also tells Andrew that the circle-jerk of time travelling Andrews turned him into his own grandpa.

Back at home, Monica and Cyrus realize that high school is gunna be too much of a challenge for Missy and they all decide that homeschooling would be a better alternative for her. Mona returns as Missy hormone monster and assures her that homeschooling isn't gunna be what she thinks it is.

Nick goes home with New Andrew but things get really awkward, when Old Andrew walks in to tell him about his first day at school. Andrew and Andrew get into a cowboy-style standoff. Old Andrew tells New Andrew that he'll never replace him but is shot down a peg when New Andrew responds that he's so close with Nick, that he's already clogged his toilet. Old Andrew is very worried now, almost 100% certain that he's gunna steal Nick away from him as his best friend. Maury tells him that this is certainly a possibility in the next season. Andrew is appalled to hear that this is where Season 7 is ending, demanding closure immediately. However, the credits start rolling and a very pissed-off Andrew rants through the entire thing.

## Characters

### Major Roles

* Nick Birch
* Andrew Glouberman
* Jessi Glaser
* Danni
* Travis
* Lulu Barfightkowitz
* Pumbaa
* Timon
* Maury Beverly
* Connie LaCienega
* Rick
* Dread Blob
* Cyrus Foreman-Greenwald
* Future Andrew
* Miss Cornhill
* Andrew

### Minor Roles

* Jay Bilzerian
* Matthew MacDell
* Lola Skumpy
* Caleb Linden
* Diane Birch
* Leah Birch
* Mona
* Monica Foreman-Greenwald
* Quee-Choi
* Jourdan
* Gabrielle
* Maya
* Dr. Wendy Ingle
* Camus Boy
* Myron
* Detective Florez (Cameo)
* Lump Humpman (Cameo)
* Ocean (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Detective Dumont (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Lars (Non-Speaking Cameo)
* Lewis Glouberman (Non-Speaking Cameo; Corpse)
* Duke Ellington (Pictured)
* Guy Bilzerian (Mentioned)
* Jenna Bilzerian (Mentioned)
* Barbara Glouberman (Mentioned)
* Missy's Overalls (Mentioned)

## Songs

* Big Mouth's Going to High School (But Not For Nine More Episodes)

## Trivia

* As of this episode, the cast of *Big Mouth* are officially high schoolers.
* It's explained that Andrew's last name "Glouberman" means "Booger Man" in Yiddish.
* Missy cried as a kid, when she first learned what summer vacation was.
* Jessi refuses to buy fast fashion because of child labor and climate change.
* Lulu doesn't shave her bush.
* Dr. Ingle bought an inflatable hot tub that he's trying to pay off.
* In The Foreman-Greenwald House, pinky swears are religiously sacred.
* Detective Florez hasn't had sex with his wife since Easter.
* New Andrew has a tree nut allergy.
* Lulu drives a Mazda.
* Andrew shows up at the end of the episode's ending credits to say "Fuck all of you."

### Continuity

* This episode reprises the eponymoys song from "Big Mouth's Going to High School (But Not For Nine More Episodes)".
	+ Just as foretold in the aforementioned song and episode, the kids are all going to high school, since this is, in fact, exactly nine episodes later.
* Missy is still dealing with the Dread Blob that she got in "Panic! at the Mall".
* Danni has reservations about hooking up with Nick for a myriad of reasons, one of which is their iconic bad hookup from "The Bad Hookup".
* Future Andrew time travels back to Andrew's various embarrassing moments in previous episodes, including;
	+ Getting knocked into Timon's boobs from "Big Mouth's Going to High School (But Not For Nine More Episodes)".
	+ Masturbating in front of his grandfather's corpse in "The Funeral".
	+ Yanking Lars out of his wheelchair in "My Furry Valentine".
	+ Jerking off in the movie theater during *Trolls World Tour*, which isn't from any specific episode.
	+ Sniffing Leah's swimsuit in "The Shame Wizard".
	+ Andrew's first time masturbating, which takes place before the series even began.
* Fourth time Jessi gets high after "Drug Buddies", "A Very Special 9/11 Episode", and "Panic! at the Mall".

### Cultural References

* Lola eats *Pop Tarts*.
* Nick jokes that Danni fills her pool with *Sprite*.
* Leah's friends wonders if Jessi bought her clothes from *Zara*.
* Cyrus mentions *Fred Fintstone* and *Wilma Flintstone* from the TV show, *The Flintstones* and *Sonny Bono* and Cher Sharkeesian *from the pop duo,* Sonny & Cher*.*
* Gabrielle would never date a guy with a *Samsung Galaxy*, wanting to avoid green texts.
* Lola sits at the *21 Jump Street* table.
* Andrew has a wart on his foot that looks like a young *Tom Colicchio*.
* A kid reads *The Stranger* by *Albert Camus*.
* Andrew jerks off to the 2020 movie, *Trolls: World Tour* in the movie theater.
* Jessi sings "*Smoke Weed Everyday*" by *Snoop Dogg*.
* New Andrew uses the term "Proud Boys" to describe himself and Nick. Nick warns him to be careful with this term, since "*Proud Boys*" is also the name of a neo-nazi organization.
* Andrew becomes his own grandpa, which is a reference to the 1947 *Lonzo and Oscar* song, "*I'm My Own Grandpa*".
* Andrew predicts that the show that plays after *Big Mouth* is gonna be *Ozark*.
* The title of the episode is a reference to the classic novel *A Ripple in Time*