A Very Special 9/11 Episode

**A Very Special 9/11 Episode** is the fifth episode of the fourth season of Big Mouth. It is the thirty-sixth episode overall.

## Synopsis

On a trip to the 9/11 museum, Nick and Andrew sneak off to meet Jessi, Devon teaches Missy about code-switching, and Coach Steve gets a rude surprise.

## Plot

The episode begins with the whole class on a Bus heading to the World Trade Center as a field trip. Coach Steve is one of the supervisors of the trip who, despite having been alive on September 11, 2001, didn't know what it was about. Steve believes the trip is to celebrate his birthday and to take advantage of this, Matthew decides to convince Steve that the whole group is going to celebrate his birthday. Meanwhile, Nick and Andrew are looking at Jessi's instagram to find out about her boyfriend, Michelangelo. They both decided to ditch the field trip by sneaking out (despite Coach Steve did a very terrible job keeping track of the class, most students appeared to have successfully sneaked out of museum).

Nick and Andrew meet up with Jessi who introduces them to Michelangelo. Nick becomes jealous when Jessi and Michelangelo begin making out, wishing that he were Jessi's girlfriend instead of him. Connie finds herself in a conflict of interest. While she likes Michelangelo, she understands Nick still loves Jessi and wants to be her boyfriend. Nick attempts to pressure Connie into telling Jessi to go out with Nick but she refuses. As a result, Nick insults her hair in which Connie pukes as a response to sadness.

## Characters

### Major Roles

* Nick Birch
* Jessi Glaser
* Michaelangelo
* Connie
* Missy Foreman-Greenwald
* DeVon
* Lena Foreman
* Coach Steve
* Matthew MacDell

### Minor Roles

* Andrew Glouberman
* Maury
* Mona
* Miss Benitez
* Lump Humpman
* Jay Bilzerian
* Lola Skumpy
* Devin
* Caleb
* Mila Jansen
* Lotte Jansen
* Tito
* Depression Kitty
* Pretzels
* Nadia
* Izzy (Pictured)
* Misha (Pictured)
* Mrs. Skumpy (Mentioned)
* Monica Foreman-Greenwald (Mentioned)
* Cyrus Foreman-Greenwald (Mentioned)

## Trivia

* This episode is a 9/11 holiday special.
* This is the final episode written by Jak Knight.
* "Gummy Arms" are a new trend, where students put their arms inside of their sleeves and stick gummy worms out to make it look like they have gummy arms.
* It's revealed that Lola's mom dated one of the 9/11 suicide bombers.
* Jessi vapes for the first time in this episode.
* Michaelangelo is a street artist, who spray paints weird satirical paintings on the streets.
* Connie mentions a hormone monster called "The Self-Harm Walrus". He is not seen, but Connie warns Jessi that she's in bad shape if she sees him.
* Lena Foreman and her friends are all in New York, within walking distance of the 9/11 memorial museum, despite it previously being established that they live in Atlanta, Georgia.
* Missy breaks the fourth wall saying that she's voiced by a 37-year-old white woman.
	+ Ironically, her voice actress Jenny Slate stepped down from voicing her later this season and was replaced by black woman, Ayo Edebiri.
* DeVon having old man issues is brought up again, when he admits to being "old as hell", suggesting that he's not even a teenager.
* DeVon has a "code switch" dial on his arm, which he uses to change his manner of speech around people of different races.
	+ The settings on his dial are: "Black", "White", "Liberal White", "Pretzels", "SUPA DUPA BLACK", and "Devin".
* Coach Steve learns what 9/11 is for the first time.
* Maury did a student film, while he was in Columbia.
* Missy utters the word "pussy" for the first and second time in this episode.
* Connie resigns as Nick's hormone monstress.
* Mona reveals she lost her virginity to Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin fame.

### Continuity

* Coach Steve celebrates his birthday in this episode. It was previously established that he was born on September 11th in "The Pornscape".
* Jessi's relationship with Michaelangelo is continued in this episode.
* Nick tells Michaelangelo of that time he made out with Jessi in "Ejaculation".
* An advertisement for Izzy and Misha's "Cafeteria Girls" from "Cafeteria Girls" is shown in the subway.

### Cultural References

* This episode is all about the *September 11th, Terrorist Attacks*.
* The students of Bridgeton Middle School go on a field trip to the *9/11 Memorial Museum*.
* Michaelangelo asks Jessi, "How know how to vape, don't you? You just put your lips together and suck." is a take on the quote "You know how to whistle, don't you?" You just put your lips together and blow." from the movie, "*To Have and Have Not*".
* Matthew doesn't care about such national tragedies as 2005's *Hurricane Katrina* and *The Columbine Shooting* of 1999.
* Devin wants to look like *Melania Trump*.
* *Jay-Z's* album "*The Blueprint*", which was coincidentally released on 9/11 happily celebrates its anniversary.
	+ DeVon later mentions being in a *Jay-Z* music video.
* The song, Code-Switching includes mentions of such blacks as *Will Smith*, *Diddy*, *Kenan Thompson*, and *Sammy Davis* as well as the record label, *Motown*.
* Coach Steve is a disappointed to hear that *Ace Ventura* isn't funny.
* Lena tells DeVon that he sounds like *Nick Cannon*.
* Lena says that black people are expected to know about *The Beatles* but white people aren't expected to know about *Jodeci* and *Bill Biv DeVoe*.
* Missy envisions being in *Wakanda* from *Black Panther*.
* Missy says that *Eeyore* from *Winnie the Pooh* doesn't ever code switch.
* Lena goes to *Pinkberry* with Nadia.
* Caleb got *Rock Candy* at the 9/11 Museum.
* Michelangelo erroneously refers to *Michelangelo* as the painter of the *Mona Lisa* and Jessi corrects sim, saying it was *Leonardo Da Vinci*.