Crashbox 34

The 34th episode of the series *Crashbox* which aired on August 28, 1999. It was also the eighth episode of Season 2, and it was removed from syndication by January 2016.

## Games

### Mugshots (Repeat of Crashbox 23)

In this segment, Verity interviews the Four Horsemen Gang, three of whom stole a penguin from the zoo.

1. Dean De Luca: He was in Philadelphia and got to see a replication of Paul Revere's midnight ride. **(Guilty: Revere was in Boston)**
2. Gilbert Sullivan: He was at the zoo, the reptile house teaching otters to swim. **(Guilty: An otter is a mammal)**
3. Louis Clark: He visited all 7 continents and crossed all 5 oceans. **(Not guilty)**
4. Roger Hammerstein: He was at a museum at an exhibit about Thomas Edison, who invented the fax machine. **(Guilty: Edison didn’t invent the fax machine.)**

### Distraction News (Repeat of Crashbox 4)

In this segment, Dora Smarmy talks about dinosaurs.

#### **Questions asked:**

*Dinosaurs existed during what era?*

1. Mettalica
2. **Mesozoic**
3. Mess-Alotta-Diapers

*What does the word "dinosaur" mean?*

1. Terrible gizzard
2. Terrible wizard
3. **Terrible lizard**

*The triceratops was a...*

1. Meat eater
2. Bad dresser
3. **Vegeterian**

*The largest meat animal was...*

1. T-Bone
2. **T-Rex**
3. Carnivore-X

*How small could a dinosaur be as?*

1. Porta potty
2. School bus
3. **Dog**

### Captain Bones (Repeat of Crashbox 23)

If you pick a number from 1-10, multiply it by 2, add to 4, divide it by 2, then subtract the original number, you get 2.

### Dirty Pictures (Repeat of Crashbox 11)

*The clues:*

1. From the land of pyramids
2. Lived on da Nile
3. Egyptian Queen of Hearts
4. Marc Antony's babe
5. Killed by a snake

**The answer is Cleopatra.**

### Game System Overload

When the game systems go out, the flashlight bot plugs in two electrifying wires together to restore the power.

### Sketch Pad (Repeat of Crashbox 7)

A businessman took his son to work, and when they got there, a large fire broke out in the building. As firemen were putting out the fire and evacuating people, the businessman passes out which alarms the son. He ran to the window to cry for help, and one firefighter says "Get that boy, he's my son!"

**The firefighter was his mother.**

### Eddie Bull (Repeat of Crashbox 9)

*Animal clues*

* One of the fattest animals
* They have pads on their knees because they kneel a lot
* Has hair inside ears and long eyelashes to keep out sand
* Can go up to 10 days without water

**The answer is the camel.**

### Lens McCracken (Repeat of Crashbox 23)

This case is called: *The Case of the Missing Dentures Case.*

Pictures:

* **Mushroom**
* **Manhole**
* **Toothbrush**

*In a scandal, a scam artist sets up outside a dentist office when a patient comes walking out and is handed a free mushroom, which is believed to give him good luck. After he eats it, the artist says he gave the guy the one with tooth decay, and then points at a toothbrush on a manhole cover. When the patient bends over, he gets pushed in the open sewer, and his dentures get robbed by other bad robbers.*

### Riddlesnake (Repeat of Crashbox 25)

What loses it's head every morning, but gets it back every night?

**A pillow.**

## Trivia

* The four suspects in Mug Shots all have names based on various famous people:
	+ Dean DeLuca is named after Dean & DeLuca, an upscale grocery store chain.
	+ Gilbert Sullivan is named after Victorian-era playwrights W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.
	+ Louis Clark is clearly named after explorers Merriwether Lewis and William Clark.
	+ Roger Hammerstein is named after the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
* In Distraction News, "Mettalica" is a misspelling of *Metallica*, a rock band.
* Dora Smarmy mentions that she's been scared of dinosaurs ever since she saw *Godzilla.* She is presumably referring to the Godzilla movie that was released a year prior to this episode's airing.