The Great North

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Groundbreaking animated series The Great North set in remote small town Lone Moose, AK is in Series Two on Fox. What there needs to be is an episode about prom, since two of the characters, Ham and Judy (second from top) are at that age, although a similar episode aired last season. A side plot would be Moon (top) having to dissect a frog in class and being able to do so aimlessly since he knows how to clean fish as the family run a fishing boat, and there could be an adult prom for newlyweds and film fanatics Wolf and Honeybee to go to while doting dad Beef chaperones and shows Moon what prom is like several years ahead. Judys boss at work Alyson from the photo studio would take snaps and set up a booth. Ham already found a tuxedo at the charity shop in a recent episode. We would have to see which boy would come up with a prom-posal for Judy.

I couldn't write a script for a radio advert if I tried, and fan fiction doesn't sit well with the solicitors or writers unions. If nothing is planned this year, maybe next year as it takes several months for an idea to go from the drawing board to air. The other animated shows from 20th on Fox or TBS (American Dad! since 2014) have already put prom into the storyline in one way or another except Bobs Burgers as those kids are too young (unless their Tina tries to sneak into a prom, although she got to be a prom queen for a charity limo race), Housebroken is about house pets, while Duncanville also has teenagers that could have prom, even though that only airs in the middle of the year (The Simpsons had a flashback or two and flash-forward in their record-setting long run).

UPDATE (1 May 2023): The Series 3 Finale will have Judy and her friend Kima trying to get dates for the do, so I guess the spirits were telling me all along. The episode is a cliffhanger for Sweeps, and the plot is not one Mary Whitehouse would have liked to put it that way.

UPDATE (6/10/25): The show has been cancelled. The last two other shows were too, but one at least had their prom episode, albeit as a semi-formal. I also had the idea of a Halloween episode or regular episode where Moon and his friends Henry and Russell do cosplay of Charlie Chaplins classic The Kid, where Moon is Jackie Coogan, Russell is the Tramp and Henry the cop, the non-Halloween idea would be for a class assignment where they split into groups and decide on a film, and the Tobins' love of movies leads Moon to old Hollywood, and the kids look to the thrift store, their attics and closets, and theatre loving Drama John for their costumes. The over-60s like Delmer and Dirt seem to be the only ones to get the reference when the other kids look to newer and more timeless media.