Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood

In the episode, Bart, intoxicated from an all-syrup Squishee, mistakenly joins the Junior Campers, a Boy Scout-style organization.

Homer and Bart join a father-son rafting trip which goes awry when they are stranded at sea with Ned and Rod Flanders.

Bart and Milhouse find $20 that Homer lost and order a Super Squishee made entirely of syrup from Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart.

Bart plans to quit the group as soon as possible; however, he decides to give it a chance after learning that Junior Campers can be excused from pop quizzes to go to their meetings.

Homer continues to make the situation difficult by eating most of the rations of food they have, using their water to wash his socks, throwing Rod's Walkman into the sea when it stops working and accidentally shooting down a rescue plane with a flare gun.

The raft springs a leak after Homer accidentally drops a Swiss army knife he was intending to gift to Bart.

[2] Borgnine apologized because he felt that he was not being able to sing very well, but Nancy Cartwright (Bart), thought his voice "added to the authenticity of his character".

She writes that the film had "changed [her] forever", and that it made her "realize that actors have the power through their work to inspire and enlighten others."

She recalls that when Borgnine arrived for the recording session, she "lost all coolness" and ran up to him and exclaimed "ohmygod, Marty!

"[4] When Bart and Milhouse visit the local video arcade at the beginning of the episode, Martin Prince is seen playing a game based on My Dinner with Andre (1981).

[8] The unseen person or creature that attacks Borgnine at the end of the episode is implied to be Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th film series.

"[10] Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict called the plot of the episode "typically inspired", and gave it a grade of A.

[12] TV DVD Reviews's Kay Daly wrote: "And just when you think the Simpsons' creators have taken parody as far as it can go, they air an episode like this.

[13] Rick Porter of Zap 2 It wrote in that he was not a "fan" of the episode's second half: "Despite the presence of Borgnine, Homer is a little too aggressively stupid for my taste".

Koenigsberger said that "this moment and many others like it reveal a strong sense of self-awareness within the show, an awareness especially characteristic of high modernism.