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Steve Stevens |
Donna Pescow |
Eileen Stevens |
Nick Spano |
Donnie Stevens |
Shia LaBeouf |
Louis Anthony Stevens |
Christy Carlson Romano |
Renèe 'Ren' Stevens |
Margo Harshman |
Tawny Dean |
Scott Thomas Baker |
Porter Dandridge |
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Greg Siff |
Quincy Dandridge |
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E.J. Callahan |
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It looks like the writer tried to sneak one by in this episode. Steve Stevens identifies the Australian couple as Porter Dandridge and his wife Chippy. In the UK and Australia, "chippy" may be slang for a carpenter, but in the U.S. it's an old slang term for a flirtatious or promiscuous woman, or a prostitute. "Chippy" has no lines on the show.
During the kayak race, Louis can be seen wearing a retainer. He doesn't wear it during the rest of the show, or in any other Even Stevens episode, as far as we know. Shia LaBeouf, the actor who plays Louis, has been seen wearing the retainer in some of the promos he's done on the Disney Channel.
When Louis is saying how he cheated, it shows him in a scuba suit after he drills the holes in Quincy's kayak. Since that was before the race and Quincy was sitting on his kayak at the time, by the start of the race, Quincy's kayak should be full already.
Before the start of the kayak race, you can see that Porter is a little ahead of Steve. Shouldn't they start off even?
This is the first of two episodes to have voice over work (both times by Louis) with the other being 'Ren-Gate' in Season 2.
Just a nitpick: When Steve is at dinner, he is wearing a blue shirt, but later when he is playing pool in the garage, he is wearing a red shirt. It could be a goof, or he could've just changed.
In this episode Donny rips his delt playing tennis. Later, when the Stevens family wins the trophy, Donny is seen carrying Louis on his shoulders.
Ren refers more than once to the "homemade apple pie contest," but the banner at the picnic simply calls it a "pie contest." Some of the other entries shown are obviously different kinds of pies than apple.
After the egg race, a kid throws his egg in the air and it never comes down!
Louis says he drilled holes through Quincy's kayak in order to do that, he'd have to get back in his boat, and when it shows Louis waiting for his dad to finish the race, he's dry. Could he really dry that fast?
The sportscaster is reading football scores for such games as Arizona-Arizona State, Virginia-Virginia Tech, and Indiana-Purdue. These games betewen intrastate rivals would be played late in the college football season in November, while the company picnic in this episode is obviously supposed to be happening in the spring or summer.
Louis identifies his dad's law firm as Deming, Deming, & Deming (and adds "they're not related.") But in the pilot he said his dad worked for Windham, Windham, & Stevens.
Eileen: I was in such a hurry to climb that tree, that I punched a squirrel. I know it's not cheating, but it wasn't very nice.
Donnie: I think I ripped a delt.
Louis: That's pretty rude. I'm eating.
Donnie: In my shoulder, eggboy!
Ren: I used store bought crusts.
Ren: We are going to pulverize them!
Steve Stevens: That's my little angel.
Louis: I'm a Stevens and we have a motto, you know: you dream it, you scheme it, and you cream it.
Tawny: What does that mean?
Louis: I don't know.
This is the first episode written by creator Matt Dearborn.
Chris Berman of ESPN appears as the sportscaster giving the football scores.
Eileen Stevens: Why don't we have 'em over and throw a shrimp on the barbie?
This line was suggested by a series of commercials the actor/comedian Paul Hogan (star of the 'Crocodile' Dundee movies) made for the Australian Tourist Commission in 1985 promoting tourism in that country. In those commercials, he was shown grilling giant shrimp on a barbecue and telling the viewer, "I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for ya." That became a popular catchphrase. The Dandridge family that Eileen is referring to is from Australia.
Tawny: Do you know the story of "The Tell-Tale Heart?
"The Tell-Tale Heart" was written in 1842 by one of Amrica's greatest short-story writers, Edgar Allan Poe. He was also one of the world's greatest writers of tales of mystery and horror. As Tawny explains on the show, the story is about a man who commits a murder, then buries the body beneath his floor, but is found out when he is driven mad by the sound he imagines he hears of the dead man's beating heart. The story is often included in literature textbooks. Click here for the text.
Ren: We're doing a salute to disco. Stayin' afloat! Stayin' afloat!
Ren is talking about doing a syncronized swimming routine to the tune of the Bee Gees' #1 hit "Stayin' Alive." The song was prominently featured in the movie Saturday Night Fever (1978). Both the song and the movie were hugely popular and are totally synonymous with the disco era.
Louis: ...it's the new Jackie Chan film.
Jackie Chan is the top martial arts-film star working. He began his career as a stuntman and eventually began starring in and directing his own films. His style involves furious action and comedy, and he performs his own stunts, often at great risk to himself. Chan's popularity is relatively new in the United States, but for several years now his films have been very successful there.
Louis: ...that's like asking did Shaq have a growth spurt.
Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq) is an NBA basketball star and sometimes actor and rap performer who is 7'1" tall.
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