Blackwatch Plaid

Season 2, Episode 1, Aired

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When Harvey's boss Phil Ken Sebben believes his office has been burgled, he installs a series of oppressive security measures at the firm. The e-mail monitoring, cavity searches, color-coded crime alert system and security cameras aren't making the office any more safe, but Phil seems to enjoy them. Meanwhile, Harvey is under pressure to bring in a new client. He ends up representing Secret Squirrel, who is on trial for publicly displaying the equipment he keeps underneath his trench coat.moreless
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  • My favorite episode, a great satire of the 'government terror scare' after 9/11. Plus plenty of Colbert/Bear and ha|HA. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

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    By montiff, Jun 28, 2007
    My favorite episode, a great satire of the 'government terror scare' after 9/11. Plus plenty of Colbert/Bear and ha|HA.






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  • Phil spies on his employees after being burgled. Harvey represents Secret Squirrel in an indecent exposure case.

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    By slcornelll, Nov 16, 2005
    This episode just did not make me laugh. Basically, the show is mocking the U.S. government\'s color coded threat level system. The best part is when Phil is watching his employees on the hidden video cameras and the animation is replaced by actors in costume. Also, I did like the twist at the end which revealed Secret Squirrel's true nature.
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    • During the episode, Phil (although not realizing it) fingers the Bear as the one stealing his belongings. On his show The Colbert Report, a running joke has Colbert blaming bears for just about everything wrong in America, including stealing.

    • In all of the group shots in Phil's office, you can see the back of The Bear's head, and the back of some sort of skull-in-a-jar person standing to The Bear's right. But after one of these shots, it shows The Bear from the front, and a man with black hair is standing to The Bear's right (which would be left, to the viewer).

    • At the end of the episode, Harvey is trying to think of a plan to keep Phil from monitoring him; a discussion which would be held behind his back. Yet you can clearly see that he is in the room with the group of people coming up with the plan.

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    • Phil: I'm gonna raise the warning system from "Blackwatch Plaid" to the cover of Rush's seminal album "Moving Pictures."

    • Phil: Now get out of here! I have to go back to reading everyone's emails... over the P.A. system. [announces] TO: Falcón, Blue! FROM: Potamus, Peter! SUBJECT: That thing I sent you! BODY: You get that thing I sent you?

    • Phil: Also, I've noticed a couple of you have slipped back into being able to concentrate on your work and somehow managed to control your bowels, which means I have no choice but to terrify you by ratcheting up the alert level a couple of notches to... Blackwatch Plaid! Oh and I'm gonna have to take some more drastic security measures, like uh...I don't know, installing a camera in the ladies room. Peanut: Ooh, me likey the oppressive totalitarianism.

    • Reducto: Every conversation is scanned for key words. Here, give me your phone, I'll show you. Harvey: Umm... Reducto: [speaks into the phone] Hello. Mail bomb. Harvey: Uh, heh... um... Reducto: Assassination. Harvey: Hey, can I have that back? I just remembered... Reducto: Fertilizer. Harvey: ...I'm almost out of minutes. Reducto: Same-sex marriages. Patagonia. Nader for President. Harvey: See, nothing happened. Nobody's monitoring these things! Phil: [watching them on the security camera] Huh, I always took Reducto for a libertarian.

    • Reducto: Don't you know? Every cellular phone, no matter how small. No matter how perfectly tiny and minature. Every month a new one, smaller and smaller but somehow more powerful, crammed with more amazingly clever but needless features that... I'm sorry, I believe I got off the point.

    • Phil: So, while I consider myself to be a benevolent...ish dictator, I have no choice but to introduce a battery of oppressive security measures. Frisking! Cavity searches! This easy-to-understand color-coded crime alert system! And for everyone's safety and security, and to preserve our way of life, I'm taking a drastic step and putting up a security camera. Just one... for safety, security, and omniscient, unblinking information gathering of everyone's activities.

    • Secret Squirrel: Never fear, madame, Secret Squirrel has just what you need right here! [woman screams] Wait! I didn't even pull it out yet.

    • Phil: (Gasp) My office! Burgled. Plundered. Purloined. Ha, ha, ha... Loins.

    • Phil: I leave last night, with everything right where it's suppose to be. Then I come in this morning, and everything's missing. The baby grand piano that was right there... Gone!!! Harvey: (thinking) There was never a piano there. Phil: Yes there was, Birdman. You can still see the dimples in the carpet where it stood. Next to the 14-foot high golden Buddha. Harvey: (thinking) There was never a 14-foot high golden Bud-- Phil: Keep your thoughts to yourself, Birdman!

    • Phil: (Dressed in a girlie sheep herders outfit) I've been a ba-a-ad Bo Peep. I've lost my sheep.

    • Phil: Now who can tell me what's different about my office? Peanut: You've hid the interns?

    • Phil: (Watching the camera in the ladies room) Any minute now, good things come to those who (the door opens) Here we go. (Gloop walks in) Wait. I didn't know that guy was a girl, or that he had a bladder...

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    • Moby Dick: The mobile phone game played by Reducto in the cafeteria is called 'Call Me Ishmael', the first line spoken in the 1956 movie Moby Dick as well as the first spoken line in the novel.

    • The Constrictor: A quick cameo in the court room by The Constrictor, a villain on the original Birdman show.

    • U.S. Terror Levels: After the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks the USA, the government started using colored terror alert codes representing how likely an attack will take place.

    • Secret Squirrel: Another Hanna Barbara production, Secret Squirrel was a squirrel and mole going undercover to sort out the cities villains, a spoof to the James Bond & other secret agents. It ran from 1965-66 and had a short-lived revival in 1993

    • Gloop: Gloop is a character from 1967s The Herculoids, it originally aired on CBS and was a Hanna-Barbera Production. One of the best cartoons to come out of the Hanna-Barbera Studios during the 60s and 70s and it is close in story direction and content to Johnny Quest plus it had major Sci-Fi storylines.

    • Rush - Moving Pictures: Rush is a Canadian prog-rock band consisting of bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart. 1981's Moving Pictures, in addition to being the highest alert level, is Rush's best-known album. As Phil Ken Sebben raises the alert level, a clip of the hit song "Tom Sawyer" can be heard.

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