When Cavey Jr.'s school refuses to teach evolution, Captain Caveman turns to Harvey to defend the hairy little boy's right to an education. Harvey does not only have to prove evolution but also explain the existence of a talking caveboy. As if that's not enough, Harvey also suffers his latest existential crisis at the hands of Reducto.moreless
In the beginning of the episode, when the teacher explains that God created Adam and Eve, the song "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by J.S. Bach can be heard.
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A man in the courtroom has a sign that reads "Nyet". This is Russian, and literally translates to "No".
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Harvey: That's right. Even though your teacher didn't want you to you read it. Why? Because you wanted to disobey?
Cavey Jr: No.
Harvey: Or is it because there's a mind, a hungry mind inside this, this hairy body? A mind that seeks truth, that craves knowledge.
Cavey Jr: No.
Harvey: I'm sorry, what:
Cavey Jr: No, I read it because evolution is covered on the federally mandated No Child Left Behind test I have to pass to move up to the next grade.
Harvey: Oh. So...
Cavey Jr: Yeah, they screw you coming and going.
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Phil: Guess who's been fighting prehistory all day. Remember when we went back in time to that hot tub and I was doing tours, and we came back, only someone forgot to close the portal, and all the savages and dinosaurs came back with us? And now, oh boy, am I thirsty--not from fighting the messadons and terradons, but from this long narrative.
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Potamus: That you Birdman?
Harvey Birdman: You know, now is not a great time...
Potamus: Did you get that thing I sent ya?
Harvey Birdman: No! No, I didn't! I never get that thing you sent me, I've never gotten that thing you sent me and I'm beginning to wonder whether you ever once sent me anything!
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Water cannon.
Refers to early demonstrations by African-Americans in the South in the 1960's which were broken up by police spraying the demonstrators with fire hoses. This treatment helped gain sympathy for the civil rights movement.
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Ten Commandments sculpture
The Ten Commandments are humorously rewritten by Mentok, but refer to an actual case where a sculpture like this was ordered removed from a Southern courthouse due to the constitutional separation of Church and State.
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Alabama Governor George Wallace
The governor stopping Cavey Jr at the school entrance is a reference to Gov. George Wallace stopping African-American children from attending a all-Caucasian school in the 1960's after the Supreme Court ordered desegregation.
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