Episode #324 "When Aliens Camp"

  Dick decides that the aliens are not spending enough time together as a family and proposes a camping trip with just the four of them and no outsiders. Sally, Harry and Tommy are not enthusiastic but agree to go. When Mary finds out about the trip, she drops so many broad hints that Dick feels compelled to invite her. On the day of the trip, Mary arrives with her gear, completely unaware that no one knows she’s been invited, and receives a chilly reception, particularly from Sally, who would love to have asked Don. They decide to bail, but Dick says they’re all going, and that’s an order. At the campsite, the aliens struggle to set up their tent. Mary volunteers to help but Sally won’t hear of it. Dick’s attempt at fishing is unsuccessful, and later Mary prepares a lovely fish dinner for herself while the aliens look on hungrily. Dick is sick of everyone’s negative attitude and lets them know it. The next morning Mary suggests that since everyone is angry with him, so he’s decided to leave. Dick, who has been asleep in the woods, awakens to find himself tied down by ropes. He’s been "captured" by a troop of Beaver Scouts who delight in torturing him while their scoutmaster is sleeping off a 12-pack in a canoe nearby. Dick talks the scouts into freeing him, dazzles them with his rhetoric and establishes himself as "king of the revolution." In their attempt to search for Dick, the other aliens have gone in a circle and ended up back at the campsite. Mary joins them and they begin again. They are intercepted by some of the scouts who lead them to Dick, who has ensconced himself as a jungle overlord in the manner of Marlin Brando in "Apocalypse Now." They take him back to their campsite, and Mary teaches them how to toast marshmallows.