Eerie, Indiana Season 1, Episode 4 – "The Losers"

Marshall hears his parents arguing over a missing briefcase. His mother gave it to his dad years ago, and it brings him good luck. He also filled it with some important documents for his big presentation at work, which means it's even worse that he lost it. He claims that he didn't lose it but that it somehow went missing.

To get it back, he decides to go deep into the world of missing objects, eventually locating the central lost and found department. It's basically the place where every missing item in the world eventually ends up. While working to get back the briefcase, he learns that he can make a trade that winds up with him landing in the missing department and his dad getting back his briefcase.

Marshall instead decides to work with the man in the field (who also had a big role in "Gremlins"). He manages to get his dad's briefcase back, just in time for his dad's big presentation. The field worker also takes over the lost and found department, sending the head of the department out into the field. "The Losers" gets high marks for making the department head search the sewers for missing objects LOL.

Eerie, Indiana Season 1, Episode 3 "The ATM With the Heart of Gold"

Marshall's dad just created a brand new ATM that will leave others in the dust. Instead of an ordinary screen, this one shows the smiling face of a man named Mr. Wilson. The ATM is such a hit that people in town start flocking to it. Before long, Mr. Wilson is the most popular man in town.

While all of this is going on, Marshall notices that his best friend Simon seems flush with cash. He starts buying a lot of snacks, has brand new running shoes, and he event treats Marshall to ice cream. When Marshall asks him about the cash, he starts changing the subject. It comes out that people in town suddenly have problems with their bank accounts, i.e. they have unexpected and unauthorized transactions.

Marshall eventually discovers that Simon formed a close personal relationship with Mr. Wilson. Every time he went to the ATM, Wilson gave him money, which he took from other people's accounts. Simon decides that he doesn't care if people lose money because having cash made him one of the most popular people in town. It all comes to a head when Marshall sees him with some of his new friends. When pressed, the other boys admit that they don't have any clue what his name actually is, and Simon decides that he needs to make things right.

They head back to Mr. Wilson and put all of the remaining cash in deposit envelopes, which they push back into the machine. With every bit of cash that comes through, Mr. Wilson loses some of his original humanity. He goes back to looking like a computerized ATM and everyone in town gets their money back again. At the end of the episode, Marshall and his dad watch as the city removes Mr. Wilson, and his dad wonders if the world just isn't ready for something like that.

Eerie, Indiana Rating: Eh, more interesting than "The Retainer," but not as interesting as "Foreverware."

Eerie, Indiana Season 1, Episode 2: "The Retainer" - "Maybe They're Not Speaking English, Maybe We're Speaking Dog."

Marshall learns that he might need a retainer, which doesn't exactly thrill him because of something that happened a few months ago. A boy he knew from school got a retainer, and a few hours later, he started hearing what dogs think. As Marshall explains to his friend Simon, it's because the retainer tunes him into a different frequency.

Simon is less than thrilled with the idea that dogs can talk, but Marshall once again explains that away by pointing out that maybe they are speaking dogs. It doesn't help that the dogs clearly want to overthrow the world. They mention how much they hate humans and the way that humans treat each other. The trio of boys wind up in the pound, where the dogs give them a list of demands that humorously include no more leashes. Marshall and his friends end up saving the day, though their friend Steve disappears in the process.

The episode has a minor flaw that irritates me. Marshall mentions that the story with Steve happened in the past, and he actually remembers the events while sitting in the dentist's chair getting his own retainer. After coming home and showing his sister his new retainer, the first dog Steve heard talk suddenly appears in his driveway. Marshall flips out and then finds Steve's retainer stuck to the dog, and he acts like the story just happened.

It's still a cute little story though. There's a cute little poodle, complete with French accent, that wants to take over the world and gives their demands. It's also pretty funny to see the three boys wandering through a pound, listening to a bunch of random dogs talk about wanting to destroy all humans.

Eerie, Indiana Season 1, Episode 1: Foreverware - Thirty Years in the Seventh Grade, Now That's Scary.

Why don't we bring a little bit of nostalgia to the blog with a review of the first episode of "Eerie, Indiana." I was ten or eleven when the show started, and thanks to Netflix, I had the chance to get a little nostalgic recently.

Here's a little bit of trivia for you. Joe Dante, he of "The Howling" and the phenomenal "Amazing Stories" directed both episode one (Foreverware) and episode two (The Retainer). Now, on with the review.

Marshall and his family just moved to the spooky town of Erie, Indiana where it seems like something out of the ordinary happens every day. When his mom (looking eerily like she does as the mom on "Dawson's Creek") decides to place an order with the local "Foreverware" sales lady, he just knows that something is wrong. After flipping through some old yearbooks, he finds pictures of two twin boys from 1964, who oddly enough look just like the sons of the sales lady.

While this might send most of us off to ponder why we wasted so much time looking at old yearbooks, Marshall decides to confront the boys. After learning that their mother keeps them locked in Foreverware plastic containers to preserve them, and that she started doing this after their dad died years ago, they beg him to help them escape.

Marshall sneaks into their house later that night, and he pops the seal on their containers. They thank him multiple times before he sneaks back home and goes to sleep. The next day, his mom wonders what she was thinking when she decided to buy a starter kit, and when she decides to go over and cancel her order, Marshall tags along.

They find two twin men standing outside, hammering a for sale sign into the ground. They tell Marshall's mom that twins run in the family, and they give her back her paperwork so she doesn't have to sell the plastic crap. They let her know that the woman of the house had to leave because of a family emergency, but the episode ends with an older woman who suspiciously looks like their own mother yelling down from the window.

What can you say about a television series that shows a woman climbing into a big ass plastic container and closing the lid as she listens to motivational tapes that encourage her to be a better salesperson? And yes, that is actually a scene from this episode. There's also a great moment where Marshall wonders what will happen to the boys now that they are free, and he wonders if they might look like two pieces of rotten beef.

"Eerie, Indiana" took me back to my younger years, and it was definitely a trip down memory lane. Needless to say, you'll see some more reviews/recaps of the show coming down the pipe.