Lumpus's Last Stand is the sixteenth episode of season five and the one hundred and fourteenth episode on the series.

Synopsis

Lumpus and Lazlo discover that by using wet paint instead of clothing, they are finally free from the bondage of laundry. This episode serves as the series finale.









Plot

The time has come for Scoutmaster Lumpus to do the laundry again, but Lumpus is too lazy to do any laundry. Slinkman points out that today's the last available day to actually do it and that the campers have been wearing the same filthy clothes for most of the summer. Lumpus suggests that whenever he's feeling less than fresh the campers simply turn their clothes inside out and let the breeze clean them, but when Lumpus tries doing it to his own clothes, they stink too much for it to work, so Lumpus and the campers go to the laundromat in Prickly Pines so everyone can do their laundry.

Lumpus feels bad about having to do that, but Slink-man attempts to comfort him by putting on his socks. However, Lumpus only has one sock to put on as he might've lost the rest at the laundromat and tells him that one's better than none. Lumpus soon raises a ruckus about his situation. That night, he writes a letter to Slinkman saying that in light of recent events he's going to run off into the woods, where he won't have to worry about the hassles of laundry. But then his bare foot stepped into a jar of blue ink, and it matches his one sock. Lumpus decides to try something out. And he knows that it's either going to make him a genius the world has ever known, or make him seen like he's really crazy.

The next day, he presents himself to the Bean Scouts, and none of them notice anything out of place and Lumpus' plan has worked. He then tells the Bean Scouts what's going on. The Bean Scouts will no longer have to wear their threaded clothing, from now on they can paint their clothing on, and they don't even have to be the Camp Kidney uniforms, so the campers begin to do this without hesitation.

However, an owl cop on a motorcycle notices what is going on. Lumpus thinks that he's in big trouble, but to his surprise, the owl cop believes this is a great idea and gets finished it all to himself too. He promises to go out and tell all his friends about this. Soon, the newspaper headlines proclaim Lumpus as a genius, for figuring out an efficient way to clothe at least the town of Prickly Pines, and for freeing up a bunch of free time. mayor Pothole McPucker holds a ceremony for Scoutmaster Lumpus for his innovative breakthrough, which has allowed the mayor essential time to hit the gym. Scoutmaster Lumpus believes thats it's high time someone recognized him for his genius, but then something Lumpus doesn't expect to happens.

Two green moose come through a time machine that was built by one of the Prickly Pine residents, saying that because of Lumpus' breakthrough, world hunger has been solved and no Bean Scout clothing have needed to get washed for 1,000 years. They even bring a giant statue of Scoutmaster Lumpus, holding within it the final batch of unwashed clothing in the futuristic world. Lumpus believes that things can't get any better, but Unfortunately, he's right. A storm rolls in the rain falls down and the rain washes off the paint. Everyone in Prickly Pines is left completely naked where the citizens of Prickly Pines suddenly say that he's no genius at all, he's just crazy and when that happens, the statue from the future disintegrates because Lumpus' claim to fame has been dashed, and the moose from the future lose their antlers and become very thin because of the change in history, so they decide to go back to their own time.

Meanwhile, they scramble to put on the clothing underneath the disintegrated statue, but all of the clothing is stinky because they haven't been washed in a 1,000 years, and if Lumpus thinks the citizens are angry, someone angrier drives up into town and it was the real Scoutmaster of Camp Kidney, a fur-less, shaven version of Heffer Wolfe from Nickelodeon's Rocko's Modern Life (though a normal version of him appears in an alternate ending and is animated by Dan Sills) where it is finally revealed that Scoutmaster Lumpus was an impostor all along who locked him up in the closet for the entire season and he stole his job as the scoutmaster the whole time where Lumpus tricked everyone into believing that he was the real scoutmaster of Camp Kidney.

Lumpus doesn't feel threatened and offended by this fact coming out into the open, until the police place him under arrest and wrap him up in a straight jacket, saying that Lumpus is going to do some hard time for his cruel actions, where Lumpus vows to get revenge on Heffer, mistakenly calling a cow, until Heffer makes the correction that he's a steer, continuing the running gag of Rocko. The police then lock Lumpus in the back of the paddy wagon all the while Lumpus is protesting and yelling, "I'M A GENIUS". Even though Lazlo is naked, he's still the optimist because today has been a great day. Edward can't see how it can be great, because the moose they thought was their real scoutmaster has been taken away as a deranged lunatic to a funny farm and Edward, along with Lazlo, Samson, Clam and Raj have been left standing in Prickly Pines for being naked and Lazlo says that's the reason why this has been one great summer indeed. As the episode ends, he then walks away off-screen, joining the others and Samson gets the final line by saying that things officially can't get any weirder. Then he joins the others as the scene fades to black.

Production Music

Cockney Capers - Ray Davies

Tread Carefully - Keith Papworth

Cockney Capers 1.3 - Ray Davies

Man From The Ministry - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin

Staggering Home - Dick Walter

Synchrostings - Part 16 - Trevor Duncan

Link (T) - Patrica Cory

Man About Town - Laurie Johnson

Young Ballerina - David Farnon

Death And Destruction 1 - Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin

My Old Kentucky Home - George Weigand and Robert White

Editor's Falling Over (B) - Dick Walter

Shock Stinger [#86] - Kevin Hiatt and Charles Blaker

Turkey Trot - John Longmire

Burglar Bill - Andrew Hall

Panther Prowl - David Farnon

Fright Night - John Dwyer and Ronald Mendelssohn

Proud Fanfare - David Farnon

Dancing In Dreamland (A) - Ron Goodwin

Link (Y) - Patricia Cory

Banners Victorious - Ronald Hanmer

Musique De L'Infini - Jean-Jacques Perrey

King Kong Coming - Gregor Narholz

Link (Z) - Patrica Cory

Link (N) - Patrica Cory

Link (Q) - Patricia Cory

From The Dead - Ronald Hanmer

Cold Sweat - John Scott

Cellar Search - Philippe Pares

Trivia

This episode is the finale of the series.

It's revealed that Scoutmaster Lumpus is not the REAL Scoutmaster of Camp Kidney.

Scoutmaster of Camp Kidney. The real scoutmaster of Camp Kidney is proved to be a shaved and elderly version of Heffer Wolfe from Joe Murray's previous cartoon, Rocko's Modern Life. The fact that corrects Lumpus after the latter called him a cow is a reference to the earlier show. Heffer is known for correcting everyone that he is a steer whenever he's mistakenly called a cow. It was later confirmed that the steer in the episode was supposed to be Heffer. However, due to Rocko and Lazlo being on different competing television networks, alongside the slightly more risqué quality of Rocko, the idea wasn't allowed to be fully realized.

The character that is proved to be Heffer Wolfe said that Lumpus tied him up at the beginning of the summer, but scoutmaster Lumpus has been scoutmaster for five years, so its possible the steer may have lost track of time whilst he was locked up in the closet.

Eighth and last time when Clam didn't speak.

O' Hare is the last name of Mark O'Hare.

This is the only time Lazlo, Clam, Edward, Dave, and Ping-Pong have officially appeared naked on-screen, second and final time that Chip, Skip, and Harold has appeared naked, third and final time that Raj has appeared naked, and the fourth and final time that Samson has appeared in his birthday suit.

This is the only time the Prickly Pines citizens and the two Futuristic Moose appeared naked.

This is the final appearance of every character who's appeared throughout the series.

End Credits: Meanwhile, Scoutmaster Lumpus' key for his truck falls into the house of a fish family in Leaky Lake, and a male fish named Stanley thinks that it's a sign from the Heavens of male superiority. Then a female fish named Helen tells asks him to take out the garbage. To which he agrees.

Meanwhile, Scoutmaster Lumpus' key for his truck falls into the house of a fish family in Leaky Lake, and a male fish named Stanley thinks that it's a sign from the Heavens of male superiority. Then a female fish named Helen tells asks him to take out the garbage. To which he agrees. This episode is also Lumpus' second and final time being naked. The first time was Nudist Camp.

Dark Theory: It was revealed that Scoutmaster Lumpus was an escaped mental patient but after being tied up in a strap jacket he got hauled off as a deranged lunatic to a funny farm.

Transcript

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