A story: When Betty’s foghorn from her days in the Coast Guard is stolen from Rumble Juice, Logan volunteers to solve the crime and everyone is a suspect.
B story: Jasmine seeks to be more spontaneous.
Interesting factoid: This episode was directed by Jean Sagal, who appeared with her twin sister in the 80s sitcom, Double Trouble.
Line of the episode: “I love mysteries. It’s the only time other people are clueless too.”
Yes, its another Disney Channel Whodunnit themed episode.
Here, Betty installs her Coast Guard horn in Rumble Juice to be used to announce the purchase of the new Banana Boat smoothie. Its fun to watch Garrett, who clearly likes to avoid embarrassing situations, grimace every time someone orders one. Surprisingly (or not), someone steals the horn.
At the same time, Jasmine tries to get out of her tendency to be non-spontaneous, so Lindy and her spend a night on a houseboat on Lake Michigan (I thought for sure their neighbor, Margaret, played the mother of the “breathtaking baby” on Seinfeld). Jasmine’s attempt to be spontaneous is apparently letting the houseboat go on the lake. There’s some other mumbo jumbo about a big cat under the bed.
Meanwhile, Logan takes over the missing Coast Guard horn case and interviews each suspect one by one. Garrett – nope. Delia – no way. Surprise Betty relative – not him either. That just leaves Betty, who took the horn down for some reason of relative unimportance. The fact that the stolen item was not directly related to our gang of five – and two of them weren’t there at the time – made the whole thing meaningless for me.
I had to laugh, though, when Betty and (her cousin, nephew, whoever) Kevin installed the horn on the bike and the bike went flying. Im not sure there’s any physics explanation for this …
And I thought for sure they would have every suspect state, “I Didn’t Do It.”