2x09 The Legend of Merle McQuoddy

Episode Quotes

Mistakes/Goofs

• Goof (continuity error): When Annabelle Vandersloop presses the red button on her diorama, the building explodes and part of the front wall falls off. A moment later, when she reaches inside the glass box with the diorama to replenish the glitter, the wall is back in place.
• Goof (continuity error): When Annablle Vandersloop is leaving, she puts her hand accidentally on Emerson's chest. The palm of her hand lands flat on his plastic raincoat. In the next shot there's a close-up, and you can see that now the hand is positioned half on the raincoat, half on Emerson's lapel, leaving a white stain. In this close-up, the stain is positioned so that the fingers start above Emerson's pocket, and just the index finger and thumb on his lapel, but after Annabelle leaves, the stain is now positioned lower, with the tips of the fingers barely reaching the bottom of his pocket, and no stain on the lapel. When we see Emerson behind the desk, the stain is now showing not a half, but a fully impressed hand, with the whole thumb, index and middle finger on the lapel, and positioned higher, back again to above his pocket.
• Goof (continuity error): The hand with which Willie Gerkin holds the plate of cookies changes from shot to shot.

Trivia

• Complaining about his problems with the lighthouse, Willie Gerkin says "This is SO not the way "The Secret" is supposed to work!" 'The Secret' is a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne that concentrates in part on the way positive thinking is supposedly meant to bring wealth into one's life, just like the windfall in Gerkin's life that the lighthouse represents.
• When Willie Gerkin introduces himself, Olive tells him "You lost your smile, pickle!" A gherkin is a type of pickle.
• In this episode, many references to the Disney movie Pete's Dragon can be found. - A lighthouse keeper named Nora loses her lover to a storm at sea, and continues watching for him from her lighthouse. - Her son is named Elliot, her husband named Merle and their last name is McQuoddy. - At one point, two characters seek refuge in a cave by the sea. - At one point a vocal group comes to the lighthouse and sings Candle on the Water, a song from Pete's Dragon. - Also, the show has always been narrated by Jim Dale, who starred as Doc Terminus in Pete's Dragon.