Bonus Episode: Alvin And The Chipmunks: Dave's Wonderful Life

Hey Everyone,

Angela Bowen here, the host of Looking Back On My Wonder Years: A Wonder Years Podcast.

Today, I covered what I thought was another Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas Episode. However I was sorely mislead, that episode couldn't have less to do with Christmas as it's apparently set during the early summer, I think.

The only thing even remotely attempting to tie this to Christmas is the title of the episode, Dave's Wonderful Life, a blatant nod to the movie It's A Wonderful Life.

Now George Bailey he had serious problems, a lot more serious than Dave Seville's crap tactic day, his car shits out on him and he has no money to get it fixed, he is clueless to the game of soccer, yet for the boys's sake he takes part in what I'm guessing is a Father/Son Soccer match, which he causes them to loose cause he's a big as an ox and as clumsy as a mule and trips over the damn ball. What a giant dum dum.

His songs suck major butt and no one wants to buy them (He's got Jesse Katsopolis syndrome in the song writing department).

He can't afford anything including sending the boy's to the summer camp of their dreams, something they've been looking forward to all year. How they're still living in this house with all Dave's money problems is beyond me.

The boy's (actually Alvin) voices this option, when they're complaining about how bad Dave screwed up.

At this point Dave feels the boy's would be better off if he never existed,

Dave. calm down, you're just in a rutt, it'll be fine. Give it time.

His examples of Alvin, Simon and Theodore appearing to him in a dream and telling him how he's helped they lives for the better, give him a glimpse of their grim future if he hadn't been there and boy oh boy is it grim.

Theodore tells him about the time he wanted to run for class president in kindergarten (wow, they start out young, huh?) and because he's shy he doesn't win and later down the road becomes a hermit on a desert island going full Tom Hanks in Cast Away,

Simon because he misspelled Mississippi in Kindergarten is still in the same grade at age 40 (completely outlandish), and Alvin who wanted to start a lemonade stand and only made one glass and didn't have a sign advertising his business winds up as a filing clerk at age 80.

Luckily Dave wakes up from this nightmare realizing the boys do need him in their lives and it inspires him to write a song about being there for someone and appreciating them. The song sounded like a ballad for a wedding dance between a parent and child.

We don't learn if the song is rejected or if it's a major hit because the episode ends with him and the boys at the piano as they boys sing the song he wrote.

Overall, this episode is just ok. Still feel duped that this wasn't a Christmas episode though. Oh well.

Enjoy!

Have a great holiday week everyone!