Todd & the Book of Pure Evil - The Ghost of Chet Sukowski
Daryl (Vas Saranga) is just a blah basketball player on a
terrible team at Crowley High. His father is the coach and, obviously, it is
the players’ fault for losing 64-0 at Home. So Daryl is about to sink into the
abyss when the Book of Pure Evil seizes such an opportunity to use him when he’s
in his most despair. The coach is surprised when Daryl emerges afterward as a
different player, but also displaying an alternate personality. He wants to be
called Chet, slicks his hair back and suddenly has a sweet cherry red, white upholstered
convertible. His father is surprised by all this, obviously, but they’re a new
basketball team so it all seems cool until “Chet” seems unwilling to dedicate
himself to the sport, planning to “chickie race” off a cliff. Basketball head
smash = no basketball coach any longer. Chet isn’t happy with Todd confronting
him about Jenny at his side (Jenny seems hypnotized by whatever spirit hold
that existed following Chet’s ghost taking the body of Daryl) so the challenge commences
and is accepted.
Todd requests learning to drive from janitor, Jimmy (Mewes), and the metalhead trio, not doing so well when provided the car to do so. A wreck sort of tells Todd he’s in need of driving study, but he gets Atticus (of all people) to lend him his van. The race happens and eventually Jenny awakens from the spell wanting to escape Chet and his car before they careen off the cliff. So we never see Daryl after he looks into the gym trophy case at Chet Sukowski and the Book of Pure Evil shows up (as it does) to offer him a chance to be great. But like the monkey’s paw, the Book is too good to be true (the entire time I’ve wrote about the show on the blog I haven’t mentioned that similarity until now) and soon Chet’s personality overtakes anything Daryl might have wanted: his father’s respect. Because the father is dead when Chet bashes his face in with a basketball, that kind of need for Daryl sort of ends abruptly! Todd’s pride is wounded when Jenny goes off to Chet, soon wearing her hair in a pony tail and poodle skirts. Atticus realizes the four include him as part of their team, but daddy has the most influence (and needs his colonoscopy bag changed) so the Book of Pure Evil remains top priority. But you see that Atticus kind of likes belonging to a group of kids who offer something beyond evil. They are against the Book of Pure Evil, and Atticus wants it.
Todd requests learning to drive from janitor, Jimmy (Mewes), and the metalhead trio, not doing so well when provided the car to do so. A wreck sort of tells Todd he’s in need of driving study, but he gets Atticus (of all people) to lend him his van. The race happens and eventually Jenny awakens from the spell wanting to escape Chet and his car before they careen off the cliff. So we never see Daryl after he looks into the gym trophy case at Chet Sukowski and the Book of Pure Evil shows up (as it does) to offer him a chance to be great. But like the monkey’s paw, the Book is too good to be true (the entire time I’ve wrote about the show on the blog I haven’t mentioned that similarity until now) and soon Chet’s personality overtakes anything Daryl might have wanted: his father’s respect. Because the father is dead when Chet bashes his face in with a basketball, that kind of need for Daryl sort of ends abruptly! Todd’s pride is wounded when Jenny goes off to Chet, soon wearing her hair in a pony tail and poodle skirts. Atticus realizes the four include him as part of their team, but daddy has the most influence (and needs his colonoscopy bag changed) so the Book of Pure Evil remains top priority. But you see that Atticus kind of likes belonging to a group of kids who offer something beyond evil. They are against the Book of Pure Evil, and Atticus wants it.
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