Review: The Great North “Sister Pact Too Adventure”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

Judy and Honeybee encounter a strange group in the woods. Meanwhile, the rest of the family has to save Beef from an arranged marriage.

Our Take:

The thing to know about this episode is that it’s not a direct sequel to an episode titled “Sister Pact Adventure”. In fact, there’s not a single episode in the series with that title. Trust me, I checked. However, that’s the least of our problems based on what the Tobins are encountering this week.

This week’s episode, whose title referenced Sister Act 2, sees Judy and Honeybee celebrating Sisters Day by visiting the Phoenix Phlying Feminist Retreat. During their visit, Judy and Honeybee discover a shocking secret from this clan. No, they’re not secretly a group of nuns led by Whoopi Goldberg. Instead, it’s a feminist group that worships Phoenix, who’s revealed to be a man with a marketing scheme involving getting milk from women’s boobs.

Amid this bizarre scenario, “Sister Pact Too Adventure” is a Judy-focused episode focusing on the relationship between the sisters-in-law, and a solid one at that. Throughout the episode, we see Judy hoping to have a strong bond with Honeybee through a feminist retreat similar to the Hemsworth brothers. But, unfortunately, she gets upset when Honeybee quotes one of Patrick Swayze’s lines from Ghost, “ditto”, in response to Judy’s kind thoughts about her. Later, we find out that Honeybee says “ditto” because she can’t express how much she loves Judy as a sister with more than one word.  

It showcases that sometimes, one word is more than enough to display this type of sisterly love. It’s an endearing moment that’s combined well with its carefully-balanced humor, mainly the stands being named after specific media involving female characters like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. There’s even a sharing tent named after last year’s She Said, a fantastic movie that deserves your attention. Regarding adult humor, the episode is another proof that you don’t need to be heavily explicit toward specific topics, like feminism, in a comical manner to be funny.   

The episode’s sub-plot has Beef getting a surprise visit from one of Beef’s old friends from high school, Zelda Blop. Zelda arrives at the household because of a promise she and Beef made that they’ll marry when she reaches forty. However, Beef stated that he only made that promise to win over his late wife. The scenario mainly consists of Beef and the family attempting to escape the arranged marriage by lying that Beef already has a wife. Wolf hired Jerry to disguise himself as Beef’s wife, but it turns out that Wolf had already called several other women to help. This leads to a misunderstanding from Zelda that Beef is hosting a harem, resulting in Beef and the others rolling with it to get her to leave.

This B plot is my least favorite part of the episode. While the humor and Zelda’s bonkers personality weren’t too bad, it wasted an opportunity to further explore Beef’s past involving his late wife and Zelda. Additionally, I wasn’t fond of how it ended, with Beef and the others covering up the lie with another lie to get Zelda to leave. They should’ve come clean with what they did, like in the previous episodes, to maintain the characters’ sense of honesty, but that’s just me. Besides that, “Sister Pact Too Adventure” is another amusing episode representing the show’s central theme of family, mainly for Judy and Honeybee as sisters-in-law. Hopefully, they’ll choose a safe and cult-less retreat for their next Sisters Day.