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—I might have told a few other kids about the site….

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Well, just how bad was the site, Rusty? We’ve seen six days of strips so far, and you haven’t dug a lick of dirt. For all we know, Robbie’s broken controllers are still underground.

But a bombshell drops as Mark clues us to the fact that mild-mannered Ranger Shaw is Robbie’s father! We met him last November in the deBait fishing lodge where Mark tried to run a survival program for clueless husbands (cf “For Men Only”). At that time, mild-mannered and largely insignificant Ranger Shaw seemed distraught at how to fill his days while his wife was on vacation. And no, I’m not going there, except to say that I found her to be a nicely mannered, largely insignificant person.

Thus, Rusty’s “e-waste reclamation visit” scene comes to an end. Whether Rusty actually accumulated any e-waste, much less Robbie’s, may take a backseat to Mark’s overriding concern with the fact of toxic solid waste abandoned in Lost Forest. Is Mark once again taking over Rusty’s story? Buckle your seatbelts, people; it might get rough.

Watch closely as I wave my magic shovel …

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Yes, Rusty apparently didn’t have to actually dig anything up. Did Mark’s heavy-handed “lecturing” cause everything that was ever buried in the immediate vicinity to automatically ooze to the surface? I dunno. Anyway, Rusty already knows something about e-waste, or should. After all, it’s his topic which he picked out. Some glaring inconsistencies! BTW, I noticed they didn’t bring any trash bags to carry stuff back.

Art Dept. If you look closely at those unburied items, you’ll see numerous things lying around in all sorts of weird angles, as well as items clearly out of proportion with neighboring items. Perhaps Rusty and Robbie also buried some furniture from their Barbie Playhouse. It looks like Rivera simply took a bunch of clip-art images and pasted them onto the panel, rotating them every which way. Hardly convincing, Rivera. Maybe the surf was up and she couldn’t wait.

Loose lips sink ships!

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Well now, why would Rusty and Robbie want to mark where they illicitly buried broken game controllers? Why would Rusty want Mark to tag along while he went to retrieve them? Rusty doesn’t strike me as a scaredy-cat or somebody incapable of digging holes.

Rivera has Rusty actually admit his complicity in burying the very items he wants to use in a science project to humiliate Robbie. Again, why? Rusty is showing himself to not be a very clearheaded thinker, even for a 12-year-old kid.

Thus, we see Rusty hoisted with his own petard (to paraphrase Shakespeare) as Mark prepares the dreaded “Dad Lecture.” I’m not looking forward to it, myself.