Beach Party Crashers

"Beach Party Crashers" is the fifth episode (part two) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It aired on October 6, 1979 on NBC.

The Yancy Street Gang create some scares in the water to ruin the Centerville High students' beach day.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Miss Twilly
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Benjy Grimm
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wayne Morton
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kelly Harkness
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Noelle North
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ronald Radford
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Erwin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty Harkness
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Louis XIV
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Stretch
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Spike Hanrahan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Art Metrano
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Turkey
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Michael Sheehan
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Octopus
 * style="background-color:#fff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| The Thing
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Joe Baker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Ants
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Aardvark
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sharks
 * style="background-color:#fff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Octopus
 * style="background-color:#fff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| The Thing
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Joe Baker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Ants
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Aardvark
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sharks
 * style="background-color:#fff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sharks
 * style="background-color:#fff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#fff00"| N/A

Organizations

 * Gucci
 * Yancy Street Gang

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Centerville
 * Beach

Objects

 * Benjy's rings
 * Sun Free

Vehicles

 * Ronald's car

Music
The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: October 6, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

 * This is the first time Betty tries to make her feelings known to the Thing, even though she's already dating Ronald.

Errors

 * Why is Miss Twilly hitching a ride with the gang?
 * Although there were a lot of people at the beach, when it came time to all the other kids of the school sitting together eating, of course, they're all absent.
 * Considering the Thing is supposed to be a hero, leaving the Yancy Street Gang to be potentially eaten by sharks, is highly irresponsible of him.

Home availability

 * Warner Bros. owns the show, while Disney owns the characters, making it difficult to release this episode onto DVD.