The Thing and the Queen

The Thing and the Queen
Veronica Lodge vs. Veronica Lodge.
Premiere date	September 22, 1979
Run time	11:35
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
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"The Thing and the Queen" is the third episode (part two) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It aired on September 22, 1979 on NBC.

Spike works to sabotage Betty's chances of becoming homecoming queen, so his girlfriend can win instead.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Benjy Grimm	Wayne Morton
Kelly Harkness	Noelle North
Miss Twilly	Marilyn Schreffler
The Thing	Joe Baker
Betty Harkess	Marilyn Schreffler
Ronald Radford	John Erwin
Spike Hanrahan	Art Metrano
Stretch	Unavailable
Testy	N/A
Turkey	Michael Sheehan
Dotty	N/A
Sophie Hickenlooper	Unavailable
Ronald's father
Pilot	Unavailable

Organizations

• Yancy Street Gang

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Centerville
      • Centerville High School
      • Yancy Street
        • Yancy Street Gang headquarters
• The Moon

Objects

• Benjy's rings

Vehicles

• Ronald's car
• Yancy Street Gang's motorcycles

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 22, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

• Ronald is the third in his family to be given the name.
• This episode reveals Spike's surname.
• Betty seems to sum it up best on why Kelly is always hanging around the group because they can never find a babysitter (and apparently has no friends her own age), but that still doesn't explain why Benjy is always in the group, which is probably out of a request from Professor Harkness.

Errors

• In "Junkyard Hijinks," the junkyard at the Yancy Street Gang's headquarters was turned into a park, but is now back to being a junkyard again.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

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