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Kid Nation The Root of All Evil

Season 1,  Episode 7 | Original Airdate: October 31, 2007

What better night than Halloween to run an episode showcasing juvenile greed? After Jared literally flips out on Divad"s snack bar enterprise, the Pioneer Journal directs the Council to the "abandoned" mine outside town, which contains a "treasure chest" full of buffalo nickels. Rather than distributing the loot among the townspeople, the Council cleans out the dry goods store and bestows the gifts on the town, which they love. We meet eleven-year-old Nathan from the Blue team, who is home-schooled, does laundry, and may be a touch OCD. So Greg gives him a hard time, of course. In the Showdown, the teams have to use a giant slingshot to launch raw eggs over a high wall into giant cushions without breaking them. It"s an incredibly frustrating task, except for the Blue team, which blows it out and nearly wins the communal reward single-handedly. The choice? An exorbitantly priced coin-op Laundromat, or new clothes and a period washing machine for free. The Council picks the latter. Most of the newly laboring Red team loves using the new machine, but Jared opts to instead open a business selling crappy little wooden souvenir necklaces. Amazingly, he cleans up, and h e buys himself an actual Old West pimp outfit. I"d say it must be seen to be believed, but I saw it and I still don"t believe it. When the Council starts taking nominations for the Gold Star, the town seems to be split between Pharaoh (hard worker, needy) and Divad (shameless campaigner), but when Greg makes the surprising move of nominating Nathan, the Council has a tough choice ahead of it. At the Town Hall meeting, the Council gets a 100% approval rating and nobody wants to go home. In the end, Nathan wins the Gold Star, and Divad is left feeling unappreciated. In other news: Taylor who?

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