Raiders of the Lost Sausage

what happens

When an emu that Louis ordered arrives through the mail, his dad Steve puts his foot down on his son's get-rich-quick schemes. But Louis is not so easy to stop. While he's bowling with Twitty and Tom in his basement using milk cartons and a frozen turkey, Louis knocks a hole in the wall revealing a heretofore unkown tunnel. Louis does some research and finds that a rich businessman who made sausages once owned the land their house is on, so along with the other boys and Beans they start excavating the filled-in tunnel hoping to find some of the man's lost wealth. When Steve finds out he's upset with Louis, but soon he goes on an Indiana Jones-type mission with him to recover the treasure Louis has located: A large gold-encrusted sausage! Also, Ren and Larry Beale's rivalry is responsible for Principal Wexler getting a couple of pies in the face, so he sends them to the school's somewhat flaky counselor Miss Shannon, who decides on a radical therapy: she tethers them together! After a c

who made it

directed

Fred Savage

written

Scott Frazee, Brooke Kaiser

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Ty Hodges as Larry Beale
• Steven Anthony Lawrence as Beans
• A.J. Trauth as Alan Twitty
• Fred Meyers as Tom Gribalski
• George Anthony Bell as Principal Conrad Wexler
• Mary Stein as Lynn Shannon