4. Everybody Hates Hugo

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Lost: Season Two: 4. Everybody Hates Hugo
Aired 10/12

Writers: Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis
Director: Alan Taylor

Guest Cast
L. Scott Caldwell: Rose
D.J. Qualls: Johnny
Lillian Hurst: Carmen Reyes
Sam Anderson: Bernard
Marguerite Moreau: Starla
Billy Ray Gallion: Randy
Kimberley Joseph: Flight Attendant

As the Lostaways explore the hatch, Hurley is given the job of taking inventory on the food. Even with Rose's help, though, he doesn't feel up to the task. Claire, meanwhile, discovers the bottle full of personal messages that went with the raft when it left. Elsewhere, Michael, Sawyer, and Jin learn just who their captors are.

Hurley backstory II

Notes:
-After finding a thick wall of concrete blocking the source of the magnetic field, Sayid tells Jack that another event that required a great amount of concrete was Chernobyl, known for the catastophic nuclear accident that occurred there.
-There were 23 survivors in the tail end of the plane (one of the numbers, BTW). Only a handful remain. One of them is Rose's husband, Bernard.
-Hurley and Johnny look at a Driveshaft CD in the music store, Charlie's band.
-In Hurley's dream, there's a missing person picture of Walt on the milk carton he's drinking, even though Hurley shouldn't know that yet.
-I haven't been able to confirm this, but tv.com reports that the manager that fires Hurley, "Randy", is the same jerk that continually pestered Locke in Walkabout.
-Claire finds the bottle full of personal messages that left on the raft when it sailed. Only she, Shannon, and Sun know that it washed onto shore. And it looks like it's going to stay that way.
-Unanswered Questions: Why was concrete poured in the hatch? What is is blocking? What happened to the other group of survivors? Why are there now so few? What is the purpose of the other hatch?

By TomM on Monday, October 17, 2005 - 4:24 pm:

The hideout for the tail section survivors is a bunker very similar to the one beneath the hatch. Even the hidden doorway in the jungle is the same. Is it a second staion or is the the part of the Swan station on the other side of the concreted area?

Whoever stocked the larder must not have liked peanut butter. Almost everything else in in huge industrial-sized jars and containers, and yet there are only "a couple" of jars of peanut butter, and the one Hurley gives Charlie is only in family-sized jars


By Anonymous on Monday, October 17, 2005 - 6:06 pm:

Maybe Desmond ate nothing but peanut butter, and that was all that was left.


By TomM on Friday, October 21, 2005 - 4:30 am:

Continuity Error: While burying the bottle, Sun's wedding ring keeps appearing and disappearing from her hand.


By LUIGI NOVI on Friday, October 21, 2005 - 11:20 pm:

How in the world did the manager of the store where Hurley bought the winning lottery ticket recognize him? Yeah, he might've recognized Hurley as someone who bought a ticket, but how did he remember that it was the winning numbers?

I found it a bit prescient of Hurley to not only anticipate how his life would change, but to actually be so fearful of it that he would deliberately conceal his new wealth from others. I mean, sure, I've heard many stories about how new wealth can ruin your life if you don't adjust to it properly, but Hurley being so predisposed to this just didn't ring true to me. He tells his mother that he likes his life the way it is. What, working in a thankless job, living with his mom, and having no money?


By JM on Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 2:28 am:

Luigi Novi:What, working in a thankless job, living with his mom, and having no money?
Apparently.


By anonuppercrustsnob on Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 10:28 am:

Because it is the epitome of the slacker, no worries beach bum lifestyle. Moeny brings everybody bumming for a handout,people expecting him to live up to the stuck up rich arrogant prick attitude and lifestyle, his friends expecting him to stop being so cool and to get the i deserve everything and am better than you are because im rich attitude so many rich people have. Thats why Hurley probably feared all the money so much for.


By Jesse on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 7:43 am:

Luigi Novi: I found it a bit prescient of Hurley to not only anticipate how his life would change....
This didn't bother me. I think, in Hurley's case, the simple fact was that he didn't honestly care about money. The idea of winning millions of dollars was simply not important to him. We all saw when Hurley was happiest: driving around with his pal in a beat-up van, playing jokes on people, having no place to go or nothing really to do. Whether or not he knew that his friends and family would turn on him when he claimed his prize, he at least knew that his care-free no-responsibilities lifestyle was going to end.

Luigi Novi: How in the world did the manager of the store where Hurley bought the winning lottery ticket recognize him?
I worked nights in gas station about a million years ago, and we sold lottery games. The thing is, we sold very few of them. Now, we didn't actually sell the ones for the big games (we just did that scratch-off $300,000 or so games), but it's a safe bet that if we had and if some one had selected their own #'s, I might have recognized them as the one. Not saying for sure, but given the low volume of lottery customers, it was surely plausible.


By Callie on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 10:16 am:

Last night, Jack, Locke and co were desperate to get the hatch open in an attempt to find somewhere to protect the rest of their people from the Others. Yet the following night everyone's on the beach eating the food that Hurley has handed out, sitting around happily eating and chatting and nobody seems worried any more that the Others might be still out there and about to kill them and/or take the baby. I realise that having proper food for the first time is a big, exciting thing, but surely someone ought to have remembered the terror they were in only last night?