Fun Town

"**Fun Town**"
"Fun Town"
Sons of Anarchy episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 3
Directed by	Stephen T. Kay
Written by	Kurt Sutter
Production code	1WAB02
Original air date	September 17, 2008
Running time	45 minutes
Guest appearances
	Drea de Matteo as Wendy Case; Theo Rossi as Juice Ortiz; Taylor Sheridan as David Hale; Mitch Pileggi as Ernest Darby; Dayton Callie as Wayne Unser; Patrick St. Esprit as Elliot Oswald; Judith Hoag as Karen Oswald; Liana Liberato as Tristen Oswald; Kevin Chapman as Michael McKeavy; Jim Cody Williams as Uncle Vinky; James Carraway as Floyd; Jay Karnes as Josh Kohn;
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"Fun Town" is the third episode of the first season of the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. It was written by Kurt Sutter, directed by Stephen T. Kay and originally aired on September 17, 2008 in the United States.

This episode marks the first appearance for Jay Karnes (Josh Kohn), an ATF agent from Chicago, Illinois.

Plot

When Tristen - the teenage daughter of prominent Charming businessman and landowner Elliott Oswald - is raped during a visiting carnival, Oswald turns to SAMCRO for justice. The police look to Tristen for answers, but her parents protest, fearing that the case will attract media attention. SAMCRO's IRA connection arrives in Charming with a truckload of AK-47 rifles, hidden in oil barrels shipped from Dungloe, Ireland. After Wendy regains consciousness, Tara prods her to find out if Gemma supplied her with heroin. Gemma brings Wendy flowers and warns her not to tell Tara anything. Gemma then visits Tristen and her mother, and convinces them to reveal the rapist's identity. SAMCRO hunts down the rapist, a carnival clown, and brings him to Elliott, who brings a special knife normally used to castrate bulls which he planned to use to castrate the rapist. When Elliott has a change of heart and backs down, Clay performs the castration himself, then bags the fingerprinted knife to use as blackmail against Elliott, as Clay worries that property developers interested in Elliott's land will bring unwelcome attention to Charming.

Reception

In a review for the episode, Film School Rejects said "What we are really seeing with Sons of Anarchy, as I explained yesterday, is the slow build to the big burn."^[1]

The scene where Clay castrates a rapist was voted #18 in Rolling Stone's "20 Best ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Moments".^[2]

References

^ "TV Review: Sons of Anarchy 1.3 - Fun Town". 18 September 2008.
^ "20 Best 'Sons of Anarchy' Moments". Rolling Stone. 8 December 2014.

External links

"Fun Town" at IMDb

[1] "TV Review: Sons of Anarchy 1.3 - Fun Town". 18 September 2008.

[2] "20 Best 'Sons of Anarchy' Moments". Rolling Stone. 8 December 2014.

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