Lil Smith Junior gives a quest. You have to go blow up enough chests then report to Stash. The only way to complete that quest is to wake up Meathead.

I was actually under the impression that this new quest was the replacement for the three quests we had to do in the second implementation of Forest Haven ("kill" one zombie, but leeching is ok; smash three chests, talk to the other bird).

I was surprised to find out that one could simply go straight to stash. When I heard that, I thought the Lil Smith Junior quest mechanism must be broken.