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Dave The Barbarian: Girlfriend / Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow
Reviewed: 07/26/2014
Dave Needs A Girlfriend Like Ned Frischman Needs To Be A Man!
Well; I guess we have to do this since I am way behind in Dave The Barbarian. So over the next two weekends; I will be doing eight half-hour segments of Dave in order to get half of the series completed. So today's agenda features a geeky nerd using video games to rule the ancient world and it's up to characters with no thumbs to fight back. Also; Dave finds a girlfriend who actually can relate to him. Problem is; she is evil and Dave is forced to dump him because he sucks at evil. Sad because he also sucks at being a babyface. Ned Frischman: Man Of Tomorrow won an Annie for best writing in 2004, and I'm really pumped to see that episode because it involves video games and evil dorks. That is often a good combination. Let's rant on shall we...?!
Girlfriend is written and story edited by Ralph Soll. Ned Frischman: Man Of Tomorow is written and story edited by Evan Gore and Heather Lombard. Ralph started with Harold Swerg short, What Price Victory and Jakarta in 1988. Then he went into animation starting with The Tick, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective the series, The Mask: The Series, The Mouse & The Monster, The Brothers Flub, Power Ranger Turbo, Animanics, Eddy & The Bear, The Zeta Project, Pinky & The Brain and Static Shock among others. Nightmare Ned is his DTVA debut and he worked on Teacher's Pet. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film is his most recent credit. He has 17 writing credits, three other credits, one director/producer credit and 3 assistant director credits (Brothel) to his resume.. I have no idea who animated the episodes.
Opening Moment #1: Low Rent Fairy-Oddparents Spot Of The Day: The castle crumbles to reveal a UFO crashing into the side of said castle.
Girlfriend: We begin this one with Dave running through the castle as we see a fat man wearing all green simply standing there and the hard cameras zooms into him twice before cutting back as the narrator is talking about the great deeds of warriors; and then I realize that the fat guy waving is in front of the bookstore (which the sign's writing is so childish that it was written for six year olds). Dave enters the bookstore and goes to a table to a man who has a glass right eye and is wearing only a tunic reading a book. Dave then shows a piece of paper that in red letters reads Pedxing. The bearded libraian is panicky because Pedxing is the worst poetry in the history of mankind because it made him blind, numb in one arm and lost both legs (which Dave found them instantly; which he replies that he got them back as they were underneath the sofa in his living room). Happeh; is that you? Anyhow; Dave asks again and the libraian panics like mad again; and then calmly tells Dave that he sold it two minutes ago. HAHA! Dave screams in the poor man's face because this is exactly what this episode needs: More windbags. Dave runs out of the store as the fat guy waves to him; Dave looks around and then sees a green robed woman (check the boots; I'm not fooled) with a green book with Pedxing in black letters. Why not in red letters? Does Dave write in red crayon or marker? So Dave rushes in and accuses her of being a poetry thief. Ummm; Dave? She bought the damn book; so it is hers. I know the "check your privilege" phrase is completely overused; but this is where it applies because Dave is assuming that only he can read such dirty poetry. So the woman turns around as she has SWANK green emerald hair, and fangs. She seems to be a vampire. Dave stops in his tracks and we get the first Kajabbers of the episode barely two minutes in. He stammers like an idiot trying to grab a book which is not his to begin with (because it was sold legally to this woman) as we discover that her name is Princess Irmaplotz who lived in Hyrogoth; which is a better booking name than Udrogoth; turning her babyface.
Princess Irmaplotz is voiced by Melissa Rivers and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): As an actress, she has had roles in television shows including Beverly Hills, 90210, Silk Stalkings, The Comeback. In 1998, she also appeared in the sci-fi/comedy made-for-television movie Men in White and in the 1999 film The Big Tease,[10] a comedy directed by Kevin Allen starring Craig Ferguson. Additionally, she teamed up with her mother Joan Rivers, portraying themselves in the 1994 celebrity docudrama Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story.[11] In the early 1990s, Rivers branched out on the pre-show red carpet, interviewing celebrities on nationally televised awards shows.[10] Rivers, who has hosted various events and served as a producer for the E! Network, has hosted two of the channel’s highest-rated specials: Oh Baby! Melissa’s Guide to Pregnancy[12] and Oh Toddler! Surviving the Early Years (aired in January 2002). Teamed with her comedienne mother, Melissa hosted fashion on the red carpet interviews for the E! cable network. In 2003, Melissa and Joan left her red carpet pre-show on E! to accept a more lucrative deal with the TV Guide Channel valued at between $6 and 8 million.[13] Their contract was not renewed after it expired.[citation needed] Also in 2002, Rivers appeared on the ABC Network competitive reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, in which she finished in second place.[citation needed] Melissa Rivers has been a regular guest on the webcast show Tom Green's House Tonight. She also appeared on the movie Confessions of a sociopathic social climber. She began her career as Little Girl in Rabbit Test in 1978. Dave The Barbarian is her DTVA debut and only appearance. Where The Sun Kisses the Ocean is her most recent credit. She has 119 Self credits, ten acting credits (most recent: Romancing the Joan as herself), and three production credits (In Bed With Joan, Fashion Police and Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?) to her resume.
So Dave and Irma make small talk for a while as they both love poetry from Pedxing (which means Pedestrian Crossing by the way) as Dave stammers like an idiot claiming that there are a lot of daisies in Hyrogoth. I betcha they are a lot more compelling than the lead babyface of this show. Dave then does the anime staple of his mind saying what is on his mind; but not physically speaking and wants Dave to say something smart. I hate to say this; but Oscar's brain was funnier than this. Dave claims that he is allergic to daisies; in which Irma claims the same as they talk some more. The guise of this is that Dave and Irma are so much alike that both of them could be an item. But this is Disney and they have to book it in a convoluted way that Dave has no choice but to dump her. Dave shows off an owl statue which at least looks cool and making crafts is not a major turnoff for the kids, so I'm fine with this. Irma shows off a pink version of the same statue; as they basically call their statues Hooty. Yeah; whatever. Then we get Kajabbers in stereo as both Irma and Dave have eyes for each other. They do the double white dot spot to signify this as the narrator ruins the effects two seconds after this to talk about HITTING THE MONTAGE~! Irma and Dave eat at a restaurant at HAPPY HOUR with a single candle lit. Apparently; cheese makes them grow swollen faces like pigs; and give them bloodshot eyes. They hold hands; and we segueway to Dave and Irma singing and playing the lutes badly. This is funny in itself; but would be even funnier if Fang ran in and did the same spot she did when she smashed the Walk Ministral's lute in Lula's First Barbarian. Then we see them underwater with scuba gear firing plunger arrows while riding unicycles. This was legit funny. They fire at a target against a rockbed as somehow; Irma's plunger arrow splits Dave's plunger arrow with no water physics at all. It is a logic break; but damn it to hell, that was funny. So we segueway to under a tree (which is not made of an umbrella sadly) as Dave and Irma are having a picnic and reading from Pedxing, which is a great payoff to the book. Sadly; this wasn't nearly as funny as the last scene.
Basically; this godawful poetry is awful because it's awfully sexist language and telling us that the feet smell like bad cheese. Irma doesn't seem to care that Dave has unintentionally insulted her (there is no way Dave has the IQ to show malice to her in order to be a bigot.) as she wants more poetry reading; and as soon as she said this, we scene change to a pan shot of the table as Oswidge, Candy and Fang are eating, drinking and being merry to themselves, but not to the viewers. There is a lot of "root" beer in this scene as Fang is having the main course meal of weiners and spinach (I think that it what it was). We see Dave slowly eating his soup of doom which of course annoys Lula to no end. Fang asks what does Dave see in what she calls a dumb girlfriend; which insults me because Irma clearly has some smarts. Dave then does the hard sell on Irma even though all he had to say was that they are compatible with each other. Zoom in as Dave claims that she sezs the funniest things like she is going to conquer the world. Yeah; it is the funniest thing in the world; until you are conquered. But Dave's IQ is even lower than Drake's so this is to be expected. Sometimes; being arrogrant has it's advantages, and you'll seeing an example of what happens when you don't mix arrogrance and stupidity. You just get stupidity. The babyfaces give looks of "Is this guy for real?"; as Oswidge asks if this is an evil princess. Dave blows it off (which for once; I'm on Dave's side) as Lula does the worst mimickry of an evil laugh in history which Daves claims that this is her evil laugh. I doubt this very seriously as the babyfaces all deduce that Irma is an evil princess; which Dave completely blows off. YAY!! Dave also claims that she has hordes of zombies; which is apporos because Dave is also a zombie. A zombie to major kid turnoffs like cooking and cleaning. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Happy everyone?! I wanted to avoid that joke; and you just had to demand the punchline to what I said. Dave calls them all shallow. I need a drop of this for everytime I see a new Disney show; this would have been easy fodder for Fish Hooks back in the days of me ranting on this. Dave also does the Gruffi pose.
Yeah; Dave accuses them of being bigots basically, which is both accurate and projection all at the same time. Lula then gets another great drop claiming that she knew love was blind; but didn't know it was stupid. You are talking to the same guy who confused a barbarian as a libarian moonlighting as a barber. I call projection on thee Lula. Even if you entertain the though of Irma being a monster heel; at least she is a cool heel who likes Dave. Why would I want to be with a sword who acts like a prick in every sentence you speak Lula? At least Irma isn't acting like Wanda from the new Fairly-Oddparents episodes. So we head to Hyrogoth and the evil castle of Princess Imraplotz's castle (I wonder if she is related to Professor Poofenplotz from Phineas & Ferb?) as Irma walks in some hallway with wooden floors (Geez; this kingdom must be really poor to have such lousy booking of floors); and mades it to a pair of doors. She knocks on them and we hear Joan Rivers demanding who is this and Irma sezs her name; and Joan River asks who. Irma gleefully blows her off for saying a dumb knock-knock joke as the doors opens to reveal a purple dress wearing woman with grey hair; a spikey crown with a green jewel in the middle and her smile is downright creepy right down to the fangs. She also has red eyes (Irma has purple eyes) as she does this golden magic power barrier which looks awfully cool. She demands information on what evil deeds Irma has done and addresses herself as Queen Zonthara which I love as a name. So she calls herself the Empress of Evil (EOE) as Irma tells her that she went on another date; which is also evil in it's own funny way. Zonthara asks if she told this Dave dude that she is sworn to serve evil; and Irma said "not exactly". So Dave has been mind screwing the babyfaces in you saying that you'll conquer the world and all that stuff. Yeah; it was funny as Zonthara is angry and has her blue spark magic on to kill Irma...However; she stops instantly and tells her to stop being dishonest like a Teddy Ruxpin. HAHA! Zonthara tells her to be honest because Dave will love her for who she is; or if not, she can make his head explode. That has to be the payoff.
Queen Zonthara is voiced by Joan Rivers: During the late 1950s, Rivers appeared in a short-run play, Driftwood, playing a lesbian with a crush on a character played by a then-unknown Barbra Streisand. The play ran for six weeks.[10] Rivers performed in numerous comedy clubs in the Greenwich Village area of New York City in the early 1960s, including The Bitter End and The Gaslight Cafe,[11] before making her first appearances as a guest on the TV program The Tonight Show originating from New York, hosted at the time by Jack Paar.[12] By 1965, Rivers had a stint on Candid Camera as a gag writer and participant; she was "the bait" to lure people into ridiculous situations for the show. She also made her first appearance on The Tonight Show with new host Johnny Carson, on February 17, 1965.[13] During the same decade, Rivers made other appearances on The Tonight Show as well as The Ed Sullivan Show, while hosting the first of several talk shows. She wrote material for the puppet Topo Gigio. She had a brief role in The Swimmer (1968), starring Burt Lancaster. A year later, she had a short-lived syndicated daytime talk show, That Show with Joan Rivers; Johnny Carson was her first guest.[14] In the middle of the 1960s, she released at least two comedy albums, The Next to Last Joan Rivers Album[15] and Rivers Presents Mr. Phyllis & Other Funny Stories.[16] By the 1970s, Rivers was appearing on various television comedy and variety shows, including The Carol Burnett Show and a semi-regular stint on Hollywood Squares. From 1972 to 1976, she narrated The Adventures of Letterman, an animated segment for The Electric Company.
In 1973, Rivers wrote the TV movie The Girl Most Likely to..., a black comedy starring Stockard Channing. In 1978, Rivers wrote and directed the film Rabbit Test, starring her friend Billy Crystal. During the same decade, she was the opening act for singers Helen Reddy, Robert Goulet, Mac Davis and Sergio Franchi on the Las Vegas Strip. Rivers has spoken of her primary Tonight Show life as having been Johnny Carson's daughter, a reference to his longtime mentoring of her and, during the 1980s, establishing her as his regular guest host by August 1983. It was not her only work, however. On April 9, 1983, she hosted Saturday Night Live.[17] In the same period, she released a best-selling comedy album on Geffen Records, What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most? The album reached No. 22 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.[18] Also in 1984, Rivers published a best-selling humor book, The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abramowitz, a mock memoir of her brassy, loose comedy character. A television special based on the character, a mock tribute called Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abramowitz, was not successful with the public. The decade was controversial for Rivers. She sued female impersonator Frank Marino for $5,000,000 in 1986, after discovering he was using her real stand-up material in the impersonation of her that he included in his popular Las Vegas act. The two comics reconciled, even appearing together on television in later years.[19] Also in 1986 came the move that cost Rivers her longtime friendship with Carson, who had first hired her as a Tonight Show writer. The soon-to-launch Fox Television Network announced that it was giving her a late night talk show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers.[20] The new network planned to broadcast the show 11:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time, making her a Carson competitor.
Carson learned of the show from Fox and not from Rivers herself. In the documentary Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, Rivers said she only called Carson to discuss the matter after learning he may have already heard about it, and that he immediately hung up on her. In the same interview, she said that she later came to believe that maybe she should have asked for his blessing before taking the job. Rivers was banned from appearing on the Tonight Show, a decision respected by Carson's first two successors Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien. Rivers did not appear on the Tonight Show again until February 17, 2014, when she made a brief appearance on new host Jimmy Fallon's first episode.[21] Shortly after Carson's death in 2005, Rivers said that he never spoke to her again. In 2008, during an interview with Dr. Pamela Connolly on television's Shrink Rap, Rivers claimed she did call Carson, but he hung up on her at once and repeated the gesture when she called again. The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers turned out to be flecked by tragedy. When Rivers challenged Fox executives, who wanted to fire her husband Edgar Rosenberg as the show's producer, the network fired them both. On May 15, 1987, three months later, Rosenberg committed suicide in Philadelphia; Rivers blamed the tragedy on his "humiliation" by Fox.[22] Fox attempted to continue the show with a new name (The Late Show) and rotating guest hosts. A year after the Late Show debacle, Rivers was a guest on TV's Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special. By 1989, she tried another daytime TV talk show, The Joan Rivers Show,[23] which ran for five years and won her an Daytime Emmy in 1990 for Outstanding Talk Show Host.[24] In 1994, Rivers and daughter Melissa first hosted the E! Entertainment Television pre-awards show for the Golden Globe Awards.[25]
Beginning in 1995, they hosted the annual E! Entertainment Television pre-awards show for the Academy Awards.[25] Beginning in 1997, Rivers hosted her own radio show on WOR in New York City. Rivers also appeared as one of the center square occupants on the 1986–89 version of The Hollywood Squares, hosted by John Davidson. In 1994, Rivers—who was influenced by the "dirty comedy" of Lenny Bruce—co-wrote and starred in a play about Bruce's mother Sally Marr, who was also a stand-up comic and influenced her son's development as a comic. After 27 previews, "Sally Marr...and Her Escorts," a play "suggested by the life of Sally Marr" ran on Broadway for 50 performances in May and June 1994.[26] Rivers was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actress in a Play and a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing Sally Marr.[27] Rivers appeared in three episodes of the TV show Nip/Tuck during its second, third and seventh season playing herself.[29][30][31] Rivers appears regularly on television's The Shopping Channel (in Canada) and QVC (in both the United States and the UK), promoting her own line of jewelry under brand name "The Joan Rivers Collection". She was also a guest speaker at the opening of the American Operating Room Nurses' 2000 San Francisco Conference. Both Joan and Melissa Rivers are frequent guests on Howard Stern's radio show, and Joan Rivers often appears as a guest on UK panel show 8 out of 10 Cats. Rivers was one of only four Americans invited to the Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005.[32] In 2006, Rivers was featured on the adult animated show, Drawn Together as Princess Clara's vagina that had received too much plastic surgery. Clara's 'vajoana' often repeated the phrase "who are you wearing, who are you wearing?".
On August 16, 2007, Rivers began a two-week workshop of her new play, with the working title "The Joan Rivers Theatre Project", at The Magic Theatre in San Francisco.[33] On December 3, 2007, Rivers performed in the Royal Variety Show 2007 at the Liverpool Empire Theatre, England, with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip present. In January 2008, Rivers became one of 20 hijackers to take control of the Big Brother house in the UK for one day in spin-off TV show Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack. On June 24, 2008, Rivers appeared on NBC-TV’s show Celebrity Family Feud and competed with her daughter, Melissa against Ice-T and Coco. Rivers and daughter Melissa were contestants in 2009 on the second Celebrity Apprentice. Throughout the season, each celebrity raised money for a charity of his or her choice; Rivers selected God's Love We Deliver.[34] After a falling out with poker player Annie Duke, following Melissa's on-air firing (elimination) by Donald Trump, Rivers left the green room telling Clint Black and Jesse James that she would not be in the next morning. Rivers later returned to the show and on May 3, 2009, she became a finalist in the series. The other finalist was Duke.[35][36] On the season finale, which aired live on May 10, Rivers was announced the winner and hired to be the 2009 Celebrity Apprentice. Rivers was featured on the show Z Rock as herself and was also a special so-called pink-carpet presenter for the 2009 broadcast of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. She was also roasted in a Comedy Central special, taped on July 26, 2009, and aired on August 9, 2009. From August 2009, Rivers began starring in the new reality TV series How'd You Get So Rich? on TV Land. A documentary film about Rivers, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival at the Castro Theatre on May 6, 2010.
In 2011, Rivers appeared in a commercial for Go Daddy, which debuted during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLV.[37] To date, Joan has made two appearances on Live at the Apollo, once as a comedian and once as a guest host. Joan and her daughter Melissa Rivers premiered the new show Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? on WE tv. The series follows Joan moving to California to be closer to her family. She moves in with daughter Melissa while searching for a home of her own. WE tv then ordered a new season consisting of 10 episodes, which premiered in January 2012. In 2011, Rivers was featured as herself in Season 2 of Louis C.K.'s self-titled show Louie, where she performed on-stage. Since September 10, 2010, Rivers has co-hosted the E! show Fashion Police, along with Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Osbourne and George Kotsiopoulos commenting on the dos and don'ts of celebrity fashion. The show started as a half-hour program, but expanded to one hour on March 9, 2012. On August 7, 2012, Rivers showed up in Burbank, California to protest that the warehouse-club Costco would not sell her New York Times best-selling book, I Hate Everyone ... Starting with Me. She handcuffed herself to a person's shopping cart and shouted through a megaphone. The police were called to the scene and she left without incident and no arrests were made.[38] On March 5, 2013, Joan launched a new online talk show called In Bed With Joan through YouTube, in which each week she has a different celebrity guest that "comes out of the closet" and they talk about various topics. The show takes place in Joan's bedroom, which is in Melissa's house in Malibu, California. She began her career on Mister Universe as an audience member in 1951. Dave The Barbarian is her DTVA debut and only appearance. Where The Sun Kisses The Ocean is her most recent credit. She has 298 Self credits, 36 acting credits, 13 writing credits, four producer credits, and one direction credit to her resume.
So then Dave calls out Irma as he unicycles in with the plunger arrow; which also makes me laugh. Do my eyes decieve me? We are halfway through this episode and this episode is really, really good. So Zonthara then goes back into "I MUST KILL THAT BIGOT FOR GIVING ME PINK SPECIAL MAGICAL EFFECTS" mode; and shoots a pink laser beam in front of Dave to destroy the wooden floor. Oh; that's the reason why the floor was wooden to begin with. So doesn't that imply that Zonthara's magic has no effect on stone? That's some weaksauce magic there, Zon! Dave falls through the floor; because he is a unicycling moron. See what I did there? So Irma blows her off for trying to kill her boyfriend (without using the word kill because BS&P rules! Disintergrate is a neat sub; but it doesn't work in this case because she missed Dave anyway.) which Zonthara orders her to talk to him honestly; and then goes into "HATE PURPLE MODE" again before Irma has to talk her down from doing that spot again. Yes; at least one character in this show hates Seth McFarlane's method of jokes in which you hammer the joke into the ground until it reaches China and becomes sadistic instead of being funny. So Zonthara disappears via a purple poof smoke spot as Dave climbs up from the carnage confused about this scene. Irma pops the plunger from Dave's head and he screams the instant it is pulled off his head. That was giggle inducing as Irma finally points out that the lady destroying floors is her mother and Irma is evil. She is so evil that she actually returns library books late. HAHA! Actually; that makes sense because if you paying for the books due to being late; the libaray gets more money that way, and expands the place nicely. I mean; how much is a library card these days? Apparently; it's up to $2 and that's to replace a library card. Fines are up to $1 per book; which they seriously need to consider raising. Dave is still confused, claiming that she doesn't look evil. I guess Dave's real friends (who we don't see at all in this show) are a long line of vampires; so this makes sense, sort of.
Irma claims that she is half good because her daddy is a babyface; which I think is false since she has clearly gotten tired of Zonthara's tactics and antics. She doesn't like annoying crap as they hold hands and exchange pleasure thoughts. Dave's smile cracks me up for the wrong reasons like Fanboy's yodel scream blitz move in Fanboy & Chum Chum (which sounds like Fanboy channeling Kenshiro's high pitched scream in Fist Of The North Star). So they decide to overlook their differences as Dave proclaims that he'll play along because the story would end too soon. Normally; this fourth wall break would bug me, but he is right in this case so let's start with a segueway of Dave taking more than one twig sample from the sample dish inside the Great Indoor Marketplace (for the fourth time in five episodes) as Dave's evil laugh is funnier than his normal one. Somehow Lula is with him and she just looks at him for no reason. What was the point of having Lula in this scene anyway? Then we segueway to Irma returning Pedxings to the glasses wearing dark skinned librarian who informs us that the book was returned on time; and then he checks the inside of the book and notices that the last page is ripped off. This would be fine if there wasn't an extra page after that. Irma then does the worst evil laugh in history while basically having guilt written all over her face. She stammers and then we discover that this was a dream sequence all along since they are back in Irma's castle holding hands and looking directly at the hard camera. They call this a bust as Dave felt so bad that he bought 10,000 boxes of Nut Logs which are basically pertzel sticks as we flashback to Oswidge entering the closet as there are boxes and boxes of nutlogs in there. Oswidge is so happy to see them as one of the boxes is clearly open and he dives into it like Teddy and Digger diving over a bush. Like they were diving into a swimming pool. So we return to reality (no, not really) as Irma wants Dave to try to be really evil which Dave acts like if this is a drug or something. Irma does the "try it" routine which sounds like a great prospect; and then Dave releases her hands; scratches his head and dumps her officially.
See; Dave sucks at being evil which is funny considering that he enjoys cleaning; which to kids is being a heel. So Dave proclaims that he is breaking up; but he will think of her everytime he gets a rash and then walks off stage left. Oh; that is fighting words Dave the CLEANING BARBARIAN OF LAUGHS! So she invokes date rule number one which is to never break up with an evil princess as she brings out the "THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE MOTHER" electrical Wii U Cyan Blue Magic Of Death. I so approve of this moment! The problem is; this effectively turns Irma into a sad heel who only got dumped because Dave is so shallow in being unable to accept the fact that he sucks as a human being/babyface in general. He also sucks at being a heel; but at least his heel persona is amusing. Unless it's asking questions. Then he's the worst human being on the face of the earth. She laughs badly which is always cute to see; and then we head back to Dave's castle and inside as they are in the closet and Dave is pissed off at Candy for allowing Oswidge to eat the nutlog; prompting Candy to blow him off as Oswidge lays there with a big ass belly. This would have worked better if there weren't at least three boxes of nutlogs on the floor; filled to the brim. I should note that Oswidge is supposed to be on the floor; but on the far shot when Irma arrives via her wormhole spell; Oswidge is on the table out of nowhere. Dumb logic break there guys! So Fang arrives as Dave admits that he dumped her as Oswidge claims that Dave was lucky since a band of pixies tried to destroy the kingdom when he dumped his girlfriend. Like uncle, like cousin methinks. So then we get a bunch of evil pixies who all have red curly hair, green whites in their eyes and look so yellow, they must be from Gedo's fanclub. That is EVIL, man! They fly in and try to destroy the place and have some limited success doing it. Fang yanks out the tongue of one of them and it splits into two; which Fang yells that they cannot die. Narrator of course pointed this little fact out earlier because Fang is slow and dumb when it comes to thinking. Psychopaths tend to act this way too.
Irma proclaims that he will pay for dumping her and her evil laugh is getting better and better as this show goes on. Good for her! So the pixies fly out of the castle; kill everybody basically. Okay; they destroy mostly medium sized objects and left fingerprints all over the place which we don't see despite the narrator telling us that they are. Geez; this narrator is no Stan Freberg. At least in the Wuzzles; he allows the Wuzzles to show and tell the action while only summarizing the entire episode. This goes on for a while as we cut back onto the top of the castle as Oswidge is using the weirdest looking telescope in history as Fang whines about stopping them in a way that doesn't split them into two. Oswidge then notices two pixies sitting on a box panting; as they complain about doing this stupid stuff; and then Irma comes out to blow them off and threatens them with Pedxing's poems if they do not destroy the castle. They respond with the "you wouldn't dare" promo; which is one of the dumbest things you can say to a heel besides "You'll never get away with this". The former being that heels accept dares and the later is dumb because if they never got away with stuff, they would have been in prison a long time ago, or be a legit babyface. So Irma reads from the book and it's smelly soggy French cheese (indicating that France exists in this world); this is enough for the pixies to panic and then they somehow join the millions out of nowhere to cause destruction and havoc. So the babyfaces deduce that they are being controlled with Pedxing's poetry which causes them physical pain; which Candy has to say that it does that to people. Geez; and I thought Dave was thin skinned? So Dave has a Krackpotkin Plan as he runs out and we see him with his back turned away from the hard camera creating something out of a megaphone, rope and a squirrel; which is supposed to be a megaphone according to the narrator. Michael Patcher Syndrome; begone from this show! So he yells into the megaphone towards the pixies who have stopped what they are doing; and Dave does poetry which I guess is poems featuring fart jokes. The pixies panic and Dave chases them out of town, natch. Okay.
I have no personal beef with this; minus the stupid squirrel tying routine. So we cut back to the other babyfaces watching on as Irma appears from behind and proclaims that Dave is a fool who thinks he can get out of this dumping unscatched. Candy then blows her off for laughing and to inform her that Dave is not here at this time. So then out of nowhere; Irma is wearing red glasses, claiming that she hates wearing them because they make her look bookish. Apparently; she has vision problems and has to wear them while doing unspeakable acts of evil. Which apparently involve pixies and bad poems. The pixies fly to the castle as the wormhole is still there; thus making Irma look like an idiot as Dave is still yelling out fart jokes at the pixies. One of them did make me laugh: Eat your vegetables; you'll grow up; unless they are rotton; you'll throw up. I need a drop of this. The pixies fly into the wormhole and out of sight as Irma is surprised by this action. Somehow Dave was able to teleport onto the castle rampart as Dave proclaims that he wrote all this poetry; implying that he is Pedxing! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Irma offers this as proof that Dave can be evil; as Dave thinks she's just being nice. Irma is pissed off and swears revenge on Dave as she goes through the wormhole and it closes. Dave does the funniest and stupidest goodbye promo I have ever seen as he has the Pedxing book (which Irma gave to him before leaving) which he looks in the pages and the last page is torn off. We hear her laugh in the background; which is contrived and Dave curses her in the stupidest and most funniest way possible. Someone please send me an animated GIF of Dave doing this spot. Now; if they had ended the episode right there; this would be the best episode of the series and a legit thumbs up to boot. However; as we come to the second "CURSE YOU" from Dave; the animation stopped and we zoom out to see Flappy in the directors chair watching on the computer the frozen action; and then we pan over to Dave sitting in a director's chair next to Flappy as we see mumbling in the background. CURSE YOU DAVE THE PSA GEEK~!
Anyhow; Flappy flips out of his chair gagging as Dave was about to explain why he tied a squirrel to the megaphone...And then he waves goodbye. You just had to give a middle finger to the audience, didn't you?! If you are not going to deliver a payoff to this; then don't tease it you jackass! Flappy spits out a pixie who is as annoyed as I am as this ends the episode at 10:26. This was a wonderful episode with a great finish and a stupid ending that shouldn't need to be done. This is exactly how they should have treated Chuckles the first time he showed up: He loses and he leaves instead of getting murdered by three babyfaces and used as a glazed ham. Wait until the end of the series to do that spot and it would actually have impact. Instead; they buried him deep into the ground in five minutes. Imra was great, Zonthara was perfectly acceptable as a heel and Dave was funny for a change. **** (80%). Wow; the first thumbs up episode since about March of this year.
Ned Frischman: Man Of Tomorrow: We begin this one with a blue background with white circles and pulsing red waves of paint!! Yeah. There are stars as the narrator informs us that this story takes place deep within time as we are going to the future! Oh yeah! We then head to 1994 at some WattoBatto Pants Company (I think that is what the company is named since the writing is so crappy; and I have no idea what the narrator said here) as this is basically your typical office setting; only the artwork looks even crappier than in an episode of Fairly Oddparents. So we head inside to a sky shot of the cubicles as someone with black rimmed glasses is trying to knit pants and failing badly. I discover from the narration that this is Ned Frischman; and this is his story as he is a dork; which is perfectly fine in this case because he's supposed to be the heel and is supposed to be a dork by character. So we see him get up and throw his pants down in a rage as he has orange hair, a green vest, orange tie, white shirt and grey pants. So he's pissed off because he has tried to sew a zipper on for nine years and failing badly. See; he wants to be Employee of the Month and wipe the smirk off of Mara's face on the wall where the Employee Of The Month picture is shown. When I mean wipe; I mean replacing her with Ned in his own mind. Ned is giddy and then here's what happens next: A comet goes through the window and nails the zipper. A laser comes out of nowhere to zap purple rays on said zipper; followed by purple chemicals from a test tube. Then Thor arrives to use his hammer to shoot lighting bolts onto the zipper. Then a grasshopper who is radioactive bites the zipper. UGH! All out of nowhere and going about the same place. God; I hate overkill and the narrator is making it worse! And of course a blue monk whispers at the zipper turning it blue. I'm serious; the monk is completely blue; from his skin to his clothes. Why was this needed? PICK ONE AND STICK WITH IT!
To be fair; the zipper floats and it's now known as the Time Zipper; which would have been even funnier if it was actually a blue bottle fly. Of course; no child would get the Rescue Rangers reference, but then again; they will not care because it's still funny wordplay all the same. Ned is in awe of this moment as he grabs the zipper and stares at the 1994 calender (I'm guessing this show was pitched in 1994; and now ten years later, the execs came back and said: Approved!) as he sezs to hell with 1994, I'll return to a stupider time and rule the world as he zips the Time Zipper into the wall and it opens the same portal sequence we saw at the beginning of this episode as he gets in and floats in the weird painted space. He also claims that it will be called Frishistory; which is cute. I should note that Ned is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz who was the voice of Christopher "Mouth" in Kick Buttowski. Yeah. So we head back to Udrogoth castle as the babyfaces are standing outside doing nothing of note. Candy is twirling her hair, Fang is doing the Gruffi pose which Candy proceeds to do the same, and then we pan over to Dave and Oswidge doing nothing as well. Lula is doing eye contact violence on Dave; while Fang is doing it straight at the hard camera. And then we get one of those spots where it's clear the writers do not care: Lula yells directly at the hard camera proclaiming that they are two minutes into this thing. Dave is checking his watch claiming that the heel is supposed to come anytime now. So yes folks; this is all a work, which is obvious because they have demonstrated this as such in several episodes already. Phineas & Ferb does a much better job than this because even though it is a work; there is a sense that it feels like it's real while here, it's clear that this is a modern show that just acts like the Middle Ages. Basically; a giant middle finger to the audience who wants fourth wall breaking that makes sense. So the zipper is opened; white flash and out comes Ned as we see him wearing white tennis shoes with blue trim and blue socks. Ned introduces himself and acts all high and mighty. I also notice that he is missing a tooth for some reason.
Ned calls himself the man of tomorrow; which is so true, it's not true. So Candy is in awe of Ned's pant as Ned asks for them to bow down to which Fang replies that she doesn't bow down to strangers. She's not allowed to do that. So killing daises and squishing monsters is fine; but bowing is wrong. Okay; got it. So Ned does the hard sell as he has brought artifacts from...the future~! Ned's promo was good as he brings out the garage door opener and pushes the white button while explaining that it opens garage doors without him leaving the car. The white button looks like a doorbell button; so I assume that his door is unlocked and opened as well. Of course he is in the wrong time period; so it does nothing...AND THE ROCK SEZS NOTHING! I betcha we'll see an image of his home with the garage door opening anytime now. The babyfaces do not care at all as Oswidge just has to make a fart joke that wasn't funny. Ned is not liking this lack of fear from the babyfaces, so he unleashes the blender with strawberry liquid, a olive that looks like a cube and a whole carrot. He can made temor in fear smoothies. Which started in the 1940's actually. Dave asks what is fruit which means that he has never read the bible; which has been around even in his time at least 1000 years ago. He's dumb. And he's a guy who reads bad poetry. Ned brings out the blue mini fan of doom and turns it on; then a diet candy bar, and other such international objects from the future. Let's just say that the babyfaces have no idea what he is talking about and move on. He then finally brings out a blue Gameboy system which was called a Game Guy. Let me tell you how glad Nintendo was in slaying the Gameboy brand: This episode was released six months before E3 when Reggie came on stage; revealed the Nintendo DS, and Nintendo's fortunes started to turn around so much that when the Wii finally entered it's first year, everyone cared about Nintendo so much, even if they hated it. Flappy appears squealing with glee as the babyfaces still no sell this as Ned puts the video game cart into the Game Guy; and it's called Bash The Behemoths as Fang grabs the thing wondering how this works.
The Dave tells her instantly to push buttons at the same time as we hear Super Mario Brothers sound effects. For goodness sakes; please stop using NES sound effects and use Gameboy sound effects which are suppose to be what they are shooting for here. So the gang watches on and Dave said graphics out of the blue (exposing this show as a work) and Candy has no idea what he is talking about. Oswidge has ass jokes on the brain and then they argue over the game. At least this works since the heel's plan is to laud the babyfaces into something great like a pervert; and then rule the world when they are distracted. This is a good plan actually. So he goes though the zipper portal of doom as the narrator explains that Ned's plan was forming before his eyes. So we head to the SUPERSTORE OF DOOM as Ned is at the check out counter with Game Guys boxes which are purple in color with yellow G's in the middle and triangle neon green borders on the front. The artwork is so bad that one of the boxes looks like it has a yellow target on them. Man; check out the check out clerk dude, his hair and face look like he hates his life. So Ned uses the Time Zipper and loads them into the portal as the clerk asks if he needs help loading them up. Geez; those Game Guys must be about $20 a pop if he's buying at least 30 of them to stuff into the portal. So we head to the Great Indoor Marketplace for the fifth time in six episodes! At least this time makes sense as we have Ned with a booth with Game Guy boxes in the background as he hands them all out for free (which turns him babyface) to all the kids as he laughs like an evil madman; and sounds better than even Irma! There are balloons tied to the right side of the table and there is a neon sign against a purple cover in front of the table that reads in black letters: Waste Time Now - Ask Me How. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I really don't care if this offends video gamers because it is true; and I get sick and tired of people arguing that I'm an anti-gamer because I won't insult moral guardians and buy M-Rated games. Listen...It does no good to insult them. They are smarter than most gamers because they are vile. They can outsmart us; otherwise, this issue would have been over already. Second; I'm not the one asking for a ban on these games because I know that they do not work. Regulation works when it makes sense and is based on science and results. If you put the idealogy of censorship to "anything censored is bad"; then you also must bash Nintendo for dimming the special effects in Super Mario RPG. Do you know why they dimmed the effects for the VC versions of this game? Because it allows people in which bright lights can cause them seizures to play these games without being in danger of dying due to the side effects of seizures. When you condemn a common sense move like that; you have basically adovacted that people with seizures shouldn't play video games; or worse, don't give a damn about them of they do. THAT'S censorship; because you are using their health as a weapon for idealogy. Screw you! Yes; most of the rules are arbitary and based on bad science or no science. That doesn't mean anything goes because some rules are in fact grounded in good science. It would be determetiral to play absolutionist on this front because to me: absolutionist is simply "only my religion is right". Not every law or rule was created as an asshole move (a lot of them actually are; but still); and only a psychopath would think this way. The last thing this industry needs is idiots who have no empathy towards customers that would benefit them by parting ways with their money. So everyone is in awe and wants in on this as Ned laughs like mad. Then he stops and claims that he had practice in this evil laugh stuff; and I am loving this Ned fellow. So everyone is playing Super Mario Brothers on their Game Guys as this invention succeeds in actually creating peace in the kingdom because the invaders and the guards are too busy playing video games.
So this turns Ned babyface and how can anyone diss this show for this? They LOVE the games; so what is the problem? So we head to the castle as the narrator proclaims that they are killing their youth playing these games. This would be a horrible anti-gamer promo; but in the Dark Ages, this is a good thing because they have stopped acting violent and they stopped trying to kill each other for no reason. The video game give them an outlet to vent their hate without having to do it on a human being. This turns Ned babyface by proxy. So then we see a cyan blue horse who looks like a Fairy Oddparents reject crossed with My Little Pony wanting in; but Candy blows him off because she's a mean princess or something. That turns Irma into a bigger babyface than she already was. I then realize that this the debut of Twinkle The Marvel Horse; who is the defacto best babyface of the series by default. Twinkle's gimmick is that he speaks like a parody of Christopher Walken; which sadly, he doesn't appear. I guess either Disney was too cheap to hire him; or he thought this role was an insult to him. I'm thinking the later here; and Jeff Bennett doesn't help matters much. Twinkle is still awesome though as he sezs please about a dozen times and she blows him off. Twinkle begs and no sold by Candy; so Twinkle then starts talking about dark and stormy night as we HIT THE DREAM SEQUENCE~! Or he teases it and then Candy gives up; puts the thing down on the ground and storms off. HAHA! Twinkle's promo was awesome here. Sadly; as his pink hooves touch the GG; he suddenly realizes that he has no opposable thumbs and thus cannot play the game so to speak. HAHA! So we head into the forest with Fang and Dave playing video games; and then something awful happens: Everyone's Game Guy dies on them as we discover that the batteries have run out of juice. Oh SNAP!! So we head back inside the Great Indoor Marketplace at the booth with Ned as the crowd is not amused and protesting this outrage. You would think that this would be the end of Ned's dream of worldly conquest...
...However; Ned saves himself and the day by showing them a package of batteries. He proclaims that he'll offer them to the guys...then he looks directly at the hard camera and sezs: for a price...Cue evil laugh as we cut to outside of the GIM while this laughing is going on. We zoom out and then this leads to a segueway to the SUPERSTORE OF DOOM which is called Aisles 4 Miles, complete with at least 74 sections of parking. So we see Ned at the checkout booth with dozens and dozens of batteries being scanned by the clerk as he yells that he is going to conquer the world as the clerk basically proclaims that he is starting in a band. I feel for this poor clerk as he is tossing battery packs into the portal. So then we segueway to the denizens of the ancient world carrying large stone blocks which are apparently made of gold because the narrator said so. So he builds the Sphinx out of solid gold along with Mount Frischmore which shows off his fugly mug in five different mouth moving motions. That was cool as he also creates the great pryamid of Ned and Ned's mini golf course which looks great. Again; why should I boo this geek?! His plan is awesome. So we see Fang and Oswidge sliding in a slab of rock into the pyramid as Candy is sitting on top blowing this off complaining that she is doing actual work; which consists of simply jumping off the slab as the two other faces put the slab into the slot. So we teleport cut to over a cliff with Ned looking on as Oswidge, Fang and Candy demand their batteries because they worked for him on this. So Ned simply throws six batteries (so the Game Guys take 2 AA batteries) at the babyfaces; causing them to do the FCC FRIENDLY CLOUDDUST FIGHT OF DOOM, and then we see them play with their out of nowhere Game Guys. Then the batteries go dead literally four seconds later. Now; the problem with this is: It took at least 3 minutes for the batteries to go dead in real time; so it should be at least 6 hours of battery juice per system. The system klonked out in four seconds? Either Ned has bought the worst batteries on the planet; batteries even the Dollar Store wouldn't carry (regulations you know), or this is a logic break.
So the babyfaces yell and scream for batteries; and Ned agrees to it; if they finish ten more slabs on the pyramid as they go "yes master" in unison. Ned is the best heel in this show; even better than Irma at this point since he has been able to enslave the population without causing destruction. So then we get the best moment in the episode and one of those moments where the "cooking" gimmick actually made me laugh: Dave is in the kitchen slicing bread with Lula the sword because he is trying to make the sandwich that will be named after Ned. AWESOME! This show has turned around for me. No, not really; but this show is officially better than Mighty Ducks in 14 episodes! So he inspects sandwiches asking about Mayo or Mustard; and then decides to combine the two and call it Mayotard. I hope Ned kicks his ass for that word! Flappy comes in as Dave is stirring the green vase of doom as Lula blows him off because they are all enslaved due to a video game. Here's the obvious problem with this: She is basically acting like an old fart who thinks everything in the future is bad. So why did she agree top stay with Dave The Barbarian then? Answer: Because he's too dumb to dump the sword who is so old Argon was only 10 years old. Dave rightfully blows her off as being jealous because she doesn't have opposible thumbs. Which is in fact true; and she admits it. But she is right you see! So Lula is advocating that invasions, violence and diseases are great because she has FREEDOM~ from being enslaved by a comedy dork who gets things done and there is actual peace and more harmony than there was BEFORE he gave out the "stupid" videogame?! Doesn't she realize that she is the heel in this setup? Lula would make a good anti-vaxx prick if she was real. So Flappy somehow teleported into the vase because he shows up and spits out a salami for Dave to catch. Dave acts all nice to Flappy who doesn't have opposable thumbs either. So this leads to the narrator proclaiming that it's up to Twinkle, Lula & Flappy to save the day as Twinkle runs out of the castle with Flappy on his back welding Lula; which is a really funny visual that needs to be done more often in this show.
Here's a logic break that annoys me a little: Flappy is welding a sword. If he has no opposable thumbs; then he shouldn't be able to grasp the handle of Lula because it requires a thumb to keep the sword from flying out of his hand. I hope this means that the spot of a flying sword is forthcoming; because if not, it's a logic break. So we head to the cliff with Ned watching on and the TRIO OF NO THUMBS arrives as I discover that Flappy is holding the handle of Lulu with both hands. I'm fine with that as Ned asks if they are here to beg for mercy; but they are here to CHARGE! So they run in and then suddenly; two fat barbarian guards appear with axes playing games. They say halt while playing; and this was out of nowhere yet again. So we scene change to Lula, Twinkle and Flappy tied up and raised over the pyramid. HOW?! This makes no sense! Ned proclaims that he is going to entomb them in the pyramid to kill them as Dave arrives with three sandwiches asking him to put them through their paces. So Ned wants him to come over as he steps on the out of nowhere metal foot petal which reveals that the prymid is also the world's biggest trashcan. Gapping logic break #1: Lula is a sword with a sharp blade; and she's in the holder to kill that. Which begs the question: How did Ned get that holder? Gaping logic break #2: On the next shot where Lula is screaming for Dave to stop this nonsense; the holder is gone. So she should be able to cut through the ropes and escape now. WHAT?! So we got three bad logic breaks in a span of thirty seconds. Now this show is going back to being a stupid show that deserved it's cancellation. Dave has his Game Guy as he needs batteries. Lula informs him that she will tell Dave the secret to beating level seven if they are free. Now; at this point; the episode hasn't been too stupid. However; can someone explain the next sequence of events for me because I don't get it....
So suddenly; Dave calls Ned a fiend, and kicks his ass and turns him into a soccer ball. He throws him away. He then grabs the pyramid and lathes it into a stone delta shaped block in which he proceeds to throw and snap the magical rope of doom which frees the TRIO OF NO THUMBS! Yeah; Dave kicked a nerd's ass and turned a pyramid into a small block to throw at the rope which somehow cut the ropes loose. All because Lula told him that she will tell him how to beat level seven. NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE! This is completely absurd and goes completely against Dave's character that they have been shooting for. Ned manages to run in and use the time zipper to unleash a green dinosaur. Ned orders the dinosaur to attack the babyfaces; but it runs into the opposite direction and destroys Ned's sphinx. This made more sense than Dave kicking Ned's ass at least. So then we jump cut to the green dinosaur in the marketplace destroying everything Ned owns including Mount Frischmore with soundwaves from his roar; and then plays mini golf like a human being. HAHA! I like that spot for some reason. So the dinosaur comes back and roars in Ned's face. Ned proclaims that he might perish; but at least Dave will die with him. Dave blows it off; as he brings out two human sized pieces of bread, grabs Ned and makes him into a sandwich. He opens the time zipper and proceeds to throw Ned into the portal as Ned is protesting this outage. The green dinosaur follows and eats Ned off-screen as the portal closes. So Dave goes to Lula and demands payment about level seven. Lula states that you go to level six and ask directions; which Dave responds by saying why didn't I think of that. Geez; I wonder why too? So the babyfaces are on stage informing the public that Ned is gone and they are free from having to buy batteries from him; because there won't be anymore Game Guys. The crowd at first was happy; but then realized that this is worse than when they were enslaved; and they bring out the pitchforks. They grab Dave and carry him stage right out of sight. I presume to tar & feather him; which I'm perfectly fine with. Video games promote peace; not war!
So we head back to the pants factory and a sky shot of Ned's cubicle as Ned swears revenge on Dave and company for denying his quest to rule the ancient world; and at least he didn't get buried. He got away from the green dinosaur in good shape; and despite the stupid logic holes at the finish, Ned came out looking strong. Ned proclaims that they'll calls barbarian, Frischarians which is legit funny at least. So the supervisor in a suit gathers up the employees as there is a purple cloth over the new picture for Employee Of The Month on the wall. Ned crosses his fingers twice; so you know he is not going to win as the purple cloth is taken off. Yeap; it's the green dinosaur, because the writers think this is funny. It's stale as fifty year bread. The employees cheer for him and Rex acts all human and thus contradicts his own nature. Ned calls this cruel fate and slides down the wall of his cubicle to end the episode at 10:25. This actually won an Annie Award for best writing in an animation production for 2004; and even though I thought this episode was really, really good, I felt Girlfriend was better because they didn't stuff it with logic breaks and nonsensical stuff at the finish. However; outside of that, Ned was awesome, this plotline was great and it was mostly funny. Call it **** (80%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Wow; I was expecting both episodes to be good in spite of the massive fatal mistakes and logic breaks; but both episodes are leagues better than any of the Mighty Ducks episodes I have seen. Girlfriend was actually better than I expected because I got into Irmaplotz right away and she got away without losing any of her heat when Dave won. Dave won in such a way that Irma didn't get beat down and buried like Chuckles did; and they let Irma do her thing and it made logical sense. Sure; I was cheering Irma on most of the time, but before Dave dumped her; I was digging Dave as the clueless babyface because he was being a babyface. He saw something in Irma that he can relate to; and he defended her from the bigotry of the other babyfaces. The only thing that dragged this down was the ending as they did another stupid PSA-equse scene which continues to bug me (Which they tease a payoff to the squirrel spot; but didn't deliver at all. Stupid!). Stop acting like a work; you cannot do it properly and not as good as Phineas & Ferb. Just do you routines as a shoot and it's better off. Ned Frischman: Man Of Tomorrow started off as the best episode of the series and was getting to ***** levels of greatness; and then it completely fell apart with logic breaks and really bad booking of the finish. I love Ned Frischman; he is the perfect comedy dork heel, and that is his character. He's supposed to be a wimp. Now; Dave kicking Ned's ass was fine; but the lathing spot with the pyramid was convoluted as well as Lula being tied up with rope that we never see where the rope is tied too. Logic break at the end killed it and turned it into a barely thumbs up episode; but I'm not going to overlook a gift horse in the mouth here. These two episodes were great and even if the show is buried now after four awful episodes before this; this show can be great if they stop acting like they are creative, and simply book good. Make sure your babyfaces come off as babyfaces and your heels come off as heels. And if you have cool heels; don't bury them in five minutes. Ned was defeated; but his plan was genius. Plus; he got away and they didn't have to do something convoluted to make it happen. This is a huge plus. I even laughed at the kitchen spot with Dave making a sandwich in Ned's name. Overall; Dave The Barbarian was great for once, and it also shows that I was right in being a lot less offended in the show in general. We will soon see how this plays into future episodes; but for now, we know Irma and Ned are coming back for more fun later on. So....
Thumbs up for both episodes and I'll see you all next time.