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Dave The Barbarian: Night Of The Living Plush/I Love Neddy
Reviewed: 08/31/2014
I Love Plush Neddy!
We march on with more antics of lameness as Candy buys a lot of plush animals; only Chuckles turns them into a living army of destruction. Then Ned Frischman returns to wreck havoc on Udrogoth by telling jokes from 1946! I am so loving this prospect. Let's rant on shall we...?!
Night Of The Living Plush is written and story edited by Mark Drop. I Love Neddy is written and story edited by Evan Gore and Heather Lombard . The animation is done by SOB Animation.
Opening Moment #1: Castle crumble shot of the day: Six giant balls of yarn with needles sticking out.
Night Of The Living Plush: We begin this one with a shot of the throne room which looks like a mess as the narrator starts by talking about a world of filith as we basically get a commercial movie ad setup for Dave to show up wearing a white apron, yellow rubber gloves and green hair net welding a vacuum cleaner made of a wooden log, wheels and a squeeze smoker. The pipe handle looks like something out of lacrosse if played by Fred Flintstone. So we starts sucking up garbage; but throws away an out of nowhere leprechaun calling it weird. Cut to Fang and Oswidge watching television on the crystal ball. I'm shocked that no one has invented a crystal ball shaped television yet. I mean; think of putting it on the dinner table and everyone can see the same image from any angle in the room. No more need of putting it in the corner and viewing it from just one angle anymore. We see an image of a viking looking mean and rushing something as the crystal room fizzles out. Oswidge and Fang are eating cereal in their pj's and Oswidge blows off Dave's persuit of clean while they are watching cartoons. Yawn. Cut to the hallway with more Dave using the vacuum cleaner in it's correct context; and then he starts sucking up plush animals by the dozens as there is a pile of them in the hallway. Fang runs in and blows off Dave because she wants to hear her physically violent cartoons. Oooookkkkkaaayyyy. Dave is confused as to why theere are stuffed animals in the hallway in a pile; and we discover that someone is stuffing plush animals in rooms and causing a mess when the doors are opened. Dave proclaims that he's cool with it as long as no more are brought; and we see Candy open a door and come into the hallway as more plush animals are flying out of the room she was in. I think it's clearly obvious who is buying them. At least when she was buying various shoes and clothes on the World Wide Spiderweb, they were at least useful in a sense. This person has a clear shopping addiction and it's spreading like a cancer to pointless plush animals. Don't get me wrong; plush animals are not horrible, they are just pointless at any age.
Candy goes on and on about how cute they are as the hallway is flooded with the stuff. Dave sezs Kajabbers and yells at Candy that she cannot buy anymore stuff because the hallway is full. See how easy it is to order a kid to not do something and give a justified reason instead of just saying "Because I said so." Candy of course invokes the rowboat to row onto the flood of plush toys claiming that she'll stuff them in the west tower. So we head out to the western tower and it shoots plush toys out of the top of the tower like a large gun. It rains plush toys pieces as the two guards watch on in awe; and then one of the guards claims that you don't see this often. Which we discover that there is a wheel with green wings hovering during the plush storm. Okay. The family is outside in the cotton rain as Oswidge calls this a tragic loss and asks how Candy can cope with this. No; this is not a tragic loss Oswidge; and Candy proves this to me by waving it off and doing the Gruffi pose. Her solution is of course to buy more plushes, because she is addicted to shopping. And I might add: Her shopping addiction makes her look like a rigid gender role stereotype. So we go to the Great Indoor Marketplace which is a place I never want to see again for as long as I live and we head to Mrs. Bogmelon's defect shop of doom as Candy and Bogmelon are pondering over this plush doll thing. So Bogmelon claims that she has a box of spiders which are stuffed; and she shows one to Candy. And it can talk; which Candy decides that it's close enough and wants to pay for it. Bogmelon decides to sell it for 4 dracos instead of 3; because she's a bad salesperson, but the point is moot because Candy has no money and asks if she can put it on debit. Bogmelon is not amused and literally kicks Candy out of the store. Candy falls on her belly and proclaims that she needs plushes which Bogmelon counters that no money equals no plush. Candy gets up and realizes that she has her ways to get that money, so we head to the public square as the messenger is on stage proclaiming that Candy has ordered a huge tax in order to fund her plush doll fund while showing various plush animals. Yeah; no one is amused.
But when they show the bear; they instantly submit to it and cheer for this greedy new tax. Even in storyline, this is dumb. We pan over to Oswidge, Fang and Dave in the front of castle as Oswidge complains about Candy bankruptting the kingdom. I should be offended by this gross waste of spending; but I don't care anymore because they do this idiotic thing over and over again because they think the kids will not use their brains in the end. Dave has an idea to counter this which is a...protest song! Knowing Dave; this is not the worst idea in the world. So the babyfaces get on stage dressed up as hippies with only Dave wearing sandals. Peace symbols abound as only two people and a walrus decide to watch because only a walrus would give a damn about Dave's awesomely bad singing. And we sing the most redneck song Dave could sing under BS&P rules; which completely contradicts the whole point of the peace movement. Power to the people (in power), indeed! Lula has the worst hairpiece ever! Apparently; it's called the "save us from plushicide" implying that the plushes are sentient and are going to kill them all. Way to give the entire plot away in the song fellas! So we head back to the GIMP with Candy wheeling a shopping cart of plush toys like a stereotypical old homeless lady; only Candy is not homeless and has lots of priviledge. She's still addicted to the gills as we cut to a hotdog stand being attended to by Chuckles The Silly Piggy. It's clear to me that the irony of this moment is completely lost on Chuckles being a hotdog vendor; but whatever. It's not like the writers care about not noticing a great joke when it's in plain sight. Chuckles proclaims that he will give Candy a plush toy that would lead to certain destruction for Udrogoth as it causes Chuckles to laugh like only Chuckles can. We hear a male supervisor yell at Chuckles that break time is over and Chuckles proclaims that it's time to get back to work. So after the shift and 47 hot dogs sold; we cut back to Candy wheeling the shopping cart as we hear Chuckles voice and cut to a box with Chuckles disguised as a sailor in a box that the sign sezs "Free" and "Needs A Good Home". Yeah; I'll bet.
Candy comes over and pulls the tail of Chuckles while sweet talking him in a manner that anyone would get hyper in a few seconds. Chuckles threatens violence; but then catches himself and claims that he will love her forever. Yeah; I'll bet. Candy plops him into the shopping cart and we head to one of the room with loads and loads of stuff animals as Chuckles is plopped into the room and then Candy struggles to get the door closed. Chuckles is stuck in stuffed animals and calls this a problem. Then the door flings open and the plush animals all flood out and go down the stairs. Chuckles pops free from the carnage and then uses the magic amulet on them as he is going to create an army of killer plush animals. This is actually a good move on Chuckles part; he cannot lose in this situation. Chuckles basically tells them to destroy Udrogoth and the plushes sell as the narrator calls this the night of the living plush. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. So we hit the montage of plush animals pushing over apple carts, which somehow burst into flames. Everyone watches on as a pink dressed viking girl proclaims in a contrived voice that the land is ruined; but it's so cute anyway that no one gives a flying damn about this. Which is not a surprise considering that they know Candy bought the plushes with THEIR tax money. Never mind that her family was the only one who took this seriously at all. Speaking of Candy she watches in horror and it's impossible to take this seriously with the names she is giving them. Chuckles comes in and orders the plush to do all sorts of evil things that I actually approve of and then laughs in Candy's face for having a destructive addiction that no one cares about. That was really funny as Candy calls him Captain Porky Puss; which Chuckles blows off because he's Chuckles The Silly Piggy. Chuckles also makes my laugh by demonstrating how stupid Candy is and proving that figuring this out is not rocket science. I wish that Chuckles wasn't buried in his first appearance on this show because most of the episodes involving him are pretty awesome. Chuckles laughs like only he can and bails...
...and we cut to the family continuing to sing protest sings while the plush animals take over. I hope Dave counters Candy by saying that he welcomes our new plush animal overlords. It's just DYING to be used here. Candy runs in and begs for mercy and help in that order as Lula of course has not noticed. You call THAT destruction? An apple cart tipped over and magically sets on fire? Isn't that a normal mob scene in this series? Dave agrees to help by...wait for it..write another protest song! HAHA! When Dave is awesomely lame; he can even rival Fairly Oddparents on rare moments like these. Fang drags his mouth down and yells at him because Dave is an idiot. Fang claims that they'll mix up the labels on the spices; and Dave panics and decides to help Candy after all. Damn those plush animals! Mixing labels on spices is uncalled for! So we head to a shot in front of Udrogoth's square between the family VS. a million plush toys and Chuckles. This is so Smash Brothers of you! Fighting Plush Animals Team~! Sadly; the writers can not see a good joke in plain sight, so it's screwed up. Dave brings out the sword and proclaims that he is going to destroy them. Like I'm taking this seriously Dave? After all the episodes of BS? Dave of course has to be accurate in his promo that it annoys Candy and Fang. What a shocker?! So Dave proclaims that they will stop him and then Chuckles puts on a top hat and proclaims that they are the flip side of the same coin which Dave points out that this is false; and Chuckles agrees with him and throws the hat away...AND IT IS ON BABEE! Dave proclaims that it's time to flush the plush and Lula says absolutely nothing about it. So Dave shoots blue beams and actually burns about a dozen plushies to ashes; but there are about 100 dozen of them left and the plushies all stop for no reason. Wait; what? Lula proclaims that this requires a Krackpotkin plan and Oswidge proclaims that since Candy started it; she must stop it. Candy asks who said this and Oswidge brings out a book about Story Structure. Yeah; this is dumb as Chuckles looks like he wants to kill someone because the plot has grined to a halt while Candy is pondering. GAH!
Candy acts like Winnie The Pooh while we see that her brain is basically a hamster on a running wheel. Why doesn't that surprise me? So Candy is pondering during the season as this is taking a long ass whomping time as the narrator is so stupid that he doesn't know the meaning of the word spring. So after this whole time killing moment that is another "Do nothing of note and see if the kids laugh at it"; Candy decides to just read the script. At least the family was as shocked and appalled as I am. So Candy finally throws the script away and her plan is to sic two year old toddlers on them as Fang calls this a great idea. However; Dave points out that they have no toddlers because all of them are on a field trip to the cabbage factory. That made me laugh. So the family decides to bring Oswidge in with his magic as even Oswidge cannot believe that the babyfaces are putting faith into him; as if he realizes what a useless load he really is. Amazing! Of course Oswidge screws up by doing the voice switching spot in which Candy will be supervising this. So Oswidge (as Flappy) uses the wand and gets it right the second time. Oswidge is a jobber for life: Never repeat the spot! So baby Oswidge wants apple juice and Candy refuses to give into him until he destroys the plushes and Chuckles and his plushes finally wake up and begin to panic because despite having the numbers advantage by a mile; stereotypes must reign in order to make this a fair fight. So the animal plushes get the living stuffing beaten out of them as even Baby Dave is better at ass kicking than the teenager Dave; which is depressing to watch on one level and beyond hilarious on every other level. Chuckles is shocked, appalled and frozen as he can do absolutely nothing; thus is basically the heel version of Candy -- who caused this whole thing -- does nothing. Might as well call Candy Katherine Victor now. Baby Fang notices Chuckles forcing Chuckles to run away with the injuried stuff animals out of the kingdom of Udrogoth. Chuckles cuts a promo of revenge and laughs like only he can; and then the purple injuried animal plush has had enough as the stuffing is now on Chuckle's hands.
Chuckles does the stupidiest thing in saying that some of his best friends are plushies and that's enough for the plushes to turn babyfaces and they proceed to surround Chuckles and beat the holy living cuteness out of him. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was a really funny babyface turn on Chuckles as Candy cheers for the stuffing bloodbath that we ultimately got as she calls to Oswidge to turn the babies back to normal and baby Oswidge no sells forcing Candy to be a mother and changing diapers and other such crap. Yes folks; they allowed a moment where Candy was a teenage mother who had babies as a teenager. So we head outside of the castle of Udrogoth as the narrator tells us that the babies returned to normal and Candy promised to just make the east tower shoot plushes out like a cannon instead of the west tower. So yes; Candy has learned absolutely nothing. In that case; I couldn't care less about her as a character. This ends the episode at 10:26. Just an episode with some really funny moments from Chuckles and Dave singing like a hippie redneck. I'm fine with this although Candy's addiction of shopping in general has got to stop because it's no longer funny anymore. *** (60%).
I Love Neddy: We begin this one with a shot of Udrogoth Castle as the narrator explains that since the calender wasn't invented yet. Now; if you recall at the end of the "That Darn Ghost!" episode, they clearly showed a calender. So you cannot pretend that it wasn't invented! God; this show sucks sometimes! So they decides on chores with their version of Raw Rouette, formerly known as "Spin The Wheel, Make The Deal". So it stops and Candy has to clean Flappy's litter box; prompting a shot of the litter box monsters trying to kill Flappy again. For goodness sakes writers; when are we going to do a story on the litterbox monster? I mean the litterbox monster is more over than Flappy ever was and it has been in only TWO episodes! We return as Candy passes the buck onto Dave because he'll do anything including cleaning out Twinkle The Marvel Horse's litterbox in which we see Twinkle GUNPLAY come out of the outhouse cutting another awesome Christopher Walken promo while Dave is selling boredom putting his chin right onto the handle of the shovel. Twinkle walks off stage left and we HIT THE DIMENSIONAL INTERVAL SEQUENCE OF DEATH~! Yeah; we are heading back to 1994 (which is ten years ago; which is probably when the show was first developed by Doug Langdale. Hey; remember the backstory to Phineas & Ferb started back in 1991!) and the return of Neddy! YAY! My favorite comedy dork heel is back! So we head to the water cooler with Ned Frischman drinking from a cone cup and looking like a miserable dork. He's watching a bunch of workers as a dark skinned man is making bad jokes about chickens and squrriels; none of it is funny. So Ned seems a plan brewing as if he wants to become powerful and popular; he must start telling jokes. Actually; bad jokes might be great in someone as miserable as Ned Frischman. So he does the dumbest thing a nerd can do: Try to butt into a conversation and tell such a poor joke while snorting like a pig. Never a good idea to do that. So he does the red suspenders joke and the dark skinned man doesn't sell while the girls laugh at him because it's the oldest joke in history. Yeah.
So the trio walks away stage left and Ned gets inspired because jokes are most funny when you don't hear of them nor get them. Which explains why every children show does it: Because the children have never heard of them and so they don't get them, and their laugh reflex kicks in. It is soon dulled over time due to cynicism; thus requiring better and more fitting jokes. Nowadays; a simple fart is all you need, never mind that it's a non-verbal cue (unless you count a verbal cue as talking out of your ass like Boog is accused of by reviewers.). So Ned go to his cubicle and brings out a piggy bank and a joke book from 1946! That made me laugh because I'm certain Ned wasn't even BORN in 1946! He breaks the piggy bank and finds the Time Zipper. Yeah. He goes through the dimensions of history and we cut back to inside the village as Fang is leading Dave who is carrying a big bag of old horse poop and generally summing up the thing for us. Fang jumps onto the bag and demands to know why Dave hasn't stood up to Candy for ordering him to do Candy's chores. Dave claims that he is by making mad faces which his demonstration of it is so hilariously bad that Lula just has to be sarcastic about the moment. Dave is an idiot; what a shock?! So the zipper portal appears on stage and Ned comes out with his 1946 jokebook and proclaims that he is Ned Frischmen, Comedian of Tomorrow which causes Dave to scream. How amazing is it when the dumbest babyface in the show instantly know who Ned is and is completely afraid of him. Ned is here to tell jokes from the future prompting Fang to ask: What is a joke? Answer: This F'N show! Ned asks why the chicken crossed the road; and without any punchline the denizens laugh anyway because to them, anyone crossing the road in this era is in fact funny and pointless. Ned sezs the punchline and Fang rolls all over laughing and even Dave is having trouble trying to hang onto the bag of horse poop. This is funny not because the joke is funny; but because they are laughing at a dated joke that is 1000 years into the future. They never heard it and thus it makes you laugh.
I think the punchline should be to get to the other fryer; but that sounds too racist even for Disney. Anyhow; the narrator talks about the fiend's crusade as Ned does a closeup on stage and we hit the montage of Ned doing stand up comedy in The Clotted Scuppers during Open Bullhorn Night; even though it looks like it's afternoon. That made me laugh in a "Jungle Ages Secret Midnight Club" sort of way. He slays them with his 1946 era jokes of course because it's 994 here in Udrogoth and not 1946. Then we go to the Club "Club" (yes; one of the words is in quotes) as he slains them with more 1946 jokes. None of the jokes are funny; but that's not the point because this is 994 and they never heard of these jokes. I really like this idea because it drives the point home about kids laughing at jokes adults wouldn't be caught dead laughing. At some point; that joke was funny and then time went on and it stopped being funny. It's so funny that Ned goes flying into the wall and brings the clubs on the wall down. That was cute. Then it's the Udrogoth Arena as the laughter from his jokes causes earthquakes. The sign reads "Ned Frischman: World's Best & Only Comedian!" I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. So we also do stage theater with Ned doing a sitcom called I Love Neddy. AWESOME! Complete with hearts and a theater promo in which Ned explains that a sitcom is where you sit down and he does comedy. That is the best and funniest explaination I have ever heard in terms of wondering what the hell a sitcom means. So we do a sitcom as we get the Rockette Opening Of Doom with rockettes and suited men wearing top hats singing. This was awesomely lame that Ned's future prospects for new shows should have skyrocketed. Then again; this is Disney and (sometimes) they cannot do anything right. Yes; the Rockettes are clones of each other while the men are completely different. So Ned enters the stage which is a living room and does the Flintstone promo which gets a pop and laugh; which today would be replaced by a laugh track.
Then we see a goofy looking barbarian with brown fur shoulder pads and yellow tunic as Ned addresses him as his wacky nephew Bob The Invader. Now it would have been funnier if he said "Bob The Barvader" in reference to Bob The Builder. Doesn't matter because the crowd laughs away anyway. There was one awesome joke in this even by 1946 standards: Why did Ned bring two pairs of pants to the golf course? Answer: In case he got a hole in one! It's a Heehaw era joke; but I still laughed at it. The crowd pops and laughs as Ned looks evil and the narrator proclaims that he was the funniest comedian in recorded history...which apparently started two weeks ago their time as we get a shot of Old Man Stupid (I realize that it's not his real name; but no one cares about this joke, so let's move on) writing with a feather pen on a piece of paper. This is another "do nothing of note and see if the kids laugh at it" spot. Ned is so funny that he asks if they want him to be king of Udrogoth and the pop chants for his name like he is the Rock or something. Oswidge is in the crowd and it takes him about ten seconds to figure out that this is not a good sign as we head back to the castle with Oswidge bringing out sheets of paper explaining to the babyfaces that Ned popularity is so out of control that taking the kingdom will be as easy as stealing candy from...Candy. Which as this is happening, Candy is eating candy from a bag and Oswidge steals it causing Candy to protest this "outrage". So Oswidge shows a piece of paper with a hundred green flags on it claiming that Ned will slay the world with laughter at least 12,000 times causing Dave to get mad on cue. Dave wants to become more popular than Ned and wants a creative and new show that will knock the socks off the viewers..if they had any. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Riiiigggggghhhhhttttttt. Even Candy thinks this "work" is BS; so you know that it's BS. So the narrator explains that after a bout of laziness, they decide to do reality programming. Which is fitting for this show because reality programming is more fake than fiction ever could bring.
So we scene change to Dave holding a card that reads: "Real Live Barbarians". This cannot end well for the babyface; it simply cannot. So yes; they basically do a show about a bunch of barbarian who don't play nice anymore. Since when? Yes; Twinkle The Marvel Horse is in this reality show! I think Ned just got his rating plummet. Once you have Twinkle The Marvel Horse in your show; you might as well pack it in and seek another profession. Like golfing or even clubbing with golf clubs. I'll leave the later sport as an exercise to the reader. So we get footage of the barbarians eating like barbarian except for Dave who displays perfect manners. Thankfully; most of the audience is adults so this is perfectly fine. If they had marketed this to kids; they might as well pack it in and join Gilima and Thortkar in slaying evil. Which by the way is much cooler than this show! So we see Dave cleaning the bathtub, picking fleas from Candy's stuffed animals (CONTINUITY BABEE!) and straighens Candy's clothes; causing a few of the denizens to yell at Candy for being a lazy jerk. Then we do the reality television style interviews as Candy explains that it's not her fault that Dave acts like a doormat and does her chores causing Dave to scream from behind a tree that he can hear her. Cut to Dave cutting a promo sitting on the throne and then has a crying moment. This was so awesomely bad that I was laughing my ass off here. This is a perfect example of why sometimes Disney can do it right. I am so digging this idea of the family doing a reality show and acting overdramatic in such a way that it's so bad that it comes off as the best children's comedy I have seen in a long ass time. Dave basically tells us that Candy never thanks him for the work and the denizen calls her disgusting just as Candy is reading Teen Barbarian Magazine. The narrator calls this awful and embarrassing; but also a smash hit as the world tour starts as Dave is literally pushing Udrogoth from destination to destination. As stupid as this is; I got to give the poor guy props for actually showing that he is only a weenie in mind instead of body. Candy of course is an asshole and blowing off Dave.
So we see all the flags on the maps be completely replaced with Dave's reality show as Ned is now playing to virtually empty venues and even the bar has only a goat laughing at Ned's 1946 jokes. No matter what Ned does; the crowd is gone and the ones who stay act like they are dead, or merely clap. Ned's empire is litterally crumbling down to the ground as we cut to Ned behind a bush with his comic book as he finally finds the castle responsible for making him as popular as a weeping cold sore. Ned proclaims that he will get his revenge on them by crushing them with his comic powers. So we head inside the castle with Oswidge and Fang running in with a newspaper that reads that Old Man Bleeper proclaims that they are the greatest form of entertainment in recorded history. So all the old farts have to do is cite Old Man Bleeper from Dave The Barbarian and they shalt win an arguement against the stars of Gold & Silver. Or not. Dave uses the glasses to read that it's all true and the denizens are happy. In barges Ned as he says ladies and germs; causing Dave to laugh. Yeah; he's a man and he just laughed at him insulting men as a form of a disease. Never a good idea as one of the guards gets on Ned's case so Ned invokes MOLLY VIOLENCE on his shin. YAY! ALL HAIL MOLLY VIOLENCE! ALL HAIL! The guard is pissed off; so Ned tells a joke and he instantly falls down laughing to his demise. Laughter is the best double-edge sword in the history of double-edge swords. Ned proclaims that no one can stop him as Fang runs in with the spear; and Ned tells another lame joke causing Fang to drop dead in helpless laughter. That was great; but it does taint the finish somehow. What is the finish you ask? Oswidge goes for the wand and Ned stops it with another...you guess it. Everyone gets joked to death except for Dave as Candy laughs before Ned can even deliver a joke. Dave sezs Kajabbers on cue and wonders what to do as Ned throws down figurally and it is ON BABEE! We do a knock-knock joke and Dave manages to giggle; but then acts like the tough as nails character in anime who thinks he cannot laugh after being tickled; but fails.
Only that fails because Dave stands his ground and slowly walks towards Ned. He is thinking about pain and suffering; which is somehow WORSE than laughing because Dave's selling of this is hilarious.Ned sweats bullets like a million Oscars at a Oscar nerd convention. Some knockback is experienced on Dave; but continues to move on and we gets to the wall with a wooden shield containing a blue feather and a red feather. The wall reads "Convenient Feathers". Take one guess what happens next? Dave grabs the feathers, tickles Ned into submission and Ned is forced to use the Time Zipper to bail back to 1994. I wish that Fang no sold the laugh though and he grabs the red feather and tickles Fang with it; causing Dave to get mad and grab the blue one. They would have a feather sword fight which Dave wins. Still; this works well enough as a finish; so HUZZAH! Sadly; like Polly Wants A Treasure; half of the strikes completely miss Ned and Ned still has to oversell it like Kit Cloudkicker, who doesn't have a great child voice actor behind him overselling the laugh as if he was being tortured. Otherwise; this was funny as Ned did a great job selling physically. So Dave wins as we head to the kitchen table as Candy is scrubbing the floor while Dave is drinking tea right in front of the denizens. Fang comes in asking why Candy is doing this. Candy explains that Dave is the most popular character of the show because he does chores, prompting Fang to accuse Dave of bribery. Dave admits that he did and Fang loves it and this was spoken right in front of Candy. Instant scene changer to the factory where Ned works and here's how the episode ends: Ned is crushing a cone of water complaining about making people laugh; and then he slips on the water and crashes into the water cool; causing the blue bottle container to plop right on his head and the trio we saw earlier on is laughing at him. Ned proclaims that this was not what he had in mind as his glasses are three feet above him floating in the water to end the episode at 10:26. Ned still rules as usual. This was another wonderful episode involving him and it worked because the story was about how time changes the nature of what is a joke and what is not. And the finish was really funny too; along with Ned's method of defeating the babyfaces. **** 1/2 (90%).
THE REVIEW LINE
A really enjoyable set of shorts this time around mostly due to Ned and Chuckles being awesome. Night Of The Living Plush overall was just an average episode that Chuckles made better with his army of plush animals hellbent on destroying Udrogoth. The finish was good and it made sense; but I am so getting tired of Candy's shopping addiction. I realize that it's now part of the joke; but the joke is so old and stale now that it would be better off if they focused on her other gimmick to make jokes of. I'm beginning to like Dave more and more when he's not doing the cleaning gimmick and generally being a joke. I Love Neddy was awesome; albeit having a okay finish that could have been funnier; but Ned did a hell of a job putting it over like a giant's deal. Dave's attempts to fight the laughter was awesome and the tickling finish was great in terms of being a huge rib on me when I say that tickling children almost assures that you'll get a laugh out it. These writers know what they are doing and talking about. Ned of course was great as a heel here as I felt that he was going to win over; but the reality show won out, proving once again that trash can be treasure in the mist of rose colored glasses. Overall; these two shorts had their entertaining ways; but I Love Neddy is the best one because of the finish. So....
Thumbs in the middle for Night Of The Living Plush and thumbs up for I Love Neddy and I'll see you all next time.