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Dave The Barbarian: A Pig's Story
Reviewed: 09/16/2014
...Of A Character In The Wrong Cartoon!
Okay; I decided to do this one first over the one that I had planned because I am certain now that The Red Sweater Of Courage contains the moment that I was talking about being offended by. Besides; this 22 minute episode sounds better to me as comedy and tragedy all rolled into one. Now onto the big dance as Chuckles the Silly Piggy is falling faster on the heel scale than usual. His plans have been thwarted and he has been buried a few times; including in his first appearance in such a way that no one would have any incentive watching this show. However; Chuckles then plays the trump card to end all trump cards in which he kidnaps the narrator and forces it to do the storytelling his way in order to defeat Dave The Barbarian! This is so epic that one 11 minute short cannot contain this; so the writers decide to give this plot 22 minutes to gell. How does it do? Let's rant on shall we...?!
A Pig's Story is written by Chuckles The Silly Piggy and Doug Langdale. The episode is animated by Wang Films like most of this cartoon series is.
Opening Moment #1: Crumble shot of the day features Dave wearing a viking helmet and being a motorcycle rider.
We begin this one in Udrogoth AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as the narrator talks about the history of Udrogoth while showing B&W pictures of a fat guy in a furcoat sticking a flag containing a ham bone into the ground. He's Wrong Way Gribble by the way, and he's as ass backwards as this show is sometimes. We also see a photo of two denizens running away from Alergeon from Romancing Saga 3; only they are hamsters instead of rats. We head back to the shot of Udrogoth as some hamsters appear in the foreground as the narrator tells us that this story is retold through a play called the Passion Of Udrogoth. If this was called The Passion Of The Udrogoth; this would be much funnier. So we head inside the castle with Dave in the director's chair wearing a black beret and welding a pencil. Dave does this speech about getting the director's job, prompting Fang to walk in and blow him off because no one else would take it. Of course! Dave and Fang keep cutting each other off while trying to cut promos. Fang then gives up and leaves as we begin the audition by clapping hands. On the stage with purple curtains and trim starts with Bogmelon. So we are replaying the entire angle for Enzo's birthday party from Reboot; only Dave is not much of a moral guardian. Her first name is Gurt and she sucks. She wants to be tree #2 and does this lame dance; but it's enough for Dave to oversell and cheer like a dork. What a shocker?! He must be paying them to do this audition; no one would be interested in this play. Dave then sits down and acts like it sucked. Audition #2 is Candy; because even the interim ruler of Udrogoth must be a bit part in this lameolicous play. See what I did there? She is auditoning for the princess part of this play and actually shows off better acting skills than Bea. So yes; Candy is an asshole with talent while Bea is an asshole with soft core porn talent. Not much to work with here. So Dave blows her off because he's doing audtions for tree number two which Candy is not amused; and that look alone causes Dave to cheer loudly. HAHA! Candy bails and Oswidge comes in dressed like a tree; but Oswidge wants to be tree #1 of course.
So Oswidge doesn't want to be number two for goodness knows what reason; and then the doors opens, there are thunderbolts and in comes Chuckles The Silly Piggy laughing as only he can. Everyone is shocked and slightly appalled as Chuckles proclaims that they will be destroyed by a bunch of pretzels who are wearing matching red shoes. Basically think Pac-Man in Smash Brothers 3DS; only in pretzel form and you are almost there. No one is buying nor selling this evil attack, even the pretzel henchmen themselves as Chuckles cannot buy a break today. So Oswidge steps in; slatters his mouth with mustard and jumps on the pretzel men as even they don't seem to care about being eaten and we get the slaughter of pretzel men off-screen by Oswidge. Chuckles of course acts like he just got the word that he was going to be audited by the IRS. Fang comes in and gives Chuckles a string and tells him to pull it. Chuckles of course doesn't give a crap anymore and pulls; allowing a huge boulder to crush him into deli ham. Listen; if you are going to do the "I'm all right" spot; do it like Chuckles when he says "Oh! I skinned my piggy knees!"; because at least it proves that he's not all right and is actually funny. You're making a mockery of reality either way anyway; so just do it that way. So the narrator claims that Dave won as usual and then we head back to Chuckle's castle as Chuckles raids an empty fridge which contains a ketchup package and spoiled meat. He then goes to the table and sips tea while ranting and raving; and then the music stops, he sips tea and then the music resumes and he rants and raves again. HAHA! Chuckles tells us that Dave has destroyed his means of a living which is to be a heel and then we get wigglely lines as we flashback to Chuckles laughing in the family's face as he brings out a killer yellow skinned snail with sabretooh teeth. Of course there is about ten piles of salt in the background and snails are so slow; no one is amused nor impressed since they are near a salt mine. Fang kicks the salt onto the snail and it dissolves to create low income housing for people less fortunate, so thanks Chuckles.
Next scene: Chuckles is laughing near the water as he is going to unleash the evil...killer octopus which grabs Chuckles and thrusts him underwater because as the narrator would say: They have terrible eyesight. So apparently; the squid from It Came From Beneath The Seaduck is anthroed and thus has 20/20 vision. Okay. Next scene is in the village with more Chuckles laughing, which to be honest is the funniest thing about this flashback. So he brings out his killer sofa with end tables; and that at least causes Dave to hate it because the thing looks hideous. Of course the narrator has to point out the flaw; which even Chuckles is sick of hearing of (YAY!); that the thing is harmless as Dave easily overcomes his fear of hideous color sofa and they have fun. So we return to reality (no, not really) as Chuckles raids the empty fridge again like an idiot. Then he proclaims that he is lame about a dozen different ways. He has now just realized that the whole concept of Dave The Barbarian is that the characters are supposed to be lame in a funny and fun way? So we head back to the castle as Dave is in the director chair informing us that not many people auditoned for the play this year, so only six people will be playing characters this year. Those characters will be played on stage by Candy (Princess), Fang, Oswidge (Tree #1), Bogmelon (Tree #2) and Twinkle Gunplay~! If I were Dave; Twinkle The Marvel Horse would not only get first billing; he would get to play over 40 characters in the play like Jim Cummings voiced in TaleSpin. Apparently; the will be 913 roles in this play. Wait; so this play is based on my fanfics? COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT~! Or not. Twinkle cuts another awesome promo about death, grim reapers and harvesting souls. Give Twinkle all 913 roles and his cue cards; and just have him be Dave's story editor, which results in comedy. Lula is the stage manager and basically has the yell at people; which Lula moves and she screams at the stage players because she is a cocky prick who thinks this episode doesn't have enough windbags as it is. Cut back to Chuckles' castle with Chuckles walking down the hallway wondering what to do.
As this is going on; there are painting of Chuckles being a green dragon, a bigass cave pig with a club, a viking pig and other badass characters. Chuckles' Krackpotkin plans involve "killer" toilet paper (which would be effective in scaring half of IMDB commenters away) and another non-threatening objects (unless it's little children and man children of course); as Chuckles is standing right in front of a self-portait of himself projecting 50% Dave and 50% Fang into himself. HAHA! Chuckles ponders it over and the narrator is just laying it into Chuckles in which he is becoming more and more annoying than the narrator from Quack Pack. And then Chuckles finally stops and turns to the hard cameras to blame the narrator for all this! Which is absolutely true in fact. He has been ruining all of Chuckles' evil plans since day one and openly trying to bury him. Yes; the summary of this episode is: Chuckles kidnaps the narrator and forces the story to go his way. This is a perfect plotline to use. Let's see if the writers screw this one up. So; the narrator not only has a way with words; he is the master of destiny according to Chuckles. Which is true in this case. So that means all Chuckles has to do is kidnap the guy and make him tell the story HIS way. It's a great plan! So he brings out handcuffs and goes off-screen and roughs up the narrator; and handcuffs him. So basically; Chuckles brings out a desk with a typewriter and types a storyline to give to the narrator as the narrator is supposed to be a zombie to Chuckles, but sounds like normal narrator who turns heel. This had better play into the finish; or I'll be so disappointed. So basically; he reads the sheet and it's a dark and stormy night as the castle turns into a bigger castle with throne room. Out poofs a fully stocked fridge with food filled to the brim. He gets a new cape (which looks exactly like his old cape); and he has an actual musclar body. So the narrator's words are brought to you by the mad scientists Larson & Gary. He cuts Pedro Martinez's promo "Whose's Your Daddy?" which the Yankee fans mocked him to no end (Pedro got the last laugh on them when Boston won the World Series in 2004.). Yay!
So Chuckles goes back to the typewriter and types some more as he wants to defeat Dave The Barbarian right now. Geez; even with the power of the narrator, he is still insecure since he controls the story; shouldn't you wait until the end to defeat them...Oh wait; he's the heel, this makes sense. He gives the script to the narrator and he reads it as we head back to Uodrogoth AFTER HAPPY HOUR as Dave is in the director's chair and we get to see and hear the six goofballs on stage deliver the opening theme song. So four of the characters sing; mostly Oswidge and Bogmelon as Bogmelon kisses Oswidge on the beard. That made me laugh. Even funnier; Fappy is grunt singing while Twinkle just stands there and does absolutely nothing, implying that he knows this is bullsh*t. Bogmelon's dancing makes Oswidge look somewhat appalled as Bogmelon is so happy to complete the song that Dave cheers and claps like a complete dork. Oswidge, Candy, Fang and Flappy storm off stage calling it the worst song ever. That is total bullcrap! Although if Twinkle the Marvel Song sang the exact same song; then it would be the most hilariously bad song ever. Even Lula gets out of thge hilt and walks out; even though she was in the perfect role. So that leaves Bogmelon and Twinkle left on stage; so Bogmelon asks if she is getting paid and Twinkle asks if he can just growl in agony. Dave says nothing and no in that order; so Bogmelon gets on Twinkle's back and they fly away to Oz; or something. Dave protests this and then we get laughter as Dave opens the door; and here come the pretzel men causing Dave to laugh his ass off. He needed a good laugh. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. So the family comes in and laughs at them as the narrator explains that the pretzel men transform into savage pretzel men who grow about 20 feet tall; weight 500 pounds and look like vampires. They grab the family and the narrator stops in mid-sentence. Why?
Even Chuckles is asking why. You see; even the narrator is bound by BS&P, so even Chuckles has to edit it down to be acceptable on Disney. I'm guessing the original scene was to show the family getting murdered on-screen; and the final scene shows it off-screen with a shot outside the castle as the castle bounces around. That isn't much of an edit there guys! Then we return as the family is lying in a heap on the floor looking completely uninjured and tired; implying that they were worn down to death. That is like in wrestling when you small package a 350 pound man until he "dies". Chuckles gets on top of the pile of stinky, dumpy heroes and proclaims victory which the narrator has to read. A golden light flashes on Chuckles as he laughs it up. Shot of Dave looking dead at us as we split screen to show a shot of outside Uodrogoth Castle, then a shot of the earth and moon from deep space; and then a shot of a whole turkey against a light blue background. This final promo would have been so uber funny...I'll explain why in a minute...the narrator asks if Dave has been defeated, Udrogoth is doomed, will Chuckles rule the world next, and does turkey have less fat than chicken?! That's funny in itself; and then Chuckles and the narrator say: "You bet your keister on this"; and Chuckles laughs like only he can and in this laugh he channels Beavis & Butthead in saying "I said keister". This would have been the funniest promo ever in 2004/2005 cartooning; if only the writers didn't treat children like they have the memory of a goldfish and have them say "keister" like a half dozen times in the series before this moment. Don Tony is right: When you curse once; it has a lot of impact. But if you do it in every episode, it feels forced and not natural. This is a prime example of this and it tempered an otherwise uber funny joke. This ends part one at 10:26 with an even funnier To Be Continued shot of Chuckles standing on the globe doing an awesome pose complete with video game invader sound effects and blue stars. AWESOME!! I welcome this Chuckles The Silly Piggy overlord and his overlord minions. Master Dragonous has competition now. Great episode thus far.
AWESOME! No opening the short edition in this one! Which means we start with a sky shot with Chuckles walking around the beaten babyfaces while the narrator talks for ten seconds to make up for it. Still better then the short opening, so thank you. Chuckles cheers for victory as the narrator calls the babyfaces stinky. HA! Chuckles taunts Dave by calling him dumb; stuffing out of nowhere dirt in his mouth and forcing him to suck his thumb; all while the babyfaces are awake seeing this. They have concussions; and Chuckles don't care, like a good monster heel should be. Sadly; the continuity of this episode is horrible because Chuckles has lost his muscular body. Why?! Raspberry ensues to somewhat make up for the logic break. Dave's acting promo of always winning is so hilarious, that Chuckles simply admits that he kidnapped the storyteller. Oswidge protests this outrage and Chuckles blows him off, steps on the heroes again. He proclaims that he is taking over BABEE; and he laughs as only he can. I am so loving this storyline; but at the same time, I fear that they are going to book themselves into such a corner that it is going to take the JAWS OF HALF LIFE to get them out of it. Then we get the best mockery of the opening I have ever seen in my whole entire life. Seriously! I need a drop of this version of the opening of this show; with Chuckles The Silly Piggy singing it. It is so hilariously bad that I was dropping loads in my pants watching it. I realize that they are lifting from Recess; but I don't care. This is much funnier. The only complaint I have for this is; that they should have played this instantly after the first half instead of waiting about a minute into it. I'm not going to call this; the episode I'm sure can be found on Youtube; and I hope it's in a clip of it. This is as funny as The Producers song for Impact Wrestling. So we head to the throne room as Chuckles has taken over as king of Udrogoth as he is pondering over how to torment the babyfaces who are shackled by the way. Fang gets on Dave's case about being barbarian smears; to which Dave goes overdramatics because he will be denied his dream of directing the play. Fang proclaims that she hates him so much right now as Chuckles wants to roast the babyfaces over a volcano causing the babyfaces to panic on cue. Chuckles also wants to put them in a cage with dung beetles; and make them switch phone providers.
That last one is pretty funny since it'll be done in the middle of dinner too. The babyfaces still sell it anyway as horrifying as Chuckles way of getting down from the throne chair is cute to watch. Chuckles then proclaims that he must humiliate them completely causing Dave to kneel down and beg for mercy. HAHA! Chuckles no sells the mercy part. HAHA! Chuckles ponders this over and then goes to the typewriter on the desk out of nowhere. He types the orders and then hands the paper to the faceless narrator to read. So we hit the montage as we head outside the castle for the family to see the castle get bulldozed over and replaced with a fish & chips shop called Cap'n Smacky's; and then we zoom out as we channel Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs as a huge weiner squashes the kingdom. No one who watches this movie will ever admit that Chuckles is responsible for that movie existing and getting over. So we head inside the castle which has magically reappeared after the bulldozing (I'm guessing the throne room is underground under the fish & chip eatery) as the babyfaces cower before Chuckles wearing big ass hats and making gibberish sounds. Ah; this must be "the study" the execs used to gauge in future cartoons. I have seen better junk science than this. Oswidge is a cowboy, Candy's a pirate, Fang's a chef and Dave is a fool. Wait; that last one makes way too much sense to be funny. So Chuckles proclaims that they have been humiliated and know he gives the final script to the narrator to end. Chuckles raises the mystic amulet to destroy the barbarian babyface; and this goes on forever because the narrator starts to cough and wheeze. Now; I think this is contrived and forced. What they should have booked is having the narrator slowly start losing his voice by coughing on words; but still able to go on anyway and then at this point lose his voice. What they did here is do the segment over two minutes instead of from the moment Chuckles kidnapped the narrator. Yeah; these writers don't respect kids all that much. So Chuckles panics like a maniac and runs out to find cough drops, because his plan is gone awry.
Now I wondered how they were going to book themselves into a corner; and this is how they did it: Having Chuckle lose only because the narrator suffered laryngitis and thus not only makes the babyfaces look extremely weak; but turns Chuckles babyface. I'm thinking: What a F'N bummer this must be for Chuckles? He finally got the cool heel heat he always wanted and was strong, and he only loses because the narrator lost his voice and thus the hinging of this plan. It wasn't because Chuckles did anything stupid; and the family didn't beat Chuckles. It was random dumb luck that caused this to happen. Fang is so happy that she wants to kick Chuckles' rump; while Dave seems to like facials from Fang because he still wants to do that play. However; Oswidge blows them off because apparently, in this reality; the narrator is in fact God. Now normally I do not go into the "horrible message to send to kids" type promos unless there is something really horrible and it's the babyface. However; this is one of those times! The message is that none of these humans have any free will whatsoever and are at the mercy of the whim of some faceless narrator. That's a horrible belief to have. WORSE; the solution should be simple: Assign one of the babyfaces to play the storyteller until the narrator gets his voice back and THEN free the damn narrator while the others distract Chuckles long enough to relieve the narrator of his voice loss. Can you imagine Twinkle The Marvel Horse playing this role?! Instant comedy value without losing any babyface heat! But no; the writers decided to have Dave give auditions for an alternative storyteller, like a Gedo fashion sense clown and yes; this clown actually has a dream sequence and shows Chuckles skipping through the road with drawing that look worse than the Nickelodeon style. Yeah; this is NO BUYS~! Chuckles is not wearing anything as the family appears with the most creepiest smiles ever in mankind's history. Candy looks like a deranged Gilima by the way; while Oswidge has no teeth to smile. I guess this clown does respect his elders too much. That at least made me laugh.
So they give the heel cake and ice cream as they live happily ever after inside a hallowed pumpkin on a giant oak tree. Awwwww! My heart melted! Dave teases his heart doing the same and then yells next anyway. BOO HISS! I realize that the clown sucks; but at least the ending was sweeter than my mixed fruit. So we use the clapboard of doom and tryout number two is a redneck who is an announcer for monster truck rallies. This is about as good as you expect; which is not funny. Isabella from Phineas & Ferb was much funnier doing this spot then this loser. Yeah; the scene involved Chuckles and Dave turned into monster trucks and ramming each other. Next. OH MY GOD! Twinkle is auditoning. AWESOME! This is exactly who should be the narrator. When you consider that the narrator is voiced by the same guy who voices Twinkle; it makes perfect sense. Plus; Twinkle needs to play hero for real for once in this series. I betcha that they will screw the fans out of this and we go to the next audition....Damn you Disney, damn you to hell! So we head to Chuckles' castle which the animator did manage to not screw up like they did with Chuckles' body. We head inside as Dave claims that he has found the storyteller and Fang claims that they have been keeping Chuckles busy by having him and the babyfaces tap dance. Here is the obvious problem with this: How can they tap dance when there is no storyteller present to call it? So not only have they implied that the narrator is God; they have created a mass amount of logic breaks in doing so. Actually; this is basically mocking God in the bible. Which is true of course; but the 700 Club is so going to get this show canceled. Oswidge and Candy critize him for screwing up the sequence for the play of Chuckles being king of Udrogoth and even he admits that he'll do it right this time. Dave then invokes the pointy finger of death because he has found our new storyteller who is a red suited guy with green boots and gloves. He has a ringed green globed printed on the front of the bodysuit and salutes us behind a space background which is made of poster paper. Oh why not?
Chuckles asks about giving him a script; and Dave, the babyface who just blew off Chuckles like an asshole, claims that he never thought of that because he believes in improvising. This causes Chuckles to get giddy and Fang to get yelly in Dave's face. Dave has peaked in terms of stupidity on stilts. Sadly; the narrator is clearly a babyface as Chuckles at first thinks he can still win, and by the end of the first promo; he admits that he's doomed as we are now playing Star Trek as Dave is now a barbarian...IN SPACE! Someone was watching Rocket Robin Hood here; and that show would actually be better as a Disney show in 2004; even with this Nickelodeon style. Candy looks like Doctor Spock; only with a pink skinned face as Chuckles spaceship approaches the barbarian ship. The heel ship is much cooler than the babyface ship by the way; due to the babyface ship looking bland and the heel ship fitting Chuckles' vain personality. Even in this fake world; even with a babyface narrator, the monster heel is still considered cooler than the babyfaces. Of course; Fang is still dumb despite being a space barbarian. Flappy is piloting the ship; and is a golden robot, so he is playing C-3P0 in this role. That sounds so wrong that it probably isn't wrong. Dave screams for them to run away; proving that even with the narrator in his favor, he is still a coward. So we spin the ship about a dozen times and the chase scene commences. The babyfaces crash into the back as Fang yells at Dave again. Dave blows it off because robots are supposed to fight them anyway. Fang points out that the only robot in the ship is Flappy and he now has a teens level IQ from Color Game 15 in the late 1970. Color Game 15 is from Nintendo and is an assist trophy in the new Smash Brothers video game. This is shown in the red light bulb eyes from Flappy. He reminds me of a really dumb golden version of K-9 from Doctor Who actually. So Chuckles shoots purple lasers at the babyfaces and then we cut into the cockpit as he refuses to do what the narrator says because he knows that he has already lost. The narrator repeats his line and Chuckles brings out the big guns...
...which of course are cooler than the babyfaces weaponry. So we have the most lamest firefight in history and unlike Mighty Ducks, it is intentional and supposed to be funny. So everyone dodges everything as the space narrator proclaims that they cannot hit the broad side of a space barn. Which we sadly don't see. Oh come on guys! You had a perfectly good joke there; and you don't go all the way with it?! Idiots! Chuckles brings out the space missiles and fires them because this is supposed to be the time wasting space battle and one of the missile hits the back of the spaceship; doing little damage, but the ship goes into a nosedive anyway. So we waste time calling in psycho babble and laser levels to Oswidge and Candy, but none of that is good. Then the narrator proclaims that there is only one dangerous way to stop this madness and Dave channels Baloo from Plunder and Lightning part four; which sounds hilarious when Dave does it. The narrator talks over him anyway; and Dave is instantly launched into space into the front of Chuckles' cocky spaceship; using a rocket tip for a safety helmet. Yeah; a mere rocket cone is his protection despite being in space without an actual spacesuit. Oh; who cares?! So Lula is brought out as she is a jewel encrusted lightsaber as Lula asks how are they supposed to defeat this spaceship. Wow; this would have made a perfect skit for Lula to be a cocky prick and it would have went like this...
Lula:
We cannot use me to defeat this ship Dave!
Narrator: He
must Lula. I'm the storyteller!
Lula: You idiots! I'm like
a walking example of copyright infringement!
Dave: Lula?
You don't actually walk; you float. Besides; that's not a problem
anymore!
Lula: How is getting sued and being branded a
thief for the rest of you life that you lose your friends, family and
living NOT A PROBLEM ANYMORE?!
Dave: The narrator bought
the company last year. (WAH! WAH! WAAAAAAAAH!)
Lula: I hate
you so much right now.
Come on! That is so perfect nowadays. So they found a weak point which is helpfully shown as a target, so the narrator has seen the finish where Dave uses the convenient feathers to tickle Ned into submission. Nice to see someone in that episode was paying attention. So Dave teases being scared because his ears are tender; which Lula blows him off in kind. Dave sticks the sword into the red bulleye of the target; in which Chuckles is on red alert siren mode proclaiming that he shouldn't have painted that on the back. So Dave manages to somehow teleport away from the spaceship just in time for the ship to completely explode. Chuckles floats out of sight yelling that he'll get Dave The Space Barbarian; as the babyfaces cut a Voltron promo while Flappy and/or Dave crash into the glass dome or hard camera in the process; and that is that because the narrator has got his back and is free. So we head to Udrogoth castle at HAPPY HOUR as we have one minute and 15 seconds left in this episode to do Dave's play about the history of Udrogoth to the denizens in the crowd at the theater. So we see the family dressed up in their best gear; which means Fang is wearing red pumps on her feet for some reason. Dave whispers yells to the narrator and is happy to see him again; and with the magic chains of incumberence has finally come in handy because he even gets to stage the play. Fang has the Gruffi pose and calls this a big loss as the curtain rises and we see on stage, Chuckles in shackles protesting this outrage. So yes; they have redone the finish to the very first episode, only this one is much, much more humane. Not saying much; I know. Dave orders the chains to poison Chuckles' mind and Chuckles is now a mind slave as he recite the entire opening song we heard earlier. Fang approves of this moment because she is a scoiopath and having Chuckles rendered a zombie is fun to her. So Chuckles is going to play all 913 roles in this play as the song ends; the crowd pops to end the episode at 21:03. This was a really awesome episode until the climax, and then the overbooking took over and rendered a full monty episode into a step below a thumbs up episode. Chuckles was awesome as usual; but got buried again. At least this time; the burial was justified since the show is ending in the next full segment anyway. The space barbarian saga would have been funnier if it were done today and had a rewrite of sorts. *** 3/4 (75%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; this full 22 minute episode was in fact very good; and was flirting with fully monty status for about 15 minutes. There was a lot to love in this from the pretzel people; to the BS&P moment which Chuckles had to rewrite, the hilariously bad awesome parody of Chuckles singing the Dave The Barbarian opening theme song in his own image (Memo to Nickelodeon: Disney for once got the better of you in this regard), and even the torment methods was funny. The storyline was awesome. But the longer I watched this episode, the more concerned I had that they were going to book themselves into stupidity; and that is what happened. The whole idea of having the narrator play god instead of being a mere observer of what happened is a horrible message to send to kids. However; it was needed to make this storyline work properly. What really bothered me was that if the narrator dictates what happens in this world; then how do you explain the tap dancing scene? I was also disappointed of the auditions for the new narrator because they should have it booked with the family doing them and failing, as only Twinkle got to audition and he was blown off instantly afterwards. Twinkle doing narration would have given the ***** finish this episode needs and the writers blew it. Instead; we got a Muppets In Space parody (which was already a parody of Lost In Space mind you); and it was a standard finish which I would have made much funnier if this were done today as an in-joke. Overall; this two parter was an epic funny for 15 minutes and then it fell off a cliff until the end and then it was fine from there. I will say this about Dave: The pacing was better in this episode too. So; next weekend is the end of Mighty Ducks The Series as I'll be doing Zach The Fifth Turtle...ERRR...I mean Buzz Blitzman, Mighty Duck and then end it with To Catch A Duck. Yes; for once, Mallory is sort of getting a focus episode in this clustermuck of a show. Then next weekend after that, it's the end of this series which has a magical red sweater of cocky courage! Rose-color glasses that aren't a mere metaphor! Dave become a pet for a giant because he is disrespected (didn't we do that one already with Fang?) and Fang gets an illness and suddenly doesn't mind being called a monkey! Yeah; Dave has more compelling plotlines than Mighty Ducks! So....
Thumbs in the middle pointing up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.