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There's No Place Like Home/Color Me Gummi
Reviewed: 07/26/2011
Happy Teenybopper?!
Wow; this is my fourth rant in the last five days. However; I will be doing four straight days worth of rants next weekend just to up the annoyance factor further. So I've got two more episodes I haven't seen in a long time; nor remember them. Let's rant on and find out shall we....?
There's No Place Like Home story is done by Rich Fogel & Mark Siedenburg. The teleplay is done by Sheryl Scarborough and Kayte Kuch. Color me Gummi is done by Jymn Magon and Art Vitello with the teleplay done by Doug Hutchinson. Sheryl started off as a production assistant for Ruby Spears and then moved onto story editing for mostly cartoons. Gummi Bears is her DTVA debut and she wrote for Darkwing Duck and the infamous Dirtysomething episode; and then Kim Possible in 2002 and 2004. Kim Possible is her most recent credit, Red Boots For Christmas if it's a non-Disney production. She has 23 writing credits and 14 other credits to her resume. Kayte has similar credits as Sheryl with the exception of Heathcliff, Goldie Gold & Action Jack and the Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show to name a few in the other credits (12 other credits, 22 writer credits).
Art is well known to the animation community; doing assistant animation and animation for various animated movies and shorts since the 1970's. He is also known for Tiny Toons, G.I. Joe, The Tick and more. Gummi Bears is his only DTVA appearance believe it or not. The Land Before Time Animated series is his most recent credit. He has 7 production credits, 30 animation credits, 8 director credits, and three writing credits. The animation is done by TMS.
There's No Place Like Home: We begin this one with a shot of the castle of Dumbwin...ERRR...I mean Dunwyn as we head to Calla's room as Sunni and Calla exchange notes on making a bedroom more princess like. Sunni leaves yearning to live like this as Calla waves goodbye. Calla goes to her drawers (NOT THOSE ONES!) and opens the bottom one to reveal a rat in the clothes. Calla shrieks badly (man; even the Z-grade scream from Monster A Go-Go was more intense then this) as the rat bails panicking. Calla hates rats when it rains and wants to tell Gregor at once. She should also tell the animators not to make her look like a heel when she's mad too.
Anyhow; we head to Gummi Glen as it's raining and Gruffi is knocking on wood with his hammer on the floor. I'm not going to ask why; I might actually like the possible answer to it (Hint: Grammi is pissed off again). Two wooden planks decide to screw Gruffi good forcing Gruffi to use his hand and foot to pound them down to the floor again. Gruffi thinks he has won (Riiiiiggggghhhhtttt) as Sunni comes in and slams the door...and then the door squashes Sunni with a MAN-SIZED bump. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I see the door hates teenyboppers as much as I do. Gruffi pops the door as Sunni bails from the carnage and blows off Gummi Glen for being worse than Dumbwin. Wow; that curse on the chair Sunni sat down on and broke worked better than I thought it would. Gruffi does his trademark pose and blows her off because they lived here for 500 years. So all the Gummi Bears are 500 years old? Because if not; then Disney should admit that most of them died out already and stop...Oh wait; forgot about Gallant in the previous rant. My mistake as usual. Sunni proclaims that it won't be is she has anyway to say about it as the wooden plank pulls up and whacks Sunni in the ass. HAHA! Gruffi calls that the end of the discussion. That implies that Gruffi did all of that on purpose so he didn't have to spank her himself. What a coward?!
So we head into the kitchen as Grammi as she uses the spoon on the flu of the chimney. Memo to Grammi: I don't think a spoon is going to unclog that thing. She seriously needs to invest in those cleaning burning logs I often see from K-Tel. Sunni comes in to complain and the pot is giving off stinkweed soup odors as Grammi bangs on the flu some more without any success whatsoever. Grammi claims that her dinner will be ruined if the flu isn't fixed. Sunni gleefully answers that one for me; as to a certain extent Cubbi and Tummi when they run in and hold their noses. Then the pot of stinkweed soup explodes and pours all over the floor as we quickly cut away to the dining room as Zummi comes in asking Gruffi what was that? Gruffi doesn't know until we see all the Gummi Bears running out of the kitchen and out of the Glen holding their noses. Gruffi and Zummi smell the lingering odor and it is FOUL as they bail, a flower dies and a mouse bails into his hole which shows the message: flower dying = good. Animal dying = bad.
I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader as we cut to outside the Gummi Glen as Gruffi blows off Grammi for making stinkweed soup. He's got a point there madam. Stinkweed soup is not a healthy dish by any measure. Spinach soup is what you are looking for. Grammi gets in Gruffi's face because he should have fixed the flu of the chimney. Oh give him a break Grammi; he was fixing the floor and Sunni could have died from a squashed door. Although considering how funny that was; I think Gruffi is hosed. Zummi breaks it up before Gruffi sees some pasta in his face in the near future. Zummi is more concerned about the smell; but Sunni wants to find a new place to live and calls it an adventure which lights up Cubbi's eyes. Gruffi blows it off because they are staying until the smell goes away. Sunni whines as Tummi flicks some of the smell away and states that they should stay away from the Glen until the smell goes away; which would take 24 hours. Grammi agrees with Tummi and doesn't see the harm. Gruffi decides to relent and tells Tummi to keep Sunni and Cubbi out of trouble. Tummi promises to do just that. If he told me the sky is blue; I betcha Gruffi would look outside to make sure. Sunni tells Gruffi not to worry because she'll find the perfect place as the Gummi kids and fat Gummi all run stage right as the adults shake their heads. Okay; I can understand Gruffi doing it; but Zummi and Grammi?
So we head to a lake with a mini-waterfall as Tummi sits on the rock shore cross-legged coming all this the life as Cubbi and Sunni make a makeshift tent. So this is the Gummi version of Ghost Rustlers from The Wuzzles back in 1985. Sunni loves running water and Gummi berry bushes at their fingertips as she pulls a branch and bumps good on her back. Sunni sure has her working elf boot on today as we see a swarm of Jabber Flies and the Gummi kids all bail like a demented version of Polov's dogs. Instead of slobbering for a ringing dinner bell; they flee when humans or evil flies show up in this case. They dunk into the drink as the Jabber Flies seem to have the same psychology as cartoon bees: They go away when someone dunks into the water. The bears pop up as Tummi has a frog on his head under the cap (How does THAT work?) as Cubbi is not amused and asks for her next bright idea. Sunni proclaims that she has one as she bails stage right.....
….and we cut to a shot of Tummi asking Sunni if she is sure about something. Sunni claims that it will be perfect as Sunni has picked a cage. Wow; Sunni clearly is a desperate little diva when even A CAVE is suitable for her to live in. Needless to say; anyone who has a little common sense knows that in a cartoon; when there is a cave, it usually means that something nasty is inside of it and in this case it's a dragon as the Gummi kids all bail stage left. Sadly; it is the four legged green dragon, the runt of the litter as it snarls when the kids bail into the bushes to hide. I'm more surprised the dragon gave 15 seconds to Sunni to talk about redecorating the cave actually. The dragon bails into his cave as Tummi wants to go home; but Sunni stops him because she has one more idea for a place to live. Cubbi follows Sunni because what could be worse than Jabber Flies and dragons? So we logically head to Dumbwin as it looks stormy and Gregor is pancking on his throne while Calla is trying to whack the rat. Oh boy; this is going to put a huge dent in Black Run America's article about this show. And thank the lord for small favors. Gregor steals the septor away and proclaims that this is not a job for the princess; but for the royal rat killer as we see a peasant like human sneak in and act like a rat sniffing the ground. Gregor blows him off and addresses him as Willard.
Willard is voiced by Andre Stojka who started on Scooby-Doo & Scrappy Doo show in 1979 as a voice actor and did nothing really of note until 1985 when he was Starlite in the Rainbow Brite movie and television series and the Super Powers Team television series as The Scarecrow. He did some Hanna Barbera voices during that time including The Grim Creeper in the Scooby Doo & The Ghoul School television movie and Mr. Trudge in the 1987 edition of Johnny Quest. Gummi Bears is his DTVA debut and he also appeared on Darkwing Duck as Company Boss in Comic Book Capers (a show I previously ranted on), Archimedes in House of Mouse and would be the typecasted voice of Owl in Winnie The Pooh from 1994 onwards to 2007. He has 60 titles to his resume. Some Gave All and $weethearts are his most recent credits. His first role was as an associate producer for The Vriginian in 1967. Anyhow; moving right along....The rat bails to his hole as Willard proclaims that he has sniff out a rat at 50 paces and Gregor thumps his throne and orders him to get rid of the pests at once; as a rat bops Gregor's crown. HAHA! I see the logic is taking a holiday today as Willard proclaims that he can be counted on.
So we fade to black slightly to turn Michael Eisner on and we return to a tree and pan up to see a tree house as the Gummi kids are resting in said tree house. Tummi is dozing off and Cubbi thinks Sunni has finally pulled it off and then it begins to rain, thunderstorm and become windy as Cubbi changes his mind and this stinks. HAHA! Even the weather gods don't like teenyboppers as a thunderbolt cuts the tree down and somehow; the Gummi kids pop out without selling any injuries whatsoever. Tummi whines that he wants to return to Gummi Glen even with the smell; but Sunni has one more perfect place to go to and if you cannot guess what it is; then you have no business reading this rant....And damn I'm good as we head to a treasure room in Dumbwin as the Gummi kids all sleep in the carpet. Cubbi gets the CHEST OF DEMONS of course; just to be Cubbi. Sunni loves this because she can now sleep like a princess. No, not really; but close enough right Miss Teenybopper? Calla tells them to sleep tight as she blows out the candles and closes the door. We get the blue/green tint lighting effect as the Gummi kids sleep the night away on the scene changer and then we see a rat come out of the conviently placed hole and squeak. Sunni wakes up at once as she wakes up Cubbi and proclaims that someone is coming BEFORE we hear the footsteps. How about that for ESP? Or it's the first logic break of the episode seven minutes in.
Everyone bails as Willard opens the door and checks out the shields. Willard goes around and then grabs a box with holes in it claiming that they will join their friends soon. Huh? Do I smell a heel turn coming at six o'clock? Tummi sleeps on the treasure (and there is a Christian cross shown in full bloom on camera in front of Tummi I should note) as Willard sniffs some more and Cubbi and Sunni pull the sleeping Tummi over the rug. Willard chants some more while sniffing some more as the Gummi kids all bail out of the treasure room. We go into the hallway as Sunni turns around and notices Gregor humming a tune in his night gear. They run into King Gregor's room and hide under the bed. Heh. Gregor enters the room with a plate of cheese and crackers as Gregor lays on the bed and reads a scroll of paper.
The cheese smell overwhelms the underneath as Tummi asks about midnight snacks and Cubbi tells him not to. So Tummi swipes like Swiper The Fox on speed and all the cheese and crackers are gone. Wait; weren't the crackers more triangle shaped on earlier shots? Nah; I must be seeing things again. Gregor tries to grab his snack; but there is none on the plate. Gregor runs off the bed calling for Willard and Willard enters the room. Gregor proclaims that there are rats in his royal chamber and Willard claims not to be so hard on himself. HA! Gregor corrects him and calls him a fool. He's got a point; although he makes a crappy fool if you catch my drift. So Willard checks under the bed as Gregor looks forward and notices his robe is walking out of the room. One guess as to who is under it. Willard runs out of the room as the Gummi kids blow their cover and run like the wind....An easterly wind once again and they head into a dark room filled with boxes where apparently Willard keeps his rats. I'm guessing we have our heel turn as Sunni squeals on cue and then we stoop to playground level arguing (Was not! Was too! Taste Great! Less Filling! I get mad! I get even!) from the kids as Tummi hears footsteps again. At least this time; it's timed better as Tummi and the kids bail in various directions.
So Willard opens the door and sniffs some more and then he hears someone inside the black kettle pot. Willard goes over and opens it; but finds nothing. Although he forgets to check the bottom of the lid since Cubbi has shaped himself to it. HAHA! Well played; sir Cubbi, well played. Sunni is hiding behind the wooden wine barrels (or as they say: WE KNOW IT'S ALOCHOL BUT WE'RE NOT TELLING ANYONE.). Sadly; Sunni walks backward and trips back into one of the traps and it snaps which closes the box. Okay; that is a humane way to do it, although it's completely bullcrap in the historic context of BS&P. Willard notices the trap and grabs it proclaiming that it's the biggest in all of Dumbwin. HAHA! He's got a point there since teenyboppers think they are the biggest in all of the land too. POW! OUCH! Ummmm..... Anyhow; Willard drags her out of the room as we see Tummi and Cubbi hiding behind a barrel of laughs proclaiming that he has Sunni. Thank you for pointing out the obvious you goofball. Anyhow; we go to the scene changer outside as it's pouring rain and Sunni is thrown in the back of the horse buggy by Willard. Well; so much for the heel turn; he's just an annoying prick now. Willard wants to dunk them into the river as Cubbi and Tummi hitch a ride on the back as Willard takes his horse out of the castle and into the forest.
Thunderbolts strike and the horse panics before Willard gets him under control. Nice selling from Cubbi and Tummi on the back of the wagon by the way. Sunni does some decent selling in her rat trap of course as the road becomes much rougher now. Cubbi almost gets dumped onto the road as Tummi grabs him and leads him onto the wagon as Cubbi proclaims that this cannot get much worse. And of course if anyone have ever seen two cartoons knows that it often DOES get worse after someone says that line and we have a cliff as Willard has lost total control of his horse. I see riding a horse is NOT Willard's strong point as Willard bails out as we cut back to Cubbi and Tummi. Tummi proclaims that it's up to them to save Sunni from herself as they drink their vials of juice and IT'S BUTT BOUNCING TIME~! So instead of doing the sensible (hint: Not BS&P) thing which is to grab Sunni and bail out; they bounce onto the front of the wagon and try to control the horse. They pull on the reins and manage to force the horse to do a 180 degree turn and a few rock go over the cliff for a nice detail touch. That allows the horse to ride and the wagon crashes into a tree and the bears on front get dumped with no bumps whatsoever onto the ground. The rats all escape and run into the rain as Willard pleads for them to come back and chases after them. Tummi proclaims that Willard must love that line of work. Umm; yeah sure Tummi. Cubbi asks Sunni if she has any more stupid ideas and Sunni proclaims that there is one place left.
So morning arises as we hear Zummi proclaim that the smell is gone as we head back to Gummi Glenn as Grammi is moping the floor and Gruffi is fixing the chimney like he was supposed to at the beginning of the episode. Oh; and he has a wrench as Sunni walks in and calls Gummi Glen the best place in the whole wide world. Yeah; what a surprise?! Gruffi is sort of glad she finally realized that as Sunni agrees, although it could use some redecorating as she runs out to get some fabric and paint from Dumbwin. Well; at least she's willing to stay at her home this time. That ends the short at 10:38. This would have been better if Willard had turned heel completely and had a subplot of screwing Gregor over for treasure, but otherwise; it's just another average episode. *** (60%).
Color Me Gummi: We begin this one at Gummi Glen as we go to the northeast zoom in which makes no sense since the next scene has them underneath the lake since Gruffi is trying to fix the roof which is leaking and Zummi is panicking. Gruffi stuffs a cloth into the broken hole and thinks he has beaten the power of water. As Bill Cosby would say: Riiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhttttt. Are we on Gummi Camera or something? Needless to say; Gruffi gets whacked in the kisser with the cloth of doom and takes out the OUT OF NOWHERE Tummi in the process as Grammi walks in and blows off Gruffi for ruining the floor. Gruffi gleefully answers that one for me as the door opens and in comes Mr. Gusto Vaino with a canvas. He cuts his full of himself promo to reveal a painting of Princess Calla and Sunni....And damn it to hell if it doesn't look awesome. Zummi doesn't have to notice the painting and Gusto claims that they are making an indoor waterfall. HAHA! If only Gusto, if only. Gusto cares about the painting; Gruffi doesn't as he continues to vainly attempt to plug up the leak with a towel. Gruffi wants Gusto to make himself useful; so Gusto does by cutting a full of himself promo on remodeling the place. HAHA! I see where Sunni gets her redecorating ideas from. Gusto covers his eyes and envisions the new Gummi Glen with plain white walls with a splash of color. Gruffi is not amused at all. Maybe he should just find something other than a cloth to plug that damn leak with.
So we see Grammi in her room in her night gear walking slowly proclaiming that they managed to get the leak fixed. Well; that is good to know madam as Grammi gets into bed. I mean it would be too funny to see your bed float around the floor at night. She snores for a while as we segue to the next scene and hear something as she sneaks down the hallway and sees Gusto removing the paintings and statue of a Gummi head from the walls. Grammi blows him off for that and Gusto apologizes because he has an idea and wants to strike it while it's still hot. Then Tummi and Gruffi come out of nowhere as Gruffi steals one of the paintings back as Gruffi proclaims that the paintings have been hanging for a hundred years. Will you writers make up your mind on the age of Gummi Glen? Gusto wants a new look; but Gruffi steals Gusto's painting and is tired of it as Gusto stammers. Huh? Tummi, Grammi and Gruffi leave as Gusto falls to his knees and questions his magical touch. Oh; and there's a spotlight on him for some unknown reason. If it's due to the solar roof; then it's a nice magical touch. Gusto bangs on a painting and proclaims that he's a fraud. Gusto proclaims that there is only one thing left to do as we head to morning as Gusto tosses all of his paintings into a cart as Zummi and Grammi plead for him to reconsider. After all; he is allowed to hang up at least one painting on the wall. Gusto sort of accepts the apology; but he is hanging up his brush and is only a vain Gummi Bear; instead of a vain Gummi Bear Artist.
Zummi and Grammi feel bad for him as they shrug their shoulders and leave. Gusto sinks his head on the table as Cavin comes in and the voice is obvious that it's Jason Marsden voicing here as he asks where Cubbi is. Gusto asks Cavin about plumbing, shoe repair as Cavin notices the Calla/Sunni painting OUT OF NOWHERE and he loves it. Methinks Cavin has good taste eh? Cavin grabs the painting and Gusto allows him to have it. Gusto walks out telling him that Cavin can have it and use it as a dartboard or something. That would have been funny if Cavin had issues with Calla and/or Sunni. In other words; me. Sort of. Cavin is confused as we go to the scene changer as we pan east to the far shot of Castle Dumbwin....ERRR...I mean Dunwyn as an Italian voice is addressing King Gregor as we head into the throne room with King Gregor, Calla and Sir Tuxford. I wondered when Lazybones would show up. Anyhow; the man is wearing something from Princess Choppy's wardrobe as he addresses himself as Rotocelli which means that Gino Conforti is back after doing Benzino Gasollini in Ducktales. And that's the last time I will ever mention that low life scumbag who thinks doing stunts with pizza gets him over. Rotocelli proclaims that the king's jaw will drop as the canvas is revealed and Rotocelli's painting looks like something like the Revenge of Dukie. Yeah; it's THAT bad. Calla and Gregor gasp in horror. They should be lucky that he didn't use banana yellow as the background, it would have been a lot worse.
Tuxford seems all right with the painting though as Gregor calls all the paintings from dozens of painters dreadful. We then see Cavin with the sack containing his painting as he sneaks to the opposite side; but Calla calls him out and wonders what he is hiding behind the sack. Cavin claims that it's his laundry and Lazybones begs to differ on that one. Cavin finally decides to show the painting and everyone loves it and Gregor takes it and notices the whimsical Sunni on it. Calla stammers to answer that one as Gregor asks where he got it and Cavin is now having stuttering syndrome. Sadly; before he answers, we head to the waterfall home of Gusto Vaino and Gusto is SHOCKED AND APPALLED as we head inside and Gusto and Cavin exchange notes on the situation. See; Cavin claims that he painted it himself and now Cavin has to do Gregor's picture as Gusto sulks onto his seat claiming why he said that. Cavin's answer is obvious: He couldn't tell him that a Gummi Bear did it as he pleads for help. Gusto ponders over helping Cavin with some pointers and cuts a promo before sulking back down admitting that he has no talent. HAHA! Gusto is so vain that he self defeats himself in vain. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Cavin rolls his eyes on that one....
So we head to the throne room as King Gregor is on a wooden horse and holding a lamp pole (!!!) as he asks Cavin if Gregor is being pretentious. Cavin is behind the cloth in painting gear claiming that Gregor is being heroic. You wish Cavin-sama. We find out that Gusto is behind the cloth as well doing the actual painting as Cavin paints Gusto in the face. HAHA! This is like shooting fish in a barrel; both ways. Gusto blows him off almost blowing their cover and sneezes as the cover sells better than Lazybones ever could. Gregor asks if everything is all right and Cavin pops up to inform him that everything is fine.....I agree with him; albeit for a different reason. Wink! Wink! Nudge! Nudge!
Anyhow; we get a closeup shot of the tower of Dumbwin AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as we head to the bedroom of Rotocelli as Rotocelli paces around protesting this outrage of Gregor blowing him off for his masterpieces. Gregor wants a life like picture of himself; not an Andy Warhol parody of himself. You don't like customers much do you Roto? Wonder how many Mr. Hardcore people took notes of this scene and used them? Rotocelli also blows off Cavin's work claiming that it takes years of skill to pull that off. Coming from a guy who has no talent at all? Projection much there Roto? Rotocelli sits on his bed and blows out the candle as he ponders over who might actually be doing the painting and strikes a match and lights it (TOON DISNEY ALERT!). So we head to the paint room as we see a shot of the wooden horse before panning east to the painting as Gusto and Cavin admire King Gregor's likeness on canvas. Gusto is loving this as he is listening to the painting and it's saying Bravo as we see Rotocelli overhearing from the door and takes it as someone is helping him. So Roto opens the door and we see Cavin acting like he's making a Gummi Bear out of stone as Gusto acts like a statue. HEE HEE! I see one fatal flaw with this and I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
Cavin storms in and blows Rotocelli off for bugging him and in the name of the king he orders Rotocelli to leave at once. Rotocelli looks mighty pissed off as he proclaims that he will find out what is going on as he is nose to nose with Cavin and then shoves Cavin down because he's the great Rotocelli; king of Andy Warhol's style of art. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He slams the door and Gusto blows his cover invoking the POINTY FINGER OF DEATH on Rotocelli claiming that he's not. HAHA! That ends the segment almost seven minutes in. I'm digging this episode thus far.
After the commercial break; we head outside in the streets as we see Cavin walking alone and we pan east to see Cavin being greeted by Sir Tuxford (who is voiced by Brian Cummings at this point; and man Brian Cummings sounds terrible compared to the late Bill Scott.) and he likes Cavin's work so much that he wants Cavin to paint his picture and Cavin foolishly accepts the deal face value. Cavin walks away into an alleyway as Cavin drops the sack down and out pops Gusto who mocks Lazybones. HAHA! I agree with Gusto; Tuxford should paint his own painting. It cannot be any worse than his guarding skills that is for sure. Gusto is pissed off because Gusto did all the work and Cavin is getting all the credit. So Cavin counters with the most silly answer ever: If I didn't show the painting; No one would know. Gusto acts like a child throwing a temper tanturm in response. HAHA! Cavin proclaims that credit isn't important and Gusto acts like Mr. Hardcore and storms out telling HIM to finish the painting. Gusto doesn't call the bluff and opens a brick door and slams it behind him as Cavin gulps realizing that he just screwed himself.
So we head inside the throne room as Gregor is back making an ass out of himself. At least he has an actual golden spear in his hand this time as Cavin is behind the cover and having problems highlighting underneath Gregor's right eye. I just hope someone in creative doesn't consider this for 101 Dal....Oh wait; never mind. Cavin tries to keep this going; but the painting just gets worse and worse. Logic break: The black highlight under the eye is completely gone now as Cavin concedes that only Gusto can fix this painting. So we head back to Gusto's bedroom as Gusto is sleeping in his hammock trying to sleep; and then he flops out of bed (in one of the few instances that he's not wearing the sandals) and proclaims that he is not going to quit on the painting now. Well; so Cavin doesn't have to stoop to I Only Have Ice For You levels? Fine by me. So it's AFTER HAPPY HOUR of course as we see Rotocelli sneak out the door into the dark room and notices the really bad painting which is still a lot better than Rotocelli's work. Wow; Rotocelli has no sense of what the customer wants. At least Cavin made the attempt to do it which gives Cavin more talent than Rotocelli ever did.
He then hears a creak in the door and bails to hide as Gusto comes in and notices the painting and swears in DUBBED ANIME STYLE (What in the name of fur?) as Cavin enters in and is happy that he came back. Gusto does the Gruffi pose (Oh; the irony?!) as Cavin apologizes and Gusto forgives him right on cue acting vain. HA! Gusto takes a paintbrush and starts painting on canvas as Rotocelli blows his cover and calls Cavin out for not painting this at all. Rotocelli steals the painting and runs out to tell the king. Gusto follows him (much to the pleads of Cavin) into the hallway and he drinks the vial of juice and it's BUTT BOUNCING TIME~! We chase as Rotocelli proclaims that he will not be cheated by a mythological bear. Too late Rotocelli; you are projecting yourself as usual. Roto goes up the stairs as Cavin chases him up the spiral staircase and is trapped on the look out as Cavin demands that he gives the painting back. Rotocelli offers no dice as he finds a rope and swings like Tarzan as Gusto rejoins Cavin and they bail downstairs.
Rotocelli manages to make it in front of Gregor's room (how convenient eh?) as Rotocelli knocks on the double doors as Rotocelli yells at Gregor to come out because he has been had. Gusto and Cavin are behind the conveniently placed rug as Gusto proclaims that it's too late. Cavin claims that they are not as he drinks his vial of juice and it's ROID RAGE TIME~! I've been waiting for ages to say that as Rotocelli gets waves and flies into the air just in time for the picture to land right on his head. Roto just got literally framed. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Gregor comes out of his room in night gear for answers as Gusto hides behind a statue (convenient eh?) as Cavin explains that he stole the painting and ruined it. HAHA! Not quite the truth Cavin; but close enough. Rotocelli insists that Cavin is a fraud and that a Gummi Bear painted it. He uncorks the painting and Gregor blows him off as a thief and a vandal as Rotocelli is SHOCKED and APPALLED. Gregor calls for two guards as Rotocelli has been banished from Dumbwin forever. Rotocelli protests this outrage as he is carried out; but Cavin finally admits that he didn't do the painting and that the real painter wishes to remain unknown. Gregor wonders why he kept the truth from him; and Cavin proclaims that he didn't want to disappoint him. Gregor forgives him anyway (because he only merely lied about it and Rotocelli did more damage anyway) as he shows off the painting of Calla and Sunni proclaiming that he's the best and Gusto likes that response. So we scene change back to Gummi Glen as Gusto tells all the Gummi Bears that Gregor loved the painting. He hangs his own painting while cutting a full of himself promo of course. That ends the short at 10:34. Yeah; I know the footage is out of sync by three seconds; but no harm done. A pretty good episode too as Gusto kept this one into awesomeness; although it could have been better if Rotocelli was a decent artist and not an Andy Warhol like artist. **** (80%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Another day; another two shorts done as we get our usual mixed bag of shorts. There's No Place Like Home just felt incomplete for some strange reason. Sure; the main plot line with the kids was pretty good and Sunni getting screwed was always pretty funny; albeit less so since Cubbi and Tummi was there and the animation was smooth as silk; but the Willard character felt like a one note tack on because I felt that they were going to tease a heel turn in that he was purposely using the rats to get some treasure that was inside the room where the Gummi kids were sleeping. That would have helped this episode a lot; but all we got was another average “Sunni dislikes Gummi Glen because it smells” which isn't exactly endearing to me. On the other hand; at least we can blame Gruffi for that gaffe and he never got called out on it in the end. Not the best of writing here.
Color Me Gummi was the first Cavin/Gusto combination episode and I think they pulled it off nicely although the whole idea of Gusto storming out on Cavin was a bit laughable since Cavin's reasoning was silly but it didn't make him all that much of a jerk since Cavin as an asshole doesn't work with him. Luckly; they didn't have Cavin pleading for him to come back as Gusto's vanity brought him back. Rotocelli was okay; but he could have been a lot better as a sad heel if he was a better artist; or at least as good as Gusto. Otherwise; I had zero sympathy for him when he was banished from Dunwyn in the finish. The ending was too short as well as no response from Gruffi at all. Still; Gusto was funny and vain as usual. So; I did seven episodes in four rants in five days. Next weekend; I do seven more episodes in four rants in four straight days starting with He Who Laughs Last, then Tummi's Last Stand/The Crimson Avenger Strikes Again, Ogre Baby Boom/The White Knight (Igthorn's brother debuts!) and Good Neighbor Gummi/Girl's Knight Out. That would complete 14 of the 16 episodes for season four in just two weeks. So......
Thumbs in the middle for There's No Place Like Home & Thumbs up for Color Me Gummi and I'll see you all next time.