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Ogre Baby Boom/The White Knight
Reviewed: 08/01/2011
Does That Involve Exploding Farts?!
So now I'm on the second half of my special “four rants in four straight days” as Grammi decides to walk into the nature/nurture issue and Dukie has a brother too. So let's rant on hall we....?
Ogre Baby Boom is written by Alan Burnett and The White Knight is written by Len Uhley. The animation is all done by TMS.
Ogre Baby Boom: We begin this one in the kitchen of Gummi Glenn as Gruffi is throwing away baby products while generally blowing off Grammi for keeping them. Of course Grammi is conviently right there to stop him as they play tug of war for a while. Death reference #1 from Grammi ensues (Over my dead body) and Grammi gets the container back; but the baby powder gets thrown into the conviently placed kettle of Gummi Berry Juice. Grammi blows off Gruffi for ruining the juice which of course is par for the course when Gruffi is involved. Wait until he destroys the Great Book Of Gummi in Season 5. Then he'll really be at his lowest point. Grammi takes the kettle out of the kitchen as the jack in the box opens up and yells Mama. Sorry; but this isn't as funny as it was in Molly Coddled. Gruffi blows it off too. I see the tinfoil hat Gruffi is wearing is too tight.
So we see a crystal ball shot of the Castle of Dumbwin....ERRRR..I mean Dunwyn as Dukie (Just a note: In season four he didn't appear in six shorts out of the 16 possible episodes.) is looking at it from a telescope (I'm guessing syndication forgot to blacken out the outside of the circle since it's completely blue. Weird.) . Strangely; the eyepiece he looks in is so oddly designed it appears that his big nose is stuck in it. Dukie wants to invade Dumbwin of course as we get some smashing and Dukie goes to the window and notices the ogres playing soccer. Okay; if you believe in Jim Rome then this is the most heelish thing you can do which only serves to make Dukie look even weaker in hindsight. Ogres kick and ogres smash their bodies into walls with MAN-SIZED bumps as Dukie calls out for ultra cool sidekick Toadie and we discover that Toadie is the ball. HAHA! At least they stuffed him in a soccer skin this time as Toadie asks what has Dukie beckoned. Toadie still gets kicked around though as Dukie demands answers to this outrage and Toadie proclaims that he's entertaining the troops.
So Dukie throws the ball and it bounces out of the castle as the ogres follow it down the steps and out of the castle. Dukie goes to the telescope and notices King Gregor on horseback with Sir Tuxford and the guards riding out of the castle as Dukie likes this. Then we see Toadie run in and slam the door shut panting. Dukie orders Toadie to gather the troops and Toadie no sells because he sent them away as Dukie ordered. D'OH! Dukie grabs Toadie by the ears and tells him to get them back before dropping Toadie on his ass. Toadie walks away wondering if it's all worth it. In Dukie's case; it's a needed kick in the ass since Dukie lost most of his heat at this point and we are six episodes away from Lady Bane's debut. So we scene change as we head into the forest as the ogres are looking in the bushes for Toadie I betcha. It cannot be for Gummi Bears; that would make them look like smart asses; not dumbasses like they usually are. Gad and Zook think Toadie is being a bad sport as we sky pan east to a trail as Grammi is walking with her ruined batch of Gummi Berry juice and she wanted Gruffi to do this as the ogres notice her and want to play her as the ball. Okay; that was more disturbing than they had intended. Grammi panics and bails east as the ogres go after her and it's RUNAWAY BABY POWDER ROID JUICE~!
Grammi drinks her vial of roided juice and IT'S BUTT BOUNCING TIME~ as she bounces over a lake and the ogres have a meeting of the m....I mean meeting of the skulls; and it wasn't at the stinkweed swamp. That allows the wagon of baby powder juice to dump into the lake as Grammi bounces stage right. The ogres are sitting in the contaminated lake and Gad likes the pretty colors. Then ultra cool sidekick Toadie runs in and orders the troops to return home and the ogres hiccup and we have our template for the finish of You Sweat Your Life. The ogres act like babies and Toadie orders them to stop acting like babies. As opposed to acting like children when they were adult ogres? Really Toadie? Toadie then gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY just as the baby ogre do the stampede on Toadie allowing Toadie to kiss the ground with his chin. Toadie proclaims that Dukie is not going to like this. Quite frankly; Dukie doesn't like much of anything.
Scene changer as we head to the Gummi Berry patch (which is all purple Gummi Berries I see) as Grammi picks berries to put into the basket as Gad in diapers (So baby powder juice creates diapers for the babies too? Logic break #1 for the episode) jumps up from the bushes and raids the basket of Gummi Berries as Grammi turns around and swears in DUBBED ANIME STYLE (Land sakes!). Grammi yells at it to go home and away; but the baby ogre sobs like a baby. How apporos indeed?! Grammi recoils and grabs Gad and apologizes for her actions as the ogre baby calms down. Grammi decides that she cannot leave him here and I think we all know where this is going.....And of course we segue to inside the Glen living room as Gruffi is outraged to hear this. I see most of the children's stuff is in the room as Grammi defends the ogre baby while Gruffi calls the ogre ugly and smelling. Oh and he does the Gruffi pose; cannot forget that. Geez; Gruffi is getting more and more like a jerkass as this series progresses. Grammi decides to raise the ogre here and Cubbi and Gruffi are SHOCKED and APPALLED to hear that one. See; Grammi thinks that ogres can be nice and Gruffi blows it off because ogres and Gummi do not mix as babyfaces. Grammi wants to fix that as the baby ogre rips the head off the mama jack in the box while the adults argue.
Grammi takes the ogre baby and places it on the rocking horse and the ogre baby jerks on it while Grammi takes about giving it a little love. I think Grammi needs to realize the complex nature of nature/nurture. Not saying that the ogre nature/nurture is exactly the same as humans or Gummi Bears; but still. Anyhow; we segue to the war room in Drekmore as Dukie is playing with his war ogre toys and a model castle of Dumbwin. We see ultra cool sidekick at the door to inform him that he's glad this will be child's play as we segue to the kitchen as it's smashing dishes and other baby things from the rest of the ogres as Dukie is SHOCKED and APPALLED. Toadie calls it going through a second childhood. I didn't think the first one was over from the start anyway. Dukie grabs Toadie by the ears and threatens the ringer for him if he doesn't turn them back to normal somehow. Zook Baby decides to bounce on Dukie's head, pinch his nose and mustache for fun as Toadie thinks Zook likes him as orange ogre baby bounces off Toadie's head for fun.
We head back to Gummi Glen as Gad baby decides to shatter some international object at Gruffi for my amusement. We see Gad on the edge trim wall about ten feet from the floor as Grammi tells him that he could hurt someone that way. In that case; good. Hurt Gruffi real good maybe he'll stop being such a jerkass. Grammi wants him to come down like a nice ogre as the ogre pants and swings on the conveniently placed blue cloth and bounces into the harp and does a weak missile of doom allowing Gruffi to take a MAN-SIZED bump into the Gummi Suit of Armor. HAHA! Gruffi takes off the helmet and he's HAD IT as he casually walks in and allows the ogre baby to do the MAN-SIZED bitchslap on Gruffi as he goes flying into the suit of armor again off-screen. HAHA! Grammi takes him and gently tells him not to hit Gruffi; it's not nice. It may not be nice; but it sure as hell is funny when someone goes flying off-screen. Grammi wants the ogre to make nice with Gruffi as somehow he's sitting in a wooden chair sulking. If he was supposed to land in the chair; then they used the wrong sound effect for it. And somehow; making nice with Gruffi is a really bad idea.
Anyhow; the ogre crawls to Gruffi and jump up to his belly and licks his face. HAHA! Gruffi hates it of course; but Grammi calls it much better. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. So we scene change to Dukie's living room as it has been transformed into a pre-school playground. Who said Toadie wasn't resourceful? I'm tempted to call that a logic break; but it's too cute to try at this point. We zoom in to a table as Toadie is reading books about child rearing. Since it's a heel doing it; Al Khan's heart is safe as Dukie enters and takes the earmuffs off Toadie wanting a cure now. Toadie proclaims that he found nothing but a good recipe for a disgusting to human and awesome to ogres pie. Dukie asks why he's reading a cookbook and Toadie proclaims that it has more pictures in it. HAHA! Dukie grabs Toadie by the ears and wants to give him a crash course as he spins him like a ball and chain; but the yellow and orange ogre baby climb onto his legs yelling daddy. HEE HEE! He bashes the ogres with Toadie as they take bumps into the wall and he drops Toadie on his head (again) as he walks out. Oh; and don't call him daddy either. Well; we can never accuse Dukie of being the best dad in the world; that is for sure. And he's a heel; so child abuse is to be expected; given his treatment of ultra cool sidekick Toadie.
Anyhow; we return to the Glen as Gruffi gets green mush right in the kisser right on cue. HAHA! I see my “Get Revenge On Gruffi For Bad Crimson Avenger Episode” programming on Gad has worked to perfection. We see Gad in a baby chair with a fistful of the stuff giggling much to the worry of Grammi. Grammi tells him not to do that because it's not nice. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Gruffi/Me: Projection much there Grammi? SPLOOSH! EWWWWWWWWW! Ummmmm..... Gruffi spits it out and calls the stuff pond scum which Grammi agrees because it's a favorite among ogre babies. The baby eats it all and then whines like a baby on cue. Grammi realizes that he's still hungry and she's out of pond scum. Grammi proclaims that she'll be back with more and then gives the baby to Gruffi to take care of. HAHA! Gruffi asks what the hell he can do with him and Grammi is at the door telling him to give the ogre a bath before slamming the door shut. Gruffi wants to throw the baby in the river of course since we all know Gruffi is such a child abuser. Ask Cubbi about it.
So we head to the Gummi Bear bathroom as Gruffi brings in a whining sooky baby as Cubbi points out that he's acting like he has never taken a bath before. Nice continuity there fellows. Cubbi tries to help by grabbing a leg; but he gets kicked in the kisser. Oooooo. Didn't see that one coming as Cubbi flies off-screen. Gruffi tries to plop the ogre into the bath tub; but the baby uses the rack position to counter. Let's see if he pulls off the infamous “Spongebob Trick” (Hint: Gary teleports out) just so Disney can sue Nickeledeon out of existence. Or not. Gruffi gets abused a bit more as Gad finally makes contact with the water and he's back to regular size as he busts through the ground ceiling. Heh. Oh and the green ogre is Zook; not Gad. Damn; I never am able to keep them straight. It's like the Rangerplane/Ranger Wing crap all over again. Man; TaleSpin character designs are much easier to figure out. Oh and Gad keeps the diaper when he grows up which apparently has super flex abilities. Gad walks away thinking that he fell through a bunny hole. Gad walks into the forest out of sight as we see Cubbi and Gruffi on the floor wondering how that never happens to Cubbi when he takes a bath. Gruffi claims that he's not an ogre and the soapy water made him grow. I guess ogre's general fear is growing up too much from soapy water. Cubbi wonders how to explain this to Grammi; but Gruffi is willing and able to explain this one to her like the prick that he is.
So we head back to Drekmore at the drawbridge as Dukie is pacing around swearing in DUBBED ANIME STYLE (blast it!) as he is running out of time to invade Dumbwin as he turns around and there is Zook as Dukie is relieved that there is at least ONE adult ogre left. Zook hugs him and naturally Dukie blows him off calling him a chucklehead. Heh. Zook thinks Dukie is fickle. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. So we see Grammi walking in Drekmore with her pot and spoon as she makes it to the pond scum lake and spoons out some pond scum since the baby has to eat. However; Zook and Dukie appear right on cue and Grammi panics. Dukie and Zook back up Grammi as Gruffi is hiding behind a tree shaking his head at Grammi's failure to nurture Zook properly. Dukie already has Grammi (forgot to get some roided juice eh madam?) as Dukie is now a monster as she sprays the pond scum in Dukie's kisser. Dukie is pissed off as he's the future ruler of Dumbwin and he's going to squash Grammi like a bug for that one. Oooooooo. Zook then realizes that Dukie is going to invoke the POWER OF THE PUNCH and Zook stops the fist because that is not nice. Wow; an actual payoff for hitting Gruffi? Oh wait; it's old Disney, I shouldn't be surprised. Grammi gets dropped just as Zook raises Dukie (allowing another shot of her undergarments) and Dukie gets the ultimate funny move: The Mr. Salty Soccer Ball~! HAHA! Grammi flees behind the trees with Gruffi as Dukie demands Zook untie him. Zook no sells because Dukie is such a bad boy. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be...you know.
So we head back to Gummi Glen as we head to the living room and Grammi and Gruffi exchange notes with Cubbi. Gruffi admits that Grammi might still have some nurture left in her and Grammi likes that praise of course. Cubbi thinks that if Grammi raised Dukie; then he would be nice and Gruffi has two words for that: Imp-possible! HAHA! So we logically head to Drekmore AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as we head to Dukie's bathroom as Dukie is taking a bath and a eye rubdown as Dukie proclaims that if he never sees an ogre again it will be 500 years too soon. Sadly; the baby ogres are still on his case as the door opens and the baby ogres all jump on Dukie as it's clear Dukie is naked since the water is covering his naughty parts. They manage to make contact with the water off-screen and we cut to a shot of the tower crumbling and bouncing as the ogres are all turning adults and Dukie screams for Toadie as we zoom out to see Toadie in his bedroom reading. So that's why Al Khan hates reading then! He got assaulted in the bathtub once and his son refused to help him because he was reading. It all makes sense now. Or not. Toadie gleefully sums it all up for me and giggles to end the episode at 10:32. Much better episode thanks to Gruffi being game to taking his medicine and Dukie getting balled for once. *** ½ (70%).
The White Knight: We begin this one with a shot of a book and someone singing about fighting dragons and being a hero as we get various shots of the white knight doing hero stuff and that segues to the Castle of Dumbwin's main courtyard as a bard (Rob Paulsen) is on stage in front of Princess Calla and Gregor sitting on thrones. Apparently; the great white knight's name is Sir Victor. Everyone in the crowd pops as the music player bows and one of the denizens on the ground looks like a human version of Grammi. We pan to below the stage behind the red curtain as Cubbi looks on in disbelief that the white knight is coming in person. We head underneath the stage as Cubbi is standing on the barrel of laughs as Cavin comes in to inform him that Sir Victor is going to get a medal of courage from King Gregor. Cavin even gets the honor of being his page while Victor is here. Lucky indeed as Cubbi would say as Cavin wants to someday be like him and Cubbi I'm sure would too. So we cut to the roof as the trumpet flourish plays and they are not animated at all I might point out as we pan down to ground level as Sir Victor gallops in with his white horse as Victor is wearing white armor and has blond hair and the Dukie face minus the mustache. He's voiced by the same guy as Gregor and Dukie, Michael Rye in case you didn't notice.
He gallops over a hay wagon and stops his horse on a dime which we find out that his horse's name is Destiny. Cubbi thinks Victor is impressive. Maybe years of Kit Cloudkicker has made me so biased as to be impressed by this as Victor jumps on stage and Gregor greets him and offers Princess Calla's hand. Victor kisses Calla's hand and the kiss is so overwhelming that Calla faints dead away on stage. I'm sure Black Run America enjoyed that spot too. Gregor comes over to help as Victor claims that this happens constantly. Just like sexism doesn't it? Cavin runs on stage and Gregor wants Cavin to show Victor his quarters and Cavin want to leave an impression on Victor and screws up by channeling Zummi's grammar stutter of doom. Victor gets close to the boy (which would have a really perverted meaning in later years) as he helps Cavin down asking him to fetch his bags and he'll tell the story of slaying the wombat of Wellington.
We then segue into the horse stall as Cavin cleans off an eating hay Destiny while Victor continues his stories claiming that he sent the beast hurling to it's doom. I see BS&P still hasn't got the BS out of it's system yet. Cavin is in awe; although I cannot be sure if it's the story or the fact that Victor BS&P'ed the finish. Cavin wants to know about him defeating the Parsnip of Palidor which indicates that Victor's stories are BS'ed along with BS&P'ed. Victor puts the saddle onto Destiny as he tells Cavin to be patient as he rides on Destiny and proclaims that he has three more wrongs to right before he becomes the ultimate hero; I guess. So he rides out of the castle of Dumbwin as Cavin wants to see all this. So we head into the forest as Sir Victor rides on horseback humming that silly superhero tune. Victor stops Destiny and brings out his sword which is straighter than my sex life and then he gets MURDERED from behind with the rope rock from hell and Victor takes some good bumps into the dried up road as Destiny gets taken by one of the ogres as we find out that it's ultra-cool sidekick Toadie and his ogres wearing army hats and calling themselves Ogre Commandos. Yes; this is breaking logic and reason, but Toadie rocks, so who cares?
Toadie calls out Victor's toughness; so Victor jumps up and steps on all three ogres' noggins which shouldn't do any damage whatsoever since they have no brains; but the ogres sell anyway. Ho hum. Victor rips a strong branch from the conviently placed tree which almost uproots itself and Toadie turns yellow. No really; I'm as SHOCKED as you are. Victor bashes and squashes all the ogres easily as even Destiny does the MULE KICK OF DEATH TIMES TWO allowing Victor to duck and orange ogre to take a MAN-SIZED bump off-screen. Logic break #1 ensues as the orange ogre turns to Zook instantly on the pileup. Sigh. I see Gad has come OUT OF NOWHERE too as Victor demands they surrender because he's outnumbered five to one and one is winning. Then we hear Dukie's voice and Victor turns around and calls him Sigmund. Toadie gets confused as hell over THAT one. Dukie comes forward wanting greetings from his brother (!!!); but Victor gives him none. Dukie reminds him that he's Victor Igthorn and Victor isn't all that amused over it. The brothers circle as Victor admits that he is doing all this to make amends for Dukie's treason and Dukie blows him off for it. He invokes the POINTY FINGER OF DEATH on Victor and Victor is so offended that he bitchslaps Dukie! About time someone countered that weapon. They go nose to nose and it's junior high school playground insults as Toadie doesn't know what to make of this.
Victor than comes up with the best insult ever: Siggy Soggy Shorts to counter the Mama's Boy accusation. I agree; where is Victor's mother anyway? You have to have a mother still alive in order to use that insult Siggy Soggy Shorts. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm.... Toadie giggles on cue and Dukie grabs him and blows him off. So Dukie, Iggy, Daddy and Siggy Soggy Shorts are out of the running for pet names. Can we call you just Siggy then? POW! OUCH! Ummm...Okay; that is out of the running too. Toadie shows the QP nephews the proper motion to zip you lips and gets dropped as Dukie decides that he'll blackmail Victor by telling the world that they are brothers and Victor turns to lobster courage. Oh man; he's more of a whimp than Major Courage ever was. At least Major Courage waited until the aliens arrived before he displayed his lobster courage. Toadie takes Dukie's side and both brothers order him to butt out. Pricks! Toadie walks away as Dukie taunts him for a while on his heroism; and then proclaims that he can keep this a secret if he does one favor; but then recoils and decides to leave. Before he can; Victor decides that he wants to hear it as Dukie has one little favor as we cut to Cavin riding on horseback and then is in shock as he notices Victor on horseback with Dukie and two orange ogres as Dukie tells him to complete the task by dawn as Victor nods reluctantly. Dukie slaps Destiny's ass and Destiny rides away. PUNT! OUCH! Ummmm... Cavin is behind the bushes as Victor rides out of sight and he cannot believe that they are together. That ends the segment five and a half minutes in. This is just stupid because we all know Gregor hates Dukie and not Victor even if they were brothers. Gregor is a fair ruler and this lying is only going to make Victor look bad...Which is exactly what Dukie wants anyway....
After the commercial break; we head to the throne room as the denizens of Dumbwin gather around as King Gregor is at the front of the throne ready to present Sir Victor Igthorn the Grand Royal Cluster of Dumbwin as he puts the shield necklace around Victor's neck. Victor is not pleased with this as the crowd pops for him. Victor proclaims that he doesn't deserve this and turns his back on Gregor as Gregor calls him modest too. So we cut to Cavin trying to explain to Sir Lazybones about Dukie and Victor meeting each other; but Tuxford laughs it off and walks out. Cavin claims that he knows what he saw. Ummm; no you don't Cavin as we head to a shot of the night sky and then pan southwest to a portion of Castle Dumbwin as we hear two guards looking at the sky for the Big Dipper and before that conversation can get any good; Victor bashes their heads together and they see crappy animated stars. The knights get knocked out on cue.
Victor then takes his OUT OF NOWHERE sack and fires three arrows with ropes towards the ground as he proclaims that this should please Dukie as he turns around and there's Cavin calling Victor out for turning to the dark side. Victor sulks and just let's Cavin walk all over him verbally as he leaves. Cavin calls him a traitor as he sheds a tear on the way out. I'm sorry; I just cannot buy these pathos over something so weak as Victor not wanting the world to know that he's related to Dukie. It's just not that important. Kit's story is a lot more tragic because he was a real heel once and he turned on Baloo and Rebecca because if he didn't, everyone dies and Don Karnage plunders Cape Suzette without a counter. So we head into Tuxford's bed chamber as Cavin runs in yelling for Sir Lazybones to wake up because Victor is a spy for Dukie; but Tuxford pushes him out the door blowing his nightmares off. Cavin protests; but no dice as Tuxford claims that he saw Gummi Bears. Then Cavin gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY on that one and leaves as we logically head to Gummi Glen and the round table as Cavin and the Gummi Bears exchange notes on the situation; allowing Gruffi to once again take potshots on human again. I see the tinfoil hat is eating his brain now; in spite of his cop out “present company accepted of course” line. Grammi proclaims that if no one believes Cavin; then they must save the king and Gruffi agrees to muddy that clean white knight.
So we head to Dumbwin as the ogres and Dukie take the rope arrows and create ski lift boxes out of them as Dukie proclaims that he has out done himself this time around. We then cut over to Cavin and Gruffi to the rope and the obvious thing to do here is cut the ropes and Dukie loses easily. But no; that would end the episode way too quickly silly as Gruffi uses a Gummi flag to signal to Zummi and we get the SPELL OF SATAN from him....
Zummi:
Lamite Unup Namite!
Translation: My Might Up Night Might!
I guess that's a WereGummi Bear spell; but it makes fireworks which makes no sense whatsoever. Well I should have expected that from Season four writers. Then Grammi, Sunni and Tummi walk in with cow bell, drums and cymbals as they make enough noise to wake up the dead. Even in 1988; the secret to awesome music is more C-O-W-B-E-L-L! Glad to see Grammi was paying attention. Dukie notices the racket and orders the ogres to attack as we get a far shot of Victor riding with Destiny sulking and Destiny is offended by Victor's bad acting. So we head back to the castle as Cavin drinks the vial of roided juice and it's ROID RAGE TIME~! As Cavin lifts a large gray brick and drops it into one of the ogre's pulley carts and they go sliding back and WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE~! Excellent selling by Gad on that one too. Gruffi then squeezes oil from an oil can on the ropes and the second ogre cart all slide back and crash into another tree with a MAN-SIZED bump on-screen. The tree also splits into two in a neat spot as Cubbi throws more bricks and one of them hits the front of Dukie's cart and they bounce as the cart springs back. Toadie grabs the rope to stop it; but it works and serves to give Toadie hand & rope burn disease. AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! Dukie blows off Toadie and Toadie pulls the cart up as he gets to the top easily and Dukie finally enters the castle with his sword declaring victory.
Now at this point; if the bookers are smart, this would be Sir Victor's redeeming himself here as Dukie goes after the babyfaces....and damn; the bookers are smart as here comes Sir Victor on horseback with his white spear much to Cavin's delight. He pole vaults using the spear and lands in front of Dukie as he has his sword out and demands Dukie surrender now. He cuts the most annoying promo ever and Dukie yells at him to put a cork on it already. So we get out sword fight between Dukie and Vicky...POW! OUCH! Ummm. I mean Victor as they fight down the stairway into the castle of Dumbwin. Wait; did Dukie just call Victor a pussy? UGHHHH! OH NO HE DIDN'T! If this were Gunther; we would be having a rap song that would make that G-rated cartoon on the Titanic look like it's grounded in reality. This goes on for a while as Dukie insults Destiny and Victor blows him off and whacks the sword out of his hand and it goes out the window. HA! I see Destiny has a very thin skin. PUNT! OUCH! Ummmm....
So Victor whacks Dukie with the sword on the ass and Dukie flies out the window. Okay; this was a better booking decision than cutting the ropes. I take it all back now. Dukie splashes into the drink as somehow; the denizens of Dumbwin are looking on. Huh? That makes no sense whatsoever. Toadie swims to save Dukie and Dukie pulls him underwater for fun. Hey; when ultra-cool sidekick needs to give Dukie heel heat; you got to let him do stupid and dangerous crap like that. Dukie steps on Toadie's head and warns Victor that he'll tell his secret and Victor blows him off and goes to the denizens and confesses that he is Dukie's brother and everyone is in SHOCK as Gruffi sees this as the end of Sir Victor for sure. Gregor comes over calling the situation grave; but since he judges on character and deeds, Victor is forgiven and the denizens cheer. Now let's see if Cavin calls him out on helping Dukie in the first place and Cavin seems relieved instead that Victor has turned back to good. So we see Victor on horseback in the forest with Cavin as they say their goodbyes as Victor gives Cavin the medal and proclaims that he overcame his worst enemy which was his selfish pride. Huh? His pride wasn't out of selfishness; it was out of the fact that Dukie was blackmailing him over a silly secret. Victor rides away as Cavin waves goodbye as the Gummi's all approach Cavin and Cubbi calls Victor good as the episode ends at 10:32. This would have been a classic if the whole brother thing wasn't so silly and outdone by Kit Cloudkicker in Plunder and Lightning. Oh well; you cannot blame the writers for future episodes. Although the one who did Plunder and Lightning Part Three was Len Uhley who also wrote this short. *** ½ (70%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Wow; we have two shorts with the exact same rating this time around which is rare compared to the mixed bag of shorts this season has been thus far. Ogre Baby Boom was pretty decent thanks in large part to Zook of all ogres giving me some happiness at the expense of Gruffi after acting like an asshole in The Crimson Avenger Strikes Again. And the whole story was solid enough along with the animation so otherwise; I have nothing bad to say about this episode at all. As for The White Knight; this episode was a bit of a disappointment despite the finish being booked correctly and making the complex plan of distraction until Sir Victor comes in and whacks Dukie on the butt with a sword seem worthwhile. As much as I like Victor; the whole “I'm going to tell my mommy that we're brothers” plotline was idiotic because Gregor's character is to never hold a grunge against someone with the same last name unless he did the deed. Also; Victor never told Cavin why he turned on them in the first place other than mentioning that it was selfish pride which is false since Victor was clearly blackmailed; albeit in a really stupid way. The pathos with Cavin didn't work either because Kit Cloudkicker and Molly did all this a million times better in Plunder and Lightning and Kit had a really good excuse to turn on them: his family still being alive even though it came with the consequence of Cape Suzette getting plundered. Otherwise; I did like Victor and the Victor/Dukie thing was pretty funny to watch once you get past the obvious silly plot. So next up is Good Neighbor Gummi (Oh boy! A Gruffi focused episode) and Girl's Knight Out (as Calla becomes a knight to prevent Unwin from being her bodyguard). So......
Thumbs in the middle for both episodes and I'll see you all next time.