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Tummi Trouble
Reviewed: 09/24/2011
I Have No Idea What To Say About This....
Well kiddies; we have finally headed downhill on the Gummi Bears series as we approached early 1991 when TaleSpin was still running at this point. King Igthorn had already ran at this point leading a lot of fans to saying “WHAT THE HELL?!” when this episode showed up and it was as if nothing had happened. I'll explain why when we get to King Igthorn in about a month from now. However; that only applied if you were in America. On International releases; this episode occurred after True Gritty and before King Igthorn (thus making us say: WHAT THE HELL IS AMERICA'S PROBLEM?) and thus we get this episode which involves a love potion. Strange since the episode title would indicate another “Tummi's too fat and needs to lose weight angle” which has been done twice already. So how does this episode do? Let's rant on and find out shall we....?
This episode is written by Kevin Hopps. The animation is done by Walt Disney Animation Japan according to USIMDB. I'm not sure if any additional services were rendered since there is no ED or OP to work with.
We begin this one on a hill as the deers and the antelope lick each other....Okay; it's not nearly as funny without the Scooby Doo horse so let's move on. We pan west to see Tummi coming in with a wagon and Sunni loving spring time. Sunni is sitting down picking flower and love is in the air. And I'm feeling like I want to fart...in Sunni's face. Butterflies surround Tummi as he cannot see love in the air. That makes two of us my plump friend. One of the butterflies lands on Tummi's nose and Tummi tries some of the most hilarious karate moves this side of Drake Mallard and Fanboy and lands back first into the wagon filled of Gummi Berries. Then the wagon rolls down the hill to fetch a pail of Injurio Nuts. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sunni asks how great it would great if you fell head over heels in love. Actually Sunni; that's the effect I have with food and now I have type two diabetes and weigh 463 pounds (probably less now that I'm on the routine of doom); so the effect is quite bad. Sign of a teenybopper #321: Not realizing that consequences. So Tummi's wagon trips over the conveniently placed rock and Tummi drops on his belly and the wagon drops on top of him turning him into Gummi Berry Jam. Tummi isn't so happy of this as we head to Gummi Glenn and then inside Gruffi's workshop as Gruffi is on the step ladder hammering a shelf for no reason that I can think of at the moment. Tummi walks in as he wants to ask Gruffi something. Gruffi actually decides to listen to him or in reality, hand Tummi enough figural rope to hang himself with. It's sometimes hard to tell with Gruffi actually.
Gruffi plops his ass on the top of the ladder (which cannot be a safe thing to do) as he is the Gummi to ask questions. Tummi then asks what it is like to be in love and Gruffi stutters like an idiot. HAHA! He wants Tummi to ask Grammi about it who conviently shows up just at the right moment. HEE HEE! Gruffi's been jobbed! Grammi basically explains that love has the exact same feeling being nervous when watching a tickling scene which makes sense all things considered. Although it does have the effect of not being able to eat and Tummi doesn't like it. Grammi begs to differ and maybe this is the secret to weight loss: Love. Or maybe not. Grammi proclaims that he'll figure it out when he is in love and Tummi walks out not being so sure. So we head to Drekmore BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (Sunset. In the American release time line; this and the Gummi Glenn appearance are HUGE CONTINUITY ERRORS #1 & 2 in order (Don't forget to whip the belt ala Hulk Hogan during his promo of the APPLE PIE IN...ERRR....I mean YAPAPPI Indian Strap Match for WCW.)) as Dukie is writing poetry for Lady Bane. Of course; it's the heel edition since being rotten is being heelish. Dukie thinks Lady Bane will fall in love with him as this is the third time in this series that Dukie has attempted to have Lady Bane's hand in marriage. He's 0 for 2 in case you didn't notice. He looks at a photo of himself (with a frame that spells EVIL~!) as ultra-cool sidekick Toadie walks in with a pile of love letters as Dukie has been REJECTED! As usual. Dukie is pissed off as he slams his fist on the table and the power of suggestion makes the letters fly and Toadie do backward rolls and land on his ass. HEE HEE! Dukie proclaims that they were meant for each other as we discover that he was looking at a picture of Lady Bane. No really; I'm as SHOCKED as you are.
Dukie thinks that they are both diabolical and despicable as Toadie wants to reference the rejected letters; but Dukie insists that she has lost her mind. Geez; I wonder why Dukie?! Toadie picks up the letters as he proclaims that there are lots of snakes in the grass and then Dukie picks him up by the ears and blows him off. Considering that they are both heels; snakes in the grass is more fitting. Dukie's just jealous that Toadie got heat on himself and Dukie wants to leech off of it. And Toadie gets dropped on his ass on the letter stack he was making as Dukie goes to the window as he notices a black lady with black hair wearing mostly a pink dress and bandana and a yellow bra (Russi Taylor) showing off her wares to Gad and Zook. I find this a wee bit contrived to be believable that anyone would want to do business with Dukie at this point. Gad sniffs a vial of red potion and blows it off as stinky. Which means it smells like a rose basically. Dukie shoves his way through a sea of ogres (as Gad has seemly teleported to the pile now) as he demands to know who she is. She is Madame Feebal ; set of miracles (What does that mean?) as Dukie demands that she leaves right here and right now. Toadie then notices that she's selling a love potion (the same one Gad sniffed) as Dukie seems to be giddy about it. However; Feebal doesn't want to sell because it's too dangerous. Now why would anyone display a potion that is too dangerous? Isn't it just setting everyone up here for a sting operation? So Dukie shows a sack of money and claims that he'll pay any price. Feebal ponders it over and accepts the money and gives him the potion. She didn't say she didn't warn him as once sprinkled they will fall hopelessly in love. Feebal gets on her wagon and drives out of Drekmore as Dukie feels giddy because it's love at first sight. Heh.
So we head on the road in the forest as we see two bunnies in love and nosing each other. Then they scatter like rabbit stew as the coach containing Lady Bane drives down the road. Lady Bane blows off springtime love because it makes her sick see. But she still has something to love. Hint: It involves herself and a mirror. She's stealing Gusto's gimmick. YOU BASTARD!! Then she looks outside and notices Tummi in the meadow with the butterflies and orders the blue wearing Troggle (just one Milady?!) to stop the coach. Troggle naturally sells it and Bane drops on her face. Bane pops from the window as there is a second Troggle OUT OF NOWHERE as Bane wants that damn Gummi Bear. We see Tummi looking at the birds necking in the woods as Tummi calls it confusing. Tummi claims that it has something to do with the birds and the bees. For those who don't get it; it's codeword for making children and having sex. Even the overbearing parents who hate sex use this term. Of course; the proper counter to it is: Why not support cloning then if you hate the sex method (even though science has yet to clone humans successfully; and probably never will for a long time anyway.)? Or course; the most extremely religious hate that too; but then it goes against their sense that humans are irredeemable bastards who should die; but the law won't allow them to kill them at all. Tummi doesn't get it as the Troggles have a one track mind and spring into action. Tummi notices them and brings out his vial of...empty stuff. Here's the most laughable mistake I have seen yet: The vial is already empty and Tummi drinks from it...and it STILL WORKS! How about that? Grammi has made vanishing Gummi Berry Juice. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Bad, bad form there animators. It's BUTT BOUNCING TIME~!
So we do the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE TUMMI EDITION as this goes on for quite awhile. Too long for Lady Bane's liking; so she invokes the BOLT FINGERS OF DEATH to cut a big branch from a tree and Tummi trips easily despite being in the air while bouncing and pratfalls on his face like Drake Mallard does in his cartoons. The Troggles grab him and lift him up as Tummi stays stiffer than my back on bad days. So we scene change for no reason whatsoever as the Troggles return to the coach with Tummi in tow and throw him into the coach. Lady Bane praises them for their efforts as she wants to inform the other Gummi Bears that she has Tummi and they have until sundown to give her the Gummi magic books she wants. Tummi offers to give her Grammi's cook book in exchange; which Lady Bane blows off of course. Lady Bane is so smart; she can predict Grammi's cooking before she actually eats it. SPLOOSH! EWWWWW! Ummmmmm.... So we drive away stage right as we cut to deeper in the forest with Dukie and Toadie on horseback; as Dukie has the love potion and explains that he only has to sprinkle the potion on Lady Bane and he wins her hand. So we finally go to the sky shot as we head to the crossroads and Dukie's horse panics first which leads to the Troggle turning to the horse and panicking. Then Dukie and Toadie gets thrown off and we crash into the stagecoach which looks quite silly as the dust and dirt fly into the screen.
We return as there is carnage all around as the two Troggles are spinning around on a wheel; Toadie and Dukie are face first on the ground and Lady Bane is on her ass on the ground with love potion poured all over her. And so is Tummi as Lady Bane feels so strange and we get the first side effects of the love potion which is heart eyes and a golden glow as Bane proclaims that she feels so alive. Dukie notices the potion has worked and runs in to embrace Bane; but Bane runs past him and falls in love with ultra-cool sidekick Toadie. HAHA! Yeah; it makes no sense since Bane saw BOTH heels at the same time; so she should fall in love with Dukie as well; but whatever. It's absurd; but it's damn funny just the same. Bane embraces Toadie and then walks away stage right to have some privacy. HEE HEE! Somehow; I always had that vision of Kit Cloudkicker meeting his real mom for the first time with that happening to him. Dukie is in shock as Lady Bane has stolen Dukie's horse as Dukie demands that she come back. Bane no sells and gallops away with Dukie running behind her protesting this outrage. We then see Tummi sniffing Bane's pink hanky and he instantly falls in love with her. UH! OH! We have our odd love triangle in progress here. So we head back to Gummi Glenn as Tummi plucks petals from daisies asking that old question of loving him or not. Of course; this is BS in terms of measuring true love, but then love is hard to measure anyway. Grammi walks in with her pie as she shows him the treat and Tummi doesn't want it because of the POWER OF LOVE~! Not because Grammi cooking sucks like stink weed. POW! OUCH! Ummmm... She asks if his toes tingle and Tummi flutters in the air in cartoon fashion to indicate that his whole body tingles. HEE HEE!
Gruffi arrives as Grammi proclaims that Tummi is in love and Gruffi doesn't like it one bit. Sunni enters the room as they embrace and Sunni asks who's the lucky lady. Tummi doesn't know since she doesn't know he's in love with her. Grammi suggests telling her; or better yet, deliver a pie to her since the best way to her heart is her stomach after all. I see the usual stereotypes are still in place. Considering Grammi's character; I'm not surprised by this revelation. Tummi agrees with her as he runs out with the pie and Grammi wonders who the lucky Gummi Bear is and Gruffi points out that there are no other Gummi's for miles. In today's world; we would think that it was Gusto for whom Tummi fell in love with. Maybe I'm just one of those guys who would like to see a legit openly gay relationship on children's television. I mean; gays are not evil and they seem to give children more care than straight couples seem to do percentage wise. And it's not like Disney hasn't already provided benefits to gay couples already; so screw SBS&P, make like Nike and pull the damn trigger already. Sunni wonders who he fell in love with and we segue to Lady Bane's castle (I think) as Bane and Toadie are in bed as Bane is feeding him a bowl of fruit, mostly grapes. Bane counts the ways she loves Toadie and gives really good detailed notes of his strengths. Logic break: She comments on his blood shot eyes; but the eyes are all yellow with no signs of red anywhere in the whites. Bad form there animators again. Oh; and Toadwart literally lives up to his name by showing his non-existent wart on his left arm. Bane kisses Toadie like mad and we discover that Dukie is at the door as he saw the whole thing and has the Gruffi pose on full blast.
Dukie walks in much to the disdain of Miss Bane and wants Toadie. Toadie claims that he likes it here as Dukie teleports directly in front of Toadie and grabs him by the legs and drags him on the floor. Dukie doesn't give an elf; so to speak (yeah; I stooped to Kyle's swear in Fanboy & Chum Chum; so shoot me. At least that one was witty.) and Bane grabs his arms and we have the TUG OF LOVE~! SMACK! Toadie gleefully sums this up for me as we circle around and Bane wins as Toadie springs into Bane and they land on the bed. Toadie tells Dukie not to worry since he'll invite him to the wedding and Bane loves that idea as she embraces Toadie again. HAHA! Dukie calls this all a mistake and Bane gleefully corrects him and invokes the BOLT FINGERS OF DEATH to throw Dukie out of the castle and into the rose bushes. HAHA! Dukie pops from the carnage and he looks like a bunch of dogs bit him as he wonders why no one warned him about love being so dangerous. He then unpops a thorn from his ass and realized that this is what Madam Placebo told him (okay; that makes more sense from Feebel; damn that thick accent!) and runs off stage north to ask for her help. So we see Tummi prance in with flowers and pie in both hands. He makes it to the entrance of the castle as Gruffi and Grammi run in telling him to stop. Tummi wonders what they are doing here as Gruffi is asking the same thing to him. Tummi honestly answers that he's here to see his true love and walks right on in. Both Grammi and Gruffi are SHOCKED and APPALLED as they realize that it's Lady Bane and plead for Tummi to stop. Sadly for Tummi; the double door slam open and Tummi goes splat right into the wall. Ummmm; OUCH! And there are three Troggles and thus Gruffi and Grammi are forced to bail like Pablo's Dogs.
The Troggle chase after them as Tummi pops from the carnage as the pie and the flowers are crushed; much like my sex life. HEE HEE! Tummi proclaims that love makes the world go around. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Tummi enters the castle as we head to the plushy lawn chair (crimson red of course) as there is more kissy-kissy on Toadie from Lady Bane. This is just too funny to watch and trust me; this is going to get even more funnier now that Tummi is involved directly. Tummi walks in and notices that he should come back later. Bane tells him to do that; but turns around and then catches herself as she notices Tummi. She walks to him as Tummi is now infected with the POWER OF LOVE~! He even throws himself at the mercy of Lady Bane to boot. HAHA! Bane calls it an appalling thought as she throws the pie right into Toadie's face and flowers him. HAHA! I see that the animators half baked that pie too. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I think it's safe to say that Taseng-whoever is providing additional services here. Bane thinks Tummi can get her the perfect wedding present as she grabs Tummi and asks if he does want to marry her. Tummi of course does want to and Bane tells him to get those magic Gummi books and slides Tummi out of the castle. Tummi references the Great Book of Gummi and no sells because the other Gummi Bears would not understand. You do not know the half of that one Tummi. Bane claims no one truly understands love and rubs her finger underneath his chin telling him the marriage is off if he doesn't bring the books. So he gets the PINK SHIELD OF DOOM and get thrown on his face about 100 feet away from the castle on the bridge. Tummi sighs thinking that this is not one of his better days and that ends the segment 11 minutes in.
After the commercial break; we head into the forest as Grammi and Gruffi are still running away from the Troggles. Gruffi wants to lose these bouncy bullies. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there Gruffo?! Gruffi drinks his vial of roided juice (and the vial is full of the juice this time) and it's BUTT BOUNCING TIME! Grammi drinks down and starts to bounce just as Troggle #1 grabs her by the panties. Grammi slaps the hands off and goes into the air as Troggle #1 gets WARNERED~! So Gruffi and Grammi bounce up the steep mountain side and of course the Troggle run up like idiots and then get WARNERED~! They roll into a ball and roll out of sight stage right. Gruffi and Grammi are on top as Grammi proclaims that they need to find Tummi and Gruffi has already found him on the right side of the mountain in the forest walking and generally not feeling all that happy about it either. Grammi and Gruffi catch up with him just as he sniffs. Grammi asks what happened and Tummi claims Lady Bane doesn't love him as much as he does. Grammi consoles him and thinks he's heartbroken. Gruffi blows it off thinking that he came to his senses. Umm; if he proclaimed that Lady Bane doesn't love him AS MUCH as he does to her; then he's heartbroken Gruffo. And that means trouble as we return to Lady Bane's castle AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as we head into the dining room and see the ogres and troggles dancing and being generally drunk with red wine. HOLY CRAP! Didn't see that one coming at all. I'm guessing that this is the bachelor party.
We discover that Lady Bane opens the door and she's not amused at all of this party either. Toadie is getting bounced by two ogres with a blanket and he clears the table with a barrel roll as Toadie gleefully sums up this ogre tradition. And he's drunk too. And both Troggles are butt naked (and one of them is wearing a bra too) too. More WE KNOW IT'S ALCOHOL; BUT WE'RE NOT TELLING ANYONE is poured from the punch bowl of drunkness. The adult ogres explain this tradition as I should point out that references of drinking would be cut off of anime dubs from 4Kids and Toonami as Zook spins Toadie around and throws him into the punch bowl. This is just too funny as Bane pulls him out and tells him not to wear himself out. Lady Bane informs Toadie that they are getting married in the morning and drops him into the punch bowl before leaving stage left. Gad grabs Toadie and proclaims that they tie the knot tomorrow. Toadie seems a lot more surprised than the ogres which is funny considering that ogres are generally dumber than Toadie is. I guess that's the power of alcohol on ogres. It makes them smarter than the average ogre. AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm... And Toadie gets tied up into an ogre ball of course just to amuse me as Toadie gags. HEE HEE!
So we head to Gummi Glenn as we head to Tummi's bedroom as he's tossing and turning in his sleep trying to resist taking the Great Book of Gummi or something to that effect. Tummi falls out of bed and wakes up stunned. Tummi calls it an awful dream as he takes a daisy from the vase next to his bed and starts to pluck petals from it again. Somehow; there are seven petals; but only six are plucked and she loves him not. Take that Science Based Medicine~! Or maybe not. So Tummi proclaims that this settles it and we segue to him stealing the Great Book of Gummi as he claims that once he's married with Lady Bane; she's part of the family. I doubt that very seriously Tummi; seriously I doubt it. So we head to Lady Bane's castle in the morning (Already?) as we head to the tower as the Troggles are decorating the entire tower with red, white and pink hearts. They are also setting up a stage as we pan east to Lady Bane at the door holding Toadie like a teddy bear. HEE HEE! And the wedding cake is wheeled in by a Troggle in a chef's uniform which I put at 2:1 odds that it will be destroyed before it's all said and done. Toadie tests the cake out with his finger as Bane walks him outside asking him who the best man will be. Toadie ponders on that one and we segue to the forest where Madame Placebo's wagon is and we head inside. Dukie is pleading for help and personally calling her Woman is NOT going to help him in the enlightened department either. Let alone help him in his plight. Placebo is impressed that the love potion actually worked (QUACK!) as Dukie blows it off.
Dukie calls Toadie a back stabbing bean head which Placebo reminds him that he did warn him about trouble as Dukie asks what he should do and Placebo tells him to buy a wedding present. HAHA! Dukie bashes some non-existent glass which somehow falls on the floor and shatters anyway as he is not going to do that obviously. Do you know how much wedding presents cost these days Madam Placebo?! Dukie demands the potion and Placebo claims that she doesn't have it; but she does have the recipe as she in a panic gives to Dukie. Dukie reads the recipe as he needs powder thistle thorns which he likes; however, he needs the breath of a dragon to heat them and he does not like this at all as we segue to Dukie running out of a cave looking burned in about ten places on his body and he has a green potion in his hands. Dukie puts out the fire on his ass and asks why does he get burned everything he falls in love. Maybe because you are no longer cool as a heel. No matter how many times that dragon breathes fire on your back; you are not getting your heat back Dukie. Live with it and screw Toadie and Tummi out of their marriage. So we head to the tower as Bane looks at the heart stage platform where she will tie the knot with the ultra-cool sidekick. Toadie is with her of course as Bane loves the place. Toadie proclaims that it doesn't get any better than this as her Gummi Medallion glows and she drops him on his back like a bad habit. HAHA! Oh; yes it does Toadie, just you watch. Bane thinks that she is going to get her first wedding present as the Troggles force Tummi into the tower with the Great Book of Gummi in tow. Tummi asks if he is too late and Bane grabs the book and claims that he's right on time. She's right you know.
So we head back to Gummi Glenn in Tummi's room as the door opens and in comes Grammi wanting Tummi to rise and shine. She also brought her flapjacks on a platter because the way through Tummi's thick deadpan humor skull is through his stomach see. No response of course as Tummi is gone quicker than Kit Cloudkicker to Dan Dawson's Air Circus in Stormy Weather. Barkian Berry?! So that named a fruit after Carl Barks? Too bad this is the WRONG show to reference him I should note. Gruffi comes in and panics since not only Tummi is gone; but so is the Great Book. Okay; here's a logic break: Where the hell is Zummi? Isn't he the one with the Great Book fetish?! So we head back to Lady Bane's castle as Lady Bane does some kissy-kissy on the Great Book calling it the happiest day of her life. Tummi asks about doing some kissy-kissy stuff with Lady Bane and Bane gives him the proverbial kiss off (codeword: PISS OFF TUMMI!) as she orders the Troggles to lock him up in her dungeon of course as Tummi is dragged away as he claims that he loves her. Bane calls him a prisoner of love as she is now the most powerful one in the entire world as she glows pink and laughs badly as we zoom out to the far shot of the castle and that ends the segment sixteen and a half minutes in. Fun episode thus far..
After the commercial break; we see Gruffi and Grammi running through the forest talking about Tummi being under a spell and being in big trouble. Gruffi proclaims that if she opens the Great Book; we are all in trouble. I still don't understand why Zummi isn't in this episode at all? So we head to the castle and zoom in as she puts the Gummi Medallion against the lock of the Great Book and it unlocks as Bane dreamed of this day. We are inside her lab as the book opens and Tummi is in a cage. She looks over the pages as she wonders what naughty spell she will do first. Tummi continues to talk about loving her and the wedding in general. Bane states that the magic has gone out of their romance and she has all the magic she needs. Cue bad laugh and pan over to the balcony as Gruffi and Grammi have arrived way too late, DUH! So we cut to the door as Toadie in his tuxedo asking about him and the wedding. Lady Bane closes up the book and leaves with Toadie as she is still in love with the ultra-cool sidekick much to the dismay of Gruffi and Grammi. And then we segue into the forest as Dukie blows this whole thing off as unfair. Life's not fair Dukie. Ask Kit about it. Otherwise; you would have heat and Kit would have been the next Mickey Mouse that would bring Disney into the 21st century. Do I sound bitter enough?! Okay; let's move on. At least Dukie is still selling the burns as he dusts off and somehow feels no pain. I'm guessing that he feels better now that he has the green potion with him. So Dukie bounces his head into the tree branch, staggers and falls off the cliff. Oh god; did we have to have THAT happen? Really?! We were doing so well; and that spot ruined the groove this episode was in. I hope this was worth it Kevin Hopps.
So we scene change to a shot of the shelf with a silver key on it as Gruffi grabs it easily and the cage is unlocked as Grammi cannot believe that Bane dumped him. Are you really surprised that she did that Grammi? Really? Tummi doesn't feel so good as he seems ready to cry like Cubbi. Gruffi blows this hard to get nonsense and grabs the Great Book. Grammi joins him and Tummi can hear the music. HERE COMES THE BRIDE! HERE COMES THE WITCHY BRIDE! Tummi runs out because he must stop this wedding now and Grammi doesn't like that at all. They follow him and we get the wedding sequence as the Troggles are holding Bane's dress while she sings while they repeat the bride part. HEE HEE! Gad is in tears and did I forget to tell you that he's the JUSTICE OF THE PEACE for this wedding?! Zook is the best man which leads me to wonder where the flower girl is?! I guess it's the Troggles cross dressing. So Tummi gets to play Goldie from Till Nephews Due As Part. Which begs that question: If Tummi had a blunderbuss with him; would we care if THAT broke logic?! Zook thinks his collar is too tight and Gad snaps his bowtie and he's no longer choked up. HAHA! Tummi demands the wedding to be stop right now. Damn; I was hoping for them to do their wedding vows BEFORE Tummi showed up. Damn; I hate time limits. Tummi runs in and Grammi tackles him down allowing them to turn into a Gummi Bear bowling ball and Tummi goes flying and knocks Lady Bane down on her ass before she can say a word. No male on female contact?! What no male on female contact?!
Bane is really pissed as Tummi claims that she promised to marry him. Bane uses her pink spell of Satan to push Tummi into a tree pot plant as he has been officially REJECTED~! Then Bane notices Gruffi with the Great Book and accuses him of stealing. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much...oh wait; Tummi stole it for her. Never mind. Carry on with your magic tug-of-war with Gruffi. Grammi joins in as this goes on for a while and then Bane notices that she squashed Toadie and stops allowing the two bear to get squashed under the book on the steps. HAHA! Love is truly harmful. No wonder marriage is doomed, DOOMED I SAY! Bane consoles Toadie and we hug and you guessed it. The babyfaces exits stage right into the castle as Bane demands the books and the cross dressing Troggles run after them. So they are the flower girls?! Just as I thought they would be. So Dukie enters the castle still selling burns as he proclaims that Lady Bane is his bitch as he has the potion in his hands as we see the GOGW turn the corner with Tummi still charmed in love with Lady Bane. Then we have a meeting of the minds and it wasn't at the Glenn as Dukie's spell remover potion flies into the air stage left while the Great Book goes stage right. Remember this because Dukie does a LEAP OF FAITH and grabs the spell remover potion and then gets bonked on the head with...The Great Book? WHAT THE HELL?! The Great Book flew AWAY from the spell potion, not in the same direction as the potion. Damn you animators! Of course they had to contrive the spot in order for the Troggles to grab the book while the bears recover and they bring the book back to the wedding. Grammi points out the obvious to us as Tummi panics and tries to run back as Grammi stops him. Why? Because he cannot marry her silly. Tummi blows her off because he wants the book, not the witch's love. Wait; WHAT?! The potion never made CONTACT with Tummi at all. None of the contents even spilled on him. Dammit guys; this is such a funny episode and the animators keep screwing it up.
Tummi runs in as Gruffi proclaims that he's back to normal as they run in remember to bounce on Dukie's back in the process as Dukie hears the organ and pours the contents back into the bottle. Still doesn't make any sense of Tummi's turnaround though since none of it made contact anyway. So we head back to the stage as we see them restarting the wedding and Bane and Toadie are holding hands. Then the Troggles enter with the Great Book as well as Tummi and Gruffi. Tummi then invokes the Carpet Muncher of Doom as the Troggle ride the wave and bump into Lady Bane despite missing her by a foot; but the power of suggestion somehow allows Bane to splatter right into the wedding. WAHOO! I AM SO SMART! I AM SO SMART! SMRT! I mean SMART! Gruffi grabs the book and thanks Tummi for it as he bails and the book still squashes Toadie in the process. HAHA! The GOGW bail stage right; but then bail behind a planted pot as here comes Dukie to stop the wedding. Toadie calls this silly as he casually walks in and throws the antidote right into Lady Bane's kisser. Toadie proclaims that she's crazy for him and then gives her the best kiss I have ever seen right on the lips. HAHA! I think we can all guess what happens next now can we?! And the wedding cake which somehow manages to repair itself in between shots is destroyed again. HAHA! I'll let that animation mistake slide because it is sure damn funny. Lady Bane demands answers to this outrage as Dukie stammers like a burned out idiot as he asks for her hand in marriage. So Bane gives him her hand...and both Dukie and Toadie are POPPED OUT OF THE CASTLE! HAHA! Toadie proclaims that it was better to love and lost than not to love at all and then faints dead away. HEE HEE!
So we head back to Gummi Glenn as we head to the table and everyone including Zummi and Cubbi show up. So what was the point of not having Zummi along? Cubbi I can understand; but Zummi? Grammi is setting the table as she answers Sunni's question of Tummi falling in love and then we hear Tummi sighing. He been bit by the love bug again (much to Gruffi's dismay and flustering); but he's in love with a platter of chocolate cake. HAHA! He just contradicted all of Grammi's warning signs. Tummi eats the Root Moss Cake as Grammi proclaims that they will always love him and we circle fade out to end the episode at 21:09. Very good and really funny episode marred by terrible animation logic breaks. Also; Zummi not appearing until the end stinks too. **** (80%).
THE REVIEW LINE
I don't understand why the 1991 episodes were criticized since it wasn't the writers fault that Disney management decided to air those episode after King Igthorn and thus render the two part finale pointless and making no sense continuity wise. The international releases at least did it right and in the end I end up with a really funny and fun episode to watch. Yes; the whole episode is absurd; but it works since that love potion worked like a charm. Although it was also nice to see some complexity in the episode too as Tummi and Bane acted normal when Bane and Toadie were not around and the whole thing was pretty funny. From the party; to the wedding; to Tummi being in love to Dukie getting burned by the dragon and it clicked well storyline wise. This deserved the full monty even; but that was denied by some really bad logic breaks (Tummi turning back to normal being the worst example of it) and the fact that the Great Book was involved and not once did we see Zummi involved until the end when the whole sequence of events were over and done with. I don't understand why Zummi wasn't involved in the main story since Jim Cummings is a Disney Company Man and Zummi has the Great Book fetish. That was really the only major flaw storyline wise as this was pretty funny and Toadie sold like a madman; most so at his party. And we got to see the cake rebuild itself and get destroyed twice. What more could you ask for? So next up is Lady Bane's final appearance as she steals Sunni's hair and makes Sunni into a grandmother in Rocking Chair Bear. So......
Thumbs up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.