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Slightly Dinghy
Reviewed: 10/06/2012
We're The Goof Troop & We'll Always Stick Together!!
Welcome to more of the Fall Assortment as we set the Wayback Machine back to 1992 which is just after Darkwing Duck ended it's run in syndication (and ABC) and Disney decided that DTVA needed a change of pace; so they decided to bring back one of the more iconic characters back in his usual setting. Welcome to the Rant Shack Goof Troop; I'll try my best to stick together! Now; the premise of the episode is basically the same one from the cartoon shorts which is Goofy is at home doing mundane stuff and then all hell breaks loose. Kind of like Quack Pack; but with better charm, empathy, sympathy and pretty much everything else was better. Now going this route was as I said before is a nice change of pace from the comedy of Darkwing Duck, to the epic emotion of TaleSpin; so in that sense, Disney Television Animation deserves some credit. However; there was one problem with this is that around a year before this show existed; there was another guy called Tim Allen who was doing similar things to what Goofy was doing. The show was called Home Improvement. So when Goof Troop came along; everyone was calling Goof Troop a Home Improvement dead-ringer. Now in a sense; it was, however; most people forget that Goofy's kind of story like Goof Troop was in existence long before Home Improvement existed (by about 40 years give or take five years) since the classic shorts often showed Goofy doing things and then screwing them up. So in hindsight; the critics looked really bad here. Still; there is lots to bash here, mainly Pete who returns for no reason other than due to the fact that Mickey Mouse is still in retirement and wouldn't come out until Mickey's Mouseworks anyway.
Goof Troop for all of it's faults; was a successful venture since it got two cinema movies (A Goofy Movie is considered to have a cult following; even though it is clearly based on Goof Troop and Max's voice was Jason Marsden since Diana Hill died due to diabetes before this.) along with a Christmas special which I consider to be one of the top five Christmas specials ever. There are 78 episodes in the series; all of them 22 minutes long. I'm going to be doing the three that Disney released as part of the best of Goof Troop DVD set released several years ago. I don't know why Goof Troop got a three episode set; when it was much better than Quack Pack could ever be. Mike Peraza Jr. (who worked on TaleSpin's Plunder and Lightning); actually have a neat story on this very show when it was originally called Goofy Troopers which was similar; but had a more TaleSpin-ish take due to the amount of anthros in the show. I hope to have both links to the story posted on Livejournal after this rant is done and posted. I should note that Robert Taylor is the supervising producer (AKA creator) to Goof Troop which is his first show under that role (he was one of the four main directors for TaleSpin) and this would be his best work. Jymn Magon does pop in from time to time with story editing; but the writing was on the wall that Disney was no longer interested in creating parodies of the Disney characters (which do cause offense; but can be funny and wonderful to watch); and is more interested in recreating the classic Disney almost to a fault (which is basically a sequel. As much as I say that the meme "You cannot top pigs with pigs" is a load of BS; the "15,000 Frenchman cannot be wrong" logical fallacy doesn't exist in entertainment; so the meme has to be right anyway; facts be damned.) which pretty much created stable shows; but also made them look like they were trying to recreate the Walt Disney; instead of recreating the Disney magic on their own creations. And we wouldn't see that lesson learned until Kim Possible much later on. So the first episode is episode #11 on the air order paper (the other two are #17 and #22) which were released in late September of 1992 and this one features Goofy's son Max wanting to find some buried treasure. Which is interesting since the SNES Goof Troop game from Capcom had Max and Goofy collecting gemstones while saving Pete and PJ from a bunch of pirates. Awesome music in that game too. So how does this episode do? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Mark McCorkle & Robert Schooly. Mark started on two fronts: A writer for C.O.P.S and assistance in recording for Beany & Cecil in 1988. His recording assistance ended in 1991 with Captain Planet and he then worked on writing and story editing throughout the rest of his career doing the usual cartoons. Goof Troop is his DTVA debut and he also did Aladdin The Series (and OAV's), Kim Possible, Great Minds Think For Themselves (Not in Eisner's world they don't), Lilo & Stitch The Series and Hercules The Series. The Penguins of Madagascar are his most recent credit. Robert has almost the exact same DTVA credits as Mark and a really similar resume. His start is different in a sense that he did recording for Super Mario Brothers Super Show first in 1989 and writing for C.O.P.S in 1988. He also wrote for New Kids On The Block animated series and did recording for Camp Candy & The Karate Kid. Robert also has the exact same recent credits too: The Penguins of Madagascar. The story is edited by Karl Geurs. The animation is done by Walt Disney Animation Australia PTY Limited with additional services done by Pacific Rim Animation Productions.
Opening Moment #1: The usual very good opening sequence with mostly footage with a few promo stuff in between. And yes; we do see Max Goof drive a jeep. And a lot of slapping skin. Goofy does what he does best which is bumping for one million guys while overselling. The music is also very good; but you can tell that this kind of opening was getting older and staler by the show. There are two openings actually; the second one simply contains new shots to replace the old ones; despite the fact that no new characters were made. There have been stories about Disney redoing the opening because they wanted to get rid of Goofy having the black feet; instead of the usual human colored feet due to racism. While a case can be made successfully against Master Popo (Dragon Ball Z) and Jynx (Pokemon); Goofy doesn't have the problems those two characters have. My guess is that they did it because they can. Besides; in the cartoon shorts; Goofy's skin is not black, unless Disney have been recoloring them in recent years.
We begin this one at a yellow house with the title card looking all funky like a monkey. In other words; it's blue and zig zags. So we head to a television set with a black & white announcer with punkish hair (Rob Paulsen) announcing a show called Odd Things and Something Too Hard To Fake. We then see Goofy on the couch watching and enjoying himself. He's wearing a blue sweater today; along with his brown pants and leather shoes. Goofy is probably third on the classic Disney character pecking order next to Donald and Mickey. He was already seen on DTVA as Sports Goofy in Soccermania in 1987; but that Goofy was smart. This one is the old Goofy we know and love and is voiced by Bill Farmer and most of his 141 acting credits, and other credits are as typecast as Goofy, Pluto and Horace Horsecollar from DTV Doggone Valentine in 1987 to his most recent credit Epic Mickey: The Power of Two (which shocked me by being on Wii U after all despite Warren Spector denying it all months ago). He was Justin Ballard-Watkins in the first Robocop movie in 1987, and is usually the voice of Foghorn Leghorn in recent Looney Tunes productions. Goof Troop is his DTVA debut and was in House of Mouse, Quack Pack (uncredited as Pluto) and Mickey's Mouseworks. He was also Tawashi in Astro Boy (2003 edition), Tales of Symphonia as Dorr and an additional voice in The Lorax as his most recent non-Disney credit. He also did ADR work for Shrek and Death Became Her. Goofy is having cheese whiz and crackers which is better than having cheese and crackers. So we see a cat pop up and looks like he wants some of that cheese whiz and crackers too. She is a gray cat named Waffles who is the family cat of Max and Goofy voiced by Frank Welker. Waffles try to eat some cheese whiz which cannot be good for him at all; and then drops down. Goofy then feels someone is under the couch so he jumps up and grabs the can of cheese whiz getting ready to murder someone and then we see a dog like furry who is about 11 years old pop up wearing a red shirt, purple pants and oversized shoes. He is Goofy's son Max Goof; which means Goofy's last name is Goof I guess. Goofy Goof sounds funnier than Huey Duck so there's one point in Goof Troop's favor.
A note: This is probably the only DTVA show that has all the characters wearing shoes. No barefoot funny anthros in this show. Just funny anthros. Max is voiced by the late Dana Hill; in probably one of her final appearances before her death. Goofy is surprised to see him as Max explains that he's hunting for loose change and needs a quarter for this cool video game. Something tells me that he found out that he thought he had enough and then he needed 25 cents in sales tax. It's always the "plus tax" part that gets even the best of many adults. I'm glad my workplace includes the taxes; because I don't know how else I can live without them. Max teases finding something; but it's only a white button. Max then asks Goofy about adding a quarter to his allowance and Goofy no sells because the advance on the allowance is for high school. HAHA! Max claims that it's for seven years as Waffles is shown eating out of the cheese whiz container just to piss off anti-drug advocates. Don't believe me; watch the part in one of the Scooby Doo live action movie where Shaggy sprays whip cream into his mouth the same way. So we return to the announcer who I discover his name as Harold Hatchback (and apparently one of the episodes (not this one though) he is voiced by Patrick Duffy who directed 13 episodes of Dallas. Sadly; he is in Buddy Building so I won't do a full tribute here) shows a stack of gold coins and the CHEST OF DEMONS as Max gets the LIGHTBLUB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY. So Harold acts like Max heard him (I like the dollar bill Prince Neverhas Beenbroke face scene in I Only Have Ice For You better) and said Dough Ray Me for no reason and then we get a television shot of a flashback as we discover that the town Max and Goofy are in is called Spoonerville. Which is a pun on Michael J. Spooner who does layouts for this series and TaleSpin a couple of years ago. So we payoff the "Waffles and Cheese Whiz" angle as Waffles turns into a balloon and smashes against the ceiling. Knowing Goofy; I betcha he doesn't notice it. We cut back to the television as Harold explains some reef while there is a buried treasure owned by a pirate named Captain Nearbeard. See; he almost had a beard as shown in the picture of him on the beach next to his CHEST OF DEMONS. Well; the chest; not his own chest. It's also nice that even in 1992; you can still show bullet shooting guns. I don't expect any in this series though.
Max realizes that he could buy an arcade and walks out as Goofy enjoys the platter of cheese whiz and crackers while Waffles decides to play Mission Impossible on Goofy. Waffles eats one; but Goofy jumps and it leads to Goofy somehow getting stuffed underneath the pillows of the couch and then pops up and finds a quarter for Max. Sadly; Max is long gone by then. And yes; this does go somewhere later on. So we go outside as we see a cat guy in a sailor hat with a white shirt wiping down a white power boat. Yes folks; that guy is none other than Pete (Jim Cummings), and unlike Dogface Pete; I do not like this guy. Why? Because he's the pettiest heel around DTVA and his wife is much more interesting than he is. We'll deal with her later because for those who think Rebecca Cunningham is a jerk should watch Peg (which is a play on Pegleg Pite by the way) in full bloom. Max ponders this over and we get another angle shot of Pete wiping his boat down as we pan south to near a fence as Max has his cell phone (which is the Paul E. Dangerously model) and we see a child cat fury wearing a purple sweater, blue coat, light blue pants and oversized shoes. He is P.J. who is Pete's son (voiced by Rob Paulsen) and he is the voice of reason to Max; which isn't much of a voice of reason I might add. So PJ is panicking as Max puts the cellphone in his pants. Seriously; that is what he does and puts the plug to it in his ear. Max gets a transmitter phone and states that his plan is for PJ's dad Pete to take them fishing and wants to be rich. Max yells into the transmitter which causes PJ to jump like a superball is up his ass. PJ blows off the entire plan and wants none of this plan. See; fishing with Pete is hell and PJ has a vomiting problem at sea. Max offers to toss his cookies with PJ; but PJ blows it off and proclaims that there is nothing that will make him reconsider. And anyone who has watched any episode involving this spot knows that PJ is going to lose in this deal and he is on the boat with the fishing line as PJ rants on how Max does it to him every single time. So we cut to Pete at the gas tank with a funnel as he brings out a bottle with a black skull and crossbones called Turbo Blast. Here's a word of advice: when you see cheese coloring bottle with black skull and crossbones; RUN AWAY! Even more so; when the bottle claims that it's spill proof. Even more than that; when you see peach smoke coming out when you open it.
So Pete pours the deadly fuel into the pipe as Max is shouting the script to PJ and PJ makes no effort to make it sound convincing at all. It's about spending more time together; let's go fishing to bond together as son and father. Pete gleefully ignores him. I don't blame him; PJ's attempt at reading from Max's cue cards is horrible and makes him sound like a robot. Then PJ mentions fishing and Pete's eyes light up and then PJ does this promo which sounds so creepy. Even more so when Pete is getting misty eyed about it. Sadly; Max's attempt at cue cards includes a Fathers' Day and it is signed Max, which PJ repeats. HA! Pete cries and then catches himself before PJ recovers and means live to max out their time together and Pete sells it hook, line and sinker. Max is still on the transmitter as he would love to go fishing and here comes Goofy as he hears it and instead of hating him for using PJ to get what he wants; he does something much better: he's taking Max fishing. And the charm of this is that Goofy doesn't suspect a thing anyway and yet the punishment of going with Max is worse than Goofy having a brain and finding out that Max is as sleazy as Gosalyn. I wish Darkwing Duck was that dense. Pete loves this idea of going fishing and so does Goofy as Goofy leads Max out and we learn that Max's pet name for PJ is Peage. Don't ask me why. So we finally do the first real scene changer of the series (for rant purposes) at 5:44! We head to a pier where the white motorboat is stationed which has two satellite dishes and a binocular stand which looks like twin horns. Or it might be horns due to the crappy artwork. We see PJ dressed up like a sailor carrying a bucket of worms which appear to be in a lot of poop (!!). I'm speculating that due to the overwhelming smell PJ has to suffer. Max is with him because he has a little problem. See Goofy and Max will be going onto a green boat and Max has no problems with father and son trips; just one too many fathers. If I had a choice of fathers to take; I would go with Goofy because Goofy would at least agree to help me find treasure without him noticing that I'm using him. Pete on the other hand... And speaking of the devilish father himself; we see Pete on board his motorboat blowing the whistle. While wearing a blue navy outfit as he declares this the voyage to manhood. Is fishing a form of toxic manliness? Just asking anyone. PJ is asking Max to come aboard; but Max's problem is that he needs to be with Goofy as Goofy notices Max talking about one minute. Goofy is wearing tennis shoes, blue socks, brown shorts, a purple shirt and a cream vest. Along with the old fishing hat of course. Max claims that he was going to be with PJ; but Goofy proclaims that he can be with him tomorrow and it's Father/Son time today as he gently grabs Max away. I love it when Goofy acts all happy and not angry when quality time comes along.
PJ calls for Max as he boards the motorboat and Pete blows off the Goofs. Trust me; that's the nicest he gets with that duo as he goes to the WHEEL OF IMMORALITY and we start the engines. Which allows PJ to take a bump overboard into the inflatable raft. Max notices PJ in peril so he invokes the fishing line just as Goofy is trying to start the engine on the boat. We have out first major coloring mistake as the boat is bleeding into the water which makes it appear to be taking on water; makes no sense since neither Goof is big enough to cause that. Anyhow; we surf with boat as it was tied to the dock and thus the dock is destroyed. So Goofy is still trying to start the engine which seems mighty pointless now as he comments on catching a whopper. And PJ has a whopper of an ass; along with orange spotted white underwear. And people complain about Molly wearing oversized undies? Anyhow; Goofy continues to do the dumb pointless thing while they sink underwater (which makes sense this time since the boat is taking on water now) and we do the usual underwater spots as Goofy gets the engines to work and tips a hat to a goldfish. So we pop up from the water as Goofy is now riding a shark with a gold fish and an octopus which is pink. Well; it's no worse than having a purple squid in It Came From Beneath The SeaDuck. So Goofy notices the shark after getting the squid off his eyes and then panics and does the Baloo/Kit Crocodile oversell back to the boat. Jesus Chirst: BE JEALOUS!! So this leads to the hard corner turn into the beach spot which is clearly BS&P because the yellow umbrellas on the beach get clipped and there is no one under them despite seeing about 20 blankets. Is this any more dangerous than Kit Cloudkicker taking half a dozen sick bumps into the patrons in Louie's Place. Goofy manages to grab an umbrella and the boat rises into the air. The umbrella Gadgets itself and this all ends with the white motorboat stopping and Pete thinking that no one is around; but we get a sequence which ends with the green boat, Max, Goofy and PJ crashing into the top of the satellites. Ho hum. The best part was Goofy dropping a cinder block with a rope on Pete's foot and the sound made it one sick bump as the foot grabbing spot ensues from Pete. Pete refuses to fish here as long as a bunch of Goofs are around. PJ blows off Max's Krackpotkin plan; but Max is still in the belief that is plan is going to work as they are together now. Goofy is not pleased with this as Max stammers a bit before whisper yelling that there is a secret fishing spot telegraphing it right to Pete; whose eyes light up. Goofy is confused as Max explains that this is where the big ones are biting as Pete pops Goofy from the boat and acts all nice and stuff to him. Pete proclaims that we should all stick together and that ends the segment nine minutes in. Not a bad episode thus far; but it is like a Wuzzles episode only with less creativity and makes a lot more sense. Basically a slice of life sitcom.
After the commercial break; we cut to the ocean and a shot of the coral reef as shown by Harold at the beginning of the episode; only in full color now. The white motorboat arrives as I finally realize that it's called Scary Reef which isn't a bad booking name all things considered. We then pan down into the water and see the sunken pirate ship and CHEST OF DEMONS on the ocean floor. And a sword with pearls on the handle. We cut to a blue fish with something in his hand (looks like a box) swimming towards the ship from a cave. Get use to that horn music you hear in the background; it will be around to annoy the living piss out of me in this series. I discover that the blue fish has a lawn chair and portable shades (Wait; are we watching Darkwing Duck again?) as the shadow of the motorboat blocks the sun rays. So the fish moves away from the shadow as we cut to Pete with the anchor and throws it at Goofy as Goofy takes the bump overboard into the water and remembers to bump his nose off the chains. HAHA! So the anchor MURDERS the fish legit causing a dust cloud (an indication that BS&P strikes again) as PJ's pet name for Goofy is Mr. G. Which brings more evidence that his last name is Goof. Which in all honestly makes sense since Pete already refers to Goofy and Max as "goofs". Pete calls the seas a harsh mistress to make sure he doesn't care about Goofy Goof; but Goofy pops up and spits a fish out of his mouth. Goofy gets on board as PJ holds the bucket and Pete grabs a bunch of worms and puts them on the fishing line. Then he elbows PJ in the ribs and the bucket goes flying and probably will never be seen again. Pete offers to show him how to fish in a proper way. Goofy brings out the fishing line for Max and looks for bait. PJ goes to Max about looking for gold and Max proclaims that they will ditch the dads and he has a plan for that. So Max punches PJ in the face and he goes sailing as Max whines to Goofy that PJ is a better fisherman then him. The acting...Wait a second? MAX PUNCHED PJ IN THE FACE?! No off-screen punch? No impact stars? Seriously?! A child hits another child?! Wow; I thought TaleSpin was too violent...Okay it is too violent; but still Kit's punch to Baloo was in the stomach.
Back to the rant as Max's whining is pretty impressive as Goofy is not impressed at all; but Pete goes in Goofy's face pointing out that Max punched PJ in the face for telling the truth about PJ. I'm SHOCKED that PJ hasn't gotten seasick yet. Something tells me that there is ANOTHER reason for him no selling the trip and it's something about toxic manliness. They argue for a while on who is the best fisherman; which is about as thrilling as claiming that Sony Vita is worse than Gamegear in sales. Which it is. Thumbs up from PJ as Max gives Goofy a fishing pole and Pete has one from PJ as Max claims that this works like gangbusters. I guess as long as it involves beating up a street gang; then gangbusters is acceptable in children's cartoons. So the Goof Adults (well one of them is legit and then there's Goofy) treat their fishing poles like rifles, turn around and bail in opposite directions. Max and PJ bail into the hull as we cut to a shot of a control panel with a gray button which is labeled "Fish Finder". Even PJ questions Max's plan of using it to find the buried treasure and Max claims that it's a "gold" fish finder. See; easy. PJ questions Max's skills in fish finding as Max blows it off because it's just one button. That doesn't infuse any confidence in me to trust Max I should point out. And I'm proven right when Max pushes said button and we unleash the most complex computer system in history; before Playstation 3. So Max pushes a button and we see the blue fish getting trampled by the anchor with that annoying horn music again. So we cut back to Pete tying more worms on the fishing line and blowing off Goofy while Goofy ties a banana to his line. HAHA! Goofy casts his line as Pete mocks him; so Goofy reels in a big fish inside the banana which he unpeels. HA! Memo to Pete: You want sea monkeys; go to the LAND OF WUZ. He stuffs the fish in the smallest pouch I ever have seen and Pete is flustered. So we get the first real logic break of the series as the pink worms are gone from the line as Pete brings the JAWS OF HALF LIFE and ties it to the line. So he casts the line as it drops next to the blue fish who manages to pop from the anchor; but gets grabbed by the JAWS OF HALF LIFE.
Pete reels it in and opens the jaws as the blue fish plops onto the deck. Goofy rubs it's chin and calls it cute; so the blue fish Aqua Rakes him. HAHA! If you need to know where the joke comes from; play the Ted Woolsey localized Final Fantasy VI game. Pete laughs at Goofy; so the blue fish bites Pete in the foot on screen. HAHA! Sadly; it's less funny because Pete does the foot grabbing spot and squashes Goofy's foot in the process and it's so sick that you can hear bones breaking on that one. Goofy follows in Pete's footsteps which is really distressing and funny at the same time. We hop to the opposite sides of the boat and then we cut to a ceiling shot of the kids as the computer voice of the Fish Finder 5000 is speaking right now. The machine like voice is too heavy for me to tell who is doing the voice here; which means it's Jim Cummings, Bill Farmer or Rob Paulsen. The computer asks what fish to find and Max turns the knob for goldfish and it shows the scene we saw at the beginning of the segment. Both kids slap skin; but Pete has had enough much to the panic of Max Goof. Pete blows off Goofy's fishing spot as lame as he takes the wheel. Max bullies PJ to get him a fish as PJ grabs a butterfly net (the nemesis of FAIRY GODPARENTS!) and catches the blue fish who is trying to leave the boat and gives the fish to Max. Max grabs it and puts an air hose and uses the boat's air pump to pump the fish into a balloon. See what I mean by "bad stuff" from Darkwing Duck?! Then Max stuffs a cork in it and tries to stuff the blue fish through the hatch. Where is PETA when you need them? So Max uses the oar to bash it out as Pete is about to leave; but he sees the blue puff fish and decides that they are going to fish here instead. He orders Goofy to drop anchor as the blue fish spits the cork out and flies like a balloon out to sea despite Pete clearly seeing it happen. So Pete has a plunger gun. Oh; that is a BS&P decision if I ever saw one. So even harpoon guns are on the banned list now? So Pete shoots the plunger and captures the blue fish once again. Pete reels it in and calls it one for the record books. Before I go any further; yes, Pete did literally say that Goofy was going to cry in his root beer over this too. So the blue fish does a raspberry on Goofy for fun. Pete turns the plunger over; which is so dumb he might as well have a sign on his nose that sezs "Bite Me" because that is exactly what the fish does to him.
Goofy calls it having spunk as Pete peels the fish from his nose and we are going home. Max offers to raise the anchor and brings PJ over because Max's plan is to get the CHEST OF DEMONS attached to the anchor and it's riches for them. PJ is thinking that they are going home as Max is on the anchor as PJ unintentionally drops the anchor allowing Max to go underwater and he attaches the anchor to the CHEST OF DEMONS. He swims up as that annoying horn music plays again as the blue fish has evil intentions as he goes back into the cave in a long sequence and pushes something near what looks to be a giant jaw used as a makeshift fireplace. Don't ask me why he has riches in his cave; I'm not the writers here. So we cut back to Max and PJ raising the anchor as PJ complains about the weight. Max claims that heavy is good as we get a sky shot of the chest as a shadow of a shark arrives. Pete blows off the kids for playing with the anchor. So raising the anchor is playing with it eh? Methinks Pete has anchor issues if you catch my drift. Heh heh. Then we hear Stan Blabber's voice again (Jim Cummings) as he proclaims that there is a storm coming with rain and thunderstorms. Goofy is concerned about this and bails as Pete scratches his head over and he deduces that Goofy wants to quit without giving Pete a chance to counter; so he goes over and slaps the anchor pulley; as the anchor is dropped just before Max and PJ can grab the treasure. Max and PJ can barely say anything as Pete is staying regardless if there is a storm because there is a fish with his name on it. No kidding since we cut to the water as it begins to rain and here comes the shark fin as it rises and it's clearly a metal shark (check the blue wires on top of the head; I'm not fooled guys) as Max is whining while pulling up the anchor chain. Well; you cannot accuse Max of whining for no reason that is for sure. The metal shark jaw opens and that ends the segment almost sixteen minutes in.
After the commercial break; we see Max as the shark is about to eat him and somehow; the storm has increased so much the skies have blacken. Max is grabbed by Goofy and he's panicking as he bails while the jaw of the robot shark is failing. We discover that it's the blue fish operating it inside the head of the shark. Ooooookkkkkkkkaaaayyyyyy; this is roughly the absurdity of the space aliens in Quack Pack. Now I see why everyone hated Quack Pack; it was worse than the show it really ripped off: Goof Troop. The shark is also taking water as the storm apparently forces the thing to go backwards; for no reason. Goofy stuffs Max inside the boat as he is panicking which serves a great visual when they cut to the far side shot and we see the shadowed Goofy standing tall. Goofy licks his finger to check the wind and his purple shirt flies into his face and he somehow flies into the front of the boat and takes a bump. HA! Goofy proclaims that this is a hurricane and hangs onto the flag pole; which we discover is a lightning rod because Goofy gets fried on contact. HAHA! Goofy's blue eye look is priceless as Max is holding on to the railing; trying to get to the anchor as the hatch opens and we see Pete throwing PJ almost on his head as PJ smacks the window of the boat pleading for Pete to stop the madness already. Pete no sells because he wants that big ass fish that he was promised earlier. He gets splooshed as we see the blue fish man the controls of the shark again as Pete is now hanging onto a flag pole getting splashed in the fact. Pete tries to sell it as just a squall, as Max and PJ hang on while Max tries to pull the anchor up to get the treasure chest. However; it's not working and gets blown back as they hang on the flag pole for dear life. Goofy sums it all up nicely for me as the blue fish looks on from the periscope. So the shark rises up and everyone panics where Goofy's red flag is tearing up slowly in the process. Neat spot as Goofy is hanging on literally by a thread like Sony Vita tries to hang on to any positive news at this point. Metal shark bites and misses as usual because BS&P RULEZ~! The seas rock around until we head to morning as the storm is over; but now the boat is hanging from Scary Reef with the treasure chest acting like a metal weight with the shark swimming around.
Goofy rings his ears out as PJ points out the problem to us. Max notices that the chest is hanging with them and likes it; while Pete calls for PJ to come front and center. PJ stammers; but some yelling from Pete forces PJ over to balance the boat. So the next spot is obviously the tetter-totter spot we all love to hate as Max tries to pull up the anchor and everyone yells at him; which causes Max to lose the anchor and do the whirlwind spot. Who does Max think he is; Beastly?! So the boat flops into the water and everyone looks like a fish out of water as well. Pete hugs his motorboat in surprise and then the shark splits the boat in two with his jaws. I might hate Pete; but that is so heartbreaking. Goofy bails to the other side with the kids; but Pete panics because he hasn't paid for the ship. UH OH! If I were Pete; I would NOT want to see Peg show up in any form during this episode; nor series for that matter. So we see Pete throwing out everything that didn't exist in the ship and throw it onto the lifeboat; including the Rubber Duckie. And the life boat sinks and Ernie is pissed off somewhere. So Pete cries on the sinking boat and then it gets chomped on by the shark. That shark is so dead; screw Greenpeace and their environmentalism. THAT SHARK MUST DIE~! So Pete manages to walk on water and get on the top of the shark enough to run to the front of the ship. Then PJ panics as we are not moving and we see Max pulling the anchor up calling it luggage. It doesn't really matter because the shark eats that up too and Max screams out that it's treasure and Pete gets inspired as from his point of view; that shark is the ticket to a new boat. Ah; the poisoning power of seeing things, probably a power worse than toxic manliness and only slightly better than extremist religion comes to the forefront again. So Pete walks on water and chain (yeah; the logic is dead, what a surprise?) and gets eaten by a shark much to Max's whining. Then the shark gets murdered inside as Pete somehow gets into the grinding wheels which would have turned him into cat burgers by now with spilled blood in any other sane universe.
Goofy joins in and stomps on the shark as the blue fish manages to push some levers (WRONG LEVER!) as the jaw opens and we move backwards. The fish tries to go forward; but the lever (WRONG LEVER!) breaks; which cannot be good for everyone involved. So Max and PJ panic and row; but they get caught inside as the metal shark goes full speed and takes on water; and this all ends with the metal shark getting caught in the pier which is the strongest wooden pier ever made and all babyfaces get spit out and flies and take MAN-SIZED bumps into the ground, along with the CHEST OF DEMONS. Then the announcer comes out and we discover that his name is Biff Fuddled. WHAT?! I thought he was Harold Hatchback? It cannot be the weatherman; because he is voiced by Jim Cummings. Never mind as we can all guess the finish here that the treasure is a fake/not worth much of anything as Pete is on television; which is KBOB which is not all that inaccurate since WKOB is in New Mexico. Biff asks if the treasure is fact or fiction and Pete calls it fact and cuts a vain promo about the metal shark; which honestly you cannot argue with since his fat ass caused a lot of damage there. I'm just going to say that damn I'm good as Biff blows off Pete for trying to defraud him and storms off. Yeap; although they did a neat tease when they opened the chest with a blowtorch and there was real copper coins in it. Sadly; they are Pistoonas which was much more worthless than Torbits. And yes; KBOB is from Spoonerville; why do you ask? Biff's ending promo is awesome because he hates cheap tricks; but still tolerate expensive ones. Isn't that what caused all the economic problems of 2008 onwards? Pete chases after the truck as we pan over to Max BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (sunset) as PJ is sulking near a tree. Max sits down next to him as PJ rates this plan a Pistooia. HAHA! I cannot argue with that one PJ. Max whines about only wanting one lousy quarter (which is funny since he changed his mind almost a minute into the show) and somehow OUT OF NOWHERE Goofy's arm pops up and there is Max's quarter. Max loves this and tells PJ that is WAS easy. HAHA! PJ faints on his back like a Family Guy character; only the joke actually works and that ends the episode at 21:16. Good, but not great. It was good until they did the silly finish with the blue fish trying to get revenge; which would have awesome if the blue fish was discovered as the reincarnated soul of Nearbeard. Pete for the most part was pretty good; but he'll get worse as time goes on. Call it *** 1/2 (70%). I've seen worse out of this show. One final note: There is no official pilot in this series; "Everything's Coming Up Goofy" and "Good Neighbour Goof" were used as a two part pilot even if both were separate episodes anyway.
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; the first episode of Goof(y) Troop(ers) is in the books (took longer than expected); and it was above average. There wasn't really anything bad about it and few logic breaks in it. Goofy was funny as usual and the ending was really silly with the blue fish manning a machine shark; but it is a vast improvement over almost everything in Quack Pack; so I cannot argue with the episode in general. It shows just how much suck there was in the Quack Pack nephews. Max and PJ were pretty good. Sure; they are no Kit Cloudkicker; but Michael Eisner hates him now so these two will do good in a pinch. Pete was good much to my surprise; but my gratitude isn't going to last long and I did have sympathy for Pete when he lost his boat to that shark. I mean; he does have to face Peg which appears in the next episode "Wrecks, Lies & Videotape". Overall; this was a good episode; but the change of pace must have been a culture shock to everyone who never saw the Wuzzles in 1985; although the Wuzzles were surreal in their own way that maybe it would shock me too. I don't have anything else bad to say about it...So....
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.