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Cabana Fever
Reviewed: 01/21/2017
Which Is Bad Tidings With Goofy Characters.
Kind of like life actually. So we begin disc two of volume one of this show with Goofy and Pete being left by the kids and Peg (along with the pets for some reason) to get along. Hijinks and shark biting ensues. That's all you need to know. Think Bad Tidings; only with classic characters, so this might work out better. Does it? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Chuck Tately and Jymn Magon whom Magon also story edited. The animation was done by Kennedy Cartoons, Inc. with additional services provided by Bon Art Studios and Thai Wang Film Productions. Uh-oh; this is not a good sign off the bat; although Chuck Tately can write good episodes on TaleSpin, but this is a completely different show.
We begin this one at Pete's house as Goofy is putting stuff on a rose/pinked colored car on the roof. So Goofy calls for Max and Max in a yellow shirt, blue pants and sneakers is throwing his duffel bag. Since PJ is in the area it bonks off of him. Ouch. Why are they friends, again?! Out comes Peg and Pete as Pete has chainsaw in a red duffel; thus showing that Goofy doesn't have an monopoly when it comes to animal cruelty. Peg claims that she needs the dog in the duffel bag as Kennedy Cartoons has to have her doing stuff other than what's needed, so she is winking like crazy. Her claim is that a bunch of marauding chipmunks might attack them. Huh; I wonder if this took place around the same time as "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" in Rescue Rangers...?! NAH~! Chainsaw is growling as Pete threatens rabies on his family tree as the duffel bag is shaped like a fire hydrant. Of course! Max and PJ throw Goofy the duffel bag and he crashes ass first into the roof; causing Pete to panic and drop Chainsaw. Peg channels Rebecca (only Peg has less creditability) and tells him that he can make a sunroof which they get back. I hope it doesn't rain; that would suck and Pete will truly hate life and his wife. Peg does the angry blowoff she is known for and then asks where Pistol is and no one knows as Pistol is locked in the back of the van. Peg gives Pete the cooler and opens the back to spring Pistol out. Pistol's subtly is so laughable that I laughed at it. Seriously, I did. Yeah; she blamed PJ for it. PJ rolls on his heels and whistles; making his guilt even more obvious. I assure you that PJ's guilt is a lot more thoughtless than him shoving you in the back of the van. Pistol also wants Peg to ask Waffles about it. I don't think that will be needed, Pistol. Pistol is set on her feet as Peg tells everyone to get in and of course all three kids try to get into the front pushing and shoving. BS&P alert: You can still say shotgun at this point. Peg screams at them and they stop fighting. HA! Goofy and Pete are stunned as Peg calls him Dimple Knees. That's a good one, Peg. She basically tells Goofy and Pete to get along; because she'll yell at them if they get it on. Pete calls her Cookie Tin, so they are getting along.
Peg and Pete kiss each other and the kids are disgusted by this, mostly Max. Because apparently; a man can never accept kissing. To be fair; kissing does have a risk of diseases, so it's better just to do the Satoru Iwata bow. Pete has lip stick kisses all over him as Goofy waves goodbye and Pistol is in the back once again. Sigh. The car backs out of the driveway and drives away stage right. The adults wave for a while and then Pete proclaims that they are gone and then walks over and lies down on a hammock lawn chair next to a table of a radio, a magazine and some lemonade in a pitcher and glass on ice. Apparently; the trip is two days long and it's peace and quiet for Pete. Goofy pours a glass of lemonade (with only one icecube to show his modest side) and sits next to Pete proclaiming that it's just them now. If Goofy wasn't such an idiot; this would come off as uber creepy, and it would have absolutely nothing to do with Goofy trying to act like he's gay. Pete takes the glass and then flicks Goofy off the chair; which Goofy drops on his ass on the way down. Pete pours the lemonade back into the pitcher as Pete tells Goofy to get lost because he's spending his time, alone. Goofy proclaims that this is the chance to get closer. No, it's not Goofy. Thankfully; Goofy only wants to watch cartoons and play Parchessi till dawn. Geez; there are a lot of references to copyright material in this show. I'm shocked this show made it on DVD to be honest with you. And don't get me started on the cartoon thing. Pete tells Goofy to scream and Goofy walks over to the boat as Waffles is on it. Goofy orders Waffles to come down as Waffles looks mighty ill. Waffles lies down as Goofy climbs the front of the boat and I think he unbolted the thing; but Kennedy screwed up the spot so badly; it appears that he ran on some rope in the process. The boat unpops from the guard and rides down the driveway as Goofy is yelling for Pete to save him. Pete looks and calls Goofy a screwball and turns back around; then reverses field and panics. Motorboat heads for a tree; Pete runs in and grabs onto the propeller part and digs on. That's the worst place to grab onto a motorboat, Pete.
Pete partially buried himself; but manages to stop the motorboat before Goofy gets squished in between a tree and the boat. The propellers now are shaped like Pete's hands as Pete looks around while Goofy jumps down. Goofy goes over and proclaims that Pete saved Goofy; causing Pete to shove him away because Goofy was slobbering on him. So we head inside Pete's living room as Pete is sitting down soaking his feet in a tub with a yellow kettle of hot water. Damn; he's becoming more like me on foot care day. Goofy of course comes in and Pete gasps in shock on cue. Goofy broke into Pete's house through an open door in the attic. Ummm; Pete should be calling the police now because Goofy is in fact trespassing. Goofy brings out a trophy which looks like a kung-fu frog auditioning for TMNT. Sadly; he was rejected and couldn't even get on Battletoads. Goofy calls it his most prized possession, which is impossible to believe; but this is Goofy we are talking about here. Goofy claims that it's for saving his life as Pete is grumbling about saving his boat and all that stuff. Goofy proclaims that he owes Pete one and all Pete has to do is name it. If I'm Pete; I would just tell him to stay home and don't bother him again until Peg returns. Goofy would then accept it and leave. However; then the episode would be over and since idiot plot equals funny; this has to continue. To be fair; Goofy is an idiot, so at least an idiot plot would in fact work since Goofy is in storyline an idiot anyway. However; the one who's acting like an idiot is Pete as he tells Goofy to make him a sandwich and then hit the bricks. Goofy leaves as Pete throws the KFF trophy away and it shatters as I expected it to. Pete laughs and his cat feet is now human feet. Remember when TaleSpin's continuity was almost dead perfect with the main characters? Goof Troop's continuity with the main characters is on par with guest characters in TaleSpin. That's usually a bad sign of how cheap the animation was turning out to be at this point. So we head into the kitchen with Goofy looking in the upper cupboards to find a red bottle of super pop popcorn. Wait; I thought Goofy was suppose to make a sandwich?
So Pete should have said: "Make me a bowl of popcorn and then hit the bricks.". Pete also tells him to get chips and a diet soda. Why bother with the chips if he's making popcorn? Jymn Magon is the story editor. How in the hell did he not correct this. If you want Goofy to make a sandwich; have him make a sandwich and screw it up. If you want him to make popcorn and screw it up, have Pete say that he wants popcorn and if you want to, you can have Pete say "I would like melted butter (and/or cheese) on the popcorn and a diet soda." That way; it makes sense with what Goofy is actually doing. Goofy shoves popcorn in microwave and sets it to thirty minutes. Because Goofy doesn't know how popcorn works in a microwave oven. Jump cut to Goofy getting a six pack of diet soda out of the fridge. Now I know why I do this alone instead of having Goofy do it. Jump cut to Pete on the chair reading a newspaper. It is the exact same newspaper in terms of style to the TaleSpin one. We hear popping as Pete asks what is taking so long calling Goofy Enstein as the microwave oven pops popcorns in cartoonish fashion just to remind us that Kennedy Cartoons is animating; since it does it mostly side popping. At least it didn't break internal logic, so I'm fine with this. Pete comes in as his eyes bug out while protesting and it was literally for thirty seconds before the door opens and the microwave popcorn pops onto the counter and the floor. This somehow causes the soda cans to fly and nail Pete in the face, causing Pete to fly and destroy the back of the middle cushion of the sofa as the feathers fly and springs comes up. Pete pops up with a soda can in his mouth as we get the popcorn flood of death to waste more time. Goofy surfs on popcorn flood making Pete look like an old popcorn fart. Pete spits out soda can and yells at him to go outside and clean the rain gutters. Because this is an idiot plot, you see. You cannot just tell Goofy to go home because that would end the episode too quickly and we have to stretch out a five minute idiot plot into a twenty minute one. Goofy bails and Pete eats popcorn as it'll take until supper to eat. He's got a better stomach than me right now.
Jump cut to Goofy outside with a ladder and two buckets on his right arm. He sets the ladder down againest the gutter and climbs up as the gutters are clogged with leaves. Goofy grabs leaves and puts them in bucket and then does a spot of tangling himself with the ladder and the gutter. Lots of wobble sounds ensue. For people who complain about sound effects in Johnny Test; Goof Troop uses them a lot, too. Only at least Goof Troop doesn't use the whip crack sound every three seconds. Then the knees knock with teeth chattering sound effects. Goofy leans backwards as the ladder sways and this leads to Goofy doing the splits between the gutter and the ladder. Goofy's foot is slipping as Goofy does some foot grabbing spots; but it's not working. Goofy uses the hands to grab onto the roof as the bucket of leaves flies up and lands on Goofy's head. This is a really cute sequence, but too wussy to be outstanding or anything. Gutter separates as those spikes are large and disappear on the next shot as Goofy is screaming for help again. Pete goes to the window as the ladder lets go, Goofy kicks into the house shattering the window and crashes into Pete landing on his belly. The bucket lands on Pete's head; which is fitting since Pete has a bucket shaped head. Pete got his pink bunny slippers back as Goofy opens up buckethead Pete gets the most muted cheap heat of laughs I have ever seen. Yeah; this is an idiot plot that is going to be driven into the ground as we head to the bathroom with Pete naked in the bathtub having a bubble bath as he thinks he's safe. In comes Goofy with bottle of pink bubble bath suds; which causes Pete to cover his groin with a green washcloth and protest. I can understand him protesting this outrage; but Goofy and I cannot see anything illegal in the tub; so get real. Goofy opens the cap and squeezes Uncle Bubble into it. Yeah; that is the name of the brand and it's a real brand believe it or not. Retroactive product placement in a cartoon? Why doesn't this surprise me? It's also industrial strength as Pete throws the washcloth into his face and calls him Doofus as Uncle Bubble bottle falls into the bath tub. Goofy looks into the hard camera somehow.
Uh-oh, indeed; as we jump cut to outside as the whole place is filled with bubbles; as Pete calls Goofy a bubble head. HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Goofy apologizes as the suds pour out of the house and then we jump cut to Pete sleeping on the sofa with pillows stuffed near his head. Pan over to Goofy as we get the most screwed up toe-nail clipping in history; just to show you that Kennedy cartoons is animating this. The one time they didn't screw the spot; Goofy clipped Pete's big toe; which only pinched him; but didn't cut off his toe. BS&P RULEZ! Understandable; but still dumb. Toe is redder than the Nintendo Switch logo; but still not as red as mant of the angry people who probably will have to wait months before being able to get one of them. I yawned because I saw it coming; but hate it because Nintendo should have seen it coming. Pete screams and demands answers to this outrage. I wish Goofy punches a brick wall; just to play mind games with Pete. Speaking of mindgames; Pete asks why Goofy was trimming the toenails and Goofy claims that he trimmed his hair and in a rare moment for Kennedy; the logic was perfect here. Pete looks into the green pocket mirror and now he's pissed. Kurt Angle should be fortune Goofy didn't shave his hair bald and it was Edge because that would have sucked for him even more. Goofy asks him about it and tells him to be brutal. Pete proceeds to kick him out of the house right on cue. HAHA! Well; Goofy, you wanted it brutal and he gave it to you. So; the episode should be over right? This is Goofy we are talking about here; and we are barely eight and a half minutes in. Goofy proclaims that he likes it; which shows Goofy's defintion of liking it is straight out of bizzaro world. Jump cut to Pete dialing a telephone. Jump cut to Pete listening on telephone of a woman speaking. Pete is talking to her about Westwinds travel agency about a deserted island trip and she says "yes" causing Pete to proclaim that he'll take it. Jump cut to Pete with flashlight taking stuff out of the garage to bring with him. Jump cut, yes! Jump cut, no! Jump cut, POW! OUCH! Ummmm... Pete goes over to the CHEST OF DEMONS with stuff that includes a bowling ball and a toaster.
He is about to put the stuff in there; as Goofy whacks him with a golf club in the head. Now you would think that this is revenge for kicking him out of the house; even though it's Pete's house he's in. But that would imply that Goofy is a sleazebag tweener, like Pete. Nope; Goofy's an idiot because Goofy thought Pete was a cat burgler. That is hilarious on SO many levels. Yeah; Goofy turns the light on and Pete is concussed. Concussions aren't funny; but Goofy's reaction certainly was. I have now determined that the gimmick when concussed is that Pete is asking for requests to his mother. He wants the bunny with the bent ear and I was half expecting Goofy to give him one as Goofy asks what he was doing in the garage and Pete lies that he is having a party with Goofy and Pete. Oh god; what an idiot?! All he has to tell Goofy is that he's going on vacation to get away from him; and then have Goofy find him on a deserted island anyway because Goofy still owes him one. Pete tells Goofy that he wants to have movie night and Goofy can make lots and lots of popcorn. Goofy leaves to do that because he's a pro. HAYUCK! Pete then bails out of sight as Goofy re-enters the garage for no reason (not even because the front door is locked and the open window in the attic is now closed; just sloppy writing here) as he sees the mess and offers to clean it up. So he starts cleaning and we jump cut to Pete in the kitchen barricading the door, for no reason although his makes more sense. Pete proclaims that when Goofy is done with the popcorn, he'll be on a deserted island somewhere outside Spoonerville. Goofy slips on the bag of golf clubs and bounces into the CHEST OF DEMONS and locks himself in. Well; not quite. Goofy does stuff himself and all of the stuff into the chest; but Pete comes in calling for Goofy, doesn't see him, pumps his fist in victory and then locks the chest. Jump cut to outside as the black car backs out of the driveway garage (which is open) and onto the street as Pete yells freedom and laughs as the car drives away from the hard camera to end the segment ten and a quarter minutes in. Yeah; they are stretching this a lot; but Goofy has been funny so far; so it's tolerable for the most part. Sadly; even Goofy is going to cease being hilarious before too long and this episode isn't even half over yet.
After the commercial break; we head to the airport AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) with Pete laughing in the background. Head into the plane taking off with Pete in his seat laughing and annoying the Goofy clone next to him with glasses on reading the newspaper. Pete of course uses the Goofy clone as a prop to demonstrate that he's not exactly alone; but it's not Goofy, so it's all good. He threatens to throw Goofy out the window and bashes the Goofy clone into the glass window to force the point. What a cruel sleazebag bully this Pete is?! Just say it; don't assault him! There is a catnose wearing the exact clothing Pete is as we pan down while Pete comments on them good nuts. We cut to the CHEST OF DEMONS as we get a major logic break in that only Goofy is in the chest now. Closeup shot and a flashlight appears completely out of nowhere as Goofy wonders where he is. We're in the logic break tickle trunk. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm...The trunk is spring load as he takes the metal wire in the ass and bounces around screaming for help and Pete. Somehow; Pete hears this and cannot believe it. Pete is angry and starts bullying the Goofy clone who was reading the newspaper, again. Then Pete catches himself and wipes his hands clean, blaming it on turbulence. Yeah; with Goofy around, there is a lot of that going around. Jump cut back to Goofy banging on the chest and it filled up again with stuff. Goofy complains about the lack of air; so he finds the conveniently placed power drill and somehow drills up and it somehow manages to hit the floor and ceiling despite the fact that the drill bit wouldn't have hit the floor at anytime on other shots. This is a terrible case of bad logic of Kennedy at the expense of a joke which is the drillbit gets caught in Pete's shoelace and corkscrews his left leg.
People wonder why people like me think Kennedy Cartoons sucks?! It's not because of side mouthing, shuffling feet and excessive animation just to aplease the cartoon hardcore out there; it's because every spot breaks the show's internal logic so much that it makes every funny look so terrible and Kennedy is no Knack Animation, so they don't have that excuse. Pete calls it a case of leg cramps. You don't say! I'm shocked that you didn't turn your bones into powder on that spot. Goofy clone doesn't care either way as we jump cut to Goofy making a large pipe out of a box of pink straws complete with the "dadadaDA dadadadeDA" music we have heard on this show before. Pete is eating nuts on the out of nowhere blue tray as he proclaims that he likes them because they are not popcorn. Of course in 2005; John Cena would have said: "You want to diss the goof; then choke on these nuts!". And Jeff Jarrett in 2001 would said: "Go ahead and choke of them, Slapnuts!" And Jeff's version would actually be funnier and draw money. Pete literally claims that popcorn can kill you. So can water actually; so Pete is a food luddite. The straw pipe makes it to the tray and Goofy sucks air and peanuts like a vacuum cleaner. Now this episode really sucks. HAHA!
Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Shaun Desmond.
Goofy eats a bunch of free peanuts like a freeloader on Figure Four Weekly. More sucking from Goofy (in the literal sense) as Pete is not thrilled about this at all. To Pete: Kennedy Cartoons is demonstrating how much they suck; that is what gives around here. Pete grabs the pipe and shows how much he sucks. Geez; this is what this idiot plot rant has come down to. Goofy bleches and does the redneck laugh which Pete hears causing him to drop the straw pipe and gasp in horror. So much so that he bullies the Goofy clone again; only he is so paranoid that he is seeing Goofy's everywhere, even those disguised as stewardess. Pete cannot handle the pressure and just hooks his mouth and speaks gibberish. This proves to be a segueway as we are on a wooden boat with a strawroof and a bicycle used to row the boat. Something straight out of something on an island in the TaleSpin world. Pete is sitting in front of the CHEST OF DEMONS continuing to act like an idiot. The boatman asks if he's all right as the boatman is a dark skin Goofy clone with black afro hair, striped shorts, sandals and a white tank top. The boatman's voice is provided by Franklin Ajaye and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Ajaye was born in Brooklyn, New York but raised in Los Angeles by a Sierra Leonean father, whom he is named after, and an American mother (named Quetta), making Ajaye, as he likes to joke, a "true African-American". He has released five comedy albums to date: Franklyn Ajaye, Comedian (1973), I'm a Comedian, Seriously (1974), Don't Smoke Dope, Fry Your Hair (1977), Plaid Pants and Psychopaths (1986), and Vagabond Jazz & the Abstract Truth (2004). The last two were recorded in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Ajaye made his network debut on The Flip Wilson Show in 1973 and made his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson a year later. Ajaye emigrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1997, but returns to the United States periodically to do work on television.
His last American television appearance was on Paul Provenza's "The Greenroom" on Showtime in 2011. He is known in Australia for his appearances on The Panel and Thank God You're Here, and his popular one man shows "Nothing But The Truth", "Talkin' Vagabond Jazz", and "Vagabond jazz & The Abstract Truth" at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has worked as an actor, appearing in films such as Sweet Revenge (1976), Car Wash (1976), Convoy (1978), Stir Crazy (1980), the 1980 version of The Jazz Singer, Hysterical (1982), Get Crazy (1983), Fraternity Vacation (1985), Hollywood Shuffle (1987), The Wrong Guys (1988), The 'Burbs (1989), and American Yakuza (1993). In 2011, Ajaye had a small but memorable role, and line in the box office hit Bridesmaids, playing the father of Lillian (played by Maya Rudolph). He has been seen more recently in the TV show Deadwood and also appeared on an episode of "Barney Miller" as police car thief, Frasier Wilton in 1976. He has been nominated twice for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program for In Living Color (1990) and Politically Incorrect (1997).[1] On his stand-up television show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, British comedian Stewart Lee mocked Ajaye's LP I'm a Comedian, Seriously.[2][3] Ajaye is the author of Comic Insights: The Art of Standup Comedy (ISBN 978-1-879505-54-4), which contains tips for aspiring comedians. His comedic influences include Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Robert Klein, Bill Cosby, and Nichols and May.[4] He began his career on Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales in 1969. Goof Troop is his DTVA debut and only appearance. Too Hip For The Room is his most recent credit. He has 30 Acting credits, 11 Writing credits, 2 Producer credits, 2 Misc credits and 32 Self credits to his resume.
Yeah; it's been a long while since we had a new voice to tribute in these rants. Pete is shaking his head and deduces that he was dreaming. Seeing all those Goofy's in the airplane, yes you are dreaming although that is generous on my part. More like hallucinating. The boatman whacks him with the oar to relax. No, now he needs medical attention to see if he has a concussion. Pete is at the islands now as Pete feels relieved as he thinks nothing can bother him now. This leads to a shark coming up out of nowhere and eats a piece of the boat and some stuff on said boat. Pete teases that the shark ate his hands; but he gets them back as the boatman informs us that it's the most fearsome shark in the islands' waters. Oh wait; the shark ate Pete's Mickey Mouse gloves. Oh no worries; those are the cheapest gloves to buy in Disney's world. Here; not so much. He's a bad shark known to the locals as Jimbobbo Royzara. Geez; it's 1992 Michael Eisner; you are not suppose to hate Roy Disney until 2004 when you went from evil genius to evil senile old fool. So we make it to the island complete with smoking volcano of doom as the boatman tells him to don't worry and be happy. If only Nintendo fanboys can do that; but the internet is not the kind of place for such things. The boat makes it to the docks and we scene change with Pete on the docks with the CHEST OF DEMONS as the boatman rows away telling him that he's a hundred miles away from no civilization. Ironically; that's not far enough for people who hate Donald Trump with a passion. So the boatman rows out of sight and out of promos as Pete sighs. Wow; what a bunch of nothing for a cameo appearance. Pete thinks he has duped everyone and brings out the key. Don't open it, Pete. You will regret it the rest of your life....Ah, damn! Goofy comes out and hugs Pete in a way that makes me feel dirty and happy all at the same time. Pete is now pissed and threatens to pulverize him; which is BS&P speak for killing him.
Pete brings out a baseball bat from the chest and Goofy brings out a batch of cookies as we zoom in to see that Goofy ate all of Pete's food and drank all the soda. Oh; now Goofy deserves a Bradley-equse pounding after that. You can stow away in his chest. You can eat his airplane food. You can make him hallunicnate and see everyone as Goofy (because lord knows most of them are clones of him). But you go after his own food; THAT MEANS WAR~! OH, YOU'RE GONNA DIE~! JESUS~! Pete then drops the bat and tries to destroy it. Wait, what?! I've heard of clubbing BS&P; but BS&P clubbing a club? WHAT KIND OF EPISODE IS THIS~?! Goofy wants to be pals and Pete bails and dives into the ocean; which I betcha ten seconds later, he comes back with his clothes torn asunder because he almost because shark bait. I check the DVD...Close, but no torn clothes. I CLUB BS&P~! Pete comes up all wet as Goofy calls Jimbobbo a mean goldfish. I was begging for Jimbobbo to bite Goofy's ass for that; but I betcha it would praise him for it, knowing that shark's tunnel vision for Pete's ass. Pete grabs him and asks how he can get rid of Goofy and Goofy proclaims that he cannot because he saved Pete's life and he owes him a debt that can only be paid if Goofy saves Pete's life in return. Pete cannot believe this bullcrap and neither can I. Pete tells him to wait right there and bails until he can find a cliff so he can calls for help in a really contrived manner. I realize that this is a stupid thing to do in real life; but, if Pete wants Goofy to save his life: Why not just dive into the water and bring out Jimbobbo? Yeah; Pete's a lazy bum. So is Kennedy's far away animation here as we have to get a closeup to see any movement. Goofy is called a goof off; so someone was playing Dragon Warrior 3 on the NES again. Goofy actually finds a way to run up the cliff while gravity completely takes a break. HA! Pete notices this and fakes a pain spell; which is fitting considering how painful idiot plots can be. Still better than Bad Tidings from Darkwing Duck, that is for sure. Goofy is on top of the cliff as he asks if Pete is hurt. I dont' know if he is, but I am, sort of.
It's a good thing Goofy is a total idiot because Pete's acting is so bad, that even Peter Griffin would kick his ass for that. Yes; Peter Griffin's fake organism ankle injury sell is far more convincing than this. I realize that this is a total back handed compliment towards Seth McFarlane; but if I was Seth, I would be flattered by it because it's at least some level of praise towards his otherwise unfunny, macho offensive show that is loved by the asshole demographic, who were the same idiots who voted for Donald Trump. Goofy invokes the LASSO OF BANE TO ALL ACTION CARTOONS EVERYWHERE with the vane; which is fine because this is an asisine sitcom and thus action does not exist. Then we get a big logic break: Goofy throws the line with the loop and in the very next shot; the loop is completely gone when Pete grabs it and ties it around his midsection. So Pete is pulled up by Goofy and we get concussion spot number three by Pete as Jimbobbo shows up complete with chef's hat, bib, fork and knife licking it's chops. Of course! I swear that Franklin Ajaye voices this shark; although it's probably Frank Welker again. Pete absolutely panics and yells at Goofy to pull him up while running. Goofy wants to get a better grip; so he lets go of the rope and Pete free falls. This was a good move because now Pete will be in legit danger of being eaten by Jimbobbo and therefore Goofy can make the save and be a legit hero. GREAT! So Pete gets chomped by Jimbobbo who has lost the bib and hat on the next shot. Damn; he looked better in those dud, by the way. Kennedy Cartoons: you suck! Pete comes up as Jimbobbo bites the vine and Goofy jumps down with the club as Jimbobbo eats Pete by flicking it's tail on Pete. Heh. Jimbobbo dives down as we pan over to the shoreline and Goofy takes an ultra sick Baloo-equse bump with his head on the sand. That is now the second most painful bump in all of DTVA, next to Baloo's head splat in Polly Wants A Treasure. There's no way new Disney allows that without a helmet. No way. Jimbobbo comes in as Goofy winds up the bat; and Pete foolishly opens the mouth to allow Goofy to hit him in the head with the club again. HA! Jimbobbo dives, Goofy apologizes, Pete pops up running like Jesus walks on water and screams; bonks into Goofy and runs blind through the island like a total idiot. Somehow; they get back on the dock and into the CHEST OF DEMONS even though they were clearly running away FROM the dock. Again; how can anyone defend Kennedy Cartoons after this BS?!
Goofy apologizes for not saving him and Pete blows him off for that. Pete should be blowing off Kennedy Cartoon's internal logic, but that'll do him no good anyway. Pete finds a tennis racket and whacks Goofy on the head; which was dumb since it only encourages iCarly writers to think that murdering Freddie with a tennis racket is actually funny. Goofy thinks he doesn't mean that. HAHA! What an idiot Goofy is as Pete whacks him some more with the tennis racket, just to encourage Sam Puckett even more. Pete is sick about Goofy, period. Goofy thought that they were pals and Pete points out that they aren't friends and orders him off the island now. Why not just put him on the list of Jericho? Because that would make more sense than kicking him off the island to nowhere. Goofy asks where he will live and then Pete closes the chest and starts faking pain and suffering again; yelling for Goofy's help. Pete holds his foot and his selling sucks much worse than Peter Griffin. Ponder that for a moment. Goofy still opens the chest and asks if he's all right. What an idiot?! So Pete whacks him in the head with the tennis racket as this is coming dangerously close to torture porn. No, not at all. Then we get another stupid logic break: Pete yells at Goofy; Pete takes the chest with Goofy and throws it into the ocean. Sounds good, right? Only Pete threw the chest in the direction where it should have landed on the island. Even mirroring the shot would have made this worked; but Kennedy is such a smugass that they think their internal logic is always right. Another reason why Kennedy Cartoons deserves no sympathy. Even Pete in this episode deserves it more than the animators. And they keep messing this up as Goofy sighs and sulks as Pete points to go away stage right instead of the opposite direction where the logic makes sense. Goofy swims away from the dock as they finally get the prespective correct and that ends the segment seventeen minutes in. Yeah; this has been a mess once again, thanks in large part to the Fudgepacker of animation. Kennedy Cartoons, everyone.
After the commercial break; we see Pete on his patched up white hammock near the dock wearing white shoes, orange socks, Dale's hawaiian shirt blown up and green shorts welding the tennis racket in cause any Freddies fly around to bug him. Oh wait; I mean Goofys. In comes Jimbobbo swimming over and sniffing his right leg, calling it yummy. Somehow; Pete is no selling this despite the fact that it's being touched by a freaking shark. Jimbobbo licks it's chops and calls it yummy, which proves that this shark will literally eat anything, even smelly catnose assholes like Pete. Pete Asleep whacks Jimbobbo with the tennis racket ordering "Goofy" to beat it. Uh-oh! Ummm; Pete, that is not Freddie nor Goofy. That's Jimbobbo you just hit and this means certain death for you! Pete does the Baloo flipping hammock spot on purpose to confuse Jimbobbo and then bails stage right. But then he gets cut off as Jimbobbo eats the dock, turning the end of the dock into a clear makeshift boat. Geez; nice to see Jimbobbo was on the ball here, eh?! Pete tries the "nice kitty" trick; only talks about the wife and kids. Yeah; like that would work on a shark! Pete blows on the hammock which doubles as a sail. Then he runs out of breath and pants like a madman. Jimbobbo bounces the hammock boat up into the air and where it lands, only Jimbobbo cares. Boat gets destroyed; causing Pete to use the hammock as a makeshift parachute. Pete continues to blow and I mean literally by the way. But he falls into the drink and manages to use the blindfold to blind Jimbobbo. All this needs is blood and a pack of WWE lawyers and I swear this is a copyright infringement case from Wrestlemania 7. Hammock gets tied around mouth and Pete bails stage right like a Hanna Barbera character. Pete swims and bonks into the chest containing Goofy. Pete stammers like an idiot; and I betcha Goofy grows a brain and no sells this because even Goofy is not stupid enough to fall for Pete's attempt to actually be honest instead of acting honest when he's dishonest to the max, maaaannnnnnnn.
And damn; I'm good as Goofy rows away and flings Pete off the chest. Boy, cried wolf, no sell joke. Get the picture, Pete Pete. I'm shocked your mother hasn't read that story, yet. Pete pleas for him to come back; but Goofy no sells because you can only fool him once or twice or more. Even when he grows a brain; he still acts like an idiot. Pete gets eaten by Jimbobbo twice and dives into the water. Pete punches the shark inside and the shark completely no sells like the Warlord, or Rob Terry, depending on which era of wrestling you like. Even Dino Bravo would sell this; even though he would be the worst at it. Pete then punches the shark's teeth out. Yeah; that'll make Jimbobbo sell! So Goofy rows back to the island as Pete follows him along with Jimbobbo, proving that Jimbobbo is a much bigger sadist than I could ever be. I mean; he has no teeth and he still want to kill Pete somehow. Disney Captions laughably misses Goofy saying "Lost him!" before bonking into a palm tree and a coconut falls on Goofy's head because we haven't had a concussion spot in the last five minutes. And now Pete swims in and proceeds to kiss his ass. Figure of speech of course as Goofy no sells this and Pete takes a shot into the chest. Pete then whacks himself with the tennis racket and anyone with half of a brain would have helped him by throwing him back into the shark. Of course Goofy thinks he means it and opens the chest. Pete jumps into the chest and Goofy locks the chest. He gets on the chest and whistles as Jimbobbo shows up and we proceed to another logic break: The shark is now speaking gibberish, in spite of the fact that he was talking plain English throughout this episode. Of course Goofy understands exactly what he says. What is the point of the shark speaking gibberish, then? I don't think the shark breaking logic for the sake of a joke is funny. Let the shark talk normally; it's okay. Goofy claims that Pete went down river and the shark says "okay"; killing the gibberish joke promo and bails.
Goofy knocks on chest and tells Pete that Jimbobbo is gone and the chest is locked. Pete apparently lost the key during the shark squash job, so Goofy bails and brings in a wooden pole as Pete calls him a dummy. Which is proven correct as the wooden pole springs and Pete bounces down the hill to catch a pail of Goofist Nuts. HYUCK! POW! OUCH! Ummm... He bounces into the river in front of the waterfall where public domain music is played in the background. It's Ride Of The Valkyries; which Daniel Bryan is a Goof Troop fan. Geez; no wonder Miz hates him so much. Goofy brings out a log and runs into the river with it. So we do the waterfall spot as Pete is already panicking before he even opens up the chest. What a wuss?! Pete kicks the chest door open and blows off Goofy before panicking again. Pete goes down the waterfall with the chest and breathes a sigh of relief and then panics because Jimbobbo arrives with BBQ grill, chef's heat, bib, fork and knife again. That shark really is a sadist and a slime bag. Now I need a new scummy title to get over, I guess. Pete kicks the chest and Jimbobbo gets bonked in the head because even he is so demented to join in the concussion party. Pete flies up a waterfall; not unlike many water type Pokemon in Pokemon games as Goofy swims on the log using his ears as oars. HAHA! No matter how screwy this episode has been; Goofy can always entertain me. Pete drops; gets bit in the ass (complete with torn spotted white underwear) and is forced up the waterfall. Which Kennedy proceeds to screw up as the bite shows bare ass including his ass crack! Goofy whacks him in the face with the log and they free fall on the log off the waterfall. They bounce off Jimbobbo who gets the Bounder log of death in his mouth as we get more running like an HB character. Jimbobbo spits it out literally seconds later. Jimbobbo then channels Bugs Bunny and we get the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE SHARK JAWS EDITION~! And then Pete becomes Scooby to Goofy's Shaggy. Are you sure Chuck Tately originally wrote this? Because this looks like Richard Merwin's hand to me.
Pete tells Goofy to do something and Goofy tells him to take off his shirt. Pete sells and throws the shirt; allowing Jimbobbo to eat it and move on. Then it's the pants as Pete gets off to let Goofy bail and takes off his pants which are magically repaired along with the underwear. How about that for magical pants?! Pete bails, Jimbobbo eats and we move on to the volcano. So the goofs with attitude make it to the volcano edge; and yes, I'm ignoring the obvious logic break of Jimbobbo burrowing under the slope of the volcano because Jimbobbo has already broke logic and reason; and he has Bugs Bunny's burrowing powers. Goofy tells Pete to hop in the volcano and Pete teases doing it and then says "What?" HAHA! Goofy claims that sharks hate lava and he learned it in Boy Scouts. I need to see who this Boy Scout Master was for Goofy; because it's more absurd than a tiger climbing a tree. Pete completely no sells it and Goofy snaps his fingers. And then we proceed to flush the episode down the crapper as Goofy returns with a big ass box of popcorn. Let me repeat that: Goofy returned with a big ass box of popcorn which is almost as big as the CHEST OF DEMONS we saw throughout this episode. WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?! Pete and Goofy then proceed to jump into the volcano anyway while Jimbobbo misses biting them away. Damn; bite the writers already Jimbobbo. The worst thing about this is: This is not Kennedy Cartoon's fault. This was the writers who failed to correct this; barring that, the story editor who is the filter for the show. Oh; and the popcorn box shrinks to normal size on the Roadrunner sky spot as Goofy does the redneck laugh as the volcano fills with popcorn and explodes.
And then the box is as large as the CHEST OF DEMONS again; which this is Kennedy's fault, as Goofy and Pete land on top of box. So Goofy claims that they are even and Pete teases blowing him off for that and then the popcorn shoots out of the volcano like a meteor with Pete and Goofy in tow. That looked cool at least as it ends with Pete and Goofy landing on the red lawn chair at Pete's residence as somehow nothing gets destroyed and it's raining popcorn. Okay; that looked cool, so the finish was funny even though the setup was a total, utter mess. Then Peg arrives in her rose van whistling for Pete as she notices them and gets out of the car with Max and the other kids following them. Peg proclaims that she knew they could get along. HAHA! They got along and they also got it on without losing any heat nor sympathy in the process which is enough for Peg to proclaims that he'll leave them at home for a week. Pete groans and faints, effectively burying himself in popcorn as Goofy eats popcorn. Peg proclaims that Daddy made dinner even though it's really a snack; but whatever makes you happy, Peg. Circle fade out to end the episode at 21:12. Jesus H. Christ on a pogostick; this was a total mess of an episode, but at least it was fun enough and it makes Bad Tidings look like the crappy episode that it is, so I'll call it ** (40%); because hell, I feel generous. Also to Kennedy defenders; stop defending this crap! Just because they think all movement, all the time is their definition of what an animation is; that doesn't mean you break internal logic in the process!
THE REVIEW LINE
Wow; I really stepped in some crap in this episode. However; it wasn't that the idea of Pete and Goofy playing the role of Darkwing Duck and Grizzioff was a bad idea or anything because Goofy can make anything funny (even concussions, sadly) and he did his best to make this work; while Pete takes it like a toxic manly man and still keeps going. The idea was good on paper and would work out well and that alone made it better than Bad Tidings, since Goofy and Pete are longtime rivals; something Drake and Grizzioff don't have (SHUSH had like four episodes with them facing each other at best.) That being said; effective ideas mean nothing if they are not executed properly. This was the poorest executed Goof Troop story I have seen thus far. Half of that blame goes to Kennedy Cartoons once again when half of the funny spots are marred by bad logic and bad animation. The other half goes to Jymn Magon and Chuck Tately as it seems that this was written by Jymn and then taken over by Chuck under the assumpation of "Well; they did an amazing job in A Bad Reflection On You; let's have it happen again." In theory; it could work; but it wasn't the case in practice since A Bad Reflection On You is 44 minutes long and TaleSpin is a completely different show. Here; there were moments where the writers had no idea what to do and the finish with the popcorn comet looked awfully cool; but it's marred by a deus ex machina moment with Goofy bringing out a big box of popcorn for no reason. It's really frustrating for me to see this because the idea was good; but the execution was so horrible that by the time this was over, I was like: "Goofy and Pete were funny; but I never want to see them do this ever again." Not because the idea sucks; but because the execution sucked. Overall; this was a utter mess of an episode that a good idea couldn't save. So....
Thumbs down. for this episode and I'll see you all next time.