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Date With Destiny
Reviewed: 01/28/2017
Which Never Ends Well.
All right; we begin the next episode delayed due to the ice storm which came and went as a storm is happening in this episode with Max Goof. See; Max crammed on a term paper and is a sleeping zombie at school which leads the teachers and principal to believe that Max's father Goofy is an abusive father. Max defends his father by claiming that Goofy is marrying a woman soon. Which he isn't. So Peg finds out and wants Goofy to fill out a form for a computer dating service; but Pete screws him by having Gilda (a health inspector, I think) make a house call on Goofy without Goofy's knowledge thus making Goofy believe that Gilda is the one who he is dating. Yeah; this is not going to end well at all, but it sure hell sounds funny on paper. So how does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Stephen Levi and the late Bruce Talkington, whom also did story editing. The animation was done by Walt Disney Animation Australia, PTY, Limited.
We begin this one with a sky shot of a stadium AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as there are spotlights and crowd cheering going on. The title is vertical tan and blue stripes this time around as an announcer is cutting promos on how great this is (Frank Welker). If he's talking about this show...no. So we cut to arenaside as a monster truck is bouncing and smashing smashed cars. Yawn, not impressed. I wanna see Goofy suplex a train; so then I can snicker at SquareEnix for stealing it for Sabin/Matt/Mash/Macias. Blue monster truck bounces and crashes into the wall; because destroying arenas is funny, you see. Northeast pan to seat with Goofy eating a hotdog and drinking a soda while Max is writing stuff on a notepad and paper. Max is taking notes because he's writing a term paper on something. Goofy eats hotdog and then we scene change to inside the Pete's bedrom with Pete Pete and Pegleg Pete sleeping in said bed. Then we hear a typewriter noise in the background which wakes up Pete; because he's an extremely light sleeper, you see. He's also a jerk, you see. Typewriter noises apparently cause Pete's pupils to go out of control as he threatens to kill a bunch of Goofs one of these nights. And yes; he does say kill here. Pete covers ears with pillow as we zoom in towards the window and then jump cut to that damned cat, Waffles, sleeping next to it inside. Waffles wakes up as we see Goofy and Max on the sofa with the typewriter on the coffee table. Why is Goofy doing Max's homework here? Shouldn't Max be using the typewriter since it's his assignment? Besides; why would anyone trust GOOFY GOOF with using a typewriter if they cannot trust him to dress himself properly? See; I can JAQ off with the best of them! Another pop culture reference, Bigfoot; was mentioned by Max here. Goofy describes the smashed cars as little foots; a reference to The Land Before Time. So apparently; that OAV series is threatening DTVA now. Goofy and Max make racing noises and then Goofy does jackhammering so much that his fingers are tied up. See; this is why Max should be typing up the report! More evidence: Goofy does a heel stomp on the typewriter and the typewriter roll flies off the typewriter and pinballs off the walls, off the sofa (forcing Max to push Goofy down before it hits him in the head. So Max has a much better understanding of concussions than everyone else in this cartoon.); through the window and almost killing Waffles. Of course!
Then it's off the fire hydrant to create the water piller spot; because wanton vandalism is funny, you see. Cut to Pete waking up again in his bed as the roller goes through the window; bounces off the sofa and lands in Pete's mouth sideways, looking like LB after Gimmick shuts him up with a stick of firewood. OUCH! Pete actually threatens to kill Goofy again (second kill reference in the episode; which Disney Captions failed to transcript of course) as Peg tells Pete to roll over and stop snoring. So Pete rolls over and falls out of bed; prompting Peg to thank him. HAHA! Then we get a shot outside as night turns to day in seconds; and it looked really awkward to watch. Cut to inside Goofy's house as Max and Goofy are walking upside with their eyes closed and their feet look like something out of Kennedy Cartoons. Goofy and Max walk in opposite directions and slam doors off-screen. Jump cut to Goofy at his bed already dressed down to spotted red underwear and purple shirt with doggie slippers setting his alarm clock to eight am and then slumping on the bed asleep. Goofy snores as Waffles relaxes on Goofy's head. Waffles meows and then the alarm clock goes off and pushes over a conveniently placed glass of water as it pours on the floor. Coins and books drop down as Waffles wakes up to claw the alarm clock onto the floor and it stops ringing. Goofy wakes up and yawns anyway as Goofy touches Waffles; causing Waffles to oversell it and bail. Goofy gets up and puts on his slippers calling it a short night. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Goofy walks out of his room and we jump cut to Goofy in Max's room as Max is sleeping on the top bunk bed in red footy pjs. Goofy tugs on Max's foot to inform him that they need to get a jump on the day. Max wakes up sleep talking about jumping and we scene change to Goofy in his room at the dresser drawers (NOT THOSE ONES!) containing a television and a mirror. Goofy puts on his spotted bowtie of doom as we jump cut to Max putting on his shirt and almost smothers Waffles inside of it. At least Max appears to have better coordination with his clothes when he's in sleep mode compared to Goofy. Scene change to Goofy at the kitchen counter with Max's bagged lunch on it putting cracking eggs into it. Of course! Because this is funny, you see. Jump cut to Max -- with Waffles on his head -- at the table doing a tease of drowning in his soggy bowl Cheerios. And he did it! YAY! HA!
Question: Is is sleeping; or is he depressed after seeing any episode of Fairly Oddparents?! TUNE INTO IMDB USER REVIEWS TO FIND OUT~! Even funnier; Waffles is WARNERED on the spot which causes Waffles to wake up and free fall onto the floor. HAHA! Max is even blowing bubbles in his cereal; so this episode of Fairly Oddparents must have been extremely bad. Say; an episode involving Chloe, or so I heard. Waffles bounces onto an ironing board as we jump cut to Goofy ironing strips of bacon. I'm not making this up. Goofy is telling Max to finish his breakfast; which I say was finished already. Max has to go to school by the way; as Waffles is sniffing bacon; and gets steam from the iron shot into his ass causing Waffles to oversell and jump into the air. Really; guys?! Do you really need to make me feel less sympathy for that damned cat than when it tried to eat Atlas in Where There's Smoke, There's Goof which is literally the last episode I reviewed? We get a neat visual as Waffles bounces off Max's back (I think) and that causes Max to wake up with a bowl of cereal on his head; and then falls backwards onto the floor with the chair. Jump cut to Waffles screaming and bouncing off the sofa and then runs on the pages of the term paper, making me hate that damn cat even more than I already did. Jump cut to Max yawning and remembering that he has to go to school. Max gets up as Goofy comes over and gives Max his lunch bag (containing raw eggs I might add), and Goofy kisses the cereal bowl, thus avoiding censure by BS&P. Goofy reminds him to get the report and Max cannot grab it and walks out of the door. Goofy waves at Max and props himself next to the door and snores. Scene change to Spoonerville Junior High School and head inside the classroom with a male teacher in a pink shirt and jeans with male pattern baldness at his desk addressing the students at their desk. Disney Captions claims that the teacher's name is Hammerhead; which the voice indicates another DTVA appearance by the late Gary Owens. At the back of the classroom, we see PJ and Max at their desk. PJ is alert as a fax, Max...he's snoring like Pete Pete. PJ knocks on cereal bowl to wake up Max as PJ opens his desk and brings out his term papers on the mysteries of nature as mentioned by Hammerhead earlier.
PJ also points out that he couldn't get the Creature of the Black Lagoon (because that is a copyrighted creation); so he settled with Loch Ness (which is also a myth; but in the public domain, so it's all okay.) instead. Max talks about Bigfoot and doesn't see what the big deal is since you can buy it in any dealership of cars. Yes folks; Max has zero idea the difference between Bigfoot the monster truck and Bigfoot, the monster beast. We get more public domain music as PJ is confused and Max is snoring. Then we fade to black; and then we hear thunder and a flash of light comes out as we jump cut to Max on stage with the kids and PJ getting their picture taken. PJ pokes fun on the cereal bowl as Max props his head against PJ and snores again; as the kids are not amused by this. If you ever want an example of why sleep + cameras = DANGER~!; then this episode and A Bad Reflection On You are great examples of this. Also; don't cram! Nothing good can come from it! PJ just looks awkward in all this as we head to the science lab with Mr. Hammerhead reading a green book. Since this is an educational place; this is perfectly okay and Al Khan will not have a heart attack. He states that you never let the solution get too warm. Yes; it's vague because child like to mimic stuff they see and hear on television, because their heads have the tunnel vision response of "COOL!", you see. Pan over to PJ and a sleeping Max as the bunson burner is heating up a flask of bubbly orange liquid. Cut to outside as we hear an explosion off-screen and it blows through a window. Ah; so the substance is DEAD (Diethyl azodicarboxylate, which is orange colored and explodes when heated above the boiling point of water. Huh.)! Wonder if Toon Disney censored that spot? Scene change to Max at the lunch table as the raw eggs are now leaking out of the lunch bag; and he's still snoring. His clothes are torn; but he looks fine otherwise. Max is snoring as egg stuff is falling from the floor. Mr. Hammerhead walks in with a piece of paper and he's reading while walking. Which if anyone had any sense, is dangerous because he's distracted and cannot see the raw egg on the floor and we get the old slip on the banana peel spot. Hammerhead nearly breaks his back and this is enough for Max to finally fully wake up. At least Max is concerned about the well being of Hammerhead; so I cannot fault him for that at least. Hammerhead gets up wiping the stuff off as he's not amused by this.
Max claims that the color looks great on him; which today would be considered a grave insult. Scene change to inside the principal's office as we see Max sitting on a purple chair in front of a desk. At the desk is a blond haired woman with glasses, a blue dress, black belt and golden necklace with a hand pose that looks like she's going to pound Max into silly putty and do it with a smile. Geez; I hope she does, since Max's conscience is getting harder to soften up. She is voiced by Susan Tolsky which is ironic since Susan voiced Mrs. Mossisary in Sheepskin Deep as a teacher. So the principal claims that Max is not in trouble; but Hammerhead is worried about Max's well being. Max claims that he's cool as she is addressed as Miss Pennypacker. Ooookkkkkaaaayyyyy, Max. Pennypacker asks why Max is sleeping, dressing up like a dipstick and eating like a goat. Wait; there was no evidence of Max eating at all in the scenes! Methinks someone has embellished that last one. She also talks about the term project as Max states that he worked all night on that report as we exchange notes on the father/son relationship of Max. Max admits that Goofy has a lot to handle alone; but not for long because Goofy is apparently going to get married. Which we know, he isn't because who wants to marry Goofy? Sure; being in a plutonic relationship is great and all; but marriage? Oh no, oh no, oh no. Max makes a Snow White reference; which is fine since it's a fairy tale and WildCat used that reference in Paradise Lost. Oh and the music provide the blink noises for the eyes; which I have been annoyed of in the past, but since it's because the music was playing the notes for the eye blinking and it was well timed with the eye blinks, I am perfectly fine with this. Usually; there's no music and they do the sound and it looks and sounds stupid. Pennypacker cannot wait to meet her and Max stammers like an idiot because we all know Goofy isn't going to get married. So we head to Max's clubhouse and go inside with Max and PJ exchanging notes on the situation. Max cannot believe he said that Goofy was marrying someone. PJ cannot believe that Max is still wearing a cereal bowl on his head. I cannot believe this took seven and a half minutes to set up. PJ thinks Max needs a mom and in comes Pistol hanging upside down from a tree branch in front of the open window. Pistol goes on and on about loving this mom stuff because she can try on her clothes and wear her makeup. Okay.
Max grabs her and threatens to cut off her pigtails if she tells anyone about this. (I'm paraphasing here: "One word about this out of you and your pigtails will become orphans!" I believe Kurt Angle cut a similar promo of that on Jeff Jarrett's kids.) Pistol is coy about this and promises not to tell anyone if it's a secret. Scene change and she's on Pete's lap on the chair as she did indeed tell Pete about and Pete laughs his ass off. HAHA! Kill reference #3 ensues as Pistol is squealing with joy; so you know Pistol thinks Max is full of crap already. Peg comes in and does the Gruffi pose; wanting answers to this so called laughing thing. Apparently; Peg hates any humor and thinks it's not nice to laugh when she doesn't know the joke. Huh; I wonder how many bigots fall for such an obvious trap? Scene changer of doom and we head to Goofy's living room with Max and Goofy exchanging notes on the situation. Or were trying to as Peg walks in and hugs Goofy from behind. HAHA! They hold hands as Goofy doesn't know who the lucky woman is. You know; Peg being the wife of Goofy would be no worse than Pete being Peg's husband. I guess we cannot have dognose and catnoses living together in perfect harmony, amirite? More hugging as Peg springs Goofy off when Max proclaims that they have not found anyone yet. Peg tells Goofy not to worry while petting his hair and giggles; because she is going to handle everything. This is not the best way to give Peg a focus episode, but it could be worse. So we head to Goofy's house AFTER HAPPY HOUR and then inside the dining room with Goofy, Max, Peg sitting at the table; with Waffles sitting on the table. Peg hands him a piece of paper which is a form for him to fill out for some computer dating service. Goofy and Max all look confused by this as Peg proclaims that he'll be married in no time. Yeah; I'll bet. Scene change to near dawn with Goofy and Max in Goofy's bed in their pjs discussing the woman of their dreams. They want a woman who likes kids and cat; and be a good mechanic. I see Goofy isn't all that picky; and I see Waffles new gimmick is that he can somehow mouth off words in catspeak. Ooookkkaaayyyy. Goofy hands the paper to Max and looks at it before handing it back to Goofy; as Max explains that Goofy needs to describe himself. Goofy tells Max to do it because he might get carried away. That is a bad idea, Goofy; because you don't want Max to be brutally honest here. Perfect way to ruin the whole thing.
Scene change to the living room on the floor with the lamp on. Max and Waffles are on the floor as Max is filling out all the easy stuff on the form like height, weight and birthday. Max wonders how to convince them to marry Goofy without scaring them away, and invokes death reference #4 of the episode. Waffles cuddles Max to waste some more time because this is yet another glaring episode of a eleven minute plotline stretched out to twenty-two minutes. Max decides to tell the truth that he's kind, got a great laugh and always loses at checkers, which is the perfect dad and perfect husband. Sadly; the animation wasn't as the point of the pencil clearly pokes through the paper when Max writes this all down. Scene change to the kitchen with Peg reading the sheet and sighing; calling it the perfect answers. She calls them different; but perfect. In comes Pete saying that he has no time for breakfast and has to get moving now. Peg tells Pete that she wants him to drop off Goofy's application at the dating service. Pete is not happy with this and accuses Peg of calling him a cupid. I guess she figures Goofy will completely screws this up and it would be better if Pete did the deed; but that doesn't explain why Peg won't do it and makes it sound like she's punishing him for something, for no reason. Peg puts the finger under the chin as we discover that Pete is re-paving the parking lot, so he can send the thing in afterwards, because there's no hurry to this. Peg's angry; so Pete recoils and calls her lily pad and offers to do it. So Pete stops at a house called Gilda's and walks in as we see a catnose in an orange suit and hat with grey boot on with a brown nose and hair; and Pete is acting like a sexist dick because he wants to speak to the "man" of the place, toots feet, see. Wait; I think Disney Captions thought Pete was thinking that the name of the "man" of the place was not "Toots Feet" because if Pete wasn't asking for someone's name; he should have said "toot sweet". Not that it matters; as Gildia grabs Pete's tie and gets in his face because she is the man of the place and shoves him down onto the floor asking if he has any objections. So Pete stammers like a sexist and then gets the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY as he offers Gilda the letter and asks about making a house call for one Goofy Goof. Pete winks his eyes and that ends the segment nearly eleven minutes in. This is a really fun episode so far.
After the commercial break; we head to Cupid's Corner; which has a pig as cupid next to a heart on the sign. The place looks like a hotel in Pokemon Sun & Moon as we head inside as Peg is dressing Goofy up a bit and Goofy is acting all awkward about this whole matter. Goofy is then grabbed by the neck by the convenient JAWS OF HALF LIFE outside a door and dragged in. He is forced to sit down in the seat as Goofy is trying to tell the machine what he wants; but gets cut off. The barbar apron gets wrung around Goofy's neck as we get barbar spots for a while; including the dreaded straight razor. Uh-huh. Then a bunch of jaws swing Goofy over to them and literally rip off his clothes and drop Goofy in front of a mirror with heart shaped white boxer shorts on. The jaws grab him and force him to the dressing barricade as they measure him and force him to do the whirlwind spot as he is dressed up like an old man with a newspaper and a hand in his pocket. Then we repeat the spot and he's a horse jockey which looks really goofy even for him. We repeat the spot again for more formal gear and then we scene change to outside with Peg coming out with Goofy doing the "carry a bunch of boxes" while wearing the same outfit as the MASK. Somebody stop him from being Goofy! Oh wait; that's impossible. Never mind what I said. Peg is asking him if he is having so much fun as Goofy is panting and tells the truth; proving that it's impossible for him to get married. Surprisely; we scene change to Goofy's house without Peg telling him the finer point of marrying: When the wife asks if you had fun; you lie and say that you had a great time. He head inside as Goofy also has a hat and cane with him as Peg and Pete are with Goofy and Max talking about doing everything possible to make this Krackpotkin Plan work. Considering that they are furries; humanly possible comes off as rather creepy. Pete shoves Goofy around and tells Goofy that she won't know what hit her. That makes four of them, wink, wink, nudge, nudge! Goofy thanks Pete as Max asks when is she coming. Pete and Goofy walk off stage right as Pete tells us that Gilda is coming to Goofy's house tomorrow for an estimate. Memo to Max (since Goofy doesn't know): When someone says that; they aren't coming for an actual date. I'm just saying. Pete catches himself and says engagement, which might be worse. Peg wants to join in for last second advice as Pete snickers and groans at the same time. I'll say!
Scene change to outside as Pete is hiding from his brick wall on his side of the property watching from Goofy's at dawn because he's waiting for Gilda to show up for his fun to begin. He counts down from his oversized watch out of nowhere and his counting sucks as a green van with pipes on the right side and the name Gilda in yellow letters on the left side drives in and parks in front of the garage on Goofy's driveway. Gilda comes out and opens the back door of the van as Pete rubs his hands with glee. Jump cut to inside as Waffles is being held by Max as they look out the window. Waffles for no good reason is wearing a yellow bowtie. Max and Waffles look out and Waffles raspberries Gilda while Max looks horrified as Glida arrives with a jackhammer to jackhammer the point home that this Krackpotkin plan is about to run off the rails. What an asshole Pete is?! Jump cut to Max running in as Peg is dressing Goofy who is carrying a valentine shaped box of chocolate. If anyone in Disney would make a perfect Forrest Gump; it's Goofy Goof! Peg asks Max what she looks like and Max stammers before saying that she's very casual; which of course means, she's stupid. Prompting Goofy to say that this is the way he likes them. Bigot. Jump cut to Gilda ringing the doorbell outside with the jackhammer in her hands. Why?! Why not?! Peg pushes Goofy to the door and then bails telling Goofy to go there if he needs them. Max wishes him good luck and I don't blame him. This is going to be way too easy for me to mock. Goofy thanks him as Goofy opens the door. Gilda begins to address herself and five seconds in, Goofy already cuts her off, knowing who she is. How did Goofy know her name? Goofy drags her into the house and they walk into the living room. Only Goofy would feel comfrontable with someone welding a jackhammer. Sadly; millions would feel comfrontable with someone welding a shotgun. So we pan over to the window with Waffles waking up on the table as Pete pops up. They scare each other and bail as we jump cut to Gilda knocking on the wall for no reason that I can think of. She hears something back and declares that the house is not up to code at all. Didn't she get the memo that stuff not up to code is funny?! Goofy thinks this is too bad and gives him flowers and chocolates. Remember this: Peg is the one who suggested Goofy do this. And Gilda accepts them cart blanche and is pretty surprised by this as Goofy wants to get right down to business. Because estimating is for wimps, you see. Gilda is shocked as Goofy wants to do right here and right now. Geez; Goofy would be the dumbest professional wrestler in history. And he would still cut a better promo than Jumping Jeff Farmer. Jump cut to Pete outside laughing his ass off. Jump cut to inside with Gilda jackhammering the floor with the jackhammer. She definity knows an alternative way of giving Goofy the business; that is for sure.
Goofy grabs the jackhammer from Gilda because she's a guest and kind of impulsive. That makes two of them, of course. Goofy really jackhammers the floor good; because he's Goofy. Goofy destroys the piano; in which Glida is protesting because it's her favorite jackhammer. She's like the woman version of Pete Pete now. How ironic?! No wonder Pete was laughing at this. More jackhammering to drive the point home; because this episode still hasn't even reached fifteen minutes yet. The cord (which is why jackhammers should be cordless) wraps around Gilda's ankle and this leads to Gilda smashing into the chandelier somehow. OUCH! Goofy does the Scooby-Doo Snow Angel spot into the wall as the cords break and the air whips into Gilda and she bounces around and flies out of the house, through the window and lands outside as Pete is on bottom. I hope Peg saw that; Pete will never hear the end of it. Gilda gets off and blows of Pete for setting her up and grabs him as Pete stammers like an idiot as Max and Peg notice this. Goofy runs out and notices that she's leaving as Peg tells Goofy to dance and sweep her off her feet. So yes; the Nightflight BS&P notes have not taken effect just yet. Thankfully; Gilda is more angry at Pete and is chasing him down the hill just as Mrs. Pennypacker shows up. And Pennypacker is the Goof Troop version of Butterbear as she takes the whirlwind spot. Boy; she was really dizzy and messed up her glasses on that one, too. Pennypacker then staggers into Goofy's house and Goofy sweeps her off her feet. Hit the tango music and then we dance, dance, dance to their doom! HEEHEEHEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummm... Thanks Max, you're a life saver. Jesus; I need to get the Smurfs Wedding special out of my head. Then Goofy proceeds to do an airplane spin right before our eyes. Okay; this is the best episode in the series, just for that. I need an animated GIF of Goofy doing this airplane spin. So they trip and crash off-screen as Goofy thinks Pennypacker is Gilda and Pennypacker is packing a lot of soot in her lungs and coughing it out. Max runs in pointing out that she's clearly not Gilda as Pennypacker is asking how Goofy is getting along with his new mom. Goofy and Max are shocked and appalled as this ends the segment sixteen and a half minutes in. Now we are having a lot of fun here...
After the commercial break; we have Peg, Goofy, Max and Pennypacker are exchanging notes on how wonderful Goofy is as a father standing in the middle of a living room that looks like a World War 3 warzone! Max hugs Goofy; but Pennypacker isn't buying this and it's affecting his studies, so Max should live somewhere else. Thankfully; Peg steps in and offers Max to stay with her until this thing is straightened out. I'll say this: This is where they tried to make Peg into a character like Rebecca Cunningham; but she's never going to be that character, so it comes off as low rent. On the other hand; at least it makes me tolerate her jerky; but most of time justified behavior. Goofy sulks; but agrees to it as we head outside as Max has a backpack on and Goofy acts like a concerned parent to Max. At least Max is more than sheltered enough where I can buy Max needing this advice. He tries this with Kit, Kit would be totally pissed off, although with Goofy, I would still laugh my ass off. Baloo, not so much. Max tells Goofy kindly to sod off because he's been to PJ's before and walks off stage left as Goofy hugs Waffles and they cry a bit. Head to inside Pete's house (I think) as the door opens and in comes Pete who looks more worse for wear than Freddie from imeetfred in iCarly. Pete flops on the floor and calls the home his hospital. It's Pete's house as Peg comes in looking concerned as he claims that he tripped over a sprinkler. Peg's face tells that Pete is full of it as Max runs in, says hello to both of them and goes upstairs within five seconds. Pete demands answers to this outrage. Peg calmly explains that Max is staying here until things return to normal next door. Pete sobs on cue because that'll take forever. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I would love to hear Peg's defintion of the word normal here; because if she uses Occam's Razor on this; she'll lose that argument. Badly, I might add. So it's nightfall as we head to the kitchen and Max is already raiding the fridge. In footy pj's I might add. Jump cut to Pete waking up right on cue in his bed thinking burglars have raided his house. Because Occam's Razor doesn't apply to him. Jump cut to Pete coming out with a golf club. Jump cut to a closeup shot of a pair of skates. Pete steps on skate. Pete rides and crashes into a wall. I blame Pete for having a crappy sercuity system. Pete turns and falls down the steps like a stupid idiot. Pete loses slipper and golf club is wrapped around his neck.
Max comes in with a peanut butter sandwich and a glass of milk...and maybe Pete will take three Viagra. Pete then proceeds to stammer like a stupid idiot and claims that he was only checking out the security system. Max walks up the stairs and wishes him luck on the system as he mumbles back acting like he wants to kill him, but knows he can't. Cut to outside as Max is screaming "No" as Goofy and Pete wake up in their respective beds. Goofy runs out of the house like a Tazmanian Devil and then there is a ten second moment where Goofy jumps over the brick wall in slow motion like a stupid idiotic commercial. Then we get another Scooby-Doo Snow Angel Spot through the door and we get another whirlwind spot; involving five seconds to put Chainsaw on camera. Why? Why not?! Which Chainsaw proceeds to no sell. Goofy is holding Max in PJ's room asking if he's all right. They hug as Max says it's only a nightmare. Jump cut to Pete in front of skate implying that he is going to bash Max with the broken golf club if it's him again. He steps over the skate and somehow; the top stair is much larger than it looks because he somehow was able to do this without stomping on the skate; and then was able to take another step before curb stomping Chainsaw! That is some stretch of logic creditability there, animators. This somehow causes Pete to fall down the steps and land in a heap on the floor again. Jump cut to the hug as Goofy asks Max about it and Max claims that it's Pete falling down the steps again. Goofy blames THAT for Max's nightmares. HAHA! Somehow; that sounds believable, knowing Pete. I can just hear Peg saying that now. So we head outside and morning arises. Goofy is humming a tune inside his house as we jump cut to Pete and Peg in their night gear at the table in the kitchen drinking coffee and having donuts. Pete complains as Peg blows him off as a poo-poo head. So yes; poo-poo is not a silly word at all for Fish Hooks to use. Ironically; Fish Hooks comes in an era where the word crappy would be fine to use. I'm just saying. Peg accuses Pete of blaming Max for all this; which is in fact true. On both counts actually: Max is to blame because he was stupid enough to claim Goofy was marrying someone and Pete is in fact blaming Max for all this. Pete asks who else is there to blame and here comes Gilda putting a bill down on the table for all the time she wasted on this; and now Peg has the easiest target in the world to blame now...
IMDB claims Gilda is voiced by April Winchell; but she sounds nothing like her. I think the voice was provided by Brenda Vaccaro and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Vaccaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian American parents Christine M. (née Pavia) and Mario A. Vaccaro, a restaurateur. [1][2] She was raised in Dallas, Texas, where her parents co-founded Mario's Restaurant,[3] in 1943, converting it from Dutch's Café,[4] and where Vaccaro graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School.[5] She returned to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1961 comedy Everybody Loves Opal, for which she won a Theatre World Award.[6] Vaccaro's Broadway credits include The Affair (1962), Cactus Flower (1965), How Now, Dow Jones (1967), The Goodbye People (1968), the female version of The Odd Couple, (1985), and Jake's Women (1992).[7] The husky-voiced actress is a three-time Tony Award nominee, for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Cactus Flower), Best Actress in a Musical (Dow Jones), and Best Actress in a Play (The Goodbye People).[7] Vaccaro appeared with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance in the 1975 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough she gained an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.[citation needed] Additional screen credits include Airport '77, Capricorn One, The Pride of Jesse Hallam, Supergirl, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Heart of Midnight, Zorro, The Gay Blade and House by the Lake, also known as Death Weekend.[8] Her television credits include the title role in the 1976 series Sara, a number of television movies, and a regular role in the short-lived 1984 series Paper Dolls, in addition to guest appearances on Banacek, The Fugitive, The Defenders, Coronet Blue, The Name of the Game, Marcus Welby, M.D., McCloud, The Streets of San Francisco, The Love Boat, St. Elsewhere, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Columbo, Touched by an Angel, Friends, The King of Queens, and Nip/Tuck.[8]
She was nominated for an Emmy Award three times and won for Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music for The Shape of Things in 1974.[citation needed] She supplied the voice for Johnny Bravo's mother Bunny Bravo in the animated cartoon series. She was the first voice of Jay's (Jon Lovitz)'s ex-wife Ardeth on The Critic. She made an appearance on The Smurfs as Scruple, an apprentice of Gargamel, opposite Paul Winchell.[8] After ill health forced Valerie Harper to bow out of the production of Nice Work if You Can Get It at the Ogunquit Playhouse (Maine), Vaccaro took over the role of Millicent Winter for the remaining performances of the limited run from August 4-15, 2015. [9] She began her career as Rosa Alloro in Naked City in 1961. Darkwing Duck as Slim is her DTVA debut (I did the episode "You Sweat Your Life"; but forgot to do a tribute for her.). The Clapper (Ida Krumble), Gypsy (Claire Rogers) and Light Wounds (Marlene) are her most recent credits. She has 100 Acting credits, 49 Self credits, 1 Thanks credit and 4 Archive Footage credits to her resume. Gilda ass bounces Pete out of sight as she informs Peg about Pete's sense of humor. Scene change back to Goofy in the living room holding the ivories from the piano. Goofy puts the keys on the broken piano as Peg comes in with Pete pulled by the hair; because you see, Pete has very bad feelings about this situation. You don't say, Peg. You're pulling him by the HAIR! Of course he going to have bad feelings, but this causes pain which is a bad feeling that needs to be corrected so the bad feelings go away. Peg is basically giving Pete the look which signals that Pete better fix the house now; or he's in the doghouse again. Pete agrees doing the sweet talk; which just makes Pete look like the phoneist king in all of Spoonerville. He embraces Goofy like a phony person as Goofy asks for Pete to find a chimney brush and help him clean up the mess. Pete "agrees" to; but he's so phony that I don't buy it for one second. So he finds a conveniently placed pillow and attaches it to a stick; and then sweeps the chimney while driving Waffles up the chimney. At least Pete absuing his pets makes sense since he's a slimy neighbour heel anyway; and he makes PJ look weak. Waffles pops out of the chimney and flies into the air and bounces off the roof near Goofy who is boarding up the windows.
Goofy hears the cat and then we jump cut to Pete as the living room is filled with more ash and soot. Geez; this is why Pete should never be allowed to clean up a mess as he loses the pillow in the process. Instead of poking the thing with a stick; he goes into the chimney look a stupid idiot as we jump cut to Goofy climbing the ladder and noticing Waffles on the roof. Goofy pets the cat and asks how he got there as Pete is screaming for Goofy to get him the hell out of the chimney; because he's not Santa. Which is a total relief for the rest of us. Goofy grabs the ladder and puts it against the chimney. Goofy climbs up the ladder and notices Pete is in trouble. Goofy climbs down as Waffles sees Pete stuck; and he giggles like LB. Well; Pete, you asked for it and now you are just another Winnie The Pooh; only a lot more unlikable. Goofy comes back and throws a rope down to Pete; which is a fool's errand. So we pan over and jump cut to Goofy in the driveway inside his station wagon which requires an oil check and engine repair. Geez; no wonder Goofy wanted a good mechanic as a wife. The front license plate says Goofy on it as he drives the car out of the driveway and he manages to get Pete out of the chimney; but Pete destroys the chimney in the process. Then destroys the entire roof of Goofy's. Then goes right through the wall (another snow angel spot) and crashes what appears to be where PJ's room is. OUCH! So we head inside Goofy's house after happy hour as Goofy apologizes for not fixing the house tonight as Max decides to stay at PJ's for one more night. So Goofy gives Max his stuff; including a clipboard of a report on Bigfeet they did a couple of nights ago, which he found cleaning the mess. Then in comes Miss Pennypacker who saw the whole thing and admits that she jumped to conclusions. HOW?! So they stayed up all night! That's still a concern because Max is cramming. Of course; Pennypacker wants to make sure it's just a case of Max cramming instead of something more henious and offers Goofy a dinner and dancing as Goofy accepts. Max agrees on one condition and that is to take him along. Why? Why not?! So we head outside as the goofs with attitude walk on the sidewalk towards the moonlight as Goofy asks if Pennypacker knows anything about fixing chimneys. Then we do a circle fade out and heart fade in which freezes to end the episode at 21:16. Weak ending to an awesome episode! We never found out if Pete is going to spend the night in the doghouse again. Dammit! **** 1/2 (90%). ** of that is just for the airplane spin on Pennypacker alone.
THE REVIEW LINE
Okay; this episode was really great and it was a hilarious comedy of errors once again showing the dangers of lack of sleep and cramming for exams. Yes; there was a lot of filler; but most of it ranged from tolerable to funny; so it was really good at what it did and everyone was really good in their roles. Goofy doing the airplane spin on Mrs. Pennypacker was glorious and it shows that man on woman violence was still allowed at this point. There were a few logic breaks; most of them at the end where Pennypacker claims that she jumped to conclusions and then jumped to a conclusion by thinking Goofy wasn't so bad. They also teased a romance between Goofy and Pennypacker; but that's silly because I don't think we will ever see these two meet again in this series, so what gives?! That's a dead end angle if I ever saw one. Outside of that and a few animation mistakes; this is the best episode in the series, bar none. It was so fun that I enjoyed it and it was executed properly in spite of the filler. It's the closest Goof Troop ever got to a perfect episode thus far and Stephen Levi should be proud of this even if it was heavily scripted by Bruce Talkington, who has proven that he can go in TaleSpin. Not much else to say about this. So....
Thumbs up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.