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Hot Air
Reviewed: 01/29/2017
So Darkwing and Gizmoduck are going to cameo?! Damn.
All right; we now go from the very first Peg focused episode (which was more Goofy/Max focused actually; but at least Peg was a lot more involved in the last episode than usual. She's becoming Lila Test now; and that's not a good thing considering that she's a good character in Johnny Test; but rarely appears), we go to an actual Pistol focused episode (which is an actual Pistol focused episode) as Pistol wants to fly and will do anything (except join a Soviet Cadre of course because that would effectively put the episode on the blacklist.) to fly. And I do mean anything. Meanwhile; Pete is filming commercials with a director who seriously thinks a gorilla can fly an airplane. Yeah; welcome to Spoonerville; population Dumb! So how does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Mirith Schilder and the late Bruce Talkington, who story edited. The animation was done by Kennedy Cartoons, Inc. with additional services provided by Bon Art Studios and Thai Wang Film Productions.
We begin this one with a sky shot of the back of the properties of both the Goofy and Pete residences as we see Max and PJ in Goofy's backyard flying a kite. Oh; and Max is flying in the kite; which is one of those human kites you see with Zangetsu from Final Fantasy 4: The After Years. According to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): In a story about the Japanese thief Ishikawa Goemon (1558–1594), he used a man-lifting kite to allow him to steal the golden scales from a pair of ornamental fish images which were mounted on the top of Nagoya Castle. His men manoeuvered him into the air on a trapeze attached to the tail of a giant kite. He flew to the rooftop where he stole the scales, and was then lowered and escaped. In the 17th century, Japanese architect Kawamura Zuiken used kites to lift his workmen during construction. George Pocock, who invented a kite-drawn buggy in 1822, had previously used kites as a method of lifting men to inaccessible cliff tops, but it was not until around the 1880s that there was serious interest in developing man-lifting kites. And now you know the rest of the story. PJ is running faster and whining because Max needs more altitude in his attitude. Cut to Pistol on the steps in front of a red bench looking at rollerskates; because she wants to be the fastest thing on rollerskates. She intentionally does the whirlwind spot, which I'm fine with since it wasn't unintentional. She wants to fly so high that she wants to give the moon a great big hug. Aw! My heart melted. Not. PJ steps on skate (so all the male Petes have done this spot in the last two episodes) as Pistol protests this outrage (Disney Captions claims that she said PJ's name; but in the audio, she says: " Hey, giant!"). Pistol sees Max in the kite and gets inspired as she runs over to them wanting to fly in the human kite. So Max wants more up and he panics because they are not going to WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE~! Yeah; they bonk into tree, nothing to see here. PJ gets bonked in head with probably the only apple on that tree; and then Max crashes onto him. Uh-huh. Pistol runs in all hyper as expected.
Logic break: When Pistol comes in on the far shot; she's riding the right skate. On the closeup after she jumps off; the skate is gone even though the skate is never kicked back. Pistol wants to be the human kite and PJ blows her off because it's too dangerous. Well; he does have a point there, that looks unsafe regardless of gender. Speaking of sexist comments; this is one reason why Max will never be Kit Cloudkicker: Max does the Gruffi pose and says that if girls were meant to fly, they would have been boys! SCREW YOU, MAX GOOF~! Just screw you! Thankfully; Pistol calls HIM out on it! Good for Pistol to do that. Problem is; she loses points on the dismount for calling Amelia's last name Airhead. Oh great; are DTVA fanboys going to say Spoonerville is in the TaleSpin world, too?! Even the most harden of fanboys of TaleSpin (like me) believe that TaleSpin is in it's own world and own universe, and would actually defend Tad Stones comments about different continuities. More pop culture references ensue. How are those rose colored glasses doing, huh? Max points out that she's 4 1/2 years old and too young. Then why did you go for the sexist card? Kit Cloudkicker never did in TaleSpin with Molly and that show takes place in a world in 1937! A world where sexism would be far worse, although nowadays, how could you tell the difference between eras? Pistol claims that she is ahead of her time. I was pleading with her to say: "Like Rebecca Cunningham"; but Spoonerville takes place in it's own world, so no go. Pistol bails and calls them stupid boys! Yeah; she showed them, hymn, hymn, hymn! Scene change to a bubbling fire hydrant as Chainsaw is in a bubble and floating up into the air. Pistol; animal tester, you are doing it wrong. Jump cut to the sattelite dish as PJ and Max are setting up fireworks complete with cartoon plunger of doom. I see that BS&P still allows that spot in 1992. Max puts the pack onto PJ's back. Wait; what?! PJ is not thrilled to do this; but Max claims PJ will make headline; which PJ is fine with as long as it's not in the obituaries. Jump cut to tree with Waffles laughing on a weak tree branch. Jump cut to Chainsaw floating around. Yay?
Jump cut to closeup of Waffles sticking out it's claws. Chainsaw floats over and his bubble has popped; because Waffles is a heel, you see. Yeah; the tree branch sticking out wasn't enough. Chainsaw freefalls, Waffles laughs like a screeching banshee, yee-haw. Surprisely; the branch Waffles is hanging on doesn't crack. Jump cut to PJ wanting to let Pistol in on this. Yeah; because it's face it: If she cannot give informed consent on this because of her age; then Max and PJ shouldn't be allowed to do this for the exact same reason! I know it applies to Kit and Molly as well; but at least they can blame their era for that. It's 1992 here; there is no excuse. Max no sells because the real reason why they don't want her to get involved is because she will screw it up. Implying that she is stupid, you see. Chainsaw somehow appears and pushes on the plunger. Off-screen on another shot, fireworks fly out like crazy. Lots of smoke as USA public domain music plays; while Waffles is laughing his ass off. Screw you, Waffles! I wish Huge had skinned you alive when he had the chance two episodes ago. Then a firework pops into Waffles mouth. I smell Toon Disney cut commencing here. Oh wait; TD didn't cut out the explosion of the moose hotdog buyer getting it; so they won't do it here anyway, regardless of what PETA thinks. Yip; it exploded and Waffles is filled of soot. If you listen closely, you can just hear Atlas and Huge laughing all the way to the bank. Waffles freefalls and then we jump cut to a pulley system containing a handglider with red chair and handles. Max claims that this is going to sizzle as PJ tells the Wright brothers to eat their hearts out and says it in the most boring manner possible; so he's calling BS on this. Max calls PJ, Peejmeister as we descend to Quack Pack levels of insults as PJ gets to pilot the thing here. Notice that PJ is always the one who is getting to test these wacky things? Why is Max and PJ friends, again? And PJ calls HIM out on it. YES! Screw you, Max Goof! Now get in the handglider and pilot that thing and stop being a damn coward. Kit Cloudkicker would have wet dreams flying that thing, I assure thee.
Max is elbowing PJ in the ribs because PJ will get the honor of breaking the sound barrier as PJ claims that he broke the pain barrier and now Max needs to stop being the biggest chicken in Spoonerville, make like Nike and do it. See; I can foist bad pop culture references in my rants too, Disney! They get into an argument as Pistol comes in all sweat asking about doing something and Max blows her off as death's little helper. Listen; Pistol will never surpass Molly in the character department, but screw you Max Goof! Pistol smiles and walks off as the stupid idiot boys argue some more. Jericho; please put them on the list! PJ screws up and Max agrees that it's PJ's turn. Yeah; Max uses reverse psychology here. Why are they friends, again? So Pistol interupts this as she's in the pilot seat of the handglider. Fun fact: Molly Cunningham in original sketches of the TaleSpin series during pre-production actually got to fly the SeaDuck at one point, with plungers on her feet to use the brakes. I'm sadden this didn't become an angle of some sort in the television series nor the comics. The plunger angle did get used in Flying Dupes with Colonel Spigot. So kudos to the writers here for remembering that and giving the role to Pistol, sort of. Bye, bye as Pistol uses the dumb bell to turn on the pulley and the hand glider races into the air and does barrel rolls like it's out of style. Wow; I starting to love Pistol as much as Molly is; at least as an action character! The animation is surprisely good here as Goofy is shown watering the lawn near the tree as Pistol says hello to Goofy as Goofy ducks. Goofy turns around to notice Chainsaw on the lawn and thinks the dog can talk. I am not going to get into the BS about how weird that is. Screw you, ablest scum! Weirdness is a good thing! That's what makes cartoons...ummm....cartoons, you cowards! Pistol flies the glider some more and the hose wraps around Goofy's legs and the stupid idiot boys all run in to make the save and apparently call Pistol a maniac. Then she cosplays tailgunner complete with airplane noises and machine gun fire. Mirith is writing this episode? This sounds like an aborted script written by Libby Hinson to me.
So Pistol flies off stage left as Max and PJ chase her. Goofy tries too; but trips on hose off-screen and does a Scooby-Doo Snow Angel spot into the wooden fence complete with redneck scream. Yeah. Jump cut to far shot of Pete's Used Car Lot of Scum as we see Pete wearing his camping gear being video taped by a brown dog in a white shirt and blue baseball cap being directed by a red catnose with a pink beret and almond vest, black shirt and glasses sitting in a yellow director's chair. Wait; why is KBOB filming this? This sounds like an ultra big conflict of interest to me. Pete does his hard sell so hard that he eats a slug on camera to drive the point home. The director cuts it and it's a print as Pete laughs because apparently; they think he ate a real slug. The director tells him that the slug is not a gummy slug and Pete panics; gags, runs and drinks a complete water cooler bottles' worth of water. Now he's going to get toxic shock syndrome from all that water drinking and is going to the bathroom for the rest of the week. Pete proclaims that he loves show business as Pistol comes in and makes Pete bounce over everyone as the cameraman dog asks if this was in the script. I don't know if it was; but it sure hell is funny. Bowling spot ensues as Pete rolls out of the car lot in spite of the director yelling for a cut and rewind. Pistol is enjoying herself. Jump cut to a big logic break: When the director and cameraman help Pete up; Pete is in the lost despite being out of the lot the last time we saw him. Why is this bad? Because there was no indication of a scene change. Pistol flies around as Pete goes from no selling to looking punch drunk within three seconds. AND THE ROCK MEANS THREE SECONDS~! Pete stops selling as the director wants to find Pistol's agent as Pete steals the megaphone and screams at Pistol in a panic. Pistol don't care as she does more loop-de-loops for a dollar fifteen and then goes into a tailspin (BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!); crashing into Pete's sign off-screen. Pete runs in panicky as hell as Pistol is hanging onto the nose of Pete's sign. Pete demands answers to this outrage and screw the damn handglider as the stupid idiot boy walk in. Pete gets on PJ's case for not watching her while Peg is on "Eat The Clock" a parody of "Beat The Clock"; a game show started in the 1950's and ended in 1980; a good couple of year before most of the audience was even born.
Max tells Pete to take it easy because watching Pistol is harder than nailing Jello to a tree. Pete demands Pistol to come down this instant. Which is exactly what she does to the absolute letter as she lands on Pete's stomach. HAHA! Pistol and Pete hug as Pete shows that he is a better parent at reacting to scary situations than Baloo is. Ponder that for a moment. Pistol wants to fly and Pete is much kinder to Pistol when he no sells; because you see, she's too little to be more than a couple of inches off the ground. Pistol don't care; but Pete does care about the fact that she's four and a half years old. And much more shelted than even Molly Cunningham ever was. Pistol counters that birds fly when they are only six weeks ago. Wow; Pistol is being generous here because many spieces of birds take at least TWO weeks. She is being humble here, methinks. The obvious answer to this is: Birds and catnoses (aka people) are different, you see. Even within spieces! Pete points out that birds have wings; which Pistol doesn't have as PJ insults birds because they have drumsticks and worm breath as Max gets off another reference to death. They both are trying hard not to laugh and cover their mouths; Pistol is not fooled. Goofy runs in asking if everyone is okay. Pete proclaims that he's not okay and blows off Goofy because he has a film to shoot. Because you see; it's not okay to yell at Pistol, but it's okay to yell when Pistol can hear it, as along as it's a male. Because Pete is a jerk, you see. Pete blames Max for making PJ not babysit Pistol because Goofy isn't watching them. Then he catches himself and asks what Goofy is doing for the rest of the day. Goofy explains that he's going on an outing with Max and PJ and Pete blows it off; because PJ is not coming. Which means PJ is grounded and PJ groans. However; Goofy gets Pistol as the replacement, which I would think Max should be grounded since he's the one who said sexist language. Pistol cries which comes out of nowhere and goes the same place as Goofy accepts. Pete tells Goofy to make sure she has a good time and no flying allowed. Pistol is crying as Pete threatens Goofy with the "or else" promo and walks off with PJ. Pistol whines that she wants to fly and Goofy tells her that she'll like this afternoon because they are going to the air show. DING! HAHA! Pistol is smiling wide and that ends the segment nearly nine minutes in.
After the commercial break; we head to the Spoonerville Aviation Fair at Air Adventures as Goofy's jeep makes it to the toll booth; with Pistol asking if they are there in rapid fire. Yes, Pistol; we are here! Max calls this bodacious because he's a 1990's kid. Goofy pays the toll and explains to us what the air show is; in case there are vision impaired people who didn't see the signs at the beginning of the scene. I'm perfectly fine with this. Think South Shore Big EX crossed with the Shearwater International Air Shows back in the day; and you'll almost there actually. Cut to ground level as everyone gets out and Pistol is cosplaying airplanes like Kit and Molly on speed; causing Max to restrain her by pulling on her yellow skirt. Which Goofy is pulling on Max's red shirt. Yeah. Pistol is at least living up to her name. And speaking of that; why isn't Pistol on the list of bad names, like Fanboy, Chum Chum, Buhdeuce and Sway Sway?! I mean; her name is a slang word for a gun for crying out loud! Pistol then degrades into a small baby as she is trying to get away, she's screaming, she's whining, she's holding her breath until she turns various colors. Just reminding us that she is no Molly Cunningham. At least threaten to tell Pete about it and threaten that Pete is going to make Goofy and Max stop spinning gently on their skateboards for taking you to the air show in the first place like in The Wrong Culprit comic. After a few minutes of greatness; Pistol has regressed back into your average four year old. Who could care about her, now? Goofy yells at her to breathe and even Pistol is forced to exhale as Goofy sets her down on her feet and proclaims that they have all day. So let's start with cotton candy; which has the longest lineup in the entire fair. No kidding; the line almost as long as the lines to pre-order the Nintendo Switch. Almost. Couple hour lineup; so says Goofy. Pistol loves it and Goofy scolds her. Wait; what the hell?! What was the point of that?! She wants cotton candy and she's four for crying out loud! Even I would rub my hands in glee for it and I'm almost FORTY! Pistol does the Gruffi pose and then runs making sure to groin shot everyone in the lineup in the process.
Cue "Nutshot" music because I have no maturity whatsoever. HEE HEE! Q104.3's favorite music clip. Orange hair lady partially sells it and then whacks the greasy dognose in the face with the purse, uppercut style into the air and the greaser lands on his head onto the pavement. OUCH! Jump cut to foreground shot of the cotton candy twirling in the metal bowl. Pistol climbs on counter as we jump cut to the back of the line with Goofy scratching his brain pan looking for Pistol. Goofy turns around and sees the whippersnapper; complete with glorified shot of her underwear ass. Goofy goes around the lineup; without touching anyone and grabs Pistol before she can grab the cotton candy. Goofy puts Pistol down on the ground and turns his back, claiming that it's dangerous. And just before he finishes his promo; his shirt get caught and Goofy whirls into the cotton candy machines. Pistol; Goofy Goof has a point there. Pistol walks away stage right in agreement as Max runs in on a jump cut because Goofy is covered with cotton candy. Goofy wants Max to find her before she gets really excited. You don't say?! Max bails as we head back to Pete's car lot as Pete is dressed like a matador and has what appears to be the bull from Bully For Bugs, a Looney Tunes short in 1953. Geez; I thought Warner Brothers was making so much money that they wouldn't fire that bull. Pete punches the bull claiming that he'll keep the bull out of any deal he makes, and also calls him a rump roast. Okay; you hurt a bull's feelings, Pete; YOU DIE~! Lots of steam ensues as the director is yelling for a cape; because you see, Pete's a bullfighter. Dog cameraman thinks this is a bad idea because you see, Pete has no training in being a bullfighter! Director doesn't care; because he's dressed as a bullfighter, you see. This is Trumpism logic at it's worst as PJ runs in with the cape and gives it to Pete. Then we get a really stupid logic break: Pete grabs the cape and praises his kid. This bull suddenly gets red in his whites and is pissed off.
Now; here's the problem with this: The bull is reacting to the red color. Bulls; like pigs are color blind. So it's impossible for them to react this way and it's not like this bull is anthroed. It's considered a legit bull. Yes; I realize that the pig was anthroed in "Duck In The Iron Mask"; thus he could have not been color blind; but I'm willing to forgive them for that because they are half pig. Maybe that guy was color blind in the show and that's his gimmick. You really cannot do that with legit animals without looking stupid. They react to the movement of the cape because it's the way the bullfighter taunts them with the cape that makes it work. Pete didn't even have a chance to wave the cape when the bull got into his face. How did anyone miss this?! Let him wave the cape for two seconds; and then rearrange the shots so the bull reacts to it. Heck; you don't have to modify the animation in any of the shots other than Pete waving the cape for an extra two seconds. This isn't even the animators fault because they did what was told of them; this is on Mirth and Bruce here. So the bull chases Pete in the foreground like a bunch of Hanna Barbara characters, complete with limited running from both directions. The cameraman and PJ is concerned; but the director wants this filmed for his private collection. What a scoiopathic asshole? Yes folks; we have found a babyface who is a bigger asshole than Bubsy The Bobcat? Ponder that for a moment. I even wonder if he was directing that pilot. PJ covers his eyes and we scene change to the airstrip in front of a hanger as purple jetplanes with yellow wings fly overhead. Max runs in yelling for Pistol and in comes Goofy from the opposite direction asking if he has seen her. They haven't found a pigtail of her since she would be the world's smallest pilot. Cut to PA system as...Is that Don Karnage speaking to us with his voice? Nah; he's a monster heel. He would never be at an airshow. Censoring cartoons in Japan; maybe. We cut to a jumbo jet colored in maple brown and purple as the announcer tells us that this is the Maple Mallard, the world's largest jet.
Which is fitting since it would also house enough space for the world's largest ego. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge! BLAM! Hee hee! Missed again, Drake! YOU ARE NOT...POW! OUCH! Ummm... Pistol is of course on runway one climbing into the left engine of the Maple Mallard; causing the goofs to panic. HA! Scene change back to Pete's used car lot as Pete continues his spiel wearing safari gear with a giant python snake wrapped all around him. Who does he think he is, Jake Roberts?! Another pop culture reference: The python's name is Monty as it's tongue tickles Pete in the neck and he doesn't like it. Monty then squeezes the sleaze out of Pete. Although all things considered, that also sounds impossible. Pete is choking like the Texas Rangers and there no evidence this is under the DTVA's CBA. Director asks why Pete stop. I ask director: Why are you a monster? Help him, now! He's choking to death! Director claims he has stage freight despite Pete having a thousand commercials under his breath..err...I mean, belt. The snake is wrapped to a car and it unwraps and starts wrapping itself around the television camera. It springs away after some tug of war as the snake has made Pete taller. I know this because the cameraman said so and I believe him more than his director anyway. Sadly; he's wrong as we get more squeezing as the cameraman claims that Monty likes Pete. Geez; what an insult...on Monty. Director blows cameraman off of course as he yells for makeup because Pete is turning into disgusting colors. Remind me to never ask for this man to help me if I'm choking. I would die; trust me on that one. Scene change back to Pistol climbing into the left engine again as the engines whirl. Now; if this were real; Pistol would be nothing but ashes and soot; or bloody catnose steaks. Of course; none of this will happen because BS&P rules and this is the writers way of advancing the plot. Max and Goofy run in as Goofy dives into the left engine and takes Pistol out of the engine. Whew; that was close. Goofy breathes a sigh of relief and then gets wind tunneled into the left engine. Of course; because...you guessed it.
The engine shoots Goofy out of the left engine backwards despite the fact that if that happened; Goofy would be dognose steaks and bloody. Nope; he's fine outside of ash and soot on himself. Because...you guessed it. Goofy somehow manages to fly in such a way that he comes in front of the left engine and then bounces off something off-screen to the right. Yip; Kennedy Cartoons is animating this crap; what a shocker?! Then bounes off-screen into the air and then comes down and splats onto pavement. Then bounces up and lands on his ass on the pavement. You got all that? Pistol calls this neato; so she don't care about no stinking logic break. Goofy explains that it might be her destiny, but she's only four years old. That is true in fact. Max does the Gruffi pose and claims that she'll never see five. What a creep Max is?! Pistol delivers a Molly Cunningham worthy raspberry to him in response. Listen Max; just because she's too young to fly doesn't make you better than her. You cannot fly either; you're younger than Kit and he cannot fly at 12 years old even in 1937! Max responds by making a scary face and Pistol no sells this. Oh wait; she teases a counter; but Goofy cuts her off at the pass. Goofy claims that she's grown up; but they don't want anything to happen to her because, Pete. Which is actually a reasonable thing to say. Max sarcastically claims that it would be tragic. Please smack him, Pistol! Pistol cries and Goofy offers his hanky and we blow. Sorry; Oscar is much cooler than you on that spot. Goofy assures her everything will be fine and she kisses and hugs him, causing Goofy to be embarrassed. That was funny. What wasn't funny: Max being flustered and calling it gross. Pistol is set down and notices a clown with balloons. Sadly; it's not the airplane clown from "Idiots Aboard!". Pistol wants some balloons and Goofy agrees with it because sacks of hot air aren't dangerous.
So Max has to do the deed (HA! In your face!) and we head to the balloon clown as Pistol addresses herself and the clown responds that he sells balloons, not bullets. So yes; even he thinks this name is BS. Pistol wants a balloon and we get an amusing sequence of Pistol wanting a certain red balloon and generally confuses everyone including me because she is talking a hundred miles an hour. And yes folks; this is the thing execs thought children wanted in a cartoon. Max tells her to pick one, now and she gets one from the balloon clown. The clown calls her little miss Rifle; and she blows him off because it's Pistol. Clown don't care if she's named Bazooka and tells her to bail now because she's imposing on his good nature. That was the true defintion of an assclown right there, folks. Max drags Pistol away stage left before more imposing hurts his little fee-fees. Which one? Doesn't matter. Pistol sees an air balloon in the air; we get the ding sound. She has a Krackpotkin plan. Jump cut to Max on the closeup as Pistol is sobbing like a baby off-screen. Geez; even Molly doesn't stoop to this low. Max demands answers and Pistol points up as her red balloon is up into the air. And where it lands who really cared? Except environmentalists of course? Max gets all snippy and gives him all the money he has to buy herself balloons. Pistol thanks him so much as she bails stage right. Goofy walks in asking Max how everything's going as Max claims that everything is under complete control as we see in the background, Pistol floating up into the air with a pack of balloons which ends the segment nearly sixteen minutes in. Sure Max, everything is under control, when you are the one who claims Pistol won't live past five. You are not fooling anyone.
After the commercial break; big logic break: The balloons Pistol is holding are completely different colors now. 2:1 odds that they will never be able to keep the logic straight on the colors for the rest of the episode. Pistol floats up into the sky and yells at Goofy to look at her. She might be a sneak; but she isn't really smart. I can just hear Molly saying that right now. She twirls like crazy as Goofy and Max panic on cue and chase after her. Max jumps onto Goofy's shoulders and extends his hands as he is forced to step on Goofy's head to even have a chance to reach her. Hmmm; maybe that is causing Goofy to be a goof instead of him just being an mere idiot. This leads to the goofs crashing into the trashcan spot. Max got her white shoe on the way down and Goofy calls this a start. Yeah; the start of five minutes of Pistol having to float into the air. Ironically; on the next shot, Pistol is still wearing her shoe. Kennedy; you suck, blow, swallow, bite and stink. You need a bath filled with quality soap; NOW! So Goofy and Max go in different directions as Max unties the conveniently placed air balloon and goes up with it via a rope. Because you see; going into it and pulling the wooden stakes is uncool. Cut to PA system as he promotes a jambroni named Jiblet, the Human Cannon Ball Clown will fly like the very wind itself. Jump cut to Pistol flying up in the sky as the air balloon with Max (drawn extremely poorly I might add) as we jump cut to a closeup shot of Pistol being giddy about this. 2:1 odds Jiblet is the clown we met earlier. And I'm right as Goofy has a helmet on and is inside the cannon. Giblet (according to Disney Captions) lights the fuse with a box lighter (Toon Disney alert!) and has trouble with it as we cut to Pistol and Max as the cannon is fired; with Goofy questioning the safety of this. Giblet assures him that it's safe because it ain't going to hurt him a bit. Told you he was an assclown. Max grabs her right leg as Pistol wiggles and protests this outrage. I don't blame her; Max is so rotton; I betcha he still thinks girls give her cooties or something like that. Max would be perfect as a Infantible Teen Titan Go Fish; since he's no more of a superhero than Robin is.
He claims this isn't going to hurt. Max has no concept of the term "splash damage" and Goofy pops in to make sure he does learn....it! Goofy pops air balloon as it runs out of air like a balloon running out of air. Geez; this show is causing me brain damage if I'm repeating myself for no reason. No reason. Oh wait; It's me prepping up for Newton in Mighty Hercules. Mighty Hercules. Sorry. Sorry. Ahem, back to the rant. Back to the...POW! OUCH! Ummmm... Max hangs on and Pistol blows off Max for having all the fun because he's a boy. See what happens when you use sexism as an argument, Max?! So we head back to Pete's lot as Pete is still in safari gear doing a promo as we have a legit gorilla in our mist. If he calls him Baby Doll (If it's Baby Doll #2; double the beatdown); then Pete deserves a Bradley-equse pounding. He calls him Coco though and Coco is so drugged that he merely stares at the hard camera and he don't care. Fire alarms ring as directors calls that a cut and print; as he wants to do an airplane stunt. One problem: Pete's ankles are being tied up with rope because the pilot is the gorilla. Let me repeat that: The director hired an F'n legit gorilla to fly an airplane. Pete is merely questionning this; but the director assures him he's fine. And to think; this is still more believable than people getting crushed to death and then say "I'm fine"! Ponder that for a moment, and despair! Oh and Coco sells it like he's being pleasured after being bored through most of it. That was in fact funny. Coco gets in plane as Pete protests this outrage as the director claims that he hasn't crashed one in days. That's the same thing Scott Steiner said about his car; as related by Petey Williams in a shoot interview not long ago, as seen on Steinermania on Botchamania! Director tells banana breath to take it away. Geez; a lot of insults of people's breaths on this show. Then again; I someone use the term "gorgan breath"; so I'm the one to talk about that.
So the plane takesoff as Pete falls down and bounces off the runway before flying into the sky. That camera crew is so fired, now! Pistol notices the plane and proclaims that she's flying too. Pete waves back to her and then panics like a maniac; which is funny because this is the least of his problems right now! Jump cut to free falling air balloon as Goofy falls into basket as Max is panicking like mad because they are going down...down. I really am happy that they are still allowing little kids to do this sort of thing; but BS&P is going to really clamp down on this soon enough. Then they panic some more as the Coco flown airplane clips the ropes with the props and we get more free falling as they are forced to grab onto Pete as Pete blows them off for being in his commercial. And we accuse Rebecca of being a jerk?! Goofy loves this and Max blows him off on that; so Goofy steps on Pete's belly and decides to talk to the pilot. In this case; I'm fine with this because Goofy trying to reason with a gorilla is always going to be hilarious no matter what. Not to mention that Goofy and Coco might be able to fully understand each other. Goofy tells them that this is a life or dismemberment situation. I just love how hypocritical BS&P is in not allowing Goofy to say die; and love how ironic people are complaining about when Goofy saying "life or dismemberment" is not only more accurate; but much more fitting for Goofy. Coco scoffs at him and Goofy oversells it by doing the Ron Tussien spot right in Coco's lap. More public domain music (Remember when almost all of TaleSpin's music was not remixed stock music?) ensues as we get more and more bad flying because Coco is freaking blind. Somehow Coco free falls out of the plane and parachute pounding his fists in outrage. Goofy pops up all confused; Pete is panicking and looks like he's going to be tortured, by the revised script. Goofy of course has no seatbelt on so the airplane goes upside down and he freefalls, grabbing onto Pete. Goofy claims he's flying the plane which Max hates. Of course; because Goofy flying is the same as no one flying the damn plane! Yeah; Goofy gets buzzed in the ass by the props and backflips onto the tailsection of the plane and sways a lot before getting back on the plane and tries to get in the seat; but the plane barrel rolls and he smacks into the wings. Goofy bounces off wings and then hangs on the wing as the wings crumble. What?! Pete bought an airplane with paper wings. And I thought Scrooge was a cheap bastard?!
Pete then makes him look even dumber because he's holding onto a pole while the airplane spins around a rotary. The pole is the middle of a small park by the way. Max swings from the rope and spirals down towards the ground as PJ appears out of nowhere. Where the hell was he?! Taking a pasty cake break or something?! Max claims that the dads must be saved as we pan over to the handglider in the dumpster which has been destroyed earlier. They ponder over how to make it fly. Geez; I wonder how this episode is going to end; since we haven't heard from Pistol since Pete waves to her! Scene change to them repairing the thing as they are making a slingshot out of fan belts. However; they need two people to slingshot the thing, so who get's to be the pilot. Somehow; Pistol float down beside them with just three balloons left out of nowhere. No surprise at all; we scene change to them slingshotting the handglider with Pistol in it off the ramp; just like that! Pistol jumps off Goofy's back as they meet and greet as Pete is whining while Pistol jumps into the pilot seat and gently pushes the lever (JESUS~!) telling Pete to let go. Pete let's go and Pistol perfectly steadies the plane as Pete is in shock as he gets off another sexist comment about girls not being able to fly. Pistol scoffs at him because she's not flying, she's landing. Pete thinks this is different and then catches himself. HAHA! He panics like mad as Pistol comes down, bounces off the cars with the wheels and both Goofy and Pete brake themselves deep into the ground as Pistol pulls on the stick and manages to land the plane with only gently hitting the side of a building. Goofy and Pete did far more vandalism than she did. Goofy faints in the hole as Pistol calls this a piece of cake and blows Pete off for saying she couldn't do it. Pete stops and proceeds to symbolically kiss her ass; which is no different than before she did this stunt. As long as she waits until she's a little order and I think Pistol has had her fill; at least until the flight bug bites her in the bum again. It always does; ask Kit and Molly about it. Very hard to prevent. In comes the director praising Pete for all this as he calls it the greatest commercial ever. Pete loves this and then the director proclaims that it was just a rehersal and they have to do it again. Bad...move...director. You do not want to see Pete go into beast mode. You will hate it for the rest of your life. Pete goes into BEAST MODE and the director runs away like a scared wimp who poked the damn bear one too many times. He going to get...it...so hard that his mother is going get a black eye. OUCH! Pete chases him out of the car lot to end the episode at 21:13. Kennedy cartoons screwup aside; this was a really fun episode; but it will never top Flight School Confidential. **** (80%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; if Flight School was the best "kid flies plane" episode in existence; then this is the second best one. Pistol is a good character and she was really good in this one; although her whiny character was really showing here and there were times where I was reminded why Molly Cunningham was so great. Pistol really helped this episode become good in spite of a few really stupid spots and the usual Kennedy Cartoons botchery; although it wasn't nearly as bad as some episode; so they were on their best behavior. I also praise the writers for allowing Pistol to be in actual danger in this episode in many spot because, that made the thing scary and it allowed me to sympathize with her because she's four years old and she doesn't know any better. Coco was amusing and his one interaction with Goofy was hilarious; but Goofy is Goofy so of course it was going to get over. Overall; this was a really fun episode marred by Kennedy's involvement which wasn't as bad as some episode. That's a win for me. So....
Thumbs up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.