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Max-imum Protection
Reviewed: 02/04/2017
Filled With More Max-imum Pete!
So; after a really bad episode, we have lots of maximum insecure moments in this episode today as Goofy doesn't think a security system would do them any good against thieves and refuses Max's request. Meanwhile; Pete is having one installed in a "It takes a thief to know a thief" kind of way. Why is that?! Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Cathryn Perdue, Steve Edelman and Mallory Tarcher. The story is edited by Jymn Magon. I have nothing on this version of Steve Edelman who is not to be confused with the guy who runs Edelmen Productions. However; Mallory Tarcher is known as Mallory Lewis who is the daughter of Sharon Lewis; the original creator of Lambchops Play-Along! She is the puppet performer behind the hit television series Lambchops Play-Along (after her mother passed away) and Charlie Horse Music Pizza. She debuted in 1975 on The Shari Show and the rest is history. According to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Tarcher worked closely with her mother as producer of Lamb Chop's Play-Along. Jeremy Tarcher had also been part of Shari Lewis's show on PBS.[3] After her mother's death in 1998,[2] on the advice of family friend the late Dom DeLuise, Tarcher decided that Lamb Chop should live on for her many fans and has begun performing with Lamb Chop. It was during this time that she changed her surname to her mother's, of Lewis; as an homage.[5] While Lamb Chop may be described as "sassy",[2] "please" and "thank you" are part of the repertoire.[1] Lewis has the same hand size as her mother.[6] Lewis said of her decision to take up the puppet: "My mom was one of the world's greatest entertainers. I don't want to challenge that. I don't think it's wise to go there. But I do want to do everything that I can do for Lamb Chop. I'll help keep her going". Lewis had never attempted to imitate Lamb Chop's voice but upon receiving a posthumous award for Shari, Lewis performed with the puppet, discovering that she had her mother's ability to effect the voice without lip movement.[5] Lewis is also a writer, of children's books, some of which star Zoey, a baby orangutan character she also puppeteers. Lewis performs extensively for the USO, the Fisher House Foundation, other military support organizations, Performing Arts Centers and at state fairs around the country. In 2002, Lewis helped raise $275,000 for UCLA's Neuro-Oncology Program.[7] as well as being a founder of Jump For The Cause a women's world record skydiving organization that has raised nearly 2mil for Breast Cancer Research. Lewis is also on the board of the Blue Ribbon. Lewis was the co-host of the 2014 AMG Heritage Awards with host Billy Gilman and David L Cook. During the broadcast she accepted the Sandy Hosey Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Artists Music Guild.[8] She has 3 Misc and Writing credits apiece, 2 Producer credits, 1 Director credit and 6 Self credits to her resume. Goof Trop is her only DTVA appearance. She also used to sleep with the actual Lambchop puppet when she was a kid. To paraphrase the ending song of Lambchop's Play-Along: "This is the show that should've end. It still went on and on, my friend. Some people tried to stop singing it; not knowing how it's done, and they'll continue singing it forever; just because..." POW! OUCH! Ummm... The animation was provided by Kenndy Cartoons, Inc. with additional services done by Bon Art Studios. TRAINWRECK~!! Which somehow might be better than the last episode. We'll see.
We begin this one at the Goofy and Pete's residence outside which is occuring so much that calling it the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM would be much better. The title card is cyan blue sky with dark blue waves by the way. We zoom into Pete's house and cut to the doggie door in the front as PJ is asking where his baseball glove is. We see Chainsaw come out with the baseball glove in it's mouth. Chainsaw of course buries the baseball glove in the front lawn and of course, the digging has jackhammer sound effects. For those who complain about Johnny Test having too much sound effects; this show has too many out of context sound effects too. Although I will concede that it still has less whip crack sound effects than Johnny Ass; but that's the show's gimmick anyway. Max jumps over the wooden fence with headphones and a walkman (the ancient version of an iPhone by the way) holding a baseball bat. This causes Chainsaw to bury the hole with dirt in another whirlwind spot. Umm; forensic scientists would not be fooled by this; unless Goofy becomes one and is assigned to find PJ's baseball glove. Max ignores Chainsaw anyway and heads into the house as PJ is inside looking for his baseball glove and failing. Pete is sitting down in a chair with the newspaper groaning and cringing because there is a Goof coming in at ten o'clock. In this case, Max Goof. Max raises Pete's ankles and Pete blows him off because this is his day off, see. How could I tell? I thought being a sleazebag was fun to him; and thus the used car salesman wasn't a job. Anyhow; Pete tells Max to shut up and Max won't shut up so Pete blows him off and Max finally shuts up. He puts the baseball bat down and puts the walkman and headphones on the coffee table. Chainsaw comes in and grabs the walkman and walks out of the house with it while Max and PJ look under the cushions. PJ gives up and concedes that it is gone forever because someone stole it. True; except the thief is not a dognose nor catnose; it's just a dog. Max blows it off because what thief would want to steal a ball glove as Pete claims that PJ has a point since in the newspaper there are home burglaries on the rise to one in four.
Ummm; that means you only have a 25% chance of being robbed. Listen; in real life, you don't spend a lot of money on low returns. If it was 75%; then a security system makes sense. Problem is; we now live in a world of computer games where 80% is considered a miss and 20% is considered a hit. See Pokemon Shuffle. Pete gets up and tells PJ that he's jumping the gun because they aren't number four. So we do a counting spot as the Wilson's (Dennis The Menace reference) is number one, the Taylor's (A reference to Home Improvement) is number two, Pete's is number three and Goofy would be number four; which is robbed. Yeah; I'll bet. It's never because Goofy is an idiot and easy pickings; which would make more sense. Max looks horrified. Yeah; Pete is poisonning the well like a scumbag; because everyone knows that the number is a percentage and it means nothing. But Max is 11 years old and is insecure about himself already with Goofy; imagine him without it. Max pulls his hair and runs in a disogranized fashion, which means the well poison is working to perfection. Pete tells Max in a sarcastic manner to warn Goofy now and laughs; which gives away the fact that Pete is lying to him. Max leaves as Chainsaw buries the walkman and headphones in the dirt. Max runs out of the house in a panic as Chainsaw covers the hole, which is dumb because Max is running out front instead of the back where Chainsaw would be. Chainsaw is the best thief of the show, folks. Jump cut to inside Goofy's kitchen as Goofy is at the table with a hand mixer and it doesn't work, because reasons! Lots of rattling and punching the mixer ensues, which of course fails. And when I mean "fail"; I mean, it turns on and the mixer blade rearrange Goofy's mouth and ears; then spring behind his back. Goofy is confused and chuckling as Max comes in through a bunch of saloon doors panicking as he wants to lock Waffles! Thankfully; Goofy calms him down as Max proclaims that they are going to be robbed because they are number four.
Goofy tells him to relax; which is a nice way of telling him that this is bullsh*t. You know Max is totally insecure about himself when GOOFY is the reasonable one here. Ironically; Goofy's idiocy makes the house an easy pick to rob according to the profile of robbery, so it's Max's reasoning that is wrong, but he's probably right about being robbed. Heck; we already have a thief on the loose and it's a dog. Max is not buying this as Goofy claiims the house is unbreakable. You mean unstealable, as in "nothing worth stealing". By the way; it's also stupid for Max to claim this just on some percentage when it was just a baseball glove. Goofy leans on the table and pratfalls; and somehow the glass on the table and the table doesn't break. I AM THE TABLE~!! Goofy slips on water and holds onto the table as Max blows him off for not instilling tremendous confidence into him. Goofy goes to the double glass doors and closes them and locks them. Sadly; his brown sweater gets caught and he takes another bump. Goofy pulls on sweater; the arm tears and he goes flying off-screen and gets jailed by his own wooden chair; and scares Waffles again. Wait; there is a chair leaning against a door. How?! Waffles is the best darn watch cat in the world. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one, Goofy. He certainly watches; to see if Atlas is within fifty paces. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! SCRATCH! OUCH! Ummm... Goofy shows off his karate skills. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This I have to see. Wow; he's better than DARKWING...DUCK already; and he MURDERS Waffles with the pot assisted karate chop! HAHA! BLAM! Hee hee! Missed again, Drake! YOU ARE NOT...POW! OUCH! Ummm... Goofy asks if Max believes him and Max teases doing so; but then a knock is heard as Max is Scooby to Goofy's Shaggy. That was awkward as we see Pete at the window noticing that he left the window open and it's not too safe. Oops, Goofy. Goofy was about to lock the window as Pete continues the well poisonning on Max; because he's a scumbag and Max is an insecure version of Pete basically judging by a few of the episodes. Goofy proclaims that Pete is looking out for us and then slams the window on Pete's fingers. HAHA! Since it's Goofy; it's hard to tell weither or not that was intentional. Goofy and Max walk upstairs as Goofy claims he was scared of burglers too; which means at some point, Goofy did something so awful that he got brain damage.
He tries buttering the stair and Goofy caught a cold and slid into a snowbank during winter. I betcha he caught something else, too and he doesn't remember. Memories are very unrealiable in the most rational of people; so you can imagine how unrealiable Goofy's head is. It's apparently AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Max walks into his room looking glum and slams the door. Max opens a window (which shows he has learned nothing from this) and rings on a clothesline which connects his house to PJ's with a tin can with bells in it. PJ opens his window and calls Max mad. HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Max asks PJ to check on the house while sleeping and PJ taunts him that he loves sleeping like a zombie. PJ slams his window shut and that is that. This was done to amuse Rob Paulsen and no one else. Still funny though. Lights go out and we head back to Goofy in his room in his night gear as he takes off the slippers; and he has black legs and feet instead of the white human legs and feet we have seen in previous episodes. Ah; so this must be an early production episode. Goofy tries to sleep and gets booted in the back for it causing him to spring up. Seriously; there was a loaded boot in the covers! Goofy throws the boot away as the noise wakes up Max and Waffles in the bottom bunk bed. Goofy makes noises while sleeping and Max takes it as a thief. So Goofy wakes up and goes out of bed, into his slippers because he forgot to tuck Max in. Uh-oh! Goofy goes to the hallway and head to the door leading into Max's room. Goofy tries to open the door but it's locked. Goofy curses the door, Max and Waffles panic. This show make me feel drunk; but it still keeps going. Goofy bounces backwards and does a handstand on his chin; which looked awfully cool, but it had to suck for Goofy. The door opens and then we do a whiplash jump cut of Goofy walking away yawning. Wasn't he going inside to tuck Max in?! What the hell happened here?! Jump cut to Max's bedroom as his bunk bed looks absolutely nothing like one and Max looks like a three year old. What is Kennedy Cartoons smoking today?! And to think; they went five minutes without screwing up. Either they suck or Bon Art is doing this scene and Kennedy's outsourcing sucks. I mean; the background has a bunk bed combined with a regular bed like a Tetris L-shap. That makes no sense at all; and was only done so Max could hide under the bed with Waffles. You couldn't have him hide underneath the bunk bed itself?!
Then we see the dumb bell on the floor as Goofy comes in. Wasn't he walking AWAY from Max's room when we last saw him?! Max flicks the dumb bell; whacking Goofy in the kneecaps. Max's arm is white skin color now; which is inconsist with Goofy's skin color. Goofy splats and is knocked sillier than he already was as Max notices him and consoles him. Goofy talks about the Academy for winning an award. It should be noted that a Goofy short was nominated in 1945 (How To Play Football); but never won the award; so he's concussed. Max stammers as Goofy clears the cobwebs and the dumb bell is completely gone; but somehow it's shadow isn't. That is terrible recycling of a background there, guys. Goofy tucks Max in and tells him to calm down because his panic attacks are killing his shins. Max chuckles and calms down, kisses him on the forehead. By the way; Max thinks a woman kissing a man is gross; but it's okay when his father does it. Bigot. Goofy proclaims that he'll always be there to protect him as he backs away with Waffles. However; the out of nowhere baseball bat shows up, he trips on it and crashes off-screen with cat screaming. Yes folks; execs thought this was so funny that the cat scream had to be there in every crash spot, even when there is no cat in hundreds of miles. Another BS&P moment: Goofy claims that it didn't hurt; which is the pre-cursor to the "I'm fine" crush spot. At least with Goofy; I can understand him saying it because he's a moron and cannot feel pain. When smart guys do it; it's stupid. Max lays back and admits that he's a jerk, so he'll listen to some music; but of course his walkman was stolen by Chainsaw so it's not on the table next to the lamp. Max panics because there is a thief; and it's named after a serial killer plot device, too. That ends the segment barely seven and a half minutes in. This is so stupid that the Idiot Plot greatness applies here as Goofy is the reasonable one while Max is the idiot even though Max does have a point. Outside of a really stupid animation moment from Kennedy; this is a good episode so far.
After the commercial break; we see PJ in his Gedo fashion sense footy pjs (if that isn't child abuse; I don't know what is) eating cereal and watching television showing a yellow alien and a green alien fighting each other in Z-grade fashion. Oh wait; they are dancing with each other. Max comes in sulking and sits down on the sofa. PJ is eating Cheerios; Max is sighing, I am cussing. Max didn't get any sleep; which I can relate to; but only because stuff happens at midnight, in which PJ uses Occam's Razor on claiming that he was watching a Twilight Zone marathon. Jeepers; I'm shocked this show got released on DVD. I mean; check out all of those trademark and copyrighted references Disney doesn't own, dood! Max thinks he's in the Twilight Zone because he was robbed, which is true in fact. He was robbed of his walkman by a dog and also his common sense. And you would think that Max would have learned after "Wrecks, Lies & Videotape" not to trust Pete Pete in anything he says nor does?! Of course not. PJ calls it "Crusty" a reference to "Krusty" the clown; because Max is son to one. Max lies about seeing the guy and claiming that he's ten feet tall. See; there was a monster after all. The monster simply moved to Spoonerville and learned how to steal objects undetected. Maybe Chainsaw is the monster from Monster A Go-Go?! And he can grow and shrink at will now because reasons! Pete comes in proving his point even though it was really stolen from Pete's house! So Pete is number four, not number three. Max whines and Pete sits down and calmly tells him to get a security system. In which Max is happy and proclaims that this is exactly what they need. PJ and Max bail as Pete gets up and wants to see this. Jump cut to Goofy in the kitchen. Jump cut to Goofy doing the dishes. Jump cut to..POW! OUCH! Ummm...Max and PJ opening the door and coming in. PJ is still in his Child Abuse Footies; so Pete is using it as a shaming device. Goofy drops pan and it bounces off Goofy's foot. Goofy yelps in pain and proves me wrong about him not feeling pain.
PJ apologizes and claims Max has a righteous idea which Goofy is not amused because Max wants a security system for the house. Pete listens on as Goofy no sells the deal because they settled this and he's not buying this stupid burgler stuff because he's the security system. Quite frankly; it's better this way as Pete giggles outside after being surprised by this. Max and PJ bail out stage right as Pete jumps over the wooden fence and bumps off-screen. He pops up and has hedge clippers as he's trimming Goofy's hedges, because reasons! PJ and Max see Pete as Pete asks how it went and PJ calls this a crash and burn. Kit and/or Molly or Pistol is so gonna kick PJ's ass for that comment as we see Chainsaw bury a frying pan in Pete's backyard as Pete proclaims that some people never learn until it's too time. Implying that Goofy is way too dumb to live and so Goofy needs to be robbed like a monster scoiopathic wrestling heel needs the World Title. So Max has a Krackpotkin plan: Rob his own house as PJ asks how he knows when to burgle. Max claims that it's sooner than we think and winks to the hard camera. Book opening scene changer as we go to Goofy's house AFTER HAPPY HOUR and we cut to inside Goofy's bedroom as Goofy is sleeping in bed with Waffles sleeping on the floor below the bed. Goofy tosses and turns as PJ and Max pop up at the open door. PJ and Max do the noisest (Read: worst) attempt of practicing the fine art of not being seen into Goofy's bedroom because these two seriously think Goofy is beyond the pale stupid. So Max and PJ take out everything from Goofy's bedroom and we scene change to Goofy sleeping on the bed in pink footy pjs; so yes, even Goofy isn't insecure in wearing Max's duds. Morning ensues with a cock crowing (rooster according to Disney Captions) as Goofy wakes up and stands up keeping his eyes closed as he heads into the bathroom. All the shelves are cleared out including the medicine cabinet which Goofy opens. Goofy cosplays brushing his teeth; which is much funnier than Kevin Nash brushing his teeth on a Vince Russo booked reality television show.
Goofy goes out into the dining room or his bedroom as he cosplays having a cup of coffee and sits on air and lays back; crashing onto the floor on his back. That had to suck; and Goofy's too dumb to hate life. Goofy wakes up calling that bump strong stuff and then gets the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and screams that they have been robbed. Goofy runs out of the house yelling that thieves stole his stuff as we jump cut to the look out with Pete doing a belly laugh at his expense. Why did they tilt the camera in this scene? It was extremly pointless and did nothing for that scene. Goofy wants to dial 911, get the police and the marines. If you are a stupid idiot; isn't it the law of critics that Goofy should call other stupid idiots? Like superheroes must call other superheroes? Oh wait; DTVA authority figures are stupid idiots, what am I saying?! Speaking of stupid idiots; PJ and Max have made the same fatal mistake as all good Saturday Morning Villains do: They celebrate before Goofy makes the call for the security system to be installed by laughing in the background and everything is in the garage which Goofy notices and opens. Oops! Max and PJ admit that they stole it and Goofy isn't amused by this. Max points out that this was the point; because being robbed isn't funny. So why were you laughing at him, then?! Goofy then admits that he might be losing his super awesome goofy security system skill touch as Max asks if they can have a security system and Goofy agrees to it. Kids slap skin; but there is a catch: It has to be homemade. HAHA! Max asks why they can't have a security system with lasers and surface to air missiles and Goofy points out that it's too expensive. HA! I always thought it wasn't technologically fesiable; but whatever. Goofy claims that his will be just as snazzy as any of those as he throws out stuff for my amusement. Goofy brings out a hammer and is going to start after Max puts everything back in the house. SCORE! Max crumbles like an idiot and we fade to black (and considering the timing; this might have been the Non-American commercial break) and we return with Max on the bottom step hammering a nail into the blue wall beside him.
He's also missing it by six inches as Max asks Goofy if this Rube-Goldbergish security system is going to work. Goofy claims that it's a "heck, yes" because crooks are dumb. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there, Goofy?! Apparently; we get the Team Rocket hole trap covered with a rug routine as the saw is put next to the hole on the opposite side. So Goofy goes over to get it and step through DA...HOLE! SLURP! Yee-haw! The basement has a trampoline as Goofy bounces up, goes through the hole in the floor and goes through the ceiling and gets his head stuck in the roof. Goofy does the machine gun spitting nails spot Did Goofy eat a box of tacks on the way down; because this makes no sense! Goofy claims that for something so stupid; that smarts. HAHA! We fade to black again (Is Michael really not turned on enough as it is, show?!) and we return to Pete's house as Pete is reading the newspaper at his brown chair. We hear drilling noises as if next door is a construction zone as Pete is going crazy over this noise of death. Pete yells at PJ for answers to this outrage as PJ is up at the stairs informing Pete that Goofy and Max are building their security system. I have GOT to see this full system in action. Pete slams the paper down and blows them off for pestering his peace and quiet. Yeah; because it's never HIS fault that he was the one who poisoned Max's mind into making Goofy build a security system in the first place and not consider the consequences of doing so. Pete walks out of the house and slams the door. Pete walks to Goofy's house and blows off the goofs for being scared. Pete goes to the garage in front and then notices that his bench saw is missing. Pete watches the garage as we see Chainsaw carrying the bench saw out and burying it in the ground in the backyard again. He does a malicious snicker before burying as this is getting silly now. Pete returns into the house as he's yelling for FBI, CIA and PTA. How about calling dog obeience school? Your dog is being a rebel without a cause.
Out comes Pistol and Peg almost thirteen minutes in as Peg calls him tinsel tush. It should be tinfoil hat! Paranoid conspiracy joke is so obvious that the writers screwed it up. Pete claims that his bench saw cost two thousand dollars plus tax and he needs security. I heard of embellishing; but this is absurd. Not his echo scream though as we scene change to a sky shot as there is a green tank/truck combo (check the statelite dish/gun combo) as it it named Boffo as we hear some jabroni which Disney Captions claim that his name is Biff as he praises Pete for choosing his sercuity system. We see two catnoses; one is as short as Colonel Spigot and one is as big as Sargeant Dunder, all wearing miltary style shirt and pants. Biff's full name is Battling Biff Boffo; which is BBB. Which is the acronym for the Better Business Bureau. There is a third Goofy clone with red ears and a hat on site as Biff explains that the laser beams and fence will mostly keep them out; but the ones that pass it, they won't get past the 50 gauge fence. Peg doesn't seem all that impressed; so I call shenagians on this. Pete is as Peg asks how much and Biff claims it's $30,000. Geez; Goofy is right, that is too expensive and Peg freaks out. HAHA! Pete is pulled over by Peg and not by the ear, sadly. Even though this would be perfectly reasonable. Peg calls this swatting mosquitos with a bazooka. Yeah; it's also like making Goofy look like the smartest male in the episode. Biff pushes on a remote control button and out of a roof comes a laser gun which cuts a tree literally in half. Peg doesn't like this, Pete is easily amused. I'm with Peg on this one, that is just begging for first degree murder on a certain goof and his kid. Pete is given the remote control as this is an automatic laser gun as this is a war on crime. Here's a hint: Using the word "war" in this context, usually is used as a scare tactic to instill fear and make some money out the rubes. Although; these three guys act like military figures, their promos trouble me even more as they march out like military men with Biff leading the way stage left. The gates close as there is a barbed wire iron wall and a gate fence. Peg is not liking this at all as Pete embraces her. So I'm guessing that this is a trial separation because I didn't see any money nor cheques exchanged here. Max leans on the barbed wire iron wall and calls this cool. Riiiigggghhhhttttt. It's so cool to create your own private prison basically.
Jump cut to Goofy leaning against the piano in the living room sleeping with Waffles. That is exactly what is happening here. Max runs in and yells causing Goofy to bounces into the piano like a total moron; Max asks if Goofy knows how safe Pete's house is. Goofy says no because he's worn out making his house safe. It looks pretty good as we see that the entire house is probably made from some jabroni named Rube Goldberg. Max wants to sleep over at PJ's house and Goofy doesn't say no, but would love to have Max over to test the security system, but Max cuts him off assuming he said yes and bails. Goofy takes Waffles out of the piano and sits down on the green sofa agreeing to take the first watch as Waffles is snoring himself to sleep. Goofy tries to stay awake; it fails miserably and they sleep on the sofa. Scene change to AFTER HAPPY HOUR as we head to Pete's "house" (more like mini-prison at this point) as we head inside PJ's room as Max and PJ are in their footy pj's laying back on the floor in their sleeping bags. Max is breathing a sigh of relief because he's never going to be in any danger whatsoever. None whatso-everah~! Yeah; I'll bet. So we head outside on the street as the Boffo tank truck has returned and lighting a spotlight as Biff proclaims that everyone is asleep. Biff gets out and tells the dim bulbs to move it (his two henchmen by the way); because he is really a heel who is using the security system as a way to rob Pete blind of course. Cut to Max waking up hearing noise. Max turns on a flashlight and flashes it towards the room making PJ hide in the pillows. Cut to outside as the three shadow heels practice the fine art of not being seen as Biff brings out the failsafe remote and pushes a button to simply open the gate. They go in near the garage as Biff proclaims that they sell him and then rob him. So what was the point of selling it for $30,000 then? Just say: "The trial run is free for a month" if you really want to play up the fact that they are heels. Jump cut to Max in the living room with the flashlight. The door starts to open as Max squeaks burglars and that ends the segment nearly sixteen minutes in.
After the commercial break; the door simply opens and in comes Biff and his two henchmen heavies just like that. Max hides behind a potted plant and stairs as Biff tells his henchmen to strip the joint, rob the place blind, etc. etc. etc. The giant television set gets stolen as Biff puts the keys in the pocket of the largest henchmen which is really close to the ass. Max proclaims that he must stop their getaway. The henchmen foolishly walks over to the table where Max is and walks out of the room as we get another whacky Kennedy Cartoons logic break: The keys were in the back pocket of the henchmen in one shot. This changes to them being pinned on his ass near his belt when Max takes the keys. What?! I don't know if this was BS&P meddling, or Kennedy Cartoons incompentence; but this is a logic break just the same. The hat wearing henchman of course blows everyone's cover by bumping his ass into the table which causes the lamp to shatter on the ground as the henchmen was grabbing the chair. Jump cut to Pete in his bedroom in bed waking up and he runs out of the room with Peg waking up as well. Pete notices the thieves right away; so Bif counters with the failsafe remote control as Pete is cornered off with more iron walls around the pathway between the stairs and his room. Max runs out of the house to tell Goofy in the confusion; but he gets cut off by the henchmen's ass as he was putting the television set into the back of the truck; and the guy notices the keys are with Max. Stupid idiot! Max is grabbed and his put in a choke hold, a move WWE television would edit out of broadcasts since 2007. Somehow; Max screams and I have no clue what or how he did this; but Max somehow got the keys back and got out of the hold and bailed. So what was the point of this?! Other than screaming for Biff? Out comes the heels as they chase Max onto Pete's motorboat as Max climbs on the ropes connecting both houses; yelling for someone to help him. Jump cut to PJ waking up in the rocket bed. Huh; I guess he hated sleeping on the floor. That would make sense to do this; I guess. PJ tries to get through the bars; but he's no Kit Cloudkicker, so he bails to get a pair of safety scissors. At first; I thought this was idiotic, but then he goes over and cuts the rope with them, which might be even stupider because the army guys are following Max's lead on the rope.
So we cut the rope and Max swings into his room while the heels splat into the house and scratch the house as they go down. Goofy seriously needs to invest in stronger wood. Jump cut to Max running in the hallway to Goofy's room yelling for his dad; but he's not there because he's downstairs. There is chicken wire in the doorway about three inches above his head. Now; if anyone has watched any of the Home Alone movies, then you know where this episode is going now without watching the finish. By the way; the crew cut fatass heel's name is Murray and the hat wearing one is Moose. Murray gets the basement while Moose gets the honor of being the human shield for Biff. Okay; he didn't say that; but we know it's ture. Murray goes through the basement window; but a laser is tripped up as a buzzer sounds and Murray gets murdered by a wooden hammer and is knocked out. Murray slides down slide and ramps into the furance and gets burned. Murray screams and we got criminal abuse to top it off. Jump cut to Max opening a CHEST OF DEMONS and throwing stuff out like a Wuzzle as Biff and Moose come in demanding Max give them the keys. Apparently; Biff can mash you into banana fritters. Moose breaks through wire; gets hammered by wooden hammers. LET'S GO BLUES~! LET'S GO BLUES~! Couldn't resist as Moose squashes Biff on the way down. Max is impressed as he runs out and goes downstairs to find Goofy sleeping. Max slides down railing and shakes Goofy. Goofy is a heavy sleeper as Biff and Moose come down the steps. Max runs in and pulls the conveniently placed levers (JESUS~!) which Max calls a stairblaster. The steps flip up and the heels tumble back upstairs. Yeah. Max pulls another lever (JESUS~!) as the pink carpet rolls up and ties up the heels. This leads them to get rolled into a vent and down the pipe into the washing machine. Pink knob is twisted big time as we get knocking, yelling and screaming. So Max wipes his hands clean as the washing machine spills water onto the floor.
Max bails and then the vent opens as Murray grabs Max again. Max finds a trophy plant on a table and kicks it. Murray then stammers because the moosehead on the wall is alive! Moosehead springs and nails Murray in the face complete with eyes pop out spot. Max is dropped as Murray goes though the vent like a pinball and busts through another vent and lands in the bathtub with the most contrived splash you ever saw. There is an alarm clock on the bathtub ridge attached to a stick and string as the plug is pulled on the bathtub and Murray gets plungered into the bathtub drain hole. Murray tries to pull down the pink bath curtain, no dice as he's sucked into the drain pipe like a whirlpool. Cut back to Max as Biff and Moose run in filled with suds and blowing bubbles. He wants the keys as Max is horrified and then we get the Scooby-Doo Chase Sequence the Home Alone edition~! Only he isn't home alone literally; since Goofy is out like a light at this point. Damn; Goofy is such a sleeper that he cannot hear the obvious sound effects in the background. Sofa gets upended and Goofy is sleep walking. That's a bad idea, heels. Goofy repeats the exact same spot he did earlier in the episode; but somehow doesn't crash through the roof and somehow bounces down and lands in the sofa back in perfect position. Geez; is this house have selected code strength or what?! It seems it cannot decide weither to be up to code or not. Max runs into the kitchen and starts taunting the heels as Biff and Moose run in and go under the steel chandelier of international object as Max has the pull string. Biff demands the keys; or Max is ravioli. Geez Biff; your death threats suck worse than your military experience, if you did have any. Max of course blows them off, pulls the spoon rope and they get trashed, raised, spun and rattled as Max praises Goofy for creating a security system that actually works! Yeah; because Home Alone is the foremost expert in security systems. You know what a security system needs? A phone to call the police!
The facuet in the sink breaks open and out pops Murray as he gets bounced into the spin trap and is caught just like that. Sadly; the rope breaks and the heels fall to the floor squashed and concussed, in the case of Biff. Biff has had enough and bails like a Scooby-Doo character towards the door. We get the Looney Tunes multiple doors spot as Biff is wondering if he's even in the right cartoon at this point. Biff gets nailed with the ironing board after a while as Max actually remember to contact the police on the phone. YES! Finally; Max has an actual clue on how to deal with these heels. Max pulls the lever (JESUS~!) as it sparks and the heels are whining badly to let them out as a giant machine tray races towards them. It bonks into the heels and heels land in the back of the piano. Damn; I knew the piano would get involved somehow. The piano races out of the house as the system allows the door to be open; and Goofy was asleep all the damn time as the piano bonks into the open back door of a police truck and the heel tumble into the back of the police truck. This took literally thirty seconds to do by the way. Geez; law enforcement in Spoonerville must have almost no crime to speak of to response that fast to Max's call. The police truck drives away with the door closed as the heels are done for and that is that. Max watches on from the front door as Goofy wakes up after Waffles screams because a bubble from the washing machine pops loudly. Waffles lands on Goofy's head and Goofy walks outside as Waffles bonks into the top of the door and screams as it falls onto the floor. Goofy slams the door outside as Max calls him Rip Van Winkle for missing all the excitement. Max praises Goofy for the security system and Goofy is happy to hear it as he wants to go back inside for more sleep; but Goofy locked the door from the inside and they cannot get in. Ooops. Goofy bangs on the door as we zoom out and pan over west to Pete knocking on the glass door yelling for someone to let him out. Pete is jumping up and down in shadow as the final shot is Chainsaw lying down on his burial ground snickering like an evil dog (thus evidence that the original Chainsaw was supposed to be a much meaner looking dog; and closer to the stock doberman dog they use in DTVA in general) as he sleeps as he has partially buried Pete's motorboat. And a fire hydrant to boot on the zoom out! Geez; even Waffles isn't this criminal with Atlas. This episode ends at 21:11. This was just your average Goof Troop love in with some Home Alone-equse spots and was fun enough for government work. *** 1/4 (65%).
THE REVIEW LINE
All right; we got a much better episode this time around. It was an Idiot plot episode; but it was Max playing the idiot because Pete is a scumbag type of episode, which worked out well enough. There was some really hilarious moments and the climax and finish was pretty good and well animated for a change, which is something I didn't expect out of Kennedy Cartoons. Sure; there was some stupid logic breaks during this, but they cannot help themselves and while this was basically a Goof Troop version of Home Alone, it was done well enough for the five minutes the writers had for television. I also love Goofy playing the reasonable person for a change; who looks like the smartest person in the episode and yet still goofs up when he has to, and I saw some flashes of his Sports Goofy persona where he didn't sound like a moron in places. Overall; this was a fun episode with some sloppy scenes and some good writing; but nothing really awesome. I don't know how Shari Lewis' daughter got involved in this; but it was clearly a one off as neither her nor Steve Edelman were ever seen again. Cathryn's not the best writer; but she was fine here. So....
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.