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Fool's Gold
Reviewed: 02/11/2017
Wait; was "Fool's Goof" forbidden due to "Moral Oxymoronicness"?
Oh great; another Stephen Levi classic tale on Goof Troop as Goofy and Pete fight for gold put on Chainsaw's nose (somehow); which apparently grants sanity for one full year. Okay, it doesn't. How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Stephen Levi and story edited by the late Bruce Talkington. The animation was provided by Sunwoo Animation.
We begin this one with a pan shot of the sububran area of Spoonerville as we tease going to Goofy's house; but recoil back to Pete's which is literally under the weather with storm clouds. Uh-oh! In the world of DTVA; storm clouds equals trouble. Anyway, we hear Peg giving a great big bone off-screen as Chainsaw is shown going through the doggy door with bone in mouth; while Peg is making kissing noises. Chainsaw hops through the backyard as we see Pete doing accounting at the picnic table and generally whining about everyone getting their mitts in his bank account. Suddenly out of nowhere rushes Pistol in like a rocket as the account papers go flying as she loves him, speaking at around a hundred miles per hour. Pete is not thrilled as he looks at his paper and says that he has his wallet on retainer and asks how much. HAHA! Jump cut to Goofy's backyard as Waffles is sleeping on top of the treehouse in the tree. Waffles wakes up to notice Chainsaw coming in through a hole in the wooden fence and hiding behind a bush. Chainsaw does something and then leaves with golden sparkles all over him. Chainsaw shakes and leaves as Waffles is confused. Jump cut back to Pistol getting a dime as Pistol blows it off. I wish she said it went out with "three wheel car" just to see if any adults watching this episode got the joke. Kids won't; but they'll still laugh at Pistol acting absurdly in this manner. Pete calls her corn fritter as Chainsaw comes in and sniffs the account papers. Pistol embraces Pete as Pistol wants something to sink her teeth into, like a hundred dollar bill. Yeah; she's more annoying than Molly ever was. Pistol covers Pete's eyes and Pete grabs her; telling her to drill for oil, monopolize an airline or paint a Picasso. NO BUYS~ since Pistol is only six years old. And much more hyper and annoying than...you guessed it. Pete puts Pistol down and blows her off as Pistol walks off calling Pete, Scrooge and this shocks and appalls Pete. Compared to Pete; Scrooge is an outright caring babyface. Ponder that for a moment. Pete is not amused and gets on Chainsaw's case as he is smearing the gold on his account sheets in a doggy dance I don't care to name. Chainsaw bails as Pete slips on the papers and falls on his ass. Pete calls Chainsaw a werewolf (but not a wolfwere, that would be cruel) and picks up the golden papers, and examines them. Pete is wearing green slippers by the way as he cheers and gets the $ signs ala a bad episode of Ducktales.
And now Pete has his hands in gold dust and is calling for Chainsaw who will not respond at all. Geez; I wonder why? Pete crawls onto the grass as we jump cut to Max and PJ reading comic books inside the treehouse. There's no way a taped up upside down flashlight is holding up on wood. No way! Max is reading a comic book named "Zaztar" as Max looks out the window and proclaims that Pete is weird. If that isn't projection; I don't know what is. PJ calls this worst than usual. Compared to Goofy's weirdness? I call BS on that one. Pete knee slams into what is clearly mud; but Pete mutters that Chainsaw left something there. Yes; poop is allowed in DTVA. See WildCat and the sewer pipe in Plunder and Lightning Part 2. Pete shows off the gold sparkles as we see Pistol come in with Chainsaw covered in gold sparkles asking about gold. Pete stammers like an idiot and goldbricks as Pistol points out the gold on his hands. Pete denies that it's gold and it's only sparkly gold dirt. Like fool's gold; but only Trump-equse stupid, am I right?! He then calls it measles, then recoils as he calls it gold colored paint because he was painting the garden. Pete claims that he didn't like the color of the pansies as Pistol screams for mother anyway. Pete cover's Pistol's mouth and tells her not to snitch him out that it's gold. Pistol teases Pete by referring to the dime he gave her and Pete gives Pistol a hundred bucks and tells her she's paid up until college as long as she doesn't talk about the gold. Peg comes in asking about the gold. Ooops. In comes Goofy, Max and PJ along with Peg for the meet and greet as Pete has Chainsaw with him. Pete concedes that they are all partners, just like that. However; they have to find a way to get Chainsaw to show them where the gold is. Now; since we are barely four and a half minutes in, I betcha Stephen spends four more minutes with the gang trying to convince Chainsaw to show them where the gold is and failing badly. So we scene change as Max breaks the ice with a candy cane offering. PJ has some nice flea powder on retainer. Of course this show is a sort of G-rated version of the Simpsons; so they do the spot where Chainsaw doesn't understand what Peg is saying and is color blind. Okay; most dogs are not color blind in real life; but do not have the color range that human beings can see. They mostly see blues, yellows and violets actually. The Simpsons are just as guilty of this, too by the way. Goofy offers a juicy steak for Chainsaw, too.
Chainsaw is just confused, probably more about not understanding most English words than the "color blind" stupidity. Goofy licks his chops as does Chainsaw, which Pete grabs Goofy by the bowtie and threatens to slug him. Luckly; Peg is right there to cut him off and call Pete grumpy. Geez; Peg is showing some neato restraint in this episode for some reason. Peg claims that Goofy is using something called "dogology"; which is an actual name of a dog training and beahviour correctional school in Canton, Connecticut. Peg brings out the bone of doom which the males are confused. Peg gives Chainsaw the bone and tells him that they are not peeking when he buries it. Chainsaw bails stage left as everyone turns their backs and closes their eyes. This was so much more amusing in Captains Outrageous; and Pete of course is ruining the effect with the Gruffi pose. Pete screams in Chainsaw's face; so Peg pulls him by the hair and blows him off of course. Chainsaw looks scared and not thrilled as he bails stage left. Pete gets in Goofy's face because Pete gets first dibs on the gold. Chainsaw is heading towards Goofy's house; which PJ claims it's Pete's house. Wait, what?! That makes no sense since Goofy's house is green and Pete's house is pink. Pete wants to go and gets stampeded into the ground by the babyfaces, which will never get old. So we run around to Pete's house as Pete tries so hard to catch up. Chainsaw goes through the basement window of course; and everyone gets through the window even though they could have gone into the house and down the basement steps normally. Most so Pete; who is stuck like Winnie The Pooh in his classic shorts. Only Pete breaks through the steel framing and crashes into the floor. Geez; maybe Inspector Goofy should have inspected that basement window, too. Chainsaw goes through the doggy door of Pete's house and Max looks through to notice that Chainsaw is going to Goofy's backyard. PJ, Pistol and Goofy go through the doogy door as Goofy also gets slammed into the wall by Peg. Goofy gets out and slams the door as Pete crashes into the door inside the house. You got all that?! Door knob and doggy door go boom as we head inside Goofy's house as Chainsaw goes up into the attic which PJ helpfully points out.
Max and Pistol run up first, followed by everyone else. Pete crawls up panting as we head into the attic to see Chainsaw near the attic window; and then Chainsaw jumps out of the window. By the way; we have wasted over two minutes already in this scene alone chasing Chainsaw. So Pete goes the wrong way (or Sunwoo has a major continuity error that makes Pete look even dumber than he already was); and steps into a cermanic pot with his right foot. Pete tries to get it off; but loses his balance, goes backwards and does the splits on the attic door. Pete shakes like a leaf with teeth chattering sound effects. Now you know you are watching a classic! Pete falls through the attic door and bumps off the stairs off-screen for good measure. So we scene change to Chainsaw sans bone with all the babyfaces panting beside it below a tree. Pete hops in still with the pot and frame on his body asking why they stopped. I was hoping it was because they realized that Stephen Levi made them waste almost three minutes of time to advance the plot. I didn't like this when Destiny Rides Again was wasting time like this; and I don't like it here. Max admits that they don't know where Chainsaw hid the bone. Goofy offers a second bone and I say, no. You are not wasting three more minutes of nothing and you'll basically brings us back to where we started. Thankfully; Pete wants to wait until he gets the pot off his number nine's which apparently are his shoe size. More believable than Baloo's size fourteens, that is for sure. Pete jumps around trying to get the pot off his foot; but it shatters somehow off-screen (since it was still on him on the next shot, for no reason) as Pete crashes into the bushes and all of Chainsaw's bones fall out. HA! Pete is pissed off about someone leaving bones inside a bush. Probably because Chainsaw likes boners. Have you ever thought about that, Pete?! Of course not. Pete recoils and reveals what a jackass he is by claiming that he's rich. Well; he did find them second, so he does have the right to first dibs, after Chainsaw of course. Goofy thinks Pete was looking for gold and not bones; as Pete kneels down and begins digging for it. I was about a minute or so off; but it still took too long as he finds more gold dust. 2:1 odds that he doesn't go to the gold expert to check to see if it's real gold.
You know; here's a hint to future writers: Never write a title that gives away the finish in advance. That's why "Fool's Goof" is a better name for this episode; because then, I would be interested in watching it. When you call it "Fool's Gold" you gave away the finish in advance, and there's no incentive in watching it now because I know exactly how it's going to end. So everyone is amazed by this "gold" dust as everyone is in the money, they'll in the money, they're in the money, even Your Baloo's In The Mail was more believable than this! Remember when Skype was formally called a picture phone as Pistol wants a new brother. Ummm; I don't think you can buy those, Pistol. Although I heard you can get some flying lessons with that money. Pete wants to make it official as Chainsaw is digging some more and burying bones; as Goofy owns the hole, Pete owns the bones, so it's a fifty-fifty split. Pete chuckles as he offers Goofy to keep the bones. Goofy is so happy to have his back smacked and thanks him as Chainsaw is not happy about this and starts acting like the dog is going to fight for the death to protect it's property. Pete and Goofy shake heads on the deal. So from the last scene changer to this one, this took exactly four minutes. I take it back; Stephen did in fact prove my point; although at least there was a payoff to it. Scene change to Pete and Goofy wearing camping gear with tiny hard hats and flashlights attached to them as they spit their hands dirty of this dumb waste of time and Pete acts sarcastically asking if Goofy is ready. Goofy picks up a pick axe and wants to count to ten; but Pete blows him off because it's a count of three. Oh; and Goofy's a stupid idiot by the way. Ten seconds into the partnership; and they are already arguing over a simple thing as counting. Goofy yells three and whacks the ground hard with the pick axe. We then get shaking and rumbling as Goofy and Pete sink through DA...HOLE~! SLURP! They free fall into the seemly bottomless pit and that ends the segment nine minutes in. Wow; that was pretty...ummm...interesting end to a bunch of dog chases and little else.
After the commercial break; we see Chainsaw, Pistol, PJ, Max and Peg looking down at the hole calling for the two stupid idiot male adults. A light is flicked; so I assume it's a flashlight from either Pete or Goofy. Jump cut to the bottom of the cave as we see a pot, a pan, a shovel, an orange saucer, and a pick axe lying in the foreground as Pete is on his back knocked out. Goofy has the light and is sitting up as he shakes Pete to wake him up. Pete is clearly not concussed here because he's talking like his wife is waking him up instead of his mother. Goofy turns on Pete's mining light and informs him that it's Goofy; not Peg. Pete wakes up and shakes Goofy by the neck as he demands to know if Goofy is holding out on him; but has to stop because is yell asking (which is fine in this case) if they are all right. She also asks if they need help and Goofy tries to talk; but Pete covers Goofy's mouth claiming that everything is fine and that the gold will be theirs in no time. So Pete stuffs stuff into Goofy's backpack; including a crate of TNT sticks. Goofy of course strains; but thanks Pete anyway. Goofy asks what Pete is carrying and Pete is carrying a compass of course; but Pete is a tweenish asshole of course. His rational response is someone has to watch to make sure Goofy does the dirty work properly. I don't think it's possible to watch over and make sure Goofy does it properly because that would imply Goofy can do anything properly. Goofy carries, he leads, it's all fifty-fifty. Pete's warped view on equally is so similar to most Republicans that it ceases being funny now. Goofy gets slapped in the back and Goofy pratfalls on his face. Goofy of course accepts it on face value because he's a stupid idiot of course. Apparently; the storm clouds are rolling in as Max asks if they can come too; as Pete kicks Goofy in the boots and does the worst mimicking of Goofy's voice I have ever heard saying no, because it's too dangerous. Max's face looks creepy by the way as Goofy agrees with Pete; but tells Max not to worry because everything is under control. HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one, Goofy Goof. Max is asking about dangerous as he looks at the other babyfaces at the hole. Then we scene change to Pete and Goofy walking through a cave like they are in a mine, sort of. Goofy whines about walking forever and wonders if they are lost; causing Pete to stammer like a stupid idiot.
Then a shadow tentacle shows up and growls as Pete backs up and he stammers some more; twirls about and falls dead. In comes Goofy with an earthworm in his left hand as Pete wakes up and backs up because he thinks it's a monster. Of course. If you ever want any doubt that Pete is projecting; he thinks the little worm is the monster in this threesome. Yeah; projection, indeed. Goofy then panics a bit as Pete thinks it's a big wormy, but Goofy points out that it's a dead end. Yeah; because we don't have enough references to death on this show. 4Kids would have them say "doomed end" or something even stupiditer. Goofy wonders what to do now and Pete wants to blast which confuses Goofy. Jump cut to Peg in the kitchen at a table sitting down drinking coffee. There is a muffled explosion as some debris crumbles down towards the ground with rumbling as she shakes her head and wondered when the lugnuts would get around to stooping to using explosives. Then her mug shatters leaving her with the handle as she blames the meatloaf for ruining her cup. Oh come on, Peg! You cannot be that immune to Occam's Razor! Jump cut to zoom in shot of the treehouse and then inside as Max and PJ are lying on their bellies reading some book. We get rumbling as the treehouse tips over and crashes into the yard causing both kids to scream. Jump cut to inside cave as Goofy and Pete run away towards the hard camera from smoke and lava plumish coal. Giant boulder of doom chases them. They cause an unstable cliff edges to crumble; but nothing else. This goes on for a while as it ends with the boulder being stuck in an entrance way to a cliff as Goofy and Pete run off the cliff and free fall; sliding down on the cliff side and landing on the ground. Staglimites spikes from the ceiling fall down and Goofy dodges them. They have a meeting of the backs; and it wasn't on the set of Brokeback Mountain. Goofy calls this playing dodge ball with a howitzer; which is a short gun which fires shells when used by the military. Goofy's past is warped to say the least and it might even be more warped than Kit Cloudkicker's; if that was possible. Pete blows him off because this is not playing and they were almost pincushions. Well; Pete does have a point, there. But when you are an asshole; being turned into a pin cushion doesn't sound half bad. Goofy laughs it off because what is a puncture or two between partners. Wow; I didn't expect Goofy to bring on the toxic in this case.
Pete gets in Goofy's case and tells him to find a way out of this situation. Goofy teases telling him; but Pete cuts him off before Goofy can say a word, because Pete cannot hear anything on an empty stomach. Wow; someone needs to see a doctor and it's not Doctor Von Swine; nor the doctor from Terminal Pete either. Goofy goes to his backpack and brings out the weirdest sandwich he could find for Pete. Pete inspects it and sniffs it before yelling that he cannot eat this. Goofy asks why not and Pete claims that is has no mustard on it. Goofy bails as Pete wonders why he wants to run screaming into the night. Scene change to outside in the streets of Spoonerville as a dreaded STORM CLOUD OF DEATH approaches as we get thunder and lightning bolt crackling along with heavy rain fall. The rain goes through the gutters into the sewer pipes and somehow it starts to flood the caves causing Pete to become shocked and appalled. Pete complains about being lost and wet. I think merely being wet is the least of Pete's problems here as Pete yells for Goofy since he doesn't want to drown mustard-less. Pete splashes water and proclaims that he knew he couldn't trust him. Since when did you ever trust him, Petester? Goofy then pops up from the water (!!!) and squirts mustard from a container right in Pete's face. HAHA! Pete blows him off because Goofy didn't have the safety on the mustard container and they are in the sewer. Goofy says no; Pete sniffs the air and says "close enough". Yeah; we're getting closer and closer to every show having wall to wall fart jokes now. Goofy points west and if he's wrong Pete's new name for him is mud. Goofy is confused as we scene change to Goofy and Pete near a wall. Pete has his pick axe ready complete with more hand spitting. EWWWW! GET HIM AWAY! GET HIM AWAY! If only a pick axe could speak. Pete digs through the wall and gets dragged through it by the waves. Down the mountainous water slide Pete goes as Goofy looks on from the hole. Goofy gets splooshed in kind and follows Pete down. Redneck screams for everyone. We head into the deeper bowls of the cave as Goofy pushes Pete from behind on the river as both of them are called mud now. HA-YUCK!Pete puts his hat on and his head is mud now. Pete is not amused and walks off as we see an underground tavern. Wait; what?! Okay; Stephen Levi is trying way too hard now.
Pete comes into the view with this really slited parallax scrolling saying that he has a funny feeling about this. You don't say?! I would think that an intact Western-themed saloon underground would make me have funny feelings going on inside of me. Pete and Goofy are in awe as they enter the building. Goofy takes the papers on the desks and blows them in Pete's face and he sneezes the rest of the papers off the desk. Goofy chuckles, Pete isn't impressed, I'm not caring. Goofy reads the paper as it's an ad to see the Mammoth Nugget that's too big to mine. There are also river tours daily. I find this unbelievable, as in not believable. Goofy finds a map pinned to the wall and it looks awful. Pete orders Goofy to grab the map and get on the boat. Pete leaves as Goofy tries to grab the map and wrap it up; but it's so weak that it crumbles to pieces. Goofy says oops and I don't blame him. That map was a joke anyway as we head to the waterwheel river boat as Pete is complaining about Goofy not being around again. Pete walks over to Goofy carrying pieces of the map as they have a meeting of the minds. And it wasn't at the pawn shop. Because God only know how stupid you have to be to not call them first to check the gold dust before hand to make sure it was legit gold. Then again; the episode title gives away the finish, so everyone has to look so stupid here. At least this has been amusing to me in a way. By the way; Sunwoo's creditability streak continues as Pistol's dress keeps changing colors several times during the episode, mostly white and yellow. Pete sneezes on cue and flies into the drink of course; but his nose hates dust. Pete is helped up as Goofy informs him that Pete sucked most of the map through his nose. Pete whines and hopes he's lying. Sadly; Goofy is not and that ends the segment 15 and a half minutes in. This is sort of fun; but it's still an idiot plot written by someone who thinks children's don't understand what fool's gold is.
After the commercial break; we head to Spoonerville with lots of rain coming down and at 15:35 of the DVD; it appears that the storm clouds literally sit down on a toilet in the sky and take a leak. The roads are flooded; but the sidewalks somehow are not. Welcome to Spoonerville; where even the weather makes no sense. So more rainwater goes into the gutter and it's filling up into the underground mining town as Goofy and Pete are in the river boat. Goofy tells Pete to relax because he has memorized the map. HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one, Goofy! That's like believing that Donald Trump knows anything about being humble. Strangely; Goofy is more believable in memorizing maps than Donald Trump doing anything right at this point. Pete grabs Goofy's string and asks if there is enough room in there for it; implying that Goofy has no brain space in there as it is. Goofy tells him to trust him and Pete can only shake his head because he's screwed. Pete decides to play along and doesn't want it to mean what it means when he says it. Now I'm confused. Scene change to the river boat ride of doom. Funny spot: Goofy is giving directions badly while Pete is reeling the water wheels inside the boat. I love it when PETE has to do the work after trying to screw Goofy earlier. So there; I have praised Stephen for one good thing in this episode. Somehow; the river boat does not crash anywhere during this sequence; but Pete flops on his belly panting like crazy. HAHA! Goofy claims that the map said to follow the river and Pete gleefully blows him off for that because the river is supposely going the wrong way. Goofy then panics seeing rocks and mans the water wheels like a maniac. Pete joins in and we get the pinball spot for a while. At least this one was more believable than the He's Bonkers segment I reviewed a while ago. Both waterwheels get broken off in the process during this as the male idiots gasp because it's time for the whirlpool spot. At least it isn't the waterfall spot, which they have done at least a few times in this series already. So we scene change to Goofy panting on his back in the water as Pete is lying on a giant ass golden nugget with arrow signs pointing at it just to drive the point home. Goofy is shocked as Pete is laughing because it's all his. Pete is kissing the golden stone as Goofy gets up and climbs on top of it. Pete sees Goofy and spits and stammers as Goofy reminds him that it's only half his, since it's a 50/50 split after all.
Pete finally turns on Goofy and shoves him away, calling Goofy a tinhorn. Goofy jumps back on and gets in Pete's face because he isn't taking this crap from Pete for the rest of the episode. Lots of shoving and staggering ensue and this is the best part of the episode right there. Pete stops and wants to get some shuteye and discuss it in the morning as they begin to climb down; with Goofy wanting to take the first watch on this and Pete asks why; Goofy says for no reason. Goofy says it like he genuinely doesn't want to steal the gold at all; but Pete sees right through whatever Goofy said and gets in his face causing teeth chattering timidness out of Goofy. Goofy gets in Pete's face again because Pete cannot say any word that has him being forced to share, because he's a greedy bastard. Pete blows Goofy off as Goofy claims that the nugget will never fit in his pocket which to normal people makes sense. Pete is not normal as he claims that he's never falling asleep and Goofy accepts the challenge. Pan down to the bottom as the water rises up during the scene changer and of course the two stupid idiot male adults have fallen asleep. Pan up to see them hugging and snoring as they both wake up. Apparently; Goofy blinked first, so Pete thinks the gold is his, which Goofy points out that it's half his. Pete decides that he'll agree to the terms; but want to split it in half with a blast of dynamite. So we see Pete go into Goofy's backpack and get out a dynamite stick as he puts it in his mouth asking for a match. (Toon Disney cut alert! Oh wait; it wasn't. Huh?) Goofy cannot find one and neither can Pete it seems. Goofy notices that the water is getting awfully deep; but Goofy's brain is still shallower than a plate. HA-YUCK! Pete ignores it and has another idea and so we scene change to Pete with a spike on the golden nugget as Goofy has a sledgehammer. Pete has to be the stupidiest guy in the entire world to trust GOOFY to use a sledgehammer. Even dumber, Pete says that when he nods his head, hit it! If you cannot guess what Goofy hits when Pete nods his head; you have no business reading this rant, making cartoons whatsoever and have no business on the internet either. Even GOOFY is figuring this out; so you know Pete is a stupid idiot. Goofy of course murders Pete with the hammer off-screen and that causes the ceiling to cave in. Goofy shakes Pete who has a lump on his head about a foot longer than Big Bird Hawk's neck.
Shockingly; Pete gets out of his concussion quickly and gives Goofy a golden nugget as his half as he gets the much bigger half of course. Goofy complains about this of course; because Pete's a selfish asshole. Pete calls Goofy a rocket scientist because that is the way the nugget cracks, so to speak. Pete frames the nugget as he wants to put it on his mantle. Yeah; he doesn't want to sell it for cash; which would be the reasonable and smart thing to do. Pete laughs and slaps Goofy's back as Goofy puts the nugget in his backpack as the water rises up to the rock's top. Goofy proclaims that they are trapped which is very bad news as we jump cut to outside as more rain, thunder and lightning effects ensue with public domain music, just to hammer the point home that the music is cheaper than two dollar steaks. Jump cut back to Pete and Goofy on the golden stone as Goofy finds the boat and hops in. Pete thinks we're doomed. No, no, no, no, Pete; the only entity on earth that is doomed is Nintendo. Thou on the other paw; art dead. Goofy then notices a giant hole above the surface. Now that is awfully convenient of them and I betcha that despite making zero sense whatsoever, it's the hole Goofy dug at the end of the first act. Pete is stammering about his golden nugget as Goofy asks Pete basically the same question Mrs. Beakly asked Scrooge in Treasure Of The Golden Suns Part Five (What's more important: Your money or your life?) and Pete stalls because he's thinking. Geez; even in an obvious life or death situation, Pete is a horrible judge of character. Goofy is sadden by this as he waves to Pete anyway; because he's a human being no matter how much of a monster Pete can be at times. Pete sinks under the water and then pops up and struggles to tread water. Yip; his life is more important as Pete swims to the boat and gets in blowing off Goofy for making him tease drowning. Of course! Pete waves goodbye to the golden nugget as we jump cut to outside the hole in the backyard with Peg, Pistol, PJ and Max in rain clothes and umbrellas; which means damn I'm so good. Peg then proclaims that when those two come back; they won't be going anywhere without a babysitter ever again. Pistol notices mud burping and farting out of the hole as a giant mud bubble rises up and pops causing mud to cover up the entire hole and out comes the boat with Goofy and Pete. That did look cool as a visual; so kudos there.
Everyone cheers as Peg comes in demanding Midas Pete to explain himself as Pete stammers like a stupid idiot because there were obstacles to overcome; which Peg blows off as a poor excuse because the lawn is a mess you see. Everyone joins in to yell at Pete and whine and complain like assholes even though Pete and Goofy nearly got themselves killed doing this. Goofy calmly steps in and gives Peg the golden nugget. For those of you who believe Rebecca is a total jerk; Rebecca's response was a lot more justified than Baloo in many episodes in TaleSpin. Peg's response to this after Goofy and Pete nearly killed themselves just to get that: She blows them off because they have to pay for damages and refill the stupid hole, her words, not mine. Never mind that she was all for this plan in the first place! Are people confusing Rebecca with Peg; because it seems to be so easy for sexist scumbag men to confuse the two, it seems. Pete of course no sells the filling hole part as Peg proclaims that this is a stupid idea. Which despite being a jerk; is correct in this case. Pete blows her off claiming swearing in DUBBED RELIGIOUS STYLE (Until the Big Guy upstairs; which is often not saying God. This plays into some wingnut beliefs that taking God's name in vain is real on cartoons because you cannot say his name in a non-vanity context; but it's perfectly okay to say it in vain, even if you are a child. You can only say small g "god"; not big G "God" in the non-vanity context, you see. Unless you are a Christian company, of course. Oh; and the hole stays right where it is. Lightning bolt strikes the TNT stick in Pete's back pocket (I wondered where he left it); everyone bails as Pete looks behind him. Jump cut to shot of both properties as we get a massive explosion, which looks like a mushroom cloud and we see Pete has some soot; but is not dead as the hole is filled in with large boulders. Goofy comes in proclaiming that no matter what happens, it was a blast. Pete blows smoke and is not thrilled by this. Wow; Stephen Levi proved me wrong! The episode title was a decoy after all. Boy; did that make everyone with a brain look stupid, didn't it? Levi is such a devilish little bastard here as we scene change back to Pete's backyard in the morning as he continues writing up stuff and grumbling about his family being big spenders. Speak for yourself, Pete! Chainsaw jumps up and shows a diamond sparkling in his mouth; causing Pete to instantly go into rich bastard mode. Chainsaw bails as Pete goes after the dog asking where he found it as he crawls on all fours pleading like a stupid idiot and that ends the episode at 21:15. Well; this episode at least had a proper conclusion and reset button pushing at the end didn't hurt it any since it is Pete we are talking about. Fool's Goof is still a better title for this; but this was a fine episode otherwise. *** (60%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; Stephen Levi's biggest problem wasn't really this episode per se; it's thinking that decoying fans into a swevere with the episode title was a good idea. By calling it by that name; it baited us into thinking that the finish was that Goofy and Pete found Fool's Gold; which wasn't the case at all. The finish was very different and I liked that finish better than the fool's gold finish; so I was fine with it. Calling it "Fool's Goof" would have better served the episode. Anyhow; it was another example of a perfectly fine episode plot thread that was decent enough to watch; but it's also one that could have been compressed into eleven minutes and made even better. However; that's the problem with the show in general and that's why I have never really liked this show all that much over the years, even now. There were some contrived moments near the end as well as some Sunwoo animation mistakes; but it was semi fun at least when it wanted to back and Goofy was Goofy in this one; so that made it tolerable at least. Outside of Date With Destiny; Stephen hasn't been a good writer thus far and there are still at least two more episodes featuring his writing on the next set of DVD's. Anyhow; this was a fine episode that took too long, which is the story of this series. So....
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.