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A Goof Of The People
Reviewed: 03/19/2017
Oh Lord; Not Him!
More stupid politics arises as Goofy runs for mayor to get rid of pollution while Pete bribes and schemes on elected officials to stop Goofy, or something. Yeah; this is getting silly now. So; how does this episode fare?! Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Juila Jane Lewald and story edited by Dean Stefan. The animation was provided by Walt Disney Animation Australia PTY, Limited.
We begin this one with more American stars in our title card. Oh wait; this is merely a distraction for that horrible industrial site pumping out tons and tons of smoke and polluted gas. I have been in the northeast portion of America before and small towns have mills that would spew out some of the most nauseaing smells ever. There were times where I refused to go anywhere in Berlin, New Hampshire do to the smell of the area. It was beyond horrible. I don't know if it's totally gone or not since I haven't been there since 1990; but you get the picture. So here's another example of not caring about anything but comedy: They place the polluting mill above a large hill which serves as the background for a large hill which serves as a background to the Goofy/Pete properties as we pan south. The problem with that is: This background hill never existed until now. There are houses in the background; but so what? We never saw the mountain background until now. We couldn't just have the smoke go over to the properties via a western pan shot? This is far worse than the daises having faces and choking themselves in the lawn. That is merely fuzzy cartoon logic and another piece of proof that people who hate Dora The Explorer are damn hypocrites. Goofy comes in and proclaims that there is something in the air that doesn't agree with his garden. Max comes in and calls it pollution; which Goofy blows off. Not because Max disagreed with him; but apparently, pollution is considered obscene language to Goofy. And to think; most of us thought cultural pollution was an obscene term; but it didn't stop certain people from using it either. Max corrects him as the dirt in the air is coming directly from the Slimeco factory. Oh sure; let's demonize the factory BEFORE we know what the real name is. Goofy concedes that area was better before the factory shows up and then he bails and returns with an empty mayonnaise jar. Goofy claims that it's clean air and he saved it since childhood. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The fact that Max loves this makes this ten times more hilarious now. Goofy gives Max the jar as a heirloom and walks off to put the Slimeco factory in their place.
So we head to the Slimeco factory and this show is not even pretending that this thing is only designed to pollute and destroy. Have I just walked into a Captain Planet X Goof Troop episode special now. Evidence #1: Fenton Sludge is the owner of Slimeco; so they aren't pretending that he's a useless guy. Evidence #2: The factory is slimy and wouldn't pass an inspection even in 1992. Evidence #3: Fenton is in shadow; indicating that Fenton is a mutant. Milton appears who is a Goofy clone wearing a blue visor, has darker skin, orange bowtie, blue shirt and overalls, smirking. Milton has been Fenton's assistant for twelve years now. Of course; it's not Milton, it's Melvin. Because either Fenton's brain has been damaged by his own pollution, or Milton is copyrighted for some reason. Evidence #4: Fenton is covered in slime and he admits that it's a pleasure to meet a member of the community we destroy. Yes; they are not even pretending that this guy is a monster heel who destroys lives. There is ZERO subtly here and it makes me wonder if this is a spoof of a Captain Planet episode. Except doing a spoof of Captain Planet would require the villain to be so subtle that anyone can be easily fooled. This looks like a really stupid homage to me. Anyhow; Fenton Sludge is provided by Jay Thomas and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): His notable television work includes his co-starring role as Remo DaVinci on Mork & Mindy (1979–81), the recurring role of Eddie LeBec on Cheers (1987–89), the lead character Jack Stein on Love & War (1992–95), and a repeat guest role as Jerry Gold on Murphy Brown. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990 and 1991 for portraying Gold. In 1997, he starred in the television film Killing Mr. Griffin, based on the novel of the same name. In film, he co-starred in Mr Holland's Opus and portrayed The Easter Bunny in The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3. He was also an annual guest on The Late Show with David Letterman during the Christmas season, where he told a story about how he met Clayton Moore, who portrayed the self-titled character in The Lone Ranger.[2]
Since 2005, he has hosted The Jay Thomas Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Jay Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas, to Katharine (née Guzzino) and T. Harry Terrell.[3] He was raised in his Italian American mother's Catholic religion; his father was Protestant.[4] Thomas was raised in New Orleans.[5]He attended and graduated from Jesuit High School in New Orleans.[6] Thomas made his annual Christmastime appearance with David Letterman for the first time in December 1998. Letterman and one of his other guests that evening, then-New York Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde, took turns tossing footballs at the Christmas tree across the stage, atop which sat a meatball. As the two tried to knock off the meatball and failed repeatedly, Thomas came out and decided to join in the festivities and knocked the meatball off of the tree.[citation needed] When Letterman talked with Thomas later on, he decided to tell a story about when he was a young disc jockey at a radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. Thomas had been making a promotional appearance at a local car dealership. This dealership had also booked Clayton Moore to make an appearance, dressed in his Lone Ranger costume.[7] As the story goes, after the appearance Thomas, who at the time sported what he referred to as a "white man's Afro", and his friend, who was wearing high heeled shoes, tight pants, and a tiedyed shirt, went off to get "herbed up" (smoke marijuana) behind a dumpster, after the broadcast ended. When they returned to pack up their equipment, they discovered that Moore was still there, as the car that was supposed to drive him to the Red Roof Inn never arrived. Thomas offered Moore a ride in his old Volvo and he accepted. As they were sitting in traffic, an impatient middle-aged man driving a Buick, backed into the front end of Thomas' car, broke a headlight and drove away.
Thomas gave chase to the Buick through heavy traffic, finally caught up to the man and confronted him about the damage. The indignant driver denied breaking the headlight and Thomas threatened to call the police. The man said nobody would believe their story because Thomas and his friend looked like "two hippy freaks". At that moment, Thomas said that Moore, who was still in costume as the Lone Ranger, got out of the car and said to the man, "They'll believe me, citizen!" [8] For every year thereafter, with the exception of 2013, Thomas appeared to re-tell the Lone Ranger story and once again attempt what Letterman calls the "Late Show Quarterback Challenge". For the final appearance of the story in 2014, Thomas was again successful in knocking the meatball off the top of the tree. Thomas missed the 2013 Late Show Christmas episode due to surgery on his throat; John McEnroe took his place and told the Lone Ranger story, then tried to knock the meatball off the tree by hitting tennis balls at it but failed.[7] Thomas fathered J.T. in an out-of-wedlock relationship and the child was adopted by another family in Michigan. Jay Thomas and his son, known as John Harding, are reunited and have spoken about their reunion on the Dr. Phil Show. John Harding is the lead singer of the band JTX.[9] He began his career on a documentary Sitcom: The Adventures of Gary Marshall in 1979 and then on Mork & Mindy as Remo. Goof Troop is his DTVA debut and worked on Hercules as Ares and Teacher's Pet as Barry Anger. Bones (Lenny Jay), NCIS: New Orleans (Marc Maslow) and Ray Donovan (Marty Grossman) are his most recent acting credits. He has 90 Acting credits, 1 Writing credit, 1 Producer credit, 1 Soundtrack credit, 43 Self credits (King Cake: A Big Easy Story is his most recent credit) and 1 Archive Footage credit to his resume.
Also; Fenton is actually smoking a cigar on camera as he recoils about ten seconds too late of course. Then we get the most obvious logic break ever: Goofy in previous shots was wearing his normal clothes. Here; he's clearly wearing a blue suit, white shirt and tie when he greets Fenton. So we make small talk about flowers; but Fenton hugs him and drags him away stage right to show off the factory. So we get the really devlish look at the most useless factory in all of existence. Which makes sense when you consider that Fenton just admitted that that the only purpose the factory has is to destroy the air. Fenton loves the smell of toxic waste in the morning. I don't know why they even bothered to cover Fenton in toxic waste; considering that Fenton already smokes in storyline. Of course; he's doing it for the money; which makes him even MORE evil than Seymour ever was. Goofy demands that Fenton stop polluting right now! Yeah; don't give Captain...Oh wait; never mind. Fenton gets in Goofy's face and asks him what as Goofy stammers for him to stop being so dirty. Melvin looks like he's about to have a stroke here. Fenton is angry as having clean air and water would cost him three cents a day; according to Melvin's calculator and that would kill his profit margin. So he's only making three cents of profit a day from this venture? Geez; most investors would pull the plug on this venture just for that, even in 1992! Can you smell the projection coming out of Fenton in this scene, or are we confusing it with the toxic waste on him? Fenton looks like he wants to kill Goofy or slime him; but then he recoils and he'll bring it up in the next board meeting. Personally; I hope that there is a board meeting and he's the only board member. He brings it up and then discards it ten seconds later. That is how I would book this as a payoff. I doubt this will happen despite having twenty-two minutes to work with; because kids just want comedy and don't care about making it funny. Melvin gives Goofy a flag and hat with has the toxic factory on it and Goofy looks like he was suckered and doesn't even know it. Which of course makes sense since it's GOOFY we are talking about here.
Sadly; Fenton shoves Goofy out of the conveniently placed window and Goofy free falls complete with redneck scream. He splashes into toxic goo off-screen as Fenton thanks him for dropping in (and out) as we scene change back to Goofy's house as the pollution is gone now. I guess the wind has blown the smoke in the opposite direction now and there's no sign of the mountain at all in this scene. Continuity?! What continuity?! Goofy claims that Mr. Sludge seems like a nice fellow. Yeah; outside of hating life, being covered in slime, smoking cigars on a show that should have gotten rid of them, having a slimey looking factory and confuses people, he seems to be a nice fellow. Remind me to hire him to go to the White House to see Donald Trump. I'm certain he would make sure that the Donald is NOT the worst person in the room. Goofy is sitting down on the sofa as Max blows off Goofy because Fenton gave him the brush-off. Also known as the hand wave of doom. Goofy is confused here as Max has a blue book claiming that he is studying politics in school. Oh no! How dare they put political messages in my cartoons! That's child abuse! That's horrible! That's really stupid! That's....oh shut up, old farts! You do realize that if you avoid cartoons and try to yell at people who don't because of political messages, you are not only not watching anything, you are also being a hypocrite because politics touches everything since politics are a part of government and government is the sword and shield against private enterprises destroying us. Like Slimeco is right now! Actually; that sounds like the perfect company for Donald Trump's businesses, now that I think about it. The only people who hate political messages in cartoons are the ones who hate children learning anything other than what they want them to learn; and also have a vested interest in political messages that are a benefit to them and people like them only and toxic to everyone else or vice versa. Mostly vice versa.
Max claims that Sludge doesn't have to listen to him because Goofy is John Q. Public. Well; Fenton's wrong on that account, Max; even if he doesn't have to listen to Goofy, because Goofy is Stupid Idiot Moron. POW! OUCH! Ummmm... Max then has a suggestion as his teacher informs them that a special election for mayor is coming up! Wait; a special election? So; what is so special about mayoral elections? They happen all the time, Max. Are you telling me that this is the first time they have elected a mayor? What kind of tyranny was Spoonerville before this?! Max wants Goofy to take a stand and Goofy stands up and Max wants him to run for mayor. Goofy runs out of the house for the contracted Scooby Doo snow angel spot and lands in the trash can as Goofy asks where the hell is he running to. HAHA! Max comes out and proclaims that Goofy is running for mayor of City Hall. Well; that's one way to fight it. Listen idiots; you can fight City Hall. It's more believable to say: "You can't kill City Hall!" which would be a bad thing anyway. Goofy claims that he's no politican. Oh come on; Goofy. If Donald Trump can be the president of the USA (or Regan before this); then being mayor of Spoonerville should be dead easy. Besides; you're nicer than Hiliary, you're smarter than Donald Trump and more amusing than Bernie Sanders. You are a shoo in for mayor! Max gives him the DEMOCRAT BLUE BOOK OF HOPE (complete with Captain America's shield; which would be a copyright problem; but Disney owns Marvel now, so it's a moot point) and speaking of overplayed angles: Here comes the How To Narrator. I wish I booked this so the How-To-Narrator was mayor of Spoonerville; since he is so arrogant in being a know it all; that it would be perfect for him to be a scummy politican. Goofy opens the book as the narrator has already lied in the first paragraph claiming that the politican is the staunch advocate of the common good. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! COMMON GOOD! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! A TIRELESS PUBLIC SERVENT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I should note that in the book with the Goofy clone in brown suit gear with a bad hat; the message reads: "Celcus pressure for an... Key figures in the reems abour the pare... worried over ecntiry, the Cabinet is re..." That sounded more Goofish than Goofy usually is. SELFLESSLY FIGHTING FOR THE WELFARE OF HIS FELLOW MAN! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Goofy discovers America and looks American! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm not going to bother doing this anymore; my lungs are caving in now. So what qualifies him for this most elevated of posts? Let's just say that this book protrays the politican in the most positive light possible that Goofy's head is on Mount Rushmore...and he got the most votes...and we move on. Which is the most honest thing in that entire promo. Turn the page to see Goofy in his suit which we saw in a massive logic break in the scene with Fenton earlier in the episode. Goofy stands in front of the city hall building as we start chapter one: How to get elected. Ummm; you just explained how: You get the most votes. Easy. Oh; it's how to get votes. Why not just say that instead, narrator? So we do the always dumb stereotypes of shaking woman's hands and kissing babies. We shake a lot of hands and Goofy is growing into a spiderman with all those arms and hand shaking. Shouldn't the first step in being elected is to have a position to give your voters an incentive to shake your hand and want to elect you. Goofy is tied in knots so much that he looks like a human straight jacket as the narrator does make me laugh by stating that for most politicans: The right hand seldomly knows what the left hand is doing. Flip the page to...UGH! Chapter two is kissing babies; because apparently, having a position everyone wants to vote for is way too hard for kids to understand, even though Goofy does have a position: STOP POLLUTING MY GARDEN~! So we get parents kissing babies from a total stranger (and trust me; no one is stranger than Goofy in this town. Fenton's not strange; he's disgusting. And nope; not Fenton Crackshell.); which is child cruelty.
Apparently; in Spoonerville, nine out of ten babies look exactly alike in Spoonerville; or palette swaps in a video game. In comes the same lady from Lethal Goofin' poking on the shoulder as she dares Goofy kiss a baby who looke like a mean fox in red baby gear. The baby boxes Goofy's nose and Goofy actually sees an accurate analogy in that. Wow; why ISN'T he mayor of Spoonerville right now? By the way; who's running against Goofy in this race? So we scene change to chapter three and thou powers are combined; and the babies are suddenly starting to look slightly different at least. Goofy of course shakes the baby's hand and kisses the man on the lips like a stupid idiot. The fat man grabs Goofy and is pissed off as he punches Goofy off-screen and Goofy goes flying into the air and where he lands; only Max really cares. Narrator clearly doesn't. Goofy yell ensues as we head back to Slimeco and then pan south to the property as Goofy is reading his book on the sidewalk in front of his own property. Pete goes to his trash can and places a paperbag of trash into the trash can. However; one fish bone falls out. Pete notices Goofy and grabs the fishbone and places it in Goofy's mailbox, even remembering to put the red flag up. How considerate of him to do that?! Not. Pete calls over to Goofy and Goofy isn't all that interested because he's studying. Pete comes over to taunt him like a weasel; and grabs the books. He calls politican "politikan" and thinks Goofy is running for dogcatcher. Geez; Pete, why don't you run for dogcatcher, it might make your scummy tactics against Goofy look only slightly less illegal. Goofy claims that he's running for mayor and Pete channels Bobby Heenan laughing at Hacksaw Jim Duggan for being a college football player. Goofy shakes his hand and appreciate his vote. No; I'm done that joke, guys. Doing it more causes overkill. Pete struggles and protests; so Goofy let's go and Pete goes flying and crashes into the mailbox; which only opens up and the fishbone lands on his belly; while the trashcan behind him somehow goes toppled over. Yeah.
Pete looks at the book and gets the CHILD CORRUPTING BALLOON OF DOOM about riding limos and having Goofy be his butler for all of eternity. Pete comes out of the limo wearing a purple top hat and looking like the most absurd mayor in history. Someone who has been hitting the joy juice too much; methinks. Pete drinks from the coconut mug on cue and Pete looks charmed as we return to reality (no, not really. Evidence #1: Slimeco itself.). Goofy claims that Pete looks a little flushed. Must be the bedeviled eyes getting to him. HA-YUCK! Pete clears the cobwebs and tells Goofy that this mayor job is for suckers. Wow; this is actually true. Too bad Pete is a dishonest gasbag saying this; but whatever. Pete claims that being mayor is aggravating because it's all lower taxes, fix potholes and build a new highway. Geez; that isn't much different than today, actually. Damn; we need science to come up with better materials to extend the life of our roads and lower the costs to boot. I know it's tough; but they are scientists. I have enough faith that they will find a way. Would still be better than the alternative: Nothing. Goofy explains that he's running to stop Slimeco from polluting. I'm sure Peg would love to vote for Goofy as mayor; so he can somehow stop Pete and his toxic manliness polluting on her and the kids. HA-YUCK! POW! OUCH! Ummm... Pete is inspired by this anti-pollution angle and we head to Pete's house as he and Peg are exchanging notes on the situation. Peg is laughing this out of the building and claiming that Pete cannot be serious. Oh come on, Peg! Pete is a scummy used car salesman. Being mayor is the PERFECT position for him. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. All the family is sitting down looking amused by this as Pete calls Peg a pound cake. Only Pete would consider body shaming as a cake metaphor on his wife. Peg proclaims that Pete is up to something. Geez; politicans with sneaky motives?! You're only making Pete's case stronger; Peg. Pete calls Peg, angel feet by the way. Pete claims that he's running to stop pollution. Considering that he had to think this up on the fly; he's lying. I wonder if there is videotape of Donald Trump doing this during the presidental election? Because if so; this proves that we need to teach the fine art of non-verbal cues right there. Peg asks since when since Pete was taking the smog devices off the RV's he was selling. Since when were there smog devices on RV's? Don't you mean "vehicle emissions controls"; Peg? Because that is what the devices are called.
Pistol (with the bluest eyes you ever did see) calls him out for littering. Oh come on, Pistol! Pete doesn't litter; that's Ma Beagle's gimmick! Rob Paulsen sounds weird today as PJ claims that recycling is for suckers. Yeah; it's like Pete is those art purists in Disney Feature; who think recycling is for hacks. I betcha none of them recycle anything in their lives and believe recycling is bicycling backwards. Pete claims that this is the old Pete. Which one? I mean; there are about three different Petes and they all acted the same to me. Maybe I should watch more very old school Disney shorts and my thoughts might change on that subject. Pete shows off a picture of Pete holding his nose while Slimeco is in the background. You do realize that this analogy of two politicans agreeing with each other is the same thing used by politicans to regulate the entertainment industry of violence, sex and language?! Peg comes up; teases putting him in the doghouse...and then hugs him claiming she's proud of him. Oy vey, Peg! Now we need Slimeco to be stopped; the pollution has affected Peg's brain. Even my polluted brain could clearly see through Pete's scheme and it's only there, because we have to have Pete screw up Goofy because they are rivals and it's comedy BABEE! The kids also embrace Pete as we scene change to a television shot of Slimeco smoking like a chain smoker in Canada. We pan down to see Goofy on a stage with a podium with his picture plastered on the wall. You know; I'm all for protesting at the building; but I'm certain putting a poster up there can be constructed as vandalism. Anyhow; Goofy has a sizable crowd as Goofy does the hard sell and proclaims that he'll clean up Slimeco and stop pollution. Goofy proclaims that the right way to vote is the Goofy way to vote. That's dumb; but Goofy is celebrating and the crowd cheers; so they have bought into it. Pete comes in and steals Goofy's notes during this as we jump cut to Pete's Car lot with a grey haired male with glasses, a mustache and a blue suit replaying everything that was just said. Then the guy tells us that Pete gave his anti-pollution speech at his used car lot. We jump cut to Pete on a blue RV as Pete addresses the crowd and sounds more awkward even with a teleprompter and notes. Geez; I'm shocked and appalled by this. You stupid idiot characters are supposed to be better than Donald Trump, dammit!
Pete calls Slimeco, Slimemeek; which would at least be an amusing name for a company. Heck; Fenton could be a anthro meek with that and break new ground, like Ralph Throgmorton did. Pete stumbles over Goofy and calls it the Petey way to vote. Here's some advice: Goofy doing his stump speech near the scene of the crime is much more likely to garner votes; than Pete being in his used car lot doing the speech, simply because Pete looks like an awkward scumbag trying to keep up; instead of Goofy who at least sounds like an honest guy who is merely naive and dumb. The crowd cheers him anyway as the television is turned off. We head to Fenton's chair as he was watching the television in his office and he's not pleased at these two do-gooder candidates? He wonders what this word is coming, too? Which is exactly the same thing when Donald Trump became the president of the USA, by the way. So Fenton turns around and he's in his board room as the only board member! EXCELLENT~! Melvin is calculating next to him as Fenton wants to control one of them. Geez; which one will he pick? Melvin proclaims that bribery is one of his best suits. Geez; what is with the death music in the background? Fenton slimes stage left because his bottom half is completely covered in slime. Fenton of course picks Pete because Goofy is way too honest. Melvin claims that he bought a car from Pete with the smog device removed and it was a lemon. Geez; what a shock that is?! Fenton likes it and wants Melvin on the computer to check his records. Melvin goes over to the computer (which doubles as a television set) and plugs in the name as lights and sounds ensues. Melvin thinks they have hit the jackpot as Fenton goes over the records of Pete; which contains a lot of lying, cheating, turning back odometers (but we repeat ourselves), and has the morals of a pickpocket. Fenton calls Melvin, Morton as Pete is so bribable that the plot can advance now as Fenton sees Pete as the new mayor of Spoonerville as Fenton laughs and we see Pete smiling on the screen to end the segment eleven minutes in. Sloppy; but effective enough so far, I guess.
After the commercial break; we head outside of Slimeco as we head inside to the factory on the sky shot as we exchange notes with Fenton, Melvin and Pete as Pete calls this quite an operation. There is no way this thing passes inspection; even in 1950! Pete then asks what they make here and Fenton blows white smoke from his cigar, claiming that it is lots and lots of that MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH! So we head inside the boardroom with the heels walking in as Fenton has brought Pete in here for a reason. You know what's so stupid about this? Fenton is covered in slime and such and no one notices. It's like they originally wanted Fenton to be a dognose or catnose; but someone decided that it was way too subtle for kids. As if the factory itself wasn't enough to tell us how slimey and scummy Fenton is! This is the definition of dumbing down right there. So Fenton wants to donate to his campaign fund as we get more dinging and opening shelves showing Pete the money. Pete is giddy as Fenton goes on about how anti-pollution Pete is as Melvin fills Pete's pockets with money as Pete proclaims that there are two sides to every issue. He claims that morals suck and is open to another point of view because Pete hates his brains so much that he wouldn't mind if they fall out. Compare that to Goofy; who's brain doesn't want to fall out on the thought that the brain might be sued for non-support. Fenton taunts him with the money; Pete taunts him using his pants since he missed a pocket. Fenton backs up and tells him to help himself as Pete digs out the money from the cabinet on the board table. So they make a deal: Pete gets into office, Pete makes sure Slimeco stays in business. Nowadays; Fenton would simply run for office and say bigoted things, and that would be enough to win an election. Fenton looks out the window and asks him to stop saying nasty things about pollution as well. Aw! Fenton fee-fee's are hurt. He probably showers in his own slime too. There is a fine line between courage and stupidity and Fenton has long crossed that line. Pete of course doesn't know what pollution is. Proof that money does have deletrous effects on the human brain.
We scene change to the most polluted lake Goofy could find as we continue on with the stump speeches and promises that Goofy is more likely to keep than Pete. Personally; the speech is in the right place, but using Max and his friends make it sound a wee bit selfish. I would say: "So everyone can have a nice, clean place to swim; and enjoy the water." That appeals to more voters. How you deliver your message is as important as the message itself. You need to be clear and percise to succeed in politics. Goofy wants them to vote for me; but doesn't mind if you vote for Pete. Ummm; that is a bad move now Goofy as we pan over to Pete on a picnic table as Pete declares Goofy to be a big dumb liar. He's only one third right here and I think you can guess which part is correct here. Oh; and we go all 4Kids Entertainment on the signs as one of them is completely blank. PJ, Pistol, Peg and everyone is shocked. I'm shocked that you are giving Al Khan dumb ideas on how to edit anime now as we have two more blank signs. Pete claims that there is absolutely nothing wrong with this lake. Pete takes off his clothes to reveal a really colorful swimsuit which clashes with his personality as Peg thinks he's up to something. Which is every episode that he is in and it's getting tiresome now. Pete dives off the diving board and into the lake, popping up and saying that this is refreshing. If this doesn't prove that money is evil; then nothing will and we are all screwed in the ass now. More swimming and loving it as Pete gets out and rubs himself with the towel as Pistol blows him off because he stinks. How many ways does Pete stink? As many ways as there are words to describe it; and I'm sure today's kids could add a lot more to this scene than us old farts ever could. Pete isn't even trying anymore now; another sign of money's deletorous effects on his brain. Everyone laughs at him as Pete groans. So we head on a street corner as the Goofy voting section is on the sidewalks as the signs have Goofy's face on again.
In comes Pete and his election red truck in super slow motion as the voters protest this outrage. Pete should have been a wrestler; because he certainly knows how to draw heel heat by moving. Pete then claims that this is shameful for Goofy to not appear in his own parade and wouldn't give the good people the time of day. So Pete brings out a basket of golden watches and gives them out to the crowd as they cheer and they turn on Goofy right there. Scene change to a farm as Goofy is on the megaphone in a wagon being dragged by a tractor driven by Max. So 10 years driving a tractor is A-Okay in DTVA. Goofy repeats his promo and only cows hear it. What an idiot?! He deserves to lose this election now. Lifestock cannot vote you stupid idiot! Max is wearing a flat hat as he asks about the parade route as Goofy claims that his map is correct as Pete is the one who drew it. Again; this is why he deserves to lose this election now. After all the episodes of Pete screwing him; he still continues to not get it when Pete gives him a map. Max is not amused as we head back to Fenton's office and he's disappointed...DISAPPOINTED I SAY~! Because in the newspaper; Goofy won the rural vote and Spoonerville county's heartland. Wait; so Goofy won the election anyway? UGH! Oh wait; it's the advance vote because in Spoonerville, cows can vote you see. WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS~?! Pete is at the end of the slimy board room table and is as shocked of this as I am. Pete promises to cream Goofy in the debate tonight and Fenton proclaims that he better as Pete bails stage left toodles. Fenton yells for Melvin (calling him Manroe; proving that he's a scoiopath as well) as Fenton calls Pete a knucklehead. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. He no longer trusts Pete anymore to defeat Goofy on his own; so he's going to dump toxic barrels into his limo and deliver them to the debate tonight. So we head to Pete's Car Lot with a large crowd on hand as the news reporter in the podium in the middle is Dan Blather as we begin the debate. Pete is on Dan's right and Goofy is on his left. Geez; how fitting?! Dan tells us that the debater will draw straws and Goofy draws a striped blue and white straw on a notepad. HAHA! Pete's straw is bendy and long; so he goes first. That's fine; it's not like Goofy can lose this debate since Pete being on the take is not taking Fenton anywhere. Can he? Dan's first question is a classic tax question that Pete is absolutely stumped on. HAHA! Maybe you should have deferred to Goofy; you spineless selfish gasbag!
So he brings out a tray of hamburgers and throws them to the people. Crowd cheers anyway and Dan looks disgusted; as if maybe this mayorship is beyond hope now and a dictator would be an improvement in this town. So I'm guessing, bring back the old mayor we see in this show already! Goofy is eating a doughy hotdog and it needs more ketchup. Well; no one should be surprised that this has turned into a debacle, you have a gasbag stupid idiot and a stupid idiot who is well meaning otherwise. That doesn't leave anything to work with here. Dan decides to go with the main topic as he calls Pete out on approving on dirty air and water as the crowd mumbles a bit while Pete is shocked and looking for something. Something that might be similar to a way out. Pete stammers like a stupid idiot and then goes into a story about a puppy and his mother which has to be a lie because he is not concussed when talking about this. BS&P Alert: Pete calls his mother a saint. We head into the living room of Pete's with Peg, Pistol and PJ watching on. Peg is so not buying this crap and how can she? She knows Pete only talks about this when he has a head injury. Peg's response is so my response: Demonstration of the pollution of the mouth. Indeed Peg, indeed. More melodramatics from Pete as now I wish Fenton just dumped the toxic waste on Pete and take his chances with Goofy being mayor now. The puppy's name is supposed to be Chester; but hell if I'm buying this sob story from this assbag. Goofy is buying this sob story and crying because this is what happens when you let fee-fees dicatate your life; instead of you dictating the fee-fee to stop and use some logic to solve this problem. Goofy hugs Pete and apologizes for not knowing this. Pete pushes Goofy away and proclaims that he made it up right in front of the public. Oops! Fenton was right; you cannot be trusted. Pete stammers like a stupid idiot and then the crowd throws the hamburgers back at Pete. Then Fenton shows up (check the slimey hand; I'm not fooled, but Dan still is anyway) as there are photos of toxic waste barrels in someone's residential garage as Dan gives the pictures to Goofy and Goofy takes a look at it and he's crushed because it's HIS garage. Why would Fenton need three pictures of this? Unless he was going to screw Pete as well; but that makes no sense since who would be the mayor then?! Goofy cannot believe this as we end the segment nearly eighteen minutes in. Well; this was a toxic mess, but not surprising considering whom we are dealing with.
After the commercial break; we head back to a color shot of inside Goofy's garage with the red toxic barrels as Dan is inside the garage calling Goofy the traitor that he is. So does that mean Pete wins the election by default now? So we head to the front porch with Max and Goofy sitting down sulking as Goofy is now called an Eggs Benedict! More like scrambled Eggs Benedict! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummm... Max corrects him; which is pointless because Goofy's is more accurate. Jump cut back to Dan Blather proclaiming that the election is tomorrow and Pete is already declaring himself the winner as he is addressed a crowd of Pistol, PJ and Peg; whom only Pistol is wide awake and has a balloon. Geez; even this is putting me to sleep now. So Goofy and Max are inside the garage with the toxic waste as Max claims that this is an obvious set up. NO?! REALLY?! By whom would it be....Goofy cannot believe that Pete would be behind this. Even funnier; since no one except Pete's family came to his final stump speech, that means everyone has turned on the candidates, which means the mayor of Spoonerville is clearly going to be the mayor we see in every episode of this series. I mean; who else could it be? Goofy then notices footprints and a slime trail heading out of the driveway as he deduces that it isn't Pete after all. Yes; Goofy has better forsenic skills then EVERYBODY in this show! Max thinks it's the swamp beast from Planet Nine and Goofy blows that off because it's Fenton. I mean come on; there's no way it couldn't be him because the characters designers went out of their way to make it obvious it was Fenton because kids need to be babied. I have see this in TaleSpin; but never THIS obvious in my life. And to think; I actually like this episode so far in spite of that idiocy. Goofy brings a pot of orange flower as Max bails and returns with the jar of clean air; just to show what being clean is really like. So Goofy walks down the street away from the hard camera...
Then we get the most pointless waste of time in the entire show: Jump cut back to Waffles sniffing the toxic waste. A green slime with eyes rises up on the top barrel. Waffles panics and runs stage left. Fade to black and return with Goofy entering the board room just like that. Fenton is waiting for him and he's pissed off like mad causing Goofy to drop the flower and clean air jar. It shatters and considering how lazy and rushed these animators are; I betcha the animation and sounds are completely ignored and the flower and jar are perfectly intact when we see it again. Yip; as I expected as Fenton calls Goofy mad. You don't know the half of it dood. Goofy of course accuses him of screwing his election bid and Fenton admits it carte-blanche because he had to stop him. Yeah; we cannot have kids thinking that only businessmen are capable of ruining lives now, can't we? Boy; the smoke is giving out skull and cross bones, so even it thinks Fenton is toxic beyond repair now. Fenton didn't want Goofy to shut him down as Melvin comes in and turns on the computer as Dan Blather reports from Goofy's property as the garage is destroyed completely with a skull and cross bones as Dan tells us that a monster made of toxic waste busted free from Goofy's garage and refused to be interviewed. Geez; that slime bag is alive just three seconds ago and it's already a Republican. It's going down the highway as Fenton is screaming at Goofy because Goofy exposed it to sunlight. Wait; what?! You are the one who wheeled that stuff into Goofy's garage; so it was exposed BEFORE it went into the garage Fenton. This is your fault now. Goofy claims that he did expose them to sunlight as Fenton is fed up with Goofy. However; the green slime monster breaks through the roof and yes; Quack Pack stole this from Goof Troop for Tasty Paste. No wonder people hated that show so much. The monster claims to be his dada which he thinks it's Fenton as Melvin can see the resemblence. Fenton blows them off and points at Goofy as the monster grabs Goofy and manages to make the jar disappear in between animation frames. Monster kills flower with the STINK BREATH OF DEATH!
Goofy calls him Mr. Ooze Monster as he opens the jar and puts air into the petunia and it grows back to normal again. The monster is not happy about this and sniffs the clean air; which causes him to choke on his own ooze and die in a green whirlpool; and somehow this CLEAN AIR OF DEATH makes it disappear in a warp. Riiiggggghhhhttttt! Fenton runs over and steals the jar after Goofy claims that the air didn't agree with the slime monster because it might be worth a fortune. Fenton takes a whiff of this and he starting choking off-screen as this is turning into a stupid Z-grade movie now; only Goofy is suppose to be stupid in storyline. The slime melts off of Fenton and he turns into a goofy clone with brown hair, brown suit, brown pants, brown shoes, tie and the world's most impressive smile. Goofy cannot believe this and neither can I. I thought he would be fatter. Melvin comes in with the mirror and shows off the face as Fenton actually says Melvin's name right and proclaims that he will clean pollution instead of causing it. First; change your last name. That would be a mighty fine start as Melvin stammers like an idiot because he cannot blow him off since Fenton got his name right. So yes; pollution can cause sociopathic tendences. Which explains Pete awfully well now. This is absolutely not believable, but it's still a lot more believable than when they did this finish in The Mighty Ducks; so I'll accept it. Goofy proclaims that his job is done and he walks out of the board room and slams the door. Fade to black as we get a lot of spinning newspapers as Goofy is declared a hero now by Dan Blather as he defeated the slime monster and soar ahead in the polls. Fenton also tears down Slimeco and opens a ballet school. Okay; at least dancing is better than destroying the environment, and probably pays better as well. Goofy wins election in a landslide; but still gives Pete a position in City Hall as his chaffeur. This is way too genreous as Goofy comes out of the limo after Pete does his stupid speech of doom which is behind the church as the crowd cheers. Goofy is dressed like a mayor with the goofest blue top hat he could find. Goofy winks to the hard camera and we circle fade out which ends the episode at 21:19. Imagine a Quack Pack episode that has semi-likable characters doing the exact same plotline as this. That's how this was. ** 1/2 (50%).
THE REVIEW LINE
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." This is how I felt after watching this episode. On the one hand; it was a fine environmental episode that was a lot more detached from reality than usual. It was so obvious that the entire reason for Fenton Sludge to be a sludge monster was to do the melting slime finish near the end and while it was fine for what it is; it felt really contrived and forced. This is basically a Quack Pack episode; only written better and having likable characters to back it up. Pete was his usual dirty self and you know what; I have another complaint about this show: Peg. She is starting to feel like the Super Busy Mom stereotype I now see in Johnny Test, where she does a couple of scenes per episode and we never see her again. This happened in the previous episode with Major Goof: Peg only appeared for one scene and never was seen again (she was mentioned one time though) despite the fact that Uncle Bob is Peg's uncle. Why isn't she the most focal point of the episode? It just makes the show look like a boys show instead of for everyone. I realize that boys are a major demographic, but it bites you back in the ass when the boys start thinking that they are being babied; instead of entertained. I hate this. I'm more compelled to wonder why Peg would marry Pete in the first place? Hell; Rebecca is in a lot more episodes and she gets focused episodes out of the Ying-yang. Peg barely gets any screen time because Pete/Goofy is so funny. It's things like this that make me feel that Goof Troop is becoming a big mistake now. The show has regressed back to the 1950's in almost everyway at this point; and it's getting on my nerves now. Overall; this was an okay episode; but it was so unbelievable that it wasn't believable and it did okay because the characters were likable for the most part. However; we have the final episode on disc one left to do: A Goof Under My Roof. Oh joy! And to think; political messages in this episode turned out to be the best thing about this episode ironically enough in a world where people HATE those sort of things. So...
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.