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Goof Under My Roof
Reviewed: 04/08/2017
And A Pete Over My Ass!
Well; here's another Pete scheming episode and I didn't like this one back when I was a kid. It sounds like every idiot scheme plot you ever saw as Pete claims that he now claim half of Goofy's property due to some blueprints he read. Yeah; like I'm buying that from a used carsalesman. So how does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Gary Greenfield and story edited by Dean Stefan. Gary is your usual cartoon writer, writing in such shows as Foofur, Punky Brewster the cartoon series, Dink The Little Dinosaur, Piggsburg Pigs! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 edition, X-Men and his most recent credit: Mega Man in 1995. Goof Troop is his only DTVA appearance. He has 22 Writing credits and 2 Misc credits to his resume. He debuted in Yogi's Space Race, Fabulous Funnies and Buford & The Galloping Ghost. The animation was provided by Guimares Productions, which is basically Sunwoo Animation wearing a different mask now.
We begin this one with red with white diamond outlines title card and a shot of a street facing Goofy's backyard. Jump cut to Max and PJ playing football as Max throws a pass to PJ and PJ misses for what is the third time in a row. What game are they playing; where incomplete passes allow Max to score points? And man; that football is much smaller than most nuts. Since they are playing in Goofy's backyard, they also came out of nowhere. Uh-oh! When even the animators won't play ball, that's a real bad sign for this episode, considering the storyline. Max bounces the ball off the fence and they grab it and throw it off the fence. I'm guessing now that it's a grab ball version of raquet ball. PJ throws it over the fence and it slams into Pete's mouth, who is in his lawnchair snoring in his backyard. Okay; I think it was supposed to be: Pete gets nailed in the face with ball and he wakes up. However; what really happened was: Pete wakes up, demands answers to this outrage and then the ball went into his mouth. You cannot tell me this wasn't a BS&P decision. Pete spits the ball and yells at the kids because the wooden fence is as fragile as his eardrums. Oh; and Pete claims that they are playing handball. I have seen handball, Pete. This is no handball. Pete leans on one of the boards and the entire fence comes down as he cuts a promo about one smack bringing the fence down. Okay; that was funny at least. Pete is mad, the kids scram and that is that. Scene change to Pete literally mending the fence and grumbling about it. He's also smashing the out of nowhere tomato plants; even though none of them are even close to the fence and one of them teleported in order for Pete to squish them. Goofy runs in horrified that Pete is doing this and Pete is blaming Max for all this; even though Pete's the one who touched the fence. Why doesn't that surprise me? Pete proclaims that Goofy now has the only ketchup plant on the block. Also funny. Pete bails as Goofy leans on the fence and it shakes. Goofy then gets inspired and moves the fence onto Pete's property. You know what; the longer they fight over the fence now, the better this episode will be because at least they didn't get to the plot yet...
So Pete and Goofy swing the fence around acting like a bunch of assholes who think they have more property than they should have. Swing your partner, do-ci-do; until you can't take it anymore. Pete and Goofy stop as Pete decides to settle this once and for all. Please don't, Pete. You two fighting over a fence was getting good. Pete bails stage right as Goofy kneels down and morns the tomatoes plant. Well; morn only needs one letter to spell moran, so there you go. Pete returns with the official property profile, showing all boundaries and borders. I'm not surprise that Pete doesn't realize that they mean the same thing. Pete looks at the blueprints and I'm afraid I have some bad news! Apparently; Pete owns the property right up to the middle of the giant window. Goofy grabs the blueprints and looks at it; even remembering to turn the blueprints around! Now; when Pete read the blueprints, he had an evil look on his face. Again; remember that for later. Goofy arms are twisted in knots as Pete is loving this reading of the blueprints. Goofy bonks himself as the blueprints as we clearly see that there is no boundary at all. So how could Pete say that he owns additional land on Goofy's property; when there is NO MIDDLE LINE to indicate that. STUPID! Pete uses a hoe to whack a flower pot on Goofy's property claiming he could build a nine hole golf course. I would say it would be a mini golf course. Glass shatters and Pete claims that he feels awful about this. I do too; but for a different reason. He doesn't feel awful as he's saying all this while using a hoe to cosplay a fishing rod. Pete even wants to raise buffalo for poker games since they bring their own chip as Goofy is dropped. Pete throws the hoe away and claims that he cannot do that to his pal Goofy. So; we're 4:05 into the DVD. Let's see how long until Pete rescinds that and starts building on Goofy's property. Pete claims that he won't charge rent and Goofy can keep the house as they shake hands. Again; I'm not buying this crap. Pete claims that he's a king, (not a prince) and Goofy is his groveling subject. For once; waiting until the eight minute mark before getting into the meat of the episode would have been better.
So we scene change to Goofy and Pete in swimming clothes in front of the swimming pool; which has a new control panel system since the last time I saw it. Pete's wearing a red/orange/white shirt on and Goofy is Goofy in being the biggest tool in the world. Pete climbs the ladder onto the diving board as Goofy claims that the temperture is up so it's heated. Of course; the temperture is in the blue; so the pool is so ice cold, Pete will freeze into an ice cube, I bet. Pete dives and notices that the pool is one ice cube and slams his head into and through the ice. Ouch! Goofy sets the knob back to hot and brings in the tauros-shaped life raft of doom on a rope as he wraps around Pete's right ankle. Goofy pulls Pete and Pete's head is still filled with ice. Well; I was half right about it. Pete calls him an idiot as Goofy climbs the ladder and is welding the SLEDGEHAMMER OF PLOT just to drive the whole stupid idiot plot thing home. Goofy proclaims that this is going to hurt him a lot more than it does Pete. That is the understatement of the decade, pal. Goofy jumps off the ladder and flies into the air and he lands off-screen and then somehow bounces off the giant ice block on Pete's head in the process. The ice block crumbles into giant ice shards as Pete is ticked off and the urge to kill a goof is rising. Goofy screams as Pete is forced to defend himself, but the BS&P hand of god raises it's ugly head again as Goofy is planted into a conveniently placed potted plant with his black legs sticking out. Of course! I wonder if that was changed at the last minute? Pete is relieved as Goofy gets up and asks for his sledgehammer, and it lands on Pete's head off-screen. Pete whinces in pain as Goofy acts like this is great. What a stupid idiot these two are?! Scene change to Goofy being on Pete's roof with the grey ladder as Pete is on ground level telling him not to mess this one up. Two years ago; Rebecca was allowed to say "screw this up", by the way. We see Goofy is dressed up like a tool welding a cane like device that has hay on it. That looked really weird.
Pete wants to eat off the chimney since he wants the chimney swept clean as Goofy insists he invest in a nice set of dishes; because Goofy is a stupid idiot who doesn't understand metaphors. Pete thanks him and sits on his lawn chair saying that Goofy should invest in a nice set of brains. Personally; I would make Pete invest in mental hygenie and a personality transplant. Pete takes the newspaper as Goofy pushes the chimney broom (to be charitable) into the chimney and then proclaims that he found something. Pete tells him that anything in the chimney is Pete's property; so toss it down to him. That at least sounds reasonable; except Goofy throws a beehive into Pete's lap. Oops! Well; Pete has nobody but himself to blame for that one. We have the bees in shadow while Pete jumps and juggles the beehive. It's so much funnier if the bees had dogs coming out to attack Pete; but this is Disney and they are not that SMRT..I mean SMART! Scooby-Doo looping effects ensue and since Guimares is basically Sunwoo wearing a different mask; now you are watching a classic! Out pops Goofy with an ash grey mustache asking what is Pete saying. He's yelling bees; Goofy. Just so you want to know. Goofy shakes the mustache and cannot hear all that buzzing. We get the most pathetic bee chase in history out of Pete as he gets whacked in the ass and then Pete runs into the stop and slams the door. Then he opens the door and cuts a promo on them. Pete then shuts the door and the bees whimper away stage right; effectively burying the whole spot for everyone. Pete goes to the fireplace and yells at Goofy to get down from there. Goofy manages to come down without any animation whatsoever as the ash and soot flies in and engulfs the scene. Then it clears and Goofy hops over Pete and loses his hat. Somehow; not one puff of soot lands on the two stupid idiots. BAD! Goofy claims that Pete has a soot problem. Pete claims he has a Goof problem. I think Pete has a personality problem. Circle fade out and then circle fade into a shot of a vacuum cleaner. Now this episode really sucks. HAHA!
Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Shaun Desmond.
That might be accurate in another way, too! Although so far; it hasn't been all that terrible. Goofy grabs the vacuum cleaner and tells Pete not to worry because he is vacuuming the living room in Pete's house. Of course; he's sucking up more pillows in two shakes of a pogo stick. Mostly done by Jesus H. Christ, I bet. Pictures get sucked up along with fireplace items; and so do Pete's shirt and pants. Wait; why is Pete wearing straps on his shoes? I know people were expecting me to say why Pete is wearing purple underwear with hearts on it; but come on! That happens in many of those spots from males anyway. Pete does the shamefully naked spot (despite wearing a shirt and underwear; works better with Ignatz anyway) and grabs the nozzle of the vacuum cleaner. Pete teases firing him and taking half of his house; but he's not going to. Considering that there is no evidence on the blueprints that there is a middle line, how does Pete know that he owns 50% of Goofy's property? Also; it would be a lot more believable if he said that Pete owned 10% of the property early on and then raised it up to 50% just to really stick it to Goofy. Of course; this would mean Pete knows who owns the property and just twisted it in his favor like a monster scummy heel would; but that's not what happened here. More to come, I assure thee. Pete then admits that getting free help is harder than getting goof help. Maybe it's because you are a scummy scumbag of a catnose, Pete Pete. Pete helps Goofy to the door, opens it and throws Goofy out as Goofy will be working outside where he cannot do any damage. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Like I'm buying that stuff. Scene change to Pete reading a newspaper on the rocking bench porch in the middle of his backyard as one of his buck tooths went from yellow to white within a few frames. Goofy brings out a lawnmower. Pete tells him to mow the lawn and avoid Peg's rose bushes. Goofy sells and then tries to start the lawnmower; and of course it won't start. Because we have to milk the point home that Goofy cannot start a lawnmower properly. I'll let this one slide because I cannot start it either.
Goofy pulls on it so hard and it goes off and starts mowing on it's own. Goofy chases after it and grabs onto the handles. Pete yells at Goofy and Goofy somehow manages to turn the lawmower around without touching the rose bushes. How about that?! So this leads to the lawnmower going to the rocking bench as Pete panics and bails. The rocking bench gets destroyed of course as the lawnmower chaes Pete right into the house. Pete goes up the stairs and somehow the lawn mower doesn't damage a single thing in the house. I assure you; if this were today, half of the house would have been destroyed. Because kids love seeing character destroy people's properties, see. To be fair; this was unintentional on Goofy's part; so it doesn't fall under the impunity rule. Geez; there is destruction and damage totally off-screen; I must be prepping myself up for The Mighty Hercules now. Pete runs back downstairs and out of the house as Goofy and the lawnmower follow him. Pete jumps onto the top of his own mailbox to sidestep Goofy and the lawnmower. Goofy and the lawnmmower go down the street out of sight away from the hard camera while Goofy does his trademark redneck cry. Then we get the always thrilling logic break of doom as five seconds later; Pete turns around and in comes Goofy and the lawmower from the opposite direction. Pete is begging as he is now BEHIND the mailbox for no reason as he covers his eyes. Sunwoo's animation is so cheap here; I swear I'm watching The Mighty Hercules in places. The artwork isn't good either as Goofy and the lawnmower come in and Goofy plops on the ground as the lawnmower goes dead without any further incident. BOO! HISS! That lawnmower needs to be in The Lawnmower Man: The Animated Series now. Goofy claims that the mower ran out of gas as Pete grabs him and stuffs him into the trash can. So Pete has fired him and brings out the construction tractor of death. How he got that in the garage, I don't know as Goofy is no longer his helper and he gets 50% of the property of course which ends the segment nine and a half minutes in. Not bad all things considered and now it's all downhill from here.
After the commercial break; we hear crashing sounds as we are pitch darkness and return as the entire kitchen of Goofy's is completely wiped out and destroyed. Max protests this outrage as Goofy states that it's Pete's property. Max thinks Pete is stealing their property and that's not right. As we will discover at the end; Max was totally correct about this, but since we don't know that yet, we have to assume Pete is telling the truth here, no matter how much of a gasbag lying scumbag he is. I don't think the Bill of Rights is going to save this property, Max. So, jump cut to Pete bulldozing flowers and ground right in front of PJ. In comes Pistol and PJ as Pete is forced to stop. Pistol wants to play with the tractor; which I was hoping they would do this and have it last five minutes or so, just anything to take the edge off of this stupid episode. Peg is in "full Peg" mode: Being sweat and they being angry when she demands answers to this outrage. To be fair; this is a complete outrage, in more ways than one. Pete tells Pistol that she can ride on the tractor later. Pete states that he's building a new wing because he owns half of Goofy's property. Peg reasonably asks "who says that?" and Pete struggles in his pocket to find the blueprints; but Goofy brings them in and we get either a big logic break or an omission of guilt that Pete intentionally started this: When we saw the blueprints earlier; there was no middle line. When the blueprints are shown here; there is clearly a cyan blue line crossing one of the properties. So yeah; Sunwoo screwed this spot up. Peg proclaims that Pete doesn't have the right to knock down Pete's house. Goofy comes in and defends Pete on this because it's a free country and we should have the right to post bills. Now; if I was writing this; I would have Peg also say: "Even if we do own half of Goofy's property; it's joint property! Any decisions you make must be agreed to by me; and vice versa." That way; it gives Pete an excuse to do destruction behind her back while she goes to the Spoonerville County office with Pistol to check on the property line because even if he's right, he would still have to make sure Peg is looking the other way and make him into a bigger heel.
Anyhow; Peg tells Pete no more destruction or home improvement until she gets back. So if she comes back; Pete can destroy Goofy's house then? That's a very poor choice of words there, Peg. Which is why my booking idea makes more sense here. Pete bails and calls PJ, junior. So there is no doubt that PJ stands for "Pete Junior". PJ is protesting; but Pete ignores it because once Peg sees the improvements; she'll love it. Geez; Pete is such a sexist catnose if he thinks Peg is so stupid to be falling head over heels over whatever Pete is planning here. PJ gleefully answers that one for me as we scene change to Pete in his motor boat with a fishing rod as he is literally casting his line into Goofy's living room; most of all into a fish bowl containing a goldfish. Oh; did I mention that the fly Pete is using looks like Him from Whoopass...ERRR...I mean Powerpuff Girls? Goldfish hides behind the model castle in the fishbowl as we get another stupid logic break from Sunwoo: Pete is now literally inside Goofy's living room and is perfectly intact. WHAT?! In comes PJ with the pool table on his back claiming that it's roomier than Yankee Stadium. No, it is not PJ! Just because Pete is a lying scumbag doesn't mean you have the right to lie either. In comes Goofy with a peach pit pie; which looks not baked at all. Goofy playing peacemaker is so cute that he trips on a rug and falls flat on his face. You can guess where the pie landed without me saying it. Pete is so touched he Pete takes out a measuring tape and does the worst measuring ever claiming his half of the property. And then paints a white line across from the vase and it halves the green sofa; all to avoid unneccesary trespassing of course. Pete doesn't expect any problems as long as Goofy and Max stay on their side. And what will happen if they do trespass Pete? Yeap; this episode is slowly draining me of life now. I wish they waited until the third act to do this. Scene change to Goofy turning on the television on his side as Max doesn't want to watch some television show I don't care about and bails stage left right onto Pete's property to play with PJ. Ridiculous Chicken is sure ridiculous; and not just because Goofy says so.
Goofy relaxes on his side of the sofa; but then the television gets burned out by a second television with Pete on the other side of the sofa watching a baseball game blowing off an umpire for being blind. Goofy tells him he's watching cartoonies and Pete blows him off. Goofy calls the television a little loud as Pete blows him off again. Pete pushes a button his remote to bring down two giant speakers; just to make the place even louder than it already is. Are you sure that guy who thought TaleSpin was too noisey was confusing it with this show; or even the Bubsy pilot? Of course Pete cuts a Bostonian promo as Goofy is forced against the pile of international objects in the background as Goofy calls them rotten. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Pete then straddles inbetween the line and changes Goofy's remote as we get a double-header, which would make more sense today than it did in 1992; but whatever. You can tell Pete is really heeling it up here since Pete has violated Goofy's property space no less than five times in this scene alone. Goofy's only done it once; due to his elbow being in the wrong place, and that is Sunwoo being Sunwoo of course. Head to outside at the front door of Goofy's house in front of the living room as Max and PJ are exchanging notes on the situation. At first I thought they were going to come up with some plan to break Pete and stop this nonsense; which in any other episode would be grand. Instead; they slap skin and hope they tear both houses down. WHAT?! Oh sod off; you scoipatheic pieces of crap! I wondered when this episode was going to fall; and there it was right there. Sometimes, character development can be worse than the disease. Scene change to Goofy committing his second violation by crossing from the stove to the table to eat spagetti and meatballs. Goofy puts the dinner on the middle of the line like a stupid idiot; allowing Pete to come in and chop the dinner in half and eat it. Goofy protests this outrage; but Pete reminds him of the line. Personally; the whole dinner was made on Pete's side of the line, so Pete has a point there. Of course; at the end of this, none of this will matter of course. So they stare down a meatball which is in the exact middle of the line with forks on each side of the line. They stick their forks into the meatballs and we have a tug of war. Then somehow; the plate of pasta has gone whole and has teleported back to the middle of the line during this. WHAT?!
Goofy wins and the meatball flicks onto his side of the line. The meatball bounces away from Pete and Goofy (Violation #7 for Pete) go after the meatball as it bounces through the house and straight into Waffles' mouth. Good! Waffles is the tie breaker; and he screwed both guys. At least something in this scene wasn't screwed up. Oh wait; Pete grabs Waffles by the throat and Waffles brings the meatball out of his mouth with his tongue as we circle fade out for the second time in this episode alone. We return with Max on the railing of the front porch outside Goofy's house sulking as Goofy walks out asking what's the matter. Max claims that the kids around the park were calling him names. Goofy asks who are they calling him as two boys on bicycles are riding in the street, waving at him and calling him Half-house Maxie over and over again. Was that suppose to be an insult? It's not like Goofy doesn't call him Maxie half of the time. See what I did there? The kids bike away mocking Maxie like a bunch of eight year olds as we go into AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) within ten seconds. Goofy feels bad about losing Max's bedroom and all and wants to give him a present as they walk into the house and violate the property line again as Max is pleading that it is not a bag of marshmellows. At this point; I'm willing to take anything now as Goofy is basically admitting that he bought a bag of marshmellows. Yip. Goofy brings out the paper bag and Max looks into it. However; the bag is empty. I don't think Max knows if he should be angry or relieved at this; but guess who ate the marshmellows? Come on; guess, it's too shocking! SURPRISE! IT'S ANTONIO INOKI~! POW! OUCH! Ummmm...Okay; it's Pete. Pete also burps just to be a dick and Goofy is pissed. Yes; despite taking half of his property and being an asshole at Goofy; this is what pushed Goofy over the edge. I know Goofy is supposed to be stupid in storyline; but come on! THIS MEANS WAR~! A GOOFY WAR~! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm.. This ends the segment fifteen and a half minutes in. You know what; until about halfway through this episode, this wasn't horrible. Not nearly as entertaining as Your Baloo's In The Mail; but for the most part, it didn't cause physical pain to me. But there still is seven minutes left to screw this one up...
After the commercial break; we get a shot of outside as Pete declares that he accepts this declaration of war on Goofy as Disney Captions screws this up by claiming Max had said it. Oy vey! I just love how Pete is wanting to adhere to the rules of the Geneva Convention; as if anyone in a real war ever follows it to begin with. As if the real fighters give a crap about rules! What does the Geneva Convention think war is; a professional sport or something?! Can this be dripping with any more sarcasm than it already is?! Pete goes into the kitchen and opens the fridge because he wants a snack. This is absolutely not in the Geneva Convention; so why am I not surprised at the lack of respect for it by Pete? Goofy comes in as Pete brings out a container of whip cream and squirts it on Goofy's hands. Because Goofy's a stupid idiot you see. Pete then brings out a feather invokes the most devasating move in all of DTVA, the COOCHIE-COOCHIE-COO OF DEATH~! Goofy sneezes and slams the whip cream into his face. Why wasn't it ketchup?! Because that would make more sense since Pete originally destroyed tomato plants earlier into ketchup and that would be your payoff. I betcha BS&P was responsible for this one. Goofy is angry because that was a dirty trick as Pete gleefully answers that one for me and laughs. Geneva Convention, my ass! Goofy sneezes again and the whip cream lands on Pete of course. Yes; this war is off to a roaring start. Not. Jump cut to PJ agreeing with me as Max calls this a cold war. Yeah; more like absolute zero since there is zero heat for this war since it won't matter at the end of this episode. Pete brings out the bottle of ketchup and tries to pour it on Goofy's head. Okay; I stand corrected then. Goofy tells Pete to hit it hard because the ketchup won't pour. Of course Pete looks at the bottle end like a stupid idoit and gets poured on. I never thought A Fuel Dollars More would be the better looking fight; but here we are now. Goofy mocks him for being a giant hamburger; so at least one person in this story gives a damn about getting this stupid fight over.
Goofy goes to the cupboard and brings out a box of quick rise yeast and proceeds to pour it down Pete's pants. I am not making this up! Pete protests this outrage as his pants turn into the biggest ass and breasts you ever did see. And who says Animanics has a monopoly on dirty adult jokes?! Goofy bails into the living room as Pete cannot touch him because his ass buns cannot fit through the door of course. Pete is begging for help and Goofy actually accepts it. Goofy believes in the Geneva Convention?! Riiiigggghhhhttttt. I betcha he doesn't even read the title of the thing; let alone read the fine print. Goofy takes out a toothpick and pokes Pete in the ass buns and it explodes causing Pete to fly like an balloon running out of air. Max giggles at this; calling this an air war. You mean air strike; you giggling goofball! This goes on for a while, until Pete slam dunks himself into the out of nowhere backboard with basketball net. PJ calls it a three pointer as Pete breaks the net and crashes onto the floor. Pete gets up angry and pops the net off his body as Pete grabs Goofy and slides him down....I cannot believe I'm typing this; but Pete did in fact install a bowling alley in the living room out of nowhere for no reason at all, other than to give the writer a stupid spot to make the kids laugh at. Oh; and apparently, someone forgot to tell the writer that Goof Troop is not Darkwing Duck because Goofy gets turned into a bowling ball for no reason at all, other than...you guessed it. Pete bowls Goofy into the pins, it's a strike which PJ writes down on a notepad as such and then the ball bounces back, bonks into Pete and Pete goes flying and does a snow angel spot into the conveniently placed wall. Apparently this house has walls made of brick, for no reason as PJ comes over to console him. Apparently; Pete appears to have a concussion and lost all of his bottom teeth as he wants succotash for supper. Now the problem with this is: In a concussion spot; Pete always addresses his mother when he does the spot. But this writer is so clueless that he addresses PJ instead. Dean Stefan should have noticed this and changed PJ with his mother. Okay; now the writing is going south...
Scene change to Max and PJ looking outside the window in the front of Goofy's house for no reason at all. PJ asks why they cannot just get along as Max explains that they are immature since they are suppose to be grown ups. Truer words never spoken, Max. So we head back in the living room as Goofy has finally decided to use the white line to create a brick wall barrier. Considering that Pete ran into a brick wall in the last scene, this actually makes sort of sense. Good for you Gary! Although it would have made even more sense if PETE was doing the bricklaying, since he was the one who ran into the wall, not Goofy. So yeah; I'm being a tad more forgiving here when I shouldn't have. Pete is impressed by Goofy's masonary skills. I was hoping he said "free mansonary"; just so I could get a cheap shot in as Pete claims that the wall is on his property. Even though it's clearly on the line, so it really is on both sides. Goofy blows him off like a little grade school brat; which I have mentioned before, Goofy is not good in being an asshole. So guess what happens? They start having a push war over the brick wall; which is exactly what they did to the wooden fence earlier, because we have to repeat the joke for all the slow fans out there who didn't see the early part of the episode doing the same thing. Nothing wrong with that; but it's true. Besides; them doing it was funny, so I don't mind them doing this again to take the edge off of this horrible plot. Pete then stops and moves about five inches, allowing Goofy to push the brick wall over and it crumbles, allowing Goofy to bump on bricks. That looked like it sucked; and if Goofy had a brain, he would probably be hating life now. Pete then is pissed because his stupidity in allowing Goofy to push the brick wall allows one of the bricks to destroy the television. Aw; my heart bleeds for thee. Not. When Pete talks about his television; he claims that it's a high-defintion television which has existed since 1972 in digital form; but wasn't a standard until a full year after this show aired. In fact; the first HD broadcast didn't occur until 1996 and wasn't a huge thing until the last ten years or so. So this is a half-anarchoism in hindsight.
Needless to say; I don't buy his assertions and they are just an excuse to get Pete angry as hell claiming that Goofy broke the television set. Sadly; this is partially true as Goofy claims that he got the third out. Wait, what? Pete claims that he has his eyes on home plate as he looks in the general direction. At first; I thought Pete was going to destroy Goofy's piano; but then I realized that he's going to the cupboard containing dishes as it's a china cabinet which Goofy defends. Goofy claims that the dishes and the cabinet come from Aunt Goofilia. Plus; it's a family heirloom and also on Goofy's side of the property. Pete breaks off moose antlers from the wall and puts them on on the side of the staircase, as he calls Goofy the family airhead. So Launchpad is Goofy's father? That makes no sense. Pete starts to charge up like a bull as Goofy brings out a red piece of cloth and calls Pete bullheaded. Okay; if I was booking this; I would use a bull's horns instead of a moose antler. Is BS&P really pissy about this now? Answer: Of course they are! Horns are Satanic; don't you realize that, Mr. Weagle?! Jump cut to PJ and Max inside the house as Max waves a white hanky and does some Spanish to annoy me. PJ's Spanish sucks by the way. Max gets evil and Pete's antler has turned into concrete for no reason. Please let this be the final bump before Peg arrives, that's all I ask. Goofy waves the red cloth and then bails allowing Pete to bonk into the china cabinet and laugh out loud as dishes are lying on the floor; and none of them shattered. So what was the point of doing that spot then? Or the next spot of Goofy grabbing the dishes like a clown juggler. In fact; the china cabinet suffered glass damage on the windows and neither one cares. DUMB! Pete makes jokes about flying saucers, ha-yuck! Pentagon reference ensues as Pete's voice sounds echo-ey for no reason. So Pete throws a saucer at Goofy and Goofy swings over to grab it; allowing the dishes he has to get WARNERED! Somehow; doing the Warner spot was enough to shatter them off-screen with Max and PJ cringing on cue. WHAT?! Pete comes over to Goofy and sarcastically feels sorry for the dishes being shattered.
Dammit! We still got over two minutes left of this stupid episode as Goofy rolls up his sleeves and decides to be serious about this. Which he proceeds to tie Pete's shoelaces together. Of course! BS&P RULEZ~! Goofy blows him off and then realizes that this isn't enough to floor Pete as Goofy bails out of the house and Pete bounces after him protesting this outrage. Pete bounces on sidewalk and then trips and roll into a ball and somehow crashes into a trash can that was no where near where Pete is rolling. And Pete has a banana peel on his head while Goofy points it out for us. Pete brings out an eaten watermelon (and considering that Goofy has black arms and legs; THAT'S RACIST~!) and Goofy jumps into a trash can to dodge it, which came out of nowhere. Sunwoo is killing this stupid episode now and it's time to mercy kill this episode now. Bones of fish get involved as Goofy takes it in the kisser as PJ and Max walk out not impressed with this childish fight. Max calls this gross and there is that echo voice again. And then they walk into the house and we scene change to a street at HAPPY HOUR as Peg and Pistol have returned in their car as she watches the two stupid idiot adults make the worst mess ever on the sidewalk. Pistol thankfully points this out to us which is enough for Pete and Goofy to stand down as Peg is yelling at them for acting like a bunch of children. Dammit! I would have paid good money to see this fight, too and the writers give us the beginning and the finish only; which lasted less than a minute. Pistol sniffs out Pete and it stinks worse than Maurice even before taking a bath. Pete of course instantly blames Goofy for this and we bicker and argue as Pete claims that Goofy is jealous because Pete owns half of the property. Peg finally obtains a copy of the blueprints and shows them off because Pete doesn't own half of Goofy's house. Okay, fine. Goofy owns half of Pete's house. WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?! You see, Pete read the blueprints upside down. So yes; half of Peg's property is Goofy's, something Peg should have known from the start because in the pilot episode...Ahem...PEG SOLD THE F*CKING HOUSE TO GOOFY! YOU CANNOT PRETEND THAT PEG DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS FROM THE START; BECAUSE SHE SOLD THE HOUSE TO HIM! *panting*.
I realize that this show is episodic; but even if it's episodic, it still has to make sense with the pilot. By booking it this way; you made Pete look like a stupid idiot instead of a scummy heel who conveniently ignored the blueprints which would at least make this all make sense, you made PEG look even dumber because she was the original seller of the house and thus should have known who owned what. Even worse; if Goofy really does own half of the property from the start; why wasn't Pete's house moved or compressed because of it? They booked this as part of the suspense and then proceeded to screw it up by being in a different world. This is exactly why it's problematic to have freelance writers because you never know if they have been paying attention to the show or not. TaleSpin almost never had this problem with their show even at it's worst. Their problem was Ken and David, who were inhouse writers. This episode ending is beyond stupid because Peg was right there at the eleven minute mark and could have ended it right there; but they erased the pilot from her brain in order for her to leave. Why bother having her in the episode until the very end then? The saddest thing about this is; up until that point, this episode wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Sure; it's still not good, but it didn't cause me physical pain like it did when I was a kid. This ending caused me physical pain and it wasn't funny. So yeah; Pete's in shock over this as Peg then proceeds to rub it into Pete and Goofy by showing how to settle disputes in a "mature way". The kids loved it of course; even then they were a lot more mature in this episode than the adults. Pistol is bouncing around wanting them to do it again. I approve of this; so I could see it in it's entire form instead of the beginning and the end of this. Pete is still in shock as Goofy assures him that he won't charge rent or anything, but he wants Pete to do some favors for him. So yes; no one has learned anything, although with Goofy it's no surprise at all. To be fair; rebuilding the house is a reasonable request as Pete moans and groans to mercifully end the episode and disc one of this volume at 21:11. The full episode wasn't as bad as I remembered it if you discount that horrible finish and ending. And no surprise; the episode simply stopped just to complete the crap. -1/4 * (-5%). To be fair; I originally thought it would be -* 1/4; but there were some funny moments in this; so fair is fair. The worst episode in Goof Troop, methinks and it's been a long while since Bad Tidings that a DTVA episode has gotten a negative rating.
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; I knew coming in this wasn't going to be a good episode and I'm sort of glad I finally got it done and out of the way. Believe it or not; outside of the finish and ending, this episode was bad, but it was tolerable enough that my head didn't hurt. Sure; the whole plot is an idiot plot and Pete is the worst kind of idiot in pulling it off. It would have been better served if he saw the blueprints and then turned them upside down, so at least I can boo him. Sure; it hurts the suspense a lot, but it would have made Pete into a heel because he's at his best as a scummy number one heel of the show anyway. The animation and artwork were off in places and Sunwoo was botching up stuff left and right throughout most of it. Nothing I haven't seen before so I was fine with it. The kids were perfectly fine for the most part. It's Peg that angered me and that was mostly the finish because it made her look stupid and caused most of the quality drop. So in other words; this wasn't nearly as bad as Bubba Big Brainstorm or dirtysomething or even Bad Tidings. It was a ** with a -** 1/4 finish that didn't end the episode as it simply stopped. Gary Greenwald's career didn't last much longer as he was gone by 1995; so there you go. What more can I say? So next up will be the final two episodes before Easter Sadism on disc two, which should be even better. So...
Thumbs way down in hell for this episode and I'll see you all next time.