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Goodbye, Mr. Goofy
Reviewed: 03/11/2017
Hello, Mr. Pete!
Yeah; once again, we have another Pete scheme of doom: Pete has an unlimited supply of plans regarding Goofy's home. Sadly of these plans might actually work and deprive Goofy of his home. He just never gives in and gives us something different like Hallow-weenies; which didn't involve any scheming. In fact; out of the eight episodes on this disc set showing Pete, six involve Pete scheming. Talk about repetition! So, how does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Jeff Saylor. The story was edited by Carter Crocker. The animation was provided by Sunwoo Animation.
We begin this one showing Goofy's property which is being blocked by purple daisy like flowers and lime green episode letters. A bee comes in and pollinates the flower as Goofy is telling Max to rise and floss, because dental hygenie is important, you see. If only Goofy and Max would make mental hygenie more important than that. Most so, Pete Pete. Head inside the living room as Max appears on the stairs and slides down the railing like he's on a waterslide. Goofy has boxes of streamers and balloons as Goofy wants Max to stream the streamers while Goofy balloon up these balloons. Because you see; Goofy is so stupid in thinking that moral guardians will not notice what he is really doing to those balloons. Goofy blows up a balloon and it swells his head. Only Goofy could pull this off. Goofy's tongue sticks out as Goofy's ears suddenly becomes Mickey's. Ah; so that is how it's done. Okay; good to know. His foot swells like mine when sitting down and he presses on it; which allows the balloon to exit out of Goofy's mouth. Goofy calls it getting the heart rate going as Max brings out a streamer and asks if it isn't National Yodel Day again. Damn; what has this cartoon wrought today?! How many times I had to watch shows to rant on that contains the worst yodeling I have ever heard. Bea from Fish Hooks and Fanboy & Chum Chum from...you guessed it. Goofy claims that it's not; because it's really to add one dollar to their monthly mortgage payment. And people ignore this and scream bloody murder when todays cartoons pull off this crap?! Balloon goes flying and it feels like a baseball off Max's back during the process as the house will now be paid in 34 years and 364 days instead of 35 years even. This is the definition of a redneck right there, folks! Goofy grabs the balloon as he shows the envelope of cash as he needs to go to the bank to make it official. Lots of blowing balloons and yodeling until the cows come home. So yeah; blame this show for all of the bad yodeling viewers had to hear throughout the ages. Goofy blows and gets encased in the balloon; which might as well be bubble gum as this party is loaded.
Okay; here's the stupid part of this: Goofy is having a party for reducing the mortage by one day. One dollar increase equals one day. How about cancelling the party and instead of 34 years, 364 days; it's more like 34 years, 330 days. The number of days depend on the cost of the party flavors and just do without the party flavors. I know this isn't much; but come on! Goofy floats around as he claims that he's buying a cake that is nine and a half feet tall. That costs $20,000 today, Goofy. That means that if you didn't buy the cake; you would have paid the entire mortage and have at least $7,000 left over; since your mortage is around $13,000. What an idiot?! Goofy's balloon hits a needle on the conveniently placed ceiling lamp; and Goofy goes flying. Goofy flies out of the house as we jump cut to Pete's bedroom with Pete snoring and Peg sleeping in bed. Goofy hyperboles up over the house as Pete wakes up and panics. Pete runs around and trips on a blanket with a few plastic pink flamingoes as he walks out blowing off Goofy as he steps into a B&W picture frame of Goofy. Are you sure this is Goofy's trash and not some devious plan by Peg to make you look like an awful...Oh wait; it's Goofy's trash as Pete trips over a shoe (!!!) and tumbles down the stairs littered with trash. Pete is framed as the picture frame somehow teleported from Pete's foot right onto his neck. How about that for a logic break?! Scene change to the kitchen as Pistol and PJ are playing tug of war with a sack. Peg yells at them to break this pointless spot up as PJ insists that they are not fighting, but negotiating a business transaction. How bad is Donald Trump when he doesn't even stoop to this kind of thing as President? Pistol of course wants the trash bag as Peg is confused about this fight for chores. PJ brings out a scroll because Pete started an incentive program; which is pretty noble of him, if his motavation was not to get out of chores himself. More fighting over the sack as Pete is paying five cents for taking out the trash and the sack breaks causing the trash to ruin Peg's clean floor as Peg has gained a whistle around her neck for no reason.
More incentive bullcrap and bickering by the kids ensue and even I'm getting sick of it. Peg tells them to not think about it as the kids snap their fingers for no reason as Peg is going to have the talk with Pete. Uh-oh! That usually means, "negotiate the terms for another visit to the doghouse" in Peg speak. Scene change back to Goofy's house as the place is loaded with streamers, party flavors and balloons. Goofy claims that the house looks like a million bucks. Knowing Goofy; that might be literal, which makes him look even dumber. Door bell rings which has a kazoo sound at the end of it. This was before ringtones were a thing by the way. Goofy answers the door and it's Pete. I know this because Pete throws Goofy a pink flamingo like a dart, which Goofy ducks and the flamingo sticks to the wall like a plunger dart. Goofy claims that the flamingoes are returning to cappuccino since it's fall. Well; this episode aired in late October; so that might make sense. By the way; all 78 episodes of Goof Troop and the Christmas Special aired between September and December of 1992, a span of three months! Yes, three months! TaleSpin required a little more than a year to broadcast sixty-five episodes! Pete is covered in stuff as he starts throwing international objects at Goofy and yells at him to stop with the junk being put on Pete's property more or less. Not a bad idea, considering how much of an asshole Pete is. If it wasn't for Peg Pete; I would not live next door to Pete at all. Goofy basically admits that almost all of this stuff is his, but is unsure about the wooden barrel ice cream machine. So Goofy brings out an extension cord and plugs the ice cream machine in as Pete handles it. Goofy tests the machine on low and isn't so sure. Then it's to a speed of G; which would have been funnier if the number 2 was a "G". It isn't. Pete vibrates like a vibrator that needs a tune up. So we put it on maximum and Pete (despite pleading for mercy) bounces around; and this causes him to misspell off as "A-W-F". Wait; is Pete a secret benefactor of the American Wrestling Federation? TUNE INTO SOFT COPY TO FIND OUT~!
Goofy tries to unplug the damn thing; but the damn plug is like an old extension cord in that it never comes out. So Goofy literally pulls the plug and the ice cream machine gives Pete a wooden gall block necklace around his neck in the process. Pete is angry because Goofy gave him a Goof Twitch. Geez; and you thought cooties was an awful thing?! Pete has one thing to say to him and he warns him that if he leaves his crap (crud since this is BS&P RULEZ after all) around he'll lose it. Goofy agrees as he puts the envelope of money in his pocket proclaiming that he's going to the bank. Pete proclaims that Goofy is catching on and walks off the property. Goofy goes into his house talking about burglars and he cannot be too careless when it comes to his MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH. So he decides to hide the money somewhere where he would have trouble finding it. He goes through the bread box, the gutters (where his head is right now) and under Waffles the cat. I assure you your cat is not going to protect your money, Goofy. At best; he'll shred it. At worst; he'll shred Chainsaw with a chainsaw. Goofy is back in the living room after about three anime scene changers and steps on a roller skate. Goofy lands on his knees as the skate bounces off the wall and then bounces into Goofy's nose. Goofy decides to tape the money to Max's rollerskate; which he does in the next scene changer. Is this really any stupider than putting the sub-electron amplifier in the stuffing of Molly's doll, Lucy. This leads to Goofy slinging the tape roll into Waffles. Waffles screeches and rides on the rollerskate. Waffles and skate bounce off everything for a while as Pete walks to his front door to get his newspaper. Waffles crashes into Pete's face as he literally blacks out. Pete grabs Waffles and tosses him away as he notices the roller skate with the envelope filled with Goofy's mortage money. Uh-oh! I think we know where this is going now. Pete blows off Goofy; but then recoils because he'll hang onto the money to teach the absent-minded lamebrain a lesson in leaving thing on his property. So Pete finds his clothes hamper and puts it in there.
So we scene change to Pete sitting down at a love seat in front of a window with a stand containing his binoculars as he looks at the living room as Goofy is looking through the cushions and underneath the carpet (by ripping up the carpet) among other things. So we get three more anime scene changers as Goofy found Santa's hat in the chimney, and is throwing stuff out of the bathroom into the hallway; including the bathtub as Max is watching on. Scene change back to Pete's look off as he laughs his ass off, because he's an asshole. Jump cut to Peg taking the laundry out of the hamper as she asks what in the world is he laughing about. Uh-oh! Pete claims that he's bird watching and spotted a rare cuckoo next door doing some very amusing things. The money envelope falls into the basket as Peg is blowing off Pete for turning the children into a couple of greedy little money-grubbers. Geez; Peg, you could have said: "turned our children into you, you greedy little money-grubber!" That would be even more accurate. Pete handwaves it off because it was a success as in comes PJ and Pistol revealing their work and they demand $18.45 and $21.12 in that order. So they earned almost $40 among the two. Peg claims that this rests her case. Ummm; Pete was claiming success, so it's Pete whom rest his case, Peg. Pete then deducts everything to cover the cost of life plus a dollar for the presidential campaign; so it's 75 cents for PJ and 83 cents for Pistol. Still more than what Max got; so PJ and Pistol should be lucky. Pistol asks if this is illegal. Ummmmm...nope. Unless you consider social security (called social insecurity by Pete; which Don Karnage also said to Kit in Polly Wants A Treasure; although Pete's version makes more sense than Don Karnage's one.) to be illegal, which it isn't. Pete talks about honest dollars being worth two bits; quick bucks are worth their weight in gold. Sadly; true, albeit sort of illegal. PJ gets dollar signs in his eyes of course as Pete goes on about the cold, hard reality of high finance. PJ grabs the basket and runs downstairs since laundary is fifty cents, Pistol wants to sort the socks for fourteen cents.
Pete is looking out as he calls this nickel and dime stuff and Peg is getting worked over it. Well; she's getting worked over it because it all adds up in the end and Pete is doing nothing to compenstate for it. Peg walks out and tells him that she warned him because it is his piggy bank he's breaking. So we head downstairs into the basement where the laundry is as Pistol wants to sew the pockets back on. PJ takes out a green shirt and claims that there is nothing wrong with it. Which is in fact true...for about three seconds as Pistol rips the pocket out. Geez; destroying peoples' properties with impunity and then fixing the problem just to get money. Huh; even modern cartoons don't think this all the way through! PJ likes this as Chainsaw notices the envelope as PJ is putting laundry into the washing machine. Chainsaw grabs the envelope and bails. He remembers to shake like a dog; which no one notices before running upstairs. Jump cut to Pistol using the vacuum cleaner to clean up the walls and fireplace. Now this episode really sucks. HAHA!
Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Shaun Desmond.
PJ brushes the statue on the coffee table as we get knocking on the door; and it's the "Duh-duh-duh-duh-DA-DA!" sound; which apparently earns the kids three cents. So Pistol and PJ fight over who will answer the door first, Peg and Pete show up as Peg blows him off for sowing what he is going to reap. Pistol shoves PJ's belly as the door opens anyway by itself to reveal Max and Goofy looking glum as hell. Max says hello to PJ, but I'm afraid Goofy has some bad news! He lost the mortage money as Pete calls it disasterful; and in a way, it's difficult to feel sympathy for him when he lost it because he committed animal abuse on Waffles after he hid the money in the rollerskate; which has to be the second dumbest place to hide something in. Yes; hiding the stone in Molly's doll was stupider, given the grave context of Plunder and Lightning. Goofy admits that he won't have enough time to pay up in time; so he's moving out. Wait; isn't Peg the one who sold the house? Never mind as we discover that they will probably be moving back to the trailer park. Which is funny because there was only one trailer in the entire property as per the pilot. You couldn't say Chicago? I say this because they keep referencing that city in this show. Pete motions over to Goofy and shows him a trailer park on a piece of paper somewhere in downtown Borneo. Which is the third largest island in Asia by the way; so Pete is trying to scheme him as far away from Spoonerville as possible. Peg closes the door and calls this terrible. Yeah; this is terrible because Goofy is such an idiot for causing this stupid cascade of events. Goofy claims that it won't be so bad once they have a trailer in a year; so Peg decides that they are not going to a trailer park and will be living with them. What the hell is so wrong with living in a trailer in a trailer park?! Just because white trash bigots has sullied the reputation of this group; doesn't mean trailer parks are bad. And this is the second time Peg has offered Goofy and Max to stay at their house. Pete is flinging stupid idiot directions as Pete turns around and does a dramatic low voice of what did Peg say to end the segment nearly eleven minutes in.
After the commercial break; we head to the dining room as Max and Goofy sit at the table while the Pete family looks on. Goofy thanks Peg; but doesn't want to be a burden on the family as Peg sets a plate of chocolate chip cookies on the table. Pete agrees and proclaims that Goofy has too much character to mooch off his friends. Peg brings in two cans of soda and places it on the table; as they are only staying until they can get back on their feet. Pete calls her peach pit and proclaims that they don't want to force their hospitality on them. As if Peg is forcing anything on them; since it's clear that she is willfully consenting for them to mooch off until Goofy can return to being able to live on his own. Peg is being altrustic here and that is complete hell poison's to Pete's assholery. And this is despite the fact, that it was in fact Goofy's fault that this even happened in the first place. Pete is drawing a map on Borneo on a notepad as Goofy agrees to stay for up to two days as Peg tells PJ and Pistol to bring their things over. Goofy opens a can of soda as Goofy sniffs proclaiming that he doesn't deserve neighbours like them. Yeah; no one deserves a neighbour like Pete Pete; that is for sure. Apparently; this soda spits smoke into Pete's face and Pete claims that the feeling is the same, more or less. Scene change to Pete's lookoff as Pete goes to the window and looks at Goofy's house proclaiming that he cannot have the Goof-monger pollute the sanity of his own home. Geez Pete; Mike Adams has to be your role model, there is no other explaination for it. We see Goofy loading up his jeep with a green loveseat as Pete is paranoid that he has to live with this goofball for forty-eight hours; because he hates stupid. Well; Peg hates asshole; but you are still in her presence, so she must have some humanity in her soul (or pity, depending on your point of view of her). Pete proclaims that thinking it gives him Goof bumps. And to think; the Teen Titans somehow have a slightly better excuse to believe in cooties than this guy; simply because Pete is an adult and the Titans are not quite there yet.
Pete finally realizes that it's time to end his scheme and give him the mortage money back as he goes to the hamper and it's empty. Speaking of stupid idiots; you would think that Pete would have enough common sense to realize that Peg was going to do the laundry today by not putting the thing in the hamper?! Of course not; because Pete's manliness is so toxic, fish literally turn into inedible fish chowder when it's all said and done. So he panics and throws the hamper away, and looks under the carpet...and then catches himself. Because you see; he's starting to act like the Goof; and Pete thinks Goofy is his unique version of cooties. So Pete paces around claming himself as Chainsaw walks in with the envelope of money. Pete sits on the bed; takes a pink bag and hyperventilates in it. Nice to see the writers remember that gimmick; but forget that Goofy was not in a trailer park in the pilot; even if he lived in a trailer. Chainsaw bails as Pete schemes like crazy about how to get him out of the house, find the money and then get him back to his old place. As this is happening, Goofy is backing into Pete's property; remembering to destroy mailboxes and the lamp post in the process. Pete needs to stop spending money on this stuff; if Goofy is just going to unintentionally run it over. Pete is blabbering on so much that he blows into the sack so hard that it turns into a balloon and explodes. As this is going on; we see Goofy bring in a bunch of suitcases that are bigger than his own body weight as Pete walks in offering to help; basically teleporting from the east. Pete grabs a suitcase and offers to help as Goofy claims that he's imbedded in him. Of course you are; and thanks for the disturbing mental image. I've seen pornography of Disney cartoons with less distrubing images than this. Pete then catches himself and pokes his jaw as he proclaims that three years ago the couch was fumigated. Don't you mean; you haven't fumigated the couch in three years, Pete? So Pete is also one who sells the fact that chemicals are bad. So yeah; the old "toxin gambit", and he's not even a dishonest member of alternative medicine. He's a dishonest used car salesman.
Pete brings him out of the house and offers Goofy to camp in the RV because it fits his personality. Swell. Goofy accepts it anyway because he's a stupid idiot. Goofy gets into the RV as Pete tells him that he can only sleep until 3:00 am because Pete had to take it in to get the wheels maligned. Wait; so he is going to screw up the wheels? Isn't that a bad thing? Damn; why does everything these characters say is stupid?! Goofy, I can understand; but Pete should know words better than this poor guy. Scene change to inside the kitchen as Pistol is mopping up the floor while PJ is sitting down on a cardboard box with a baseball glove pounding the baseball in his glove moping and groaning about losing Max as his best friend as Pistol runs around doing chores. Then PJ admits that he was the only friend he had as we pan left to Chainsaw shaking the envelope of Goofy's mortage money as Pistol runs in and steps on the envelope of money when lands on the floor. She asks if PJ is going to resod the front lawn, or something as Pistol goes over to PJ with a piece of paper and a pencil. Chainsaw gets the envelope of money back and shakes around. Pistol claims that this pays thirty-seven cents as PJ blows her off for thinking about money at a time like this. And then PJ recoils and proclaims that Pistol is a genius. Pistol is confused as PJ grabs the paper and proclaims that they will work twice as hard, three times as fast in order to pay money for Max's new house. This is; to be generous, a fool's errand as PJ leaves Pistol totally confused as I am. Pistol leaves as Chainsaw scratches herself as Peg comes in and flicks the envelope of money right into the trash can. So yes; I can smell the Your Baloo's In The Mail ending coming a mile away, now. Scene change to Pistol and PJ going outside with pink trash can bins into the backyard as they fill up the conveniently placed metal trash can. Then Pistol gets a brainstorm and starts throwing out trash like a Wuzzle. Pistol remembers what Pete said and states that they will separate the paper from the cans, and have this recycled.
This is actually brilliant on Pistol's part; because the recycling stuff would be paid from the recycling place instead of Pete; so the kids only get screwed out of half of their money; rather than 90% of it. Brilliant! PJ likes this and joins in the throwing process as the envelope of money is thrown right onto the pile of conveniently placed newspapers. Which is completely out of nowhere, I might add. Jump cut to a shot of outside of the RV with sad music. Jump cut to Max taking out blue shorts from his suitcase and folding it into a clothes pile on the ground. Max declares this all unpacked as Goofy is hanging stuff on a clothesline as the place is completely swamped with stuff; just as Pete walks in and then checks his watch claiming that it's almost three o'clock. So he offers to move them over to the motorboat as it's ten feet closer to Borneo with all the creatures and creature luxeries. He takes a box of stuff from the bottom and he didn't put it on top; and now Goofy cannot play Jenga anymore because he's missing boxes, and the whole place is a burial tomb now. Goofy and Max are bounced out of the RV, thankfully, so they will not be buried at least. Scene change to Max putting stuff bigger than his own body weight onto the motorboat. Max trips and falls into the front of the motorboat as Goofy brings off his green sofa. I'm shocked that Pete is even allowing them to be on his boat and not caring if it's damaged. Considering PJ and Pistol's behavior in recent days; this is going to backfire big time on Pete, I swear to God. So we get into the time wasting segment of doom of Goofy trying to get the sofa up the stairs and failing, because this is 1992, not 2012 where if you have an eleven minute plot; you stretch it out to 22 minutes; instead of today where Disney will actually allow you to do an eleven minute plot in eleven minutes. Although to be fair; a lot of modern cartoons have plots that wouldn't fit three minutes of time. Did I just say?! Oh, never mind. Goofy climbs up the sofa and brings it up as it swings and klonks Goofy on the head. OUCH! Somehow; this doesn't cause a scratch on Pete's motorboat, so that couch is softer than my spine at this point.
So Pete climbs up and acts like an idiot because he just remembered that he has to take the boat to the docks for the biweekly varnishing. Pete tells them not to worry; because he'll set up a nice pup tent for them. Hmmm; pup tent? I wonder if he means; Chainsaw's doghouse? Knowing Pete; this would be a way to cut Peg's nose off to spite her face. Only I think this can only make Pete look like a bigger scoiopatheic asshole than he already was. Oh; and it's next to the fence which is a stone throw's away from Borneo. Do you get the feeling Pete is only doing this to spite them now? I certainly do. Pete climbs down and we scene change to Pete walking to the front door of the house giggling. Pete tries to open the door; but Sunwoo screws up the spot so bad that the door opens by itself and out comes PJ and Pistol bowling Pete down as the papers in their hands goes flying. By the way; PJ grabs the newspaper as does Pete. Pete protests this because he only read the sport section twice and PJ lets go. Pete goes flying into the door which is now closed and yellow in color, and then on the far shot; the door's color is blue. The door somehow opens anyway and the door knob disappears right on cue; only to reappear on the far shot. A far shot that is farther than the far shot on the beginning of the scene which also had no door knob on that far shot. Very, very sloppy there, Sunwoo. PJ and Pistol grab the papers and bail stage right as Pete reads the newspaper (and the door's shade is half yellow, half green now. Scene change to Pete lying in his chair (both ways) in the living room as he calls Goofy a grimblefamming sticking Goof who is harder to get rid of than head lice. Pete wishes he hadn't lost the envelope of money as he opens the newspaper and somehow; the envelope of money falls into his lap. Wow; that is really convenient now, isn't it? The Backyardigans would be proud of this contrived moment. Pete is so happy to see it and calls it the answer to his prayers as he kisses the money and runs out. So we scene change into the backyard as Goofy is doing the laundry using a birdbath fountain as the sink. And no; you are not misreading what I said here.
Okay; now that Pete has the money, all he has to do is give Goofy the mortage money and the episode is over. Pete doesn't have to tell him that he stole it or even tell him that he kept it to get back at him for leaving his things in his own house. That would be the smart thing to do. Problem is; we still have about five minutes left in this episode and something really stupid has to happen to draw this out for another five minutes. So Pete runs in and informs him that he is returning to his dump house because he has the mortage money. Goofy no sells the deal, because Goofy accuses Pete of using HIS OWN money to drive him out of Pete's property. Goofy is using a push button rolling machine and rolls Pete's tie and shirt as Goofy refuses to take the money (even though it is GOOFY'S money); because he cannot take free charity, no matter how free it is. So why did you accept Peg's offer to stay for a few days then, Goofy? Isn't that like being a charity case?! Now granted; Goofy's response is actually a natural response given how much of a scumbag Pete can be; and any instance of Pete actually showing kindness can be taken as deception on Pete's part. Problem is; this is the one time Pete isn't being deceptive, but Pete has cried wolf one too many times and even Goofy; the stupid idiot of the show isn't buying it anymore. So you know how much of a scumbag Pete is just on that. Pete's neck gets stuck in the rolling machine as Pete struggles which ends the segment nearly eighteen minutes in. This is not a bad Pete scheming episode actually; but they have done this way too many times now for me to care about it anymore, and thus my sympathy to Goofy is reduced here.
After the commercial break; we head back into the backyard (Pete's by the way) as we see Pete hiding behind Goofy's green sofa. Pete puts the money inside the green cushions and proclaims that as long as it appears that this came out of nowhere; it's not being considered a charity case as Pete cannot believe he has to Goof, Goofy into this. See what happens when you cry wolf on Goofy for too long, Pete Pete?! Pete wants Goofy out of his hair (Good luck Pete; I'm certain he's the only one who would remotely want to be in your hair and even that proposition is long gone now.) as Goofy comes in. Pete acts all surprised as he embraces Goofy and claims that he got hit by a brainstorm. Good thing it wasn't by Bubba; because goodness knows if I want to see that godawful episode of Ducktales ever again. Then we get the stupidest moment ever: Goofy and Pete are talking about money and sofas. That is not the stupid part. The stupid part is: two dogears in workman gear come in out of nowhere and steal the sofa. Wait; WHAT?! You couldn't just have Goofy turn around; notice the money and claim that Pete put it there just to mess with his mind. Because that is what this episode was shooting for at the end of the second act when Goofy was no selling Pete on the envelope of money; which if Goofy accepted, it would be the end of the episode right there. So instead of actually building up Goofy not buying Pete's assertions; even though they are true; Saylor is booking it as a series of unfortunate events that make no sense at all. I don't recall anyone calling for moving dealers. And then I look REALLY STUPID because we discover that Goofy sold the sofa for five dollars and he gives the money to Pete because he wanted to pay back Pete for loaning money for lunch in high school. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! On Pete and on me no less! Pete throws the money away and runs off to catch up with the truck taking away the couch. So we scene change as Pete returns with his shoes torn, clothes torn and having a black eye as apparently, he got into a fight with the movers.
Somehow, he got the envelope of money back as Pete proclaims that getting him back in the house is going to put him in traction. Goofy or Peg, Pete? Inquring minds would love to know. Pete crawls to the door which is now blue and white colored now as Pete proclaims that if he doesn't get that nut out of his house, he's going to be a shell of his former self. You say that as if that's a bad thing, Pete. I wish Peg would say that, just to play mind games on Pete. Oh; and Sunwoo's failed to color Pete's bare feet as they are completely white now. Then Pistol comes in and pulls the socks off of Pete. Yes; he magically added socks despite not wearing any on the first shot after the scene changer! So instead of a coloring mistake; we have a logic break. Boy; Molly Coddled syndrome is really grating my nerves now. So they take off Pete's coat and bail as they are competing again; only it's for a good cause this time as Pete hears Pistol's ice cream remark and gets inspired as he checks his pockets; and he lost the envelope again. Jump cut to PJ in the backyard with what appears to be a high jump appartus as the coat is hanged and PJ is beating the coat with a wooden board. The envelope get beat and thrown into the air as the wind takes it away stage left and up. Somehow; the letter flies into the kitchen and lands in the conveniently placed wooden barrel ice cream machine. Now; if you recall, Goofy pretty much destroyed the machine testing it, so how did it...WHAT?! So was that ice cream machine Pete had Goofy's all along and Goofy is too much of a stupid idiot not to notice? PJ beats on Pete's coat one more time before Pete steals the coat back. Pete shakes the coat; no money as he thinks someone has stolen it. Pete throws the coat stage left and his eyes start becoming like deviled egg insides now. Check 19:39 on the DVD and see what I mean. I am certain Pete's mind was long gone since the show started. Pete finds an out of nowhere sack and hyperventilates once again. You know he's lost his mind saying that he has to use his own money; when Goofy already stated that he didn't want Pete's money because he's not a charity case. So we scene change towards the backyard as Pete arrives with the ice cream machine, just like that! Somehow he found the envelope inbetween scenes. See what happens when you do comedy scenes and forget to plug up holes in your logic?
Goofy is sweeping the ground (keep in mind; it's grass) as Pete offers to sell his ice cream machine for $400. Goofy likes it; but his cash flow has gone low tide. Pete offers to loan the thing to Goofy and he'll write a UOMe. That sounds reasonable, actually. I personally would have simply ask how much he has; and then just sell it to him for that price, but this is Pete we are talking about and considering how Goofy no sold the envelope the first time, Pete being a scumbag is for the best. Pete then gives him four hundred dollars as Goofy writes the UOMe. Goofy gives him the $400 back and gets the ice cream maker. I just realized that this is beyond the pale stupid now and Pete realizes that he was had. HAHA! So Pete decides to break a ten and we start exchanging more money than notes on the situation. Why not just sell the ice cream maker to Goofy for whatever Goofy has left, keep the envelope money in the ice cream maker so he doesn't see it, and then sell it to him. That would be more direct at least. Goofy is confused as PJ and Pistol run in with papers as they did all of this stuff and he owes them $189 and $219 in that order. So Peg comes in to inform Pete that the figures all checked out and he owes them the money. Pete grumbles; but he pays them anyway. I suspect Pete is flat broke now; but Sunwoo's wallet animation suggests he is not. Pistol and PJ give Goofy their money as the ice cream machine drops and out comes the envelope of money; which Goofy instantly sells as his. Yes; Pete is such a scumbag that Goofy didn't buy it even though the envelope is the exact same one Pete was going to give to Goofy at the end of the second act. Pete has completely lost it now as he is pouring out of his wallet with bedevilled eyes and giving money like crazy now. Sunwoo of course colors Pete's feet wrong again as everyone is stunned; albeit for different reasons than mine. He threatens to strangle Goofy in his mental state that requires brain bleach as he rips up envelopes and cheques to end the episode at 21:15. This was a good Pete-scheming episode and on it's own; I'm fine with it. However; considering that they keep going to the well way too many times with this, I'm caring less and less about it. Goofy in the end of the second act onward was classic though, so call it *** 1/2 (70%). Now if you will excuse me, could someone please pass me a bag, I need to hyperventilate now.
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; I don't have much to say about this episode: It was a good Pete-scheming episode with a lot of Sunwoo botchery and a few logic break. It's nothing really special and the second half with Goofy foiling Pete was funny. However; this exposes another major problem with Goof Troop: Pete schemes way too much and it always ends bad for him. I realize that Pete's the heel here in these situations, but they have now gone to the well way too many times with this plot that it makes certain that Pete has nothing left out of him. And; 75% of the episodes are like this; so kids and adults alike completely stop caring about it. Sure; this episode might be a good episode featuring the plotline, but it comes off as pandering and pandering is a really bad thing to do when you are trying to keep your audience. Besides; If I want reputition; Looney Tunes does a better job of it with better animation and more interesting plots to boot. Consider the final episode of disc one is Lethal Goofin' where they show just the kids and it's already more compelling because of no Pete. Unless Pete gets some changes made; his heelish antics are now being more stale than Drake's antics in Darkwing Duck, where even Drake Mallard looks like a multi-dimensional character compared to Pete, who has been doing this gig a lot longer than Drake. Overall; good episode, but the gimmick is stale and it's time to retire it. Sadly; they won't because the writers think Pete will always be funny in his schemes. He was for awhile, now it's stale and no longer funny. So...
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.