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Reviewed: 03/25/2017
Goofy Science Everyone!
Welcome to the science portion of Goof Troop (BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one.) as Goofy has been discovered to be a rocket scientist! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one. This makes no sense; but makes slightly more sense than Goofy's future boss. Yeah; the woo and quackery is very strong in this one. How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Steve Sustarsic and Carl Swenson. The story was edited by Dean Stefan. Carl worked on this show, Bonkers (his most recent credit), Batman: The Animated Series, Wake Rattle & Roll and The Many Faces Of Fred Travalena which was his debut in 1987. That's it. The animation was provided by Sunwoo Animation.
We begin this one with a blue title card in front of Goofy's property as Goofy is checking off his bucket list of chores to do. Go inside with Goofy at the table with stacks of paper as Waffles is sleeping on said table. Goofy is actually trying to apply for a job. This is where the whole "white male entitlement" really comes into play: How does Goofy support himself and still have a middle class life if he is still looking for a job? At least Baloo has an actual job; even if he's lazy at it. Scrooge is rich and has his own job as owner of McDuck Enterprises as does Shere Khan. The Rescue Rangers don't have a class system in their own world (despite being in the real world); and neither do Gummi Bears nor Winnie The Pooh. Darkwing Duck probably gets merenacy work from SHUSH and that supports his lifestyle at least. Peg has a job as a real estate agent and Pete sells cars. But Goofy has no job and yet we are supposed to buy that he's a common middle class man? Granted; Goofy is looking for a job at least, but come on! Apparently; the bills are piling up and he's concerned about that. At least that makes him better than Baloo before Rebecca took over Baloo's Air Service as Max runs in with his report card as he got an A. He leaves the door wide open and despite showing no signs of wind outside in the opening shot; it's like a wind storm blew in thirty seconds ago. This is the defintion of not caring about continuity and thinking that kids just want comedy. Apparently; making your comedy make sense is too much of an effort for these bookers. Waffles bails as Goofy gets buried in a bill paper tomb which forces him to mumble. Not impressed. If Darkwing Duck got this and mumbled; that would be an improvement. BLAM! Hee hee! Missed again, Drake! YOU ARE NOT...POW! OUCH! Ummm... Goofy pops up and claims that he got buried in his work; which would have a totally different meaning if this was today than it was in 1992. Max gives Goofy his perfect science report which he did on Einstein; which has 100% on it. Like I'm buying that crap. 65-85% I can buy; but not a full monty.
Goofy loves Einstein and the movie The Bride of Einstein; which Max of course corrects, but refrains from calling Goofy sexist. Goofy thinks that Frankstein changed his name when he came to this country as Goofy wants to mail his application for a job as he trips over all the papers and falls down. Maybe he should read the science report first and then put it down, which if he trips and the paper flies into the application somehow, then I could construct that this is a mere accident and not an idiot plot. Then again; Goofy is dimwitted so the idiot plot works here. Goofy claims that he's applying for a part-time janitor job at Rocketdarn. Huh; I wonder if it was originally called Rocketdam and BS&P told them to change it? This looks way too obvious to me. Max wishes him good luck and heads into the kitchen where there are more piles of bills. Methinks a part time job is not going to be enough here. Goofy fishes through the papers because he has lost the resume and finds Max's science report. Now; the fact that it says 100% should have been enough to show that this is not Goofy's resume and two; Max is the one who wrote the report. Even if the scientists are impressed by this; Max should be the one getting the role as the rocket scientist because that makes the most sense. If they know Max is a child; then they certainly wouldn't call Goofy a rocket scientist and the episode ends before it starts. So guess what is going to happen here? They see the report and Goofy is a rocket scientist and accepted as a rocket scientist! Making everyone in Rocketdarn look like much bigger idiots than Goofy! At least if Max is in the role; there is an illusion of believability in that Max wrote the report and his name is on it. The Goofy does something that actually kills this all off: Goofy attaches a photo of himself on the science report. That at least reduces the idiocy of this angle, so good for them that this part was added. So we head to company known as Rocketdarn, which is your typical building which still looks too much like a prison.
We hear someone named Crocker and head into a still photo hallway that looks fine and then into a computer like room with computer like walls with a round table as Crocker on the far left (brown suit, grey hair, male pattern baldness, grey nose, Mister Magoo like eyes) is reading resumes and for the sake of my sanity, I'm not going to review what he said as there are three workers mumbling and talking among themselves with mugs of coffee and pretty much not caring about this. Crocker (with green tie) then shows off Max's science report and declares him the real McCoy and a regular Einstein. He passes the paper to everyone as they look at the photo and surprisely; no one spits their drinks out and no computer monitors are ruined as a result. Yeah; everyone is so buying this angle. Scene change to Goofy plunging the sink with a plunger; which is no different than most of us plunging a toilet. Max is watching on as the phone rings (I almost said reads for a second there) and we cut to a scene of the phone shaking as it rings. Why? Why not?! Goofy gives Max the plunger and Goofy answers the phone. We discover that the Mister Magoo eye geek is Red Crocket as he asks Goofy is he's indisposed (means unwilling in this context) and Goofy claims he's not; he's just in the kitchen trying to clear up a black hole. Red chuckles on working on this for the last twenty years. It's science comedy. HA HA HA! Funny how the idiot is funnier saying that than the scientists are. So yeah; scientists cannot be good comedians, which makes me sad. Mainly because I think that after all the stuff they have done; they could have some real original comedic fodder for all of us. I guess it really is how you connect to your audience that counts. Sad! Max plunges the sink and pops the plunger up into the ceiling as the sink is now draining normally. Goofy proclaims that it's all cleared up as Red of course takes this as Goofy putting the kibosh on the black hole mystery. So yes; more of the stereotype that scientists do not understand metaphors or comedy. Red tells Goofy that he has the job and he can start as soon as possible; which Goofy says thank you as soon as possible. HA-YUCK!
Goofy hangs up and walks outside as we scene change to Goofy in a blue shirt, blue pants, blue belt, red hat with blue brim worn backwards (Kit: Nice try Goofy; that doesn't make you a janitor anymore than it makes me a navigator) carrying a bucket and a ladder. He is standing in front of Pete on the sidewalk, who is grabbing his mail from the mailbox. Pete taunts Goofy being a janitor like an assbag as Goofy hopes he can handle it since he has a lot of bills coming in his mailbox as he grabs them out of them. Who is sending him these bills? Goofy turns around and whacks Pete in the chest with the wooden ladder as Pete does a back bump onto the cobble driveway. That looked like it sucked. Goofy goes to his jeep and gets in proclaiming that he would to love to relax like him, but it's a work to go as he backs up his jeep and drives away stage left. In comes a large truck which backs up in front of Pete. Pete gets up as a brown haired dogear with a red shirt gives Pete a clipboard and Pete signs whatever is on it. Pete turns around to face the hard camera as he informs us that he ordered surplus from Dogface of Fortune magazine. So now they have started doing parodies of real life stuff. Geez; I wonder if BS&P told them to stop referencing real life products due to copyright infringement being tightened up again? Anyhow; Pete gets giddy as the truck opens up, tilts and out comes propeller units which Pete is buried in. Pete pops from the carnage and protests this outrage; but the delivery man blows him off because he signed the papers, they are theirs and Pete should have thought of that before ordering them. Pete of course is a goddamn idiot for not noticing how stupid he is and that is that. Scene change to inside the hallway as Red (voiced by Frank Welker by the way) comes in noticing Goofy setting up his janitor equipment. Red walks over and we do the TEDDY RUXPIN HANDSHAKE OF DEATH on camera again. Red offers Goofy the ten-cent tour of the place as Goofy shows his empty pockets and wants a raincheck on that. Heh. Scene change to a close up shot of a chalkboard; which appears that they literally scraped their fingernails like writing on them. Creepy!
Red explains that they have been trying to solve this little fuel problem and have been burning the midnight oil on this one. Of course; the two geeks are wearing glasses because they are scientists you see and every scientist has a vision problem or three. They are also catnoses and the one wearing lime green has darker skin. Goofy looks at the chalkboard and I'm half expecting him to use the mop and wash the chalkboard clean, even though the stuff is literally carved into the chalkboard. Goofy then takes the eraser as I discover that it is chalk because it erases easily. Sunwoo confused me! Who does they think they are, Knack Animation? The chalkboard is erased and Red loves it because they went down the wrong path and it's back to the drawing board to regain the scent. WHAT?! I realize Goofy is supposed to be stupid in storyline; but these scientists are way more stupid than Goofy is! No wonder they accepted Max's science report...ERR...I mean, Goofy's "resume". You were befuddled at a fuel problem and you couldn't just go back to the drawing board yourselves. And yet; Goofy managed to figure this out? How is Rocketdarn even in business is another question I have? Worse; we are not even seven minutes into this thing! Red does make one funny statement about Goofy's brain, because it is true. At least in Spoonerville. Scene change to inside a rocket silo as the elevator comes down and we head into the rocket production factory as Red is so proud of this part of the work. Here's a memo to future writers: Most scientists will never say gizmos and doodads in real life. It might make it easier on the kids; but it makes them look like idiots and damage their characters in real life. And without those scientists; you would never be able to create a cartoon. Even saying "parts and componets" would be much better. Goofy blows dust on the levers (JESUS SQUARED~!) on the control panel and dusts picks up and gets into Goofy's face. Goofy states that they need to clean house and Red is confused; calling it drastic. Yes; scientists are so stupid in this factory that they don't understand Goofy's context of cleaning the place and think Goofy wants Red to fire people.
So; in the background we see various guys in white full hooded bodysuits working on stuff as Red talks about them being family for twenty years and then he proclaims that he cannot stand family; so all three get fired on the spot, just like that. A steel rod drops as the three scientists are confused while Goofy and Red walk off stage right. Oh lord; this was way too stupid even for me. Red calls it his pride and joy as Goofy is relieved because he is going to show him where they keep the detergent. Now; Goofy being so stupid is fitting because he doesn't realize why he was hired in the first place and thinks he's still a janitor; and he's supposed to be stupid in storyline. Red is annoying me because he is supposed to be smarter than this and he's acting even stupider than Goofy is right now. It's suppose to be funny and it's so unfunny that I am insulted. The writers seriously think that I would laugh at this crap. Well; that was a fail and a half. So we scene change to the launchpad of a large rocket attached to the elevator outside as Red shows off the rocket to Goofy with the other professors behind him; who have not been fired and probably will be after this episode is over. Goofy rubs the thing with his finger and it squeals as Goofy tells them that it needs to be scrubbed some more. Red takes it as scrubbing the mission! UGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! Goofy claims that the longer this goes, the worse it gets. Red is not thrilled at all because it cost them five billion dollars to get that mission up to this point. These scientists are so stupid; it's not funny. Goofy claims that he knows how he feels since he and Max has drain problems too. That at least was funny; but it's Goofy and he's supposed to be stupid anyway. Anyhow; scene change to a sky shot of Pete's lot as Pete and someone else in shadow are in front of the propeller units. Wang Films; is that you?! Anyhow; we see Pete with a brown mustached dogear wearing a peanut butter shirt and green pants wooing the man into trying to buy more than one of those propeller units because he really likes him and means it. That is creepy; considering Pete.
The customer asks what it does; Pete doesn't know and would have to charge him extra, the man throws the thing at Pete and storms off stage right. Pete wonders what to do with these thing as we scene change back to Rocketdarn headquarters as we head inside to a lab with Red and Goofy exchanging notes on the situation. This is like shooting fish in a barrel and Goofy's the one shooting here. Red claims that their space program is in worse shape than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. WHAT?! That's a really stupid analogy and wasn't even funny. Red hired him to clean the mess and Goofy claims that this is what he is here for. Except Goofy meant the janitor job; not clean up the space program thing. I would have fired Red Crocker first; since he is the stupidest direction of them all. Red tries to channel Newton from The Mighty Hercules; but fails since the squeaky voices makes it sound funny and annoying at the same time. This only annoyed me and not in a cheesy way. Goofy claims that it should take a couple hours to clean up the place and Red of course takes it as cleaning up the program, because the director of the space program is stupider than Goofy. At least it's not the director of the mental hospital in Chargeman Ken; that would have been even more vile. Goofy wants to start on the bottom and work his way up. Also another thing: Goofy is wearing janitorial gear. How can anyone with an IQ of more than 50 not notice what Goofy is saying? STUPID! Red proclaims that a strong foundation is a key to good science. Yes; but guess who is supposed to be providing the foundation? Red Crocker; the guy who is buying that Goofy is a scientist! See; this is exactly why skimming through resumes instead of reading them is a bad idea. The scientists mutter as they walk out with Red as Red proclaims that he is submitting him for a nomination for the Nobel prize. Now if there was a Nobel prize for stupidity; Goofy would lose that to Red Crocker. Goofy is so surprised by this grand treatment as we scene change back to the car lot as Pete is sitting down on the sidewalk sulking. Pete proclaims that things cannot get any worse...
...and of course; the delivery truck comes back; tilts the truck and stuff comes pouring over Pete again; only it's a part of the order that contains some parts. Pete gets buried; which I'm fine with because his scheming antics really get on my nerves. Head back to the hallway of Rocketdarn as we see a door with a slot for a security card. Red and Goofy arrive as Red takes out his security card (which looks like blue paper) and puts it in the slot because he has someone for Goofy to meet. The door opens and Goofy and Red enter inside; which looks like a small gym. We then see a monkey as it hugs Red and is addressed as Saylor; the last name of writer Jeff Saylor. Sadly; this would have been funnier if he was writing in this episode; but he is not. Goofy is impressed and calls it a pygmalions (a figure of Cyprus by the way); so Goofy is trying to assure us that he's supposed to be the bigger idiot than Red; but it isn't working at all. Saylor is offended by this as he jumps on Goofy grabs his hat and walks on Goofy's head. HAHA! Well; that was something else. Saylor then hangs off Goofy's ears as Goofy is thrilled to see them. Red decides to bail so Goofy can start training him ASAP. Yes folks; it's time for Goofy to try to train a monkey; ala Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla only Goofy is involved and that makes it automatically funnier than that 1952 comedy horror film I read about at the Agonybooth. Red leaves as Goofy thinks Saylor is his boss, which does make me laugh at least and talks about Pete claiming that a monkey could do his job. You don't say?! Anyhow; that ends the segment ten and a half minutes in. This episode was not good; but now hopefully, it's Goofy and Saylor doing stupidity for my pleasure from here on out; because Red is such a bad heatsink that it's not funny.
After the commercial break; we see Goofy mopping the floors in the labotory as Saylor is on top of the lights doing his monkey screaming and jumping up and down. Saylor hops down and shoves the bucket of water down as Goofy takes it as the boss being tough; but is willing to work in spite of that. Goofy is the most laughable worker on the face of the planet. He would never deviate from his dutires nor complain about it, that's for sure. Goofy takes the bucket to the sink and fills it with water as Goofy calls Saylor's attitude a no-monkeying around, can-do attitude and his years of expertise. HAHA! On so many levels! Listen; as long as Goofy is the one being the idiot here; I have no problems with Saylor being worse, because he's a monkey. He's not supposed to be a rocket scientist. Saylor can also peel bananas with his feet; which would be more impressive if Louie L'Amour didn't exist in TaleSpin, which if Prima really got her way, we wouldn't. Of course; Goofy overflows the sink and bucket; because he's Goofy and stupid. Lots of water flows as Saylor is pissed off at this. Goofy apologizes and turns off the water. He takes a cloth and starts wiping; which is a fool's errand in many different ways. Somehow; one test tube gets bonked into the bucket of water and causes purple bubble liquid. Don't ask; Sunwoo animation is wonkier than usual today. Goofy takes the bucket and places it on the floor and starts wiping the floor; causing more purple bubbles. Saylor is scratching his head in confusion, so even he is wondering why he's even in this show. Explosion ensues, a lot of smoke as there is a small hole in the floor and the walls and ceiling are slightly cracked; but otherwise, not much damage was done. Goofy looks at the hole as the stupid idiot scientists run in asking Goofy about the explosion. Goofy stammers and Red takes this as working on the Big Bang Theory and say no more because he's a genius. F*CK YOU RED~! JUST F*CK YOU~! That's for everyone who has ever hated that stupid show that keeps being hot garbage all these years. Red asks Goofy about the launch date and Goofy wants to do it tomorrow; since he has lunch at noon.
This alone should have Red and company taking the hint that Goofy is not Einstein; but of course, they sell it like it's the best moment of their lives. You know what; I would rather watch The Big Bang Theory now even with their stereotypical nerds because at least their nerds are funny and stupid. Red is stupid beyond the realm of unfunny now. Red also claims that he's a shoo-in for the Nobel Prize. 2:1 odds say it's Red winning the Nobel prize for stupidity beyond the call of duty. Saylor is in the corner, not amused as Red leaves. Goofy notices this and thinks it's time to suck up to the boss again. I'm perfectly fine with this as long as we don't have to deal with Red Crocker again. Goofy offers Saylor to come home for dinner with Max and Saylor chatters like a monkey, probably saying no. Personally; I would say "Yes" because Goofy having dinner with a monkey is MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH! Goofy having dinner with Pete and/or Red; opposite of that! Sunwoo; the bastion of continuity colored Goofy's fingers black in one shot and then "white" on the next shot. Not literally white of course. Basically the same color as Goofy's cheeks. He takes it as a yes and we head to Goofy's house AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as we head to the living room as Saylor is swinging below a chandelier while Goofy is introducing his new boss, Saylor. As funny as it sounds. Max points out the obvious here and Saylor is clearly offended by this; so I predict Goofy will blow off Max for insulting him. I check the DVD...Damn; I'm good. Although Goofy calls him a chimp and asks if Max is trying to get Goofy fired or something. Max apologizes as they whisper yell about Saylor being sensitive about it. Has Jeff Saylor been offended by the critics on Goof Troop in 1992? I wonder this because David Wise was vocal about it and he got blacklisted for it. I'm guessing Carl suffered the same fate. There is an apple core in the background as the doorbell rings. Goofy answers the door and it's Pete with a sack of what I assume is propeller parts as he is continuing to be sarcastic about Goofy and his boss. Pete slams the door into Goofy as he wants to put a good word in.
Goofy is stupid of course; so he thanks him anyway. I would not want Pete anywhere near my boss. You know what they say about judging you by the company you keep. Goofy bails stage left to get him because Saylor is eating dessert. Pete bails stage right and comes right back in with the sack as he brings out the propeller thing and is scheming that he wants to give this to Rocketdarn. Personally; this is probably one of the most honest schemes he has ever have. Hey; if Red can accept Goofy as an Einstein; then Pete scheming on them would make PETE the babyface in this one. Ponder that one for a moment and despair! So Pete goes over to the table as Saylor is reading a newspaper. Pete does the hard sell on the propeller pieces of course. Yes folks; Pete is so desparate to sell his wares that he's willing to do a hard sell on a monkey. If you listen closely; you can hear Peg laughing all the way to the bank and back with that one. He offers the stuff for ten thousand dollars and then eats banana peel. Wow; that is generous, I suspected they cost $1 a piece. Pete lowers it to five thousand and eats another banana peel. Pete tries one thousand and gets more banana peels as Pete whirlwinds his face and protests this outrage. Pete pulls the newspaper accusing the monkey of making a monkey out of him. Oh lord; Saylor has been triggered! You are dead meat, Pete! Goofy tried to warn him; but Pete gets nailed with banana peels and Pete is forced to bail stage left out the door as the sack is thrown out with him. Geez; the teleportation in this episode is awesome, eh?! Pete calls Salyor a chimp whom he refused to make a chump out of; and now Pete has an evil scheme on his hands. Scene change back to the gym inside Rocketdarn as the door opens and...OH MY GOD, NO! Get that Mister Magoo dogear varmant off my computer monitor, NOW! Red asks Goofy how the training is coming as Saylor jumps down and hugs Red. Screw you, Saylor! The monkey, not the writer. Goofy admits that the training hasn't been easy; so Red tells him not to worry about it. Yeah; the training isn't the problem. I'm more worried about Red and how he even got a job as director.
Red also insults Saylor and Goofy feels bad about it. Red suggests the reward method as there is an automatic banana dispensing machine in the room as Red takes out a banana and gives it to Goofy. Red leaves and Goofy unpeels the banana and eats. Goofy feels the steam coming up as he leans on a machine and here's another crack coloring stylist mistake: When Goofy leans on the button in the far shot; the button is red. On the closeup shot: lime green. The machine turns around and fires bananas as Goofy yells to duck and cover. The two stupid goofballs bail stage left; hiding underneath the pommel horse as bananas somehow do not bury them. Goofy claims that he expected being a janitor to be challenging; but not like this. So the banana gun of doom stuffs bananas into Goofy and Saylor's mouth. Geez; that banana gun is such a petty grouch. Scene change to the launch area as we get the most unstable artwork I have ever seen. The Leaning Tower Of Pisa looked more stable than this as we head inside the rocket with Goofy polishing the controls and proclaiming that he won't let Saylor down. I think we all know where this is going now. We see on a television monitor; Saylor spinning in a chair looking like a dumb animal. Goofy is mangling his name of course for Saylor's amusement as we see Saylor is in the mission control room being dizzy with a first animal shot for fun; which almost made me dizzy. Jump cut to Goofy climbing through a vent to check for dust bunnies in the attic. Jump cut to outside the fence as Pete is wheelbarrowing his propeller pieces towards the gate as his plan is to sell space stuff when the rocketship takes off. Yes; Pete believes in space aliens now. Why? Why not?! Because Pete has to scheme someone even those this plan makes no sense at all. Even a scummy car salesman knows that no space aliens exists; let alone they wouldn't buy his crap anyway. This is basically a version of having two subplots just like in Quack Pack. At least the main one is more compelling than Pete scheming here, and Pete's screen time has been almost nothing. Which begs the question: Why bother?
Anyhow; a Goofy clone in security gear comes out eating a burger and demanding answers as Pete claims to be the goofball's assistant...ERRR...I mean, Goofy's personal attache. Bascially; he called himself Goofy's personal suitcase. I know he meant assistant, but being Goofy's personal suitcase is funnier anyway. Guard lets him in anyway, because all Goofy clones are stupid idiots and we need to find some reason for Pete to even be in this episode. Pete walks to the rocket ship; gets in and pours the propeller stuff into the hatch in the middle of the rocket ship. Jump cut back to Saylor scratching his head. Uh-oh! That means trouble. So Saylor jumps for joy as he thinks banana in his child corrupting balloon of doom and then pushes the green button as Diane Pershing's voice beckons to prepare to launch the rocket ship. We countdown making several jump cuts of areas inside Rocketdarn as we watch on the television monitor the liftoff of the space shuttle Goof Troop on it's destination of being more tedious than ever as there was nothing exciting about this launch at all. There was no shots of anyone looking stunned, and no signs of Red and his crew. Were they taking a smoke break or something? Anyhow; the rocket rises into the sky to end the segment sixteen minutes in. Saylor was the only one who was there and he liked it. What a distrubing monkey Saylor turned out to be?! Dammit; the middle was okay, but this was done basically to bring Pete into the mix and ruin a perfectly decent comedy bit with Goofy and Saylor. Sure; at least it's not Red/Goofy; but when you say that, that's a huge problem.
After the commercial break; we see the rocket flying towards space as the portions of the rocket break as we head inside with Pete doing some squashing as part of the squash and stretch method of cartooning. Nah; Drake Mallard's still the master of it, you con mon. Pete's voice is slower and more moronic as he wants to sell the propellers for fifty bucks a pop. More pouring from Pete as Pete watches and instantly stops selling the squash/stretch/stupid voice thing noticing that it's dark outside. Pete is confused by this since it's only 2 PM; and Goofy comes crashing down as Pete is now on bottom. HAHA! And that's where you should stay, Pete! Goofy asks why Pete is here as Pete bounces Goofy off of him and stammers like a stupid idiot. Pete closes the door with his feet and claims that he just came by to say hello. They wave hello at each other as Pete opens the door and steps out. Problem; he's in space, so he is forced to hang on. I could go on about how stupid it is to book a spot where there is no air nor pressure in space; but this is a cartoon and no one cares anymore. I'll just point out that this is a huge logic break and move on. I'm shocked TaleSpin didn't stoop to this low; although they came dangerously close in Bearly Alive. Goofy is awed by this as Pete yells at him to get him inside. Goofy pulls him into space as Pete is now Scooby to Goofy's Shaggy. Creepy and awkward! Goofy doesn't think so because then they would be weightless. Yeah; logic? What logic...Oh wait, never mind. Speaking of logic break; now the side door is shut instead of open seconds ago. Goofy swims on air as Pete calls Goofy a goofbrain. Goofy claims that Pete wanted to lose some weight. HA-YUCK! So the second third of the rocket ship flies off as we jump cut back to Saylor hopping mad up and down. Yes; even animals can BE JEALOUS~! Saylor pounds on the console as angry as Mr. Enter ranting on an Animated Atrocity and Goofy notices this and hopes he can do something, causing Pete to become flustered. Goofy claims that Saylor is very smart. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sadly; he is smarter than Red Crocker, so Pete is in better hands.
Pete screams in Goofy's face and pleads for Saylor to do something, including push buttons. This is not going to end well for Pete; I assure ye. Saylor hops up and down as we hear punching in the background as the two goofballs in the ship bounce into the wall as Saylor pushes a red button (don't ask me if Sunwoo got this wrong, I'm done with that nitpick for the day) as the rocketship goes into a tailspin upwards (BWHAHAHAHAHA!) while Pete protests this outrage. Saylor punches buttons, goofballs punch walls. Sounds like a fair tradeoff to me. There is a food despenser and it sprays gravy in a corkscrew fashion into Pete's face as Goofy eats the gravy train of doom while Pete protests. Pete is selling like he is hit; but the gravy never lands on him. I club BS&P! Apparently; gravy comes in peanut butter and jelly. Okay; good to know. So we head back to mission control and GOD DAMMIT; Red is back! Go away you stupid idiot! Saylor; the guy who caused all this without contradiction, blames Goofy for causing the liftoff. Of course! It's never the dumb animal's fault; even when it is the dumb animal's fault. Of course; Red falls for it, hook, line and sinker. I like Saylor the monkey; but you know what happens when you lie like that? You know what is going to happen when you blame Goofy for your bad behavior? Saylor?...YOU JUST MADE THE LIST~! Red looks at the monitor and praises him for saving the space program and using himself as a test subject. Okay; Saylor, you are off the list. Red? YOU JUST MADE THE LIST~! Red then notices the rocket panel draining of light as the thing is out of gas. PUT RED ON THE LIST AGAIN~! Preemptive strike this time! I should have done this ten minutes ago! Red grabs the microphone and proclaims that he's afraid that he has some bad news! So he pushes a red switch on the panel and the goofballs falls down as gravity is normal now. Are we going to do the Bearly Alive spot again? Because it's not that funny at this point since no one is dying yet.
So, long story short; the rocket cannot handle two guys and therefore it doesn't have enough fuel to bring them back home. Pete; who has been on his best behavior so far in this episode, just turns on Goofy and tries to throw him out of the rocket ship. Pete is trying to push Goofy out; but Goofy blocks. Red blows them off and proclaims that even if they threw everything out that wasn't nailed down, there wouldn't be enough to run a lawnmower. The babyfaces panic on cue as Red explains that the rocket was designed for a chimp as Saylor mugs for the camera. After all the stupidity from this director, NOW he has to act like he knows what he's talking about. Then we head outside Rocketdarn with what I thought was Danielle Wrathmaker because it's the same Jenette look only in different duds. Nope; Danielle's name is now Sandee Seznee. WHAT?! Then we get the stupidest thing I have ever seen: So Sandee is a news reporter. Don't ask how she found out about this; that's not the problem. Sandee claims that they can patch into the live transmission of the space rocket and talks about two brave astronauts. So we go dead for a second on the television and then we hear Pete sobbing and yelling that he's too young to die and going into melodramatics as we are in Pete's living room with Max, PJ and Pistol. PJ and Max are eating popcorn as PJ claims that he'll stoop to anything to sell cars. Max wants butter on his popcorn as Pistol is bored and wants to change the channel. Yes folks; they told you that this episode is boring and to change the channel. Good thing it was at the nineteen and a half minute mark instead of the first thirty seconds where it would have done the most damage!! Plus; April Winchell is the voice of Sandee here. So why isn't PEG in this scene? Why is it all right for her not to appear for one line when Pistol can appear for the same reason? Then it gets worse: The rocket ship is now changed to a Starfox-equse ship; without any indication of a transformation sequence from rocket to space ship. WHAT?!
Pete is panicky as Goofy assures him not to worry. I want to laugh at this; but the bullcrap of the last minute won't let me. I'm sorry, Goofy; I need to cry. Pete is just bringing the anger gas to this and I don't blame him. I'm pissed off too, albeit for different reasons. Pete is asking what are they going to do and then we jump cut to Sandee on the television proclaiming that they will be back after this important message from our sponsor. Just turning this into a complete joke and not one that is funny. Jump cut back to the spaceship; which now looks like the top of the NASA spaceship which makes more sense than previously; but still a logic break. Pete is weeping his last will and testament. And yes; I mean "weeping" in this case. Pete turns around and cannot find Goofy; whom is mopping up the place with the bucket and the mop. Why not?! It's not like Goofy is a rocket scientist or anything anyway. He figures that they might as well go clean if they are going to die and this pisses Pete off good. I wondered where Dalia Ketchum's clean underwear fetish came from as Pete gets the really poor CHEAP HEAT OF LAUGHS and blows off steam with a train whistle. Pete rolls up his sleeve and proclaims that he's going to take him out before he goes. After claiming that he was too young to die; now you cannot say kill anymore even if we know Pete isn't going to kill Goofy anyway. Goofy thinks this is swell; but wonders if Peg would approve. HAHA! Pete grabs Goofy by the neck and then we cut away to the space ship going towards the sun in case anyone cares. Tug of war with the mop ensues as Pete grabs the mop and the bucket overflows with green bubbles. Wait; WHAT?! Okay; this is Sunwoo's fault, but still...Has Goofy been using the same bucket all this time? The cleaning solution eats through the floor and somehow manages to make it's way into the fuel tank. And Red praises him for it. PUT RED ON THE LIST AGAIN~! Not even Xavier Woods got a trifecta...yet! So yes; everyone cheers as the spaceship misses the sun altogether anyway and flies around it instead of U-turning back which would have made this more dangerous. I club BS&P, AGAIN~!
Goofy proclaims that it's smooth sailing from here on out and his hand lands on the control panel and buttons get pushed. I betcha this causes all the propeller trinkets to fly off into space. I check the DVD...Damn; I'm good! Pete panics as he dons a spacesuit off-screen, opens the bottom hatch and dives towards the sun to grab them. What an idiot?! Besides; he wanted to get rid of them, so wouldn't he be happy that they are gone? What a scoiopath this Pete is. Goofy tells him to put on sun screen. Sadly; none of them offer protection against assholes and monsters, so I pass. So after this; we scene change back to Goofy's house as Red and the scientists are in Goofy's living room. Red has gained about ten pounds in the belly since I last saw him as he's asking why Goofy is quitting the force and Goofy proclaims that he paid off his bills, but thanks them anyway. Hey; he tested the rocket and created a not believable fuel; so he had better got paid good after that debacle. Oh; and Saylor is hugging Goofy even though it was HIS fault that this happened in the first place. Never trust a dumb chimp; except in comedy routines. Saylor is excited about Red's stupid metaphors about kicking someone in the pants. Goofy and Red shook hands and Goofy is passing the torch to someone else; so even he is not a nepotist. Goofy grabs Saylor and thanks him while giving the chimp back to Red. Saylor chatters as if he wants to stay with Goofy; but cannot as the stupid idiot scientists minus Goofy walk out of the house and that is that. Goofy brings out the big ass trophy out of nowhere because we never saw it anywhere in this scene as Goofy is going to get it bronzed and that is circle fade out to end the episode at 21:12. Yes folks; we never found out what happened to Pete AFTER he went out of the spaceship. So what was the point of having Pete in the episode at all? This was clearly tacked on in the last minute; which is the story of this episode. Good middle, below average start; brutal climax, okay finish, okay ending I guess. Saylor couldn't save this episode, sadly. * 1/2 (30%).
THE REVIEW LINE
I don't understand the writers in this episode: They seemly wrote this without Pete in mind; and then inserted Pete into a subplot and then tried to tie the two together and it felt really tacky and pointless. We never found out what happened to Pete at the end when he went after the trinkets, so I assumed he was dead, which I doubt since he's the number one heel of the show. Red Crocker is the worst director of science character I have ever seen and is almost as offensive as the director of the mental hospital in Chargeman Ken. Red is so stupid that he cannot tell the difference between a rocket scientist and a janitor. Ironically; he wasn't the worst thing on the show as the first half was tedious at best. The second act was good as Goofy and Saylor the chimp will always get chuckles from me and then the whole episode fell apart at the third act with bad logic breaks, bad booking and really stupid moments from Red. Saylor blaming Goofy was funny; but it became unfunny when Red praised him because Red was supposed to blame Goofy and hate him for screwing this up. Of course; it was Saylor's fault; but whatever. It did recover somewhat at the end; but there is the dandling plotthread on disappearing Pete and Sunwoo being Sunwoo with their usual animation botchery. I did not like this episode after it was all said and done and it angers me because it could have been good in spite of Red Crocker. It ended being a total mess and for once, Pete was on his best behavior, to the point where I was showing empathy towards him which is not suppose to happen to your top heel. Overall; this was bad and another outer space episode that sucked in DTVA. So...
Thumbs down for this episode and I'll see you all next time.