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Rally Round The Goof
Reviewed: 04/22/2017
Because You Know Pete's Scheming Off The Goof!
Well; I knew I would have to come back to Easter Sadism to this show and have Pete scheme again to win a road race with Goofy as his good luck charm. Might as well start with this one and get it over with. Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Steve Cuden and story edited by Carter Crocker. The animation was provided by Wang Film Productions.
We begin this one at Pete's used car lot with yellow/green paint title card and Goofy on a ladder doing something to the giant Pete head sign; which so happens to be cleaning it's nose with a cloth and bucket. Birds fly down on Pete's nose...ERRR...I mean, the sign that looks like Pete, since Pete comes in yelling at Goofy about seeing any customers. Goofy says no; but there is a pigeon up there that resembles his aunt Mildred. When "Calling All Goofs" comes out; these aunts and uncles better be as accurate as Goofy claims, or I'm going to be so disappointed. Pete is frustrated about car buyers vanishing (read: being smart enough to never trust Pete again) as Pete notices a penny in the middle of the street. Now; normal people would never try to grab one measly penny; because nothing is worth a penny even in 1992! Of course in Canada, pennies are no longer considered legal tender anyway; but still. Of course; Pete is such a greedy bastard that he has a huge fetish for this one penny, so he runs into the middle of the street, grabs the penny and gets whirlwinded by cars; because that this exactly what this show needs: more windbags. He loses his shirt and pants in the process too; and this was before Spongebob Squarepants losing and regaining his pants in the opening was a thing. Then we get a logic break: The penny turns grey and gets bigger as Pete blows whoever thought they were good luck. Pete throws the penny, it bounces off like a pinball (and regains it's colors, natch) and then bounces off the lower east side of his cranium! There's only ONE word to describe Pete and I'm going to spell it out for you: SAWFT~! Then we get the worst walking on the street ever combined with Pete stepping on a cat's tail and this causes Pete to back up as the cat is pissed off. Pete trips on his own shoelaces and flies backwards into the ladder with Goofy on it, warning that going under the ladder is bad luck. Better bad luck; then you dying from it. Memo to Max: tuck your purple shoelaces in because that can happen to you. Goofy holds onto the nose of the sign as Pete takes bucket on head, and sways with the ladder for a while before taking a back bump over the wooden fennce.
That looked like it sucked, and Pete was probably hating life. Goofy thinks he has no problems and then catches himself and gets the dizzy eyes, for no reason. Pete pops the ladder from his head and throws it down in frustration before bailing stage right with his honey hearts underwear as Goofy is trying to get his attention; but Pete is no selling it. What a shocker?! Pete cannot get the door to his office open, of course and he thinks he's having rotton luck and then catches himself and knocks on concrete and somehow this concrete is so weak that Pete still managed to punch a hole in it. Swaft indeed! Thankfully; Pete still sells the hand injury like he punched concrete, so there's that. Goofy gets Pete's attention and then drops onto Pete at a completely impossible angle spot and lands on his belly. Goofy chuckles and then we do an anime background scene changer to inside Goofy's bedroom as Goofy is throwing out stuff from the CHEST OF DEMONS like a Wuzzle. Like Baloo; he also found an onion and sardine sandwich that has been rotting in the chest since last spring. Yeah; remember that era when gross out spots in Disney involved characters eating very old sandwiches? He also has an electric spoon, for no reason. Thankfully; he doesn't eat said sandwich and throws it away as he has a box of underwear and a lucky horseshoe. In comes Max asking Goofy what he is trying to find. I wish it was his non-concussed brain; but that would be impossible to find. Goofy is trying to find some mail he put in his back pocket and he cannot find it. Which the thing is actually still in his back pocket. Yeah; let's jackhammer the point home that Goofy is a stupid idiot. Max plucks the paper from the back pocket and calls it a lucky guess, he guesses. Of course! Goofy then throws the horseshoe out the window and it's such a long throw that somehow it hits Pete in the backyward BBQ'ing while Pete is putting some really crappy looking fish on said BBQ and blowing off this luck crap. OUCH! Right in the nose, too.
Pete gets up and grabs the horseshoe; and now he's rationalizing this whole thing as real. Of course! Did Peg threaten to divorce him if Pete ever blamed Goofy for anything again? Pete throws the horseshoe away as Pete goes to the picnic table; and slaps the salt shaker away in a panic. Pete kneels down in front of the spill; takes a pinch of salt and throws it over his left shoulder. Ummm; that's just going to give the win for the Democrats. Throw it over your right shoulder you stupid idiot! Goofy calls for Pete as Pete gets up and hides the salt shaker when Goofy runs in with the brochure; before putting it on the table, claiming that he was controlling slugs. Geez; if only we could control the biggest slug on the lawn right now, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Pete grabs the brochure which we find out is the entry form for the Spoonerville Road Rally 500; so yes, we have another race episode. Again; how can anyone bash modern cartoons like Johnny Test when Goof Troop in 1992 was doing the exact same plotline. Granted; if the race episodes on Johnny Test were crappy, I can understand the hate, but most just hate the plotline per se and then leave shows like this alone. Stupid! Pete grabs the thing and goes into the DREAM SEQUENCE OF DEATH with Pete dressed up like a greasey Scrooge McDuck in a black suit with red bowtie. Yeah, right; like I'm buying that Pete winning this race is going to make dozens of poorly drawn dognoses and catnoses want to buy cars from the most dishonest car salesman in Spoonerville. Even worse; during this dream sequence, no one in the background is moving at all; except for the balloons. So yes; even in a dream sequence, Pete needs wax figure like dolls to get this angle over. I refuse to believe Wang Films is Knack Animation level cheap. Which is fitting since Knack doesn't have the budget to color anyone in the background, much less animate them. Pete reads as Goofy comes in (so yes; Pete's dream sequences are totally exposed, what a surprise?) and points out that it's the 13th annual race that takes place on Friday the 13th. We return to reality (no, not really) as Pete looks like he is going to die now.
Yeah; so the gimmick of this episode is that Pete believes in the bad luck superstition full on blast; which is a bad thing (although believing that everything has a reason can also be a bad thing, especially when the reason is false. Absolution looking like fools, you see...) as we head back to Pete's car lot as Pete practices the fine art of not being seen and sneaks into his office with a shoe box. Why? Why not?! Window blinds come down as Pete twinkletoes over to the desk (sadly; no twinkletoes sound effects ensue; so that's bad luck in itself) and puts the shoe box down on the desk. He opens it and finds a lucky rabbit's foot. Oldie but goodie: Lucky rabbit's foot; geez, what luck for the rabbit! Except Pete brings out a grey rabbit which looks Warner Brothers style. Jealous much there, company?! Oh and I club BS&P to boot! Pete puts the rabbit on the desk as there is a four leaf clover with soil, roots and all. Geez; how did that get preserved without the rabbit eating it for food? And there is some assorted charms that are as cheesy as Captain Planet's personality. Pete slams the charms on the desk and the wooden desk breaks its legs and literally goes through the floor. Geez; and you thought Kick Buttowski's house wasn't up to code? And the lucky charms are saved thanks to Pete of all people. Who thought that Pete actually had empathy? Sure; it's to an animal, a clover and a chain, but at least it's something. The rabbit bails on cue after Pete proclaims that if he didn't have bad luck, he would have no luck at all. Then a car horn blares to annoy Pete as Earl is in the parking lot in a red car. I'm not even going to try to figure out if this Earl is the same as the Earl's in the previous episodes. I don't think this show can keep it straight anyway. Pete comes out with his good luck charms and puts them behind his back right in front of Earl. Oops! We get a closeup of Earl and he looks completely different from the previous shot; wearing a blue suit now with a striped orange/red tie. Pete and Earl insult each other with grade-school level insults as Earl makes fun of Pete's cars (I want a cherry colored car and all you got is lemons.) and Pete blows him off, telling his to state his business.
The clover is shedding soil into Earl's car as Earl (I'm guessing he's voiced by Jim Cummings here.) wants to make a small sideways wager on the out come of the Spoonerville 500; and Earl cleans his car to boot. Pete decides not to enter the race due to an ingrown toenail on his pedal foot and other sort of nonsense injuries that make it clear that Pete is a coward as the soil is shedding through Pete's pant legs. Earl is so not buying this crap and accuses Pete of being a big, yellow-bellied, hot-house chicken. Geez; that are his GOOD points, Earl. You aren't even trying now. Pete then admits this and then catches himself; becoming outraged. Geez; Pete, you cannot take faint praise all that well. Earl is fine with him not entering because that's one less guy to worry out and leaves Pete in his dust as Pete yells and screams. What a loser Pete Pete is?! Scene change to Pete's dining room as Pete is pushing food around his plate because he thinks it gives him good luck. Yes; the story of this show is that Pete is having bad luck; or at least Pete thinks he has bad luck, but is just a bad person. Pete puts a fork on top of the glass and a pea on the mouth of the fork. Pistol, PJ and Peg are like: "What the hell is this?!"; and Pete is like "What are you staring at?!" HEE HEE! So Peg shows off the brochure and mentions the Friday the 13th reference being the 13th annual race as Pete sweats like he's in a convention for Oscar from Fish Hooks. Just in case anyone thinks I'm confusing that Oscar with Oscar Vandersnoot; or Oscar Wigglestomper. Peg is taunting Pete with this, basically accusing him of beliving in "magical thinking". Which is funny considering that it is taking "magical thinking" to justify Peg even being friends with Pete, let alone marrying him. Peg calls him shamrock lips (I was hoping she put the emphasis on "sham" for to rub it in; she didn't sadly.) as Pete is in full denial mode laughing. In comes Goofy with a black umbrella which gets stuck through the door, of course. Pete panics, runs in and pushes the umbrella into the house, inverting it in the process. Oh; and the umbrella goes from black to light blue within seconds of being restored to normal.
Pete closes the umbrella and points it at Goofy blowing him off being opening one in the house is bad. In a way; this is true, especially if you are careless as Goofy was back there. Peg has the Gruffi pose on full blast as Pete claims that it's bad taste to open the umbrella in the house. Geez; I thought safety first was the motto of the year. Peg wants Pete to admit that he believes in magical thinking as Pistol runs in talking a mile a minute as usual. PJ asks if Pete is not; looking frightened for no reason. Goofy almost accuses Pete of being stupid and that's more projection than a Hollywood movie as Pete stammers like a stupid idiot. No one's buying it as Pete blows them all off and decides to enter the race after all. Pete pounds on the counter and two doors break down onto the floor on cue; and somehow the items all flop onto the doors on the floor. Pete is as confused as I am on that one. Scene change to a sky shot of Pete in the living room moaning and watching television. Pete is in distress as an old female voice beckons asking leading questions like a scam artist. Pete answers the questions as apparently; this fortune teller cannot read Pete's mind; making her the most honest fortune teller in DTVA history. That is faint praise by the way. So she offers Pete an offer to come to Madame Zelderine's Fortune Telling Emporium and Pie Shop. Apparently; her fortune telling skills are so bad that she needs to have a pie selling shop to make ends meet. Wonder if the Rock gets his pootag pie from this store? Pete is not buying this crap as Zelderina is a psychic, seer and master baker who can remove someone's bad luck. Pete once again lies about being a downright upstanding citizen; which probably why he has "bad luck" in the first place. Yes; going to a fortune teller is too scummy even for Pete. He is above this...or is he? Ummmmmm....nope.
Madame Zelderina is voiced by the late Zelda Rubinstein (passed away in 2010) and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Rubinstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 28 May 1933 to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland, Dolores and George Rubinstein.[5][6] She was the youngest of three children and the only dwarf in her family.[7] Rubinstein did not become comfortable with her short stature until she was an adult.[7] In a 1992 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Rubinstein told the newspaper that she "had a rough childhood, [but] I became very verbally facile... I learned to meet everyone head-on."[7] She stood just 4 feet 3 inches (1.30 m) tall[8] due to a deficiency of the anterior pituitary gland, which produces growth hormone. Commenting in 2002 on the challenges of being a very short-statured person, Rubinstein said, "Midgets are societally handicapped. They have about two minutes to present themselves as equals—and if they don’t take advantage of that chance, then people fall back on the common assumption that 'less' is less."[9] Rubinstein won a scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned her bachelor's degree in bacteriology and became a sister of the national sorority Phi Sigma Sigma.[7][10] She moved to Berkeley, California, at the age of 25,[5] studied at the University of California, Berkeley,[8] and worked as a medical lab technician at blood banks.[7] In 1978 Zelda decided to pursue an acting career. She studied acting at the University of California. Poltergeist was her first major film role. She remained active in film and television thereafter, frequently portraying various psychic characters, such as her appearance on Jennifer Slept Here. She also narrated the horror television series, Scariest Places on Earth, which aired in the U.S. on ABC Family and in Canada on YTV.[7] Rubinstein's other minor/major film roles included Sixteen Candles, Under the Rainbow, Cages, Teen Witch, The Wildcard, Southland Tales and National Lampoon's Last Resort. She also contributed voice-over work for TV including Hey Arnold!, and The Flintstones.
She made numerous guest appearances on network TV shows, including Caroline in the City, Martin, Mr. Belvedere, and had a starring role as Ginny Weedon in the TV series Picket Fences. Her character there was killed off in typical off-beat fashion, by falling into a freezer early in the third season. She also appeared in an episode of Tales From The Crypt in which she played the mother of a girl who has been dead for 40 years. In 1993, she made a cameo appearance in the campy thriller Acting on Impulse, which reunited her with Poltergeist III co-star Nancy Allen. She also starred in two different roles on the same show in 1984 and in 1990: Santa Barbara. Beginning in 1999, she did voiceovers in television starting with the Fox Family reality TV Show, Scariest Places On Earth, commercials promoting movies such as Lady in the Water, and products including Skittles candy. Her last film role came in 2007 when she made a cameo appearance in the horror film Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. She also appeared in a cameo as herself at the Revenge of the Mummy ride in Universal Studios Florida on the screens which shows various actors from the films warning the people to leave, telling them about the curse of Imhotep. Rubinstein became active in the fight against HIV/AIDS in 1984. She appeared in a series of advertisements, directed towards gay men specifically, promoting safer sex and AIDS awareness.[4] Rubinstein did so at risk to her own career, especially so shortly after her rise to fame, and admitted later that she did "pay a price, career-wise." "I lost a friend to AIDS, one of the first public figures that died of AIDS," the actress said in an interview with The Advocate. "I knew it was not the kind of disease that would stay in anybody's backyard. It would climb the fences, get over the fences into all of our homes. It was not limited to one group of people."[11] She attended the first AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Walk.[12]
She began her career on Americathon in 1979. Darkwing Duck is her DTVA debut (in The Secret Origins Of DARKWING...DUCK; a show I reviewed; but didn't give a tribute to.). USIDent TV: Surveilling The Southland in 2009 was her final credit. She has 55 Acting credits, 9 Self credits and 5 Archive Footage credits to her resume. And speaking of Zelderina; we head to her shop which has palm hands similar to what we would see in Gravity Falls, a banana yellow rug (and she wonders why she doesn't have any customers?) a lot of green stars and moons, and a crown on top of the door. Why is Pete bothering to hide himself when no one is present to even see him?! Pete enters the shop as we get the most detailed part of the show ever with a green rug, a blue sofa, a rainbow painting over the sunset, a giant red palm with a moon and a star and a rose with a star coming out of it. In comes Zelderina who is a catnose wearing a blue dress with dark blue trim on the front, blue wired glasses and a blue fez cap with a purple button on the front. She's also wearing two purple bracelets on the right wrist; and she was expecting Pete as Pete wonders how this is possible since Zelderina claims that she couldn't read minds in her commercial. Zelderina claims that she knows all and Pete called for an appointment anyway. She also has an blue pearl earring on the left ear and brings out an out of nowhere slice of cherry pie. Okay; she has two earrings; which kind of kills the continuity they were shooting for here. Pete doesn't say a word as Zelde (because it's easier to spell) puts the plate on the counter and claims that she can smell Pete's aura a mile away like a meatball sandwich. I should point out that Zelde talks like Magical Despell in that she speaks broken English 5% of the time. I wonder if they planned June Foray to do this role and she either refused to do it or was busy at the time? Who knows, who cares? Pete claims that this is what he had for lunch as Zelde claims that he has heartburn from the spicy hot peppers. Pete admits that he has heartburn and is pushed to inside the fortune telling room; complete with bead blinds in the entrance. Sadly; I was disappointed that the fortune telling room looks generic in comparsion to the rest of the place. So they sit down in front of the table with the crystal ball as Zelde looks into the crystal ball and is really laying the bad luck promo stuff on Pete thick.
Pete looks at himself in the crystal ball as Zelde claims that it's worse than Pete thinks it is; but she knows the answer to this problem. She thinks money is the root of all evil and demands Pete his MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH because it's draining his good luck dry and giving her the money will drain his bad luck dry. Geez; I wonder what she'll do with that money after she drains the luck out of Pete? I don't think we need to go any further. This creepy music is too upbeat for this scene as Pete falls out of his chair in the process. Pete gets up and teases anger; but then throws his money from his pockets onto the table. The chair somehow resets itself as Pete feels broke and sits down again. Zelde claims the healing process has begun; but what is this? Ummm; Pete's really crappy looking face, madam? Zelde rattles the crystal ball as the crystal ball is a water snow globe with a dolphin doing it's cry right in the crystal ball. This was seven years before Spongebob Squarepants was a thing by the way. Apparently; in order to gain good luck, he must align himself with the baggy-panted one who dances with rakes. That is so Nickeledeon of you, writers! Pete is so confused as I am; because Zelde disappears into thin air for no reason; and then she comes back and tells Pete that time is up and pushes him out of the room. Then teleports to the front and asks if he wants a slice of cherry pie; but Pete no sells anyway. Zelde pushes Pete out of the building, telling him she'll send her bill (wait; wasn't this paid upfront? I smell a fraud here...) and stay away from greasy fried foods. I would rather him stay away from money because it's infecting his personality, but I don't see that happening anytime soon either. Zelde slams the door on Pete and that is that. Pete protests this outrage; because who is the baggy-panted guy who dances with rakes; but then gives up and bails stage right. Now; logic would dictate that it has to be Max because he wears baggy pants and all he has to do is dance with a rake. Of course; that is not what happens here because we head to Goofy's front lawn with Goofy dancing with the rakes. This would have been fine if his pants were baggy. They are not baggy. Goofy rakes leaves and hits the sprinkler to turn it out and we have dances with rakes, whirlwinds, Goofy protesting and a lot of water as Pete comes in with the black car; which he notices Goofy right away. Pete is shocked and appalled by this of course; because it's Goofy of course. Goofy then proceeds to vault himself over the sprinkler and lands on his neck and head. That had to suck and if Goofy wasn't dimwitted; he would probably be hating life. That ends the segment nearly thirteen minutes in. I think this was twenty seconds shorter than For A Fuel Dollars More. This episode is better than For A Fuel Dollars More; but it's still just there.
After the commercial break; we head back to the fortune telling room as Pete storms in fuming and protests this outrage. He demands his money back and Zelde claims that Pete has many spots on his body; which causes Pete to stammer like a stupid idiot. Pete sits down as Zelde basically states no refunds in roundabout terms and then Pete points out that he found the baggy pant wearing rake dancer; which Zelde shows legit shock and then acts like this was her plan all along. This is truly a battle of who can outsleeze the other one first. Pete calls him no good luck charm and does the Gruffi pose because Goofy is not being put in a race car with him. Zelde claims that Goofy is very good luck. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one, Zelde. Miss Cleo would be so proud of you. Pete tries to explain that Goofy will screw him; but gets cut off by Zelde as she tells him that if he wants to win the big race, Goofy must be there at all times. Of course; this all proves that Pete believes in magical thinking; but he's a scumbag, so I'm not shocked. He's good luck for him and the car and then sniffs at Pete. I'm sorry; but I like Una better than Zelde in case anyone gets any ideas. Zelde then smells "bad luck" on Pete; and Pete just gives her money anyway. Scene change to Pete going to Goofy's lawn and Pete starts talking about Goofy being the best mechanic in Spoonerville. Good thing he said "Spoonerville" because I'm sure Charles would have something to say about that. Goofy is as confused as I am as Pete puts on a green hat and declares Goofy his mechanic for the Spoonerville 500. Goofy looks stoned and his foot is stuck in the rake as Pete claims that there is a hundred dollar fee to be on the team. Goofy still has awkward moments with the rake; but shake hands on the deal, because he's a stupid idiot. Goofy calls it worth it at half price and Pete chuckles about the good luck charm. Head to Pete's garage AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Pete opens garage and they do the martial arts zoom in of doom and it made Pete's panicky look hideously hilarious as Goofy is cleaning up the car.
Pete is screaming and getting in Goofy's face demanding him to make it run now and he doesn't care if it takes all night. Geez; it has four flat tires; that would be a bad sign for something. Goofy's nose flicks up and Pete recoils; proceeding to figurally kiss his ass. Goofy gets in the car and mangles animal purring metaphors like mad, causing Pete to groan on cue before leaving. The windshield on this car is so badly drawn, the car looks really fake. I should note that the Kamquat rears it's ugly head again before the garage door closes. So after fifteen and a half minutes of setup; we head to the race track which is basically a figure eight track with two stands on each side and a tower announcer booth within the top half of the figure eight. Jump cut to Pete in a lime green suit as Max wishes him good luck as Pete is still claiming that this is no luck, this is skill. Goofy's costume is so pea soup-ish; I swear to god, it's making Goofy depressed. Peg notices the race car; which on the outside looks like a Hot Wheels dinky car, which also has the number thirteen on it. PJ checks his watch and claims that there is fourteen minutes...Oh wait; it's actually thirteen minutes. PJ seriously needs to buy a new watch; it's going at one minute per ten seconds at this rate. Pete gasps badly as Pistol calls it 1300 hours because the race starts at one pm. Pete continues to panic as Max is going to cheer them at row 13. Okay; now you're just being a dick Max; because the bleachers only have TEN rows! And then they break logic on the bleacher by showing the thirteenth row and several rows above it. We are now approaching Kennedy Cartoon levels of internal logic here. Pete is stammering like a stupid idiot as Peg accuses him of denying that he thinks magically. Pete denies it big time. Obvious question: So why is Goofy your co-partner in this gig? The babyfaces minus Goofy and Pete bail without asking the question of course as Pete is about to bail; but Goofy stops him. Because he nearly stepped on a black cat again. After all the episodes of Goofy unintentionally abusing Waffles, THIS is where Goofy actually cares about cats. DUMB!
Goofy is about to bail stage right; but Pete grabs him and proclaims that this is the first time he ever said this; but he doesn't want Goofy out of his sight for a second. Then I realize Goofy is sleepy and yawning because of course he spent last night fixing Pete's race car. That is not a good sign as Pete isn't thrilled either about this plan to have Goofy at his side from start to finish. So the PA announcer welcomes us to the 13th running of the Spoonerville 500. It should be called the Spoonerville Figure Eight 500; that would have been cooler. Goofy is trying to get away; but Pete grabs him and places him in the car, since Goofy is going to drive the thing. Yeah; the one time where Pete driving and hogging all the glory would have been the safer bet, and Pete just decides to make Goofy drive the car when he's too sleepy to do so. You might as well have Goofy being a drunk driver. Same thing basically. Goofy yawns on cue as Pete gets in the car off-screen and puts his helmet on on-screen in the co-pilot seat. Goofy puts on his seatbelt and his helmet is already on as he checks everything out. So the PA announcer finally gives the green lights as dust clouds and smoke engulf the screen and it's READY, STEADY, GO~! Everyone except the #13 car races out of the starting line with ease. Goofy is already beat and wants a nap first. Pete yells at him and I think the car starts and we drive with a fake background. Goofy is sleeping; Pete is rattling his cage in more ways than one. Somehow; Goofy dodges all the cars and makes it through the pack as he claims that he can do it in his sleep. Quite frankly; he probably does that when he drives normally. Pete is happy about the driving, but apparently, we take this in fast as Goofy's jeep manages to make it in the race, for no reason. Sky shot of the cars scattering in various directions; so this race is already a clustermuck. Pete is wondering about this driving and Goofy sells by snoring on the wheel with his mouth. Of course! Pete's goggles bug out and snap out as Pete panics like crazy and shakes Goofy. No dice as we get more close calls and the babyfaces are all covering their eyes while the rest of the crowd cheers. Blood thirsty hooligans!
So we get more dodging as Pete takes over the wheel and this wakes up Goofy and they have a tug of war with said wheel as we have a multiple car pileup (a really weak one I might add) which is enough for the red flag to show up. Pete stops his car somehow and slams the door shut getting out. Pete then walks around the car to Goofy's side and drags him out by the throat demanding answers to this outrage. Goofy claims that he was driving. That's lying by omission. He's driving under the influence of lack of sleep as Pete recoils and didn't mean to insult is Goofability. Pete is now officially worse than fake Jean Chretien when it comes to slurring his speech. I would not be shocked if he says popularity as poopularity now. Pete is kissing Goofy's ass and it might as well be literal at the rate he's going with this now. So we scene change to Pete opening the engine and fixing it up as Goofy wonders around like a fool. In comes car number one with Earl in the cheesist bodysuit/helmet combination ever. Even Chargeman Ken would not be caught dead in that outfit. Earl taunts Pete, Pete taunts Earl with petty insults, Goofy sleeps in the background. You got all that? Earl speeds away blowing Pete off as tired, retreaded banter. Oh come on, Earl; it's a children's show! Children don't know this in the first place. Goofy of course, takes a bump on the ground like a stupid idiot. Goofy wakes up like a drunk and opens the back to check the emergency equipment in the back of Pete's race car. Sadly; he throws everything out like a Wuzzle and it all disappears as Goofy snores in the trunk of the car. We hear the announcer proclaim that the race has been restarted due to track clearance. Ummm; I doubt that since Goofy threw out everything out of Pete's car. Stupid idiot! Pete shuts the trunk of the car and gets into the passenger side as he demands Goofy to drive right now. Problem is; no Goofy at the wheel. Uh-oh! Pete panics and that ends the segment nineteen and a half minutes in. Wow; we might have the shortest act III ever in DTVA history now; at barely over two and a half minutes. Just another racing episode with mostly setup; but little payoff.
After the commercial break; we head near the steel fence with Pete calling for Goofy on the grass, even stooping to whistling as Peg walks in wondering what is going on. Pete admits that Goofy is gone and Peg simply tells him to get back in the car and drive alone instead; which Pete refuses and stammers like a stupid idiot. Pete chatters and shakes as he gets in the car and Peg closes the door. Peg points out that Pete's fine. Pete is not fine; he has magical thinking on the brain. You know; I would have a lot more sympathy for Pete and Goofy if we knew what the consequence was if Pete lost the sideways wager with Earl. Pete then recoils because you see; the helmet on the attenna on the back of Earl's car is Goofy's; causing Pete is get pissed off because he thinks Earl has kidnapped Goofy. Pete's phasers are set to kill as the race resumes and Pete remembers to blow a kiss to Peg; before leaving her to handle his dust. So Pete isn't about to let Earl get away with this so called kidnapping and starts to drive like a maniac, yelling at everyone to move away from him as he goes side by side with Earl in less than thirty seconds. Pete demands Earl give Goofy back and Earl is confused as hell over this. Pete pounds on the roof of his car as he wants the baggy-panted one who dances with rakes. Even Earl thinks this is stupid as we get Pete bumping the hood of his car into the back of Earl's car and causing damage to it as Earl is yelling for help. So then; Earl drives off the course and Pete goes after him, remembering to tear down the chain linked fence in the process. Then we get the stupidest moment ever: Every car in the race follows them into the street. WHAT?! By the way; when Earl's car is near the church in the background; it literally disappears on cue. So we bring it around town and head into Pete's backyard as Earl destroys the wooden fence and Pete's statellite dish to boot. BASTARD! Pete then does the same and the swimming pool and bench shelter all get destroyed by the cars. So another wooden fence gets destroyed and the two cars drive out. Destroying people's properties with impunity? But that's impossible in a 1990's show?! Sarcasm dripping to 11, man!
So Earl's car slides with sparks as we go neck and neck again while Pete is demanding Goofy again. I would say "call the damn police, now"; but races seemed to be infecting everyone's brain now. Pete crashes through the chain-linked fence again and they are back on the race track as #13 crosses the finish line, pretty much fair and square, property damage notwithstanding. Yes; Pete won a race fair and square. By himself I might add. Out comes Pete to camera flashes and a rose weath by a blond dogear who looks almost exactly like Tinker Bell from Peter Pan. She is wearing a purple tank top and she kisses Pete on the cheek before bailing as Pete protests this outrage because he needs to find Goofy as Peg runs in and hugs Pete because HE F'N won! Oh, give me a break! Pete still wants to find Goofy; but then catches himself, is shocked and then he speaks gibberish and faints dead away. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was great! Jump cut to the trunk as Goofy opens it and wakes up yawning. Goofy claims that he had the strangest dream of sleeping through the race in Pete's trunk as the artwork looks horrible here to end the episode at 21:19. Bad animation aside and a funny ending; this was your typical racing episode. ** 3/4 (55%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; this episode wasn't too bad for the most part, although Wang Films' lousy animation is really starting to show at this point; as it was approaching Jade levels of cheapness in spots and even broke logic at one point. In spite of that; the story itself was fine and Pete getting the big win without noticing it was funny, I'll give this episode that. Earl was nothing and Zelde was just another fortune teller with little personality. The race itself was badly animated of course and it's becoming more and more notable as time goes on with a disappearing car in one spot for no reason and simply bad artwork in spots. It looks so off-model. Overall; this was an average racing episode with a good ending and a lot of bad animation. So...
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.