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Nightmare On Goof Street
Reviewed: 04/23/2017
Revenge Of The Wally Spud!
Like I say before; nothing changes in this show. Pete is scheming again: Goofy wins a remodeling contest but Pete tricks him out of it. Thinking he is going to get free remodeling on his house Pete soon finds himself conned. And yes; the duo of Wally and Spud return just to make things worse for Pete! So, how does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Jeff Saylor and story edited by Carter Crocker. The animation was provided by Walt Disney Animation Australia, PTY, Limited.
We begin this one with a far shot of Goofy's property as it appears to be morning complete with Z-grade ominous music playing as we head inside the kitchen with a clock ticking as Goofy, Pete and Peg are playing Scrabble. Pete is trying hard not to kill Goofy at this point; because Goofy is really taking his time. How there is a bucket of popcorn and an uneaten burger on the table with Goofy and Pete around is amazing. See; Goofy can spell cat, but has no K's. Pete's expression is so off-model that it has to be a stylist decision because Pete isn't getting any younger, which Goofy counters by claiming that he's aging real dignified. Which is another word Goofy doesn't understand of course. Peg tells Pete to shut up because Goofy is trying to think. Oh boy; if that isn't entrapment to a punch line, I don't know what is. Pete of course falls into the trap with a 2000 year evolution joke and Goofy has been on this for twenty seven and a half minutes. You couldn't just tell Goofy that if he cannot figure this out; he can say "Pass"? Did Peg invoke some rule in this game that Goofy cannot say that word or something? Pete pounds the table and the pieces go flying as Goofy proclaims that he might have a word: Sesquipedalian. Which is an adjective for long-winded words. So Pete is hosed here, folks. Pete is blowing this off; but Peg checks the blue book of doom and proclaims that it is a word, as Pete is in denial here, but it's true. Peg write down the score and Goofy managed to score 225 points on one word. Goofy claims that he won a spelling "C", or a "GED". Who knows, who cares? Pete is ticked off now as he claims that he's so smart that he knows stuff he hasn't learned. Virulent ignorance, thy name is Pete Pete. Goofy finds an out of nowhere hotdog (why was the hamburger on the table, then?!) and tries to eat it; but the weiner slips and nails Pete in the face. That was disturbing, and not even the fact that a weiner was involved; as there was mustard spray and that bump was nasty. Jump cut to a table where a phone is ringing as Goofy goes over excusing his franks while Peg calls Pete dimple chins. I guess double chins would have got the show sued by Jay Leno.
Peg is of course not amused by Pete's inability to promise the family a vacation for the past six months as Goofy is awkwardly holding the phone and tells Pete that he got a radio quiz thingy. Okay; unless Goofy called the radio station and stayed on the line, radio stations do not randomly call numbers and that is for a really good reason. So; this obviously has to be a setup here from some con-artists. Goofy turns on the radio and checks his hair in a conveniently placed mirror as the announcer on the radio tells us that if Goofy answers the quiz correctly, he can get a remodeling job on any room in his house for free. Goofy walks around and stretches the phone cord around as he cuts answers before the question is even asked. And yes; Kamquats rears it's ugly head again as Goofy springs back, bonks into Pete and Pete apparently wears false teeth now since we see them in mid-air. Goofy is on bottom as Pete is flat on his back like he's in a torture rack, and somehow got his teeth back. Pete tells Goofy to let him ask the question first before getting it wrong. Heh. So the radio announcer's question is: Who is buried in Grant's tomb? The answer is of course no one because they are in a mausoleum and above ground, therefore they cannot be buried in a techincial sense. It's a joke question as Goofy answers: Did Grant die? And that's enough for Goofy to be declared the winner. That is a really interesting punchline variation to the joke methinks. Pete is shocked and appalled as he grabs the radio in protest while Goofy wants to tell Max; who isn't in this episode by the way, so we didn't see this happening. So Goofy throws the phone into the air and it bonks off Pete's head in the process as Goofy races upstairs. Pete grabs the phone as the announcer wants the address as Pete blows him off...and then catches himself because you see, Pete never saw a scheme he didn't like and changes the address so that the remodeling job was done at his house instead of Goofy's. Pete lives at 367 West Main Street and his name is Pete with one P. Pete holds the phone and insults Goofy's house as a dump before being informed that they are coming to his house tomorrow.
Then we get either the stupidest logic break I have ever seen; or Goofy is purely insane: Goofy slams open the front door praising this moment. Yes folks; Goofy went through the front door despite going upstairs to tell Max. So either Goofy jumped out of Max's window or this is a really bad logic break that only Kennedy Cartoons would pull off. I honestly don't know which one is the truth actually. Oh; and it occurs at 4:20 on the DVD, how fitting?! Goofy wants to remodel Max's tree house, but Pete informs him that Goofy was the 99th caller out of 1000; therefore he loses. Ummm; that's not how it works, you lying weasel! Goofy feels bad and I feel conned just watching this show now. Oh and scumbag Pete offers Goofy to watch the renovating done to his place and he's sure Goofy would like that. Goofy looks defeated, I am defeated so let's move onto Pete's house and inside the living room with Pete pacing around pondering what rooms to remodel as we get a dream sequence featuring an elevator and a lot of stuff with no ceilings and few floors. Don't ask, I have no idea what goes on in Pete's toxic mind. We return to reality (no, not really) as Pete wanted a private game room for me, myself and I; meaning just Pete of course. So we head inside the small games room as Pete points to a bunch of windows and guess who are the remodellers. We see at the entranceway Wally and Spud; the two most generic heels this side of generic heels. I have seen one shot henchmen with much more personality than these two villains. This by the way is their second appearance on the show and we are supposed to care about them robbing Pete, despite the fact that it was Pete who robbed Goofy of the grand prize. BAD! Pete wants bigger windows and a hand-carved mahogany shelf and remove the blue dusty sofa Pete bashes. Wally and Spud are confused, but they are game to screw Pete over just the same. Wally and Spud elbow each other as Spud is surprised that Pete didn't ask for a bowling alley. Pete hears this of course, and now wants them to build a bowling alley. D'OH! Wally and Spud aren't so sure because there is a wall in the way.
Pete asks if they could move it back a bit as Spud accuses Pete of scamming their small business types. Considering that Wally and Spud are career criminals who stole Pete's RV way back in the early seasons; that is the defintion of heel projection on a heel. Pete denies it because he's just a dumb, simple homeowner who swindles denizens selling cars. Okay; I made up the last part; even though it's true. Pete doesn't know sawhorse pick up areas and Wally thinks he's on the level. Spud claims that if he extends the wall, it's going to cost him a little extra, but only a little extra. A little extra through the nose, methinks. Pete does match like Scott Steiner does steroids as he writes a cheque and gives it to the criminal losers...ERRR..I mean, remodeling geniuses, as this is a hard bargin. Would have been better logic wise, if they had explained how much Pete would have to give. Fade to black and then we return to the games room as Wally is breaking down a wall with a pickaxe. Do legit wall breakers use pickaxes? I'm pretty sure that they are much more careful than this. Spud is using the jackhammer on the floor as Pete watches on and Peg just walks by before catching herself and appears to be having a stroke. She demands answers to this outrage and Pete honestly answers that he's just doing some remodeling. Peg doesn't like this because it costs a small fortune and he promised a six month overdue trip as Pete insists that he outslicked them into doing this for practically peanuts. Peg gets into Pete's face and accuses him of scheming to get out of the trip; which Pete denies because they are professionals. Well; that's a lie on all fronts since they aren't even professional criminals. POW! OUCH! Ummm... Wally and Spud want to talk to Pete and Pete shoos Pegs away stage left. Pete runs over as Wally and Spud basically tell him that putting in an Olympic-sized bowling alley to match his ego; they would have to move the kitchen away for a while. Pete stammers like an idiot as Wally takes it as backing down, so it's the bargin-basement version. Pete is begging and asks about the cost of the kitchen and it's going to cost a little extra...through the nose.
Scene change to Pete and Peg in their bedroom sleeping as they snore and sleep; as we hear a banging noise waking up the two. Pete is blowing off his grandmother claiming that there's plenty of room in the next lifeboat. I don't think we need to go any further on that subject. Peg accuses the remodellers of destroying their house as Pete claims that it's all okay, everything is fine, just like Impact Wrestling is fine. Pete insists that they are doing the finishing work and a giant wrecking ball destroys the wall in front of the bed. Yeah; they are so finishing the work on this house, Pete. I hope you like the new doghouse Peg has remodelled over the next twenty years. Then we discover that it's GOOFY driving the crane wrecking ball. Wally and Spud hired Goofy to do this because he's a natural at this demolishing stuff. Why did they bother with this is a mystery to me; since I'm pretty sure Wally and Spud can do this on their own without Goofy's help. Saylor did this just for a laugh and nothing more. It wasn't funny, let's move on. Pete is begging for mercy now. Mercy?! From Peg?! Surely, you jest Pete! So Pete bails out of bedroom to straighten this out; but half of the hallway is gone and so Pete gets WARNERED even after Goofy and the heels warned him. There's a lot of stupid idiots in this episode and the most obvious one is Pete. Scene change to Pete going into the bathroom with his bathrobe and walks into the hot shower which is already on for no reason. Pete wants to calm his nerves as a grappling hook rope grabs the shower and a pulley system hoists up the entire shower area. Somehow; Pete is still able to take a shower for thirty seconds despite no hot water. So the shower area is slapped onto a red truck by the crane Goofy is using and the red mach truck races out of the driveway and heads out of Spoonerville towards the big city on a big super highway with lots of cars. Mach truck takes huge bump and the shower area bumps and lands on the pavement perfectly as Pete doesn't suspect a thing at all. Somehow; the thing has teleported right into an intersection as Pete peeks out and there are cars surrounding it.
The light turns green and because everyone follows the rules of the road; everyone just honks their horns and does nothing. Scene change to Pete in his office at the car lot as he takes two Alka-Seltzers in his glass of water at his desk as the white courtesy phone rings. Pete answers it and stammers like a stupid idiot as we discover that it's Spud on the phone informing him that things are coming along just wonderfully as the house needs new wiring and they had to take out the chimney and fireplace. I betcha Goofy is taking out the thing as we see it now. The chimney breaks and shatters as Goofy claims that he almost had it that time. Pete panics as Spud points out that he has a 1500 amp something over the joist and they have to reroute through the bathroom as Pete looks like he wants to be away from everything as this is going to cost just a little more through the nose again. So we head back to Pete's house as the house is perfectly intact in spite of all the demolition these two heels and Goofy caused. The chimney is still there, for god sakes. Stupid! Pete arrives in the black car and then climbs out as Goofy is on the look out from Pete's bedroom as he calls for Pete to look inside. Somehow; Goofy has teleported to the entrance as Pete heads inside as the entire house roof is propped; but the entire house is gone completely while Pete is about to hang his coat on air since the coat rack is also gone. Pete stammers like a stupid idiot and that ends the segment eleven minutes in. Whatever, this episode is just boring.
After the commercial break; we return to the propped up house as Pete is inside with Goofy stammering like a stupid idiot. Goofy loves it as he is really laying this whole thing on thick that Pete is turning polar white now; and even Goofy is noticing this and wondering what is wrong with him. Ha-yuck! Pete continues to stammer like a stupid idiot before yelling as Goofy leaves through the door proclaiming that Peg will be speechless when she sees this; which would be a lie. Pete is panicky as he looks at his watch as it's three o'clock and Peg is already at the driveway. Goofy simply goes in through the wall; puts a potted plant on the window sill and proclaims that Pete is trying to surprise her. Ha-yuck! Goofy walks out towards Peg's car and proclaims that he has a surprise for her. Then the door busts open with luggage as Pete comes out in a bathrobe and ice bag on his head doing the worst selling of an illiness I have ever seen as he is literally trying to weaseling his way out of the trip, although at least he's giving Peg the trip he promised to her. Yes; this is his way of making sure Peg does not see the house; and Peg is so not buying this with the Gruffi pose on full blast. Well; Friday to Sunday flu hoaxes will do that to ye. Pete does the worst blowing nose job ever as Goofy actually agrees with him because he's a few degrees under the weather. Well; Goofy did see Pete look legit pale, so it's not like Goofy is lying or anything. That is actually nice booking on Jeff's part there as Peg doesn't want to leave him alone; but Pete doesn't want her to leave the kids go alone and he'll stay home and have Goofy take care of him. I just love how Pete has to weasel his way out using the guy who he thinks has the male version of cooties. So after some directions and bad sneezing, Peg goes over to the door to set up the couch for him; forcing Pete to cut her off and calls her puppy breath. What a sexist insult that is?! Pete is grabbing the luggage as Peg points out that there is no traffic in Spoonerville. So this town is mostly a ghost town? Geez; even in 1992, people are going back to the big cities now. Pete goes into something about mobs as he puts the luggage on the roof.
Now here's a stupid moment: Peg just stands there with the Gruffi pose even though she's literally five feet from the open door. Then again; how Pete got his pjs and bunny slippers on from an empty house is probably a worse logic break than that. Somehow Peg just walks over and gets in the car as she's coming back Sunday afternoon as Peg calls him stubble cheeks, because BS&P won't allow sexist cheeks, for some reason. Pete cuts her off by slamming the door shut and Pete coughs badly again claiming that he'll be well by then. Peg orders Pete to stay in bed and orders Goofy to make sure he does. Well; that is a problem since there is no bedroom in the house. I'm guessing Pete is sleeping in Goofy's house, which will make Pete really happy. Not. Peg tells Goofy to make sure Pete cares about the flu and Goofy proclaims he will or his name's not fifteen percent cotton. Geez; there's a one man band name if I ever saw one. Goofy is confused as Peg gets out of the driveway, bye-bye, kiss-kiss, Goofy finally remembers, don't care. So we head to the properties AFTER HAPPY HOUR (After dark) as we head to inside the living room with Pete on the phone yelling at Wally and Spud on the remodeling thing and basically threatens them if they don't come first thing in the morning before hanging up. Goofy comes in with blankets as Pete is snorting and fuming. Pete is motioned over to the sofa as Goofy thinks he's running a fever. Keep in mind, Goofy is partially responsible for destroying Pete's house and Pete just sits there and recoils. I get that this is supposed to be character development; but there is a proper time and place for that, and this isn't it. Pete sits down and decides to sleep as we scene change to him snoring on the sofa complete with a wired pink blanket as Goofy watches on in awe. He decides to make him all warm and cozy by turning the heated blanket knob into the red area and then tiptoes away stage left as Pete sizzles and runs up the CHEAP HEAT OF LAUGHS for his troubles. Pete wakes up, holds his breath and smashes through Goofy's roof screaming like after eating eleven-alarm chili. He goes out of sight and apparently, he comes down because we scene change back to the kitchen of Goofy's as he is sitting at the table groaning about Wally and Spud not being at the house. Goofy comes in with two bowls of chicken soup. I assure you that his soul will never be cured by chicken soup, even if Pete had one or souls actually existed. So Goofy brings a bowl out and bails stage right to give to Waffles as Pete goes over and uses the conveniently placed phone and dials it.
He spoons some "soup" in his mouth and he likes it because they kept the livers in it. If you cannot guess what Pete is really eating, then you have no future in the cartoon business. A female voice informs us that the phone number he dialed is no longer in service. Geez; I wonder why? Maybe it's because Wally and Spud are con artists and Pete just demonstrated how immune to irony he really is. So Pete is panicky as he hangs up; Goofy comes in with Waffles and puts the soup bowl down on the floor. Goofy then brings the soup bowl up and realizes that he almost fed Waffles chicken soup. Question: Can chicken soup kill a cat? I'm serious here and I have no time to check in the internet because I need to get this review done. Goofy switches bowl as Pete finally gets the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and spits out the contents, despite the fact that he tasted it and it tasted good. Damn you defective brain for making me hate something that actually tasted decent! Pete then grabs Goofy and orders him to get his keys because they are taking a little ride; which Goofy no sells with the Gruffi pose. Because you see, Peg's orders are to take good care of Pete and not let him scheme while under the influence of fake illness. I wish that was what he actually said, but alas. Pete claims that this was his doctor on the phone (which is hilarious considering that the phone number was out of service. Even quack doctors aren't that stupid. Vile, but not stupid.) and he has homesickness, and must get the house back by tomorrow afternoon; or he'll be in the used car lot in the sky, basically saying that he's dead. That's a lie. The undertaker music doesn't change that, Pete. Goofy then proclaims that this is serious and goes along for the ride as we head to the ECHO CLIFF OF DEATH as Goofy and Pete notice nothing at all; which confuses Goofy because he expected at least a building for remodeling. Pete realizes that there is no building because there was no business and he got conned by a couple of cons as his screaming voice echoes over the cliff to a desert valley to end the segment nearly seventeen minutes in. Yawn; if Pete loses his family over this, I have no sympathy for him, even if Wally and Spud are criminals. Sure; Wally and Spud deserve prison, but I'm not going to cry tears over Pete losing his house and everything, since we call this irony.
After the commercial break; we head to an apartment building with a police car on the sidewalk as Pete and Goofy walk up to the door. Goofy tells him that the long arm of the law will put the crooks out of business. Geez; I wonder how this is going to go since I already saw Bullethead Baloo with Baloo doing the exact same thing. Difference there is, I had much more sympathy and empathy for Baloo than I do for Pete. So we head inside the police office (yes; it's in an unmarked building, just accept it and your brain won't bleed.) as the two police officers from Pete's Day At The Races, only they are indentical twins making small talk about house losing and all that crap. They laugh at it right as Pete and Goofy arrive at the desk, complete with WAH-WAH-WAH sound. I thought DTVA was above stupid Z-grade spots like this. Pete jumps into a chair and reads a magazine as the officers calls this guy a nut and a dumb one as Pete is cross legged and waving it. More laughing as Goofy joins into the joke like an uninvited fart, well to Pete anyway. Goofy teases telling them what happened; but Pete grabs him by the neck and they both bail stage right just like that. Well; this wasn't the same thing that happened in Bullethead, since Goofy never got a chance to explain what happened; but Bullethead is still better in that regard. So we scene change to Goofy driving the Jeep through Spoonerville as Pete claims in the passenger seat that everyone except Peg knows; and begs for Goofy's help. Goofy gets paranoid while Pete checks his watch proclaiming that Pete should get a second opinion. Pete yells that he needs a house, pronto and Goofy drives over a bridge and out of town because he read in the newspaper that there is a sale on used house parts. Geez; three guesses to whom is having the sale, and the first two don't count. So we head up the hill to fetch a pail of used house parts as we see Pete's house parts clear as day with yellow flags and banners surrounding it. They are all on wheels as Pete and Goofy look around as Pete is noticing something about these rooms being slightly similar to his house, from the kitchen, to Pistol's bedroom, to Pete's bedroom, and so on and so on.
Pete calls it similaramitude; because he is infected with 1990's kid cooties now. Hey; if Pete believes in Goof cooties; then I believe in 1990's Kid cooties. Fair is fair! Goofy takes out the out of nowhere conveniently placed fishing cap Pete wears when he goes fishing. Pete calls this eerie and then finally catches himself because that was his fishing cap he just threw away stage left. Pete looks at the parts some more in a panic and then notices under the purple umbrella tree, Wally and Spud sitting down on wooden chairs drinking orange Kool-Aid and shooting the breeze in a G-rated way. Ooops! Pete is loving this as he has the "KILL YOU" face on causing Wally and Spud to get up and they stammer like stupid idiot criminals. Pete gives them one hour to put his house back together; but the two no sell because they trump it by showing him a legally binding contract that Pete signed; even though we never got to see the contract until now. You see; any parts they move they have salvage rights to them. OUCH! Memo to Jeff Saylor: That was an important thing and you forgot because kids just want comedy is pounded into your tiny head. Five seconds was all you need to make this make sense and you ignored it. Wally and Spud decide that they could give him the parts back under some arrangement; so Pete is forced to pay over $1400 to bring the house parts back to his house to the cons and then Pete demands that they put the house back. Wally and Spud no sell because they remodel; not rebuild as they bail into their van; which was stolen I betcha and they drive away stage left. Pete protests this outrage as they leave him in his dust and then he stops and sobs because Peg will be back soon and there's no time to get the house back right. He sobs; but Goofy is an idiot so he is going to help him because he stole the blueprints from the two cons. HA! Pete wonders if they can get it done in time; so Goofy rips up half of the plans and it's one half to one third as easy as one, two, four. The scariest part about this is: I have more faith in Goofy putting this house back than I do Pete. Ponder that for a moment and Peg will set her phasers to kill the marriage!
So we scene change to various spots of Goofy and Pete moving the house parts towards the house as Pete gets squashed hard into one of them. Jump cut to Goofy trying to nail a nail with a hammer and nailing the thumb hard instead. I called that ten seconds before it happened actually. Pete saws wood, Goofy nails his thumb again, Pete paints, Goofy nails his thumb again, and no sells because his thumb is totally dead. So we head outside as the full house is finally in place and the two stupid idiot male adults look at it beaming. In comes Peg's car as Goofy and Pete notice her and enter the house. Head into the living room as Goofy resets a crooked picture. Peg: I think the picture is the least of my beloved's problems here. Pete slips onto the sofa reading the same magazine he read in the police officer's station and wraps himself in a brown blanket as Pistol comes in asking lambikins about his fee-fees. Whatever Peg; you have been conned by this guy more times than Wally and Spud put together. Goofy proclaims that he is doing so well as he teases blowing Pete's cover, so Pete slams the magazine into the mouth like Goofy's a real dog. So Pete claims that he's fine and asks what was wrong in the first place, as Peg responds just making sure he was all right. Pete plops down on the sofa relieved as Peg walks away towards the end of the hallway as she calls for Pete and she doesn't look happy. Uh-oh! You know; if I was called snooki-wooki; I would sue DTVA for non-support. So we head into the kitchen and it's upside down as Goofy finally blows his cover stating that the right angles are wrong and that is that. So we go to the final shot of Pete sleeping in Chainsaw's doghouse as Pete rationalizes it like a failed Xanatos Gambit while Chainsaw is really annoyed by this as Chainsaw steals the covers from Pete. Pete claims that it could have been a lot worse as he groans as it's raining outside to end the episode at 21:19. Well; considering how scummy Pete is, sleeping in the doghouse sounds a lot less mean-spirited in hindsight doesn't it? Just another stupid scheme where we have have to sympathize with Pete, which is never happening ever again. ** (40%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Another Pete scheme episode down; only more boring and pointless. Again; we are supposed to feel sorry for Pete when he get conned by two heels no one cares about; and it doesn't work. The animation was great here for the most part and there were few logic breaks; but for the most part, it was a boring episode. Even the ending felt flat and I wasn't feeling any of this. I know I should stop reviewing this show right now; but I still have seven episodes left and this is part of my gig as a reviewer to at least complete the DVD sets, so I wish that the writers would at least make this entertaining. Goofy is trying; but his routine is growing old way too fast for me. So...
Thumbs down for this episode and I'll see you all next time.