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Come Fly With Me
Reviewed: 04/30/2017
And See Pete The Jackoff Fly!
Oh; this one might be one of the only episodes where Pete is not scheming as somehow, his new computer zaps him and turns him into a fly. Fly hijinks ensue. Yeah. So; how does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode is written by Bruce Reid Schaefer with story edited by the late Bruce Talkington. The animation was provided by Walt Disney Animation Japan Inc, with additional services provided by Animal-Ya, Tama Productions and Jade Animation Productions.
We begin this one at Goofy's house with honey title card and apparently, Goofy's house is beige now. We head to a closeup shot as a fly buzzes around and looks in the window as Goofy is telling Peg that he needs more molasses. This bug has blue human eyes and a red nose with human face. Why? Why not? We see Goofy pouring molasses into a white tub as Goofy claims that he needs a gallon or two more as the bug is really into this sweetness that he tries to charge through the window; but he's too small and the window rejects him. So Peg is pouring buckets of molasses into a tub while Goofy is stepping in the tub barefoot because he's making shoofly pie as Peg doesn't look thrilled at all of seeing this. Pizza Pie In The Sky; I'm just saying defenders of ancient cartoons. Goofy wiggles his black feet and it still doesn't feel right as Pistol runs in with green scuba gear, green flippers and her green bathing suit which has a yellow skirt on it and tries to jump into the molasses; but Peg cuts her off. BOO! HISS! Pistol protests this; but Peg calls Goofy the kook cook today. Peg takes off Pistol's flippers as Pistol calls Goofy's shoofly pies creepy and even Peg agrees with that sentiment. Fly continues to fail at getting through the window as Pistol stares at it with eye contact violence. Pistol taunts the fly; fly does a raspberry that causes brown molasses to come out of his mouth, for no reason. Jump cut to a sky shot of the sidewalk next to an ice cream truck with Max and PJ. In comes Pete with his black car with the back trunk open with boxes of stuff parking into the driveway. Max and PJ come in and help Pete unload boxes as they talk about some Hank 5000 machine I don't care about. Pete of course tells them that they can only look at it through the window as Max and PJ go into the house with the boxes all giddy about playing video games on it. So; it's a computer. Geez; get these losers a Pretendo then. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pete follows them inside and slams the door and since the fly following them disappeared, I assume the fly got in as we scene change to the living room with the boxes opened and littered on the floor with a really wacky looking joystick and mouse hanging from the pool table. Pan over to Pete lying on the floor reading the manual and this computer is more complex to explain that most real computers nowadays. No wonder everyone went to mobile phones, now.
The fly comes in annoying Pete and Pete tries to kill it with the manual; but bonks himself in the face with the banana yellow cover manual. Another bad sign this computer is a bad investment. The fly lands on a razorback warthog with what appears to be a telescope simulating a cigar. Pete goes back to the book; blowing off the insect as we hear tinkering and discover that the kids on the pool table have completely set up the computer. Oops! Pete demands answers to this outrage and then yells at them to hit the bricks as Max and PJ bail. PJ slides through Pete's arm which was amusing enough as Pete heads back to the manual talking about using them as a tax writeoff. Fly comes down again to annoy Pete and Pete is pissed off and swattting at said fly. Pete brings out the pool cue and this is enough for the fly to panic and bail. Pete chases the fly outside and then the living room is empty as Max and PJ return from the door, so yes, the computer is in Pete's man cave before the term was even a major thing. PJ finds the manual and he's confused so much that Max throws it away because Max don't need no stinking instructions! Quite frankly; considering that he's Goofy's son, I doubt those instructions would help at all. Furthermore; it gives me relief since I don't have to hear the How To Narrator rearing his ugly head again. Max plugs the computer plugs together with ease; blowing off the instructions because they are for adults, see. So basically; Max puts the computer together and doesn't screw this up one bit. Because you see, kids know computers better than adults do. Never mind that it was adults who invented them; but eh. PJ plugs the computer into the wall and there is a electric spark party which causes the kids to hide under the table. Max deduces that the wires got crossed somewhere. Like I said, Occam's Razor is great in real life, but is awfully hit or miss in a cartoon. PJ whines that Pete will cross his wires if Hank 5000 is ruined, but Max blows it off because PJ worries too much. Even PJ is questionning why they are even friends at this point. That is very telling actually as the kids walk out of Pete's man cave. Scene change to the kitchen as the doorbell rings; and Peg walks over to answer it. In comes Goofy with a stack of shoofly pies, made with the most feetish of molasses. Which is very redneckish of him by the way.
The pies are for the Pete family and Peg calls this not neccessary as Goofy asks where he can put them and Peg claims that she wants them in Tacoma, Washington. I guess it's to poison Nintendo for censoring Mortal Kombat. POW! OUCH! Ummm... Peg then states that he can put them anywhere he wants; which is a bad thing to say when the guy putting them down anywhere is Goofy Goof. Except the kitchen table; as Goofy puts the pies on their and the table collapses because the leg is loose. All right Pistol; are you replaying Harley Race/Hulk Hogan again?! Everyone is covered with molasses as Goofy bails to get the rest of the pies as Peg is pleading for him to stop. Goofy no sells because it's not a bother at all. Peg looks like she now sees why Pete hates him now as we head back to the pool table with Max playing a video game with the most broken joystick in history. Max claims that he got sixty trillion points. FACKING BULLSHEET! Video games in 1992 couldn't get past one million points; so I'm not buying that score. Max gives PJ the joystick and PJ takes this as a dare as he'll do it with both eyes tied behind his back. I wish Max would channel Vince McMahon 1998 here as PJ is about to play when suddenly Pete comes back basically saying that Hank will tell him how to murder flies as Max switches the orange switch off, so apparently, Hank is one of the first computers with access to the Internet. Max thinks they are dead (and he says dead here) as they scatter in opposite directions. In comes Pete noticing the joystick swinging and then ignores it and goes back to the manual. Then he catches himself and proclaims that someone was messing with his Hank 5000; and he'll peel those responsible too complete with cut throat sign. Pete flicks the orange switch and the computer screen is more glitchy than the worst NES games in history; as Pete deduces that the kids were playing a game on his business computer. Never mind that the computer is in his entertainment man cave section. In comes the fly to annoy Pete again as Pete punches at the fly and trips over the wires to the tripod camera setup; which causes Pete to push on the buttons of the mouse and the camera zaps Pete and Pete completely vanishes from view. You got all that?
Max and PJ return and sit on the boxes as they play Fifty Flies From Fiji as there are now two joysticks in the area. The computer screen as a giant fly shown now as the game is basically the mini-game from Mario Paint/Super Mario Maker; only with a pie on the window sill as the background. So we head to Pete who is now a computerized pixel art sprite fly in the computer. Pete somehow is still wearing his tie as Pete feels really weird. Pete dodges pixel art flyswatter sprite as PJ calls Pete the head ninja fly. Three words that should never be said in the same breath when comparing Pete; but here it is. The head ninja fly is worth a thousand points and it's Max's as Pete dodges more flyswatters in a panic. Pete finally gets squashed by the flyswatteer and Max declares himself the winner. Pete is screaming at PJ and this is somehow enough for the kids to wave goodbye at each other and bail out of the man cave. Pete walks out of sight and this causes the camera to somehow stand by itself and spit Pete out of the lens. What?! So Pete the Jackoff Fly is in the real world now; which makes no difference other than Pete is currently a common house fly with his face and green tie on. Pete gets up and declares himself dreaming, which to me is ture since Pete as a fly is a lot less bothersome than Pete as a catnose. Pete looks confused despite the fact that he has four arms. If he were legged; he would have four legs instead. Bad! Pete pinches himself and does a comical oversell of pain bouncing off the wood. Pete goes over to his trophy picture and sees his reflection in the glass as he stammers like a stupid idiot. So yes; this is The Incredible Shrinking Molly combined with The Fly of Doom. PJ and Max come back in and start playing Boxing Gorilla; with PJ playing this time. Pete is yelling at them to not touch Hank because it's the only way to get it to bring Pete back to normal, see. PJ backhands Pete and then feels bad about messing with Pete's computer because PJ feels real guilty and thinks Pete is watching him like Big Brother. You don't say? Pete lands on Max's nose as Max laughs at PJ, thinking that Pete has got him trained. What in the blue hell does that mean?! I'm a 1990's Kid (sort of) and even I don't get that reference. Pete bites Max's nose and Max screams in pain as he grabs an out of nowhere glass and captures Pete on the pool table. Pete protests this outrage as Max cups the glass with his hand (somehow); runs to the sliding glass door, opens it and throws Pete out of the house.
Pete flies around the tree and tries to fly back towards the house; but the glass doors are closed and Pete smacks into it like a bug on my windshield. Pete flies around the properties and goes through a slightly open window leading into Goofy's kitchen as Goofy is bringing another shoofly pie out of the oven as Pete thinks Goofy will help him. Riiiigggghhhttttt. Pete lands on top of the shoofly pie; which should answer that lengthy question: Does the pie make flies go away? Answer: Nope. Pete is now stuck in said pie protesting this outrage. This pie literally smells like feet now! Goofy picks Pete up by the wings and washes him in the sink. HAHA! Then he shakes Pete to dry him off. HAHA! Pete is concussed and somehow this was funny in spite of it. Goofy blows Pete's ass and Pete bonks onto the window sill as Pete's other hands dust himself off while Pete blows himself off for trusting a goof. Pete flies back to the backyard as we hear Peg yelling and threatening Pete to chop the tree down in the backyard; or he'll be sleeping under it tonight. Uh-oh! Goofy's shoofly pie has officially pissed her off now. Pete thinks her popsicle lips will help him as he bails and we head inside the living room as Peg is cleaning up the floor with the vacuum cleaner. Now this episode really sucks. HAHA!
Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Shaun Desmond.
So even though Pete is small; he still cannot squeeze through a window of his house easily. Pete flies around Peg and calls himself the hammock honey bear. Pfft; Baloo is more believable than you on that count, Pete! More so, Winnie The Pooh! You need to do some overdue thinking there, pal. Peg is no selling all as Pete decides to...I cannot believe I'm typing this...fly into Peg's right ear and yell inside there. Peg notices and is more confused than I am as she pokes her finger in her right ear and causes an earthquake inside said ear. Pete is hanging on for dear life on the hairs inside the ear; but loses the grip, pops out of the ear, bounces off the carpet and lands in the vaccum cleaner after getting sucked up by said vacuum cleaner. Pete flies through a window with broken glass on the side (which we never see broken except in this episode) out of the back of the vacuum cleaner and lands right into a conveniently placed spider-web near a steel pole. Pete realizes that he's stuck and screwed as there is shaking as a spider stalks Pete (I cannot believe I just typed that!) and that ends the segment ten and a half minutes in. This is fun so far; albeit it's nothing special.
After the commercial break; the spider puts a bib on itself, of course. Why would a spider have a chicken leg on his bib is a bigger question than the bib itself actually?! I mean; the bib itself is fuzzy cartoon logic striking again, so there you go. Disney Caption has Pete's name as Petey Fly. Why?! Why not?! Pete is begging for mercy and doing the "nice kitty" promo which almost NEVER works. Somehow; Pete is tied up with spiderweb now. Considering how lazy Pete is; this seems like overkill to me. Oh; and the spider also has a knife and fork as it sizes up Petey Fly. Pete screams for help and in comes three flies who are basically the fly's answer to the Beagle Boys. So Bigtime fly does the bugle call, Bouncer is the fat ass one and Burger is the red balloon nose one as they dive down towards the spider-web while the spider uses the out of nowhere salt shaker on Pete; just to overkill this cartoon spot. Pete is pleading for someone to get him out of this one. Pete even lies in being good; like we are going to buy that from a scoiopath as the flies cut through the webbing and the spider has just been WARNERED~! Wow; that last one was believable as a cartoon spot in fact. So Pete is pulled from the spiderweb after a mighty struggle as Pete tells them to watch it and we head to inside a hole in the tree as there are hundreds of flies inside standing. The three stooge flies present Pete to the elder fly (with grey eyebrows) as there is a tripod containing poster board showing Goofy delivering pies to Pete's house and Pete is using a flyswatter on the flies. Pete comments on getting a bigger bug light. The flies salute the master and Pete screws that up by bonking his head of course. I see number two and four are acting like Darkwing Spiderduck's number six arm; what a shocker? Disney Captions addresses the elder fly as Major Maggot by the way as MM taps his foot in disgust or amusement. I cannot tell which in this case since he has only one cartoon expression. Lead fly buzzes back after MM cuts a promo in fly language and then pulls on Pete's tie being amused by something. The flies all laugh as Pete deduces that he's been kidnapped in his own sycamore (basically a North American tree) as we scene change to outside with more flies buzzing promos as we head inside the grass with the flies doing exercises. Pete is struggling at this; but this is the beginning of hitting the montage for the first time in a long ass whomping time. Push-ups, jumping jacks, situps and more as Pete pants a lot.
Pete starts protesting in English; and the fly trainer with the white whistle gives him eye contact violence which makes Pete back down of course. Pete cannot climb over a makeshift wooden hurdle which looks closer to one horses jump over; because he's too fat and lazy even as a fly. Pete struggles and makes it over; but free falls and splashes into the mud. Trainer fly spits mud in response and Pete points at himself getting out of the mud as we fade to black and return back inside Pete's man cave as Peg comes in asking the kids, who are playing a two player video game, asking where Pete is. Max and PJ say that they haven't seen him since he went after one of the flies in the house. Jump cut to Pistol in her room playing with her doll as there is a bottle of glue open on the floor. Peg asks Pistol about Pete and Pistol claims that she's seen him hundreds of times. HAHA! Peg then asks if she's seen him lately. Pistol says no and goes through her legs to find Pete because she thinks he's playing hide and seek. Peg groans on cue thinking Pete has gone onto a deserted island. If only, Peg; if only. Head back inside the tree with Major Maggot pacing around in front of his tripod as he addresses the crowd, cutting a promo in English; although the buzzing makes it hard to hear what he is saying. One good reason for subtitles here as he asks if they are men or flies. Well; one of them is a real man, although that is stretching the bounds of reality a lot. Pete calls then loud and stinking as the flies call themselves flies. MM points out the target is Pete's house which offends Pete and the enemy is Pete with a flyswatter; which sounds like a dare according to Pete. Geez; Pete isn't even pretending to blow his cover here and Major Maggot still hasn't caught on. Well; the lord of flies is Beelzebub which is often a version of Satan/The Devil in mythos; so this makes sense in a Chargeman Ken-equse way. Idiots! So we head back to the hole in the tree AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Pete practices the fine art of not being seen as Pete goes over to the tripod and crosses out him with the fly swatter and his house with something; I didn't see what he was using there and changing the arrow to Goofy's house. Because every scheme, no matter how stupid it is, must involve screwing Goofy. Pete bails out stage left and we hit the montage of exercising again as Pete hides behind a flower watching on. Pete uses a daffadill horn to blow the bugle call and Trainer fly hears that and blows the whistle. So the flies head out of the grass as Major Maggot goes into the tree; grabs the modified plans and flies out of said tree.
MM lands on a tree branch and looks at the modified plans and looks mad as he flies over to the window sill of Goofy's house and stops the flies at the pass; which they make a question mark to him. The flies suddenly bail on cue as we jump cut to Pete blowing off Major Maggot; so yes, a fly has more sense than Satan from Chargeman Ken. Pete pounds his hand on a rock and somehow he doesn't sell it. Scene change to the bedroom at a mirror with Peg spraying something while Pistol watches on asking what is Peg doing. Peg is spraying her hair to attract someone and smell nice relating to the old expression: You get more flies with honey. Ummm; it's more like rolling around in sh*t to draw flies, at least that's how it goes in professional wrestling. And using honey is just asking for trouble here as Pete flies in as he buzzes around Peg pleading for help. Pistol wants to look nice for Pete and even Pete is touched by this sentiment as Pistol sprays Pete (I think) with perfume and it splatters seaman like liquid onto Pete as this clips his wings and he free falls into a jar of white ointment which Pistol notices right away. Peg tells Pistol to get the fly out of her ointment while she draws on her eye brows with a purple pencil. Pistol grabs Pete and feels sorry for him since Pete needs a bath; which offends Pete and then he gives up and almost calls her a little bitch; but stops at little. Scene change back to Pete's man cave as PJ and Max still continue to play video games as Pete is wet and coughing; yelling for help. Pete lands on the pool table screaming for help with the flies; but PJ counters with the Hank 5000 computer manual. Sadly; this does not kill Pete as Pete pops from the carnage and continues to yell at the kids that the flies are coming. Now the problem with that is: It's a bunch of flies. Sure; they are very annoying, but no one is buying them as any possible threat here. Besides; the one they are theatening is you, Pete Pete; because you hate flies and probably cocks, too. Pete turns around and there is the Fly Nephews right behind him and Pete is screwed. So we return to the hole in the tree as the Fly Nephew bring in Pete and shove him before Major Maggot. Major Maggot does the cut throat sign and basically Maggot gonna kill you, Pete Pete; you fly hating monster! Pete asks if this means what he think it means and calls one of the flys a wingnut. The fly spits and Pete gulps on cue to end the segment nearly fifteen and a half minutes in. Yeah; this has been fun so far.
After the commercial break; we head into the backyard with Goofy picking up slices of wood after cutting down a large tree with an axe. He somehow is able to do this while not seeing the wood as we see in the background, Peg arriving at the fence. Peg asks if Goofy has seen Pete and Goofy proclaims that he has seen him a lot of times. HAHA! I wondered who enabled Pistol on that joke. Goofy walks back and steps on a conveniently placed rake and somehow the wood misses his face completely along with the rake. That is quite a talent Goofy has there as Peg is not amused. Peg asks if he has seen him lately as Goofy says no. Peg sighs and then asks Goofy to chop down the sycamore for her since Pete isn't going to himself. Geez; I wonder which tree this is? Could it be the place where the flies make their home? Could this be the reason why the flies want revenge on Pete? Hmmmmm...Sounds like it makes sense to me. Goofy is glad to do the deed as we head inside the tree as millions of flies buzz and march out of the hole in the tree while Pete just stands there. WHAT?! Listen; if you are going to promise to do a spot where they kill Pete; even as a tease, at least deliver on the freaking setup! Don't chicken out because BS&P is such an asshole in this. Or just book a different spot then! Oh wait; the fly nephews bring in a giant flyswatter to squash Pete like a bug. I get that this is supposed to be ironic; but Pete has already been squashed by the Hank 5000 manual earlier in the episode. This makes the flies' justice seem silly in hindsight. Make the flyswatter out of steel or something, that would make this more impressive. One of the flies blindfolds Pete as Pete wants them to wear blindfolds to even the odds. Yeah, sure Pete. Pete takes up the blindfold as we cut the You Cannot Do That On Television promo as Pete is pleading for them to stop the execution. That fails as he gets in the prone position and shakes like a leaf; exposing his bare ass for all to see. Somehow; the blindfold is over Pete's eyes again, for no reason. Pete does the car selling of doom; which is so pathetic that it has to work on these guys. I betcha it does not. Then there is shaking as the excution is stopped by Goofy chopping at the tree. Okay; I can tell Jade Animation is doing the art for this scene. Look at Goofy's head at 16:34 of the DVD when he is chopping the tree. Just weird as the flies all bail out of the tree, probably to warn Major Maggot. Pete takes off the blindfold and calls out for someone. The Fly Nephews dive bomb on Goofy and he is made to drop his axe. Goofy protests this because he has a tree to timber. One of the flies get into Goofy's back and Goofy laughs his ass off. You wish you were Molly there, pal.
At least Bill Farmer does a better selling job than Jim Cummings does that is for sure. Goofy bumps like a madman as the swarm of the flies head to Pete's house which is now painted white and Goofy's house is more green now. Geez; there's more crossed wires than a badly hooked up Hank 5000. It's the King of the Hill of cross wires. They land on the sidewalk and they proceed to put on fangs and fly eye masks on. What cowards they are?! This is the definition of the No True Scotsman logical fallacy right there, folks. This is like a bunch of anarchists putting on Vancouver Caunuks jerseys and rioting in the streets after the Caunks lost the Stanley Cup. Two years before it actually happened! Trainer fly and Major Maggot walk in between the flies and Major Maggot gives them the riot signal to attack; then proceeds to kiss one of the flies on both cheeks. Geez; flies sure have a weird way to kill time in this episode. Pete is shown flying out of the tree and heads into the man cave via the glass doors and annoys the kids on the floor reading a book. Pete flies around the pool table as Max calls Pete the mean fly. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. PJ tries to squash Pete with the Hank 5000 manual; but Pete dodges it. So Pete finds the pool cue powder depenser and pounds his ass into it to get some powder, then flies and lands on PJ's nose and spells Help on his nose with his ass. PJ brings up the book to try to nail it; which is so stupid, I'm shocked Goofy hasn't done this. Yet. Max cuts him off and shows the message with an out of nowhere pocket mirror as PJ claims that Pete spelled it backwards. This causes Pete to be flustered as we jump cut to Goofy overselling the tickling spot again. Zoom out to the kitchen window with Pistol and Peg looking on, confused. Pistol wonders why Goofy is dancing in the backyard and Peg has no idea. I don't think Goofy knows either and I barely know which fly is doing this stupid thing to kill time. Peg sets Pistol on the floor and tells her to lock the door as PJ and Peg come in showing off Pete the fly; claiming that she is not going to believe this. Considering that Rebecca couldn't believe the Idol Of The Spirit Switcher; I betcha Peg isn't believing this either. So we cut to Pete on the floor with teeth chattering as the kids uses the magnifying glass on Pete and finally notice him for real. Peg cannot believe this little disgusting thing is her husband and Goofy asks what the surprise is. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Good one Goofy, good one. Even Peg is not amused by that one as we discover that Pete is on the kitchen counter as Pistol is wondering what Pete is saying as Pete is jumping up and down screaming that the flies are coming. Ummm; it's spring Pete; tell us something we DON'T KNOW! I wish Peg would have said that and buried the angle for good. Peg isn't amused by this anyway as we jump cut to Major Maggot and the flies marching onto Pete's property singing the fly version of the army song. Now; there's a song Binkie should have sang, just for me to laugh at it. Can you imagine the torture Drake Mallard would suffer if she sang that song?! I would be laughing my ass off for minutes. They split into Y-formation and fly up as we jump cut to Pete on the counter hating that song. As much as "The Saints Come Marching In", Pete Pete?! Another song Binkie should have sang as Pete claims that they are out to get him. Considering his assholish tendencies, why am I not surprised by this? Pete flies up and lands on Goofy's nose screaming and does the double cut throat sign in the process. Pete is on his knees begging for mercy as PJ and Max look out the window and completely oversell the fact that the flies really are coming. That's it; I'm out of...Oh wait; I still got four episodes left in this series to do before I can end this, so the kids shut the window and the flies bounce right off of it. Come on, guys! I cannot take this a remote bit seriously even if I tried. Kids slap skin and suddenly the door bell rings. I betcha they answer the door and the flies come in because we have about three and a half minutes left in the episode and CDS is awesome. Except when it's not. Then we get a really mind boggling sequence: Peg goes over to the door and listens to it as the flies claim that it's a telegram. Outside; Goofy sneaks up from behind the flies using the old ghost trenchcoat spot from 1980's Astro Boy (Kit: Wait; you remember that spot somehow?) as it has Mickey Mouse gloves and joke glasses with a fake nose and no mustache. Goofy puts his hand on the left shoulder and makes small talk with it. Goofy asks if they see any flies and of course the disguise is going to lie in Goofy's face by nodding it's head. Goofy pets the coat and the coat drops blowing the flies' cover right there. Oops! Of course; Goofy is a stupid idiot as he puts the coat back on the flies and asks them to be careful; and then catches himself. The fly swarm turns around and rolls it's sleeve as Goofy gets punched off-screen.
Peg calls this a trick and opens the door in order for the kids to splash buckets on the flies; but Goofy gets hit instead as there are flies to the eyes out comes. So more public domain music as the flies turn into the SLEDGEHAMMER OF PLOT and pound on the roof. Okay; these flies are so damn stupid because there is a chimney positioned right above where they are hammering. DUMB! Debris comes down inside the house as Pistol bails and Pete flutters in claiming that this is the end. Pete is screaming as PJ is yelling at Max to do something and Max cannot think with all this screaming. Goofy is confused of course; as Max and PJ scream for ice cream. Even Peg thinks this is BS and I agree. This is an excuse to use the ice cream truck for the finish, for no reason at all. Max and PJ bail as the ice cream truck is driving away from the property. Goofy and the kids run out with the shoofly pies; which makes a hell of a lot more sense than the ice cream truck. Yes folks; they did the ice cream part as a promo for a joke analogy. So the flies all buy into these shoofly pies and swarm after the babyfaces as they chases the ice cream truck complete with Hanna Barbera running sound effects, running right into the hard camera. The ice cream truck stops at an intersection, causing Goofy and the kids to run in, open the back door; throw the pies in and the flies all foolishly enter the back of the truck. Goofy slams the door; the ice cream truck drives away stage left and that is that. The flies eat up the ice cream stuff and pies in the truck and they are all stuffed; including Major Maggot. Whatever makes you happy there, sir. So we head back to Pete's man cave as PJ and Max are reading the instruction manual looking for a way to explain how Pete turned into a fly. Never mind that earlier in the episode; the manual was for wimpy adults who hates kids. Hypocritical much there, Max?! PJ deduces that they must do the exact same thing he did backwards and Goofy likes this plan. That sounds like every redneck plan I have ever heard of. Ol'Billy Bob's getting a royalty cheque for that spot. Peg teases wanting Pete to stay the same because of all the fringe benefits she will get without that husband. Why not just file for divorce, then? It's not like Pete hasn't acted unfaithful to you, Peg. Peg screams at Pete and Pete goes flying in front of the camera on the tripod as Max tells Pete to smile. Pete protests that as Max pushes a button on the computer and the camera doubles as a spotlight.
Of course; since we have a minute left, the spotlight vanishes Pete into the video game again as Pistol is now playing the joystick for fun. HAHA! So Pistol is playing Boxing Gorillas which involving stomping on Pete while giving their friend gorillas noogies while holding bananas. Ah; whatever makes you happy, Bruce. So Max hits more buttons as Pete turns into a screwdriver, a bowling ball, a bowling pin, a cow and Goofy steals the keyboard. Damn; I was having fun with this, too as Goofy hits P for Pete and that is enough for the camera to spit out Pete and makes the video camera explode. So yes folks; Bruce clearly believes that camera steal your soul and body to boot. That is just peachy, folks. Pete is like a birdman when the smoke clears as he orders Goofy to stay away from his computer. Pete then free falls and breaks the pool table; destroying the computer monitor over his head as Goofy blows him off for causing all that damage. One of the flies buzzes out of the computer, gives a raspberry and leaves. Okay. So we head out to the back as Pete opens the door and throws the entire computer into the trash can saying good riddance to Hank 5000. Wow; what a waste that was?! Pete heads back inside as the trash can tips over and crashes on the ground. The Fly Nephews fly into the trash can and we get laser effects inside. Now for the ending: Scene change to Pete reading the newspaper on his chair in the living room. A knock is at the door as PJ goes over and answers it. He opens the door; panics, slams the door and backs away. Pete asks PJ about the door and PJ claims that it's for him before bailing like a scalded catnose. Pete grumbles and blows off PJ for passing the buck onto him; which is complete immunity to irony on Pete's part. So Pete goes over to the door and opens it. Take one guess who the three guys in trenchcoat are. Think Baxter Stockman and you'll get the picture. Pete sees the flies of doom and goes full moron mode in complete denial as the flies do the hexa-cut throat sign on Pete as he slams the door; screams "mama" as we fade to black with just Pete's eyes showing to end the episode at 21:17. Not as fun as Winter Blunderland; but still fun enough for me to enjoy so there you go. Although it would have been more fun if the painters had been informed that Goofy's house is green and Pete's house is pink! *** 3/4 (75%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Okay; we have another pretty fun episode in spite of the fact that it involves Pete as a focus character. Sure; Pete was scheming a bit; but it was funny to see the flies buying into the scheme; but Major Maggot didn't, which was a win to me. The Jurals; these flies were not. This was mostly The Incredible Shrinking Molly with a fly motif and it was executed well until the animation fell apart at the climax with Jade Animation clearly at fault here. There were a few logic breaks and the whole fly angle was just too silly to be taken seriously at any level. However; it was fun for what it was and that's okay for me; although there was a lot of padding in order to fill out the running time, but none of it was bad, so it was fine. That's all I have to say about it. So...
Thumbs in the middle, pointing up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.