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Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series - Mondo-Man

Reviewed: 09/06/2014

...Meets Nosedive In A C-Level TMNT Plot!


So we finally go down that winding road toward the end of the rants for Mighty Ducks as there are five episodes left in the series. I don't think I need to say anymore about this latest episode because this episode is basically a version of Michaelangelo meeting Bugman on TMNT. Let's rant on shall we...?!

This episode was written and story edited by David Wise. The animation was done by Studio B Animation with additional services provided by Koko Enterprises.


We begin this one at an empty intersection somewhere in Anaheim AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) and then a pan shot leads to a closeup shot of a building called U-Stash-It complete with grey U and a padlock. We pan down in front of the building at a dumpster which is glowing neon green for no reason. Out pops Siege and Chameleon doing an Oliver Hardy impression and his infamous catchphrase; which of course doesn't cause Siege to whine and cry like Stan Laurel. They jump out of the dumpster and Siege throws away a triangle teleportation device into the dumpster because he thinks it's useless. I think someone in the real world is projecting themselves here. They stand in front of the entrance and Siege says that they are breaking in. Cut to the street and we see Wildwing driving the Migrator while Nosedive and Tanya are exchanging notes on some movie they watched. Apparently; they watched a movie containing a giant radish from Venus and a three eyed alien, in which Tanya has difficulty choosing. I wonder if that radish from Venus was inspired by some person watching that Ducktales episodes in which the nephews and Duckworth were fighting against anthro-veggies. Wildwing naturally wants Dragonous, which causes Nosedive to complain because Dragonous doesn't like art films. You're seriously call a horror movie an art film Nosedive? Why should I believe you? Anyhow; the radar indicates a red beeping dot; so a breakin is in progress. Cut to inside the U-Stash-It factory as Siege breaks a box with his tail showing a neon green egg of some sort. So they take the egg outside; but Siege is so stupid that they must go back into the dumpster to get the transporter device. Chamelon finds banana flavored gum in the dumpster and does Curley from Three Stooges for the sixth or seveneth time in the series. Then a read laser destroys some debris and in runs Wildwing, Tanya and Nosedive as Siege and Chameleon bail behind the dumpster. The firefight of doom ensues and then it stops as some teenage punk with red hair wearing a red shirt with a yellow M on it, blue cape, blue boots & a red mask. He cuts a promo and calls himself Mondo-Man (Eddie Deezen).

Yeah; he sounds like Mandrak from Dexter's Lab as he swings like Tarzan and I was waiting with baited breath to yell: "WATCH OUT FOR THAT CONCRETE TREE!", and then the rope slips and he takes the most brutal bump onto the pavement with his face. What an idiot?! Wildwing asks who the hell is this clown. It's Alvin Yasbek; aka Mondo Man, about to be Mandrak in a few years and try to sissy slap his way to defeating Dexter. Chameleon runs after the ducks while Siege turns around and uses an orange laser to shoot Alvin in the chest as he is getting up. I am ranting on the Family Channel Canada version of this episode; so this might be cut by Toon Disney. I don't see why not since Alvin got hit in the chest on-screen flush. Wildwing, Nosedive, and Tanya run in to prevent this guy from getting hurt; and then we get a classic Mighty Ducks moment as a frying pan falls out of Alvin's suit and lands on his right toe; forcing him to do the foot-grabbing spot. Alvin sells it like he's in a fake fight; only with more emotion. All while getting shot at with lasers. This classic moment was actually cute to say the least; which is the exception to the rule of classic Mighty Ducks moments. Wildwing and Nosedive get inbetween Alvin and the firefight resumes; as Chameleon apparently went into the dumpster instead of what I thought he was doing; which was going after Tanya. Head...Gutter...Gregory...OUT!! Chameleon finds the device and then turns into Roy Firestone! HAHA! This would have been even funnier if Frank Welker cut the promo while sounding exactly like Roy Firestone; that would have been great. Wildwing wants the teleporter now; prompting Alvin to run in and shove the babyfaces, which is the dumbest thing to do here. Nosedive grabs him and throws him into the air stag left into a conveniently placed trash can. What an asshole?! Understandable for the poor guys life to get him out of the way; but still... More shooting, misses the device and both Siege and Chameleon teleport out with ease. These Mighty Ducks seriously need more practice in accuracy because every shot missed the device by a country mile. Might as well just rush them instead.

So Nosedive blows off Mondo-Man as Super Clown (which is in fact true); and Alvin cannot get his head unstuck despite the fact that his head is much smaller than the can itself. Another classic Mighty Ducks moment and not in a good way which is par for the course in this show. Mondo Man blows them off because he'll show them who the real superhero is and we cut to the duck stunned; and by the looks of it: Mondo Man was charging at the Mighty Ducks; the instant after the ducks are confused, we do a scene changer and head to inside the Raptorous with Dragonous holding the glowing neon green easter egg. WHAT?! We also discover that the egg looks like a giant neon green pill with the capital A on it as Dragonous tells us that it's an alloy called Ad Nauseam which describes TMNT nicely at least. Still; this alloy is on par with the nuclear hearing aid. So Dragonous puts the giant pill on a pedstal and flicks it with his fingernail and we hear a vibrating sound similar to a tuning fork. Sadly; no earthquakes were involved in this as Dragonous explains to us that the Sarks have a ship of Bearlium Crystals and he wants them to come to earth. The Sarks basically emitt wisdom among civilized planets; which this planet isn't, even in the fake version of Anaheim. Alternative Anaheim might have a slightly better chance than us at this point. Chameleon gets the idea and then turns into some movie director who has a purple hat on; as he is explaining the "flaw" of this plan which I am not seeing. Of course; Chameleon is talking about the ducks getting said knowledge and kicking their asses as Chameleon screams in Dragonous' face. Dragonous grabs and squeezes Chameleon and throws him down as he wants a patsy, but doesn't say he wants a flying fool. Siege and Chameleon look at each other and Chameleon has a fool for him. So we head to Captain Comics (complete with mechanized Elvis Superman model on top) and head inside with Nosedive exchanging notes with Thrash and Mookie about Super Clown Alvin and Thrash notices Alvin walking in now wearing a green bowtie, red chaps, and a white shirt with a pocket for pens and pencils. Yeah; he's just another dumb dork.

Not only that; Thrash completely blows Alvin's cover as Mondo-Man causing Nosedive to dress him down and blame him for not getting Siege and Chameleon. Alvin counters claiming that he has super crime fighting skills; and calls Nosedive a feathered phony. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Okay; I laughed at that because it's clear now that the whole Mighty Ducks series is a complete work in a shoot setting. Nosedive was gravely offended by this slur. What is the point of Mallory being in this scene? Alvin blows Nosedive off claiming that we need human superheroes as he storms off while Mallory calls him completely clueless. Mookie explains that he has a PhD in physics as Nosedive blows that off because he runs around in his red underwear at night. It's tights you bigot! Thrash explains that Alvin is their best customer as Alvin walks out to the back of the store as then a man in a brown suit comes over and shakes hands with Alvin. This was contrived to say the least because Chameleon calls this the Dragonous School Of Superheroing. You couldn't convince Dragonous to at least change his name into something where his cover isn't blown to the audience in five seconds. It doesn't matter anyway because he is going to get steak knives and Alvin accepts the offer. Alvin and Chameleon are teleported out and into the Raptorous with Siege waiting and Chameleon already back to his normal form. Alvin is pissed off because Siege tried to kill him last night with the lasers. Dragonous walks in and asks for Alvin's forgiveness because Siege thought he was with the Mighty Ducks. Alvin proclaims that he would never side with what he sees as freaks. Geez; who's the bigot now Mr. Weagle? Alvin isn't so keen on Dragonous either; but Dragonous assures him that they are the real babyfaces because they want to share their knowledge to the people of earth. Of course it's an obvious lie because Siege and Chameleon are snickering.

Memo to Siege/Chameleon: Watch Teddy Ruxpin's reaction to Illana Ruxpin inspecting the "statue" of Burl Ruxpin. Take notes. He doesn't give away that the thing is a joke like you two just did. Dragonous clearly agrees with me because he does the STARE OF DEATH to shut them up. Dragonous proclaims that the Mighty Ducks are evildoers trying to steal the knowledge for their evil purposes. What knowledge do you need to destroy people's properties with impunity? Alvin simply agrees that the ducks are evil; and asks when he can start working for him. Dragonous proclaims that it's right now as he takes some weapon and shoots some neon green laser waves at Alvin who transforms into an adult version of Alvin if he was ten feet tall. Okay; I'm fine with this. So we scene change back on the streets of Anaheim in broad daylight as we see the Migrator again. Everyone is in the Migrator including Phil Palmfeather. Why? I don't know. A bank alarm sounds and the Migrator stops at a bank. The ducks get out and a robbers (with ski mask on) come out with a bunch of hostages. Then two police cars come in and stop. Out comes a police officer and Captain Klegghorn ordering the ducks to get the hell out of here because he'll handle this. Then in flies Mondo-Man with a deep voice which sounds like something done by Roger Rose. He also has hair that looks like the Diary Queen whip topping, only brown. Nosedive is flustered as he smacks himself in the beak as Mondo-Man lands on the pavement and basically cuts a promo that he is here and he's going to beat up the Mighty Ducks. Good; it's about time someone actually did something about this vandalism problem in Anaheim. Tanya and Mallory cannot believe this as Mondo-Man walks into the hard camera and that ends the segment almost eight minutes in.

After the commercial break; we get another classic Mighty Ducks moment. So classic; I have no idea what happened here. Apparently; Mondo-Man somehow blasted the bank door (which is made of wood no less) into splinters from the inside of the bank and somehow teleported outside and absorbed the red laser energy. WHAT THE HELL?! Then he cuts a promo on his red eye vision laser and uses it to melt the robber's gun; then he crashes into the building, takes a large desk and there are two more robbers inside the building and the desk is thrown into them and they are crushed. Then Mondo-Man comes out and does the citizen arrest on three robbers; and then cuts a promo on the ducks. He then does the TORNADO BLOW OF DOOM on the ducks because this is what this episode needs: More windbags! So the ducks go flying and Mondo-Man flies into the air and cuts another promo as he is going to kick the ducks off this planet personally. In a surprise; Klegghorn doesn't say anything because apparently; the writers have no idea how to book a guy who is supposed to have a personal grunge with the Mighty Ducks himself. So the ducks basically start shooting pucks at him with some regret; which Mondo-Man no-sells like Road Warrior Hawk no sells a piledriver. Mondo laughs it off and then we finally find out why Phil is with the ducks: So he can offer a contract to Mondo-Man to make money. Awww! My heart melted! Tanya blows him off for that and Phil compromises on the deal before protesting getting pulled away by Duke. Everyone gets into the Migrator and it drives off as Klegghorn demands that the ducks be stopped right now. Apparently; Kirby & Muldoon from Rescue Rangers have returned because their body types are similar as they are shooting guns at the Migrator. I smell another Toon Disney cut (again; I'm using the Family Channel Canada version); as Mondo-Man goes over to Klegghorn and tells him not to worry because he'll capture the ducks himself. Klegghorn agrees with that because he has bets on that happening. This leads to Mondo-Man cutting an anti-gambling promo right into the hard camera. Stop being...oh wait, Bugman. Sorry!

Also during the Migrator bailing sequence; Wildwing refuses to fight the police because that would turn them heel, which is kind of pointless since they do heelish stuff like vandalism in this series already. Remember; this is the 15th episode of the series according to the storyline. So Mondo-Man gives Klegghorn a watch which allows Klegghorn to basically do the Mondo-Man's version of the Bat Signal, which is the only really goofy part of Batman's personality, so to do it with a goofy superhero like Mondo-Man is simply asking for trouble. Also a note on the anti-gambling promo: gambling is legal in Anaheim; but only if you are over the age of 18. So the execs aren't hiding the fact that only small children are watching this show, never mind that adults like me are watching and know that this is BS. So Mondo-Man flies away cutting a Superman promo; because he's a low rent Superman. Superman was being re-released as a cartoon not too long after this; and that was a million times better than this show. So we head to the Migrator as Duke wants to kill this guy and Tanya claims that next week; the show will be called The Mighty Mondo-Man. STOP THAT!! You not only come off as a low rent TMNT; considering that Mondo-Man is more moral than you guys; you made him into the #1 babyface without having him show any effort whatsoever. Mondo-Man is a cool low rent Superman at least; which is a vast improvement from most of the babyfaces on this show. Nosedive wonders about Mondo's powers and Mallory accuses Dragonous right away. It's bad enough when Wildwing does it and it's even worse with Mallory. At least Nosedive accusing Dragonous right away makes sense since he's supposed to be the Michael Angelo of the group. Anyhow; they stop at the intersection which the ducks claim is where the fight occured last night. I give no credence to the animators and writers getting this right; so I'll move on. Wildwing tells Nosedive to go talk to Thrash and Mookie about Alvin; and drive Phil home before he signs Dragonous to a contract causing Phil to plead for mercy. Seeing Phil making a deal with Dragonous would be funny; so sod off Wildwing!

Anyhow; the point of this is that they are searching for clues about Mondo-Man and the heels. So we head to what appears to be Alvin's room which is extremely barren and clean outside of his lab table. Alvin takes a large stone and zaps it with his neon green beam vision while cutting another promo about stopping the ducks. He is pro-active at least; so points for that. We then cut to inside the Raptorous with Dragonous looking at the monitor showing him dark space with some planets and stars. There is a red beeping dot flying south on the screen as Dragonous proclaims that this is the Sarks ship coming down within range. So Dragonous goes to a weird device and puts the Ad Nauseam stone in it; and transmits a vibrating signal towards the ship. We head inside the ship which may look like something out of Quack Pack as a bunch of green alien brains (low rent Krang anyone?) in floating purple alien suits are observing on the floating monitors and their stands. The Sarks are voiced by Val Bettin and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): In 1948, he went to England, to enter the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated in 1950. There he met his wife Hildy, and the two married that same year. They returned to the United States, in order for him to become a drama teacher in Iowa. He has been using a British accent in theatre, radio and TV roles since 1953. He got his first film role in the movie Somewhere in Time, which was filmed in 1978-1979. He later became a voice actor, with his first role as Dr. David Q. Dawson in the 1986 Disney film The Great Mouse Detective. He has been credited in Shrek, Gargoyles and Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series. He voices Matt's grandfather Herbert in W.I.T.C.H.. He voiced the Sultan in the Aladdin TV series and sequels after Douglas Seale stepped down from the role. Aladdin is his DTVA debut as The Sultan/Hamed, and also appeared in Gargoyles: Goliath Chronicles (Egon Pax), Hercules The Series, and WITCH as Hebert Olson which is also his most recent credit in 2005. He has 19 acting credits to his resume. They get the signal and they notice planet Earth which they call a minor planet. The Sark also have the gimmick of speaking and having red lights blinking when they talk. So yeah; they fly towards Earth...

...and we scene change back to the intersection with Wildwing, Tanya and Grin looking for clues like they are charted members of the Scooby-Doo fan club. This fails and even Wildwing's mask is useless in this regard; when all of a sudden, Mondo-Man flies down and cuts another promo on the ducks. Grin wants to play peacemaker; but no go as Mondo-Man blows off the ducks for claiming that Dragonous is evil because he stands for clean living. Tanya claims that he needs his skates sharpened and I realize the analogy is that Mondo-Man is not the sharpest skate in the drawer. However; he is clearly confusing Dragonous with Dave The Barbarian. Yeah. So we just have to sell the game of hockey by making hockey reference including the illegal move known as boarding, in which Wildwing orders Grin to do. Grin runs in and gets squashed and thrown into the babyfaces in that order. Then he throws a chain and this magically ties up the ducks; then he puts down a goblet containing the neon green stone in which he calls Ducktonite on the pavement, which is the low rent version of Kryptonite from Superman. Apparently; this is supposed to rob the ducks of their superpowers; prompting Tanya to panic and then blow him off because they have no superpowers. Wildwing asks why he feels weak. Answer: Because Mondo-Man basically is using the same stuff used in chemo to fight cancer. Which begs the question: Why isn't Mondo-Man affected by this? I guess the mutant laser beam he got from Dragonous makes him immune to the stuff. Mondo-Man cuts yet another promo and he claims that he will be the only superhero in town. If the ducks are not superheroes according to Klegghorn and Dragonous; then isn't Mondo-Man the real superhero by default? Then Dragonous calls Mondo-Man to inform him that a Sarks ship is arriving on earth; and that they are evil too. Dragonous tells him that the Bearlum Crystals are the source of it's power and taking them will force the aliens to flee. Mondo-Man thanks him and then flies off as we scene change to Captain Comics as Mallory, Duke and Nosedive are exchanging notes with Mookie and Thrash.

When Nosedive mentions that Alvin has superpowers; Thrash instantly calls him a slimeball, to which Nosedive asks why. If you recall; Thrash called him his best customer. So you would think that when Thrash called him his best customer, it was because he spends a lot on his wares. Sadly; we never find out here because Duke gets a signal from his wrist communicator and he sezs that the Sarks are landing on Earth. Wait; how does Duke know that they are the Sarks. Sure; we the audience know, but Duke isn't supposed to know. Every scence of Mighty Duck has to contain logic break stupidity; and this is getting on my nerves now. So Nosedive, Mallory and Duke leave for Anaheim Park because that is where the ship lands. So we head to Anaheim Park and Captain Klegghorn and four officers are blocking the entrance with three police cars (two outside and one inside the park). So the ship lands much to the shock of Klegghorn as I discover that this force is all white. Yes; Rescue Rangers had more diversity in their police force in 1989 than Mighty Duck's police force in 1996! Mondo-Man comes in looking all cool as Klegghorn thanks the heavens he is here. Mondo-Man tells him not to worry because he's here to Mondo-ize the Sarks and their ship. So the underbelly of the ship opens to reveal a platform and a podium as Sark #1 floats over and cuts a promo that they come in peace causing Mondo-Man to run in and blow them off. Sark #1 is confused as Sark #2 and #3 (yes, there are at least three Sarks on board and I didn't know that until this scene) get shoved away much to their shock. Then we get jump cuts of Mondo-Man using the neon green laser eye beams on some vault door. This does nothing at all; so he goes over and simply punches the door to gain access to the crystals. What the hell was this?! What was the point of the neon green laser eye beams then? Mondo-Man grabs the crystals and runs out causing one of the Sarks to do the worst reaction to getting robbed ever. These Sarks are so peaceful; no one dares challenges them to act properly.

Mondo-Man runs to Klegghorn and Klegghorn thanks him while Mondo-Man cuts another promo and flies away with the crystals, just as the Migrator manages to get into the park despite the fact that there were THREE police cars blocking the entrance. Another classic Mighty Ducks moment as only Mighty Ducks can: Making absolutely no sense at all. Klegghorn yells at them as they are coming out because they are in a police zone and he wants to arrest them again. Mallory claims that they wants to speak to the aliens; and the ducks run towards the ship. Gunner and Murphy MD edition takes out their pistols (which are legit guns btw); but Sark #1 takes out a device and it shoots a yellow beam at the pistols and melts them. So the same technology used by Mondo-Man is from Sark know how; thus Mondo-Man is a leech. No surprise; since Alvin is a WASP. The ducks try to reason with the Sarks and then the Sarks turn heel because they aren't buying this. They demand that the crystals be returned to them in one hour or they will kill the planet; and they are sending out a machine scropion out to search for the crystals themselves which comes out of the ship's ass. Whatever makes you happy Sarks and that ends the segment almost 16 minutes in. This has been basically the same as Michaelangelo Meets Bugman; with more logic breaks.

After the commercial break; we see the metal scropion shoot lasers from it's tail while walking around and it shoots off a tail light from a police car. Yes; they have ways to melt metal, but they bring out a scropion who does light damage at best. The Sarks basically repeat their one hour until grave consequences that are beyond the scope of their limited knowledge promo. Ummm; you said that you would kill their entire planet at the end of the second act. I don't think you need knowledge to notice that the denizens are FUBAR'ed! So Nosedive, Mallory and Duke run into the Migrator and bail as Nosedive proclaims that they need Wildwing and the mask now. So we cut back to Wildwing, Tanya and Grin chained up on the pavement with the goblet of Ducktonite as the wrist communicator is still working; and better than Wildwing. Nosedive is calling Wildwing and the chained up babyfaces groan and tell Nosedive to stay away and go find Phil Palmfeather; causing Mallory to be confused. Oh no; I do not like where this is going. Scene change to Mondo-Man flying in the sky like Superman with the crystals as his wrist communicator has a ringtone of clown horns. Yes; this show introduces the cellphone ring tone of doom. More reason to hate this damn show as Dragonous is on the line as Mondo informs Dragonous that the crystals are gotten and that the aliens will think twice before screwing him. They should did; they now want to kill the planet. Dragonous tells Mondo to bring the crystals to the vacant lot of fifth and main; and Mondo is on his way. Then he gets another call which is from Captain Klegghorn who wants him to stop the metal scropion because it's rampaging on the city; in which Mondo proclaims that he'll be on his way as soon as he can. After the signal dies; Mondo claims that he needs voice mail now. Cut to the street as the scropion is shooting lasers and making cars explode. Then we get a classic Mighty Ducks moment: The Migrator is driving on this street. Now; the backgrounds here are perfect with the buildings. The foreground looks like 101 Dalimatians the series with thick black outlines; and everyone looks like cardboard.

Then the Migrator transforms into a tank for no reason and it's the crappiest cell-shaded CGI I have ever seen. And this is mostly a non-organic vehicle. Yes; this show has peaked in terms of poor animation. So they shoot at the scropion; the scropion fires back and manages to cause the Migrator to flip on it's roof like an SUV, just like that. The ducks inside are hanging upside down as Duke claims that this could have gone better. We then cut back to Wildwing and then Phil arrives in a SWANK roofless blue corvette as he walks to the egg and Wildwing groans to Phil to get rid of it. Phil grabs the egg and throws it down the street causing it to explode complete with glass shards coming towards the hard camera. Phil Palmfeather; the scummy lawyer and #7 babyface of the show saved the #1-#6 babyfaces of the show. And you wonder why this show tanked in the ratings? Why not just do a spin-off with Phil Palmfeather; he's pretty over at this point. So the chained up ducks get their strength back as Grin cuts another aura promo before breaking the chains. So the babyfaces are free as Tanya wants to help the others with the scropion; but Wildwing is going after Alvin to stop him from delivering the crystals to Dragonous. So he uses the mask and notices accelerated DNA flying in the sky. How does that work?! So the babyfaces hop into Phil's car and drives it away as Phil protests this because his insurance doesn't cover ducks driving. At least that is what they should have used instead of Phil saying that his car insurance doesn't cover action sequences. I'm sure GEICO now covers for action sequences; since this show is so full of them now. So we head to a vacant lot alleyway with Mondo-Man face to face with Siege and Chameleon. Mondo-Man gives the crystals to Siege and then tells him that he must flee to stop the metal scropion from destroying the city. So he flies away and...Now; you would think that Siege and Chameleon would just teleport out and then inform Dragonous that Mondo-Man wants to be a babyface.

Nope; they just stand there as Siege wants to go after Mondo-Man; but Dragonous waves it off because Mondo-Man is soon going to be Alvin in a stupid outfit soon enough since the transformation isn't forever you see. Okay; that is fine. Except that they did this while still in the alleyway. No sooner as this happens, in comes the blue corvette and Wildwing shoots one puck at Siege; Siege falls down like a ton of bricks and drops the crystals causing Wildwing to grab them. Then Grin grabs Chameleon who does another lame impression and Chameleon is threatening to murderize him. Riiiiigggggghhhhhttttt Doctor Spock! Grin grabs Chameleon, slams him into the wall and then throws him into Siege and they go flying. Way to go heels! You were stupid enough to stay in the alleyway and you lost just like that. The puck guns are aimed at Siege and Chameleon and despite only being outnumbered 3 on 2; they still teleport out. So we scene change to more scorpion laser shooting with cardboard backgrounds. More shooting pucks from Duke, Mallory and Nosedive and the scorpion no sells every shot as usual. So then a police car comes in and out comes Klegghorn as Nosedive is asking for his help. Yeah; the same guy who wanted to bust you earlier in the episode! Klegghorn no sells because their friends melted their own weapons. Klegghorn proclaims that only Mondo-Man can stop this now; and here comes Mondo-Man as he invokes the POWER OF THE PUNCH and manages to in one shot nail, Nosedive, Duke and Mallory in the face causing them to fall on their backs on the pavement. One punch to the hard camera like From Here to Machinery when Baloo punched Martin Torque in the kisser; took out three babyfaces. Way to go Mighty Ducks. Why should I continue watching your show? The scorpion simply ignores them and heads to city hall; which Klegghorn points out to us. Mondo-Man cuts off the scorpion as Nosedive calls Mondo-Man a Mondo-pain. He is clearly confusing this show in general now. Mondo-Man cuts another promo and as he is doing this; we see Dragonous push a red button on the computer console and Mondo-Man is now Superclown.

Now; I get that Dragonous was going to turn on Alvin in the end; but why would you bother with pushing a red button on the console. Why not have the effects simply wear off on it's own in order to have Alvin get his ironic comeupperance? I mean; Mondo-Man has been acting all cocky the entire way, so why not let him beat himself? That way; Dragonous can simply wipe his hands clean of the matter. Besides; it's not like the ducks accuse anyone but Dragonous in this show. So the babyfaces all run in to save Alvin from himself and get him out of the back. More puck shooting and more no selling abound. Then the corvette drives in, Grin gets on the scorpion tail and tries to turn it onto the back of the scorpion. The scorpion shoots itself in the back unintentionally and is destroyed. So yeah; just like that, it's over as Alvin tries to walk out of the city hall property looking like he screwed up badly; as the babyfaces mock Klegghorn for liking Alvin, and then Nosedive grabs Alvin and orders Klegghorn to arrest him. ON WHAT CHARGE?! Klegghorn had NO problem with him stealing the crystals in the first place because he clearly SAW THEM! WHAT THE HELL?! Instead of Klegghorn asking what charges should be filed against Alvin; Alvin is put in the back of the police car as Klegghorn arrested him. Duke wants Klegghorn to apologize as Klegghorn offers a no-pology because he was wrong about Alvin being a superhero; but still doesn't see the ducks as heroes as he orders them to keep their beaks clean. He gets into his police car and drives away. WHAT?! Worse; we head back to Anaheim Park as Wildwing gives the Sarks one crystal as they plead for them to stay and give their knowledge to the eye-sore-equse humans (So says Nosedive); and the Sarks no-sell the deal. They close up the ship and fly away proclaiming that they have lied all along about having this knowledge in order to impress women. What a bunch of sexist morons these aliens are? I swear to god that they are the 1996 version of the 2014 Republican Party. What a stupid finish this was?!

So we head back to the Arrowhead Pond inside headquarters as Nosedive is blowing off Phil for trying to sign Alvin to a contract. Wait; WHY?! The whole contract thing was a throwaway spot and now you're bringing it back. I thought it was paid off inside the Migrator in act II?! Phil pleads his case as he wants a crossover as Nosedive blows it off because this is an exclusive outfit; prompting Mallory to say that it cannot be exclusive because Nosedive is part of the team. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Remember that Canard wanted no part of Nosedive being part of the group at first. Phil continues to plead his case to Wildwing and as we zoom out of the room to a wide show, Wildwing claims that the Sarks made the right choice after all. On WHAT?! Running away or destroying the damn planet? Because if it is the later; what an dangerous asshole you are Wildwing? That ends the episode at 21:10 approx. This was an okay episode until Mondo-Man punched the babyfaces in the face; and then the episode completely fell apart. Logic breaks and crappy animation didn't help either. Call it ** (40%).


THE REVIEW LINE

Well; if you watched Michaelangelo Meets Bugman from TMNT and liked it, you'll like this one until the finish when the whole thing completely fell apart with dialog that made no sense, a dumb finish and confusing dialog with the scene in an angle that was brought back after it was intended to be a throwaway spot for Phil. Mondo-Man and Alvin was perfectly fine as a low-rent Superman, so it wasn't horrible or anything, it was just lame. Klegghorn confused me in this episode and the animation was clearly rushed in places. Overall; a below average episode with some funny moments and not much else. So next up is either Bringing Back Baby or Buzz Blitzman, Mighty Duck; followed by Beak To The Future. So....

Thumbs down for this episode and I'll see you all next time.

 

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