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Fish Hooks
Brothers' Day/Oscar Is A Playa Rant
Reviewed: 09/22/2012
Are You Ready To Bond, Playa?!
Our next rant up for bids on the "New Disney Price Is Silly; But I've Seen Thousands Worse" is some brotherly bonding between Milo and Oscar; and then we see Oscar getting in too deep because apparently he's cheating Angela and seeing...Escarmargot? She FINALLY got a focus episode? So; let's rant on shall we...?
Brothers' Day is written and storyboarded by Derek Evanick & Diana Lafyatis. The story is done by the QUAD TRIO OF WASTEFULNESS. Oscar Is A Playa is written and storyboarded by Ian Wusseluk; the story is done by Ian Wusseluck, Maxwell Atoms, C.H. Greenblatt and William Reiss. All episodes are done with Toon Boom; thus correcting a serious mistake I made calling this series (and Kick Buttowski for that matter) done in Flash. My opinion is the exact same: Medium don't matter; talent does.
Brothers' Day: We begin this one with the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM (Sign: Brotherly Love. If only Bud had one because he clearly doesn't and thus ruins the opening right there.) as Bud is sitting in his lawn chair drinking soda. Whatever Bud. We zoom to in front of the ROMAN ARENA OF DEATH as Oscar is playing a portable system. Smartphone? What's that? Me not know how they can destroy Nintendo? And in the biggest no surprise ever; he's playing Cookie Carpenter Cousins and Milo is treating the system like an iPad. Milo claims that he was trying to help as Bea is reading a magazine blowing off high waisted pants because they don't make her look good. And then we cut to Headphone Joe getting blown off by a light brown fish with a brown star bandana as they blow each off for stealing money and speakers. And then we fight as they try to re-arrange their mouths. Bea addresses the bandana dude as Bandana Joe because the writers imaginations are really limited and think kids would be confused if he was called Bandana John. Both Joes' disown each other and storm off in opposite directions. Milo calls this terrible. This would be if I gave a damn about either one of them; considering that Bandana Joe thing comes OUT OF NOWHERE. Anyhow; we cut to the stock footage of the parrot ringing the damn bell and go into the hallway as Milo is holding his head not believing that the Joes have disowned them. Bea claims that they are merely brothers that hate each other. Oscar casually states that this happens all the time and Milo gasps in horror. Milo thinks that this could happen to them and Oscar shrugs it off because it would NEVER happen to them. Milo won't let it go as we segue to the classroom as Milo continues to talk about probability of drifting apart and Oscar points out that they never sleep side by side as Mr. Baldwin blows them off because he's trying to teach the difference between sour cream and cream cheese. I should note that I don't think old farts would use the slash equal sign like some computer lingo.
Milo of course doesn't take the hint and wants to work on their brotherly bond as Mr. Baldwin wants Milo to share his bond with the rest of the class. Milo then floats up behind him and declares tomorrow a holiday which is Brother's Day. Oscar doesn't seem to mind this as they hold hands and Mr. Baldwin thinks this is a great idea because he has eight older sisters and wishes for a brother; so they get the day off to reconcile. Oscar and Milo rub paws and call it sweet. Bea is not happy to hear that; so she tries to pass tomorrow off as National Hairband Day and I betcha Mr. Baldwin blows her off. I check the video...Damn; I'm so good. Mr. Baldwin claims that Bea disgusts him. About time someone outside of the ranters noticed that and she is getting a detention. Sadly; I wish she was expelled so Angela could take over as the female lead. Bea does the Gruffi pose and sulks. HAHA! So we go to the outside shot of Bud's Pets AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) and then we head to morning as Milo is snoring in his underwear; making sure to get a glorified shot of his asshole. Not just the ass; but the entire tunnel. So he gets poked in the "nose" and Milo wakes up as Oscar is having breakfast in bed. Milo screws up the word breakfest of course as Oscar pets him on the head (Must...resist...Gidget...Pet Shop...Joke..). So Oscar takes the scrubbing tool with a bucket to clean the bathroom and opens the door and the bathroom is squeaky clean. So Milo shows his cleaning tool and it's more happy brothers day. So Milo strips off the underwear off-screen as they meet and greet. Milo proclaims that there is so much to day today and we head to the city park as we finally play the Teddy Ruxpin Song Of Doom. Why is brothers songs played like a country folk song when they are in the city? Is there some irony that I'm not getting? And no; I'm not calling it as they are doing some boys stuff and some girl stuff (which is perfectly fine by me). The photographer from Bea Stays In The Picture makes a cameo and we get some vandalism on a brick wall to end it. I think the Gedo fashion sense brothers jackhammer is more vandalism then Milo and Oscar's drawing put together.
So we head back to the ROMAN ARENA OF DEATH as we are in Mr. Baldwin's class which doubles as the detention room as per the blackboard. Mr. Baldwin is snoring at his desk as I wish I could fall asleep since we just have to give Miss Kane some reason to pay her bills. We discover that Jocktopus and Piranha are sitting inbetween a sulking Bea. Jocktopus likes her hair but it's not unique which Piranha blows off because it has highlights. Your hair looks like Penny from Inspector Gadget then; Piranha. I suggest that you shut the hell up if you want to get out of dentention. Unless she finds purity in being in dentention. Piranaha wants Bea to take her side and apparently; Piranha will never speak to Jocktopus ever again. So; we learned nothing from Break Up, Shake Down. Figures; knowing those two bullies. Bea calls this a bit drastic. Well; Break Up, Shake Down was DRASTIC so I wouldn't exactly try to say that to Piranha. Piranaha yells right in Bea's face as Bea looks ready to cry. However; the smartphone (which is smarter than Bea at this point) rings and Bea answers it proclaiming that it's Milo before we even get a chance to know that it's Milo on his bed using the purple rotary dial phone. Boy; Oscar is CHEAP! So we do a one sided exchange about how much brotherly love they have together as Bea is not exactly amused. Bea tries to tell him that what he has been doing is fine; but Milo takes that as doing more and hangs up. Bea tries to counter; but Piranha or Jocktopus throws something out of the window; shattering the window which wakes Mr. Baldwin up and Bea is SO BUSTED! HAHA! She dials MD; which means more detention as Bea sulks again. HAHA!
So we head back to the brothers house as Milo has the front door open and holds hands with a blindfolded Oscar and Milo floats off. Milo is off-screen as Oscar takes the blindfold off; and he sees the love seat filled with garbage. UH OH! Milo is having a Milo Moment again as Oscar is shocked and appalled in that order. Milo shows off a bicycle wheel as he calls the garbage, presents. Sadly; the flashlight doesn't light up his life. Oscar takes a rubber ducky and stammers that this is nice. Memo to Milo: he's lying. Milo seems to get that somehow as he embraces Oscar and has more stuff where that came from. So we head to the dinner table as Milo proclaims that lunch is served. We have a platter under steel dome as it's opened to reveal a pancake, bacon, eggs and orange slices. And this pancake has a bacon and egg face that talks. Ooooookkkkkaaayyyyy. Oscar stammers as Milo gives him the fork and wants him to eat it. So Oscar does in a polite manner and it's the "do nothing of note and see if the kids laugh at it" spot involving the dreaded pulsing eyes. Okay; I laughed at this so it worked. Oscar calls it yummy as Milo has that watching eye look as he wants him to eat some more. Oscar feels uneasy as he eats and then we segue to the bathroom as Oscar is in the bathtub covered with a green curtain washing his afro. He comes out with the OUT OF NOWHERE towel on his afro (Why the hair and not the lower body?) as Milo appears OUT OF SOMEWHERE with the towel and Oscar instantly blows him off. He grabs the towel and storms off. Milo still smiles though as we head to the living room as Oscar is playing Cookie Carpenter Cousins again. Milo shows up with the toenail clippers and wants to cut Oscar's toenails which we see toenails on the tailfins. Whatever guys. Oscar says no thanks to that as Oscar flees down to the bedroom as Milo has moisturizer and wants to freshen up those elbows. Yes; he teleported, what a shock?! Pyscho-eyed Milo rocks as Oscar flees into his closet which is filled with Oscar's skins. This begs the question: How do you skin a fish like that and not kill it? Anyhow; Milo teleports again wanting to brush Oscar's teeth. Milo; you are now babying him; not brothering him anymore.
Oscar floats back to the living room as Milo wants to do his homework. Now; at this point I would be saying the exact words: "No thank you Milo; I can do these things myself, thank you are asking though." That would make him take the hint unless he's a psychopath. However; Oscar just sezs no and Milo just keeps on going and going and going as the love is smothering Oscar at this point. As if the creepy eyes of Milo weren't enough to show that Milo is taking this way too far. Oscar screams in a panic complete with jackhammered background and before we can see if Oscar will MURDER Milo legit; we come back to dentention as Bea is drawing something while Piranha and Jocktopus continue to exchange words. Jock covers his eyes as Piranaha asks about the color of her sweater. This is so dumb that we see Oscar whisper yelling to Bea from the door as Mr. Baldwin is sleeping with a blindfold on which is the same color that Oscar had on his eyes earlier in the episode. Like I'm buying that Mr. Baldwin put that there. Bea floats out blowing off Oscar for making her break DA RULES (FAIRY GODPARENTS!). Oscar points out that Milo is going way too far in this and we see Milo marching in as he still has the creepy eyes. However; he notices Oscar and Bea talking; so he hides and Oscar admits to Bea that he cannot stand him and wants a break from him. Milo leaves without a peep (I thought he would sell tears here.); as Bea wants Oscar to tell him how he feels and good communication is key. That really worked out well the first time on the phone with Milo didn't it Bea. Oscar decides to give it a shot and then leaves. Bea goes back to Mr. Baldwin's room and Mr. Baldwin is awake and doing the Gruffi pose. You can guess what happens next now can't we? Bea now officially hates Brothers Day as she sulks back in the classroom behind a flustered Mr. Baldwin. About time he saw the light on the uselessness of Bea.
So we head back to the house AFTER HAPPY HOUR as Oscar comes through the door and Milo is nowhere to be found. So Oscar goes downstairs and notices a letter taped to the monitor of his computer. Oscar reads it and Milo has run away from home to give Oscar the space that he needs because Milo loves him. Or something. We also get a really nice B&W flashback of Milo packing his things on the bed too. Oscar is horrified and rushes outside into the park as we see various fish denizens wondering about. Oscar finds Dan & Ann Chovie piging out on the bench as Oscar asks if they have seen Milo. Dan seems more interested in sharing a milkshake with Oscar; so Oscar panics and notices Shellsea on her phone talking. Oscar asks; but she points and yells no. Oscar goes stage left and runs into Miss Lips dropping food on the sidewalk from the brown bags she is carrying. Oscar asks for Milo and Miss Lip gives the circular logic of doom before proclaiming that he is probably at the bus station like all of her boyfriends. Oscar gets inspired and floats to the bus station as we get the CANCER MUSIC OF DOOM while Oscar searches around and then notices Milo boarding a bus and the bus leaves. Milo notices nothing at all while Oscar bounces up and down on the window as the bus has a sliencer in it for whatever reason. The bus drives away leaving Oscar behind as we scene change to a park while Oscar is walking and sulking. We get a couple of kids with ice cream laughing in the background and enjoying themselves. Oscar sits on a park bench and sobs because he pushed Milo away and Milo was trying to make him happy. Oscar wants to apologize to Milo if he ever sees him again. And lo and behold; the bus stops right behind the park and Milo gets out and is happy to see Oscar again. Oscar is glad and embraces as we discover that Milo only went to the flea market to sell his stuff (as he shows a blue suitcase) and opens it to reveal a Video Boy. And people say Gameboy died completely after Nintendo DS was unleashed. Well; yes it did, but popular culture is nothing without reviving the past.
See; Milo bought it to give Oscar his space and he explained it in the note. Oscar called the note unclear; but hugs Milo anyway because he's back. Oscar proclaims that they are not like the Joe brothers. Of course not Oscar; because Milo didn't steal anything from you Oscar. He only violated your privacy; but he took the hint in the end. So you were never like the Joes to begin with. Milo calls them nuts as we see Bandana and Headphone still doing the lamest wrestling possible. So of course we have about a minute left; so we return to dentention as Piranha and Jacktopus are embracing each other and doing some kissy-kissy stuff. Awwwww! The bullies kiss and make up. That is deep trouble for everyone else involved. Bea is at another desk sulking as Milo and Oscar walk in and tell Bea that she is their honorary brother in arms. Bea is so flattered by it that Milo does his catchphrase which wakes up Mr. Baldwin and he puts all three of them in dentention. The trio of goofs don't give a damn as they jump up and we get the Gedo Brothers jackhammer to end the episode at 10:30 approx. Great episode; could have been better if we gave a damn about the Joe's problems to begin with instead of having it being OUT OF NOWHERE. **** 1/4 (85%).
Oscar is A Playa: We begin with the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM (Sign: Swag. Shame on you Bud for selling your soul to those cheating third party publishers who want a great review on their crappy game!) as Bud is lying in a suggestive position eating a banana. As we zoom out we see a monkey painting a picture of the Bud model. I'm guessing the irony of all this is lost on the writers. We zoom into the ROMAN ARENA OF DEATH as we are in front of it with Headphone mopping up the front steps. I could explain the pointlessness of washing the front steps when there is water all around them; but logic was out of the window and it died a long time ago. The bell rings and he gets smacked by the double doors as the kids all run out because it's time to hang out at the Hokey Poke. We see Milo, Oscar, Bea, Fimberly, Shellsea, Jumbo Shrimp, Albert Glass and Koi Fish with keys. Wait; since when did Koi Fish know how to drive? I guess someone complained that Albert Glass should be too young to drive. Kind of like Baloo after Kit flew the Sea Duck into Louie's in Flight School. So everyone floats over to the truck as Oscar texts Angela and asks if she would like to join them. Milo blows him off because he thinks Oscar is violating her privacy now. Really Milo; he only asked if she would like to join them to the Hokey Poke. Oscar blows him off because he's a grown fish and can do whatever he wants. UH OH! Oscar has THAT angry look on him; the "F*** off Milo you hypocrite!" look. Oscar texts some more and Milo tells Koi Fish to step on it and they drive off. Some friends these goofballs turned out to be eh? Angela of course texts him back that she's too bust playing video games. Which we segue to her playing on-line gaming complete with headset. So Oscar notice Escarmagot sliming the ground as she's a green snail with a head cold and way too slow to catch up.
Oscar asks if she is going to the Hokey Poke and Escarmargot claims that she is; so Oscar offers to drive her to the Hokey Poke together. Escarmargot does some really nasty faces and swearing in her head, including a hand drawn shot of her. Considering how bad hand drawn Disney is now; I can see why they don't want to talk about the 30 years of Disney Channel stuff. Not because the audience doesn't give a damn about it. Hey! If kids will watch ANYTHING as critics claim; then they should like the old stuff too right? The real reason is that if they show the shows on a grand scale then Disney gets exposed as a disposable piece of crap. They did this when Quack Pack, Recess and One Saturday Morning (heck; I'm ranting on Recess and Quack Pack soon in fact) were on and they are doing it here because kids may not have the short term foresight thinking; but they sure as hell have the hindsight thinking which bites Disney on the ass everytime they pull this demographics crap. Anyhow; we head to Oscar's car as Escarmargot brings up Angela and Oscar shrugs it off because she's not here. Now anyone with an IQ over 20 will realize that Oscar is only helping Escarmargot to the Hokey Poke; and not trying to have sex with her. I mean really Escarmargot?! With your cold and your inability to shrug off the "concede" bug that hangs around you like a virus hidden in a computer; you expect to get a boyfriend legit? How stupid do you think we are? She panics in her mind as Oscar goes out of his way to make her feel fine and she takes it as being so damn wrong. Umm; he never touched you once in that sequence. I think your cold has killed off some of your brain cells madam. The only time he touches her was to pet her on the head after the logic breaking seatbelt fastening spot where Oscar's hands turn human. Oh and Oscar's car is so screwed up that the heater button always turns on the radio. Oh come on Escarmargot; he's clearly got a screwed up car. Give him an orange juice break there madam!
So then he tries again and gets bubbles blown in his face as he asks Escarmargot as she is repulsed at this. Then we get another logic break to see if the kids laugh at Oscar's muscles when the button flings off showing Oscar has a human chest. Okay; enough of this bullcrap guys, it's not working. No one is fooled that Oscar loves Escarmargot and cheating on Angela. Except for the characters who have to be fooled to make the plot work. So Escarmargot wants to be on her way and Oscar blows her off because he wants to be a safe driver. So we head to the Hokey Poke which is only about 200 feet away from Freshwater. Oscar stops the car and Escarmargot slimes into the place going faster than anytime in this series. What a lazypuss this Escarmargot is? She might as well have a job as the eighteen class postal service and get it over with. She screams badly in the Hokey Poke while trailing slime in the process. So we see the girls (I guess Jumbo Shrimp and Albert Glass decided to segergate themselves from them) at the table together as Escarmargot faceplants for fun. Sadly; Fimberly doesn't sue for gimmick infringement here. Escarmargot shows her hands as she explains that Oscar was "hitting on" her and green ooze comes out of her nose. A signal that she is wrong as usual. Bea points out that Oscar has a girlfriend and never has done this before. However; Shellsea notices Oscar is talking to a green haired pink fish at the table opposite of them thinking that he's hitting on her. In reality; Oscar is giving her a card with his insurance phone number because he hit her car (So he was parking when this happened?) and apologizes. The fish thanks him and tells him to get the hell out of her sight. Oscar bails stage left as Koi Fish grunts. Yes; we are supposed to believe that Oscar is cheating on Angela. Shellsea wants to tell Angela that Oscar is cheating on her; but Bea thinks they are jumping to conclusions. Escarmargot panics so Bea decides to check this out with some detective work and floats away stage right. Shellsea calls Bea's parents out of this world and we get the DISCO JACKHAMMER OF AWESOMENESS to amuse me.
So we head to the cafe round table with the boys (including Oscar) as Milo asks about who they would pick: Koi Fish or Fimberly. I would pick Koi since Fimberly is the Meg Griffin of Fish Hooks now that Escarmargot has at least been given more than 10 seconds of work in an episode. Bea whispers to Oscar and Oscar does want to talk; but is forced to another table as they hold hands. We exchange pleasure thoughts as Bea asks about having a girl and Oscar instantly brings up Angela; proving that he didn't cheat on Escarmargot. Bea brings up another girl as Oscar sweats and turns into a shocked Kirby's Epic Yarn version of himself. HAHA! Oscar sweats, moves his mouth, stammers, did I mention sweats a lot? Bea thinks this proves that he is guilty (Bea is a human polygraph test? FRACKING BULLSHETT!!) and has yellow eyes because she is going in for the kill (death reference #1) as Oscar has the CHEAP HEAT OF LAUGHS (and he's blushing) as Bea asks if he would date her too. Oscar hyper ventilates and admits that he only loves Angela in spite of the curious nature of Bea's question. Bea realizes that he screwed herself and acts like she usually does in these situations. Bea floats off and Oscar cries and sobs like a baby face down on the table. After that; I would be sobbing too. Just because Bea proves what an asshole she really is. Bea is confused because he's walking the thin line between being a playa and being guilty of cheating Angela. She wants to do a sting operation and plants her fist into the fin as Shellsea blows her off for saying nothing. HAHA! She's already got the Z grade movie genre down pat now. So we head outside of the Hokey Poke in a van that apparently they stole from Randy Pincherson. So we head inside as Bea lays out the Krackpotkin Sting Operation of Doom to smoke out Oscar and make him admit that he's cheating Angela. We discover that Fimberly is the one with the van and her parents are apparently secret agents which Fimberly blows off when her dad uses the radio. HAHA! I hope Noah Z. Jones is paying attention because if they don't do a secret agent episode involving Fimberly as the lead then this shows that they don't care about quality. It's clear that Fimberly has bigger secrets than Oscar ever did.
Anyhow; she orders Fimberly, Escarmargot and Koi Fish to hit on Oscar as she has wired the Hokey Poke with cameras. Ummm; isn't that illegal girls?! So Chief doesn't have cameras in his place to hack into? I guess Chief has the "toxic maniliness" not to insert them. Anyway; we have nine cameras in various places to document the proof that Oscar is cheating on Angela. The girls go woo in response and we start with Escarmargot sliming in with a radio attached to her ear. Memo to Escar: Oscar is a nerd; he would notice such things like that. On another note; I think this plan is dumb. If they want to be total assholes and prove that Angela is getting screwed by a two timing Oscar; I would call Angela and tell her that Oscar is cheating on her. She would go to the Hokey Poke and that should prove one way or another that Oscar is not cheating on her. This way; this looks completely staged. Escarmargot has a meeting of the minds with Oscar's blue tray. And it wasn't at the confession booth. Escarmargot has no clue what to do and Shellsea orders her (from the van of course) to flirt with Oscar and Escarmargot has that "Are you serious?" look on her face. Shellsea wants her to stare into his soul with her fish eyes. Apparently; Bea wants the stiff upper lip and Fimberly claims that giggling always works on Cooties. Escarmargot is so confused that she does the uglist face in the history of snailkind and Oscar is even asking her if she is all right. Since when has Escarmargot been all right? She has a chronic cold and "quit virus" in her. Oscar proclaims that he's going somewhere else and leaves causing the facepalm in stereo. So we do the clock scene changer as it's Fimberly's turn who at least has the braces to pull this one off. She powders herself and she has a purple dress on with red high heels. So we cut to the boys drinking and talking as Fimberly is akwardly entering and Oscar notices her. Fimberly foolishly gets her fake eye lashes into Oscar's drink; so she tries to get something; but she rips her dumpling curls out. She also has the same glue hair Oscar seems to have; only without the magnetic skills of objects getting caught in said afro. Her apples pops out when she screams (she used them as boobies by the way) which Milo grabs and eats. HA!
Fimberly covers her mouth and she's screwed. The fish girls face palm again as we scene change to outside the van as Bea wants them to get ultra aggressive so it's time for Koi Fish to get into the act. At this point; I would have used Shellsea because you do not mess with Shellsea. She can make Oscar cheat on Angela like no one else. DISCO~! POW! OUCH! Ummm... (Shellsea: What did I tell you about stealing my gimmick Gregory?!) So yes; they used Koi Fish for this one as she makes it to the table and this is not going to end well for Koi. Oscar greets her and Koi punches him so hard that he flies out of the Hokey Poke and his ass kissed the moon light lamp Bud was going to show us; but time constraints prevent that. At least; I think this was the case. Bea is flustered as Shellsea wants to beat a confession out of her. Yes; this makes her a total asshole; but you do not mess with Shellsea. Her angry face is her normal face see. So we see Oscar in the Hokey Poke face down as he gets up and calls out those crazy fish as the girls decide to come in all angry and proclaims that the jig is up; even calling him a playa. I think Teddy Long would be taken aback by this. So; we bring in a 1980's projector and a screen as Shellsea is on the screen using a picture of Oscar's head as a mask and stating that Oscar cheats on girls. Like we are supposed to buy that this is going to get a confession out of him. Even Bea calls Shellsea out on this as Oscar calls himself horrible and starts crying. Shellsea continues to call Oscar out and at this point; this is getting stupid now. Oscar explains that he was only trying to help Escarmargot as a nice gesture to her. He makes the big mistake though of asking Escarmargot about it. Why would you ask the accuser of proving that you didn't do anything? It's called shifting the burden of proof onto her and only helps Shellsea's case. Oscar should just say that Escarmargot couldn't make it to the Hokey Poke since the girls drove away; so he offered to drive her to the Hokey Poke as a gesture of good will. Which is completely true. Escarmargot no sells anyway and Oscar cries and floats away to break up with Angela because Angel deserves a better boyfriend than him.
Bea demands to know what really happened in Oscar's car and Escarmargot admits that she never actually knows about the signals of romance and overreacted. You would think that HER F'N COLD and QUITTING attitude would have been enough to prove that Oscar could never seduce her in a million years; but no. Because these girls are dumber than a box of hammers! And Shellsea is an asshole too. Bea realizes that they screwed up and must stop Oscar from making it to Angela's. So we get the not so cool as the Fish Power Rangers Sequence known as Action Girls. So the girls get into the van and Fimberly crushes her arm into the door of course. Koi Fish floors it and we make it to the yellow tank known as Angela's house. Then the girls break down the door, kidnap Angela and put her in the van to get a spa treatment. Bea enters the house (with Oscar whining in the background) and proclaims that...Wait a second?! THEY KIDNAPPED ANGELA~! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?! Why not just block Oscar and admit that Escarmargot overreacted and that they made a mistake? Oh wait; that would be the RIGHT thing to do; but we cannot have kids learning that the consequences of such a mistake involve Oscar never being friends with Bea ever again. Damn you writers to hell for this stupidity! Goodbye thumbs up episode; we hardly knew ye. Bea proclaims that she needs to use her acting skills to get out of this one and disguises herself as Angela. Oh GOD; shoot me now! Those glasses so make Bea look like a sociopath don't they? Anyhow; Oscar floats into the house and kneels begging for forgiveness and mercy. Oscar; to his credit; is over-selling this stupidity like a champ. Beagla consoles Oscar and tells him that he's not a playa; but he's just too nice. Oscar is confused as Beagla tells him that being nice can be taken the wrong way and Oscar buys into it at last. So Beagla wants to end this with a kiss and Oscar tries to push her aside; and here comes Angela (I guess she saw through the spa treatment) as she is horrified as Bea blows her cover and Angela is pissed. Oscar proclaims that he really is a playa after all as Shellsea floats in calling this guilty as we have an explosion to end the episode at 10:40 approx. Great job fellas; you killed the Oscar/Angela relationship even worse than you killed Oscar/Bea! And who is responsible for doing that? The one that the writers should have written out which is Bea. This series is a lame duck now. Great episode before the horrible finish and ending otherwise. *** 3/4 (75%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Two more shorts are in the books and both were really good for the most part. Brothers Day was really great despite the fact that the Joes' relationship was out of nowhere with no buildup to give Milo an bigger justification for smothering Oscar. Otherwise; there was little to complain about although the whole Bea detention thing was dumb and served no purpose other than give an excuse for the ending which wouldn't have mattered. I did love the finish in this one as they did a pretty good job with the pathos. Sure; it's no TaleSpin, but no one expected TaleSpin to be topped so I'll take this as a good sub. Oscar Is a Playa was actually on it's way to be the best episode of the series and a ***** episode; UNTIL THE FINISH! Before the finish; everything was great in spite of the obvious fact that Escarmargot was a dumb choice to seduce Oscar because she obviously has a cold so how could she get a boyfriend to save her life? That made the opening scene look silly in hindsight; but it was from Escarmargot's point of view, so it worked. The sting operation thing was funny and Shellsea was great in her asshole attitude. However; when the finish came up; the writers completely brainfarted. Angela/Oscar has barely gelled at this point, so the logical thing to do is block Oscar and tell him that they made a huge mistake before they made it to Angela. Instead; they kidnapped Angela; had Bea disguise herself as Angela, do the educational moral which was excellent along with Oscar's overselling, and then have the ending involve Oscar getting caught in the act with Bea. It's completely stupid; it makes Oscar look incredibly stupid and it pretty kills the whole purpose of having Angela and Oscar together which was to give Oscar someone to relate too who was more over than Bea ever could. Thanks to Bea; the heat in Angela/Oscar is completely gone and we have a lame duck show since the Oscar/Bea relationship is killed off completely due to this BS. This is exactly what the old farts feared would happen; and it has come to pass. Fish Hooks is done as a show and every episode from here on must be on the back of Milo who is over; but not a miracle worker like Kit Cloudkicker usually is. I'm sorry Fish Hooks fans; but the show just jumped the shark now. Sad; because Angela/Oscar was a great angle too.
Still; my rants must go on as next up is Milo & Oscar Moves In and Bea Sneaks Out. So yes; I must deal with Bea yet again as she screws her parents too. So much for honor among your father and mother; more so a father and mother who are dense; but awesome. This will be done on Tuesday. I need a drink after that horrible finish. So......
Thumbs up for Brothers Day & thumbs in the middle pointing up for Oscar Is A Playa and I'll see you all next time.