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Fish Hooks
All Fins On Deck/Cattlefish Ho! Rant
Reviewed: 09/29/2012
All CattleFish! Report to Milo Moment #19861986!
Our next rant up for bids on the "New Disney Price Is Silly; But I've Seen Thousands Worse" is the Fish Hooks gang going on a cruise and Milo has to deal with the evil Geckos; and then for an encore Milo has to become a tough cattle rustler as we get the first focus episode for Bo Gregory! YEE HAW! Or something like that. So; let's rant on shall we...?
All Fins on Deck is written by Tim McKeon, storyboarded by Carson Kugler and story is done by David Teitelbaum. David's resume is mostly editing and sound editing for Lost in Space, The Andy Dick Show, Unfabulous, Most Daring and Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. Fish Hooks is his DTVA debut. He has 11 editing credits, and two sound editing credits. But no story experience. Carson is more clear as he started with Hey Arnold The Movie, and was a party extra voice (!) for an episode of Spongebob Squarepants. He has done storyboards for Hey Arnold!, Party Wagon and Stuart Little. Brandy & Mr. Whiskers is his DTVA debut and did storyboards for Spongebob Squarepants (television series and movie) as his most recent credits. That's it. Cattlefish Ho! is written and storyboarded by Blake Lemons. The story is done by the QUAD TRIO OF WASTEFULNESS. 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.
All Fins On Deck: We begin this one with the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM (Sign: Eye Patches. I'm shocked no one has done a redneck pirate. Yet. ) as Bud is dressed like a Hawaiian girl and he's dancing the hula. EWWWWWW! GET HIM AWAY! GET HIM AWAY! We zoom into a dock as there is a big ass (for a fish) tugboat in the harbor above the ROMAN ARENA OF DEATH. So we cut to Oscar and Bea as the hula music continues to annoy me; as they are unveiling a purple banner which reads: Welcome Freshwater Students and there's a wooden stairway to fun; as per the green banner on the left of said fish. We zoom out as the banner reads "This Way To Fun" as Oscar calls this the best party cruise ever. That allows Milo to correct him and swing like Tarzan and smack into the tubboat like George. Oscar claims that this is not a pirate party; but Milo accuses Oscar of being jealous of his booty; giving himself the time to show a glorified shot of his ass bouncing in the air. Oooookkkkaaaayyyy. Oscar blows him off; but his face is claiming otherwise. Milo is claiming that he is pooping on the poop deck. What amazes me is that Bea no sells that despite being stunned in Funny Fish when Milo peed himself. Bea doesn't care about the theme per se because it has a bowling alley, video arcade, trampoline, pony rides (Really Bea?), rock climb wall and an ice cream bar. Now THIS is my kind of cruise; although how do you get the pony rides in there? Clamantha shows up and asks about clam dip and Bea is horrified that they forgot the clam dip. Wait; so the passengers have already arrived? Or just Clamantha? Anyhow; we see Bea and Oscar telling Milo to keep watch of the boat while they go to get the clam dip. So remember folks; if this place gets trashed; it's Bea's fault for not including OSCAR on boat duty. And why bring Oscar anyway? Isn't that inviting some Clamantha kissy-kissy?
Milo salutes her and brings up his real REGAL CUTLASS. I see new Disney has no trouble with Milo playing with sharp objects. So we anime segue to Coach Gecko on the dock as his boat is a boat which looks something from the Flintstones. Gecko calls it a lousy good for nothing boat; but the gecko stampede still happens anyway. Gecko claims that they could have afforded a bigger boat; but a certain red gecko named Tamia is eating up all the profits. And yes; they are wearing life jackets as Glenn (the gray gecko) notices the tugboat and wants to steal it. Coach likes the idea and calls for Mary Ann who is a lime green gecko who so happens to have a remote control and pushes the red button causing the boat to explode. I mean; the gecko's boat; not the tugboat. That otherwise would make Drake Mallard hang his head in shame. Nice fire effects though as we cut back to Milo marching and taking this pirate stuff a wee bit too seriously. Case in point: he blocks the stairway and talks like a pirate captain as he saw the geckoes right away. Gecko thinks Milo looks awesome; but he can make it better if he uses two eye patches. Milo calls it genius and looks in his person and pus the eye patch over is other eye. Milo is dumb; but Bea is dumber for not having Oscar back Milo up here; so screw her! So Milo has some fun; but then hears Oscar and the eyepatch is up as we see the gang is all here with the clam drip and Oscar is dressed like a captain of the ship. Oscar is asking where the boat is as Albert points to it sailing away with the Geckos dancing and Coach mocking them as stupid fish. Nobody is happy; except for Shellsea who does a dance. HAHA! And then stops looking normal. HA! To me; that should be the normal response for seeing a boat stolen. Milo feels bad about this and well; you should feel bad for being taken in like that; but Coach is an adult who is in a position of authority and thus shouldn't be screwing a child in anyway since children cannot give informed consent. So if the kids get mad on Milo; they are as misguided as Milo is. Of course they are kids so it's predictable.
Jocktopus and Piranha want to smash Milo's face in after Escarmargot shows a banana yellow bra. Ooookkkkaaaayyyyy; at long as she doesn't have a banana yellow shirt to go with it; it's perfectly fine. Bea gets in the way and blames the Geckoes on this. Good..for..her and I mean it too. She gets it; which scares me somewhat. The bullies groan as Oscar wants to find a boat and Milo wants to go to the Hokey Poke. Oscar calls it brilliant because the Hokey Poke is a boat see. Milo blows it off because he wants a hamburger and I'm hoping he buys me a drink after this one to wash away Bea actually doing a good spot for a change. And Milo then channels DARKWING... DUCK and realizes that this is a better idea. HAHA! I can see Drake crying in his root beer over that one. So everything goes inside the Hokey Poke and parties as Milo swings in and does a perfect landing on the counter while cutting his usual promo. He is commandeering the boat in the name of justice (but not love; that would be gay considering that Chief is the owner); as Chief doesn't give a damn as long as he buys something. At least; that what I think he said as Milo looks at the menu while Chief is apparently frying scrambled eggs. Milo orders a cheeseburger and Chief gives him the ship carte blanche. Why? I have no idea. Probably hates Geckoes are ruining this catch of Big Blue from 1986. I'm surprised that they haven't used that motif in a long while. So we break the chains of the Hokey Poke as the customers panic and bail like scalded fish. The Hokey Poke rises up to above water. I see one obvious logic break here: They are above water and they don't seen to have their tanks on. I'll let this one slide until I'm certain that they never do that spot. Anyhow; Jocktopus does the Athens style rowing in the hull while Piranaha has the megaphone and threatens to break up with Jocktopus if he doesn't row. HA! So we go on deck as Jumbo Shrimp and Albert Glass are in sailor suits swapping the deck. HA!
Milo is eating as he wants a musical sea song and we see Albert and Jumbo take their out of nowhere musical objects (a violin and squeeze box; which is a really odd comb...Oh wait; it's the same one used in most episodes of Fanboy & Chum Chum, only it makes sense here at least.) and we play a pirate tune which sounds awesome. Did I mention that the fish tanks have locks which open to allow the boat to go from one fish tank to another? That is pretty neat actually. Bea and Oscar come over to Milo (with telescope) as they plea for Milo not to do this. See; they believe that this is not Milo's fault; but Milo cannot get over the fact that he was taken in by a professional heel that would have been fired and exported if this were a sane world. I think Oscar doesn't want Milo to do this because Clamantha is in the crow's nest all alone and she sees no geckoes; but she sees Oscar as Oscar cringes. And that is a MAN-SIZED cringe to be sure. As in "OH MY GOD SHE'S CREEPY!" type of cringing. With teeth chattering sound effects too. So Milo has a million objects to find the ship; but he pushes them off the table and puts his fat gut on the table because that is all he needs. Ah; he's the George W. Bush of fish. Only Milo is funny and not real, thank you PZ Meyers for small favors. Milo then waves to Bassy to bring him some apples and he gets pelted with about eight apples and falls off. HAHA! If only there was a law to pelt Milo in the face with apples. Oscar consoles Milo as Bea notices a gecko skin coat and wonder what it is. It's a gecko skin trail Bea....and we segue to Tamia unzipping her red gecko skin on the boat as the geckoes are having fun and being almost naked. I say almost because they are wearing shorts and the girls are wearing bras. Which makes little sense since they don't generally wear much in the way of clothes anyway.
Milo notices the skins of geckoes floating on the water and orders the crew to follow the trail as we get Bea on the wheel and Fimberly is the ass rudder. Okay; I realize that Fimberly's gimmick is to be the bump machine of the babyface side; but this is really stupid. And sexist. And dangerous. And funny in a "I shouldn't laugh; but the reflex action won't stop me from laughing" way. So Milo is lying down all cool and stuff as he feels the warm wind. Sadly; Albert Glass and Jumbo Shrimp are looking at weather measuring stuff as we get the educational paragraph of the episode. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader and just say that it's the perfect storm and redo the entire storm ship sequence from Flush & Release in Kick Buttowski. Other than a few cameos from Bo Gregory and the Chovie Twins; there is nothing of note. Everyone sticks to Koi Fish which no storm can move her. So everyone ties each other up against Koi Fish. Sadly; it does nothing against waves as they scream and we zoom out to see that Bud has the fan on and he has his feet propped up on a red footstool (NOT THAT ONE!) and sitting in a lawnchair reading a magazine called Pet Monthly. You can tell he's a heel because the front cover of the magazine has a green gecko in front. We return to the ship as Milo dares the big wave in epic fashion and then Bud turns the fan the other way and the wave farts and dies off. HAHA! I betcha Milo takes all the credit for showing that wave who is boss of the sea. I check the video... Damn; I'm good. Bea blows him off because she wants to turn back; but Milo no sells because he promised to get that damn ship back. We discover that Jocktopus' oars broke up and Piranaha breaks up with Jocktopus. AGAIN! Milo puts the eyepatch on and wants that ship back and orders everyone to help him.
Everyone no sells as Bassy comes in with the hot dog ice cream treat of death in the foreground just to make Oscar look bad. HAHA! Oscar pleas with Milo that they have forgiven him and they know that Coach is a disgusting heel who took advantage of Milo. Milo no sells because he hasn't forgiven himself. And suddenly Milo is Kit Cloudkicker; as written by fanfic writers. No one wants to go on though; as Milo blows them off for munity and decides that he'll go it alone if no one wants to help him and he is fish overboard. And yes; he plops into the water going overboard in more ways than one. Everyone panics as Chief comes out and demands who will pay his tab. HAHA! I betcha that's the real reason he did that; to get out of paying. So we scene change to Milo swimming the fish tank seas and sees nothing of note. Milo wonders where the ship is and the geckoes ship whizzes in the background behind him. Milo then catches himself and proclaims that he has found them. However; he has to hitch a ride on and this Krackpotkin Plan must be fool proof. So we segue to a rock as Milo is dressed almost exactly like Airel from The Little Mermaid. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I just had to mark out for that one. Make that Milo Moment #19861986. Milo swims around as the geckoes are not buying what he is selling and call him an idiot. Geez Milo; why didn't you just call me? I would LOVE to smack this poor excuse of a gecko around. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. Coach then decides that he wants Milo aboard so they can screw him in roundabout terms. UH OH! So they klonk him with the anchor chain and then fishnet him. They bring Airelo up to the surface and plop him on deck as Airelo flops like a fish out of water. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Milo rips off his cover and asks all piratey again. HAHA! Milo is SO (insert swear word here) now; but this almost assures a thumbs up episode now. Just don't screw up the last minute and a half of this; I'm begging of you writers!
So the geckoes decide to get their sticks and they are going to break Milo's fins and throw him back into the water so he cannot swim and dies; in roundabout terms. Milo blows them off because they are supposed to be blindfolded to play pinata. The geckoes decide that those are DA RULES (FAIRY GODPARENTS!) and that is a sign of a heel jobber for life: NEVER play by DA RULES (FAIRY GODPARENTS!). I should note that yes; geckoes in Fish Hook have chest hair underneath their skins. So they put their blindfolds on which are white (which is perfect because it makes them look stupid and they can surrender faster than France ever did); and Milo shoves the geckoes overboard into the water. HA! You know you suck as a heel when you are even stupider than Milo. Milo dances as Coach pumps his fist in rage in the water proclaiming revenge on the next holiday break; or long weekend. So I'm guessing regular weekends are out for him. Makes him look even weaker too. So we return to the Hokey Poke ship as everyone is yelling for Milo and here comes the cruise ship with Milo in tow. Everyone cheers as Milo slaps the stack and it crumbles and explodes. Milo jumps onto the Hokey Poke ship and the cruise ship sinks. Yeap; this is truly Bea's fault. For buying a cruise ship that is NOT UP TO CODE!! Milo is in tears for ruining the cruise ship again (no you didn't Milo) and Bea tells him that it's all right (that you set up Milo for a crappy cruise ship? Screw you Bea!) because we can breathe underwater. So it's a logic break after all because they didn't use the water tank spot once. Shame on you writers! So we go under water to the cruise ship as everyone is partying and Steve Jackson is bowling with Escarmargot, Albert and Jumbo play video games, Bea rides on a pony (underwater mind you for logic break #2) and Clamantha dips herself in clam dip and splashes a lot into the screen. We see the goofs with attitude dancing as Bo Gregory and the Chovies are tossing each other. We end with the jump up and the jackhammered Party Cruise logo in the background and we end with a shot of Fimberly asking for someone to untie her from the back rudder and she splats into the tugboat again to end the episode at 10:36 approx. We almost got our second perfect episode of the series; but a few logic breaks prevented that. And you should be blamed for all this? Bea who bought the crappy ship in the first place. **** 3/4 (95%).
Cattlefish Ho!: We begin with the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM (Sign: Cow Patties. Damn; that pet shop is going to need to be defumagated for months now ) as Bud is admiring himself in the mirror as he is wearing red cowboy boots. Still not cool enough sir. So we zoom into the Wild Fish West (Might as well not build up the moment while we are at it; it's not like the kids care anymore) as we have fish cows and Milo acting all giddy because he's a fish cowboy now. Bea is riding on a bass and just letting Milo hang himself as Millo does some dance moves before getting on his bass. This has to be a dream because there is no way Milo could do that without faceplanting. Oscar blows him off in the main wagon which is pulled by Miss Lips. What is Oscar's obsession with calling Milo a dingus? Milo still dances and he has a hay stick in his mouth; the BS&P version of a cigarette. Bo Gregory stops what could have been a perfect time waster because this is not a fish cow musical; this is a fish cattle drive. Yes folks; we have a Bo Gregory focused episode. See; Bo Gregory needs help getting the fish cattle to his Uncle Jo-Jo's place and he's thankful that they took a weekend off to help him. Apparently; he's both an uncle and brother to him. Geez; Bo Gregory's family tree looks like a Samoan wrestling family tree to me. Anyhow; Bo Gregory calls them and Fimberly has joined us because somehow we need her to be a bump machine. Shellsea has cuecumbers on her eyes lying on a bass fish. So Bo proclaims the episode title and we ride off into the most boring cattle drive ever. Jumbo Shrimp is wondering about how fish are riding fish in the same manner that people are thinking about Goofy and Pluto. Well Jumbo; you are chimeras (half man, half fish) and thus have some form of being sentienet. The bass fish don't have that. So there is your difference of why it's okay for Goofy to have a dog named Pluto in a certain world. Because it's not real dude.
Shellsea blows him off claiming that cattle smell like farts. Okay; that is a good sub for sh** I guess. Fimberly is off the wagon already and of course becomes the bump machine as usual. Why can't Oscar be the bump machine? He's a lot funnier than Fimberly anyway. She also goes upside down and face does some digging in the ground. We cut to Miss Lips and Oscar as we discover that Oscar likes cattle drives because he can stay indoors and Miss Lips likes it because she can drive a wagon and not a car anymore. Ummm; I'm sure wagons and horses are covered under the Motor Vehicles Act. Albert Glass is riding on a electronic bass fish outside the Grocery Trout. He then sulks about not going on that trip as Barb (I think) was in the background somehow. So we segue back to Bo Gregory noticing a stray cattle fish on top of the mountain. Okay; now remember that they are in a fish tank and thus the cattle fish should swim down on it's own. So why are we breaking logic and reason here? So Milo can be awesome silly. And it prevents Bea from doing her soft core prono lassoing skills. Thank you for the public service Milo; because you have to carry episodes on your back from here on out. So Milo invokes the LASSO OF BANE TO ALL ACTION CARTOONS EVERYWHERE and keeps tying himself up. HAHA! I see that lasso has the same features as anything Donald Duck uses to fix things. He does manage to get it right and ropes Miss. Lips. HAHA! Sadly; Mr. Lips is unavailable for comment. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Miss Lips uses the rope for dental floss (and somehow freed herself) and there is a spinach leaf. She claims that she didn't eat spinach in her life; so whose mouth is it? Hmmmm; Kit's mouth as punishment for spelling spinach wrong. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Hey... Milo is frowning as he bails stage left as he claims the rope is defective. Bea grabs it and does a picture perfect lasso of the cow fish who moos. Oh come on guys; you expect me to believe that Bea could pull that off so easily? Yeap; this ISN'T going to be a thumbs up Milo Moment now.
Bea puts the cattle on the cattle drive and then does some rope trick to annoy me and the kids pop for it. That is just peachy; she ruined the Oscar relationship with both herself and Angela and now she's ruining Milo Moments. All she needed was to ruin the Milo/Pamela relationship and she would be the single most disgusting character in Fish Hooks history not named Randy Pincherson. In other words; she and Randy would be perfect together. Did I mention that Shellsea is sitting on a lawnchair which is on a bass? Milo does the Gruffi pose and pouts. I don't blame him, Bea is poopy. So we scene change and continue with the boring cattle drive as Bo Gregory tells them to keep your eyes open for cattle fish poachers as Milo makes sure to really keep the eyes open. HAHA! Then Bea panic as she sees a tail of a rattlesnake and we discover that it's Snake on top of a platform above water. I never found most of Snake and Mouse's routines funny except the one where I think she explodes into an antique car. She sticks her head into the water and Milo rushes in and calls her reptitle scum and tells her to die. Seriously; that is what he said. So Milo swims onto the tail and we shake Milo into submission. HAHA! Milo's selling is awesome here as Bea tries to warn him about the dangers of dealing with rattlesnake; but Milo no sells (YAY!) and bites the snake. I've heard of "Man Bites Dog"; but "Fish Man Bites Snake" is much more original and funnier. Even more so when MILO is doing it. So Snake springs out of the tank and Bo Gregory blows off Milo because she was a bodyguard to fend off the racoons. YOU JUST TOLD HIM NOW?! FACKING BULLSHEET!! And a racoon takes off with some cattlefish; I think. Bo Gregory proclaims that they have extras as Milo still thinks he's an awesome cowboy. Sorry Milo; but you don't have the redneck racism and southern accent to pull it off. And that's a good thing. Bo Gregory sezs nothing and Milo calls him out on it. Why? Because Gregory Weagle already pointed out why you are not an awesome cowboy. Besides the fact that Bea ruins everything of course.
Bo proclaims that a cowboy without a cow is just a boy. Milo is flustered and pulls his hat down. HAHA! You sure told him Bo Gregory. So we scene change to AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as everyone is sitting around the campfire as Fimberly is playing the harmonica. If there was ever a time where Dave Seville's "no harmonica rule" was useful; this is it. There's no way Fimberly could play that without bashing herself in the head with it at least once. Everyone is hungry and Fimberly bumps again; but it's the safe back bump. Bo Gregory calls for Oscar inside the wagon who is the cook as he proclaims that this takes time. Now; what is the deal with his apron which sezs "Me Am Cook"? If Oscar is trying to act all Southern; this is the dumbest way possible. So we cut to Milo behind the CACTUS JACK OF DOOM showing how to handle it without getting needled. So he sneaks into the back of the wagon and does the hat feet spot in the wagon behind Oscar and blows his cover and grabs the spoon. Oscar complains, Milo complains, we have a tug of war with the spoon as the chili catches fire. And yes; I do mean the chili catches on fire. And the wagon explodes and Milo and Oscar are dead fish bones. Bo Gregory gets black faced of course. Bo Gregory seems fine with dirt soup instead as Oscar calls Milo a dingus again. So we get dirt soup served to everyone and Fimberly makes the most of this by sipping the dirt soup. He offers some to Milo; but Milo refuses. Not because the soup is crappy; but because he doesn't deserve any due to screwing up the pooch. Milo floats away as Oscar tries to tell him that he forgives him; but Bo Gregory basically admits that Milo is not okay and wants Oscar to let him go. Bo gives him an extra serving of dirt soup and tells him to eat up; or he'll stare at him until he does. HAHA! Oscar is annoyed; but he drinks up on the soup and Bo walks off stage right. HAHA!
So we scene change to Milo in front of the cattle fish as hed has a box of "Pity Peanuts". The cows moo at him and Milo declares himself a bad cowboy with tears of sorrow. He also cries in the "Pity Peanuts" box too as the cows huddle together and moo as a form of consoling. We discover that the box is filled with Pity Chocolate Bars. Geez Milo; you could have served them that and more than make up for your explosion wagon. DINGUS!! Oh great; now I sound like Oscar. That's a wee bit horrifying. So Milo does about two dozen booking names with the first word being moo ending with Jill. The cows eat the chocolate bars on the next pan shot. Milo wishes stuff would have gone smoother if he didn't come along and Mookisa and Milo hug. Milo floats up to the water and notices the full moon as he thinks things have turned around for him. Then the moon turns into an eye and the cattle fish all bail in a panic. Milo wants answers to this outrage and we discover that the KILLER CAT OF HORRIBLE MISTREATMENT (the eyes; oh the horrible eyes!) appears as Milo screams. We then go outside the tanks as Bud uses the bell on a stick to calm the killer cat down who is standing on the box. I betcha Milo still gets blamed for all this as usual. So we cut back to the campfire as Bea finishes her dirt soup and wants to do some Improv to boost morale. And Milo does everyone a favor by grabbing Bea and running away and bailing as we get the cow stampede as the cattle bust through the tank and into the outside world; tumbling down onto the floor. We cut back to the fish in the tank as the tank drains and Milo only incriminates himself more by asking about the chocolate bars. Bo Gregory bails as he wants water suits and lassoes and everyone except Oscar bails. Oscar complains because he's merely the cook of this outfit.
So we get various shots of the fish trying to rustle up the cattle fish with various scenes including a cameo with Coach Gecko blowing off Oscar as a fish with an apron. THAT'S RACIST!! Anyhow; this leads to Bea lassoing a cowfish and throwing it into the new water tank. The cattle stampede in the pet store as Milo proclaims that the real cowboys have it under control and he walks off sulking. Milo cries and creates the backwards water pillar which would put Clamantha, anime characters and 1950's Daisy Duck to shame. Thank god for the enlightenment! Oh wait; that sounds so wrong. Thank Locke for the enlightenment. That sounds better...I think. So the cow licks the tears and motions (in the way cows usually motion) and they come and lick the tears. Then the cows follow Milo as Bea and Bo Gregory notice that Milo's unintentional plan is working. Bo Gregory tells Milo to keep crying so much that he'll probably kill himself due to having 0% water. Yes; this is toxic manly crying going on here. So Milo turns around and realizes that the cows are following him and he cheers. So Milo cries tears of joy and flips the cow up with the fish chain ladder spot as they throw the cattle fish back into the tank and Milo jumps in and rides on one cheering for victory. Bo Gregory and company join Milo as Bo teases praising him; but we discover that Bo was praising Bea and that Milo is unnatural and strange. Oh sod off you redneck goofyfoot faced moron! Milo's way worked so Milo does at least get something out of the deal. Bo Gregory thinks that it's a two day ride to Jojo's; but we are already at the barn as Bo got his time confused. Betcha he would freeze at the sight of Daylight Savings Time too. So we cut to a shot of the door of the barn and it's a brown fish with a furry mustache that extends way too far to be healthy and he's fat with a white tank top t-shirt.
So Jojo notices the cattlefish and is happy as he thanks his brother/nephew. Bo claims that they are banged up showing a slightly injured cattle fish; which breaks logic since they were not roughed up like this before in other shots. Jojo doesn't care because we open the barn door and there is a big ass buzzsaw. Milo panics like mad because the implication here is that the cattle fish will be slaughtered and skinned of their hides. However; Jojo cuts the ticker tape and proclaims that he shows mercy because (as Milo asked him anyway) they are going into the happy field so he can milk them for all they are worth. And he has a cold and sneezes into one. Okay; did he have Escarmargot as a worker in this farm? Milo then feels bad because he just knew them and it's hard to say goodbye. So we segue back to Oscar's house as Oscar takes out hamburgers from the oven and the cows are munching down on them. Okay; it's a cute ending, but it breaks logic as Milo cheers and flips his hat. He's a real cowboy. No Milo; you are a real sobbing cowboy. AHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Circle fade out ends the episode at 10:40 approx. Fairly good Milo Moment; but I have seen better. Mostly when Bea is not ruining the effect. *** 1/2 (70%). Wow; three straight episodes of thumbs up snapped. Has Kick Buttowski ever had that happen in history?
THE REVIEW LINE
Two more shorts done; two good shorts too. All Fins on Deck was closing in on the second perfect episode in the series as Milo was awesome as usual. Come to think of it; he had Kit's "all my fault" down to a T; and it lead to Milo's awesome pirate routine and managing to make the geckos look even dumber than he usually is. Loved the payoff with the blindfold too (and the color was perfect too). The only thing preventing the perfect episode was the logic break of no water tanks used (which denied us the obvious eye washing spot) and the pony being underwater at the end (and the fact that pony rides are on a cruise to begin with). And yes; Bea is to blame for all this because she could have kept Oscar with Milo and prevented Milo from putting the eye patch on in the first place (and even Bea and Oscar offhand admitted that Milo wasn't at fault here) and the fact that the ship sank because Bea brought a crappy boat that wasn't up to code. If I'm not mistaken; this should set up Fish Lips, Sink Ships nicely too; since Bea is supposed to be the focus character of that episode. Cattlefish Ho! wasn't so great because Bea continues to make Milo look weak. Milo did his best and he did carry the episode well; but seriously, the ending was pretty lame with Bo Gregory's toxic manliness and Bea's smug look afterwards. Crying is not strange and un-natural. Being a sexist redneck man is. The rest of the ending was cute even if it broke logic with the cows ironically eating fish hamburgers. They are that clueless in knowing that they are engaging in unintentional cannibalism. So overall; two very shorts that pleased me.
So that is it for Fish Hooks; for now. I should point out that I have one more rant to do with them which is Oscar's Secret Admirer and Little Fish Sunshine; but I have already engaged in doing the Kick Buttowski episodes tomorrow and I have shopping on Tuesday; so tomorrow it's Shh! and Sew What? Might as well get those two out of the way. So I'll be doing the remaining two Fish Hooks episodes after Kim Possible/Recess OAV's are completed. In between this; we have Goof Troop for Canadian Thanksgiving. So......
Thumbs up for All Fins On Deck and thumbs in the middle for Cattlefish Ho! and I'll see you all next time.