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Fish Hooks
Spoiler Alert/Rock Lobster Yeti/Fish At Work Rant
Reviewed: 10/26/2013
Spoiler Alert: The Yeti Is Not At Work Today!
So we come to the final episodes of Season two at last. YAY! Our first episode up for bids is that we have the now infamous "copyright" episode in which Randy Pincherson spoils a bunch of movies and ruins the fun of everyone. I wonder if this is a counter measure to make me feel bad about ranting on Milo On The Lam before the US got to see the episode. Memo to Disney: If that is such a problem for you, then don't release the episode in the UK or anywhere first. RELEASE THE DAMN EPISODE AT THE SAME TIME IN ALL REGIONS! That way; no chance for spoilers from me. Easy. Then we search for secret beasts and then Bea gets a job with Oscar and Milo; which could force Bea to be an asshole when she doesn't want to be an asshole. So; let's rant on shall we...?
Spoiler Alert is written and storyboarded by David Shair, Neil Graf, Blake Lemons and Ian Wusseluk. The story is done by the QUAD TRIO OF WASTEFULNESS. Rock Lobster Yeti is written and storyboarded by The Lobster Nephews; and story is done by The Lobster Nephews, Tim McKeon and Diana Lafyatis. Fish At Work is written and storyboarded by Blake Lemons with the story 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.
Spoiler Alert: We begin this one with the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM (Sign: Special FX. Are redneck Special FX's based on horror movies?) as we see Bud inside the pet store playing with the 1970's projector and making rabbit shadows on the projection screen. So we head to the theater somewhere in Freshwater (called Finerama) as a movie called Wizards In Da House 3. We head inside the theatre as we see Jumbo Shrimp and Albert Glass talking about throwing up with glee while wearing adult looking gear. Wait; so this movie is rated R? Oh wait; Bea and Shellsea are wearing capes and Bea is giddy while Shellsea proclaims that nothing will upset her. Fimberly gets her contracted line as she is apparently having a negative reaction to her makeup; but she doesn't care. Well; that is basically the summary of the writer's treatment of her in this series. At least she hasn't bumped. Yet. Koi grunts, Milo does some spell chanting with a ladle and appears to be channeling Cubbi Gummi from Presto Gummo. Oscar is flipping his fins around because this isn't going to be a movie; this will be a life changing experience. Never mind that this is a SEQUEL. So the first two were just movies? That goes against the Walt Disney notion that you cannot top pig with pigs am I right?! And then we pan over to the EVIL ONE himself. You know who it is; you know. The one who thinks he is Kenny Powers but doesn't have the panche to pull it off. I see the entire student body of Freshwater High is here along with Jocktopus, the Lobster nephews and many, many more. The front row yells in unison because they know that Randy Pincherson is hell's poison for this show and this is going to ruin it for everyone. As usual. Oscar is sweating like mad and threatening to do something if Randy ruins this movie. Ummm; I think he has already done that; just by existing in this movie. And while I'm on the subject, why do people confuse television shows with movies on the Internet? Seriously; the video I watched this episode from called this "a movie". It's not. It's a television show. Hell; even calling it a cartoon show is acceptable. Look; I have often called TaleSpin's episodes "mini-movies" because that was what Jymn Magon was shooting for. However; even so, they are still episodes of a television show. Plunder and Lightning is only a movie because it was designed as such and released on the Disney Channel. Sure; it's a television movie; but it was still designed as a movie with television animation. Okay; I just find this confusion an act of laziness on whomever is talking about it.
Anyhow; Randy claims that he doesn't want to watch the movie with a bunch of nerds and he crosses his heart and we hope he dies. Oscar is sweating even more now as he takes it that he is going to do something. Wow; Oscar is finally using the brains he was born with to deduce that Randy is a liar. Milo joins in and Randy claims that he'll do nothing; so Milo tells Oscar to relax. Well; why not. Otherwise; the plot won't advance. So we see that the movie has started and it's clear that this is a cross between Harry Potter and Wizards of Wavelery Place so I'm not going to bother spoiling this because we all know Randy Pincherson is going to do the job for me. Here's the problem with this plot line (and I'm sure some of you noticed it too): Spoiling a movie is NOT heelish at all. Yes; spoiling a movie and doing running commentary does marr the experince and is annoying; but most people do it anyway because we pay to see these things. It happens all the time; and it's hardly heelish. Randy trying to win in the Grandma Games is vile and digusting to the point that it degrades old women in general. That a cowardly vile heel thing to do. This is just annoying. Okay. Oscar sweats as Randy just sits there and watches. Just a general semi-spoiler: The lead boy and adult figure are exchanging notes in the movie. I'll leave the entire conversation as an exercise to the viewer since I don't want to spoil anything. That's just mean. Not evil; just mean. So we watch the movie as Randy claims that the headmaster of the school is the EVIL ONE. So Randy is admitting that he was in this movie? If so; then no wonder he has no beef spoiling this. He's Randy Pincherson and Oscar is pissed at Randy's jumping for joy. So we head to the Hokey Poke as all the babyfaces are sulking, whining and complaining about Randy spoiling ONE plot line in a movie. Wow; what a bunch of weak willed morons?! Look; I get that spoilers are annoying, but to complain on this scale is insulting considering that Randy's low was trying to win at the Grandma Games and stealing Milo's ideas.
Milo cannot believe that Randy broke his promise. Yeah; because those half dozen other times he has done that in this series don't count. Thankfully; Oscar is pissed off because he can believe it. This is probably the best acting Justin Roiland has ever done and it makes Oscar look like he has the thiniest fish skin in the history of this show. Oscar goes over and shakes Escarmargot because Randy has no consideration for their feelings. Ummmm; yeah Oscar, he's an annoying hell's poison. Your point? And we HIT THE FLASHBACK as Randy spoils Fimberly's secret sandwich in a blue package. It's ham by the way. How do you spoil something; when the bag is transparent and you can CLEARLY see the contents? Then we have Albert/Jumbo Shrimp giving presents for Jumbo's birthday and at least Albert has enough sense to make the present look big enough to convince us that Randy is being mean when he reveals it as a harmonica. And Mr. Baldwin is having four girls according to the ultra sound test on Mr. Baldwin's computer. Wait; I thought Mr. Baldwin already knew that? You know Randy is being a heel in the last two flashbacks. Not because he spoiled anything; but because he BROKE into Mr. Baldwin's house. Ummm; that's trespassing! So we return to reality (no, not really) as Oscar proclaims that he has had it with Randy spoiling everything that they stand for; so they are going to spoil something from Randy. Okay; he's a double-standard: If spoiling stuff makes you an evil heel; then isn't this counter measure just turn everyone into heels by proxy. If spoiling stuff doesn't make you a heel; then this should by okay since it only makes you into a mean annoying babyface; which apparently is MUCH worse. I mean; isn't that what we accuse Rebecca Cunningham of being? Anyhow; everyone in Oscar's posse cheers on cue for this Krackpotkin plan and we head to the ROMAN ARENA OF DEATH as we see the EVIL ONE in the hallway at the lockers as Oscar comes over and wants to talk about the joke he pulled on everyone. Randy proclaims that it wasn't a joke and he was just being mean which causes Oscar to grit his teeth and act so mad that he looks like his head is ready to explode.
Oscar then recoils and asks Randy if there are any movies that he is watching and Randy claims that there is one, but he's not telling what it is. So Oscar does the Gruffi pose and claims that he doesn't want to know. So instead of Randy saying "ok" and twinkletoeing away like a good little hell's poison, he blurts out that he's going to watch Spacecrab 2: Captain Of The Stars. So we see an entire planet get destroyed by a space craft which is hilarious considering that they used Jupiter and Jupiter is a gasous planet. And we get the pose of doom with capes and blue hair because this one stars a crab who looks more like a lobster. Randy claims that it has action, suspense and more action. Apparently; Randy is not a romantic crab which is hilarious considering how much he seems to love to stalk Bea... in bed. POW! OUCH! Ummmm... Randy proclaims that the movie was awesome; but they never created a sequel which is hilarious because Spacecrab 2 is already a sequel. This falls under the "Pleasure Pods" Z-grade movie rule: One movie that was labeled as a sequel despite not having the original. Apparently; he never found out who Johnny Spacecrab's father was and everyone in Fish Hollywood is an idiot like Oscar. Mr. Puffer/Johnny Space Crab are voiced by Kenton Duty and according to IMDB: Kenton Duty began his acting career when he was 9-years-old in the Dallas Theater Center's stage production of "A Christmas Carol". He began auditioning for roles in Los Angeles after he was discovered at a workshop at the Young Actors Studio in Dallas, Texas by Hollywood talent agent Cindy Osbrink. Duty first gained popular notoriety in the role of young "Jacob" on the hit TV series, "Lost" (2004), although no one, including Duty himself, knew who his character was until nearly the final episode of the series. He was billed simply as "Teenage Boy". In 2010, Duty landed a starring role on the Disney Channel original series, "Shake It Up!" (2010) as the flamboyant dancer/fashion designer antagonist, "Gunther Hessenheffer", alongside Caroline Sunshine as his fraternal twin sister, "Tinka Hessenheffer". The glitzy brother/sister duo of Gunther and Tinka is said to be inspired by Ryan and Sharpay Evans of Disney's "High School Musical" franchise.
He began his career as Buster in Camp Winoaka and then proceeded to do various characters for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Fish Hooks is his DTVA debut and only appearance. Little Savages (Todd) and The Adventures of Micky Matson & The Pirate's Code as Max are his most recent credits. He has 21 acting credits, 12 Self credits and one producer credit to his resume. He is currently 18 years old. So Randy leaves stage right as Oscar gets all evil giddy about it. We scene change to inside a classroom which is being used to create a stage for their new movie which Oscar proclaims that they will only be doing half of a movie. Wait; only HALF of a movie? I mean; wouldn't it make sense to create a full movie; and then wait until halfway through to spoil the plot and thus create suspense for the episode and have Randy suddenly be surprised; and have a reason to watch the movie. Plus; also not blow your cover that this is all just a fake to get back at Randy. Oscar proclaims that he wants Randy Pincherson to feel his pain of being spoiled. Come on guys and gals; if that is all that takes to cause pain, then you are hosed as a dork. Seriously; there is so much bigotry in the world that requires empathy that doing it here makes everyone look stupid. Milo asks what he can do and Oscar tells him that he's the PR guy to lure Randy out to actually see this movie. Please have this be funny; that's all I ask. So we scene change to the hallway as Randy Pincherson is twinkle toeing in on his cellphone and talking to his Grandmother. Randy is telling his grandmother to pour bleach on something and burn it as Randy stops and twinkle toes back and notices that there is a Space Crab 2 poster and he throws his cellphone away just as his grandmother yells that the police are coming. So; I'm guessing that the new gimmick for Randy is that he is now a criminal teenager. Lovely! Milo walks in like a derp and notices the poster as he proclaims that they finally decided to made a sequel and asks Randy if he wants to see it. Randy then no sells because sequels suck see. Milo counters that they don't; but Randy claims that there are no explosions in the poster. Yeah.
Milo ponders this one over as we head to the stage as Bea is Johnny Spacecrab in this sequel and does the most silted acting I have ever heard while punching a fake trout in the face with her crab like arms. And people are surprised when I say Bea has soft core porno skills...in bed. POW! OUCH! Ummmm....So Milo breaks through the door (which was a portion of the set, natch) and he's panicky. Oscar motions him to come over and explain himself while wearing a goofy blue baseball cap with Saturn printed on the front. Milo tells him that Randy refuses to watch the movie if the movie doesn't have explosions in it. Oscar is fine with that; because he's going to give the audience exactly what it wants. So we head back to the hallway as Randy has his cellphone back and is talking to Grandmother again and tells her to get the boxes out of storeroom because there is a big bust coming. Wait; so Randy is a drug dealer? Or is he a "pirate"?! We'll never know as Randy is stunned to see Milo in the middle of the hallway lying on his belly looking at his laptop. Milo claims that he is looking at the trailer for the new movie and claims Randy doesn't want to see it. Randy steals the laptop and looks at it. We see Bea punching the trout and Randy blows it off as lame. When Randy F'N Pincherson agrees with me on Bea's acting skill, you know that she sucks. Then the announcer proclaims that she's bringing friends and we get the CGI explosion on the screen as Randy is shocked at this. Milo takes this as a good sign; but Randy no sells going because it's all one note. See; he loves violence, but it needs more gimmicks; including a snail in a bikini. If you cannot guess what happens next and who is the snail in the bikini; you have no business reading this rant. Yeap; it's Escarmargot who has apparently borrowed from Shellsea. We see that this is live from the laptop as Randy wants llamas which looks more like a fish human camel walking in; and Clamantha is a spaceship and bumps into prop planets which looks low budget as hell.
Even Randy points this out to us as Milo counters that this will have a cast of thousands working on it and we see Milo talking to Oscar needing at least a thousand people; and we see everyone from Freshwater show up including Bea's Dad who gets his head stuffed in a helmet by Bea. So Bea's Dad is Johnny Spacecrab's old man? Works for me and despite showing all these smiling faces and spoiling about half of the movie; Randy buys this hook, line and sinker as he throws money into the air; cuts his lame attempt to channel Kenny Powers and twinkle toes out. Yawn. So we head inside the room as apparently; the movie has been filmed completely and we head to the Finerama Theater as Randy has brought out the theater it seems. So we head in front of the stage as Oscar is playing an usher and tells the babyfaces that the plan is to let Randy watch the movie; and then when the important plot point is near; they jump up and spoil it for him as everyone goes back stage except for Oscar. Escarmargot leaves a trail of slime on the way out as the doors to the theater open and out comes Randy Pincherson with a container of soda and a bowl of popcorn looking so happy. Oscar greets him and Randy calls him a fish stick and demands that he get out of his way. Oscar steps aside and shows him to his VIP seat; which Randy blows off because no one tells him what to do. Except for his Grandmother as seen in Diary Of A Lost Fish. So we begin the movie with a planet exploding and Randy is giddy. I see he liked Ideon as a kid; which is quite disturbing methinks. Randy is jumping up as we see Jumbo Shrimp act not evil in front of Bea Spacecrab on the set. Jumbo proclaims that he is going to tell us who Johnny Spacecrab's father is. I would die if it's Randy Pincherson himself; that would pay off the whole feud nicely. But they won't because then Randy will cheer for glee because he is a part of history; until he realizes that his friends were making the movie. Then they will crush his hopes and dreams. So we see Oscar with a human hand looking downright evil as he wants to crush Randy's hopes and dreams as he tries to give the signal; but his arm is so shaky at this point.
Randy is enjoying himself at his seat as he cuts a promo about how this movie speaks for him and his generation; which is fitting considering the rise of critics who like watching horrible Z-Grade movies; and this one is the Z-Grade fish version of it too. Oscar then just stops and drops his flashlight and float backstage as Milo is angry at him for not killing Randy's hopes and dreams. Oscar proclaims that he cannot do it because then he'll be no better than Randy which is stupid because Oscar has not dealt in drugs or in counterfeiting. But he has copyright infringed already so he's already no different than Randy. Or maybe not. Shellsea wants to kill Randy's hopes and dreams; but Oscar wants the movie to finish playing. Bea proclaims that there is one slight problem: They forgot to film the finish because apparently; they watched the original footage of Monster A-Go-Go. Seriously. Oscar panics for a second and then tells everyone to get their costumes and get on stage with everyone in 30 seconds which prompts Bea to kidnap her dad on the way to her kitchen while dad is doing a crossword puzzle. HAHA! This makes the finish to Bye Bye Bea Bea even better now in hindsight. So Randy is still watching the movie as Oscar floats in and puts 3D glasses on because it's in 3D. Oscar leaves as Randy hates 3D because there is no difference; and then Albert pushes the plunger down and the movie screen explodes for real. Randy absolutely pops for that moment and nearly gets murdered by sharpnel as he takes the oversell bump over the seats into the next row. Then all the babyfaces run onto the stage and we stage the worst Ideon fight ever as Escarmargot throws a plate at Koi Fish and she drops on her back knocked back. Jumbo Shrimp fake kills Shellsea and thankfully for us; no children were beheaded during this sequence. This goes on for forever as Bea wants the finish now and Oscar is still working on it. Jocktopus strangles Escarmargot and Albert together! That was awkward as Randy is as confused of this scene as I am. Bea yodels and in comes Bea's Dad with the helmet and finally trips like The Shockmaster~! Well; Bea's dad at least tripped on set instead of through it.
The helmet goes flying off revealing that it is indeed Bea's father which actually is good because it makes the Johnny Spacecrab finish believable since Dad is the father of Bea. Bea's dad is also wearing a dog collar as Bea calls out for her father and Randy is in shock. If there is one time where Randy falling for this would have been great; this is the time to do it. Oscar thinks that it's all over and he knows it is fake; but Randy jumps up and loves it. Oscar introduces Johnny to Johnny's dad and Bea's Dad proclaims that it's his daughter. LALALA. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Bea hates this as Randy is in shock that Johnny Spacecrab is a girl and that Bea's dad is Space Trooper #7. And then he cheers like he just won the Wrestlemania main event. This is just great. Randy calls this the best movie ever and didn't think the bozos in fish Hollywood could pull this off. Oscar admits that this was a local production and everyone takes off their outfits to reveal that it's just the goofball babyfaces. Randy doesn't care; he's so happy about this. Oscar has a proposition to make: Randy can see more of these movies; as long as he never spoils anything again. Randy has his pincher claw arm up and promises to never spoil anything again because he is getting more sequels of this. So; this had absolutely NOTHING to do with copyright at all! Personally; this plot was better than what I thought we were going to get. So we get another preview on the laptop and this one will be Johnny Spacecrab III. I'm guessing that this is the Be Invoked edition where everyone dies, including the viewer. We see Bea as Johnny Spacecrab in an explosion as this is Return of The Crabs. We see Randy wanting to go out with Bea. Bea refuses; explosion ensues, and that ends the episode at 10:40 approx. Not bad all things considered; as they avoided the copyright issue completely and kept it just as spoilers and nothing more. The finish was awesome and confusing at the same time; but Randy ended up being all right in spite of the thin skinned babyfaces. ** 1/2 (50%).
Rock Lobster Yeti: We begin this one with the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM (Sign: Lobster Rolls) AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Bud is wearing blue PJ's and a blue night cap; holding a candlestick with a lit candle and walking from right to left looking to be sleepy. So we zoom into the bottom tank as apparently; this is where the campsite is; and then we cut to a closeup of Coach Salmon with the flashlight shone on his kisser. We are circling a campfire as only Shellsea is so bored that she is doing her lips with lipstick; because she is a walking female stereotype. Salmon's frowning stands at 0.6 Milo frowns at this point as apparently; no one sells most of this ghost story; but once the husband hates the wife's hair; Fimberly can take no more as we discover that Salmons was talking about his girlfriend Patrisha. Salmons calls this the best school led camping trip ever for him and Dan Chovie gets the flashlight and tells a ghost story about themselves which scares Fimberly; because she's the Meg Griffin of this show. Bea wants to tell Oscar something that she has never told him before; and that causes Oscar to get all giddy inside...and then Bea proclaims that she loves camping and Oscar groans on cue. We are still in the pre-Angela phase at this point. Bea loves camping and being one with nature. That deserves a snicker in it's sheer irony as Milo comes in wearing a catcher's chest guard and a pot on his head as he slams various pots, plungers and in Shellsea's case, a football helmet (which she threatens to do something to Milo if he slams it on her head; but it fails). Salmons seems awfully amused at this little rascal; but the kids aren't. See; Milo is doing this for protection, which seems to be the same kind of protection the Jungle Aces use all the time. The Lobster Nephews are here too which is fitting because Milo shows a picture of a camp eating monster known as the Yeti Lobster. Wait; shouldn't his name be the Lobster Yeti; as per the title? And made out of rocks like a golem lobster yeti? Then again; Milo is hardly the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to this obvious payoffs. No one sells it; even Fimberly despite Milo waving the paper around.
Milo is so trying to sell the idea of a ghost story turn shoot; but no one is buying that bill of goods. You know you are a bad storyteller when even the most scariest attempt to sell the idea of a ghost stories doesn't even cause FIMBERLY to sell it. Fimberly even points out that the Yeti Lobster is not real. Oh; so that's why she was selling Salmons and Dan Chovie's stories, because they were "real". Milo claims that he is real and we HIT THE FLASHBACK to last year or more as we see the green tents set up on the grounds and the one to the left has an atteneta for television. Milo was an "Adventure Baby" as he breaks through the tent holding a seanut butter sandwich and wearing a cub scout outfit; while doing a faceplant. Milo gets up and strolls west singing to himself while holding his sandwich in the air for no reason that I can think of. And he bumps into the Yeti Lobster of course which gets his own Kirby's Epic Yarn look with jackhammer background. Now that I think about it; he looks like an odd version of the snow beast from Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer; the old Rankin-Bass version; only with lobster claws and side effects from the Wuzzle fusion. Milo bails in a panicky state and we return to reality (no, not really) and this scares me. Not because it was scary; but because Fimberly no sells the whole bill of goods. Bea is diplomatic about this at least; while Oscar blows him off for claiming that the dryer was talking to him which it wasn't. Ummm; Oscar? You just insulted Dora The Explorer's dryer. That is tantamount to you getting buried by the writers. Milo claims that he is a blood thirsty beast and Salmon agrees with him; because he is blood thirsty in our minds and in our hearts. Wait; so the soul is not blood thirsty? Salmons brings out the ukeleke and wants a campfire song. I wondered when Goofy would allow someone else to play his. And then we get growling and Milo is panicky as we see the bushes ruffle and out comes....THE EVIL ONE~! EEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK! No, not really; it's the EVIL ONE with his megaphone. The twinkletoeing gave him away anyway.
So they all blow him off as Randy is laughing while walking past Milo. Bea comes over to prove that there is no Yeti Lobster and he needs to relax. And so they float about five feet away; and they bump into the Yeti Lobster. Geez; I wonder if they'll screw up the logic of this one and have none of the other campers no sell it. The Yeti Lobster is voiced by John Waters and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Waters returned to Baltimore, where he completed his next two short films Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup.[1] These were followed by the feature-length films Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs. Waters's films would become Divine's primary star vehicles. All of Waters's early films were shot in the Baltimore area with his company of local actors, the Dreamlanders. In addition to Divine, the group included Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Susan Walsh, and others. These early films were among the first picked up for distribution by the fledgling New Line Cinema. Waters's later films premiered at Baltimore's Senator Theatre and sometimes at the Charles Theatre. Waters's early campy movies present exaggerated characters in outrageous situations with hyperbolic dialogue. Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, which he labeled the Trash Trilogy, pushed hard at the boundaries of conventional propriety and movie censorship. A particularly notorious scene from Pink Flamingos, added as a non sequitur to the film's end, featured—in one continuous take without special effects—a small dog defecating and Divine eating its feces. Waters's 1981 film Polyester starred Divine opposite former teen idol Tab Hunter. Since then, his films have become less controversial and more mainstream, although works such as Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, and Cecil B. Demented still retain his trademark inventiveness.
The film Hairspray was turned into a hit Broadway musical which swept the 2003 Tony Awards, and a film adaptation of the Broadway musical was released in theaters on July 20, 2007 to positive reviews and commercial success. Cry-Baby, itself a musical, was also converted into a Broadway musical. In 2004, the NC-17-rated A Dirty Shame marked a return to his earlier, more controversial work of the 1970s. He had a cameo in Jackass Number Two, which starred Dirty Shame co-star Johnny Knoxville, and another small role as paparazzo Pete Peters in 2004's Seed of Chucky. In 2007, he became the host ("The Groom Reaper") of 'Til Death Do Us Part, a program on America's Court TV network featuring dramatizations of marriages that soured and ended in murder. In 2008, Waters was planning to make a children's Christmas film called Fruitcake[6] starring Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey.[7] Filming was planned for November 2008,[8] but it was shelved in January 2009.[9] In 2010, Waters told the Chicago Tribune that "Independent films that cost $5 million are very hard to get made. I sold the idea, got a development deal, got paid a great salary to write it—and now the company is no longer around, which is the case with many independent film companies these days."[10] Waters has been known to create characters with alliterated names for his films including Corny Collins, Cuddles Kovinsky, Donald and Donna Dasher, Dawn Davenport, Fat F**k Frank, Francine Fishpaw, Link Larkin, Motormouth Maybelle, Mole McHenry, Penny and Prudy Pingleton, Ramona Ricketts, Sandy Sandstone, Sylvia Stickles, Todd Tomorrow, Tracy Turnblad, Ursula Udders, Wade Walker, and Wanda Woodwar. Since the early 1990s, Waters has been making photo-based artwork and installations that have been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums. In 2004, the New Museum in NYC presented a retrospective of his artwork curated by Marvin Heiferman and Lisa Phillips. His most recent exhibition was Rear Projection in April, 2009, at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York and the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. Waters has been represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland since 2002.[11]
Waters's pieces are often comical, such as Rush (2009), a super-sized, tipped-over bottle of poppers (nitrite inhalants) and Hardy Har (2006), a photograph of flowers that squirts water at anyone who traverses a taped line on the floor. Waters has characterized his art as conceptual, saying that “the craft is not the issue here. The idea is. And the presentation."[12He has had his fan mail delivered to Atomic Books, an independent bookstore in Baltimore, for over 20 years. Puffing constantly on a cigarette, Waters appeared in a short film shown in film art houses announcing that "no smoking" is permitted in the theaters. This short spot was filmed by Waters for the Nuart Theatre (a Landmark Theater) in West Los Angeles, California, in appreciation to the theater for showing Pink Flamingos for many years. It is shown immediately before any of his films, and before the midnight movie showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Waters has since quit smoking himself. He played a minister in Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, which was directed by one of his idols, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and is a sequel to one of his favorite exploitation films. Waters is also a board member of Maryland Film Festival, and has selected and hosted one favorite feature film within each Maryland Film Festival since its launch in 1999. Waters' picks have ranged from Joseph Losey's Boom! to Gaspar Noé's I Stand Alone. So yeah; he's a Z-Grade movie producer voicing a Z-Grade character. Lovely. He began his career as the producer of Hag In A Black Leather Jacket in 1964. Fish Hooks is his DTVA debut and he also appeared on Mickey Mouse as an additional voice. Suburban Gothic (Cornelius) is his most recent credit. He has 30 acting credits, 144 Self credits, 20 writing credits, 17 directing credits, 11 producer credits, 9 Cinematographer, and eight Editor credits to his resume. Bea and Milo panic and bail in that order; and thankfully, everyone sees it and sells it. Clamantha calling him the Spaghetti monster and plops her head in the sand.
Then everyone runs away about 20-50 feet and then stop as Salmon calls this good cardo. Riiigggghhhhhtttttt Salmons; you ran 50 feet away from the campsite. Shellsea blows it off because she was almost eaten. Clamantha does the most woody acting on being scared before cuddling next to Oscar who is not happy with these affairs. He keeps pushing Clamantha away; but it takes about three pushes before she leaves for good as Oscar cannot believe that Milo got it right for a change. Bea tries to look around; but the babyface realize that Milo is nowhere to be found when we zoom out to the sky shot. So we cut to Milo with a wooden stick calling for the babyfaces from somewhere in the woods; but no luck. Milo proclaims that he must stay focus if he wants to find his friends and his stomach is growling like a Backyardigan after doing a 22 minute role playing episode. Milo then notices something glowing inside a tree; and he calls it the honey tree. So Milo goes over to the HONEY TREE OF DOOM and tries to get the honey and eats a glob. He pushes in for more; and then he's stuck like Winnie The Pooh in the classic Disney cartoons of the 1960's. Oh bother; why do people still insist the old cartoons are out of style, when they are stealing from the old cartoons anyway?! Milo wiggles his ass for a while to amuse me (and annoy the old farts) as we return to the campsite and zoom in to the bushes as Bea and Bo Gregory pop from the bushes. That was awkward. Everyone follows as Albert wonders if Milo has been caught; which causes Jumbo Shrimp to use his thumb to feel the air; and deduces that he probably is. Then we get an obvious logic break: there are apple seeds on the ground and there is a trail left from the campsite. Oscar deduces that it's because Milo is always covered in apple seeds; despite the fact that we never saw Milo do this before. Randy HAS to be behind this crap. And since we never see Randy cheering with the other babyfaces; I'm certain that he's behind this.
So we head back to the honey tree as Milo is still stuck and shaking his ass to amuse me. Milo proclaims that this is hopeless and drowns his sorrows in honey which is funny. Then out of the bushes comes some growling and a crab claw pops Milo out of the honey tree. Milo thinks he is safe; and then turns around and screams. This goes on for a long while as Milo pants for a bit in the middle before screaming again. Yeah; Milo is scared, just bail now. Milo tries to bail stage left; but runs into some trees which apparently have thorns on them because his fin foot gets a thorn and Milo falls on his ass in the process. Lobster Yeti comes down with the CRAB CLAW OF DEATH; and considering the bad growling by the Lobster Yeti; I was half expecting Randy to pop from the Yeti and mock him; but he takes the thorn out of Milo's fin foot and then bandages it with leaves. Then he takes tree branches and pops them in the honey tree. He brings them out and gives one to Milo and Milo is shocked and happy because the Yeti Lobster is not scary after all. He's just misunderstood like him as they lick and Milo asks if he is going to be eaten and the monster shakes his head as he goes over to a thorny tree and uses it as a back scratcher. Well; this is one decent Lobster Yeti at least. Milo claims that he knows how it feels to have an itchy back and asks what Lobster Yeti does for fun and the Lobster Yeti claws and yells as a butterfly flies in because it's a segueway to the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM as we put our arms in the air. And march as if they don't care. Go Yeti! Go Yeti! GO! Getting buried in an apple tomb when they shake and bump a tree in that order! Blowing cotton puffs for fun! Marching above a water fall with a log on the bridge! That's all as we return to the scene where the pot and honey are left as the babyfaces are surrounding the evidence and Bea does the first OMG of the episode as the babyfaces are shocked and horrified because Milo was covered in a honey glaze and eaten by the Lobster Yeti. No, not quite eaten as Shellsea thinks that there will be leftover. What a psychopath this Shellsea is?!
Bea then puts on the warpaint as she is pissed off...in bed. POW! OUCH! Ummmm... Bea proclaims that she is going to save Milo; or avenge his death as the other babyfaces cheer. So we scene change as Milo and Lobster Yeti are floating in the woods having a gay old time. Milo then realizes that this is the same yeti who stole his sandwich and LY decides to reveal the bushes to show Milo that he creates art with food. And most of it is actually tasteful. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He then shows some abstract art that looks like Milo as he used his sandwich as part of the body. I realize that perishable foods make no sense; but I can suspend my disbelief for this; compared to the upcoming Recess movie. Oh lord; that movie. Milo notices that he did a statue of the LY in potato salad and a couple of suckers. HAHA! Now; if you have watched Jim Cornette for years; while these items are not really birthday cakes, they are still considered trophies (of food). When those get involved; you can bet your bottom dollar that they'll all be smashed by Bea and company because Bea is such an asshole. Although; this time, this one is somewhat understandable. Sadly; that is not going to happen either as I will discover. So LY is lonely and Milo wants him to meet his friends as they walk out from the bushes. Then Oscar pops from the bushes with his mates all in warpaint and Milo waves hello. Bea proclaims that they are alive; but the LY is dead as everyone charges. Milo tries to wave it off; but no dice as LY grabs him and they bail stage left. Clamantha spits pearls and Salmon cuts a promo and yells which is funny. So they go to the cliff of doom; and I wish they would invoke the "Smashing The Trophy" rule now. Bea charges in; but trips on the thorn bush and her fin foot has a thorn in it. LY comes down as Oscar blocks Bea. Milo tries to come in to stop it and explain that LY is cool. LY goes over to Bea, sweating; and removes the thorn and bandages it all in one fell swoop. Bea is amazed by this as Salmon is angry because he's confused about getting eaten.
Milo assures Salmons that the Lobster Yeti is a cool beast; and that only has angry face; which makes no sense because he's clearly frowning when they go to the jackhammer background. Ummm; Shellsea is the one who has the angry face. At least I now see where Milo got his frowning faces from and thank the lord for small favors because no one can emote frowning like Milo. Milo points out that you cannot judge someone which is funny considering that Milo did the same thing earlier in the episode! Everyone is stunned as Bea wants to go home now. So we scene change to the campsite as everyone is in the bus waving goodbye to the Rock Lobster Yeti and Bea does apologize for trying to kill it. Good for her! Milo yells that he'll write to him everyday as the bus leaves stage right. Lobster Yeti takes some peanut butter and goes stage left as he complete his latest masterpiece which is a food statue of his new friends with it saying friends on it, similar to the jackhammer background they used at the end of some episodes. Now this one is great and that ends the episode at 10:40 approx. A really good episode; which could have been better if Randy Pincherson got eaten because he was written out completely after scaring them at the beginning of the episode. Oh well. **** (80%).
Fish At Work: We begin this one with the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM (Sign: Executive Decisions) as we see Bud doing cartwheels while wearing all red and he crashes off screen with wussy bumps stage right. Pfft. Whatever. So we head to the Freshwater Mall as Bea enters the mall with an apron and grabs a balloon and gives it back to Dan and Anne Chovie; and they are happy. So then we see a shop open called the Secret Portal as Albert Glass and Jumbo Shrimp come out with cardboard. Wait a second?! They own a shop and they are 14 years old?! Bea is the assistant assistant assistant manger (shown on her purple name tag) and she puts on a pretzel hat. So; they actually have jobs now?! TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM ensues as Bea is singing about getting a promotion and nothing is going to stop her from getting it because it's not due to a lack of trying. I beg to differ Bea; if your singing is any indication of anything. Randy is on a scooter which looks awfully paper thin and he blows off Bea; but Bea doesn't care because she's singing see. She's not working at Taco Face which we see the vendors are Fimberly and Escarmargot. Oooookkkkkaaaayyyyyy. So we head to Soggy's Pretzels as we see Oscar at the counter with his goofy hat on while Milo is dressed like a pretzel. HAHA! No one knows how to make me laugh like Milo dressing up as kick ass food items. So Bea floats over and checks in as she's happy because she can spend time with her friends while working. Oscar made a pretzel showing him and Bea in love of course. Milo has eaten all the samples; so he clear off some of them on the counter and floats off. Shellsea arrives with purple shopping bags as Bea greets her and asks if she wants a pretzel and Shellsea looks mean as we see Oscar trying to make a pretzel; but failing badly and sweating on top of it. So Shellsea no sells and leaves as we discover that Barb is watching on from the mall center for no reason and not looking amused at all. So then we see Milo trying to give out free samples; but his costume is causing a lot of tables flipping and fishes dropping; including Doctor Frog. I think you know who is back; don't ya?
Doctor Frog proclaims that he'll never eat pretzels if his life depended on it; and now Barb is angry and goes over to Bea Goldfishburg and wants her in the office right now. I now discover that she is the owner of this joint. Bea goes over to the goofballs and thinks this is the time for a promotion. Memo to Bea: If your boss is angry with teeth grinding; it's not a promotion; it's a termination. Milo is winking at her and tells him to go girl. Bea walks into the office as she greets the boss the same way as she greets her friends. This is not a good idea Bea. Barb gets in her face and tells her that she has a problem in that the business is underperforming as Bea gasps. Actually Barb; you have two problems: (1) Your business is going downhill; and (2) You can barely squeeze into a desk and chair properly. Bea asks if she's fired and Barb proclaims that she is not and she got the promotion. Wait; she got the promotion already? That makes no sense. Barb is supposed to tell Bea that if she fires one of the slackers; then she can have her promotion. That way; Bea has a difficult decision to make and therefore has to choose between the promotion or her friends. That's how you build sympathy heat for her while at the same time; force her to look like an asshole. Here; she's already got the promotion so the episode is automatically over before it begins so she's automatically an asshole. Why should anyone care about Bea now that she got the power already and barely three minutes into the episode? Bea panics like a teenage girl and while I'm on a roll here: Why would Barb ever rehire Bea after she screwed Barb in Bea Becomes An Adult Fish and Merry Fishmas Milo? At least in Employee Discount; Milo and Oscar got the job done with Barb as a manager of the store; although they needed to commit highway robbery on Mr. Baldwin to get the sale; but whatever. Barb claims that only one of them will be fired because one slacker is stress relief for her; but two slackers are killing her business so she's promoting her in order to get one of them fired. They leave the office as Barb leaves the store proclaiming that she'll make a good decision; with broken English ala Magicia Despell.
So we scene change to Carla's Secrets as they are having a big shoe sale as the banner reads in the front window. So we head inside as Shellsea is shopping for shoes (despite not wearing any) as Bea sits down asking Shellsea what she is going to do. She doesn't want to fire one of them and Shellsea's response is: fire both of them and then hire a slacker that is cute; complete with the DISCO JACKHAMMER OF AWESOMENESS~! I'm guessing that she's implying for Bea to hire Shellsea; but she didn't like the store, so that makes no sense. It's more rational than being promoted three minutes into the episode though. So we scene change to Milo and Oscar playing with the pretzel machine while giggling; as Bea watched on from outside. Ummm; yeah, Shellsea's plan makes much more sense now. Bea then gets the Krackpotkin plan and decides that she'll train them so they won't be slackers and Barb won't have to force Bea's hand. Now; the problem with this is: Barb has worked with Oscar and Milo before in Employee Discount and they looked fine in there. Milo and Oscar show their diary whipped cheese topping as they ask how the talk went with Barb; and Bea proclaims that she got the promotion, but this is a tough job as assistant assistant manager; as she goes to a table and proclaims that if she cannot prove that the business is going well; she'll be fired. Oscar proclaims that he will not let this happen and they'll do whatever it takes. Bea is happy and is going to train them into lean, productive machines...in bed. POW! OUCH! Ummm... So we have Bea ordering to create a pickle pepper pretzel without sweating on it and Oscar is nervous. So Oscar puts peppers on it and rolls the pretzel; and then Angela waves hello. Oscar waves back and sweats. What a shocker?! He seriously needs to do something about that sweating problem. Bea orders Oscar's face to cough those pours and they sell and he no longer sweats. Is this Bea any different from the normal Bea? Ummmmmmm...Nope!
So Oscar creates the pretzel successfully; and then his armpits sweat as we get the "do nothing of note and see if the kids laugh it it spot" and then we spray 100 times more liquid than Oscar has right into Bea's face. Yeah; it's the old Fanboy & Chum Chum spot where they spit dozens of times more liquid (or even more than that) than they had in their entire bodies. Oscar claims that he cannot control it because it's genetic and Bea calls him a lost cause. Yeah; he made a pretzel successfully and he could have wrapped it up in plastic and made it so that he could sweat later and not get any on the pretzel. So Bea goes over to Milo who I should point out has apparently got a chunk eaten out of his pretzel gear. So we get one of the more insulting spots Bea has ever done: making an obstacle course for Milo with senior citizens and two of them are tied against the rotary turner which allow you to enter the building. By the way; on an unrelated note, because I do not want to scream how stupid and offensive this is, is that I finally got my membership and can access the D23.com website, literally weeks after I already saw the TaleSpin backgrounds. Which is hilarious because there was one sketch from TaleSpin in one of the DA articles that no one saw but me. It involved some face sketches of pre-production villains. So the rules of engagement is to go over to Taco Face and give some samples to Escarmargot and Fimberly without running any of the senior citizens over. I should point out two things: (1) this makes the Granama Games organization look really dispicable in hindsight and (2) Fimberly's giddyness means that she is clearly going to take a bump because you see; in this show, Fimberly is only useful for the writers to play with because they are lazy. I could write five angles for Fimberly already. I'll explain those angles one day and not in this rant. Fimberly touches Escarmargot's slime and mistakes it for gucamule and eats it. That was unusual gross out humor for this show (usually; it's a lot more implied than Kick Buttowski is at least) and then spits it out. Yeah; that was pointless. So Bea pushes him forward as Milo dodges all successfully.
So then one of the grandma's dropped her blue walking stick; and Milo just has to turn around to help her because she's a Grandma; and one of the senior citizen gets whacked in the face with the pretzel costume and goes sailing. Normally; Milo moments are funny, but when Bea is trying to get Milo to do it; it's kind of sad. Milo apologizes and knocks down everyone like dominoes. I shake my head in disbelief that the writers (or the kids for that matter) think this is funny. The one with the walker goes down in a heap and claims that it's only a clumsy pretzel. Bea panics and floats away in a scream; and she wants a sign and screams that this is not working. No?! Really?! Bea float over to the Secret Portal and there is a help wanted poster. Bea sees this as her next Krackpotkin plan which is to have them hate being at Soggy's that they will quit and work for the Secret Portal. So she finda a tree plant near the store; and tears the greens off and makes her hair look like Oscar's. So we head inside and we see Albert, Jumbo Shrimp and about 20 nerds; including two ninjas. Bea almost blows her cover; but claims that she is Oscar; and Jumbo Shrimp buys it hook, line and sinker as Bea shows off his resume. Jumbo Shrimp hires "Oscar" on the spot and Bea wants to leave for a break; but Jumbo wants her to put some figurines on the shelf before hand. Bea takes the box and places figurines on the shelves. Nothing out of the ordinary right? Well; you see, nerds are fragile creatures who snap at the sight of any imperfection and one of the customers whistles by and panics. Now at first; I thought he was pointing at something off-screen as I discover that the fish's name is Nappy or Yappy. Got to be Yappy; or the writers are racist. Albert comes over to consult him and we discover that the green ninja figurine was put in the same section as the giants section. The nerds are shocked and horrified as Bea is nervous. It's obvious that it's not Oscar because he should be sweating by now.
See; the ninja is ten feet tall; but he is not a giant. Not from what reality tells you Jumbo Shrimp; but who am I to judge?! I'm not into geeky stuff like collecting figurines. I collect dorkish stuff like DVD sets and then mock them on the internet. Might as well be honest about it. Bea ribs Albert a good one which is a really dumb idea when Oscar is supposed to know better. I'm going to say Bea gets fired and kicked out of the store after she either blows her cover or they blow her cover. Same result. The nerds get mad and they chase Bea out of the store...Then Bea grabs a box of tacos from Fimberly's arm who was supposed to give it to the pink squid like creature with the propeller hat and Bea throws it in the nerd's face. Yes; she is committing felonous assault with tacos. Remember a time when smacking someone with her hair was cool? Ancient history now! Then; the nerd go to the guy who got assaulted with nachos and they eat off his face as if nothing had happened. Bea floats around claiming that this was a disaster and so she decides to find Milo a job and dresses up as the worst Milo ever as she goes into the Mall Job's office and walks through the front door to the office of the supervisor looking like a complete unsympatheic fool. The old guy at the desk (who has pink skin; but is middle aged and boring) asks about his qualifcations. Personally; I was hoping that Bea would show Milo's resume, because that would be a riot to read. Belio sweats like Oscar (effectively blowing her cover) and eats an apple out of nowhere, for no reason and plays a mean kazoo as she spits while cosplaying which is pointless. Bea then shakes her ass and dance; and at this point, I was hoping the real Milo would show up and chase her out of the building. The old man apologizes and tells her that she's a couple minutes too late as we pan over to Apple Kazoo Party as we see Lonnie playing the kazoo while eating apples and shaking his ass. Yes; we have Barb and Lonnie from Banned Band making cameos; the two most annoying characters in all of Fish Hooks; who are not named Bea or Randy Pincherson. So she gets kicked out of the office (with a pink human foot)...
...and we cut to Soggy's Pretzels as Milo's costume is eaten up 3/4's of the way as Oscar asks about the costume and Milo claims that he ate it. Oscar asks if it's made of pretzel and Milo is not sure as Bea bounces off the floor like a super ball. HAHA! FINALLY! A good spot in this episode. When Bea has to bump like Kick Buttowski on speed to get over; then this episode sucks. Oscar and Milo wave to "Milo" and then catch themselves as Bea drops on the floor; and Shellsea arrives blowing off a store for lying about some three week sale no one cares about. Bea panics and she gets a twitch in her eye while stammering like an idiot on cue when she's face to face with Shellsea. Shellsea then states that she hasn't fired them yet which causes Oscar and Milo to stammer as Shellsea finds about 15 ways to tell Bea to fire them; and Bea blows her off. Shellsea leaves as Oscar and Milo walk in and they are shocked, horrified and angry that Bea has given them their marching orders. Milo even calls Bea "woman" at one point; which I thought was banned in the new Disney; for obvious reasons. Bea stammers and then proclaims that she has had enough; and is going to make this right, as she throws her apron down with her pretzel hat and she wants to quit. Now this would have been a lot better if she wasn't given the promotion to begin with. Barb steps in and calls out Bea asking for her decision because she still sees two slackers. Bea is about to have herself fired; but Oscar steps in and proclaims that Bea fired her. Milo cuts him off and states that Bea fired him instead. Oscar and Milo argue and then we get a wicked **** fight. Now this just made the episode for me; preventing a certain DUD for sure. They praise each other while trying to MURDER each other's asses. Bea breaks it up and proclaims that she has made her decision and she points the finger...at Barb and fires her. Wouldn't it make sense to have Bea fire herself and her friends leaving Barb with no one to hire and her business goes under? It's not like Barb is male or anything; Barb is female, so it doesn't violate the sexist rule at all. Bea firing Barb makes absolutely no sense and even Barb is in shock.
Bea goes over and strips Barb of her uniform which creates a second uniform; which Barb is pissed off and she points out that she is the boss and cannot be fired so she fires all three of them and yells at them to never come to her store again. Well good; that is the correct booking decision and it makes sense. That's what Bea gets for trying to change the world and we head to Taco face as Bea, Oscar, Milo, Fimberly and Escarmargot are in taco suits staring at the denizens and this goes on forever. Bea claims that they are working together and Milo blows it off because he hates part time jobs. More music and doing nothing as this is probably the dumbest attempt of "do nothing of note and see if the kids laugh at it" spot. And probably the longest as that ends the episode and season 2 at 10:40 approx. What a dumb episode this was?! The finish was awesome; the booking for the finish was great, but the ending...whatever turns you writers on I guess. ** (40%).
THE REVIEW LINE
So we got a middling one; a good one and a below average one to end season two at last! There's not much to say about Spoiler Alert: Randy spoils a movie; they make a sequel, they want to spoil the movie on Randy; but Oscar's conscience gets in the way; they do a live action finish to the movie, Randy loves it and Randy agrees to not spoil movies again in exchange for sequels to future movies. Yeah; the heel won here and Oscar gets a concession. This was perfectly fine to me because I was ready to give negative stars to this since I read that it was the "copyright" episode; and nothing related to that ever showed up. That is a win to me. Just an average episode. Fish At Work was not good as Bea's attempts to get Oscar and Milo to shape up; or in different jobs was a disaster or incredibly insulting to me (cf. the senior citizen obstacle course). Plus; she got the promotion from the start; so there was no sympathy for her because she succeeded while doing nothing. It only made her look like an asshole and a fool on top of it. Lonnie was pointless and the gross out jokes were in more force than usual. I will say that this episode could have been worse if it wasn't for the finish which was booked correctly and had a wicked fight. Barb thankfully; brought some sense into Bea's incredibly dumb attempt to fire Barb; but the Taco Face ending was pointless and it went on forever for no reason and it wasn't funny at all. Rock Lobster Yeti was really great; save a lame cliff finish which should have involved them destroying Lobster Yeti's statues. No one is a greater teacher to Milo when it comes to frowning than the Lobster Yeti. This monster can frown (mistaken for an angry face by Milo). Overall; the end of season 2 saw three different qualities of episodes all rolled into one single package.
So that ends Fish Hooks season two! I'm not going to bother giving the thumbs scale for season two alone because it's so confusing to me. So I'll give the thumbs scale for the show up to this point: 19 thumbs up, 18 thumbs down and 52 thumbs in the middle after 89 episodes. That is a vast improvement from the first 39 episodes of season one. There were also 2 ***** episodes and a few more that came close. Now I do plan to rant on season three of this show; but I'm going to hold that off until Christmas because I need a long vacation from the rant race. I have one more rant to do; which is Recess: School's Out which will take a long time to complete since it is 84 minutes long. Personally; Fish Hooks might be dead to me, but it doesn't offend me nearly as much as Quack Pack did; nor even Recess. Sure; Bea's obstacle course in the final short of season two was insulting; but it's no more insulting than the stuff they usually do. At least this Christmas should be great since I'll be doing the remaining Kick Buttowski episodes in some form; along with the remainder of the Fish Hooks episodes from season three since the payoff to the Baldwin/Lips angle should be awesome. Don't worry; the writers do have enough sense to actually pay off Mr. Baldwin's baby, which is really the only angle left that makes watching this show worth it.
In the end; Fish Hooks was a fine series, but compared to Phineas & Ferb and TaleSpin; it's a nothing show to me. Those two shows are shows that I will watch for years to come even after Phineas & Ferb stops being profitable to Disney; and after TaleSpin stopped being something almost 25 years ago. Yeah; we are closing in on the 25 Years Of Spin. No plans have been announced for that celebration; but I do plan to do a lot of editing of the 20 Years of Spin stuff; tributes and other stuff. But that is two years away as 2014 will be the start of Phineas & Ferb as they are going to do it all. Sadly; I cannot do all of their episodes, but I can certainly do the Mission Marvel episode as I got that one on DVD. I just have to do the prep work for it. Right now; I'm planning to do the prep work sometime after December 20th. So......
Thumbs in the middle for Spoiler Alert, thumbs up for Rock Lobster Yeti and thumbs down for Fish At Work and I'll see you next time.