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Gravity Falls: Headhunters
Reviewed: 10/25/2014
Could Someone Please Hunt For A Head Of A Writer With A Clue?
Well; we have reached the halfway point of the first DVD set of this show and so far it has been whiplash results in one episode being almost perfect and then one which was almost a thumbs down for me. So our next episode up for bids involves wax figures coming to life and somehow beheading a wax figure of Stan. This does not sound good; however, TaleSpin did a lot of these nonsensical episodes and came out smelling roses; so let's rant on shall we...?!
Headhunters is written by Alex "Clamantha" Hirsch and Aury Wallington. Storyboards were done by Niki Yang, Tyler Chen and Erik Fountain; while direction is done by John Aoshima. Aury Wallington's resume: The Pest in 1997; and then Simply Irresistible, Sex & The City, Tower Prep, Dead On Page Six, DialStar, Veronica Mars, Courting Alex, Christmas Cupid, Nearlyweds, Jinx and this show. That's it. The animation is done by Digital Emation Inc. which I have never hard of before.
We begin this one at the Mystery Shack outside and then inside the living room (which I notice has some crumbling wallpaper and the oldest giant screen television in captivity.). Dipper is watching television while eating popcorn; while Mabel is knitting wearing a aqua blue sweater with headband and on the front of the sweater there is a strawberry. Some male voice proclaims to someone on the television that their services will no longer be required. I'm sorry if I feel distracted because Nintendo released a Smash Brothers direct and the Wii U version has been on my mind for the last couple of days, so if I miss anything; that's why. Mabel slaps Dipper as we see on the television that it's a police officer in the sewer and there is a telephone box that looks like a red royalty version of the TARDIS. Someone is dead inside as the officer claims that this is an accident. This show is an accident because it's great for old farts like me...somehow! Then we zoom out and a duck with Sherlock Holmes comes out quacking and this has the subtitle on the bottom in white letters which reads: Accident, Constable? Or is it, murder?! Constable is in shock and then we get the logo as the show is called Duck-Tective with web foot and green banner. The announcer proclaims that they'll return after these messages. The duck-tective is Alex Hirsch doing quacking sounds. Was Frank Welker too expensive to do animal vocals now? Mabel drops her knitting stuff and does the anime female holding face pose saying that this duck is a genius. Dipper points out that duck-tective has the advantage of being close to the ground. Mabel mocks Dipper for claiming that he can outwit a duck; and Dipper claims that he has keen powers of observation. I think Dipper is confused paranoia with observation. So he proves it by sniffing the air; which is supposed to be Mabel's breath and apparently Mabel ate a tube of toothpaste; which is the sparkly light blue kind complete with a yellow star and purple dots, as shown in Mabel's mouth.
Here's some advice writers of the world: Eating a tube of toothpaste is a bad idea. While a small dab on a toothbrush works wonders; eating a tube of it will make even an adult sick. Being sick is not funny. Then Soos arrives with a broom (this show does having a pacing problem in which I have a dozen lines, and not even a minute into this thing.) telling us that he found something amazing. Does it involve wax? Because if it does, I'm not interested. Dipper thinks it's buried treasure; causing Mabel to play punch him because she was thinking along those lines. This is the new Disney version of TaleSpin. GREAT! So we head into the hallways and while the style is clearly new Disney; the floor painters actually gave the wooden floor some wood grain. Baby steps everyone, baby steps! Soos found a secret door behind the wallpaper wall; which is stupid because what was the knob for? To symbolize what Grunkle Stan has become. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmmm... Soos claims that it's super bonkers creepy (someone is warning me about Bonkers about 20 years too late); as I notice that Star is written in black letters on the back of his shirt. Why? I have no idea. They open the door which has cobwebs and there is a storage room containing wax figures standing upright. One of them looks like the Queen Of England, one looks like Richard Nixon, one looks like Robin Hood, one of them is a detective, one of them looks like Larry King, one of them looks like Colio, and the remaining three I don't have a clue from the first glance. Dipper and Mabel are in awe as Soos shines the flashlight on some of them. One of them is William Shakespere, the detective is Sherlock Holmes who actually was allowed to keep his smoking pipe. AWESOME! One of them look like ax-murderer Lizzie Borden, one of them looks like a colorful version of Genghis Khan. Come to think of it; they have stands and look like trophies from Smash Brothers if Nintendo used public domain figures instead of their own IP.
So Dipper shines the flashlight and it's Stan in his underwear causing the kids to scream. Dipper "confuses" him with a wax figure and Stan waves hello. Then the kids simply scream and bail. Man; that spot is stupid and even more so considering what happens later on. Then we HIT THE OPENING~! So we head back inside the storage closet and the light is fully on now as Stan is with the kids showing off his wax museum figures. Stan explains that this is the Gravity Falls Wax Museum...stuff. Stan claims that it was the most popular attraction before he forgot about it later. Geez; I wonder why? Stan does insult me a bit by calling Larry King a goblin man; which at least gives Dipper the creeps. Stan is about to show wax Abe Lincoln which is his personal favorite; but the window is open and the figure has melted into a steamy pile of goo. Stan demands to know who opened the blinds and he blames Wax John Wikles Booth which we never see, so I assume that he's talking about the ghost of John Wilkes Booth (who was the one who killed Abe in real life by the way). He picks some of the wax with his finger and asks how do you fix a wax figure? I'll try to find the How It's Made wax figure episode if there is one and then get back to you on that one. Mabel comes in and wants to see Stan smile. Stan no sells so Mabel pokes him in the mouth, ear, nose and right eye which Stan only sells the eye and the selling is terrible. Mabel then proclaims that she'll make a new wax figure out of this thing which Stan is surprised at. Mabel claims that she is an arts and crafts master; which makes me smile wide. She also shows out of nowhere, a glue gun stuck to her arm which she cannot shake off. Stan proclaims that he loves Mabel's gumption; which Mabel says thank you despite having no idea what it means. It means guts Mabel. Okay? So we head inside the attic room where Dipper was in the first episode as Mabel is sitting in front of a block of wax while Dipper comes in drinking Pitt soda with the pink can of love. Mabel surprises him and makes Dipper gag; and shows off a princess/horse version of Zeromus EG on the notepad. Only the horse head is the wiener see. Yeah.
Dipper suggests that she use something from real life; so Mabel draws a whaffle with arms on the notepad looking angry, because in America you can only sell cute characters if they are angry on the box. Dipper suggest someone in the family; which Stan comes in and stands on a soapbox (out of nowhere) as heavenly light and sound shine on him. Stan was wearing his green boxers; he's looking for his pants. Mabel turns around to the hard camera and with her eyes of kawaii, she thanks the muse for working in mysterious ways. So yes; god is still not allowed on the show. Dipper is not amused as Stan asks why Mabel is looking at the ceiling for no reason. So then we hit the montage! Mabel has a switchblade like sledgehammer (Take that Triple H!); and there is not much to say about it other than a lot of jump cuts and Mabel tasting the purple paint for no reason. She better have used non-toxic paint; or that could be a problem. So after about a dozen shavings and a small splatter on her artist vest of tools; the work is done. We zoom out as Mabel admires the figure which is clearly Stan (check the black suit; I'm not fooled), and Soos has a bucket of pink glitter on her person. So Mabel takes the bucket and pours glitter all over the figure as Stan comes in asking for socks. Stan sees the figure and drops on his ass in shock and fear as he backpedals about ten feet. Apparently; Mabel got some extra glitter on her vest as she asks Stan what he thinks. Stan thinks the whole operation is back in business. So we then get a scene of the cars enterting Gravity Falls and we see on stage some of the wax figures (Stan (under a cover), and they position Richard Nixon in front of the podium. HAHA! The denizens are lined up in front of a table with Wendy and Dipper taking donations of cash for admission. Closeup of the table reveals "will call" as Wendy and Dipper have a lovely conversation about being bribed into this ordeal as they show off dollar bills and do the evil giggle at each other. So Gosalyn-ish of you, you two! So we get organ pipe music as Toby Determined is in the audience; and Mabel has somehow teleported on stage next to Stan with her looking as cute as humanly possible.
Stan arrives on stage who is not cute. He goes to the podium inbetween a crooked president and an axe-murderer. That was awkward. He coughs to annoy me; and we have to do the microphone pat spot to harm everyone's ears. Old Man McGucket and his son are in the audience along with Hank and his family. Stan's sexist attitude rears his ugly head again as he orders the ladies with are staring at him with flies all around to control themselves. So Stan talks about himself looking like the lowest rent Drake Mallard you can find and uncovers the hidden wax figure as it's Stan with a lot of glitter. To the animators: Subtley is your friend, use it well. Soos is playing fanfare music on his electronic keyboard piano which also contains the wackiest heat machine this side of WCW. Crowd is absolutely dead with clapping last seen in many TNA events. Stan don't care as he introduces Mabel as Mabelangelo. That made me laugh. She corrects him (which is funny because Stan was saying that name as a praise; not an insult) as she takes the microphone and proclaims that she did it herself and it's covered in her blood, sweat, tears and other fuilds. One of them I assume is glitter because we did see glitter poured on the figure earlier. Crowd is repulsed by that and Mabel giggles like she got them. Mabel is awesome! So Mabel decides to take questions and answers and up pops Old Man McGucket the local kook. Yes; this old geezer actually said that he's the local kook. I then notice a bald dark skinned man wearing goggles in the background looking at a shoe. He seems to be in a ranger outfit; san hat. As McGucket is speaking, he simply walks off and we never see him again. At least in theory. Basically; he thinks the wax figures will come alive and Mabel assures him that they will live on. They aren't even pretending to hide the main plot of this story now. Next up is Toby Determined with absolutely nothing of note to say; while sitting in a white chair inbetween the son of McGucket and a black man with a bowling shape nose. Stan blows him off for using a turkey baster as a microphone; which is one of the first funny moments Stan has had in this series. Well done.
Then we have a female reporter stand up and declare herself a real reporter with a real microphone and a real sense of boredom in her voice. She is known as Shandra Jimenez which is basically a cartoon version of the reporter Cathy Jones played in This Hour Has 22 Minutes. She complains about Stan's latest fraud scheme which is to offer free pizza with admission to the event which she shows a piece of white paper with a pizza with Stan's hat on saying Free Pizza with an asterisk which means with admission. The denizens get angry and Stan claims that it was a typo and waves goodbye and disappears in a puff of smoke like the con-man that he is. The denizens are pissed off as Stan somehow runs to the cash box and runs away with it as the money goes flying. Manly Dan is not so manly this week as the pillar holding the sign is punched at; but it doesn't go down and flatten him. So everyone leaves after some throws chairs; and the fattest guy looks depressed as he leaves and he has a "Free Pizza" t-shirt which contains a pizza in front in orange. Huh. Mabel went over to the table with Dipper and Wendy as she sezs that this went well. In terms of entertainment; she's 50% correct. So we cut to a shot of the moon AFTER HAPPY HOUR (of course it's after dark) and then a pan shot to the Mystery Shack; and then inside the living room with a closeup shot of the money Stan is rubbing. The wax version of Stan is sitting on the chair as Mabel is wiping it down. Stan proclaims that he owes this con to one person and Mabel thinks it's her; but Stan owes it to Wax Stan. HAHA! Mabel play punches him and Stan remembers to rub her hair and call her a little germlin, thanking her for her work. That's even more subtle than the golden age cartoons; so that is a uber-win for modern cartoons. See what happens when you are subtle?! So Stan tells Dipper (who teleported out of nowhere behind Mabel) and Mabel to wash up because they are fleecing more rubes tomorrow. Hopefully; they can AFFORD the free pizza offer now! Mabel and Dipper walk off as Stan blows off the kids and admires his wax figure.
Then we show footage of Duck-tective as the crook is tied up as the constable and the duck-tective are exchanging notes (which would be a riot in itself) as the constable proclaims that the duck-tective really "quacked" up the case pointing at him and the duck quacks which translates to " Don't patronize me!". I love real quacks that aren't supposed to be real quacks. Oh great; now I'm sounding like duck-tective. That's horrifying. Stan laughs it up and leaves to go use the toilet (he said he's using the john); and then asks if Wax Stan would like to join him. Wax Stan no sells and Stan loves it and leaves. So we get outdoor shots of wolves howling, objects fluttering in the wind; and then cut to inside the bathroom with Mabel and Dipper brushing their teeth. Yes; there is a bottle of eyeballs on the desk to the right, why do you ask? Mabel asks if they want to do a toothbrush race; and then we hear Stan screaming NO three times. Sadly; Chico is much better than you Stan as the kids come down to the living room and he yells that Wax Stan has been murdered as Wax Stan is lying on the floor with it's head cut off. We hear the grandfather clock chimed as we get the reverse version of the martial arts zoom in and Mabel faints in the most undramatic way possible. That is the second time I have heard the word murder in the same episode of a DTVA show. So we head outside as the goat is eating grass and we hear police radio and see red/blue flashing lights in sequence in the background. Cut to a far shot as the local state patrol has arrived; which means that Sheriff Blubs and his bald thin sidekick Deputy Durland (the same guy who voiced the announcer for Flawless Girl in Phineas & Ferb) have returned as Durland is taking notes while Blubs is drinking coffee inside the living room. Stan explains everything that happened as Mabel calls her creation besmirched. And yet she accuses STAN of using words she cannot understand. She cries as Dipper wants to know who would do such a thing. Blubbs proclaims that he cannot help them because this case is unsolvable. Really Sheriff? Is it really because you are in a position of power and think this is beneath you?
Stan spits the coffee out on Blubbs and Dipper offers to help them solve this mystery. Blubbs mocks him to no end calling him a city boy with a computer phone. Oh lord; they are turning into Beef Jerky from Quack Pack, which is a really bad move in my opinion. Blubbs and Durland slap skin and Blubb tells Dipper in roundabout terms to mind his own business because there are grown ups in the room. As soon as he says this; the radio blares a 23-16 (according to Durland) that someone is stuffing a whole cantaloupe in his mouth and the officers run off all giddy. Dipper is pissed off and proclaims that he and Mabel are going to find the jerk and get the head back, not because Mabel's wax creation got vandalized; but because he hates the officers calling him adorable. Dipper then sneezes; and Mabel responds that he sneezes like a kitten. HAHA! That ends the segment nearly eight minutes in. This is a pretty decent episode thus far.
After the commercial break; we begin in the morning and back into the living room as the whole place is sealed with with toilet paper using the "Police - Do Not Cross" message on it. There is a corkboard containing pictures of the denizens of Gravity Falls; whom I suspect are suspects. Mabel is using a disposible camera and taking snapshots of headless Wax Stan. I thought all of them were used up during the last episode? Dipper proclaims that Wax Stan's head is missing and they have to find it as he goes over to the corkboard filled with pictures of possible suspects. Strangely, Wendy and Soos are not on the list for some reason. Dipper notes that there were a lot of unhappy customers at the unveiling. Geez; I wonder why? Maybe it had nothing to do with the statue; and everything to do with a certain round dough pie filled with tomato sauce, cheese and countless combination of toppings. Third use of the word murder ensues (So you can say murderer but not killer in modern cartoons; but killer is perfectly fine in the older cartoons. Personally; murderer carries a lot more weight than killer...) as Mabel gasps in horror because it might be even them. Mabel is so funny when she's blaming herself for this! Dipper doesn't even criticize her proclaiming that they are in Gravity Falls and thus the Peter Griffin rule applies. He brings out the book and looks through it proclaiming that it could take months to find their first clue, and Mabel claims that she has found one in the carpet as there is a pair of footprints which look like nothing; and there is two other pairs with an extra hole in them. We then see that Wax Stan has a hole in the right shoe, for no reason. Then they look behind the chair to find an axe. I betcha Stan (I typed Stand again) is behind this ordeal. So we head to the gift shop counter as they gave the ax to Soos and in his opinion; it's an axe. Mabel then remember that Manly Dan had an axe with him when he punched the pillar of the sign which is shown in B&W footage; because it's old news now. Mabel gets off murder #4 for the episode while acting all furious as Soos explains to us that Manly Dan is a member of some biker gang joint. Wonder if spiders are involved?
Mabel proclaims that this is where they are going and Soos proclaims that they can be the Mystery Twins; to which Dipper blows off. Don't like being the Shaggy of the group huh? So the kids head outside as Stan is at the back of the limbo bringing out a wooden casket. I'm not kidding folks! He needs help (in more ways than one) because he is doing a memorable service for a wax figure because he thinks it's classy. Oooookkkkaaayyyy. Anyhow; the kids inform him that they have a break in the case; and therefore they are going into town to annoy the "murderer" (murder #5 for the episode); and Mabel brings out the axe and does horror music for my amusement. Stan ponders it over because the responsible adult would never do this; but he's an uncle so he wants them to avenge him as he screams to the heaven while stepping on the casket. That was funny. So we head to Gravity Falls the town; which has to be the blandest town in existance. Next to Danville of course. So we pan down to an alleyway as Dipper is practicing the fine art of not being seen while Dipper is channeling Milo from Fish Hook in being inside the dumpster. Oh; that is so insulting Alex! Dipper looks around and notices a black man with the Gruffi pose on wearing a white tank top, grey pants and black boot. He has a chain, a lot of tattoos (including one on his face that reads Head Chin) and a bowling ball sized nose. The bar is known as Skull Fracture with pink neon lights and skulls in black and double blue. Take one guess who voices the bouncer in this one (same one who voices Blubbs by the way); as Dipper brings out the card showing fake ID's and gives one to Mabel. So we see the bouncer take an ID card and no sell as he proclaims that they cannot get in. Then I discover that the guy he disallowed was a miner and not a minor. Sadly Disney Captions gave the joke away so sucks to be this show. The miner is pissed off and leaves. So Dipper and Mabel come in with their fake ID's and their Fake ID's look like them, only with goodley eyes and mustaches. Mabel got the porno one too! The names are Sir Dippingsauce (45 years old) and Lady Mabelton (21 years old).
I should also note that the ID cards have stickers, glitter and macroni elbows glued onto the card. Mabel rolls the eyes for fun as the bouncer proclaims that this works for him and opens the door. Judging by that look; he is not an idiot. He just didn't give a damn. So the kids come in and we get punching and fighting; as the animators try their damnest to keep all the punches off-screen, but I believe that one of them got punched on-screen in the foreground legit. Mabel is shown hopping over some legs with hot road colored boots and proclaims that he is resting. Now there's a great use of the "I'm all right" phrase because Mabel is so naive and a child. Dipper wants Mabel to try to blend in with the crowd. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Dipper is such a joker here. Dipper points to Dipper as he bails stage left and calls him Dippingsauce. So Mabelton jumps onto a stool (NOT THAT ONE!) and talks to a pirate like biker who has a tattoo which is a knife and it reads Bats; which read backwards means STAB! Nice try writers; I'm onto your BS&P getarounds. So Mabel play punchs and makes small talk to the pirate biker as we see Manly Dave doing arm-wrestling with an arcade machine named Biceptkus. Manly Dan has that look that he is frustrated that Biceptkus isn't so easily defeated. I should also note that on the all there is a red neon sign that reads Hurzch which is a German word. I'm guessing that it's a sign for some beer company. Dipper runs in as Dan has yet to break the 9999 barrier of this game. Dipper demands to know where he was last night and Dan claims that he was punching the clock. Dipper asks if he was working and Man proclaims that he was outside punching a lamp pole containing a clock. And it's still at 10 o'clock, as Dipper gets off murder #6; and then shows Dan the axe. Dan blows him off because he wouldn't pick teeth with that axe since it's left-handed. What company would be stupid enough to create axes that are only used with one type of hand? Anyhow; Dan rips the arm off of Biceptkus and beats the wet end of it onto the arcade machine with Tyler appearing out of nowhere to cheer him on.
So Dipper ponders this over as Biceptkus is beheaded (almost); and then we cut back to Mabel using the folding number card trick to inform the pirate biker that his wife is going to be beautiful which is carny talk for the guy being single. Dipper comes in to tell Mabel that he has a big break in the case; and they all walk out onto the sidewalk. Dipper explains as he crosses Manly Dan as right handed that the ax works with a left handed person; and all they have to do is check on who is left handed; and they got the killer. And yes; Dipper did say kill here. That's death reference #7 for the episode and the first kill word of the episode. Mabel is giddy because they are on fire today. She makes laser blasts for fun and we get a closeup of them looking at each other and we are up to 7 references to murder for this episode alone. They do a fist bump and those are deadly man. As deadly as the knee-on-knee collision in hockey. So we hit the montage and Old Man McGucket is in a junkyard (It's UNCENSORED BABEE!) as he waves with a croc puppet on his right hand. Dipper sees this as enough to DQ him from the running. Cut to a house as Dipper dresses up like a parcel guy and the door opens to reveal the Free Pizza shirt wearing guy. He signs it with his right hand; so he's out. Next is the fat woman who grabs a baseball from Mabel across the street with her right hand and crushes it. So she's out. More fails as Dipper's pencil breaks and he turns the page in his notepad and claims that there is one more guy left and of course this logically leads to outside of a shop AFTER HAPPY HOUR as Blubbs, Durland, Mabel and Dipper are at the door as police car lights are flashing. Why yes; they are going to do a raid without getting a search warrant; why do you ask? Durland is truly one of those cops who needs to be fired for his own protection. So they raid the shop, and it's the press room for Toby Determined. Murder #8 ensues as Durland kills a lamp as Mabel proclaims that he has the right to remain impressed which should be a meme but it isn't. I want a drop of Mabel saying "You have the right to be impressed". Toby shutters in fear and doesn't understand.
So Dipper explains via B&W footage what happened as we see that Toby is in fact left handed, he does have a hole in his left shoe and he also has a motive in that his "newspaper" (as legit a newspaper as the Weekly World News which claims that dinosaurs honk like Buicks) is failing and thus this proves that he murdered Wax Stan (Murder #9). However; Toby stammers and proclaims that he has an alibi and we go to security tape footage which was on Saturday, five minutes after 10 pm; indicating that he was no where near the scene as he goes to the closet and brings out a cardboard cutout of Shandra Jimenez and proceeds to make out with her on screen. Blubbs checks the timestamp and Toby is off the hook in this case; but he's still on the hook for being a freak of nature. Dipper protests this and wants the axe checked for fingerprints. Now; here's a massive logic break: Dipper and Mabel have touched the axe countless times; so the spot should be that fingerprints show on the ax and thus they are wrongfully implented in the murder. Nope; Blubbs and Durland check for fingerprints with tools that make even CSI be jealous; and there are no fingerprints at all. Dipper is shocked and appalled as Durland proclaims that the headlines shalt read: City Kids Waste Everyone's Time. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Even if Toby is gulity of the crime: It's a freakin wax figure! Toby would only be charged with vandalism and mischief; which we have seen thousands of times in modern cartoons without charges being filed. Somehow. Toby then proclaims that Dipper and Mabel should be embarrassed and I'm sure a lot of bigots would point out this is projection. So that is that; and we cut to a shot of the pink wall containing a picture of Stan together with Stan Wax. That was awkward as we have a "furneal" for Wax Stan who is in the coffin doing a thumbs up. So Soos, Dipper, Mabel and all the wax figures are at their seats; since half of them are not sitting in them. Soos brought the hankies and Mabel brough the axe with both hands. Mabel was right; SHE MURDERED WAX STAN~! Which would be the best moment of the series actually.
So Stan does an awesome eulgy where he asks if it's wrong to love a wax figure. Actually; Soos is right in that it is wrong to say that it's wrong to love a wax figure. At least Stan is not in love with a cardboard cutout. Anyhow; Stan hopes that Stan Wax is picking pockets in heaven as a tear is in his eye and he runs out of the room crying claiming that he has glitter in his eyes. Soos follows him as Dipper proclaims that the cops are right about this; but Mabel refuses to quit. I notice that there is a table with one jug of coffee and toothpick cubes of cheese. Dipper proclaims that everything was considered; and yet, as he walks to the coffin, he notices that Wax Stan also has a hole in it. Mabel proclaims that all the figures have them in order to stand up. Dipper then has the "It just dawned on him"; as he gets off the 10th reference to murder (yes folks; they are going for TaleSpin's record for death references and might just beat it!) as he turns around and all the figures stand up and come alive, talking. And yes; one of the statues is modeled after Coolio. Why? I don't know! Why would Stan like rappers? So let's get all the voices out of the way... Wax Coolio is voiced by Coolio and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): He recorded two singles in 1987, titled "Watch Gonna Do" and "You're Gonna Miss Me". Coolio made connections in the Los Angeles rap scene, and in 1991, ended up joining the group WC and the Maad Circle, led by rapper WC. He had a few verses on the group's debut album Ain't a Damn Thang Changed, including on the single "Dress Code". The album was regionally successful. In 1994, Coolio signed to Tommy Boy Records and released his debut solo album It Takes a Thief. The lead single "Fantastic Voyage" received heavy rotation on MTV, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Fantastic Voyage" would become one of the biggest rap singles of the year, and the album contained a few other minor hits in "County Line" and "I Remember".
It Takes a Thief peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200, becoming certified Platinum.[2] The album received praise for bringing a humorous and lighthearted perspective to often violent and profane themes of typical gangsta rap.[3] In 1995, Coolio made a song for the movie Dangerous Minds, which was titled "Gangsta's Paradise". "Gangsta's Paradise", which featured R&B singer L.V., would become one of the most successful rap songs of all time, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks. It was the #1 single of 1995 for all genres, and was a global hit, as it reached #1 in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, and New Zealand. The song also created a controversy when Coolio claimed that parody artist Weird Al Yankovic had not asked for permission to make his parody of "Gangsta's Paradise", titled "Amish Paradise". At the 1996 Grammy Awards, the song won Coolio a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. Originally "Gangsta's Paradise" was not meant to be included on one of Coolio's studio albums, but its success led to Coolio not only putting it on his next album, but also making it the title track. The title track sampled the chorus and music of the song "Pastime Paradise" by Stevie Wonder, which was recorded nearly 20 years earlier on Stevie Wonder's album Songs in the Key of Life. The album Gangsta's Paradise was released in 1995 and was certified 2X Platinum by the RIAA. The album contained two other major hits in "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" and "Too Hot" with J.T. Taylor of Kool & the Gang doing the chorus. Despite no longer being an official member of the group, Coolio made an appearance on the second WC and the Maad Circle album Curb Servin', on the song "In a Twist".
In 1996, Coolio had another top 40 hit with the song "It's All the Way Live (Now)" from the soundtrack to the movie Eddie. He was also featured on the song "Hit 'em High" from the soundtrack to the movie Space Jam with B-Real, Method Man, LL Cool J, and Busta Rhymes. In 1996, Coolio appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD America is Dying Slowly, alongside Biz Markie, Wu-Tang Clan, and Fat Joe, among many other prominent hip hop artists. The CD, meant to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic among African American men, was heralded as "a masterpiece" by The Source magazine. That same year, he recorded the theme song and appeared in the opening sequence of the Nickelodeon TV series Kenan & Kel which ran for four seasons. After the success of Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio's next album was expected to be another hit. His third solo album titled My Soul, came out in 1996. Although it contained the major hit "C U When U Get There" and the album went platinum, it failed to reach the success of his previous two albums. Coolio was dropped from Tommy Boy Records and his albums since then, 2001's Coolio.com, 2003's El Cool Magnifico, 2006's The Return of the Gangsta, and 2008's Steal Hear, have not charted on any Billboard chart. He did have a minor hit in the UK in 2006 with "Gangsta Walk" (featuring Snoop Dogg), which peaked at #67 on the UK pop chart. While touring with hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse, Coolio received a tattoo as a homage to the group's fanbase, reading "Jugalo Cool" [sic]. He stated that the misspelling was intentional.[4] Coolio has performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos.[4] In 2009, Coolio appeared as a housemate on Celebrity Big Brother. He later went to appear on Ultimate Big Brother in 2010, where he was removed from the house for unacceptable behaviour towards Nadia Almada and others in the house.
In January 2012, he was one of eight celebrities participating in the Food Network reality series Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, where he represented the Music Saves Lives organization.[5] He came in second place with a Zagat score of 23 out of 30, losing to Lou Diamond Phillips. As runnerup, he was awarded $10,000 for his charity. Coolio was featured on the March 5, 2013, episode of the ABC reality program Wife Swap,[6] and his girlfriend at the time left him after the program was taped.[7] On June 30, 2013, he appeared alongside comedienne Jenny Eclair and Emmerdale actor Matthew Wolfenden on UK game show Tipping Point: Lucky Stars, where he came second. Also on June 30, Coolio voiced a wax figure of himself on Gravity Falls. He began his career as a Gangster in The Parent 'Hood in 1995. Gravity Falls is his DTVA debut and only appearance. Chopped as himself is his most recent credit. He has 51 acting credits, one writing credit (Cookin' With Coolio), 100 Self credits, and 40 soundtrack credits to his resume. Wax Larry King is voiced by Larry King and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): A CBS staff announcer, whom King met by chance, told him to go to Florida, a growing media market where openings still existed for inexperienced broadcasters. King rode a train to Miami. After initial setbacks, King persisted and got his first job in radio. The manager of a small station, WAHR (now WMBM) in Miami Beach, hired him to clean up and perform miscellaneous tasks.[8] When one of their announcers quit, they put King on the air. His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, when he worked as the disc jockey from 9 a.m. to noon.[9] He also did two afternoon newscasts and a sportscast. He was paid $55 a week. He acquired the name Larry King when the general manager Marshall Simmonds said that Zeiger was too ethnic and difficult to remember, so Larry chose the surname King, which he got from an ad in The Miami Herald for King's Wholesale Liquor, minutes before air.[10]
He started doing interviews on a midmorning show for WIOD, at Pumpernik's Restaurant in Miami Beach.[11] He would interview anyone who walked in. His first interview was with a waiter at the restaurant.[12] Two days later, singer Bobby Darin, in Miami for a concert later that day, walked into Pumpernik's as a result of coming across King's show on his radio; Darin became King's first celebrity interview guest.[13] His Miami radio show launched him to local stardom. A few years later, in May 1960, he hosted Miami Undercover, airing Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m. on WPST-TV Channel 10 (now WPLG).[14] On the show, he moderated debates on important issues of the time. King credits his success on local television to the assistance of comedian Jackie Gleason, whose national television variety show was being filmed in Miami Beach during this period. "That show really took off because Gleason came to Miami," King said in a 1996 interview he gave when inducted into the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. "He did that show and stayed all night with me. We stayed till five in the morning. He didn't like the set, so we broke into the general manager's office and changed the set. Gleason changed the set, he changed the lighting, and he became like a mentor of mine."[15] During this period, WIOD gave King further exposure as a color commentator for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, during their 1970 season and most of their 1971 season.[16] However, he was dismissed by both WIOD and television station WTVJ as a late-night radio host and sports commentator as of December 20, 1971, when he was arrested after being accused of grand larceny by a former business partner.[17] Other staffers covered the Dolphins' games into their 24–3 loss to Dallas in Super Bowl VI.
King also lost his weekly column at the Miami Beach Sun newspaper. The charges were dropped on March 10, 1972, and King spent the next several years in reviving his career, including a stint as the color announcer in Louisiana for the Shreveport Steamer of the World Football League in 1974–75 on KWKH. Eventually, King was rehired by WIOD in Miami. For several years during the 1970s in South Florida, he hosted a sports talk-show called "Sports-a-la-King" that featured guests and callers. Larry King remains active as a writer and television journalist. King was the moderator of the sixth Kazenergy Eurasian Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan, an annual forum for Kazakhstan's energy sector occurring in October 2011.[39][40][41] King also guest starred in episodes of 30 Rock and Gravity Falls. He also had cameos in Ghostbusters[42] and Bee Movie. King also voiced Doris the Ugly Stepsister in Shrek 2 and its sequels. King made an appearance alongside his wife, Shawn King, on October 8 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw and participated in a segment with The Miz and Kofi Kingston. He had served as Raw's Social Media Ambassador the previous week. King has become a very active user on the social-networking site Twitter, where he posts thoughts and comments on a wide variety of subjects. King states, “I love tweeting, I think it’s a different world we’ve entered. When people were calling in, they were calling in to the show and now on Twitter I’m giving out thoughts, opinions. The whole concept has changed.”[43] In December 2012, King endorsed the American-made suspender brand Holdup Suspenders.[44]
He started his Larry King Live CNN show in June 1985, hosting a broad range of guests from controversial figures of UFO conspiracy theories and alleged psychics,[19] to prominent politicians and leading figures in the entertainment industry, often doing their first or only interview on breaking news stories on his show. Unlike many interviewers, King has a direct, non-confrontational approach. His reputation for asking easy, open-ended questions has made him attractive to important figures who want to state their position while avoiding being challenged on contentious topics.[20] His interview style is characteristically frank, but with occasional bursts of irreverence and humor. His approach attracts some guests who would not otherwise appear. King, who is known for his general lack of pre-interview preparation, once bragged that he never read the books of authors before they made their appearances on his program.[citation needed] In a show dedicated to the surviving Beatles, King asked George Harrison's widow about the song "Something," which was written about Harrison's first wife. He seemed surprised when she did not know very much about the song. Throughout his career King has interviewed many of the leading figures of his time. CNN claimed during his final episode that he had performed 60,000 interviews in his career.[citation needed] King also wrote a regular newspaper column in USA Today for almost 20 years, from shortly after that newspaper's origin in 1982 until September 2001.[21] The column consisted of short "plugs, superlatives and dropped names" but was dropped when the newspaper redesigned its "Life" section.[22] The column was resurrected in blog form in November 2008[23] and on Twitter in April 2009.[24] He began his career as Sleepy Sam in Miami Undercover in 1961. Gravity Falls is his DTVA debut and only appearance. Lundon's Bridge & The Three Keys as King Pom is his most recent credit. He has 62 acting credits and 177 Self credits to his resume.
Wax Sherlock Holmes is voiced by John Oliver and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Oliver first appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2001 as part of The Comedy Zone, a late-night showcase of newer acts, where he played the character of an "oleaginous journalist."[10] He performed his debut solo show in 2002 and returned in 2003. In 2004 and 2005, he collaborated with Andy Zaltzman on a double act and co-hosting Political Animal, with various acts performing political material. After moving to New York City for The Daily Show, Oliver began performing stand-up in small clubs around the city, and later headlined shows in larger venues.[11] Oliver's first stand-up special, entitled John Oliver: Terrifying Times, debuted on Comedy Central in 2008 and was later released on DVD.[citation needed] Since 2010, Oliver has hosted four, six-episode seasons of John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show.[citation needed] According to Edward Helmore in The Guardian: "His style leans toward the kind that Americans like best from the British – exaggerated, full of odd accents and mannerisms, in the vein of Monty Python."[12] Oliver describes his own accent as a "mongrel" of Brummie, Scouse and Bedford influences.[13] Prior to joining The Daily Show, Oliver was making appearances on British television as a panellist on the satirical news quiz Mock The Week. He was the most frequent guest on the first two series in 2005 and 2006, appearing in 7 out of 11 episodes.[citation needed] Oliver joined The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as its Senior British Correspondent in July 2006. He says he got interviewed for the show on the recommendation of comedian Ricky Gervais, who had never met Oliver but was familiar with his work.[14] He landed in America on a Sunday night and started working the next day.[15] As a writer for the show, Oliver has received Emmys for outstanding writing in 2009, 2011 and 2012.[16] During the summer of 2013, Oliver guest-hosted The Daily Show for a total of eight weeks while Stewart directed his movie Rosewater.[17]
Oliver's performance received positive reviews,[18][19][20][21] with some critics suggesting that he should eventually succeed Stewart as host of The Daily Show or receive his own show.[22][23][24] Three months later, HBO announced it was giving Oliver his own late night show.[3] Beginning on Sunday, 27 April 2014, Oliver will host Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a late-night talk show that will take a satirical look at news, politics and current events.[25]Since October 2007 Oliver has co-hosted The Bugle, a weekly satirical comedy podcast, with Andy Zaltzman. Originally produced by The Times of London, it is now independent. Its 200th episode aired on 13 July 2012.[26] Since 2010, Oliver has hosted John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show, a standup series on Comedy Central featuring sets from himself and other standup comedians.[27] Four seasons of the show have been produced through 2013, the first three lasting six episodes and the most recent lasting eight. Oliver has a recurring role on the NBC comedy Community as Dr. Ian Duncan, a psychology professor.[28] However, he declined becoming a regular cast member of the series because he did not want to leave The Daily Show for it. As of December 2013, it was however stated that Oliver would come back on the show's 5th season premiering 2 January, for at least a six episode arc.[29] [30] As a boy, Oliver played the orphan Felix Pardiggle on the BBC drama Bleak House in 1985.[31] Oliver has also worked on Gravity Falls as the voice of Sherlock Holmes (season 1, episode 3), People Like Us as a bank manager (season 2, episode 5), Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja as the voice of Coach Green (season 1, episode 9), My Hero as a man from the BBC (season 2, episode 5), and Green Wing as a car salesman (season 1, episode 1).
Oliver will guest star as Wilkes John Booth in a 25th season episode of the long-running FOX television sitcom The Simpsons.[32][33] In 2008, Oliver was given his first film role, playing Dick Pants in The Love Guru.[34] He later voiced Vanity Smurf in The Smurfs film and its sequel.[35] Oliver wrote and presented a BBC America campaign to have viewers use closed captioning (subtitles). Shown in brief segments before shows, "The following program contains accents you would have heard a lot more if you hadn't thrown our tea into Boston Harbour," says one. "Not even British people can follow the British accent 100 percent of the time. Therefore you, like me, might want to use closed-captioning." Oliver used some of these jokes in his stand-up routine.[36] John Oliver frequently appeared on the BBC Radio 5 Live sports show Fighting Talk. Oliver performed various roles in the 2009 Comedy Central series Important Things with Demetri Martin. In 2009, Oliver made a cameo appearance as the actor Rip Torn in the music video for the Fiery Furnaces single "Even in the Rain", which is based around the story of the making of the film Easy Rider.[37] In 2013, Oliver spent time filming in Australia, claiming in a podcast it was "a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper."[38] He began his career on Masterpiece Theater: Bleak House as Pardiggle Boy in 1985. Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja as Coach Green is his DTVA debut. Community as Professior Ian Duncan is his most recent credit. He has 15 acting credits, 24 Self credits, nine writing credits and three producer credits to his resume.
Additional voices is provided by James Adomian and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Adomian moved to Atlanta and later Los Angeles. Adomian is an alumnus of Los Angeles Baptist High School and graduated from Whittier College with a self-designed major in Economics and Theatre Arts.[citation needed] He is partly of Armenian descent. In 2012, Adomian appeared on IFC's Comedy Bang Bang (TV Series) as PBS broadcaster Huell Howser, on Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital as Madonna and on MTV's Money from Strangers as himself, also making regular appearances as various sketch characters on Conan. In 2011, he was cast as a co-lead in the un-aired Kari Lizer pilot project for NBC alongside Sarah Paulson and Tim Meadows. In summer 2010, he appeared on NBC's Last Comic Standing as a top-ten finalist, and also starred in the un-aired Krog pilot for Cartoon Network. Adomian began appearing as President George W. Bush frequently on The Late Late Show after Craig Ferguson took over hosting the show in January 2005 until 2009. He has appeared on several other comedy programs, including MADtv, Mind of Mencia, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Short Circuitz, Atom TV, Cavemen, Recount and Players. Adomian has appeared in the films Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and Miss March. As a voiceover artist, Adomian performed on The Onion Radio News, as several recurring characters on the PBS cartoon series WordGirl, as President Bush on a few episodes of MADtv, as Jimmy Kimmel on Celebrity Deathmatch and on a number of other cartoons. He began his career on Yacht Rock as Vincent Price in 2005. Gravity Falls is his DTVA debut and only appearance. Trunk'd (Dean) and Hits (Donovan) are his most recent credits. He has 47 acting credits, 18 Self credits, five writing credits (Maron In Space, That'a A Wrap on Osama, Atom TV, Face to Bush and The Right Now! Show) and one producer credit to his resume.
Wax William Shakespere is voiced by Greg Ellis who was last seen in Fish Hooks as the glasses eyed Gecko. Lizzie Borden steals the axe from Mabel and the figures mock the babyfaces with faint praise. Sherlock Holmes points his golden magnifying glass and proclaims that they unburied the truth and they are going to bury them. After all the references to killer and murder; Sherlock cannot outright say kill. I betcha the same person who thought ninja made kids kick and punch people like Pablo's dog on steroids who thought saying the word die or kill would make people kill on command. This ends the segment almost 15 minutes in. Good episode so far; but not much awesome though.
After the commercial break; the figures stalk them as Sherlock does his sarcastic praising and the figures clap in a conscending way; and then Sherlock tells them to clap slower. AWESOME! Dipper doesn't understand this because they are made of wax and Mabel asks if they are magic. Sherlock gets in their face and proclaims that they are cursed as they come alive every time the moon is waxing. So we HIT THE FLASHBACK~! Complete with Coolio playing Road Dogg's B-Lo routine from DX's parody of The Nation in 1998. I think the irony is completely lost on the writers; but whatever. So we discover that Stan robbed a poor old balding man of his figures because $20 is a terrible curse for him. Never mind that they brought the figures from a haunted house garage sale complete with graveyard. Sadly; no crosses here. So we get footage of Stan fleecing the young ones with the wax museum as one of the evil kids with curly hair (He might be a young Randell from Recess now that I've seen him) and he proceeds to run to the Richard Nixon figure and literally kick him in the balls over and over again. So they hated being the playthings of men; but at least the nights were always good as they play pranks on each other and on Stan by invoking the XEON FLASH OF DEATH on him to wake him up; and then freeze to play mind games with him. HAHA! Larry King plucks Coolio's hair and dares him to make him. Never dare a rapper; you are asking for it Larry King. So the business dried up and they were locked away in a room for ten years as the hallway got renovated and the place got sealed up. Somehow I think Sherlock left out a detail in that maybe it was more than merely bad business that sealed up that room. We also get Soo discovering the room which was complete time wasting. I realize that this all makes sense in storyline, but this is pointless because it already made perfect sense before Soos arrived. So we see Sherlock use the axe on Wax Stan to cut his head off and they bail as Stan returns.
We return to reality (no, not really) as Dipper is horrifed proclaiming that they were going to murder Stan for real (#10 for the episode). So it is okay to say murder even if they want to murder him. Murder is a safer word than kill in that context. FACKING BULLSHEET! So then Mabel proclaims that Dipper was right all along and wax people are creepy. I thought gnome statues were worse! Sherlock Holmes proclaims that they must die (death reference #12 for the episode, first die word and there's no roundabout this time around). They all turn white eye and back the kids towards the table with the coffee and cheese. Damn; I knew this would be used somehow. I should note that they did reveal that they stole Wax Stan's head in case anyone thought that they melted it. They didn't as Coolio has it now. So they throws various knives, forks, napkins and Dipper invokes the SCALDING COFFEE OF DEATH on Genghis Khan and he screams and melts. FINALLY! A hot coffee spot that actually looks deadly! And it took wax figures to pull it off! Well played Dipper, well played. Mabel realizes where this is going and they bring out the FAKE CANDLES OF DEATH as Sherlock Holmes dares them to try them. The two kids stammer and decide to give it a shot. And IT IS ON BABEE! Mabel ducks under Lizzie's axe as she lops off Robin Hood's head killing him, and then William Shakespere gets his arms cut off by the candles of death. Mabel then takes a reverse chinlock with just the wax arm of William. Memo to William: you are the heel. Get it under the chin; it's supposed to be a chokehold. I realize BS&P might be watching, but chokeholds are illegal in wrestling and are heel moves. Legit chinlocks are only heelish if you do it for half of the match. Mabel gets to the door and rams the fingers of William into the door; which William completely no sells. Dipper has his fake candle and tells Larry King to interview this and slices Larry King's head off. Okay; it's Wax Larry King, but who cares? As long as we see heads roll in a DTVA cartoon, I don't care if they are made of wax.
Wax Marx tries to grab the candle and his hand melts; so Dipper slices Gruncho in half; causing Grucho to make a sarcastic remark about cutting remarks. There is also a Thomas Edison figure; but he was just a tease, I don't think he ever gets involved in the actual fight. Wax Edgar Allan Poe was also teased and was the one playing the prank on Stan in the flashback. Grucho of course wonders why his cigar is gone. It amuses me that Sherlock kept his pipe; but Marx didn't keep his cigar. So then Genghis Khan runs at Dipper; Dipper sidesteps causing Khan to conveniently dive into the lit fireplace to kill him. Nice to see someone was on the ball eh? Dipper then cuts a Duck Dynasty promo calling it the Jin Dynasty. Nice one Dipper; nice one. Apparently; Coolio's somehow got beheaded because Mabel is using it to spin around and bash the figures with it. Let me get this straight: You cannot show a black man even if it's a wax figure getting his head cut off; but it's perfectly all right to show white men getting their heads cut off and it's also all right to use the black man's head as an international object like weapon? Is BS&P really this stupid? Coolio is not impressed as Mabel yells to Dipper to watch out and Dipper kicks Richard Nixon in the knee. After all the times we saw Richard Nixons get kicked in the groin, Dipper cannot kick him in the groin now that it's alive? So Sherlock Holmes mounts Wax Stan's head on the conveniently placed rhino head on the wall, and brings out a sword to disable the fake candle of death from Dipper. Mabel throws the FIREPLACE HOOK OF DEATH to Dipper and he catches it. So we have a swordfight out of the furneal and upstairs into the attic. Sherlock proclaims that once the family is taken care of; they will rule the night again. Dipper has at least three escapes; but he chooses going out the window and climbs out onto the roof. This leads to them fighting on the Mystery Shack sign. And the ironic moment where the S fell in the opening is actually done here so it's the Mystery Hack. That fits Stan well doesn't it?
Sherlock Holmes proclaims that he's Sherlock Bleeding Holmes; which I wonder if that was edited in the UK broadcast? I know bloody from Bygones in TaleSpin wasn't for some reason. I'm guessing that Dipper lost his sword because he climbs up the top of the roof to the other side behind the chimney as he pants hard. He also dislodges some titles on the way down in a nice bit of detail. He looks to the right and there is no one so of course Sherlock teleports from the left side and kicks Dipper and knocks him down. Way to go Dipper; you looked like an idiot! So Sherlock brings the sword and asks for last words. Dipper asks him if he has any sunscreen, which Sherlock is confused and he melts because the sun is rising. Sherlock melts and his last words involve about a dozen words relating to disasters as he screams that he got defeated by a boy in short pants. You should be lucky it wasn't Kit. Sherlocks melts and slides off the roof as his head is still hard enough to allow him one last insult on the way out. That insult you ask? Well; Dipper sneezes and Sherlock mocks him for sneezing like a kitten proclaiming that the police were right in calling him adorable before he falls off the roof and melts completely. Dipper is repulsed by this as Mabel is in the living room throwing part of wax parts into the fireplace (apparently; throwing wax into a fire is all right; throwing them with water is a bad idea.); as William Shakespere waxes the cleft in twain and declares the wax men shalt rule again as Mabel asks if he knows any limmericks. William said that there once was a man from Kentucky (which I assume he heard the joke from Stan; otherwise this makes no sense); and then Mabel cuts him off and throws his head into the fireplace to kill him for good. That was cold. Dipper comes in and Mabel is so happy...until Dipper tells her that she is the sidekick. To which Mabel points out that DIPPER is the sidekick. AWESOME! Even Mabel knows that the title of sidekick means that she's the main character of the story. Like Kit Cloudkicker with Baloo. Kit's title is sidekick, but he's the reason why TaleSpin even exists.
So Stan comes in and is horrifed due to the mess as Mabel gets the Stan head off the rhino trophy. Dipper and Mabel explain that the wax figures were evil and they must die (death reference #13 for the episode). Dipper even had the gall on a children's show to say decapitated in reference to Larry King. Stan is actually amused by these kids and their imaginations. So Dipper shows the head and Stan is so happy to see it; that he goes over and noogies the heads of the kids. Yeah; I like Stan again. Then we get police sirens and up comes the police car as Sheriff Blubbs and Durland are looking through the window as Blubbs asks if Dipper has solved the case; and he is so confident that Dipper will say no that he'll take a long sip of his coffee, just to be a cocky prick. Dipper shows the head and says yes; and this leads to Blubbs and Burland doing spit takes at each other and screaming in pain. These two cops suck so much that they are more harmless than the real life cops! Blubbs drives away afterwards and the babyfaces laugh at them as they crash their cars into something off-screen. Whatever. Dipper asks if he got rid of the figures and Mabel proclaims that she is 99% certain that she did. Dipper accepts it and we pan over to a vent and the head of Larry King is still inside the vent pipe. Larry proclaims revenge as a mouse comes in and tears off the left ear of Larry King's head and runs away. Larry King protests this outrage and hops after the rat as we go to the far shot of the Mystery Shack to close out this episode. Now for the ED: Mabel is standing in front of a mirror asking Dipper if she should wear her sequin purple sweater or her biege Llama haired sweater with the Llama on it. Larry King hops to the vent of the conveniently placed vent pipe and tells her to wear the Llama haired sweater getting off the educational line of the episode. I know it's Larry King because he has stopped acting and has gone into his news interviewer voice. Mabel thanks Dipper and leaves as we see Dipper reading a book and is confused because he said nothing. Cryptogram of the episode: He's Still In The Vents and that ends the episode at 21:55. This was a fun episode that wasn't outstanding or anything, but I enjoyed it. Sadly; TaleSpin's record of 16 references to death is still intact. Although this show does set the record for "murder" with ten. *** 1/2 (70%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; we are at the halfway point of the DVD and so far; it hasn't been great, it has been good. The booking of this episode was what it should have been. Mabel was awesome and the whole Z-movie charm helped a lot in this episode. Dipper was really good and Stan has reverted back to con man instead of pervert which is a nice thing to see. I will give this episode a lot of credit: If I haven't read the spoilers for this episode, I would have agreed with Dipper that Toby was the "murderer" of Wax Stan. BS&P was really lininet here because they allowed a lot of references to murder that I sometimes wonder if Disney actually reads my rants and wants to do a rib on me. I wouldn't be surprised considering how much I mocked Alex Hirsch for Clamantha's voice. However; BS&P consistency is a bit wonky because apparently; you could really mean die or kill another human being after implying for most of the episode that you can only say it if it involves the death of wax figures. The wax figures are basically famous people; but it worked. Larry King and Sherlock Holmes were the best and Coolio would have been good if BS&P wasn't so wonky concerning him. Their motive was very petty; but they played the heels to the hilt at the end, so at least they were game for being killed by hot, melty things. Blubbs and Durland did annoy me and the police raid was overbooked as usual, but overall, this was a good episode; so points for them. At least they are rebuilding Stan to something decent, although it might be too late for him. So next up is the second half of the DVD set and they need to quicken up the pace here because this one took too long to recap for me. So....
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.