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Mega Man Ruby Spears: Incredible Shrinking Mega Man Rant
Reviewed: 03/27/2022
No "RatMan" Is Present, However!
So, this is episode #8 on the animation paper (although the ADV release had it as #7) as we get the usual shrinking episode trope combined with Dust Man's appearance. Yay. How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
Incredible Shrinking Mega Man is written by Gary Greenfield and was directed by Katsumi Minoguchi.
We begin this episode at the Smithsonian Park in Washington, DC AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as there is rain and thunderstorms ensuing. After that pan shot there is a shot of the sign of the park clear as night with the number 1926 on it. Head inside the museum with two police officers -- one thin, the other thick -- looking at each other and if they were making small talk, it was like they were doing sign language because no sound came out. Floor shot to the ceiling as more lightning reveals Cut Man, Guts Man and Dust Man appear in shadow; and then the RM break through the ceiling. Dust Man's shoulder pads are a lot smaller than in the game, since the game has the pads extended to his vacuum cleaner head. Cut Man uses Rolling Cutter to destroy the officer's nightsticks and then uses the Rolling Cutter like it has Bubble Lead properties. The floor is cut and the officers are WARNERED~! Guts Man destroys a giant case of priceless items for fun, so I guess they are erasing history for Wily's psychopathic pleasure, or something. Jump cut to outside and pan over to Dr. Light's residence. Head to the lab as Roll is literally in pieces as Dr. Light is repairing here and Rock takes Roll's head and tells her to not go to pieces. What an asshole Rock is?! Especially when Rock can suffer the same fate. Roll does not blow Rock off for that as Rush struggles to come in with a wheelbarrow of parts. Apparently, Rush brought in the wrong parts previously because Dr. Light is wanting Rush to come in with the right parts this time. Rock claims that Rush got everything but the kitchen sink, even though when Rush dumps the parts: There really was a kitchen sink! Rock is a blue dweeb as the alarm sounds as the males all check the computer and leave Roll hanging. One of the few times where the Whataboutism is understandable because she's literally in pieces! The monitor shows the Robot Master thrashing the place and trying to destroy glass coffins. No shame in the game whatsoever. Rock and Rush run out, Rush turns to Rush Jet, Rock gets on Rush Jet and heads into the city. Head back to the Simthsonian Museum as more destruction ensues because they are monster heels.
Dust Man with a really crackling voice actually finds the glass case containing a giant ruby like stone and three smaller ruby stones in a triangle formation. Guts Man breaks the glass and takes one of them proclaiming that they are unique gems...and here comes Rock and Rush through the glass ceiling to do what law enforcement couldn't do: Kick Guts Man double feet into what should be the stomach, but looks dangerously close to the groin. To be fair, there was a Ducktales episode that unintentionally had this happen and one TaleSpin episode where Baloo got beaked in the groin by Buzz. Guts Man goes through the most paper like brick wall I have ever seen as Cut Man calls Rock a blue dweeb proclaiming that he'll slice him and dice him as it's time for CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT~! Dust Man grabs Rock from behind, Cut Man invokes the Rolling Cutter which looks more like the Air Foil and Rock kicks it high into the air, slices the chain off a chandalier and Cut Man gets nailed with it. Of course! Dust Man gets a judo throw from Rock and placed inside one of the ancient coffins placed against the wall. Rock thinks he's won as he's near a giant shelf of objects and too close to Guts Man and the wall; which is the general signal for Guts Man to recover and try to push the shelf on top of Rock. That was a wee too contrived for my liking as Rock counters with grabbing the shelf, but gets entombed with it. Guts Man then brings out an out of nowhere gun with a glass bulb attached to it and puts the small ruby into the top. Guts Man calls it a shrink ray, so Gary basically gave away the plot device before Guts Man even had a chance to use it. Sigh. Somehow, Cut Man has the same gun with a ruby inside. WHY?! Also, if you want to shoot two guns; shouldn't Cut Man be on the eastern side at a 90 degree angle, instead of the opposite side where the rays can shoot the shooters and they both shrink?! I realize Cut Man is incompentent, but so is Guts Man in this setup. Rock pushes the shelf back to it's regular position and theatens to kill them. Then the animation realizes how stupid the previous scene is and has the two RM at a 45 degree angle when the shots are fired.
Rock and Rush are hit and they shrink literally two and a half minutes in. Rock is pissed and tries to fire his buster at Guts Man, but Guts Man no sells it because apparently, his size is parallel to his power and thus the shot that would knock Guts Man out, has effect on him now. Guts Man laughs and manages to get off the rare kill word for this show. Guts Man wants to give Rock the boot and that means the curb stomp; but Rock and Rush dodge because since they are smaller; their speed is higher. Ooops! Rock and Rush bail stage left as another display case gets destroyed by Cut Man and Guts Man. Cut Man wants to kill, Guts Man wants to kill; but Dust Man just wants to get out of here because Rock is screwed and they have want they want anyway. Guts Man does the double ax handle on another display case and I swear that this was similar to the double ax handle Sid Vicious did on WCW Nitro off the announce desk, at least in the setup. Somehow, this display case is shattered and disappears at the same time. OUCH! Oh, and Guts Man is pissed off so much that even Cut Man and Dust Man are taken aback. This was massive violence on Guts Man's part. Guts Man runs through another wall as Cut Man and Dust Man follow him and that is that. Morning arises as we head to Dr. Light's residence as we jump cut to the lab as Dr. Light is fixing Roll and Roll is mostly in one piece this time. Roll is finally fixed as Roll is more worried about Rock's health and well being. Dr. Light and Roll go to the monitor to check the signal and it's getting weaker, so even Dr. Light realizes that something is wrong and Foresnic Files cannot save them this time around. Head into the skies as the Wily Machine RS arrives with basically a shrink ray version of the Lightning Gun, only much more compact. Dr. Wily is loving life as he has created the perfect weapon while Proto Man is piloting the machine. Dr. Wily is praying and being all perverty like a human vampire should be. Basically, the weapon shrinks anything, including huge cities. This is demonstrated by using the giant shrink beam to shrink the city.
Now, for anyone who thinks Dr. Wily is showing a human side because the city is empty and your headcanon is that Dr. Wily warned them to leave: Shrinking doesn't kill anyone, so there is no BS&P reason to have the city empty. Plus, Dr. Wily has no empathy for humans anyway as demonstrated time and time again in this series. The Occam Razor's explaination is that of why blow the television animation budget just to do a city wise shrinking spot? By the way, Dr. Wily making molehills out of mountains was funny in context and Dr. Wily looked off-model after the shrinking, which made him even more creepy than usual. A blue car drives by and out comes the Robot Masters to put the city under the glass. Okay, I guess suffocation is probable cause to empty the city, but that is BS&P's no kill rule in effect and has nothing to do with empathy. Everyone gets into the car as Guts Man is going to New York city and yes, he knows how to drive a car. Proto Man gives the thumbs up and praises Dr. Wily for pulling this one off. Dr. Wily is so happy that Rock is out of the way as both vehicles are on the road to New York City about 55 miles away. Head inside the blue car to match the blue dweeb as Cut Man adores the glass dome of a city in miniture. Speaking of the blue dweeb, out comes Rock and Rush from Cut Man's boot. HA! Considering how over-powered Rock is, I think he can still take on the RM even when small. Then we get a really funny logic break: When Rock gets up on the seat and notices the city, Rock claims that they shrunk Washington. Okay, either the writers are well ahead of the curve concerning human global fuckery; or the writers have never seen any city outside of Washington, DC. The outside of the city limits is not a desert! This city appears to be closer to Phoenix, Arizona or even any city in Texas for instance. Rock notices the shrink ray; and wants to even the odds, but his voice is still the same volume despite the shrinkage and Dust Man notices it right away. What a blue dweeb?! Both the character and Gary in this case. Cut Man grabs the shrink ray, Dust Man uses the vacuum cleaner and officially this episode really sucks. HAHA!
Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Sean Desmond.
Dust Man tries to suck Rock as Rock and Rush hang onto something; and then simply gives up. Dust Man uses a red laser shot and damages the backrest of the backseat, which Cut Man protests. Cut Man has a point, that was dumb. Your suction power is your major strength, so use that instead! Guts Man wants to crush that blue dweeb and again, it's not as cool unless Dr. Wily is saying it in a fit of rage. Guts Man simply puts on the brakes and Rock and Rush tumble down to the floor of the car taking decent bumps all the way. Dust Man grabs them and places them in the glove carpartment as the simpleton is the smartest RM in the car. Why am I not surprised?! Cut Man demands Dust Man that he open the thing so slow that he can give him a haircut from the neck down, which is the BS&P signal that Cut Man wants to behead Rock to end the segment six minutes in. By the way, someone claimed that "opening the door slowly" was literally one second. It took ten seconds for Cut Man to cut this promo as we went to break. Put a pin on that. Compared to the Incredible Shrinking Molly, this episode is much better animated and the artwork is just as good. I still prefer the TaleSpin version because of the story, the emotion and Dr. Zibaldo being awesome. Dust Man is just there in comparison. Also, the "After These Messages" uses the Rush promo as I laugh my ass off yet again. It'll never grow old, like Hook kicking QT Marshall's ass on AEW Rampage, with sprinklings of Danhausen cursing everything in sight.
After the commercial break, we return to the highway as the car has stopped and in a rare attention to detail moment, they actually showed damage at the back of the car showing how powerful Dust Man's weapon really is. They didn't even need to do this since we never saw the exit wound inside the car, but it logically makes sense. Also a good thing, they didn't repeat the promo Cut Man cut in the previous segment, so Cut Man takes one second to open the compartment. Even though it took about 20 seconds for them to touch the panel. So, that counts as taking it nice and slow. Then we get another hilarious logic break: Somehow, the glove compartment is empty and apparently, it allows anyone to access the inside of the dashboard which is where Guts Man finds Rock and Rush. Man, this car is badly built since any rodent can enter and cause chaos to the car in that matter. Cut Man uses the Rolling Cutter to shatter the dashboard and Guts Man protests this outrage and rightfully so. Does Cut Man know how expensive it is to detail this van?! Then again and say it with me: CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT~! This of course, springs the air bag on the steering wheel and out comes Rock and Rush as Guts Man despite being the most powerful RM ever, cannot get out of his seat. That was so stupid. Guts Man does destroy the airbag, which should be a direct violation of safety laws, not that it matters to the heels anyway. Rock notices the hole in the back and jumps on Rush Jet and they escape into the city without further incident. Rock uses his double yellow buttons to try to contact Dr. Light; but no dice. Rush then notices a payphone. Well, this is 20XX and payphones still somewhat exist in the 2000's so it works. Rock and Rush make it to the payphone as you know it's the 1990's when "reach out and touch someone" was only about five years dated. Rock has little trouble setting up the payphone to use at least, so there is no suspense forthcoming. Rock dials 0 to make a collect call to Dr. Light's residence and since it's Rock and the situation is understandable, Light agrees to pay the phone charges. I didn't find it funny, but that's okay since that's the human thing to do.
Rock and company exchange notes on the situation as Roll demands Rock come home so Dr. Light can bring him back to normal. I betcha Dr. Light doesn't know how to right now and Rock realizes this because Dr. Wily has to be stopped and then hangs up. Rock and Rush leave as we jump cut back to Dr. Light's lab and yup, he doesn't have a way to reverse the effects; so he made Roll look like a total geek and Rock look like the smart one. Scene change to New York City as Wily Machine comes in, shrinks the city, and the van arrives still with the hole in the back at least. The RM's put NY under glass and that is that. Remember that Dr. Light's lab is outside the city limits and while I'm on a roll: Why not go to Dr. Light's residence and shrink the lab?! It's not like BS&P cannot allow them to do that. That's really stupid. I mean, I get Dr. Wily shrinking the cities is evil and all, but why leave the one lab where there is a person, two robots and a dog robot who can stop you time after time. By the way, when Guts Man puts that city under glass, it's completely grayscale in terms of colors. So, they REPEAT THE SEQUENCE again and shrinking this city also made the harbour disappear and this logic break is so obvious it's absurd. This is the episode's version of somehow getting the SeaDuck into Doctor Zibaldo's Lab. Then we get a really stupid mistake: When this city is under glass, Wily Machine comes down and Dr. Wily orders Guts Man to bring Washington to him. Wait, what?! Rock is such a blue dweeb because at least here, the city is close enough to be in Washington; but the Washington Rock was talking about was further west. You couldn't get Rock to say Chicago which Guts Man mentions after Guts Man gives Dr. Wily Washington. Someone needs to read over Gary's script because this is dumb. Dr. Wily tells Guts Man to guard New York and Chicago with their lives. So, even Los Angeles is safe now?! Proto Man goes out the back of the Wily Machine with a cage filled with Battattons from Mega Man 4 (the Mega Man 2 ones have lined mouths rather than circle mouths, despite being the same robot animal basically).
This is one of the few times the show used regular enemies, as the Robot Master were the focus of the series. Blues informs Dr. Wily that the motion sensor chips are implanted on the Battattons to track Rock and kill him. Blues opens the cage as there are six of them flying out despite being about five of them. Whatever, I have seen worse animation from TaleSpin than this. Dr. Wily demands no failure as the heels all live to some island just as Rock arrives to claim that they stole New York. Sigh, I'm over the inconsistent logic of the cities in this episode, so release the Battattons for Rock to try to kill. Then we get maybe the worst time filler segment ever: Rock notices a white ferry at the shoreline with several cars as three criminal mobsters comes out as Rock notices the purple suit man as Mr. Virage and Mr. Roshanko both are basically art thieves who sell stolen artwork. Did they do a piracy angle in the middle of the episode, just because Gary can? Now, there is something we need a shoot interview for. The white limo is opened by a robot butler to reveal Mrs. Lapierre who buys stolen artwork. She also has a white dog, which I bet is named Fifi; because of course it would be named as such. So, the three art thieves go into the white ferry and Rock and Rush follow him. Why?! What is the point of this?! Gary has lost focus on this episode like Cathy Perdue did in Destiny Rides Again as we scene change back to Dr. Light's lab as he has finished the reverse shrink ray in the form of a laser saber. Ooookkkkkaaayyyy. Roll gets the light saber and a portable radio transmitter to aid in enchancing the signal a tiny little bit. See what I did there? At least this scene is fine, but I still don't get the point of the art thieves scene. Roll does backflips into the WRJS from Electric Nightmare in the correct colors this time and flies off. Scene change to a sky shot of the shoreline with the white motorboat driving on the water. Then it hit me: Miss LaPierre and company are headed to Dr. Wily's island to get cities in miniature. This is so petty; but at least it shows Gary did a great job in fooling me into thinking this was a time filling segment, when it does play an important role in the plot.
The heels all head inside the motorboat as the poodle gets all pissed off seeing the tiny Rock and Rush. Miss LaPierre calms the dog down and it's name is -- I am not making this up -- Sweesy-Swessy! ANIME FACEPLANT~! For those who complain about Sway-Sway and Chum-Chum being bad names: Remember that I had to deal with King Squeaky-Squeaky from The Wuzzles and Sweesy-Swessy from this show! Those two names are far worse than Sway-Sway and Chum-Chum. Rock thinks they are safe, although Rush is probably feuding with Sweesy-Swessy in future; however here comes the Battattons as there are now only five of them. Yawn, I have seen worse logic than this in this very episode! New weapon, electric Wii sparks. Rock and Rush bail as we jump cut to another motorboat with the RM's noticing Rock on the radar. Yes, Guts Man is the driver of the motorboat as he does as close to popping a wheelie as you can get in order to spin the boat in the direction that he wants. Back to the ferry boat with the Battattons shooting electric bolts at the babyfaces who dodge like the puny little gods that they are. See what I did there?! Rock does a forward roll, tries to shoot the Battatton and despite being weak, the Battattons no sells it. Rock notices the conveniently placed firehose under glass and has his savior. Rock gets on Rush Jet and Rock manages to shoot his buster. Despite being weak, glass is still no match for the Little Mega Buster~! Yeah, the logic is getting worse than TaleSpin's version of this trope. Somehow. Rock grabs the nozzle and jumps down. Rush opens the wheel and Rock sprays the Battattons and Battattons die because these bats are weak to lots of water. Of course! I could bring out the DSLite and my non-resistant coat again, but let Rock cut a lame promo as the RM's arrive via their motorboat and get onto the boat. Guts Man and Cut Man have the shrink rays (WHY?!) as Rock calls them scumbots and hopes they brought their rubber duckies. Rock sprays Cut Man and he goes flying into the drink. Of course! Because...you guessed it. Dust Man uses the shrink ray and shrinks the hose down to nothing, forcing Rock to bail.
Rock and Rush Jet fly and Rock decides to grab one of the shrink rays to even this thing up. Considering how big they are, good luck you blue dweeb. You'll need it. Guts Man helps Cut Man into the motor boat as Cut Man aims the shrink ray at Rock, which is the signal for Rock to steal the shrink ray from him. Of course, because...you guessed it. Guts Man is like "Fuck BS&P!" and punches Rock, Rush and the shrink ray in midair and all three fall into the drink. Guts Man calls Rock a blue dweeb for the second time in this episode alone. Rock and Rush then panic underwater, because here comes a great white shark to end the segment 12 and 1/2 minutes in. I noticed something about this show: The third act is often the longest act of the episode and in this case, it took half of the entire episode! Most DTVA shows have the first act being the longest and For A Fuel Dollars More was more than half of an entire episode sans OP and ED. Nowadays, most shows are completely uniform in terms of length and that's a great thing because then the audience has a perfect idea when the commercial break is coming and can take a leak or something among those lines. Back then, you never knew when the breaks were coming because they were all different despite having the same length in overall episodes. Of course, with streaming, it's a moot point since you can usually pause the thing and return to it at anytime, unless you are one of those whom think seeing it live is the bee knees. In sports, it's understandable; but in fiction, not so much. Yeah, I'm writing this because I have to fill a full paragraph due to the break being shorter than usual. Anyhow, the episode is better animated than The Incredible Shrinking Molly, but the rest of the episode is so far not as good as The Incredible Shrinking Molly. Dust Man is no Dr. Zibaldo and it's the usual heel vs. face action episode. It's not horrible by any means, but it's nothing really special either.
After the commercial break. Rock and Rush face their version of the giant rat from The Incredible Shrinking Molly, only the rat had a lot more personality. I mean, the rat hated Rebecca's joke about the peanut being "assalted". Come on, now; that's a winner! Even Rebecca realized that it was a bad dad joke in the worst order. Rock orders Rush to move it as Rush changes into the glassless dome version of Rush Marine. Rush rockets to the shrink ray and attaches itself to it. Rock fires the shrink ray, the white shark is reduced to fish bait and the shark bails stage left without further incident. Literally it took thirty seconds to bury the shark deep within the earth. Sigh. Rush Jet flies up with the shrink ray as Rock decides to head for Wily's new island as we head to Wily's island complete with a dock where the motorboat is. We pan east to the Wily Castle that looks like it steampunked itself and did it poorly. Dr. Wily begins his sexism by saying "Gentlemen and Lady"; because of course he would. We head inside to the bidding room with the art thieves looking nervous about the city under glass under cover as Dr. Wily explains it all while Guts Man watches on. Did you expect Dr. Wily to give away the cities for free? Of course not, not when he needs the money to fund his terroristic quest for world domination to put that lying Santa Claus wannabe in his proper place. Dr. Light, everyone. When Washington DC under glass was shown, the voice actor showed more emotion and more pop than any of the heels in the animation. One of them looked slightly surprised while sweating; but mostly the rest were bored. If you ever wonder why modern cartoons show more expressive faces, it's to prevent logic breaks like this. Jump cut to outside as Rock calls the boat a Hydrofoil as the tiny babyfaces have reached the island and the castle. Jump cut to Guts Man taking the cities under glass with the other RM's following him. The art thieves are just there as Mr. Roshanko is still sweating hard because he's rubbing a white cloth on his face the entire time. Dr. Wily assures them everything is fine as they all are returning back to where New York/Washington/whatever city it was.
Yeah, I'm tired of this logic, so we jump cut to outside with Rock and Rush heading straight for the castle. Rock and Rush land in a tree as they watch the art thieves go onto the Hydrofoil with the RM's as Washington DC has been sold by Dr. Wily. You don't say, Rock?! The Hydrofoil leaves as Dr. Wily reveals that he is going to rebuild new cities with robots under his control building them and living in them for world domination. Precisely what I predicted earlier on in this episode. Dr. Wily orders Proto Man to the copter because more cities are need to shrink in order to expand his bank account. By copter; he means Wily Machine RS. Pfft, whatever as Rock blows off Dr. Wily's mental state as Wily Machine RS flies away. Rock and Rush follow him as Dr. Wily is a maniac, maniac, I know. He has B-cluster traits on the malignant side you know! Head back to the cars at whatever city was blasted, I assume it's New York; but it's hard to tell. I love how Mrs. LaPierre is yelling at Guts Man to not drop it literally ten seconds after Guts Man put the city under glass in the trunk of her limo. The Robot Masters get into the blue van while the rest of the heels get into their cars and drive away with the blue van being in front of the limo being occupied by Mrs. LaPierre. I say occupied because there is a robot driver who let her out earlier in the episode. Oh, and it's AFTER HAPPY HOUR as Rock and Rush arrive. Rock jumps onto the back of the limo and Rush cannot catch up, so Rock has to go inside the side of the window which somehow is open for no good reason. Rock lands on the seat next to Sweesy-Sweesy and SS is pissed as Miss LaPierre is screeching at a little man according to her. Oh that voice is awful. Miss LaPierre orders the robot driver to stop Rock as Rock blows her off for being a poor pet owner. At least she doesn't treat Rush like a bully, like Dr. Light does; you blue dweeb! Rock gets on the robot driver and pulls down the hat over it's eyes. Yeah, whatever as Rock gets onto the steering wheel and steers like someone who has never driven a car before. Miss LaPierre panics as Rock is basically forcing the robot driver to open the door and it gets crumbled.
Should have kept the driver's door locked, you stupid idiot! I realize that Rock was cutting a seatbelt promo; but come on, now! Rock gets on the top of the front seat and demands Washington right now. Mrs. LaPierre refuses because Rock cannot strike a helpless old woman (Doris was fine because she had a gun and was a robot, therefore not helpless); so LaPierre swings her purse as Rock dodges it on the rebound. Jump cut to Roll on her WRJS as the radio transmitter has found the white limo. Roll comes down and opens the side door to force Sweesy-Sweesy away. LaPierre is pissed off; so Roll uses her robot arm as a vacuum cleaner and sucks the brown wig LaPierre was wearing showing that she was a very old woman after all. Roll's promo was lame by the way and not in a good way. LaPierre screeches in such a terrible voice that she runs out with her dog and that is that. So, they make short jokes to waste time, sadly it's not as funny unless Colonel Spigot is involved. Roll uses the light saber and turns the shrink ray into a jewel now being purple and it grows. Roll wants to get Rock back to size, but Rock no sells and that causes Rush to groan in agony. You see, there's no evidence that they have enough power to turn everyone else back to normal, so let's not turn Rock and Rush back to normal just yet. I'm going to put a pin on that one and see if they run out of power with the shrink ray. If not, then this is going to make the rest of the episode look really stupid in hindsight. So, Roll gets into the driver's side of the limo and drives the white limo away. Jump cut to a windy mountain side road with the blue van driven by Guts Man as the next city is Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Geez, the west coast bias in this episode is tres thick here, as the east is the victim while the west coast is heaven now. I mean, he just mentioned Los Angeles just now. Here comes the white limo and Guts Man is confused. Wait, the white limo was with you when you started this journey, so why are you confused? Maybe LaPierre needed to take a leak somewhere. That would be Occam's Razor in action, even if it doesn't apply here.
Roll gets beside the blue van and the blue van responds with the wussiest sideswipe ever seen. If Molly had seen Kit try this with a plane, she would roll on the ground laughing her ass off! THAT WAS WEAK! THAT WAS WEAK! THAT WAS WEAK! The sideswipe into the guard rail was far more damaging than that. Rock has a plan as he wants Roll to get to the left side of the road. However, Guts Man is smart enough to at least swevere on both sides to block it, but even that isn't enough as Roll finds the opening and gets to the left side of the blue van. Guts Man calls Rock a Mega Creep; which is clear projection on Guts Man's part and Guts Man isn't a mega creep. Dr. Wily, everyone. The passenger side of the white limo opens and here comes Rock and Rush as they dodge Guts Man and Dust Man as Dust Man does a better punch into Guts Man's face than the sideswipe to the white limo earlier as Rock touches Dust Man's vent and it's WEAPON GET TIME~! I'll give Gary this, the weapon Rock got is a million times better and makes more sense than the game's version of Dust Crusher, even if it makes Rock into a future gimmick that would become part of Mega Man 11. Rock and Rush head to the conveniently placed shrink rays in the back, in which Guts Man notices right away. Time for this edition of CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT~! Cut Man claims that he'll nail them as he brings out the Rolling Cutter; but Rock counters by sucking up the bolts from the side of the car, and then shooting them into the Rolling Cutter and reflecting the Rolling Cutter back at the Robot Masters. Some of the beats in this music are clearly from Mega Man X3 as the Rolling Cutter goes through the glass window. Rock steals the ruby gems from the shrink rays to render them powerless. Rock and Rush fly around Guts Man's head like a fly and then Rock leaves. Rock doesn't say anything of note as Guts Man becomes the incompentent one this time as he doesn't look where he is going, a staple of TaleSpin pilots I might add. The blue van goes through the guard rail, the heels goes through the tail back of the van and the blue van crashes into the ground below and explodes.
Rock questions Guts Man's driving skills; which is dumb because Guts Man drove really well until the finish when Rock was the one distracting him. Sod off, you blue dweeb. Rock goes back into the white limo as Roll guns it and it's time to take care of the final two limos as the black limo gets sideswiped better than the blue van, and it flips onto it's roof and stops on a dime. Mr. Roshanko climbs out of the carnage looking concussed and complete with concussed @ anime animation. Oops! Somehow, the beige limo does the Krillian Dragon Ball Z wall running spot and crashes into rocks, somehow getting stuck there. Okay, that was cool. Mr. Virage gets out of the limo and bails. Mr. Roshanko pops out and recovers. Both heels run away from the camera as Rock tells Roll not to persue them because the cities are more important; and there's the giant gem stone left to get. Scene change to I believe is Atlantic City, New Jersey as the Wily Machine RS has arrived. Dr. Wily is loving life and thinks he's won as Rock and Rush arrive. Rock proclaims to have one shot at this; or they lose. Rock gets underneath the Shrink Cannon of doom and tries to push it up into the holder so that the shrink ray is aimed straight at the Wily Machine RS. This is actually a really great finish as Rock hacks into the laser, Proto Man praises his brother in a backhand matter, pushes the ejection red button and both Wily and Proto Man exit the Wily Machine RS from the ceiling. The Wily Machine RS fires the shrink ray, it turns into a small little model and that is that. Sadly, the laser gun cannot be grabbed by the blue dweeb as Roll arives on her WRJS taunting Wily and Blues with parachutes as Wily protests this outrage. Roll grabs the laser gun and that is that. Judging by the voice, Roll and Miss LaPierre were likely voiced by the same person. Rock and Rush join in for some urban renewal. We head back to Dr. Light's residence in the morning as Dr. Light proclaims that the cities are restored to normal and all three art thieves were arrested to make sure no one thinks that they escaped justice. I get it, but it's not exactly realistic or anything. Anyhow, Dr. Light modified the gem structure to make sure it had just enough juice to turn Rock back to normal, but Roll likes being the big sister of this family, causing Rock to give her eye contact violence. Yeah, sure; like I can take little brother seriously. Dr. Light shoots the ray gun and both Rock and Rush return to normal. Rock asks Roll to reconsider and Roll shrugs her shoulder and they all laugh, hug and lick to end the episode at 24:00 approx. This was a fine shrinking episode with better animation than the Incredible Shrinking Molly, however; it was nothing special and felt like your average Mega Man Ruby Spears episode. *** (60%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well, this was your average Mega Man episode doing a shrinking trope. The episode itself was okay, but nothing special except for the fact that it was animated a lot better than The Incredible Shrinking Molly was. There was a lot of logic breaks that didn't help the cause, like trying to keep the cities straight was a chore. Dust Man was fine, but was no Dr. Zibaldo who was the main reason why The Incredible Shrinking Molly was so good since in TaleSpin, this kind of science fiction didn't seem to fit the TaleSpin timeline of being in the 1930's (although had they gone with the 1990 having a 1930's style in the original plans, it would have worked a lot better) Cut Man was Cut Man and the story was fine; although I commend Gary Greenwald for finding a way to take an otherwise time filling segment and incorporate it into the plotline without making it look like filler. Overall, an above average episode with a lot of little logic breaks . So....
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.