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Mega Man Ruby Spears: Ice Age Rant
Reviewed: 04/24/2022
Ice Man Is Pissed~!
So, this is episode #10 on the animation paper as Dr. Wily steals a super freeze technology from the Zero Refrigeration Company to create a giant glacier and freeze cities. His plan is to force the leaders of various cities out of power and replace them with his own robots. Rock and Roll also have to deal with some punk teenagers who don't turn into BattleToads and Ice Man decides that he is not going to take it anymore because he thinks Air Man is an airhead and nothing more. YEAH! How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
Ice Age is written by Jeffrey Scott and was directed by Katsumi Minoguchi.
We begin this episode in front of a gate leading to the Zero Refrigeration Company (ZRC) on an eastern pan shot and then head into the adminstration office as it is full of ice and appears to be freezing cold. I know this because there is a really old man who looks like Mega Man's answer to Master Rochi from Dragon Ball (hilarious since a lot of the voice actors on this show also voiced characters for the Dragon Ball series in general) sitting at his desk covered in a red blanket and shivering. I believe this man is Mr. Zero as he pushes a button and asks someone named Mrs. Pentergast to turn the heat up and file another report. Mrs. Pentergast complies and Mr. Zero pours some coffee into a cup and it's so card that it freezes in seconds. Mr. Zero is also complaining about being in the freezing business. The coffee shatters like glass and ice doesn't sound like glass when shattered. Cut to outside to a guard noticing a nurse wearing blonde hair and judging by the face, it's clearly Ice Man in disguise. The blue gloves give that one away as the guard doesn't suspect a thing as Ice Man want to check his temperture for a cold. I'm pretty sure you do that for a fever, so either Ice Man sucks as a doctor or Doctor Wily does. Oh wait... Or it's just a dupe method because Ice Man lies about the temperture and freezes the guard solid to his neck. I guess the no kill rule is in effect here, although being frozen solid is still bad. In comes...an Air Man with a head on it's top. Yeah, this was one of the worst redesigns of the series. The original Air Man was a fan with eyes, arms and legs. This Air Man is basically a robot master with a fan in it's chest. This Air Man is a lot more nightmare fuelish though, so points for that, I guess. Oh, and I cannot resist making a mention of the infamous "I Can't Defeat Air Man!" fan song from decades ago, where the story of the song is simply someone failing hard at playing Mega Man 2. Ice Man is telling Air Man to get the gate and Air Man is so cocky that he acts like a Karen because he don't like being told what to do. So, Air Man blows away the gate with basically the classic Rock version of Storm Tornado from Storm Eagle/Storm Eaglet from Mega Man X. Ice Man and Air Man walk into the building and are then cut off by a security bot with more detail than most police bots. Ice Man claims that they were getting out of a storm; which is a lie the bot notices right away; but it don't matter as the bot gets completely frozen, including his head.
So, we head back to the office at Mrs. Pentergast arrives with the report, Mr. Zero thanks her and she leave. Mr. Zero is so incompentent to have his office frozen like this, or this is just a sight gag to amuse Jeffrey Scott. Neither makes Mr. Zero look good, and neither one makes Jeffrey Scott look like nothing more than a cruel person. Mrs. Pentergast is wearing a blanket as well. She's gone, so Ice Man appears and opens the window just like that. Zero is panicky and pushes the button for the guards, but the police guard hops in and then trips and falls flat on his face in the room. Zero asks what the hell does Ice Man want and Ice Man wants the Super Freeze Technology. Because Wily wants to make cities frozen glaciers. I realize that the summary is a spoiler, but if you were the target audience, even the kids would have figured it out since Ice Man was freezing guards and bots within the first minute, and Dr. Wily's end game is world domination anyway. Zero calls this impossible and Air Man grabs him. They scene change to a plant where there is liquid nitrogen in vats. I don't see why they had to strip the blanket away since it makes no difference what Zero is wearing since the result is exactly the same as Ice Man demonstrates with a white cloth. Zero surrenders the technology outright and Ice Man uses a transmitter to contact Dr. Wily that they got the technology. Head outside in the air as we have the Skull Blimp flying around the city, cut to inside with Dr. Wily on the transmitter liking this as Guts Man and Proto Man watch on. Dr, Wily will be in the proper position in 15 minutes. The blimp flies west for a while basically to show off the skull symbol. It's fine. Scene change to outside a High School somewhere in the city. Head inside to the principal's office as apparently, Rock and Roll have been assigned volunteer duty for no reason that I can think of. The female principal introduces three teenagers from left to right: Janet (the one with the cyan shirt), Bobby (the one with the yellow shirt with a red censor on the front that is censoring nothing, unless he hates banana yellow in an ironic twist) and Ramon (the one in the gray jacket with red/purple striped shirt) who are supposed to be "special" students. Rock wants to shake hands with the kids, all of them roll their eyes at this. So, even they think Rock is a blue dweeb. They may be a bunch of punks, but they know a dweeb when they see one. The principal is not happy to see this, as the students blow off the robots. Bigots.
Oh, the babyface subplot for this episode is that the punk kids are forced to join Rock and Roll in their adventures to become better students and citizens. The punks hate this because they are robots as Janet points out that she's the brains of the trio by pointing out that robots are pre-programmed, ala brainwashed by their creator. So, Janet sounds like someone who buys into conspiracy theories, which at least is sort of understandable considering that she's supposed to be black. The other two have a much less excuse, and come off as whining dummies. I could understand this being a subplot if it was the only one, but the heel subplot is so much better than this it isn't funny. Which means the babyface subplot is bad and the writer knew this from the start. It's annoying, but it happens in writing cartoons a lot and I'm over this. It's still better to have 2/3rds of the plot threads be good than all three plot threads being bad. Scene change to Rock and Roll driving in a car, which means the punks are in the back and become the backseat drivers. You wonder why calling Mega Man a blue dweeb is accurate in this show?! Roll's decides to plant some trees and as the punk kids have Gruffi poses on full blast and laughs it off because it will lead to them helping Grandma's across the street. You can tell how dated this show is by the dumb stereotypes, although the tree planting thing is still a noble goal even today. The car stops at a red light and Janet turns around to notice Electric Pizza, which looks like a typical 1990's rest stop in a 20XX world. Janet wants to stop there and Rock agrees to it...the punk kids cheer for victory...after they plant some trees. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Okay, I laughed at that one. Rock kindness is showing and it really helps here to make the punk kids look like complete fools, while not punching down on them. If Jeffrey Scott keeps writing like this, this episode might be the best one of the series. I doubt it, however; this was a good spot. Also, I love that in this world the lights are the complete opposite of what you see here in Canada: red on the bottom and green on the top. Also, that is a logic break because 12 seconds ago, the light was in fact like a normal traffic light. Sigh. Scene change to inside the car with a shot of a monitor as it rings. The monitor turns on and it's Dr. Light on the screen. Somehow, RUSH is in the middle which we have not seen of heard until now. Dr. Light tells them that Wily has been spotted at the ZRC along with some bots.
Yup, even Rock says that they need a raincheck on the tree planting, so Bea's raincheck stuff is not a modern cartoon motif. Ramon is acting all sarcastic about this at a time where acting like this makes him look like a jerk. I would rather have them plant trees than get involved in a fight with Ice Man and Air Man. Sarcasm works when the person saying something is stupid and that was not the case here. Head to the ZRC and jump cut to ground level with Ice Man and Air Man exchanging notes. Wily Blimp arrives as we cut to Dr. Wily ordering Guts Man to open the intake valve and Guts Man pushes a button to open a hole just to bring in a giant hose. Ice Man connects hose to the conveniently placed tank as Ice Man and Air Man are calling themselves lame names in order to increase heat for their sub-plot. Air Man cycles the WHEEL OF MORALITY as Ice Man proclaims that the tank hold ten million gallons of liquid nitrogen. If that was the super freezing technology, then that was hilarious. Then I discover that the secret formula is what makes liquid nitrogen super freezing, which is better; but still. Ice Man thinks he's getting a promotion from Dr. Wily on this one. If you kill Rock first, then you get the promotion; which in the first episode, you failed miserably. Sure, you were awesome in the pilot episode; but how you finish is important and you failed on that count. In comes Rock's red car and he jumps out ordering Roll to keep an eye on the kids. Roll is pissed off because she's not the babysitter of the outfit, so Rush has to keep an eye on them and really the only reason Rush was insterted in the car in the first place. Rock and Roll run off, and so do the punk kids in the opposite direction to look at the area in spite of Rush's protests. Betcha Rush gets blamed for all this, too. Rush whimpers and whines before jumping out of the car to follow the punks. Rock finds Air Man and Ice Man admiring the hose as Rock has his Mega Buster set to profits. Air Man is like "F*ck You~!" and uses his fan chest to blow Rock away into some oil barrels. That was great, but it's even hilarious at the punks arrive to blow him off for being a blue dweeb. HAHA! In comes Roll as she brings out the hair dryer arm because she's his number one fan. At least here, it's supposed to be a pun, unlike Caron in Chargeman Ken claiming that she has fans, when she probably meant friends.
Air Man no sells this crap of course, because he's a toxic manly man. Ah, so ROLL was the one who sucks at Mega Man 2 then. POW! OUCH! Ummmm... Air Man tells Roll to blow (Him? Herself? Who knows, who cares?) as he does the actual air shooter and it blows Roll into the wall and she's in pain. Wow, this Air Man is a legit bad ass now. Rush comes in and he decides to drill into the hose with his nose. Wow, Rush is the smartest robot in the room. No wonder the punk kids were blowing off Rock and Roll. One is a blue dweeb and the other one is just a dweeb. Sadly, Ice Man runs in, removes the pipe and sprays liquid nitrogen into Rush; turning him into a block of ice. This is truly embarrassing. Ice Man literally kicks the ice cube into the wall, and the ice shatters, crumbling Rush into pieces. I love it when the robot masters actually look like a threat. Back to the blimp as Dr. Wily wants this wrapped up and after six and a half minutes, Cut Man shows up doing the same Gruffi pose as the punk kids. I wondered who was influencing them. Finally, Ice Man declares it full and turns off the gas. Rock recovers and wants to fight some more as he gets in between Air Man's legs, grabs the hose and stuffs the end of it on Air Man's head. Ice Man wheels the wheel again after dodging a buster shot and shoots liquid nitrogen into Rock's feet and now Rock is stuck in the ice. Air Man gets the pipe off his head, so if you want to know why Air Man was redesigned the way he is in this show, that's why. Air Man finds an out of nowhere welding torch and he melts the metal of a conveniently placed water tower. The water tower is about to crush Rock as Roll panics to end the segment seven minutes in. The punk kids angle has so far been kept to a minimum and the real subplot hasn't even started yet. It's a fun episode so far.
After the commercial break, the water tower slowly tumbles down towards Rock and Rock kills all the suspense by shooting the buster at his feet and make Ice Man look like a geek. Rock dodges the water tower as it is destroyed onto the ground. Then we get a hilarious logic break: The place is already flooded when Rush is shown on the ground and then the next shot is him getting swamped with water. A block of ice of Rush would not flood the place like that in real life. That's not even the biggest logic break: Rush is now whole instead of being in pieces like he was when he got broken into the wall by Ice Man. WHAT?! Ice Man and Air Man bail up the blimp as Air Man went in previously and returns with a tied up person. I'm certain it's Dr. Zero. WHY?! If you got the secret formula already, why do you need to kidnap him? Ice Man orders Dr. Wily to bring up the hose and Dr. Wily orders Guts Man to bring them up. Guts Man pushes the button to bring them up as Rock teases using the Rock Buster and it's clear why the heels kidnapped Dr. Zero: To prevent Rock from shooting them. That actually makes sense. Rock sighs because this is not his lucky. Oh, trust me Rock; this is going to be even more unlucky for you later on. Rock checks on Roll at the wall as Roll is fine while the punk kids are at the fence doing absolutely nothing...AND THE ROCK SAYS NOTHING~! Outside of being rude and mocking Rock, they have mostly stayed out of the way. Roll blames them for all this despite not once interfering in the entire operation. Blame Rush for being a bad babysitter or blame yourself for not following a direct order and inserting yourself into a fight where you got your ass kicked. I don't blame the punk kids for blowing off Rock's "This is not a video game!" crap; which means that they actually watch this cartoon. Mind blown! Ramon then points out that they took this for extra school credit as Rock blows them off for having a bad attitude. At least they didn't look like a bunch of losers who lost to Air Man and Ice Man in this episode so far. Rock and Roll go to the car as Rush is putting himself together again, which makes no sense either. The logic in the last two minutes is totally asinine at this point. Rush of course, does it wrong and hops into the car. Rock and Roll drive off and Rock tells them to go back to school on their own. What a dick?! Rock drives the car as it turns into an airplane and flies into the sky and that is that.
Wow, the punk kids angle is shaping up fine all things considered. Head into the North Pole area as it's snowy with lots of mountains. In comes the Skull Blimp landing down on a snowy area as we a pan shot of the heels and Dr. Zero. Dr. Wily has a fur coat on and orders everyone out of the blimp. Then we get the biggest whiplashing jump cut ever: The previous shot showed them landing on snow in the middle of nowhere. When the heels and Dr. Zero all get out, they are inside a steel metal lab. WHAT THE HELL?! Then we see that they are outside the lab called the Polar Ice Caps Lab as Dr. Wily is cutting a promo still in the sky. Yes, the lab came out of nowhere and the staging is so poor that I have zero idea if they are inside the lab or outside the lab, or in one case if there was a lab at all. Also, Guts Man disappears for at least three frames before reappearing, just to mess up the continuity even further. It's hilarious when Dr. Wily calls them "Gentle Bot" when they are not gentle. Proto Man has Dr. Zero shivering as Dr. Wily orders Zero to use his secret formula on the ice. Dr. Zero asks what will happen if he refused and Guts Man makes a giant literal popscicle out of ice and metal rods; and basically gives Frost Man from Mega Man 8 his catchphrase. Dr. Zero is terrified more for Guts Man eating said ice treat than the threat itself. Dr. Zero decides to start right away as we head into the air with the Skull Blimp. Dr. Zero finally gets the vats and freezing machine operational as he demands the motive from Dr. Wily because making ice at the North Pole when there is lots of it already is dumb. Ice Man and Air Man are involved as Dr. Wily proclaims that he's doing this to start a new ice age using this technology and Air Man's chest fan. Basically, he's going to freeze cities, chase leaders out and replace them with his bots, world domination once again. Dr. Zero calls him mad, but Dr. Wily calls himself happy; because Dr. Wily is a homo sapien vampiris with cluster B tendenices. Dr. Wily wants Air Man to start the operation and suddenly, Ice Man cuts it off because it was his Krackpotkin Plan. Air Man blows him off because Dr. Wily told him too. Ice Man pulls the lever (JESUS~!) to start the ice and Air Man protests that this is way too slow. So, Air Man attached the pipe to his back and blows out the contents much faster. I hate to say this, but Air Man has a point Ice Man. Ice Man is ill-equipped to do this operation.
Air Man is making a new glaicer quicker time as Ice Man protests this outrage because it was his plan, but Dr. Wily tells him to shut up because we have bigger issues to deal with. Dr. Wily's blimp flies towards a small town, I assume is in Canada. The denizens panic and bail while the town is being frozen into hell. In comes Rock and Roll with the car plane of doom as they land on the street. Cut Man notices him and wants to kill him. Riiiiggggghhhhhttttt, at least Dr. Wily is smart enough to tell him to sod off because he has ten billion tons of ice to stop Rock. Rock tells Roll to help with the evacuation and after the last battle, Roll is like "okay" and bails with Rush. Rock decides to try to stop Dr. Wily like the blue dweeb that he is. Rock tries to shoot the glacier, but it's no good. Rock bails to notice two people in a green truck with no way to move. Rock opens the engine, shoots plasma into the engine and that makes it start. So, electric trucks exists in this world. Okay. The green truck drives away without further incident. Rock then fails to bail like the blue dweeb that he is and gets encased in ice. Roll screams in pain as Rush turns into Rush Jet and whisked Roll away stage left. Back to the blimp as Dr. Wily suddenly sounds like Ice Man for a few seconds. Luckly, Ice Man was in the blimp as Proto Man mocks Rock for being an ice cube. Dr. Wily don't care either way because he has cities to freeze, so the Skull Blimp bails south towards America. Roll and Rush head to the spot where Rock is frozen. Roll gets down and brings out her screwdriver drill to drill the ice while Rush of course is an idiot because he scrapes snow and ice right into Roll's face. Roll blows Rush off and Rush is ashamed.
Jump cut to Roll getting the ice cube version of Rock out. Hey, Rock did this to Ice Man in the first episode, so this is poetic justice in my opinion. Rush then stoops to Cut Man's incompentent by being Kung-Fu Rush Dog~! He chops the ice and it fails badly. HAHA! Roll giggles as she brings out the arm axe and chops the ice cube in two, freeing Rock from the ice and not cutting him in half in the process. Rock is shivering harshly because he was on ice for thirty minutes. What a whimpy blue dweeb?! So, now we need Dr. Light's help as Rush turns into a giant Rush Jet. Rock and Roll get on Rush Jet and we scene change back to Dr. Light's residence. Head into the lab as Dr. Light wants to do something; but it's not going to be easy and it may not be doable at all. Sigh. Roll proclaims that they got it make it work as the monitor turns on to reveal a worker robot with an orange helmet on. He represents the Robot Civic Defense force as he informs the babyfaces that they are evacuting the city and he gets frozen into the glacier as Roll points out the obvious to us. Head outside with Skull Blimp approaching the city freezing anything in sight as denizens of panicking and fleeing. It's so impossible, but at least they are trying to cover up the fact that you cannot kill humans on this show by having them flee. I can understand the effort in doing so. Jump cut to Dr. Wily on the transmitter loving life as he orders the government to basically flee the city with the civialians as the mayor from The Big Shake is back fuming in his office and shaking, trying to not blow off Dr. Wily again. More freezing and glaciering is making Gregory Weagle something something to end the segment 14 minutes in. So far, so good.
After the commercial break, we get more of the same as three robots with lasers try to shoot the glacier and they get encased in ice. Dr. Wily is loving life, but he orders Ice Man to go find Rock and prevent him from interfering and also to pay a visit to Dr. Light for the same reason. Ice Man sells it and bails as Air Man mocks him some more. Ice Man parachutes down onto the ground and runs off as we finally see Janet, Ramon and Bobby noticing their high school getting encased in ice and they cut promos like a bunch of 1990 kids as a stereotype. Thankfully, they are not stupid as they bail away from the glacier. They may have bad attitudes, but they know when to quit if you know what I mean. Head back to Dr. Light's residence as Dr. Light has...wait for it...failed to find a chemcial to stop the ice. Shouldn't sunlight suffice?! I just realized how dumb this ice age angle is as the punk kids all run in and admit that Rock was right about the seriousness of the situation at least. Bobby wants Ice Man's blood and this causes Dr. Light to have an idea. Jump cut to outside a hallway in Dr. Light's residence as the three punk kids walk out as Ice Man is hiding behind a wall overhearing the kids claiming that Dr. Light has everything under control. Ice Man just blows his cover to demand answers to this outrage. The punk kids goldbrick on the wrong person as Ice Man freezes a stop sign and threatens to chill them out. Janet puts her hands up and decides to tell him that Dr. Light is building a spy camera to spy on Dr. Wily's blimp to check for weaknesses. Which Dr. Light is not doing because it's a heel move, but it works because psychopath think everyone is them, thus heels! Psychological warfare at it's best! So, we head back to Dr. Light's lab; as Dr. Light is making a spy camera out of an egg attached to a Pipi, a bird from Mega Man 2 that is annoying to video game players. Ice Man runs in as Dr. Light throws the egg to Rock, Rock tosses it out of the window as it dodges the freezing spray of Ice Man. The punk kids look on from a back wall as Rock shoots at Ice Man, Ice Man dodges and tries to MURDER Rock with the biggest ice version of the SLEDGEHAMMER OF PLOT as Rock is driven into the steel wall. Roll is panicking as Rock is covered in ice while Ice Man proclaims that he killed the blue dweeb and he's deader than a flashlight battery.
So, Ice Man goes to the computer as the babyfaces all surrender. Just like that! Ice Man is on the transmitter to inform Dr. Wily that he destroyed Mega Man. Dr. Wily is pleased as he orders Ice Man to secure the lab and he'll arrive, over and out. The monitor flickers and then it comes back on as Air Man is talking to Dr. Wily now. Ice Man is confused as Dr. Light tells him that it's pointless to talk to him because the Pipi camera is being used and it's a one way transmission. Air Man then proclaims that Ice Man is getting too powerful and therefore must be stopped and Dr. Wily agrees with him. Uh-oh! The camera goes out as Ice Man is not going to allow this to happen and orders Dr. Light to make Ice Bots for him. Dr. Light complies like it is nothing and creates Ice Bots in the next scene. Ice Man is pleased as he freezes the robots and this in turn turns them on. Ice Man orders the bot to march out and kill Dr. Wily and the treachorous bots. The bots comply as Ice Man and the bots leave the residence. Rock suddenly wakes up seconds later and gets out of the trap with ease. Yup, Dr. Light make clones of Dr. Wily and Air Man put in a studio in order to deceive Ice Man to work against them. This would have been fine if the studio had an actual window inside. The Pipi camera was just a decoy. Personally, I would have preferred that the Pipi camera found the blimp and both heels actually meant what they said on the blimp so that it doesn't sound like Dr. Light was gaslighting Ice Man into this plan, but whatever. The punk kids are impressed, but Rock is heading into the city to make sure this plan actually works. Jump cut to Ice Man in the parking lot waving at Dr. Wily's blimp. The blimp lands in the parking lot as the heels all get out. Dr. Wily is pleased with Ice Man and wants to give him a bonus. Personally, my idea for this would be better than what Jeffrey Scott booked, but this will work either way. Ice Man blows him off and orders the Ice Bots to attack much to the cringe face of Dr. Wily. Dr. Wily bails with Proto Man behind the cars. Why Proto Man? I can why Dr. Wily and even Dr. Zero bailing; but Blues?! What a red dweeb?! Oh, and doesn't matter because Proto Man jumps in literally seconds later firing his buster. Lots of ice shooting for fun as Guts Man punches one of the ice bots in the chest, shatters the ice and Guts Man gets taken down and pinned by the ice bot. HAHA!
Now it is time for this episode's edition of CUT MAN IS INCOMPENTENT~! Cut Man brings out his Rolling Cutter and proclaims that he love ice sculptures. Cut Man fires the rolling cutter, which destroys the ice, but misses the metal bot completely. Ooops! Cut Man gets grabbed and thrown into a truck, and somehow missed the tire and you can still hear the tire going flat. The blades hit top blue paint of the truck, instead of the rubber tire, which would have been a safer bump. Ice Man stalks Dr. Wily and here comes Rock on Rush as Ice Man is shocked and appalled because we have to get off death reference #2 of this episode. Ice Man orders the bots to kill Rock...AGAIN! Rock brings out a transmitter and issues the command override on the ice bot and orders them to kill Ice Man instead. Oh, and the override is complete and the ice bots turn on Ice Man. Yup, Ice Man got duped. Worse, he cannot rely on Dr. Wily to save him because Ice Man turned on Dr. Wily and fell for Dr. Light's gaslighting. Ice Man looked like a total geek and even if it was Dr. Wily decieving Ice Man, the result would be exactly the same. Ice Man protests this outrage and hides behind the car with Dr. Wily and they have a staredown. Air Man is like "Enough of this crap!" as he comes out with the hose on his back. Air Man shoots ice at Rock, Rock dodges lamp pole, Roll runs from behind into the blimp, cuts the wires from the generator and Air Man loses his glacier building powers just like that! Roll and Dr. Zero run out of the blimp and bail stage left. Ice Man runs out and bails from everyone, so Rock shoots his buster at another lamp post and this falls onto the ground. Ice Man does not look where he is going, trips onto the lamp post and falls to the ground. Rock stalks him, touches him and it's WEAPON GET TIME~! Ice Man pleads for Air Man's help, that was rich. Air Man no sells the deal and prepares for his Air Shooter move. Then we get one of the most embarrassing moments in the entire series: Air Man gets beat by the three punk kids with a rubber tire. Roll beating Cut Man with two slices of toast was bad, but remember, she's also a robot and has a lot of power. These three punk kids are mere humans and have no such power. Sadly, it's not the tire Cut Man deflated from earlier, so that continuity is screwed up to boot! Also, this is the only time where they directly interfered in an episode and it mattered!
Air Man gets tripped from behind, flies around like the air coming out of a balloon and takes the bump WITH CHEESE AND BACON onto the pavement. Rock mocks Air Man and it's WEAPON GET TIME~! AGAIN! The remaining heels just stand there and they get air shootered by Rock into the sky. Just a comedy of stupidity in this finish. Oh wait, I forgot: Rock manages to freeze them in mid-air. WHAT?! You cannot do that in the video games, show! Ice Man realizes that he is screwed and tries to bail, but we get a really lame sequence of Rock freezing Ice Man into an ice cube and then crumbling into the ground. Dr. Wily blows this off and head to the blimp. He brings out the vaccum cleaner of doom and sucks up all the heels and flies away. Now this episode really...POW! OUCH! Ummm...Yeah, everyone gets the picture and then to make Wily's plan look even dumber in hindsight, Dr. Zero cuts a promo stating that liquid nitrogen ice turns into a gas if it's not cold; killing whatever this plotline had from the very start. So, we wrap this up with the kids slapping skin and holding hands to end the episode at 24:00 approx. Oh wait, the final Rush eyecatcher comes out. HAHA! It's better than Rush doing something stupid at the end that is for sure. This episode was good until the finish buried Air Man and the robot master into the ground and the secret formula meant absolutely nothing since it wasn't mentioned ever again, rendering Wily's plan a total bust from the start. *** (60%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well, this was a fine episode for the most part. I was expecting Janet, Ramon and Bobby to be all over this episode making Rock's life a miserable hell and causing chaos; outside of some mocking, they were on their best behavior. They mostly stayed out of the episode until that ultra embarrassing finish where Air Man got defeated by a tire. It's almost as embarrasing as MAVO getting defeated by popcorn in The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin. Almost. The finish was absurd for Rock's two weapons at once sequence and without the secret formula being mentioned to justify the fact that the Ice Age angle was totally not believable in hindsight, the main plot fell flat. Air Man and Ice Man were the stars of this episode and they were awesome. I would have perferred Air Man and Dr. Wily turning on Ice Man for real just to further justify the feud between the two robots and not have Dr. Light gaslighting Ice Man into believing that they hated him; however, Ice Man's turn would have happened regardless. Outside of some animation errors and some logic breaks, this was a good episode with a crappy finish. So...
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.