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Mega Man Ruby Spears: Master Of Disaster Rant
Reviewed: 05/18/2022
Doctor Wily Is Not A Geni(us)e!
So, we continue season two of the blue dweeb's life with episode #18 (although on the DVD, it is episode #20) as Dr. Wily frees a genie, trying to use his magic for world domination. Mega Man goes after Wily and tries to steal the magic chest, eventually having to fight the genie to stop Wily. Oh great, you can tell from the summary alone that this was the episode that made the show officially jump the shark. How does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
Master of Disaster is written by Matt Uitz and was directed by Katsumi Minoguchi.
We begin this episode with a quick pan shot of mountain/forest area and then we head inside a cave with Rock, Roll, Rush, Dr. Light and a man named Professor Romu as he is talking about finding an amazing discovery which is a painting featuring green cyclop monsters and a giant eye which opens a small vault. Professor Romu uses the flashlight as no one suspects the Battatton watching them despite sqeuaking at a volume everyone in the room should hear. We cut back to a monitor with Dr. Wily and Proto Man watching on because this is the secret of Lotos, no relation to Roto from Dragon Quest as Proto Man don't care about fairy tales, especially stone ones. Dr. Wily claims that this is not ficition and that some tablet will lead them to a CHEST OF DEMONS containing Lotos which is colored gold, as Dr. Wily wants it for power for world domination as always. It's pathetic at this point that Dr. Wily is depending on magic and going against the show's premise to get his heel heat back. The Wily Machine RS goes away from the hard camera as we cut back to Dr. Light taking pictures of the stone tablet found by Professor Romu as Romu explains the story of an evil cyclop spirit genie known as Lotos, which some guy from India found somewhere in a golden chest, and this person released Lotos in exchange for power to become a maharaja; however, Lotos was too dangerous to control, so the maharaja tricked him back into the golden chest. Roll is extremely skeptical of this tale; but this is a cartoon and therefore it's always believable. Romu puts the tablet in the backpack, warning the babyfaces that if Lotos is released again; it would be doom for the world basically. To be honest, this is not the stupidest thing I have seen, but I cannot take this seriously already since it goes against the show's premise of technology now that magic is involved. Still, even so; that doesn't mean the episode cannot be good at all; and I always look forward to a charming trainwreck when it amuses me the most. Then we get a dust explosion of doom engulfing said babyfaces and then a rock falls short of Dr. Light; but Dr. Light sells his ankle on the way down when he tries to bail. Rock deduces it's Dr. Wily and gets on Rush and the animation is already wonky within two minutes. We head outside as Drill Man is on a storage roof firing drill missiles as Rock and Rush Jet come out. Rock is shooting while defying the laws of physics, but it still looks cool. Drill Man gets shot down to the ground.
Somehow; Drill Man lands in some lead pipes as Rock and Rush land. Guts Man appears out of nowhere being a simpleton punk as he smashes a box of dynamite (which are black in color and not red like usual) and eats the dynamite sticks. Wait, what?! Guts Man shoots a black spiked rock at Rock as Rock and Rush dodge and the thing explodes which makes no sense because chomping it together should have exploded in Guts Man before this. Rocks are crumbled and Rock is knocked the F out. Wait, what?! Rush is pissed and that leads to Rush biting Guts Man's leg and getting thrown away. I check the video....Nope, even better: Guts Man gets out of nowhere lit dynamite and throws it at Rush and Rush opens wide and eats the dynamite. It explodes in his tummy and somehow doesn't crumble him, but gives him a bad stomach ache. I don't know weither to laugh or cry here, but damn; that was absurd. Proto Man, Cut Man and the debuting Gravity Man enter the cave as Blues is on the white cell phone of bigots to inform Dr. Wily that everything is perfect now. More Guts Man and eating dynamite ensue as Rock recovers and shoots the lever (JESUS~!) of a construction digger and the digger nails Guts Man in the head and THAT causes the dynamite to explode in Guts Man's head. Of course! Logic don't care anymore at this point. Guts Man's face is a wreck and Rock taunts him for eating spicy foods. Sod off, you bigot! Out comes the human babyfaces with Roll carrying Dr. Light because Dr. Light is selling an ankle injury at this point. The three get cut off by Cut Man, Blues and Gravity Man, who looks almost 1:1 to the game, if only the animation wasn't so hideously awful. Cut Man uses Rolling Cutter to cut the straps off the backpack of Professor Romu and Blues uses the Blues Buster to back the babyfaces up. Dust ensues as Roll counters with the vacuum cleaner arm. Now this episode really sucks! HAHA!
Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Sean Desmond.
Romu checks the backpack and the tablet is gone as Cut Man has TWO of them. So, the first one was already gotten with no story to back that one up. I should have guessed that Matt would book it this way. Somehow, Cut Man got a smile despite having no real lips to smile. That is one animation mistake I don't mind them doing at this point, because that was funny. Rock and Rush run in complete with Rock Buster as Rock threatens violence. Stupid move, because Cut Man has the tablets and Romu is NEVER going to allow them to be destroyed even if it would be in the best interests to do us to prevent Dr. Wily from grabbing the golden chest. Because censorship burns people, or something. Thankfully, Gravity Man decides to cut in and use the Gravity Beam to create a giant boulder from the ceiling to try to crush Romu, Roll and Dr. Light as a way to run interference. By the way, the G shaped beam reminds me a lot of Gundam G's logo on the sword in the opening of that anime. Rock and Rush tackle the babyfaces away from the giant wall smasher of death as he crushes the area and the heels decide to bail stage left. Jump cut to the Wily Machine RS flying away from the scene and then jump cut back to the crushing wall as Rock blasts through the stone to make a cave path and that is that. Romu is panicking because one of the stone tablet contains a map to the location of the golden CHEST OF DEMONS where Lotos resides. Roll wonders how and Dr. Light shows the picture he took which the second tablet is in fact the map to Lotos. Jump cut to a shot of a waterfall and then jump cut to a cave within the water fall with Rock and Roll. One of the Battattons is spying on the babyface robots as they proceed into the cave. Jump cut to outside as Dr. Wily, Drill Man and Gravity Man have already taken the lead on the babyfaces and found the ruined lost city. Dr. Wily is loving life until a Battattons arrives to tell him that the babyfaces are after his assface. Dr. Wily is no longer loving life and hates it so much that he cannot resist calling Rock a blue dweeb again. HAHA! Dr. Wily orders Drill Man and Gravity Man to kill Rock on sight of course. Dr. Wily proceeds further inside deducing that the golden chest is somewhere in the ruins. Pfft, whatever. Head back to the cave as Rush springs a button on the trapdoor out of nowhere after Rock warned the faces to be careful and Gravity Man drops from the open ceiling to cut the babyfaces off. Of course!
Gravity Man makes jokes and shoots stone spikes to rain down as Rock shoots to destroy them into dust. Rock shoots Gravity Man and he bonks into the wall, knocked out as he short circuts. Jump cut to outside with Dr. Wily reeling up a bucket from a water well. This leads him to find the golden CHEST OF DEMONS, just like that! I realize that compact story telling is important, but this episode is barely five and a half minutes in! My god, that was fast! Dr. Wily is loving life, but here comes Rock, Roll and Rush to tell him to drop it. Wait, where's Drill Man? Dr. Wily drops it on the ground so hard, that the CHEST OF DEMONS opens with bright yellow light to reveal Lotos, whom doesn't even match the color scheme on the tablet. Yes, instead of green; Lotos is black colored. Lotos is now serving Dr. Wily and Dr. Wily orders Lotos to kill the robots. Rock shoots, Lotos counters with the LEGAL HAND OF GOD and throws the Rock Buster into Rock as he bonks into a tree, being knocked out for the second time in this episode alone. What a blue dweeb?! And it's HIS fault that the genie was unleashed since he ordered Dr. Wily to drop the chest in the first place! If you wonder why Dr. Wily's insult is accurate, look no further than this episode. Lotos then uses his purple beam magic to turn one tree into arms to grab Rock and then break logic by somehow getting two more arms to grab Rush and Roll in that order. Am I watching The Mighty Hercules or something, because this episode is way down it's alley. Only, it's 1995, not 1965 when shoestring budget cartoons were the norm and not the exception. Apparently, Lotos created three literal robot eating trees, because of course. The whole episode is totally a trainwreck at this point as the segment ends six and a half minutes in. You know the show is jumping the shark when they had to resort to magic to get it over, like Darkwing Duck needed to be in other worlds when Saint Canard was not getting over.
After the commercial break, we see then repeat the spots from the end of the first segment as Dr. Wily is loving life. Lotos has the Gruffi pose on and he don't care at all. Dr. Wily has bigger plans for Lotos and Lotos is perfectly fine with this because he don't care. Two cluster B trait vampire in a pod, they both really deserve each other. Rock then realizes that they are just a bunch of trees and shoots the branches to free himself and the babyfaces for a while. The babyfaces all get aside of Rock as more shooting of Rock buster and the trees are literally throwing leaves as ninja stars. The evil tree monsters grow and surround the robot babyfaces. Roll thinks everybody is doomed, but Rock shoots up and destroys the stone ceiling despite the entire area clearly being encased with stone ceiling and thus there should be no light present. Whomever directed this episode lost all hope and reason at this point, because it makes no sense. Rock, Rush and Roll escape up the volcano-equse path. Jump cut to Wily Machine RS heading west as Rock jumps onto the roof of the machine and listens with his super acute hearing he stole from Chargeman Ken and we head into the cockpit as Lotos and Dr. Wily are exchanging notes on the situation. Basically, Dr. Wily wants to be emperor and world domination as usual. Rock is pissed off as he gets back on Rush Jet and the babyfaces bail stage right. Jump cut to the Wily Machine RS arriving near the tallest building in some city as Dr. Wily orders Lotos to do his worst. Lotos doesn't think twice and he uses his purple demonic magic beams to turn the entire building in the city to monsters. Jesus, no wonder people were creeped out when Dora the Explorer showed objects with faces, they saw this show and it creeped them out for life! A suspension bridge literally has legs and walks away stage left as Dr. Wily is loving life. We get a long sequence as Dr. Wily has declared himself king of New York City and is holed up in the tallest building at his command center with all the heels as they watch on the monitor Bree Recotta (who outside of her mouth only moving, she looks a lot better than the last episode she was in) informing everyone of the situation. Channel is misspelled Chanel by the way.
Sadly, the closeup shot of Bree is worse than the last episode despite spelling Channel 3 properly this time. The animation team has brutalized her since the first season. I'm just going to say that the populace is terrorized by the monster buildings on the monitor and be done with it. Dr. Wily cackles on cue and is...you guessed it, loving life. He's certainly loving this a lot more than I do this episode. Thunderstorms and dark clouds ensue in the city as Rock, Roll, Rush and Dr. Light arrive at New York City via a power boat. Dr. Light explains the obvious to us as Rock isn't giving up yet, and still Dr. Wily spots him on the monitor within seconds. Dr. Wily still doesn't like this even though he has the most powerful force in this universe. Besides, nothing is funnier than Dr. Wily calling Rock a blue dweeb anyway, so let him be pissed off. Even Lotos is taken aback by this, but he has no problems wanting to fry Rock's circuits anyway. Lotos teleports out and then outside of the city and then he uses his demonic purple beams on the Statue Of Liberty. Always works for cheap heel heat, so at least Lotos is pushing the monster heel buttons perfectly. The thing is, Lotos is a really awesome monster heel, but he is in the wrong kind of show here. He belongs in a Ghostbusters episode, or even Gargoyles for that matter. Rush panics on cue and notices that Lady Liberty has gone fascist. No, not really; she's more like the Stone Hulks from Dragon Warrior III. She also has a torch double as a flamethrower as the motorboat has to dodge all. I betcha LL can walk in water without any trouble either. Otherwise, this buries the gimmick. Worse, the babyfaces cannot destroy the thing because censorship is like burning people even if there is no choice in the matter. Rock shoots the torch out of LL's hands, which is a no-no because LL vandalizes herself by taking out a stone spike and destroys the motor boat with it. Way to go, you blue dweeb! Way to F'N go! The motorboat sinks as Dr. Wily is loving life and proclaims that he doesn't need robots anymore. I wonder if that line will come back to haunt him? Never mind, head to inside the sewer treatement plant with the babyfaces all heading in from the pipes. So much for drowned rats. Jump cut to inside the city as a manhole cover is opened from the empty street and out pops the babyfaces. In comes a brown haired boy in a blue shirt with grey pants in a massive panic because there is a hellish car shooting red lasers at the babyfaces.
Everyone dodges as Rock jumps into the hellish car's driver seat and at least it's not like Rock driving a car like the Wuzzles because the car has a life of it's own and thus the car is responsible for the bad driving. Rock gets thrown out of said car and takes the lamest bump into the wall and no sells the bump, and rightfully so. Rock shoots the car and despite doing no damage whatsoever and not even making contact with the car, the car stops and turns back to normal. Rock comments about wasting cars as Dr. Light proclaims that Lotos cannot be stopped like a robot and must be sealed into the CHEST OF DEMONS again. Rock is willing and able to torment Dr. Wily into doing that as the boy in question informs Rock that Dr. Wily is at the Empire State Building. But the magic of Lotos is too much to get inside, so let's return to Dr. Light's residence in the morning. We head into the lab as Rock is inside an orange vehicle which Dr. Light calls the Landblazer. Rock drives the LB out of the garage as Rush jumps onto the roof to follow him as Roll stays behind, apparently. The LB is driving in the streets as Dr. Wily notices it on the monitor and he is pissed off. Lotos seems to want to make sure he gets the job done, but Blues cuts him off because he wants to kill big brother. Lotos dares him to use their "magic" to stop him, because why not?! By the way, after ordering Drill Man and being written out by teleport, Drill Man is back in the background with Guts Man and Cut Man. Blues accepts the dare as we head back to the streets as they are empty and too quiet according to the blue dweeb. Explosion appears in front of the street as Rock's prediction of trouble comes to fruition as Drill Man finally decides to run interference now. Drill Man fires a drill missile and Rock dodges, Rock shoots back and Drill Man gets hit and thrown into the hole in the ground again. Guts Man is throwing steel beams at Rock, Rock dodges them with ease as he blows off Guts Man. Rock shoots the conveniently placed wrecking ball (one guess what the target is) and the wrecking ball literally wrecks Guts Man off the building. Guts Man falls into the back of a green truck and somehow doesn't destroy it. Wow, that was a burial of sorts. Cut Man uses Rolling Cutter as Rock dodges it and downed lamp posts. When the most incompentent robot master in the show has the best luck in this episode, that's a uber burial of all the robot masters. Well, there is still Blues left.
Cut Man unleashes another Rolling Cutter and Rush uses his tail to reflect it back in the most "zero f's given" motion possible and Cut Man is forced to bail into the sewers. Rock thanks Rush for that one and then Blues is on the monitor taunting Rock as it's the Landblazer vs. the green tank from the previous episode! Lots of shooting ensues as Rush is the only one who has any fear in it's eyes. Rock shoots the tank wheels and the tank crashes into the side of a building just like that. Lotos is amused because he knows these robot masters suck! Lotos bails and goes to the roof of a conveniently placed library which has griffin statues. If you cannot guess the next spot now, you have no business reading this rant. Yup, Lotos turns them into stone griffin monsters! At least these stone griffins are generic, so Rock is perfectly okay with destroying them. Still, the monsters are a massive nuisance to handle. One of the stone griffins kidnaps Rush and spirits him into the air. Rock can only scream Rush's name and that ends the segment 14 minutes in. Damn, I'm glad I decided to do this episode early because this episode is so stupid. It's damn shame because I'm actually digging Lotos as a badass heel in this episode even if this is the wrong cartoon to be in.
After the commercial break, we get a repeat sequence of the griffins flying and Rock shooting his Rock Buster at them. Rock turns the Landblazer around and goes in pursuit of Rush, who is panicky at this point. Rock destroys the griffin with the Rock buster and Rush free falls, tumbles off a canopy and into the Landblazer. If Kit saw this, he would have giggled and groaned at how uncool and safe that bump ultimately was compared to him in A Bad Reflection On You, Part One. Also, Kit had to save a baby he'll never get proper due for. Rush pants and Lotos IS PISSED! I don't blame him, he's been an awesome monster heel thus far and Rock is a buzzkill to him. Lotos shoots more buildings at random with his magic as Rock drives into Riverside Park and yes, it is a legit park in New York, so it's perfectly fine. Buildings are shooting at Rock and the animation sequence is so hideously bad that it's silly. Rock decides to take an alternate route much to the disdain of Rush, and crashes over the railing into the river below as we jump cut back to Dr. Wily loving life and calls Rock a blue dweeb for the third time in this episode alone. HAHA! Lotos has made him look like one so far, so kudos to the genie. Lotos has made this episode worth watching in spite of the obvious jumping of the shark, show-wise. Rock pushes a button, turns the Landblazer into a jetski and skis on the water without further incident as the water has literally turned green. Now, so far; this episode has been completely absurd, but Lotos is carrying this episode kicking and screaming. Now the episode is going to get even more absurd and jump the shark even further: Head back to Dr. Light's lab with Dr. Light and Roll watching on the monitor as they discover that Lotos' is not an actual genie, but a Yamamoto Orchi, or "Seven-Headed Dragon". While the monster has been in various RPG's before, albeit with badly translated names, this might be the first one on North American cartoons. That would be all well and good, but it's clear that Matt has given up trying to make this episode make any sense and is now throwing stuff on the wall to make it stick. This makes no sense with the Indian legend either, so what?! Why not just have him change to a green color as a way to show Loto's weakness?! That would make more sense than this. Dr. Light proclaims that Lotos can be beaten in his dragon form, but Roll calls this hopeless. Dr. Light still has a plan to counter this as Rock will be using the Stealthglider.
Rock has returned to the residence as he and Dr. Light exchange notes on the situation. He is equipped with the sleath glider and looks like a complete tool wearing it. That's why he's a blue dweeb. Anyhow, Dr. Light explains how to use it as the glider is designed to make him invisible in his fight about Lotos the Seven-Headed Money Hording Dragon. Dr. Light shows on the monitor that Loto is weak in his belly button. And it just dawned on me that Matt is booking this is a Dr. Wily stage boss battle. Which is a cool move I admit, but the genie alone would suffice either way for this. Matt is trying way too hard here and it's impossible to take this seriously now that the magic element has completely taken over the storyline. Dr. Light thinks one blast will be enough to make the beast return to the golden chest of demons because even super magical beings are not immune to BS&P's no kill rule. Roll wonders how to get the beast to transform and Rock proclaims that he'll find a way. So, we head into the sky with Roll flying the Skycycle with Rush in tow and Rock underneath. I don't know why they bothered, it's not like Lotos couldn't find him anyway. Considering that Dr. Wily knows where Dr. Light's residence is anyway...Yeah, the logic breaking in this show is beyond the pale stupid right now. Rock lets go and doesn't go into stealth mode until he is clearly in front of Lady Liberty who tried to kill him about ten minutes earlier in this very episode! This episode is dying, but it's much faster now than it was previously. Rock goes into invisible mode and turns into white lines for the audience to notice, which is fine. Jump cut back to the control room with Dr. Wily praising Lotos and Blues and Lotos standing there and Lotos still is able to trace Rock; but Dr. Wily cannot see him, thus making Dr. Wily look stupid when he checks the monitors on the city. Lotos is gravely offended by Dr. Wily's accusation of lying. Dr. Wily is back-pedaling on his word on that one as he orders all robots to blast him out of the sky, calling him a blue dweeb for the fourth time in this episode alone. The monster buildings are on standby as Rock glides in and they do not suspect a thing at all. Rock notices three Skullcopters coming in as he bails to play some mind games. Jump cut to Drill Man in the cockpit finding nothing...AND THE ROCK SAYS NOTHING~! Cut Man is like "Lotos is right, Rock has to be here somewhere" as Rock is kind of loving life right now as Rock shoots both Skullcopters into the drink. Yay.
Guts Man is in the third copter ordering Rock to show himself and if Rock is smart, he will no sell the deal. Rock is on top of the Skullcopter as Guts Man is punching the roof of the copter while Rock lies about his location, just to play mindgames on Guts Man. Guts Man punches the copter some more until he hits the fuel line off-screen and the Skullcopter heads into the drink as Rock bails in cyan blue lines this time. Sigh. More green water is shown and Dr. Wily has a splitting headache and a urge to kill his hair at the rate he is going. Proto Man gleefully explains the situation to us as Lotos is PISSED off and he decides to go into the city and orders Rock to show himself while doing the same Gruffi pose all of this time. Rock no sells the threat, so Lotos uses his blue mist magic to paint Rock Man blue. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now, he is literally a blue dweeb! Matt deserves a * for that spot alone. Rock returns to normal as Lotos shoots lasers, Rock dodges them. Rock taunts Lotos claiming that Lotos is a coward using magic because if he becomes a dragon, he doesn't stand a chance. Lotos is PISSED now and makes the fatal error: He transforms into the Yamamoto Orchii or Seven-Headed Dragon, which is exactly what Rock wanted in the first place. The dragon looks like a generic purple dragon with devil tongues and grabs onto the flagpole of the Empire State Building. Lotos cackles as he tells Rock to enjoy the battle because it will be his last. I doubt it, Lotos; you art dumb and you art finished. Lotos breathes fire and flies around as Rock dodges. Rock shoots and hits Lotos; but doesn't get the weak spot yet. Lotos still sells it through as if he was hurt by it for some reason. Lotos goes back to the giant flagpole and breaks it off to use as a weapon. Wow, how pathetic is Lotos now; as the heel is supposed to be stupid in the end anyway. Lotos throws the spike and they cut away before it impacts the building in DIC censorship fashion. Sigh. Rock blows him off, so Lotos invokes the 7 FLAMETHROWERS OF DEATH and this engulfs Rock and the flames cover up so we don't see Rock clearly impact the building, except for the aftermath. Roll and Rush fly in as Roll invokes the REVERSE DUST BUSTER OF DEATH and this covers up Lotos. Lotos shakes it off and pursues Roll and Rush as Rock recovers. Rock decides to finish this and lets Lotos grab his stealthglider suit in the perfect position for Rock to hit the belly.
Dr. Wily is so loving life that he doesn't even realize Lotos hope chest is gone now. Rock shoots Lotos in the belly and he bails as Lotos degenerates into a small white ball and heads back to Dr. Wily in a jump cut that caused me whiplash at a time that my back is hurting. The CHEST OF DEMONS on Dr. Wily's desk opens without any help, Lotos goes into the chest and the chest is sealed shut again. Dr. Wily is PISSED about Lotos being defeated; but then recoils because he still has the chest and all he has to do is throw it down and open it again to revive Lotos again. Sadly, his hope chest is gone because here comes Rock blowing him off as he grabs the chest and walks off to the window. Blues shoots the buster at Rock, Rock counters with the CHEST OF DEMONS as a shield, it deflects the shot, Blues gets shot down, yee-haw! Blues goes through the door while Dr. Wily just stands there. Rock notices this and shoots at Dr. Wily's feet with shots that look like bullets. WHAT?! Dr. Wily flees as Rock bails stage left and flies in front of Lady Liberty proclaiming that he's returning the CHEST OF DEMONS to Professor Ramu. Somehow, no scene changer is present when they show the same statue, only with the babyfaces shown inside the statue out of nowhere. Whatever, just let this episode end now, please! The babyfaces wrap it up as Dr. Light talks about not knowing true freedom until it's gone as Rush is playing with the stealthglider outside like an idiot. Rock tells Rush to watch out as he heads straight for Lady Liberty and Rush goes up and gets stuck on the middle spike that LL used earlier in the episode! HA! Rush giggles and that ends the episode at 24:00 approx and we even get Rush's eyecatcher promo, just to make my life complete! Damn, I am so tapped out writing this and it only took less than three hours to write in full! This episode is **** on the trainwreck scale for Lotos being awesome, the whole magic premise that contradicts the show, Lotos going from a Indian motif to a Japanese motif, four instances of Dr. Wily calling Mega Man a blue dweeb, bad animation, dumb booking; including a complete burial of Guts Man and Drill Man and the entire stupid story in general. -** (-40%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well, I'm glad I did this early because this was the kind of Easter Sadism mess that I was expecting. This episode's premise doomed it from the start and the animation made it worse as time went on. Matt tried way too hard to make this work and while this episode was hideously bad, it was also hideously hilarious. Believe it or not, Lotos was AWESOME; he was just in the wrong kind of show. It was so bad, Cut Man was on his best behaviour throughout as he didn't do anything stupid, since Guts Man was more than happy to do it for him and bury himself deep within the earth. There were a lot of logic break, Bree Recotta continues to be a joke to the animators. The finish was fine and the ending was the usual stuff from Rush. Despite my rating being in the negative range and a clear thumbs down, I still recommend watching this just to get a taste of how hilariously bad this was and to prepare yourself for Curse of The Lion Men in the future. Overall, this was total trainwreck television for kids, and on that measure, it was funny. So...
Thumbs way down in hell for this episode (but thumbs up on the trainwreck scale) and I'll see you all next time.