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Raw Toonage: Don Karnage Guest Hosting Rant
Reviewed: 05/31/2014
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Commentary: 01/02/2022
Who Put That Bobcat On There?!
Hello kiddies; and welcome to the Rant Shack: Raw Toonage. The story no one seems to care about anymore. (2022 Gregory Weagle Says: Yup. Mostly because Disney doesn't have creation rights to Marsupilami anymore and never will get it back.) Now that the new rants of TaleSpin have been completed; I'm going to rant on an episode from another series where Don Karnage actually made an appearance. YAY! Raw Toonage can be labeled as a "All Trades" show of sorts that aired on CBS Saturday morning during the fall of 1992. Disney at that time was in the works with a show originally titled "He's Bonkers D. Bobcat"; whom became the lead source of hate among the Chip & Dale's Rescue Ranger fans since they felt Bonkers removed Rescue Rangers from the Disney Afternoon block. (Because everything is a conspiracy. Until it is not, but it's still a conspiracy anyway. No wonder everyone gave up on Acorn Cafe.) Of course that didn't last long as Rescue Rangers returned on Disney Channel and Toon Disney a few years later. Anyhow; the production of Bonkers itself was in trouble because the premise involved being similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit; so-called real characters and it was all animated and thus the premise ultimately didn't work. So the producers went with Bonkers as a police officer in Toontown first with Lucky Pequel which was done by Robert Taylor which in my view would be Taylor's undoing in DTVA in general; and then replaced with the much better Miranada and supervised by Duane Capizzi. (2014 Christopher Barat Says: Just to clarify: the Miranda Wright version of BONKERS was actually produced first. Some of those episodes aired on the Disney Channel in the spring of '93. Evidently, the powers that were did not like the fact that Miranda and Bonkers were getting along so well (!!) so they panicked in mid-stream and revamped the show to the Lucky Piquel version. We all know how THAT turned out.) Meanwhile; Eisner had bought the rights to the Belgian comic known as Marsupilami who got his own television series at around this time for Disney. (2022 Gregory Weagle Says: Marsupilami started off as a cameo character in the comic "Spirou & Fantasio as early as 1952 issue #4 "Spirou & The Heirs"; and appeared as recently as 2016 in that same comic. Andre Franquin was the creator and had retired from drawing in the late 1960's. Andre decided to launch a new series of comics with Marsu Productions which would feature the Marsupilami in 1987 and the rest is history.)
Like all Disney productions featuring stuff that was public domain/rights rendered; changes were made from the original. The comic took place in South America while the Disney version was in Africa; he didn't encounter a gorilla in the comics (Maurice in the Disney version) nor did Marsupilami speak in the original. The show lasted 23 episodes; not including the six shorts he did with Raw Toonage. Believe it or not; Marsupilami was redone by Marathon in 2000 with 52 episodes aired and the second season actually aired in Canada for the French Station Tele-Quebec and thanks to research done on the tributes; there are at least three new series from SAMKA; which several TaleSpin Walt Disney France animators have worked on at least two of the three. (Two more series followed after that: Our Neighbours the Marsupilamis in 2012 and a 2019 CGI version animated by Belivision, which became the basis for Microids publishing a video game for Nintendo Switch and became the first Marsupilami to come out since the Disney era outside of Europe. There was also a live-action CGI mixed movie (On The Trail Of The Marsupilami) featuring WWE star The Great Khali and a plot to overthrow a government and the president's love for Celine Dion. Yeah, whatever.) I have heard rumors that Marsupilami was off the air and never shown again because Disney got sued by the original creators and the original creators won. I have not seen any evidence to prove nor deny that claim; although that myth has been around some Usenet circles over the years. (2022 Gregory Weagle Says with reference to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): "In 1994, Marsu BV, the owners of the Marsupilami character, sued Disney, citing breaches of its license contract: Disney had failed to produce thirteen half-hour episodes (instead producing six to eight minute shorts) or use its "best efforts" to secure a commitment from a network to air the show, and it launched its marketing campaign during a time when the show was not being broadcast. Marsu also accused Disney of fraudulent concealment; the judge noted that Disney had decided to not devote sufficient resources to the Marsupilami project, and had concealed this fact from Marsu. In 1997, Marsu was awarded $8.4 million. The judgement was upheld on appeal in 1999." Basically, Disney screwed Marsu out of their contract because the higher ups only used the license to buy time for Bonkers due to Disney's own incompentence. Where have I heard that story before? Oh yes, TaleSpin! Can you imagine this happening if Rocky & Bullwinkle really came to pass and wasn't stopped?)
There are four segments in Raw Toonage: Bonkers who was a delivery man before becoming a cop in 1993, Marsupilami, Totally Tasteless Video and a host segment. Totally Tasteless Video was supposed to be a short segment on a parody of pop culture; but it ends up being true to it's name as being tasteless. Not in bad taste; but dull, boring and being filled of nothing of note. (Ironically, the TTV videos became one of the better segments on the show; but the name itself was radioactive because it was basically a middle finger to the cooler and edger networks like FOX, and Warner Brothers. It failed miserably. Again, by 1993 standards, these segments were dumb. Nowadays after hindsight 20/20 and all that, the name's the only thing that sucks about the segment. Most segments were fun, especially Robin Hoof, which I underrated a lot and Badly Animated Man, which was Gary Owen's best five minutes in DTVA.) The whole Raw Toonage thing was meant to be a short series as 12 episodes aired; and there was supposed to be a 13th; but never produced as apparently; the ratings for the show tanked. Probably because critics felt that the show was basically a rag-tag version of Warner Brothers Looney Toons series. (Yup.) Let's begin now shall we...?!
All the segments were written by the following four writers: Jeremy Cushner, Tom Minton, Mark Rhodes and Shari GoodHartz. I have no clue who wrote what. The story editors are: Kevin Hopps (Marsupilami segments), Ralph Sanchez (He's Bonkers segments) and Tom Minton (Guest Host and Totally Tasteless Video segments). Ralph Sanchez I'll keep for the Bonkers Christmas episode rant since I already have him tributed there. Mark Rhode's resume: Bonkers, this show, Magic Kingdom: Imagineering The Magic, The Disneyland Restort - Imagineering The Magic, Courage Colorado and BCK Baseball: 5 Steps To The Automatic Swing. Mostly as a writer. That's it. Strangely; Wang Films did all the animation and their results were mixed as hell with the host segment and Marsupilami being very good; while TTV and Bonkers were awful. This is a given for all the episodes in question; so I won't repeat myself in future rants of this show.
Don Karnage Guest Host Segment #1: We begin with a shot of the ocean and you know it's a CBS show since they plaster the "CBS StereoSound" logo on the bottom of the screen. I'm guessing CBS had a policy at the time of doing an opening segment before the OP; but what do I know. We pan over to an island and on the beach as a green parrot flies in and you'll be annoyed by him soon enough. Anyhow; we see Don Karnage with his telescope observing on the beach rock and then looking at the camera with the stink eyeball telescope. Strangely; the Air Pirates theme was remixed here since it doesn't sound like they used the stock soundtrack that Christopher L. Stone did. Which is odd since I would think Disney would OWN that soundtrack. Don greets everyone to the "Don Karnage Academy Insituite of Learning Things" as we pan over to the cargo boxes containing things and the perched parrot. HAHA! (2022 Gregory Weagle Says: Again, you make the joke and then pay it off.) Don walks over to the box and swipes at the green parrot as he flies away and the parrot swoops at Don Karnage annoying him some more. HAHA! I see whomever wrote this watched Polly Wants A Treasure. (Too bad it's not Ignatz, that would have been better. Sadly, after seeing Jitter's TaleSpin segments, I suggest whomever wrote this segment was not on the TaleSpin team, meaning Jeremy Cushner is out.) Don dusts himself off as he opens the wooden box and proclaims that the first law of being an awesome pirate is to have a good pirate song. Karnage brings out the accordin of doom and plays it so badly that I'm laughing my ass off. HAHA! (Sadly, Grampy Rabbit is much funnier doing this spot than even the great Karnage. Watch Jukebox from Peppa Pig at the end and you never heard a more hilariously bad playing death metal music in your life.) Sadly; a bottle containing a note washes ashore and Don notices it right away. Don grabs the note and reads that he's the host of Raw Toonage today. Don is so happy because he has more songs to share. HAHA! A bottle gets thrown OUT OF NOWHERE and nails Don right in the midsection with a decent bump since the bottle didn't shatter. (I'm fine with the bump, at least it didn't nail his head.) The parrot perched on the tree laughs at his expense just to annoy me. (Thus why Ignatz should have been the annoyer. Oh well, TaleSpin was dead at that point, what can you do?) Don sits up, grabs the bottle and takes the note out as it reads that Don Karnage singing sucks. I beg to differ guys. Don sulks that everyone is a critic and we fade to black at 1:14...
Opening Moment #1: The OP can be described simply as this: Kick Buttowski with a singer who sings Raw Toonage like he's the Kool-Aid Pitcher character. Yeah; that is a wee bit creepy. Even more so when you consider the fact that Webigail Vanderquack is plastered in the sequence with the other main characters. I don't really get why Webby got a main spot in the series since she's not nearly as over as Molly Cunningham is. (It's because (1) Ducktales is more familar than TaleSpin, (2) Webby was treated like garbage throughout a good portion of the episodes, so it made sense to use her just to get rid of her.) If Eisner wanted to bury TaleSpin; she would be perfect to bury in the animal role. (Eisner didn't care, he just wanted a show to buy time for Darkwing Duck and see the creative team squirm in saving their jobs. CEOHole indeed!) I'm guessing that he didn't want to find another six year old despite the fact that he could always hire Tara Strong or someone with a butch voice ala Snuff. Michael Eisner: Too cheap to follow through conspiracy theories. Moot point though because I don't recall Webby being in any of the segments of this show's 12 episode run. To be fair though; the song isn't a heavy metal song; so points for that. I realized that Webby is dancing with the Totally Tasteless Video Frog; indicating that this frog is a lying bastard. (I'm guessing if there was an 13th episode, Webby would be in a TTV segment being buried for good. Again, most writers didn't care about Webby back in Ducktales 1987 and got annoyed for having to write stories focusing on Webby when they wanted all boys all the time. I'm glad Webby in Ducktales 2017 was much better than back in 1987. Although, I would have loved it if they booked it as the nephews and nieces were in part avian-ursine and that Kit was their true biological father, that would have been money and create a lot of shock value in the process. I still love Lost Cargo Of Kit Cloudkicker though.)
Don Karnage Guest Host Segment #2: We head back with a closeup of Don Karnage near his CT-37 talking about buried treasure as I see that BS&P has not removed the bullet shooting guns the airplane has. (In terms of guns being pulled out in Raw Toonage involving TaleSpin; it was one host segment with two instances of guns being shown (one of them being fired). Fitting end to TaleSpin, no?) Don walks around explains that the first thing to consider when finding buried treasure is having a map, which he shows and the green parrot steals. These scenes would have been funnier if they didn't use a stock character parrot and used Ignatz from Polly Wants A Treasure; just to give Don Karnage some more heat. Then again; do you expect anything less than burying over original Disney characters to milk the classic Disney characters?! (Yup. Ironic coming from the plan that these classic characters were so special to get new series or spinoff series or in TaleSpin's case, an AU parody that was so awesome that it became Ducktales 2017's world.) We get the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE GREEN PARROT EDITION and Don loses that one dropping flat on his face. Don spits sand and proclaims that sometimes one cannot have a map. So, one must create one. We jump cut to Don Karnage walking on the beach, heads to his wooden box, makes a spear as he proclaims that he has his ways and sticks the spear in the sand. He calls this the poke and yank method. Don't get those two mixed up. Don pokes at the sand telling up to be careful as he pokes down away from the cross stage right and we get the off-screen explosion. Don drops behind the ground with a wussy bump as BS&P steps in again because Don is completely unhurt with no ash or snoot on his body. Sigh. (You can tell the BS&P notes were in semi-full force here. It wouldn't be another six years or so before the firearms became a legal liability.) Don proclaims that you shouldn't hit a landmine. Good to know sir as we fade to black at 3:14... (Now, I will be editing the non-host segments for clairty, but there will be no additional commentary present...)
He's Bonkers - Sheerluck Bonkers: I should point out that Bonkers has his own opening; and it sucks as Bonkers comes in and has trouble opening presents. A human hand comes out of nowhere with a pair of scissors and cuts it open; causing an inflatable swiss cheese title balloon; which we already saw in the opening, only that one was a red balloon. Whatever guys. The title card features a maginfying glass over the "K" in Bonkers. We head to London on a foggy version of AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as we get the chiming for midnight from the clock tower of London. We then get a really poor look of the city of London as Sherlock Bonkers monologues about London being wet and damp; which is his favorite town. We cut to a lamp pole as Sherlock Bonkers is stating that Queen Tania has summoned him to Windzor Castle. So why not call the city Lyndon then; since it's clear Bonkers is channeling TaleSpin's world here. See; this is the general problem with the idea of trying to introduce the character as early as they can: They forgot to refine the material so it would make sense to the viewer; thus it comes off really sloppy. We pan over to the street as a horse and carriage are riding on the street; as the driver is wearing all black with a black beard looking as miserable as anyone who is a Nintendo fan. The carriage makes it to Windzor Castle as Bonkers go on and on about solving cases; and thinks something is afoot. The carriage stops in front of the castle and the driver is so pissed off; that both Sherlock Bonkers and some yellow dog who looks like a mini version of Watson get kicked off the carriage from the back side. The carriage leaves as we see the debut of Bonkers D. Bobcat; the folk devil of Acorn Cafe dwellers the world over. Bonkers is voiced by Jim Cummings as he is dressed like Sherlock Holmes complete with smoke pipe; which doesn't blow smoke. The yellow dog sidekick with a blue coat and grey hat is Jitters playing Watson as he is the bump machine of this show; so he gets mud sprayed on him. Bonkers cleans him up by smoking the pipe to reveal a water bubble; making this a bubble pipe. Whatever makes you happy BS&P. To think; four years ago; we saw a Ducktales version of Sherlock Holmes actually smoking a legit pipe. Anyhow; Jitters gets splooshed by the bubble brusting and Bonkers confirms the BS&P decision with this quote:
Bonkers: I wouldn't expose him to secondary smoke.
Yip; this was an anti-smoking promo. Welcome to BS&P hell Bonkers; and people wonder why this character never got over?! IMDB claims that this segment took $50,000 to make; and keep in mind that this is a five minute episode; which means that it's about 1/4 of the cost of the average five minutes in TaleSpin. Bonkers tries to walk into the castle; but gets MURDERED by the TaleSpin Anthro rejects. I feel bad for these anthros; I really do since they are more over than Bonkers is right now. I'm guessing that it's Tress MacNeillie doing the voiceover in that mob sequence. Bonkers still manages to get his arm out to point east to Windzor Castle; rendering Jitters to be absolutely useless. No wonder he hates his life. He probably wishes he didn't hate his wife now. See what I did there?! Anyhow; let's head to the throne castle as we see Queen Tania who is a pink elephant who eats stuff using her trunk instead of just eating them in her mouth like most people do. The servants (more TaleSpin Anthro rejects) are trying to get Tania's blue boots off for no reason as we see a deer in princess clothes and has a red ruby necklace around her neck walking in. Then we see a large dog butler (another TaleSpin reject) walk in telling Sherlock Bonkers and Jitters Watson to come in. Bonkers walks in, the deer turns around to show her face; and Bonkers lives up to his name like the sexist twit that he is. Yeah; this is Fawn Deer everyone; the window dressing of this show, whose sole purpose is to make Bonkers look and act horny. Just peachy. Bonkers eyes show the biggest hearts that you will ever see in a cartoon; then he bounces around a bit talking to Jitters who does the Gruffi pose. When the guy who hates his life has more sense than you; you know Bonkers sucks. Bonkers blows bubbles from the pipes and does the rocket spot to further annoy me. He finally comes down as Fawn Deer walks over to Queen Tania; thus showing that she doesn't care about Bonkers all that much either. Bonkers thinks she's Queen Tania; so the dog butler corrects him; pointing that she is the princess of Doemania. Yeah; we are in the TaleSpin Universe here, but the writers are too damn dense to figure that one out. Fawn is going to present the necklace to Queen Tania; and we all know what is going to happen next now; don't we?!
However; before that Bonkers gets on the butlers shoulders -- this butler is five times bigger than Duckworth; and three times taller than Duckworth, for comparison sake -- and goes on and on about deduction while blowing bubbles from his pipe. Whatever. Fawn is about to present the necklace; but it's gone, despite the fact that no one in the room came close to even making contact with her; let alone stole it. Fawn notices it and she bawls her eyes out as a result right in front of Tania who looks unconcerned about this. What an asshole?! I mean, Fawn Deer lost her necklace via the Spongebob Trick. Tania then gets annoyed and I'm certain it's only because she would rate Fawn's crying a 0.8 on the 1950's Crying Daisy Duck scale. Nope; it's Bonkers coming in acting like a dense douchebag and already accusing Moraraci Grappo -- whom I almost though he said Crappo for a second there Then again, it would be more believable since during this sequence, Bonkers pours more bubble solutions into his bubble pipe --, the master of disguise. Geez; you know this show sucks when Bonkers has to somehow plug a plot hole that makes no sense since no one was even close to making contact with Fawn Deer. No one. She already had the necklace when she came in and was halfway towards the throne; so it's clear the butler didn't do it since he, Bonker and Jitters came in after we clearly saw Fawn with the necklace. Fawn is voiced by Nancy Cartwright while Jitters is voiced by Jeff Bennett as Bonkers blows more bubbles and then offers a blue hanky to Fawn Deer; who promptly blows her nose on cue. Bonkers takes the hanky and gives to Jitters, who gives it to the butler who puts it into the platter under a dome and then leaves. Bonkers kisses Fawn's hand and proclaims that he'll have the necklace returned by midnight. Fawn then asks if he's a delivery boy; which prompts Bonkers to say that he does it when crime is slow. HAHA! Bonkers brings out the maginfying glass and looks around for clues. Tania asks who is this twit; and one of the guards claims that he is here to find the skate key as I realize that the blue boots she was wearing, are rollerblades. Now; rollerskating has been around since 1760, but the rollerblades weren't around until 1960; a good 40+ years after Sherlock Holmes was 60 years old.
Bonkers don't care about logic breaks because he's looking for clues. He also is an idiot as he looks in a suit of armor and then looks behind Fawn's neck which doesn't amuse Fawn one bit. Bonkers licks the evidence and deduces that it came from the kitchen because it is jelly. More evidence on how cheap this episode was: The background turns solid blue during this with lighting that is so laughable that it's on par with On The Beaches from Teddy Ruxpin. Then it turns red when Bonkers accuses Mornaci Grumbles of the crime; so Grumbles Grizzly is the heel in this episode, in the eyes of Bonkers. Grumbles is supposed to be Bonker's boss in various series and; he's like Jitters, only more angry and bigger since he is a bear. He's voiced by Rodger Bumpass by the way. Bonkers wants to go to the kitchen; and we get one of those spots that makes me wonder what the writers were smoking. Okay; here is what happened: Jitters runs like a Roadrunner into the kitchen; Bonkers doesn't and just stands there; but the shadow outline of him runs with Jitters. Then it comes back and dives into the solid body of Bonkers and then Bonkers runs into the kitchen for real. What was the point of that?! It made no sense at all and there was no context to the spot. The spot was just there; it wasn't funny at all. We head into the kitchen as we discover that there is lizard in the kitchen taking out something from the oven; as he is wearing a pink chef's hat and sounding like he's singing. This cheese colored lizard has hair too. He sets the platter down; and opens the dome to reveal Jitters ordering him to freeze?! Jeepers; he was in the oven all this time?! This makes no sense! But that makes more sense than Jitters trying to act like a tough guy. I cannot take anything you say seriously Jitters. That tough guy routine sucks! The lizard chef is not impressed by Jitters claiming that he loves to say that; so he get tosses into the dumb waiter and blown off. Jitters blows him off like Sheldon from Big Bang Theory; and then the lizard cranks the handle on the dumb waiter and Jitters falls in kind. The lizard tries to leave; but Bonkers cuts him off at the pass. Bonkers tackles down the cook and we have the FCC FRIENDLY CLOUD DUST FIGHT OF DEATH which is odd because it usually indicates the babyface comeback; but the babyface was the one who tackled the guy down; not the heel. This leads to Bonkers somehow landing in the dumb waiter and he falls on top of Watson off-screen. Yawn.
We get the blackout spot with Bonkers and Jitters asks where the hell are they; and Bonkers sells sulfur and feels the grainy texture of something. If you cannot guess the next spot; you have no business reading this rant. Yeah; Bonkers lights a match and the room is filled with dynamite and gunpowder as somehow they are in the gunpowder room. Who in their right mind would put a dumb waiter that connects to the gunpowder room?! Plus; you cannot smoke in the episode; but lighting a match in the gunpowder room is perfectly okay. Since this is from CBS and not a Toon Disney edit; it wasn't cut. The explosion occurs off-screen since we see the sky shot of Windzor Castle as Bonkers and Jitter fly into the air; and where they land, will I care if Jitters hates his life?! Ummmmmmm...nope. They go in front of the moon for the money shot and then land with wussy bumps onto the mud ground in front of the brick wall of the castle. Bonkers gets up as this is turning into a Darkwing Duck episode; only a lot less funny. Bonkers doesn't care as he deduces stuff and it starts to rain. Bonkers then sidesteps after seeing headlights in the distance; and Jitters gets run over and flatten by a truck. Geez; how drole...NOT! Bonkers pops him back to normal and we do a scene changer as it appears that Bonkers and Jitters' shadow are inside the castle; but on the closeup, it appears that they haven't moved an inch since the last scene. Bonker's shadow -- which is more over than the real thing -- points to the castle rampart as we see the big ass butler with what Bonkers claims is a weapon. Which we clearly never see; so Bonkers counters by finding the conveiently placed catapult which is aimed AWAY from the castle; and has a bunch of mobsters surrounding Bonkers. Bonkers gets into the catapult as Jitters tries to explain that this is a bad idea; but Bonkers cuts him off again. Bonkers gets catapulted and he whacks into about a half dozen different objects, which none of them have feeling nor were funny. It ends with Bonkers flying into the window; and landing in the throne room in Queen Tania's lap. See; I was right Huey Duck! The evidence is on my side logic-wise. We see the clock striking midnight; and the animation is so choppy here. Bonkers goes over to Fawn and proclaims that he has the solution to her problem.
We get thunderclaps and music as Bonkers claims that Grumbles is the big ass butler because in the world of stereotypes; the butler is always the one who did it. Bonkers jumps on the butler and tries to unmask him; but Bonkers grabs off of the eyebrow hairs from his head. Yeap; he's real. Also, because of BS&P; it cannot be Tania nor Fawn -- although Fawn stealing the necklace would have been the most compelling finish they could do -- it has to be either Bonkers or Jitters. I wish it was really Bonkers being Grumbles all along, because that would be a perfect twist finish to the story. Nope; the butler kicks Bonkers' ass off-screen and he goes flying off-screen as Jitters is eating at the table filled with food which comes out of nowhere and probably goes the same place. Bonkers returns flat like a Darkwing Duck reject and then pops up. Bonkers pleads for Jitter's help and then notices that Jitter's head has a zipper attached to it. Yes folks; they picked the smallest guy in the room to be Grumbles despite the fact that Grumbles is nearly three times bigger than Jitters. Logic?! What logic?! He also has jelly on his fingers which are perfect dots on the bottom of his fingers. Bonkers unzips him and it's Grumbles; and to Fish Hook fans: Clamantha used the exact same plot device to kiss Oscar in Flores Dores Goregous. Bonkers backs up like a coward because Grumbles is twice as big as Bonkers and looks like a magician who stole Scrooge McDuck's hat. Then we see a tiny jail truck arrives with a police officer in "Bobby Gear" drive in; and open the top of the roof of his truck.
The officer then simply grabs Grumbles, throws him into the truck, tips his hat to Bonkers and leaves. Grumbles gets completely buried before he had a chance to even make contact with Bonkers. What a stupid spot that was?! Fawn of course is still upset because the necklace has still not been found. Bonker tells her not to worry as he deduces that it is with the real Jitters as he goes to the book shelf which Bonkers claims it's fake. He pulls a book and nothing happens. So we repeat the spot with a purple book and nothing happens. Maybe it's because that is a real book shelf with real books. Idiots! This goes on for a long ass whomping time as we cut to a painting of a king as it slides open to reveal a safe featuring the necklace and skate key attached to a tied up and gagged Jitters. Bonkers finally goes over to the painting and rips the tape off Jitter's mouth; which somehow doesn't rip off the mustache. Damn! Jitters finally says his infamous catchphrase: "I hate my life!" Then Bonkers grabs the skate key and necklace from the neck of Jitters; then proceeds to slide the painting back trapping Jitters in the safe. I'm surprised Drake hasn't done that with Gosalyn nor Launchpad yet. Fawn comes over as Bonkers hands over both the skate key and neckace to her. Fawn kisses him on the cheek and Bonkers goes Bonkers with pink hearts popping as that ends the episode at 10:01. Bonkers is such a hopeless zombie and this is not funny nor amusing to me anymore. Episode was sloppy and none of it made sense at all; rendering it a pointless exercise in stupidity and boredom. My previous ranting on this was way too generous so call it: 3/4 * (15%).
Don Karnage Guest Host Segment #3: We return with Don Karnage on the beach with the metal detector (invented in the 1920's) and then it blinks the white light. Don Karnage follows the signal and he has found the spot as he throws the metal detector away. He invokes the LEGAL ARM OF GOD, dives it into the sand and pulls out an old boot. HAHA! Don blows the metal detector -- which Don hilarious calls a metal deflector -- off as he throws away the boot and it drops as gold coins leak out. HAHA! (Every character in TaleSpin has bouts of stupidity.) Don finds the metal detector again and does some more searching as the lights blink again and he throws the thing away and starts digging to find...wait for it...a Baloo lunchbox. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Take one guess who planted that one. Hint: He's not fat and lazy. Don asks who put that bear on there and I know who did and his name is K-I-T...DUH! (I'm shocked they didn't do this spot in The Lost Cargo Of Kit Cloudkicker, because that would be hilarious even now.) We fade to black again at 10:35...
Totally Tasteless Video - All Potato Network: Totally Tasteless Video has it's own opening too and it's better than the shorts themselves with toads singing and dancing like the Kool Aid guy, slurping musical bugs which look like prototypes for PIXAR's A Bugs Life. The frogs also eat the ants and bugs for fun It's a really good opening at least. Sadly; the rest of it is completely tasteless; as the thing implies. This segment is completely moronic from the start because the segment does live up to it's name. Sadly; the word tasteless in it's proper context meaning that it's dull, boring and heatless with nothing of note. If they were shooting for being in bad taste then it fails because nothing on it is even remotely offensive, minus some BS&P slipups which would have slipped by about three years ago. So, regardless of context; this segment is screwed. Even worse; in this case, they lied to me because there were a few moments that were in fact not tasteless. The guise of this is that we watch a television screen throughout the episode segment as this looks straight out of a Garfield episode; back in the 1980's. We hear a female voice proclaims that they are adding several new channels to the cable system as the male voice sounds completely bored out of his skull in response. Additional voices are done by Rita Moreno and according to IMDB: U.S. actress Rita Moreno has managed to have a thriving career for the better part of six decades despite the institutional racism that has plagued the entertainment industry, particularly the bias that stereotyped Hispanic women as spit-fires and sex-pots. Moreno, one of the very few (and very first) performers to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and a Grammy, was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December eleventh, 1931. She moved to New York City in 1937 along with her mother, where she began a professional career before reaching adolescence.
The eleven-year-old Rosita got her first movie experience dubbing Spanish-language versions of U.S. films. Less than a month before her fourteenth birthday on November eleventh, 1945, she made her Broadway debut in the play "Skydrift" at the Belasco Theatre, costarring with Arthur Keegan and the young Eli Wallach. Although she would not appear again on Broadway for almost two decades, Rita Moreno, as she was billed in the play, had arrived professionally. It would take her nearly as long to break through the forces of institutional racism and become the first Hispanic woman to win an Academy Award. The cover of the March first, 1954 edition of "Life Magazine" featured a three-quarters, over-the-left-shoulder profile of the young Puerto Rican actress/entertainer with the provocative title "Rita Moreno: An Actresses' Catalog of Sex and Innocence." It was sex-pot time, a stereotype that would plague her throughout the decade. If not cast as a Hispanic pepper pot, she could rely on being cast as another "exotic", such as her appearance on Father Knows Best (1954) as an exchange student from India. Because of a dearth of decent material, Moreno as an actress had to play roles in movies that she considered degrading. Among the better pictures she appeared in were the classic Singin' in the Rain (1952) and The King and I (1956). Filmmaker Robert Wise, who was chosen to codirect the movie version of the smash hit Broadway musical West Side Story (1961) (a retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" with the warring Venetian clans the Montagues and Capulets reenvisioned as Irish/Polish and Puerto Rican adolescent street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks), cast Moreno as "Anita", the Puerto Rican girlfriend of Sharks' leader Bernardo, whose sister Maria is the piece's Juliet.
A seasoned singer and dancer, Moreno delivered a superb performance that completely overshadowed the Maria of the movie, the nonsinger (and nonHispanic) Natalie Wood, the only movie star in the ensemble cast. Moreno was unforgettable in a harrowing scene where she had to deliver a message from Maria to the Romeo of the piece, the Jets' member Tony, and is assaulted by his fellow gang members. This is the real climax of the film, as the degradation of Anita proves that the machinations of fate are in full gear, and that the players will not be able to escape their destinies whatever their intentions. For her performance, Rita Moreno won a well-deserved Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. Her performance was an integral component of one of the most successful film musicals in history, and a movie that has transcended the class "classic" to become legendary, a film (like Moreno's favorite, Citizen Kane (1941)) that can never be remade. However, despite her proven talent, roles commensurate with that talent were not forthcoming in the 1960s. The following decade would prove kinder, possibly as the beautiful Moreno had aged and could now be seen by film-makers, T.V. producers and casting directors as something other than the spit-fire/sex-pot that Hispanic women were supposed to conform to. Ironically, it was in two vastly diverging roles -- that of a $100 hooker in director Mike Nichols brilliant realization of Jules Feiffer's acerbic look at male sexuality, Carnal Knowledge (1971) (1971) and that of Milly the Helper in the children's T.V. show The Electric Company (1971) (1971) -- that signaled a career renaissance. During the seventies, Moreno won a 1972 Grammy Award for her contribution to "The Electric Company" soundtrack album, following it up three years later with a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for The Ritz (1976), a role she would reproduce on the Big Screen.
She then won Emmy Awards for "The Muppet Show" and "The Rockford Files". Thereafter, she has continued to work steadily on screen (both large and small) and on-stage, solidifying her reputation as a national treasure, a status that was officially ratified with the award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in June 2004. She began her career in Pagan Love Song (Terru), The Toast of New Orleans (Tina) and So Young So Bad (Dolores Guererro) in 1950. Bonkers is her DTVA debut and also appeared on Secret Agent Oso as Abuela. Rio 2 (Aunt Mimi), Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Ida Barksdale) and Old Soul (Rita) is her most recent credits. She has 144 acting credits and 121 Self credits to her resume. We go to the screen closeup and the bored voice asks of this is one of them; and the female voice nicely blows him off. We click the remote and we get a screen of water bubbles for the All Bubble Television Network or ABTN. Yawn. Then we get the Naval Lint Channel as we see neon green lint fall on someone's belly button and we accuse the New Disney of this bullcrap?! The man is repulsed by it and sounds like he said sexist at one point; which I hoped he did; but I have no captions to help me so. We change the channel again and we get an open mouth with teeth on it because it's the Dental Hygenie Channel. Yawn. The announcer claims that it's time to floss to the classics as the teeth get brushed and flossed in that order. Whatever. Next up is showing a lighted candle on a steel candlestick as this is the Candle Cable Network or CCN; which indicates that it's news about candle fandom. Yawn. The husband is fed up by this and wants to stick to the next one as we get a potato in the yellow background. It's the All Potato Network~! Oh yeah; that'll draw money. NOT! We get about a hundred potato puns in a span of two minutes; and most of them don't catch at all. We get a soap opera about a potato mother crying her eyes out as we get a parody of the Bugs Bunny/Michael sketch called All My Spuds; which actually is pretty funny in hindsight. Wait; this is supposed to be totally tasteless! REFUND! Even though it was on broadcast television. Damn! We get the Talent Search Parody where you can win one billion potato skins; implying that the skins of dead potatos are used as currency. Ooooookkkkkaaaayyyyyyy. Then the potato version of a cop drama called Spudsky & Hutch. Wait; shouldn't it be called Spudsky & Spudth?! That's awfully sloppy writing guys! The bad guy is a French Fry with a green beret on as he climbs up the stairs and the animation is so bad that the heel appears to be floating up.
The French Fry makes it to the roof as Spudsky is annoyed at Hutch for annoying him; and the heel gets to the door; but then turns around as Hutch is on the roof. Okay; I can accept that. Then we get the best spot of the segment as the french fry fires real bullets out of his head; while Hutch runs behind a chimney. A good reason to watch this channel. What false advertisting by the writers of this show. Then it ends with me discovering that it's really Spudsky climbing because Hutch squashes the French Fry (Freedom Fry fanboy!) as Hutch is actually a cupboard. They almost nailed it; but they should have had Hutch as a car called Hutch Back. See; comedy payoff. We then get a Weather Channel parody segment as storms are now called gravy and sour cream as they engulf the potato weather man; probably hating his green diamond shirt and tie. Yes; the globe is shaped like a potato; why do you ask? Then it rains chives as we get more cream, butter and the weather man ends saying that the temperture will be 450 degrees for a 45 minute duration. Then comes the Masterpiece Theater parody called Mash The Spud Theater which is a really funny joke in a segment that is supposed to be totally tasteless. We get Romeo & Juilet as Roymo & Julian meaning that they have recycled Julian's name in this segment alone. Then it's the Sweet Potato Family Vs The Yamamoto Clan in Family Food; the Family Feud parody. Then we get a doctor commercial for eye glasses as a fly comes in and we get the Kirby's Epic Yarn closeup of the flies eyes. Wow Fish Hooks; I didn't know Noah was a big fan of this segment?! The fly states that he needs glasses for his million tiny eyes. The doctor blows him off because he's not a magician. Funny how you cannot say "miracle worker"; but you can say "I will kill that ad agency" right in front of the hard camera. We hear the wife claiming that there isn't anything to watch; and the punchline to the segment is that the all Potato Network is being watched by a wife and husband, who are talking carrots. HAHA! Circle fade out to end the segment at 14:08. I liked this segment better on the second viewing since I took notes this time; mostly for the All Potato Network. However, it still has little heat to warm up a potato; let alone bake it. Call it 3/4 * (15%).
Don Karnage Guest Host Segment #4: We return on the beach as the sound is dying on me as Don Karnage grabs a bucket of black paint and a paint brush as we see him paint a black X on the sand. Well; so much for being an enviromentalist. Don invokes the shovel and basically digs a tomb for himself . How symbolic eh?! We hear Pete's version of Jim Cummings as Don gets raised up by the neck by a skeleton pirate wearing a brown vest and a green captain's hat with a large red feather, who has a gray beard. (It cannot be Dogface Pete, because Dogface Pete in Ducktales is supposed to be in the 1980's while TaleSpin's in the 1930's in storyline.) The skeleton pirate threatens him and then throws him away as Don takes wussy bumps off-screen stage left. Sigh. The undead pirate captain dives back in and we see Don Karnage return with the shovel; burying the skeleton in rapid fire. He pats the shovel down and then paints the X about five feet in front of the previous spot as Don relates the rule of not digging in spots where undead pirates lay because they have bad breath and must be treated with respect. Good to know. We fade to black at 14:56. (This was the low point of the host segment, and even that was really funny. Mostly because the audio was terrible, but that is of no fault to the creators; it was the video I used to review the episode at the time.)
Marsupilami - The Puck Stops Here: This theme song is pretty catchy and the sequence is Marsupilami getting chased by Norman the hunter who looks like a Tiny Toons human character in a Guy LaDouce outfit as he grabs Marsupilami's tail; and Mars goes "Oooba". Norman yanks the tail and out of nowhere comes down a big ass gorrilla to squash Norman. Mars comes down; opens up the gorilla's mouth to show his ugly teeth; as the Marsupilami logo is plastered on the bottom. I like this song; and there is supposed to be a longer version available, since the show aired as a stand alone later on. Anyhow; we begin with a shot of the trees and then a southern pan to two monkey cooling off with leaves in the trees because it's hot and summer in the jungle. Then Artie cameos for one flying shot; and then we pan over east to a small drinking hole as an elephant is drinking out of the water filled hole with a monkey on top of him. He then sprays the monkey in the face with the trunk hose and the monkey tumbles down a hill before landing in front of a road leading to a lake in the background. The monkey walks away not amused as we zoom in, see a pier from a different angle and Marsupilami bounces onto the pier with such glee. Marsupilami is voiced by Steve Mackall; the same guy who voices Nosedive in The Mighty Ducks Animated series. Considering his career; he wasn't much of a talent, and this might have been his best role DTVA wise. Mars dives into the water and then pops up tail first as it points to a speeding motorboat driven by someone as Mars grabs the back of the motorboat with his tail, which is at least four times taller than Marsupilami itself, we barefoot ski for a while and do Kit Cloudkicker-equse cloudsurfing spots; which looks less impressive on water, and have less sense of danger. Marsupilami is enjoying himself and I thought the motor boater in the front was Norman; but we see Norman wearing a really tiny blue bathing suit; because he's just TOO FAT. He is also bald and sweaty like a hog. He is on the edge of the lake carrying power wires; and standing next to a red pipeline. We discover that the wires and pipe are connected to the big ass blue boxed air conditioning system; which looks like a hockey rink ice maker. Ooops; I gave the entire plot away. I'm so naughty.
He fires the hose at the lake, because he's apparently the most insane Canadian in recent memory since he hates summer and loves ice hockey. A toxic man if there ever was one as the lake freezes; and causes a fish to pop out of water and then we get the first logic break of the episode: The motorboat now has humans riding in the front and surfing on the back; while Marsupilami is just skipping on water for no reason. WHAT THE HELL?! The humans get frozen into the lake by the ice hockey conditioning system; and Mars simply skips onto the ice and whirlwinds himself so much that his tail ties himself up. HAHA! Then Norman arrives as he is clearly a Montreal Canadiens fan with that dopey outfit hockey gear he is wearing as he skate and slides ice; which goes nowhere. Then Marsupilami slides in, bonks into Norman and somehow they both crash into the motorboat in a heap of snow. Mars pops from the carnage and shivers. Remember; Norman is five times the size of Marsupilami; so this makes no sense either. Oh; it's a weight bell they collided into. Still makes no sense. Norman I believe calls Marsupilami a turd; which Mars gleefully counters for me. Norman blows him off as he grabs Mars, throws him up and MURDERS him with the hockey stick. Mars flies towards a large tree. Short summer indeed as Mars, uses the tail to wrap around, flies back at Norman and they collide again crashing into the weight bell with an even wussier bump. Wang Films is crappy today! Anyhow; Mars is on Norman's belly as Mars points out that he was hit with a turd stick. Norman asks sarcastically if it hurt and Mars nods. Norman sarcastically apologize and wants to make it up to him; so they will be channeling the Raccoons Christmas special which the forest was decided over a ice hockey game. Mars is absolutely clueless because he accepts the challenge because it's going to be a "friendly hockey game". Norman comes back and whirlwinds him again to give Marsupilami the dorkiest hockey gear ever. Seriously; Norman basically dresses him in pink and purple colors because he is a toxic manly man and he thinks Marsupilami is a woman. Then Mars finally realizes that he is clueless and asks what is hockey. Norman laughs because he wants Mars to trust him; since he'll love this game. Which means Marsupilami is screwed. At least this is amusing compared to the other segments outside of Don Karnage hosting; so I'm fine with this.
Scene changer of doom beckons and we start in the middle of the icy lake with two hockey nets in opposite sides as Norman and Marsupilami face each other. Can you smell the miss-match; or do I have to spell it out for you?! Norman shows off the hockey puck and explains the rules of engagement like an adult talking down to a child. Norman skates back a bit and then puts the puck down after we see a pan shot of the net in the background which is the one Mars is supposed to score in. Norman whacks the puck and it hits Mars in the chest. Mars oversells it by flying into the neat and getting tangled up in. Norman is enjoying this (Norman is voiced by Jim Cummings by the way; which sounds like a human version of Pete; only with much less sympathy and less heat overall as a heel.) as he loves hockey. No wonder hockey is considered a thugish sport as Mars is dizzy and wondering if he is having fun yet. Answer: No. Scene changer of doom as Mars is using his tail as a hockey stick and doing an awesome job of actually moving the puck. YAY! It's nearing BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (sunset) as he skates in the background and slides; allowing the puck to be free as Mars cuts a promo about being the puck-meister; which is so corny that the pay off to this is Norman stealing the puck and scoring. Nope; Norman just watches as Mars foolishly skates towards Norman. Norman trips him up -- at least he's a heel so this cheating makes sense actually -- and Marsupilami goes flying into his own net. Norman sarcastically comes in and skids ice shaving right into Mars creating a icy tomb. HA! Norman sarcastically is impressed; but he forgot the puck of course. Mars is not amused as we scene change again to Mars moving the puck with his tail on the ice because he has got the hang of it; and it isn't so bad. I beg to differ Mars as Norman brings out the chainsaw because CHEAT TO WIN~! He's also bad as he cuts a hole in the ice; Mars skates in and notices the hole right away; and skids into a stop just three inches from the hole. Mars breathes a sight of relief; and then his skates screw him for no reason and he splashes down into the lake. Norman skates in and grabs the puck; mocking Mars in lame fashion. Mars counters by wrapping his tail around Norman's ankle and pulling him into the lake. Keep in mind that Norman is five times bigger than Marsupilami.
We have them whacking and missing at the puck in stereo as it lands inside a clam. Yeah. Here's what happens next: Norman uses the stick to try to pry the clam open. It fails badly. Marsupilami uses his tail, invokes the most devastating move in all of DTVA and ripping off Rescue Rangers in the process: THE CHOOIE-CHOOIE-COO OF DEATH; and that opens the mouth of the clam. Marsupilami steps inside the clam. The clam closes up before Mars can get the puck out. Norman mocks Mars. Clam hates the mocking so he sucks Norman into his body. Clam gets tickled off-screen -- probably by Mars' tail -- and clam spits out Mars, Norman and the puck. Mars, Norman and the puck pop out of the lake and into the air as all three are blocks of solid ice. The angle shot here is so bad that it looks like they boomerang to the side before freefalling and lands on the ice with cracks on it as the blocks of ice break. Mars and Norman stop selling as Norman has had enough; and he won't beat him fair and square. THAT was fair and square?! HA! He'll just beat him. Norman tries to MURDER Mars with the hockey stick while doing another whirlwind spot as Mars dodges all. However; as Mars flees stage left, Norman grabs his tail and dunks it into the icy lake to create a block of ice. Norman sets the ice block on the ice and whacks it with the hockey stick. Mars goes sliding and ramps off a conveiently placed tree (leftovers from Winnie The Pooh) and the block goes flying back towards Norman who is mocking Mars again. Then we get a moment where I swear to god; Vince Russo was watching this and stole it for TNA: Norman notices the iceblock coming his way. Instead of skating to the left nor right; or even jumping into the icy lake; he simply puts his hands out and begs for mercy. This is dumber than "Swiper, No Swiping!" and that is no small miracle in terms of amusing stupidity. Marsupilami waves to him and cuts a promo; and then Norman runs off as the writers have completely forgotten that he is on skates! DUMB!
Mars pushes on the iceblock, bumps into Norman which somehow is sliding with the ice block as they destroy the frozen motorboat and a frozen boathouse. Yeah; this is overbooked now and it's time to mercy kill it. Norman bumps like a wuss except for the decent bumps on his head underneath the pier; as Norman pleads for a time out which Mars has no clue what he is talking about. Norman screams for Marsupilami to stop, Mars sells it and stops the ice block on a dime. Sadly; momentum catches up with Norman as he keeps going anyway and collides with the inside of the hockey net and gets tangled up in it; all off-screen as Mars takes some wussy bumps off of ice cubes for no reason. Mars unsticks his tail from the iceblock and brings out the puck proclaiming that he won't forget it as he puts it down and whacks it at Norman, who is tied up by the hockey net. Norman takes the whirlwind spot bump of doom as the net ties him up even more. Marsupilami slides in safe causing ice shavings all over Norman; and then the puck lands on the top of the shavings. That apparently is enough for Mars to scream "GOAL"; which shows the writer of this segment was a soccer fan and has no clue how they say it in hockey when a goal is scored. Circle fade out to end the episode at 21:41. This was a more accurate discription of how hockey is played than it was with Mighty Ducks The Series! Ponder that one for a moment. Episode was actually amusing as they kept everything basic and made Marsupilami look good against the slimy heel and got his comeupperance without killing what little heat Norman actually has. Call it *** (60%).
Don Karnage Guest Host Segment #5: ...And now comes the day Don Karnage died. We return with Don Karnage dragging out of a cave the CHEST OF DEMONS as he declares victory for finding the buried treasure in a cave. HAHA! Don proclaims that he has all his marbles as he walks away with his rifles and shoots at the lock! Wow; didn't see that one coming at all. (Then again, 2014 me forgot all about the times in the comics where the guns were pulled out. Thankfully, Frank hates guns and therefore the Lost Cargo Of Kit Cloudkicker will be a special day!) The CHEST OF DEMONS is open, it's filled with jewels, gold and other treasure. Don goes to lavish in his spoils; but the CHEST OF DEMON gets slammed by the boot of Captain James Hook from Peter Pan! (Ironically, Nana from Peter Pan appeared in TaleSpin in the last episode aired: Flying Dupes! So, this was a good chain cameo actually.) Oh great; we all know how this one is going to end. See; Eisner milks classic characters and James Hook is a classical character while Don Karnage is an original DTVA character and thus must be buried under Eisner's thinking. Since Eisner failed to bury Don Karnage in TaleSpin; since the writers gave him the proverbail piss off to him; we are left with this sword fight between Don Karnage and Captain James Hook. Even spookier is that James Hook is voiced by Corey Burton who is a big companyman for Disney and called Ed Gilbert's take on Baloo a disgrace to Phil Harris. (Already mentioned in the Plunder and Lightning rant how dumb Corey was, so I won't repeat it here.) Don insults him and the swords get drawn and it IS ON BABEE! Don actually makes a match of it and even backs up Captain Hook thinking that he can win this thing. Not with Michael Eisner around you are not, Don. Hook slashes Don's cutlass away and sticks the sword against Don's suit and palm tree which seems BS&P'ed since Don looks like he's selling James Hook's sword stabbed in his heart! They might as well have Mr. Snee in the rowboat -- which we see when Captain Hook blows off Don on not keeping his eyes on the prize taking the CHEST OF DEMONS with him -- have a sign saying: "Karnage; We Knew You Would Lose!" (Once again, A perfect shoot moment that should have happened, but didn't. It would have been hilarious in so many ways.) Don blows off Captain Hook wondering who invented him anyway as Don struggles to get the sword out as the burial of Don Karnage is finally complete as we circle fade out at 22:08 plus opening title sequence. Excellent host segments; but the bumps were wussy; so it only gets **** (80%).
THE REVIEW LINE
The rest of the show was below average though; so I guess it was a mistake to kill off Don Karnage like that. A lot of fans certainly were not happy to see that either. There was Disney's Villains that was supposed to be developed featuring Don Karnage; but he was nixed for classical characters for Eisner to milk o and the whole project was scrapped in the end making that decision pointless and moot. That was it for Don Karnage. (Well, his original persona since the Don Karnage in Ducktales 2017 is his successor. Ironically, Kit Cloudkicker and Molly Cunningham would make it as adults in Ducktales 2017.) Captain Hook would return for the Peter Pan sequel: Return to Neverland and appearances in House of Mouse. Don Karnage was as awesome as he could be under a different set of BS&P; and he made me laugh hard on many segments. As sad as the fight's result was; it was a wicked fight so it was worth the build up. (Yeah, even in spite of the burial; Don looked great in defeat, so another middle finger to Eisner I guess. Not that it matters, Karnage only existed to buy time for Darkwing Duck anyway.) Sadly; this would have been perfect if the other three segments were above average and none of them were. Sheerluck Bonkers was just boring and the animation was so crappy here that you could tell it was rushed to death. Plus; Bonkers is supposed to be wacky; but he came off as dumb and lame in that order.
Fawn Deer is clearly window dressing; and in Bonkers, the only reason people like her is because she's supposed to be hot and a deer. (Ironically, Fawn Deer was one of the characters in B-Players which featured Baloo in a backlot of Hollywood teaching Mickey Mouse's cousin Ricky The Rat how to be a star. That one got nixed because reasons! Also, Baloo is a Jungle Book character, would B-Players be any more offensive than TaleSpin was, or even the side story of Winnie The Pooh being TaleSpinned, basically?! It's thing like this that make me laugh at the ones who keep talking about how drugged up the creators were in creating TaleSpin, when I finally know the real story and the whole thing was made basically because B-Players was a Tiny Toon's "Me Too!" and to buy time for Darkwing Duck and save their jobs.) The deer thing is kind of original; but a deer was spotted in Darkwing Duck, so it doesn't seem all that original. Totally Tasteless Video sucked; but it was a bit better watching it now that I watched it and took notes; and it looked better, and it had a good punchline to the whole segment. It just wasn't all that funny. Marsupilami's segment was the best one and it was barely above average. The hockey game gimmick in summer breaks logic to no end; but it was at least a funny logic break. Most of this wasn't all that funny; but the storyline made sense as the heel screwed the babyface over in a sport that he is good in, Mars comes back and sort of wins as Norman gets pounded by his own stupidity. I've seen far worse episodes than this; but it's not outstanding or anything. Next up is the Scrooge McDuck segment which is not nearly as good from start to finish. So...
Thumbs up for the Don Karnage hosting segments, thumbs in the middle for The Puck Stops Here, and a thumbs down for The All Potato Network and Sheerluck Bonkers. I'll see you all next time.