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The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin: The Faded Fobs
Reviewed: 06/28/2016
Did Fuzz Let Himself Go Or What?!
Okay; now we head into that part of the show where there really wasn't much to see other than a lot of episodes retold from the Teddy Ruxpin Adventure Books. Which means that there is a lot of episodic stuff in here as today's episode is basically Teddy and Grubby solving the mystery of why the Fobs lost their colors. It's a nice gesture and all; but unless you are a fan of the books, you don't care. Luckly; Tweeg is here and he's always a riot, so at least in the television series there is hope. So how does this episode do? Let's rant on shall we...?
We begin this one with the title in white and is much bigger than usual. That was something else. So we're in Gimmick Valley near Gimmick's house as we head inside to see Teddy is cleaning out the closet filled with machines and other such junk. Teddy brings out a fishing pole with a three finger one thumb hand on it with the price tag still on it. That price tag appears to be a prop from The Price Is Right as it is called the Handy-Dandy Hands which allows you to tie your shoelaces without bending over. Of course; Teddy and Grubby wear none and Gimmick apparently uses velcro, or doesn't know how to tie his shoes anyway. Logic break: Teddy says Handy-Dandy Handy Hands. Why the extra "handy" there, Teddy? Teddy reels it in and the hand twist itself into knots as Teddy tosses it away. What is with his voice echoing before he gets back in the closet to get a tube of something? Teddy claims that most Illiops don't usually wear shoes. Which is true in fact, outside of the few instances where Teddy wears the diving suit much later on in this series. The tube says "Anti-Glue" which is guaranteed not to stick to anything. Apparently; when you use all capital letters; screaming is highlighted in blue in this world. Okay; good to know. Just as Teddy is about to toss it; the tube sticks to his hands. HAHA! I call that "Irony Glue". AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sadly; the sticking lasts all about five seconds as it is tossed away. Teddy (almost said Kit for a second there) brings out an ball with a twist key named Automatic Ball. Uh oh! Professor Buzz has some explaining to do! Of course, Teddy twists the key and the ball bounces out of control; just like in Baloo Thunder as Teddy hides in the closet as the ball is trying to break down the door; in a neat spot. Grubby comes in as he asks where Teddy is and if found those baskets. Grubby casually walks to the door asking why Teddy is in the closet. Teddy claims he's hiding from one of Gimmick's invention. Funny; I thought he was hiding because (a) he turned on one of Gimmick's inventions or (b) he found out that the anti-Teddy mob has found Gimmick's house and want to burn him in a lake of fire. The ball stops bouncing as Teddy opens the door. I was hoping Grubby would say: "Yes"; then Teddy comes out and gets the ball stuffed in his mouth just like Baloo in Baloo Thunder. That was weak! That was weak! That was weak!
Then the ball explodes with metal flying and Teddy (almost said Baloo for a second there) hides in the closet again. Grubby is confused as Teddy finally comes out with two baskets. Teddy claims that he got sidetracked due to Gimmick's inventions as Grubby points out that you don't need an invention for berry picking and he wants to hurry it up so there are still some left to pick. Geez; calm down Grubby. As we'll see later; there is almost no one in sight for berry picking and the patch is full. So yeah; he's hungry again. Of course, Gimmick interrupts them on the second floor and tells them to come up for a minute as Teddy tells him that they have to do some berry picking. Grubby claims that this cannot wait and yes; there is a song cue for this, but it doesn't play until much later in this series, so no go. Gimmick claims that he has a method for supplying all the fruit they need without having to pick it. I think we know where this is going as Grubby claims that he like Gimmick being a genius sometimes and decides to walk on up with Teddy. So we see Gimmick on the second floor putting a strawberry on the table. If you cannot guess what he is going to do to said strawberry you have no business reading this rant. Yip; he's using the portable reducing machine; which is still in prototype phase (check the red trim on it) as Teddy asks about the new invention. Gimmick claims that it's not new; but a new idea for it. Grubby claims that if this means less picking, more eating, he's all for it. Grubby using logic and reason? Surely; you jest there guys! Teddy tells Grubby let Gimmick explain as Gimmick basically explains the exact same thing I already knew without having him say it. Why did you bother Teddy? I mean; if Grubby thought one thing and it ended up being something different, then I can see why Teddy politely blew off Grubby; but that was not the case here. Teddy calls this a great idea and Grubby asks if Gimmick has tested the idea; to which Gimmick says that he hasn't. This is not going to end well; but the real question is, for whom? Stay tuned and you'll soon find out. Gimmick claims that he didn't test the idea because he needs witnesses basically. Sounds fair as Gimmick comes over to Teddy with the remote control; as the Mini-Sizer is still too big to be carried at this point. Gimmick pushes the bottom button and the machine emmits blue light causing the strawberry to slowly grow. Gimmick explains that pi square is the secret to growth from the machine; among other things.
Grubby is licking his chops at the giant strawberry which grows to the size of a giant boulder as Gimmick goes on and on about how the strawberry is growing. Teddy tells Gimmick that he should turn off the machine; but Gimmick stammers because the button is being blocked by the giant strawberry as it breaks the table. How sad that a giant strawberry can break a table; but Baloo cannot?! Grubby yells to run away and runs away like a Scooby Doo character stage left. Everyone runs down the stairs as Grubby proclaims that he hopes the door is not jammed; because he doesn't want to get berried (as in buried). That was giggle inducing as Teddy isn't all that amused and Grubby claims that he was trying to preserve a sense of humor in all this as the trio squeezes into the front door; ala Baloo, Kit and WildCat in My Fair Baloo. Only the threat is a giant strawberry. I can take Rebecca Cunningham's wrath far more seriously than a giant strawberry at this point. Big logic break of doom: The strawberry bounces around the house with no sense of direction as the trio squeezes through the door as Gimmick falls down and loses his glasses on the grass. Grubby bumps down to the ground. Teddy takes a flip bump into the railing of the house with his chest and then lands on his rear end in a barrel filled with water. You got all that?! Grubby teleports about fifty feet away and is rolling on cannon balls and having problems. So yeah; Double Grubbys was him proving that he's not clumsy. Okay. Grubby is rolling on cannon balls as the giant strawberry comes out of the house without a problem as Grubby manages to dodge the giant strawberry to his left without even seeing it. Nice one there, Grubby. Grubby tells Gimmick that he wishes the strawberry was square according to pi square as Gimmick even agrees with him on it. Reality says no of course; but it's reality and it doesn't care. The strawberry rolls up the hill as Gimmick plays Velma Dinkly for a while because every character with glasses has to do this spot. I think Mira from In Search Of Ancient Blunders is the only character who doesn't do this spot at one time or another. Gimmick has more science "wisdom" for us as the strawberry rolls down the hill causing Teddy to panic as he pops his rear end out of the barrel; giving us the most glorified shot of his feet in the process. Grubby does some balancing on the cannon balls some more and this gasps.
Gimmick is still looking for glasses as Teddy yells at Gimmick to look out as Gimmick ducks to grab a branch and the strawberry bounces over him as Teddy breathes a sigh of relief. Gimmick puts the branch on his ears like glasses; because blind people in this show are too stupid to use their other senses. Not funny. Gimmick walks forwards; trips off a cannon ball and bonks into Grubby as they are in a heap. Teddy runs in as the strawberry rolls back after rolling up and down a tree. Teddy rushes in as Grubby asks what did Teddy say and Teddy tackles both friends down and the strawberry bounces by without any further incident. Oh; and we found Gimmick's glasses in front of Grubby's tail. Of course; it had to be out of nowhere. Grubby calls that a very sticky situation. Well; soon enough this will be true. But who will be sticky? Stay tuned and find out! Teddy gives Gimmick his glasses back and Gimmick puts them on. Gimmick asks about the strawberry as Teddy points out that it went over the hill. So the strawberry rolls and lands just near the edge of the cliff. Gimmick claims that they'll enlarge another one as Grubby blows it off and just wants to pick them by hand like they always do. Of course; lobster courage, thy name is Grubby. No last name sadly. Scene changer after six minutes of just there action; we head to the strawberry field and as I expected, there's no one there but Grubby and Teddy. Oh wait; there's a generic bird flying around. Geez; you think Grubby believes that bird will steal all the strawberries or something. So we pick strawberries and it's the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM; called "Two Hands Are Better Than One"'; as Teddy tossing methods are so reckless and Grubby's basket handling is so poor that one of the strawberries bonks off Grubby's nose. Teddy's feet change from the white soles to brown again during this song because this show cannot keep that straight 90% of the time. Literally when Teddy goes to his right in a few frames; his feet change from brown to white. Grubby claims that four hands are better than two as he uses his feet to grab more strawberries. So in other words; Grubby's feet are in fact hands. Which makes him a low rent Louie L'Amour. Of course; only one of them go in the basket as Grubby loses his balance again.
Grubby runs in as he and Teddy decide to invokes the close up method of picking strawberries together. There are a lot of jump cuts; including one with Grubby collecting shells from a lake; even though they are claiming it's the sea. This is where dream sequences make the most sense here. Teddy is marching around as we get more references on why working together is awesome, and who could argue? Answer: me; but that's just me of course. They come together after some jumping and we do the handshake of doom again. I dare Teddy Ruxpin to shake Baloo's hand. I double dog dare him. Kit would be laughing at him afterwards for being so dumb. So we scene change to a road as LB is pulling the wagon while Tweeg is on said wagon reading just to give Al Khan the willies. Logic break: Tweeg's mouth is moving for a number of seconds; but no sound is coming out. Dumb! It's basically the MAVO handbook which has a red cover. Geez; I thought it would be black for a second there. Tweeg is reading the MAVO hint section as hint number one is always wear black. Tweeg checks and since it's not black (even though it really is); LB suggest selling it and calls him Tweeze because he might get paid. Tweeg blows him off as hint number 2 is not to brush your teeth. How does that make you a heel? Sure; it makes you look gothic and give you bad breath and the inability to eat well; but being evil? MAVO needs to stop getting hints from the kindergarden school of heeldom and go to the grade school of heeldom more often. Hint number 3: Tell lies whenever possible. Ah; that's more like it! And that's no lie. Tweeg calls this a breeze as LB calls him Twizzle as he asks what the book is called. Tweeg claims that his memory is shorter than his arms; which he has none, so he just insulted LB's IQ by claiming that it's negative. Yip; Tweeg's a good heel who fails at life. The book is titled: So you want to be a villian?; which LB is confused allowing Tweeg to insult him again. LB asks how long is this going to take. Tweeg claims that it's not long because he has a black heart, a nasty mind and evil ideas. I guess "evil soul" is too religious even for Ken Fossee and Canadians. That's really stupid. Tweeg also claims that he has a vicious sense of humor. LB asks how long it will take Tweeg to do it; as he calls him Twick.
Tweeg ponders this over and cue Vinny V. laugh as Tweeg calls LB a blot on the landscape. He's trying to study, you see. Oh; and for a moment there, I thought he was trying to steady his bleeding black blood heart. Tweeg claims that he wants to rule Grundo with a iron fist; which is more rusted than his alchemy; if that is Grunge-Trolly possible. Man; I'm just slaying it with all the rejected LB zingers. I should also note that Teddy Ruxpin is being remade at least as a doll over the next few years thanks to Wicked Cool Toys. Interestly enough; the press release also claims that new episodic content is being produced, which usually means a new television series might also be in the works at some point. If that is the case, (I know the doll is being remade; don't know if the episodic content has to do with the doll, or a series yet); I hope someone is watching this and is coming up with LB zingers as we speak. I might donate a number of them to the writers for study and such. They'll probably reject all of them and resort to fart jokes instead; but eh. Tweeg orders LB to pull the wagon and the sound effects are overwhelming this scene for some reason. Then I discover that some stone bonk off LB's head as we pan to see that he is right above the cliff where the giant strawberry. Uh-oh! I love where this is going. LB looks up and notices the strawberry as he calls Tweeg; Twits. Geez; even LB likes insulting himself. He claims that destiny is going to pay them a visit. Now; if these producers knew what they were doing; we would see the strawberry land on Tweeg as LB pulls him a few feet in the shadow of the landing; LB does the epic zinger of doom, laughs and there's your payoff as we go to the commercial and go to the strawberry field afterwards. Here however, we cut away and head back to the strawberry garden as we see Teddy and Grubby pick more berries and out comes five Fobs in greyish colors; as if they came out of a dark and edgy version of this show. One of them is pinkish in color (even down to the antennae) for no reason whatsoever as Teddy and Grubby look towards them and they are shocked. The Fobs are not happy at all. They are mad; but still act nice anyway. That made me laugh. Teddy and Grubby asks what is wrong; but Grubby pretty much figured it out for us.
The Fobs are angry because they lost their colors; except for the pink one who claims he's fine. So why is he here? Unless he's Fuzz of course. I'll explain how I would book this episode later on. Teddy claims that the pink Fob is a little more duller than usual. Fob doesn't buy it. Memo to Teddy: Bad choice of words there. Calling someone duller than usual; indicates that they are boring. I'm just saying. Grubby grabs one of the Fobs and thinks that they are getting old. Which is reasonable; but the Fobs proclaim that they are not. By the way; the Fobs love repeating what the first Fob says in these scenes. It's kind of annoying; but I've heard worse. So then Fob #5 turns grey on cue as it's four years old. So I assume it's Fuzz. Okay; I'll explain how I would book this: We saw Fuzz in Take A Good Look looking purple right? Okay; I haven't ranted on that episode yet; but it's obvious. Anyhow; I would book the faded purple Fob in this scene as Fuzz, who is Gimmick's pet who has a lot of freedom. Then Fuzz loses his colors and then when the colors are restored later on, he turns green as a quirk in the Fobs that when they lose their colors, they regenerate into a new color at random. Then; that would explain why Fuzz has been green throughout the rest of the series. Of course; this causes a logic break at the end of the series with the green Fuzz in the flashback of Teddy Ruxpin; but that's not the bookers fault, that's the color stylist's fault. Grubby has an idea as we cut to the basket of strawberries on the ground. Then we scene change to Tweeg reading his book on the wagon. Tweeg demands answers to this outrage as LB calls him Twerp. Is Tweeg a secret Pokemon master? TUNE INTO SOFT COPY TO FIND OUT! LB thinks that the red giant thing is related to him. If only LB, if only.Tweeg cares about the greatest villians in history; which Tweeg is not of course. LB bounces as the strawberry is teetering on the edge of falling. Wah-wah-wah sounds ensue and then we cut away as Grubby is painting a strawberry on a Fob. What?! For goodness sakes guys; pay off the giant strawberry already! We know it's going to happen and it's going to be funny; so why are you teasing it when the Grubby/Teddy segments are just there? Idiots! Grubby of course paints stripes on the back (which we see in all of it's entirely I might add) and Grubby puts the Fob down on the ground. Teddy calls this a clever idea. I call it Fob cruelty myself. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
So the Fobs bounce up and down as Teddy and Grubby paint the Fobs with strawberries. The instant they are put down on the ground; they attract flies and insects. Like I said, cruelty. Remind me to never ask Grubby for sun tanning tips. The Fobs blow it off as sticky opposed to being dull; which is a perfect metaphor for the debate of "Which is better? So terrible or so dull?" Always one that never gets resolved, since it has it's strengths and weaknesses. Scene change back to Tweeg's wagon as Tweeg demands LB to move this wagon. Now; if they had just played this scene out completely instead of cutting away twice, this would have been even funnier because the whole scene is suppose to break the tension of the strawberry picking. Or; you do the Fob angle first, then break the tension with the Tweeg/LB segment. Instead; they did a balance of the two and it tainted both angles. Idiots! LB is a hopping mouth now as LB calls him Tweep (which means Tweeg is gonna weep; which is also true) as the giant strawberry finally falls off the cliff as Tweeg threatens to come down on LB so hard; LB won't know what hit him. LB giggles, and moves the wagon as he calls him Tweezle. Which is hilarious considering what happens to Tweeg two episodes after this. Even funnier; the shadow of the strawberry was no where near LB when he started moving; so if LB didn't move; the strawberry would have never hit either one of them. What's not funny is that when LB moves Tweeg's wagon as the shadow comes down; that ends the segment almost 12 minutes in. This is so stupid that it killed the gag sadly. You are not doing a suspenseful spot; you are doing a comedy spot. So pay off the joke! Don't go to commercial in the middle of paying off the comedy! It's stupid! Is it that impossible to not move some of the last minute or so of Fob/Teddy/Grubby to the beginning of the second commercial break; or even better, move all the Fob footage to after this spot is paid off properly?!
So...after the commercial break; we replay the wagon going underneath the shadow of the giant strawberry (which would have never hit anyone if LB didn't move anyway) as Tweeg proclaims that the name is Tweeg. He spells his name and before he can spell the G in Tweeg; the strawberry splatters all over him like he is covered in crimson blood. Now; that is funny because Tweeg is the dumbest villain in this show; and he got what was coming for insulting LB; that was on the floor laughing my butt off type of spot. However; the editing of this angle was horrible. LB is on his back laughing and wiggling as he proclaims that he calls this getting your just desserts. Now THAT is funny; but it's tainted because of bad editing. Tweeg blows it off and looks like he was near about a dozen human beings put into a wood chipper (whom were not frozen) as LB calls this the sweetest Tweeg has ever looked. LB is nailing the punchline perfectly here as the shot they used is like he's laughing at someone bleeding to death. Which normally is horrible; but this is Tweeg we are talking about here, so it comes off as hilarious. Tweeg demands that LB takes him home at once; as LB laughs like crazy. LB actually says Tweeg's name right (Idiots! He's not supposed to say that until Tweeg reunites with his dad Elroy!) as he has a strawberry shortcut in mnd. Also funny. Yeah; the angle was great; but the execution could have been better with much better editing. Scene change to the strawberry field as the Fobs are struggling and somehow two of them are stuck with leaves; while the fifth one got his foot stuck in strawberry juice which is also sticky. Is strawberry juice really that sticky? Grubby grabs one of them and it's stuck to his hands as well as Grubby is pushing off a Fob with his hands feet. Or is that feet hands. Oh; who cares?! Teddy proclaims that they got to get the strawberry juice off of them because this is clearly not working. Of course; restore their colors is the other thing, but the Fobs seems content with being dull. Heck; it might help LB get over his hate of them, too. Teddy suggests that they go to Rainbow Falls and Grubby calls it a good idea as he unsticks the Fobs; and logic rears it's ugly head again as the strawberry juice is completely gone on the next shot as Grubby wipes his face with the hand that was denched in strawberry juice. Of course!
The Fobs blow this idea off because Rainbow Falls has dried up for two weeks now. Which begs the question: If Fuzz is Gimmick's pet; then how come Gimmick didn't notice this earlier? So Teddy decides to take a look and Fobs assure him nothing is there. Scene change to Rainbow Falls; which has lost a lot of shrubbry since the first arc. Gee; it's like a totally different look now. This is what happens when you play episodic games to apease execs in a show that is serial. Of course; there's no water in the falls; which is fine I guess. Worse; as you'll see later, Rainbow Fall had ordinary blue water in the first arc....Now that I really think about it; the first arc might not have been Rainbow Falls; but just a water fall with a rainbow image on it according to my notes. This begs the question: Why was Wooly there and not at Rainbow Falls? At least it kills the gaping logic break; but still. So Teddy ponders this over as the Fobs continue to show what we already saw. Teddy asks if the falls might have something to do with them becoming dull in color. One of the Fobs says no instantly; and then the rest say yes. Teddy proclaims that he gets what happened to them; and states that they have to find out with happened to Rainbow Falls drying up. Okay; let's scene change to Tweeg and LB as LB pulls the wagon to Tweeg Tower; while Tweeg blows off LB because he's Tweeg. He calls LB a talking tomato (Don't you mean talking radish?) as he's underneath the water tower containing a lot water. You see the strawberry juice is like blood as it got into his eyes and he cannot see. LB calls him Tweak and tells him to look up. Tweeg claims that strawberries give him a rash; so yes, he's allergic to them. Also; another thing I don't understand: Earlier in the series, they had a berry called Grundoberries. So why not introduce them as such here; where you can get some amusement out of it? Again; playing episodic games in a serial is just asking for stupidity like this. Tweeg looks up as LB wants to get behind the ears. Personally; he should have said "I want to make sure I get that brain squeaky clean." LB pulls the chain to the water spout with his teeth (because he has no arms) and a drop of water falls on Tweeg's head. HAHA! Sadly; there was already a drop on Tweeg's head; so the editing is bad again. Then the water sprays on Tweeg like a hose and Tweeg gets splooshed like a waterfall. Most of the juice is gone as LB flops on his back and laughs again, as most kids would too. And some adults like me would as well.
So we scene change to Grubby and Teddy at the falls as Teddy has brought along a basket and a rope with a rock tied to it. Teddy lassos the rope over a branch as we finally get Grubby saying that he has never heard of Rainbow Falls drying up before and no one climbing the falls before. Normally; this would be fine, except this implies that the falls where they met Wooly for the first time is in fact Rainbow Falls in the first arc. Which I might point out; looks nothing like Rainbow Falls! How Jymn Magon kept Cape Suzette, Louie's and Higher For Hire straight is amazing to me. Anyhow; speaking of creditability; the basket goes from being able to just pick strawberries to somehow growing to support an Illiop and FIVE Fobs! Wow; these animators have zero idea what they are doing! This cannot be Larson & Gary's doing because Teddy would have called the FDA on them by now. Reputation you know. Grubby holds onto the rope as Teddy and the five Fobs get inside the basket. Grubby does the most ridockulus pirate promo I have ever heard; which in hindsight makes sense because he used to be part of the Octopede Sailors much later on. I betcha Zina was giggling when he attempted that promo on that ship, too. Teddy asks who is he talking to and Grubby hoohoos us saying that it's his feet. Even though; it is supposed to be hands. I told you this show cannot keep that straight! So Grubby pulls on the rope as Teddy is brought up; however, the branch is sagging as the Fobs continue to talk as Grubby is questionning this. Teddy claims everything is fine. Memo to Teddy: A lot of people think you are creepy. Not me of course; although your idealogy is creepy; although it's nothing I haven't seen before. The branch snaps and the basket freefalls; until it lands on a much lower branch. This somehow causes Grubby to rise up which makes no sense at all. Oh wait; I know. It's because they have to do a comedy spot since Tweeg and LB are done in this episode I do believe. Although I said that about Double Grubbys and it was not the case. They swing as Teddy wants Grubby's hand and Grubby asks which one. Okay; that was funny as Teddy blows him off. Be nice, Teddy Ruxpin, you dumb hypocrite! Grubby uses his hand to grab Teddy's hand and they do the Butterbear whirlwind spot. At least it's 1986 and not 1990 when that spot became so overused that I was begging for them to retire it.
So then we get another logic break; after they spin in the opposite direction, they swing again as Teddy wants him to grab the vine with one hand to lower them down to the ground. Grubby does that and then bounce onto the ground; without much trouble. Now; the problem with this is: When they get out of the basket; Teddy and Grubby are selling that the world is spinning around in their heads, as their eyes are rolling around and they look dizzy. Okay; that is all well and good. However; they only sold it when the basket hit the ground instead of doing it after the second whirlwind spot in the opposite direction. In other words; they no sold dizziness when Grubby was lowering them down and swing. This is bad psychology. Also; Grubby suggest that they go see the Wooly Whatsit after all of this stupidity as Teddy agrees that they should have done it sooner. The selling of the dizziness was awesome on everyone's part; but the psychology was wonky as Grubby asks if the ground is shaking or just him. Teddy tells him that it's Grubby and Grubby loses his balance and then stops to say; that's better. Still better than a shot to the head; so I'm perfectly fine with them being dizzy. So we head to Wooly's house as Grubby, Teddy, The Fobs and Wooly exchange notes on the situation. Wooly proclaims that he will help and he can climb the falls; although he was about to have a nap. Teddy points out that the Fobs need help and Wooly decides to forgo his nap. Okay; this is fine except for one thing: What would happen if he said "Nap first, then I climb"? What is going to happen to the Fobs if he delays doing the deed? The answer is....nothing. So Teddy sounds like a whiner. Just have Wooly say yes and move on to the next scene. The music is warped here as the Fobs jump into Wooly's hands and that was that. Scene change to Tweeg's Tower (Yup; I was wrong again) as Tweeg is at the lookout reading his book; which is now green covered. There is a spiked mace in the background; that amused me as Tweeg is reading that the following tasks must be done in order to become an apprentice for MAVO. The number one task is to get even with somebody. Tweeg ponders this over and paces around as he looks down to see LB bouncing to the wagon underneath the water tower. Hmmm; I wonder where this is going?
LB grabs a box and then bounces up the stairs with it. Tweeg then asks nicely to do something for him; which anyone with an IQ of eight or above would call shenengins right away. LB decides to play along calling him Twiple. Tweeg then claims that he left the MAVO handbook in the wagon; which LB claims that he did not. Now here's where they could lop off the logic break: Tweeg should have said that his handbook has a red cover like we saw earlier; while the book he's reading now is a green covered book. Even though in reality; it's the other way around. That way; he can lie to LB and still maintain logic throughout this scene. Tweeg claims that it's not and wants him to get the book. LB throws the box onto Tweeg's foot as Tweeg demonstrates his foot grabbing spot by not doing it and threatening violence; so LB hops down anyway which causes Tweeg to stop selling and call him a good bounder. Awwwww! My heart melted! LB's brain is blown and not in a good way; as he claims that there is no such thing as a good bounder, calling him Twix. Number one: Legal is going to have a word for you on that one. Number two: BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wait until the Hate Plague arc; when you prove that otherwise LB. Remember that you were the one who spared Teddy's life and caused MAVO to lose the crystals again. Teddy would say there is such a thing; like Elves, Woodsprites and even you dreaded nemesis, Fobs! Tweeg follows LB as LB checks the wagon blowing off Tweeg for being lazy. LB bounces off as he calls him Tweeze as Tweeg gets to the chain and pulls it claiming that he has outsmarted LB. LB turns around asking what he is doing, calling him Twitch. Tweeg pulls on the rope and nothing happens as LB informs him that the water tower is empty. Tweeg claims that he knows that; and pulls on the tower so hard that he forgets that LB is nowhere near it and the thing breaks and crashes right into Tweeg; literally burying him. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! People who have fond memories of this show; mostly have fond memories of it due to Tweeg failing at life while LB mocks him for it. Tweeg pops from the carnage with a tear in his eye claiming that he was testing him. Oh; did I pass, Tweet? Which is almost word for word what he said. He missed calling him Tweet there as Tweeg groans and flops on his back giving up. HAHA! They at least paid off this angle and it was funny even though the editing is bad.
Scene change to Rainbow Falls as Wooly climbs up the falls while Teddy and Grubby look on. Teddy tells Wooly to be careful; but goodness forfend us to the lake of fire if Wooly almost kills himself again like he did in the first arc. What is this echo effect in this video? Is the DVD audio really this bad? Wooly climbs to the top as Grubby asks if he sees anything, as they play the always amusing Wooly Whatsit background music. Yes; Wooly has a song and a songtrack. If this show gets remaded; this gets in unchanged. Someone needs to upload a clean version of this music right now on Youtube! Wooly walks for a while and notices a giant boulder blocking a cave, and ponders over how that got there. That's a good question there Wooly; because we will never find out how in this series. So Grubby and Teddy are talking to each other wondering if Wooly is all right. To which I say: Yes. If a free fall off a plane from the Hard To Find City (Illiopolis) cannot kill him; then nothing will in this show. So; relax you two, he's fine. I just love how Teddy claims that he wouldn't try anything too dangerous. Way to trivalize Wooly's near death in the first arc there Ruxpin! So Wooly grabs the boulder and as this happens, rainbow paint starts flowing from the cave...Oh wait; that's the Rainbow Falls water. Okay; this is absurd. Why is the water rainbow colored? I get that it's supposed to be called Rainbow Falls; but why is the water like paint? I mean; the water in the first arc was clear blue. This makes no sense. So Wooly puts the boulder on his back and notices a red stone on the side of the falls. He grabs it and calls it pretty. Of course! Wooly tosses the boulder aside and hops on the rocks which come completely out of nowhere, because goodness forbid you go more than a minute without a logic break in this show. The paint goes over the falls as everyone cheers in the most stiffest way possible as they notice Wooly climbing down. Wooly tells them to look out below as he splashes into the falls like a cannon ball. The paint splashes over and nails all five fobs, and they are still not full of color; so the water itself did not destroy the strawberry juice; so bad logic. The Fobs cheer anyway and hop into the river with Wooly sitting down at his usual position of the falls as the Fobs swim and turn bright rainbow colors for fun. One of them turns green as I suspect that this was Fuzz; since he would appear as Gimmick's pet later on in the series; even though he was originally purple in his first appearance "Take A Good Look". So Teddy and Grubby thank Wooly as Wooly blushes back. The fobs swim as the beautiful music ends to end the episode at 19:13. Also; there is no preview of the next episode! So it was treated like an episodic episode all along. Anyhow; Tweeg and LB were awesome as usual; the rest of it was pretty blah for the most part. It was fine outside of the bad editing and animation breaks in logic. ** 3/4 (55%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; this was another mess of an episode. I'm not a fan of the books; so I couldn't get into the Faded Fobs angle; most so when it could have been written so much better and explain why Fuzz is now green instead of purple. It's a case of no one being on the ball and plugging up holes of logic the likes I haven't seen before. We're supposed to believe that this is the same Rainbow Falls that was in the first arc when they look completely different. No one is buying that they are the same. The Tweeg/LB stuff was great as always and the main reason for the higher rating; however, it could have been even higher if the producer had a clue in that when you have a comedy spot; you paid it off before you go to commercial and not after. You do suspense spots like they did here. They kept cutting away from the funny joke; just to advance the Fobs angle; and it annoyed me because the joke was legit funny and they kept teasing it instead of delivering it. Thus; it made the payoff look not as good as it should be. Of course; the punchline was funny and the aftermath was also very funny; but it would have been better if they just did the entire strawberry splatting angle in one go and then go to commercial. Then return to the Fob angle. They had a great idea ruined by editing basically. Otherwise; it was just an episode to waste time for the bigger angle to come which is when Tweeg gets sick; since that angle was the build for the remainer of the arc. However; the next episode is the Medicine Wagon as the trio gets involved in the wacky and sometimes deadly world of woo and quackery. Only Tweeg is the quack you see. So....
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.