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The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin: Tweeg Gets The Tweezles
Reviewed: 05/31/2016
Tweeg Goes Full On Woo Part Deux!
Well; we finally get to the meat of the Rainbow Falls arc as Jack W. Tweeg is ill. Okay; I don't mean in a sense of mental illiness; I mean he's sick to the gills in spots and pink skin. LB decides to enlist Gimmick; the guy who hates LB for some reason and Teddy and Grubby to help Tweeg get well; which as this is going on, this was the unofficial debut of the MAVO dues collector Miss Maggotheart. This angle is very important because it sets up the remaining two stories of this arc and this allows Tweeg to be just the best whiny heel on the face of the planet. I'm not the biggest fan of this episode as a child; but I'm willing to give it a critical eye review as an adult; so can it make it through my eyes now? Let's rant on shall we...?
We begin this one with a shot of Gimmick's Valley as we head inside Tweeg Tower with LB bouncing in as he tells Tweek to rise and shine. Tweeg blows him off because it's Tweeg you see. Tweeg is in bed with his face looking as pink as I ever saw it. Tweeg proclaims that he feels better after the first insult of the morning and asks LB to check the day out the window. LB checks out and claims that it is a bright sunny day, as Tweeg proclaims that this is a perfect day to spread evil. Judging by his look today; it looks like he might spread something else that would be evil in a really horrible way. Tweeg wants the MAVO handbook and he looks like he's pink with purple spots all over him. Despite that; there are no other signs that he's sick. No coughing, no flu, no mucus, no nothing. So, it appears he drank MP #87 and developed an allergic reaction to it. Then we get an hilarious logic break: The spot was for LB to look at Tweeg; and be so shocked that he is knocked off his perch. 85% of this did in fact happen properly. The problem is; LB appeared to look out of the window instead of looking sharply to his left to where Tweeg is. LB calls him Twang; which is the cousin of Kwang I assume. What is the sound of 300 pounds of fertilizer when it hits the fan? KWANG! Tweeg gets up and claims that he doesn't look great in the morning; but who doesn't. Geez; that sounds like a babyface promo; so something is wrong here. Tweeg throws books away because he wants the MAVO handbook. LB gets bonked by the black covered book as Tweeg clears the table. He then looks at his face and gasps; realizing that he's pink faced with purple spots. How he didn't realize that his hands were covered in the same manner is a mystery to me? Well; I discover why because Tweeg is in total denial mode as he accuses LB of getting spots on the table. HAHA! I take it back; he's perfectly fine. He probably drink the same tonic Grubby drank in the last episode by mistake. He calls the table a very expensive antique and that his mommy sold it to him. Geez; Elinore has a much lower opinion of him than I previously thought.
Tweeg opens the grey CHEST OF DEMONS as apparently; the handbook is in the chest; along with a mirror. Tweeg looks in the mirror and calls himself handsome as he proclaims that the mirror needs cleaning. Tweeg rubs the mirror on his chest which LB claims will not help his sense of denial. Considering that he hasn't shown any signs of illiness outside of having skin coloring differences and having a defective personality; I think he's fine. Tweeg then checks the mirror blowing LB off and then recoils and realizes that he has spots like being a human bingo card. That made me laugh for no reason at all. LB of course leaves saying it might be catching. Tweeg calls him back and LB asks why he should help him. Tweeg proclaims that he's a very sick person. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. That is exactly what LB should have said. LB claims that he knew that for a very long time; which is also funny. Twig...ERRR...I mean, Tweeg; blows LB off claiming that he's physically sick. Which as demonstrated in the very first minute of this episode, he is clearly fine outside of the colors and spots. Tweeg states that he cannot do evil things and most of all; no one gets paid. So LB basically comes back as he calls him Tweeze; as Tweeg wants help back in bed. Tweeg wonders what he got and LB claims that he has the Tweezles while giggling. Which means that he does not; but Tweeg cannot help but oversell agony and fear. Tweeg goes in bed as he asks if it's serious and LB hopes it is; but seriously doesn't know. Tweeg thinks it's serious as he needs a doctor as LB pulls up the covers. LB hops out and says you are a doctor. Scene change to Gimmick's house as we head inside at the kitchen table as Teddy is writing in his diary while Grubby is looking on. Teddy asks Grubby what Gimmick originally called the air ship and Grubby claims that it's an Air Swoop. Which is false; since it was called an Air Boat. I took notes; these writers didn't. To be fair; Air Swoop is much more interesting than Air Boat. Of course; Teddy's memory is bad because he agrees with Grubby. He asks how many Gutang planes did they knock out of the sky during the Hard To Find City.
Question: Why is he writing all this now? Why didn't he write this during Take A Good Look; where it would be much fresher in his memories?! At this point; they already know how the first crystal works; they had the crystals stolen and they got them back from MAVO! How would anyone know about the Treasure Of Grundo arc, unless they read my rant about it?! This is so stupid. Grubby doesn't know other than they used up all the root stew for it, so that accounts for something. Grubby then asks what he is writing and Teddy claims that it's his journal. He writing down his adventures so he won't forget them which causes Grubby to not be happy because he wanted to do a morning hike. Teddy promises to finish the journal and hike after lunch; which of course is going to be a lie; albeit not because he doesn't want to go on a hike. Grubby decides to check on Gimmick outside; which Teddy calls a great idea, which makes Grubby look glum. So we go outside and see Gimmick attending to yet another machine, only it has a loaf of bread, a knife and a bucket of butter. There are two tanks near the table where Gimmick is and there are three larger tanks behind Grubby as Gimmick is checking the machine to make sure everything is right. This invention seems to be one that is basically a bread slicer, toaster and butter spreader all in one. I would call it the Butter Toaster. Gimmick calls this a revolution in sandwich making as it's the Bread Butterer. No toasting, no sale. Grubby asks why and Gimmick stammers like an idiot before admitting that he doesn't have time to explain why. I've come to the conclusion that the music warping is due to the audio being in the dumpster now as Gimmick brings out the almond prints (almond color blueprints of course) Speaking of hilarious logic breaks; Gimmick in storyline commits one. Now; I say storyline because Gimmick states when he reads the blueprints that you butter the bread first and then cut it. Which makes no sense at all. If you know how the world works; it's more logical to cut the bread first and then butter it. Let's see if Grubby spots this because if he does; then it's a logic break in storyline and was intended to be such. That's perfectly acceptable. If not; then it's a logic break and these writers have no idea what they are doing. Grubby basically says it's easier to butter the bread on your own; which is not Grubby spotting the logic break in this, but he does have a point there.
Unless you are selling this to deli shops; I don't see why single homes would need this. I doubt deli shops would accept this invention since Gimmick's theory is so backwards in logic that it's no longer funny. Gimmick claims that this takes away the challenge. Geez; what a nerd Gimmick is?! He might as well be the 1987 edition of Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory at the rate he's going. So Gimmick switches the machine on proclaiming that he is making history. Yeah; the history of one big epic fail of an invention. Gimmick pulls the lever (WRONG LEVER~!) as Grubby sulks as he turns around claiming that he thought he was going to make sandwiches. Still hasn't figured out the logic break to this. So the machine is smoking which Grubby implies that it is going to toast the bread too. Then the knife goes into the butter and takes out some butter; then it proceeds to turn and throw the butter straight at Grubby as this happens dozens of times; with one of the shots nailing Grubby in the kisser. Gimmick panics and stutters because it's a Perloon gimmick. See what I did there? Then the knife cuts the bread into slices and even though no one pointed out the backwards logic, the animation did it for us. So, great! Gimmick claims that the slices are too thick; which they are clearly not. Is Gimmick one of those guys who slices bread so paper thin that people literally move out just for that? If so; some friend he turned out to be. Don't skimp on food on your friend like that! So Grubby wants to help as he runs in and slips on the butter as he bonks into a fuel tank and it rolls down towards the machine. Gimmick gets rolled and dropped on his back as the tank bonks into the table. Gimmick panics and dives into the mushrooms; which he does the same dive as Teddy and Digger in The Journey Home; as if they are diving into a swimming pool. Machine explodes and somehow doesn't get destroyed as it flies into the air instead. Then it comes down and hits the table; and somehow it doesn't break. Neither the machine nor the table. HEEEEHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA! I AM THE TABLE~! Gimmick pops up as somehow his glasses are still on his face; but messed up at the same time.
Grubby apologizes as Gimmick tells him to be more careful and keep his limbs to himself when experiments are happening. Which is hilarious because the reason Grubby didn't do that was because he slipped on butter that was caused by Gimmick's own invention. So Gimmick is to blame for all this and who apologizes for this? Grubby! For goodness sakes Gimmick; apologize! Grubby points out that it wasn't working anyway and Gimmick states that it doesn't now as the knife cuts a slice of bread and Gimmick gets it in the kisser. Grubby comes in and asks if he's ready to eat those words. That was funny, actually. Gimmick takes the bread off his face as Teddy comes out asking why they are arguing. Arguing? Really? Grubby got off some witty dialogue and Gimmick was not happy with the machine. That's hardly arguing. So what does Gimmick and Grubby do? They start arguing anyway! So Teddy basically enabled them by butting in to their business. Bad Illiop! Bad! Bad! Bad! Teddy thinks it's an attitude problem. No, Teddy; it's your inability to let two grown adults settle it themselves. Gimmick notes that Grubby was in a bad mood. I personally didn't think he was in a bad mood; just disappointed. This is exactly what bothers me about Teddy's idealogy: You either have a good mood or a bad mood; and nothing inbetween. It's absolution. In the real world; nine times out of ten, when you deal with absolutes; you look like a fool. Grubby was merely disappointed because he wanted to go on a hike in the morning and it didn't happen. He was disappointed; but that's not having a bad attitude. In fact; it's really natural to be disappointed then something doesn't happen. If Grubby was throwing a temper tantrum and fighting with Gimmick; then Grubby has a bad attitude and needs to be corrected. Not here. If anything; Gimmick's the one with the bad attitude and even his is more naivete than actual malice. He blamed Grubby for messing up; even though a pad of butter caused Grubby to slip and that was caused by Gimmick's invention. That being said; as Teddy is talking to everyone, he points out that Gimmick gets frustrated and Gimmick admits it. Great! Grubby admits that he did Gimmick no favors; but Gimmick insists that it's his fault. Great! That's exactly how it should go. I have been hard on Teddy in this series; mostly for is idealogical absolution; but he handled this dispute like a professional, and it's things like this that make Teddy so great.
However; Teddy's idealist stance is not going to get far with a realist like Kit. Grubby and Gimmick shake hands and make up as Grubby wants to try it without the bread as Gimmick giggles. This is one of the better trio segments I have seen in this series Pre-Death Of Innocence arc. However; we fade to black and there is a small annoying logic break: In the previous scene when they started the scene; I heard the LB bouncing bounder spot for the first few seconds and then we never heard it again. I assumed LB was going to get a doctor. However; we head back to Tweeg Tower and LB is back at the tower looking from a telescope. I just wish they showed LB at the look off first saying that he's looking for a doctor and then go to Gimmick's house. It would have made a lot of this make more sense. Also; LB says Tweeg's name right. Geez writers; LB is not supposed to get Tweeg's name right until the Journey Home so that there is a storyline payoff to the whole thing. LB uses the telescope and finds Gimmick's house and then we scene change to LB bouncing towards Gimmick's house as the trio is at the porch eating sandwiches. Gimmick proclaims that his invention will never make a sandwich as good as this one. Of course not Gimmick; since your invention does it backwards. So yeah; he buried his own invention. Grubby hears boinging and here comes LB as Gimmick calls him a horrid little bounder. I just love how Teddy basically calls him by name as if he had no beef with the poor guy in spite of the fact that in the first arc; LB and his bounders nearly tried to run him down and hurt him or worse. Grubby asks what does LB want is LB proclaims that Tweeg needs help; which Grubby responds that Tweeg probably stole the Tweezles from somebody. Which would be funny and tragic at the same time; if it was true. Gimmick says he needs a doctor and LB points out the obvious to us; which Gimmick admits. Teddy wants to help Tweeg; which is so Teddy Ruxpin of him. Personally; I would help him if Tweeg was really ill (he wasn't; but still), because Tweeg is the best comedy fodder in this show. If he's gone; the show is not worth watching. Grubby takes a sandwich and asks why they should help him. Answer: Because he's the comedy relief and this show sure needs it most of the time. Calling Tweeg a villain is so laughable that I was laughing at it. If Grubby had called him a wacky alchemist, that would actually be more accurate and much more funnier.
Teddy of course points out that babyfaces are supposed to help heels; or they become heels as well. Again; this is where absolution is going to bite Teddy in the bum again: I can understand him helping Tweeg because for the most part, he is just a whiny heel who is harmless. If the Gutangs or Quellor gets sick; would Teddy help them? Considering that the Gutangs almost killed Wooly in the first arc and MAVO almost killed Teddy in the Death Of Innocence arc? The risk is way too great for Teddy unless the heels repent completely which they don't. Granted; Tweeg doesn't repent either; but he's such a failure in life that being helped is in fact a step up. Sometimes, Purity of Essence is very toxic; but not in this case. Again; nine times out ten, you deal with absolutes, you look like a fool. Gimmick agrees to it as it's a neighbourly thing to do. And the fact that Tweeg is easy comedy. Sometimes; you do have to compromise your convinction. LB hops away thanking the trio and proclaims that he'll pay them somehow. Also of note; he says Tweeg's name right, but this is actually okay because the whole angle is that he's just saying the name wrong to get Tweeg's goat like a troll. This is perfectly fine. So we fade to black and return to inside Tweeg Tower as Tweeg is moaning and complaining like a good whiny heel should. Tweeg is moaning about LB as he slowly walks to the table just overselling dramatics about how much he would like to hear LB's boinging sound again. So we hear knocking on the door as Tweeg blows off LB for forgetting his keys. So Tweeg opens the door and it's Miss Maggotheart; in what appears to be her official debut as she greets Tweeg at the door. Tweeg asks if she is a doctor; Maggotheart says no and Tweeg tells her to get lost and slams the door. Maggotheart writes down in her book that this is very good as Tweeg opens the door. Because you see; she's from MAVO and therefore, slamming the door in her face is a heel move, thus means that Tweeg is good at being a heel. Laughable; but I suppose it works out for her. She shows the MAVO handbook as Tweeg got twenty-six points for insulting a total stranger. So how much would he get for insulting a friend? That we don't know. Maggotheart comes inside as Tweeg groans because she's from MAVO's dues collection and calls her Mr. Tweek. HAHA! See; she's getting the hang of this already. Tweeg blows her off because it's Mr. Tweeg after all.
Maggotheart checks the list and it is spelled right; so she's trolling on him. HEE HEE! She rips off the bill (in more ways than one I might add) and gives it to Tweeg as Tweeg reads it; as the dues are 427 pieces of gold! Tweeg calls this outrageous which Maggotheart agrees. HA! Maggotheart wants him to scrape some cash together and wants the MAVO handbook; which as I noted went missing. I suggested that it probably went missing during the buttermilk popcorn wave incident an episode back. Tweeg admits that he doesn't know where it is and looks around as Maggotheart is tapping her foot; and looks all not amused; but her humming is so laughable that I swear she is amused by all this and is trying to act like a jerk; but failing. So Tweeg looks around finding nothing but canisters and mice; and Maggotheart looks around and finds the book; which now looks like the Crystal Book without the DRM golden lock. Maggotheart grabs the book; Tweeg throws away a salad bowl as Maggotheart discovers that he has only done two evil deeds on the checklist. Question to her: Does that include the insult a total stranger thing from the beginning? Because if not; that means he has done three evil deeds in as many episodes. He's a slow starter. The two deeds are almost hitting something with a cannon and heeling on mommy for cut allowance. Maggotheart claims that she has seen Fobs with meaner streaks than he does. So she did watch the Faded Fobs before this; but that begs the question: Teddy was with the Fobs. How didn't she notice that there was an Illiop even though in storyline; Illiops are considered death gods to MAVO. So she writes another bill for 100 pieces of gold for insufficent progress; because MAVO isn't to be trifiled with. I can buy that; look how insane they turned when they found out about Teddy Ruxpin. Tweeg whines because he's sick; so Maggotheart tells him he can deduct one piece of gold for medical expenses. HAHA! Tweeg proclaims the he has no money and is on his knees begging for mercy. I am so loving this troll as she is screaming for money right now. Maggotheart writes another bill for 200 pieces of gold for late payment; as Tweeg whines again. So Maggotheart added another 350 pieces of gold for critizing MAVO.
Tweeg whines some more as Maggotheart checks her watch and decides to leave as she proclaims that it comes to 1175 pieces of gold; with interest calculated hourly; or when they feel like it, whichever comes first. She then ends with a flourish saying that it was nice harassing him as Tweeg claims the pleasure is all her while whining. Maggotheart slams the door and then adds eighty-five points to her docket for harrassing a paid MAVO member! This is the greatest scene in the series by a mile! Maggotheart is the best troll in the history of heeldom. She is slaying this scene. She might even be a funnier heel than Tweeg himself in this show. Why isn't Maggotheart the Surpeme Oppressor?! She is much more over than anyone in that group; including Iggy himself; who is funnier than Quellor is! Maggotheart comes down the stairs and up comes LB, Teddy, Grubby and Gimmick. Even though Maggotheart is the greatest character in this show now; besides Ilana Ruxpin, she waves to LB in a nice way and walks past them without incident. Even though there is an Illiop clearly in sight. There is ZERO followup on this. This is stupid of her; she should have noticed this and ran off to inform Quellor that there is an Illiop in the area. Then Quellor asks if he has the crystals and she says I no and the conversation ends there. That would be fine; but Maggotheart completely no sold this and acted as if nothing happened. DUMB! Gimmick calls her nice (which is downright hilarious in itself) as LB wonders why she is here; Grubby thinks she's a nurse. That one kind of nurse there Grubby; more like a nurse of pain and suffering that makes us laugh out loud. So we head inside as Tweeg is on his knees sobbing like a baby; and the door opens, in comes LB and Tweeg stops selling and blows him off. You just knew Tweeg would somehow get his heat back. LB blows him off calling him Twizzle because the trio is here. Tweeg calls them goody two-shoes; which is actually accurate beside only one of them is wearing shoes, and wearing two of them. For once; a cartoon gets this analogy right. Teddy of course is here to help and introduces himself and his friends as Tweeg blows it off because he knows who they are. Normally; this would be unacceptable behavior on Tweeg's part; except Tweeg is supposed to be the heel. Tweeg claims that LB has lost his mind and LB claims that no one crazy enough would help him. Tweeg claims he has a fever, because LB is making sense.
Nah; I think he's still getting over Maggotheart's performance and his brain is not accepting it for some reason. So Teddy and Grubby help Tweeg upstairs and we fade to black. We return to Tweeg's room as Tweeg is in bed and Gimmick comes over. LB is on a white CHEST OF DEMONS in front of the bed; Teddy and Grubby are beside him. So Gimmick brings out the heartscope (This brings me back memories of my hospitalization; only my doctors were far less goofier than Gimmick is.) and we check Tweeg's heart. Gimmick calls this interesting even though the heartbeat sounds are not out of the ordinary. Gimmick brings out the tongue stick of doom and we check the throat; as I'm disappointed Tweeg didn't do the Chargeman Ken scared face from that episode where Ken had two broken legs in the hospitalization and still no sold it when he transformed. Gimmick brings out the maginfying glass and checks the right eye which is bloodshot. Gimmick deduces that he's a cross between a Grunge and a Troll. Which we already knew from the previous arc. Even Teddy is nicely tell him to can the joke by asking him what is Tweeg's condition. So Gimmick basically talks science babble; as he's basically covered in spots. So in other words; he has a skin rash, and is not really ill. Teddy asks about treating this; and I have to call Teddy out on this: I hate anyone who uses the word cure; because we don't know if this disease is even curable and even Gimmick doesn't know. I use the word treat for a really good reason here. Anyhow; Grubby suggests giving him root stew as he goes up the stairs; which is funny because they went up the stairs in the previous scene. So; the layout artists have no clue what they are doing. LB follows him as he tells us that he keeps cans of roots in the cupboard in case a bunch of slugs come visit. Somehow; no one was offended by this. Scene change to Grubby making green slime...ERRR...I mean root stew. Grubby pours some in the bowl and heads downstairs as Teddy is telling Tweeg not to worry. Yes; the same Illiop who lies about the root stew being good is telling Tweeg not to worry. Don't trust him Tweeg; he is a lying Illiop when it comes to Grubby's woo medicine! And isn't it funny that they were blowing themselves off for trying Tweeg's woo and quackery in the previous episode; and are now bringing their woo and quackery to him. I call this poetic justice, but this is Tweeg we are talking about here. LB calls that a shame. HA!
So Grubby comes in with the soup as Tweeg is already protesting this as Grubby claims that it's an old Octopede recipe. One most people wish was dead and buried in the ground. LB; the troll wants Tweeg to eat it (calling him a catapillar; which Grubby doesn't get offended at all at. That was dumb.) because the spotty face is making him sick. Tweeg relents and so Grubby spoon feeds him root stew and Tweeg eats it. At first; he sells it as if he likes it and then blows it off accusing Grubby of poisoning him. He takes the bowl and throws it against the wall proclaiming that he would rather he sick. Grubby's response to this was: Is that your polite way of saying you didn't care for it. Memo to Grubby: Tweeg is the honest one of this whole group. Your two friends are the dishonest ones here because they clearly through non-verbal cues hate the stew; but cannot tell you that it's horrible. Grubby ponders if he used too much salt as Teddy says it's time to use something else. Gimmick wants to perform science on Tweeg; which is a bad idea. Gimmick wants to do a mustard plaster mold; which Tweeg is not liking this at all. Gimmick basically says a smidge of this and that and the other thing; because you see, BS&P cannot allow an actual medical spot be told truthfully; because it can be abused by people. That's why you almost never hear the actual materials made for bomb making in most productions (live action or otherwise) because most bomb making materials can be easily made from household items. It's not the kids they worry about; it's full grown adults with evil in their heads, you see. So Gimmick pours a green liquid from a flask into the bowl and puts the cover on it as he tells LB to remove the blanket. They remove the blanket as LB says Tweeg's name right. This annoyed me; but then Tweeg actually is stunned to hear that LB got his name right! Now this is perfectly acceptable; although it would have had more impact at the end of the series; instead of a quarter into it; but at least Tweeg noticed it instead of ignoring it; which made the whole angle look dumb. Anyhow; Gimmick puts the cover on Tweeg's chest and it starts off well; and then it gets too hot as I predicted as Tweeg panics and shakes and dances all around as the cover is glued onto his chest.
Gimmick does his heavens to Grundo swear as he miscaculated the dosage. Geez; remind me never to hire Gimmick as a doctor. Eunice is probably a better doctor than Gimmick; but she's not known until the Nogbert story arc anyway. Tweeg states that he's on fire despite no flames being seen. He should have said: "I'm burning"; or even I'm melting which would have been more accurate and funnier in that order. Teddy tells Grubby to grab the bucket of water and this is so slow that Teddy could have got it himself and did the deed himself. He's as bad as a Jerry Warren Batwoman. Grubby grabs the bucket and proclaims that he is going to save Tweeg; and douses water all over him. Tweeg is splooshed and the mustard thing comes off; but the important piece of the puzzle is that there is rainbow paint on the floor; as Gimmick deduces that it comes from Rainbow Falls. This would have been more convincing if the water Grubby was spraying was rainbow in color instead of blue. DUMB! We discover that Tweeg drank the dishwater last night as LB blows him off as Tweed. This all makes sense when you realize that two episodes ago; Tweeg played a prank on LB as part of the MAVO checklist in getting even with somebody, which led to the water tower getting destroyed as a result. In other words; he destroyed their natural source of water. So they have been using the water from Rainbow Falls to wash dishes and Tweeg wanted water and drank it. It probably is also the same water Tweeg used in MP #87; which explains how Grubby turned green all of a sudden. This all in fact makes sense and it's a shame that this kind of writing is so scatterbrained in this show. So yes; Gimmick deduces that Tweeg is not sick and just drank a bunch of rainbow falls water; which outside of the spots and pink skin, is safe to drink. Remember that for the next two episodes, because it plays into the whole situation. Tweeg is so happy and so giddy that he feels a song coming on as LB calls this worse punishment than living with him. And who sings first? Not Tweeg. No. Teddy Ruxpin! The one person in the room who did absolutely nothing but talk. So we sing the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM which is in order to be healthy; you have to have a good attitude. In a way; that's true, sickness is much worse when you're under a lot of stress, which is like a bad attitude.
However; Teddy is acting like a good attitude is a cure and it's not. It help a bit in not making it worse; but good peer review science medicine depends on reality, and not attitude. So the song feels like a quack song when it really isn't. So Tweeg admits that it's a trick as LB mocks him for it. As Tweeg is walking to his table, in the background there is a bronzed picture of Ellinore in the background. As Tweeg is looking at the table; his spots seem to disappear and some of the spot seem to teleport to different areas of the face. Of course. Great spot: Tweeg uses the spoon while singing and bangs on the flask; and when he comes to "doh" he nails LB in the horn with the spoon. HAHA! Grubby pokes Tweeg in the face which causes spots to grow on him again. So the spot are caused by touching Grubby. Someone needs to tell Grubby to heal thyself. Teddy turns the hourglass and Tweeg laughs to finish the song. I like the song; it was great on the ears, the singing was good; the spots was good. However; again, if you depend on this song as a cure all; it's not a good song. Tweeg then recoils and then goes off on a rant blowing everyone off for trying to assault him basically. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that's how you get your heel heat back in it's fullest. And really; Tweeg should be angry, they used woo and quackery on him and they are supposed to be the babyfaces. Tweeg demands them to leave right now as Grubby is confused. Teddy agrees to leave because he claims that Tweeg's uncomfrontable in saying thank you. Yeah; sure, that's the problem Teddy. So we cut to outside as the trio is leaving with the least detailed background animation I ever saw. Tweeg tells them to never darken his door ever again; which of course they have done at least two episodes after this; one at the end of this arc, and one where they rescued Fuzz with the third crystal. LB tells them to come back soon; so he's not buying them staying away from the tower. Tweeg proclaims that they'll be sorry as LB wants to have lunch sometime with them. HAHA! So yes; he is already trolling on Tweeg and Tweeg asks LB about the MAVO handbook even though Maggotheart found it for him earlier. How? LB says "beats me" and Tweeg basically said that this is the best idea he had in months as they both go inside the tower and that ends the episode at 19:12. Miss Maggotheart's debut was AWESOME~! The episode itself was actually very good and even the trio segments were fine for the most part. The healthy attitude moral is great; but don't read into it too much, it can only go so far. **** 1/2 (90%). A good * 1/2 just for Miss Maggotheart alone.
THE REVIEW LINE
I really loved this episode actually. Yeah; there were some hilarious logic breaks and music warping again, but they focused on the "Tweeg is sick" angle with laser focus and it was awesome. The whole storyline was good, the singing was good and while there was some stupid stuff; a lot of it was actually funny. Miss Maggotheart stole the show with her one appearance. It lasted about two or three minutes; but she heeled on Tweeg so much that I was both laughing and sadden that she wasn't the number one heel of the show. She makes Quellor look like a joke in comparsion. She could oppress anybody and no one would be able to stop her. The only thing I had a problem with was at the end when she left and didn't notice an Illiop was coming up the steps with LB. That was stupid. The Healthy Attitude song was really good and it helped because Tweeg was the perfect guy for it. But it was so great not because of the song; it was awesome due to after the song, where he blew everyone for trying to poison him(and well within his rights too; since the babyfaces were using woo and quackery as well) turning into the perfect heel. That was so great. It's things like this that make this show more watchable. If they did this every episode and had great animation on par with TaleSpin; this would be a memorable world. An American studio would have paid top dollar for this and got it over. But it's Canada, and we're not rich sadly. So; next up is the final two episodes which Tweeg gets his revenge by setting up a lemonade stand. So; Master Hand and Crazy Hand from Super Smash Brothers Wii U and 3DS stole from Jack W. Tweeg. How can Nintendo sleep at night not knowing this? I do have one question for Teddy Ruxpin fans out there: Who voiced Miss Maggotheart? I would love an answer to this because she's the best character on this show now. I went through the unofficial Teddy Ruxpin On-line site; and found nothing. I have gone through several websites, and still found nothing. There are two names that might be that voice; but I have no evidence. This is baffling to me. So....
Thumbs up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.