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The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin: Double Grubbys
Reviewed: 05/24/2016
Does That Mean Double Lobster Courage?
Jeepers; I forgot that this episode was part of the Nogbert angle and it makes sense since this is where they introduced the second crystal's power. Anyhow; welcome back to more Father's Day Specials with the cast and crew of Teddy Ruxpin as we are doing the Rainbow Falls arc next. Although; I missed this episode as it's part of the Nogbert arc; so allow me to correct that error. So Tweeg is still trying to be a MAVO member at this point, LB is still trolling like he should and the trio has already found out with the first crystal does and is in fact going to figure out what the second crystal does as Grubby gets cloned. This episode was infamous for one really horrifying spot they did near the end of the episode and once you realize what they were implying here; you'll figure out why it is so horrifying. I'm also for rant purposes; debutting Miss Maggotheart, the always awesome dues collector. YIPPPEEEE! So let's rant on shall we...?
We begin this one at Tweeg's tower as a wagon is parked near the tower. Pan over to Tweeg on the ladder fixing the roof with a hammer and nails as LB complains about it. LB calls Tweeg Tweeze of course; just to be LB. Tweeg not-apologizes for it as he can see this as a small problem. That was a lame joke. Tweeg proclaims that he loves it when he's witty. LB sarcastically blows it off as he asks Tweeg how he became a roofer. This is where Brian Alverez's own "roof/ruff" stupidity falls apart because "roofer" would be pronounces "ruffer" which sounds like rougher. Or in the case of "roof" rough. Which is why we say "roof". And there's no consistency problem with hoof since in pural it's hooves. Anyhow, enough grammar Nazism for one rant; here comes Miss Maggotheart with her bronze ring hat and necklace walking up the stairs of the tower. As I mentioned before; she is MAVO's dues and taxes collector; and she's awesome at getting heat on Tweeg and everyone else. Tweeg explains that he got training of being a roofer when he was training to be a cat burgler. LB rightfully calls this stupid because what is Tweeg going to do with a bunch of stolen cats. LB and Tweeg notice Maggotheart and that's enough for Tweeg's ladder to go backwards causing Tweeg to drop his hammer and fling onto the roof of his tower. Tweeg tries to climb the roof; but slips down and gets a piece of the piping; which also breaks slightly. Tweeg waves hello and Maggotheart's voice beckons as she is there to inform them that Tweeg has been accepted as a senior apperentice. Okay; so why was Tweeg several episodes later saying that he was trying to get into MAVO then? Is this the "MAVO in name only" deal? Tweeg loves it; but Maggotheart also points out that it's subject to review of the "Bad Deeds Checklist" by the committee; so it's still MAVO in name only at this point. I'm perfectly fine with this; because Tweeg isn't supposed to be in MAVO officially until Teddy meets Quellor for real to kick off the "Death Of Innocence" angle. Miss Maggotheart rips off a paper showing Tweeg's latest bill. Even though the whole thing is subject to review; Tweeg is still paying the senior apperentice dues instead of the regular dues. That was pretty heelish on MAVO's part. Tweeg tries to grab it; but no dice, so Tweeg tells Maggotheart to give it to LB. And since LB has no hands; Maggotheart slams it on LB's horn.
Maggotheart seemed giddy doing this and LB hates it; so Maggotheart is a giddy miserable troll. Which is perfect for her role here. Maggotheart proclaims that once the bills are paid; they'll make it official at the next MAVO convention. Tweeg loves it of course as Maggotheart screams at him to get down and be dastardly, or else. I would obey her, Jack. Tweegs yells back that he will as Maggotheart leaves; then Tweeg is so happy to tell LB all this that the pipe he was holding breaks. LB grumbles and then pushes a barrel underneath Tweeg. Why? Why not? I'm guessing LB was grumbling at BS&P; because it didn't appear that he was angry at Maggotheart for slamming the note on his horn. LB hops away; the pipe breaks and Tweeg freefalls; as his entire legs are now black in color. Tweeg lands in the barrel, manages to bounce over LB (close shave indeed) and we get out first logic break of the episode: It bounces on the top shot as if it was going to free fall to the ground. However; on the next shot, it's bouncing down the spiral brick staircase. It bounces down the steps and then crashes into a rock, destroying the barrel. Cue Vinny V. laugh from LB as he hops down the spiral staircase. Cut to Tweeg tied up by the metal rings around his body. LB wants Tweeze to do it again. I'm sorry; but Molly saying that to Kit and Baloo is a million times funnier than LB saying that. Tweeg blows him off calling him a hopping hornhead and demands LB to get him out of those ties. LB proclaims that he's so cute when he's angry. I concur, LB. I concur. Scene change to Gimmick's property filled with cannon balls as Teddy and Grubby are balancing on cannon balls without a care in the world. Grubby of course has the advantage of having a much lower center of gravity...and six arms/legs (Oh, who cares? They never got that straight.) as Grubby manages to get off with ease; while Teddy is on one leg on a cannon ball and appearing that he is going to fall. Grubby calls Teddy way behind on this as Teddy points out that it's easier when you have more than two feet. Teddy's claim is eight feet; even though Grubby only uses six. Gimmick calls them outside to come inside because they are just in time for something. Grubby thinks it's lunch; Gimmick says no. Well; BYE! I was hoping Grubby would say that; but he doesn't. Gimmick wants Grubby to help him do an experiment. BYE~! Oh wait, that was me.
Teddy is willing to help; but Grubby then starts to weasel his way out of this; because you see, Grubby's courage is of the lobster kind. Grubby turns around to leave stage left; but Teddy grabs him by the two tails on Grubby's rear end to stop him; because it's best if you hear what the experiment is. Gimmick explains that he has a new invention called...wait for it...The Multiplication Table! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And I thought Professor Buzz was the only one who created other people's inventions? Although in this case; it's not really the mathmatics reality version we know of; but it's close. Even Teddy is questionning this as Grubby talks about Gizentas or something along those lines. Teddy asks what this is and Grubby is basically doing the most wacky form of division of all time with his fingers. Gimmick giggles because Grubby is dumb of course. Gimmick offers them to come inside and so we scene change to them walking inside the living room of Gimmick's house. I don't know why they bothered with a scene changer other than to make sure they didn't show them enter from the wrong side of the house. So the invention is clearly upstairs; and we spend a good ten seconds of them walking towards the staircase and then walking up the staircase to the second floor. So we see the invention which is basically another large computer with a sunlamp like the original reducing machine in Take A Good Look. Only this time there are purple curtains surround a box shaped area on the floor. Gimmick explains that this is a different sort of invention compared to the reducing machine as it is powered by the second crystal. Basically; it can clone anything. Second hoohoo from Grubby in the episode as he calls twice the invention he has ever come up with. Gimmick does his science talk of doom which Grubby proclaims that it's easy for Gimmick to say. Gimmick admits that it's not; since it's very simple because he's naturally scientific. Really? I thought being scientific required massive amounts of education and experimentation? Of course; the natural part is just Gimmick being cocky as usual. Grubby walks over to the table containing a fruit bowl and digs out an apple; suggesting that it becomes the first experiment.
So he can share it more easily. Wait; if you have two apples, you have three babyfaces in the group. That makes sharing harder since one of them is going to have a full apple instead of a third of an apple. So why not copy it twice so you have three apples. This dialogue makes no sense! Grubby gives Gimmick the apple as Gimmick explains that the copy will be exactly like the original, thus having Valkyrie Profile logic in terms of cloning. More on that later because it leads to a really horrible moment in this series. Gimmick puts apple on stage underneath the curtain. Grubby wants to try it because he's hungry and Gimmick pushes the right grey button. We get a lot of flashing lights and awe as the machine is sparking; which I don't think is a good sign that this thing is going to work. The sun lamp finally shoots a blue star beam on the stage as the machine is puffing. Grubby calls this light, smoke and noise show amazing; along with Teddy and Gimmick. You defintion of this is much different from mine guys. So on top; we see a tease of an apple appearing; but it turns into a banana. I knew that sparking and smoke was a bad sign. Gimmick deduces that it's at least a fruit as he goes to the side panel of the machine and opens it. He looks inside asking what went wrong. Answer: Gimmick is nuts. Grubby peels the banana as he was going to ask the question and giggles. That was not funny. Teddy asks what is wrong with the machine and Gimmick is going to adjust the shape proceducer and the color texturizator among other science sounding nonsense Gimmick spews. Grubby basically says that this adjustment will make it closer to an apple. That does not bode well for my confidence in this ordeal. Gimmick agrees with this and thus Grubby subtly wants him to stop by saying that he loves bananas. Gimmick of course doesn't pick this up as he wants to continue using apples as he closes the panel. So Gimmick pushes the button again and there are no sparks, smoke and star beams; so I'm wagering that Gimmick is going to get this one right. Oh wait; here comes the sparks and star beams at blazing speed. Confidence killed! We see an orange. Grubby teases pointing this out as the Canadian "Wah-wah-wah" sound ensues. Gimmick takes the orange and cuts everyone off as he's frustrated. Gimmick goes to fix the machine again as Grubby cuts a promo about oranges being oranges, which believe it or not is more interesting than Gimmick's inventions messing up on command.
Teddy is as confused as Gimmick probably would be as Gimmick pops up calling it a great philosophical question. Maybe on Royal Canadian Air Farce with the Confused Philosopher; but this is stupid. Grubby then drops down because he wants to fix the machine; which Teddy questions. Considering that Gimmick is zero for two in getting this right, is having Grubby fixing the machine be any worse? Grubby gets into the machine and we hears noises for a bit; then he pops out and says that he fixed it. How? I don't know! Gimmick is thankful as Teddy proclaims that this is a great idea in encourage the love of science. I cannot argue with that overwhelming logic there Ruxpin. Cut to Gimmick at the panel continuing to fine tune the machine as now he needs Teddy's help in repositioning the componets of this complex machine. Sure, why not? Teddy has done literally nothing in this episode other than talk and look like an idiot on the cannon ball spot. Teddy walks over to the other side and twists a disc knob (which looks like a button with a yellow colored bar on top, and then a knob with a blue colored bar on top.) Cut to Gimmick looking inside from inside the machine as the gears and metal bars are turning as Gimmick twist the white light bulb; as the animation was there for Gimmick's hand; but no sign of animation from the lightbulb. Gimmick of course acts like he did it; and then acts like he doesn't really know for sure. What a shocker?! Teddy comments about some crunching sound. I didn't hear any such sound. The sound was a metallic "beep/bloop" sound. Unless he thinks he hears Grubby eating the apple underneath the stage; which makes no sense at all since why would Grubby be stupid enough to eat the test sample when it wants it to be cloned in the first place?! Gimmick calls this a side effect of the sonic sensor and is completely harmless. Yeah, I'll bet.
Teddy asks if everything is set and Gimmick says yes; proclaiming that nothing...AND THE ROCK SAYS NOTHING... can go wrong. Yeah, I'll bet. Gimmick pushes the button off-screen and if you cannot guess the big mistake Gimmick makes here, you have no business reading this rant. Yeah; Grubby is still under the stage. Even funnier is that the machine is now smoking, sparking and coughing. Yes, coughing. Jeepers; this has to be a really tough one if Grubby's involved. It is also shaking and vomitting star beams as Gimmick tries to turn knobs and flick switches on the machine as he admits that he may have adjusted it too much. Nah; it's more like: You have an Octopede monkey wrench in the works as Gimmick realizes that this experiment is going to create a pumpkin; even though there are multiple spheres on the table above. Yeah; someone is having an off day. Teddy then notices that legs are growing out along with a tail as it's not a pumpkin or even multiple pumpkins; it's Grubby. Geez; I wonder how that could have happened? Maybe you forget to take Grubby out of the machine beforehand. Gimmick and Teddy yell his name and out comes Grubby underneath the machine and like an idiot; he has in fact ate a portion of the apple. Teddy and Gimmick look confused and horrified as Teddy's eyes have a bell sound effect each time Teddy moves his eyes up and down. I guess the TOING sound took a vacation in this episode. Teddy and Gimmick are shocked and appalled as the two Grubbys look at each other, and say hoohoo to each other, and that ends the segment almost eleven minutes in. So far; this episode has been really good outside of some really dumb dialogue and a few animation mistakes. In fact, this is the best animated episode in the series so far. Let's hope it says that way.
After the commercial break; we head back to Tweeg's tower and inside the tower as LB is asking Tweeg what recipe he is making; calling him Tweet. HAHA! If you don't get the joke; relax. You will sleep better at night not knowing why that is so funny. So we see Tweeg cooking something in a culderon as Tweeg explains that he making his gold formula. Ah, yes; the gimmick of Tweeg is that he is a wacky alchemist in that he is trying to figure out the secret of turning buttermilk into gold. He is like the He-Man of woo and quackery in this world. Not unlike Mike Adams in this world as a matter of fact. LB is sitting at a table filled with unpaid bills; so Tweeg is also like Baloo. Only Baloo is much, much lazier than Tweeg. Tweeg is also a heel so I can laugh at him for doing this. I cringe when babyface Baloo does it though. LB is complaining about getting paid; which is perfectly reasonable to say but Tweeg blows him off, calling him a hopping hairball; even though there is no sign of hair on LB at all. Tweeg is shaking a black box of something into the pot; I'm guessing it's either salt or buttermilk dough. Which is empty as Tweeg discovers it being so. LB calls him Tweek as he is wearing glasses and looking at papers. He claims that if Tweeg's mommy double his allowance every day for the next fifty years, he'll cover MAVO's expenses, minus LB's own expenses. Tweeg grabs a canister of flour from the shelf and blows off LB and cuts a full of himself promo because he's an evil genius. Yeah; that sort of promo. Plus; he thinks getting mommy to double the allowance is a good idea. Keep dreaming, Jack; your mommy hates you with a passion so much that she likes to torment you. More on her someday. LB: She's been in a bad mood ever since you were born (calling him Tweet again.). Cue Vinny laugh. I think LB is underestimating Ellinore there, I think he meant "Since she was born". That would be funnier. Tweeg checks the flour and there's a small lump in the canister; so Tweeg orders LB to go to Gimmick's house and steal it. LB hops out and Tweeg says "please" at one point; causing LB to repulse in disgust and say that the pressure is getting to him. I agree; heels don't say "please" even to friends of him who are also supposed to be heels.LB hops out as we scene change to Tweeg at the table with a feather pen and ink. He's writing a letter to his mommy. Aw! My heart melted. So he is trying to writer a letter; but throws away the paper because his writing is cheesy of course.
One of the papers is crumbled and bounces off a Grundo-ized mouse who was eating cheese and the mouse bails stage right without said cheese. Tweeg then basically writes down the most sexist, felonous insulting letter BS&P would allow him to write. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that's being a heelish little whiny man there Jack W. Tweeg. Then he stops and realizes that won't work either. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Tweeg just cannot win in this situation because he's a funny heel who sucks at life. Tweeg proclaims that mommy never listens to him anyway as he gets up and the mouse bails again since LB hasn't returned with the stolen flour yet. Second logic break of the episode: When Tweeg walks; he walks stage right; even though the door to the look off is stage left. This is Mighty Ducks level logic here. So Tweeg somehow walks to the telescope and the telescope develops an eye on the end of it. Telescope shot of LB bouncing as Tweeg insults him on chasing his shadow claiming that his shadow has more brains than he does. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there, Tweet?! Anyhow; Tweeg points the telescope at Gimmick's house and notices at the front porch Teddy, Gimmick and the two Grubby's whom the two are yelling at each other. Tweeg panics on cue as he calls them overgrown cattepillars. Tweeg claims that they are conspiring to create an army of Octopedes to steal his woo and quackery. Oh wait; I mean, his formula for gold. Oh wait...Tweeg is beside himself seeing hundreds of Octopede's ruling Grundo and call this terrible. He's right, albeit for much different reasons. So we scene change to in front of the porch as we see the two Octopedes blowing each other off for being the fake Grubby. Grubby #1 basically claims that he was under the machine so he's the real one. My left I should point out. That makes sense. Clone Grubby does not care like a person who just lost the argument as LB bounces in giggling and the sounds are so loud that everyone should of heard it; but no one does as LB enters the house undetected. Idiots; all of them! Grubby then claims that Teddy loves him better than the clone Grubby. How do you know that? The clone was born like ten minutes ago! Teddy has been with Grubby for weeks now in storyline.
Grubby #1 gets into Grubby #2's face and we tease a big fight; but Teddy breaks it up. LET THEM FIGHT! LET THEM FIGHT! LET THEM FIGHT! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That how the crowd would react to this today. Gimmick joins in and manages to grab the cloned Grubby. Wait; Grubby is much bigger than Gimmick; how is that possible? So LB jumps out of the window with a sack of flour on his head and hops away from Gimmick's house as Gimmick doesn't know what to do. Fade to black (I'm guessing this is for Non-American markets in terms of commercial breaks) and we head back to the tower with Tweeg pouring pepper like gunpowder from a wooden bucket into the cannon. LB shows up and puts the sack of flour down on the ground telling Tweeg that he got the floor. Tweeg proclaims that it's about time as Tweeg claims that Gimmick is cloning Grubbys to steal his formula for making gold out of buttermilk. I'm shocked that no one on Respectful Insolance doesn't use Jack W. Tweeg as the perfect stereotype for a conspiring quack. I guess copyright prevents it; but it's so perfect of a comparison. Tweeg walks away as LB asks "What gold?" HAHA! Tweeg comes back claiming it's the gold made from buttermilk of course. Wacky alchemist; thy name is Jack W. Tweeg. The W stands for many things; but Woo is the best one. To LB: You can have that one for free. So LB grabs a cannon ball with his mouth as Tweeg's plan is to blast Gimmick's house with the cannon; which has a much lower hit rate than Ric Flair going off the top rope. Of course! LB spits the cannon ball in the air; and his hit rate would be more accurate than Tweeg's cannon. Only; it's going into the cannon anyway. The cannon flips to point at Gimmick's house as Tweeg returns. Tweeg smacks LB away as he bounces backwards into the wall. Tweeg strikes a match on the railing (Toon Disney would have snipped this out) as he proclaims that it's time to fire. LB claims it's time to duck. I betcha Tweeg will do neither. Tweeg lights the fuse and holds his ears. The cannon points up and the cannon fires the ball into the air as LB does color commentary causing Tweeg to panic. Because you see, that cannon ball is going to crash into the roof he rebuilt; which it does. LB calls Tweeg, Twit as he asks if he took lessons being stupid; or was born that way. Now THAT's a great philosophical question there from LB of all people. Be jealous, Newton Gimmick! Tweeg blames LB and then the cannon ball rolls off the roof and lands in the sack of flour; causing a massive explosion sound and flour sprays all over Tweeg. Awesome! LB calls this entertainment. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments as when Tweeg is covered in flour; he looks like a white Illiop. That was great! Cue Vinny laugh. Cue Tweeg yelling at LB proclaiming that he'll entertain him; and LB proclaims that he already are as Tweeg just looks confused and flustered as LB calls him Tweep. Tweeg shakes off the flour and called him a pesky pinhead. Nice one Jack, nice one. That ends the segment almost fifteen and a half minutes in.
After the commercial break; we head back to Gimmick's house as he is exchanging notes with Teddy in the living room as he declares that the invention works now. Of course it does, Newton. The Grubbys are at the green sofa blowing each other off; but some peacemakers Teddy and Gimmick turned out to be. They like root stew as Teddy comes in telling them to stop fighting. Go away, unwelcome person! Let them fight! Tweeg and LB are done for this episode I do believe, so I need my entertainment somehow. Grubby #2 claims that they are not fighting, which is true. They are yelling and insulting each other as Grubby #1 is a bug face. Grubby #1 is deeply offended by this racial slur! It's even funnier in hindsight when Teddy called Grubby a potato bug the first time they met! So then the Grubby play tug of war on their arms; and yeah, they should stop fighting. Because they are horrible at fighting. Gimmick thinks there is a solution to this; and when they ask what it is; Gimmick stammers like an idiot and is drawing blank. Geez; what a shock that is?! Might as well throw money at it; even that makes more sense than Newton Gimmick coming up with a solution. Then we finally come to the most horrible thing about this episode: The cloned Grubby starts to shimmer and become transparent while Gimmick ponders it over. He talks about reversing crystals and triangular stuff as Teddy finally notices that the second Grubby is acting crazy. Grubby #2 shrinks to the size of a giant egg and then poofs into nothingness. Yes; the second Grubby has run out of energy and dies like a Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth character. Okay; that is not the horrible part of it. I can fully accept this "slip on a banana peel" moment as a quirk weakness in the machine itself. Logic break: The orange disappears and the banana disappears; which makes no sense because Grubby already peeled the banana and probably ate it. Which we find out at the end of the Nogbert arc; once the thing has been adultered; it doesn't disappear. Bad logic break! However; that's not the horrifying part. Grubby is glad that the clone is gone. That's not the horrifying part either. The trio comes together as Grubby wonders if he's alive or dead; and Teddy basically says the original is still alive. That's not the horrifying part.
The horrifying part of all this is: After this clone of Grubby's dies in a really brutal way, all things considered, what does the trio do? Do they mourn the loss of the clone? No! Teddy goes to a chest and brings out a top hat and cane as Grubby is grateful he's gone as they laugh it up. Worse; this is a segueway to a song called "I like being myself"! Even though the clone is a perfect likeness of Grubby and yet Grubby hated himself in clone form! What a bunch of scoiopaths these three are. Now; the song itself in a vacuum is good and the message in a vacuum is perfectly acceptable. However; as the storyline went, this is horrible and the writers should be fined for this! Heck; as horrible as Ken Izumi was and as disgusting as his actions were against Professor Volga in Chargeman Ken; at least he mourned the guy he threw out, although his mourning was downright horrible in a different way. These three didn't care about this clone at all. It was a clone of Grubby, who is Teddy's best friend! So yeah; I'm not calling this song, it should have been cut out and done in another episode where it would have done some good. Fade to black and we return to Tweeg Tower and I'm glad he's here after that deflating performance from the babyfaces. So Tweeg is at the look off grabbing the bag of gunpowder as Tweeg punches the bag as gunpowder comes out; complaining that they are laughing at him. You're just jealous because you didn't think of cloning yourself first, Tweet. You can have that one for free, too; LB. Tweeg takes the sack and pours gunpowder into the cannon as LB proclaims that he knows that feeling while giggling. Tweeg proclaims that they must be stopped; and it is impossible to boo Tweeg for this after that clone died. Seriously; I'm on Tweeg's side of things. Too bad this is going to fail as well as LB asks about the amount of gunpowder he is using calling him Twig. Tweeg throws the sack saying that it's not. The gunpowder is stuffed and overflowing as Tweeg brings out a wooden board from his coat and wipes off the excess gunpowder, so even he felt this was too much in spite of the fact that he said you cannot have too much of a good thing. That made me laugh. Tweeg aims the cannon, strikes a match and lights the fuse. What? No cannon ball? Tweeg blows out the match (which I never seen in TaleSpin before actually) as the cannon explodes and it flies away from the lookoff.
So it lands somewhere well away from Gimmick's house and it blows up as we cut back to Tweeg covered in soot not looking amused at all. This lead to Tweeg and LB being unable to hear each other as they do the deaf spots; which to be fair, makes sense in this case. LB calls him Tweet again. They yell at each other and then Tweeg blows off Gimmick; prompting LB to say that it's too bad he hit nothing...AGAIN! Tweeg then proclaims that it's the thought that counts. And really; who would argue?! Answer: Miss Maggotheart. Because in the next scene; we see that Miss Maggotheart's wagon is completely destroyed ; but outside of some soot, she's fine and completely angry as she gets up demanding answers to this outrage. She spots Tweeg's cannon and then goes to her book and starts to write an IOU for one dues collector wagon, screeching as loud as she can despite her mouth not moving at all during this shot. That ends the episode at 19:12. What a funny ending to a an episode that chugging above four stars and then fell due to one horrible moment. This was the best animated episode of the series so far as there were few logic breaks and mostly a lot of dumb dialogue. Both plot points were really good; but it got marred by the finish which was horrifying and made Teddy and company look like scoiopaths. Clone Grubby; we mourn your loss in this cartoon as we speak and we hope you seek heavenly vengenance against Teddy and Grubby like a hate plague would. Call it *** 1/2 (70%). Basically; a **** 1/2 episode with a -** finish. So the next episode is Teddy and company going to Nogbert for the first time since the end of the Treasure Of Grundo arc. At bad as the video footage was; they built it up really well here storyline wise, so no complaints.
THE REVIEW LINE
Well everyone; this was one of the best episodes in the entire series, most so from the animation. The whole cloning angle was pretty good for the most part; and Tweeg and LB were awesome as alway along with Miss Maggotheart. She was pretty good here and she'll be even better much later on in this series. There were some stupid dialogue moments and a few logic breaks; but mostly nothing really gaping nor laughable. In fact; the animation was great throughout. Not once did I complain about Teddy's feet. That's a win! However; this episode was marred by the finish as they had the clone die and their reaction to it was so criminally horrible, bordering on scoiopathic behaviour. I can take Grubby not liking the clone and being glad it was gone, because the clone gave him a lot of grief (although the insult actually was hilarious in hindsight considering how Teddy and Grubby met). I can take the clone dying the way it did as a quirk in the machine. What angered me was that Teddy and Gimmick did not give a care in the world for this clone which was basically Grubby. Instead of mourning the clone; they sang a song instead. A happy song no less! Even worse; Teddy in storyline has stated that he doesn't take sides, so he took the real Grubby's side anyway. Granted; he didn't have a choice in the matter since the only alternate is mourning the clone which is taking a side, making Teddy's "not take sides" angle look stupid in hindsight. So overall; a great episode marred by one really horrible spot near the end. With that said; if every episode was like this minus the horrible moment, this show would be awesome. So; next weekend, I'll start the Rainbow Falls arc of this series which occurs before the Nogbert angle, but after the First Visit To MAVO arc. So we'll see lemonade, woo and quackery, more Wooly than you can shake a stick at and lots of rainbow falls. So...
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.