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The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin: Elves & Woodsprites
Reviewed: 06/10/2016
...Getting Together For A Massive Prom Fight!
Well; here we go, the final two episodes of this arc feature Wooly getting his diploma and a lot of fighting between perfectly good friends, all thanks to the art of trolling and sockpuppetry by Tweeg of course. So, let's rant on shall we...?
We begin this one with a pan shot of the woods as the babyfaces, elves and woodsprites are creating a water system. In other words, a dam. Gimmick is doing nothing but reading from a paper as Teddy and Grubby are twisting pipes while four elves have to hold up a giant wrench. Why? I'm certain Grubby could hold it on one of his eight hands. Or are they feet today? Why do I bother asking that question when I'll never get a straight answer? They ask Grubby if he needs the wrench and Grubby says no; the elves whine. One of the elves somehow got caught in a elbow joint pipe that Teddy screws into the main pipe and she complains that she has a headache. It's basically the same spot Molly did when she got stuck in one of the tires in Plunder and Lightning Part four; only Molly's was much more adorable and much funnier. Oh; and the elf's clothes literally change from grey to green when she sits on the pipe. Grubby proclaims that she had a pipe dream and that was in fact funny. The elves on the ground continue to struggle with the giant wrench as they ask Grubby if he needs the wrench, Grubby says "yes", grabs the wrench and the elves flop onto their backs with their legs up into the air and are relieved. All the little people watch as the thing is almost complete. Gimmick states that all they need is a barrel with a ton of water. Take three guesses who brings the barrel in and the first two do not count. Oh; and apparently, Wooly plus barrel of water equals a 6.0 on the Richter Scale. Wooly cannot see anything and destroys an elf wheelbarrow in the process; causing the elf to protest this outrage. Wooly of course; turns his head to apologize and causes two woodsprites to bail, because apparently, no one told these little people to get out of the way when the big guy is holding a barrel of water. Wooly's apologies are geninue, but it's Wooly we are talking about. Wooly basically admits that they are hard to see and finally arrives at the Pipe Dream Water System (which should be the booking name for this; it's not sadly.) and puts the barrel down without further incident. Wooly is hopeful that he didn't hurt anyone; which he didn't by the fact. Only one wheelbarrow got killed and it's not a person, so it's fine. Teddy screws the pipe into the hole of the water barrel as four elves bring in the tinest wedge sandwiches ever on a tray for Grubby. The voiceover sounds elderly even though the elves are young adults. Grubby grabs the tray; eats all the sandwiches and gives the tray back to the elves.
Grubby thanks them and the elves bail to get more sandwiches as Grubby thanks them for that. Jump cut to Wooly bringing in a back wooden beam with ropes; with buckets of water tied to them. Of course; the bucket are tipping so much that we do a whiplash jump cut to a bunch of little people getting splooshed by waterfall-equse water from said buckets. Note that the water splashing background doesn't even come close to matching the background of the previous shot. Oh; and it's the same four elves (and same voices) who handled the tray of sandwiches to give to Grubby. They complain about their clothes being ruined as Wooly is pouring water from the bucket into the barrel. By the way; Leota finally shows up almost three minutes in. Oh no; I'm not doing that joke. Gimmick twists the gear wheel and we have the PDWS in full working order as the elves and woodsprites all cheer, badly. So Teddy wants to head to the village and we scene change to the village as the little people are playing around on waterslides. One of the elves wearing all shades of dream is playing a pipe organ that causes water pillars; all while Teddy is praising Gimmick for a job well done. Hey; an actual project that is rooted in science, that's great for Gimmick. None of this crystal magic stuff, no one cares about that. One of the elves is literally lying on a water pillar over a fountain; with the highest pitched wiing in history. Another one is using the water system to use a saw to cut wood. Two more are sitting on pully chairs made of leaves and four leaf clovers. Considering that there's no evidence of water being used, I'm skeptical of that last one. Grubby agrees with Teddy and really, who could argue? More watersliding as Gimmick acts modest, sort of. Teddy also wants to thank Wooly for this as he's sitting down near the edge of the waterfall sulking. Teddy asks why Wooly is so glum and Wooly admits that he's tired of being big and clumsy. He is concerned about wrecking things and scaring people; and considering how the little people treated him in previous episodes in this arc, I can fully see why. He just wants to belong as Grubby claims that there are advantages to being big; like he can eat more, and he was a big help to the project. Then Wooly asks a valid question: Would you hate me if I was little? Teddy claims that they would and who in their right mind would question the bastion of friendly and nice? If Grubby and Gimmick had said it; I would have a hard time beliving it. Not Teddy, oh no!
Wooly decides to call the trio's bluff and asks to be made little by the Mini-Sizer/Portable Reducing Machine as he even remembers the bugnapping incident from last episode as Teddy sounds like he wants Wooly to back out of this deal (so yes; Teddy would not like him if he was little. That speaks a lot more about Teddy's character.) as Wooly is begging for them to do it now. Teddy asks if he is sure and Wooly is sure because he wants to play with his new friends and go to school with them. Gimmick proclaims that he doesn't see the harm in it and Wooly does the WOOLY HUG OF DEATH on them. HAHA! Wooly thanks them as we scene change to Tweeg and LB in the forest. Tweeg is reading the blue MAVO bad deeds checklist as LB calls him Tweep again. Tweeg is putting X's on the checklist which includes: revenge, swindle, theft, senseless vandalism (which made no sense at all; which is what senseless vandalism is suppose to be; so yeah, Tweeg has comtempt for the English language, what a surprise?), but not mockery for some reason as Tweeg proclaims that as a villain, he's vile. Oh please Tweet, I don't recall you being in Mega Man X. LB calls Tweeg, Twink; twice and proclaims that he's bring too easy on himself. HA! Because you see, he couldn't steal candy from a baby. You know that's an insult because Tweeg did steal the sucker two episodes ago, but Wooly foiled that one. Heck; he even broke the world record to boot! See; that's why Tweeg always fails at life. Tweeg blows off LB because he was lucky to be alive and LB calls it more like a curse. HAHA! So they confuse each other with right and wrong jokes. It's Wright and Wong~! LB giggles and Tweeg whines like a baby as he's more confused than me and bails stage left. Cue Vinny laugh and they walk off stage left. Scene change to the babyfaces near their airship and in front of a tree as they waste time confusing Wooly of when to start the shrinkage. Okay; that came off wrong. So Gimmick finally pushes the red button and the blue beam of doom hits Wooly and he shrinks to the size of a gaint elf. So we get some staring from the big babyfaces as Wooly stammers and his voice is extremely high pitched as a result. Wooly takes it as being little and he dances and cheers just like he just won the Wrestlemania main event. Grubby isn't so sure of this because he's admitting that him being little isn't so acceptable and even Teddy agrees with him. All done behind Wooly's back, to boot. Backstabbers!
So after Wooly does some water slide action; he comes back and is happy as I am after I finish a tough video game. Then we get the stupidest moment I have ever seen in this series: Gimmick proclaims that if he changes his mind, they would make him big again. That is not the stupid moment. The stupid moment is: Gimmick is running with the Portable Reducing Machine in hand, and he trips over a rock that he could have easily seen because he didn't turn his head around in a different direction, making him look like a stupid idiot; and the PRM crashes on the ground and breaks into at least a half dozen pieces. Yes folks; Gimmick did something incredably stupid and Grubby wasn't responsible for it. Gimmick is helped up as Gimmick once again channels Gorilla Mansoon's complex body part speaking spot. Grubby should channel Mansoon's other catchphrase: Will you stop?! Oh; and his knee is fine which even Teddy understood what he was talking about; which to be fair, the patella is the kneecap anyway. The gang picks up the pieces as Teddy is concerned about changing Wooly back; but Wooly don't care. Wooly waves goodbye, loves being little (I'm sure Molly and Kit would approve) and joins three elves going to the theatre and head into the theatre with Leota on stage in front of some unfinished flowers on canvas in the background. Wooly is with Cemore and Katy is watching on; along with Wooly's other classmates. Leota tells us that graduation to the next grade is upon them and their last assignment is to put on a talent show. The elves and woodsprites approve of this and this sounds like a Jay Leno Headlines moment as one of the elves wants to do mudpipe throwing. I should note that most of the woodsprites are women and most of the elves are men. If there were any elves that were women and any woodsprites that are men, I rarely see them. So yeah; the spieces have even more rigid gender roles than human beings has in today's reality. The green dress black haired woodsprite wants to do some ballet and of course, we get the usual stereotype of men hating ballet because it bores them. It's hard to believe that the nephews and Scrooge were much more subtle in their disgust of opera music than this pest of an elf. She does the Gruffi pose and calls him an uncultured oaf and those are fighting words to this elf. Letoa somehow proclaims that they will do it all; which means mudpie throwing is allowed in this show.
That was amusing to me as the elves and woodsprite all agree to pitch in and we scene change back to the airship with Teddy and Grubby holding pieces of the PRM as Teddy asks Gimmick if he can fix it. Why they asked him now instead of arriving back at Gimmick's house is a mystery to me. Gimmick confuses me by claiming that he can, he thinks as he cannot do it here; since he needs a new Gramblestoppit. Don't ask; I don't speak Junk Sciencish, let alone translate it properly. We have to return to Gimmick's house for repairs; which means that they wasted ten seconds just to cut this promo; when they could have said this in the previous scene before the theatre scene started. So we head back into the theatre as the elves and woodsprites are working together to get the theatre ready for the show. The background canvas is being painted by a pulley system with one elf painting on a chair while a couple of woodsprites paint the sky with white paint. Don't ask me why; I'm no expert in sky painting as two elves hold onto the rope and out of nowhere comes Wooly; just like that. The two elves ask Wooly and his mission, should he choose to accept it, is to move the canvas away from the stage. So Wooly pushes on the canvas and he cannot even budge it, despite being three times the size of an average elf and woodsprite. He still needs three classmates to help him push the thing. Wooly is sweating literally from his ears; and making Oscar look even weaker than he already was. Leota is overlooking the ballet dancers; who are the same woodsprite cloned twice. We see some script writing on a scroll of paper as someone has to hold it up. There is lots of sewing costumes on stools (NOT THOSE ONES!) in front of the stage as Leota has literally teleported over to behind the piano while still on stage. Granted; Leota can fly and she had time to fly over, so that reduces the logic break; but still. She wants someone to move the piano and Wooly accepts this mission; but he cannot budge a wooden piano. Okay; I can understand him needing three classmates to move the canvas; but the piano is much smaller than the canvas, which means Wooly has to pretend that this thing cannot budge at all. I cannot suspend my disbelief over that. Yeah; it took three classmates to move the piano again. Wooly is sweating bullets now; and whomever booked this should sweat as well, because this makes less sense than Tweeg's senseless vandalism.
Wooly admits that this isn't easy and he sounds funny for some reason. Geez; you think?! So Leota sits down at the piano and the piano has officially returned to it's original spot; so what was the point of the previous spot other than to make Wooley look like an idiot? Letoa gathers everyone around as we invoke the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM with one of the few male woodsprites sitting on top of the piano; and the music doesn't match the sound of a piano at all. DUMB! This is what the song should be like. The song is called "A Perfectly Good Friend" and this song was all right. The orange colored elf blowing the lightbulb of clairty away from the woodsprite while the chorus claims that you shouldn't burst their bubble sounds a lot like being yourself. Remember that this was a few years after cartoons would always use the "The complainer is always wrong" message which goes completely against the best of the American values. Often; it's usually the "The complainer is only wrong if the complainer is complaining for the sake of complaining." So; the orange and green colored elf bearhug each other; which indicates that they are clearly more than just friends. Okay. They point at each other as we jump cut to outside the theatre which is made from a tree; I almost forgot to mention that. So the singing continues as we scene change and pan over to a path in the woods with Tweeg and LB as Tweeg is whining and wonders why he cannot be Quellor (I have thing funny feeling that he was originally called Cruller and someone complained that it sounded like Killer, which is hilarious considering what happened in Captured) and LB claims that Quellor is bigger than Tweeg. Tweeg asks why he cannot be as nasty as Quellor and LB claims that Tweeg has zero imagination. Personally; I think he doesn't have a sick enough imagination. Tweeg asks why he cannot be as smart as Quellor and LB claims that Tweeg is too dumb. Now there's something everyone can agree with. Tweeg asks why he cannot be as frightening as Quellor and LB claims that he's too laughable. Touche LB, touche! LB basically tells Tweeg to give up and I hope he doesn't. Because if Tweeg does; then who is going to give us comedy diamonds now? Wooly? Grubby? I don't think they can even come close to measuring up when it comes to failing at life. Thankfully; Tweeg is insulted by this felonous capital crime-equse insult and proclaims that he'll show LB that he can be a villain. LB laughs it off of course.
So Tweeg opens the MAVO checklist as he declares that there is one more thing he hasn't done yet: Start a fight between perfectly good friends. I just love the swindling deed in the book: You need to be nice until chance goes. Which kills off the gimmick of being a heel. So once again; we get the usual motif of the previous song being sang started up again out of nowhere as Tweeg stops talking and listens. LB claims that it's singing. Thanks Captain Obvious LB~! Tweeg and LB walk closer because they want to song this awful singing as we head to the village as the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM continues. We see a orange hat, green bodysuit elf buy a pie from a pieman with a chef's hat. He eats it whole without paying for it and somehow the pie makes him literally gain ten ounces. The pieman points at the elf and they share a laugh; because fat jokes are funny, see. At least they both were laughing, so that's fine. Jump cut to two woodsprites at the sprinkler system shaking hands as the blond haired woodsprite is raking the ground with a rake. Shot of crowd flying and shooting the breeze while the song continues to play as we pan over to Tweeg and LB hiding behind a tree. Tweeg proclaims that they are perfectly good friends and this is the stupidest song ever sang. Which is why you let Teddy write these songs, natch. Tweeg snaps his fingers and decides to target the elves and woodsprites into turning on each other. Because; why not? Even LB approves of this because he hates anyone liking each other. Boy; did LB completely mellow out after nearly dying in Leakee Lake long after this or what? This ends the segment eleven minutes in.
After the commercial break; we head back to Tweeg Tower with a shot of a book below a lit candle on top of a table. We pan over to the easel as Tweeg is on a stool (NOT THAT ONE!) sewing up a tiny costume to fit on his hand. LB asks with Tweez is doing and Tweeg blows him off as a half-pint horror. He's making an elf suit, you see. LB blows off Tweeg as an idiot as Tweeg basicallly calls it projection who cannot see his evil genius. I cannot see it either; but I do see that Tweeg is the pioneer of sock puppety. Now all he needs is the Internet to be invented (probably by Newton Gimmick no doubt) and he's all set. LB thinks Tweeg is putting on a puppet show and Tweeg claims that it's not suitable for children, even though as you'll see later on, we see the entire puppet show, so he's lying. LB thinks he's going to entertain Cousin Larry at the Grundo jail. Yet another angle that they threw away until he showed up unanounced during LB's wedding in episode #64. Tweeg turns around and draws (without any animation to indicate drawing mind you) a face on his hand and the sockpuppet's name is Tweegle. Now THAT's a perfect internet troll. Only this troll is going to cause chaos and havoc in meatspace, not cyberspace. LB claims that it will never work because you need pointy shoes. Now, the problem with this is, if you recall the previous episodes of this story arc, there is at least one elf who do not wear shoes at all. So, this sounds like overkill plus incrimination since the shoes are required to incriminate Tweeg into this story, somehow. So Tweeg admits that pointy heads are required to think up that idea and LB says thank you to him. Scene change to in front of a giant house (I think it's the same one Zed and Maple were in during the Hate Plague arc) as there is an elf with pointy shoes and a mustache sleeping on a lawn chair in front of the giant tree house. Tweeg and LB show up; plucks the shoes from the elves' feet; the elf tosses to his right and Tweeg walks Tweegle to break the shoes in. Tweeg proclaims that the shoes need a little more heel in it; but LB insists he has lots of that. HAHA! Tweeg is not amused and we scene change back to Wooly and Leota on stage as Wooly admits that he didn't think he would have problems like this as Leota basically responds that we all have problems big or small. That's true, and so is writing on the piano script paper with a blue pencil. But I'm not bitter. Wooly hopes that Leota is right in figuring this all out.
He also shivers like he's cold as we continue with the painting of the set as Tweegle The World's First Sockpuppet Troll come in and steals the green paint bucket while the whistling woodsprite in the green dress is painting (the one who wanted to do ballet. Like the Illiops at the end of the series; we need more booking names for them.) as Tweegle places the bucket near a step ladder as a blond haired elf wearing all green and it's a female elf by the way, so yeah. She climbs down and despite turning to clearly see the bucket of paint; the paint bucket has to pretend that it's right in front of the ladder, instead of really being three feet away from the ladder, so the elf can dip her leg into the paint bucket. She is horrified and demands answers to this outrage as the ballet woodsprite continues to paint. Tweegle, like the sockpuppet troll that he is; accuses the ballet woodsprite of placing the bucket of green paint near the step ladder. So we get a massive argument over who did the paint, but since video cameras are not invented in Grundo (even if this is inside a television show with lots of video footage proving that the ballet woodsprite is totally innocent.); the elf has to take Tweegle's word for it. What I don't get is why it wasn't the mudpie throwing elf being the one accusing her of doing that since earlier in the episode; the ballet woodsprite called him an uncultured oaf for hating ballet. That would put heat on both of them; but since they didn't, there's no heat for it since the two fighters don't have any history. Woodsprites seem to have some elfism in their bones as demonstrated by the ballet woodsprite. Although to be fair; in storyline, the sockpuppet is supposed to be an elf. Leota comes in and tries to break it up; but no dice as Wooly pleads for them not to fight. Audience: LET THEM FIGHT! LET THEM FIGHT! LET THEM FIGHT! Blond haired elf is not happy at all as Tweegle giggles in front of the curtain. So we return to the second floor of Gimmick's house as the workshop as the babyfaces are repairing the Portable Reducing Machine. Well; Newton is anyway. There is a pear on the table as the PRM has been fixed, I think. Of course; the animators can not keep the pear's artwork straight in between shots. Gimmick cuts off Grubby trying to eat the pear; because SCIENCE~! Here's a tip: Use something Grubby won't eat, like something that isn't food. Grubby wants it big, and Teddy doesn't want it too big.
Gimmick backs up and shoots the pear with blue beams of doom; which again, keeps changing inbetween shots. Already; Gimmick is not liking this before the pear even has a chance to do something bad. Voice timing is a huge weakness with this show and Gimmick in general. The pear multiples for about twenty seconds as the babyface jump over a wooden box because they think it's going to explode. It doesn't; it just gets awfully hairy. So Gimmick has invented the Wooly Pearsit! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The babyfaces get up and Grubby states the obvious to us. Gimmick looks at the pear with the maginfying glass and claims that he needs to make an adjustment because of a miscalcuation; but hey, this could still have applications. Yeah; I'll bet. Scene change back to the elves and woodsprites village as the elves and woodsprites are being themselves. I think Katy is shown here in the background waving; although she is supposed to be a woodsprite, she has no wings. From the bushes pops Tweeg acting like cocky and of course the little people have to pretend that they didn't hear that because Tweeg says it with a normal volume. This is exactly why Teddy Ruxpin blaming the little people for this was in fact correct; but not really for the reasons he claimed. More on that in the next rant; consider it a spoiler alert. He cut a clothesline with a week's worth of laundry, and set the clock back five minutes and Tweeg calls this pure evil. Not impressed. How about setting the village on fire; that would be pure evil. LB calls out his stupidity; but Tweeg will not be besmirched as Tweegle goes back to work. LB said something about elf and bedsheets. I don't know exactly what he said; I still laughed at it. So Tweegle throws coins in front of a conveniently placed water puddle. Tweegle rises up as an orange haired elf in green and it might be the same elf who Tweeg stole the lollipop from two episodes ago! Geez; what a bully?! Tweegle kicks the poor guy's rear end and the poor bullied elf splashes into the water. The poor elf coughs and turns around to notice Tweegle running off. I just love how he yells at him for being a elf; despite being one himself. Jump cut to the light brown haired female elf modeling herself wearing a rose flowered pea soup dress with a wooden stylized mirror; which looks like an upside down pocket mirror. Her hat is on a table near the window; and Tweegle steals it. I called that the second I saw this scene by the way.
Tweegle stole the hat by grabbing the hat behind it's back and flew up backwards; which kind of kills the illusion of Tweegle being an elf and not a sockpuppet attached to the hybrid Grunge/Troll known as Tweeg. So the elf looks out the window and clearly sees Tweegle running away with the hat. So it's clear she should know who stole it, right? Next scene: Tweegle drops the hat in front of a door and knocks on said door before bailing. A female woodsprite comes out in a peach skirt and notices the hat. She puts on the peach hat and assumes that this was a present to her; and flies off stage right after doing a corkscrew. Flower dress elf storms in stage left, furious and threatening violence to boot. The peach skirt woodsprite flies away and says good day to her while wearing the hat. To the shock of no one, since the animators love making characters look like morons, the flower dress wearing elf accuses the peach skirt woodsprite of stealing her hat. Not believable at all. So yes; she runs after the woodsprite demanding her hat back. Scene change back to Gimmick's workshop with Grubby examinating the Wooly Pearsit as he asks Teddy is Gimmick can bring out his razor, since he's hungry. Of course; Teddy giggles at his expense, but assures him that he would if he asks nicely. Teddy asks Gimmick is the PRM is fixed and Gimmick claims that he's fixed it. That top switch looks like it broke off during that promo; so I don't buy it for one second. So then we get another stupid moment: Gimmick asks for the pepper shaker. Why? You couldn't use the Wooly Pearsit to test the thing again? Anyhow; Grubby grabs a conveniently placed "P" labeled container from the side table and puts it on the table. Gimmick pushes on the side of the PRM and his hand is nowhere near the green button. The blue beam of doom is shot at; and the shaker shakes and rattles. Teddy seriously thinks it's fixed, he's wrong! So the babyfaces jump over the wooden box again and it's the exact same shot as before as the top of the pepper shaker pops up; like a champange cork and pepper flies out, engulfing the area. This leads to everyone sneezing while cutting promos. So yes; they did this stupid spot to kill time with comedy, and made everyone look like idiots. The sneezing was hilariously bad as this can be summed by by Steve Smith from Red Green: We're getting there, we're getting there. Jump cut to outside as more sneezing occurs and that is that.
Scene change back to the village as the elves and woodsprites are yelling; but it's all just fighting words as no punches have been thrown yet. Zoom into the bushes as Tweeg and LB pop up; once again everyone has to pretend that they didn't hear him despite Tweeg clearly being heard. Apparently; we discover that Tweeg once put concrete in Elinore's face cream. Which LB claims was an actual improvement; so even when he does evil deeds to his own mother, Tweeg still fails at life. Tweeg's not amused; but he's not done yet, because he has having so much fun times three as Tweegle goes back to work. Tweegle steals a pie from the pieman's rack of pies outside his house and runs over to a tree house and knocks on the door. Tweeg has mastered the tiny pie on the thumb trick; so he succeeds in at least one aspect of life. The brown haired woodsprite with green tunic and shorts answers the door and gets a pie smashed into his kisser. Tweegle bails as the woodsprite is blinded, so he wouldn't have had a chance to see who it was. The pieman sees one of his pies is gone and his so angry that he does the TOING sound as he storms in and accuses the woodsprite of stealing the pie while the woodsprite accuses him of throwing it. Argument ensues and this one has much more heat than the last one since this one is believable on both sides. The woodsprite then basically admits that he saw Tweegle throw it because Tweegle is an elf and has had enough of crude elf jokes. The pieman has had enough of this obvious elfism bigotry from the woodsprite as he goes over to his pie rack; grabs a pie and throws it at the woodsprite. He ducks and another elf coming from behind the tree in a green vest gets hit with it on the side cheek. He's angry and runs in as we get a whiplashing jump cut of a pie fight as two of the ones who threw pies are no longer seen. Everyone looks out the windows and doors; and they get pie in the kissers as a result. We discover that the pieman in his bakery has a glasses wearing assistant giving him pies, so at least one elf has not turned on him. Yet. Geez; that student who wanted a mudpie throwing spot in the talent show is sure going to be jealous since this is a real fight with real pies. So the pieman comes out with pies as we get a long sequence of woodsprites in flights dropping pies on three elves. More pie throwing as we head inside the theatre as we get shouting matches galore; meaning the students are a lot more restrained.
The only ones who are not fighting are Leota, Katy, Wooly and probably Cemore...Wait a second?! As we pan west to one of the elves throwing paint on a female woodsprites' face; in the background, one of the students punched the other student out cold. Seriously; that is exactly happened. And the punch wasn't messed up; it was a good one, too. I didn't see that one coming. Okay; I take that back, they are worse than the ones throwing pies at each other. So yes; even in a Ken Frosse show, man on woman violence is allowed and yes, kids can punch each other's lights out. Leota cannot control anything as it's like a out of control classroom of 2016; only there are no police officers to make it worse. Jump cut back to Tweeg and LB behind the bushes amusing themselves as Tweeg takes off the glove and throws it away; which is a stupid move if anyone has ever watched Forsenic Files. However; this is a kid's show in 1987; so there you go. Even LB has to admit that Tweeg did a fine job, but still calls him Tweep. LB claims that he would love to see Tweeg pick on someone his own size and Tweeg unleashes the creed of heeldom: Never pick on someone their own size as he and LB walk away northeast as Tweeg thinks he's won and considering how stupid the little people are, I think he has. More on that in the next rant as we head back to the public square as we have the wicked pie fight continuing unabaited. And then the fatal blow is struck as one of the pie crashes through the circular windows in the entrance leading to the theatre and bonks into a conveniently placed lit candle. The candle drops onto the floor and lights the conveniently placed oil-based rug covering at the lobby of the theatre as we jump cut to the fight inside the theater as Leota is pleading for them to stop. Somehow; they all no sell this deal. Katy notices something bad and sniffs the air. Katy flies over to the double doors leading to the lobby and sniffs the air again. Smoke appears below the door and enters into the theater; causing Katy to panic and run to grab Wooly. Katy tries to sign to Wooly that the place is on fire; but Wooly still doesn't know enough sign language to make it work; so yeah. Katy grabs Wooly and goes over to the doors. The smoke is deafening now as Wooly panics and swears in DUBBED ANIME STYLE (oh my gosh!) and yells fire. Good thing the theater isn't crowded; that would be extremely tragic. Jump cut to outside the theatre (with an open window) as Wooly is yelling fire and this somehow makes all the pie throwers outside stop right on cue. One of the yellow shirt elves swears in dubbed anime style as we head to the window which the shutter is now closed. Bad, bad animation continuity once again as Wooly opens the windows and yells fires while panicking to end the episode at 19:09. This was a fine episode with Tweeg carrying it to a decent outing as always. Sadly; the animators and continuity is shot in this episode. *** (60%).
THE REVIEW LINE
I personally like this episode mostly because of Tweeg's incredible internet metaphor for playing the role of the troll and his sockpuppets. That is an incredible amount of hindsight being 20/20 and all; as he really literally started a flame war between the elves and woodsprites. It also helps show how cruel we can be when Tweeg is demonstrating it so well in meatshape (storyline and all) that it really hits home how similar meatspace can be to cyberspace in terms of how cruel human beings are. Tweeg's heeldom really shined here. I also loved that this show does not pull punches in this episode and the subtle bigotry in that the elves are sort of looked down by the woodsprites despite the storyline claiming that they are perfectly good friends. Wooly's high pitch voice was funny as well. That being said; I cannot give this more than *** in good conscience simply because the booking for this was messed up and the crack animation team does not know what it is doing half of the time. I like the story; and I love Tweeg's heelish antics, but the rest of this was a mess. Last up is Grundo Graduation as we conclude the whole arc with Wooly graduating and Tweeg failing at life, yet again. There are three certainies in Grundo: Tweeg failing at life, Tweeg failing at life and Tweeg failing at life. Yeah. So...
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.