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BumbleLion & The Terrified Forest
Reviewed: 04/13/2008
If I had to meet a cross between a lion and a bee; I would be terrified too...
Okay; I made a mistake here. It's this episode instead of the Eleroo focus episode. So; let's rant on shall we...?
The episode is written by Ken Koonce and David Weimers.
We begin this one once again (this is a recurring theme here) in the WONDERFUL LAND....Oh wait a minute?! We're not! We're actually on board a pirate ship as Captain Swashbuckler is confusing Narrator Stan and me all to hell here. Oh wait; it's Bumblelion's television set inside Bumblelion's room my mistake. And I see Eleroo has been taken for a ride into scare-ville. They are watching Peter Swash apparently and it has to be the worst rip-off to Peter Pan I can think of. Eleroo wants nothing of Bumblelion's attempts to make him a hero. Hey; maybe he wants to be a down to Wuz guy. Have you ever thought of that Eleroo? Well; it could be worse, we could have Rhinokey on the set at the Improv doing his Menacing Gag. AHHAHAHAHA! Buck does the Tarzan spot as he lands on the plank which so happens to contained a tied up raccoon female called Winky Bell (what a shock?!) who is wearing the most out of place dress in all of the series. Buck cuts her ropes and they do some kissy-kissy to end the television episode which probably deserves an easy DUD if it was EVER shown today. Oh wait; I AM watching it. Damn it! Hoppo actually agrees with me as we are in her living room (check the vain background) as Butterbear is nearly squashed by her and probably cares about her battered body than the show. I cannot say I blame her. Hoppo has a green bowl of popcorn (BONUS POINTS FOR HER ON THAT SPOT!) as Butterbear asks if she can change the channels and her acting sucks since she doesn't sound like she's struggling from Hoppo's mass. Hoppo refuses because she wants to see the female lead break a nail and of course it doesn't happen as Buck ends the show with his lame promo which Bumblelion completely degrades. Which is fine since he did it slightly better than Buck did. Oh and I see Crock is trying to sell some more fraud on the television after the show is over which everyone gleefully ignores.
Bumblelion then goes outside and swings on his pole vault device because he's pumped up faster than Ammonia Pine's bubble after Larson and Gary got a job at FOWL. Yeah; there is my steroid pun for the series. Live with it people. Sadly; Bumblelion lands on his can with a wussy bump to show that he is a wuss I do believe. Eleroo blows him off for that gaffe and I'm bowing down to my master Eleroo for finally showing some real class. So we head to Moosel's lighthouse as there is a purple shark swimming around which means Moosel is fishing around. Bumblelion then “Wuzzes” in and sees a pink fin swimming in the ocean. You know what that means: It's time for Bumblelion to make an ass out of himself (He's already done that by allowing Rhinokey to race his own car.) and become Bumble Swasher! Yeah; he sucks eggs. I liked asshole Bumblelion better folks. He warns Moosel not to catch that shark because he'll have him for lunch which launches classic paranoid Moosel complete with CHILD CORRUPTING BALLOON OF DEATH. I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader as Moosel panics like the psychopath that he is. So Bumblelion dives into the water because Drake needs a teacher to teach him how to be REALLY STUPID I guess. Bumblelion grabs the wussiest fish in the land as he is reeled in by Moosel and Moosel blows Bumble off for his stupidity. The fish gets pretty mad as well; but it's a wuss so nothing comes out of it.
So that logically leads to the beauty salon which has the most ironic slogan I have ever seen and I quote: “We turn the beast into beauty”. This is some rib on everyone bashing Disney for making ugly looking heels and beautiful babyfaces. We head inside the beauty salon as Hoppo meets up with Craboodle (who is half lobster and half poodle which makes it the most contrived fusion character in the series to date) . Oh; and she's has red hair wearing a skank like dress which is pointless since females are allowed to be naked on this show. Hoppo wants a new look which Craboodle responds to that by saying that she wants the Winky Bell look. Sadly; Hoppo tries to get into the hairdryer chair; but Hoppo is JUST TOO FAT! See; I don't need to stoop to Rhinokey in using jokes. I just be honest with her. Hoppo destroys the chair of course if there was any doubt about her weight which seems to be at least 200 pounds more than me. Man; she was 100 pounds less than me when I started ranting on this show. Craboodle then decides to cancel all of her appointments to work on her because it could take all day. Why not just cancel her appointment instead? It would make more sense and send a message to her that she needs to lose some of that fat mass on her. Hoppo isn't amused at that; but the scene changer prevents us from seeing her try some eye contact violence.
So we head into the field where Eleroo is trying to catch a butterfly (called a butterhopper here) with the BUTTERFLY NET OF FAIRY DEATH (the ultimate death trap for FAIRY GODPARENTS!). Eleroo teases the butterhopper to submit to his will; but the butterhopper no sells and does a fient just as Eleroo jumps and lands right into the lake with a resounding splash. Nice burying your character of wisdom there guys; making him get outsmarted by a butterfly. Brainy Smurf should sit Eleroo down and show him the finer points of bumping and being a smart aleck. Eleroo is not amused as he is all wet and the butterhopper laughs him off for that obvious gaffe. We then cut over into the forest where Bumblelion is playing sword fighting because he's Bumble Swash Buckler Of Doom~! If there was ever a need for violence in this cartoon; this is the time for it. He then sees Eleroo go into the SCARY CAVE OF DOOM (which Disney used to degrade TaleSpin according to Ted I should point out) chasing the butterhopper and it leads to the white eyes spot that is so cliché that you would think that Eleroo would have been smart enough to carry a flashlight. Seriously; this spot has been overplayed to death and it only makes Eleroo look weak. Oh wait; he DID have a lantern in his pouch and he takes it out. How about that?! I look so weak myself.
Bumblelion's white eyes sneak up from behind and scare Eleroo out of his wits. Enough to make him hop and grab the spike ceiling in fear. Bumblelion shows up and Eleroo blows him off nicely for his scare tactics. Eleroo climbs down and BumbleLion mistakes the butterhopper as a DingBat and goes into his mode of making an ass out of himself. The lights go out and Eleroo bails outside as Narrator Stan blows off the two goofs with attitudes because a DingBat is a Dingle Dog/Bat fusion and all ugly. Bumblelion walks out without a scratch on himself proclaiming victory as he shows the butterhopper. THAT MURDEROUS BASTARD! This is supposed to be a kill-free cartoon. How are the Smurfs going to get along without a butterfly to accent Brainy Smurf getting thrown out on his pinhead?! Sadly; the butterhopper is only crying which makes Bumblelion look even worse somehow. Eleroo gets the butterhopper back and he lets it go fly away. The two goof then chase after it again as we pan up a tree and see two DingBats which Narrator Stan blows off. And speaking of ugly...
We head to outside of the beauty salon as we see Hoppo wearing the most disgraced Winky Bell look I have ever seen in my life. UGH! She looks ugly! Even without the weight she would look ugly as Bumblelion shows up and that means more crushing between the two in a desperate attempt for Hoppo to make Bumblelion love her over Butterbear. Funny how Hoppo calls Bumble tall despite being shorter than most of the Wuzzles; being the same height as Moosel; and slightly taller than Butterbear. Nice logic break there Hoppo. HAHA! Bumblelion finally admits that he is in love with Butterbear and Hoppo stops him and yells at him for not being in love with her. Well; maybe it's because you are a demanding diva, fat, out of shape and have the fashion sense of a cow. I think that covers all the bases here. He then uses the WUZZLE PUN OF THE DAY and realizes that it is Hoppo dressed. Wow; the fact that she's the fattest Wuzzle in the entire village and he didn't noticed?! Heroism is so stupid. More WUZZLE PUNS OF THE DAY from Hoppo as she shakes her booty tail in a sexual like manner and Bumblelion asks where the costume party is which makes her mad of course. HAHA! That's a nice way of saying that she needs Wii Fit, STAT!!
So we get the cheap scene changer before she can strangle him on preschool television (now there's a sight to be seen) and we head to Butterbear's house as Bumblelion is knocking on the door; only to have Butterbear arrive from her garden on her property. She is carrying a basket of pumpkinberries and Bumblelion jumps down and offers to help. Butterbear is happy to let him carry the basket as she walks back to her garden to get the second and last basket so she can make pie. We then go to the far shot to see the DingBats in a tree and they have evil intentions written on their faces which isn't as good as seeing it out of Max from Ruby & Max. Or Max & Ruby. I get those two confused. Bumblelion sits down and eats the profits (HOW DARE HE?!) as Hoppo arrives and starts blowing off Bumblelion's lack of compassion for her. Look; Bumblelion doesn't like you because you are a pushy freak in a bad costume. Even Bumble doesn't stoop to that low when he's making an ass out of himself. Bumblelion calls it a scream and Butterbear clearly screams (which actually sounds decent which makes two emotions Kathleen can do properly) which allows Hoppo to blow him off again. Bumblelion and Hoppo get the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY as they see in the sky two DingBats kidnapping Butterbear. They take her to...Wait a second?! THEY KIDNAPPED BUTTERBEAR?! This is a preschool show for God sakes. I thought kidnapping was not allowed in a preschool cartoon?! Unless you are the Backyardigans and even then they were merely pretending. Save that crap for Ruby Spear shows you morons! Narrator Stan calls this a one way ticket to trouble to end the segment six and a half minutes in. Now that's a real comment in more ways than one I think.
After the commercial break; we REPEAT THE SCENE so that the blind, deaf and dumb society hasn't forgotten what happened about sixteen seconds ago as Bumblelion realizes that they are taking Butterbear to the Terrified Forest. Hoppo blows it off because this is a job for Bumble Swasher. Bumblelion goes into his beehive and does the exact same spot from In The Money (throwing stuff out of his closet while Hoppo looks on) as Hoppo slowly realizes why Bumblelion wants to save Butterbear from the evil VAMPIRE WUZZLE OF DOOM. Hoppo grabs Bumble by the tail and proclaims that she's going with him so that there is no kissy-kissy stuff with Butterbear. Scene changer and we head to the dark skies where we continue seeing Butterbear grabbed by the Ding Bats and her attempt at acting to let her go is the worst thing this side of Lita. They take her to the spooky witches' house and force her inside. This is looking like something out of a fairy tale story; but I'm not sure which one. Hmmm... We head inside the witch's house as the Vampire Witch is stirring her brew on the black cauldron which I'm sure will make Shawn Michael's run for cover since it hits way too close to home. She screws the brew up because of her stupid henchmen distracting her and she's mad. Vampire Witch is voiced by Tress MacNeille and this is her first official debut as a voice.
Butterbear's terrified acting is so lame that the Vampire Witch blows her henchmen off for getting the wrong thing. She wanted Butterberries see. For what I do not know. Anyhow; her crystal ball glows (Has Sunwoo been doing animation on the side at this point?) and she sees intruders (Hoppo and Bumblelion) and she's pissed off. So she orders her minions to tie Butterbear to a chair or throw her into the stew and they sell by tying Butterbear to a chair on-screen no less. Did the creators pull a coup on Michael Eisner here and I DIDN'T NOTICE?! So we logically go to the entrance to the TERRIFIED FOREST OF DOOM (helpfully labeled as such) and we see Bumblelion and Hoppo arrive just to read the sign so the blind people can get into the show too. Bumblelion proclaims that he's not scared; but the TALKING TREES OF DOOM (helpfully shown in the background in different colors which just reeks of preschool show image) blow him off on that gaffe. Bumble and Hoppo get scared stiff as the talking trees scare the wits out of me and the GOOFS WITH ATTITUDE. Hoppo and Bumblelion disobey and run stage left right into the forest as we pan over to see the DingBats hanging around and realizing that the scare didn't work. So that logically leads to the rope bridge which was already used in Zummi Makes It Hot before this. We pan up to see the rope bridge and then go to the sky shot where the DingBats use the nail file to cut the rope. I see Michael Eisner has got everything under his control again so it was just a false alarm.
DingBat #2 laughs it up before they both bail up since Hoppo and Bumblelion come out of the first leg of the Terrified Forest. Bumblelion tells Hoppo to wait because she's JUST TOO FAT to fit on the bridge and Hoppo takes it as a lame excuse for kissy-kissy stuff with Butterbear. Bumblelion blows her off nicely and slowly makes it across the bridge. Then Hoppo foolishly steps onto the bridge and I'm putting 1:1 odds that the bridge will break on her weight. The rope snaps of course and she does the CONTRIVED SPOT OF THE DAY (the bridge smash ladder spot) which allows her to show Butterbear how to act properly when in actual danger. Bumblelion ties a red rope around his middle and throws the rope down to Hoppo. Take one guess what happens next. Yeah; he just couldn't go without making an ass out of himself couldn't he? Oh; and Bumblelion's afraid of heights apparently as he goes limp and Hoppo is forced to carry him up while blowing him off in the process. Scene changer and we head inside the Vampire Witch's house as she is preparing his crew while Butterbear is tied to a chair. Well; Moosel was tied up in the episode In The Money; so this spot is allowed.
She adds the POOF EXILIR OF DOOM (helpfully labeled as such as the smoke has the words Poof in red letters to boot) and the thing is a complete failure as she flops down on the floor and cries like a little baby. And she's talking in poetry how silly of her. She even invokes the famous phrase Rebecca Cunningham would later recycle in A Star Is Torn as she looks into the MIRROR OF VAINITY and it shatter right on the lion roar's cue. Okay; that was a neat spot there. She bails behind Butterbear as that roar came from her pet Gartranula (I think that is what she said. I have no captions to work with here) and Vampire Witch (Transilva according to her) explains that the ungrateful monster has taken over her castle after a spell backfired on him. Logic?! Plotting?! Nothing contrived?! In this show?! NAH! Couldn't be....Butterbear offers to help cook up a counter spell and Vampire Witch refuses...for about ten seconds as she unties Butterbear and threatens her with the spell of death if she escapes. Well; that was pretty direct. So we head back into the dark forest as the Goofs With Attitude make it to a moat that should be easy to cross by going to the sides. However; internal logic of this show suggests that they go over the moat. The animators and the writers should seriously start going over the material before they start final production because this breaking internal logic is really glaring.
Bumblelion tells Hoppo to wait (because Hoppo is a diva) and he fumbles on Butterbear's name which gives Hoppo another reason to blow him off. See; she thinks Bumblelion is here to save her so that he can marry her. Or something like that. Hoppo even gets death reference #3 for the series (wow!) and grabs the whip from him. She lassos it onto a tree branch as Bumblelion warns her about her weight and Hoppo blows it off as a fat joke. Speak for yourself fat joke!! She does the FAT TARZAN SWING OUT OF CONTROL and her clothing is destroyed of course. Good for that moat; she no longer looks like a big, fat joke waiting to get squashed. She complains about it and then gets punished as the unstable ground pulls her into the moat as Bumblelion gets the whip just in time for him to do his lame routine again. Sadly; the Bushpeacker pecks the tree branch down and Bumblelion falls into the moat halfway. HAHA! Once again; Bumble Swasher makes an ass out of himself. I'm actually digging this episode as Hoppo gets sprayed to further my love for it. HAHA! Bumblelion pops up and pools his options to swim only to realize that he cannot swim and gets dragged down. Too funny as Hoppo waddles over and helps him out. When Hoppo is the savior that proves Bumblelion is a wuss. And things go from better (for me) and even better (for me) as the SharkBirds pop up to bite their sorry fusion butts. We go to the far shot as the goofs with attitude are pretty much Wuzzles' food according to Narrator Stan to end the segment 11 minutes in. Wow; that means that we have ten minutes of non stop action left in this one. And you thought Gummi Bears was off the wall?
After the commercial break; we return to the moat as the goofs with attitude are screwed so to speak. Narrator Stan cracks a thinly veiled fat joke because Rhinokey isn't around to do that which suits me just fine thank you. One of the sharkbirds bites Hoppo right on the ass. Now all it needs to do is bite Bumblelion in the same region and the cycle of irony will be complete. Sadly; Hoppo runs out of the moat before any damage can be done to Bumble's hairy orange butt. Scene changer and it's more walking into the scary forest! Hoppo smells BBQ and they stop as they see the HOUSE OF HORRORS as we head inside and yet another spell completely backfires. Butterbear declares that the spell is doomed due to a lack of butterberries as Vampire Witch puts her hat on Butterbear and calls it quits. We cut to outside as Bumblelion and Hoppo make it to the house and notice the DingBats flying around it. Bumble notices Butterbear's voice and he gets the red whip ready because it's time for Bumble Swasher: The biggest ass in THE LAND OF WUSS...ERR..WUZ. This is really getting close to self parody here as we head inside and it's the Dark Witch Brew Spot just to make it so dark that it might get adults to watch this show. Well; I'm watching it so it works on me even if it's only for one episode.
Bumblelion grabs the RIC FLAIR BROOMSTICK OF DOOM and sneaks up on Butterbear from behind (yeah; like I'm buying that it's someone else. Hint: Vampire Witch put the witch hat on her head earlier). What a meanie this Bumblelion fellow is?! Thankfully; Butterbear turns around and sees him before any damage can be done to her. They have the bonding moment which Butterbear completely oversells (despite underselling the voice) and Bumblelion is happy until the Vampire Witch arrives to blow him off. Then it is the ROAR OF DOOM to scare them out of their wits. It's hopeless to shrink the Garntula and butterberries are out of season. However; Vampire Witch has some faint hope as there are butterberries inside the lab of her castle and that scares Bumblelion and the gang since six guys have never come back with them which brings the official body count up to six. At least in theory. Vampire Witch looks so calm while Bumblelion looks so scared which makes her such a cowardly heel.
Vampire Witch pushes Bumblelion out of the door and Bumblelion tells her to get the berries which she responds by acting like a scared coward. Butterbear tells Bumblelion that he's their only hope because the monster will grow and take over the LAND OF WUSS...ERR..WUZ. Which means only one thing; it's BUMBLE SWASHING TIME~! Because nothing sezs ass like Bumble Swasher. He wants one favor: Talk him out of it. BWHAHAHAHAHA! What a wuzz?! Thankfully; the TRI-POINTY FINGERS OF DEATH force Bumblelion out of the house because when the finger is used; you must obey it. It's THE LAW OF DTVA! Nice sick on-screen MAN-SIZED bump into the side of the door from Bumblelion before he runs outside. Butterbear hopes he comes back in one piece and Hoppo assures him of that as long as he has the red whip which of course he loses when he took the bump. CONTINUITY?! LOGIC?! In this show?! Nah; couldn't be....Hoppo grabs the whip and runs out which logically leads to the ugly scene changer as we cut to just outside the castle (on the far shot) as Bumblelion actually makes it to the moat in front of Transilva's Castle. When in doubt; invoke a Dracula reference as the first obstacle in Bumble's way is the PolarGators inside the ring moat. There is no bridge just to make it a wee bit more complex for Bumble Swasher. He tries to go for the red whip; but he lost it earlier and he's screwed for about three seconds as he sees a conveniently placed tree which has a large tree branch which extends to a window. Yeah; it's the CONTRIVED PROP OF DOOM which Bumblelion uses to get inside.
Here comes Hoppo and she blows off the Polar Gators in which they back off as Hoppo climbs the tree and the tree starts uprooting because Hoppo is just TOO FAT! Hoppo continues climbing though as the PolarGators stop selling and snap Hoppo so good that she runs across the tree branch without putting any weight onto it. There is logic break #1 for the episode right there as Hoppo walks like a diva right into a conveniently placed trap door which opens and Hoppo free falls in and manages to go through easily despite looking bigger than the opening of the trap door. They just couldn't go through one episode without a logic break. Well; at least it was minor compared to the more glaring ones in this series. We then head inside the castle as Bumblelion walks down the spiral staircase as he hopes to get to the lab before the monster gets him. Cannot blame him for that I guess as we head to the basement floor and see Hoppo go through the trap door and slide into the basement which is a spot recycled from the pilot episode of The Gummi Bears. Nice oversell there from Hoppo. Hoppo gets up and runs stage right calling out for Bumblelion as the SHADOW OF DEATH appears stage left and it is growling like the monster that he is. It is clearly half-spider as we cut to Bumblelion walking inside the castle halls complete with pictures of Vampire Witches' family I do believe. Which begs the question: Was the six people her family members?! I SMELL A FANFIC COMING! And it only took six episodes of ranting to do it (seven episodes total).
The eyes stare at him; but that goes nowhere. Which leads to the Y-hallway in reverse as Bumblelion and Hoppo come out of it and Hoppo's shadow shows up on Bumblelion which is enough to get him scared and he bails stage right. Hoppo hears his voice and slowly follows Bumblelion while calling out for him. And of course the Grantula follows them with spiderlegs closing in. We cut to inside the lab (helpfully said as such by Bumblelion) as Bumblelion slides in safely and he has hit jackpot. We pan over to the shelf and there is the jar of butterberries which look like swiss cheese mini packs. Bumblelion grabs the jar and oversells all before running out of the conviently placed window which contains another tree branch. I'm inclined to call that one logic break #2; but it was probably in the back of the castle; so who knows. Bad scene changer and we return to Vampire Witch's house as she packs up her stuff on the table in a pink bag as Butterbear pleads for her to stay. Vampire Witch blows her off because she sucks as a witch. So Butterbear grabs her hand and sits her down on a stool (NOT THAT ONE!) in front of a mirror (something you will never see Mr. Hardcore do in their miserable lives.) as she wants to give her a makeover. Vampire Witch blows it off and sobs like a little child who has given up.
So we go to the Tarzan spot from Bumblelion which is much better down by him then it was done by Buck and then we cut back to the house of the Vampire Witch with the front shot as Butterbear steams her hair into a punk witch look. Okay; that is just asking for trouble young lady and Vampire Lady loves it until Butterbear puts black marker on her cheeks which is enough for the mirror to shatter. If Vampire Lady was a babyface; this would be ground breaking. But she's a heel turned tweener so it doesn't have the same effect to it. And here comes Bumblelion with the butterberries in which he sees her and jumps into Butterbear's lap. Great; now I have to think about Scooby Doo and Hanna Barbera in this show. I thought we are overdoing it already with the sound effects as it is. Vampire Witch just looks cute as Bumblelion realizes that it is Transilva. Okay; I finally get it that Transilva is her real name. Bumblelion hops down and gives Trans the jar and Transilva (now that I think about it; she sounds like June Foray) bails to create the potion. Bumblelion thanks Butterbear and Hoppo for their support; but Butterbear tells Bumblelion that Hoppo went after him and that's enough for Bumblelion to bail back to the castle.
So; we do the ugly scene changer and return to the castle where Hoppo looks out of the window and blows off Bumblelion for hiding. However; she looks down at ground level and sees Bumblelion in front of the moat. Hoppo sees this as MONEY BABEE in order to force him to love her over Butterbear (Bell Bear according to her) and she does this ultra bad damsel in distress routine. Now I know why people hate that spot now?! Because Hoppo made it look bad. Bumblelion sells fear like a maniac which gets Hoppo confused; unaware that the Grantula's spider legs are right behind her. She's back to being the dense diva now judging by her slapping the spider legs back. I knew it wouldn't last. Bumblelion tries to ponder like a goof because Buck would go to a commercial and that forces Bumblelion to become just Bumblelion as he will save Hoppo. Bumble bails stage left as Hoppo finally turns around to see the monster (yeah she is that stupid) and does the scare oversell to amuse me. Yeah; MURDER her! MURDER THAT DENSE DIVA TO HELL!
Grantula is half gorilla, half spider as Hoppo faints dead away like a statue. YAY! We cut to Bumblelion as he does the Tarzan spot again (cut it out already guys) and makes it across with little trouble. Bumblelion tries to consult the dead Hoppo; but no dice. Grantula makes things more hairy so to speak as Bumblelion tries to carry Hoppo but she is dead weight. Thankfully; the trap door (which seems to be another recurring theme in this episode that needs to retire) and the GOOFS WITH ATTITUDE free fall again. Well; at least it was big enough for them this time around. We cut back into Transilva's house as she breaks another mirror (another recurring theme) and takes the green potion with her as she can onto her boomerang stick and flies away allowing Butterbear to do another whirlwind spot (please retire that spot on her guys). So that logically leads to....
....REPEATING THE SPOT from earlier as they add a double bowling ball spot from the Goofs With Attitude as they manage to open the drawbridge with the combined weight of Hoppo and Bumblelion and bounce around and take a wussy bump into the tree from earlier. OUCH! That's going to leave a mark. On the tree. Hoppo pounces on Bumblelion as they are knocked silly while Transilva arrives on her boomerang stick just in time to see Grantula comes out of the castle. Now that is timing BABEE! Transilva flies in front of the monster and cuts a lame army boots promo to allow Grantula to open it's mouth and Transilva calls checkmate and throws the potion inside the monster's mouth. The whole thing turns into a small spider as Hoppo and Bumblelion wake up and recover. Hoppo cannot believe that Bumblelion rescued her from the castle (although Bumble nearly uses a thinly veiled fat joke to describe it before recoiling) as she blows it off because she slept through it. Bumblelion then uses a thinly veiled fat joke as a moment which allows for eye contact violence from Hoppo. Sadly; Bumblelion doesn't see it so it cannot affect him I guess. Butterbear and Transilva arrive (complete with green cage containing the small Grantula) as they call it a day in rescuing. Hoppo blows off Transilva because she's not scary anymore since they know her now which allows Transilva to blow her off and warn them not to tell since she'll use a potion on her I guess. Transilva then uses the SPELL OF SATAN which is a teleport spell back home to the LAND OF WUSS...ERR...WUZ. So she has also gain control of the Lost Magicks. Lezard must be a time traveller. Maybe he's the 12th doctor.
Transilva is HAPPY that the spell worked because Hoppo was just TOO FAT to carry home indeed. When in doubt; go for the obvious fat jokes. So we head back to Bumblelion's living room as they are watching Captain Buck Swasher rescuing Winker Bell who is tied to the tracks and facing a speeding train. What does Dudley-Do-Right have to do with Buck?! Hoppo is watching and eating popcorn like the fat-ass diva that she is and Bumblelion admits that this is a rerun and has had enough of Buck and wants to watch a baseball game. However; Hoppo (complete with Winky Bell outfit? Cosplaying? In 1985?) uses the eye contact violence and the POINTY FINGER OF DEATH to stop him from changing the channel. Now she loves the show; probably because it's safer to watch it than see Bumblelion make an ass out of himself. Bumblelion is confused as we go to the far shot of the beehive as Narrator Stan ends the episode acting like a confused little child at 21:45. I'm been proven wrong again; as this one is better than Moosel's Monster thanks to few logic breaks and excellent pacing. Took them long enough to iron it out.. **** ¼ ( 85%)
THE REVIEW LINE
Wow; two very good episode in this series. Who would be thunk it as I was expecting another solid story in a messy sea of logic breaks and contrived spots. This time the storyline was excellent and the show actually took some risks by giving us an actual kidnapping on a preschool show and acutal good chemistry between Hoppo and Bumblelion as they acted like a bunch of asses just to either gain affection from Butterbear or to screw Butterbear. Transilva was to my surprise good for a heel turned tweener as she had a good voice, was ugly and did some really nice whining spots to amuse me. The best thing about this episode is that there were few if any logic breaks and few if any contrived spots making Gregory GiantLord Weagle a happy ranter. Even better: No Rhinokey which makes him the weakest character by proxy. Only Eleroo was lame and he didn't have enough time to be himself which is a crying shame. Overall; this was the best episode in the series thus far and it give me hope for the next episode which is Eleroo's Wish Day. So.....
Thumbs up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.