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Class Dismissed
Reviewed: 04/26/2008
Now You Are Free To Animate Michael Eisner's Only Real Idea He EVER HAD!!
Yeah; I went for the obvious cheap shot. However; at least Michael Eisner was merely evil genius at this point and not bumbling fool like he would become after Frank Well's death. So; we are down to the last two episodes of the series as it was becoming clear that despite the effort of the Wuzzles team; this show was not going to make it past 13 episodes. So; let's rant on shall we....?
The episode is written by Ken Koonce & David Weimers. The story is edited by me. Yeah; I'm REALLY pushing this gimmick; aren't I?
We begin this one in the WONDERFUL LAND OF WUSS....ERRR...WUZ as Narrator Stan calls this place in a class of itself. I cannot argue with that kind of logic as we see the limo passing by in the streets and cut to Rhinokey swinging on a tire near his house. If that's all he does during the episode; this would be an automatic **** for me. Sadly; I wouldn't hold my breath as Rhinokey jumps off and follows the limo. Bumblelion does the same from his pole vault near the beehive. Hoppo doesn't sell it though which makes her the smartest of the three as the GOOFS WITH ATTITUDE cannot catch the limo. I told Bumblelion those steroids weren't going to help him run fast; but did he listen? Nooooo. Hoppo asks what is going on and they want to know where the limo is going...and it stops right in front of Butterbear's house. Hoppo now gets amused and runs from her lazy chair. We cut to the front of the limo as the RED CARPET OF DOOM is brought out by a chaffeur by Baboos and out comes...THAT LADY AGAIN from In The Money who got splatted with cake and mud. Yeah; let's recycle the most contrived joke in the series and turn her into a major character. She waltzs to the front door and invokes the GLASSES STICK OF DOOM to knock on the door. Butterbear opens the door and we finally find out who that lady is: Mrs. Pedigree. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh those cooky writers. They made her look like a joke throughout this series and now she's in a SERIOUS role? Say it with me, no wonder this show tanked.
Butterbear offers Miss Pedigree to come in and she does. The babyfaces MINUS ELEROO AND MOOSEL show up at the house like a bunch of stalkers and Hoppo does a nice spot to amuse me as she squashes Rhinokey good. Hoppo is getting better and better the more I see her. No wonder Sunni improved quite a bit since then. Sadly; that is negated somewhat with Hoppo squashing Bumblelion's head as she plays peeping tom in the window. We head inside as Miss Joke sits on the loveseat while Butterbear gives her tea. See; Miss Pedigree (I wonder if that's Steph's finisher?) is hosting a social gathering of the year and she wants Butterbear to help with the guest list. Miss Pedigree continues to sip tea while Hoppo continues to squash heads. I got to give the nod to Hoppo on who is doing the better job here. Hoppo's oversell is quite amusing as they hide in the bushes quickly (I guess Hoppo grabbed them and threw them into the bushes since I don't see how Rhinokey and Bumblelion could recover so quickly). Miss Pedigree leaves the house as she makes it to the limo while Butterbear tells her not to worry because she'll make it the best party ever. Welcome to the template of My Fair Baloo as the babyfaces are excited. So we logically cut too....
...onto the streets of the CITY OF WUZ as Crock and Brat are on a sidewalk doing the old street entertainment gimmick to a couple of snobs. You can tell they are snobs since their nose is in the air. I see Mr. Hardcore are doing their hate Nintendo strike already. Hey; Nintendo Entertainment System was released at about this time so it makes sense. Sadly; Brat's banging the steel mug onto the Gifbra pretty much assures a massive failure as Gifbra blows them off and walks out. Crock grabs the cup and it shows nothing but butterhoppers. Crock does the eye contact violence to Brat and that apparently is too boring so we head to the lighthouse as we head to the top to see Moosel and Eleroo looking out. Eleroo has the crappiest telescope I have ever seen as Butterbear calls up to them. Eleroo and Moosel get distracted and they bump into each other and freefall right into the ocean blue. HAHA! Butterbear doesn't like this and invokes the IMAGINATION BALLOON OF CHILD CORRUPTING DOOM pondering if she invites them to the party. Eleroo and Moosel (in funny formal clothes) crash into the table and food flies everywhere. Moosel grabs the punch bowl and slides down the stairs and splashes punch onto the screen as Butterbear is spooked. Eleroo and Moosel gets onto the dock and advances towards Butterbear (all wet mind you- good stuff there animators). They wonder what Butterbear wants so Butterbear puts the letters back into her letters and hands them a towel (while being nice the entire time since Kathleen cannot do anger well at all) and walks off.
The towel say Hotel Wuz which is a dead giveaway to where the party is. Moosel and Eleroo are confused as we get the bad scene changer and Butterbear is in front of Rhinokey's house. Now why would Butterbear ever invite Rhinokey is beyond me since she should ALREADY KNOW that he would ruin the party in a flash. He proves my point as she rings the trick doorbell and it explodes smoke (AND THAT BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH AND MOVIE RATING!) right in her face. Butterbear is filled with soot (black child yells: THAT'S RACIST! I got that from GregX's review of a Captain Planet episode where it shows a picture of a black child against a blue background shouting That's Racist! Over and over. Sorry; but I no longer put pictures in my articles since some people might think that I'm calling them dumb.). Rhinokey opens the door and asks her how she likes the exploding doorbell. About as much as she likes your last joke when you splashed Miss Pedigree with magical mud on a dry dusty road. AHHAHAHAHA! That leads to the IMAGINATION BALLOON OF CHILD CORRUPTING DOOM where Rhinokey plays his usual bad prank on a dressed up Miss Pedigree. He kisses her hand and she eats the springboard pie. Okay; that was a pretty creative way to screw someone.
Rhinokey asks what she wants and Butterbear thanks him for the new doorbell and climbs down. I'm glad the writers have finally used Butterbear in the role of goody two shoes since I've seen Butterbear angry and the emotion is simply not there. Rhinokey merely scratches his head as we get another bad scene changer and Butterbear is in front of Hoppo's house. She knocks on the front door and there is no answer so she opens the door and sees Hoppo and Bumblelion swing dancing like a bunch of goofs to a really weird musical set. Hoppo throws Bumblelion away and he slams into the wall with a MAN-SIZED bump off-screen. Butterbear is not amused by this as she waves at them and Hoppo notices her and stops the record player. Butterbear apologizes for interrupting them (good for her) and Hoppo forgives her getting off the WUZZLE PUNS OF THE DAY while elbowing Bumble because they might get invited to parties. Butterbear uncorks the BALLOON OF CHILD CORRUPTING DOOM and we get a really slick scene of Bumblelion and Hoppo (in maybe the best outfits I have seen them dressed into) dancing and Hoppo squashing Bumblelion on the strongman pose. I don't get why that would be a bad thing. Some of the rich folks might laugh at that spot actually; but at them and not at you Butterbear.
Still; Butterbear tells them that she'll let them know and she runs right out of Hoppo's house. Man; Butterbear has a huge problem with logic here. Hoppo and Bumblelion aren't about to let Butterbear leave that easily and it's the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE SNOB EDITION~! Sadly it ends too quickly as she has a meeting of the three minds. One is a joke, one is a psychopath and one is a loser. I'll let you figure out which is which. And this wasn't at the water heater. Nice bumping from all the Wuzzles on that spot as the invitations fly out and everyone grabs one. Butterbear's plan to not have her friends screw her (intentionally or not) has backfired in her face like Rhinokey's exploding doorbell. Butterbear swipes Moosel's letter (HOW DARE SHE?) and she is mad as everyone cheers for the invites. Butterbear does the Gruffi pose and proclaims that they aren't invited. The babyfaces want to know why as Hoppo tries to sweet talk her into changing her mind (by doing a lot of touching which would be sexual harassment today if Hoppo were male) and then harshly blows off the male Wuzzles for having zero class which causes massive fear and Scooby Doo scare spots because nothing invokes fear like Hoppo's eye contact violence.
Butterbear is afraid of the males screwing her and Miss Pedigree out of a good party and quite frankly; I cannot disagree with her. Although I don't understand why she wouldn't invite Bumblelion at least since Butterbear is in love with him. Hoppo suggests that if the Male Wuzzles polish up their manners they could comes and they do the Please Say Yes pose which is too funny to watch. Butterbear agrees on one condition as she eats fruits like a dirty non-mannered pussy just to annoy her and amuse me. Hoppo thinks this condition involves singing and dancing and Butterbear blows her off for a lack of class. HAHA! Hey; you got what you deserved for being such a diva Hoppo. Butterbear walks off looking like the best character in the whole show. What a snob this Butterbear fellow is turning into...So we logically lead to the farm store outside as Crock and Brat are outside doing the free food sample table gimmick. I bet Brat eats all the profits on this one too. Where the heck is Flizard? Did he get into a fight with LB before this episode was made? Never mind; let's move on. We then see Flimago (from In the Money of course; check the green color clothes she's wearing) along with her daughter (in matching blue which really streches the bounds of silliness here). I see Flimago is half cow since she moos when Crock asks about free food samplings. Crock then steals her good and eats it. Now there's a heelish thing to do. If only he had smashed Eleroo's trophy in Klutz; this would be awesome.
Crock does show mercy by giving her the bag back as she walks off in SHOCK. Brat is bitter because he didn't get any and Crock promises that he'll share the food. Yeah sure...and here comes Butterbear with her wagon as she heads into the shop. Crock then has a MIMI JOKE ZONE PLAN since his mid-section is empty. Man; this guy has an problem with curbing his appetite. They crumble up the podium and run towards Butterbear's house. They run behind it and use the bag to steal her fruit on the trees. Brat's mouth is so screwed since he keeps missing on eating the fruit when Crock starts picking. Memo to Brat: BITE THE DAMN HAND! Then you'll have a better shot at getting something. Crock blows him off because Brat gives him grief. I still cannot believe that Crock can understand someone with Down Syndrome at all. Brat is really ticked off on that response and that's enough for Crock to realize that he should give Brat some food and he pours all of his goodies right into Brat's mouth. Sadly; back comes Butterbear and she's not too happy with Crock's attempts to screw her out of her fruit. Those are AppleCherries according to BB and Crock throws the sack right into Brat's mouth. Crock blows him off for eating all those goodies. Oh; now there's a heelish way to gain heat: Always blame the henchmen for his decision. In this case it worked perfectly as Brat stomps on the bag.
Butterbear calls Brat's decision so low and Brat is low. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Crock claims that he has been beating manners into him and Brat is really ticked off of this. Butterbear grabs the bag and blows off Crock for having no sense of class. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Butterbear has no sense of heel and babyface if you ask me. And I see Kathleen hasn't improved her wooden acting much either. Crock blames Brat for being a social misfit like the heel that he is; and tells BB that she couldn't make Brat act classy. Butterbear, bastion of helping Down Syndrome characters everywhere takes this as a challenge and even Brat wants to try to be a gentlemen. Brat gives him the first raspberry in all of DTVA which Crock mocks and laughs it off. As Sean Malstorm would say: Crock doesn't know how to laugh at himself. Butterbear blows him off for being mean (he's a heel BB; what did you expect?) and Crock challenges her to get Brat to have class by Miss Pedigree's party or he wins two weeks of lunches. Butterbear claims that she has no time and Crock mocks her and accuses her of admitting that Brat is a hopeless cause and having no class herself. Oh; that is FIGHTING WORDS Crock! Butterbear accepts the bet and Crock is licking his chops and sensing a easy victory here. Brat burps in Butterbear's face as Narrator Stan proclaims that BB has her work cut out for her which ends the segment eight minutes in.
After the commercial break; we head to the CITY OF WUZ and the crowded street as Brat and Butterbear are at a road crossing as Narrator Stan uses the old teach a dog new tricks metaphor and calls it a treat. Yeah; sure. Keep believing in that Stan. The first law of class to be taught: helping ladies cross the street. Now this shouldn't be too hard even for Brat. Butterbear explains how to do it while extending her arm and Brat sniffs it like an idiot. Brat grabs the arm and runs across the street and they stop midway as the Chugcar appears right in front of them. BB runs away; but Brat stands his ground and smashes right into the Chugcar destroying the front end. Brat pushes the thing and then grabs it above his head (now that is strength!) and smashes the car. I'm SHOCKED and APPALLED that no one is driving the thing. Brat then grabs Butterbear's hand and slowly crosses the street with her. Now that is funny as Butterbear blows it off proclaiming that Brat has a lot to learn. You really mean; a lot to unlearn. HAHA! We then cut to a sidewalk as Brat and Butterbear are walking with class and they completely ignore the nice greeting from Crock as he walks in the opposite direction. Wow; Brat is such a fast learner, or that's logic break #1 for the episode.
Crock gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and he's ticked as he swears in DUBBED ANIME STYLE. Crock is not amused as Brat licks his chops which BB ignores as his bet is slowly going down the tubes. We then head to the Wuzzle Library (How dare a television show teaches people that reading is cool? I can just hear a 4Kids exec saying that right now.) as Crock enters the place and sits down near a table to read the Sidekick Quarterly; a rag sheet you will NEVER catch Kit F'N Cloudkicker dead (or alive) reading. I can hear 4Kids exec breathing a sigh of relief now. It's all right as long as the heel are reading see. Babyfaces never think reading is cool; otherwise they'll stop watching television I guess. We then see Hoppo, Bumblelion, Rhinokey, Eleroo and Moosel at the front desk asking the manager about a book on class (she's a purple bird with bad glasses and looks and sounds like a bookworm) and Rhinokey shows no class by blowing her off. You know Rhinokey is screwed when his responses show no sense of irony anymore. Crock has evil intentions as he bails to invoke the MIMI JOKE ZONE PLAN #2: Steal that book.
Crock takes the Book about Class (a classy green cover I might add) and steals it; replacing it with the Pink Book of Miss Manners. You know; I betcha Miss Manager is so stupid to fall for such an obvious plan that she'll give the babyfaces the pink book instead of the classy green book. Thankfully; Crock is smart enough to merely change covers on the book (even though the pink bottom still gives the book away) and puts the bad manners book on the shelf. We go to the opposite side of the book shelf as Hoppo is looking around and finds the book. You know; if you were there BEFORE Crock replaced the book; then you would think that Hoppo would have NOTICED the book being replaced. Logic break #2 for the episode. Hoppo bails as Narrator Stan doesn't like these turn of events while we pan over to Crock smirking at his evil handiwork. So that logically leads to....
......outside of Hoppo's house as we get set for the babyfaces to have the worst manners in the history of WUZ. We head inside as the babyfaces minus Dumberbear sit down while Hoppo starts reading from the RED BOOK TURNED GREEN BOOK OF LIES. Rhinokey mocks that one and I'm SHOCKED that he hasn't cracked a bad joke yet. Hoppo still uses eye contact violence because it's Rhinokey of course. Hoppo reads and she's SHOCKED because this doesn't sound right to her. Huh? Hoppo growing a brain? What are the odds?! Eleroo is confused and then Hoppo simply turns stupid and starts dancing with Rhinokey in a really silly spot. They slap skin and then Hoppo bumps him right out of the episode. Or so we hope and dream. Rhinokey invokes the first Scooby Doo Snow Angel Spot in DTVA and I'm ticked off. I got away from DARKWING...DUCK in order to NEVER see that spot again and Rhinokey brings it back as usual to piss me off. Thankfully; we head back to Butterbear's house before Rhinokey can resort to anymore joke fixing. We cut to inside Butterbear's dining room as we are set for Class Act Law #2: How to eat properly at a dinner table. Okay; this should be good knowing Brat.
BB tells Brat to try harder and Brat sells it by licking his chops. BB gives Brat the pink napkin and Brat eats it because the color is female. THAT'S SEXIST! (I can just see a female girl about eight years old saying that ala the THAT'S RACIST boy now!) Butterbear blows off Brat's bad sense of anti-feminism and asks for him to pass the porky drumstick. Brat grabs the whole porky and tries to throw it but Butterbear shakes her head to stop him from doing that. Brat passes the thing gently to her and Butterbear thanks him for that gesture. Well; that's one spot he got right at least. She tells Brat to enjoy his dinner as she got the knife and fork ready and that's a huge mistake as Brat basically eats everything in sight including the dinner cloth. You have no one but yourself to blame for that one BB. Brat doesn't need a refresher; he needs a complete makeover. Butterbear sulks like a hardcore gamer after Wii Fit ends gaming around the world. HAHA! By the way Sean; the reason why Sustainer have no sense of humor is because they have no sense of irony nor sense of hypocricsy. That's what fundies breed. It's like: I'm a peaceful man; but I'll kill you if you don't respect my peace. See; no sense of irony. We head back to Crock's house as he throws the suction cup darts at his chair on a wall target of Brat. Crock sure hates Brat for some reason here. I guess it's because Brat is more over as a Down's syndrome babyface than Crock is as a heel since Brat is cool and Crock is all pussy whipped. I guess playing darts is dangerous in a BS&P world. Memo to BS&P: You cannot kill Brat by throwing real darts on a picture of Brat. The only way that would happen is if those darts were magical.
As Crock is throwing; here comes Flizard (WHERE THE HELL HAS HE BEEN ALL THIS TIME?! Using drugs with Stan or something?) with the mail and Crock grabs it like a classless heel (what a shock?) . All there is from the mail is the usual bills. That's not heelish; that's an average day at work. Crock wanted the responses for Sidekick Quarterly (Geez; even the heels hate this guy which is a bad sign for him as a heel right off the bat.) and Flizard proclaims that he wants to be his sidekick. I thought Flizard was ALREADY Crock's sidekick. Logic break #3 for the episode as Flizard puts on the entertainment gimmick outfit and jumps around with the steel mug because he wants to be Crock's second in command see. I thought he already WAS Crock's second in command. These writers are confusing me. Where are the hot pokers when I REALLY NEED them?! Crock no sells because he wants Brat back see. Flizard tries to jump on Crock's belly and Crock blows him off and threatens him with the dartboard target. Yeah; whatever Crock. Without magic dart to injure him; that's all hot air and no sense of irony. So this all logically leads to inside Hoppo's dining room as they prepare for the Classless Act Law #2: Not eating at the table properly. This should be even better. It involves soup and both hands as the babyfaces do what the GREEN BOOK OF LIES (this is turning into a Sean Malstorm love-in) as Hoppo tells them to slurp the soup. Even Moosel questions the book which means more eye contact violence from Hoppo. Because that is what the book sezs see. Baloo and Ed Pomeroy would have a field day with these Wuzzles fellows as Rhinokey starts slurping soup which is actually the classiest thing he has ever done. I know this isn't saying much; but it is a start.
More slurping of soup from the classless babyfaces as we cut to outside Hoppo's door and there is Butterbear knocking on it. UH OH! This is going to get ugly now. Oh wait; it's Butterbear's bathroom door she's knocking on, my mistake. See; Brat is brushing his teeth and since this is 1985 and not 1990 where TaleSpin could show the inside of a bathroom; The Wuzzles cannot. It's funny because the characters are already naked as a jaybird as it is and showing them use the bathroom wouldn't suspend anyone's disbelief into thinking that they are perverted since they are already naked and therefore are already perverted in the eyes of the smart people. Butterbear opens the door as Brat is guzzling and we see the bathroom (minus toilet of course) proving me wrong again. HAHA! See I can laugh at my stupid elitism. Why can't Mr. Hardcore?! Again; because they have no sense of irony. Brat is brushing with the broom which looks like a cool Swipper broom I have seen making headlines in recent years. There are bubbles of toothpaste everywhere as Butterbear is SHOCKED and APPALLED (in that order). BB calls this hopeless as Brat just guzzles there. Butterbear then realizes that Brat may have Downs Syndrome and wants to be Brat's mother. Brat likes that; but it's on one condition: that Brat learn to be a gentleman. I've got to give Disney credit; they are making Brat look like a good Down Syndrome character. It's sad that Brat is a heel since he looks really cute despite having a nasty streak. Brat kisses BB on the cheek (good kiss there guys) and Butterbear gets off the line of the episode proclaiming that Brat knows how to butter up this bear. HAHA!
Butterbear tells him to try again nicely as we cut to outside Butterbear's house as Crock skips to his loo thinking that he has won the bet easily. Memo to Crock: Ultra-cool sidekick Toadie called. Your skipping sucks eggs. HAHA! Crock walks to the front door proclaiming victory and knocks on the door like a bad snob. The door opens and out comes Brat in formal clothes with a smoking pipe in his mouth. This is classic Disney editing: edit smoking products out on their feature products; but leave them in on shows that are not over. Nintendo's censorship wasn't perfect back then (some things slipped out if you know where to look); but it was a million times more consistent than todays editing from Disney. And Nintendo is editing a lot less than they used to today compared to Disney's editing today or even back in 1985. Times sure have changed. Brat actually looks dignified as Crock is SHOCKED to see that his cockiness has backfired on him. I guess Butterbear realized that treating him like a son was better than treating him like a product. Good for her I say.
Crock blows off Brat's upper crust routine and asks him to come home and Brat blows it off. He still needs to work on his attitude a bit; but at least he's not out of control. Crock tries to bribe him with petty stuff and Brat blows him off again because Crock is not nice to him and should start acting nice to him. Crock lies that he is nice to him. That's like Mr. Hardcore proclaiming that gaming is ending when they made it so by alienating the public from them in some sick fantasy of art that no one gives two craps about. Say it with me: No sense of irony. Then again; irony meters would break easily in the Land of Wuz. Brat isn't selling that bill of goods as Crock is demanding him to come back because he's giving him two out of three. Brat walks in; gives Crock a well deserved raspberry and slams the door in Crock's face. Butterbear wins the bet! HAHA! Crock storms off hating Butterbear for ever getting into a bet with her; but then he realizes that he could still screw Butterbear yet as Miss Pedigree's party since the babyfaces' manners are slipping by the minute. Crock walks down the street clicking his heel as Narrator Stan proclaims that if Crock fixes the party it will be broken (Dig that cooky metaphor) to end the segment 14 minutes in.
After the commercial break; we head to the Wuz Hotel AFTER HAPPY HOUR (After Dark. I'm been waiting a long time to use that pun) as we pan down as that castle/skyscraper is huge and it makes Gregor hang his head in shame because his castle looks so uncool. We cut to the side of the skyscraper/castle to a pair of trashcans as Crock is ticked off because he and Flizard (in the second trash can) are hiding and blowing off the joke known as Miss Pedigree. Crock lies about his parties in which Flizard gleefully corrects him for the obvious gaffe. Crock blows off Flizard on that response because details and logic are completely foreign to him. Wow; Crock almost said sh** when he tells Flizard for ideas (he said shinte) and sniffs around. This is almost as laughable as an episode of Mister T when Asian Girl said Sheesh and it almost sounded like sh**. Almost. Crock then notices the trash cans and has a plan as he tells Flizard to get a crash helmet because he's crashing the party. He scoops up some trash and put it on the trashcan lid and hops out of the can. We then cut to the front of the castle as the red limo (why red? Why can't black be a good color here? Or white?) Butterbear and Brat hop out off-screen and then the limo drives away. Butterbear is wearing a fairy outfit which actually suits her well; while Brat is wearing a blue trenchcoat, white shirt, glass eye, blue bowtie, blue Scrooge footwear (about two years before Ducktales came along), and a blue top hat and cane. Basically; he looks like Taz dressing up like Scrooge McDuck. A real fashion faux pas if I ever saw one.
Brat gets a little too excited; so Butterbear ribs him gently to calm him down. They head inside as the limo scooter shows up and here comes the classless babyfaces. I guess Bumblelion is really broke this time around. It's all of the male Wuzzles as they hop out of the scooter and they are wearing the worst causal gear I have seen since seeing all of those casual games (nice word meaning dumb, stupid and retarded according to Sustainer gamers). The casual babyfaces (all male) do the blitz routine as they run inside. Boy; this makes Baloo from A Star is Torn look terrible. And Rebecca was more angry than Butterbear ever WILL BE. Because Sally Struthers can ACT see. However; we cut to the back of the castlescape as Crock and Flizard (in waiter grub complete with trashy trays) knock on the back door and the chef dog answers it. Of course; the chef is French like all stereotypical waiters and chefs were in cartoons at around this time. Even TaleSpin was dumb enough to do that spot; even though the time period made more sense to do such a stereotype.
Crock's taped mustache is so bad that he should be ashamed of himself to use it here. The chef blows him off because the butler is already here so Crock calls him the butler's backup (which is the butler's butler according to Crock). Crock gets angry because the butler is HIS butler and that's enough for the French chef dog to sell and let Crock into the party. Say it with me: Dog characters are really dumb. They are very stupid. And no one has learned anything. Which is apporos for such a pointless song. Yeah; Hinder is coming back on my butt, what a surprise? Crock even agrees with me as he puts Flizard as smarter than the dog. Considering that Flizard wasn't in half of the episode to begin with; I agree. Crock and Flizard head inside...which logically leads to DANCING IN THE HALLS OF PEDIGREES HALLWAY! HAHA! See; Methodists were right. Bad French stereotypes do lead to dancing. I'll give the writers credits; they stuffed enough animal combinations into this hall. We cut to near the food table (on the left side) as Butterbear greets Miss Pedigree (wearing the same outfit in the Rhinokey dream which is CONTINUITY from the animators) and offers Brat as Bratilian Reptionapuss. I just can't stop laughing at that name and I hope Brat causes chaos and destruction for such a scrappy name. Brat grabs her hand and tries to slobber it; but the ELBOW OF DOOM stops that and Brat kisses her on the hand. That is one devastating elbow.
Miss Pedigree is impressed with his show of manners as Butterbear and Brat leave. Miss Pedigree then greets all of the male Wuzzles and Bumblelion does his happy oversell and then slaps her hand and then bumps her with his ass. You know what; this makes Baloo look classy in comparison....Plus; it makes Rebecca look like a paranoid business lady which actually shows why My Fair Baloo was better. Eleroo shows better class and uses the tail swipe and then forces Miss Pedigree up into the air and where she lands I don't care. Miss D. Rockafeather took a lot more abuse than this from Capone; so this isn't that impressive. We cut to a shot of Rhinokey showing off his WATER FLOWER GUN OF DOOM and if you don't know what happens in the next scene then you have no business reading this rant. It's basically the same thing in Butterbear's dream, only it's water instead of a pie. I liked the dream better than reality and this is why CONTINUITY is a good idea. Rhinokey then cracks his first bad joke right on cue 15 minutes in. I knew that wouldn't last. Miss Pedigree bails and has a meeting of the minds with Hoppo (if she had a mind to start out with) and it wasn't at the punch bowl.
Hoppo actually shows some real class as Crock shows up before Hoppo can screw her good as Crock shows her the tray of goodies and Miss Pedigree tells Hoppo to help herself since there is lots for everyone. Oh; that is like inviting death there Miss Pedigree. Hoppo then remembers her bad manner and steals the tray of goodie and eats it like a Hippo while slobbering. Well; she is living up to half her actual character so this is apporos. She talks with her mouth full of course since she has bad manners learned from the GREEN BOOK OF LIES see. Miss Pedigree actually takes this well (WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! That really kills Miss Pedigree's snob character right there) and comments on her girlish figure. Hoppo calls it a family secret as she drops another piece of fruit in her mouth and then we cut to the punch bowl as the bookworm girl (in her formal gear) uses the spoon to spoon out some punch into cups while Moosel (the only one who didn't screw Miss Pedigree earlier), Bumblelion and Eleroo take turns drinking from the bowl. Now there is some CONTINUITY if I ever saw it. Bookworm girl cannot believe this show of bad manners as she takes her glasses off and appears to be blind as a bat. Moosel shows off his lack of class by wiping the punch onto his formal sleeves. At least the babyfaces is doing the classless act well. Miss Pedigree isn't doing a good job selling the whole thing; the coward! Then we cut over to the right side and see Brat doing the whole manners thing properly which SHOCKS Bumblelion. I smell irony coming from the left side of my face. Eleroo walks casually and steps right on Brat's tail and Brat does the most over dramatic oversell I have seen in this series yet and lands right into the paws of the bookworm girl.
Brat is not amused by this lack of class and the bookworm girl is scared. Eleroo does have the decency to apologize to him as Crock hides behind the plant (worst hiding place ever...next to hiding behind a puppy of course) and pops out to give Brat the punch bowl to dunk Eleroo with because he did it on purpose see. Brat is about to throw it straight into Eleroo's kisser; but Butterbear arrives to stop him from doing that. Brat puts the bowl away and agrees to come with her to the Buffet Table while acting with class and decency. Brat offers Butterbear her hand and they walk off as the bookworm girl really gets in her contributions to the entire DTVA by proclaiming that she's SHOCKED, APPALLED & HORRIFIED (in that order) while Crock blows her off because the real mess hasn't begun yet. Bookworm girl faints dead away because that's a rich person stereotype see. So we head to the buffet table with Butterbear and Brat as BB reminds Brat about his table manners and Brat sells it like he's in his happy place. He acts in a classy manner as we cut to outside with Crock (who's gear has been torn up from the midsection down in between scenes I guess) and leans against the table wheels and then gets inspired. He then rolls the cart right into the hallway and it nails Brat right in the ass. Huh?! That cart looked like it was going to nail him in the foot; not the ass. Logic break #4 for the episode as the old must have five logic breaks in every episode is still their MO.
Brat is pissed off and grabs the food platteras Butterbear is pleading for him to calm down. She say pleasure things to her tail (and blows him off for trying to throw the platter) and Brat agrees to gently put the platter back onto the table. BB wants to put a bandage on his boo-boo and I'm laughing my butt off on Butterbear's acting here which is actually good for a change. Brat and BB walk away while Brat slobbers on his tail; and Crock is flustered. So flustered that he even does the CHEAP HEAT OF LAUGHS properly. Wow! Sunwoo should be ashamed of themselves for screwing that spot countless times. So we recycle the dancing scene from earlier in third act because recycling scenes leads to dancing see. BB and Brat (which tail bandaged) walk to the middle of the dance floor and it's the WUZZLE PUN OF THE YEAR from Butterbear. Brat likes this so they start dancing as Crock hides behind the plant. Logic break #5 for the episode because HOW IN THE WORLD DON'T SNOBS CLEARLY see that it is Crock?! And Flizard pops in front of him just to make the hiding spot look even worse. It's still not as contrived as hiding behind a puppy.
Crock wants to pound some sense into Brat and doesn't know how. Flizard suggests that he steps on his tail. Crock blows it off because Butterbear will find out and he loses the bet. I thought Crock ALREADY lost the bet? These writers have no sense of logic and then turns to his left and sees Hoppo just hanging around against the wall. Crock sees this as a way to finally screw Butterbear over once and for all. Crock wuzzles over to Hoppo (who is tapping in the weirdest way known to Wuzzlekind) and offers to dance with her. Oh; this is going to really blow up in Crock's face, I just know it. By the way; Cut the Rug means start dancing for those who don't get the lingo. Hoppo agrees gleefully and grabs Crock. They run across the dance floor as we cut to a shot of the musical team which I heard was the inspiration for High School Musical. Figures; knowing Disney. Hoppo goes bonkers because it's the Wuzzle Tango and it's time to tango. Basically; it's the same dance as in Butterbear's thoughts; except with Crock instead of Bumblelion. We continue the dance off with the team of BB/Brat against Crock/Hoppo. CrockoHoppo. AHHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummm....Crock and Hoppo miss Brat's tail the first time around by about three feet as Hoppo wants to really dance and Crock nearly blows his cover; but recoils because he has a bad back see. Even though he claims Hoppo will give him a broken back. More nasty dancing and Crock's tail squashes Brat's tail as Brat waltzes into the narrow groove with BB. UH OH! I suspect the party is about to die on us now.
Great selling from Brat and now Crock runs away because the WRAITH OF BRAT is upon us! We all knew this would happen soon enough. Crock runs through the mob giving Brat a clear path towards him. Butterbear pleads for Brat to stop as Hoppo just stands there confused. We then get the HEEL ON HEEL SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE EDITION~ to waste some more time and then Crock slides down the staircase (Logic break #6 because I thought the party was on the bottom floor to begin with). Brat busts through a section of the staircase and then hops right on the glass globe which snaps from the ceiling causing Brat to freefall and we go into the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE GLASS GLOBE EDITION~! Okay; the joke has gone on for too long, it's time to mercy kill the episode. Brat does some log rolling and more chasing to waste time down the spiral staircase. Crock gets caught and get flatten and stuck against the glass globe as it bounces straight into the area where Miss Pedigree and her piano is. Now why she would put a piano in the middle of a walk way is beyond me; but it's her happy place so what do I know? That leads to the big ass bump and we get the slow motion free fall of debris and then we cut outside with the splitting castle. That last one really shows that the writers are on an illegal substance tonight.
The hallway inside gets destroyed of course (but the overall castle is intact) as Miss Pedigree grabs onto Crock who tips his hat. Miss Pedigree blows her off for destroying a priceless pigwuz and Brat pops up from the carnage and Crock blows her off and flees. He hides behind Butterbear skirt (who needs to say that word when you can literally hide behind it?) as she is right in front of Brat's nose. BB tries to calm him down and grabs him by the tail to prevent him from getting the jump on Crock. Butterbear blows off Brat because he's scaring the butler. BWHAHAHAHA! These Wuzzles are REALLY STUPID if the guy with Downs Syndrome knows who the butler really is. Brat jumps on Crock and removes the fake mustache and the babyfaces are SHOCKED to find out that he is Crock. Never mind that Crock is the only half gator half dinosaur in the entire series. Proof that the writers don't know how to write proper disguises in this show. BB does the anime hold hands on face spot as Crock is dazed and Bumblelion calls Crock a party pooper. Speak for yourselves GANG OF WUSS! Crock tries to lie out of this; but Brat shows the tail and Crock decides to admit that he was trying to screw Butterbear out of his bet. Brat cannot believe this as Crock does miss him and Brat kisses him on the lips and slobbers him. Brat ditches the rich clothes and hops into Crock's lap to have a bonding moment as Butterbear is completely defeated. She wanted class and everyone turned into clowns.
The babyfaces apologize for their bad behavior despite managing to keep their antics out of Butterbear's sight. I'd call that Logic Break #7; but I chalk it up for BB being distracted with Brat more than anything else. Hoppo shows her the GREEN BOOK OF LIES and the cover is blown off. BB feels bad; but Miss Pedigree actually shows some unbelievable class (and one up-ing Rockafeather in that department) by stating the moral of the episode. Unbelievable as in not believable. Isn't accepting your friends as they are quite a bit dangerous since a friend might be have problems that would cause huge problems? That's one moral that should have a warning label on it: It might be hazardous to your health and well being. Miss Pedigree actually wanted them to be themselves actually as BB apologizes for being such a jerk although I don't know why she should since she doesn't act like much of a jerk to start with. Hoppo is relived of this as they can now stop acting like jerks and just be themselves which isn't that much better actually..So; we head outside of the castle as Miss Pedigree and Butterbear exchange notes.
Apparently; BB has decided to accept her fate and cook two weeks worth of Crock's lunches. See; the heel won after all and this is the first episode in DTVA history to do that. Crock comes in to rub it in and that's his FATAL mistake as Miss Pedigree grabs Crock by the tail and demands that he clean up the mess he made in her castle. Miss Pedigree drags Crock into the castle as the bet is officially canceled since Crock is the butler and this will take two weeks at least. Crock waves goodbye as the TWIST OF FATE has happened. Scene changer as we go to the back alley as Crock opens the door and goes outside with the trash as Narrator Stan wraps things up as Crock stumbles and bumbles. Brat sits on the trashcan as he looks at the moon swinging his tail to end the episode at 21:38. Decent enough episode; but the logic breaks are obvious. And I don't buy the moral; nor Miss Pedigree's character either. ** ¾ ( 55%)
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; this was a pretty decent template for My Fair Baloo, but the logic breaks were still pretty glaring in spite of a solid storyline and a lack of bad jokes from Rhinokey. Butterbear simply cannot act like a jerk if her life depended on it since she is too much of a goody two-shoes to make it work properly. The other Wuzzles have no trouble with that though along with Brat and Crock. I did like Brat in this one; lots of good selling and lots of anger and frustration to accent his misunderstood Down Syndrome like character. Butterbear's played the role of mother quite well. I don't buy Miss Pedigree's character though: for one she was a joke for most of the series and then when she went into a serious role they played her as a nice rich person. After all the abuse she took as a minor appearance I would have thought she would be a absolute snob. This surprise I didn't want to see and it made her character not believable. The moral of accepting your friends as they are was not much better since that moral can be a bad one in many situations such as drugs, assault, rape and various others. For the Wuzzles; this was fine; but for real life it is not a good one. It should be more on the lines of: Accept your friends when they do good; but help them turn to good when they do bad. Much better moral and less dangerous to teach. Overall; this was a middling episode with good animation; decent storyline; but some bad logic breaks and bad character in Miss Pedigree dragged this episode down. Next up is the official last episode of the series featuring Tycoon: What's Up Stox? So....
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.