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What's Up, Stox?

Reviewed: 04/27/2008

A lawsuit by Bugs Bunny for defamation....that is what is up!


Only one more episode left after this one and this series is complete. This episode is actually well known for probably the only bit player Wuzzle character to remotely get over which was the Scrooge like character Tycoon. So; how does he do? Let's find out shall we....

The episode is written by Ken Koonce and David Weimers. This story is edited by you. Yeah.


We begin this one in the WONDERFUL LAND OF WUSS....ERR..WUZ as we pan northwest (a unique pan to be sure) to the hill forest where the squirrelybirds are harvesting nuts by throwing them south for the winter. This is shown as two squirrelybirds play baseball. They don't call it the Fall Classic for nothing. AHHAHAHAHAHA! That gives new meaning to the joke: You go up into the tree and act like a nut too. After one homerun is hit into the sky; we pan down towards the ground as it is time for the Wuzzle Fun Fair: When WuzCheats Attack. AHHAHAHAHAHA! We cut up to the hill where Bumblelion, Eleroo and Rhinokey cannot wait to go inside the fair. Eleroo asks him what costume he is wearing and Bumblelion thinks it will be something original. I thought that misformal wear from Class Dismissed was original enough? Rhinokey calls it the old ghost costume as Eleroo offers to visit PackCat and his general store. So BatRat has a real name: I liked my version better since it also comes with the HOUSE OF SKIS. The male Wuzzles minus Moosel go to the HOUSE OF SKIS which is cleverly written as such on the building. We then cut inside the shop as we head to the costume section (Man; that store is bigger than it looks) as Butterbear has the mask and she uses it to spook Bumblelion. It doesn't work quite well.

Bumble and Butter exchange notes which ends with Butterbear proclaiming that Bumblelion is looking for a ghost costume. In other words; the only costume Bumblelion has NEVER used in his career because it makes him look invisible. Bumblelion is not amused at that response as we cut to behind the dressing room curtain and it opens to reveal Hoppo in another really silly outfit. I await for Rhinokey (wearing a really goofy hat) to cut a thinly veiled fat joke as we speak and it's the most heinous one yet. The Lock Ness Monster has feelings too you know. Hoppo is mad and it's eye contact violence time which is pointless since she did use physical violence in one episode. Hoppo calls herself TinkerWuzzle and I can just hear Tinkerbell calling up her lawyers as we speak. Defamation is such a fickle muse as we cut to Bumblelion and Eleroo looking for costumes and Bumblelion finally finds it: an outfit from Buck Swasher. Yeah; that guy from Bumblelion & The Terrified Forest is back to make Bumblelion make an ass out of himself again. Eleroo wants to be Eleroo The Smash-aroo which I don't get here. I guess Eleroo the Sailoroo was too offensive even for Disney. Hoppo waltzs over to PackCat (PackRat; I'm getting confused here) and they look over the price tag. Now you would think that Wuzzles would be smart enough to look over the price tag BEFORE they start buying stuff; but of course they don't because that would end the storyline before it starts. Hoppo asks for PackCat to be flexible but no dice since Hoppo has no money to start with making her look even worse. The other Wuzzles actually take the hint and put everything back and sulk out of the general store. How stupid can you get here? Don't these Wuzzle fellow check their money BEFORE they enter a store?

Eleroo swears in DUBBED ANIME STYLE while Rhinokey slides down the railing. Well that explains the stink on them. So we head back to Eleroo's house (you know; the one with a tailsection of a plane in the front window?) and cut into Eleroo's living room as Eleroo is sitting on a chair checking his pouch, Bumblelion is walking around sulking and Rhinokey is playing the piano with his feet. I see the teaching to Louie L'Amour has already started five years early. Eleroo pulls out some objects and finds a telescope as Bumblelion asks for money ideas. Rhinokey wants to go to HawaiiWuz which has got to be the most contrived location in Wuzzle history; and Bumblelion blows it off thankfully. Eleroo is still taking stuff out of his pouch (HOLY CRAP?! How DEEP is that thing?) and Bumblelion gets inspired. Sadly; Rhinokey is so dumb that his mind is a blank. Unless you count his joke fixing skills; then his brain is full. AHHAHAHAHAHA! The plan is to have a Rummage Sale (Read: Yard Sale) and sell all the stuff from Eleroo's pouch. Now there's a good plan since Eleroo's body must be in acute pain (despite Eleroo not feeling it) by now with all that stuff inside his pouch. We cut to outside as Butterbear is carting over her ChocolateCherry Pies over to the sales booth (filled with pies) while Hoppo is the entertainment assuring that not one pie will ever sell. Her waiter uniform is so goofy that she should wear THAT to the costume ball. Hoppo hops to the back with glee and happiness. At least it isn't contrived like it is on Barney The Dinosaur. Butterbear leaves to get more pies and of course Hoppo eats the profits. She wants to make sure her pies are not defective see. Thankfully; she only eats one and calls out for pies for sale as the screen pans out.

So we cut to a street corner near the bushes as Bumblelion takes a white table and places it on the grass in front of the dusty road. Eleroo arrives and Rhinokey (dressed up in a sleazy outfit) hides behind the bushes since the first customer is about to arrive. And it's a CowRunner (half cow, half roadrunner, full lawsuit from Warner Brothers) wearing a spotted yellow dress. Looks like she has some junk in that trunk. AHHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummm...Speaking of the bad joke; Rhinokey whispers from the bushes to stop her and does the bad carnival barker routine as he charms the poor sap into coming to the shite table of junk. I see Eleroo's crimson red camera is for sale which is good since Hoppo will never have to worry about bad vacation memories ever again. They do a pretty good magic trick (It's Eleroo's pouch; what did you expect?) and CowRunner moos right on cue. She wants a ToastyBlender and Rhinokey gleefully sells it for a moment and Eleroo checks his pouch. Sadly; out of all that junk, he has no ToastyBlender. Eleroo whispers into Rhinokey's bad ear since his good ear is for bad joke stealing. AHHAHAHAHA! Rhinokey admits that they are all out and suggest PackCat's HOUSE OF SKIS. CowRunner walks away looking confused and as she walks away; Rhinokey realizes that his honesty just lost him a sale. HAHA! So we logically head to Hoppo's Bad Singing Pie Booth as she continues to sing the jingle for Butterbear's pies and everyone is ignoring her. One female Wuzzle teases at buying one and probably would if Hoppo didn't make an ass out of herself (Hey; that Bumble Swasher's gimmick!) and eat one of the pies like an idiot. The half ardvark/half poodle wearing all red bails out in disgust for Hoppo obscene acts. As if the weight was obscene enough. AHHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummm..Hoppo continues her jig and then....

Narrator: Six hours later....

Butterbear skips down the road and stops at Hoppo's Bad Singing Pie Booth and of course Hoppo is drunk and bloated with eating all the pies. HAHA! I see Hoppo was Mark Madden's teacher here. If you don't know Mark Madden you are better off not knowing at all. Hoppo takes a nice bump onto the ground and we head to the bad scene changer as Hoppo and Butterbear walk on the sidewalk sulking. Hoppo blows off having fun and I suggest they need a Wii STAT! Okay; it's 23 years too soon for them to have one. But there is always the NES which is the template for Wii to use so that'll have to do on short notice. Then the babyfaces have a meeting of the minds...and it wasn't at the Water Shaker. They actually sell the shot by holding their noses before exchanging notes. Their attempts to get money have failed since Rhinokey is too honest to sell anything and Hoppo ate the profits. BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! They proclaim that the costume ball was a crummy dance to sell to non-dancers and of course the costume freaks waddle down the street just to rub it in their faces...and of course they all yell that they want to go. And wouldn't you know it; the babyfaces are conveniently in front of the wooden gate near a rich folk's home as the moving van backs up near the gate and opens up. A gang of mover carrying boxes enters the property and the babyfaces decide to forget the costume ball and be peeping toms to the new folks coming to Wuz.

They peep through the hole and wonder who the new guy is as the movers put the giant crate (only one mover? That's whack!) down. We then cut to see a half tiger/half raccoon wearing formal clothes and a top hat walk behind them and proclaim that he is the one moving into the house. This is Tycoon; the rich kid who has moved to the Land of Wuz voiced by the late Bill Scott. The GANG OF WUZ turn around and they start exchanging notes. Tycoon is not a zillionaire; but he would like to be one some day. Don't we all? Bumblelion asks what is inside the crate and Tycoon calls it a secret not unlike a lot of trade secrets we hear on How It's Made. Tycoon enters his property as the babyfaces peep through the hole again and wonder what the secret is as Tycoon is at the crate. Hoppo is not going to leave until she knows what is inside the crate. And now he comes outside with the crowbar AFTER HAPPY HOUR (Read: After Dark) and I don't get that logic break at all. Why not just bring the crate inside? That would have made more sense. The babyfaces are still acting like peeping toms outside as they butt in and try to get a piece of the action. Tycoon opens the back side of the crate (which is the smartest move Tycoon has made right there) as Narrator Stan proclaims that he would pay a zillion dollars to find out what is inside while the GANG OF WUZ continue to butt around the hole of peeping tom to end the segment nearly eight minutes in.

After the commercial break; we see the babyfaces finally deciding to stop butting into the hole and just look above the fence. Why they didn't do that from the start I'll never know. We cut over to the crate to see Tycoon pulling out from the front end of the crate for Logic Break #2 for the episode since he should be pulling it from the back and it's....wait for it...The MONEY TREE OF DEATH. Yeah; it's the money tree we saw in Easy Comes, Easy Grows. Of course; Hoppo gets too loud and Tycoon hears her. Tycoon blows them off for snooping around his business. The babyfaces state that they were only interesting in seeing what the surprise is. Tycoon recoils (bad move there with asshole Bumblelion around) and explains that he has the only Money Tree in Wuz; except for the money tree seed (an average bean in case you didn't notice) and the babyfaces' eyes lit up. They jump over the fence (a symbol of this series jumping off the abyss after this episode is over) and they look at the seed. Everyone sees this as a way to make some easy money and then Hoppo asks Tycoon if they can have the seed in the nicest way possible. I betcha he refuses and he does..unless they make him an offer he cannot refuse. Which means that the babyfaces won't be getting it. The babyfaces butt into each other to sell Tycoon something in a vain attempt to give it the old grade school try; but no dice as usual. Tycoon decides that he'll part with the seed to the highest bidder and the babyfaces all run out and jump over the fence. Hoppo cannot jump because she's TOO FAT; so she breaks the fence down of course.

Bumblelion goes to his beehive and we recycle the scene from Bumblelion & The Terrified Forest with Bumblelion throwing stuff out of his closet. Anyone who claims that TaleSpin uses stock footage should watch this series and see how OBVIOUS the recycling was in this one compared to TaleSpin's. And this is TMS animating here. Rhinokey jumps through his window and goes into his joke closet (where else?) and does a better job at cleaning the closet than Bumblelion's. Rhinokey must be running out of jokes if he thinks cleaning his closet is so important. Then we cut to Hoppo's place and she takes off various pictures of her off the wall. And you thought Drake was full of himself? We then head to Eleroo's place and he begins stuffing various objects into his pouch. Well; I think we have accepted the fact that Eleroo's pouch is very deep and we can move on to Butterbear's house as she packs jars of canned food onto her wheelbarrow. Narrator Stan proclaims that this would take all night so we REPEAT THE SPOTS and speed things up to boot. I got a better idea Stan: Just cut to them taking the stuff to Tycoon instead. If there is one thing I hate the most and that is animators REPEATING SPOTS!

The moon sets quickly and the sun rises quickly as the speed returns to normal and we march onto the front of Tycoon's house as the babyface have their junk on display and they show it to Tycoon; allowing him to oversell the scare spot. The babyfaces then REPEAT THE SPOT from earlier last night (UGH!) by butting in showing off their stuff. I think this is the only show in history where the feather boa is allowed. I like the talking wig better though which is demonstrated right on the ground by Rhinokey. I know there is a lot of shouting and showing; but damn me if I'm going to explain it here. Tycoon has had enough and tells the babyfaces that if they give him all their stuff then they can share the seed. Wow; Tycoon actually knows the meaning the word share and the babyfaces doesn't. That is just sad folks. The babyfaces huddle together for a brainstorm as Hoppo doesn't like the idea of Tycoon taking all their stuff; and Eleroo blows it off because they can buy new stuff with the money tree. Butterbear proclaims that they should take turns since sharing is important...and right on cue Rhinokey cracks his usual thinly veiled fat joke. You know it is so since Hoppo does her eye contact violence. Bumblelion jumps from the group and seals the deal with the handshake.

Bumblelion takes the seed from him and the first problem to solve is where to plan it. Bumblelion answers that one easily which is Butterbear's greenhouse since she is the planter gimmick of this outfit. Butterbear takes the seed and we logically cut to inside Butterbear's greenhouse as the babyfaces huddle together in front of a planter which Butterbear sprinkles water onto it (with seed already under the soil) and since this is the land of false hope and dreams; the Money Tree grows instantly. Not unlike Bushroot's fake money trees of course. The babyfaces are giddy for the cash so to speak. Hoppo attempt to grab the money leaves; but Bumblelion's sharp voice prevents that because they promised to share see. We do the drawing basket spot to draw the winner and Eleroo wins while Hoppo is last, both in money and weight loss. AHHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummm. Eleroo picks some of the money for his costume and walks out quickly. Bumblelion is #2 and he is giddy for that Bumble Swasher costume so he can make an ass out of himself and be in costume at the same time! He gets the $ SYMBOLS OF DOOM (kind of like writing Sony and Microsoft as $ony and Micro$oft which is funny considering that they lost about $5 billion dollars between them. Nintendo made $5 billion in profits and there's no S to covert to $ in their name so Mr. Hardcore is screwed as usual.) and Hoppo proclaims that she'll go window shopping for the next five days.

So we head to PackRat's HOUSE OF SKIS as Eleroo buys his costume (wrapped in a package) and gives PackCat the cash and he accepts it as if it was real. CONTINUITY ERROR #1: Isn't the correct currency in this series supposed to be gold coins? Never mind; breaking logic more than five times is a staple in this series. Eleroo hops out of the store as we pan over to Hoppo checking out a yellow dress on the MIRROR OF VANITY. She wants it badly and PackRat offers to ring it in. Hoppo tells him that she has no money; but she will in five days and asks him to hold it. PackRat no sells because of the Wuzzle Costume Festival. Hoppo then tells him to hold it for one hour because she's running out to steal money from the money tree. We see Hoppo running away as Bumblelion looks at the canoe and it's only on sale for today. Bumblelion then gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and runs out stage left to allow a pan over to Rhinokey looking for more joke items on the shelf and uses the face springboard to scare the conveniently placed Canary Lady (dressed in red and pink) customer right on his left. Oh; that wasn't contrived in the very least; no siree! She runs away as PackRat blows him off for that bad joke. Now Rhinokey must pay for that bad joke and he bails to get money from the money tree.

So we head to outside the greenhouse as Hoppo practices the fine art of not being seen by Butterbear (HA! Good luck in that Hoppo!) and enters into the greenhouse and plucks money off the money tree. She does a pruning metaphor to justify her stealing and walks out practicing the art of not being seen by hopping out of sight. Then it's Bumblelion's turn to repeat the spot and does a better job by not talking at all. Bumblelion leaves and Rhinokey enters from the back side and steals his share of the cash. Eleroo then hops in and out with his cash which makes little sense since he legally is the one who can steal money from the tree. So why bother being all sneaky and such? Butterbear notices Eleroo with the extra cash and they exchange notes walking in opposite directions. Butterbear goes into the greenhouse to water the money tree and it is picked bare much to the dismay of BB. Money: It always gets plucked dry. So we logically head to the streets of WUZ as Crock, Flizard and Brat are making money the old fashion heel way: Steal it using a false religion. AKA: Fortune Telling. I bet Miss Cleo would be proud.

Flizard's blue pants look like he has a really sick package drawn right there. And of course no one noticed the perversion there while everyone noticed the bishop's badly drawn knee as a penis in The Little Mermaid. UGH! No wonder this show tanked. A yellow elephantcrane wearing old lady clothes and high heels is the sad victim in this one as Crock asks if she wants her fortunes told. He recoils and asks for her fortune told. What's the difference? It's not like she's not gullible or anything. Cranehant agrees to it by asking Crock to read her palm. And Crock demands her money and paints her palm pink. Memo to BS&P: When she wants her palm read; Crock is supposed to paint her palm red; not pink. It's meant to be a pun and he's using paint and not blood. You have already broken the rules of using red since Eleroo's camera is crimson red to begin with anyway. That's why BS&P sucks. It create stupids logic breaks such as this one. Flizard pushes the shocked and confused Cranhant away as Crock preps for the next victim.

Here comes Tycoon walking down the street with a purpose as Crock asks if he wants his fortune read and Tycoon no sells because he doesn't depend on such nonsense. He proclaims himself as the richest Wuzzle in Wuz and walks away. Crock sees this as MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH and the heels run towards the fence of Tycoon's property to see Tycoon on the front lawn plucking the money from his money tree. Crock sees the MONEY BABEE and orders his henchmen to fetch him the wheel barrow so he can steal the tree and place it on his property. Flizard and Brat leave as we head to the far shot of Tycoon plucking money from his tree and then walks back to his house. Narrator Stan proclaims that Crock having a greed thumb (nice pun Stan) as we pan to a near shot of the tree to end the segment 14 minutes in. Well; this has been an average episode thus far; but it's a million times better than Easy Comes already....

After the commercial break; we head to the greenhouse inside as Narrator Stan uses a tree lasting metaphor to explain the tree getting wiped out in one hour basically. Rhinokey calls Butterbear's green thumb black and I have only one thing to say: THAT'S RACIST!! The babyfaces blow off Tycoon for screwing them and they storm off to demand that Tycoon give their stuff back. These Wuzzles have no idea how a garden works. Well; except for Butterbear who stays inside and looks at the tree and then runs with them. We then head to the front of Tycoon's house as Bumblelion knocks on the door hard and then we cut to inside Tycoon's house (which looks like a normal everyday house) as Tycoon casually walks to the door to answer and it opens so hard that Tycoon bumps into it and rolls away like a bowling ball. Funny spot there from Tycoon as the babyfaces are mad as hell. They accuse him of giving him a bum tree. I thought Butterbear knew gardening better than this; but I guess I was wrong. The babyfaces bicker like a bunch of whiny hardcore gamers after realizing that Wii Fit was going to end gaming as we know it (AND I FEEL FINE!) as Tycoon smartly asks the proper questions because his tree grows fine.

The babyfaces realize that the question of pruning too much is the one they screwed up on. The babyfaces make excuses (well except for Butterbear since she didn't have time to steal any money from the tree) and Tycoon rightfully blows them off for being greedy and killing the tree. Geez; what a shock?! Tycoon forces the babyfaces out of the house and tell them basically that their stuff is his more or less. We then cut to the scene changer as we head to a house with a For Sale sign on front as Crock and his henchmen admire their handiwork in an attempt to screw Tycoon. Flizard complains that they will get arrested for trespassing and Crock tells them not to worry as he tells Brat to take down the For Sale sign on front and Brat sells by eating it and being back in mid-season. We then cut to Tycoon inside his house reading a book and then hearing buzzing noises outside.

Tycoon runs out of his house and notices that his money tree has been uprooted. He then thinks that the babyfaces are behind all of this and HE IS PISSED OFF. We then cut to the babyfaces on the sidewalk sulking which pretty much gives them away as not the guys who stole Tycoon's tree. We pan left to see Tycoon yelling at them and blowing them off because they stole his tree see. Eleroo proclaims that they wouldn't be in this jam if they just shared which his speaking doesn't help clear them of wrongdoing. Tycoon demands that they give him back his tree; and the babyfaces insist that they didn't steal it. Tycoon isn't buying it as the moving truck arrives and we see the movers taking the sofa featuring Crock sitting on it as they walk towards his new home. Since Crock never has any money to get on Easy Street; it's clear that he's the thief. Tycoon confuses him with the fortune teller and Hoppo blows him off as the fortune taker. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. By the way to Wikipedia: Croc is not the correct name. Disney's official line is Crock and they spell it out here in a spot. It should have been obvious in episode four Crock Around The Clock; that it is spelled C-R-O-C-K.

Tycoon makes an offer that the Wuzzles cannot refuse: Help him get his money tree back and he'll give them their stuff back. Still; the babyfaces all huddle to tease the decision because you have to find ways to waste time. The babyfaces agree to it on the spot and Bumblelion has a MIMI JOKE ZONE PLAN to screw Crock for good (since this is the last episode of the series mind you) and that logically leads to a shot of Easy Street (complete with low brick fence) as the babyfaces along with Tycoon while Bumblelion wuzzles down with a red helmet and a fake oil well digger. Ah; the old oil well trick. I see Zion Oil is using this trick to drain people's accounts dry as we speak. If you don't know who Zion Oil is; consider yourselves lucky. Hoppo doesn't buy this as a good chance and Rhinokey cracks his most thinly veiled fat joke in the series. When in doubt; use eye contact violence. Well; it's the last episode; so the fat joke was going to be really obvious here. Bumblelion's plan is to convince Crock to tear up his property to look for oil and he'll wish he had no money. Hoppo doesn't buy it still as Bumblelion wuzzles onto his property right in front of Crock's pink hammock (how gay can you get?) and Crock wakes up to notice Bumblelion is on the property. Funny how Crock the heel suddenly became Baloo the babyface? Just something I noticed watching this series.

Crock demands answers as he falls out of the hammock (to show how Baloo should do it no doubt) and Bumblelion proclaims that he is looking for oil. Bumblelion finds the fake spot and proclaims that it is a gusher that will make him a zillionaire. So Crock foolishly runs to the back and grabs his oil well driller and returns while Flizard and Brat stand there doing nothing. Which means they know the show was going to be canceled right there. And they break internal logic by digging in the wrong spot of course what a surprise. The babyfaces minus Moosel (AND WHERE THE HELL IS MOOSEL ANYWAY?! Did Eisner find out that he was monster over by now? That's a bad sign for Kit right off the bat..) look on and the oil driller actually strikes oil. And it's the gusher spot. Smooth move there Bumblelion; you used a real oil driller and therefore make Zion Oil look really, really foolish. Sadly; I am proven wrong again as they struck an ink well instead as Brat eats ink and Flizard checks the stuff and proclaims that it might be fake. About as fake as Rhinokey's jokes. AHHAHAHAHAHA! Crock realizes that Flizard was telling the truth and blames Flizard for it. Flizard defends himself and Crock gleefully blows him off with the best heel answer of all time: It's always the sidekick's fault. Well; that excuses Kit screwing Baloo's memory in The Old Man & The SeaDuck right? Since Kit is not a sidekick according to Ted's line of thinking.

Crock tells Flizard to clean the mess and Hoppo blows off Bumblelion for failing. Tycoon then decides that he'll get his own money tree back with his own devious MIMI JOKE ZONE PLAN. Scene changer and we head onto the sidewalk as Crock and his goons are walking with the sack towards whatever as we cut to Tycoon inside the phone booth calling for an operator and he wants the stock market manager at once. Crock and his goons gleefully listen to the conversation like a bunch of stalking peepers. Tycoon realizes that stocks are up and he swears in DUBBED ANIME STYLE (darn again like Eleroo earlier) and wishes he had invested because he could be a zillionaire. Crock's face lights up as Tycoon blows off Crock for butting into his business and being rich while doing it. Crock of course is a real greedy guts (compared to the babyfaces of course) and wants more money and offers some of the MONEY OF STINK to invest in the Stox Market (hence the episode title) and Tycoon blows off the deal and walks out of the phone booth because he only deals in big invests and not small fry operations. Crock recoils and grabs the sack from Flizard and hands that to Tycoon as Flizard calls Crock the biggest fool in the land. Or was that his mother? Never mind; it's a real comment all the same.

Tycoon walks away and heads right straight to the barn which contains the real Stox which are half stork and half ox and like most animals in WUZ; a lot of trouble. Hey; a neat pun and a good SWEVERE to screw Crock good. They all fly into the sky as we cut to ground level near Crock's house as Bumblelion and Rhinokey to throw the hay bails onto the property which is a symbol of a sealed deal in the old Middle American stereotype days. Some stock puns beckon as the hay crumble right into Crock's kisser who is sleeping in his hammock with Flizard fanning him with the big ass green leaves. The Stox zoom down as Crock wakes up and he's screwed as a Stox as he runs out of his hammock and they run away. Crock realizes that he's been hornswaggled. Nah; being hornswaggled would involve a midget and a tough street fighter from Ireland welding the STICK OF DEATH. The Stox eat the hay and some of the money tree which Crock runs back and shoos one of them away. Crock grabs the Stox by the tail as Tycoon casually walks in and proclaims that Stox have dropped. Crock blows him off and calls him PiiWii. That's what all Sustainers would say Crock and it was a failure then and it is now. Tycoon proclaims that money is nothing but trouble (Tell that to Nintendo why don't ya PiiWii?!) and Flizard offers to give away the money tree.

Crock blows him off because he's greedy see. The babyfaces come in as backup as Hoppo decides to take charge and actually steals the money tree away. Crock grabs the butt end of the tree and it's the TUG-OF-WAR MONEY TREE EDITION~! Can you guess who wins this battle before the spot ends? Starting....now....The tree snaps and each gets half of the tree making Crock the winner since he had the money end of it. Crock and company run away like a bunch of scalded DogBirds. Bumblelion blows off Hoppo's big idea with the fat joke as Crock runs away with money flying away. The babyfaces stand in front of the tree and realize that they became no different from Crock and made heels out of themselves which is the moral of the story: Money makes friends in need; friends in greed and friends in shameless heeling too. Now there's a good moral. Rhinokey cracks a pun and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Even the other Wuzzles don't get it either.

Rhinokey laughs at it anyway as we get the last scene changer for the series as we cut to outside of the fair as Eleroo fetches some costumes out of his pouch and Bumblelion hopes they are original. Of course they are white sheets and Rhinokey cracks his last bad joke of the series as everyone covers themselves in the sheets like ghosts. Tycoon's hat makes him look like a midget KKK member there. Not one of Disney's better decisions there and I'm surprised they didn't cut this out when it was shown on Toon Disney. Or maybe not; my mistake as Narrator Stan wraps up the series for good as the babyfaces minus Moosel enter the fair and that ends the episode and the series (officially for Disney; not for me since Bulls of a Feather is still left to rant.) at 21:46. Much better than Easy Comes, Easy Grows because it had a much better bittersweet ending which Libby Hinson would later use in a more awesome episode: Her Chance to Dream. Another pretty solid episode overall as there was nothing truly awesome; but nothing really bad except for the usual glaring logic breaks. *** ½ ( 70%)


THE REVIEW LINE

Well; the last episode of the series is finally in the books and it was another middling episode with the usual bad logic breaks; but ended with solid story telling; good animation and a really good finish in which everyone lost. Tycoon didn't get his money tree back, The Wuzzles didn't get their stuff back (apparently) and Crock is back in the poor house. A truly bittersweet ending that we would see soon enough when Her Chance to Dream showed up and basically a life was at stake in that one. Rhinokey was his usual bad self as usual. As much as I think this episode was good; it would have been better if Moosel was here. There was really no excuse not to use him since Bill Scott was voicing Tycoon here and seeing paranoid Moosel is always a blast. I did like Tycoon as I thought he was a cool little guy with a sense of what is greed and what is not; but not afraid to come up with a good idea which sadly backfired in the end. I thought Bumblelion's plan was pretty cute too. And of course I won't forget the funny pun of the Stox either. That was pretty good.

Anyhow; this is officially the last episode Disney ever showed as the show suffered bad ratings on CBS and was pulled as a result. It's sad too because the show really did show a lot of promise; but got killed because it was designed as a preschool show to sell toys like most toy shows did in that period. If there is one thing Peggy Charmon did right in her crusade (and she's done a lot of unjustified damage to children shows make no mistake) is expose this really slimy attempt to drain parents' bank accounts. I'll give the Wuzzles team a lot of credit for making an effort not to suck (and they succeeded in some ways); but the BS&P basically tamed the show to the point where it was fun in places; but had glaring logic breaks and bad spots out of the wazoo. Still; only one thumbs down in 13 episodes isn't bad, but the four thumbs up only doesn't help. I just wish that Disney would reconsider this series again and rewrite it closer to 6-12 year old standards because the Slice of Life angle can draw a considerable amount of fans if done right. So; I still have one episode left to rant and that is the pilot episode Bulls of a Feather. So....

Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.

 

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