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Reviewed: 04/11/2009
For a cartoon that ended an era...
Welcome kiddies to another exciting adventure of me; Mr. Gregory Giantlord Weagle ranting on another DTVA series. Unlike the other series; I am now ranting on a series that might as well be worthy for the Agony Booth rather than this website. We set the Wayback Machine to 1996 and to the end of the Disney Afternoon era just before the One Saturday Morning/FCC era. It is ironic that a cartoon starring web footed ducks would start the amazing run of monster over series (Ducktales) that the era would end in a cartoon starring web footed ducks. The beginning was awesome; the ending was beyond crappy and it for me showed me beyond reasonable doubt that Disney was now just like everyone else. Welcome to Duck Daze: Quack Pack.
Okay; for me to say welcome to Quack Pack sounds like inviting death; but really Quack Pack wasn't the worst DTVA show ever made. Not even close. Part of the reason was because of Jymn Magon of course; but that's Jymn Magon. Anyone who can make TALESPIN work out so well nearly 20 years after release is sure to make this show half decent. To be perfectly honest; Quack Pack's concept was not really bad at all. It was basically a sitcom/adventure series featuring Donald Duck and his nephews doing ordinary tasks and then all hell breaks loose because of that. It was lame; but lame in a good way and when done right, it can lead to good things as the three episodes that I will be ranting on would demonstrate. However; execution is something a lot of entertainers have massive problems with and this series was in chaos from day one with Jymn Magon being replaced by Toby Shelton as supervising producer. Not only did Toby have no idea how to do his job in that role; it poisoned everyone from top to bottom and created a lot of the chaos present in nearly every episode in this series. So much so; that the ratings tanked enough to have the plug pulled after 39 episodes. There is just a lot of wrong things that happened that Cartoon Duck Syndrome was almost innocent of any wrongdoing in this series. I'll explain each problem as we go on to this series goes along.
Now; I'm ranting on the DVD release of Quack Pack which contains only three episodes, so I don't want anyone to think that this is a fair representation of Quack Pack's quality in any way. These were the three best episodes in the series and Disney had good reason to release it that way. It's because had they released the full DVD; a lot of us would be asking for our money back since the episode quality after these three is downright crappy. Some of the episodes like Tasty Paste and Ducks By Nature for example are worthy of being in the Agony Booth website by Albert Walker. They are that terrible. In fact; Ducks By Nature is so bad; even the writers went on Usenet to apologize to everyone for creating it. It's a sad state because it basically ended the Disney Afternoon era (along with Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series which wasn't much better) and it justified the One Saturday Morning era where we started to see the evolution from fantasy plot lines and into the live action fake reality fare with kids that we now see today. And while most of it doesn't hold a candle to any of the great animated television series of the Disney Afternoon; it certainly not any worse than Quack Pack was at it's very average state on the whole. Brandy & Mr. Whiskers and Teamo Stupidito....ERR...I mean Surpemo might be worse than Quack Pack; and 101 Dalimations, Recess and Dave the Barbrian are around Quack Pack's quality though. The rest is better than this though; so while it's painful; it could be a lot worse. It could be Detention or the Cramp Twins. So; let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode was written and story edited by Jymn Magon. That should tell you how good this episode can be right there. Jymn Magon is known for story editing and writing shows like Goof Troop, House of Mouse/Mickey's Mouseworks, Gummi Bears and also worked for Ducktales and did the Rescue Rangers pilot. However; his most historic note was being the man behind TaleSpin with Mark Zaslove. How the mighty have truly fallen. In 1990; Magon had the greatest series in his hands; only to get screwed over by politics by the time this show came about. In fact; he was supposed to be the supervising producer for Quack Pack (who would have made this series work out well); but was switched to Toby Shelton at the last moment (who was thrust in a role he had ZERO business being in) and that created the result that this series got. Magon has done mostly freelance work since then on half decent shows; but will unlikely ever work for Disney again; particually after the Atlantis series debacle (I know; I noted his presence on Usenet years ago for the series). The animation is done by Walt Disney Animation OZ who is considered one of the better animation studios out there; most so for comedy.
Opening Moment #1: Oh yeah; we couldn't go through Quack Pack without probably the most silliest DTVA opening in history; until Emperor's New Sckool trumped it into infinity of course. It's basically Donald Duck trying to have a peaceful time watching a movie on his old projector; but his new nephews bring in the LOUD TELEVISION SET OF PAINFUL DOOM because it's 1996; not 1946 see to screw him over. Donald gets slightly peeved (because character slaughtered rules in the PC world see) and the most muted fight over whose era is better ensues. The nephews win of course and Donald somehow manages to get into the television and get zapped in hilariously bad fashion. The four goofs go into the goofy pose into the flourish finish and that is it for the sixty second. You know; this would have better if Donald was wearing his old sailor shirt and hat from the start and then it got zapped into his Hawaiian shirt at the end. As sloppy as this sounds; editing out Duck Daze would have made this WORSE so kudos for keeping the words in the sound tracks. Bad Sign #1: My DVD disc seems to keep skipping like mad like five times during the opening . If I'm a Quack Pack fan; I would not give my hopes up with the quality of this episode; or the DVD either. Oh; and take a picture of the nephews there; that is the most work they do in this ENTIRE episode right there....
Interesting Moment #1: The episode titles all use a still picture like in a Christmas special episode in other DTVA shows. What a way to cheapen your product there guys?! It also makes the Halloween special episode look not special at all by the way. I do like the Donald Duck picture of him splatting into the television though so it isn't a huge loss.
We start this one with a shot of a television screen (the slight gray color on the left side the screen gives it away) with a human (?!) in a fishing outfit at the lake showing some lit dynamite (!!!) proclaiming that he is going to show how to fish without bait today on.....”Freshwater Thrills”! Well; if you are going to steal from Royal Canadian Air Farace; you steal their best jokes. Sadly; we zoom out and the channel changes before the dynamite explodes and MURDERS the guy (BOO! HISS to BS&P!) so we go to the kitchen with a human lady (?!) with brown hair wearing a purple dress and brown hair in a chair and purple edged glasses showing the wonders of used dental floss. I think I see someone who look like one of the Jonas Brothers; which means that it is not one of the gay ones. Her monotone voice is priceless as then we cut over to the green sofa and then the horror...OH THE HORROR OF ALL HORRORS occur as we see three duck children slumped on the sofa snoring. Well; two of them...OH MY GOD. WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED TO OUR BELOVED NEPHEWS?! They are picking wax out of their ears for GOODNESS SAKES! They are doing nothing...AND THE ROCK SEZS NOTHING!! That is absolutely disgusting. If Uncle Scrooge sees this he is going to FREAK OUT and go postal, I SWEAR TO GOD, HE WILL! I just knew Donald coming back from the navy was a stupid....Oh wait...This is an alternative universe?! No dogspeople..?! They are all humans....I...I....
Patrick: WHAT KIND OF
PLACE IS THIS?!
Spongebob:
I WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!
Okay; you two moronic goofs from the sea; CALM DOWN! There is a way to get over this. There is always a logical, rational explanation for all this. I just....UUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH! Okay; it's all out of my system now. This was the point where I realized that Disney was now just pandering to demographics like everyone else was at the time. To the Anti-Disney Movement: If you think the Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana and High School Musical are crappy; think about this, at least they are somewhat real, believable and have some energy. Quack Pack is absolutely soul less; in particular their three main characters: Huey, Dewey and Louie. Now; I know that Disney wanted to modernized them for the 1990's and at least in the physical attributes; they did an excellent job. Hey; I can tell them apart now and they at least have personalities and it justified having three different characters. In Ducktales; they seem to be three triplets being the same character where only one character was required to do the job (although in a few episodes; it was a good thing to have more than one). Now; we have seen DTVA take Baloo and Louie's craziness in TaleSpin and trim it down quite a bit in TaleSpin; but they made up for it by fleshing out a lot of their dramatic characteristics which is due to TaleSpin being a parody of a jungle and therefore the craziness they would try in the Jungle Book would bury them. That made them great characters but give them sympathy. The nephews have none of this; they are completely revamped and are NOTHING like their Ducktales counterparts. They have no energy, no sense of sympathy and seem to play on the stereotypes and gimmicks/demographics of the time; rather than the jobs/characters of timelessness. They are modern shells and unlike the Ducktales nephews; who are sidekicks to Scrooges as you will see; they are often the main characters OVER Donald; and therefore take over episodes, thus making almost every episode suck the meat missile with gusto. Louie is probably the worst, Huey is the least annoying, Dewy is somewhere in between leaning more towards Huey.
Huey is voiced by Jeannie Elias who actually got her career started on the Canadian television series The King of Kensington. HEE HEE! I might hate Quack Pack, but I like Jeannie Elias already; just for being on...The King of Kensington. She was also on the Super Mario Brothers Super Show as Princess Toadstool, ENG, Street Legal, Doogie Howser, Bleach, and the video game Mass Effect. This is Jeannie's DTVA debut by the way. Dewey is voiced by Pamela Adlon who is Bobby Hill from the awesome series King of the Hill. She started her career as Dolores in the sequel to Grease 2; and then made her DTVA debut as Baloo in Jungle Cubs which has been long forgotten since TaleSpin proved that bears flying airplanes made Jungle Book look so uncool. Seriously; I mean that too. Her most recent show is Word Girl from the world of PBS which is so contrived that it's funny. Louie is voiced by EG Daily (Elizabeth Daily) who has been having Disco Fever since 1978. I just had to get that obvious crack into her credits. She is best known for being Buttercup in the Kick Ass...ERRR...I mean Powerpuff Girls. I mean; talk about BS&P making a show lasting longer than it deserved. How long do you think that show would have lasted if it had the title Kiss Ass Girls in it?! EG is also on Glenn Beck's most hated movie ever: Happy Feet; and is also known as Tommy Pickles on Rugrats and All Grown Up. Tommy Pickles isn't as awesome as Chucky. EG's debut was in DARKWING...DUCK in 1992 as a cameo in the episode The Frequency Fiends.
So the nephews act like a bunch of 12 year old's from the real world which actually depresses me now because the whole point of entertainment is to not for them relate to me right away; but to distract me from the fact that I'm freaking bored and depressed. I want my characters to do something awesome; not do the SAME F'N THING I'M CURRENTLY DOING RIGHT NOW. Things like this make me want to change the channel; not watch on. Thankfully; the saving grace comes through the mail shot as the snoring is worse than my dad's. These kids need to invest in a box of nasal strips STAT! And the video tape package actually does better work at bumping then the nephews do so the nephews are forced to rush towards it to compensate. Yeah; they are SO COOL in not stating his full name...NOT! Okay; I think Donald is NOT the kind of character to be renting a movie called Ninja Lumberjacks?! Unless he's training to defeat Chip and Dale for a remake of his famous short; but I doubt it since even Eisner thinks that is too expensive to do. Thank the lord for small favors. Remember; Michael Eisner is evil; no matter how screwy Bob Iger gets; the QUACKSTREET BOYS MIGHT COME BACK AT ANYTIME...AS THE QUACKAS BROTHERS!
Huey does some lame karate moves and they are no worse than Drake's so he is pretty much safe from my wrath. Yeah; it's a lame dubbed anime movie. Like I'm going to take this plot seriously. Donald Duck renting an anime movie. The nephews yes; Gosalyn yes; Donald Duck; no. That's no par with Drake Mallard; having ZERO life whatsoever. Dewey wants to play it; but Louie goes all moral on us because if Donald doesn't play it first he'll freak out see. The nephews sight as Huey calls it Captain Bringdown. That quote would have been funny if it was Bring Down House by the way. I don't know why these goofs would be so upset about Donald freaking out; so Donald has a temper, big deal. Disney has completely slaughtered that tempered since Ducktales. Why else did Donald go to the navy?! Good question there guys?! Dewey then proclaim that Donald would swoop down and claim heavenly vengeance on them which is greeted with thunder crashing and then we logically go to..
….the flashback as we head to Donald Duck's basement (which by the way I stole for Gregory AeroStar's basement in AeroStars sort of) as we see a black shadow of Donald Duck laughing with an evil laugh and when pan down to see the nephews in their proper places. This isn't the new nephew's minds; this is Kit Cloudkicker, Gosalyn Mallard, Cubbi, Sunni, Molly and every DTVA child's wet dream that BS&P would allow. I guess Louie begged for mercy enough to only get the cage. Man; Dewey must have REALLY PISSED off Donald to get the rock torture. Huey gets the rack naturally because his ego streches about three notches in between episodes. You know what; this is the best part of the episode bar none and nothing can top it. I was hoping that Jymn Magon would simply pay off the joke and do this spot again and have Donald torture the kids later on as punishment; but since they are the nephews it doesn't happen sadly. And since we are on the subject; why is it that the nephews get protected from torture but Kit Cloudkicker doesn't?! I mean; they have zero problem torturing Kit Cloudkicker who is a child and even Grammi Gummi who is an old lady, but the nephews are off limits? It cannot be a duck thing since even Donald Duck and Launchpad get tormented at a time; even Fenton got a kick in the nuts.
By the way; Seth Macfarlane stole the flashback from this show which just makes Family Guy and American Dad look much more weaker in hindsight. Dewey than steals the package and has a CRAPPY MIMI JOKE ZONE PLAN: Watch it, rewind it; and reseal it before he gets home. Okay; that is so lame as a plot. Who cares?! Everyone does that. Most don't have to stoop to not tell anyone and quite frankly; why should I give a damn if someone watches the tape first? It only makes me look .like a freak anyway. I'm supposed to be the calm adult around these parts anyway. They slap skin and then put the tape into the VCR which WD-OZ screws up (barely 90 seconds in I might add) and they plop right onto the sofa and fight over the remote. And of course the remote control drops onto the floor and breaks despite being such a weak shot. Hell; my remote is crappy as hell and it takes a lot more punishment on that floor and still comes out better than this. Donald needs to stop going to the Dollar Store to buying cheap remotes like that. And the VHS tape gets destroyed of course which makes zero sense whatsoever which leads to a whirlwinds spots from the nephews and honking as the nephews are fighting which is the first real energy spot from them which looks rather weak still. The tape is still bouncing in the VCR (oh those wacky Japanese inventors; what will they think of next?!) as Dewey grabs the tape and hides it in under the pillows of the sofa. Okay; that spot seems to work well enough I guess.
So the white door opens and in comes Uncle Donald and of course the modern nephews are so screwed that they cannot slur the Uncle part anymore. PC'ness makes for uncool see. This is 1996 Donald Duck; not the new Donald Duck in preschool shows in that he still has his temper despite his temper only being half it was compared to the shorts. He of course looks better in his flower shirt which looks like he also stole from Dale's wardrobe. Donald Duck is voiced by Tony Anselmo who does only two or three things in life: voice Donald Duck and do character animation in his spare time. See; that was easy to figure out. He is truly the face of typecasting. The nephews do the angel halo spot to suck up to Donald as I feel like I'm going to vomit barely three minutes in. At least Donald is a decent character; even if he's half the character he originally was (but I blame that on BS&P more than on execution). Donald then gets giddy as he sees the package on the coffee table (D'OH! Logic Break #1 for the episode three minutes in); but there is no video tape. I think Donald should explain to me why he suddenly became an anime lover to his enduring public? Louie of course is sitting on the pillow which contains the video tape underneath (Seriously; the Japanese are so AWESOME!) which is vibrating and smoking. Ninja Lumberjacks: A Sex tape and Toaster All In One. AHHAHAHAHAHA! The sofa starts bouncing and doing a better work rate than the nephews combined as Donald goes over telling the boys to get out of his way. Even in 1996; I would agree with him guys as the nephews actually have enough sense to run away like scalded dogs and then Donald gets confused and the then we go to an outside shot of Donald's house (which is a beautiful pink house I might add) and there is a muted explosion (much like this show) and there is a lot of film scattered around. Well; that was utterly pointless. Three and a half minutes in and little of goodness has happened yet. At least; the real screwing up hasn't happened...yet...
Post-Production Glitch #1: Half second black slug. Get used to it; it seems to turn Eisner on every time he sees it.
So we logically head to a rich guys house as we pan over to the vanilla RV which looks weird as the nephews are cleaning it with rags. Wow; it only took about three minutes 45 seconds for Donald to force them to do work. It still is three minutes 20 seconds more than it takes to make BALOO do work. Rebecca would kick their assess if she sees these slackers. Louie sneaks up behind the RV with the water hose and sees Huey cleaning the GLOBE OF QUESTION MARKS and he gets hosed in the ass which WD-OZ screwed up badly. Must be a BS&P spot. Huey and Dewey fall on their asses on the ground with a wussy bump of course as Huey takes a bucket on his head and Louie laughs badly on the spot. That was crappy to say the least. Dewey tries to throw the rag and it's so lame it misses by a mile. Geez; you know BS&P is in full force when even a RAG misses by a country mile. Louie invokes the hose and Huey counters with the bucket and this time the rag hits Louie right in the kisser. Sadly; the hose goes out of control and in comes a female duck with a pink shirt and red blouse (and she's got decent breasts) and she looks so hot that she walks right into the shower that cools her down. HAHA! Okay; that's the first cool spot of the episode; no pun intended. She's takes it well as the nephews suck up to her because they are paying back Donald for a tape that they broke. She dries herself as Louie hides away like the annoyance that he is. She is off to interview professor Henry Villinova. So this Duckberg is near Villinova University?! Well; live and learn, unless you are the new nephews. Then you just live. The nephew show absolutely ZERO respect for him by calling him art dude which Daisy calls him art historian. Nowadays; the nephews would be the ones who would be awesome and Daisy would be the heel. Life is weird.
Speaking of Daisy; Daisy was the most in need of a major makeover and she also ironically enough was the best character in this series as she became the most likable as no matter how screwed up everyone else was in this series; the PC nature just made her better. Daisy was a character and should have been the main character; ala Kim Possible instead of playing third fiddle to Donald and the nephews. Daisy is voiced by Kath Soucie who started her career on Jem in 1988 as Ingrid and Minx and made her DTVA debut on TaleSpin in 1990 as Clementine and Princess Lotta L'Amour. Of course; she got her big break on DTVA on Darkwing Duck as Morgana who was awesome; but damn it, Lotta was awesome. Sadly; she also voiced Cadpig who was shallow as hell and Anita who was completely clueless, but those were character design problems; not actress mistakes. And Daisy needs to get to him before a person called Kent does something embarrassing. Ah; Kent Powers, considered by many critics of this series as the single worst character ever. I'm not one of them actually. I found Kent to be annoying and sometimes heartless; but considering how disgusting the nephews are, there are times when I am rooting for Kent if only for a fleeting moment. I think it's only when Donald and Daisy are involved when I'm booing at Kent. Louie grabs his brothers in arms and asks about the life lesson they learned today. What?! ALREADY?! Aren't we supposed to learn the LESSON at the end of the show?! Which is about...I don't know some 17 minutes away from now...?! See; don't leave incriminating evidence and don't lie. Be totally honest is the life lesson of today. I cannot take that one seriously from these three. From the Ducktales nephews yes. From Kit Cloudkicker absolutely; even if it's Kit F'N Cloudkicker. But these three losers, FORGET ABOUT IT! BUTTA BING! They slap skin and cut another lame promo (All for one and five for a dollar!) because it's all about that MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH! So; it's really 20 cents each. AHHAHAHAHAHA! That is really cheap! That must be the price of the remote control at the Dollar Store. By the way; Kent Powers is voiced by Roger Rose So that logically leads to...
...back inside the RV as they do EXACTLY THE SAME THING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE! OH GOD!! Only Huey bothers to show any energy whatsoever this time around which makes him the least annoying by default. Louie then wakes up to crowd noise and hears a goat bleats as we cut to the television screen as we see baseball....I think. We zoom in as we see them play baseball; but the batter is on a goat whose on a nest on home plate swinging a meat missile as there is a midget umpire and an umpire on a stool (NOT THAT ONE!). Oh lord; you can officially thank Jymn Magon for giving us the template for every single Nickelodeon cartoon ever created to annoy the living piss out of the hardcore. This scene is just out their play book. No wonder Juan F. Lara hates it so much. Believe it or not; Donald Duck and the gang are going to actually have a chance to PLAY this game in a later episode (which I won't be ranting until the Youtube rants thank god) and it sucks. Oh lord it sucks. Plus it also is the official debut of Gwumpki who might be one of the last major voice appearances for Patrick Fraley and probably because Gwumpki is not only crappy but probably borderline racist as well with broken English out of the wazoo. I mean; we have a pitcher throwing lettuce out of a hole and somehow this is NOT racist?! Oh; and it makes coleslaw as the chicken magically appears on home plate (logic break #2 for the episode) as the umpire reveals the cup (logic break #3) and the men carry the goat across the line towards the base as the line gets deeper and deeper. Talk about burying your sport BEFORE you get out of the inning there pal. No wonder it didn't catch on. Huey calls it kind of interesting and Dewey steals the remote. Huey protests this outrage because he wants to see how the tractors are used. Don't worry; I'm sure there is an episode where you'll get to SEE THAT happen my annoying little mallard. Dewey mocks him flipping channels and finding nothing...AND THE ROCK SEZS NOTHING...until we get a look at channel 827 which is a B&W camera screen of the art gallery with a security. Huey blows him off with the lame Star Trek reference of doom and Dewey gets blown off as loopy by his brothers. Must be a Japanese remote; they are pretty loopy in their own right.
So we cut to the B&W television screen (fourth time in this episode no less as we see a French Guard guarding some glass cases as the nephews deduce that this isn't from the television station. NO?! REALLY?! The nephews call this excessive. No; this is SPYING which is ILLEGAL. Kit Cloudkicker would kick your asses if he sees this seriously. You three are NOTHING compared to him when it comes to criminal cred. For that matter no babyface is in DTVA other than Kit. We then cut to the screen as the diamond in the glass case does the FLASH OF DOOM and then disappears in thin air and the nephews stare dumbly in awe. I guess The Flash has turned to a life of crime. Or Tummi is using the speed spell again and cleaning up the place as his job. I think the nephews are reading way too much into this. And then just to up the levels of stupidity even further the television zaps the diamond right into the RV room and it takes some really good bump and hides underneath the fridge and somehow does about $2000 in damages. I think it's time to start to talking to these producers about the quality of their products here. I think the absolute last thing we need here is for objects to be SHOOTING OUT OF THE DAMN TV!
Huey is in SHOCK and of course Kent and Donald pop in demanding answers to this outrage. I hate to say this; but I'm taking Kent side of things here since THEY were the ones who I don't know...TURNED ON THE TELEVISION IN THE FIRST PLACE. The real life lesson: Read a damn book. So the nephews actually tell the facts in such a way that is so stupid that I just want Kent to absolutely beat their faces in (seriously; like I would believe what they were saying in the first place?). Kent of course points to the conviently placed baseball glove, bat and ball on the floor as evidence of the destruction. I don't really care because (a) The nephews should be punished for being such lazy brats and (b) even if they were telling the truth; did Kent even ALLOW then to WATCH TV in the first place?! Jymn is trying to turn Kent into a heel; but it's doesn't work because the nephews don't have near any sympathy from me as babyfaces and thus Kent is going to be a babyface in my eyes against the nephews no matter what. So Jymn is better off with Kent saying “I didn't allow you to watch television in the first place!”. After all; the nephews still were dishonest by disobeying him. Kent takes this awfully well actually as he just decides to dock Donald's pay and walks off blowing him off as a bad role model. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Oh come on! We know Donald Duck has been a bad role model for DECADES now! It's no real secret for anyone with an IQ higher than eight. Anything lower and it's time to sell.
Donald is SHOCKED and APPALLED (in that order) and then he backs up his nephews as the nephews defend themselves. Honestly; I am not buying any of what they are selling. Huey asks the fabled question: When has they ever lied to him?
Donald: Do you have a
death wish and time for 38 episodes?!
The Nephews:
Maybe...
Donald:
Good...Then let's begin shall we...?!
..and watch it go downhill from there. Sadly; Jymn resorted to the lame tape incident from earlier. Donald blows it off and walks out of the RV as the nephews try to reason with him but no dice. So we head into the art gallery of doom on a right pan shot as we see Daisy interviewing Professor Villanova who is a fat human wearing black and gray with a red bow tie and a one piece glass eye and black shoes. I just don't get why there are all humans and no dogspeople in this world when this is Duckberg?! I see we are in Villanova's home as Kent wants to know the price of the home so Daisy goes for the nasty elbow to the ribs which Kent of course oversells. Villanova (voiced by Johnathen Harris (Doctor Smith in Lost in Space and Professor Jones in Freakazoid)and the gang walk forward as Donald decides to stop in front of the camera with the gargoyle in the background and does a really funny face just to amuse me. You know what; if they only did that all the time and had the nephews play third fiddle; this show would not suck. However; Eisner wanted to put child characters in front of the class in a new era of DTVA (Recess, Pepper Ann etc.). However; the problem with that is; their two best characters were also two of their biggest BS&P nightmares; Kit Cloudkicker and Gosalyn Mallard. And Molly and Cubbi were BS&P nightmare #3 and #4. That leaves Max Goof and he couldn't be topped either without Dana Hill's help. That doesn't leave much to work with.
So we head to the Cafe of Doom as we see forks flung onto the ceiling and the nephews are REPEATING THE SPOT AGAIN. THREE F'N TIMES IN SEVEN MINUTES! This show is rotting my brain even more 13 years later. And this is the de-facto best episode of the series no less. Huey is showing zero effort this time around. And they are watching this racist baseball game again as the other nephews are blowing off the adults. And I can just see Kit Cloudkicker wanting to kill and strangle these three kids so badly for smearing his message on bad adults. Kit at least had excellent reasons to be weary of trusting adults because he was in a period of turmoil of the Depression era and nearing the second World War era time period. Quack Pack is 1996ish which is about the greatest time money wise and trust wise. The nephews have no right not to trust anyone. Kit at least had a reason to be weary. At least they paid off the joke with having the guy with the bucket on his head playing the squeeze box while running the bases which is pretty funny.
...and then more horrors arrives as Gumps appears OUT OF NOWHERE cleaning a glass proclaiming that it is Blatismorkian baseball. That is just great folks! NOT! Almost all the gang is here in one neat little package. All I need is Moltoc and we are all set for the biggest suck...until Teamo Stupidito arrives of course. And can Gumps please shove Louie off the desk; his feet is making germs on the desk there. Actually; that is only their number two pastime; their number one is pigeon tickling. I beckon some pigeons from Animanics will NOT be visiting Blatismorkia anytime EVER. At least Kit can take solace that he's not the VICTIM of their pastime; although if that ever becomes their number one pastime, they would actually become a respectful country. Oh; and Gumps has that broken English going so you know he's a racist stereotype see. So we hear the television set proclaim a special bulletin. We go to the television screen and see a lady slurring her speech (while speaking proper English because it's sexist for females to speak broken English; but perfectly okay for males to do it even if it is RACIST!) while wearing a pearl necklace, blond hair and teardrop earrings on her glasses proclaiming that a national treasure from the Blastismorkian State Museum and Grill. If Gumps sobs and whines on cue than this show is racist. I check the DVD.....DAMN YOU JYMN MAGON!! Oh wait...That is misguided...DAMN YOU TOBY SHELTON!! That's better!! The nephews are not fooled by the police's stupidity (what a shock?!) and they leave Gumps to whine.
So we fade to black and enter inside the RV as Dewey does the Mission Impossible search and seek phase (hence the Mission Impossible pun of the episode name) and he finds the cabbage diamond underneath the table (I thought it was under the fridge- logic break #4 for the episode). Dewey calls it their evidence and runs out; but the others wonder how it got into here in the first place. Ummm; CHECK THE DAMN TV!! I think there is something wrong with it! Dewey doesn't care as the nephews follow and we head into the reading room as Professor Villanova is sitting down in his love seat on the left with Kent Powers and Daisy. Umm; I smell logic break #5 for the episode since I don't recall Kent wearing a suit when he came into the house. Kent doesn't understand about Rembrandt. I don't understand how you got into that suit without anyone noticing the obvious logic break there Kent. Daisy is not liking this Kent guy as Donald has his head stuck in the fish vase of death and thus providing the only source of real entertainment for me that isn't bigoted. The nephews storm in and manage to uncork Donald out of the fish vase on the rebound. DAMN YOU STUPID NEPHEWS TO HELL! I WANT THE OLD DUCKTALES NEPHEWS NOW!!
And the fish vase gets destroyed of course. Although Donald was probably going to destroy that one on his own anyway; I STILL WANT SOME ENTERTAINMENT VALUE OUT OF IT and THOSE NEPHEWS RUINED IT! Louie and Huey help Uncle D up as Dewey shows him the cabbage diamond. Now here's the massive problem that these stupid nephews NEVER figured out: If they have the diamond then that means they STOLE the diamond and therefore they are thieves. Professor Villanova storms in demanding answers as Donald grabs the cabbage diamonds and asks for Villanova's thoughts on the value of the diamond and he calls it a glass door knob making it worthless. HAHA! Which means the nephews actually saved themselves for the time being of being branded as thieves and thrown in jail by Donald. Dewey tries to explain the honest truth; but Villanova insists that it is merely glass. Kent then grabs the cabbage diamond and accuses the nephews of lying (HEE! HEE! I believe you Kent) and then throws the diamond away in which Villanova leaps and catches the thing anyway. I guess he hates having to sweep his own floors. Cannot blame him for that I guess. Donald is not amused as he finally gets the Gruffi pose nine and a half minutes in as Huey tries to defend the dishonor of the nephews. Maybe it's time to consider sending THEM to the navy as Villanova pulls on Huey's cheeks in an amusing spot as he decides to dump it into his coat; but Daisy steals it from him and walks off because it would make a fine paperweight. HAHA! See; about damn time Daisy pull the show away from the crappy depths of hell. Villanova growls like a lame pussy but recoils on cue.
So we head back to Donald's house AFTER HAPPY HOUR..I think as his house suddenly changes from pink to yellow as we head inside as the nephews are in the loveseat and Daisy is lecturing them on lying while holding the cabbage diamond. Okay; this might work out better than having Donald doing it knowing him. Daisy then blows off Knuckles (Frank Welker, DUH!) who is chewing off a leg of a chair which so happen to be a blue iguana. Yes; a blue iguana. Don't ask me why she got one. Huey proclaims that the evidence is stacked against THEM. How exactly?! The police doesn't even KNOW they are thieves yet! Even the male adults (except maybe Villanova) don't know! Huey is ONLY incriminating himself. Daisy makes a good point as she continues to blow off Knuckles which proves why you don't buy exotic pets and Knuckles hisses in response. Louie calls something rotten in Denmark which is downright lame even by DTVA standards. Must be a BS&P decision right there to mock me which Huey blows off as Daisy wants to call Donald to clear this whole thing up adult to adult. Okay; this could work. After all; Daisy is the ONLY one who could KNOCK Donald down 20 pegs in the classic shorts.
Sadly; Knuckles ate her phone cord; just to piss her off. See what happens when you buy an exotic pet Daisy?! I really like you as a character; but this was not one of your better decisions. And of course we SEE Knuckles eating the phone cord while sleeping on the pink pillow just to be a dick. I got to admit this little Daisy/Knuckle sequence was pretty funny. Daisy leaves using the car phone and WD-OZ screws up the door slamming sequence (sigh); but Knuckles slurping the phone completely is perfectly done. HEE HEE! Dewey has the cabbage diamond by the way. Louie has the cabbage diamond and hides it in the cap as finally someone remotely believes them. Well; Daisy hates Kent so that's probably why see believes them by default. It isn't that hard guys. And then the lights go out..all in glorious blue/green cartoon coloring. Knuckles needs to go on a diet with Wii Fit STAT! Memo to hardcore: Watch DTVA circa 1989/1990. And then Professor Villanova in a black ninja suit (check the body shape- I'm not fooled guys) jumps in front of them. I see he's warming up for the Kim Possible grand finale already. The nephews panic and hold onto each other as the segment ends 11 minutes in. AND I'm SICK OF THIS DAMN EPISODE ALREADY! NINE PAGES ALREADY?! UGGGHHHHHHHH!
After the commercial break; we continue with the thrilling Ninja Villanova as does the old WWF method of ninjas; look like a ninja but do no real ninja moves whatsoever. HEE HEE! Well; at least he was smart enough not to wear sneakers before coming in as the nephews scatter like the scalded dogs that they are. Now at this point; the nephews in Ducktales would be coming up with some form of plan; but I doubt it with these three since they can barely formulate what to have for supper at this point. They hide behind the chair and Ninja Villanova ransacks the place destroying everything with his “ninja” moves. Scare quotes intentional. Then the nephews run in because it's Daisy's stuff see. Yeah; that is so like the Ducktales nephews. NOT! Even Max Goof would kick these losers asses. So we head outside Daisy's house I guess as she is at the car blowing off Donald for yelling (what a surprise?) and she hears nothing inside (what a surprise?!) so Dewey grabs knuckles who somehow has shrunk about half his size since we last saw him and Dewey tells him to snack Ninja Villanova's ass. Man; he needs a diet...NOW!
And Ninja Villanova gets the BITE OF ASS offscreen DUH! So we cut back to Daisy talking to Donald pleading for him to cut them some slack. I disagree with her; he should go back to 1956 Donald Duck and maul their asses so they go back to 1956 nephews so we have our entertainment value back at least. Daisy sucks up for them as we cut back to Louie pissing me off as he rides cowboy on Ninja Villanova and then gets bumped and takes a wussy bump on his ass for further annoy me. That drops the cabbage diamond from the hat and then Ninja Villanova runs literally like wind out of the window with an easterly wind. See; make the joke and then pay it off. It's SO nice to see Jymn Magon PAY off a joke in this series because NONE of the other seem to have any clue how to DO that. Daisy comes in and she SHOCKED and APPALLED (in that order) DUH! The nephews claim that she won't believe this and of course she doesn't. DUH!
So we go to morning as Daisy has the Gruffi pose on and Donald is with her and she doesn't believe it, DUH! HAHA! Donald naturally blows off the Ninja nonsense of course. Well; Donald does have a point there guys. I mean; the ninja didn't actually do ANY ninja moves see. Louie points to Knuckles for evidence backup and Knuckles belches because making somehow kids will change the channel in five seconds if it doesn't happen. Do they honestly think kids are THAT stupid?! If so; that is probably a reason why they often DO change the channel. Louie tells him off that he won't get a Christmas card this year. If Daisy were smart I would respond: Since when did you EVER give Knuckles a Christmas card?! So we logically go to their bedroom as Louie dribbles the basketball and Louie blows off the whole thing and then channels the powers of Gosalyn Mallard with this classic gem of a line:
Louie: Grounded for a month because we told the truth? This bites!
So that's why the episode was so good. It all makes sense now. NOT! Funny how they missed THAT one but edited out Gosalyn's That blows in later airings (although the DVD versions keep that line intact.) . Louie tries for a basket but hits rim and then beans Huey in an ultra weak shot and Huey selling is ultra weak. Oh boy; this episode is just going down hill the more the nephews are on television. Huey has a CRAPPY MIMI JOKE ZONE PLAN of his own which is to find the creep who stole the diamond in the first place and hire a bloodhound while paying off Louie's failure to protect the diamond by pulling down the hat Louie has. Sorry Huey; but Kit is still much cooler than you when he does that to Molly. So that logically leads to outside as the nephews are with Knuckles AFTER HAPPY HOUR (Okay; this makes sense since Dewey does admit that they sneaked out at night) as they sniff out the trail. Dewey ponders the moral implications of them disobeying the grounding and and Huey proclaims that he won't even notice.
Of course we head back to the bedroom as the trapdoor opens (with nothing to even lock it (which shows no effort from these lazy nephews.)) and Donald shows up with the tray of hot chocolate mugs and he sees nothing....AND THE ROCK SEZS NOTHING! Tray gets destroyed (duh), hot chocolate gets destroyed (duh), Donald goes into TEMPER OF CERTAIN DEATH (duh) and I laugh out loud (duh).So we logically return to the park as the search continues and Dewey gets snippy as he wants to bag it because Knuckles is probably going to an iguana nightclub. Only in your dreams kiddo as Knuckles does the pointy stance and they are right in front of Professor Villanova's place. Louie then proclaims that they are suddenly accusing Professor Villanova; a high upstanding citizen of the world of stealing a cabbage diamond. Well; considering that the ninja has Villanova's body type, that is GOOD evidence to start with and the Rescue Rangers would have Villanova bagged as the villain in five minutes. By the way; do you get ten points for thief in Scrabble?! I don't play the game anymore.
Anyhow; we then cut to a cut of the stair well near the entrance as the nephew in shadow with Knuckles practice the fine art of not being seen (oh man; this is like inviting death at this point) and they enter through the small window in the basement as Dewey cuts a lame Hardy Boys promo. Why ask? Just do it you idiots! Kit Cloudkicker would NEVER ask his promos; he just does them! Dewey does a sneak job with the flashlight inside but sees a mask on a pillar and does the Scooby Doo spot with Huey which is so lame even Huey drops him on his ass for it. Nice to see Huey at least show some class here which is a rarity I know. More flashlight on the artwork as the nephews are very weary of the treasure trove Villanova has down in the basement. Knuckles does the point stance and sees a painting a fruit to eat which we don't see; but Louie pulls him away because he can eat later. After all; they don't want their cover blown see. Personally; Knuckles should blow their cover and take his chances. More entertainment value for me. Knuckles points (complete with Hanna Barbera sound effects) as the nephews point the flashlight at it and there is the cabbage diamond on the pillar which indeed proves Professor Villanova's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
I called that one about five minutes before it happened. Then Louie bumps into the Ninja Gown of Doom and think Ninja Villanova has come back to life; but it's only the gown and it's all okay and they have a laugh. So they want to scram. We cut to Huey as he goes to the phone and does the worst old lady routine on the police I have ever witnessed in my life. Ummm; the moral is honesty. The police don't even KNOW about the nephews and Donald's involvement in the CASE right now. Why bother with the dishonesty now?! Then the lights turn on at once and everyone scatters like scalded dogs and then we have logic break #6 with one of the nephews acting like a painting. Come on guys; this is NOT Spongebob SquarePants guys. In comes Professor Villanova with an evil look on his face (and thus makes him heel by proxy) pushing the television set of doom and pushes the weird remote control of doom to turn the television set of doom on which reveal a few B&W shots and then it shows the golden helmet of Agamemnon in Greece. He wants it and give it a change of place as Knuckles is hungry as hell as Huey pops from the vase and quickly pulls the rug; grabs Kunckles and returns to the vase with him. The noise causes Villanova some pause as Dewey's sweat is causing the most give away; but no dice. Oh please; a painting is SWEATING and he doesn't NOTICE. Logic break #6 for the episode.
Professor Villanova gets the evil look on his face as he turns on the remote control device as the helmet disappears and logic break #7 for the episode beckons as he does the sequence of using the laser device to make the helmet appear after it disappears. Should he had set it up BEFORE hand? Never mind; my head is hurting from all these logic breaking from Jymn Magon of all people. Huey opens his big fat beak and then recoils into the vase as Villanova sneaks over to the vase and notices him while Huey tries to make it as if he didn't see him. Wow; Ninja Villanova finally did a ninja move...while NOT being dressed as a ninja. How about that?! Huey is so (insert swear word here) as the segment ends almost sixteen minutes in. Well; It's only slightly improving, but the third act is the weakest so I'm not giving my hopes up here.
After the commercial break; we see Professor Villanova grabbing Huey from the vase and Kunckles while blowing them off for being persistent little brats. Personally; I think they are disgusting too; but persistent will do well enough for the time being. Villanova sadly makes the fatal error of dropping Knuckles and Knuckles pulls up his pantlegs and bites on it off-screen. Why off-screen?! He didn't bite him on the ass? Lame promo cut from Huey to boot too (I went to the doctor and had them removed. That is just sick and wrong.) as the nephews blitz Villanova and he takes a MAN-SIZED bump on his back after a bad selling of his leg. Finally; a good bump in this cartoon at the sixteen minute mark. The nephews go to the stairs and the door; but it is locked. Wow; Villanova actually had the foresight to lock the door behind him; but didn't have the foresight to put DA....PHONE in a place where the nephews couldn't access it. Just smooth there pal; well, at least Villanova can act well in spite of itself.
Huey blows him off because he had the foresight to call the cops beforehand. Villanova decides to spill the facts anyway as he explains the entire plan to him acting like he doesn't have a care in world. If you cannot smell the obvious logic break coming at six O'clock you have no business reading this rant. See; the device taps into security cameras in the world and he steals the arts collection. He even pulls in a door-to-door salesmen to show the point. Can you see the obvious logic break now? I betcha he doesn't even figure into the finish now knowing this series. The salesman (wearing a brown trenchcoat with a blue bowtie reveals his cleaning products; but gets sent again right in front of a runaway train. Okay; that is just plain heelish of him. I'm starting to like this Villanova guy now. Dewey asks if it runs off Channel 827 and he confesses that it does. Villanova wonders how they knew and the nephews goldbrick by lying through their teeth. How do I know?! Because Plato never said: None of your beeswax. Villanova decides to give in anyway and go upstairs to surrender and await for the police. Can you smell setup coming or do I have to spell it out for you?!
We then cut to the lobby way as the nephew sit on the sofa cheering for victory as they have the evidence and Dewey has the power. Sadly; Villanova has the fever to destroy his own room as he smashes the entire place of course. Like I said; can you smell set up?! One small problem here: How do the police KNOW that...Oh forget it; I forgot the rule of DTVA: Police are more stupid than the heroes. And naturally the nephews get arrested for vandalism despite the fact that Villanova vandalized his own place despite absolutely no attempt to look for finger prints. Like I said; this is DTVA: the police are more stupid than the main characters. You would think that Juan F. Lara would have figured that out by now watching DTVA repeated times. Villanova's acting is so awesome though and since I don't like these nephews; a good time in the slammer would do these idiots some good. Maybe then they'll realize that reading a damn book is...Wait a minute; that doesn't make me look good. Projection is only good until it's happens to you. So I'm wrong. Reading a good book is bad for you. That's it. Pay no attention to the ranter behind the curtain. Louie calls for the time out of doom (oh please – Kit is better than you when it comes to goldbricking guys!) and they accuse Villanova of having a ninja in the basement and sending cabbages through the television.
Yeah; Villanova has made them nuts and even the police officer has this look of “you are a scumbag even if you are innocent”. And of course they make the fatal error of asking Knuckles; and that logically leads to the nephews being in jail for real. Now I'm sure that everyone will say that Kit has never been in jail before but people forget about Citizen Khan already so there, BLAH! So Huey repeats the mocking to annoy me as Louie admits that no one is going to believe them without proof; so Dewey decides to reveal the remote control. Doesn't that just incriminate you more? Guys; just give up. Move on with your lives. Villanova has beaten your asses to the ground. You suck. The police officer opens the cage door and they are free to go (same officer from the previous scene). The nephews wonder who bailed them out and of course it's Donald as he is in absolute PISS OFF MURDER THEM OFF MODE! Good; maybe this show can end on a happy note. The nephews close the jail door and want to stay in jail though.
Sadly; they cannot as Daisy arrives to protect them lest Donald tries anything as Donald and the police officer decide to have a go at each other (and the police officer is losing badly; nice message to send to kids there Disney!) as the nephews try to explain that Villanova is an art thief; but Daisy corrects him as an art historian. Face it guys; give it up she's not listening to you. See; she's covering up her ears when she hears you explain you using the security cameras. Dewey then sees a security camera and then uses the remote control on it and it uses the YELLOW BEAM OF DOOM and zaps them right into Villanova's basement which apparently turns into a brick wall. Villanova steals the remote control of doom and Daisy demands the truth and Villanova blows her off and zaps Donald and Daisy into the B&W television screen. Apparently; they are in a museum in Africa as Daisy gives Donald a spear. Why Daisy would steal a spear so like that is beyond me. I think Jymn Magon is losing it for real at this point of the story.
Louie then decides to act really annoying and grabs onto the remote as they have a tug of war and there is more zapping as Donald and Daisy are in an airport riding on a luggage ride. Oh god Jymn; you just had to do the crappy Donald/Daisy do stuff just because at the end. Well; at least it makes sense here in the logical context of the story so I cannot exactly complain. But please let this episode end! Daisy realizes that the nephews were not lying and there is a security camera. NO?! REALLY?! We return to Louie as he pulls on Villanova's mustache to gain control. Oh man; that is such weak sauce. Kit would totally kick your ass for that one Louie. Louie runs off and throws it to Huemesiter (UGH!) as Donald and Daisy get zapped into a convienace store. See; make the joke and pay it off with the spear as the man at the register think it is a hold up and calls for the police. Daisy gasps in horror and Donald just wants to get out of here. I agree. I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS RANT SOMEHOW and there is still about two minutes left! Villanova chases Huey around as we get the surround slide spot to waste some time. And then Huey plays football and throws it over to Dewy who catches it. Well; Villanova is a better basketball team; but this professor probably sucks at sports anyway. So we get more static and.....
…..and we cut to Fort Knox's gold vault of death as Donald and Daisy get zapped inside and security is PISSED OFF of all this. YOU DON'T PISS OFF FORT KNOX! They make Donald look like a calm child in comparison. An army officer is inside and Donald gets MURDERED by the bazooka! About damn time something like that happened to him. Donald is drunk to ashes as Daisy is hiding behind the gold brick wall pleading to the nephews that she believes them now. Nah; she's just wants out so she can be in a better cartoon; say House of Mouse. Although; that one has the...wait for it...The QuackStreet Boys. If there is one thing worse than these nephews; then the Quackstreet Boys are it. Huey proclaims that they'll bring them back as Dewey slides the remote control to Huey; but the zapping zaps the gold instead and Daisy blows them off for the gaffe; allowing Donald to grab her to dodge the boozka shell. See; I told her the nephews are heartless bastards; but would she listen. Noooooooo.....That was the second funniest spot in the entire episode by the way. Louie is screwed as Villanova surrounds him. Why? He doesn't HAVE the device. Huey has the device. Logic break #8 for the episode and man this is totally unacceptable for a Jymn Magon written episode. Thankfully; the gold bricks are right there and sadly; BS&P doesn't allow them to squash him all in one blow. Only in wussy little shots like Lego blocks. Bad, bad form there WD-OZ.
Dewey has one of those promos while getting off the first death reference of the episode. Huey tries to push the knob of doom to bring the family back; but Donald is getting chased by a goat with Daisy on top in borderline racist country past time #2. Let's move on as Huey tries again; but Villanova grabs Huey's leg as Villanova is PISSED now. Huey throws the device to Dewey and Dewey puts it behind his back and tells him to guess. Villanova is sick of the childish games and the nephews decide to give up right there as Villanova steals the device and proclaims that they are taking a trip to London to take the fall after he makes the crown jewels of London disappear as Louie and Huey cower in fear. Good attention to detail by Magon to build up the cower in fear part earlier as Villanova pushes the device; but he gets zapped instead and he is screwed as Dewey grabs the device and proclaims that he reversed the batteries. Okay; that makes no sense since in real life; if you reverse the batteries, nothing happens. Logic break #9 for the episode. We then see Villanova inside the glass case with the evidence in his hands as the nephews look sly just to completely annoy me to no end. Daisy pleads for mercy; but the nephews decide to leave them there to suffer as Donald protest to the umpire on the mound for this outrage which yields nothing of course and Donald does the Cloudkicker kick which even he cannot perfect as well as Kit. Dewey just puts the device in his shirt and walks out to end the episode at 21:11. Thank god it's over. By Quack Pack standards; this was a good episode; but by DTVA standards; this was a total mess of an episode. I'll give Jymn Magon this; at least he wrote a solid storyline behind it; but way too many logic breaks out of the wazoo and just too much nephew suckiness just prevented it from becoming anymore than a below average episode at best. This episode doesn't even hold up to my original *** rating in 1996 anymore. ** (40%). If this is the BEST episode in Quack Pack history; this series is in DEEP trouble.
THE REVIEW LINE
I was hoping and praying that this episode would be a fun little episode and be good enough for government work and remind me that Quack Pack was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Instead; this is the episode where I believe Jymn Magon's fate with Disney was sealed as a writer. Nine logic breaks is completely unacceptable as a writer for someone who wrote one of the most notable scenes in TaleSpin history which was Kit's famous speech in A Bad Reflection On You Part Two. As I expected; the nephews sucked and blew badly. I just cannot like these people and I was hoping they would just give up and Villanova would win. I was hoping Kent Powers would beat them within an inch of their lives...if Donald was too soft-assed to do so already. With that said though; Jymn Magon at least had a solid foundation in his storyline and had good pacing. A lot of Quack Pack episodes had NONE of these two AT ALL; so I should be lucky to have at least something out of this mess. It's just that Magon made way too many mistakes and that the nephews are just too unlikeable to pull out anything past **** at this point. I should point out that Villanova was a decent villain and that Gumps was not all too offensive. And while the baseball thing was way too silly to be on DTVA; it cannot be any worse than the nephews so I'll take whatever I can get, even borderline racist characters. WD-OZ blew a few spots; but nothing major which is fine. However; this took forever to finish and I am majorly disappointed with this episode because while I didn't expect a classic; I was expecting at least a fun mess. This was an absolute chore. The product is supposed to do the job; not me doing the job of entertaining myself. Next up is Heavy Dental (Not Feats of Clay) and it's only going downhill from this episode. I warned Quack Pack fans; this is going to get really ugly now.
Still one question though; Why would Donald Duck buy a movie like Ninja Lumberjacks?! Seriously! Inquiring minds would like to know......So.....
Thumbs down for this round and I'll see you next time.