Return to 50 Webs
Disclaimer#1: All images, characters and material is (C) 1990/1991 Walt Disney Company and is being used without permission. The web master has made sure that no money was made in the creation of this web page and that all material used here is used with the up most affection and respect to the Walt Disney Company and the Tale Spin Team.
Disclaimer#2: The views expressed here are solely the views of the web master and no one else. The web master has no intentions to change anyone's minds about a particular subject and respects the views of the viewers. Comments about this and other editorial can be E-Mail at mailto:gweagle@eastlink.ca or signing the Cloudkicker guest book.
Stunt Double Or Nothing
Reviewed: 01/05/2013
I Hope This Involves A Volcano...
Well; I have decided to endure the first quarter of 2013 with the show that I do not like at all; and I'm going to complete it this time; unlike the past where I would only do a select amount of episodes for Easter Sadism. This is mostly due to the fact that I am doing Fanboy & Chum Chum's Brainfreeze DVD for Easter Sadism and that show is much worse than Quack ever was. So yeah; I am going to have to deal with Toby Shelton's re-imaging of the Donald Duck shorts and the "I'm so cool that it's absolute zero" attitude that this show pumps out every time I have seen it. So our first episode up for bids is Kent Powers being a prick because Daisy is a people person and Kent is not; so he is going to sabotage Daisy and Donald's career with a trained gorilla. Anyway; I'm doing the episodes at random and not doing them in order because let's face it: The show is so screwed up due to Toby's nepotism and trying to figure out continuity is like trying to figure out which BS&P notes the creators were to approve and ignore. SDON is #38 on the air date paper (for rant purposes I have already ranted on Captain Donald which is #37, Feats of Clay which is the last episode aired, Transmission Impossible is #32, Recipe For Adventure at #26, Ducks By Nature at #25, Heavy Dental at #18, Unusual Suspects at #15, Tasty Paste at #9, and All Hands on Duck at #4 (the only episode both me and GeoX have reviewed)) which is the second to last episode aired. So; let's rant on and find out shall we...?!
This episode is written by Marion Wells. The story was edited by Karl Geurs. Sadly; there is no animation studio from Juan F. Lara.
Opening Moment #1: Today's title card features Kent Power looking like a gorilla zombie with a green and banana titled background. I will give Quack Pack props; their title cards are so much funnier than Kick Buttowski's attempts at them. But I don't get the point of making the "or" part banana yellow. If Gedo fashion sense is a choice; then color me banana yellow.
So we begin this episode we a western pan shot of the background sunrise scene from The Lion King with jungle music. We see a rhino munching while Daisy's voice is doing a pointless monologue and ruining the pristine scene with her Guy Ladouce outfit. I think the rhino does a double take on being compared to a cow. Daisy feeds him grass as Daisy proclaims that they only are dangerous when frightened and only the hunter can frighten it. Donald proves that Daisy is a big fat liar by blowing up a paper bag near the camera and then pops it. So the rhino goes crazy as Donald eats some seeds (you just couldn't open them with your teeth; couldn't you Donald) and then we get rumbling and Donald scratching his head before finally noticing the red eyed rhino heading straight for him which makes no sense since the rhino was running away from the camera. If they had mirrored the shot; then it makes sense. That is logic break #1 for the episode less than a minute in. So Donald bails with the camera on a tripod which magically turns into a living metal horse complete with horse neighing. Yeah right?! So Donald gets nailed in the ass and somehow the tripod doesn't follow as Donald blasts off away with Donald doing her usual "wak" scream taking a decent bump off-screen. Yawn. So we head into the jungle with a ground to sky shot of an ape in the trees and more mindless monologue from Daisy. He swings around as Daisy shows a banana and he grabs it. Daisy grabs it back and opens the peel because it's not for him as we discover that his name is Bobo. A darker brown gorilla shows up and roars straight into Bobo's face; grabs the banana and walks out. Daisy and Bobo look down as we see Kent Powers thanking Daisy in a sarcastic way while looking like a more cleaned up version of Barf from You Cannot Do That On Television. So Kent hogs the camera in front of a blue cloth covered table filled with ice cream and red cherries in a bowl. So they watch "What In The World?" for him as he gets up to Drake Mallard levels of vanity; but with no charisma to make me giggle; let alone laugh.
Basically; he's going to show us how to made a banana split Ken Powers style which involves no food from Africa whatsoever despite being in "Africa" and some secret fudge sauce. Whatever Kent; no one cares about you. Kent Powers is voiced by Roger Rose (now that we are doing this show as a normal gig instead of an Easter Sadism gig; we have to do tributes) and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): He was raised in Wilmette, Illinois. He is the son of Hilly Rose, a radio personality in Los Angeles, and Sondra B. Gair, a pioneer radio interviewer with Chicago Public Radio. His brother was Judd Rose, of ABC. His first voice role was in the original Jetsons series in 1962, while his first live role was in an episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. He auditioned at Rod Roddy's podium in 2004 for the announcing job on television's longest running game show, The Price Is Right, and was the announcer for the show's 6000th aired episode. He starred in Ski Patrol (1990) and produced and acted in Comic Book: The Movie (2004). He voices on-air promo's for most Major Television networks. He voiced both the Dark Fiend Charles the 3rd and Aquatic Terror Gran Bruce in the video game Viewtiful Joe (2003). Some of his notable anime roles include several minor characters of Zatch Bell!. He also did the voice of Garbel of Manicuria on Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. He currently is doing promos for TV shows such as Ugly Betty and Hannah Montana "NCIS" "Big Bang". He has also done a David Letterman impression on several animated series, such as Tiny Toons and Animaniacs. Most recently in 2009, he voiced Doctor Strange on The Super Hero Squad Show and Superman on Batman: The Brave and the Bold. He also narrates documentaries for Animal Planet. He can be heard on WLS-TV in Chicago.
He started with Buck Rodgers, Too Close for Comfort and Isabel's Choice in 1981 (as Marcos, Magician and delivery boy in that order) before getting into voice acting on The Jetsons in 1985 and Pound Puppies as Byron P. Fleabottom. Ummm; yeah. Bonkers is his DTVA debut, then Gargoyles: Chronicles as Doyle Spokesman, Timon & Pumbaa as Pageant Host, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as various cameos and Handy Manny as Sam. He has 121 acting credits to his resume. I Get That A Lot as an announcer, Batman: Arkham City (I think he's in the Armored Edition for Wii U; but not listed) as MPT Officer William North, Batman: Brave & Bold with Superman, The Super Hero Squad Show as Dr. Stranger/Bulldozer, Rage, Playstation Move Heroes, Regular Show and Let's Do Lunch are all of his recent credits. He also produced Comic Book: The Movie. Daisy is not amused and really I don't blame her. Kent only gains heat because the "push the crappy button" nephews are much worse than he is. We discover that the secret food for this stupid recipe is a banana. Yeah; a banana split and the banana is a secret? Kent has no idea what irony is as he peels it and goes on about selecting the most over ripe banana not rotting like mad. So Bobo jumps down; destroys the banana split and splatters it on Kent's face. HAHA! When Bobo is more over than Donald and Daisy combined, then you know this episode is in trouble. And yes; Bobo steals the banana and eats it. He also got bananas in his eyes beforehand because Darkwing Duck style comedy is funny. Cartoon Duck Syndrome is in full effect here. So Bobo tries to grab the banana as Donald wakes up and it slips out of his paws and slams into Kent's mouth. Logic break #3: The banana was peeled; but when it slips out of the paws and into Kent's mouth, the banana is like it was never peeled. Kent spits banana and shakes like a dog; as he grabs Bobo by the throat and threatens to kill him with the POWER OF THE PUNCH; but Donald decides to film it, and Kent stops and embraces the gorilla. HAHA! He pinches Bobo's lips and then we fade to black to turn Michael Eisner on...
So we return with another sun rise as we do a sky shot of a purple circus tent in the middle of nowhere for no reason that I can think off as we pan over to Bobo slumping in the trees looking bored. So he sees a white seaplane in the skies and it parachutes a newspaper down onto the ground. Out of the circus tent comes Kent Powers which at least prevents the logic break of it being an actual circus and kind of sad that it shows Kent's circus style of stupidity because he thinks the newspaper is about him getting awesome ratings. Bobo jumps down behind him and tip toes into his circus tent. Why? I have no idea. So Kent takes the newspaper and sashes in as Bobo is carrying bananas in his teeth from the fruit salad bowl; which probably means that they are made of plastic, or wax, or both. Cue off-screen FCC FRIENDLY FIGHT OF DEATH with Kent screaming as we cut to three tents with Daisy, Donald and just to flush the episode down the crapper; the Quack Pack nephews each in the same tent at almost four minutes into this thing. Everyone runs in as Bobo and Kent are doing the sideways version of the Hanna Barbera running crashing spot which you saw in Ducks By Nature. I'm just waiting for the space alien to arrive; but that never happens. Daisy blows him off as Bobo hides underneath Kent's throne as Kent pulls the basket of sanitized fruit flown in from Florida. Awww; isn't he SOOOOOO special. NOT! Bobo runs off; pushes into Dewey who intentionally bumps into a column containing a statue of his perfect profile. It topples; Dewey does the leap of faith and grabs it by the top of the head. Kent gets all pissy about it and threatens to fire them. Daisy does the Gruffi pose and so less emotion in pointing the obvious to us than Sandy Sweetcheeks ever did. Do you get the feeling that at this point; none of the voice actors wanted to do this show anymore? Donald does a better job selling it and sounding like an angry white man.
So Kent invokes the POINTY FINGER OF DEATH and threatens to fire Donald and Daisy instead. What a prick this Kent Powers is? I'm beginning to think that the nephews are taking pointers from HIM. So Kent demands that they get out as Dewey hands him the statue and Kent takes it. Dewey rushes out while Daisy and Donald do the "up yours" pose and walks out. Okay; if Kent is so hyper, why not just fire Donald and Daisy now for showing attitude on the way out. Or at least dock their salary? Kent puts the statue on his dresser drawers (NOT THOSE ONES!) in front of the light bulb mirror and opens the newspaper. It's called the BLAB which is funny in itself; but in the middle we discover that everyone loves Daisy. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sadly; this show is a lost cause at this point; so Daisy got no help in the resume department until a voice change and CGI became much more improved in Mickeys Clubhouse. And yes love uses a heart instead of spelling it because if children read; they will turn on it. So then; the characters shouldn't talk at all. Talking is a form of reading you know. Sadly; Huey and Louie are somehow still in the tent as they steal the newspaper and read all the praises on Daisy Duck just to make sure they they got to push the crappy button. Now that should be enough to get both Daisy and Donald fired right there. By the way; Huey Duck is voiced by Jeannie Elias (yeah; she needs a tribute now) and she started in 1976 as Jackie Burns on The King of Kensington (basically; our version of All In The Family). Then did a couple of nothing movies; started voice acting with Strawberry Shortcake: Housewarming Surprise as Huckleberry Pie, Lem and Parfait Parrot. From there she was in live action cameos and was Masquerade and Cherries Jubilee in My Little Pony in 1986 (!!) followed by Teen Wolf as Boof in 1987. Many of her credits were voice acting for various Canadian productions including E.N.G. among them. Jungle Cubs as Clyde is her DTVA debut and she appeared in Secret Agent Oso. She has 119 titles to her resume. The Halloween Pranksta as Penny is her most recent credit. She also wrote episodes for The Hidden Room and Designing Women. Her video game credits: Mafia 2, Mass Effect 1 & 2, Jax X: Combat Racing, Ghost Recon 2, Golden Eye: Rogue Agent, and various Jumpstart games and shorts.
Dewey is Paula Aldon who we saw in Recess a while back; and Louie is voiced by E.G. Daily (who many mistook as Jennifer Darling) who we saw in a cameo of Darkwing Duck a while back. And yes; Dewey returns to steal the newspaper as well as Kent is so weak; he cannot steal back a newspaper. Then the nephews sarcastically ask what a P.S. is; and coming up with some of the lamest insult names I have ever seen. Kent Powers = Pissy Sh**ter. Kent Powers is PISSED as he steals the paper back and screams at them as the nephews run out; and probably in a way to further insult him and me. Kent rips the newspaper in half as he swears revenge on Daisy and we fade to black for the second time to turn Michael Eisner on five and a half minutes in. So we head into a cave filled with vampire bats as Donald is hanging rightside up with the camera and Daisy is hanging upside down. How they are in midair without rope is beyond me. I'm guessing that they have backpacks which make them float. Wonder if Ludwig Von Drake had anything to do with this? More monologues from Daisy as Kent yells in and blows off Daisy for being the star because he is supposed to be the star. Daisy pushes the button to come down and points out that the reason she does the dirty work is because Kent claims that he hates bugs and is basically naturephobic in every way. Kent more or less claims that it only happens on a bad hair day which is code for: It was all a lie because I'm lazy. Sadly; he's still better than the nephews so he still doesn't have the heat. Donald drops the camera unintentionally as a bat is about to wake up while Daisy and Kent Powers infantilize (Open Office doesn't see it as a word.) each other. Donald keeps pushing down on the red button as the bats wake up and Kent proclaims that he can do the show himself. So Daisy dares him to do it and the deal is this: Kent puts on a better show than Daisy; Daisy and Donald simply quit. If Daisy wins; Kent is busted down to living outside that circus tent. Both blow the other off for being scared and they both accept the deal. Daisy gives Kent the blue scribbler which is the script for today's show and Kent gives Daisy the BLAB magazine and mocks her.
So Donald grabs the rope and tries to pull it down; but he breaks a rock in the ceiling and plops down and takes the bump WITH CHEESE AND BACON as the bat swarm causing Daisy to rise up and Kent runs away like a scalded dog being chased by bats. HAHA! Daisy proclaims that this is in the bag now as Kent can kiss his hot tub goodbye. Daisy then becomes concerned as Donald pops up from the Scooby Doo Angel spot on the ground and apparently; he lost all of his feathers on his hair for no reason; sezs one word and then faints dead away causing our third fade to black to turn Michael Eisner on. And not even seven minutes into this thing to boot. So we head to a sky shot of a river as Kent is in a small rowboat reading the script while being shaded under a yellow umbrella and lawn chair as Kent reads that he is facing a raging river like a roller coaster and does a really bad job selling panic. So Kent invokes the oar and rows right onto the shore and rams into a rock. Kent gets all whiny about his hair being destroyed if he tries to do this sequence and then looks up and notices Bobo in the tree. So we head inside Kent's circus tent as Bobo is sitting on the couch and Kent pops up from behind sucking up to Bobo. See; Kent is a coward and wants Bobo to do all the stuff for him so Donald and Daisy will quit on him. The problem with this is; Bobo's face looks nothing like Kent's face so even the idiots could figure out that it's NOT Kent Powers. The teeth, nose and shape of face are completely different; and that's before you count the hair. If this works; we could be owing the writers of Double Darkwings an apology. Or maybe not as Kent offers Bobo bananas if he goes on television. And of course Kent violates informed consent laws and we head back to the shore of the river as Kent has cut a mask of a face of himself and slaps it onto Bobo. Okay; that helps a lot as he puts blond hair into his cap and places it on Bobo's head. Then he places a banana on a model sail boat and sails it as Bobo rows the boat towards it. Sadly; the swimming part still gives Bobo away; but at least it isn't completely stupid and insipid. Sadly; the brown fur hands also give Bobo away which shows that Kent Powers is still not smart.
So Kent does the voice over while shooting the camera on Bobo swimming with the...Wait a second? So he's using an inflatable raft? I thought the wooden boat wasn't destroyed? Not a logic break; but still odd. We see Kent relaxing on his lawn chair with umbrella as he plays with a remote control device which is basically a "screw you" to Donald Duck as Bobo grabs the banana from the model sailboat; but then gets WARNERED complete with Tiny Toon Adventures ACME WB eye popping spot. Bobo drops into the river while Kent cuts his lame promo and the raft pops up and the mask is off as Bobo is lying on the raft as dazed and as confused as I am. And we get the fourth fade to black to turn Michael Eisner on eight and a half minutes in. So we head to the mouth of hell (aka a volcano) as Kent is resting in his lawn chair with his only three fans in the world in delta formation because that is exactly what this episode needs: More windbags. Kent has a white fan just to be a bigot (or maybe not) as he continues to cut his promo while Bobo plays Kent while hand gliding. Bobo wisely steps back; so Kent throws a banana into hell and Bobo has such a banana fetish that he hand glides into the volcano; grabs the banana safely; but then the entire hand gilder starts to go ablaze. Bobo doesn't quite make it to the edge and free falls off-screen. Kent mocks Daisy as BS&P steps in because he cannot have Bobo dead as he climbs up all blacken along with the banana. This is so stupid that only BS&P could make it possible. Guys; Bobo should be dead. At least the SeaDuck in Pizza Pie In The Sky had shielding of some sort and thus made it much more believable than this. UGH! I'm betting that we fade to black for the fifth time to turn Michael Eisner on at the nine minute mark just after Bobo cries when his banana turns to ash. And damn it to hell; if I'm not right.
So we return to the SUNRISE IN AFRICA STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM as we do a sky shot of a pack of lions sleeping on their sides. So a banana is plopped in the middle of them as we pan up to see Kent Powers on microphone again with the camera attached to some metal plugs on the big tree branch. So we see Bobo in the air with balloons with string attached to his mid-section in a spot that we have done to death about a dozen times in Looney Tunes and it's only funny when Wily E. Coyote does it. And yes; Kent uses peas to blow into a blow dart and pops all the balloons causing Bobo to free fall into the middle of the lions. Bobo grabs the banana and Kent blows more peas from the dart at the lions' ass wakes them up and you can guess what happens next after the lions jump up and sell pain on their asses. They circle and then MURDER Bobo off-screen while Kent cuts another lame promo. Kent pushes to the camera as Bobo comes up completely wasted as all of his costume is shredded. Kent mocks Daisy and opens the camera to discover that there is no video tape present. And for those of you who saw Feats of Clay; this is the exact same thing that happened to Daisy which indicates that Huey Duck stole the video tape. Although that would make no sense because he has no hatred towards Kent (Kent hates the nephews and rightfully so); so I'm guessing that Kent is a total dumb asshole. So Kent butters up Bobo with a banana and Bobo peels it; then Kent steals the banana and eats it proclaiming that he will have to shoot everything all over again. Bobo sobs like a baby and I don't blame him. This is the allegory of animal cruelty and in the most pointless and jackassery reason ever made. So we invoke the first scene changer of the episode ten minutes into this thing! This only serves as evidence that the fade to blacks are a Michael Eisner sex tool to unwind. So we get a sky shot of the camp site as apparently; the white RV has magically arrived for no reason whatsoever. So we see Kent in the RV watching television and the video tape of the footage he did with his replacement and we see additional footage of stuff that happened that exposes Kent's facade.
Okay; none of this makes sense since none of the exposed scenes did any more to expose Kent's facade since the brown hands gave it away instantly. Not to mention the big logic break: When they show Bobo's ass when he climbs up the volcano; the rest of his body is perfectly intact; despite being completely charred and black in the original taping of the footage. UGH! UGH! UGH! That is a bad logic break if I ever saw one. Kent panics on cue and blames Bobo for everything and basically fires Bobo. So we cut to outside as the Quack Pack nephews are overhearing from the RV on Kent Power's promo and think that Kent Powers has grown a set; or something. Logic break: Then why didn't they hear Kent Powers screaming when Bobo screwed up? The nephews walk over to the back of the RV as Kent Powers storms out and blows off the nephews before leaving. The nephews get all evil and go into the RV and Huey watches the footage and gets all dizzy and stuff because he cannot believe this. I cannot either; but it's not believable. That dizziness only serves to have Huey push the fast forward red button on the television set; which makes no sense because in real life; FF while playing; you still see the picture. In this case, the television set goes fuzzy and static with no picture. Idiots! Then we discover that he was actually erasing the tape! Which pretty much kills Kent's bet right there. So we get the DREAM SEQUENCE FROM HELL with thunder flashes and the statue repeating what Kent said earlier on; with Daisy and Donald coming in and repeating their stuff earlier; only against a blue background. Then after Kent fires them both; both of them panic; Kent turns into a cowboy boot and kicks them out of the shot and we return to reality (no, not at all) as the nephews gasp in horror. Dewey further incriminates himself by ejecting the tape and grabbing it and that ends the segment 12 minutes in. You know this episode was not good to begin with in spite of the bumping from Bobo; but now it's going to get worse.
...A....LOT....WORSE.....!
After the commercial break; we see Dewey rationalizing the end of times and Huey doesn't help him at all. Louie proclaims that they should fess up and he gets eye contact violence of doom to clam up. Huey proclaims that there is only one thing they CAN do; and they are going to hate it. Can you spot the obvious problem with this Krackpotkin plan; or do I have to spell it out for you? So we head to the river with the nephews inside a fake version of Kent Powers and the nephews already hate it. Huey blows it off because Kent did it and so can they. Yeah; they'll do it and Kent will win and force Donald and Daisy to quit! If they wanted the world not to end; then they should have just left the tape in the VHS recorder and run out of the RV and hide. And it's clear Kent didn't see them on the scene changer; so this means we have ten minutes of stupid pet tricks which only serve to note how thoughtless these nephews are. And it's not like it makes a difference because Kent hated the footage on the tape TO BEGIN WITH! I don't think erasing the tape is going to hurt his plan that much. So we test the equipment including a remote control microphone device to mimic Ken's voice. Huey thinks he's so cool. Kit can do it WITHOUT the microphone manipulator. So we do the rowing spot as Huey's Kent Power's mimicry would have been fine if Roger Rose wasn't suddenly voicing this part of the episode. They bounce over a rock in the river; I don't care. They go down the waterfall and Huey pops the head up and it's clear that their cover is blown even though this is a vast improvement from Kent using Bobo. Huey ends his promo and cuts it. He cannot believe Kent did this and we break logic again with Dewey and Louie no selling the underwater spot because their voices sound normal. So we get more stupidity with the hand gliding sequence and Huey sounding like Kent Powers. Huey remembers to dip the boots into the lava and Louie's selling made him sound like Tommy/Chucky from Rugrats despite being 12/13 years old. Just bad selling from all involved. They did remember to fly up and the hand glider burns to ashes and they fall down with a loud crashing sound off-screen. Whatever.
So we go to a sky shot of the sunrise with the air balloon which reminds me: How did they know about a scene that Kent Powers NEVER filmed? Remember what happened to Bobo after he did the same "get killed by lions" scene. Kent forgot to put the tape in; so WHAT? I doubt the nephews had his script scribbler because we didn't see it and haven't seen it since the first river sequence. So we see the FCC FRIENDLY CLOUDDUST FIGHT OF DEATH to waste some time as Huey yells cut and the body parts of fake Kent Powers bail to the top of the air balloon. They huddle in the basket of the balloon; but the male lion (check the mane) climbs on the ladder. They pant about tuna fish and cans as the lion's head pops up and roars. So the idiots climb up the balloon which is the dumbest thing ever because the lion can clearly climb a balloon. Logic break # too many: the lion has pointed claws and not once during that climb does the balloon pop. The lion in Bigger They Are; Louder They Oink is more believable than this and it climbed a damn tree. And despite all that the nephews scatter and the lion bites the top of the balloon and we do the stupid balloon whiz without air spot for a bit. And then we return to the RV as Daisy and Donald are watching the monitor in shock as they are watching fake Kent in action. Logic break # too many plus one: They used the Bobo Kent Powers version on the television. The nephews are under the table panting and not injured at all. BS&P sucks even more than usual. Kent Power here it all and panics biting his finger nails; as Daisy and Donald walks out looking defeated. And just to make my blood boil; the nephews act as if they saved their jobs. Memo to nephews: If they walk out looking defeated; you killed their jobs. Daisy proclaims to Kent that he won the bet and the nephews are shocked. Yes folks; the nephews are a menace to your job. Kent is smiling like a heel would and offers to help with the stamp licking jobs in the future as the nephews wonder what they done. Answer: Existing to push the crappy button because Toby Shelton hates Ducktales and Dog Noses and thus wants to flush away any good graces of that show. That's why. That ends the segment sixteen minutes in. In any other universe; the series would be over right there (although the series did end in the next episode after being trap doored); but we have six minutes to go which means it's time to CDS the episode. And with the Quack Pack nephews around...
After the commercial break; Dewey tries to shift blame claiming that he didn't know they bet their jobs. Sorry; not buying this crap as Huey throws the tape into the VHS recorder and yells that the tape should have stayed erased. Yeah; but then what did you expect? The creators don't care about likability; continuity and logic. They want Ducktales to DIE! Sorry; my head feels bad. But then the television turns on and we see absolutely nothing; but hear Kent Powers' voice as the nephews get the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and call for Daisy. So we cut to outside of the RV as Daisy and Donald are inside and Daisy and Donald cut about ten different ways to call Kent a chicken sh**. Oh come on Daisy; don't be afraid to tell us how you REALLY feel about Kent Powers?! The series is almost over at this point anyway. And we see the last of the footage of Bobo being exposed to the world as Daisy blows off Kent Powers as an ape and not related to Bobo. Donald wonders what to do and the nephews get all evil for star treatment. So we get an outside shot of the circus tent as Kent comes out and then notices the nephews running in with a wagon of newspapers and it's the Daily Blab as they read the newspapers as dinners burn and people stare. See; he's a hit and Daisy comes in with a piece of paper to inform Kent that the network is so happy that they want him to do another show. This one will be live. UH OH! And he has three minutes. Did she just say? Oh; never mind... Kent tries to flee; but bumps into Donald as he wants to get his crew; but the "babyfaces" are happy to be his crew and do it for free despite quitting because they want to be around Kent Powers. Without actually seeing the rest of the episode; the finish and ending should be so easy even I could figure it out while being high on weed and blind to boot. Bobo is watching on with evil bouncing eyes while Kern stammers...
... and so we head to the deepest part of the jungle as the nephews turn Kent Powers into a clown literally and powder white makeup; red lipstick, pink mouth cheeks and red hair as he is wearing a green clown suit. See; we are supposed to laugh at Ken for getting is comeupperence; but he screwed up his own evil plan and the nephews basically gave him the win due to gross stupidity; so there is no revenge possible because the ones who caused Daisy and Donald their jobs was not Kent Powers; but the nephews who are unlikable poor excuse for furry ducks. So I end up feeling sorry for Kent Powers and booing Daisy and Donald. I'm not booing because Daisy and Donald are in the wrong here; but because they have to allow the nephews who caused all this to redeem themselves even though Kent didn't do anything to deserve it. The writers have booked themselves in a corner and they had no excuse to do it at all. So we do some more wheezing as Daisy gives Kent the WAR & PEACE SCRIPT OF DOOM and Kent complains that he cannot remember this all in ten seconds. Huey tells him not to worry; because it's all on cue cards. Again; they are trying to bury Kent Powers; but no one is laughing at him because he did nothing to deserve it. If the nephews just kept the tape in the RV; the bet would have been won too. So we are on as Kent cuts his cue card promo which is only slightly better than when he cuts the promo without cue cards. Needless to say; Dewey is above him and takes a big ass green spider like beetle which the cue card tell us that it's poisonous. FACKING BULLSHEET~! You expect me to believe that Dewey wasn't poisoned by said beetle when he grabbed it and put it in the box. So the beetle lands on Kent's mouth as the cue card read that it's a man eating beetle and can devour an army in ten minutes. See previous all caps sentence. The cue cards read that it's afraid of water; so Kent bails stage left and dives into the conveniently placed lake just to annoy me. So Louie brings in the motor key turning enemy crab which doesn't work because it's not a giant enemy crab. Another bad spot by the nephews; what a shock?
Kent pops up and we discover that it's the Umgashi River (I don't care if that isn't a real river; we're already far away from this episode ever being average so...) as he spits water and here comes the small enemy crab; who is a fake crab, only a lot less tasty. It's a vampire crab that sucks the blood in 60 seconds flat. Kent is panicky as Donald points out to us that the crab is circling Kent. This is a redo of Crock Around The Clock; only this is the worst version of it because while Butterbear was gullible as hell; Crock at least succeeded in foiling Dumberbear for a while and thus was doing it on his own with his henchmen. The cue cards read that the only protection from that is a good coat of mud (which just to rub it in was covered with a white piece of paper before falling off. So Kent jumps out of the lake and rolls around in the out of nowhere mud puddle. He cakes the mud on his face; which thankfully gets rid of the paint job; but the cue cards read that the bacteria in the mud contains acid which will melt off his skin and the antidote is smearing the moss covered around the caverns which Kent runs and splatters into the wall of moss which looks like green paint goo with mushrooms growing on it. I don't need to tell you how much this is sucking now do I? Kent comes back as Dewey and Daisy nearly blow their cover giggling as Kent walks to the camera blushing. Kent claims that he was getting his vitamin XB as Huey goes on cue cards again as we discover that the deadliest snake in history loves this fungus and moss that Kent is wearing so Louie slingshots a purple snake onto Kent's back. We discover that the only way to get it off is to dance on one foot while the other one is behind his head. Now at this point; Kent should have realized that he is being "quacked" by the masters of quackery known as the Quack Pack nephews. But Kent does exactly what the cue cards tell him too. It doesn't work; so he must knock it senseless as Kent hops around and bashes into rocks inside the cave and out of sight. So Daisy calls a cut on that and it's time for the gorilla scene. Kent somehow hears it and doesn't like it at all...
So we head back to the trees as they dress Kent up like a baby gorilla with rattle and head lace. Daisy calls on Bobo and Bobo goes behind the hedge, pops up and steals the banana from the angry gorilla from the beginning of the episode and gives chase as we begin the next segment in three seconds. Kent reads the cue cards and at this point; I don't care what they say because we have about a minute left in this episode and thank the gods for that. Did I mention that Kent is wearing a diaper? So Bobo whizzes by and steals the rattle and replaces it with the banana. Kent panics and turns around as he sees the angry gorilla and Kent races up the tree; pleading for mercy and offers to rehire Daisy and Donald and let them do the show. Daisy no sells the deal because she thinks he does a great job of being a monkey. HA! So Kent gets to the edge of the tree and we spring down like a catapult as Kent offers her a new contract, with double salary. Daisy still teases a no sell; as Kent decides to give them triple and Daisy shakes hands with Kent on the deal. Oy vey. Donald gives a pen and paper and Kent signs the deal as Daisy praises Kent's pen work. Ken pleads for them to get the gorilla off of him. So Dewey and Louie come in with a bushel of bananas and the gorilla is giddy as Kent pleads for them not to do that. Happy gorilla jumps off; Kent gets slingshot into the air and completely out of this episode and the series. Donald films it; off-screen decent bump occurs; the nephews slap skin and basically get off Scott free and the gorilla is sitting next to a tree eating bananas as we circle fade to mercifully end the episode at 21:06. Holy crap; this episode sucked monkey dick. I give this a 1.2 CUCKOO as only the Bobo bumping was funny and it just went to hell when the nephews got involved in the most convoluted way. And Donald and Daisy are so stupid to not even notice that the nephews were the ones to screw them out of their jobs?! We are in for a long ranting series. - * 3/4 (-35%).
THE REVIEW LINE
My first full time episode rant of Quack Pack; and dammit this was beyond the pale horrible. As I mentioned in the rant; the first half wasn't average; but it was not offensive and not overly bad. Kent Powers' treatment of Bobo was horrible and it got some heat; but he failed even before he finished which meant that there was no real revenge because the heel was already losing. Once again; it was the Quack Pack nephews pushing the crappy button that turns this "above DUD; below ** 1/2" episode into a 1.2 CUCKOO almost -** episode by basically acting like complete unlikable fools and breaking logic as they went. Nothing clicked in their sequences and their selling of victory which was not a victory was so brutal. If I saw Donald and Daisy looking bad; I would ask why they feel glum even if I was a kid. This came off as so low rent and the finish and ending was six minutes of making Kent Power look like a complete fool and burying him when he didn't deserve it because he already lost the bet to Daisy before the nephews screwed it up and won the bet because of the nephews. And not ONCE did Daisy nor Donald notice that the nephews were responsible for them having to quit their jobs in the first place and nothing was made of it because the episode ended with Kent Powers being sling shot away. Once the nephews got involved; the episode was booked into a corner and nothing I say could have made it better. I know that most of the time; there are ways to get out of episodes looking good; this wasn't one of those times. There were dozens of logic breaks and Donald wasn't all that funny and neither was Daisy any good. Bobo was the only one I can out liking and I felt sorry for Kent Powers after this debacle which was not intended by the writers. This was such an epic failure of an episode in every way; outside of the animation which was fine. Next up is Need 4 Speed which features car racing and Donald being paranoid of his nephews driving like the Wuzzles. I hope I can keep up my composure doing these rants. So........
Thumbs way down in hell for this episode and I'll see you next time.