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Need 4 Speed
Reviewed: 01/06/2013
A Speeding Ticket; A Thursday Internet Pounding & A Lawsuit All Rolled Into One.
Our next episode of Quack Pack has beckoned and it's time for the nephews to slander Electronic Arts. Basically; Donald is having nightmares seeing the nephews driving and won't let them drive one. However; Daisy is in love with a race car driver and complications ensue. Ummm; yeah. This one is episode #6 on the air date paper. So; let's rant on and find out shall we...?!
This episode is written by Barry Vigon & Tom Walla (Walla Washington. Oh come on! You knew that joke was coming a mile away!). The story was edited by Kevin Campbell. Tom Walla (Walla Washington) started as a writer for Gimme A Break in 1982 and then wrote a cartoon episode of the Smurfs in 1985. Then it's Growing Pains, Just The Ten of Us, Open House, Martin and Malcom & Eddie. Quack Pack is his only DTVA appearance believe it or not. Sabrina The Teenage Witch is his most recent credit. He has 11 writing credits and three producer credits. Barry Vigon has a really interesting resume to say the least, starting with Soap in 1981. He wrote a few episodes from series such as Who's the Boss, Facts of Life, Rosanne, Punky Brewster, among others. Quack Pack is his only known DTVA appearance and Sabrina The Teenage Witch is his most recent credits. He has 4 producer credits, 16 writing credits, and even nine acting credits in cameo roles including the movie credit Sunset. Finally; an episode that I actually know the animation studio which is Toon City Animation.
Opening Moment #1: Today's title card features a gray antique car which looks to have it's parts stolen and in that position for decades. Okay; kids hate old stuff; we freakin get it guys!
So we begin this episode in a lazy town AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as a mean car zips through the streets of Whatever Town, USA without a care in the world. They past the police station and the police chase after them complete with beach music. Even though they are nowhere near an ocean or lake. The car is oversized with headlights, hot rod red paint in the front and all black in the back. We discover that it's the Quack Pack nephews in the car and Huey I'm guessing is driving. They blow off the police because they are wearing seat belts despite being under aged and speeding in town. So the front of a police car opens and we have machine gun fire. Yeah; guns are apparently still allowed to be bullet shooting as long as only the flashes are shown and no bullets which we don't see. It might as well be balls of red paint. Which turn into white bullets; which means as long as the bullets are not shown in their true colors; it's all okay according to BS&P. The nephews get evil and drive into an alleyway that is only slightly smaller than the car; but get through anyway as the police cars crash into each other and explode. Pfft. Then the tanks surround the exit of the alleyway and turn around to shoot shells at the car; so Huey goes into nasty mode and puts gas into the car as it whizzes past both tank which both shoot at each other and they explode and burn to ashes. Pffft. This is clearly a dream sequence guys; I'm just waiting for it to end and the real episode to start as the nephews slap skin and then we see a television showing footage as we discover that we are in the President's Office. Why would the president care about a chasing car? School shootings; yeah, that's perfectly understandable...but a car chase? Yeap; dream sequence, that's all this is. Mr. President (Juan thinks he is voiced by Corey Burton) is now going for the endgame while being in the shadows as we pan west to Donald's shadow pleading for mercy which is hilarious considering that it's DONALD F'N DUCK.
And then we finally see Donald in the flesh as Mr. President invokes the POINTY FINGER OF DEATH and blames Donald for giving them a car and so he has a control panel and pushes the "eradacator" button and it's basically a really crappy plunger gun in space which fires like a lightning gun and as the car bounces into the air and the nephews think that they won; the beam nails them and they disappear and thus the dream sequence is completely exposed since three square tombstones drop down on the road with Huey, Dewey and Louie's name on them. Even though this would be the best thing that ever happened to them and this show. And we return to reality (no, not at all) as we are in Donald's living room and Donald is acting crazy. The nephews take it as a no, and Donald basically screams in their faces before they can defend themselves and counter. No one ever accused Donald of not saying no; that is for sure. So the nephews blow him off and proclaim that they are going on strike; which they refuse to do anything until Donald gives him a car and they all walk out. Yeah; a do nothing strike, which they do nothing at all, which is their normal function when they aren't being hyper-entitled pieces of crap. So we head to the nephews' attic and they are doing nothing. Sadly; it's just isn't funny without them flinging forks in the ceiling and complaining that there is nothing to do all day. Dewey flops on his belly of course; claiming that Donald is not buying this crap (and why should he? Doing nothing is the nephews' normal function, so Donald can simply win by doing nothing. It's too easy to figure out that Huey cannot win this) and Louie is on the hammock agreeing with him. Huey goes to the window and cuts a really bad promo about getting a car through sheer luck; thus breaking his do nothing strike within thirty seconds. It's sunny out there and his eyes go circular and blurry. So that is now a motif of Huey Duck (as last seen in Stunt Double Or Nothing) and it sucks badly.
So we scene change to a start/finish line as apparently this is the Duckberg 500 with a white duck on black wheels being the mascot of this event. That is really tacky even for this show. So we pan down and see Daisy Duck tapping her foot on the road waiting for someone. Donald comes in and greets Daisy and asks if she wants to break for lunch. Daisy proclaims that she can't because she has a clipboard and has a picture of the racing dude who is going to be in the race whose name is Rocky "The Rocket" Throttle. Would have been better if they just moved the second scare quote past the e in Throttle and added an "r" inbetween the e and the scare quote. Donald does the Gruffi pose and does his trademark blow off quote "Ah, Fooey" and then gets run over by a red race car. Basically; he goes under the car as a blond haired man wearing the same green color sweater that Kit Cloudkicker wears; along with a blue scarf worn like Kit as an Air Pirate and dark black or green pants with a black belt. He looks like an even more vain version of Kent Powers and is voiced by Roger Rose so I'm guessing his real name is Rocky Powers; which would have made my idea for the nick name even better. Do I sense BS&P didn't want this show to exist or something; because the exec notes are seemly designed to sabotage the show every step of the way. He has a zit on his Jay Leno chin which methinks the writers originally wanted Jay Leno to do this part; but refused/couldn't since ABC was in competition with NBC. Rocky is pretty girly; but I like his promo cutting on speed which sounds a million times better this way as he notices Daisy is the reporter and he calls her a babe and is thankful that a girl is interviewing him; because the rest of them act like they are in rigid gender roles and worshiping the ground he stands on.
Daisy is not amused as she tries to get the first question out and Rocky grabs the microphone and cuts a full of himself promo as Daisy steals the microphone back and blows him off. Rocky steals the microphone back and turns heel right away by grabbing the flattened Donald and folding him up like a card. Rocky accuses him of being a spy for his competition; which Daisy grabs Donald and blows him off because Donald is his boyfriend. Rocky is shocked as he calls Donald flat and grabs him and spins him like a top. Donald gets spun away stage right as he asks Daisy about ditching a flat spy and getting a 3D handsome body like Rocky. Okay; that is some good heel heat. Donald unpops himself and he is PISSED with smoke from his head. So Donald walks in; gets his beak grabbed by Rocky and thrown away after he tells him to get lost because he is stealing his girlfriend. Daisy is not amused as Rocky offers to go on a date with Daisy if he wins as Daisy points that out. Donald returns with his beak flattened and Rocky proclaims that the interview is on hold until after the race and he drives away remembering to smoke both Daisy and Donald in the process. HAHA! Daisy is not amused and Donald is so pissed off that he has the CHEAT HEAT OF LAUGHS; as Daisy grabs him and tells him to back off because if Donald does anything stupid; he'll cancel the interview. Donald asks so; and Daisy is not happy to hear that, so Donald stammers and backs off. Daisy kisses Donald and then we invoke the DREAM SEQUENCE OF DOOM as Rocky is on a pillar with a thunderclap as he is handled the Duckberg 500 trophy already and smiles on the copper pillar as the trophy is lame and he also gets Daisy who gasps for help as Rocky tells her to forsake Donald and she'll learn to love Rocky and Rocky then does the most overwrought kissy-kissy stuff that I'm sure Hoppo wishes she could do to Bumblelion. So we return to reality (no, not really) as Donald is sitting on the blue love seat mad as hell and it's all over his dead body (death reference #2 for the episode) as he stands up for himself.
This is much better than the last episode rant I did as we head outside as Donald shows us an up close B&W photo of himself standing next to his roadster from the 1960's which was in perfect peak condition. We see the photo removed and it's the roadster we saw in the title card as Donald walks to it and it shined itself to death. HAHA! Donald's Plan B is so hilariously bad that the FCC NAVY must be so proud of their brainwashing skills. Donald grabs a car part and wonders who can fix this thing. Then he gets the SUPER SONIC HEARING OF DOOM as we hear Louie on his hammock complaining about this do nothing strike as Dewey points out on the floor of the attic that they could have spent all this time building a hot rod for the Duckberg 500 from scratch. Donald is giddy as hell as he runs into the house (despite appearing to run towards the road) as we head to Huey on the bed telling them to be patient and let fate handle this situation. Listen; I am so over this toxic thing in cartoons people complain about. The problem I have now is this they think other cartoons don't have that toxic stuff they whine about when it's clear that they do. Think about it next time you watch the new Disney and complain about it and then try to tag your favorite cartoons about being saintly and pure. And yes; Donald pops up and asks the boys about the car and Huey told us so. So we scene change to Donald Duck twiddling his thumbs as the nephews check the car and inform him that the car is still good enough to be fixed and Donald proclaims that they have their car and the nephews shake hands on Donald's deal. Donald walks to the house door; opens it and slams it shut. Donald overhears the nephew proclaim that the sooner they fix it; the sooner the car will be theirs. Donald laughs like an evil devil possessed him which is great because it shows the FCC NAVY hasn't completely destroyed his heat nor his creditability. That ends the segment nearly nine and a half minutes in. This has been a decent episode thus far; with little involvement from the nephews and no pushing the crappy button other than on themselves. However; since the crappy button hasn't been pushed yet, the episode has to be flushed down the crapper at some point...
After the commercial break; we head to a far shot of Donald's house AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as we see a trap door open on the road; and up rises a purple hot rod roadster like car. Now if the writers cared about continuity and logic; then why not have it painted and modeled exactly like the car in the dream sequence? Unless this is another dream sequence; which is possible because I don't recall the nephews having a trapdoor/storage area underneath the road. The back of the license plate reads "Coooool( SUCKS!)" as we floor it and we drive away. We drive in the city with the TMS recycling of doom and then we see an alien spaceship with space aliens in it. They hate earth because it's dirty and immoral. I wonder if these aliens are from the Republican party. I guess the green one is Jerry Fawell and the blue one is Pat Robertson going to a Saintly Cleansing Party. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Anyway; the aliens decide they are going to vaporize the planet which is so sad because Daisy and Donald deserve better than this. The alien space ship looks like a red Christmas tree with tentacles on it as they look on the monitor and notice the purple hot rod the nephews are riding in. Blue alien calls this all beautiful and wants it on board as the vapor ray is shifted to the big ass JAWS OF HALF LIFE as it grabs the roadster and plops it into the alien spaceship. Okay; if this means that they don't vaporize the planet, then this is a fair trade. Although you can personally vaporize the nephews at your leisure. So the blue and green aliens bow to the overlords of the purple roadster and the nephews are wearing matching color James Bond outfit. The aliens are going to their Intergalatic Alien Overlord because it's evidence that the planet doesn't deserve to be destroyed and so the Xmas Alien Tree Ship of Doom flies beyond the speed of light and we see the IAO OF DEATH who is basically a cross between a Beholder, Kraken and has fused three additional Floating Eyes from Final Fantasy IV. Don't ask me why it is holding olive branches in it's tentacles.
Anyhow; he puts the golden leaves on the ears of the nephews who have made their hats disappear as the aliens call the purple roadster the best car design; so much so that it promote universal peace. Pfffttt. If only it did. Flashes abound as Donald hugs a multi-eyed ear alien as the alien talks about Donald not giving him a car and the ironic stance behind it. So we return to the city as the purple roadster somehow makes it back on Earth on a bridge road which is torn up and then we return to reality (no, not really) as Dewey and Louie were daydreaming. Thank goodness for that as Huey whacks them with the RIC FLAIR BROOM OF DOOM because there is work to do as the car has not been worked on at all and it's in the garage. Dewey and Louie stammer and then proclaim that it won't happen again. And then we HIT THE MONTAGE~! It's so funny how fans of the old Disney can defend this kind of stuff in this cartoon; but crap all over it in Kick Buttowski. Now if there is more than enough reason to crap on a montage spot (on a case by case basis); so be it; that's one thing. But to say that it's crappy per se without demonstrating why it's crappy; but defending the crappy stuff in older shows proves that you are overplaying the nostalgia card to the point where new kids will just blow you off and continue watching the new shows instead. So buzz off and show your work. This montage is basically the nephews destroying the old roadster because they hate it as they throw out pretty much everything. Dewey does 3D computer models on the computer and basically recreates the purple roadster in the previous sequence and the nephews start building. I must say that the music is great in this scene; which is good because the rest of it is basically nothing of note other than Huey getting oil all over himself when he went under the old Donald roadster engine with the skateboard. And Louie bouncing away from the opened package called Insta-Tire (or Insta-Tyre in Britian) and then using the paint gun to spray the paint and flying all over the place. On the other hand; this is probably the most effort I have seen from the nephews in this entire series so far. Almost...Ducktales like. It won't last; but they didn't push the crappy button here so I'm fine with it. I just wish the writers had used the car from the first dream sequence.
So we end with the nephews sleeping behind the purple roadster as we head outside as the sun is rising and the nephews are whining as Donald is sitting in the purple roadster wearing all his gear from the B&W photo. See; Donald did promise to get them A car when he asked the nephews to fix his car. But he didn't say that they could keep the purple roadster. SCORE! And Donald gives them the Beverly Hillbillies car parked in front of the sidewalk/driveway leading to Donald's house. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The nephews are SHOCKED and APPALLED; while I just cannot stop laughing. This is downright funny and the nephews deserve every bit of that too. Donald drives away as it gets awfully windy around these parts as Donald laughs it up. The nephews are PISSED off as Dewey asks Huey if the strike is back on; but Huey proclaims that this time, they take action as he slams his fist on the engine and the whole car crumbles easily. Yeah; absolutely no respect for old things at all. Dewey points out that the race will be over by the time they get this car fixed. So Huey decides to put his faith in a miracle....science! I think we all know where this is going as we head to the lab as some duck with a mask on is boiling chemicals in a flask again. The nephews walk in as we discover when the mask is taken off; that it's Ludwig Von Drake who appeared in the debut episode of this show and was last seen meditating with Launchpad in The Golden Fleecing. The flask now has orange liquid as Ludwig calls it Super Zippy Fuel as he demonstrates it on a purple kangaroo wearing green shorts and a yellow shirt playing a purple squeeze box. So Ludwig pours a drop of the orange liquid and the kangaroo pops his eyeball, squeezes the squeeze box too hard and then rockets into the air; flies like a balloon running out of air causing glass shattering sounds despite the fact that nothing was damaged whatsoever. Then it plops; circles the "babyfaces" and then hops to the wall and rams through the wall. Laughable logic break: When we see the wall with the Scooby Doo Snow Angel Spot; the spot appears to make the kangaroo gain four feet in height in order to pull of that spot. Ummm; yeah.
So we head outside as Ludwig tells the nephews (who have the flask of orange liquid) that if the government has any plans to play with rocket fuel to call him directly. Well; that is good to know as Ludwig waves goodbye and goes back into the lab. The nephews proclaims that next up is the Duckberg 500 as Huey raises the flask and that ends the segment nearly 15 minutes in. Not a bad episode all things considered and despite the nephews being around; the crappy button pressing was kept to a dull roar. However; we still have about seven minutes left to go so...
After the commercial break; we get a far shot of the racetrack of the Duckberg 500 as Daisy is at the press booth with his cameraman selling the event as going through 500 miles through all of Duckberg. That's BS Daisy! It's more like going 250 times through two miles of Duckberg. I don't think Duckberg is 500 square miles in size. So we introduce the racers as Jacques Gustav in a blue car which looks similar to Jacques Villeneuve. If they wanted to parody him; then go with Jacques Villanova and make him Professor Villanova's long lost French brother; or something like that. Although; the problem with this is that Jacques is a clear French stereotype while Villeneuve is clearly French Canadian and a lot harder to figure out stereotypes to use. Speaking of stereotype; we have our Spanish stereotype matador who eats tacos which looks like Monty on a diet. His name is Manual Transmission by the way which would have been fine; if Daisy didn't realize that he's Spanish and therefore it should be Transmision Manual. One s on Transmission and the o is accent grave. This is what happens when you don't have a good story editor who doesn't know how cultures work. According to Juan F. Lara's episode guide; he thinks that Transmision Manual is voiced by Joe Nipote who started as Tony The Rose in Strangers Kiss in 1983 along with a cameo on Happy Days as Leo Epps. Then he was doing nothing of note until he was the voice of Strech in both the Casper movie and television series, Viper (movie and two television series) as Frankie X. Waters and Trash on What A Mess. Quack Pack is his DTVA debut (according to IMDB; he did additional voices) and only appearance of note. He has 33 credits to his resume. Video game credits include his most recent credit Mafia 2 in 2010, Age of Mythlogy and Grim Fandango as Chowcilla Charlie.
Then Daisy introduces the defending world champion of racing; Rocky "The Rocket Throttler" Powers (might as well admit that it's basically Kent Powers' brothers while we are at it. I would not be surprised if the exec notes had that and everyone ignored it. As usual) who does the victory handshake and then Daisy stammers because there is a late entry and it's Donald Duck. UH OH! DAISY GONNA KILL YOU~! So Rocky mocks Donald and Donald mocks Rocky; and does the raspberry so well that he spits in Rocky's face. Now THAT is classy Donald Duck. Daisy is not liking this at all and I say screw her! Rocky is a heel and anything Donald does to screw him is A-OK with me! Donald mocks Rocky and forgets that the announcer has already signals for the start and WE ARE OFF...to see Donald mocking absolutely nothing.. AND THE ROCKS SEZS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING~! HAHA! Nice to see the spit on the ground too. Sadly; once Donald starts up and we zoom out; the crowd looks like the worse cardboard I have ever seen and everything except the car is like cardboard showing that canceling the TMS deal was a BAD idea. So Donald races for his life as we head to the Duckberg City Limits which contains a couple of hangers and a glass building with a helicopter on top of it. Wait; is this Launchpad's place we see? The racers race by and...wait a second...WHAT? Daisy said that we were going through 500 miles through Duckberg. So why are we going outside the city limits and into the plains as we do some serious turning while Daisy tells us that Rocky is in first, Transmision is in second while Jacques is in a solid third...despite the fact that we clearly see Jacques taking over second place with Transmision. And Daisy's own....ERRR...I mean Duckberg's own Donald Duck is in last place.
So we head back to Donald's house as the nephews get on the Beverley Hillbillies car of doom as Dewey has the flask and ponders how much to use. Okay; here's another logic break: If they are outside the city limits and the nephews are near where the racers are supposed to be; then why is Donald known as Duckberg's own when Donald doesn't even live in Duckberg. I mean Halifax Regional Municipality makes a lot more sense than this. And then we get the Hilarious House of Count Frightenstein sequence. For those who haven't seen Billy Van's Z-grade show; here's how it works: They run the segment and then out of nowhere they shift to a scene where the guy cuts a promo which lasts about three seconds and then shift back to the original scene to finish the actual segment. It's usually dull; but the "Igor brainless" joke with Igor and the midget Dracula of this was really funny. So we shift to Ludwig Von Drake in the lab admitting that he forgot to tell them and the government to use just one drop. The problem with this is he only used one drop on the kangaroo and the nephews clearly saw that. So we return and the nephews tells Dewey to use the entire flask of fuel and he does. These nephews have the IQ of a paint chip and they are still smarter than Fanboy & Chum Chum. Unbelievable! And speaking of making old Disney fans look bad; the roadster peels off the driveway and we race like mad spitting parts and causing fire on the road from the wheels. I do admit that it's Super Zippy Fuel; so this is more believable than when they do the fire on the road spot in Kick Buttowski, but still... So we go into the countryside and dirt roads for a while to waste time and then we head to the fork in the road which has suddenly paved itself. The correct route is to the left; while the dead end is to the right. So Rocky stops the car in front of the fork and then gets evil and switches the arrows. CHEAT TO WIN~! Sort of. And we have stooped to using Wuzzle style colors despite the fact that most of the show features beautiful colors already and most of it is not brown.
So Rocky drives away stage left as Transmision Manual stops and then heads right as he panics as there is a fence that sezs dead end; complete with roosters. Instead of braking; he smashes into the fence which causes him to suck the rooster. Oh man; I heard of sucking a cock; but this is absurd. Then he crashes into a hay pile and then into a barn which collapses about halfway along with the silo. Transmision then crawls from the carnage as the announcer proclaims that he is out of the race. Wait; why isn't Daisy doing this announcing stuff since she was calling the action during the turning stuff just outside of the city limits. However; a bull shows up out of nowhere as he sees the red hanky fluttering in the wind. Okay; this is fine because the movement of the cloth is what drives the bull crazy; and not the red color so at least the writers covered their research here nicely. So bull chases Transmision around as Transmision somehow teases going up a tree; but changes direction. This goes on for a while as we see Gustav heading to the fork in the road as somehow Transmision and the bull run from the left side and causes the whirlwind spot on the arrows changing them to their original spot. This makes no sense at all. They should be running from right to left; not left to right. UGH! So Gustav stops and goes stage left; which causes the arrows to whirlwind back to the wrong spot as that sends all the cars minus Donald to the right; which a weak spot manages to whirlwind the arrows back to normal. Now logic would dictate that all the cars would bust through the barn and silo and destroy whatever is left in a large explosion. In TaleSpin; that would happen; but remember that BS&P RULEZ so instead of heading to the barn; we head to a cliff as all the cars run off the road. Yeah; these car drivers are stupider than Transmision Manual and didn't brake the cars at all. I CLUB BS&P!
So we head back to the fork as Donald stops and then looks around before finally heading left and peeling the road a little bit. So we head back to the Start/Finish line as Daisy and the announcers notice the Beverly Hillbillies car racing in and causing flames; as the announcer calls it three teenagers in a laughable joke of a car. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. The car speeds off as Daisy calls this doubly bad. No crap Sherlock! So we head to the mountains as Rocky crosses a wooden bridge with ease and then hides behind a rock. And you know there is no logic nor reasoning when the car is hugging and dry humping Rocky from behind. Even dumber; Rocky is no selling it. We then see Gustav driving up as he almost makes it to the bridge; but Rocky invokes the BIG ASS SHEARS OF DEATH and cuts the ropes causing the ropes to spring back and tie onto the bottom of Gustav's car and Gustav is forced to grab onto the edge of the road and hangs on for dear life. Yippee! The first awesome spot of the episode almost 19 minutes in. So Rocky apparently leaves as Donald races in and drives over Gustav without touching him as Gustav and his car are flapping up and down; effectively driving his out of the race. So we then cut back to the HB car as it races and causes fire on the dirt road as Louie is crossing his webtoes in the back complaining like a backseat driver. Huey is pushing on the brakes with no luck whatsoever as we see Gustav still hanging on and cussing as the HB car rides over him causing Gustav to fly into the air and then swing into the rock cliff below with a loud thud and causing the rocks to crumble up a bit. Well; he's gone from the race which is bad news for Daisy since she's screwed no matter what happens here. So we see Rocky thinking that he has this all in the bag and then he notices in his rear view mirror Donald Duck coming at him. Funny sight gag: Ducks Are Closer Than They Appear. Rocky blows off Donald proclaiming that Daisy is his as Donald smokes him; which sadly Rocky doesn't sell.
So Donald overtakes first for the first time in the race; and so Rocky decides to bring out the big ass bomb. Which has a 1 1/2 minute timer on it which means it's set to go off at 21:15. Then Rocky really CHEATS TO WIN as he takes off the Insta-Tires with ease and then rips out the floorboards of the purple roadster. I love this Rocky guy as he cuts his zoom promo and drives away while Donald's car is tipping sideways at a 45 degree angle. The nephews use the telescope and notice that Rocky was responsible for all this and now they are PISSED as they floor it as the engine is on fire now. The nephews drive towards Donald as their plan is to get the HB car underneath Donald's purple car and they succeed in doing that. Since the floorboards are gone; the nephews are seated perfectly with Donald and the purple car. Now that is the first good thing these nephews have done. We are now only three miles away from Duckberg as Rocky zooms forward and thinks he has won. However; here comes the nephews and Donald as the nephews point out the jumbo sized bomb behind them. So the nephews try to get to the bomb; but BS&P RULEZ~ prevent them from reaching. So we have a nail biter coming as they head back to Duckberg as the cars are neck and neck and they make it to the finish line just as the bomb reaches zero and it explodes right in our faces. I'm predicting the cop out finish of no one winning because the tie finish does nothing for anyone and Daisy has to somehow get out of this without letting anyone know she's Donald's girlfriend. So the cars are totally destroyed of course as the nephews, Donald and Rocky are completely blacken with soot. The announcer declare that this is a photo finish as Rocky struts his stuff claiming that he won. The announcers tell us that Rocky has NOT won and Rocky's jaw drops. So Donald mocks him while the nephews walk in all smug and the announcer proclaim that neither Donald nor the teenagers won the race. They are all shocked and appalled. The winner of the Duckberg 500 is...wait for it...wait for it..as they show the B&W photo as both cars explodes about a foot from the finish line and guess who crosses the finish line...Wait for it...
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh boy! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yes; it's Ludwig Von Drake's kangaroo model with the squeeze box. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Best...Finish...In...Quack...Pack...EVERAH~! The sooted losers' jaws all drop on cue onto the pavement and Donald and Rocky embrace each other and cry that this is unfair. Screw you guys; we all knew you two would lose. I heart BS&P! So we head to the podium as the kangaroo is on it in front of a red curtain as Daisy comes in and kisses the kangaroo and we circle fade out to end the episode at 21:05. This could have been our first thumbs up episode; but logic breaks in the race prevented that; and the nephews still suck. But Rocky was a perfectly fine heel; Daisy was fine and Donald was kick ass. Call it *** 3/4 (75%); which is the highest rating for this show thus far.
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; we actually came close to our first thumbs up episode of the series with this which is a blessing since this was only the sixth episode on the air date paper. Sure; it wasn't without flaws as the animation went south during the race and there are a number of logic breaks during the race that made no sense to me. However; for the most part, the nephews didn't push the crappy button much and it was mostly focused on the Donald/Rocky fight which I liked a lot more than the fight with Donald and Beef Jerky because Rocky was written a lot better than Beef ever could be. Yes; the climax wasn't all that great; but it had the only finish they could pull off and have it make sense in the grand scheme of things. Remember that the kangaroo left Ludwig's building. Now granted; the character developer for the kangaroo could have been better if we knew it was in the race to begin with; but seriously, a tie finish would have been disasterious here and one of them winning would have done nothing for Donald nor Rocky since the heel has to lose and we already know Donald is Daisy's boyfriend; so would have done nothing. Having the nephews win would have been better; but not too much, so the copout finish worked for once and they didn't try the reverse decision finish this time which helped it out a lot. This was a whole lot better than Horse Scents was and thank these rookie writers for that at least; even if they are not well versed in Spanish nor French cultures. The first half was actually acceptable; although the padded out space alien scene was pointless and dumb; but unlike most scenes involving the nephews; this episode showed that the nephews can break out into decent characters. They just don't answer the call most of the time and end up being worse off than when they started. So overall; this was a good episode that could have made it over the **** hump; but Toon City and logic breaks stalled it at the line. Next up is Island Of Not So Nice which features Knuckles, peanut butter and dinosaur poop. Well; so much for my good graces for the nephews. So........
Thumbs in the middle pointing up for this episode and I'll see you next time.