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Island Of Not So Nice
Reviewed: 01/08/2013
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Okay; now we are getting closer and closer to the debut of Quack Pack as this one is episode #2 on the order paper. It will also be the second episode I have ranted on that GeoX has ranted on as well. Basically; it's how most episodes start in this show: The nephews walk Knuckles thinking nothing will go wrong and then all hell breaks loose which includes a lot of peanut butter, mad scientists and dinosaur poop. Come to think about it; that could also be constructed as a Family Guy episode too. Yeah; now do you see what I am up against?! So; let's rant on and find out shall we...?!
This episode is written by Dean Stefan. The story was edited by Gary Sperling. Sadly; Juan F. Lara doesn't mention the studio in his review of the episode.
Opening Moment #1: Today's title card features a giant lizard climbing a building as and airplane comes forward; all in shadow. Nothing more needs to be said.
So we begin this episode with a shot of Donald's house on a closeup as we head inside and see Louie bouncing on a trampoline with a dumb bell. Now that is symbolic isn't it? Huey is lying around doing nothing while Dewey is staring and flicking black rocks on his pedulum machine. Huey cuts a dumb promo about being excited and Louie bounces into the basket while the dumb bell takes the bump with CHEESE AND BACON on the wooden floor. Then they hear noises and go to the window as we see in front of the driveway Gustav Goose giving gifts to Kathie who is our SEXIST GIRL OF THE DAY complete with pink shirt, blue pants and purple sneakers. And she's riding a yellow scooter. Gustav has a puppy with him and Kate loves it as Huey deduces that Katie loves animals; except for Louie which Louie takes offense. Pffftt. Dewey wants a puppy; but Huey thinks that is too predictable; so he has a better idea. So we head for the docks as the nephews are walking Knuckles the Iguana who so happens to be Daisy's pet which we saw in Transmission Impossible eating Daisy's phone. Apparently; they more or less kidnapped Knuckles and then their cover is instantly blown because Daisy walks out of the ice cream shop after giving the ice cream man (who is human) some coin. D'OH! Daisy demands answers to this outrage/crime; and Huey claims that he is taking Knuckles for a walk. And of course Knuckles jumps up and eats Daisy's ice cream cone like the greedy iguana that it is. Daisy goes on about how sacred Knuckles is and Louie basically blows their cover about talking to the SEXIST GIRL OF THE DAY and Dewey ribs him in such a way that it seems that he's trying to curb stomp him to the ground and doing a piss poor job of it. Daisy decides to give the devil it's due and tries to explain what will happen if anything happens to Knuckles; but the nephews cut her off and say careful is their middle name. Wait; I thought "pushing the crappy button"; was their middle name? Whatever guys. Knuckles is hyper excited as he eats another ice cream cone; or was this a logic break to imply that he was eating Daisy; even though he ate hers in one bite. Knuckles burps on cue and looks fatter than ever...
So we scene change to Kathie on her yellow scooter delivering papers and throwing them; then is stopped as the nephews are in the middle of the damn road. If you want to know where Kick Buttowski got his bad habits from; there are your targets RIGHT THERE! Aim well fellas. Huey greets her and Louie blows their cover again and Dewey ribs him as a kidder. If only Dewey, if only. Kate has a purple helmet with the letter K on it which makes her like Zeus having a belt with the letter Z on it. Which implies that she cannot remember her name. Good one Dean; you bigot! And then the booking gets dumber as she goes to her bag and eats a jelly doughnut. Okay; that in itself is not offensive; it's that she makes a mess on the road and on herself, implying that she's a slob. Yeah. Huey doesn't seem to care though as he brings out the leash and Katie speaks as she proclaims that the leash is nice; but they should save more to buy something to go to the end with it. Personally; I would buy two more leashes and use the three to wrap around the nephews' pencil necks. Katie drives away stage left as Huey realizes that Knuckles is gone. The nephews panic and then realize that Knuckles is inside the newspaper sack that Katie has in the back of her yellow scooter. So we give chase as Katie (who is voiced by Katie Leigh, natch) is throwing newspapers and then throws Knuckles into the conveniently placed red roofless corvette with a green shirted man with a barely seen mustache. He backs out of his driveway and drives into the FPS shot as the nephews give chase to him. So we head inside the supermarket to the check out counter as a female checkout clerk (who is red haired wearing a green shirt, darker green pants and a white apron) is calling for a paper or plastic BEFORE she rings in the items. We see a barefoot man wearing a vanilla suit and brown shorts carrying a big ass load of many jars of peanut butter. He looks rabid and is grunting...Wait a second. He looks like....WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO LUCKY PIQUEL? Did the critics drive him to a life of crime of stealing peanut butter? TUNE INTO SOFT COPY TO FIND OUT!!
So the clerk drops the price to 59 cent a jar; but Rabid Lucky squashes the cash register with his bare hands. HAHA! I'm guessing rabid Lucky sees it as Bonkers and Fall Apart Rabbit together. So the clerk gives him a clean slate for free and Rabid Lucky walks out with the entire cart of peanut butter jars. So we head to the beach as the red car continues to drive on the paved road near the coast. So I'm guessing Duckberg is in Florida or California. Knuckles is the backseat driver and becomes the backseat eater of this duo. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So the nephews come out with the handle stop sign and the guy in the car stops; and that slingshots him into the kart of peanut butter jars which we do not see any contact made; nor see Knuckles anywhere near what Rabid Lucky was holding; but the nephews spot him running on the docks towards a fishing boat. The nephews follow and somehow; the fishing boat disappears and the dock is for an airplane as a fat bald headed man wearing the same suit as Rabid Lucky with a red tie addresses him as Mungly (so according to Juan F. Lara; he might be voiced by Roger Rose) as Mungly puts all the stuff in the back of the plane. However; bald headed freak wants him to hurry up; but since he said "chop, chop"; Mungly takes out the big ass prehistoric hatchet and chops up the dock. HAHA! Baldy blows him off for that and Mungly gets into the back as the nephews make it to the airplane dock and jump onto the chopped up end of the dock which contains a rope which is conveniently tied to the anchor and the airplane. So when the plane flies up into the air; the nephews are hanging on for dear life into the sky. Yes; two episodes in and they are already whizzing on Kit Cloudkicker's grave. I hope you are proud of yourselves, you dirty rotten sexists! So we head to the airplane and we pan left to see Daisy's RV outside a hanger which has the words "TOP SECRET" on it. Which Daisy kills because we get to see inside to a red/white/blue crane like plane with a glass elevator which tells everyone to stop; because it's top secret. Daisy cuts a promo as Donald joins in stammering. And then the top door of the plane sucks them into the plane. Now this episode really sucks. HAHA!
Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Sean Desmond.
So we head to the passenger seats as a television intercom as it welcomes the reporters to the demonstration. Daisy and Donald sit down and buckle up (so they can be safe see although Donald's temper before the FCC NAVY wouldn't be contained by a seat belt.); and Daisy has evil intentions as she pushes the conveniently placed red button below the speaker and informs the plane that everyone is on board and ready for takeoff. The plane sells it hook, line and sinker as we fly up into the air as super sonic speed out of the hanger. Donald and Daisy are compacted with their legs wiggling out forth. Then they finally slow down and they are back to normal as the intercom voice tells us that they hope that they enjoy the flight because they have some new tricks up their sleeve. Donald does not like this at all as we do the loop-de-loop for only $250,000 per duck. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So coming out of the back is a swirly female robot flight attendant wearing all blue and apparently; this airplane has found the same technology used by pizza delivery boys to keep the in flight meals hot when you serve them; only with technology that makes them too hot. Case in point: the attendant (voiced by Kath Soucie) brings out of the silver domed platter; a hot plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce and meatballs which Donald goes giddy for. Then we discover that the plane has hit some turbulence and the side shelf on top of the ceiling opens bringing out a literal anvil case and they even jackhammer it by writing it in red letter on the case. It MURDERS the attendant she goes into fist mode as she nails the button rapidly on the tray and we get about three dozen dishes of spaghetti thrown right at Donald. Donald pleads for mercy; but he gets none as Daisy gently blows him off for getting carried away with free food. Then the attendant runs out of pasta and we go into the purple frosted cupcakes with cherries on top. HA! Donald is certainly getting his money's worth on this deal; although he should be selling pain and burns from the spaghetti since it was piping hot; but he doesn't. I club BS&P!
So we head back into the skies as the triple prop seaplane arrives with the nephews degrading cloud skying by the second. The nephews whine about finding a place to land as a giant dinosaur like bird which seems to be Wuzzlized grabs the nephews by the talons; with Dewey getting the exclusive rights to the left talon. Louie and Huey call it the after effects of jet lag. I doubt it since you three are still alive. So Dewey grabs a big ass gray feather (get used to it; this show has a fetish for big ass objects) and we tickle underneath the wing and the bird only giggles. That's one resistant bird there; maybe those wings would make a good shield on the soles of Kit's feet. The nephews point out Dewey's tiny logic fallacy as the bird opens the talons and the Quack Pack Nephews free fall about 50 feet and Dewey gets saved by his shorts on a tree branches; while the rest fall another ten feet into the bushes. Louie walks away as Huey walks up and then Dewey comes down to make sure Huey is really on bottom. Dewey wants to know what the hell is going on as when Huey is pondering this over; Dewey's left foot is about three times the size of Huey's head. The DINO PIGEON OF DEATH swoops back into action as Huey whirlwinds Dewey like crazy and we have the OUT OF NOWHERE pink umbrella. They hide underneath it; and we get an off-screen splatting sound which implies that Louie got dumped with dinosaur bird poop; but when we see Louie looking at the big ass dinosaur foot print (which is apporos in this case) he's perfectly clean. That was absolute weak sauce BS&P! Anyhow; the nephews panic as they are apparently on a prehistoric island. Then Huey dreams of cave duck babes fanning him with a green leaf on a beach in a hammock as the other two babes who are barefoot (white human feet; which makes no sense since they are ducks as well) feeding him fruit and offering him flowers. Oy vey! Dewey blows off his dream because they are in the land that time forgot as the writers seem to have them on the beach now as we got a big ass rabbit/kangaroo. The nephews bail and the mutant prehistoric rabbit (at least this is played to (poor) comedy; rather than horror because no one could take this seriously. Anyone?) gives chase.
Louie and Huey climb up a palm tree which the rabbit is chomping through easily. Dewey is cornered by a cliff made of rock which inspires Dewey to draw "modern art" with coloring markers. Whatever Dewey. So the nephews at the palm tree are hanging on for dear life as Dewey whistles to the Rabid Rabbit as we have a drawing of a big ass carrot. Ummm; yeah. And yes the bunny falls for it as the palm tree goes timber dropping the nephews safely on the sand as Dewey cuts the educational line of doom (carrots = vitamin A); bunny does a MAN-SIZED off-screen bump into the cliff and drops to it's side dead and it's teeth chipped at first, then both buck teeth crumble to dust. Dewey proclaims that the carrot is underdone. Whatever. So we head behind a palm tree on the closeup and we notice that the tri-prop seaplane the heels were using is docked on a wooden dock. We then see the nephews looking behind the tree hiding. Huey pulls the vine on the east pan shot and we see a grass hut and a board walk. Huey thinks they'll find Knuckles inside as the nephews walk to the front door and knock on said door. The door opens to reveal Mungly as the nephews ask about Knuckles. Mungly only sezs "Trap Door". The nephews act all stupid claiming that he is speaking cave person speak so to speak. So Mungly finds the conveniently placed rope and tugs on it saying "Trap Door" again and the trap door opens beneath the nephews' feet. HAHA! Memo to nephews: You are stupider than a cave man. That is why they have wanted rights for the last five years or so. The nephews get WARNERED as Mungly waves bye bye and the trap door slams shut to end the segment nearly ten minutes in. Well; that was a load of nothing, although none of it is actively bad, so I'll take it for now...
After the commercial break; we head to a far shot of the hut and then inside as another trap door opens and Mungly has the nephews under his arms while the nephews protest this outrage. Well screw you nephews! Maybe a little rough handling of you will make you learn his language and be a little less of a bigot. The nephews then discover that it's a lab and go to the table and look at the flask of chemicals for a while. Then we hear Baldy's voice beckon as the bald headed heel with his brown cat in his arms walk in from behind and he's pissed off because the nephews are spying on him. He officially addresses himself as Horton LeTrec and according to Juan F. Lara; he might be voiced by Jeff Glenn Bennett and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!: Jeffrey "Jeff" Glen Bennett (born October 2, 1962) is an American voice actor and singer, best known as the voice of Johnny Bravo in the series of the same name. When voicing Johnny, he made his voice sound like that of Elvis Presley. He is also famous for voicing Petrie in The Land Before Time series from the second film onward, voicing Dexter's Dad in the Cartoon Network series Dexter's Laboratory, and being the current voice of Disney's Mr. Smee. Bennett also took over for two actors who played different characters in the Star Wars series: as Jango Fett who was originally portrayed by actor Temuera Morrison and as Count Dooku who was originally played by Christopher Lee in Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter. Bennett also played Jango Fett for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Bennett has been listed "among the top names in the voice-over field".[1] He is currently the voice of Smee in Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Dorkus in Planet Sheen, the spin-off series of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Kowalski in The Penguins of Madagascar, the spin-off series of Madagascar and Keswick on TUFF Puppy. Bennett voices various characters in movies, TV shows, and video games.
His best-known voice role is in Johnny Bravo as the main character of the same name.From 2006 to the present, Jeff Bennett has voiced the role of The Man With the Yellow Hat in the PBS Kids TV series, Curious George. The series was awarded Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Children's Animated Program in 2008, 2010, and 2012.[2][3] Bennett played the same role in Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!. In the TV series, Bennett also plays a farmer, Mr. Renkins, who is a neighbor to the country house where Curious George and The Man With the Yellow Hat often spend weekends. As of 2011, he is voicing the Joker and other characters on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Dorkus on Planet Sheen, Keswick, Larry and Ollie on T.U.F.F. Puppy, Kowalski on The Penguins of Madagascar and Red Tornado on Young Justice. He started his career in Friday The 13th VII: The New Blood as Eddie in 1988 and then went straight to voice acting with James Bond Jr. in 1991 as Horace Boothroys "IQ" and Knick Knack. Raw Toonage was his DTVA debut voicing Jitters "I Hate My Life" A. Dog, and also appeared in Marsupilami, Bonkers, The Little Mermaid as Prince Eric, Aladdin as Amin Dimoola/Mozenrath, The Shnookums & Meat "Funny" Cartoon Show as Pitt Possum/Tex Tinstar, Gargoyles as Brooklyn/Magus/Owen Burnett, Jungle Cubs as McCoy, Mighty Ducks: The Series as Duke L'Orange, 101 Dalmatians: The Series as Lt. Pug/P.H. DeVil/Roger Dearly, Hercules the Series as Pita Delivery Boy, Timon & Pumbaa as Toucan Dan, Mickey's Mouseworks as Shelby, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Pepper Ann as Craig Bean/Dieter Leiderhosen/Sir Helpsalot, The Weekenders as various male parents, Teamo Surpremo, House of Mouse as Mr. Toad, The Legend of Tarzan as Professor Porter, The Proud Family as Frankie, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go as Robo-Ape Alfa, the narrator for Dave The Barbarian, WITCH as Tracker, The Buzz On Maggie as Principal Pestrip, Lilo & Stitch The Series as Dr. Jacques Von Hämsterviel, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers as Fernando, Kim Possible in various cameos, American Dragon: Jake Long as Jake's Father, The Emperor's New Skool as Topo, Phineas & Ferb as various cameos, The Replacements as Conrad Fleem, Kick Buttowski as Billy Stumps (Yeah; I have mentioned Jeff a million times in these rants; but he deserves a tribute anyway), Fish Hooks as Seahorse/Sick Fish, Gravity Falls as The Summerween Trickster, and Jake & The Neverland Pirates as Mr. Smee and Bones. Whew!
He has 377 titles to his resume. Thunder and Lightning as Peter Gambi, Khumba as Rabbit and Green Lantern: The Animated Series as Tomar-Re are his most recent credits. The nephews claim that he has them confused with some other triplets; but Horton blows them off and pulls the conveniently placed rope to bring out from the ceiling under a white sheet; a De-Retro Ray Gun. This causes animals to retrograde back to their original ancestors. Then it should be called a Retro Ray Gun; since De-Retro means to make the creature modern and Mungly would be Bubba in Bubba's Big Brainstorm. The nephews are not impressed as they give Mungly garlic laced Juicy Fruit which causes you to burp and stink for a solid week. Mungly eats gum; and stinks more than he already does and blows stinky air into Horton which causes him to grow brown hair. HA...Oh wait; it falls off like he had cancer treatments recently and sheds a tear. Awwwww! He was this close to the promised land; of Krillin. Horton accuses the nephews of mocking him and the nephews shake their heads in stereo. So; Horton proclaims that Mungly once mocked him as he tells Mungly to remember that day as he somehow manages to create a flashback sequence as we see Mungly who is wearing much more clothing and glasses as he laughs at Horton's new invention as Horton claims that Mungly thought it would NEVER work. He rolls on the floor laughing as Horton zaps him with the purple beam of doom and we return to reality (no, not really) as Mungly is chewing on a tire like a monkey. The nephews accuse him of changing the animals on the island as Horton asks if they want a demonstration and the nephews panic and appear to be wringing each others necks. Where was the BS&P note for that spot? So Horton grabs his cat which is named Whiskers and brings down a bamboo shoot strapping table and plops the cat on the table; and doesn't even bother strapping the cat down as it rises up to meet the track of the Retro Beam and the cat gets zapped with neon green x-ray effects to a shadow and he turns into a saber tooth tiger. Yawn.
Horton does a neat spot of using a turn key model of Donald Duck and allows it to zip stage right and the saber tooth tiger runs after it causing an off-screen bump into the wall. See; he is going to zap the entire planet back to the stone age. Jurassic Jumble, Darkwing Duck, I'm just saying Horton. And I just realized that I have already ranted on this dude in Heavy Dental and he sucks back then as he does now. Horton wants them to ask him why and Louie asks him why (this is the same promo Horton did on SMOOCH Leader in Heavy Dental and the one here is better at least) as we get a flourish with a kazoo, squeeze box with yellow paper from Mungly and we show darkness and spotlight combined. They sing this tune which is so hilariously bad; that Fanboy & Chum Chum should be ashamed of themselves; if they knew what that meant. A poster of dinosaur drawn in grade school level stuff; plus lots of models of green dinosaurs as Horton sings so badly that I cannot make out anything he said. The guise of this is that once he turns everything and everyone into prehistoric fodder; he will rule the world. This has to be a huge rib on Land Before Time; and it's actually a funny parody spot that is completely wasted on a series such as this. The green chomping dinosaurs were awesome and on the wrong show too. The nephews call it a snappy tune which shows that they have extremely bad tastes in music and back away as they bail to the door; but Mungly grabs them by the stomach although Louie is selling it like Mungly grabbed him by the neck. I CLUB BS&P. We get the "ask me why" promo as Mungly is using his feet to hold the flashlight to give Horton a spotlight in a cute spot; and Horton is going to make Croc Mangum Triplets. I have no idea what that involves (beside the Retro Ray) and I don't really want to know.
So we head back to the skies with the USA TOP SECRET PLAN OF THE FUTURE as Daisy is at the cockpit door knocking because she wants to interview the pilot. Daisy manages to get the door open while stammering and then is in shock as the pilot turns around and it's another robot. Yeah; someone was seriously watching too much TaleSpin when designing this thing; more so From Here to Machinery. Sadly; the pilot is a generic pilot uniform type robot with steel colored underneath. MEL and the Auto Aviator were much more creatively designed then this piece of junk. The flight attendant comes in out of nowhere and fishes a hot towel for Donald in her midsection which somehow creeps me out. And the pilot robot goes into Gizmo Duck mode which means Gyro Gearloose must have built this one and got it past Toby Shelton's PRISON OF CANON DAMNATION~! AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! So the robot flight attendant slams the towel in Donald's kisser and wipes his face with it. Then the attendant and pilot trade pleasure thoughts as Donald gets the towel off of his piece and his head shrunk. HAHA! They spray pink mist in each others mouths and we do the electric kiss of death; which doesn't kill them sadly. The two robot hover out of the cockpit and offer to go to Locker 47, Hanger 3 for some more pleasure thoughts. They go to the glass vacuum door on the floor and it opens and they free fall; and then they parachute towards the ground. HAHA! This is the best part of the entire episode right there. Donald and Daisy don't know what to do as the control panel on the plane flashes as the computer proclaims that there was pilot error involved. HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. I think it's obvious who invented those robots and it's not Martin Torque nor Ludwig Von Drake. Donald and Daisy panic and grab each other as the plane of the future takes a nose dive into the clouds.
So we fade to black to turn Michael Eisner on for a second and then open the cupboards as Horton brings out jars of peanut butter. See; the best energy source for the Retro Ray is protein and the best source of protein that is cheap and in large amounts is chunky or smooth peanut butter. Would light do Horton? Horton sets up the peanut butter jars like batteries connected to wires which sounds stupid because batteries are supposed to have a acidic electrolyte and peanut butter does not have any to the best of my knowledge. If anyone can produce citations that prove otherwise; please let me know. And yes; the nephews are strapped to the bamboo shoot table on an angle as Dewey proclaims that he'll never look at peanut butter the same again. Then they notice Mungly pushing a screwdriver up his nose (heh) as Horton grabs it and blows Mungly off. Then the nephews notice near the emptied jars of peanut butter that there is Knuckles trying to gain some free peanut butter food. Knuckles pigs out as Louie tells Knuckles to go to a payphone and call the police. That is so lame. Even Huey and Dewey give him eye contact violence so you know it's lame. So Horton is at the control panel and tells Mungly to throw the switches. So Mungly grabs all three switches; pulls them out of the computer and tosses them through the window causing glass to shatter. HAHA! Mungly's a million times funnier as a caveman than he was as a geek. So Horton crackles with glee as Knuckles is on top of the peanut butter jars and he slips and causes one of the jar to take a really sick bump off of Horton's noggins with no glass shattering. Horton orders Mungly to get Kunckles as Kunckles falls to the floor and we get the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE IGUANA EDITION~! Complete with HB looping and running sound effects to boot.
So Mungly chases Knuckles up the ceiling and Knuckles gets stuck forcing Knuckles to fall down and get grabbed by Mungly. Horton is impressed that he can walk on the ceiling upside down; which always leads to the heel free falling down and he whacks the Ray Gun to 45 degrees below where it was supposed to be as Knuckles gets stuck into a peanut butter jar. Mungly then bounces off the Retro Ray and free falls and crushes the control panel completely; causing the straps of the bamboo shoot table to come loose and the nephews are free to push the crappy button again. YEEHAW! They call for Knuckles; but Knuckles is still stuck in the peanut butter jar and the ray is turned on and manages to nail Knuckles and turns him into a giant ass Knuckles Dragon that is as big as the ceiling of the lab. Okay; so the control panel Horton was using was destroyed and Mungly destroyed the switches, so the thing should have shut off instead of firing a purple surge beam right? Oh wait; then that would have meant the episode is almost over and we still have six minutes left to cause more destruction and mayhem. Nice neon green/white x-ray's there guys as the nephews panic on cue and that ends the segment 16 and a half minutes in. Yeap; six minutes of CDS left to do. Although this segment was refreshing over the first act...
After the commercial break; we see Dragon Knuckles tear through the ceiling and then chomp some more on peanut butter; jar and all. So that leads to the nonsense Retro Ray Gun chasing Horton and then it zaps Mungly which causes Horton to panic and is shocked as he gets zapped since apparently; one of the levers (WRONG LEVER!) is still working thus the machine is still working despite being completely totaled. Whatever; and the nephews of course do nothing but hide underneath a table as Horton is now a caveman. Yeah; Huey and company come out as Mungly is back to his geeky self which is unfunny and deduces that the Retro Ray Gun shot him back to his own self. Which makes no sense because if the Retro Ray Gun did that to him; then he should have been shot down to an amobea or something. Damn; this logic makes Kick Buttowski's logic look like real reality. The nephews realize that all they have to do is zap Knuckles again; because the writers clearly didn't think this through and went for the shortcut of the second shot restores them to normal. So Knuckles eats the Retro Gun to protest my outrage. HAHA! Knuckles then walks in the ocean away from the island as the nephews realize that they are screwed. NO?! REALLY?! This is exactly the consequences of toxic manliness and rigid gender roles~! Okay; maybe not. He heads to Duckberg as the nephews have no clue where he is going. And we head to Duckberg as the skies have turn to yellow crap ala Heavy Dental. Wonder if Toon City is animating this one? Anyhow; Knuckles eats the Welcome to Duckberg Sunny Side Up sign and there is a gag of a second sign saying "Now Go Home". HAHA! So Knuckles causes chaos, destruction and terror. No death; because BS&P is a bastard who needs to realize that the 700 Club has no grasp of reality whatsoever. The denizens panic and flee; as we see a woman and girl embracing each other; but Knuckles sniffs around as a couple of news reporters flash pictures and bail stage right.
We then get a really funny moment as the ice cream truck music plays and a food truck rides on the street and Knuckles grabs it as the drivers bails out safely. Knuckles peels the truck like a candy bar; eats the contents and then goes to the conveniently placed water tower which without the WB shield logo; looks like the same water tower the Warner Brothers & Sisters would be placed in; flips the top open and throws the truck into it. That one really did make me laugh. And here comes the plane from the future still managing to take the least steepest nose dive I have ever seen. So the intercom proclaims that the plane is out of fuel and a crash is forthcoming. Donald bangs on the console as Daisy points out that fuel is the least of their problems (Really Daisy?) as we see Dragon Knuckles grab the plane and Daisy is shocked, appalled and...confused? Yeah; she has figured it out as Knuckles as Knuckles pops the top open and kidnaps Daisy. Oh; this just gets sillier and sillier; but at least Daisy playing the victim to King Kong's Knuckles isn't such a bad prospect. The plane of the future is thrown away and it crashes off-screen into another food truck as Donald goes through the trap door as the intercom tells him to watch his step. Donald slips on food and falls down. Daisy pleads for mercy and calls him a vegan; which seems to insult Knuckles; then his eyes grow hearts and pop out because there is a giant ass peanut statue on the top of a 100 story building. I think you can guess where this is going now. Knuckles climbs up building and we are redoing the finish from Attack Of The 50 Foot Webby. Sadly; I'm probably going to dislike this version over the Ducktales one big time. Knuckles makes it worse by getting all of the peanut slobber all over Daisy; but logic breaks as she is perfectly dry when they go up the building. Daisy proclaims that this is worse than Knuckles eating her shoes. I find that hard to believe dear; I smell a sexist iguana; if that is possible.
So Daisy orders Knuckles to put her down this instant; which is probably the dumbest thing you can say if you are half animal. So Knuckles actually puts Daisy on a really safe ledge and then climbs up towards the top as we see the vast destruction Knuckles laid waste which is so nasty; FOWL should retire forever now. We see Mungly flying the triple prop plane as he notices Knuckles on top of the building as the nephews panic while Mungly tries to get in close; but is forced to fly around dodging the slobber and the iguana's knuckles so to speak. The nephews yell for Knuckles to come down before they are in deep crap and that is enough for Daisy to point out to them that it's too late. The nephews proclaim that they are doomed. If only that were true; but we know it isn't. They try to circle around again; but the big ass claw of death comes out and it slaps the plane down straight into the ground and explodes. Wow; I didn't think they would get that past BS&P. Sadly; the plane is crumbled; but reasonably intact as everyone pops out of the carnage as we make seat and seat belt jokes on Knuckles. Whatever; you suck Louie. So it's time to play doughnuts as Dewey goes to the "Donut" shop. That has to be the worse form of Engrish I have ever seen in a show to date. Dewey comes out with a sack of "donuts" and Huey and Louie cannot believe this. Dewey tells them to trust him ad they bail stage left. I'm hoping that the sack was food for going on the lam after being responsible for destroying the city; but I fear that this finish is going to be much worse. So Knuckles grabs the brass peanut and tries to eat it; but even Knuckles' teeth cannot chomp it to ashes; despite the fact that it had no problem chomping the Retro Ray. So he sees a tank pulling up and Knuckles throws the golden peanut at the tank and we have another explosion and despite the fact that the peanut is solid; only the ground underneath the tank is destroyed. The tank is perfectly intact and a bit of the ground is still there. That is really bad form there; and that isn't even the worst thing about this scene...
...because we head inside the tank as an army general in army gear is manning the cannons as the nephews are inside loading jelly doughnuts into the cannon. WHAT THE HELL? What army guy would give these three losers the time of day eh? So we shoot doughnuts into Knuckles mouth to waste even more time and the nephews pop from the tank and nothing is working which should have been obvious to anyone with an IQ over eight. It's time to sell folks; this episode is awful now. We have the gas pipe growing teeth calling for the air bombers as the air bombers come around just to complete the Godzilla parody which sucks. Dewey proclaims that it won't be needed as Knuckles shrinks down back to normal. WHAT THE HELL? HOW?! So we head to ground level in front of a store as Louie explains that Knuckles grew because of the protein that was in the peanut butter. So Dewey deduces that one thing would shrink it as Daisy is confused. Dewey points out that it was the jelly inside the doughnuts that shrunk him. WHAT? I get the peanut butter jelly time stupidity; but since jelly attracts with peanut butter, shouldn't it logically make Knuckles even BIGGER? Why not feed him carrot bread? Carrots are usually not served with peanut butter and they are good for you; plus it actually pays off the carrot joke which they defeated the bunny earlier. UGH! UGH! UGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! I should have taken my chances with Mr. Icy Roads today. Donald gets sprayed in the face for fun and licks the jelly as Mungly calls jelly the opposite of peanut butter and thus goes well together. Well; carrots are ALSO the opposite of peanut butter and they don't attract; but carrots are better for you and thus...Ah forget it; no one listening anymore. Let's just watch Knuckles eat a peanut butter sandwich which doesn't make him grow and thus break logic yet again to end the episode at 21:10. The middle part of this was actually pretty good and Horton actually did not suck; while the first half was nothing and the third act was fine until the nephews started going into Duckberg. That finish was more rotten than the nephews Garlic Juicy Fruit; the taste is going to move you out of house and home. So we'll give it ** (40%); because I feel generous today. I have seen thousands worse in this series; believe me.
THE REVIEW LINE
I don't why I did this episode early; but it's done and that is what counts. This one wasn't as bad as GeoX thought it was; but that isn't saying much. The first act was basically contrived and forced quite a bit to make the setup work; but I have seen more contrived episodes in this series alone than this one. The whole Daisy/Donald thing with the airplane was just there to suck and the plot thread was just there to pad the already silly episode. The nephews build was decent in spite of the stupid stuff the nephews did like cloud surfing and such. Horton was actually a really decent character once they gave him actual character development and some reason to be evil even if it is the most obvious zero sum game ever and is dead ringing Jurassic Jumble. Mungly was actually funny when he was a cave person and a nothing of note character when he was a geek. He did make me laugh with the throw the switch joke; so points for him. The second act was actually good; including the moment with the robots "tease sex" scene; but that was the only thing I liked from the Donald/Daisy stuff. In fact; this episode wasn't too bad; until the finish which was absolutely dumb because I'm sure jelly would have made him bigger because it goes with peanut butter and thus increase his strength and growth and not decrease it. Plus; getting an army to help them? That made no sense to me and the climax had a lot of logic breaks and quite a few stupid BS&P decisions to boot. Overall; I didn't expect this to be any good and it exceeded my expectations. Still; the nephews are still crappy with a crappy button on the side. So next weekend; it's The Really Mighty Ducks, Return of The T-Squad (I'm guessing it's out of order again.) and Leader Of The Quack which means we get to see two episodes of the nephews being the lamest super heroes in history. So........
Thumbs down for this episode and I'll see you next time.