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Leader Of The Quack
Reviewed: 01/15/2013
The Quack Of The Dragons Reveals The Way!
So now we are aligned in the air date order once again as Donald and company go to a Dark Ages country for no rhyme nor reason; only Donald is the new king and there is a dragon involved in the proceedings too. So; let's rant on and find out shall we...?!
This episode is written by Steve Cuden. The story was edited by Douglas Langdale. Steve Cuden started with The Littlest Pet Shop in 1991 along with Beetlejuice as a writer. Goof Troop is his DTVA debut and he also wrote episodes for Bonkers and Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles. Non-DTVA credits: Pocket Dragon Adventures, Mummies Alive!, The Mask The Series, The Savage Dragon, and his most recent credit World of Quest. He has 34 writing credits to his resume. He has also directed and produced a short called Lucky in 2004 and done music for Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical. Sadly; Juan F. Lara did not release the animation studio here.
Opening Moment #1: Today's title card features Donald as king in front of a brick background. The background looks CGI and pretty impressive for the time too. If only the writing was this impressive...
So we begin this episode with Donald driving an RV looking like a nervous wreck through a bunch of rocky, sharp curve roads. A boulder drops missing by a mile and then Kent Powers appears with yellow background on the television whining about Donald not making it to Quintania. He is his usual bossy self as he wants everything set up after they arrive. Donald blows him off and turns off the television; only for the logic breaking arm to turn it on as Kent blows him off in kind because he's the boss. Then the television turns off as Daisy pops into the cockpit and tells us that Quintania should be different since the last time Donald was here. Which sadly; we have no classic footage of him coming there in the first place. So we head to the back as Huey has a box of Hot Hots which apparently causes nuclear explosions; and he puts the red tablets in a paper bag on the table talking about a medieval country in the middle of nowhere while Dewey reads a comic book and Louie looks on. Dewey proclaims that Donald's taste in music are medieval. GET OFF DONALD'S LAWN ALREADY~!! Louie whines about Huey spending their allowance on Hot Hots because Huey has a Krackpotkin plan to sell this stuff to the Quintanians because they will go nuts over it. Huey sees this as an investment and then laughs like a corporate heel; which makes sense since this Huey is based on the corporate view of how kids act. Dewey bails to the cockpit claiming that Huey's hard drive has crashed. Considering you Dewey; that isn't saying much at all. So Donald still looks like a panic wreck at the wheel as somehow Daisy has teleported out of the front. Logic break #1 for the episode about two minutes in. Dewey buckles himself in and asks about the last time he was in Quintania and Donald proclaims that it was a long, long time ago.
So we HIT THE FLASHBACK as we get a shot of the castle of Quintania and we zoom out to see Donald in his classic sailor uniform with an old camera and then we return to reality (no, not really) as Donald is thinking and I wish it involves getting the hell out of this cartoon in one piece with Daisy. Louie calls this ride extremely slow; so Dewey somehow teleports while stealing Huey's paper bag of hot hots and opens the tank and pours it into the fuel tank. You just knew they would push the crappy button sooner than later. So we expose the hot rod engine and we blast forward like a hot rod. This serves zero purpose; other than showing some of the most absurd stress faces which indicates that this booking was for the animators' amusement. I'm guessing it's WD-Aussie animating this since this would be their trademark handiwork. The nephews and Daisy are pined against the door as Dewey proclaims that this wasn't such a good idea. NO?! REALLY?! Anyhow; we race off the cliff and do a poor job hitting the 2 black birds who do not get baked into a pie sadly. Then we are in mid air and they run out of fuel just to get the thing to be WARNERED~! They free fall into the town of Quaintinia (oh well; I was close) and bounce off the town's banner sign and drop right into the fountain destroying another innocent statue in the process. The nephews get out and then notice a statue with a duck king with a big ass robe as they are in awe because if you look around; there are signs and stuff wanting Donald Duck for king. Then we pan right to see a thin knight on horseback in steel armor with a brown mustache welcome Donald and his train. He also has two archers who wear yellow tunics with orange shoulder blade trim and a few other human denizens as they bow down and praise Donald as their king. Daisy and the nephews are shocked as their jaws thankfully don't drop to the ground. Donald is loving this and rightfully so.
So then we hear the television coming back on as Kent Powers keeping blowing off Donald; so Donald blows him out with his "ah phooey" stuff. Well; since he's the king now; he doesn't have to worry about getting fired now; doesn't he? So a balloon with the face of Kent Power on it comes in from the south side and the humans all panic and the Gedo fashion sense archers fire arrows and pop the balloon. HAHA! That's a symbolic way of deflating his ego. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Kent's balloon lands on another statue as Kent pops up from the basket and cuts a vain promo as the horseback knight comes in and threatens to kill Kent. If the nephews weren't so disgusting, this will be fine, but I feel that this guy's anger is misplaced. Daisy comes in pleading for mercy on Kent Powers which is funny considering how much Kent hates Daisy. So the knight cuts the ropes from the basket and Kent takes a wussy bump onto the ground as the armored knight grabs Donald and puts him on the horse and they head to the castle stage left with Donald's posse in tow. Kent is confused and stammers so Daisy explains that Donald is the king of Quaintina while really poking it in his face with her hand. HAHA! Kent stammers some more as the nephews explain what a king is like a bunch of childish man infantalizing Kent. Ken likes this because it's in line with his ruler of the world stuff. Oh; and the nephews bonk Kent on the head with the stick they used to knight Dewey during the promo. Kent then runs away stage left to probably suck up and kiss Donald's webfoot before Donald decides to throw him in the dungeon. The nephews then realize that they are princes according to the blood line of kings and they Tally Ho stage left complete with HB looping effects. So we head to the EVIL TOWER OF DOOM because it's dark with storm clouds and the tower is crooked.
So we have a blue tunic guy with a mustache with a tiny helmet with an orange feather on it. He's the evil Sir Gaylord who is voiced by Charlie Adler here as the Mad Dog sounding voice gives him away. Apparently; the tower is only a few hundred meters away from the statue as he stabs of the out of nowhere tomato with his out of nowhere dagger and they flicks dagger which slingshots the tomato into the statue of Donald's kisser. HA! Apparently; he is jealous that Donald has returned and swears to make Donald rue the day he returned to Quaintinia. So we do the flourish horn music as we get the same shot of the castle from Donald's dream; complete with slightly raised up drawbridge and then we head into the throne room as Kent Power is kneeling and already sucking up to King Donald. Daisy is talking to the armored knight who she addresses as Sir Harold (Juan thinks it is voiced by Corey Burton which means the other male voices are probably Michael Gough) who has leather armor and an orange tunic and brown pants. Also; Harold has grown a beard since we last saw him as Daisy asks how Donald became king and Harold is SHOCKED; SHOCKED I SAY; that Donald never told the story of how he became king. Donald grins like he doesn't know what these idiots are talking about as Harold claims that Donald saved the kingdom from Neille; the dragon of the mount. Donald is sweating like Oscar caught in a bad situation all thanks to the evil eye contact violence of Kent Powers. Harold proclaims that Donald doesn't like to toot his own horn; so he'll do it for him like a good little knight would and we HIT THE FLASHBACK with classic Donald and his camera. He gets run over by the knights on horseback who are fighting a purple dragon in shadow torching up a village which is kind of dark for this show. Donald gets up and blows off everyone and walks to his Jeep as Harold admits that Donald sticks out like a sore thumb. NO?! REALLY?! Donald starts up the jeep and it jerks backwards. Did I mention that this jeep has a cart on the back?
Which jabs into the catapult which fires a rock right into the conveniently placed wooden dam and the water pours out and swamps the purple dragon and sweeps it away just as Donald drives away not even noticing what he just did. Harold and his Michael Gough speaking partner cross swords together and proclaim that Donald Duck is responsible and we return to reality (no, not really). Harold proclaims that under the laws of Quaintinia; the one who defeats the dragon of the mount is the king forever. Donald's crown goes down over his eyes as Donald is sheepishly grinning; and then he jumps up like a super ball is planted in his ass as the big ass trumpets play a flourish for fun. HAHA! Daisy's reaction is damn perfect claiming that it's unbelievable. Memo to Daisy; still more believable than a big ass fish clogging a tank and winning the war for the Thembrians. Donald is hanging from his toes on the throne as Harold explains that Sir Gaylord is evil and wants to kill Donald Duck which causes Donald to make scary funny faces to amuse me. Harold tells him to fear not because he has his sword ready and nearly beheads Donald in the process as Daisy brings her pencil out to stop him. See; to her the pen is mightier than the sword and she wants to check out this Sir Gaylord character herself. Harold agrees with her because Donald needs to retire as Donald is placed on a bench and is walked out by his servants. Kent Powers; who is supposed to be smarter than this thinks that Donald is quitting the job which he doesn't like because he wants to be knighted. Harold blows him off because Donald is going to his bedroom to sleep and knighthood requires hard work. Kents laughs it off; and thinks what can go wrong here? I think we all know where this is going now don't we? WINK! WINK! NUDGE! NUDGE! Harold smiles with a wicked grin and we scene change to Donald in bed sleeping. Donald sleeps for a while as we pan up to the ceiling where the candlestick chandelier is and the trap door opens and out comes Gaylord with a hacksaw. Yeah; he is now the medieval version of Yosemite Sam now, only with no guns which is perfectly fine here. Gaylord Sam cuts the chain on the chandelier telling him to sleep well and forever while laughing and that ends the segment eight and a half minutes in. Well; that was short and it was decent due to the fact that the nephews only did two crappy spots the entire time.
After the commercial break; we get a sky shot of Donald sleeping and more sawing as the chandelier finally falls down and smashes the bed; but it somehow misses Donald and he flies into the air. So Gaylord Sam brings out the spiked mace and tries to MURDER Donald with it while sleeping; but he misses by a mile and almost falls himself. Donald falls down on the bed and the bed bounces the chandelier right up and it MURDERS Sir Gaylord in the face complete with impact stars which looks better than the ones in The Incredible Shrinking Molly. I'm guessing that the bump was BS&P'ed; but it still looked a bit contrived for my liking since the chandelier was to the left of Gaylord and should have missed him by about two feet or so. Gaylord swears and we head back to the throne room at morning as the blue armored servants bring in the bench with Donald and toss him on the throne and then leave. The green armored servants are the trumpet players as they do the trumpet fanfare spot; which only seems to serve to ruin Donald's ears. Harold calls this the first full day of duties and is probably tired of this fasting. Donald is as confused as I am; so Harold proclaims that it's time to eat which Donald likes. So they wheel in the table of food which includes a turkey. Donald is loving this as he tries to grab the turkey; but the fatass blue armored servant grabs it and begins eating like a hog. Donald puts up his dukes and calls the guy a big palooka. HAHA! Harold grabs Donald and informs him that this is the taster and it's to prevent Donald from getting poisoned because Gaylord is trying to kill him. Donald gulps as the Taster eats everything and burps leaving a large bone on the plate in front of Donald. Yeah; that sucks. Donald blows it off and the table is wheeled out and Donald jumps up about ten feet and behind the throne because the trumpeters are rearing their ugly big ass trumpets once again. Donald blows them off in kind. Harold has a scroll with a blue feather as it's time for decrees and Donald is confused. Harold tells him that it's time to boss people around. Oh; this should be fun to mock. Donald gets on the throne and rubs his hands with glee because now he can boss people around and it's all legal. Kent; you better run because you are ROOM FEED~!
As this is going on we head to outside the tower as we break logic and realize that the tower is farther away and has a swamp around it; except for the path. Splendid! No, not really. Daisy walks to the front door (complete with north pan shot of the entire tower to waste some more time) and then hears noises as she bails behind a thorny tree which has only one big ass thorn. We don't even bother animating the door opening and Gaylord Sam coming out as the camera is on Daisy and Gaylord Sam in the foreground doing the twinkletoes spot with sucky sound effects stage left. Daisy then goes to the door and we head inside the tower which is not dark as Daisy proclaims that it's time to do some searching. She goes over to the clearly marked swinging door with a torch. I mean; there is a clear cut out of the door for goodness sakes. Daisy grabs the torch and the door swings around and she lands on the other side in front of the stairs on her belly. Daisy looks up and we return to the throne room with a clear shot of the scroll of "bossing people around" as Harold decrees that all horses should be equipped with seat belts, something is banned on Saturdays and the white zone is for loading and unloading of carriages only as apparently; he decreed about 100 feet worth of laws in a span of 15 minutes. HAHA! Donald is lying down looking smug as Harold calls these laws interesting. Then the doors open and in comes the nephews wearing medieval gear riding skateboards as there is a nun with glasses on in nun gear blowing off the nephews for pushing the crappy button with skateboards. My heart bleeds for you madam. I'm guessing she is voiced by Michael Gough as the nephews ride to the front of the throne and they complain about wearing the clothes and eating with a knife and fork. They want to save maidens, fight dragons and play video games. Harold has a hard time saying video; but he does know lots of games and calls for a move to the gaming field as the nephews and Donald run like Scooby Doo stage right. HA!
So we head to the game grounds as the jousting event is already set up. I'm tempted to say that this show stole from Girl's Knight Out; but that would be way to obvious even for me. So we have the nephews sitting down in their princes seats' at the king's tent as apparently they are wearing their normal street clothes again. Donald is sitting on the thrones. Harold has the light blue megaphone and the first event is jousting and one of the contestants is Kent Powers on horseback in an suit of armor. HAHA! They finally found an effective way to make me laugh at him (for blowing off Donald) without feeling sorry for him (this isn't the nephews' bright idea). So one of the servants who looks like the taster only in orange/yellow this time giving him the jousting lance. Kent thinks that this will be fine until he realizes that his opposition is the black knight from Sir Gyro De Gearloose; only with a big & badass horse to steer. And a rusty looking lance which seems to be BS&P'ed. So Kent's horses backs up; but the servant is behind them and slaps the horse on the ass off-screen. Why off-screen? He didn't bite the horse. The horse panics and starts running as Kent loses his jousting lance and we get the FCC FRIENDLY OFF SCREEN CRASH OF DOOM as the nephews groan in sympathy pain while Donald laughs it up. HAHA! Huey then becomes a baseball server with a tray of Hot Hots bags as they throw coins at him and Huey throws the bags to the crowd. Huey calls this free enterprise which I suppose is no worse than Donald's. So we go to event #2 which is the traction event as Kent slowly rises up asking what that is and the black knights takes a mace and gets the weakest shot I have ever seen; but Kent gets knocked down; but is still talking and is out. At least he didn't say that he is all right. So we cut to the empty part of the stand as Gaylord rises up as Huey is behind him and offers a bag of Hot Hots. Gaylord Sam throws a coin stage left which Huey doesn't grab; but still gives him a bag and then bails blowing Gaylord off for having a ten on the grouchy scale.
This serves no purpose other than to set up the next "funny" gag of Gaylord eating the seed and doing the 5 Alarm Chili Flamethrower spot which should have been retired a long time ago; but wasn't. Gaylord Sam droops down proclaiming to never take candy from strangers. Well; these nephews are strange; so he has a good point on his shoulders as Harold announces event #3 which is the 100 stampeding horses event which allows the FCC CLOUDDUST OF DOOM on the horses as they run because the animators cannot animate running horses properly. You can guess what happens to Kent Powers next off-screen as even Donald is cringing at the carnage. We pan to the nephews as even they are feeling sorry for Kent. Riiiigggghhhhttttttt nephews! Like I'm suppose to buy that from them? Really funny moment: The black knight has a big ass red thumb which doesn't look serious at all. Ken Powers looks like he's been in a horse wreck and broken. So we get the servants in blue with the red cross symbol (ooooooo) and they do this British emergency sound that is too funny and they carry black knight out on a stretcher. HAHA! Harold bails to help the noble warrior and I was hoping that it was the black knight; just to make it funnier; but it only serves the purpose to make Harold look stupid as Gaylord Sam appears out of nowhere and bows before Donald. He is apparently Pierre the royal painter and speaks French in such a bad matter that he should have his French stereotype license revoked. So Pierre Sam asks Donald about getting his picture painted and Donald loves that. So we scene change to a field which there is an X marked on the ground which in any other universe would be a dead giveaway that the guy is trying to kill Donald; but Donald is not the sharpest knife in the drawer because you see; this show was written to imply that adults are stupid and the nephews are the smartest; despite the fact that they are the most smug, unlikable and not smart goofballs in history.
So we waste even more time as Pierre spins Donald around and Donald does some funky poses to amuse me some more. Then we get the "I am going to kill you" pose and Pierre goes over to the painting which shows Donald being squashed and killed with the big ass ANVIL OF NEIDHART suspended by a rope and pulley. Instead of just untying the thing and letting it drop; he uses the hacksaw on the rope while painting over the evidence of his attempt to murder Donald with an anvil. However; the worst animated fly in history arrives to annoy Donald. Seriously; it looks like a small ass humming bird which is a complete 180 from the usual motif used in this show. So Donald slaps his beak and runs away stage chasing the humming bird fly. Pierre runs in and stands in the dumbest place ever and he gets squashed flatter than my sex life with the anvil. HAHA! Only his eyes are left; and maybe part of his nose. Well; that at least made Harold look less stupid in hindsight as we head into town with the nephews blowing off the place with no pizza place. Then we notice a group of country denizens surrounding a statue as some guy in armored lavender is pissed off of the white zone and calls it stupid. So Dewey pushes in and the denizens want to throw over their king which is too funny; but Dewey ruins the effect by correcting them. UH OH! I do not like where this is going. The denizens are shocked as Dewey speaks the truth (Yeah right?!); and the king is a fool and must be overthrown as the denizen raise Dewey over their shoulders and he is now the leader of the resistance movement. This episode just jumped the shark; and lo and behold it was the "push the crappy button nephews" who caused it. Then why was Gaylord even needed in the first place? Dewey gets bounced up and down as they want down with King Donald and Huey and Louie are shocked and appalled. Thankfully; we head up the spiral staircase with Daisy climbing to the top in front of the big ass door. Daisy opens the door and walks in as she sees a shadow; and then the door slams behind her and magically locks itself. Daisy turns around and sees the purple dragon with a green headband and red hair; with yellow whites in her eyes. That ends the segment 15 and a half minutes in. Sadly; they screwed up the fade to black since the yellow eyes were suppose to hang around for three more seconds than they actually do here. Fun episode so far; but the derailment has begun...
After the commercial break; Daisy backs up against the wall and the purple dragon stalks Daisy and then sniffs her. She wants to know where she got her shoes from which would have funnier if the purple dragon was not wearing sneakers herself later on. Okay; this has to be Nellie who is voiced by Julie Brown and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Brown began her career in the clubs of Los Angeles where rather than portraying a valley girl herself she told jokes about them. She established herself in the gay community there and often played at gay venues. Brown began experimenting in short films and made several underground movies which often played on the video screens at clubs. One of them, "5 Minutes Miss Brown [1]", was a fictionalized account of her rise to fame.[citation needed] She began working on television with a guest spot on the sitcom Happy Days. She also appeared in the 1981 cult film Bloody Birthday. After a small role in the Clint Eastwood comedy film Any Which Way You Can, comedian Lily Tomlin saw Brown at a comedy club and gave her first big break, a part in her 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Tomlin and Brown eventually became close friends. A string of guest starring appearances in a variety of television shows followed, including: Laverne & Shirley, Buffalo Bill, The Jeffersons and Newhart. In 1984, she released her first EP, a five-song album called Goddess in Progress. The album, parodies of popular '80s music combined with her valley girl personality, was quickly discovered by the Dr. Demento Show. The songs "'Cause I'm a Blonde" and "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" were given radio airplay across the world. The latter was a spoof on traditional 1950s songs about teen romance, à la "It's My Party", with cheerleaders' heads and pompoms being blown to pieces. In 1987, Brown released her first full-length album, Trapped in the Body of a White Girl. The album highlighted her comedic talent and valley girl personality. The album's highlights were "I Like 'em Big and Stupid" and the reprised "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun". (The album was reissued on CD in 2010 by Collector's Choice Music on its Noble Rot label.) [1]
Music videos were recorded and received heavy airplay on MTV. In 1989, Brown starred in that cable network's comedy and music-video show Just Say Julie. She played the role of a demanding, controlling, and pessimistic glamour-puss from the valley, making fun of popular music acts while at the same time introducing their music videos. In 1988 she appeared as "Buffy Denver" on the sitcom Newhart playing a character that was even more self-centered and vain than Stephanie. Brown's screen career hit its peak in late 1989 with the release of the film Earth Girls Are Easy. Written, produced by, and starring Brown, it was based loosely on a song by the same name from her debut EP. The film also starred Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. Brown cast then-unknown comedians Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. In 1990 Brown had a brief part in the movie The Spirit of '76, as an intellectual stripper. NBC commissioned a half-hour pilot, ultimately unsold and airing Sunday, July 28, 1991, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, titled The Julie Show. Created by Brown, Charlie Coffey, and director and executive producer David Mirkin, it was a comedy about actress Julie Robbins (Brown), who in this initial story, goes to great lengths to land an interview with teen singer Kiki (played by Kim Walker) in the hopes of getting hired as a tabloid-TV celebrity journalist. Developed under the working title The Julie Brown Show, it also starred Marian Mercer as Julie's mother, June; DeLane Matthews as Debra Deacon, a reporter on the fictional series Inside Scoop; Susan Messing as Julie's roommate Cheryl; and Kevin O'Rourke as Inside Scoop producer Tony Barnow. Brown was also a producer, with John Ziffren, and performed and co-wrote the theme song. Walker, Don Sparks, Robin Angers, and Deborah Driggs were guest performers in this production from Mirkinvision and New World Television.[2]
Another pilot was filmed for CBS, Julie Brown: The Show, and featured a similar theme, in which Brown was the hostess of a talk show and she would interview actual celebrity guests, interspersed with scripted scenarios. The pilot was aired but the show was not picked up; years later it leaked onto the Internet. In 1992, Brown starred in her own Fox sketch comedy show, The Edge; two of its regulars, Jennifer Aniston and Wayne Knight, later became sitcom stars, while Tom Kenny went on to voice SpongeBob SquarePants. That same year, she released the Showtime television movie Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful, a satire about Madonna and her backstage documentary, Truth or Dare. (Brown's co-star was Kathy Griffin.) Brown followed with another satire, Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women, which lampooned the violence of ice skater Tonya Harding toward rival Nancy Kerrigan, as well as that of widely publicized castrator Lorena Bobbitt.[citation needed] She has continued to make television guest appearances and contributed voices to various cartoons, including Animaniacs, Aladdin, and as the original voice of Zatanna in the Batman: The Animated Series cartoon. Prior to this she also guest starred on a Tiny Toons Adventures episode as Julie Bruin, a cartoon bear version of herself, in which she guest starred in her own segment Just Say Julie Bruin, a reference to her music video show. The Just Say Julie Bruin cartoon also was a music video show and in her segment Elmer Fudd guest starred as Fuddonna, parody of Madonna and a reference to Julie Brown herself regularly mocking her. Brown appeared as Coach Millie Stoeger in the film Clueless, reprising that role on ABC's 1996-1999 spin-off TV series, for which she was also a writer, producer and director. In 1998, Julie appeared in the parody movie Plump Fiction. In 2000, Brown created the series Strip Mall for the Comedy Central network; it ran two seasons.
Since 2004, Brown has been a commentator on E! network specials, including 101 Reasons the '90s Ruled, 101 Most Starlicious Makeovers, 101 Most Awesome Moments in Entertainment, and 50 Most Outrageous TV Moments. In 2005, Brown purchased the rights to her Trapped album back from the record label and reissued it herself.[citation needed] She also self-released a single, "I Want to Be Gay". In late 2007, she also purchased the rights to her 1984 E.P. "Goddess in Progress" and re-released it as a full-length record with compiled unreleased tracks recorded during that era.[citation needed] Brown began touring in late 2007 with her one-woman show Smell the Glamour.[citation needed] In 2008, she co-wrote and appeared in the Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock, which starred The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. She also joined the cast of her current television series, Paradise Falls, that same year. In late 2008 Brown began releasing one-track digital singles, starting with "The Ex-Beauty Queen's Got a Gun" 1; it was a rewrite of "Homecoming Queen" with lyrics about Sarah Palin. This was first aired in September, 2008 on The Stephanie Miller Show. This was followed by several parodies of popular songs. In the 2010-2011 television season, Brown began a recurring role as Paula Norwood, a neighbor and friend of the Heck family, on the ABC comedy The Middle. She started as a cameo on Happy Days in 1980 as an actress; and started writing the Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights television special in 1980 as well. Her directing career began with Medusa: Dare To Be Truthful in 1992 which she also served as a composer and provided various songs. She also directed and did music for Attack Of The 5' 2" Woman; as well as provided a song for Beavis & Butthead. Yeah and she's also responsible for Camp Rock and it's sequel for the new Disney. So you can blame her for that. She also produced episodes for The Edge and Clueless. Aladdin The Series as Saleen is her DTVA debut and her only appearance. Melissa & Joey as Coach Dalman and The Middle as Paula Norwood are her most recent credits. She has 64 acting credits, seven production credits, 14 writing credits, 6 soundtrack credits, three director credits, one composer, and 36 self credits to her resume.
So Daisy bails out of the room and goes down the steps while Nellie is still more interested in her shoes and she has a meeting of the minds with Gaylord; and it wasn't at the ball. Daisy wants Gaylord to get out of here with her; but Gaylord thinks not as we return to the top of the tower as Daisy is tied up in the corner as Gaylord is blowing off Nellie for losing her flame to Donald's unintentional tidal wave and wonders how to get the flame back in Nellie's belly. Then he get the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and bails to get the bag of Hot Hots from Huey. Nellie looks at Daisy and then we scene change to Daisy being untied and having tea with Nellie. Ooookkkkaaayyyy. Also animators painted Nellie's hand white when she is pouring tea when it should be purple and on the next shot you can clearly see the sneakers on her feet. She has a green shirt and bat like wings as she slurps her tea in an annoying way and talks about her relationship with Gaylord. She sounds like Foxglove; only with a better voice. See; Gaylord was a good person to her until her fire went out and he stopped paying attention to her. She also throws the tea cup like the Gummi's did in Look Who Is Gumming For Dinner as Daisy offers to give her assertiveness training and wants Nellie to repeat after her that she is her own dragon. Nellie is about to speak and Gaylord returns with a bag of Hot Hots. Wait; didn't he already have one of those? I'm not going to speculate what he did with the original bag because we would be here all day. So Gaylord Sam proclaims that he has brought back the fire for the belly of the beast and Nellie gets offended and proclaims that she is her own dragon. So Gaylord gives her the bag of Hot Hots and she eats it hook, line and sinker. Daisy's promo is dead now for this one too.
So we get the flamethrower spots from Nellie as we discover that she is a pyromaniac who likes to torch everything as Daisy apparently bails in the firefight which is noticed by Gaylord as Gaylord wants Nellie to cook Donald Duck's goose. HAHA! Nellie no sell throwing flames at random so Gaylord wants to do it before burning down his tower which causes Nellie to get it. So we head back to the castle outside as the drawbridge is down and Harold pushes Donald out of the castle because Harold wants Donald to deal with the denizens who are plotting to overthrow him. Donald doesn't want to; and quite frankly; I don't blame him. I thought Quaintina's town was inside the castle? Oh never mind; I gave up trying to explain the logic of this cartoon long ago. Donald doesn't want to be king anymore as Harold demands answers to this outrage as the denizen stand there all stunned as they have Dewey and then throw him down on the draw bridge. Dewey blows them off and then Donald blows him off. Good for him! The denizens are still fumbling on grammar like a average blog post and Daisy runs in yelling that the dragon is coming and we jump cut to Nellie burning the place down. Harold proclaims that the law states that Donald must defeat the dragon again which Donald does not like at all. Nellie torches more stuff as she is the most effective clutz heel I have seen in some time. Harold asks Donald what they should do and Donald and the nephew huddle and want to panic. Daisy comes in and has a Krackpotkin plan; and Donald hugs her. There is one problem; only Donald can execute it which Donald hates. HAHA!
So we continue on with Nellie burning the entire country down and heading to Quiantina but Donald motions to her and Nellie notices him right away. She acts like it's nothing personal; just the business of killing him as she begins to inhale; so Donald offers her a JOKEY SURPRISE OF DOOM. Thankfully; when she opens it, it's not like Heavy Dental as it's a box of chocolates. Nellie eats chocolates like a female stereotype; and I just realize that this is a really unenlightened plan by Daisy in hindsight. So Gaylord runs in with his JOKEY SURPRISE OF DOOM and she grabs it. Donald is offended so Donald bails and returns with another present; which prompts Gaylord to do the same. Rinse, lather, repeat; watch a shot of the nephews and Daisy looking on. And who's the one who brought a product into an area where Nellie could get her flame back? Huey; DUH!! So this goes on for a whomp ass time as Nellie is getting buried in gifts and she doesn't care like the airhead that she is. So Donald bring in the big ass red present and so Gaylord brings in his carpenter tools and builds a castle with a red bow on it. Awwww! Nellie gives eye contact violence of doom to him; and so Donald gets her a daisy. And she blows it off and torches it. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So Donald ponders it over and gives her his crown and Nellie declares herself queen of Quaintina. Okay; I fully accept this finish as Gaylord orders Nellie to burn Donald into hell; but Nellie grabs him and blows him off because she is assertive now. She drops Gaylord and Gaylord swears in DUBBED ANIME STYLE (confound it!) and demands that she do what he sezs. Nellie blows off the relationship and proclaims that there is lots of fire in it as she eats some more Hot Hots and torches Gaylord in the ass and then chases Gaylord with flamethrower to the ass as it's GOOFY GAYLORD ON FIRE~! HAHA! DADADADADADA! That was a good finish and I heart Nellie after this so it worked on all levels here.
So we head back on the road AFTER HAPPY HOUR in the What In The World RV as Donald is driving Daisy in the front as Dewey thinks Nellie will make a great queen as we see Huey counting the coins on the table from the sale of Hot Hots Nellie brought and wonders how much they are worth. Daisy proclaims that one coin is worth one millionth of a cent. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Huey slumps in the ironic comeupperance. Louie wonders if they forgot someone as they then shrug that thought off and we return to the arena as a green armored servant blows the trumpet and the black knight is MURDERING Kent Powers for my pleasure. HAHA! Kent Powers doesn't want to be a knight anymore and that ends the episode at 21:13. This is good; this is very, very good, but it's also STUPID! Nevertheless; this episode was very fun to watch and I enjoyed Nellie being a pyromaniac so this episode worked for me despite the attempt by the nephews to kill it. Call it *** 1/2 (70%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; that was the second best episode of the series thus far (slightly ahead of All Hands On Duck) in my book. Again; most of it was stupid; but it was funny stupid and there was little crappy button pushing from the nephews. In fact; the Hot Hots angle actually worked in a sense of making the plot line enjoyable and plus Kent Powers getting slaughtered was funny because it was Harold's idea and not the nephews; so the event made me laugh. Still; there were a logic breaks and animation mistakes (Nellie's white dragon paw for instance); plus the whole idea of a medieval country in 1996 just sounds too far fetched for me. But then again; TaleSpin did the exact same thing in the comics with Knight Freight; only I loved it more because Kit Cloudkicker was the hero and he was a lot more hands on than Donald was. Donald was awesome, Kent Powers took a beating giving me some respect for him, Daisy was great and Nellie was a airheaded pyromaniac with a slimy French stereotypical heel who enjoyed trying to use a hacksaw to spring fatal traps on Donald. I was almost ready to give this a thumbs down when Dewey got involved in the lynch mob; but it only lasted two spots and thankfully went nowhere thanks to Nellie's appearance to burn everything to ashes. Overall; I liked this episode and we now have three Quack Pack episodes with at least *** 1/2 or higher (All Hands On Duck, Need 4 Speed and this one); but still no thumbs up yet. Sadly; the next episode is the Halloween special; The Boy Who Cried Ghost which is a Dewey focused episode. Yeah; I'm in for a long ranting stint with this show. So........
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you next time.