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The Germinator
Reviewed: 01/26/2013
Is That The Nephews' Latest Superhero Worship?!
We are finally nearing the halfway point of this series. I know that is hard to believe given how much pain and suffering I have had to endure watching this show. So we have Donald Duck becoming sick because some mad doctor is infecting him to use Donald as a host to saving the germs of the world. Think Poison Ivy/Bushroot only with microorganisms. This could be a fun one, so; let's rant on and find out shall we...?!
This episode is written by Dean Stefan. The story was edited by Gary Sperling. While Juan F. Lara has no notes on the studio; this video has the ED which claims that it's Toonz Animation along with additional services done by Gnome Productions Limited. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!
Opening Moment #1: Today's title card features Donald sick as a dog on the loveseat against a green background in his purple robe. Complete with thermometer and icepack I might add. Donald is symbolizing the pain and suffering I go through when the nephews push the crappy button, so points for him.
So we begin this episode with a sign called the Duckberg Medical Plaza with a red cross above the sign. You know; if Toby really wanted to get rid of all the visages of Ducktales; you would think that he would have started by not using Duckberg as the residence of Donald and the nephews. We head inside as Daisy is trying to push Donald into the door; but no dice. Donald is protesting all this like an anti-science/anti-modern medicine freak and that drops my respect for Donald down about three notches. Daisy is trying to explain that this is a checkup as there is a green zombie type guy, a mummy like person; a boy with his hands under his crotch (I'm shocked Toon Disney didn't snip this out; although to be fair; they didn't snip out the shot of Professor Buzz nailing Baloo in the groin; nor Mad Dog sticking the feather in Kit's groin (although those two were likely unintentional) in TaleSpin; so it's more SFX nonsense.) and a woman in a red dress who looks like Yokozuna. Oh lord; why do you test me so? Even Airplane Jane wasn't that fat; not even Hoppo. POW! OUCH! Ummmm... I just realized that the green zombie's hand is at his crotch as well which tells me Dean Stefan is not liking the way this show is going. So Daisy accuses him of being a baby and pushes Donald right into the green zombie guy who has magically transferred his hand from his crotch to behind his head with the other arm. Donald stammers and sits on the couch while the kid sneezes white spit onto Donald's face which Donald tries to wipe off; but the big fatass nurse (oh lord) grabs him by the shirt because the doctor will see him now. Daisy kisses him and tells him to be brave and leaves. Donald does the Gruffi pose and tells Daisy and he's not worried and then the nurse drags Donald onto the floor stage left and Donald begs for mercy. Donald tries to run away; but apparently, Donald has the same properties in his shirt as Darkwing Duck has in his cape, only it doesn't rip.
So the nurse throws Donald into the examination room and he splats with wussy bumps onto the examination table. Sigh. So we see the doctor of doom and I just realized that he is almost the exact same guy I saw in Tasty Paste: Professor Craftsworth. Seriously; I don't even have to brother detailing him; the only difference is the white doctor coat. And he has an evil smile; just to bug me as he is clearly washing his tools of the trade to get rid of nasty germs and virus like a good doctor should. They are not even trying to make this a horror show and it sucks; which makes Donald look like such weak sauce that it isn't funny. Donald rushes to the door as he bangs on said door; but no dice. I discover that the doctor is Mr. Jackson by the way voiced Richard Karron according to Juan. F Lara. Jackson tells Donald to relax because he's just cleaning his tools with germ and he clearly sounds like the troll Thingy from Respectful Insolence. Oh boy; what a case this troll is as it was the one who proclaimed that she would force her children to play on the sidewalk and never allow her children to get even near dirt. Which is hilarious considering the germs on a sidewalk. Oh and she is a master of redefining words that made so much less sense than your average troll too. Hopefully; I'll give some of the people a link to the Orac post on that subject; because the comments from the troll are downright comical. Jackson is spraying with his Febreeze because he wants to protect his precious bodily fluids (still better than fetishing over fetuses though.) or something like that. He goes outside to the STEEL DOOR OF DOOM and knocks on it to see Toma (Juan has it as Tobar; but Toma is a more common name; so I'm going with Toma here) who is a small doctor with red whites in his eyes and green curly hair. I see he is an anime cosplayer doctor which is strange but still looks cool. So Jackson blows off Toma for not cleaning the examination room (What? That came out of nowhere..) and Toma proclaims that he'll get on it right away.
Toma tries to slam the door; but Jackson uses the foot to block it (that is one powerful foot) as Jackson sees that Toma has a pretty impressive lab in the back and asks what he is doing back there. Toma claims that he is doing paperwork and then slams the door fully this time as Jackson is at a loss to that one. So we head inside Toma's really impressive lab which is semi dark and gloomy with a big ass microscope. Toma is ranting and raving about how Jackson is getting rid of germs and being hypocritical when it comes to endangered animals and plants. Which is kind of hilarious when you consider the reality of the real world has lots of dangerous plants and animals; so how is micro germs more forgiving. So we have Toma grabbing a sample on glass and we look into the microscope and we see sphere germs which are not big ass sadly. He finishes up and places a second glass on top for safe keeping and put it in his pocket. So we runs over and pulls down the blue cover to reveal the same laser cannon I saw in Island Of Not So Nice; only it's called the Germinator Ray and pushes five of the six buttons on the control panel next to the G Ray and somehow misses the red button. He gets inside the red circle on the floor (which we don't even see until he shrinks with the neon green ray of doom) and he shrinks cutting this promo that he'll show them all and he's one with the germ as we zoom out and see him disappear from the sky shot. Nice. Juan claims that Toma/Tobar might be voiced by Danny Mann. I'm guessing the nurse is voiced by one of the nephews since I could hear some Rugrats in her. So we scene change (at least they aren't fading to black here) to Donald on the examination table twiddling his thumbs. So Jackson comes back as he addresses Donald and Donald stammers; which is enough to declare that something is wrong with Donald. Donald doesn't like this at all as Jackson goes to the drawers (NOT THOSE ONES) and brings out the big ass wooden mallet; also known as the poor man's SLEDGEHAMMER OF PLOT. Donald gets on his knees and begs for mercy; but Jackson ignores him and bangs off-screen on the wall as we discover that he is adjusting the picture frame of a real duck. HAHA! Good sight gag there Dean.
So Donald faints on his belly and Jackson doesn't like this because it could be germs. I call that "Death By HHH". AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Jackson wants the disinfectant as we segue to a tray containing two syringes and then we get a closeup of one of the needles and a pan left shot of Toma enter through the needle. I should point out that the eyechart in the background has Elvis written on it as the reading letters. Quack doctor dealing with anthro duck; that's whack! He proclaims that he'll infect Donald and commence operation Germination which is kind of stupid because it implies the destruction of germs; not saving them. I should point out that Jackson has indeed put down the sledgehammer of plot on the table and has the syringe with liquid. Donald is still on his belly as Jackson proclaims that it's time for a shot as he is going to stick a needle right in Donald's ass. Donald turns around and kicks the needle right into the bulls eye of the conveniently placed dart board. Good for him! We all know Jackson was going to use Larson & Gary's HGH on Donald because of where he was sticking the needle. We get a closeup of the dart board of Toma being hung by his lab coat. So we scene change and see Donald at the rear end of the examination table as Jackson brings out the wooden ice pop stick to check his mouth and throat. Donald is more willing to do this at least as he opens his mouth and sezs Ahhhhhh! So we get the closeup of the tongue depressor and see Toma in his blue swimming gear for no reason at all as he dives down onto Donald's tongue and wants to get into the brain; but he slips right into Donald's throat. That was too easy; I would have had him do this another two or three times before finally getting into Donald's throat. So we scene change to Jackson and Donald walking down the hallway as Jackson claims that he has a clean bill of health which Donald oversells as if he is walking dead; indicating that he is seriously ill. Already?! Wow; those are serious germs there sir. Jackson goes nuts and throws Donald out of his doctor's office into the hallway towards the exit out of the plaza complaining about germs sounding more and more like a heel. Sadly; I don't see a double turn in the works here since; you know...
So we head to the living room as we finally have to deal with the crappy nephews five and a half minutes in. Louie is painting a volcano for a science project no doubt. I got to admit that Louie is creative with that thing and having huts in it shows a touch of sadism in his body too. He calls it the volcano of Krackertoa (thus lifting from TaleSpin again) as we pan west to see Dewey reading and Huey watching television. So Huey is the most lazy one of the group today? Sometimes I wonder if the writers are laughing like madmen when writing this stuff; because they know that their creator is a joke? Louie brings out the BOOM POWDER OF DOOM and the nephews are asking Louie to at least read the instructions as Louie shows why he is called Mr. Balloon Sacks by pouring the entire big ass packet of boom powder as we discover that one big ass bag equals 100 eruptions. Ummm; yeah, you can guess what happens next and it still seems muted since the house is perfectly intact minus the roof which is only partially damaged. I would call that a BS&P spot; but knowing this series more and more; I'm not sure anymore. Oh; and Donald is walking slowly up the stairs selling the illness like a champ. Donald complains of a headache as we cut to a sticky cobwebish, dirty control center as we have a purple porthole which is hilarious in itself. We zoom in and Toma opens up the porthole and we get a wide shot as we see eye like windows and it looks like a small abandoned lab. Yeap; this is Donald Duck's brain which is hilarious considering that he sounded like a neat freak in the debut episode. He wipes the dirt off of the inside of Donald's eye while commenting on the brain he hasn't used in years. Why are we still thinking that Donald is Goofy? So we see Donald walking into the house as Toma declares Donald's home his base of operations now. So we head inside as the nephew suck up to him offering him iced tea and a love seat to sit in as they show him the damaged roof with the skyline. Oh lord; these nephews test me so. They don't even bother to build this up to justify Donald wanting to strangle them and bring out the intensity.
Naturally; Donald loses his temper (duh) as we he back in Donald's brain as there is the out of nowhere dynamite exploding in Toma's face and black facing him which seems more racist than usual. I'm guessing the lighting of the fuse was cut by Toon Disney. A note: This episode is 40 seconds shorter than usual which indicates there was something extremely offensive in this episode; on par with the Chamber of Eternal Night scene in In Search of Ancient Blunders. I should also point out that Donald has somehow stop selling his sickness now. Donald has screamed that this is the last straw and they are grounded for life...but we cut back to Toma pushing the switch which is a circuit breaker according to him and Donald's temper dies and he is clearly brainwashed. That is so lame. What should have happened was for Donald to scream that this is the last straw and you are (pointing to the nephews)..and then have Toma flip the switch...and then have Donald say okay. That not only makes sense; it's also funny and it allows the nephews to question Donald's sanity. Now it's too late for that since he already grounded them and it's not funny when he calls them okay. BS&P notes: BEGONE FROM MY INDUSTRY~! The nephews are as shocked as I am; mostly because the crappy button got pushed before they pushed it. Donald goes back to selling sickness as he jumps onto the green love seat and Toma brings out his arc welder and opens up the circuit board inside Donald's CPU/Brain and starts doing shop work on it proclaiming that he'll get this working and begin Operation Germinator.
So we cut to Donald at a wall with a lot of posters of Duckberg Stadium and blueprints on an easel of paper. Donald mumbles to himself while staring at them as we cut to the wall as Daisy and the nephews watch on in disbelief. Daisy thinks that there is a rational explanation for this as Donald goes to his loveseat and blows himself away with a dozen big ass fans (NOT THOSE ONES!) out of nowhere complete with ice. Daisy reconsiders that notion as Donald zombie walks to the icebox as he mumbles that he needs more ice. Why? I do not know. Anyhow; we head to Toma's lab as the nephews, Daisy and Doctor Jackson exchange notes on the situation. Jackson found his journal which has a red cover and has seemly tone down his hatred of germs a bit; but only a little. So Toma invented the ray and Daisy asks why they were called in and in comes Donald looking like the anthro version of Professor Toma. Now that's funny. Jackson accuses him of being a germ lover; and Domald (we have a shrinking episode and brain switching episode all in one now) gets on his knees and spills his guts that he loves germs. Daisy doesn't mind him loving germs; as long as he stops using Donald as his slave. Domald no sells and walks over to the Germinator Ray and just turns on again despite there being FIVE perfectly able bodies being there to stop him. What a bunch of lazy babyfaces we have? And one of them is DAISY of all people. So we get some special lightening effects in neon green with the Germinator Ray as the babyfaces are shocked to end the segment exactly ten minutes in. Just...there...to...suck so far.
After the commercial break; we have the five babyfaces all huddled together who make no effort to run away to the door when the ray is working. Sadly; we discover that there is no juice in the thing and it dies. HA! Domald tries to pull the lever (WRONG LEVER!); but no dice. Then Domald goes into PISSED OFF DONALD MODE and brings Donald out of the brainwashing as he is so mad that he channels the lumberjack short and kicks the machine and then an out of nowhere stool (NOT THAT ONE!). Foot grabbing spots ensue as Toma has lost control and tries to pull the switch; but get fried as a result. HAHA! Wow; that is a neat little sequence there guys. Donald then looks completely medicated as he sees Jackson with doctor tools in his fingers and he is so warped out of his mind that he runs to the steel vault door; unwheels it and it opens to reveal the fatass nurse again. Donald runs underneath her legs and thus the only use for her in this episode and Donald runs off panicky as hell. Toma still tries to gain control; but no luck as he blows off Donald for being excitable. Riiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt... And now it's time for Louie to push the crappy button and climb on the Germination Ray and "breaks it" despite not doing any notable damage whatsoever; but it still works because the neon green laser nails the nephews and shrinks them. Because somehow we need them to push the crappy button whenever possible. So we see that the nephews are in a perti-dish and it's wired for sound as apparently; a doctor's bag is shrunk which came out of nowhere. Huey complains about getting Donald back and I finally realize that Juan F. Lara got the name right and it's Professor Tobar after all. Jackson blows them off because he has to reverse and fix the Germinator Ray which Louie "broke". Huey calls Louie a duck who acts before he thinks which makes Mr. Muscle apporos. Dewey thinks that this cannot get any worse; but Daisy reads in Tobar's journal that if this is not reversed in two hours; they stay this way forever. HAHA! The nephews' faces are priceless and I mean that in the nicest way possible.
So we cut back to Donald's brain (which is like the brains in Darkwing Duck natch) as Tobar uses the fire extinguisher to put out the heat that Donald is bringing while acting like the old Donald. So we see Domald is back at the house and goes to his loveseat and sits down in a tub of ice cubes and water and turns on all of his fans...Wait a second...Let's try that again and this time: GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GUTTER MR. WEAGLE! So we see Domald is back at Donald's house, goes to his loveseat and sits down in a tub of water and ice cubes. He switches on all of his fans and we get a sequence of the entire bucket of ice cubes melting into water and the water apparently soaks into his webfeet and is carried by green pipes inside Donald's brain. Now the problem with this is that this is a big ass logic break because now the brain looks closer to a real brain minus the blood (for obvious reasons of course). Why doesn't this surprise me? So Tobar brings out the viral dish of doom (which the germs are freezing their asses; if they had any) and flips them onto the brain. Then he pokes the germs into the brain with his finger, and thrusts signs behind them which causes Domald to oversell. Then we water the germs. This is so thrilling. NOT! Sample names: Jim, Mel, Tony, Ben and a fifth sign that I cannot make out; but it has two O's. So Tobat proclaims that once they are grown up; their mission will begin. So we head back to Donald's brain which is back to the Darkwing Duck style, for no reason. So we cut back to Domald doing the fan and ice cube spot again. See; Domald wants to catch a cold so he can infect Duckberg Stadium. Tobar is the perfect image to replace Mike Adams; the "Health Ranger". Why not? He thought doing a Before & After and replacing Patrick Sawyze's picture was a witty attempt to prove that chemo-therapy was a complete scam. I call this the shoe is on the other foot routine.
Anyhow; we jump cut to Daisy walking in and Tobar instantly blows her off claiming that her boyfriend is not here in one of those symbolic moments for me. Daisy cuts a promo about loving germs and that surprises Tobar as Daisy attempts to charm him into thinking that she is in league with him. So Daisy brings out two glasses of orange juice and the nephews are in the one glass of juice for Domald as we toast to loving germs and we drink up. The nephews tread water like ducks (which is good continuity for a change) and then they ask if they like to enjoy the ride or panic. Domald drinks up and they choose to panic and the nephews rush into the throat on a wave of orange juice. Domald gives Daisy his glass and walks out informing Daisy that he is going to a baseball game and calls it germ night and the first ten thousand get infected. Tobar is the most extreme form of anti-vax you'll ever see. Next; I betcha we find out that he hates chemo. So we fade to black to turn Michael Eisner on and then we go into the white fog complete with foghorn. LOOOOO-...Oh, wait; wrong show. We see the nephews on a makeshift boat (a piece of chewed up food) on the ocean of a stomach. They look around and notice some alphabet soup (A and R); pepperoni sub (I guess; the nephews accent was too strong for me to notice and I don't have closed captions for this show.) and they smell Donald's favorite food which is peanut butter and sardines..and it smells FOWL to them. HAHA! We discover that Tobar is monitoring them (via the nervous system natch) and he is going to give them an upset stomach as he twists some knobs and we cut back to the nephews as the lake is turned into stomach acid. The nephews panic as they huddle together pointing out that they will melt with ease a hamburger that Grumps makes. Which is Triple Grumpki Burger with Yak Sauce by the way in case anyone cares. The stomach acid stalks the nephews and that ends the segment 15 1/4 minutes in. Yawn.
After the commercial break; we see Dewey going into the doctor bag as the other nephews are noticing the pepperoni raft is starting to melt despite the acid not coming even close to the raft. And I realize the obvious logic break here: If that is stomach acid which looks like water (an animation error) then the pepperoni raft should have melted completely by now along with the nephews. Dewey brings out a white glove and a green rubber hose as Louie doesn't get this plan because he has a germ sized brain. Wow; that takes some guts to admit that Loumeister. So Dewey plugs the hose into the conveniently placed yellow bubble and the gas it the bubble fills up the glove and turns it into a balloon. Umm; wouldn't the gas melt the glove and hose because it's stomach acid we are talking about here? Cartoon Duck Syndrome returns to torment me as the nephews grab onto the balloon and rise up. But that doesn't allow the nephews to push the crappy button; so Louie climbs up and pulls the hose and the glove balloon whizzes around like a balloon losing air and in the end they get squeezed into a blue flower like something and get spit out onto the stylish bloodstream of red blood cells. Huey and Dewey blow off Louie again. WHY?! He got them farther than they would have done if Louie did THINK; which kills the moral they were shooting for here. See; Louie's so reckless that he gets them into trouble and doesn't think before he acts. Problem is; for it to work; the nephews should be below the stomach; not above it and nearing the heart. Idiots! So the nephews walk down the bloodstream road and we head to the heart which beats like something out of Mickey Mouseworks, two years before that show existed. We see a red blood cell dressed up with a coin in his hand and also appears to have a cigarette in his mouth unlit. He looks like Him; only slightly more musculine. In fact; I wouldn't be surprised if this show was a template for Him in Whoop Ass...ERRR...I mean Powerpuff Girls. There is also a dark blue lamp post and apparently; this heart is open to a stage featuring a red blood cell named Shecky Gangrene.
We head inside and it's basically a formal place, only with heart and blood cell references all about. We pan over as we are into Walt Disney Animation France levels of animation in the foreground (as seen in the background in Plunder and Lightning Act One when we first see Louie's. So we pan over to the stage as there is a blood cell drumming on drums and out comes in a spotlight to the microphone Shecky Gangrene who is a pink blood cell with a red suit and bowler hat with a purple shirt on. Yeah. Shecky proclaims that this is the Arota Room and Shecky Gangrene according to Juan F. Lara might be voiced by David Prince (no relation to the guy who did storyboards for TaleSpin) and he has eight total credits besides Quack Pack: Darkwing Duck is his acting debut and DTVA debut. He did Danger Rangers as Chief Daniels, The Mask The Series and Extreme Ghostbusters. Video games include King's Quest VI, Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn as Lt. Aegisfield and X-Men Origins Wolverine as Dr. Cornelius. That's it. In other words; not much. I've also noted on IMDB that David Prince is not on there; but Glen Shadix is so it might be him; but he appears later on in a role I know for sure which is a henchmen. Anyhow; in come two black faced bouncers in gangsta gear as Louie asks who they are and Shecky points out that they are antibodies who get rid of germs and crappy nephews like Huey, Dewey and Louie. We go off-screen as they are kicked out and they take wussy bumps on the bloodstream cell road. Yawn. So the nephews notice an elevator which has pictured above the elevator button a peanut. The nephews push the button and proclaims that this leads to Donald's brain; to indicate that Donald is a stupid old fart. That was depressing as we head to Duckberg Stadium AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) and this is even more depressing because I'm pretty damn sure the two hours is officially up for the nephews by now. Even more so: Donald climbing the ladder and has stopped selling looking like Domald and just looks ill. Donald climbs onto the top of the scoreboard as we cut to Tobar dressed up like Colonel Spigot; only with less heat and more green skin is pacing in front of his big ass germs which look exactly like Tobar. Now that's funny.
So Tobar goes one a rant on Donald sneezing and infecting everyone in the stadium and then everyone else sneezes on others and then no amount of disinfectant can stop the big ass germs. This plan seems way too small to work as we get the sirens of pain and red alerts as it is time to sneeze. So the big ass germs all get their backpacks and we cut back to Donald on top of the scoreboard doing the shivering Gruffi pose. So the big ass germs march towards Donald's mouth as Donald dramatically teases sneezing...and then gets his mouth covered by Daisy who appears out of nowhere. As usual. Daisy proclaims that she will not allow this to happen as Tobar is shocked and appalled that Daisy would lie. Actually she didn't. She might love germs; but she is not evil like you Tobar. So then up from behind and out of nowhere come the nephews telling Tobar to surrender because he's outnumbered. Tobar recalls his troops as there are nine of the big ass germs. Only nine? That's gross underkill...or just the pitfalls of television animation before the Toon Boom period. So the big ass germs back up the nephews; except for Louie because he brings out the BOOM POWDER OF DEATH and pours it on Donald's brain. Why? Because he has to do something before he thinks. Ironically; the other nephews praise him this time because he actually thought before he took action. Ummm; he did the exact same thing as before except it's much smaller, so no brains went into that deal. So we get the explosion roof spot; only with the top of Donald's head this time and Donald goes all sick and punch drunk before dropping on his back. We head inside as there is a huge gooey mess as the germs all become skeletons and die much to the horror of Tobar who is still alive and covered in goo. Wow; that was pretty gruesome and doesn't that violate the "no kill" mandate by BS&P?
Anyhow; we cut to the nephews inside Donald's brain which is back to DW style again as Daisy has a book called Old Rover which I guess it's a parody of Old Yeller. The nephews want Daisy to read said book to Donald for no reason I can think of. So we have Daisy reading about how his owner scratched behind Old Rover's ears complete with a picture of the act and Donald is selling like a piss ant as he cries and sobs. We discover that the nephews are in the tear ducts with a tied up Tobar who seems to be cleaned up without the Nazi gear. Future Fairly Oddparents jackhammer spot: There are yellow markers showing the level of sorrow Donald is suffering ranging from Forget About It to Unhappy. Whatever; the episode is overbooked now; and it's time to mercy kill it. And yes; Old Rover died as Donald really bawls like a baby and this is so amazing that it shows how much contempt the writers had at the time when this was supposed to be a comedy spot. Yeah; using pathos for comedy. And remember; Quack Pack existed long before all those Random! Cartoon series even started to become born; let alone do the same old comedy routine for a decade or more. Again; it shows that the execs know exactly what they are doing because they are lazy bastards out for profits they don't need because they were conditioned into believing that being rich is the only way to be happy. Only the word rich is financial and not in health and other areas. Let's cry a river for Donald and for pathos in general because this sucks. And the nephews with Tobar are flushed into the conveniently placed water buckets. Jackson goes over and grabs the buckets and places them in front of the Germinator Ray Gun and pushes the buttons on it and we get a slow sequence where the ray shoots at the water buckets and the nephews grow back to normal size again. I'm guessing that was two hours and there was no suspense at all for that.
Tobar doesn't change back to normal size as the nephews climb out of the small bucket which somehow doesn't kill Tobar and Jackson uses the eyedropper to suck up Tobar proclaiming that he is germ size forever. Then the conveniently out of nowhere police officer arrives (Danny Mann) to grab the eyedropper and to say that he has the tiniest cell for him as Tobar proclaims no jail cell can hold him. That seems kind of useless since he's already imprisoned in the eye dropper. So we end this with no moral whatsoever as Louie goes over to the bunson burner and turns it on full blast for no reason and the whole room explodes and we get the third roof off the top spot of the episode. This one is the worst; because it makes no freaking sense whatsoever since we didn't see any explosive materials. Unless that was cut by Toon Disney as we see the results as the room is destroyed and the nephews are covered in ash and soot. The nephews give him eye contact violence and Louie proclaims that he'll never learn which is the most honest thing the nephews have ever said. And it came from Mr. Balloon Sacks of all people. Circle fade out to end the episode at 20:00 aired. So a full minute and ten seconds (give or take five) was cut out. I wonder if the ending was supposed to be Louie using the Boom Powder again which makes no sense since he only had one bag and somehow produced three in this episode alone? If that was the case; it was probably for the best because this episode wasn't good. I mean; it was okay and all; but I felt that there was a lot of mistakes that would have been corrected if BS&P wasn't a piss ant. I'm just saying. Call it ** 1/4 (45%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; this episode was an interesting one: It had a pretty silly, but fun notion of a germ lover being a heel like Poison Ivy; and Tobar was good as a heel; but I have seen better from Bushroot, so my excitement was tempered quite a bit. I thought Donald's hatred for doctors was dumb to me and there were a few spot I thought would have been great if they were done right: Donald's tease of grounding the nephews would have awesome had he not called them grounded and said "YOU ARE...okay." That is dramatic tension and it works as a spot. If you declared them grounded; then the spot doesn't work. Jackson is basically the doctor version of Craftsworth and come to think of it; maybe his full name is Jackson Craftsworth. I thought about this in ten seconds; which is way more than the character designers put into this episode. The logic of Donald's body is way out of whack going from stylish realism to Darkwing Duck cartoonish levels (the inside looks like a computer center for instance) almost within the same frame. The whole heart angle was wasted since it went nowhere and only serve to pad the running time. The whole finish and ending made sense (I only say that because it's clear the bunson burner spot was edited because it makes no sense); in spite of the fact that it felt like a contemptable attempt to use pathos as comedy which the twain shall never meet since they are two opposites.
It's one of those things that made me realize that Disney is becoming like everyone else and lost it's unique identity as the master of pathos for children. While there is nothing wrong with going for comedy and other styles of animation (heck; Toon Boom really opened my eyes to the fact that cell animation can die a horrible death now); to show contempt for pathos when you are the master of them is like admitting that you are ashamed of yourself; and in term buries the pathos which are needed in order to get the new audience to swim over once the comedy becomes stale. That was what Walt Disney was about: He was a abuser of the public domain; but he used the medium to make entertaining products for everyone and them streamed up to the more advanced works and his original works. I'm sure Disney tried that with Mickey's Mouseworks; but the foundation was so haphazard that it lost it's effectiveness and in term made the hardcore customer look good. Thus; Disney turned into an average animation company and the hardcore gave the middle finger and walked out. In short; the Old Rover thing was out of nowhere and it wasn't funny because it felt like a swipe at Disney's heart. Still; this episode wasn't awful, but I was disappointed at the lack of continuity and Louie's routine of recklessness really bordered on dumb by the time the third act appeared. On the other hand; Toonz was on his best behavior for the most part; so points for that.
Just one more thing: If anyone has seen the syndication version of this episode; please e-mail and tell me what was cut because there was a full minute of cuts on this episode alone. Next up is Earth Quack which leads us to our 20th episode of the series and the halfway point. YAY! Sadly; this episode is not so much YAY at all. So........
Thumbs down for this episode and I'll see you next time.