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Snow Place To Hide
Reviewed: 03/03/2013
A Perfect Allegory For Winter Suffering!
We are now down to the last five episodes of the series and I have decided to do this one next; which I'm glad to after the horrible episode I watched last rant. So it's basically Donald Duck being jealous of someone and it takes form of an imaginary friend who wants Donald to spy on Daisy during an assignment at a ski resort. That sounds intriguing actually; much more fun than Donald getting suckered in by woo and quackery. So; let's rant on and find out shall we...?!
This episode is written by Dean Stefan and story editing is done by Gary Sperling. The animation is done by Walt Disney Animation OZ.
Opening Moment #1: Today's title card features Donald looking away from a snowman who has it's head cut off by The Big Bad Wolf dressed in lime green. I thought furries were against Toby's mandate (other than the ducks of course)? Oh who cares? It's not this show has made sense anyway. This is where checking your brain at the door has it's benefits. Snow flake background looks like something out of the new Disney too.
So we begin this episode at the docks as we discover that the yellow house in the middle is in fact Daisy's house. So Donald walks on the docks dressed with a blue coat, red sweater, flat hat and a bundle of flowers. Apparently; Daisy's gate is a single wooden door with no fence; plus it's too small to contain Donald. Donald opens the gate and then walks inside, proceeding to smell his own batch of flowers. Then we hear Donald exchanging pleasure thoughts with someone; or something as Donald looks mighty flustered and throws down the flowers in disgust. So Donald tries to watch from an open window with about a half dozen barrels; but Daisy continues to talk sweet stuff to some handsome "person" as she pulls down the blinders. Donald loses his balance; and falls backwards into the drink. Donald pops up and brings in the anchor tied to a rope (which was out of nowhere) and swings the anchor up the roof and then we climb up onto the roof. Donald goes to the bigger window and looks down; but his hat falls. Sadly; Donald has to grab it allowing him to take the off-screen bump on his head. So then Donald just basically decides to barge into Daisy's bedroom and we finally realize as everyone should have noticed by now: Daisy was exchanging pleasure thoughts with Knuckles while packing her suitcase. Daisy is not amused and blows off Donald for assuming that she was with another man and that he's jealous. We discover that she's leaving because Kent Powers wants her to cover an interview that he cannot do himself as they go down the stairs. Daisy tells Donald not to worry because she's her man and he has nothing to be jealous of. Sadly Knuckles gets in the way as they both kiss the iguana. And judging by the purple skis she's carrying; she's going to a ski resort. Daisy calls his jealous a green eyed monster that he has to control as she kisses her hand and we hear the taxi. Donald promises to keep it under control and waves back as Daisy leaves the house. So Donald walks outside and waves some more; only for a green poof of smoke and we see a wolf furry dressed in a green suit and hat. We get the business card as he's a G.I. Monster, Esq. Which is pretty much the same guy as Joseph Parks, Esq. And the green eyes wink at Donald.
Green Eyed Monster is voiced by Stuart Pankin and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Stuart Pankin is a five time nominated, CableAce Award winner for HBO's national and international award winning series Not Necessarily The News. He received his Master's Degree in Theatre from Columbia University, and went on to perform with the NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC REPERTORY COMPANY, THE AMERICAN PLACE THEATRE, THE REPERTORY COMPANY OF LINCOLN CENTER, and THE FOLGER SHAKESPEARE THEATRE, with The Winter’s Tale, The Inspector General, Bartholomew Fair, and The Three Sisters among his favorites. He created the roles of Reuben and Queen Victoria in the New York premiere of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He starred or was featured in over 70 Off Broadway, summer, and regional theatre productions (Lend Me A Tenor, Rumors, Tartuffe, Joe Egg, Sly Fox, Chapter Two, Carnival, Born Yesterday, Talley’s Folly, Wait Until Dark, Happy Days: The Musical (for Gary Marshall); Strike Up The Band, 1776, and City of Angels for Reprise! LA; Silk Stockings and Little Shop of Horrors for Musical Theatre West. In films (member, AMPAS) he has starred in Honey We Shrunk Ourselves (the first live action made-for-video feature), The Hollywood Knights, Mannequin On The Move, The Dirt Bike Kid, Second Sight, Encounter In The Third Dimension, Misadventures in 3-D (IMAX 3-D movies) as the Professor, and voice of the adorable animated robot, Hopelessly In June (Bud Abbott Feature Comedy Award).
Stuart has been featured in Fatal Attraction, The Artist (Academy Award Winner), Arachnophobia, Life Stinks, Congo, An Eye For An Eye, Irreconcilable Differences, Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale, (directed by Academy Award winner Xavier Kohler), and Striptease, as well as in a number of MOW’s (Babylon 5, An Accidental Christmas, Down, Out and Dangerous, Like Father Like Santa, and three Zenon Girl of the 20th Century Disney TV movies. Mr. Pankin was a series regular on nine prime time television productions and pilots Pankin (member, ATAS). He appeared in over 300 television shows, including guest starring appearances on “Boston Legal”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Suite Life “, “Ally McBeal, "Walker, Texas Ranger", "Desperate Housewives", "Sisters", "Shake It Up", "Mad About You" and "Family Ties"; recurring roles on "Falcon Crest", "Trapper John M.D.", "For Your Love", "Knot’s Landing”, and “That’s So Raven”; multiple appearances on “Hooperman”, "Dharma and Greg", “Night Court”, “It’s Gary Shandling’s Show”, “Matt Houston”, “Barney Miller”, and “Mike Hammer”; many cartoon voices, including "Animaniacs", "Batman”, "Superman", and "Aladdin”; Web series with Seth Green and Joe Dante, and DS2dio. Stuart was the voice of Earl Sinclair, the blustery father, on the Emmy award-winning Dinosaurs. He also sang, and composed two songs for the Disney album "DINOSAURS: THE BIG SONGS", and performed Earl on the “Dinosaurs: Classic Tales” tape release. He starred in, co-wrote, and co-executive produced the Stuart Pankin Cinemax Comedy Experiment ("HUMP!", the musical comedy version of Richard III), in which he played five roles, and sang his own original music. The Electronic Retail Association nominated him for Best Celebrity Presenter. Stuart is blessed with Joy and Andy.
Early in his career, Pankin frequently performed at St. Vincent Summer Theatre and still returns to perform there often.[2] One of Pankin's earliest film appearances was as asthmatic musician/magician Dudley Laywicker in Hollywood Knights. Pankin was also an anchor on HBO's Not Necessarily the News, played Earl Sinclair in the TV sitcom Dinosaurs and the father on the short-lived sitcom Nearly Departed.[3] Pankin has also appeared in numerous TV commercials.[citation needed] Pankin played an Orthodox Jew in Curb Your Enthusiasm. He has also starred in Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Zenon: The Zequel, and Zenon: Z3 as Commander Plank. Pankin also appeared in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, as the brother of Wayne Szalinski, and also co-starred as a bossy, self-important lawman in the horror/comedy Arachnophobia. More recently, Pankin also appeared as an absent-minded professor in a series of edutainment 3D films (Encounter in the Third Dimension and Misadventures in 3D), designed for large-screen IMAX theatres. He is currently a spokesman in infomercials for the WalkFit Phase 4 Orthotics shoe insert.[citation needed] Although Pankin is well known for comedy roles and game show appearances (e.g., The $100,000 Pyramid), he has sometimes also taken dramatic roles, such as Michael Douglas' friend Jimmy, who attempts to hit on Glenn Close in Adrian Lyne's hit thriller Fatal Attraction. He started with the television movie Free To Be...You & Me in 1974. Bonker is his DTVA debut as Mammoth Mammoth and also was in Aladdin The Series as Sultan Pasta El-Dente. He has 128 acting credits and 9 self credits to his resume. A Christmas Wedding Date is his most recent credit.
So Monster circles behind Donald proclaiming that she is going to a ski resort and lying about it being a business trip. He also meat grinds white stuff into snow with a meat grinder; calling Daisy's turn on Donald a real snow job. Donald blows it off; so G.I. brings out the easel and paints a picture of Daisy with purple pants and purple sneakers on in front of the fireplace feeding popcorn from a bowl showing to Kent Powers wearing all blue. Yeah; we are supposed to seriously think that Donald would fall for this considering that this is Kent F'N Powers; which Daisy has not liked throughout this series. "Kent & Daisy" mock Donald for being an idiot as Donald punches the painting and does the whirlwind spot in the process. Donald then blows off Monster with the POINTY FINGER OF DEATH because that is not her Daisy. Of course it isn't Donald. I mean who in the hell would want to be Kent Powers' date? G.I. decides to let him be; and tries the neon green eye trick as Monster offers Donald to take the nephews to the ski resort, and G.I. proclaims that she will not suspect a thing. So Donald blows it off and is about to leave; so G.I. calls Donald a chicken because he's really afraid of seeing the real Daisy and not Daisy seeing him. Donald's whites in his eyes turn neon green and naturally he accepts the deal. So we head to the Swiss Alps (I think) to a really, really bland ski resort complete with yodeling music. We see the ski lifts and then head to the ski resort lodge as Kent is being demanding again as he is ringing the bell at the receptionist desk inside. The brown haired guy in a brown suit is writing notes on a paper propped up by a wooden stand. Did I mention that this ski lodge is a log cabin? We discover that Kent Power is looking for Jean Claude which goes to show you that Kent Powers was the one responsible for suggesting the Freedom Fries nonsense. Okay; maybe not. Kent pronounces it as "Jean" and not "john" which the later is French. Jean is a world champion skier and playboy which means that he'll probably be the French version of Benzino Gasolini.
The receptionist bails as Kent continues his lame attempt to sound as witty as Darkwing; but Daisy comes in with the same outfit she was wearing when G.I. was painting the picture and calls him out. I see Daisy is really ticked off today because Kent apparently was trying to out scoop her into getting an interview with Jean Claude. Kent then acts like he never met this Jean before; and the receptionist claims that there is no one registered by that name in the lodge. Kent tries to tip toe away from the lodge; but Daisy grabs him and gets in his face because she is the co-host and therefore they will interview him together. How? The receptionist already said that he is not registered so he cannot be here. So we go to the window as Donald is watching on wearing a Charlie Brown style orange sweater with winter cap. G.I. is poisoning the well like a good, little evil Esquire would. The shadows of Daisy and Kent are about to kiss each other as G.I. is gone and Donald gets the CHEAP HEAT OF LAUGHS and falls through the snow. HAHA! G.I. calls Donald hot under the collar which is a real comments that isn't supposed to be a real comment. We head inside with Kent looking like he's about to cry as Daisy realizes that Jean never registers under his own name. Geez; I wonder why?! Kent walks stage left as Daisy pulls on his sweater and it tears off as she wants to find him together. Good luck Daisy; Kent has no clue what working together is. Or he does and he has contempt for it which is dead on for his character in general. So we head outside on the slopes as we see the nephews finally show their faces five and a half minutes in. Dewey is on snowboard while the rest are on skis with no ski poles. Unless you are going on the ski jump; this makes no sense. Must be patent issues. So they exchange notes on why Donald would come here when he is afraid of skiing. Hey suckwads; why not ask DONALD about it?! We already know why you three are here: SEXIST GIRL OF THE DAY~! But they ignore Donald and slide down the hill some more for fun. Good; that means the focus will be on Donald; which is a good idea, thank you.
So we head to the steps as Donald looks over Daisy's picture and whines and moans like anyone complaining about today's state of cartoons. It would be downright hilarious if it wasn't so sad. Then G.I. is chiseling a heart made of ice with a crack in it. He then proclaims that he was wrong and that he thinks Donald is Daisy's #1 man. So we have started the reverse psychology stuff now as he shatters the ice heart in some form of sick symbolism with Daisy waiting in the weeds to screw Donald. Ummm; how is this possible when we have seen Daisy have contempt for Kent throughout this series. How can anyone see anything in Kent Powers; other than seeing him get screwed by Donald himself? Donald drops the picture as Monster comes over and suggests absolute proof; which is in the same kind of proof Bert Pertince claim was there when Eddie Marlon was accused of being in a gay affair with Miss Texas; whom Bert accused her of being a man who had a sex change. Yeah; absolute proof. So we cut back to the nephews doing more snowboarding and no hands skiing as Dewey does some Kit Cloudkicker-equse flips and lands on the shoulders of Huey and Louie. Okay; that was neat at least. Dewey wants them to hold their cheers and throw him money. Geez; what a shock that was?! We then see Kent Powers skiing down the slopes without poles. Are you telling me that BS&P forbids ski poles now? I would love to hear that story of why none of the skiers in this episode had no ski poles to use. He does the ski jump off the cliff and does a better job than Dewey did thanks to showing the pocket mirror and cutting vain promos about himself. That was certainly a raspberry to Darkwing Duck; the first good one from Kent no less! And to make it even better; when they do the DNA sequence spot; Kent bumps into the nephews and the nephews go flying into the snow. HAHA! That is certainly putting the nephews in their proper place Kent. So the nephews tumble and turn into snowballs as they fall off the cliff; and this ends with creating a big ass snowman. HA!
The nephews pop from the carnage and they blow him off proclaiming that he has challenged the manhood of the duck brothers. Yeap; it's on now and I hope Kent kicks their asses in this one even though I know that will probably not happen. So we head back to the ski lodge near some snowbank as Kent is waxing his skis. He's practicing his promo cutting while twirling the fist and howls in a really hilariously bad fashion. So we see Daisy pop her head out of the door as she proclaims that she got lunch reservations to a table next to Jean Claude. Kent tries to come in proclaiming that they'll do this together (how convenient of him eh?); but Daisy calls him wrong and turns on Kent for real while we see Donald in bellhop gear hiding behind a coat rack. Now are we surprised to see this happen? I mean; it's Kent Powers we are talking about here. Donald hides in one of the coats as Kent follows Daisy and begs for mercy. G.I. pops up from behind and tells Donald that Kent is trying to gain her hand in marriage. Really?! Donald is now pissed as he struggles inside the coat; but no dice. Kent is almost ready to kiss Daisy's feet (which is an awesome visual when you think about it); so Daisy gives up and wants Kent to come along. Kent is so happy that he grabs Daisy's hand and teases kissing it which completely repulses her. Only Kent Powers would poison the well and still not convince Daisy to play along. So Donald pops out from the coat rack (thanks to G.I.) punch drunk as G.I. points out that Kent is going to kiss his future bride Daisy as we see Kent begin to pucker up. Now Donald has the whites of Kent Powers in his eyes and he's pissed off. G.I. claims that he told Donald so and slaps his ass which causes Donald to face plant onto the floor before G.I. walks off. Donald wants to put up the dukes; but a number of skiing patron throw their luggage and equipment onto Donald and thus giving him the "bigger than his own body weight" spot as he staggers and bumps into the conveniently placed stuffed Humprey The One Joke Bear and it falls and squashes Donald complete with fade to black impact star explosion spot so you know BS&P is all over this one.
So Donald tries to pop up from the carnage as we hear music and Kent proclaims that they are playing his song. And then Daisy and Kent dance, dance, dance to their doom. HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And then the receptionist gets involved which completely destroys the continuity they were shooting for. I mean; Daisy dancing with Kent willfully? And the receptionist? FACKING BULLSHEET! This completely justifies Donald's paranoia now as Donald walks in and asks if he can have this dance; but Daisy blows him off because he'll have to take a number as there are three dozen men in line to dance with Daisy. What is this conspiracy theory Nightflight keeps talking about? Three men (none of them is Kent nor Jean) sweep Daisy off her feet and do the football victory spot as a moose's head mounted above the fireplace calls Daisy looking good. YOWZA~! Moosehead is voiced by Dorian Harewood and according to Wikipedia: Harewood first attracted attention for his portrayal of Simon Haley (father of author Alex Haley) in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations. He is known for his roles in Full Metal Jacket, for starring as Jesse Owens in The Jesse Owens Story, and for his co-starring role in the ABC Television series Strike Force (starring Robert Stack). In 1994, he was awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie, for his recurring role as jazz/blues saxophonist Clarence "Cool Papa" Charleston on the NBC drama series I'll Fly Away. In 1995, he co-starred in the Warren Chaney docudrama, America: A Call to Greatness.[1][2] In 2012, he is an announcer for NBC.[3] He also played Dr. Julian Wilkes in the NBC (later syndicated) TV series Viper. He started on Swiss Family Robinson as Jama. He is also known as the second Shredder from TMNT 1987; mostly doing the 1989 season.
Darkwing Duck is his DTVA debut as Official Guy in Planet of The Capes (Oh joy!); and he also appeared in Goof Troop as Buster, Bonkers as Mac, Aladdin the Series as Captain Mirk, Gargoyles as Boreas/Talos/Little Anton, The Buzz On Maggie as Judge, WITCH as Lionel Cook, and Handy Manny as Coach Johnson. Diablo III is his most recent credit. He has 162 acting credits, 15 self credits to his resume. He also composed the song No Excuses for Evasive Action and did performing for Sparkle and Panic In Echo Park. And Daisy kisses the moose head in response. That is so hilariously funny and stupid all at the same time. Not unlike Disco Inferno's Village People's Elbow. All three men back away from Daisy and now DEWEY is dancing with Daisy. Yeah; Donald is somehow jealous after 99% of the skiing population is dancing with her, and after the fact that Daisy called Donald her #1 even in spite of that. Donald's jealousy better reach Macho Man's level with Elizabeth when Hulk Hogan was having a go with her; or I'll be so disappointed. And then Louie and Huey dance with her and they proclaim that they should marry her instead of Donald who is a loser which indicates that this is a dream sequence as they call for Uncle Donald and the voices go hallow as we return to reality (no, not really) as the nephews in skiing gear (another indication that this was a dream) trying to help Donald from the carnage. That is actually a really good sequence of events that actually makes sense and keeps Daisy from looking like a two-plus-man woman. They seem more interested in asking where Kent is and Donald is more interesting in selling that he's punch drunk. So the nephews bail stage right and leave Donald staggering. So we head to the ski lodge's balcony as Daisy is sitting down and not amused with Kent Powers' Krackpotkin plan to get the scoop on Jean Claude. I would like the scoop on who does Kent's wardrobe because it looks really tacky at this point. Daisy blows it off when her name comes into play as she does the Gruffi pose. So we cut to on top of the roof as Donald is sitting on the snow covered roof while G.I. continues to poison the well and screws it up because Anthony and Cleopatria don't know about balconies.
So Donald slides down and pinballs (complete with flashing lights) off the chimneys and then swing around another one. Then he slows the swing and we cut back to Kent continuing to explain his "brilliant" plan to Daisy who is not amused because Kent is going to tell Jean the JOKE OF DOOM and she has to do the LAUGH OF DOOM; which Daisy blows off complete with Gruffi pose. Let me guess: the joke is: How many nephews does it take to screw a series? AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! POW! POW! OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! Ummmm... Kent claims the interview is riding on this; so Daisy does the most contrived laugh I have ever heard. At least this one was intentional; and not like Chip's laugh from Out To Launch. Donald hangs on as G.I. takes it as having fun. G.I. needs to have his sarcasm meter checked out; I think it sprung a leak. Kent wants her to do it with more believable feeling which has does real well. Then Daisy tries it and the animation is so not matching the laugh Daisy is doing. UH OH! She's shooting again! G.I. continues to poison the well; and then we cut back to Kent tickling Daisy in the ribs. I guess it's only forbidden if you go after her feet; which is kind of stupid when you think the thing through. Daisy sells much better this time and this should prove that G.I. cannot tell the truth to save his life. Donald will likely buy it anyway because they have to advance the plot of jealousy somehow as Donald rolls up his sleeves; but that means he has to let go and Donald slides up and over and off the roof stage right which ends the segment 11 minutes in. Pretty good episode thus far.
After commercial break; we see Donald in the air as he grabs onto the icicle on the pipe siding of the roof and looks down as we get a sky shot of the ground. Donald breathes a sigh of relief as we cut to the nephews as the continuity is now dead as they are carrying snowboards now instead of just Dewey. They are also wearing boots shaped like web feet which is hilarious considering Donald isn't wearing any himself. They are still calling Kent a lime slime which is true; but what does that make you nephews? Rainbow slime?! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So we cut to Donald hanging onto an icicle as G.I. appears out of nowhere to offer Donald some hot cocoa. Can you bet the farm that Donald grabs it and then free falls because he let go of the icicle?! Even dumber was Donald grabbed the cup and still could have hung on; but it was the thermos that caused him to free fall. G.I. has that look of "I love it when they are stupider than Goofy" as Donald lawn darts into the snow; forcing the nephews to run in and pull him out by the legs. Donald gets on his knees and begs for their help and then talks like the old Donald Duck in one of those moments where BS&P must have been asleep at the wheel. You have to realize that this is the 35th episode I have ranted on in this series; so this is completely out of place for this show; even though it makes total sense for Donald to do this in Ducktales. So the nephews somehow understand the guise of Donald saying that Daisy is here and Donald takes Huey and teases kissing him which Huey is instantly repulsed by it. What a homophobe?! They call him jealous and Donald admits it without hesitation as he does a really awesome spot of changing a snowman to a snow statue of Kent Powers and then clobbers it with his fist. Donald falls down and the nephews proclaim that they cannot help him; until they stop and notice Kent Powers drinking cocoa on the balcony; and that is the lime slime. Oh come on; that hairstyle and tacky outfit didn't clue you losers in on the fact that it was Kent? So they change their minds and decide to help Donald after all. Oh great; just what we need! And to think; this episode was chugging along smoothly too. Huey calls this payback time and I hope it backfires in their faces too...
So we head to the ski chair lift as Kent Power is singing his vain promo now as he dismounts off the chair lift at the summit; but he gets flashed by the nephews dressed up as a cowboy, Hollywood photographer guy and a news reporter. And yes; they took their boots off. The nephews all praise Kent for being awesome as Kent proclaims that he's honored and humble. Well; the humble part he is still trying to iron out as we do some more photographing from the nephews. Kent gets camera eyes as he cannot see where the nephews are pushing him towards which is a dangerous cliff with danger barriers around. They ask simple questions and then push him off the cliff because they want action shots and Kent finally snaps out of it; but has been in mid air about 100 feet away from the cliff and he gets WARNERED and free falls off-screen to his death. Well; in Donald's case, he hopes it is true as we get the binoculars shot as Donald mocks him and laughs like an asshole. Donald looks in the view finder and it's G.I. again. I don't know who is worse; the nephews pushing the crappy button, or G.I. being able to get away with being an ANTHRO on this show? G.I. likes how he disposed of Kent Powers; but Donald have fresh competition as Donald is not liking this at all. So we head into the dining area and to a white cloth covered table as a Launchpad look a like with black hair, cheese shirt, black vest and red tie is reading the menu. I'm guessing that this is Jean Claude (Frank Welker) as we zoom out with Daisy at the opposite table reading a menu. So she hops the chair over to the right and calls for Jean and then hides inside the plant life behind the booth seats where Jean is reading. Daisy introduces herself and sadly; we never got to know what name he was registered under because that needed to be mocked and these writers don't care at this point. Jean blows her off and then notices Daisy's face complete with the eye blinking and eye blinking sound spot.
So two human bellhops in red suits grab Daisy and they plop her in the booth seating and she gets chocolate and flowers which Daisy pushes aside. Jean slides over with grinning teeth and we exchange pleasure thoughts and cuddle. He loves Daisy's name and wonder if there are people like her which allows Daisy to insult Kent again as she checks the watch. Donald is hiding behind a tray with a partially empty salad bowl in a neat visual as G.I. appears again only to get stuffed by Donald after G.I. proclaims that this might be worse if romantic music is involved. And right on cue; we see a red bandana wearing strong guy with a blue sweater, red vest and a black mustache play the violin to a blond haired woman and brown haired man wearing ski gear. Apparently; G.I. was in the cheese fondue pot. EWWWWW! GET HIM AWAY! GET HIM AWAY! So Donald runs in while G.I. calls Daisy a goner and is more interested in eating flavored bread cubes. Then we see the violin player minus his red sweater and red bandana getting money indicating that Donald had bribed him. That was different; normally, they would have him beat him up, tie him up and gag him; only for the babyface to appear with a violin and the disguise. At least this makes sense as Donald comes in and plays the violin badly. It's still a million times better than Fanboy playing it normally; or with his nose. The human couple covers their ears in disagreement/protest of my critique of Donald's violin playing. So we continue with Jean and Daisy talking about Kent Powers as Daisy wants Jean to bite his tongue. Sadly; it doesn't happen as we get the obvious logic break: We are playing piano music despite the fact that we heard violin music. Jean takes this as Daisy not having a boyfriend and Daisy claims that she didn't say that at all. So Jean channel Pepe LePew; only he doesn't stink like Pepe and Donald ends that with his hilariously bad violin playing. Jean grabs Donald by the head and throws him away to a good bump while blowing Donald off. Heh.
Donald gets up as Daisy wants Jean to back off because she already has a damn boyfriend. Donald peeps up and Daisy proclaims that she would never betray Donald at all and Donald realizes that he just screwed himself and turns into Pepe LePew and the stink of jealousy forces him to walk back as a skunk. I died laughing after that; it was so funny as G.I. eggs on him for spying on his girlfriend; despite the fact that it was G.I. who started this nonsense in the first place. You know he's a heel when he blames the one he's fleecing. Thank goodness Donald didn't pay him for sage advice as Donald yells at him to get lost and he disappears as Donald opens the violin case and there is G.I. stuffed in there just to not amuse Donald. So we head back as somehow Kent Power is still skiing BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (sunset) and somehow hasn't crashed, burned and died. Kent is still doing flips without the ski poles and then he heads for the conveniently placed train crossing complete with barrier as Kent begs for mercy. Kent? Grab the damn barrier stick and hold on; you'll be fine. He bounces off the barrier and slingshots due west as the train misses him by a country mile. It should only be so lucky. So we cut back to the nephews as they think they outsmarted Kent; but Kent plows into them and does the snow angel spot into the front door and then crashes into the dining room and bumps into Donald who slide to the log wall and then blow each other off. Then the waiter comes through the conveniently placed double flipping doors and Donald gets bumped again as he manages to do a missile and eat a chicken leg some patron was about to eat at one table (which is a neat visual) and then plops right on Jean Claude's table. Daisy then notices Donald right away despite the fact that she saw him earlier dressed up in the same clothes. Donald realizes that he's screwed as he offers a doughnut which apparently was what the patron was originally eating and that ends the segment 16 and a half minutes in. I'm actually digging this episode; and who's to blame for all this? The nephews, DUH!!
After the commercial break; we see Donald on the table with the doughnut as Daisy does the Gruffi pose and demands to know what Donald is doing here. If I'm Donald; I would run right now until this blows over. Donald stammers like an idiot as the two bellhops pull Kent Powers out of the log wall and they get bumped away while Kent somehow was on his feet. Donald points at Kent for no reason whatsoever as Kent casually walks in and shakes Jean's hand and introduces himself. Then Donald grabs Kent and teases kissing him much to Kent's dismay. I hoped Donald succeeded here; but he was more interested in proving that Kent was trying to hit on Daisy which is stupid because Daisy is not going to deal with a bigger jackass than Donald and Donald is only making himself look like a paranoid jackass which is slightly worse than Kent Powers. I'm guessing Daisy blows off Donald for being jealous and breaks up the friendship just like in the classic shorts; only a lot more funnier and sillier. Daisy; to my surprise just shoots and then the nephews run in and proclaim that Donald was here to surprise her. Donald is as confused as I am; which is par for the course when it comes to them. Dewey does the devastating elbow to the ribs and Donald sells for real as sadly; the coding on my video went to hell and stopped. Thankfully; it was restored to normal about seven seconds later as Donald has some forks and apparently we are going to go skiing; with actual ski poles! Ooookkkkaaayyyy. Donald jumps on Kent's ass and sticks them up his ass and Kent oversells pain as only he could. You didn't miss a thing and that was a HAHA for sure. So we discover that Donald jumps up the chandelier as Daisy asks about him entering the Mount Impact Ski Competition. Donald nods like an idiot and then catches himself as Jean shakes hands and proclaims that Mount Impact is the most dangerous ski hill in the world. HAHA! This is going to be fun to mock; although the competition was certainly out of nowhere. Donald flops on the table and laughs as Jean calls him a worthy rival; but Kent taps him on the shoulder and cuts a vain promo as he is entering too.
Kent wants to interview him and Jean walks out of the dinning room and tells him to interview him at the finish line..if he makes it. DUM DUM DUM! Kent goes over to Daisy and mocks her as the nephews tell Donald that he's going to be fine as we get a closeup of Donald's face and then we segue to Donald on top of the starting line with his sweater (which has a number posted on him which is double zero; or infinity (odds on him winning the race perchance? NAH! That would telegraph the finish way too soon in advance)) and hat (which has a yellow puffy on top). The nephews tell him that it's just a big hill with twists, turns and jagged ice that can rip him to shreds. When you need someone to be rendered into crapiness; call the Quack Pack nephews. The nephews wish him good luck and to break a leg; which Dewey calls a figure of speech. Liar and you know it Dewey! So the nephews bail stage right as Donald looks to his right and sees four big ass skiers who seems to be on steroids looking back at him with evil looks and Donald has that look of "I'm dead aren't it?" and then looks to his left and sees Kent Powers at the starting line. Donald turns forward and Daisy comes up and proclaims that he doesn't have to do this and she knows why he's here. She tells Donald is wrong; but his heart was in the right place so she completely forgives him and Donald gets so charmed that his skies are almost going to make him go down the hill; but Jean grabs him and praises him gleefully. They look at Daisy as Jean proclaims that Daisy will never be with the loser of this race; so he throws Donald down the hill. Why would you give your rival a head start? Either he's confident; or he did it to make Donald false start and be DQ'ed. Problem with that is; Jean still caused it; so Jean would be DQ'ed. The other skiers follow Jean and Donald and the power of suggestion manages to make Kent do the whirlwind spot and ski backwards. HAHA! Jean is great; he's awesome. So Donald bumps for three guys as the skiers whiz past him into second last place as G.I. appears on top of Donald which Donald gleefully blows off.
So G.I. poofs and reappears as he shows sketches on his big ass notepad showing Daisy giving praise to Jean who has a trophy. Love how G.I. is learning how to be more subtle in his work as Donald is growling angry and they must WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE~! G.I. gets the branch and spins around while Donald goes through the snowbank and somehow the goat we saw earlier teleported to under the snowbank and into Donald's arms. So Donald throws it away and we get the fence up the ass spot. Seriously folks; you do not want to know what that is. I see Donald is doing an excellent getting himself DQ'ed in this competition. So Donald's scarf attaches somehow to the fence and he slingshots into the cliff where he threw the goat and somehow he's eating grass in a spot that cannot be possible that there is no snow there. The goat notices him and headbutts Donald in the ass and Donald flies into the air and where he lands; only Toby Shelton knows. So Donald lands to the right of Jean Claude without ski poles now as he waves to Jean. Jean (in a SWANK blue bodysuit) skis ahead and does some flips off a cliff and he does not WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE and hangs upside down on a tree branch with his skis. That was really stupid of him. So Donald mocks him after passing him into the lead but takes a MAN-SIZED bump into the big ass rock and flies into the air as Kent Powers comes in backwards and takes the lead cutting a vain promo. So Donald crashes into the Mount Impact sign and destroys it creating make shift skis which he lands on perfectly. The nephews watch on with binoculars and cheer for Donald near the area where the crowd watches the event (complete with score timer which is not running at all); as Donald and Kent are neck and neck. They invoke eye contact violence on each other. Personally; having Jean lose the race is counter productive because at least Jean is charming enough to woo Daisy into being his girlfriend. Kent has no heat on that; so this is completely pointless now who wins because Daisy has already decided to take Donald's hand anyway.
...And then Jean out of nowhere rockets into the lead. Hello? That's a DQ since he wiped out completely on the tree. Never mind; Jean is a better foil for this finish anyway. So we have a three way for the lead and then we see a skier clad in black racing down the hill (which the nephews notice right away). If you cannot guess who this skier is; you have no business reading this rant. So the skier in black bumps into the three male skiers and they bump into each other and create a big ass snowball and roll down the hill and the skier in black (with number 8; how symbolic eh?) crosses the finish line and wins. The snowball freaks plop just inches before the line as four skiers pass them in the process. Skier in black takes the trophy and takes off the helmet and it's Daisy. What a shock? Because it was the only finish that made sense here and keep BS&P happy as Daisy comes over and asks Jean for an interview. So we head to the hospital room as Donald is in bandages and a green water pack on his head (and a fruit bowl on the desk to his right) as Daisy hopes that this misadventure will finally kill off his jealousy once and for all. Don't count on it Daisy, the writers will find a way. Donald is claiming that he has learned his lesson as a brown haired man in a white coat wants Donald to rest and both he and Daisy leave as we pan over and see G.I. bandaged up even though he had nothing to do with the finish; proclaims that doctors are a perfect mate to steal Daisy from him. Donald teases the neon green eyes and wanting to murder that doctor and then he catches himself and pulls on the conveniently placed rope and G.I. does the WUZZLE CONTRIVED SPOT OF THE DAY which he gets folded up by his own bed. HAHA! Good for Donald; it won't stop the writers, but at least it will help for awhile. Donald giggles like Ernie and that ends the episode at 21:12. Very fun episode and it not only made sense; but Daisy got to show up everyone in this one like she should of! The ski competition finish was silly with the lack of DQ's; and the nephews involvement hurt a bit; but this was a pretty good episode focusing on Donald's jealousy. *** 3/4 (75%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Wow; a near thumbs up episode from Quack Pack again. There are so few of those; but this one was really good for the most part. The nephews hurt it quite a bit and a few minor logic breaks hurt it as well; but the animation was dead on here. Donald's jealousy angle always works for a laugh because he is a jealous duck and as seen in the classic shorts it often costs him big time. I also love how Daisy acted here; for once BS&P notes help her to make Daisy appear to be in on Donald's scheme all along; but admit that he wasn't trying to hurt her, he was trying to help her. Daisy is his friend after all and no amount of charming from Kent Powers or Jean Claude was going to change it so it made the finish of Daisy winning the trophy even sweeter and I can accept this without any contradiction. The whole race was pointless and the amount of wipeouts without a DQ was annoying; but it wasn't offensive or anything and the nephews pretty much stayed out of this one; except for the Kent Powers flashing incident which didn't annoy me as much as most antics with the nephews. It was really low on the "crappy button" scale. So overall; this was a really fun episode and with a few tweaks in logic; this would have been an easy thumbs up episode. Only four episodes to go. So........
Thumbs in the middle pointing up for this episode and I'll see you next time.