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Cat & Louse
Reviewed: 02/26/2013
No Girls Were Harmed In The Making Of This Episode...
More randomized fun and pain with Quack Pack; this time, Huey has a fear of house cats. Ooooookkkkkaaaayyyyy. So; let's rant on and find out shall we...?!
This episode is written by Marion Wells. The story editing is done by Karl Geurs. The animation studio is unknown.
Opening Moment #1: Today's title card features Huey dressed as a mouse while a black cat is on him meowing. Well; we now know who would lose in a _cat_fight! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
So we begin this episode at a mansion as we cut to the front gate of this rich man's mansion to see Knuckles on a leash with Daisy as she is going to get her scoop; and none of the five signs on the right is going to tell her otherwise. Sadly; half of them I cannot make out because they are partially cut off. There are lots of animal bushes inside the property too. Donald and the nephews walk to the gate as Daisy scoop is to get an interview with the world famous animal trainer; Andre DiMoosh. Donald refers to the white signs on the right part of the gate which is telling Daisy to get lost and beware of cats. Daisy opens the gate and walks in claiming that Andre never gives interviews; but it wouldn't be bad to ask him anyway. Huey follows; mocking his nephews for acting like frightened little bunnies over some jungle cats. Dewey and Louie separate and feign bravery as they walk inside as we hear growling and that stops the scared babyfaces in their tracks. We head inside as Knuckles as Daisy walk to a green hedge. Knuckles goes over and licks one of the bushes' feet and starts eating 3/4's of it. The face of the statue is an animal; but I have zero idea what character Disney was shooting for here. If anyone knows; please let me know. Daisy is not amused as we cut to Dewey and Louie being overshadowed by a statue of a lion which is fitting since they always know how to "lie"on good. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! They hold each other during another growling sequence as Huey comes in and mocks them. More growling; Dewey and Louie head to the front door which appears to be made of cast iron which lion pictures on the front; banging for help. The double doors open and we see an orange panther growling at them from behind (since the nephews' back was turned). They panic; but Huey grabs them and drags them in talking about facing their fears. Remember that for later as we head inside and see a half naked blond haired freak of a man with a white vest, pink pants and white platform shoes telling them to call him Mr. DiMoosh (Corey Burton voices him by the way). Did I mention that he has matchstick legs on par with 90% of the human characters in 101 Dalmatians: The Series?!
So Andre demands answers to this outrage and Huey claims that they are here for an interview; which he blows off because he hates interviews and hates television. Then Donald and Daisy come in as Daisy introduces herself; and Andre looks in the mirror and checks his teeth. And he changes his mind like sexist. I think we have our enabler for Huey here; which is fitting since Huey is the focus character here. He produces even more evidence by holding Daisy's hand and spews pleasure thoughts at Daisy who is wearing a pink daisy flower on her shirt; and yes, even in 1996 they do the blink sound spot which doesn't make me laugh. Donald is not amused for Andre being a sexist twit; nor the fact that Andre picks up Knuckles and Knuckles burps again. Andre closes it's mouth and sarcastically calls it well mannered. Daisy points out that they tried to train him and Andre proclaims that Donald doesn't have enough animal magnetism which is hilarious when you consider that Donald and Daisy are considered half ducks. I guess their human side is overwhelming them. Figures; knowing this show. So Andre goes over to his foot rest which is made of animal skins (thus making Louie look like an even bigger hypocrite in hindsight) and plops Knuckles down. Donald storms in looking pissed off by the accusation of having no animal magnetism; while Knuckles chomps on the pillow of doom as Donald takes this as Andre being a fraud. So Andre looks stern and issues commands to sit up. Knuckles obeys without question much to Donald's surprise. Donald walks in and proclaims that he can do it too. Donald orders Knuckles to listen and obey; but Knuckles no sells and burps. HAHA! Donald tries to make him roll over; no dice. So Andre brings out the whip and both Knuckles and Donald roll over on the cue of the whip whipping. HAHA! Daisy calls this amazing; but Dewey blows it off because Andre is mistreating their uncle. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there nephews?! Even Louie admits to this; so it was clearly projection. So Andre takes Daisy's hand and they walk off stage left to show his cat perform; much to Donald's frustration. HA!
So we head into the living room and yes; there is a brick wall with dozens of golden mounted animal heads in the background, why do you ask? The nephews and Daisy are sitting on the red sofa as Knuckles is on a leash pacing around while Donald is on camera duty again. Knuckles is trying to eat a plant from a pot to Donald's left; but Donald yanks the leash to stop that while Daisy is giddy about seeing a performance of real cats and not the theater version with the same name. So Andre twists a knob which is shaped like a lion's head and that opens a brick wall containing two lions. Dewey and Louie look panicky; but Huey doesn't. The tiger like panther shows up as the third on as they are on three stools (NOT THOSE ONES) in a jump cut and Andre uses the whip to command and control the animals into doing parlor tricks. And makes the stools disappear on the next shot. Lion #2 has chattering teeth as the other two bail stage right. Lion #2 backs into a corner and acts like Scooby Doo much to the anger of Andre. I guess he doesn't want to be reminded of Hanna Barbera as much as I do when it comes to DTVA. So he threatens no dinner; showing about a dozen raw steaks which is enough for #2 to obey and roar. He climbs onto the far left stool as Andre keeps having eyes for Daisy as he brings out his ultimate animal: the smartest feline in history. It's name is Raven as Dewey and Louie cover their eyes in horror because they think it's a 40 foot saber tooth tiger. Huey no sells as we see a dark shadow up on the second floor near the stair which is big ass; but then we see on the stair railing...Whaffles?! Is that really you?! So Andre stole Goofy's cat?! What a prick this Andre fellow is?! So the cat slides down the railing and lands on it's feet in front of Dewey who pets it. And now Huey is acting like he's scared of the thing; thinking that Andre only trained jungle cats. Projection? From Huey? Me not know how those two go together... This weaksauce weakness makes no sense at all; but this is Quack Pack and we see Raven getting into a model airplane and putting on the flight cap. I love Raven now; but it's sad that it took having Kit Cloudkicker reincarnated into Raven to get Andre over.
So Raven flies the plane around while Huey ducks over the conveniently placed wooden table of steak which flips over to the stools where the lions and tigers are. Their mouths watered; but Andre puts a stop to that and threatens in roundabout terms to kill lion #2 and cut it's head off, stuff it and mount him next to Max which we see on the wall. Wow; they went three full minutes before they eliminated the subtly of this heel. Which is Seymour level so I'm not going to knock Marion Wells for that at least. And yes; the tripod is made out of a substance that Knuckles can chomp on easily allowing the camera and Donald to do a face plant onto the floor. Knuckles acts like he's guilty which is not hard at all to do at this point. Next time; use a metal tripod! So the jungle cat exit stage left via a near whipping as Andre blows them off again while Raven flies the loop-de-loop for only a $1.15 and lands as Huey has a whacky case of the hiccups and backs right into Dewey and Louie without any sense of irony whatsoever. Huey claims that the soda is causing it which is the lamest excuse I have ever heard as he backs off and runs into the hallway; opens the door and shuts it tight. Huey pants and breathes a sigh of relief. We discover that Huey is in the reading room and it's filled with about 28 black cats (Seriously!). Now I'm scared; not because I fear cats (I fear dogs a lot more); but because Andre is acting like the stereotypical old lady you usually see in fiction. Huey runs through the door into the hallway and returns to the sofa looking tired and is still having problems with the hiccups. Andre has a grand finale planned for our viewing pleasure (and Huey's viewing horror and Donald's viewing jealousy) as he orders Raven (who is cuddling near Daisy and thus knows how to respect Daisy.) to cover his eyes. Raven teases a peek-a-boo; but the stink eye makes sure Raven covers the eyes. So Andre takes the pink daisy from Daisy (oh; the irony!) and twirls it as Donald does his oh brother promo which is a sign that he is getting more and more frustrated with every episode that he is in.
So Andre puts the flower into a conveniently placed CHEST OF DEMONS with a cat face lock. Here's a better way to make this a challenge: Get rid of the cat face on the front. Andre does impress me a bit by throwing it behind his back and mule kicking it high onto the highest book shelf he could kick it to. So he orders Raven to find the flower and Raven goes to work jumping on Louie and Dewey's head; but missing Huey for some reason. Huey seems to have stop selling the fact that he is scared of house cats which makes the whole weaksauce weakness look dumb in hindsight. So Raven jumps on various mounted heads on the walls; then onto the chandelier which is fairly small and swings onto the top of the bookshelf. He then takes the claw and uses it to unlock the box and opens it to reveal the pink flower. He grabs the flower as Daisy clapping appears to make it look like she is wiping her hands clean of blood after killing someone. Donald is not amused as the tripod has been repaired even faster than the heel's truck in Horse Scents. Donald then notices Knuckles climbing on the green curtains and chomping on them and slurping them like pasta. Ooookkkkkaaayyyyy; this Knuckles person has an addiction which sadly; I might be it's enabler! So Donald grabs Knuckles by the tail as he climbs; but Knuckles holds on when Donald tries to bring him down; and it ends with the curtains being torn; and then the entire curtain falls and somehow allows Donald to land squarely on Andre's head. Geez; the power of suggestion is really powerful today. The nephews do nothing which is a good thing as Daisy comes over and apologizes; while Knuckles slurps on more curtains for fun before getting blown off by Daisy. Donald and Knuckle gets flicked off the curtain as Daisy apologizes for Knuckles' lack of training; but Andre gets up and forgives her while dusting himself off. I just realized that he is wearing a crappy drawn cat medallion around his neck. So Andre offers to train Knuckles and give a television interview for Daisy; so long as they spend the night here. Daisy and Andre agree to it; while Huey's face tells how much projection is affecting his brain. And so we HIT THE DREAM SEQUENCE~!
Yeah; we are doing a From Here To Machinery bit as Huey is running in purple/pink LALA land towards a spiraling wooden door which has cannot seem to get to and then runs away stage left from green cat eyes against a blue background. So he dodges black cats who seems to be more heelish than Raven as we jackhammer orange colors every time Huey is forced to dodge and run the other way. One cat scratches the camera from orange to light blue; and then we get black cat heads. Yawn. I liked Baloo's nightmare a LOT better because it played into the fear that he must be a machine in order to beat the machine and that caused him to lose the big one and caused a flying disruption that was only saved because Martin Torque outsmarted himself. They circle around Huey's left eye as Huey screams badly as we zoom out and Huey is chomped alive by a big ass black cat head and we zoom out some more against a purple background. Finally; he wakes up with the hiccups...in bed. You thought this was limited to Bea? Think again. Oh wait; Huey is literally in bed. Damn. So it's AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Dewey and Louie are snoring to his left. Huey is relieved to have this being a nightmare; despite sleeping on a bed with cat claws on the front bed posts. Not exactly a way to build confidence isn't it?! Then we get the SHADOW OF DOOM as Huey panics and has rose up to the chandelier and is still having an acute case of the hiccups as Dewey and Louie wake up to notice that it's only Raven. The non-cat hating nephews cuddle him for a second and then shrug their shoulders wondering why Huey is up there. Then Andre barges in demanding answers to all the noise. Why?! Louie and Dewey think Andre is on their cases so they fake snoring and apologize before fake dozing off. Andre doesn't seem to care as he notices Raven and yells at him as Raven sleeps in bed for fun. HAHA! Andre yells to Raven to leave right now and that gets the nephews to wake up and blow him off because Raven didn't do anything. Ummm; he slept in your bed and make Huey into the biggest chicken ever! So he was doing two things AT least. Andre blows them off because he hates being disobeyed. Yeah; subtly is so 1990 isn't it guys?!
So Andre and Raven leave and the door gets slammed. Dewey and Louie tell Huey that the cat has left the building as Huey drops down and bounces off the bed and takes a wussy bump onto the floor below. Huey finally admits that he's afraid for house cats. Huey then taunts the nephews into mocking him as a chicken; but the nephews don't bite blowing it off as hogwash. So they help Huey up and then admit that if the general public found out about this; instant chicken city as they finally mock Huey with chicken sounds and motions. HA! You walked right into that one Huey. Huey claims that he cannot help it as he hiccups again; but the nephews grab him claiming that they can and we head outside Andre's mansion and we pan over to the sidewalk where the RV is parked. Then we head inside to the cockpit of the RV as Huey is sitting down on the driver's side seat as Dewey walks in dressed as a doctor with a goofy purple bowtie. Geez; I wouldn't take anything he said seriously even if he offers 100% accurate medical advice that was 100% science based with 100% accurate data. That look sucks! Dewey decides to invoke the German accent just to annoy me along with Louie who is even goofier since he's wearing his green baseball cap. I cannot take anything he said seriously even if he's an animal lover who has a sane position on animal welfare. That look sucks even more! Apparently; there is a book shelf in this RV; for no reason as Louie has a pointer and points to a gray cat which is anthromorphic with pink flowers which is cute and wants someone to hug him. Louie proclaims that cats are cute and Huey nods only when Dewey does. So Louie brings out a black cat puppet and meows which allows Huey to have a superball up his ass and crumble the ceiling. Geez; how about curing his hiccup problem FIRST?! The joke is getting on my nerves now. Worry about his fear of cats later; just kill those damn hiccups already!
So Louie plays Fuffly the house cat puppet for a bit as Dewey wants to go to desperate measures as we go to an opposite bookshelf which contains a big ass book containing Ludwig Von Drake: How To Find Your Fear. Yeah; another how to section; just to justify Corey Burton's voice acting appearance as the miscast Andre DiMoosh; and give another excuse for Ludwig Von Drake. You know your stock has fallen as a character when you need a pre-school just to get your heat back and get barely over again. So Dewey wants to go to the video library and we fade to black to turn Michael Eisner on nearly 12 minutes in. And yes; we have not ended act one yet as we return with Ludwig Von Drake pointing to some equations and a propeller helmet device which looks similar to the same plot device used by Bubba in Bubba's Big Brainstorm. This is not a good sign right off the bat. So Drake goes into quackery (well; he's a duck so...) as he finishes his recipe for whatever. I don't care as we see the nephews watching on and Huey is sitting on the chair with that really stupid device on his head. The guise of this experiment is to get to the root of his fears and yank them like rutabagas. It's a turnip for the two of you who care as we spin and turn on the device as Huey has to think back deeply to his past. Good luck Ludwig; Huey is not a deep thinker at all. So we HIT THE FLASHBACK~! We get a shot of a pumpkin with an fugly face on it as we see Dewey and Louie at six years old coming out. Louie is a cowboy and Dewey is a astronaut (sorry; no joke here, I'm not wasting my material on this episode; I have a haircut appointment to go to in ten minutes from now) as he is carrying a big ass sack of candy that will keep him awake for a week. I doubt that seriously as they call for Huey as Huey is dressed as Jerry and his tail is stick in the front door. He yanks it out and bumps a hell of a lot better than the teenage Huey does. The nephews blow him off for allowing Donald to pick the costume which is good continuity from The Boy Who Cried Ghost. So Huey is not amused and we scene change to the angle which we only see parts of the big ass sack since they are behind the fence as we see the kids walking on the street and making Kick look even worse.
This leads to Huey panicking because we are at Old Man Grinkeco Snicker's place which is a haunted mansion. That's exactly what Huey said as Dewey and Louie taunt him for it. Huey blows them off; but the chattering teeth isn't convincing anyone as Louie has the Gruffi pose on full blast. Somehow; I like THESE nephews over the teenage ones and even the 1989 Ducktales era ones. Dewey joins in and Huey is mad; and I cannot take that seriously when he's wearing a MOUSE costume. Huey blows them off and walks slowly towards the sidewalk as Dewey and Louie taunt him some more. So Jerry Duck walks very slowly onto the stone walk way leading to the house and makes it to the front door without even looking back or even stopping midway. Nice; that's a 100% improvement over teenage Huey already. So he knocks on the door and sezs trick or treat while shaking and that ends the segment 13 and a half minutes in; which I believe is a new record for an Act one in terms of length in DTVA. Nothing special so far...
After the commercial break; we get a ground to sky shot of the haunted house of doom with wind slamming the shutters and leaves flying around as we pan down to Huey slowly opening the door and heads inside. The place looks kind of familiar actually as Huey practices the fine art of not being seen and then hide behind a big curtain. He then looks at a reading room with a fireplace which has a fire built. We also see a dozen black cats in the area as one of them notices a CHEST OF DEMONS on the bookshelf and does the jumping on heads and swinging on the chandelier spot which one of the black cats lands in front of the chest. Huh; doesn't that look awfully familiar?! The cat opens it's claw and unlocks the chest to find a ruby necklace. Why do I get the feeling that this cat is Raven and that Andre is a jewel thief; ala Professor Villanova? Prove me wrong writers; prove me wrong. So Huey tries to back up; but his right webfoot creeks on him. That's right folks; his own webfeet were the cause of him becoming scared of cats because that blew his cover. Huey waves hello; the cats all move towards him as Raven jumps down and hisses. Huey tries to back up; but bumps into the black suit of armor as a shadow of an ugly old man appears from the lit room upstairs and demands answers to this outrage. I'm guessing he is Old Man Snicker (I'm guessing Frank Welker or Peter Cullen; Juan F. Lara has no notes on him and IMDB is no help either) as Huey gets a face full of cats and somehow manages to oversell the bump over the suit of armor and wiggles his legs on the fall. Nice. Huey runs out of the house as Snickers yells for the police as he discovers that he was robbed. Huey manages to leave the gate and he hiccups again as we return to reality before it can get any more good as we see Huey sitting on the chair looking upset and is huddled in a ball. Dewey and Louie thinks this is the work of cat thieves. NO?! REALLY?! You think?! Yeah; the guy is victimized by this and as usual the nephews do their catchphrases like a bunch of pricks. Can you blame anyone for wanting to blow off these nephews in general?!
So we head back to Andre's mansion and at the stairs near the red curtain as Donald arrives with a box as he walks to the table and sticks an antenna on the red airplane and then plops Knuckles in it claiming that this is going to be good. Oooookkkkaaaaaayyyy; what is the point of this?! Oh wait; we need padding because the kids are the main event in this cartoon. I forgot. We discover that the antenna has a red light bulb connected to a remote control used by Donald to control the plane so he can prove that he has animal magnetism. Or he can hack into red model airplanes; which sounds so petty on it's face. So we control the plane as Knuckles flies in said plane around the room; and Andre runs in demanding answers to this outrage. He doesn't even give away that he knows Donald Duck is behind this; which sounds like a logic break to me. Andre is in awe and out comes Daisy as she cannot believe Donald got Knuckles to fly. Donald has the remote control behind his back claiming that it was nothing. HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Sadly; Knuckles chomps the antenna which is kind of pointless since he would likely chomp on the plane anyway regardless if Donald hacked the thing or not. Besides; he did get him to fly, albeit not by himself. So Andre gets pattern male balding the hard way and then the plane pinballs off statues and destroys stuff for my amusement as Donald brings out the remote control and struggles with it. That was not a smart move Donald as Daisy and Andre are being chased around by the plane. At least Daisy is acting instead of shooting this time yelling at Donald about what the hell he did. I'll tell you what he did: He is giving me two minutes of entertainment to justify not having to sit through 22 minutes of the nephews pushing the crappy button. So let him have his fun for once; it's for a good cause dammit!
And speaking of the button pushing crappy nephews; we head back to apparently; it's Andre's room as they look through the drawers (NOT THOSE ONES!) and other places in the room. See; they are looking for clue because Huey saw trained cats in the past and there is only one who trained them. So you're accusing Andre of stealing already? Figures; economy of characters is a cheap shortcut that affects even the best cartoons. I mean; how hard is it to train a house cat to steal?! It cannot be too hard that ANDRE has to do it. Huey isn't looking for clues; he looking for a way to end this nightmare. Although; probably not the hiccups as he backs into a black cat statue (the left one) and hits the tail which is a lever (WRONG LEVER!) which reveals some SECRET TREASURE~! (HCBailey; thanks for giving me new material to steal from you bastard!) The nephews notice this and walk in as there is a motherlode of gold and jewels in this secret room. And we head back to Knuckles destroying everything with the out of control red model airplane. Apparently; in this entire mess; Max the lion head drops on Daisy's head as Andre chases the plane upstairs protesting this outrage as Donald laughs his ass off and then turns around and sees the lion's head and he runs upstairs joining Andre. HAHA! Now THAT's a neat gag to make Daisy angry for Donald screwing up her scoop; which she really isn't as she pops the head off calling for Donald with concern instead of anger. So Donald runs into Andre's room and tries to hide under the bed; but he struggles to get inside so the airplane nails the propeller right up Donald's ass and Donald oversells it like mad. Andre runs inside wanting Donald's hide and then panics because the nephews come out with handfuls of gold and jewels. UH OH! That's a NO-NO you stupid, crappy nephews. Andre is pissed off and that ends the segment almost 17 and a half minutes in. Well; at least this seals Andre's fate as a heel.
After the commercial break; we see Andre playing tug of war with Huey on some jewelry as Daisy runs in and Huey proclaims that he should save the explanation for the cops. Andre then turns full heel as Daisy is as confused as I am because the heel isn't even trying to cover up his scheme now since Daisy hasn't seen the evidence that actually PROVES Andre is guilty; other than the ruby necklace, but does Daisy know it was stolen? More tug of war ensues and the pearl necklace finally breaks and everyone slips and slides in a disorganized fashion; not unlike a scene in Family Guy. Huey bumps into the bed which somehow produces the black cat puppet out of nowhere (please someone explain to me how that got out?) and Huey goes crazy and runs out of the room and down the steps. Andre runs out and locks the door which is stupid because it makes Daisy look like an idiot since she does nothing and Andre pretty much looked them in with the evidence. He orders the jungle cats to follow Huey and eat him basically; and if they succeed they get the others for dessert. That hardly seems like a fair deal in my view. Dewey goes to the door and tries to open it; but no dice. We see the sock puppet come out and it's Knuckles inside as Daisy wants to know why everyone is acting bizzaro. Again; nice to see her acting instead of shooting here as Louie uses the sock puppet claiming that she won't believe this as we head into the jungle themed dining room as the lions and tigers chase Huey. You what would make this complete? No, not bears. Space aliens! Remember thy motto of this show: When in doubt; throw in a space alien. Andre's matchstick legs indicate that he might be an alien from...
Staci: Don't say it!
Bradley: URANUS!!
Staci:
Real mature B-Man!
And to think; this joke is witter than most mistimed fart jokes. Huey gets stalked; so Huey bails stage right and we get the ultra stupid CRAPPY BUTTON DISGUISE OF DOOM~! At least this one makes sense in the context of the episode and is a lot more believable than the one in Gator Aid; so points to Marion for that at least. Sadly; he's holding a lot of turkeys and steaks. Okay; lions are meat eaters, but they don't usually eat fowl or common steaks like we do. They eat deer, buffalo, zebras among others; but not cows. Tigers are the same; although they can eat peacocks; but not turkeys nor chickens. So very uncreative. Ironically; Lions can kill tigers; but rarely eat them, but Andre has them trained not to do so, so there you go. They also typically do not eat ducks either. So we get the animals at the dinner table with bibs and plates of steak as Louie backs away and tells them not to eat until he rings the out of nowhere dinner bell. He rings it; they eat, Huey backs away into the living room; and slams the double doors leading to the dining room. Then Huey turns around and there's Raven and Huey screams and runs out of the house like a coward. And apparently; he has stopped selling the hiccup angle now. Good; because it was awfully annoying anyway. Andre notices that Raven can simply scare Huey with a stare; so he orders Raven to go after him; or he gets killed and mounted. For a guy who hates being disobeyed; he sure seems to have utter contempt for animal cruelty laws. I'm just saying. So Raven jumps out of the house as we see the locked up babyfaces on the bed as Daisy is shooting again while watching Knuckles eat more of Andre's foot stools (NOT THOSE ONES!). Donald grabs Knuckles by the throat and blows him off as we cut to outside on the look out deck as Andre seems Huey chasing Huey in a disorganized fashion as he is heading for an abyss which we didn't see until now. Huey stops at the edge next to a tree; but he has started to sell the hiccup angle again. DAMMIT!! So we look at the ravine and it's not so scary as Huey climbs the tree for a while and Raven is getting more and more annoyed by the second. I had a feeling that he didn't want to do this from the start.
So Huey is at the edge of the tree branch as Huey pleads for Raven to go away; but the branches break and Huey and Raven have to grab onto separate branches. Sadly; Raven goes the tiniest branch possible and it's about to snap as Huey continues to hiccups and hates these moments of conscience. Well; if you weren't such a heartless, sexist twit; maybe they moments of conscience would go much more smoothly for you. And yes; Huey saves the cat before it dies a death worse than that bunny rabbit I saw on the ground last week. So Huey did do something good for me for a change; although that was more unintentional than anything else. So Raven goes into Huey's shirt and tickles him and licks him in the face; and the selling was terrible here that I gagged. Kit Cloudkicker and Molly Cunningham need to sit..Oh wait; they are buried in a tomb, never mind. Huey tells him to cut out the mushy stuff as Andre backs into the hallway and the other babyfaces are free. Huh?! Andre is shocked and appalled because Knuckles ate through the door in a Scooby Doo Snow Angel fashion. Yeap; this is turning into a G-rated Family Guy episode now. That pretty much kills Andre as a heel now as Andre threatens heavenly violence by his heavenly lions and tigers; but since they are eating themselves to sleep at this point; Huey calls him out and here comes Raven channeling Kit Cloudkicker again. I love Raven as he does another male pattern baldness job on Andre and Andre commands him to kill the babyface; but Raven no sell because Huey petted him and Raven has turned babyface for real. In other words; Kit Cloudkicker without the boldness. Still better than 95% of the characters in this show. I figured this was the episode with the "bite the hand that feeds them" line; which at least it's "bite the hand that pets him" which is actually a lot more accurate since Andre has never petted Raven (while Huey did) and "biting the hand that feeds them" would make zero sense since he would be referring to Andre getting his proverbial hand bitten by Raven. That would have made Huey look even dumber than he already is.
So Andre runs down the steps as Dewey proclaims that he should have been nice to the cat and then Huey runs to the double doors and opens them to allow Andre to run in. Huey closes the doors behind him as Raven comes out as well. We then see Andre run around the table as he finally notices the jungle cats eating; and he blows them off. He grabs the platters of steak and grounds them from eating for a solid week. So Huey opens the door and rings the dinner bell as the jungle cats suddenly turn babyface and Andre jumps into the air as the cat all pounce on him and Huey slams the door as the only damage we see is a steak and a turkey falling on the floor. Huey claims that we don't need to see this; indicating that Andre is dead or close to it. Dewey calls those cat a bunch of party animals; which is less cool than a bunch of Filthy Animals~! Daisy has had enough and goes to the conveniently placed phone because she hates partying; but Knuckles eats the phone before she can get it to ring. And I do mean; the whole phone. Daisy is shooting again! Huey and Raven embrace and make up. Huey is no longer scared and then he sneezes and his whites turn red. Yeap; Huey is allergeric to cats which is why he was scared of them all this time. Now that's a great payoff to this whole storyline! Sure it doesn't appear to make sense since Huey wasn't having problems with cats when he was six; but he probably got it as a consequence. This ends the episode at 21:05. Pretty much an average episode with a good finish and ending. Raven is now the best character of the series; at least from the guest side. Although it is easy to do when you are playing Kit's wet dream which he will never see because Eisner hates bears; or something. *** (60%).
THE REVIEW LINE
I don't have much to say about this episode other than it was completely average by DTVA standards; which is good in this case because the thumbs down streak is over. Andre was a fine animal trainer heel who at least got what he deserved from Raven without much help from Huey; which is a plus because even Seymore from All's Whale That Ends Whale didn't get that. I love Raven; he was a great pilot cat who channels Kit Cloudkicker and looks cute doing it while Huey was selling fear. Huey's hiccup selling was off and on; but it wasn't awful and the disguise of crap was at least believable this time. There were a few logic breaks; but the ending was great because it actually justified Huey's fear of cats after all; which was he gets sick of pet fur. Although it would have made more sense to have this be a problem at age six; but whatever. Donald was good, Daisy was good, Knuckles was a one joke which actually buried Andre as a heel (which is a better burial than most heels in this show); and the other nephews were nothing. Overall; a completely average episode that didn't offend me in anyway. So onto next weekend where I'll be doing two episodes a week because I have an appointment next week; and then a birthday party on the Saturday after that. Again; the randomizer is in full effect here so you won't know until I do the rant. So........
Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you next time.