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Her Chance To Dream Re-Rant

Reviewed: 10/03/2010
Additional Commentary: 09/29/2021

Dreaming Can Be Really Dangerous In A Detroit Disease Company You Know!

Original Airdate: 09/25/1990 (Syndication), Episode #16 (TaleSpin Volume 1, Disc 2), Episode #18 (Production Order).

Her Chance To Dream Notes
Her Chance To Dream Transcript

(2020 Gregory Weagle Says: This is in global debut appearances, only the second episode Kit Cloudkicker does not appear, and the babysitting Molly angle actually made it a perfect excuse not to have him.) So, after a chorus of fun episodes and a few slip ups; we come to the next Libby Hinson show stopper of this series and this one is considered one of the best episodes in the entire series. However; there is also a certain amount of baggage being carried in this episode and it's hard to figure out why Family Channel Canada didn't run this episode even though I do know why certain syndication areas didn't run it and it has something to do with the finish of this episode. Still; this is one of the most powerful episodes in the series and there is no Kit Cloudkicker nor Don Karnage in it. Remember that as we continue on. (2015 Gregory Weagle Says: Welcome to what is probably the best Rebecca focused episode in the series. The plot is that Baloo is acting like the irresponsible bear that he is, but Louie's is haunted and they run out to go to Higher For Hire as Rebecca has had enough of Baloo's late deliveries and excuses. They go back to Louie's and Rebecca sees the place as a mess created by slobs; but after getting knocked down by Baloo and Louie; is in the hands of a sea captain. The sea captain treats Rebecca better than Kit Cloudkicker ever did and Rebecca wishes that this would never did. The sea captain grants her wish and spirited her away via a flying dutchman that is part of Louie's island. This episode is famous for a number of things including Rebecca making love with a ghost and starting off as a goofy comedy, changes into seering drama in the end as it dawned on everybody that Rebecca choice is literally life or death. This is also the episode which I replied: You don't always get happy endings. Kevin Johnston called this an ER-quality at it's peak episode (which is extremely high praise for an episode marketed to children.) and even some suggest that it's more heartbreaking than many Gargoyles episodes. It's mostly because Captain William Stansbury is not a heel. In fact, the real heels in this episode were in fact Baloo and Louie; which is great for character-based stories, but wrecks Eisner's milking plans. On the one hand; Libby is awesome and on the other hand, she was reckless and irresponsible. In fact, I wrote the most passionate skit in the history of my ranting career for this rant.) So let's rant on shall we?!

This episode is written by Libby Hinson. The story was edited by Karl Geurs. The animation is done by Sun Woo Animation.

We begin this one with a sky shot of Higher...For...Hire AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Rebecca is on the phones in a sea of paper as the SeaDuck is late. NO?! REALLY?! I cannot tell the muffled voices on the phone who they are and they could be stock voices for all I know. Rebecca is pissed off at Baloo and very tired to boot as we see Molly in pilot gear running down the stairs and plops onto them doing airplane noise. Very cute indeed as Rebecca covers her eyes in despair as this is the third night in a row waiting for that bear. (I've really liked Molly more and more as an adult, because she's really innocent and trying to have a good time in the face of difficulty like she is experiencing being Rebecca's daughter and all.) Yes; the characters DO realize that they are part animal. Rebecca needs some sleep as Molly jumps onto the edge of the desk with the pilot's gear off and proclaims that she'll fix her own dinner. Rebecca tells her she doesn't have to. Rebecca takes off one of Molly's blue ribbons from her left ear and then the phone rings and Rebecca is forced to answer it again. Remember that ribbon for later on. Rebecca proclaims that her pilot is about to have a horrible "accident" and slams the phone down as she goes to another phone and shoves the ribbon in her pocket. (This actually telegraphs the finish; but the problem is: The finish is the correct booking decision, so it's impossible to do a gotcha and be a smugass when the booking decision is the only one that can be made and make sense.) Rebecca proclaims that Baloo is going to wish he wasn't there. Where? Why we fade to black to turn Eisner on; that's where! Oh wait... We go to that island on the South Seas; Louie's as there is a party going on with Latin music and various pilots sitting down at red clothed tables. I guess that this is formal night at Louie's. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! We then see a lampshade wearing monkey wearing a purple/pink spotted shirt with a blue lei carrying drinks of WE KNOW IT'S ALCOHOL BUT WE'RE NOT TELLING ANYONE~! (There are bottles of banana wine and various other fruits on the shelves during the ghost scaring sequence. Yes; it's possible to create a wine from bananas. In fact; many fruits, dandilions and rose hips can be used to make wine. Another notice; if it's juice, then they wouldn't be in wine bottles; they would be in soda bottles. This is exactly what happens when you assume that it's a BS&P decision and not do the research. Also, as mentioned before; when your bar is on an island with limited access to transportation; the last thing you want is drunk pilots. Both coming in and drinking in the bar. So a juice bar makes more sense than a regular bar.)

He goes over to the ancient payphone of doom and answers it. I'm guessing Jim Cummings, Ed Gilbert or Peter Reneday since they are the only males available to do the role. That leads to this crap getting past the radar:

Lampshade Wearing Monkey Waiter: Uh-huh? "Where's the hullabaloo?". Oh; that Baloo! Nope. Sorry, lady. Can't see him. {He hangs up the phone.}

Really Miss Cunningham; did you honestly think that no one would have noticed that you really said "Where the hell is Baloo?!". I'm guessing someone blasted the show for that F-bomb Baloo said in Plunder and Lightning Part Four; only with the phantom "hell". Cinema 101; the only way to counter the antics of people who defend their otherwise dirty shows as being squeaky clean. (I really hate the concept of "If it's off-screen, it didn't happen." because it's just an excuse to say that BS&P had their fingers in the pie. Instead; this shows that these Disney characters do act like adults on and off the screen, instead of just off-screen.) We see a hippo lady wearing a fruit salad on her head, a pink dress and white with blue spotted granny panties (Defend that one as squeaky clean. I dare ya! Never mind that Molly is wearing oversized underwear.) and she dances with Baloo with Louie on top of him. Hey; that's Kit Cloudkicker's gimmick; you gimmick infrigement thief! (The background furries are mostly original characters, but they are drawn so poorly that only a rabbit furry in the back was one that I noticed.) Their dancing makes the floor boards shake since Baloo and Fruit Salad Lady combine about two thousand pounds. Lampshade Waiter comes in and dances with Fruit Salad lady; while Baloo dances on the weak spot, the floor breaks and they free fall into the basement. At least it's 1937 and therefore building codes were so weak ass. (See Douglas's outhouse in Louie's Last Stand and tell me that it's up to code.) That ship would NOT BE UP TO CODE if this were 2010 and Kick Buttowski. Even then; Kick couldn't bust through that floor. (Things were not up to code in Kick Buttowski because kids like it when you smash things. Apparently; writers think that it's bad to smash things and not have consequences. At least when Candance smashed her cellphone; there was a consequence to it.) Excellent bumping by the crude matted furballs of Baloo and Louie by the way. Baloo asks Louie about the basement and Louie doesn't know since the boat isn't his to begin with. See, the boat wreck came with the island and Louie built the bar around it for some extra zip. I guess the island was netural, which makes sense since this plays an important role in Louie's Last Stand.

Baloo gets up and grabs a sword; while Louie grabs a captain's hat from the CHEST OF DEMONS which looks too cute that it would violate the rules of the FASHION POLICE OF LAW. It seems this pun gets used a lot in this series. (There are so many hilarious hats and outfits in this show that everything dresses up like they are trying to make us laugh. Even Kit dressed up in a seal outfit in All's Whale That Ends Whale.) Baloo and Louie play pirate for a bit while acting slightly drunk and then the boat slides left and the glass lamp glows brighter than normal. (I told you alcohol has harmful effects on the brain, most so banana wine.) We get the magic sparkle sounds and rumbling. Uh oh! Something is mighty pissed off at someone. We then see the chest open and a magical spark flies right out of it. Okay; Libby Hinson is either drunk and/or completely insane; and I wish she would be BOTH after this series was over because she often writes the best material in children's cartoons in that state. POW! OUCH! Ummmmm... (Nope 2010 me! Libby Hinson is prefectly sober. She's just has a wacky prespective on life.) The pink spark steals the sword and turns itself into the Captain Pink Spark~! Baloo wants to get the hell out of here and Louie has already magically climbed up onto the floor; so that leaves Baloo to run away with the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE PINK SPARK EDITION~! This is a lot more apporos because it features the Hanna Barbara running looping and sound effects. Now you know you are watching a classic! Baloo runs up above the main floor like magic (logic break #1 for the episode; but still damn funny) as the sword points up and apparently it stabbed Baloo off-screen since Baloo is screaming. That is so Hanna Barbara of you Disney! We see some guys wearing Middle Eastern gear (complete with fez hats) at a table with alcohol bottles and beer cars on it; looking on in shock. There are three red flags with a star and a crescent moon (Which 4Kids would have edited out because they were part of Fox and therefore Muslim symbols. FEEL THE RACISM~!) as Louie and Baloo run away violating ANIME DUB RULE #12 (host to a ghost) as the men laugh; but the pink spark shows off his unbrided racism and floats them up into the sky and drops them onto the floor in a messy heap. (That would be Sonic X and it makes up the reputation that Fox is a racist broadcaster.)

Then the pink spark causes more chaos as it spins around the fruit salad lady (Who never speaks despite getting almost as much screen time as Lampshade Waiter.) and steals her fruits from the hat. Then the spirit spits them in machine gun fire rapidness; pelting Lampshade Waiter good. I see there is such a thing as American Idol in 1837 (and 1937 for that matter.). Remember that date for later on too. Pink Spark then grabs the masks from the bar; pops the corks from the bottles of alcohol (There is such a thing as banana wine and there are recipes on the internet for such.) and Baloo and Louie get swamped like mad in an alcoholic wave of fruit right out of Louie's. Baloo and Louie then blitz into the SeaDuck and fly off towards Cape Suzette in a panic to leave Lampshade Waiter and Fruit Salad Lady to fend for themselves. Louie's lights go out on the sign and then we see the pink spark whiz around the mess; go back into the chest and slam the lid shut. HA! (This is so perfect as comedy because now Baloo and Louie have no way to prove that the place is haunted since they are slobs, to put it mildly. Also, the alcohol wave hurts them even more.) So we return to Higher...For...Hire as we head to the messy office (cleaner than Louie's right now) as Rebecca is asleep at her desk and Molly is kneeling on it as the phone rings again. Molly answers it and tells the caller that mother is taking a nap. HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. (That was Molly being Molly there.) Rebecca wakes up and takes the phone and then hears plane engine noises in the background and informs him that his cargo has arrived and will call that person back. We then see Rebecca walking towards the door and stopping to take time to tap her foot down. Molly joins her as the door slams open and Baloo and Louie scramble in acting like a bunch of idiots. HAHA! Baloo slides on his belly right in front of Molly and Molly gleefully is waiting for Baloo's dumb excuse. HAHA! Baloo stammers like an idiot (even more than usual) as this Baloo continues to really ask for the WRAITH OF BECKEY. Molly calls it real dumb. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Rebecca invokes the POINTY FINGER OF DOOM; calling him a low life excuse of a pilot. (Well; that is putting it mildly there Miss Cunningham. Lazy douchebag is much more apporos.)

Apparently; Baloo claimed that Molly ate his maps and that Rebecca thought it was cute. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Yup, that wave of booze made him unintentionally drunk without outright saying it.) I disagree; that was downright low life-ish. And a hurricane blew him to Louie's and that was amusing in a mild sort of way and this excuse is downright stupid. (Yeah Baloo, real classy of you to blame Molly for your tarniness and lazyness. It's things like this that I wonder why Rebecca even bothers to keep him on the payroll.) Baloo insists that he saw a ghost and Rebecca doesn't want to hear it as she wants him to unload the cargo because the customers are getting restless. One small problem though: See Baloo and Louie ran for their lives that they forgot the cargo at Louie's. Huh?! How stupid and contrived do you have to be to have the cargo unloaded from the SeaDuck at Louie's. What an idiot Baloo is?! (Yeah; why would you take the cargo out of the SeaDuck in the first place? What; are Louie's monkey crew cargo inspectors? Since when? That's like claiming that Caron's doll was sent from her fans. That makes no sense. A friend maybe, but fans? Come on!) Rebecca basically tells him to go back and get it. I don't blame her for being a jerk since Baloo is being so irresponsible beyond the pale here. Baloo no sells because the hash house is haunted. Yes; Baloo called Louie's a hash house (basically a social non-competitive place for drinking and running. (Also known as a low priced diner. If I was Louie; I would walk out on Baloo right now. He insulted your business. That's bad PR for you, Louie!) Pretty apporos eh?) and Louie wants Rebecca to see for herself. Baloo swears that if there is no ghost; he'll quit his job. Rebecca drags Baloo out of the office by his arm (Wow; no ear pull this time; she is losing her touch.) and proclaims that she'll basically fire Baloo if there is no ghost. (Baloo once again is a cowardly idiot for daring this. There is no way Rebecca is going to buy what Baloo sells; because Baloo is a lazy scumbag. Baloo might as well write his resume while flying to Louie's and then find a paper bag to put on his head in shame.) We head to Louie's and then go to the docks where the SeaDuck and some cargo is as we head inside to the passenger pink seat as Baloo sneaks from behind the chair where Rebecca is sleeping and wakes her up.

We then get the slow sequence of being here as Rebecca causally walks into Louie's proclaiming that it's time to get this over with. Everyone walks in and Louie's is a mess; but the pink spark is gone. Baloo shows the mess as proof of the chaos. Riiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhtttttttt. (Baloo has never heard of Occam's Razor and even Halon's Razor for this because...) Rebecca gleefully blows them off for me as Louie and Baloo run in and try to make the masks and bananas come to life and fly around and no one sells anything as Louie and Baloo look like a bunch of unhidged lunatics. (To put it mildly. Rebecca basically said that this was caused by drunk slobs. Which would be a rational and reasonable thing to say. Again; this is why people who hate Rebecca are sexist twits; more so when Baloo is supposed to be doing his job!) Rebecca has seen enough and she drags Baloo by the ear (that's more like it Miss Cunningham) outside because she needs sleep and Baloo needs to deliver cargo. I guess Baloo still have to complete the job before being fired outright to cost her losses. (Well; if Baloo is fired here, then Rebecca would have to fly the SeaDuck back and probably put all the cargo into the SeaDuck. No way she's doing it all by herself. She's not dumb enough to fire Baloo on the spot there.) Louie plays around with the mask; but the pink spark comes from the seems of the floor and bonks Louie on the head hard with a brown eggplant. OH MY GOD! He's the ghost of Chip~! AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! BONK! OUCH! Ummmmmm... Louie thinks that it's the ghost and Rebecca blows them off as immature little... (I'm guessing that she was going to call them douchebags (and boy; I'd love her to say that on a Disney show because it would all be true.).) Baloo gets the eggplant in his hands thanks to the pink spark, Rebecca turns around and uses it as evidence that it was Baloo bonking him on the head. HAHA! Baloo proclaims that he has been framed. True; but who cares?! It's funny all the same as that is 9/10'ths of guilt according to the laws of possession. (Sure, Baloo was on the other side of the room and Rebecca was seeing him when Louie was bonked on the head; so there no way that Baloo could have done it; but still, it doesn't matter. Even though the place was haunted, Baloo didn't do his job properly. He could've just loaded the cargo; got it back to Higher For Hire and then after unloading it, go to Louie's and have fun. It's so simple and we're supposed to buy that Rebecca's the problem?!)

Rebecca wants to leave; but Louie dives and grabs onto Rebecca's legs. Pervert~! See; if he cannot get rid of the pink spark; he loses his customers, money and business. Baloo throws away the brown eggplant and proclaims that there will be no parties. (That should be the least of your worries, Pop-A-Bear.) Rebecca responds with this gem:

Rebecca: Great. If a ghost could close down this dump, I'd give him a kiss.

Umm; Miss Cunningham, that would be one step closer to making love with the dead who cannot give consent and not to mention being ultra creepy and to some immoral and Satanic. (Ah; here's where the phantomphilia/nercophilia angle started. I know that 2010 me hyperbole this to death. But seriously; this was a really unfortune implication. To be fair; I'm far from being The Mysterious Mr. Enter. As much as I rant and rave about terrible animation and horrible angles/promos/morals etc.; I don't get to the levels he does. However; this angle would be something he would curxify a show if he ever saw it. However; this is another example of why people need to kill the glasses, stop using memories and actually take notes on a show. I'm not afraid to do so because I'm still confident that my favorite show is the best of all times; but at the same time, I'm prepared to declare new shows into that same box. It's almost happened to at least fifty shows that I have seen. That's great! That means the industry is doing great. Sadly; unlike Chico Alverez, I don't make any money from this. If I did; I would have a personal computer made of solid gold. I would be rolling in money. That being said; if anyone shut Louie's down, it is going to be Douglas Benson, the prototype of Pete Campbell.) Believe it or not; this wasn't the reason for some syndies to black ball this episode. Rebecca walks off as the pink spark goes into the mask and becomes the Mask Warrior of Fruits~! Baloo and Louie run away and then they don't bother to look back since the spark dies. The spark goes over their heads and throws fruit down onto the floor. Baloo and Louie get slipped out and they actually do a MAN-SIZED bump right on Rebecca's ass. Ooooooooo... Rebecca drops and lands right into the arms of a old panther wearing a sea captain's uniform and has the REGAL CUTLASS to his side. Rebecca is instantly charmed as the captain asks if she's all right and if she wants the ruffins (Baloo and Louie) taken care off. The captain, William Stansbury, is voiced by Peter Reneday. Rebecca blushes and is charmed by the captain's good looks (for a guy who looks sixty years old by the way). William Stansbury addresses himself (Disney Caption is dead on with the name by the way.) and kisses her on the hand.

William sets Rebecca back down as Louie helps Baloo up and Baloo calls William a stiff. Compare to whom, Pop-A-Bear?! Inquiring minds would love to know. (Baloo is not a stiff 2010 Me. A stiff would be a muscle freak with no endurance, promo skills nor good wrestling skills. Kind of like Matt Morgan actually.) Rebecca proclaims that you don't see many classy sea captains around here. They are gentlemen and Louie corrects her because he is a customer as he drags William to a table. Williams pushes Louie aside and blows off Louie's as a ruined sailing ship. More on that one later as Rebecca would like to have Baloo and Louie flogged and Williams chuckles in agreement. Now THAT would be fun to watch; just to see Pop-A-Bear pop...ERRR...I mean squirm. (Oh, and Baloo would require two yardarms. I think he needs four. Personally; I would hang them from the yardarm; put an apple in Baloo's mouth and roast him over an open flame. That'll make him really get the point that he should stop being a scumbag.) Baloo calls Rebecca insane ("take a long walk off a short pier") and Louie laughs. Williams orders for them to apologize to the lady. Baloo tells him to show him one and so Williams shows off his lady which is his REGAL CUTLASS and Baloo apologizes profusely. HAHA! Don't screw with a guy who is a defender for mental illness everywhere. That swordplay looked a bit awkward for some reason so there is Sunwoo screw up number one for the episode. (Rebecca's all woman and probably even more man than those two furballs put together.) Rebecca thanks Williams for that defense as they cuddle up some more and Louie's stomach is churning in disgust. (Screw you and your sexist stomach, you pervert!) Rebecca tells William that he has lost track of time and needs to go. William asks if he could escort her out and Rebecca agrees to that. William and Rebecca walk out in a sweet scene as Rebecca tells him that she needs to run the shipping company and William is impressed. I see William is one of those enlightened sea captains. We then cut back to Baloo and Louie as Louie is pointing at them accusing barnacle breath (William, of course.) of putting the whammy on Rebec-o-ramy. (Wow; what a jealous prick Louie is?! And stop using whammy and then defame Rebecca with it as her name. Double Darkwings sucked!) Self-respect is not these two losers strong points I see.

Baloo tries to storm out to nip the problem in the ass so to speak; but the magic sparkle sounds shuts the doors down and Baloo wants answers to that. Louie feels an encore coming as the pink spark has turned itself with the masks as a pink spark hydra. Baloo then whacks at the straw doors calling for Rebecca; but no dice. (Sunwoo's crack animation team made it appear that Baloo was punching the doors. And that is strong magic in that it was able to make the doors like six foot concrete even though the door is mostly grass and bamboo shoots.) We head to the dock with the SeaDuck as Rebecca and William exchanges notes in the SeaDuck. William is impressed and Rebecca giggles because he acts like he has never seen a plane before. Remember that one for later too. (Fun bit: William claims that he is a bit out of touch lately. You don't know the half of that one, dood.) They go into the cockpit and William continues to be impressed as he remembers a time when ladies didn't do these things. (Interesting that he talks about rigid roles and is still impressed with Rebecca being the independent woman that she is. That's a really great moment for the character.) Rebecca proclaims that she can still do that too (noting Molly indirectly) as William and Rebecca both agree on one thing: They never met a people like him/her. This is a really touching scene overall for me as we head back inside before Eisner pushes the panic button (Because WDTVA is not WDFA, you see.) as we get the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE PINK HYDRA MASK EDITION~! The masks go triple and the two loser goofs run right through the straw hut (Idol Rich anyone?) as the pink spark decides to finally call it quits for the moment. We head back to Rebecca in the Seaduck yawning as she tells William that she has to wring her pilot out and go home.

William asks why she has to leave and Rebecca admits that she left Molly with the babysitter (1:1 odds it's Kit Cloudkicker) while stammering. This also lops off a plot hole right there in less than 15 seconds. I wish Jermey Cushner would have thought the same thing. (Yeah; this is yet another episode where we never see Kit. If it wasn't for time constraints, I would have liked to see Kit taking Molly home, doing her ribbons into bows inbetween these scenes. But alas; kids just want comedy, so we have to see Baloo and Louie make an ass out of themselves. On the other paw; Kit and Molly are voiced by kids, so that would have put pressure on their vocal chords. A reboot would have Kit and Molly doing these scenes as comedy, and I wouldn't mind it a bit.) Oh, and here come the two sexist losers running in with more dumb gibbering. I think even Gibber would be taken aback from this. Baloo jumps into the front seat and proclaims he's leaving without the cargo and tries to start the SeaDuck; but the SeaDuck just dies on him instantly. The plane is dead (death reference #1 and a creepy one at that) and they cannot get out of here. (I just love how the SeaDuck dies about four seconds after Baloo is panicking. As if Baloo saw this coming.) Louie wonders if someone wants them to stay and Baloo thinks it's something. Rebecca has had enough of this garbage (her words, not mine) as she is Freddy Jones today. She turns around and William is gone already. Rebecca walks out of the SeaDuck onto the docks and proclaims that he just disappeared. We then pan up to the stars and the segment ends right there twelve minutes in. Oh yeah; like that pan shot isn't symbolic of something, eh?

After the commercial break; we get a sky shot of the docks near the tailsection of the SeaDuck as Rebecca runs Baloo and Louie out of the SeaDuck with pillows as she tells them that if they cannot fix the SeaDuck; they can't sleep in it. HA! Baloo calls her out on the haunted bar. Rebecca yawns and blows him off because they could wake the dead with their snoring (death reference #2 for the episode). Louie wants Rebecca to have a little heart and Rebecca gleefully yells him at to get a little backbone. HAHA! If only Michael Eisner would have grown one and learn to actually a hundred percent support TaleSpin instead of bashing Bugs Bunny as aged and worn out. Although Bugs Bunny did wear out in the long run; it was mostly due to Warner Brothers creating Bugs Bunny crap in the 1990's like Space Jam that finally did them in. (Yeah; if Disney would have just let that go and let TaleSpin be TaleSpin; this series would have been the face of children's animation. Even in spite of using Baloo, Louie and Shere Khan; because Eisner has no confidence in original characters. And why should he? Fluppy Dogs bombed, The Wuzzles ratings were horrible and the Gummi Bears only got by because of a huge angle at the end of season one.) For those who enjoy my dumb skits on TaleSpin; he's the goodie from my old rant re-edited to uncensor some words and spelling: (Which by the way, was no one except myself.) That pretty much explains why Disney Television Animation has been in decline in quality over the years doesn't it?! (Kim Possible, Filmore, Teachers Pet, Gargoyles, Aladdin, and Lilo & Sitch notwithstanding. Well; to be fair, now the quality is actually pretty good for the most part; Pickle & Peanut notwithstanding.) I guess that's how TaleSpin got cancelled. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Nope! TaleSpin was approved and cancelled the moment it was greenlighted because it was only made to buy time for Darkwing Duck. The fact that it still holds up is more the creators middle fingering Eisner and company more than anything else.) I can just hear the beautiful exchange that Rebecca would have had with Michael Esiner trying to renew this show: (Uh-oh!)

Rebecca: Michael Eisner? I would like to talk about the renewal of TaleSpin. The entire Disney staff agrees that this show should be renewed for a second season.
Michael Eisner: But Rebecca; TaleSpin's ratings were not good.
Rebecca: TaleSpin's ratings for 1990/1991 were 11.4. (Actually; that's 2-11. The overall ratings were near 5.0; sometimes over 5.0. Those were excellent numbers in syndication at the time. Disney would kill to have those numbers on a constant basis with Ducktales 2017. No wonder Eisner wasn't buying it.) That is second to only Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; fourth in syndication behind Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. (That's no small feat; but remember that TMNT was three years into it's run. I guess Eisner wanted to be #1 in the ratings. The problem is that the toy sales were horrible; but Eisner didn't care about that.)
Eisner: But Rebecca; fans do not get the dialogue and think the show's a ripoff of Ducktales. (Sadly true in this case.) Not to mention that there's no heavy-handed morals and laughter aplenty. (Because kids just want comedy. I wish Eisner added that line; just so he can sue for gimmick infringement.)
Rebecca: I betcha in two to three years; people will be calling this an original show about character interaction, storyline and appeal to families, children and adults alike. (True. That's why it's an adult show disguised as a kid's show. Ironically, if this show existed today; Kit Cloudkicker would be the main event and focus of the show. Which it should have been in 1990!)
Eisner: But Rebecca; we cannot wait two-three years for a fan base to flourish. (Sadly, true. Because money marks have no concept of patience, which explains why they are painted as sociopaths.) Have a heart! It's in your Disney contract.
Rebecca: Michael Eisner?! GET A BACKBONE! At least this show has! Unlike you! (And after seeing Glenn Martin, DDS; we can finally agree that Eisner has no backbone. Most of it is in the front.)
Eisner: That's it! I'm canceling TaleSpin! No one tells Eisner what to do in my Never-land! (Geez; great way to admit that Eisner was a money mark there 2010 me.) You and your friends are fired!
Rebecca: Fine! This ship will sink and then you will resign. (It didn't; but he did resign, so it was a mixed result.)
Eisner: Will not!
Rebecca: But you will...YOU WILL! (Geez; I didn't know Rebecca was Squidward's friend. Too bad no one cares about Spongebob Squarepants anymore; except for the hardcore fans.)
Eisner: Will not!
Rebecca: WILL TOO! (Rebecca slams the door.)
Eisner: What a bitch?! (Looks at Darkwing Duck shows renewal.) Ah; this show's excellent and doesn't talk back to me. (Coming from someone who just used toxic language there. And hell of a way to show that you are mature there Miss Cunningham.) Renew it for 26 more episodes on ABC. (Wait; so Rebecca asked this in 1992? No wonder Eisner didn't bite. I realize this show's pace is slow; but this is absurd.) I know; I'll blame TaleSpin and Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers cancellations on that dirty, smelly, vulgar television channel FOX. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Well, FOX "News" is putting that description mildly, almost apologetic in fact.) That will take all the heat off of me and give the fans of those two stupid shows something to blame. I'm a genius...BWHAHAHAHA!

Turns out Rebecca was right about Eisner resigning even though that took forever; and Bob Iger came in and pissed off the fans EVEN more. (The same Bob Iger who greenlighted the Ducktales reboot did piss off a lot of fans during the High School Musical live action era; but then balanced itself out and Disney became the best it has ever been in a long time. So the resignation turned out for the best. Also; I still maintain that it was toy sales that was cause to end the series; because it's what makes them profit. Although I don't get this attitude that adults don't buy toys. Isn't a television a toy by proxy? Damn; my head hurts when it comes to adult/children logic. Now girls not buying toys; that is sexism in action.) Anyway, it's time to get back to the rant. Baloo calls her out after Rebecca closes up the tailsection of the SeaDuck; because she thinks they are scared. NO?! REALLY?! Of course, Baloo admits that Rebecca is right. HAHA! Baloo then gets fed up and Louie stammers before agreeing to go back to retake the bar so to speak. Well; I doubt this will happen because I heard Louie was going to be a lawyer; but he couldn't pass the bar. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah; I stole that one from Sunny in Surivior Series 1996, so shoot me. (Sunny's line with Vader was also funny when she proclaimed that it's fifteen minutes until the pay per view. When Sunny was funny, she was really funny. Her drug problems were the vast opposite of funny.) We head to the double doors and they bust open to reveal Baloo and Louie running in. We cut to Rebecca sleeping and the banging and crashing inside Louie's causes Rebecca to jump up higher than Huey Duck with a superball jammed in his ass. I see the TMS effect has infected Sunwoo Animation. Excellent bump from Rebecca on that one too, as she recovers. We head inside to see Baloo and Louie making enough noises with musical junk to wake the dead literally. Party flavors, horns, squeeze boxes, steel drum, ball stick slingshot; these American Idol rejects have them all. Where is Simon Cowell when you REALLY need him?! (Oh, and by the way -- in that shot -- Louie's right foot was holding a pistol. Is there some law in TaleSpin where a gun has to be taken out even though it's not needed for this episode to work? So that means we are 28 for 33 in the guns being pulled out.)

Rebecca can only groan inside as we scene change and go outside with Rebecca. Rebecca has a blanket and pillow and yawns because she needs some sleep still. So, she drags her blanket like Linus onto the beach, slumps down and sleeps on the beach. She then hears a voice and the DVD mastering is very sloppy here as there is a wobble effect in the shot. It's William's voice as Rebecca wakes up and walks slowly towards the golden light and then steps back right into the arms of Williams. (I think the wobble sound was an actual sound effect and I missed it.) Rebecca turns around and gasps; but William asks for forgivness and admit that he couldn't sleep either. They hold arms together and walk stage left for a lesiurely stroll as we head back into the bar as Baloo is dressed up like a ghost shaking steel chains. This IS turning into an ECW cartoon, only slightly less violent. Louie jumps in with canned stings; twelve of them which is how many heat machines Baloo and Louie need to get monster over. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (There are twelve main characters in TaleSpin and Louie is #11 on the over list with Baloo at #12. That's why they require twelve heat machines from Eisner because the original characters are so much better than they are.) How many do Kit and Don Karnage need? Zero. They get heat simply by moving. (Kit is the #1 babyface of the show, Don Karnage is the #1 heel of the show. Rebecca is a close #2 (who is the #1 tweener of the show) and Molly is #3. Also, Baloo was the one they focused on to make money despite the whole concept being built around Kit. Michael Eisner: Just say no.) They see each other; scream and exit in opposite direction. Ummmm; yeah. (They are complete fools because they are the only ones in the building and the ghost is outside somewhere.) Louie gets out of the costume and tells Baloo that it's him. Baloo is hiding behind the smallest BARREL OF LAUGHS in the joint and he asks if they can hear anything. There is absolutely no sound; not even music. Memo to creators of "Flush & Release" from Kick Buttowski: That's how you do the quiet spot properly! (No eye blinking sounds allowed either.)

Baloo thinks they have scared them off and then Louie and Baloo look at each other. Then they practice some sneaky tactics as they sneak up on a mask and then blow it off with raspberries and taunting. No sell from the mask as Louie proclaims that no one is going to make them look stupid. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Geez, that one they just walked right into the obvious there. Even worse, at one point, both Baloo and Louie use the racist taunt "Ooga Booga". TaleSpin with woman characters was great, other cultures; not so much.) Louie and Baloo walk across on the conveniently placed red carpet and it's DA...HOLE (SLURP!) Baloo made earlier on and they freefall into the basement with a MAN-SIZED bump. HAHA! Baloo has his ass on the chest as Louie is locked inside. HAHA! This IS Rebecca's dream come true as he yells for fuzzy to get him the hell out of the chest. Baloo tries to open it up; but no dice as it's jammed:

Fong: What you are about to see is a distortion of reality.

Se we head somewhere on the island near a bridge as Captain William and Rebecca slowly hold hands and walk. Rebecca talks about the expression on the ruffins face as the scene turns from a jungle right into a paradise seem in most shoujo anime. They exchange pleasure thoughts about screwing Baloo and Louie in a playful manner as they cross the bridge and flowers rain down from the heavens. Yeap; we are in true shoujo anime here and it's done by Sunwoo Animation. Then William catches a flower and puts it in her hair and we get another iconic gem from Rebecca:

Rebecca: They wouldn't know a gentlemen if one came up and put a flower in her hair.
William: Nor would they know a real lady...
Rebecca: ...If one came up and kissed them... {Rebecca gives a kiss on William's cheek which looked close to the lips. Sunwoo error #2 for the episode.}

Juan F. Lara's favorite statement of the series because there is a good amount of truth to it. Baloo and Louie are not gentlemen; but then again, they never pretended to be gentlemen anyway. Rebecca isn't pretending to be a lady either. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: To the fans who point out that I bash Baloo a lot: This is how the characters are written by the writers. You know that going after the writers makes you a stalker and Disney can and will protect them; so you go after critics and fans who merely point out these moments since they don't have such protection. Baloo is not a digified character, nor will ever be. You are showing your cowardice in punching down on a softer target who doesn't have the resources to defend itself outside of pointing out how much of a coward you are.) This episode is all about Rebecca finding a love from a place she didn't know existed and it feels touching because Baloo and Louie are downright jerks in this episode. You cannot help but cheer for Rebecca here due to the crap she goes through with Baloo and that's why this episode becomes quite sad in the end as you will see here later. They do some running across the green Sinkers and Floaters (God bless MXC and Takeshi's Castle!); and Rebecca slips on some wet grass; but William grabs her before she falls on her ass. William grabs her in an embrace and Rebecca thinks that this is all a dream to her. If only Rebecca, if only. Rebecca slumps into sleep as she wishes for more time to spend; like forevermore and William states that it could come true if she wanted to. This is so classic Disney-equse that it's sad that bland Sunwoo is animating this. Rebecca falls asleep in her arms as William proclaims that maybe another time is suitable as he walks stage right and the scene returns to the jungle island. (This is one of those scenes where it's surreal, while at the same time still looks believable because they showed that Rebecca's dream and reality aren't on opposite plains. The dream is much more colorful; while the reality is more reserved; but the overall path is more or less the same in both. This is wonderful as we are finally seeing that Rebecca is fed up with her friends screwing with her life and William is only trying to help her.)

We head back to the basement as Baloo uses the REGAL CUTLASS to pry open the CHEST OF DEMONS and it opens up to reveal Louie reading just to get Al Khan's heart pressure up. Louie is scared complete with chattering teeth sound effects as Baloo asks if he saw a ghost. Louie has the book open and proclaims that it's him. Baloo asks what he is stammering about and Louie explains that the bar is actually the ghost's ship which crashed into a storm a hundred years ago in 1837. It's in the ghost's diary as Baloo chuckles and asks him the obvious question: How could you read the diary in the dark? Then the chest lights up from below and Louie becomes Scooby to Baloo's Shaggy. At least it works this time as the light shines on a picture of William Stansbury and the GOOFS WITH ATTITUDE realize that the ghost is Rebecca's new boyfriend. UH OH! Rebecca is commited to...wait for it...Phantomphila~! A version of nercophila which is making love with the dead. HOLY CRAP!! No wonder this episode got religious folks with their panties in a wad. See the Katie Vick angle on WWE RAW and more so the reaction to HHH raping a fake Katie Vick doll dressed up as Kane. Then you'll understand why this episode scares the living crap out of some people. Also, that's not the end of the forbidden stuff either. (It's still very creepy to say the least and this wasn't intended to be a Halloween episode since this aired in late September.) Louie asks what they are going to do and Baloo proclaims that he has a Krackpotkin plan to catch a ghost. So we cut to the front doors as William slams the doors open and the wind blows leaves right in. I guess this episode was meant to be a Halloween episode; but got nixed at the last minute. (Already mentioned it earlier.) William comes in with Rebecca in her arms and goes over to the dining tables as we pan up to see Baloo and Louie with the fishing net on the branches near the roof. Did I mention that some of the beam supports are trees for this place? (Yes, yes you did. In Louie's Last Stand.)

Okay; let's move on as we see Rebecca laying down on a seat as William covers her with the purple blanket instead of the blue one she has earlier for logic break number three for the episode. (It's not a logic break since Rebecca never had the blanket on her person to begin with, during the entire time she was with William.) William walks stage left; so Baloo and Louie jump down, bag William and drag him away. Williams sells and protests this outrage for about ten seconds, then he uses his ghost powers of doom, goes through the net and frees himself. HAHA! Screw you Pop-A-Bear and Crude-Matted-Ape~! (Actually; William cut the rope off-screen which explains the ripping sounds when he escaped.) William takes out his REGAL CUTLASS and points it as the goofs with attitude and Baloo dares him to skewer him. Then Louie and Baloo take turns pointing the sword on their friend. HAHA! (Lobster courage, Grubby's not the only one who suffers from it.) William proclaims that he's taking Rebecca with him and Baloo calls him out to try it. Dumbest...move....ever...Pop-A-Bear as William raises the sword into the sky and it's THE POWER OF GREYSKULL~! Maybe not; but come on guys; you could see the He-Man/She-ra reference coming a mile away. This scene is better off seen then explained. There is colored waves into the skies, it ends up with the entire ship breaking from Louie's Island and going into the sky at end the segment 17 1/2 minutes in. That last sequence was breath taking and Sunwoo is animating here. Imagine if Walt Disney Animation France S.A or Walt Disney Animation Japan Inc. got their grubby mitts on it?! Indeed. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: The whiplash of genres from comedy to dramatic tragedy is almost upon us. The end was the right booking decision, but; dammit, some wished the actual "happy ending" occured after seeing it.)

After the commercial break; we go with the ghost ship in the sky (Eat your heart out Flying Dutchman from Spongebob SquarePants!) and then head to the WHEEL OF MORALITY (2020 Gregory Weagle Say: Animanaics' middle finger to the moral guardians I might add.) with Captain William Stansbury piloting the ship along with Rebecca sleeping by his side. Rebecca finally wakes up and still thinks this is a marvelous dream. William proclaims that he will make her dreams come true as he uses the magical dust to change her clothes into a uber cool white dress. We then see a shooting star in the sky. Williams points to it and Rebecca wonders if she should make a wish. William wishes that Rebecca could stay with him. UH-OH! That's codeword for marriage and since it's a ghost this gives Baloo and Louie every reason to stop it even at the expense of being booed right out of the building. (More on that at the finish.) Speaking of the two goofs; they are up in the crow's nest; and William cuts another sweet promo while snapping his fingers. Baloo and Louie teleport below and turn into the IDIOT DECKHANDS OF CLEAN LAUGHS~! HAHA! That allows for the SHANE DOUGLAS MOP OF DOOM along with the RIC FLAIR BROOM OF DOOM to come to life and screw around with the subtle heels as they run right out onto the top deck screaming for Rebecca all the way. (That's right, folks! William is the babyface of this episode because he's trying to make Rebecca happy while Baloo and Louie are unintentionally messing her life up because they are lazy, sexist scumbags. Baloo and Louie are the heels in this setup. However; the finish has to be Rebecca's dream being ruined because the alternative is much more heinous and sad.) Rebecca ask about something and Baloo tells her that William is a ghost. Rebecca agrees because anything is possible in a dream. HAHA! (The problem with that is: She's not dreaming. This is in storyline, a shoot and sadly for her, a tragic shoot in the making.) The scrub pads just now have been strapped to Louie's feet as William snaps his fingers and forces them below deck again.

Louie does the Russian dance to amuse me some more. Baloo has the mop over his eyes (he needs a haircut!) as Louie has a bucket on his ass and pushes with it to force the scrub pads off his feet and they miss hitting the wall. (Nope; they bounced off the wall, magically stop selling and then fall for Louie's antics.) The scrub pads falls into Louie's line of taunting, hit the conveniently placed doors to the bookshelf and they open; allowing Louie to slam the bucket down on the ground; but get entombed in books. HAHA! Baloo asks if Louie is okay and Louie pops up from the carnage with the UBOS OF DEATH (The Ultimate Book of Spells animated series for those who didn't read my previous rant. Speaking of my previous rant: For those who don't know; UBOS means Ultimate Book of Spells and it is a character who is shaped like a book and stars in the show of the exact same name (show is about ** 1/4). It's about three kids who are in training with magic to fend againest an evil warlock and a couple of mini-dragon.... and Julia Jane Lewald wrote a few episodes on that show... I think. ) which is the Sea Captain's edition complete with English writing. Louie skims through the book looking for ghosts, mermaids, scurvy, squids and sees a spell to un-whammify ghost ships. Louie wants to flush William dead as Baloo and Louie try to walk out but two buckets magically appear and slam right in their asses. HAHA! Baloo clears his throat to annoy me somewhat and Louie reads the spell from the book as it goes something like this:

Louie: Flounders & Flying fish, Scrubbedy Dub, Drop to the Deck of This Rotten Old Tub.

Ummm; yeah. The buckets drop from their asses and the GOOFS WITH ATTITUDE thank each other and causally walk out right in front of William and Rebecca. (Here we go folks; this is where nearly nineteen minutes of comedy whiplashes into a dramatic and tragic finish. Only TaleSpin could make this possible and work out to be one of the best episodes in the series.) William is not amused to see them as Louie goes into the spell book and starts the spell getting the religious word heavens in. Yes folks; this is the scene where some syndies blackballed the episode because it was considered blastophmey. (Well; they used a form of witchcraft which is standard folk devil type stupidity. However; what puts this over the top is how it ends.) William begins to glow magic as the wind picks up to around fifty miles per hour and the ship is in trouble. Can you sense the heel heat coming out of Baloo and Louie right now? (Yeah; because most people wouldn't blame Rebecca taking Williams' side because Baloo and Louie are bad furry beings.) Rebecca walks in and steals the spell book and she is pissed off now. Cue the quotes since it's better to reveal the quotes rather than go through commentary:

Rebecca: What are you doing?
Louie: Getting rid of Captain Casanova.
Baloo: And us out of here. {The boat begins to crumble like mad.}
Rebecca: {In tears.}Isn't it enough you guys ruin my life? Do you have to ruin my dreams too?
Baloo: Beckey, wake up. This isn't a dream. It's real.
William: {Rebecca is about to kill them with the book.} This is real. {Thus turning William into a complete babyface as he walks towards her.}
Baloo: Quick, finish the spell.
William: No, stay with me.
Baloo: You got to come back with us.
Rebecca: Stop, please! I just want to be happy. {Rebecca chooses William and backs up towards him.}
Baloo: Beckey, I want you to be happy too, but you got to think, honey. Think of your life, think about Molly. {A warning: Do not watch the French version of this because Baloo basically states that he wants her to think about him only thus turning him into a selfish giant prick. (If this episode was booted today, what would be the over/under on Baloo saying that he wants her to about him only?)}
Rebecca: {Gets the point and takes out the ribbon in her pocket.} Molly...{She grasps the ribbon.} Oh; I can't stay. You've given me a dream forever, but I...my daughter. I have to go back.
William: I understand. {William and Rebecca give one final kiss..}
Rebecca: {Opens the book.} "Take to the heavens illusionary ships, forever and always to sail the skies. Now part from this world on wings to arrive." {Flash of light and we return to Louie's.}

Wow. Yeah folks; Rebecca basically killed William Stansbury's ghost and that little awesome Disney like sequence earned a blacklisting in some areas. Family Channel Canada never aired TaleSpin (Although CBC Moncton did oddly enough, the French dub known as Looping, despite only the OP and ED being Canadian, and the rest was based on the awful Super Baloo dub.) because of that scene. (Actually; the episode did air on Family Channel Canada, but I rarely saw it. The syndie ban didn't last long of course because no one was buying that witchcraft is evil anymore.) It's extremely sad because Rebecca and William were going to get married and they were happy together. William wasn't the bad guy here at all; he only wanted to make Rebecca happy. Pokemon did a similar angle with this with Entei and Molly (And don't tell me the producers were not watching this episode for pointers! (There's no way they were watching this show for pointers. Unless there is a Walt Disney Animation Japan Inc. animator for TaleSpin that saw it; but this episode is done by Sunwoo Animation. There; I just told you that it's doubtful the producers were watching this show for pointers.)). However; the dilemma is that the ghost ship is a spirit ship and if Rebecca chose to be with William Stansbury; she basically dies with him and thus is a religious version of suicide. (And to answer the obvious: If Molly went with her; she dies too. This is a rare form of an Unfortunate Implication done right; because ultimately, the right decision was made. Rebecca didn't refuse because of Baloo and Louie. In fact, she would have gone with him if Molly wasn't in the picture. Molly was the reason why she left William. It was the only decision that could have been made because if she ultimately chooses William; this series is over since Rebecca is one of the three main babyfaces in Jymn Magon "three legged stool" concept.) Ironically, that black listing may have been responsible for Kit's "always" being muted in syndication later on to please those syndies.

So, in hindsight; Baloo and Louie; the jerkasses as they were, had to stop this marriage and Baloo's reminder of Molly shows me that Baloo can put his selfishness aside for her sake. When Rebecca realized that she goes; she could never return with Molly and Molly would be exactly like Kit was before they all met: completely parentless. So, in hindsight; this was the right booking decision; but it also made everyone turn on Molly Cunningham because in many person's views; Molly screwed Rebecca out of a relationship and unlike Convington, she welded power over Rebecca despite not being there and even worse; William was a babyface. (I think this was the episode where fans hated Molly and really; that was stupid because it only exposed their desire to have Rebecca be with a man and being controlled by William, instead of Rebecca just simply choosing to be with a man and being on equal terms like we saw here. It was simply making Molly the doll of projection on the sexists part. Once that didn't work; they went directly to Rebecca. ) As I said before; this is TaleSpin and unlike most Disney cartoons, you don't always get happy endings. (Gargoyles has the opposite problem: They almost never get happy endings and the more they did it, the more it turned into a country song. Tragedy is even trickier than comedy in that most people just watch shows (regardless of if they are live action or animated.) for fun and amusement. Unless you are a sadist like me; tragedy only works in small doses before it becomes too much. Gargoyles went on this tack for too long and by the time Avalon started, I stopped caring about it. Like I said previously: when you stop caring about the characters and when it stops being fun; that's when people change the channel and go back to watching cute animals with rainbows. Kind of like TaleSpin actually. Sometimes, execution can win over originality.)

We return to Louie's on the docks as Louie proclaims that was crazy. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. At least the spell reverted everything back to what it was (How convenient, eh?) as Baloo and Rebecca look up and see William's ghost ship sailing into the heavens. William waves goodbye on the ship as Rebecca chases it on the beach and loses the flower in her hair as one more symbolic punch in the gut for Rebecca fans everywhere. Williams' ship sails towards the moon, out of sight. Rebecca is in tears as Baloo consoles her and we fade to black on one of the most emotional sequences I have ever seen. (This is one of those times where TaleSpin outdid Gargoyles in the heartbreak department. Mostly because no one was a real heel here (and most of Baloo and Louie's antic were annoying.) and to see Rebecca sad about this moment makes me wonder what could have been.) Also, to think; this wasn't even the most upsetting moment in the series! Just wait until Jolly Molly Christmas and you'll truly have something to cry about. We head back to Rebecca's apartment as Rebecca is in her room in a blue gown brushing her hair at her mirror desk as Molly walks in with the cutiest pink footy pj's she can wear under the FASHION POLICE OF LAW with her bear and she runs towards Rebecca and they embrace. Molly proclaims that she missed her and asks where she was. Rebecca proclaims that she had a date with a ghost and Molly giggles that one off. Yeah; that is very hard to swallow Miss Cunningham. Molly then points to a shot of a picture of William Stansbury on the wall as Rebecca recalls the story with tears in her eyes (I got them too; thank you Libby Hinson.). Molly cuddles in her arms and then we get a shot of the moon as the ghost ship flies towards it in a weird way to finally end the episode at 21:19. What a ride that was and that finish was killer!! Like I said before; you know what this episode is getting. ***** (100%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Another perfect episode of TaleSpin and one of the best from Libby Hinson. (I think Jolly Molly Christmas was more surreal and better than this; but this was Rebecca's greatest thiry minutes. It earned it's perfect rating.) This was one of the most emotional episodes in the entire series and Libby was barely warming up at this point. Even more amazing is that Kit and Don Karnage do not exist here and were not needed to make this episode awesome. This was another example of “This is the Disney I remember” and it showed most of all with the finish and ending as I couldn't help but feel sorry for Rebecca Cunningham. Baloo and Louie were jerks, and William was an honest ghost who meant no harm; but if Rebecca chose her then both would be dead and Molly would be parent less. (And again; if Molly went with her, she's dead too. This was a tragedy daring to happen and both decisions will cause heartache for everyone involved.) I mentioned that if they went to the route everyone wanted here; then the series would have ended way too soon right there and probably would be even more forgotten than ever before. (The irony of this is that Teen Titans GO already made that decision and is still going on strong.) I just love how Molly didn't do a thing and yet she became the reason why the episode ended like that. The moment William's shojou anime sequence started; it was truly magical and it ended with one awesome moment after another until the tearful sad finish and ending. (It's almost like Libby Hinson was writing for Japanese animation, instead of Disney. I like it!) Like I said; this is TaleSpin and you don't always have happy endings. Ironically; this was an episode that Nightflight from the Acorn Cafe claimed would never be created again because you cannot have princes sweeping princesses off their feet anymore according to the BS&P note. (Which as anyone knows Nightflight is full of crap. Besides; William is a sea capitan and not a prince, and Rebecca is the owner of a small business, not a princess. This would still be allowed even if Nightflight's demented dream came true.) You know Kit's to blame for that one too. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: I just love how I am accused of bashing Baloo (even if it is true) and yet no one notices the swipes I took at Kit and blamed him for much bigger implications and culture changing at Disney than I ever did with Baloo. Don't ask me why; I really don't know who goes on in those headcanons and I have a difficult enough time maintaining my own with all the changes to Kit and Molly thanks to Ducktales 2017.) Sadly; the next episode is the environmental episode All's Whale That Ends Whale that predated Free Willy by at least three years and in many respects is better than Free Willy. However; it carried some baggage that was created due to no fault of it's own. So...

Thumbs way up for this episode and I'll see you next time.

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