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A Baloo Switcheroo Re-Rant
Reviewed: 10/31/2010
Additional
Commentary: 10/13/2021
Kit Earns His Place In The Record Books. AGAIN!
Original Airdate: 10/16/1990 (Syndication), Episode #28 (TaleSpin DVD Volume 2, Disc 1), Episode #24 (Production Order).
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Baloo Switcheroo Notes
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Baloo Switcheroo Transcript
Welcome to Volume 2 of TaleSpin as we continue our trek through the skies for more misadventures with Baloo and his band of crazy characters. It also helps now that I have five chapter stops per episode; so all I have to do is skip the opening and get to the episode. I can even do the credits before hand too. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: See, I care about the show more than the opening. That's why the "Skip Intro" button is on Disney+. Too bad there is no "Skip To Credits" button on that service.) Needless to say; I'm happy now that I got through the annoying one chapter stop per episode that was Volume 1. (2016 Gregory Weagle Says: This was during the days when I didn't have VLC and therefore couldn't skip the credits until the end due to being so cumbersome on the DVD player. It's kind of funny that this is the fifty-fifth episode that I have transcribed since I originally planned to do this one first since it only had one tribute to do back at the beginning of June. I guess I changed my mind because this episode had a lot of yelling at each other for no reason; although compared to Goliath and Renard arguing in Gargoyles; Baloo and Kit blowing each other off was a better sight to see.) Our next episode features the usual body switching episode which shows the second appearance of “Kit” at school; it also allows Kit (note the difference here); more to the point R.J. Williams to make history in a Disney show. (Before you all say: "Disney Captions is never wrong"; I checked the audio. More on that later. Heck, considering how Volume 1 went in terms of subtitles; why should I believe Disney Captions is never wrong?! Thankfully for them at least, Volume 2 was leagues better than Volume 1. I don't know about the Disney+ version and I'm not subscribing unless Nintendo does...you guessed it!)
Also; we continue on with the downfall of Ken Koonce and David Weimers as writers. (The plot of this episode is simple: Professor finds idol and gives it to Baloo and Kit for safekeeping from Don Karnage. Baloo and Kit look at idol and the idol switches their souls. Freaky Friday hi and lowjinks ensue until Don steals the idol and changes souls with Rebecca. The switched souls must be switched back before the sun fully rises; or they are stuck this way forever. Basically; this is a much more subtle body switching episode than A Fly In The Oniment in Rescue Rangers and at least when Rebecca and Don Karnage did their switch, both were wearing pants. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Ironically, in some pre-production sketches, none were wearing pants and Rebecca once was a Cindy Bear-equse fox.) On the subject of Ken Koonce and David Weimers: I think this was their best written episode of the series; if not it was close to it. Alan Burnett (in one of his final episodes before leaving the company for whatever reason) is a good enough writer to notice flaws in this plot device and did his best to make it more amusing to me at least.) So, how does this episode do? Let's rant on shall we....?!
This episode is written by Alan Burnett, Ken Koonce and David Weimers. The story is edited by Ken Koonce and David Weimers.The animation is done by Walt Disney Animation Japan/Hanho Heung Up Company Limted.
We begin this one in the jungle and I know this because there is lush jungle stuff and animals hooting (Twice (in two different ways) according to Disney Captions which is a tad excessive if you ask me.). We see a wooden bridge and then jump cut to inside the ruins as we see a monkey furry in Indiana Jones outfit with glasses on looking around hearing noises and then he looks up and panics as we see an obvious thunderbolt stone in the ceiling. (He's also carrying a crimson red whip that looks like skipping rope. It must be a bloody whip.) He brings out his lucky coin and flicks it. It lands on the floor with the coin clinking sound and it's almost as good as the audio done by Turner Home Video. Almost. (When Turner owned Mid-Atlantic and it became WCW; they had one of the best sound audio editors in the history of professional wrestling in one of the few production advantages over WWE at the time. When the coins dropped on the ground; you could hear them clink together at points.) That of course allows the thunder bolt spike to drop and miss Professor O'Bowens by about three feet. The professor runs around the bend and we see in the light -- despite using blue/green cartoon lighting here -- in front of about ten spike thunderbolts on the ceiling; an idol. The professor walks to it, tries to unhook it and does; which releases the thunderbolts right onto the stand and destroys it missing the professor by five feet. This security sucks hard by the way. The rumble in the temple commences and the professor is forced to bail. It stops as the professor holds up the idol like a football after scoring a touchdown, here comes Don Karnage and the Air Pirates for the first time since On A Wing & A Bear. (Oh, and thanks to the nature of my transcripts and reviewing this show in 2016; this is the last episode in the series for Don Karnage!) Don comes in with a flaming torch and blows off the professor; addressing him as Professor O'Bowens. Professor O'Bowens is voiced by Patrick Pinney. O'Bowens notices him right away and Don of course admits guilt as he wants the little knick knack idol. O'Bowens no sells and tries to bring out the whip; but Don invokes the sword and metal cuts blood leather whip. HAHA! This is what happens when you watch too many Lucasfilm movies. If George Lucas existed in the 1930's. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Assume whip is paper, sword as scissors and you'll get a better idea.)
O'Bowens calls himself a wimp as he is given the flaming torch (How nice of Don Karnage to give him something in exchange for the idol despite the fact that there is light inside the temple. Great heel move there Don.) and Don uses the sword to flick the "Idol of The Spirit Switcher" (as O'Bowens calls it); or IOTSS. Since Don flicked in the air; we'll call it ITOSS OF DOOM because it's easier to type and somewhat funny. (Not anymore; I have since cut out all ITOSS references beyond this. I might be childish; but I'm not one to jackhammer a joke into the ground anymore. Except for the number of uses of the phrase "Jump cut" in Chargeman Ken.) See; the idol can steal your soul and switch it with another as Don grabs it. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Rumor has it that this episode was not shown in the Bible Belt (and we have lots of memes for that one, so I'm not going to waste my breath explaining it here) in syndication due to the New Age themes. This would ultimately go nowhere and be shown there with the usual Toon Disney cuts.) Don doesn't care because he wants the jewels see as he remembers to point the sword underneath O'Bowen's chin. EEK! Toon Disney cut that one out by the way. (Yeah; they cut out the sword pointing and the audio; which is dumb because it cuts out Don Karnage's motive for stealing the idol in the first place. He doesn't care about the idol's power, he just wants to sell the jewels around it. In the Toon Disney version, it appears that he just wants to steal the idol just because he can. Even if that is a motive; it's not a good one even if you are the heel.) Don wants Mad Dog and Dumptruck to calm O'Bowens down. O'Bowens backs up to the conveniently placed stone door with thunderbolt lever (JESUS~! Did I mention those thunderbolts do have meaning later on?) and pushes it down and we have more rumbling in the temple. The stone thunderbolts uproot the floor and Don has to bail; but the idol tosses itself onto the floor. O'Bowens grabs it as the torch goes out and we clearly see the blue/green lighting. O'Bowens runs off with Don Karnage in hot pursuit of course.
We head to the island and man; the water is as toxic as it was in Kick Out that I ranted on earlier. (I think that is swamp water which isn't as toxic.) We see the SeaDuck in the background near the edge of the island and then cut to Baloo relaxing in a hammock between two palm trees while Kit is wearing shorts! This really puts a dent in Magon's "pantless guys animate better" theory right there as Kit is running on the spot with a white short sleeve shirt and a blue towel. He's still wearing his baseball cap though. Baloo wonders why the professor is an hour late and Kit thinks it's long lines at the excavation. If only Kit, if only. (That was a dumb thing for Kit to say. I wonder if WildCat was originally supposed to be slotted into this episode? Probably not; since they would have to find an angle for WildCat's body that cannot involve school. I would have redubbed the line to: "Well, maybe there were a long line of traps in the area." That would make more sense.) Kit is sweating hard and good which Baloo thinks that the sand is too hot for his feet, of course. Kit explains that he's keeping in shape for the track & field tryouts tomorrow. Which is funny considering that Kit is always in shape since Baloo keeps giving him spots that have stuff surpass Kit's own body weight. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Kit is based off the grizzly bear and the run speed is at 56 kilometers per hour; 35 miles per hour; which is faster than the fastest recorded human speed, at 27.8 miles per hour. So, bears can run. They are far from the fastest animal in the world, but they can easily outrun humans. This is also despite their large size from 400-700 pounds. That's why adult Kit is perfect in Ducktales 2017. Nuance is your friend, stop treating it like an enemy of the good.) Kit bends his knees as Baloo finally gets out of the hammock as the adults have bigger sports to play and Kit sarcastically asks what. Baloo goes to the SeaDuck as he proclaims that flying is a real sport. Riiiiggggghhhhhtttttt. Like NASCAR right Pop-A-Bear? (In this world; flying is a real sport. Just accept it 2010 me and move on with your life.)
Although to be fair; airplane flying does require much more arm strength than driving a race car with left turns. (Considering what happens later on with the airshow; it's much more difficult than it seems making Kit look like an idiot at the end, since he claims that the plane does all the work.) Kit gleefully blows him off for that one as Baloo shows Kit the poster as Kit addresses it as the Cape Suzette Championship Fly-Offs. Baloo rolls up the scroll, puts it in his pocket and proclaims that he is going to be the pilot of the year. And folks are shocked when I blew off Raoul's rant on cartoons months back?! (Okay; here's my editorial on Raoul: When Emotionalism Meets Insanity - The Cartoons We Watch . Here's a sample of my response to what he said: (All my responses are in bold and italics.)
The Disney Channel is in the
most shameful state of all. They have a legacy to live up to. They
have a heritage, which is something no other channel has. Back in the
early 90s, when I came to the States, The Disney Channel was way up
there on a pedestal in terms of programming quality.
Really?
Didn't anyone tell Raoul that once Walt Disney died; Disney as we
knew it was dead after Jungle Book? There wasn't much of a heritage
to save when it was already dead with Walt and Disney became a
corperation. Now; a lot of creators from Disney tried hard and
created some really excellent material for Disney don't get me wrong.
But the Walt Disney touch was truly gone. The Disney Channel was
hardly a tall pedestal in terms of quality. Quite frankly; Feature
wasn't much better either.
Now,
it’s 95% unwatchable garbage. They’ve got crappy
live-action shows geared solely toward filling programming slots and
selling merchandise and even crappier cartoons. Walt Disney is
probably turning over in his grave and scraping at the coffin with
his nails. It’s unbelievable how bad things have gotten.
There’s no point even describing any of the shows, because
they’re all putrid tripe. The animation is as cheap as the
cheapest manga/anime crap done in some Chinese or Korean sweatshop,
all of the dialog is either retarded or cliché, and it all
appeals to the lower possible common denominator. If they could
somehow combine unmovable cardboard cutouts with grunting extras
off-camera, and still make money, the Disney Channel would do it. Is
it any wonder then that the other children’s channels are
following suit and wallowing in the same filthy mire? The only show
that has anything old-school Disney in it is “The Little
Mermaid”, but even that’s been bastardized, and it’s
now made as cheaply as possible. One other show that’s sort of
worth mentioning is Kim Possible, only because the character
development is halfway decent and the drawing style is
interesting.
I love how he states that it's 95%
garbage; but doesn't have the guts to explain why it is garbage and
at this point; it's clear that he is fueled by sheer emotionalism
because he doesn't even name examples. I also love how he talks about
the animation being cheap as a sweatshop because the Little Mermaid
was created in 1994ish and it was done mostly by Walt Disney
Animation Japan which was an in house studio. You are just noticing
that it was bastardized now?! Why not earlier since we finally get to
the punch line of the entire post with this screamer of a
paragraph:
What
happened to shows like Duck Tales, or the Rescue Rangers, or Tale
Spin? What happened to the old cartoons with Mickey Mouse, Pluto,
Daffy Duck and the rest of the gang? Aren’t there any people
who still have good ideas at Disney’s TV subsidiary? There are
obviously very talented people at Pixar, where great movies still get
made. Can’t Disney recruit some more people like that? They’ve
obviously got the money, since they just spent $4 billion on Marvel.
Only a small fraction of that money would go a long way toward
turning around The Disney Channel.
Wow...just
wow. Watch your jaw drop to the floor on this one. It's clear to me
that Raoul has NEVER watched any of the shows that he praising.
Before I make the points; which old cartoons is he talking about: The
House of Mouse in 2000 or the old shorts? Now, it's funny that he
talked about all of these bad trends in other cartoons and yet
Ducktales, Rescue Rangers and TaleSpin all have these "bad"
trends even back then.
Let me start off with the cheap animation he keeps bad mouthing anime and Disney Channel: Do you know TaleSpin was created by Sun Woo Animation; Wang Films; Hanho-Heung Up, Jade and Tama. That's right Raoul; my favorite show of all time had much of it's animation done in Korea, China, Hong Kong and Japan. The places you consider crap and cheap. Same thing with Rescue Rangers; only add on A-1 Productions (Yuck!). Ducktales only had TMS which the first name is Tokyo so it's another "sweatshop" in Japan. The other studio is Wang Films. Now some of TaleSpin was done in France in house as well as in Japan. But none of it's animation was done in America which means according to your logic; you must denounce the very three shows YOU praised on THAT alone. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Kirk Tingblad says "hello." So, it's 99.9% outside of America. Whatever.)
But that is just for starters. You talk about the disgusting trend of kids saving the world. Did you ever watch Plunder and Lightning? The TaleSpin pilot in which Kit Cloudkicker takes on an entire terrorist group almost by himself to save his life. To make matters worse; unlike Ben 10 and Teen Titans; none of those characters used to be criminals or worse a former terrorist; which Kit Cloudkicker himself admitted to being when he admitted that he was a pirate. And the Air Pirates he worked for terrorized people by hijacking airplanes and trying to attack a city 9/11 style. Call me crazy; but if you believe in morality; then that swings the pedlum in Ben 10's favor doesn't it? Sure; Ben is a kid; but at least he not a former terrorist. Ducktales had Huey, Dewey and Louie (like Kit and sometimes Molly) being in danger (Kit and Molly in danger of falling to their deaths either) a lot. They have saved the world a time or two; sometimes by themselves. Sure; Kit, and the nephews had adults as main characters; but according to your logic, kids aren't ready to help save the world; so TaleSpin and Ducktales must be further denounced on that count. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: I'm certain there are a few "heels who turned face" in Ben 10 and Teen Titans since I don't watch enough DC comics and Ben 10 to care about it, but hypocrisy is an observation, not a refutation anyway. Except when Raoul scores at least a dozen own goals on itself.)
And about being famous? Baloo has been in TaleSpin trying to gain fame and fortune by being the greatest pilot in the world. He even went to TaleSpin's version of Hollywood for goodness sakes. Lost Horizons, A Star Is Torn, A Bad Reflection On You. I haven't seen all of Ducktales yet; but Scrooge tried to be popular simply by being the richest duck in the world. You might say that they earned it through talent. So what? You said being famous is wrong to teach to kids. Again; logic shows that you must denounce these two shows.
And ripoffs? Ducktales is straight from the Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge Comics. It's basically Carl Barks for the expanded audience; in fact a lot of comic book fans (Chris Barat not included) didn't like this decision. Rescue Rangers is a direct homage to Miami Vice and TaleSpin (oh boy!) is a parody of the Jungle Book, a spin off of Ducktales, a show that riped off nearly every aviation movie in the 1930's and screw ball comedies. Some say it's a rip off of Tales of The Golden Monkey. Others say it's a rip off of Porco Rosso (a famous Japanese animation film). God; how much rip offing did Jymn Magon and Mark Zaslove do for this show? (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Read my Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin reviews and see how much I made fun of the TaleSpin crew on Captured and The MAVO Costume Ball. Tons of fun!!)
And yet you PRAISE all of this after denouncing Skunk Fu, Bakugan among others for the same reason? Do you see how disgusting your arguments are and how absurd your argument have become? And the old cartoons aren't much better either. There is a lot of documented evidence from Disney fans on themes and content that is not according to the standards of Raoul. Now I have seem some of it (Sleeping Beauty's hell reference, racism, Donald Ducks unintentional F-bombs, Disney Feature deaths and much, much more.) and sadly; I don't have enough space to mention it in this post. The forbidden content isn't hard to find if you look carefully enough. Personally; I don't care because I am not Raoul. I care about only one value in cartoons: Entertainment. If it's not there; it will suck. The other values don't mean anything to me. If they work to entertain me; that's fine. If they don't; forget about it.
So, yeah; I gave him the proverbal "piss off" there and don't regret it for a second. I might revisit that editorial and write down some additional thoughts on what Raoul and I said.)
Anyhow, Kit smiles just as O'Bowens runs in from the path yelling for Baloo. He still has the idol by the way as he gives the idol to Baloo and orders him to return to Cape Suzette. O'Bowen also orders them to not look at the idol during a thunderstorm as the MIRACLE WORKERS CONNECTION gets confused to hell. (They basically say the same word at the same time.) O'Bowens proclaims that he is going to run interference from the Air Pirates and the babyfaces gets confused again; but bail stage right. We then cut to a meadow as Don, Mad Dog and Dumptruck (Dumptruck has the sword now which is odd. (Don Karnage's sword is fully brown on that shot.)) as they go stage right. Then we see O'Bowens in the background swinging like Tarzan of course. He lands in the bushes as the pirates turn on a dime and go stage left. We then see O'Bowen turn around the bend and make the obvious fatal error: turn stage right back towards the pirates. Which allows Dumptruck to capture him about three seconds later. Really awful sense of direction there dear sir. Dumptruck carries him over to Don Karnage as Don greets O'Bowens again. Don asks where the idol is and O'Bowens proclaims that the pirates don't scare him while stammering all the way. HAHA! Like anyone is buying that after you called yourself a wimp earlier. He won't talk because his courage is unshakable as Don simply points the sword right under O'Bowen's chin again which causes Toon Disney to unleash the censor scissors AGAIN! (This one is even worse because they cut out the sword pointing at the chin and then the split second Don Karnage points the sword away from the chin; the scene plays normally even though the audio of O'Bowens confessing is cut out as well. So basically; it played like Don Karnage did nothing at all. Toon Disney should have cut out the sword pointing and the rest of the scene competely so it looks like a tease that O'Bowens gave up. One of the big reasons why I like the show on DVD now. There is another edit left to address; but it's not from Toon Disney, nor is it a second run syndication edit. I'll explain why when we get to it.) Oh, of course O'Bowens chickens out as expected. HAHA! He is a bigger coward than Kit ever was. At least Kit took his torture like a man. POW! OUCH! Ummmmm...
We jump cut into the sky as the storm clouds are here and there is thunder rumbling. We see the SeaDuck flying as Baloo proclaiming that his wings of clipped and this is quite a storm here. We go to the cockpit as Baloo is using a patched up blue cloth, which he probably stole from Kit who is back to his regular pantless clothes. (Again; this is just going to make moral guardians say: "Why not wear the blue shorts? You're endorsing child nakedness which is one step towards child poronography, you perverts!") Baloo uses the cloth to wipe the windshield as Kit is holding the idol. So blame him for this episode happening. As usual. (Although it would be really O'Bowens for failing to explain why to not look at the idol in the first place. And another thing; shouldn't Baloo and Kit know about the idol before O'Bowens gave it to him? Because O'Bowens clearly never told them about the idol until he gave it to Baloo and Kit. Again; this is an example of comedy at the expense of taking ten seconds to explain that the professor was keeping the idol stuff under wraps until it was absolutely needed to be known, for security reasons. Of course; I'm not shocked since it's Ken Koonce and David Weimers writing and story editing their own stuff.) Kit wonders what will happen to them and Baloo states that nothing will happen of course as then the SeaDuck gets nailed by the thunderclap, there is crackling and a long sequence of Wii-colored lights. The idol rises into the air and the coloring in this sequence is amazing here. We go to the far shot and then the cockpit shot as we tease them switching bodies complete with sound effects; but the sequence stops and we hear Baloo saying that his wings are clipped again as his voice is in Kit's body. UH OH! Naturally; Kit's soul is in Baloo's body and he's flying the SeaDuck right now. Since all of you know my running joke for body switching episodes; I call Kit, Kaloo and Baloo, Bit. (So yeah; I basically take the first letter of each name (first and last) and switch it with the other character. I'm lame; what can I say?) They look at each other and are shocked and appalled of course. The look into Bit's eyes by Kaloo is pretty weird and it looks like the same animation team who did I Only Have Ice For You is doing this episode.
We then get a shot of the SeaDuck flying through the storm clouds and we do a 360 spot which the babyfaces do some MAN-SIZED bumping. Bit holds onto the stick and Kaloo helps him to the pilot's seat as they get the SeaDuck back to normal again. Bit doesn't like this one bit (BOO! HISS!); as Kaloo thinks that Professor O'Bowens might know and the bears realize that they must wait for him when they get back home. Kaloo then realizes that how are they going to explain this to Rebecca and Bit proclaims that they will say nothing...AND THE ROCK SAYS NOTHING~! Kaloo points out that Rebecca will know by the voices and Bit winks because there's nothing wrong with their voices and only Rebecca's ears see. (So yes; the babyfaces completely gave away their plan to foil Rebecca in advance. It's more subtle than most KK/DW hand holding, but still...) We head to the docks of Higher...For...Hire (at 5:40) and then we go into the office as Rebecca is happy to see the babyfaces get home safely. Rebecca is not impressed with them leaving the Professor high and dry like that as Bit puts his feet on the desk and Rebecca blows him off thinking it's Kit of course. (Even funnier; in the very next episode aired "Whistlestop Jackson, Legend", Kit has his feet on the desk and Rebecca doesn't scold him once for it. Huh.) Bit blows her off and Rebecca is appalled by Kit's behavior. HAHA! (I just love that Rebecca is only slightly annoyed when Baloo says that sexist line; but when Kit says it (in Rebecca's mind of course.) he gets chewed out for it. Shouldn't she say the same thing to Baloo as well?) Rebecca then wants to know how Kit sounds like Baloo. Ummm; Kit is a voice mimicker as shown in The Idol Rich. See; it's those little spots in certain episodes that build on another spots in other episodes that got this show over and it makes perfect sense. I'm not going to give a blow by blow detail since it involves Bit mouthing with no sound and Rebecca having no sense of hearing. (I don't know what Bit mouthed off with no sound, I'm guessing Baloo said "Something must be wrong with your hearing"; but it could have been something more offense. Like her breasts or something along those lines.)); since it's too funny to watch. Let's just say that the Cape Suzette Flyoffs and the Track & Field Championships have been moved to this afternoon and both bears are screwed.
Bit and Kaloo continue to play the unintentional mind games and make Rebecca even more frustrated at them then she needs to be (Funny how Rebecca can blow Baloo off; but not Kit. I guess she wants him to stay in character. The mind of a child spot was hilarious on SO MANY LEVELS by the way.). So, after about two minutes of mind games Rebecca runs out of the office claiming that she has a headache and needs some pain pills. HAHA! Absolutely awesome segment there. I can understand why some people think this episode is funny. Freaky Friday?! What's that?! Also; it's nice that aspirin is still legal as a drug here considering that the new Disney apparently disallowed a Hannah Montana episode to run because it featured someone having diabetes. Which is funny considering how many people accuse the new Disney of causing them diabetes with all the hyper cuteness. (Actually; the episode called "No Sugar, Sugar" was in fact banned outright because parents complained that it was in poor taste. Only in the USA though; international airings of the episode still went on as planned. It was then redone and reedited into a new episode called Uptight (Oliver's Alright). I can see why parents complained: It's because it put diabetes in a very poor light and contained massive inaccurate information. The title itself was awful since in real life; even type 1 diabetics can have sugar as long as they monitor their levels carefully. And unlike most diseases, I can speak from experience since I have type 2 diabetes. If the episode aired as is; I probably would have put it on the same MINUS FIVE STARS level as the iCarly episode: "imeet fred". If Hannah Montana was a cartoon in it's own world; I could forgive this since it's a ficitional world. However; since this takes place in the real world; you have to be a lot more careful so that you don't come off as a scoiopath writer. More so if you are marketing the show to children.) We go into the sky to the Iron Vulture (and train chugging sound) as we head inside the cabin as Don Karnage is using the telescope of doom. Mad Dog asks if he's sure he wants to go after the idol as we zoom out to see Dumptruck preparing the submarine (which has been fully repaired since It Came From Beneath the SeaDuck, I see).
Don tosses the telescope away as he calls the idol dangerous to those who would keep it away from him. He also pulls the top hat over Dumptrucks eyes and nearly slams him on his face while doing it. HAHA! He also walks all over Dumptruck for good measure as the Cape Suzette cannons will not hurt me if they cannot see him. See; he's so smart as he steps onto the submarine as he wants the submarine lowered. Sadly; he's not smart enough to unpop the top hat and Dumptruck pulls the lever (JESUS~!) as Don panics and blows him off for it. The submarine rides over the trapdoor and goes down and into a tailspin (BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) and slams into the water and drops onto the ocean floor with more fish than in school. Don pushes the red flashing button and the submarine refloats as Don proclaims that he'll hang them by their prinkes. Ah; that old standby punishment; works everytime. Good acting by Jim by the way. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Too bad his humanity still sucks though.) We head inside the babyface's bedroom as Bit is lying on the bed kicking his feet up. Kaloo is actually even more over than Baloo as he is leaving for the track tryouts with his towel in hand. Bit stops him since grownups aren't allowed. Bit then shows his hypocrisy by proclaiming that he's going to his Fly-Offs; which Kaloo proudly stops him. They are screwed as they finally admit that Kaloo should fly because flying is easy while Bit will take the track and field because he was number one in it. (Actually; he's not since he seems to confuse it with field and stream. Yeah; this is not going to end well for either one of them.) I think Kaloo is going to win this little switcheroo. Too bad; both will lose badly; the real question is who's going to suck more? Rebecca calls for Kaloo and that ends the segment almost nine minutes in. Funnier than I remembered so far. (My only complaint about the first half of this episode is that the mind games part of the segment made Rebecca look like a dork.)
After the commercial break; we head to the "Cape Suzette School Track & Field" tryouts as we see various furries trying out as we zoom into the coach (a brown bear furry in track gear) as Bit is in his blue shorts; white shirt gear as he is going against a blond bear in red shorts, white shirt named Teddy. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Rumors have it that Teddy Scarcutta aka Teddy TaleSpin is a homophobe of the worst kind. That's what Josefina told me at least.) Not Teddy Ruxpin since this Teddy is cocky as hell. (I should note; that the crowd shots are getting better with each passing episode; although the drawing of them is still wonky at this point.) So the first event is the hurdles as we go for the fastest time; but dock points for missed hurdles. I'm guessing we are going with the decalthon system here. Apparently; the coach is Teddy's father (Charlie Adler) because he nails Bit with the clipboard. Man; that is sick to watch. (No; he's not. I didn't get any indication that the coach/Teach was Teddy's dad. By the way; Sunwoo Animation seems to have Teddy in a darker shade of blond when Teddy appears in those episodes.) Bit sells it as the Track Coach is wondering about the voice. (Bit's response is that he is growing up; which he clearly is not since it's Baloo's voice after all.) Bit then does a clever trick by running around the hurdles. Which is fine except that (a) That's an automatic DQ which I have no problem with and (b) He's running in slow motion. That reduces the effect of the giggles there. (Even though Baloo is mentally in Kit's body; Kit's body should be fast enough to run the hurdles no problem.) Teddy of course beats him easily in that although they don't show it. Teddy just stands there and gives a wicked smile. That's just great; nice to see Bit getting Teddy over even if Teddy doesn't deserve it. Man; Bit is becoming a MIRACLE WORKER now. The track coach is upset and gets flustered. I should point out that Inspector Borrough and the pig lady are in attendance in the background. (Bit's response to the coach's yelling is that all he does best is jump to conclusions. Now that was funny.) We head to the Cape Suzette Championship Fly-Offs as we see a blue/white/red trim plane fly overhead with the crowd cheering and one of them is clearly looks like a sailor version of Gyro Gearloose. Also, I see twin versions of them in separate areas of the stands.
Do I smell Gyro's evil twin? I SMELL A FANFIC COMING! (I need to watch the crowd shots again because I didn't see anything resembling Gyro in the crowd shots.) We see the airplane with Wily Pole from A Bad Reflection On You riding the plane as the P.A. Announcer (Chuck McCann) address him as the wily flying daredevil. Even more laughable; Disney Captions addresses him as Wily Pole instead of Wily Paul. How about that?! (Disney Captions was really not good in this episode as they missed dialogue and they also had mistakes in dialogue as well. I was wrong, and I killed my own argument earlier in this episode. Dammit!) He waves as we get Kaloo addressed as Baloo, of course. (Pronounced Baluu for some reason.) Baloo waves with the pilot's cap and we go to a shot of the stands as Rebecca watches on worried. I see a Thembrian freedom fighter, a walrus, and several birds in the stands which appear half empty. This competition consists of an air blowing competition and a double loop-de-loop. (I think the announcer pronounced "blowing" as "bowing" for some strange reason.) Oh; and may the best pilot win as Wily flies around the balloon on a pole and then around the second one and then Wily does an easy Loop-De-Loop for only fifteen cents. We cut to the judges as it is mostly dogs in the stands. The judges (helpfully labelled in peach letters which is odd) as we have a mouse with a top hat, a badger with a top hat (blue) and a female with red curled hair and a blue bonnet who looks like a dog. The judge hold up the score cards and we have 9.9, 9.8 and a perfect 10 for a score of 28.7. (Which I mistranscribed as 38.7 in the transcript. Sorry about that.) So we cut back to Kaloo in the SeaDuck (and we get the Wang Films incomplete cockpit design to boot for logic break number one for the episode ten minutes in) as he thinks he can beat that score easily. In creativity; yeah, in performance; that flipping the cap backwards is so symbolic of what is to come. We head back to the track & field area as we see Teddy pole vaulting and Teddy clears the vault easily (by a good half-foot). The Track Coach is happy as he calls for Bit's turn.
Bit no sells even though he's clearly there. Logic break #2 for this episode. (Actually; this is kind of funny because in the first scene, the coach addressed him as Cloudkicker. Here, he called him "Kit" and Baloo is confused because he's used to being called Baloo by his first name. So Bit just stands there like an idiot and the coach yells at him. It's a nice attention to detail in an episode written by two guys who are short on details. Not Chargeman Ken-equse in that department, but still short.) Bit finally sells after talking about a using a ladder and after a screaming fit from the Track Coach. This isn't going to go well as Bit has the shaft -- both ways-- as Bit runs and plants the pole and actually gets a good spring; but his shorts get tangled up and he's hanging. HAHA! Now that was a funny spot and that creates less symapthy for Douglas Benson I might add. Track Coach is surprised and gives minus points for that spot. I disagree with him; that was a great spot. Too bad we're marking differently. At least Bit tried on that one. Teddy just stands there with the Gruffi pose smiling. (Thus being the greatest smugass ever. It's too bad this show never got past 65 episodes. Can you imagine the number of one shotters who never got speaking roles or roles in the show. Forget the ones that did like Professor O'Bowens. How about the pig lady we see in every crowd shot in this series? How could the writers not have anything for her? Even Fred got an appearance in A Touch of Glass and he's in many crowd shots. Heck; O'Bowens is even seen in crowd shots. This is absolutely baffling to me that this show had so many characters to work with that they didn't even bother to introduce them. Yes; I have more confidence in this show making stars than the Simpsons team could. Why do you ask?) Back to the Fly-offs and I know this they did separate scenes; but it is all at the same time so there it goes as Rebecca is cheering Kaloo on along with the crowd. The announcer addresses Baloo and Kaloo manages to fly around the bouys without incident. That makes Kaloo a thousand percent better than Bit in the "Try Not to Suck" category.
Kaloo then runs into trouble as he cannot steady the plane as Kaloo realizes that he is screwed stiff now. Kaloo is frightened as he does a nice slam into a Poster for a novel called "Look For A Way Out!" being painted by a fox furry as he ducks. HAHA! I think Kaloo and Bit should have read this novel and gets some ideas on how to get out of this. (Even funnier; is that the "For A Way" is in thin black letters; while the "Look and Out!" are in thick red letters. It's a double meaning: One for the book and the other is a giant sign saying "Look Out!" It's like Team 3D's music in TNA actually. Only the music lyrics are "Watch Out!") Rebecca is stunned and wonders how he could have messed up as this was his first time flying. You don't know the half of it Rebecca. The wolf furry doing the painting gets back up (WHAT?! How stupid can you be?!) as Kaloo does some barrel rolls and goes back into the bulletin board, smashing the top of it. Kaloo (who is wearing the pilot cap backwards which is a dead giveway) decides to end this with the double loop de loop for only 15 cents; however, he does about five of them and everyone is shocked! The SeaDuck destroys the left side of the bulletin board leaving the furry on it in a dangerous spot. The SeaDuck comes back and the furry panics throwing the can of red paint into Kaloo's face causing the SeaDuck to actually fly better. HAHA! Then Kit Cloudkicker makes history as he yells "Oh my God!" for real (In spite of Disney Captions trying to hide it with oh my gosh which would have been fine if I didn't see Disney Captions transcribe the Case of The Cola Cult. Nice try; but R.J. Williams clearly said "Oh my God!" in the audio clear as day since there is no -osh sound in God.) becoming the second person and first child character in DTVA history to ever take God's name in vain for real on a Disney product. (And I have found nothing to contradict that. Although Don Karnage (twice) and Baloo would later take God's name in vain. It's kind of silly now since Baloo said "It fucking worked!" and that's as high you can go in terms of profanity.) Now all he needs is to say die and he can add that along with kill and dead. (He does say "die" in War Of The Weirds twice. So Kit is truly hardcore, although him almost getting shot in the head pretty much convinced me of that honor. This Kit is not right in the head.)
Although Gosalyn used the word god; it was a god in terms of context and not God itself. (Saying god in that context is perfectly acceptable and has been done dozens of times in Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck. Heck; even Disney Captions has kept the "oh my god" references in the DVD sets for the most part; but they censored it when a child said it in the subtitles; which is grating because that means the hearing impaired wouldn't be able to hear what Kit actually said.) The SeaDuck then bounces in for a landing taking MAN-SIZED bumps in the process. Thankfully; Bit -- who probably got completely embarrassed in Track & Field against Teddy -- rides his bicycle into the stadium. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: The bigots win again. Of course!) How dare they put in such a patronizing moment?! That's supposed to in LazyTown. At least they admit that the show is all about kids turning off the television and playing outside. That's sarcasm of course. (It's the 1930's. The closest thing to couch potatoing in that era is the radio shows, which television is radio with moving pictures. It's not that much different.) The final score is -1.0 for Kaloo; although I would give him a 10.0 in effort and originalty. (No one cares about originality and most that do are too cowardly to do a product themselves since they don't think about the obvious consequences of such. This is a business and customers are needed. What if the customer (even one who cares about originality) looks at the "originality" and blows it off as hideous? It doesn't matter if it's original. It only matters if it is good. If you make something original and everyone loves it, GREAT! Don't look at the originality as the thing that saved you, look at the goodness of the product. Then you'll understand why making a good unoriginal product is better than a really poor original product any day of the week. Originality does not automatically equal good. Just like don't assume something to be automatically funny.) Kaloo gets out of the plane still with the bucket of paint on his head as Bit comes over asking about the victory and Rebecca gets the WRAITH OF BECKEY out on Kaloo and really you cannot blame her in spite of the valid excuses here.
Kaloo apologize and hopes he doesn't get grounded for it. (This show how dumb Rebecca is because this should have given away that something was wrong. I would have redubbed this to "Please don't hurt me.") Bit then admits that he failed to make the track team and the two bears argue for a few moments which is cute to watch as Rebecca gives them both the WRAITH OF BECKEY to shut them up. Pretty funny stuff; although this plotline is starting to wear thin. It needs spicing up. However; hearing a child say "Oh my God!" is markout city! (The reason I liked this arguing over the Goliath/Halycon yelling was that R.J. Williams can make any insufferable scene sound fun to watch. William's acting is off the charts here as usual. Plus; they did themselves in thinking that this was going to be easy in spite of being in different roles, and it was proven that they are unique furry beings and it's not easy if doable at all. Plus; Kit is a child and Baloo is a manchild so having them argue is funny where as Goliath and Halycon are arguing like children even though they are adults. So it comes off as a bunch of two old men crying over spilled milk that neither of them can control anymore. Again; as much as I don't like Ken Koonce and David Weimers; they did a much better job in this episode in terms of making two people yell at each other and make it funny than the writers of Gargoyles did. I also note that Baloo is not calling Kit Li'l Britches and calling him Big Britches which might be more insulting to Kit as we see later on.) Even funnier that Baloo outside of the unintentional F-bomb didn't do that at all. It's also nice to see Toon Disney not cut that out which is weird since they muted "Always" in the audio track in Plunder and Lightning Part Four and it's an easy fix. (Also; a great line from Baloo: After Rebecca tells them to shut up; she says that it's bad enough as it is without Kit and Baloo at each other's throats. Baloo responds that it's worst since they are in each other's throat. Of course!) So we head to Higher...For...Hire AFTER HAPPY HOUR (After dark) as we see the submarine nearing the docks and then it uses the periscope as it rides near the docks.
The porthole opens and out pops Don Karnage and then he practices the fine art of not being seen and then opens the window with the sword. The latch snaps on cue and we jump cut to see Don Karnage inside the office looking for the idol and it's clearly blue/green cartoon lighting in effect here. He looks around and likes the word idol as he checks the filing cabinet. We cut to a sky shot of the docks as the SeaDuck lands fine and Rebecca of course blows off Kaloo's landing skills. Okay; now she's being an asshole; as she orders Kaloo to tie the SeaDuck up and then leaves to go to the office to sulk or figure out what evil things to do to Kaloo when she gets back. (Yeah; she basically blew him off for landing even though the landing didn't cause any damage whatsoever. Then she proceeds to storm off and tell them to tie the SeaDuck up and basically said: "Surely you can handle that". Granted; I can understand Rebecca's pain because Baloo and Kit are not upfront about them switching souls; but in storyline, the reason why Baloo and Kit didn't tell her was because she wouldn't believe it. Even more so since their souls are switched and Rebecca could assume that Kit is mimicking Baloo's voice like he mimied Spigot's voice in The Idol Rich. It's little things like this that got this show the awesomeness that it should have deserved in hindsight. Even though this show was a total rushjob.) We see Professor O'Bowens arrive on a makeshift raft with green leaves as he is exhaling and blowing like crazy. Man; this is going to get interesting as Kaloo notices him and is glad that he's here as they run over and help O'Bowens up, who is panting. O'Bowens gets another kill reference since that last four hundred miles is a killer. Kaloo explains everything and O'Bowens is not pleased. O'Bowens explains that to change back; they need the idol and a strong bolt of lightning. Kaloo feels great that he doesn't have to be bald or fat anymore. Bit takes exception to that one. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Warning to Peppa Pig: If you fat shame your Daddy like Kit does here; remember what happened on July 19th, 2019: Kit is now old and he is now fat. That is canon now. No need for Molly nor Della to needle him for that one, the nature of his grizzly bear genes took their course. This will also happen to you, Peppa; and you'll be regretting it for the rest of your life.)
Back inside Higher...For...Hire as the idol is clearly in Baloo's bedroom on a table (That is a logic break since it was on Rebecca's desk the last time we saw it and wasn't in Baloo's room in the final scene of Act I either. It's things like this that showed how rushed this show was.) as Don Karnage enters it. Don is so happy that he calls himself the idol Rich. That's the second time an episode title has been directly referenced in this series that wasn't the actual episode. (Disney Captions claims that it's the idle rich; but Don Karnage meant it as a pun, so I went with "idol rich".) Don grabs the idol without incident as Rebecca walks up the stairs and notices Don Karnage coming out and they are shocked. They look at each other for a moment as Rebecca grabs the idol and they get into a really lame fight over it since Rebecca's idol shots to Don's head miss by a country mile. After A Star Is Torn; they would have thought to make those shots make contact or something. (Her idol shots were closer than 2010 me thought they were. Also of note; Rebecca is yelling and I think she says "Suck this!" at one point; which would be on the forbidden phrases list I do believe, along with "sod-off" and "screw".) Somehow, Don Karnage's sword tip gets stuck into the electrical socket (Believe it or not the British version for Disney Club UK cut this shot out. I should know; that's the version I ranted on previously. Neither sword pointing shot was cut from that version either. However; Toon Disney USA didn't cut this scene out which I view as even MORE dangerous and more mimeable. Like I said; double standards much? Don Karnage backed up like an idiot. I have more on this because TVTropes thinks that the finish is total fridge logic.) and the I TOSS seqeuence starts up again. (I am so keeping that as is.)
Although it appears shorter and Don's overdramatic selling is beautiful as always. Now Don Karnage is Debecca Kunningham while Rebecca Cunningham is Ron Carnage. So, we'll call Rebecca; Ron and Don; Debecca for short and easy to type. Debecca of course has the idol and bails down the steps as Ron orders her to stop or he'll call the police. We cut to a sky shot of the office door as Debecca slams the door open and runs with the idol into the submarine. Bit wonders where Debecca is going with the idol as Ron comes out yelling thief. Ron sobs badly about everything going against him. (Rebecca basically says that her ears and eyes have gone crazy on her and she cannot handle the pressure anymore.) Bit and Kaloo blitz Ron (!!!) and Ron gets squashed. Considering that it's Rebecca's voice in Don's soul; that's awfully disturbing as Bit is somehow the creamy middle of a bear sandwich. HAHA! Ron protests this outrage as Kaloo blows Ron off for faking the voice as O'Bowens gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY on this situation as Ron wants answers to this whole thing and that ends the segment fifteen and a half minutes in. Wow; I'm enjoying this a lot more than the first time, so far.
After the commercial break; we return to Higher...For...Hire office as Ron paces around and cannot believe that this is happening to her and everyone else minus O'Bowens. (Well; Baloo was right all along that Rebecca wouldn't have believe them anyway.) Ron taps the boot as O'Bowens chimes in that this whole mix up can be fixed if they get the idol from the Air Pirates -- which Disney Captions misses that little part --; as long as they get it back before sun up tomorrow because after that; the switch is forevermore and irreversiable. Ron is not amused by this as Bit proclaims that they need a lot of lightning to fix this mess, Kaloo walks outside and notices that there is not a cloud in the sky to make this thing work. Ron is not loving this one bit as she must spend the rest of her life as a terrorist...ERRR...I mean thief...ERRR...I mean pirate. Kaloo then gets the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and asks Bit about making a lightning storm and Bit realizes that there is a new idea called cloud seeding. Now, I should admit that cloud seeding is very real and it was discovered in 1946 (patented in 1975). So it's only about nine years off-base for this show overall. See; you dump salt into some clouds and you get an instant storm. This is the part which I don't buy one bit as plausible in spite of the reality of cloud seeding process being legit. (According to the Wikipedia entry for Cloud Seeding: The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Liquid propane, which expands into a gas, has also been used. This can produce ice crystals at higher temperatures than silver iodide. After promising research, the use of hygroscopic materials, such as table salt, is becoming more popular.[3] Cloud seeding to increase snowfall takes place when temperatures within the clouds are between 19 and −4 °F (−7 and −20 °C).[4] Introduction of a substance such as silver iodide, which has a crystalline structure similar to that of ice, will induce freezing nucleation. So using table salt is in fact plausible; so 2010 me should have done his research. Seeing the writers get this right (although the history is off by ten years or so.) is really amazing in hindsight. Sure; there is a lot of hyperbole used to make the storyline work; but it's believable on a basic level.)
(2020 Gregory Weagle Says: The other thing I want to address is from TVTropes. Someone claimed that this whole thing is Fridge Logic or a logic break because: When clearly, just a few seconds before, we are shown that the idol's power could be triggered by a mere wall socket, which is how Rebecca and Karnage are switched. Karnage's tail gets stuck in a wall socket while they both held the idol and were looking at it, yet nobody seems to notice this fact. Okay; first of all; it was Don Karnage's sword tip that hit the socket. Second of all; Don and Rebecca were in a fight and didn't even see the socket. Third; even if you can deduce this, they STILL HAVE TO GET THE IDOL BACK~! And the idol is at the Iron Vulture right on or in transit. Finally; by the time they get to the Iron Vulture, they only had one minute left and the idol came close to almost free falling into the ocean. Here's a clue TV Tropes: It can only be Fridge Logic/logic break if anyone SAW the eletrical socket and they still had the idol in the office, plus if Rebecca and Don Karnage actually KNEW about the powers of the idol. They didn't. Only O'Bowens knew about it. Plus; none of the characters knew electricy from a pocket socket could do the job before this and they assumed it was lightning. Get over yourselves. It's not a plot hole!) Anyhow; we go to the scene changer as we see the Iron Vulture just outside of the Cliff Gun pulling up the submarine with a rope pulley into the Iron Vulture landing strip. (Okay; here's where the writers make their first major mistake: The Iron Vulture being in front of the entrance of the Cliff Guns. Bad idea! Worse; none of the cannons are firing, so it makes the Cliff Guns personnel look stupid. You couldn't do it further away from those nasty cannons. That was really stupid.) There are some Wii lights inside the submarine for some odd reason as we see Dumptruck near the lever (JESUS~!) as the submarine is placed above the trapdoor and the porthole opens to reveal Debecca with the idol as he wants the pirates to fest their eyes on it. Dumptruck and Mad Dog get all perverted and Dumptruck gets his perverted paws on Debecca and call her girly. And you thought Baloo and Louie were sexist buffaloes?! (They are.)
Debecca bonks Dumptruck on the head and orders the pirates to slap themselves. HAHA! Debecca blows them off while invoking the POINTY FINGER OF DEATH as we go to a jump cut of the SeaDuck leaving Cape Suzette. We are WELL AFTER HAPPY HOUR (sunrise) as Kaloo helpfully points it out to us. We cut to the cockpit as Bit is piloting the plane (HUBBA BUBBA! (At least you were being gender netural unlike Dumptruck who acted the same way on Rebecca in this scene.)) as O'Bowens reveals that they have ten minutes at the most now. We then see the Iron Vulture flying around the area. Logic break number four: Why haven't the Cliff Guns fired once already? (Already addressed the logic break earlier, 2010 me.) Kaloo gets the transmitter of doom as Kaloo calls on someone (It's Mad Dog on the transmitter; the one who tickle tortured Kit's groin in Polly Wants A Treasure.) as we see Dumptruck sailing the Iron Vulture and Mad Dog is apparently the Captain as Debecca is tied up on the ground. Mad Dog takes the transmitter and admits that he's grown attached to her. HOLY CRAP! It may not be rape; but it is sexual assault which is close enough. (That would be true if they actually raped her; which they didn't. They basically tied her up. Now; they might rape her as BalooDumptruck claimed they would off-screen, but they have to deal with the SeaDuck now anyway.) Mad Dog cuts the transmitter as Debecca hops over to Dumptruck -- still tied up of course with white rope across the ankles -- and blows them off because he's a man see. Of course, you are Debecca as Dumptruck blows her off and calls her a skirt. Ooooooo...That's the PG version of the word bitch by the way. (I concur 2010 me.) Dumptruck grabs Debecca and slams her ass down on the floor. Not hard; but still. Mad Dog grabs the idol as he goes outside and demands for the Air Pirates to shoot the SeaDuck down almost wanting Don Karnage to be shot down. I see that they are foreshadowing the turn on Don Karnage in Stuck On You already. (Don't worry; Don Karnage isn't going to exactly forgive Mad Dog for this misunderstanding.) The Iron Vulture opens its mouth as four CT-37's start shooting at the SeaDuck. Kaloo proclaims that there are fighters at twelve o'clock.
Bit starts working his magic as a pilot; and while using his feet on the back of the chair we see that the flight manual from I Only Have Ice For You is back. HA! (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: See, there are uses for that thing that don't involve learning how to fly...) We go into the dive as O'Bowens and Ron panic and slip on the cockpit floor. The SeaDuck tries to dodge; but there's no cover present and they cannot fight all the planes off. Kaloo notices a small black cloud on the horizon which prompts Ron to blow it off right away since it's a cream puff. (Actually; she claims that her makeup case has bigger powder puffs than that. Problem is, Disney Captions removed the "in my makeup case" part. Why? I don't know.) Bit states that this is all they have and Kaloo runs to the back to prepare for the SALT BOMB OF DOOM. No really; that's what it's called (I added the OF DOOM part.) Bit tells Kaloo to throw the salt bomb; but only a little pinch because that will go a long away. A pinch is apparently a small box in this world since that is what's is thrown by Kaloo. (I'm certain that you need a lot more than that for real life cloud seeding so that's perfectly fine.) However; the Air Pirates get into the grill of the SeaDuck causing Ron to panic and grab the stick. (Sigh Rebecca. This has not been your day, character wise.) The Seaduck starts shaking as it goes right through the CT-37's. Kaloo is thrown onto the door in a decent bump as the rest of the salt goes right into the cloud which creates the most dangerous thunderstorm of all of furrykind. Great spot ensues as one CT-37 is fried and falls into the ocean. Bit shoves Ron away (so much for male on female violence) as Kaloo is thrown back into the SeaDuck taking some good bumps in the process. Bit complains to Kaloo and Kaloo proudly blows that off for me. (Basically; Kit says that he couldn't help it because the SeaDuck became a salt shaker. Also; Kit not blaming anyone makes sense since he never saw Rebecca grab the flight stick from Baloo like a panicky moron.) We get some more flying as the SeaDuck is struggling in the chase with the struggling CT-37's. The wind is so intense that it is HURRICANE FORCED says Mad Dog as we cut back to the Iron Vulture. What's up with the snowstorm inside?! (This is like Chargeman Ken episode #5; only it's done once in TaleSpin; while done three or four times in that Chargeman Ken episode. Chargeman Ken is five minutes long per episode, while TaleSpin is 22 minutes long per episode.)
The SeaDuck struggles in the wind which is worse than Mommy for A Day as all Bit needs is the idol and he's ready to go for the kill as he flies towards the Iron Vulture's mouth. Ron wants them to stop because they'll never make it and Bit gleefully asks her about wearing boxer shorts for the rest of her life. (Wait; so Rebecca actually wears panties? I find that hard to believe. I would have redubbed this line to "You want to be wanted be a cop's bane for the rest of your life?" because that one would make more sense since Rebecca is in Don Karnage's body.) The SeaDuck manages to get into the Iron Vulture and lands perfectly causing Mad Dog and Dumptruck to scatter. (Eh, not exactly. The SeaDuck destroyed both CT-37's of Mad Dog and Dumptruck by the way. Strangely; those CT-37's didn't get thrown out in the final major spot of the episode.) Everyone gets out and Mad Dog and Dumptruck suck up to Ron as Ron notices Debecca hopping towards them. Debecca and Ron have a pretty surreal moment to themselves as Ron unties Debecca. Ron demands the idol and Mad Dog finally sells just to hide the fact that they committed munity on Don. O'Bowens states there's one minute to go (at 20:11! (He was off by about four minutes give or take; but they still wouldn't have been able to get back to Cape Suzette in five minutes anyway. Again; there is no plot hole. Get over it TV Tropers of the world.)) as a lightning bolt strikes the Iron Vulture causing the idol to fly out of Ron's hands and it goes towards the edge of the Iron Vulture. UH OH! Everyone runs to the idol and Debecca manages to grab the idol just in time for the lightning bolt to strike it. The I TOSS changing bodies sequence begins again as Dumptruck and Mad Dog are involved in it this time. UH OH #2! That's just cool as everyone is returned to their original bodies and thus the running jokes all end. (Not quite 2010 me!) Rebecca drops the idol , it finally falls into the ocean and hopefully; that's the last time for that running joke. Ironically; O'Bowens gets hit; but since he's the odd man out, the idol doesn't work on him since he keeps his soul. (This is really stupid since O'Bowens was clearly looking at the idol during the entire sequence. You couldn't show him turning around to look in the opposite direction. Bad logic break there guys.)
Everyone's happy as we get animation mistake #1 as Kit's mouth is screwed up when he can see his feet. (I think R.J. Williams was originally supposed just say "wow!" when he looked at his feet. Why did they add dialogue that doesn't match the mouth flaps here is surprising. Even Citizen Khan with Clementine had better mouth flap syncing than this promo.) Don proclaims that he can see his beautiful bod. I'm guessing that this is a first run syndie since BS&P I think changed it to booties later on. I'll have to check. (I think the people who claim this thought the animation was different and he pinched his ass instead of checking his boots, but the booties line might have been an ass joke and it was changed to beautiful bod instead. This is an awfully confusing situation and hopefully, Tim Val Hal has a story on this.) Don also kisses his hands for good measure. However; the lightning storm is so intense that the Iron Vulture is an instant lightning rod. Several propellers are disabled as a result and the Iron Vulture tilts towards the ground causing the SeaDuck to slide down. Baloo panics and he, Kit, Rebecca and O'Bowens runs and get into the SeaDuck through the side door (Baloo's jump looks a wee bit contrived if you ask me.) as it slides right off the Iron Vulture along with some CT-37's and some garbage. How convenient of this to happen, huh? (I think there was a jump cut of Baloo jumping on the wrong side in that sequence. Anyhow; there were two instances where O'Bowens was never seen: Once in the SeaDuck in one sequence and once here in this sequence, even though they both reappear later on.) The SeaDuck takes a nosedive tailspin (BWHAHAHAHAHA!) as Baloo takes the controls in his pilot's seat and does a perfect hyperbole to get the SeaDuck up as the skies finally clear in a symbolic moment.
O'Bowens is really upset because he spent all those years trying to find the idol; but everyone else is glad that it's over with Rebecca feeling the most relieved. Well good for her; at least she can no longer defile the wonderful Don Karnage anymore. (She won't have to worry about being a terrorist either. I just love how she blew off Kit claiming that at least they didn't get stuck being in a pirate. Despite the fact that in storyline; Kit Cloudkicker was an Air Pirate for one full year. So even she wants to forget that Kit's a former pirate too. Must have got it as a side effect from being in Don Karnage's body in this episode.) Back inside the Iron Vulture; Don Karnage decides to take out his frustrations on the minions for their munity. However; problems ensue as the idiots blame each other and Mad Dog's soul is in Dumptruck's body while Dumptruck's soul is in Mad Dog's body. UH OH indeed! Although despite their intellegence; it's not a big difference anyway. MumpTruck & Dad Tog cry as the Iron Vulture sails away in disarry to a nice sunrise to end the episode at 21:14. Wow; I liked this episode the second time around in spite of the contrived cloud seeding trick. It is pretty funny to watch and I recommend this over Freaky Friday any day of the week. (I'm lowering this to **** (80%) for several really annoying logic breaks at the end of this; but I did enjoy this episode almost as much as I did the second time around. Personally; I felt Kit was too much of a jerk in this, but he sounded really awesome when he was a jerk; so it wasn't insufferable and I could live with it.)
THE REVIEW LINE
Wow; this episode was a lot funnier than I thought it was despite the five logic breaks and a few minor animation mistakes. (More like three logic breaks.) There were several execution problems that dragged down this episode with the hurdles scene where Baloo (in Kit's body) was running in slow motion; and thus reduced the effectiveness of the clever scene. However; the body switching was at least not as creepy as A Fly In The Ointment until Don and Rebecca got involved and then it got uber creepy. (I disagree. I think it got creepy due to Mad Dog and Dumptruck kidnapping Don in Rebecca's body that got the creepy factor in. At least Don Karnage also wears pants.) Despite that; it does prove that Mad Dog and Dumptruck are not gay. Bi-sexual maybe; but not gay. Plus; I got to hear Kit say "Oh My God"; something I thought I would never hear in a Disney product; let alone DTVA until I realized that Case of The Cola Cult did the same thing last year in spite of being a minor one shotter at best. O'Bowens was all right despite being an obvious wimp and I'm surprised they got away with the sword in the power socket spot and even a few almost PG-13 sexist remarks by Dumptruck and Mad Dog. I still disagree with BalooDumptruck that they were going to rape Rebecca; although they probably would have roughed her up quite a bit. (Actually; I could believe BalooDumptruck's assertions a lot more now than I did in 2010.) I also was a bit surprised at Kit acting like a child here; although understandable given the problems he was having in Baloo's body. (One final note on this: Kit said near the end of Act II that he didn't want to be old, fat and tired. I can understand fat and tired; but being old annoyed me because it sounded like every kid excuse you ever heard about adults. It's a tired excuse that makes the kid look stupider than a box of hammers.) Overall; Freaky Friday has nothing on this episode and I enjoyed it and thus regains the thumbs up status it lost from A Spy In The Ointment. I should also point out that this was officially Alan Burnett's last episode in DTVA before he left for Warner Brothers. (And for 2016 ranting purposes; this is Don Karnage's last episode.) I believe that his departure might have something to do with how much butchery was done to Plunder and Lightning in the two and a half months after the debut on the Disney Channel. Still would love to hear Alan's side of the story on this though. Anyhow; next up is Whistlestop Jackson, Legend which I also liked; but for different reasons. (I already transcribed this episode and ranted on it; so the next weekend is Canada Day weekend; so I'm doing Vowel Play and All's Whale That Ends Whale transcripts back to back. I'm finally going to finish up the Volume one DVD sets.) So...
Thumbs up for this episode and I'll see you next time.
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