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Louie's Last Stand Re-Rant

Reviewed: 01/16/2011
Additional Commentary: 11/17/2021

NASTY DOUGIE~!

Original Airdate: 01/31/1991 (Syndication), Episode #50 (TaleSpin DVD Volume 2, Disc 3), Episode #43 (Production Order).

Louie's Last Stand Notes
Louie's Last Stand Transcript

We continue on with a more Louie focused episode as this is probably Chuck Tately best written episode ever in my view. It not only contains an epic battle between Louie and Shere Khan with relevant issues of eminent domain; it also showed a vicious side of Kit Cloudkicker that almost tops Plunder and Lightning Part Three in some aspects. (2015 Gregory Weagle Says: Remember when "Buddy Shows" like Breadwinners were just an angle on a show like TaleSpin instead of being the main event? Geez; it makes it like cartoons have regressed since 1990. Of course; cartoons in general have progressed in some ways and regressed in other ways. Such is the cycle of life. I almost typed "suck" for a minute there. Anyhow; we should have seen the vicious side of Kit coming a mile away since he's a former Air Pirate, however; the eminent domain issue still is relevent today, only instead of just corporations doing this, it's now law enforcement, and it sucks badly. So here's the plot for this episode: Louie is celebrating five years that his bar has been in business, and a insecure tabby cat named Douglas Benson has been looking for investments from Mr. Khan after he got served for glow in the dark sunglasses. He sees Louie's and offers to buy him out. Louie refuses and everyone laughs at Douglas which turns Douglas into NASTY DOUGIE~ as he forges Khan's signature on stationary to get the Elite Force of Khan's to obey him and get Louie off the island because he discovered that Louie's permit on the island is a squatter's permit. More on that as we go along. Only TaleSpin could make this story believable while at the same house make it look goofy. And believe it or not; Douglas is actually an innovator in cartoons. How so?) How does this episode do now? Let's rant on shall we...?!

This episode is written by Chuck Tately. The story is edited by Jymn Magon. The animation is done by Sunwoo Animation.

We begin this one in Shere Khan's boardroom as we zoom down to Shere Khan's throne (with control panel) as he turns the chair around and asks Walters to speak. We then see various execs in suits starting with a grey panther with a weird hairstyle as he is investing his twenty thousand dollar budget in petroleum because it's a growth industry due to planes and automobiles. Walters is voiced by Phil Crowley who TaleSpin is not only his DTVA debut and only appearance; this is his acting debut. How about that? Anyhow; we pan southwest to a tiger female in a red suit and then a brown cat in a brown suit and red tie looking smug while shuffling his papers. Mr. Khan is impressed and so he asks Harmond (the female tiger) what she will invest and Harmond stands up and states that she is in electronics which are telephones, radios, phonographs, the wave of the future. Harmond is voiced by B.J. Ward. The cat yawns as Khan is certain of that future and so next up is Douglas Benson. Benson is voiced by Mark L. Taylor. Douglas is going to invest his money in glow in the dark sunglasses. Khan is somewhat amused as he asks when he finds the glasses; that he wears them during the power failure and everyone laughs at him as Benson's investment gets laughed out of the building. Douglas blows them off and Khan tells Benson to think harder as one of his suits gives him a clipboard with official papers and Shere Khan is shown signing his name on it. This becomes important later on actually as Shere Khan leaves. (Douglas Benson is one of those characters in which was so great that live action shows actually stole from a cartoon, but don't want to admit it. Kevin Johnston has noted that Micheal Weiner stole the idea of Pete Campbell of Mad Men fame; from this show and Douglas more to the point. As shown; Douglas is an insecure little gimp who is so overzealous that it's funny.) Douglas sulks as Walters consoles him and Douglas is called Dougie and Douglas blows him off for the pet name. Walters states that he needs a break and needs someplace to go for some fun. So that logically leads to that island on the south sea's Louie's AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as we see a plane roar into view which is a segue to Louie appearing as a scene changer as we see Louie playing on stage with the Monkey Band of Doom. (That would be the Bander-Log by the way.)

Baloo is snapping his fingers and dancing in front of the stage and one of the monkey waiters is doing the Tarzan spot as he delivers some root beer floats to some patrons who are laughing. I see some unusual guys in this one as we pan west to the back as Walters is enjoying a float at the island bar while Douglas is sulking beside him. (The crowd shots make it look like a good hundred people are attending this, instead of the usual ten you see in various crowd shots. Also most of the shots are animated well.) Walters asks him if this is a great place or what; but Douglas is still going on about impressing Mr. Khan. In an amazing shock; Kitten Kaboodle walks into frame as this must be the episode of cameos. (Wow, that makes Rebecca Cunningham look like a wuss if Kitten can handle Louie's crudeness in general.) Louie does his singing while using his feet to conduct the band as Baloo and Louie dance around back to back and then bump their asses together to stop the music. Everyone pops for that one as we pan west to see Walters clapping while Douglas picks on his mango wondering about a hot investment for a product. Then we see Baloo and Louie slap skin on the stage and then Baloo winks as Kit gives the thumbs up backstage. Baloo then yells at Montegomy to hit the tune on the piano as Louie is surprised to see a "We Love You, Louie" sign and red balloons and paper bits come raining down. (Of note, Montegomy the piano player is wearing Dale's shirt from Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers.) We then see Kit run in wheeling a tray with the dreaded BIRTHDAY CAKE OF DOOM with five lit candles on it. I betcha Kit used matches and lit the candles too; all off-screen of course. (Of course he did; you cannot have an adult light the candles ten minutes in advance -- even though it would be the safest to not have a child light the candles -- when all the adults are on stage, because then the candles' light would flicker out.) Louie asks what the cake is for and Baloo proclaims that it's the fifth birthday for Louie's nightclub. Everyone pops and I see Broadcast Sally, the pilot from From Here To Machinery and even a guy with a big ass ice cream cone who looks like Baloo's twin brother with a mustache. (There are two characters that look like Baloo in the crowd.)

Baloo gets a pitcher of fruit juice into his pineapple cup as Baloo talks about downing the first one five years ago. I see the BS&P is in full force here (I guess they got fed up with the complaints of this being a bar as it's now called a club, when it was called a bar in The Idol Rich. This aired after Bringing Down Babyface as well; which also had alcohol bottles in clear view in the background.) as Louie ribs Baloo for not paying for that one either. They all laugh and you can tell R.J. Williams' voice is breaking at this point because they didn't bother to dub in R.J. Williams laugh when Kit is laughing with them. (Although Kit does laugh later for real near the end of this episode; but still, it proves that R.J.'s vocal chords were on the wane.) Louie tries to blow out the candles but one of them stays lit; so Louie stuffs the lit candle into the cake to put it out. HAHA! (That is a first, it took a candle to smear the birthday cake, but otherwise not destroy it. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: This gag was revived for Donald Duck's birthday when they were introducing him for Ducktales 2017, only the candle is so dangerous that it burned Donald Duck when he tried to pull Louie's smear trick.)) We laugh like crazy as we return to Douglas sulking with an umbrella wondering what hot business he needs to take over. We then cut to the audience as Baloo, Louie, Kit and one of the waiters walks in as Louie talks about leaving Cape Suzette and went to the deserted hunk of rock. Or as we call it; stealing William Stansbury's sunken ship. (At least three furries in the crowd are hanging from the rafters literally. Oh, and Buffy's back too.) The pig furry that appears in almost every cameo apperance is back, along with the rhino in the black hat (Fred), the dog reporter and even Harmond decided to join us. How about that? (And we will never see her again in this show. They have dozens of characters in the crowd shots and even though some of them have personalities that were shown for only thirty seconds, either they only appeared in crowd shots or never got used even for a speaking role. The female pig lady is a big example of the later. If this show had a hundred episodes, we would probably get them into such roles; but it would have been difficult in an environment where Baloo is the star and being milked for all it's worth. Not to mention that TaleSpin was merely a fourth cog in the Disney Afternoon wheel made possible because they needed time for Darkwing Duck's development and because B-Players was too much Tiny Toon Adventures for the execs to accept.)

Louie was told that this business would fail; but the flyboys stuck with him like a bad habit as he slaps skin with the cat monkey in a bomber jacket with goggles. Louie jumps over the island bar and proclaims that he really loves their MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH. He laughs back which really doesn't sound all that funny today methinks. (So Ronnie P. Gossett IVof you Louie.) He then opens the cash register and out comes the dollar bills right in front of Douglas as Douglas has his Krackpotkin plan in motion as he'll invest on this property. Douglas calls for Ape; and Louie blows him off as a three piece and takes the cash away. (Well; Louie is an orangutan, not an ape; so I can see why Louie was insulted. At least get the spieces right, Douglas. In science terms, an orangutan is a pongo.) Douglas recoils and wants to buy Louie's and offers him five thousand dollars as Louie has a floor safe which he breaks the combination with his feet. Oh, there is a bear trap which Louie dodges. I see Baloo has found that safe already. (A floor safe with a bear trap; how drole. No wonder Baloo doesn't pay his tab.) Louie then mocks Douglas by calling him a little wheeze who wants to buy his place for five G's. (Well; Douglas is a little wheeze who doesn't know the difference between an ape and an orangutan, so it's just returning the favor.) Douglas asks for a deal, Louie makes some juice from the blender and I quote:

Louie: K-N-O-W. No.

Everyone laughs, including Kit despite R.J. Williams' laugh not appearing in the audio at all. (Again, this is what happens when you decided to bring in a child actor to do a child character role. Vocal chord maintance is much more important in a child than an adult, you know.) Douglas raises to nine and ten and Louie calls out a big fat hen. HAHA! I'm amazed that Sunwoo could animate so many new character designs for this episode. (Don't worry; there will be lots of minutes left to screw up this episode, let me tell you.) Douglas is not thrilled and wants twenty thousand dollars and that's HIS FINAL OFFER! (Who wants to be a millionaire? Douglas sure does, but I'm not sure about Louie. At least whatever Louie's dreams are, they are sadly more believable than Douglas.) Louie offers his final answer as he rings up the cash register and it reads "no sale" as Louie had a pleasure of not doing business with him as everyone laughs, Douglas yells at them to stop laughing, bangs his fist on the island counter, the sundae flips up and nails him right on top of the head. Yeah; Douglas, you expect respect for these patrons? They laughed at Molly for goodness sakes! (See Jolly Molly Christmas for that moment.) Douglas punch drunks himself out as he proclaims that the ape made a fool out of him. Walters giggles on that proclaiming that Douglas beat him to the punch. That is just cold Walters and you can see the sad babyface turning heel now. (Yeah; this is so role modelish behavior from the patrons, huh. Although Douglas' behavior was not much better because he insulted Louie as an ape. Plus, it was clear that Louie wasn't going to sell and thinks Douglas is nothing but a laughable suit, which is in fact true. Still; even though Douglas deserves to be told to get lost, even good deeds are not above consequences and Douglas knows how to make negative consequences look bad.) Anyhow; we head to Khan's libaray (which is a building off-site of Khan's Tower) as we head inside to the legal filing area with tons of filing cabinets (I'm guessing this is the place where deeds are stored.). A female blond bear with red hair and a pink bowtie; white dress and pink skirt is on a ladder looking inside a filing cabient as she explains to Douglas (B.J. Ward) that Louie has a squatter's deed. It means that it renews itself every year as long as Louie remains on the island property.

She gives a blue file folder to Douglas as Douglas asks if he leaves tomorrow night. The records clerk states that if there is a building on the island; Douglas could get the deed as Douglas ribs the filing cabinet and the filing shelf drops on his head with a MAN-SIZED bump. OUCH! The girl giggles on cue and Douglas blows her off for laughing. (So, here's the stipulations for Louie to lost the deed: Louie must be off the island property at midnight, but Douglas must build a building on the property in order to make it official. This explains the horrible outhouse like building that was built by Khan's airforce later on. Also, the records clerk made a cameo in Baloo Thunder and was never seen again.) We head inside Khan's upper office as we see Khan looking for books on his top floor bookshelves dressed in his night gown. Yeah; he even SLEEPS in his office too. Yeah; that vampire crack sounds rather accurate to me. (That was from A Bad Reflection On You. Khan is really overprotective of this tower methinks.) Khan goes into the next room for the night with the book as we pan south to the elevator dinging and in comes Douglas Benson practicing the fine art of not being seen. He fails because he calls for Mr. Khan. Luckly for him; Mr. Khan doesn't sell so Douglas sneaks over to Mr. Khan's desk and sits in his chair. (Khan of course has trouble hearing the obvious elevator doorbell. Or does that fall in the same category as Klang's hearing as a snake?) He opens his desk, finds Khan's stationary, he writes with pen to do whatever Mr. Benson asks, then he looks at the other desk shelf, opens it to find the clipboard that Mr. Khan signed earlier, puts it under the sheet and traces the signature on the paper. Now that is heelish as we see the door and out comes Mr. Khan as Douglas hides under the desk. (I honestly have never seen Mad Men, but if Kevin's correct; I don't need to see the show to know what Pete Campbell is like.) Mr. Khan casually takes a black book from the bookshelf and walks back into the lit room. Probably his reading room; knowing Mr. Khan. Douglas panics; runs out and slides through into the elevator and it closes as we fade to black for Michael Eisner to do what he normally does in these situations. (Why they needed a fade to black here is a mystery to me because there was no need to do one since there was no commercial break going on.)

We head back to Louie's as Baloo and Kit watch Louie opening presents and being amazed how many friends he has. Louie opens one of the presents and plays with a wooden mask. Kit wants to be excused (Finally, he talks nearly seven minutes in...) and pulls on Baloo as Baloo walks away stage right telling Louie not to allow the party to die for death reference number one for the episode. We see Douglas with papers looking smug as ever as Louie sees him and in roundabout terms apologizes for the mockery he had with him last night. Douglas states that he doesn't want to buy his island anymore and Louie calls it just fine. (Here's a clue: When some overzealous person who wants to buy your building has decided to not to buy your building anymore, that person is going to ruin your life.) Douglas then gets all nasty because he's going to take the island as Louie thinks that he won't give up. Douglas tells him that if he leaves at midnight; Louie loses the deed/lease as he rips some papers in two. Louie agrees with him; but Douglas will NEVER make him leave see. Douglas proclaims that his friends will as Louie chuckles about being thrown out by a little sprout and the patrons laugh (Ace, and the usual patrons from last night). Nasty Dougie invokes Shere Khan and his paper of power as the patrons notice it and they run away stage left like scalded dogs. Douglas does a wimpy whirlwind spot (good because this one was realistic) as he proclaims that his elite force will be here at high noon and the monkey waiter weasel their way out with excuses including one of them sounding like Yogi Bear. How about that?! Louie has the serving tray as the Thembrian patron leaves and so does Teddy from A Baloo Switcheroo. (In an amazing turn of events, this was the episode where Teddy spoke even though he was shown as Kit's rival in A Baloo Switcheroo, where the coach did the talking and Teddy said nothing.) Douglas shows this as evidence that no one's stupid enough to risk the wrath of Khan. I think Miss Cunningham might have something to say about it. I can see it now: The WRATH OF KHAN Vs. The WRATH OF BECKEY. A main event anywhere in the Disney universe. TUNE INTO SOFT COPY TO FIND OUT WHO BECOMES THE WRAITH OF X~!

Anyhow; Baloo and Kit come in with the golden juicer as Baloo wants to know what happened to the party. Louie proclaims that everyone left on the account that Khan's plane are arriving to take over Louie's. Baloo and Kit agree to help Louie and Kit slaps skin with Louie. Careful Kit; you don't know where that foot has been. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! PUNT! OUCH! Ummmmm... The MIRACLE WORKERS CONNECTION huddle together for a plan and Douglas tells them to give up. We get logic break number one for the episode as Douglas tries the golden juicer and it sprays juice in his face. Okay; that one was funny; but the juicer is the wrong color. Also, good luck getting them to give up. All three of them are crazy as Louie talks about building up defenses and Douglas tells them to make tracks as he sits in the conveniently placed emergency rowboat and he laughs badly at Louie. Louie proclaims that someone is leaving as he pulls the conveniently placed lever (JESUS~!), the boat slips down; gets bounced out of the conveniently placed trapdoor, skips about 6 times; takes a MAN-SIZED bump into the rocks, flips into the air, allows the bird to take her eggs away complete with Hanna Barbara looping and running sound effects and the boat takes a MAN-SIZED bump onto the top of the rocks with zero damage whatsoever. SOMEONE FIRE THAT BOAT~! I hope you got all that too. Douglas is all right of course. (Somehow he's dry in this scene, but when he gets back, he's dripping water. Typical Sunwoo Animation mistake as usual.) We head back inside Louie's as Kit wonders why Khan wants him out of business and Baloo calls Khan ruthless. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Louie calls Douglas "Ugly Dougly" as Dougie is right about his deed. If his goons throw him off the island and Louie is off the island at midnight; Louie loses Louie's for good on the far shot. Here's one problem: Once the deed is renewed: How long before these rules of throwing him off the island go into effect again? 24 hours before the renewal? 48 hours before? When?! This is the one minor thing that always bugged me about this episode. (Actually; it's simple. The rules go into effect again the second the deed is renewed. Only you have to wait another year before trying to throw Louie off the island and getting the deed outright. Assuming Louie doesn't change the deed to give himself more security.)

Louie gets onto the table as Baloo wants to get cracking as he brings out his work tools and a hand saw. No; he's not starring in Cookie Carpenter Cousins either. (Which sadly, Disney sucks that they didn't see dollar signs and making a mobile game out of it for real.) We go to the sky as the CLONES OF ABOMINATION arrive in their grey Khan planes arrives and land as Kit finds out that forty planes are out to get Louie out badly. Louie proclaims that they are ready for him near the window. We head to the docks as Douglas arrives in the rowboat as he shows the Khan clone panthers in their airforce gear the LEGAL PAPER OF GOD to show who's the god of this outfit in roundabout terms. Douglas wants a headquarters built on the beach as shown and he wants three people evicted from Louie's. Douglas has trouble slipping and sliding on the magically out of nowhere water. Logic break number two for the episode because Douglas never got wet once during that last sequence. (Yeah; the water was just there to make him look like a fool. Which he is.) Sadly; one of the traps apparently worked because Douglas walks and freefalls through an L-shaped hole in the docks and falls into the drink. Louie kisses the hand saw near the window and the Khan pilots laugh at his expense. HAHA! Douglas is pulled out by the big ass Khan pilot and the regular one as Douglas orders them to stop laughing. Douglas lands on another panel hard, it breaks and Douglas falls into the drink again. HEE HEE! The pilots laugh again Douglas gets up and orders the big ass Khan pilot to run forward. The pliot runs, Douglas gets nailed by a wooden plank and Douglas goes into the drink again. HAHA! The pilots laugh at him, Douglas turns to really NASTY DOUGIE and thus that makes my running joke for him for the rest of the episode. (Even funnier; there are two Khan pilots who are huge and have a transmitter in their pockets. Well; with forty planes carrying black panther pilots; I'm sure there are more than one heavy panther on the job in this outfit. At least six or seven of them had spoken roles too.) He orders everyone to charge and they sell this time. Sadly; the pineapples take most of them down and one Khan pilot bails into the drink. Douglas tries to get up, calls for a retreat in the worst way and gets nailed in the face good with a pineapple. HAHA!

A pineapple can in fact do a great deal of damage when thrown in the face (Unless it's gimmicked like a coconut usually is in wrestling angles...); so it does injure if nothing else. (That's why the pineapple to the face of Douglas and him going flying works well as a badass weapon.) Douglas pops up as Khan Pilot number one swims over and he thought Douglas said that there are only three of them. Umm; Douglas is telling the truth here sir. (Yeah; because the three babyfaces have great misdirection and counter skills.) Douglas wonders why as more fruit is thrown at them as we see Baloo working on five slingshots of pineapple throwers while sipping juice. Louie and Kit are slingshoting coconuts which are more painful unless it is gimmicked. Douglas orders everyone to charge as the Khan pilot dodge better; but still most of them slip and slide on pineapples, trip and fall down; or get hit in the face. Only three Khan Pilots manage to get to the door and the weight of them brings the door down and they pratfall. Khan Pilot number two -- because he has a slightly different voice -- looks around and there is no one in sight. He gives the all clear to Douglas. Douglas casually enters as he calls this one all over for Louie, then the door closes behind him and we go to pitch darkness and then the darkness goes to mature lighting. Logic break number three ensues because there are now six Khan pilots instead of three. (Here's a bigger logic break in my opinion: How did the door repair itself and shut down on Douglas, and then later on; the door is on the floor inside Louie's in the same fashion as when it was broken down the first time. That makes no sense.) The pilots look around and we have trapdoors opening to get rid of two logic breaks at least.

Then we see Kit cutting a pillar rope with a knife which is quite surprising considering how today's world treats kids with weapons in any context. It snaps; Khan Pilot gets a sick MAN-SIZED bump to the face (OUCH! Man; Kit can have quite a violent streak when he's happy...); mustard gets plastered in one Khan Pilot's face and he gets the Kit treatment in Plunder and Lightning Part One; only with less ropes but a lot of ceiling fan action ala A Bad Reflection On You Part Two with Dumptruck. (Kit speaks a lot less than most adults on this episode and yet he makes the biggest impacts in three spots in this episode.) Douglas calls in reinforcements as three more come in and several more try to destroy the barriers on the windows with logs. We continue inside as coconuts spill from a net; one Khan Pilot gets the cymballs treatment from Baloo. However; it's too much as Baloo calls for Kit to the balconey. Louie and Baloo climb up and then climb up the tree as Douglas thinks they have them. (Did I mention that Louie's is sort of a bar version of Gummi Glenn; only above ground?) Louie opens the conveniently placed trapdoor on top of the tree and they climb out. Next stop is the penthouse as Baloo shoves his feet into the Khan pilots for good measure. They climb to the penthouse as the Khan pilots climb up the nightclub. Douglas orders them to surrender since he has more pilots than international objects as more of them are thrown and they all miss. Louie has some wood as Baloo concede that they are up a creek without a paddle and it's over. We see Khan's arms climbing onto the penthouse and that ends the segment eleven and a half minutes in. Real good start with some minor annoyances; but at least Chuck Tately hasn't engaged himself in any gapping logic breaks yet. (I love how Douglas is so monsterly heelish and yet at the same time, I can sympathize with him because he's trying to make a good deal and is way, way over his head. He's such a troll.)

After the commercial break; we see the Khan Pilot number one climb up to the top of the penthouse, ordering them to surrender, Louie pushes the desk and he gets grabbed; but Louie counters with the bite on the hand on-screen. One of the pilots goes after Kit; but Baloo grabs him and is about to invoke the POWER OF THE PUNCH; but Louie wants him to swing; so Baloo drops him. Heh. Baloo takes the vine and says goodbye in two languages, swings like Tarzan and somehow the vines don't break. We then cut to ground level as two Khan pilot build an outhouse. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Douglas doesn't even know that even the Khan Pilots aren't too thrilled to be doing this. (I know what people are thinking. Why is Benson creating a headquarters when he has Louie's now? The answer is: If you recall, the records clerk stated that getting Louie off the property is not enough; there must be a building built by the one throwing Louie off the property. It didn't say what the standards were, just that it had to be a building. So Douglas wanted a headquarters to symbolize his ego, and he picked an outhouse. That is classic. No wonder Weiner stole this character for Pete Campbell in Mad Men.) Douglas gets one of my favorite promos in this series:

Douglas: Ah; my future's so bright. I've got to wear shades! {He puts on the SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT and chuckles.}

HAHA! See; make the joke and then pay it off. (And even better; his sunglasses are the ones he showed to Mr. Khan and the execs at the beginning of the episode! Now that's a payoff!) Sadly for poor Douglas; he sees the babyfaces and they destroy the outhouse completely of course and knock all the heels down. HEE HEE! Baloo calls it shoddy craftsmanship and Kit proclaims that they don't make them like they used to. HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. The babyface run off stage right as Douglas pops from the carnage, orders the pilots after them, they blitz and bowl Douglas into the sand. Douglas then gets dug out by two Khan workman and Douglas yells at them to rebuild the outhouse better this time as he runs off with the pilot. One of the workmen blows him off as a poindexter. HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. He's also NASTY DOUGIE too. (Yeah; even at this point, the Khan pilots absolutely hate Douglas, but they must follow orders or be fired as pointed out much later on.) Baloo, Louie and Kit run into the jungle and Louie climbs onto a rock as the Khan Pilots cannot find them. So Louie yells at them to come and Kit wonders why he did that. Louie states that he built a super duper trap years ago and if they fall into it; NASTY DOUGIE loses. (Riiiiggghhhtttt. If Douglas is going to lose, a trap isn't going to cut it. Remember that after midnight, Louie regains the deed and Douglas would have to wait a year later to get another shot.) We go to the scene changer again as we see the babyfaces near a train, train tracks and a mine cart. Kit wonders what all this is and Louie proclaims that it's his sightseeing railroad that he never finished. I wonder why that was the case?! Baloo thinks this is good; but Louie wants them to leave it as they run on the tracks. Here comes NASTY DOUGIE and two Khan Pilots as Douglas thinks he has them since they leave the transportation. The babyfaces run around the bend as Baloo wonders why they left the mine cart there and Louie has a plan. They hide around the bend, the Khan Pilot use the mine cart, go around the bend and crash into the cliff side. HAHA! Off-screen MAN-SIZED bump and the mine cart is destroyed as the pilots are wiped out.

We pan north to the babyfaces as Louie proclaims that he needs to put a tunnel there some day. Baloo calls it brutal. I agree; that was pretty sick. Scene changer as we see the babyface in a basket on a ski-lift device as Louie blows off Baloo's weight again and Kit mocks him. HAHA! Baloo proclaims that he's just big for his age. Ah; I see he regained the ten pounds from Gruel & Unusual Punishment. Louie gleefully answers that one for me as they make it to the other side anyway. (Louie's blowoff is an admission that Christopher Barat knew all along that Baloo was basically Fred Flintstone because Louie claims that he was big for someone in the Stone Age. Namely; the modern Stone Age family. Who says that there are no pop-culture references in TaleSpin?!) Baloo jumps off blowing them off and then the basket springs back and Kit and Louie drop on their asses with pretty good bumps off-screen. OUCH! Want to reconsider your weight there Pop-A-Bear? (Actually; Louie was on the basket and Kit was the one taking the bump. That was weird.) We then see three Khan Pilots on another basket on the ski lift as Louie has an idea. Khan Pilot number two thinks they have him; but Louie is at the end with a big ass knot as Khan Pilot number two panics; shaking his head and Louie nods. The pilots go backwards like scalded dogs; but Louie undos the rope and the basket freefalls into the ocean with a nasty bump. We then see NASTY DOUGIE getting frustrated as he orders Khan Pilot number six (Yes, Douglas had the foresight to recruit a second heavy Khan Pilot who looks the exact same as the first one. Nice way to lop off a logic break too.) to resplice the line and the pilot blows him off because he's getting tired of taking lumps for him. He wants Dougie to resplice the line himself. The pilots all laugh at him as NASTY DOUGIE states that ever since he was five years old; people have laughed at him and mocked him as a nobody. Damn; this guy has ISSUES BABEE~! He then shows off the LEGAL PAPER OF GOD and threatens their careers if they don't do what he says. NASTY DOUGIE walks away stage left and Khan Pilot number six decides to stay the course with Douglas.

Meanwhile; we return to Khan's office as he turns on the transmitter and calls for Miss Greeley to send the Elite Pilot Squad and Miss Greeley (B.J. Ward again. (I wonder if Miss Greeley is actually the records clerk Douglas talked to? Because if so; then she would know and tell Khan that Douglas was looking for information on Louie's. Then Khan puts two and two together because he's not an idiot. Because I don't have enough evidence to support that theory; I'm going to assume that there are three characters voiced by B.J. Ward instead of two.)) informs Mr. Khan -- who is shuffling his papers -- that the squad is still on that special mission he requested. Khan is not amused to hear that one as we return to Louie's Island. We get a sky shot of the bridge looking at the abyss below. We see the babyfaces climb up to the cliff side and Baloo and Kit stop to rest as they see that the heels still won't quit as they are on the other side of the abyss. Baloo and Kit plop down and want to quit now; but Louie refuses to because it's all his life see and he is not going to give it to even Shere Khan. (Which is good because I suspect Khan doesn't want Louie's either. I'm amazed that the writers even made Louie's into some wonderland park that was simply run down because Louie is lazier than Baloo in some respects. Like making sure that his deed is secure and idiot proof.) Baloo wonders where they can run to now; but Louie proclaims that they don't have to because they are right near the super duper trap. Louie uncovers the bushes to reveal a rope which connects to a bunch of logs propped against a rock. Okay; this trap is lame even by lame standards. Louie proclaims that it's a lot of "loggin for noggins" as he pulls the pulley in, the log releases and the jerks go goodbye as the heels are underneath the trap. Louie jerks on the rope as we see the pulley system and one of the cogs even has a bird doing an airplane spin. HEE HEE! Sadly; the old rope snap spot rears it's ugly head (the staple of this show) and the rock leans an extra five feet; but no drop.

Baloo blows Louie off for that one as Kit decides to do some work as he takes out his airfoil jumps into Baloo's hands; springs up and throws his airfoil like a boomerang. That destroys the log and the logs all come crashing down on the heels as all of them bail like crazy. NASTY DOUGIE is hanging on a tree as his suit tears to reveal a pink shirt. HAHA! Kit gets his airfoil back and puts it back as Baloo praises him. (This would be the second impact spot of the episode for Kit; but Douglas will not quit. Douglas is dangerously close to turning babyface again. Don't worry; he'll go back into full dick heel mode soon enough.) However; Kit notices that some of the heels are getting back on the log and the babyfaces are forced to bail again. Douglas gets up and he is PISSED off big time as he goes to Khan Pilot number six's radio and orders the fighter planes to shoot to kill the babyface. HOLY CRAP! Now he truly is NASTY DOUGIE; he's willing to kill our heroes including a twelve year old kid to get what he wants. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Told you he was going back to monster heel mode soon enough.) The babyfaces climb up as we near the neon sign of Louie's which has gone dark and Baloo hopes they aren't found; but the Louie's sign lights up and they are screwed. Baloo is not amused as Louie proclaims that it's on a timer and it's getting close to HAPPY HOUR now. (Hell of an happy hour we are going to get.) Then the babyfaces panic as three Khan planes fly down, they start shooting (Red flashes indicates Sunwoo is animating this episode.) and that ends the segment seventeen and a half minutes in. Wow; Douglas as a nasty heel is quite awesome to watch actually. (So as of this writing, we are 27 for 32 episodes in the guns being pulled out. That's one full DVD set of episodes right there, dood!)

After the commercial break; we see the front of the Louie sign as the babyfaces get shot at by the Khan pilots while they hide below the Louie sign. NASTY DOUGIE wants Louie to give up and Louie blows him off as even Baloo wants this nightmare to end. Louie no sells as he climbs the ladder using a wooden stick because he has only one hour left before the deed renews and after that it'll be another 364 days before Douglas tries that stunt again. Kit calls Louie crazy. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there, Kit?! (Yeah; this stunt Louie is pulling is suicidal; but Kit is a former ex-Air Pirate who double crossed them twice (three if you count the comic books). That's beyond crazy! No one sober is going to try that.) Louie swats at the planes and Douglas calls for one more barage as he climbs up to the top of the palm tree part of the sign. More shooting as the part where Louie is standing is shot off, it breaks, Louie freefalls and that part of the sign gets destroyed on the ground as Louie's hat plops down. Baloo and Kit think that Louie's dead for real. Highly unlikely, as we pan up to see Louie hanging onto the structure and he finally gives up after nearly ten minutes of awesome action. (In reality; almost twelve hours actually.) Louie jumps down asking for NASTY DOUGIE to call them off as Douglas runs in, does the SQUIDWARD HAPPY DANCE OF DOOM and outclasses Squidward in every way by calling himself Dougie before catching himself as Douglas. HAHA! (I just love how much Douglas hate the name Dougie; and just said the name he hates and has to recoil. Douglas is truly off the deep end now.) Then we see the Louie sign go completely dead in one symbolic gesture and Louie feels awfully bad. Anyway; we return to inside Louie's as Louie looks at what might be the final moments of his previous life flashing before his eyes. The monkey clock, which is telling the wrong time since it's ten minutes on the clock; not five minutes since Douglas orders them to get onto the boat since there is only five minutes left before Louie wins the bet. See, if Louie stays on the island for five minutes, one second then Douglas cannot own the island until next year. That's why he is desperate to make them leave right now. (You know what; if Douglas was smart, he would have tied up the three babyfaces, throw them on the rowboat and make them leave the same way Douglas left with the boat skipping to the outer island away from the property. Douglas might be nasty, but he's also very stupid. Which is fine because Douglas is suppose to be stupid at the end of the day.)

Louie decides to stall a bit as he requests that he takes some of his gifts. Douglas decides to sell it which is a mistake; I can sense it right now. Louie decides to take his golden juicer and his voodoo mask with him. However; Baloo also wants him to take the grass mat which is apparently underneath Douglas' feet along with the CLONES OF ABOMINATION. Louie doesn't want it as Kit and Baloo egg on him since they still have a plan (because there's still four minutes left). Louie decides to sell as the babyfaces invokes the spot from The Idol Rich times two and pull the rug from underneath the heels. (Kit wasn't involved in the tugging, which is sad since Kit is strong enough by himself to pull a six hundred pound grey bear from the mat; and those three pilots are equal to that.) Baloo and company scatter as Kit THE MIRACLE WORKER continues his violent streak by punching a black panther in the chest and he falls right into the boat. My goodness; that was a good punch too by Kit. (It should be since Kit did the same thing to Baloo in The Idol Rich.) Baloo then shows him the trapdoor exit as the boat flies out into the open sea again. Great spot; although it was all off-screen this time around. Baloo and company flee out of Louie's and jump into the water. They swim towards the island as Kit proclaims that there is one more minute to go and Douglas' reign of terror is over. Douglas tells them to stop; but Louie no-sells because Douglas has lost for one more year. However; NASTY DOUGIE reveals its ugly head as he proclaims that Louie's Club is going to go bye-bye as Louie and company stop at the cave. Louie turns around and sees that his entire place is rigged with dynamite and NASTY DOUGIE has the plunger ready to pounce at a moment's notice. Louie's in problem city now as Kit pleads for him to wait thirty seconds because it's just a building. Baloo corrects him of course which would be fine if someone was actually in there. (I agree with Kit on this. Forget the building Louie L'Amour, you won. A building can be replaced, that deed cannot.) Louie thinks about it as thirty seconds remain. Louie decides to call it quits and walks towards the motor boat commenting about how he built that place. The black panther does not care, of course. (Odd, since they don't care much about Douglas either.) However; NASTY DOUGIE has been hurt so bad by the babyfaces that he's going to blow up the place anyway.

Now that's a monster heel as Louie is SHOCKED. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: He has past the moral horizon now. There is no turning back from this now.) I'm betting Rebecca is enjoying this right now since she never like that matted pile of fur anyway. Everyone embraces for the end of Louie's as NASTY DOUGIE pushes the plunger and it's all over. (Riiiigggghhhttt!) However; Shere Khan's claw makes an appearance and snaps the wire as NASTY DOUGIE's plan has come to a halt. Douglas turns around and there's Shere Khan. Douglas is SO BUSTED now! Douglas does another promo with French words in it as he tries to explain himself; but Douglas IS DONE BABEE. Shere Khan demands why his pilots are injured and NASTY DOUGIE blames it on the babyfaces and Louie for that as the faces are forced onto the docks by the panthers. (Of course; it's never the guy in charge who is at fault. Although Douglas did take some licks in the process, so it's not like Douglas was untouchable here. Thus it taints the whole "Douglas never did anything" a little bit.) Shere Khan is actually impressed as if he was glad to see them get their punishment for believing that Douglas was in charge here. (It seems to me that they were teasing a possible story involving Kit and Shere Khan in which Dan Green wrote a fanfic called Khan Heir and it explains how Kit would handle the unemotional welding of power. Dan's a much better fanfic writer than I will ever be. I say this because Khan only responded that he was impressed when he heard that Kit helped Baloo and Louie. Of course, the angle never happened, because Eisner only cares about Baloo the most. Khan is #3 on the classic chart from the Jungle Book in his mind. ) Shere Khan wants an explanation and Douglas explains that he tried to steal the island for him. Aww; how sweet of NASTY DOUGIE. Oh, and a fish ate a fly in that scene; which of course, the Rescue Ranger fan boys got on Jymn Magon's case claiming that the fly was Zipper. One problem: Zipper is a blue fly; this fly is WHITE! (Also, it looks nothing like Zipper at all. Was this just a mistake on their part; or jealousy? I have no idea which it is.)

However, Khan calls him off as he runs down the crimes that he committed. Douglas stated that he only did it in the best interests of Mr. Khan. However; Mr. Khan states that his best interests are that Douglas Benson be officially terminated as Douglas preforms the most dramatic oversell of SHOCK in the series. Sorry Douglas; I guess you're fired and are going to jail for your actions. (Well; he did forge documents and abuse his fellow employees just to defeat three commoners. That's like trying to be an old man in wrestling and failing. Dougie buried himself and deserves the mockery he should get from Khan. Also, two of those actions are actionable through law enforcement. Douglas has killed his employment chances now. Did Pete Campbell ever get fired on Mad Men? I don't know, I never watched Mad Men, okay?)

Douglas' Crimes: Forging Documents, Misuse of the Labor Force and Violating the Dress Code of Khan Industries.

Okay; the last one isn't a crime. But that's Khan Industries for ya because Shere Khan's word is law! We now go inside Louie's where Baloo and Shere Khan exchange notes. Khan apologizes for Benson's excess zeal as Louie makes some juice inside a pineapple. Baloo proclaims that it's nothing he couldn't handle. (Which is funny considering that Baloo, Kit and Louie lost almost everything and they needed Shere Khan to save them. I'm sure Khan was amused to hear such a lie, too.) We then head outside as we see Douglas getting more dynamite near his newly built outhouse. Wow; the writers remembered that little detail from earlier. How about THAT for CONTINUITY?! He resplices the cable to the plunger of doom and he even did what Khan Pilot number six wanted him to do earlier. (You know you are done for when you are in fact obeying commands from your subordinates.) Then we cut back to inside as NASTY DOUGIE calls out the adults, they all come out and they panic as he threatens to get the last work. The adults panic and what does Kit do in this situation? He just stands there; and does the Gruffi pose as everyone ducks. NASTY DOUGIE proclaims that it's too late, he pushes the plunger down and blows up....wait for it...the outhouse as he goes sailing out of the island. HAHA! Louie wants to know what the hell happened and Kit proclaims that he moved the dynamite in the outhouse while Douglas was ranting. HOLY CRAP! This kid is so violent that he needs to be tickled to get the violence out of his system. No, not really. This is why I love this kid as a character. IN YOUR FACE KICK BUTTOWSKI & MICHAEL EISNER~! (I just love that Kit was nowhere to be found and then he shows up smiling like a sociopath, indicating that he had removed the dynamite and placed it all in the outhouse as Douglas was splicing the line and Douglas was so into destroying Louie's that he forgot to see Kit anywhere; and then not see Kit at Louie's doing nothing. If I saw the kid standing here smiling, I would check my outhouse; because it's clear that Kit did something to it.)

Khan praises him and I see that if this series had continue; can you imagine Kit dealing with the unemotional welding of power like Dan Green's Khan Heir? (So you did remember that fanfic 2010 Me? Good.) Baloo and Kit slap skin and have a great laugh as we zoom out and we pan southeast to the rocks as Douglas has got a wedgie on the pole. HAHA! The seagull floats down onto a board and laughs at Douglas' expense as Dougie can barely blow the bird off. (Somehow; I hope that the end of the Mad Men season has this scene as the ending of Pete Campbell's career and just make the whole ripoff of Douglas complete. Please, for the love of life say that this happened in Mad Men when it's season ends.) Wow; no wonder some fans want to see the Phantom Blot and all of TaleSpin's one shot heel characters together against Baloo and Kit. (That would have been killer; but again, Baloo is the one they want to milk. Never mind that the Phantom Blot is a classic Disney character too. Stupid Michael! (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: The Phantom Blot would return as a FOWL member for Ducktales 2017. Sadly, no connection to TaleSpin though.)) We go to the top of Louie's Island where the gang fix up the neon sign and since Kit was the guy to get rid of Douglas last; he also get to pull the lever (JESUS~!) to turn on the neon sign. Louie shows that bright makes right after all as the neon sign glows in the distance. Zoom out as Louie laughs to end the episode at 21:11. Like I said before; I have new found respect for Chuck Tately after watching this as it featured an awesome heel guest, Kit being violent and getting the last laugh on said heel, emminet domain issues and Shere Khan being Shere Khan. If only Chuck can stop with the gapping logic breaks he could have been awesome as a cartoon writer. Oh well; there's always WWE Tough Enough to fall back on. (Nope; I'm dropping this to **** 3/4 (95%) due to a number of little logic breaks; but the performances manage to make it close to a perfect rating. Most of that is on Sunwoo of course. Doesn't change the new found respect I have for Chuck Tately though.)

THE REVIEW LINE

The 50^th episode I have ranted on and as I expected it to be the best episode Chuck Tately ever wrote. Great character designs, a monster over heel in Douglas Benson, Kit playing miracle worker including having a hand in the finishing sequence and of course Shere Khan showing that he can switch from heel to face and back again more times in one episode than most cartoon characters out there overall. Douglas was a great heel who tried to play nice; but turned nastier and more crazy as the episode carried on. (Douglas is so awesome that if this wasn't treated as filler; he would be in the regular rotation.) One of the biggest surprises is that Kit got in a lot of spots in for him that were considered quite violent (punched a Khan pilot, the log rolling spot; smashing a log in a Khan Pilot's face and of course moving the dynamite.); but really, Kit is the reason why Louie's was still standing in the end of the day and Louie gave him the right to turn Louie's back on. It's only fitting and a great gesture from Louie. (Yeah; he could have easily given it to Baloo or himself; but he gave it to Kit. Although Khan might have deserved it more; he wasn't around to see it; so Kit had to do.) Baloo was good, the pilots sold to the hilt and the girls did well too. A few minor logic breaks were present; but they were mostly animation mistakes from Sunwoo. The six Khan Pilots entering was the only really bothersome break; but that was was minor. (I think the door repairing itself was worse, but only marginally so.) I can forgive Chuck Tately for that one compared to some of his more crappier breaks in Last Horizons or The Incredible Shrinking Molly. Next up is Sheepskin Deep which a lot of fans think is the best TaleSpin episode. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: One of the best showing of how "Expertise is just as important as Education". Along with some really funny facial expressions from Baloo as well.) So...

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

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