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The Sound & The Furry Re-Rant

Reviewed: 02/13/2011
Additional Commentary: 12/05/2021

Nothing Like An Angry Mob Without The Tar!

Original Airdate: 02/13/1991 (Syndication), Episode #58 (TaleSpin Volume 3, Disc 1), Episode #53 (Production Order).

The Sound & The Furry Notes
The Sound & The Furry Transcript

(2016 Gregory Weagle Says: "Grease and Spoon'im!" might be the funniest and more apporo BS&P decisions ever made in this series. I'll explain later on as time permits. Anyhow; it's time for more befriending animals plots; only this time it's WildCat's turn. Unlike the later Paradise Lost; which was played for drama for the most part, with sprinkles of WildCat being WildCat; this episode was all comedy. The plot of this episode is: WildCat meets little critters who sabotage planes against their will from an evil airplane repairperson. Baloo enters an air race against various pilots and Wily Pole; his main rival, which is seen by evil airplane repair person as a goldmine to fleece them from their wallets. Baloo wins the race basically by default because WildCat found the furry sabotager before anyone else did; but the other planes get sabotaged so they blame Baloo for all this, leading them to do a tar and feathering job that even Memphis wrestling would have found absurd. Seriously. Anyhow; steet hates this episode with a passion. I don't and the reason is because while it does have a number of flaws, they are a byproduct of how rushed this series was in general. I'll explain the problems as we go along; but overall, this was a really fun episode and WildCat is great at bringing the funny.) Finally; we have a Wildcat focused episode for the first time since Citizen Khan and he also joins Molly and Kit in getting some furry friends to play with. If there was any repetition with TaleSpin; it was this plot device. Let's rant on shall we....?!

This episode is written by Julia Jane Lewald . (The credits for this episode have her misspelled as Julia Lane Lewald, which is just sloppy on a Henry Polic III level in For Whom The Bell Klangs. At least this show didn't swap episode credit lists like Darkwing Duck did.) The story is edited by Jymn Magon. The animation is done by Walt Disney Animation Japan/Hanho Heung-Up Company Limited. (Thankfully; I have the ED for that episode on the tape that I have. Which is a moot point now since I have the DVD sets as well.)

We begin this one at the swamp near a house on the Bayou as we pan east to the most blinded neon sign in history (Crazy Eddy's). (Okay; when I originally ranted on this episode back in 2011; I didn't really have the opening scene down pat on what was happening, so I basically summarized it. It really shows with the neon sign because it always said "Crazy Edie's" not "Crazy Eddy". Disney Captions got it right as usual. Another thing; while the Bayou Country is probably close to where we are here in real life, it's almost certain that this place is not the Bayou Country. It looks like TaleSpin's equalivant to the Florida Everglades. I'll explain the origin of Bayou Country later on. Anyhow; there is also some more Engrish in this segment: One of the posters is misspelled "All work garanteed". It should be "All work guaranteed.". Crazy Edie is also a play on Crazy Eddie which was a electronics good department store founded in 1971. Even more hilarious is that the store went out of business due to fraud and very questionable warranty billing practices which sent Eddie Antar to prison in 1997. Yeah; The chain became the pre-Enron corporate fraud symbol and this episode's resident heel is a personification of it. Julia was really up on her current events at the time if this episode was any indication. I just wish she was more on the ball making sure the booking was a lot more airtight than Eddie's albi.) We pan east some more as we see a bird wearing a blue coat, purple scarf, gloves, goggle hat, and a yellow poka dot pink dress (voiced by Billie Hayes) pointing out some engine problems to a pilot using the most complex speaking in history. (She also wears red shoes with blue tape around it; the sort of thing you see with the Sonic Boom characters in recent years.)

Grammy Whammy she isn't as I am so dipped. (She certainly sounds like Grammy Whammy. To be fair; Grammy in Double Darkwings was merely lame compared to the more absurd logic breaks of that episode. She didn't help the episode, but she wasn't responsible for that mess. Also of note; Edie's catchphrase is "Well, I'll be dipped!" which is a nice way of saying: "Well, I'll be damned!". She said this twice in the same scene I should note; but that is one less time than Bubsy's catchphrase before his pilot ever began. At least she said hers a minute apart during the episode. Also a note on the "complex speaking": She claims that the plane has a loose reticulator gizmet (which rhymes with Kismet by the way.) This is the only link I could find on reticulator. There is a small game developer called Gizmet Gameworks; but little of anything else. This was clearly done to build onto the fact that Edie is a fraud as a repair person. As if the name alone didn't tell us that already. Of course, most kids today wouldn't know about how Crazy Eddie's was the poster child for corporate fraud. They would think of Enron instead. They would look at her and say: "She's not crazy, she's just talking gibberish.") She proclaims that the pilot is lucky. (Edie actually tells the pilot that he's lucky his "flapdoodle" wasn't the problem. Now flapdoodle is a word meaning "nonsense" and "A fool". However; she says it in a way to imply that a flapdoodle is according to The Urban Dictonary: "A person who runs and their penis starts flapping in the wind." That's right folks, she's implying that he's lucky his penis isn't flapping in the wind like the engine of his plane. I'm more surprised no one in TVTropes noticed this.)

She reaches into her pocket, pulls out a Rescue Rangers sized cat like furry with brown hair and then she does the old "made you look" spot on the bear like pilot wearing goggles, brown jacket, blue pants. (He's certainly not a bear 2011 me. I think he's supposed to be a mouse or rat furry. Not sure. Anyhow; Edie uses Klenzer's Comet to make him look; which seems to be a motif in this show and Allowance Day in Ducktales.) He turns around and Crazy Eddy throws the furry into the engine. The furries look almost like Moogles without the stereotypical Japanese silt eyes and red-bat wings. Eddy then invokes the magnet remote control behind her back proclaiming that it's only the moon. The Furry's blue collar starts up and the furry unleashes complete hell on the engine. (Actually; the show never gave a spieces name to them, other than WildCat's hilarious spieces name later on. Furries is purely fanonal unless proven otherwise. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: To be fair, considering the show is basically a furry haven; calling them furries makes sense regardless if they are not called that officially by the creators.)) The pilot finally turns around, then notices an orange part dropped from the engine and Crazy Eddy is dipped again. She manages to grab the furry and put it in her pocket before the pilot can see it. If Jambalya Jake didn't look ultra weak before; he sure as hell does now. (Your rose colored glasses are showing there 2011 me. I looked at the footage and she took the furry away right in front of the pilot. Although; Edie probably was rechecking the engine as well to throw the pilot off balance, so there's that.) The pilot checks down as Eddy steals his wallet behind his back. Here comes the angry mob with torches on a wooden bridge. Wait a second; that looks like it was lifted from those protests in Egypt a couple of weeks ago. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Hell of a way to date yourself there, 2011 me! I have zero clue what he's talking about here.) Crazy Eddy checks her multiple watches on her arm as she has nine hundred dollars of that MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH~, then goes over to her weird helicopter/airplane hybrid and pulls the lever (JESUS~! (You are going to see a lot of this in this episode. This is easy Botchamania material.)). The neon sign stops glowing as it's Crazy Edie's and thus the fans have been proven wrong again. (Yup.)

The sign folds into the trap door; the posters get wrapped up into scrolls and the helicopter plane flies up stage north as the angry mob in trenchcoats -- various different furries of course -- yell at the helicopter plane. The pilot takes the engine part and looks up as he looks completely clueless. (The makeup is similar to most crowds in TaleSpin as Muffy, Amelia, Fred, some of the reporters among others. However; there is a giant sized chicken hawk included in the proceedings.) We see some flying in the helicopter, then head into the cockpit with Crazy Edie on the stick, then we pan over to the curtain and it opens to reveal the alligator from Kiwi's Big Adventure and/or Apes of Wrath depending on which Tad Stones show you like better. (Which is basically a cameo of Tick-Tock the Crocodile from Peter Pan! That's not the only cameo from that movie in this show either as I discovered later on.) The gator walks like an animal (Also, acts like a character, so Ignatz isn't the only one who can do that. The major difference is Al speaks less than even the Furries!) as we go to the side shot and see a glass cage filled with three Furries all in different shades. Crazy Edie is a Nintendogs + Cats fan?! Who knew; who cares?! (More like Ubi Soft's Catz, 2011 me! Not exactly a good combo.) We find out that the gator's name is Al as Edie opens the top of the glass case and throws the furries she used to screw the pilot out of his hard earned money, into the case. Not unlike those who screw people out of their money for selling alternative medincine (Nor Crazy Eddie, which is what this episode was originally shooting for.) Al manages to get it's mouth in and Al eats the furry! I'm sensing a certain hate meme arising here. (Please explains this to me 2011 Me; because god forbid someone would turn it into a meme without my knowledge.) Edie then whacks Al with the conveniently hard wrapped newspaper and Al is forced to open his mouth. The furry breathes a sigh of relief as Edie grabs it and throws it into the case. Edie then uses a pulley system to raise the case into the back as Al follow it and gains yellow eyes.

Edie blows Al off because if he eats those wingless Moogles; then she has to go back to the Bayou to get some more. (Thus proving that they were not in Bayou Country at the beginning of the episode.) She then opens a map and proclaims that they are half way to Cape Suzette. We see the helicopter fly over and then we fade to black. I see Michael Eisner needs to be turned on again. (I should note that the helicopter changes from navy blue, regular blue and black depending on the shot; so someone in the coloring department is out to lunch again.) We return with the navy helicopter plane arriving at the cliff guns of Cape Suzette as she blows off Al because she get awfully cranky without her coffee. (Coleman Francis and Edie; separated at birth? Huh.) We then head in the back as Al is acting like an anthro now at the stove getting her coffee with an apron on. We have our second animal/anthro hybrid of the series next to Ignatz; only he cannot speak. Al puts the coffee cup below a coffee spewing spout bronze kettle and then he licks his chops because the furries are helpless in the glass cage above, you see. He also leans on Edie's conveniently placed chair, his tail whips around and unintentionally pulls the conveniently placed red lever (JESUS~! (Indeed.)) which opens the cargo hatch. Edie warns him not to open the red lever (JESUS~!), the hatch opens and the glass case moves towards the tailsection of the plane. Thankfully; Al is on the ball this time, reverses the lever (JESUS~!) and the tailsection hatch closes. Edie gets on Al's case again, Al pulls the blue lever (JESUS~!) for the coffee kettle and the coffee pours into the cup. Al then uses the tail to push the blue lever (JESUS~!), then the tail grows a mind of it's own and pulls the red lever (WRONG LEVER~! (I'm leaving this one in because it was in fact truly the wrong lever he pulled. JESUS~ indeed!)) just as Al walks to the cockpit. HAHA! The tailsection opens as Al goes to the curtain, then turns around to notice the glass case moving and throws the coffee away which smacks Edie right in the kisser. OUCH! That is going to leave a mark for sure. (Speaking of marks; when the glass cage was moving the second time; it was now near the curtain even though the last time we saw it, the cage was next to the hatch. Bad form there, guys.)

Edie has control problems of her own, the pulley rope snaps (NOT THAT SPOT AGAIN!) and the glass case falls out of the helicopter's ass so to speak. The helicopter goes into a tailspin (BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!), Edie and Al see the glass case in front of them as Edie whacks Al with the newspaper again and threatens to make a suitcase out of him yet. At least in this show; PETA wasn't around to save Al's ass. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: PETA was founded in 1980, which actually shocks me since I expected them to be founded much earlier than that.) We see the glass case splash down into the water and somehow the furries are able to breathe without any holes whatsoever when they reach bottom. Well; on the other hand, if there were holes in the case; the case would flood. (Yeah; that was not smart of you 2011 me. At least they won't be in the glass cage for long.) Then we finally get the first logic break as the glass case arises from the water right in front of the Higher...For...Hire docks which makes no sense since the case was originally outside of Cape Suzette's cliff guns and the case didn't move an inch in any other direction other than up/down. (It's a logic hole; but the bigger logic hole in this episode is that the sign says Higher For Hire. Why? Because Rebecca is no where to be found in this episode and Baloo never mentions Rebecca nor Higher For Hire once. It's treated as if it was a pre-Plunder and Lightning episode even though as seen in Plunder and Lightning, before Rebecca bought the company from underneath Baloo, it was called Baloo's Air Service. This is a sloppy decision on Walt Disney Animation Japan's part. Just make the sign blank like it was in the Disney Channel version of Plunder and Lightning before Rebecca showed up. It's that simple. Or just put Baloo's name on it. Anyhow; this is the second to last Kit-less episode that I have transcribed (Flying Dupes is last). Besides the timeline and Kit moonlighting as Cavin; Kit has already done two befriending pets episodes and has been directly involved in a third one with Molly in Mommy For A Day. Time to give someone else a shot here that isn't a child. Surprised Rebecca nor Baloo nor Louie got one in this series actually. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Rebecca would sort of get this plot device in the comics, though.))

The case floats on water towards the docks as the furries whine. We head to the docks of Higher...For...Hire as we are between the main docks and WildCat's workshop. Baloo and Wildcat examine an engine rised by a crane. Ah; I see where Rebecca is spending her big bucks on these days. (Of course I can see why 2011 me is confused since the sign is in the post- Plunder and Lightning era, despite the episode feeling like it's in the pre-Plunder and Lightning era. Rushjobs: You are risking careers doing it. I'm shocked this show turned out as well as it did.) WildCat claims that he heard something and then he admits that he saw Klenzer's Comet. Damn; enough of the Time Bandit jokes already Julia Lane Lewald! (Speaking of jokes; here's Keating Klenzer!) Baloo blows him off because the airshow is this afternoon and he cannot be seeing things now because the SeaDuck is going "kerchunk" three times. WildCat deduces that it's a dirty air filter because if it went ERRRRRRR; then it's a cracked Klickenheimer. HAHA! Baloo scratches his brainpan over that one, tells WildCat to have the SeaDuck roaring pretty by race time and then he walks away stage right. Wildcat then turns around, notices the glass case floating towards it and grabs it. Since WildCat sees a lobster tank; he concludes that the furries are lobsters. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Psychologists would have a field day with WildCat and I mean that in the nicest possible way. (This is one of those moments where I sort of regret WildCat's humor because this kind of joke was done in Raw Toonage with Cro Magnum P.I. and they played it straight up with people who are supposed to not be dimwitted, like WildCat is. We expect WildCat to pull stuff like this; which we shouldn't have to see in Cro Magnum P.I. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Also remember that Molly called Henry, the Yenkara a "baby buffalo". Yeah, WildCat and Molly are each other's spirit animals.)) Wildcat sets the lobster tank down, tells them that he won't eat them and the furries feel relived. WildCat opens the top of the case and the furries climb out and then push the lobster tank into the drink. HEE HEE! (Edie has two of them as we would see later on.)

WildCat then asks for names and the furries are confused so WildCat goes naming from left to right: Sammy (red collar), Frankie (green collar), Matt...ERRRR...Maxine (because the pink collar one is female, of course) and Homer (blue collar and the one used by Edie earlier). (WildCat calls her Maxine because she's a girl you see. Bigot. Just because the furry wears a pink collar does not automatically mean the furry is female. Also inexcusable when you consider that he has always called Kit as Kit instead of Chris, even though Kit and Chris can be used for all genders actually. Not a shining moment for WildCat to say the least. Maxine at least was not amused by the giggling nor the accusation.) See; WildCat loves Homer as he puts Homer in the palm of his hands because it rhymes with wrench, you see. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Even WildCat cannot violate Anime Dub Conduct Rule number twelve properly which makes him anime otaku's greatest idol. Think about that one for a minute and understand why I don't like purists. Homer likes this; so Maxine jumps up and pushes Homer down stage right and giggles. Sammy and Frankie giggle as this is turning into a Fluppy Dogs episode; only WildCat is funnier and the furries actually have slightly MORE character development. Maxine is not amused as WildCat calls Maxine jealous, then notices that they are wearing collars and the furries don't feel great. However; WildCat notices that they don't have tags on the collars, thus he can keep them, the furries jump on his face and kiss and hug him in that order. Wildcat drops on his ass in response. (These furries are so happy that everytime WildCat does something they love, they jump him and kiss him on the cheeks over and over again.) We go to the scene changer and we see WildCat fixing the SeaDuck engine with the long wrench with a large bolt. WildCat is trying to get to the cracked Klickenheimer. (German gibberish of course because it sounds funny as a name. Usually it is.) I thought it was originally a dirty filter since that is what Baloo said it was earlier?! (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: It's possible that the SeaDuck has more than one issue to fix.) We then pan over on top of the roof of Wildcat's workshop to see the furries watching on.

Wildcat struggles and pan as his elbow grease is lacking and needs more energy foods like jellybean omelets. HAHA! (Wouldn't you know it; the last focus episode involving WildCat also involved jellybeans: Paradise Lost.) The furries stand up and jump over onto the engine giggling as we head to inside the office with Baloo raiding the fridge again. Well; you knew he would stoop to that low since Rebecca is probably trying to get Molly off of Kit again. (I'm almost certain that this was a pre-Plunder and Lightning episode. Otherwise, Rebecca would be in the office. It's not like her to just not be there with no explaination. I told you that logic break in the sign is making everything look wonky in this episode. Luckly; once this act is over, the rest of the episode takes place outside Cape Suzette. Still annoys me.) More maturing lighting from Walt Disney Animation Japan as we cut over to the open window and see the furries pop up. Homer jumps onto the sink first and the other furries follow. We cut to Baloo still raiding the fridge as a cracked Klickenheimer makes him nervous and he needs to eat light. He closes the fridge right into the furries faces. Baloo brings out some hotdogs so you get a pretty good idea what "light" means in Baloo's context. (Basically; it's half of a Shaggy sandwich; only with actual meat because Baloo is not a vegan, and as seen in The Girl From Spango-Pango; a terrible sumo wrestler as well.) We see Baloo at the blue clothed table making a sandwich and walks off to the fridge. The furries make their move to the table. We cut to Baloo opening the fridge, gets a bottle of cola, then turns around and sees that his sandwich and hotdogs are gone. It's too easy to blame the furries on this one; so I'm blaming the "Scooby Doo Effect" on this one. Baloo should talk to Shaggy some time to get some pointers on how to counter the "Scooby Doo Effect". Baloo checks under a plate and calls the whole thing a bunch of stress. HAHA! We cut back to WildCat trying to fix the SeaDuck engines and in comes the furries on a skateboard with a sandwich. Kit has a skateboard now?! I guess he uses this when Baloo won't let him cloudsurf due to stormy weather anymore. (Skateboarding wasn't a thing until the late 1940's by the way and this wasn't the only anarchonism in the episode. Whomever was animating this episode and booking it forgot that skateboards weren't invented yet.)

WildCat takes the sandwich and eats a big bite out of it and then tries again with the bolt; but no dice. He bangs on the bolt and it causes a mass shockwave which turns on the collars of the furries and all tiny hell breaks loose! (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: So, you only need static electricty or an actual spark to trigger the collars. That's was an interesting way to show off the chaos in this scene.) The engine completely falls apart as WildCat stops shaking like a leaf and there is the engine part zoomed in. Somehow, this part looks bent. WildCat calls it the cracked Clickenheimer as WildCat calls them nice and strong. Oh, and we get coloring mistake number one for the episode as Maxine's hair has changed from red to blond and then back to red in between near and far shots of the staircase. The furries look at each other and then we go to the scene changer as we head into WildCat's workshop. We see the furries and WildCat (without visor) sleeping and snoring with each other. They are sleeping on the boxes and WildCat's visor is on a hook on the wall as the door knocks. The furries hear it and change into a furry hat to wear on WildCat's head. WildCat wakes up as Baloo opens the door and enters the workshop. Baloo asks about the engine and WildCat proclaims that it's working like a scared chicken. POP! HAHA! (Even WildCat knows that a spring chicken no sells everything. Ask Ken Izmui about it!) Baloo is grateful as he wants WildCat to come, tells him that it's not cold and he doesn't need a winter hat. WildCat tells him that he's not wearing one, Baloo is flustered and walks out. HAHA! (It's funny because WildCat is right. He's not wearing a hat; even though some furry turned into one to protect itself.) The furries pop up, notice on the floor a map and Homer runs over to said map. We see the map has an area called Bayou Country. I believe the TaleSpin comics did a number of episodes on this area. (Actually; only one comic called Law Of The Bayou which focused on the area at the beginning of this episode called the Blue Bayou. Sadly; since the Crazy Edie incident, that population has regressed so much, you would swear that Sovereigen Citizens Movement took over in a coup e'tait!)

WildCat gleefully points it out for us as Homer nods his head while WildCat proclaims that they got good gumbo there. Homer shakes his head and Wildcat proclaims that they have lousy gumbo. HAHA! Homer ponders over, grabs a wrench and nut , swings the wrench like a baseball bat, then rounds the engine parts like they are bases and slides in home. WildCat then proclaims that they want to see a baseball game in Bayou Country. HAHA! (After reading Law Of The Bayou; I'm shocked that no one has done this angle yet. It would make Blasto baseball look like a true international incident just waiting to happen instead of the Donald induced one that Quack Pack was shooting for.) Homer shakes his head and stomps all over the home base. The other furries shrug their shoulders as WildCat scratches his brainpan and finally deduces that their home is in Bayou Country. The furries cheer as WildCat realizes that they want to go home and WildCat proclaims that he'll miss them; but they are pals and offers to fly them home after Baloo's air contest is over. The furries love it that they jump WildCat and hug and kiss him in that order again. Wildcat is kicking around more this time as Baloo yells for him. WildCat gets up; grabs his visor and waves goodbye to the furries and slams the door shut. We see the SeaDuck at the docks as Baloo tells WildCat to come and Wildcat enters through the side door. Baloo wants to ace that air show. The SeaDuck flies away stage left as we pan over stage right to the docks. We see Edie and Al just standing there watching on. (Also poorly drawn I might add.) We then head back inside as we see the furries on the brown circle rug doing the circle dance. The door then bust opens and in comes Al and Edie with the glass case of doom as the furries huddle together. Al stalks them causing them to be frozen with fear, Edie invokes the glass case as she has an air show to screw over and that ends the segment nearly nine minutes in. (Outside of the sign nonsense and a few logic breaks; this is just a fun critters episode in the vein of Germlins; and there's nothing wrong with that.)

After the commercial break; we head to a mid flight landing strip which is on top of a airship like blimp and you can tell Walt Disney Japan is animating because the finish line poster and flags are fluttering. We zoom in and then cut to a sky shot of the landing strip as we see from right to left: The SeaDuck, a vanilla plane, a light grey plane, a light green plane and a mid blue plane. We then see a pelican furry driving an ice cream bicycle in front of the racers calling for ice cream which indicates that this will be used as a finish at some point of the episode. (Yup.) We then go to the PA announcer (Furries, Ice Cream Man and PA Announcer are all done by Frank Welker of course.) as he announces the show is sponsored by "Hi-Yo Silverware". (Remember this for later since I'll come back to why this is important.) We cut to Edie's helicopter and head inside. Edie grabs the glass case from the pulley system and throws the furries into a toolbox as she proclaims that they are going to clean up here. She waves to Al and then walks out of the helicopter. We then cut to a closeup of the SeaDuck as Baloo is wearing a five on his shirt which indicates his position in the quality scale of Higher...For...Hire characters. Number one is Kit, number two is Molly, number three is WildCat and number four is Rebecca. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Rebecca is #4 2011 me?! Come on, now! She deserves #3 at least!) Number three and number four are interchangable and close and there are huge gaps between number four and number five. (Actually; it's the other way around because Baloo comes up last and thus is the main event instead of those undercard jabornies like Wily Pole and the three unnamed pilots. WildCat is merely a mechanic in this setup.) Speaking of number three; here comes WildCat as Baloo proclaims that they are going to clean up, WildCat goes to the side door, brings out the SHANE DOUGLAS MOP OF DOOM and asks where to start. HAHA! Baloo is not amused as he grabs the mop and corrects him because he's going to win the contest here. Baloo wants him to double check the engine, WildCat casually walks stage right and Baloo is flustered again. We see WildCat go over to the engine as we see Edie on a step ladder messing with the wing. WildCat asks who Edie is, Edie turns around and addresses herself as...wait for it...the Queen of Sheba. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh boy! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'm surprised that Juila didn't just give her that name from the start. (Well; it's obvious because Edie's character is supposed to be straight out of Eddie Antar, the mastermind behind Crazy Edie. By the way; the Queen of Sheba is a biblical figure who came to Jerusalem "with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones" (I Kings 10:2). "Never again came such an abundance of spices" (10:10; II Chron. 9:1–9) as those which she gave to Solomon. She came "to prove him with hard questions", all of which Solomon answered to her satisfaction. They exchanged gifts, after which she returned to her land.[6][7] The use of the term ḥiddot or "riddles" (I Kings 10:1), an Aramaic loanword whose shape points to a sound shift no earlier than the sixth century B.C., indicates a late origin for the text.[6] Since there is no mention of the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C., Martin Noth has held that the Book of Kings received a definitive redaction around 550 B.C.[8] Virtually all modern scholars agree that Sheba was the South Arabian kingdom of Saba, centered around the oasis of Marib, in present-day Yemen. Sheba was quite known in the classical world, and its country was called Arabia Felix.[7] Around the middle of the first millennium B.C., there were Sabaeans also in the Horn of Africa, in the area that later became the realm of Aksum.[9] There are five places in the Bible where the writer distinguishes Sheba (שׁבא), i. e. the Yemenite Sabaeans, from Seba (סבא), i. e. the African Sabaeans. In Ps. 72:10 they are mentioned together: "the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts".[10] This spelling differentiation, however, may be purely factitious; the indigenous inscriptions make no such difference, and both Yemenite and African Sabaeans are there spelt in exactly the same way.[9] I mention this because this is the kind of reference you would almost never see in anime dubs due to being directly from the bible. She would probably be called the Queen of Shiva (Even though Shiva is supposed to be male) today, which is also religious; but a lot less biblical and thus okay. That being said; Edie does have a sense of humor.)

WildCat proclaims that he never met a queen before and Sheba offers him to come to the palace sometime as she walks off stage right. WildCat goes to the engine, waves his hand and out comes Homer as WildCat is surprised that Homer followed him all the way here. Homer tries to explain in his chipmunk pitched voice; but is forced to become WildCat's extra hair as Baloo arrives asking how the engines are. WildCat proclaims that he was glad to double check the engine because there was a lobster in it. HAHA! He has a point there, Baloo blows him off and is glad he's wearing the hat because he's getting too much brain cancer from the sun in roundabout terms. See what happens when you listen to Mike Adams and take his Vitamin D advice too literally?! (I just loved how honest WildCat was and Baloo still didn't fall for it even though what WildCat said was absolutely true. WildCat is truly a autistic genius. Mike Adam is a scoiopath who hates Lady Gaga, or something.) Baloo walks out stage left as Homer pops up and pulls on WildCat's neck collar squealing. WildCat deduces that Homer wants to show him something as we cut to Edie practicing the fine art of not being seen which is kind of useless since no one on this carrier knows who she is. But the thought and effort is certainly there as WildCat and Homer notice Edie grabbing Maxine from the toolbox (Helpfully pointed out by WildCat which shows his eyesight is better than mine...) and throws her into the grey/red engine of the farest left plane. Wait; wasn't that plane blue earlier? (I rechecked; it was grey to start out with. Yeah; WildCat's eyesight is better than mine.) She runs off stage left as WildCat looks surprised as one of the pilots -- a ferret wearing the goofyiest goggle/pilot's cap combination ever with a green jacket and yellow shirt with a belt -- arrives and closes the door of the engine. He walks off south as WildCat goes to the engine and knocks on metal for Maxine. Edie then turns around noticing WildCat and doesn't like this at all as we see Maxine in the engine sulking. She hears WildCat's voice and gets up as WildCat opens the door; and here comes the ferret pilot blowing him off for messing with his plane. (I think he was a dingo. When it comes to spieces, I suck at it.) Remember that for later on.

WildCat defends himself claiming he wasn't as the ferret pilot closes the engine door. WildCat claims that he was looking for a friend while Maxine acts like Rebecca on steroids. (Lots of foot tapping everyone.) as the ferret pilot blows him off. Then the PA announcer announces Pilot number one as the ferret pilot. Huh?! No actual name?! That was pretty sloppy as pilot number one grabs WildCat and puts him about thirty feet away from the plane because he makes no friends in a race he needs to win. (Wow, what a jerk he is?! No wonder I was sympathizing for Baloo in this one.) The ferret pilot walks back as Edie is hiding behind the stack of oil barrels and whisper yells to WildCat. Homer notices her and hides in WildCat's pocket as Edie approaches him and proclaims that she knows where the other furries are. WildCat points out the obvious logical fallacy in Maxine being in the ferret pilots' plane and Edie proclaims that she's part of the show. WildCat is grabbed by the arm and brought to a small lawn storage box as he didn't know she was in showbiz. Edie opens the door, WildCat goes inside, Edie slams the door on them and locks it. What a shock, eh?! Mistake in dialogue: WildCat calls one of the furries "Leo" despite him calling him Sammy earlier. Jymn Magon's story editing is slipping as WildCat proclaims that they are alone and cannot see Maxine's show from here. HAHA! (Actually; Disney Captions claimed that WildCat called Sammy, Dino for some reason. I could chalk it up as WildCat being WildCat here; but Dino is Fred Flintstone's pet. Considering that they in dialogue changed "Bart" to "Burt" in Mach One For The Gipper; I wouldn't put it past them that Sammy was originally Dino in the script; but changed it to Sammy for legal reason; but forgot to change Dino to Sammy here. Plus; it's not like the "F-Bomb" thing in Plunder and Lightning where it's a big deal; and it's clear Hanna Barbara didn't care about it so, chalk it for incompentence rather than anything else.) We go to the sky shot of the runway as the PA announcer goes over DA RULES (FAIRY GODPARENTS!) as they have to load the cargo; complete the obstacle course and do it all in record time to be the winner.

We pan over to the ferret pilot's plane as we see the ferret pilot get into the track pose and it's READY...STEADY...GO! (Peppa Pig anyone?!) The ferret pilot races to the plane and throws a large box into the open cargo hold of the plane. Logic break: The first box disappears when the second one is loaded; but that's the only break there. (Actually; the bigger logic break was that on far shots; there are three boxes of cargo; but it goes to six to nine depending on the closeup shot in the case of the Dingo pilot and later Baloo.) He slides the cargo door left, jumps into the pilot's chair and closes the glass hatch. He starts the engines and takes off into the sky as we cut to near the finish line. Edie pops out and invokes the magnet remote control of doom as she calls for engine trouble. She pushes the top button on the device and we head to a side shot of the ferret plane in profile. We zoom into the engine door and we head in as Maxine is sitting down doing the Gruffi pose. She is the Miss Cunningham of the "Lobster World". AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm... Anyhow; the collar flashes and Maxine goes berserk! The engine is destroyed of course as the ferret pilot feels some rumbling, pulls on a lever (JESUS~!), the plane turns around on a dime, nosedives into an acute hyperbole and then races up causing the ferret pilot to panic. The plane ultimately lands on the landstrip exactly where it started with the nose cone and wings instantly broken apart much to the shock and appallment of the ferret pilot. Edie then casually comes over, hauls Maxine out of the nose cone right in clear view of the ferret pilot and puts Maxine in the toolbox as she proclaims that she's dipped. (I'm guessing the dingo pilot assumed that there was a germlin in his engine and she took it out. It wouldn't incriminate Edie in the eyes of the characters, only in the eyes of the audience. So dingo pilot's a jerk; but not an idiot.) The ferret pilot proclaims that he needs the plane to fly home; and Edie proclaims that if she cannot fix it; it isn't broke; but it will cost him though. We cut to a poorly designed green plane which is the same plane from the sky shot as Pilot number two (which is the hippo pilot from Feminine Air I might add.) starts the engines and they begin to roar.

Then we see that Crazy Edie has teleported somehow back to her helicopter (Check the background; that's logic break number three guys. (Actually; this is forgivable since this is considered a scene changer anyway.)) as she invokes the magnet remote control and we see Frankie (green collar; it's like the TaleSpin version of the TMNT; only with different shades of fur) in the engines. Frankie does a priceless face when the collar sparks, all hell breaks loose inside the engine as he reverses the spark plug wires and the green plane reserves the props. The green plane goes backwards, stalls in midair and gets WARNERED right into the drink. HAHA! We then see Baloo come over and throw an inner tube onto the hippo pilot from Feminine Air sulking as the safety tube rings around his neck much to his surprise. (Considering that Baloo was shown completely surprised by this when he threw the life preserver, it's clear it wasn't him. However; the hippo pilot was looking down so he never saw it. Hippo pilot talks a lot in this episode for some reason.) Scene changer and we see the green plane put down onto the landing strip in the exact spot where it started by Edie's towing helicopter. That makes the teleport makes slightly more sense. Slighty more though. Then we go another scene changer as we see the hippo pilot in front of the damaged green plane. Edie comes over wanting some of that MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH and the hippo pilot hands it over. We cut to the white plane with the three props on top as pilot number three starts it's engines. Then we cut to Crazy Edie near the hanger this time as she invokes the magnet device, we see inside the engines Sammy this time doing some unscrewing and the white plane crumbles like a jigsaw puzzle. The plane gets busted down. Scene changer of doom and we see Crazy Edie casually walk over to the brown panther pilot wearing navy blue with goggle cap. Edie wants the damn money and you can pretty much guess what the brown panther does here. Finally; we go to the creamy vanilla plane as we see Wiley Pole is the pilot of this plane. Oh goody; fuddy duddy's back for the first time since A Baloo Switcheroo. Or as Disney Captions called him in volume one; Wily Paul. Yes; I'm whaffling Chris Barat; why do you ask?! (It's hilarious how Disney Captions screwed this up since Wily Pole is a play on Wiley Post.)

Anyhow; Wily's plane bounces like mad, and crashes. Okay; here's obvious logic break number four: There are only four furries and Homer is with WildCat. So, how did Edie gain a fifth furry? I guess the phantom furry was named Leo (Dino) as WildCat said earlier. (Actually; this is not a logic break since every scene changer assures us that cinema 101 would make sure that Maxine, Sammy and Frankie would be removed from the planes. Plus; Maxine was shown removed from the plane by Edie, so she had her on retainer for Wily's plane. So Edie did have a plan after all. No logic break here 2011 me; just run along now.) Wily is shocked as Edie comes over to motion to Wily to fork over the damn money. We cut to another shot of the PA Announcer as he proclaims that Baloo will never get off the ground at this rate. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Just what this race needs, a heel PA Announcer.) Now it is Baloo's turn as he runs like an idiot and collides into the boxes as they go into the air. Baloo juggles the boxes and puts it into the SeaDuck. Why bother Pop-A-Bear?! You're going to air the race anyway; there's no point in showing off. (Actually; this would partially explain the angry mob after Baloo had won; so interesting setup here.) Baloo jumps into the SeaDuck as the announcer rambles on about something that I don't really care about (It's about breaking a personal record and he'll blow it on the obstacle course. Wow; this announcer is turning all heel all of a sudden.). The SeaDuck actually manages to make it past the finish line this time. Crazy Edie is smelling five pilots screwed in a row as she pushes the blue button onto the stick console. One problem; Homer is actually inside the locked room with WildCat, he goes into a frenzy and that destroys the locked room. WildCat comments on his strength. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Homer pants for a bit before trying to tell WildCat something again. WildCat still doesn't get it again. HAHA! Sadly; for Homer, WildCat's the only one who really cares. Hey; WildCat likes animals what a shock?! We then see the SeaDuck flying into a metal cave with a blue two and a image of a baked pie below it.

I guess the sponsor is a pie making company. I don't know the point of that. (It's basically to warn the pilots of incoming pies. Also of note; the sound of a starter's pistol was used and in this sequence; pies are shot from guns and cannons. By rule: since guns are pulled out, it counts even if bullets aren't used. So we are now 39 for 46 episodes in which the guns were pulled out. If we can count the flare gun in A Touch Of Glass, then the pie guns and starter's pistol also counts as well. I almost forgot to mention: Bayou Country is the second studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records in January 1969. This album features "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Born On The Bayou" as the main event songs.) Baloo puts on the lights as the sirens ensues and the spotlights come out. The SeaDuck then gets pelted by the pies. Baloo foolishly looks out and get hit by a few stray pies. Baloo licks his face in a cute spot and then goes back in and puts on the wipers. This cave is so fake that Lance Storm would see this and say: "Damn; that is some fake cave". Cute spot as a pig pie man throws pies to a guy shooting them out a cannon. Geez; a pig as a baker; that wasn't stereotypical in the least; no siree! Even funnier; the guy firing the pies is none other than Colonel Grogg from War of the Weirds! I see he has finally found a job that doesn't involve martyrdom. (Colonel Grogg also cameoed in Stuck On You with the cliff guns. So point taken there 2011 me.) The SeaDuck manages to leave without incident. Baloo seems happy, which invokes the siren and the red alert light which we see a mouse furry reading a comic book. He sells the siren and turns the knob to a boiler to Blow Top which helpfully labeled as such without all the stupid overzealous nature, and that increases the heat of the large fake volcano. That was unintentionally funny to say the least as Baloo flies above the fake lava of the fake volcano which the lighting effects are awesome. What is this; some rib on PC'ness in cartoons?! More to come interesting enough. Am I watching the director's cut of the Treasure of The Golden Suns or something? (No, no you are not 2011 me.)

The volcano blows up and the SeaDuck floats on top of it in a cute spot as Baloo panics. Sadly; he doesn't sell it properly. At least the animators were smart enough to make the fake lava look somewhat legit. (Yeah; the lava side effects aren't even in evidence compared to Pizza Pie In The Sky; which was animated by the Euro team in France.) The SeaDuck -- after having some tail smoke -- takes a descent down the river with the helpful CAPTAIN'S ARM OF DOOM sign floating with a parachute. (Sadly; it's not from Spongebob Squarepants.) That's actually faker than this race. The SeaDuck lands onto the river bank to cool off and Baloo breathes a sigh of relief. (Note that this sequence went on for about five straight minutes and not once did anyone speak outside of Baloo breathing a sigh of relief. Modern cartoons would take this scene and have talking and annoying puns and other such BS until the scene loses all relief to letting the pictures and non-verbal cues tell the story. That's because in the mind of the exec, if there isn't wall to wall talking, then kids would change the channel, you see. Kids suck at non-verbal cues; because how else can they convince them to watch the show? I guess good writing is also bad. So 1984'ish of you execs.) We see the SeaDuck gliding down the river and then we cut to the cockpit as Baloo is in shock because it's about time to go down a waterfall. The SeaDuck goes down the waterfall slowly, which allow Baloo to wind up the side windows and takes a nosedive into the water. The SeaDuck acts like a submarine into the water as we see the cardboard octopus rise up from the cliff edge. Baloo does a hyperbole which knocks the cardboard octopus down. (This octopus made from cardboard actually has eight arms unlike the squid from It Came From Beneath The SeaDuck.) The SeaDuck rises from the water and flies through four holes carved into the rocks before finally making it back to the mid-air landing strip as the pilots wonder why Baloo's plane didn't fall apart like the others did.

We then cut to Edie with the binoculars as she is in shocked over the SeaDuck not being spare parts. Edie tells Al it's time to scam and get Homer as Al has his tongue stuck out for some perverted reason. Edie grabs her toolbox and both Al and Edie bail stage right. We then cut to the four loser pilots watching as the hippo pilot (the late Ed Gilbert according to my notes) then notices that Baloo was saying that he had a secret weapon. (Which if you read the transcript; Baloo never mentions a secret weapon. Unless he's implying that WildCat is the secret weapon. Which would make sense considerng the next line, but that brings up something: I wonder if this implies that this is one of the first big moments Baloo had with WildCat since Baloo hired him? Huh.) The ferret pilot also notes that WildCat was sneaking around his engine and then they all pump their fists in outrage. The SeaDuck finally lands on the landing strip and Baloo proclaims that he won. Personally; seeing the obstacle course; the pilots had no chance in hell of beating Baloo clean as a sheet anyway, except maybe Wily Pole. (Yeah; even Baloo felt these guys were sore losers. Which in fact, they are. Although considering the time; it does add heat to the Baloo/Wily Pole rivalry coming up in A Baloo Switcheroo.) Baloo opens the pilot's door and steps out as he proclaims that the pilots will do the football victory spot. With your fatass Pop-A-Bear?! Riiiiigggghhhhtttt. Baloo comes out looking like a cocky, arrogant pilot (which doesn't help his innocence any, mind you since cocky and arrogant are Baloo's normal traits, and are two of his worst I might add.) and the pilot all want to MURDER his ass! They blitz towards Baloo and that ends the segment seventeen minutes in. Pretty fun; but it just doesn't have the same feeling as before and Julia Jane Lewald seems to be channeling Chuck Tately here for some reason.

After the commercial break; we go to the sky shot of Baloo being chased by the pilots as the pilots want to tar and feather him. The chant is on, BABEE! (There were several problems with this; one being that despite the fact that Wily Pole is voiced by Frank Welker; Wily never speaks a word. Even in the chant! His mouth doesn't even move. There is also a moment in this where none of the pilot's mouths move, but they still chant anyway. Just sloppy animation work on the mouth flaps here.) I see someone has been watching CWA tapes. For those who don't know the CWA; that is the wrestling area where Jerry Lawler got his start in and one of the plot devices used was to tar and feather wrestlers. Of course they used molasses or maple syrup as the tar for obvious reasons. See Liberty's Kids for the real tar and feathering which let's say is not pretty to watch. (Wow; I don't remember Liberty's Kids Est. 1776 anymore; but I always recalled that moment for some reason even though it was basically a throwaway spot in the grand scheme of things. Let's just say that real tar can pretty much scar someone for life if it doesn't outright kill them and leave it at that. Although; considering that we saw Mustard Gas used in Jumping The Guns... Also of note; USWA and Smokey Mountain Wrestling also did the plot device during the 1990's, so it isn't just a CWA thing. UWF/Mid South I believe did this too.) Baloo calls them sore losers and to a certain extent; I'm on Pop-A-Bear's side here. Baloo then mid airs on a dime near the edge and runs the other way right into the mob and bypasses the mob easily. HAHA! (Baloo is surprisingly agile as Kit is surprisingly strong for their body types. Rebecca's not too far off in that department, either.) They then turn around and one of the pilot's admits that they don't have any tar to use. The panther furry admits that they have no feathers either. The hippo pilot and panther pilot channel the powers of the Urban Peasant because they have airplane grease and spoons. They all chant "Grease & Spoon'im!" HAHA! I know I like to club BS&P; but this one at least makes sense from a context standpoint because Julia wrote it so they didn't have the tar and feathers available instead of making the BS&P decision look obvious.

I wish writers would take this into account when trying to please BS&P. (I concur. Joe from The Issue At Hand Blog asked "Why Spoons?" and I had the same thought in mind. Then it hit me: They have spoons because at the beginning of act 2; the Master of Ceremonies (EMCEE by Disney Captions, PA Announcer in this re-rant.) states that the sponsor of the Cargo Carrier Classic was "Hi-Yo Silverware" which makes cheap utensils. In other words, spoons! This actually makes sense with what the joke was shooting for. Also; airplane grease is non-toxic, so it's a clear BS&P decision. But to be fair; professional wrestling events don't use tar either, so it's believable in that sense. Besides; as we'll see later, this was just warming up.) We then cut to Baloo hiding behind a box, then he tries to sneak away stage right; but the pilots catch him, throw grease all over Baloo and then toss spoons on him. HAHA! Ironically enough; the grease is colored like tar (Which makes the BS&P decision even more glaring. Ironically; this is still more believable than professional wrestling.) as Baloo is not impressed nor amused at this angry funny mob. As much as I am on your side Baloo; this is still just too funny. Baloo asks if they are happy, the ferret pilot is not as he wants to wreck the SeaDuck. Baloo panics and runs to his baby shoving the ferret pilot away. Then WildCat shoves through the rest of the angry mob calling for Baloo. Baloo is tangling with ferret pilot as he blows off WildCat since he's rather busy at the moment. WildCat brings out Homer from his pocket and shows off the lobster. Baloo tells the pilots to ignore him because he's crazy. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. (Which might be for the best since if you recall; the Dingo pilot saw WildCat calling for Maxine who was in the plane of this same pilot. Sadly; it doesn't work.) The pilots notice the cuteness; (Which in Zootopia is in fact a racial slur in the same vein as calling Grubby from Teddy Ruxpin a giant potato bug.) but they don't care as they accuse WildCat of wrecking the planes now. Well; hippo pilot did, anyway. (Which actually makes more sense since WildCat was snooping at Dingo Pilot's plane. Also remember that hippo pilot didn't see Baloo throw the life preserver or Baloo's emoting either.)

The pilot mob surrounds WildCat to try to grease and spoon him. But before the PTC can go to their e-mails in disgust of seeing a mentally ill person gets tarred and feathered; (Well; it kind of ruins the effect when Baloo got it first.) Homer jumps down and Wildcat sees him playing chrades. Homer does some zombie moves and the pilots are confused as hell. (At one point; Dingo Pilot claims that Homer is doing a reference to Son of Frankenstein. Someone on IMDB claimed that this was an anarchonism even though the movie was literally a year or two later than this time era. Never mind the skateboard came at least ten years later this reference. Methinks someone is nitpicking worse than me. Never a good idea. Hippo pilot of course doesn't like his mother-in-law. Why? Why not?! Because kids hate mother in laws. Why? Why not?!) Homer shakes his head, WildCat deduces that it's the Queen of Sheba and Homer nods his head. I love it when WildCat can stop any intelligent anthro just by acting dumb. It never fails! (I concur. See Baloo get flustered. See kids and me laugh in unison.) Somehow; Homer manages to explain to the pilots that the Queen of Sheba was responsible as one of the furries goes into Pilot Number Two's pocket and steals his wallet to show that Crazy Edie is a thief. This is so unintentionally funny to watch that Juila probably intended it that way. (Yeah; because this at least convinces the pilots to declare a ceasefire on Baloo despite the fact that the pilots don't know who WildCat is referring to when he references the Queen Of Sheba.) The pilots realize that Crazy Eddy didn't fix the planes and asked for their money up front. Well; that makes more sense doesn't it?! (Yeah; this is usually a sign of fraud when things go wrong. They also mention that Edie hasn't delivered on her promises either; which is another sign that Baloo's not behind this.) Still doesn't explain the phantom fifth furries in Wily Pole's plane though. (That's because Edie used Maxine as the furry; but she wasn't shown during Wily Pole's crash. Cinema 101 strikes again!) Homer goes into WildCat's hair and WildCat walks towards Baloo as Crazy Edie looks around the area for Homer.

The pilots decides to lay off Baloo's plane until he's found gulity. Baloo breathes a sigh of relief as Crazy Edie is getting impatient. (Usually when an officer says that; they still assume you are guilty until the evidence either comes or they nail you on something else entirely different. That's how control freaks operate.) Edie decides to invoke the blue button on the stick console, Homer goes into a frenzy, jumps into the SeaDuck's right wing engine and completely destroys the Klickenheimer as Baloo panics. (I should note this and point out that this is praise on my part: When Edie uses the tuning fork remote control device; she pushes the correct button in every spot. Normally; I would see animators screw this up and never get it straight. Here; they got it right every single time. GREAT!) Homer comes down into WildCat's hand, tries the breathe; but Crazy Edie grabs him and thus proves that she was responsible for wrecking the plane. WildCat notices her and still calls her the "Queen of Sheba" just to amuse me. Hey; it's a kickass name and she should have changed it while she had the chance. Crazy Edie is forced to retreat as the pilots run behind with WildCat wanting those lobsters, with Baloo saying to "grease and spoon her", badly. Oh man; even Ed Gilbert's acting is so poor; I betcha Eisner told him to say it that way. (I didn't think it was that bad 2011 me.) Thankfully; Al has had enough of this poor acting and forces the babyfaces back by growling. However; Al opens his mouth one time too many and Baloo makes him eat wrench. Baloo says some cruel things to Al as we cut to Edie's helicopter flying stage left. Edie opens the tail section and calls for Al as it's his last chance. Al runs like the wind stage left like an anthro as WildCat is stunned. Then he notices the ice cream man walking in the background calling for ice cream sales from the audience as he left his conveniently placed ice cream bicycle. WildCat runs over, jumps onto the ice cream bicycle and starts pedaling forward. Damn; I knew that would be used somehow. (Yip. Saw it coming a mile away too.) Al and WildCat race for their lives to get aboard the helicopter. Al takes the lead easily; but Al cannot get enough air and he gets WARNERED~! Complete with Hanna Barbara looping and sound effects I might add. Oh wait; he runs mid air and grabs onto the edge of the landing strip; my mistake.

WildCat keeps pedaling the ice cream bike like the idoit that he is, manages to make BETTER progress by manages to make it 9/10's of the way, jumps off the ice-cream bike and gets into the helicopter with ease. Great spot there guys. (This is straight out of the E.T. movie and so 1980's that it's shocking that no one noticed it. I guess the lack of moon or sun may have distracted us from making that connection, who knows.) Al is whimpering on the edge as we cut to the same footage of Edie opening the side window as she notices Al hanging onto the ledge. Edie proclaims that she's short one gator; but has her health and lobsters. The curtains open and here comes Wildcat in the funniest pissed off mode in DTVA history. Patrick Star wishes he had WildCat's goofy wit. Edie panics, takes a decent bump off the lever (JESUS TIMES TWO~! (Since her ass pushed one and her right hand pulled the other one.)), the helicopter goes into a tailspin (BWHAHAHAHAHA!) and the furniture goes flying out of the tail section. WildCat is hanging onto the pulley next to the glass cage and Crazy Edie unintentionally tickles WildCat in the ribs. WildCat sells it like Kit on drugs and the spots don't miss this time! Although; Sunwoo's screwing up Polly is much funnier for all the WRONG reasons. (I concur.) He also manages to release the furries while being tickled too which makes him a step above Kit in that department. WildCat gets pushed off and slides down the helicopter hatch towards sudden doom! He hangs on to the hatch door as Crazy Edie pulls the lever (JESUS~!) and manages to get the helicopter upright. However; she bounces on the pulley rope as the magnet remote control falls to the ground. Crazy Edie is finished as she takes a good bump off the remote, thus the collars activates and the furries are COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL~! They pretty much destroy the helicopter as Crazy Edie even takes a light blub on the head in a good bump and it actually shatters on-screen. OUCH! (Wow; I glossed over that in the transcript. Lovely!) This IS turning into an ECW match sans the blood. That forces Crazy Edie to bail complete with parachute as she gets in some last parting words on WildCat, formally calls the furries turncoats, traitors and they are fired. (Geez, Edie; didn't be afraid to tell them how you really feel about them. Which begs the questions: The feds or the furries? Edie The Queen Of Sheba or Eddie Antar? Answer to both: Doesn't matter. Even more surprising is that the tuning fork control device was still intact when she squashed it. Odd since we never saw it again. It probably fell in the water since the blimp was over water during the second act.)

WildCat gets up and gets into the helicopter; but the helicopter completely breaks up and WildCat and his posse have just been WARNERED~! HEE HEE! They free fall as Crazy Edie thinks she is finally safe from harm; but here comes WildCat from above, they do a ring-parachute spot and pounces onto the parachute. (I see WildCat watched the Skydivers movie; and then showed how Z-Gradish it really was by outclassing everyone in that movie. Heck; he didn't need a parachute either.) Crazy Edie complains as they fall and everyone take a decent bump onto the landing strip. (Edie tells them to get off my cloud; a version of the "Get off my lawn!" promo. Nice one, Edie.) Edie is on bottom and entombed by the parachute. Man; that bump was weaker than I originally thought it was. Edie pops from the parachute and blows off WildCat as she tries to flee stage right...right into the angry pilot mob lead by Baloo with a bucket of airplane grease. Edie proclaims that she is dipped, she gets dipped and spooned in that order by the angry pilot mob. HAHA! See; make the joke and then pay it off. Edie is a cool female heel and she would be perfect as Martin Torque's wife too. It's not like we don't have inter-species dating in TaleSpin anyway. (Now there's a friendship I would love to see; but since Baloo's the star, it's a no go. I should also point out something else: If anyone wants to point out that I was being hypocritical when I screamed bloody murder at the ending to Pinch Sitter from Kick Buttowski and laughed at this finish which is basically the same thing. Well; here's my response: In Pinch Sitter, Kendell never embarrassed Kick nor Brad the way Kick and Brad did at the end of Pinch Sitter. She didn't commit any crimes; and in fact she actually forsaked her own job in order to have the two brothers save face. So how do Kick and Brad repay Kendell? They throw crap on her and she does the Team Rocket exit via springboard. Brad doing this makes some sense since he's supposed to be the number one heel of the show, but Kick is the number one babyface. The side of right. And the side of right doesn't include sexism and assault of a woman. Plus; they did this to other babysitters including an old woman! Here; Edie got just grease and spoons, but she fleeced the rubes of their money, she abused a bunch of critters and enslaved them, she decieved someone with autism and she has a deadly animal as a pet! Pouring grease and spooning her is absolutely nothing compared to the real charges she is going to get when the police show up. Plus; Baloo got greased and spooned, FIRST! And WildCat almost got the same thing had it not been for Homer. So there you go, people: this is why what I said was not hypocritical. Almost forgot this: I find it funny that it's okay to say Homer, but not Bart on this show. Never mind that in The Simpsons; the number one character in the show is Homer Simpson! So; yeah. DUMB!)

We head to the Bayou Country BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (sunset) just outside the border as the animals are howling . We get a shot of the SeaDuck before panning left to WildCat as he uses the shears to cut off Homer's collar. WildCat proclaims that he got rid of "ring around the collar". HEE HEE! The furries jump on his head and kiss him for it, of course. WildCat welcomes that, puts the furries down on the ground and the furries run away stage left to enjoy home again. WildCat would like to visit them again. (Baloo would visit the Blue Bayou portion of Bayou Country in the comics; and it was something Baloo and Kit would regret.) WildCat waves goodbye with Baloo as Baloo puts his hand on WildCat's shoulder proclaiming that he made some new friends. (Which WildCat will never see again.) WildCat is actually relieved that they aren't staying with them and Baloo asks why. WildCat walks to the SeaDuck proclaiming that it's difficult to find lobster food around here. HAHA! Baloo is flustered again and we circle fade out to end the episode at 21:21. (Which is funny considering that the furries eat normal food like Baloo does.) I don't know why Steet thinks this episode is kiddy; because it was damn fun to watch. (I think the main reason he thinks that is because there is Mommy For A Day, All's Whale That Ends Whale, Polly Wants A Treasure and Paradise Lost that already do these plotline and this one is so middle of the road featuring a manchild like WildCat who I sympatize a lot more now than I did before because of my knowledge of autistics. The other thing is; as fun as this episode was, Paradise Lost was far better than this. Mainly because it unlocked WildCat's character as something other than a joke. Sure; this episodes had bouts of empathy in between the jokes, but Paradise Lost was more profound in the empathy department.) I am more to the opinion that it was the gapping logic break with Wily Pole's plane that did this episode in more than anything else; but it really got awesome once the angry pilots formed a mob on Baloo's ass. **** ¼ (85%). (The rating stays as is; and the logic breaks weren't the problem. It was a good, clean fun critter story in a series of them on this show and there's nothing wrong with it, unless you are tired of them.)

THE REVIEW LINE

After All's Whale That Ends Whale was a below average episode; (Actually; in 2011, it was actually better on the second viewing mainly because the episode was less of a hot mess than I expected at the time. Don't worry; I'll get to that episode. Sometime.) it was wonderful to see Julia Jane Lewald write an episode that she can actually be proud of. (I think Feminine Air is the best episode she ever wrote, mainly because she found a way to make the Battle Of The Sexes angle work. It's real simple: Don't make it boys VS. girls. Make it Sexism Vs. Enlightened. Or in TaleSpin's case: Higher For Hire Vs. WASPS (Coolhands Luke everyone.). More on that when I get to transcribe that episode.) I like this episode as WildCat worked his ass off in order to impress me at every turn and Baloo finally got what he deserved for acting like such a jerk after he won a race which had no competition. Sure; Baloo wasn't at fault for sabotaging the planes; but he still acted like a jerk. The "greasing and spooning" was just priceless as the writers managed to find a way to PC the episode and still make it funny. (Oh lord; stop with the bigoted dog whistle 2011 me! Yes; this was a clear BS&P decision, but to be fair, professional wrestling does the same thing because real tar can scar and kill people in real life. Just a fact.) Like Baloo could sabotage a plane by himself. Crazy Edie was a pretty cool heel and the “lobsters” had more character development as a team than the Fluppy Dogs did and the lobster had half the time to pull it off. (The furries non-verbal cues were great. I'm amazed that I went through this rant and didn't mention how skilled they were in that department.) Still; this episode had it's flaws; most notably the phantom lobster furry on Wily Pole's plane, whom Wily didn't speak once in this episode despite the only one having a name. (I'm shocked he didn't get any lines, despite the fact that Frank Welker is the voice of Wily Pole. Mind boggling!). Overall; I enjoyed this episode and the quality is better than Stuck On You, in spite of Stuck On You being funnier and less flawed. (No thanks to Sunwoo's continuity screw ups.) Next up is Road To Macadamia and then from there is Ransom Of The Red Chimp.(Well; outside of Flying Dupes, that is the last Kit-less episode of the series. So the next episode I'm going to transcribe is Destiny Rides Again; the first episode on the Volume 3 DVD set. Kevin Johnston thought this was a huge misfire; although I blame most of that on Cathryn Perdue debutting as a writer more than anything else. It's also notable for Kit flying the SeaDuck for one last time before the effects of moonlighting as Cavin brought us Kit-less episodes en masse.) So...

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

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