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Paradise Lost Re-Rant

Reviewed: 02/27/2011
Additional Commentary: 12/11/2021

CH-CH-CH-CH-CHIADISE!

Original Airdate: 02/25/1991 (Syndication), Episode #62 (TaleSpin Volume 3, Disc 2), Episode #56 (Production Order).

Paradise Lost Notes
Paradise Lost Transcript

Okay; here's an episode that actually follows the premise of the series and in the previous rant; I consider this WildCat's greatest 22 minutes ever. (2016 Gregory Weagle Says: When Flight of the Snowduck was shown; it was basically the imagination episode and Molly was more of the focal character of the episode than WildCat was. This was WildCat's moment in the sun without having Molly around and it was better than anything I could have imagined.) While Kit and Molly will likely go out with a whimper; WildCat goes out with a bang. (Outside of one appearance in Bygones; which was basically to give Baloo an alternate plane; this episode basically allowed WildCat to truly be WildCat in every possible way. Molly at least was the focus character in the final episode she was in. Poor Kit; the last two episodes he was in, he was pretty much dead weight outside of a few spots as the not good Destiny Rides Again was his final moment in the sun. Meanwhile; Baloo is the one who gets duped in the end; but it don't matter because Eisner likes milking Disney Feature characters at the expense of the more over new characters in the series.) Plus; we get the closest moment of Deadly Force in DTVA up to this point before Gargoyles destroyed that illusion soundly. (Someone actually got shot on-screen with a bullet shooting gun (Although if you count implied scenes, Rick Skye would be the first anthro to get shot in the belly.) unlike in Gargoyles where the actual shot was off-screen. To be fair; Gargoyles did theirs to create suspense and it was the major plot of the story; while Paradise Lost, it was basically a spot that they set up for later in the episode. The plot in this episode is: Baloo meets a tour guide (a bison furry no less) who has discovered a lush paradise in some desert. The sercet is some sparkling water that grows plant life and creates creatures like dinosaurs inside a valley every hundred years. So Baloo, the guide and WildCat go there to prevent the doors from closing so they can have this lust valley open all the time. Baloo believes that this will become a major tourist attraction for all ages and make a lot of money. However; the tourist guide is actually a hunter who loves gun and wants this to become a hunting range for adults. So WildCat has to protect the dinosaurs because he loves them and doesn't want to see them get killed. This episode is straight out of the 1914 animated short Gertie The Dinosaur in some respects; only it is created like B-movie plot and then animated for television.) Let's rant on shall we....?

This episode is written by Jeffrey Scott. The story is edited by Karl Geurs. (Normally, I praise Karl for story editing in this series; but there were a number of moments where Karl should have stepped in and changed some of Jeffrey's script. I'll explain why as we go on.) The animation is done by Walt Disney Animation Japan/Hanho Heung Up Company Limited.

Interesting Moment #1: According to Jeffrey Scott's website; the original codename for this episode was called The Hunt. Sadly; Paradise Lost's meaning of the famous logical Paradise Lost myth has lost meaning over the years thanks to a product that is about teenage thrill killing. Yeah; not a good assocation at all. (Just to add on to this IM: The movies in question is based on a 1996 documentary called Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills (which had two sequels) and yes, it's about thrill murdering by teenagers. Also; Paradise Lost was a 1935 dramatic play on Broadway which was filmed for television in 1971 for PBS. However; the original Paradise Lost origin comes from the epic poem written in 1667 by John Milton. On an interesting note; the following television shows have episodes titled "Paradise Lost": Kamen Rider 555, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Stargate SG-1, Eureka Seven (English localization of course), The Unit, Justice League and Bionic Woman (2007). In a shock; Wikipedia doesn't have TaleSpin on the list. Huh. Guess TaleSpin isn't important enough to them. Wouldn't be the first time someone has rejected this show out of hand. I can speak from experience.)

We begin this one with a shot of a jungle WELL BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (Sunrise) with a pan west of the bright sunshine and pterodactyls flying around. Then we set the record for the quickest excuse to turn Michael Eisner on by fading to black. (Apparently; this was used as the hook to get viewers in. Tune in to see Baloo and company face the dinosaurs! This is like the alien subplots in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I don't understand why they needed that; they could have edited this out and it wouldn't have changed anything. It was simply put there to entice viewers to keep watching. Considering that this episode aired after Your Baloo's In The Mail; I'm guessing the previous episode is where the audience got fed up about this show and the show jumped the shark. This is why replacing Your Baloo's In The Mail and expand Bygones to a two parter was a much better prospect. Not that I hate Bygones at all; as it was, it was awesome.) We return to see WildCat open the engine on the SeaDuck as he's cooking something in a frying pan on top of the engine. Also; we are at that island on the South Sea's Louie's at the docks, I should point out. WildCat takes the frying pan and sits down on a cargo box and produces the French bun and puts the fried fish in the bun. I know this because WildCat calls it a fish sandwich and it's his favorite. (Well; he is a mountain lion; and thus a cat. A cat who completely subverts the "Cats are Mean" thing Walt Disney used to pull to justify making cats look negative. Hal and Douglas are the mean cats of this show. Kitten is more of a seducer than mean.) WildCat tries to eat sandwich; but a cat's whimper and WildCat rises the sandwich and sees that it's Spunky from Rescue Rangers making a cameo. (Which I mistaken as Sparky from Rescue Rangers in the transcript! And to think; I made the mistake in thinking that one of the hunters was a shoat when it's supposed to be a stoat! I hate the English language sometimes!) WildCat calls it his favorite too and takes the fried fish out of the bun and puts it on the docks for Spunky to eat. Spunky eats it and jumps into WildCat's lap and rubs his chest with his head.

Spunky jumps away stage left, WildCat pulls fish filet number two onto the bun and then we see a brown puppy whimpering and he has a collar and a license. Something tells me Louie has been keeping pets lately which is a tell tale sign of this series impending cancellation from the airwaves. (Yeah; that is the most reasonable explaination that wasn't explained to us. Still; it's better than the old stereotype of the old lady having millions of cats on the property, so I'll live.) WildCat didn't know about dog's liking fish unless they are catfish and gives the fish to the dog. The dog chews on it and walks away stage right. WildCat goes for fried fish number three (the last one); but then all the animals Louie seems to be keeping come out of the woodwork. Oh boy; Louie has issues to say the least. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: There is a really funny Youtube video from Major League Baseball, where David Hulse is literally hitting FOUR STRAIGHT foul balls in the exact same spot in the digout during a baseball game. That reminds me of this scene now, despite happening 18 months before David Hulse.) It also includes two seals as one of them jumps on WildCat. WildCat proclaims that he wasn't hungry anyway and gives the last piece of fish to it. (At least WildCat is healthy enough to be able to give away free meals. If Rebecca starts doing this for on a regular basis; she's not going to last long. Of course; this was to build up to the fact that WildCat is an animal lover, which they already did in The Sound & The Furry with the furries. What incentive do I have to watch this now? Well; because they promised dinosaurs will roam on this TaleSpin world, that's why!) Then we see a shadow befall on the puppy and he bails along with all the other animals behind WildCat. We hear metal clanking around a bit. We see a bison in safari hunting gear approach WildCat and we get this charming exchange:

Bison Furry: Are you Baloo?!
WildCat: Well; really, I'm closer to orange. [Pinching himself. We see that the bison furry is wearing safari gear with a white coat.]
Bison Furry: Baloo the pilot. [The bison furry walks towards Louie's]
WildCat: (Chuckles.) Oh...he's inside Louie's place. (The load of bread is taken and eaten by the animals behind WildCat.) Come to think of it; he's not blue either, more of a grayish-brown...or is it brownish-gray? [The dog licks him in the face in a contrived matter. Disney Captions has it as "Baloo" instead of "blue" like it should be, because WildCat is comparing colors here.]

HAHA! (Actually; I kind of like O'Roarke over McNee here believe it or not; although McNee really grew on me as a monster heel. McNee made no bones about being a monster heel. He was angry, he rarely smiled and when he did, it was to kill animals. O'Roarke is much, much more subtle with his behavior and thus the monster heelish antics are much more muted by the fact that he sounds quite reasonable. Even though he's a bison and intimidating; he's not trying to be, it's just the way he is. He scares animals; but isn't really doing it on purpose.) We head inside Louie's as there is a ton of uneaten bananas lying on the floor. We pan over to Baloo at the island bar sulking about working for Miss Cunningham again while Louie makes orange juice with his feet again from the conveniently placed net of oranges above him. Baloo grabs a bunch of bananas whining about hauling crabs to Crab Town and hauling bananas to the Banana Republic. Only in TaleSpin would the term "Banana Republic" hold actual meaning that is not a political gripe. (The Banana Republic is a phrase coined by O. Henry as mentioned in the Ransom Of The Red Chimp re-rant commentary.) Louie grabs one and eats it. Hypocritical much there, Louie?! Anyway; Baloo's still complaining about having to work for Rebecca to buy back the SeaDuck. I wish Kit was here to punch Baloo in the mid-section for every time I heard that comment; but sadly; he's not in this episode. (Here's a couple of lines that should have been redubbed: I would excise the references to Rebecca and Higher For Hire here and just have it as Baloo saying that life is in the dumps due to the overloaded work he has taken. By changing those lines; this allows this to be a Pre-Plunder and Lightning episode and thus set up the reasons why Baloo only works when he wants to work: Because he doesn't have a lot of trust in adults like Kit does. That would be a compelling angle. By having it as a post-Higher For Hire episode; then it's just Baloo not liking Miss Cunningham running the business, which we have done several times in this series already! Now; as for Kit: Number one, he was moonlighting as Cavin at this point. The other thing is; he has already done TWO episodes like this with animals: Polly Wants A Treasure and All's Whale That Ends Whale (plus was majorly involved in Molly's animal story in Mommy For A Day.). Sure; WildCat has already done this plotline once (The Sound & The Furry); that episode was played for comedy. This one isn't and it really showed WildCat having a personality that made him a lot more than the joke machine he was used in other episodes. So; no Kit is a better idea and I don't think he could pull off what WildCat Puma could pull off here.)

Anyhow; Louie feels his pain since his business has been slow. Hey; at least you have a business Louie. (Actually; if they redubbed like two lines and got out the throwaway reference to Rebecca; Baloo would still have a business at this point.) Baloo states that it would take one hundred years to get his plane back and the situation stinks as he gives the thumbs down. (I would redub this line to just say: "It'll take a hundred years to get rich at this rate." That way; it can still be a pre-Plunder and Lightning episode. Yes; it sounded generic and lazy, but it would make more sense. If you make this as a post-P&L episode, then people are going to say "Where's Kit in all this?"; because Kit is more over than Baloo and WildCat!) I see the lazy genes have infected Pop-A-Bear again. Then in comes the bison furry as he puts the sack down on the counter and proclaims that Baloo can be stinking rich in a couple of weeks. So, this bison has an actual cure for cancer?! Or is he Mike Adams in a goofy disguise?! I cannot tell which at this point. (Nah; it's neither. O'Roarke just wants to create a resort where you can see and kill dinosaurs. Yes; I gave the plot away, but this is a re-rant and so, I cannot pretend to see this episode cold anymore.) Anyhow; Baloo greets the bison and they shake hands as the bison addresses himself as O'Roarke (Jim Cummings). (I decided to Google-fu the name and there is an elementary school named after this character in Las Vegas, Nevada. The name is a play on Thomas D. O'Rourke .) O'Roarke asks Baloo is he could fly him to the Mogabi Desert. (Yeah; I called it a dessert in the re-rant. I have since corrected it. I went with Mogabi as Disney Captions said; but I think it was originally a play on words called Mugabe or Omugabe of Ankole is the title given to the monarch of the Kingdom of Ankole in Uganda, what used to be the kingdom of Nkore in pre-colonial times, and leader of the Banyankole (the people of Ankole). Historically, Ankole was a sovereign entity, but when it was incorporated into modern Uganda in 1901 by the signing of the Ankole Agreement, Omugabe became largely a ceremonial position, an administrative position within the British colonial framework. The term "Omugabe" is translated in various ways, but is most commonly equated to "king". The Omugabe came from the royal Bahinda clan, a clan that is considered an exclusively Bahima clan. The kingship was abolished in 1967 by president Milton Obote. I'm keeping the wordplay as is. There is Mugabe clan in Zimbabwe and Mugabe Were who was a poltician in Kenya. Even more interesting; there there is also a more direct connection to this name; which is the Mojave Desert which is part of California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada.)

Baloo proclaims that he can fly him anywhere he wants and then catches himself because there is nothing in the Mogabi Desert except for a million square miles of sand. O'Roarke opens his small bag and drops sand onto the counter claiming that there is so much more. Louie protests this dirtying of his counter as O'Roarke brings out a model sand dinosaur (!!) with a coin like symbol of sand and sun on the left side of the dinosaur which O'Roarke puts the dinosaur onto the counter. See; O'Roarke has discovered that there is a paradise suspended in time a hundred million years ago in the sands of the Mogabi. (This is straight out of a b-movie and it shouldn't be a surprise since Kathrin Victor is a continuity coordinator for this series. I'm sure that she gave suggestions during the time and one or two made the cut. It happens all the time.) Baloo looks giddy as he asks where and O'Roarke proclaims that it's right here. No; no shots to the groin are involved here. We then pan over to see WildCat enter Louie's calling for Baloo. WildCat gasps as O'Roarke is shown with a OUT OF NOWHERE sword as he cuts off the dinosaur model's head. Oh; that is so symbolic of this series getting canceled; I swear to God! (Someone has been watching "To The Rescue" on Rescue Rangers one too many times. I just love how the Acorn Cafe made a big deal out of Donald Drake's saying that he would swear to God that he will kill Klordane. Never mind that in DTVA; everyone says die at least once, and TaleSpin had four references to God's name in vain compared to just two in Rescue Rangers. Also; Rescue Rangers says god more times than any DTVA series. That doesn't make it a mature adult series. Gargoyles at least tried to be adult; but it was Batman Disney style. TaleSpin was an adult disguised as a kids show, because the reality of this world is the closest in the TaleSpin world. Yeah; it doesn't make sense compared to the real world humans in Gummi Bears, Rescue Rangers and Gargoyles; but so what?! At least TaleSpin takes place in it's own world and thus it's easier to accept the cartoon logic that sometimes happen in that world compared to the real world; where kids relate to it more; but it also increases the amount of smarky critics who have to slap the show harder for having it in the real world when the show decides to invoke cartoon logic.)

The head lands on the floor. It's funny how BS&P works; as beheading a real character is illegal; but an model of it is perfectly legal. Of course; they never got it straight anyway as shown in the Halloween episode of Quack Pack and several other episodes of note. (Actually; it wasn't the taking the head off in Quack Pack that was startling; it was the fact that the neck of the head was shooting fire. Yeah; that somehow got pass BS&P. Beheading on a Disney show? Pfft. That's nothing. Shooting flames from the neck? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!) O'Roarke spends the sand across the counter as he proclaims that once every hundred years; a door opens and pours ancient water from deep into the earth. I still think Earthia would be a good name for the TaleSpin planet that they are on. O'Roarke pours the sparkling water of life onto the sand and it's CH-CH-CH-CHIADISE~! I cannot resist the obvious Chia Pet joke because it's so obvious what Jeffrey Scott was shooting for here. Louie calls it crazy. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. (Chia Pets is a classic example of a 1980's pop culture reference in a television show which should expose the hypocrisy of many critics of the new cartoon shows out there. They scream bloody murder when Family Guy does it; and yet, here is a classic example in a cartoon that is often praised and was released in 1982; around the time that audience was born. Only in this episode; it's not a throwaway spot; it plays directly into the plot and the entire existence of Dinosaur Land! Most times; pop culture references are just there to remind the audience of the creators likes and dislikes. Also, Chia is also known as Salvia hispanica, a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to central and southern Mexico and Guatemala.[2] The sixteenth-century Codex Mendoza provides evidence that it was cultivated by the Aztec in pre-Columbian times; economic historians have suggested it was as important as maize as a food crop.[3] Ground or whole chia seeds still are used in Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico, and Guatemala for nutritious drinks and as a food source. The word "chia" is derived from the Nahuatl word chian, meaning oily.[1] Yes; they don't say the word on this episode, but the concept is still similar to a Chia Pet; only it can also be done in reverse as we see later. Also; I corrected a line where I said it was every hundred million years; when it was just a hundred. Not that it matters or anyway since most furries would be dead by the time the second coming appears.)

WildCat likes this guy's green thumb work and asks about growing some courtons for him. HAHA! ( A piece of sautéed or rebaked bread, often cubed and seasoned, that is used to add texture and flavor to salads, notably the Caesar salad, as an accompaniment to soups and stews, or eaten as a snack food. Yeah; I can see why this was funny.) O'Roarke gleefully ignores him as he believes people will pay to see this paradise and Baloo blows him off because it's just a jungle. O'Roarke then asks him if they would pay to see dinosaurs added to the mix. We then hear someone whimpering in the model paradise and cut to see a little blue long neck dinosaur walking around as WildCat sticks his head inside and the dinosaur runs stage left like a scalded dog. (Now; here's where a Z-Grade movie plot actually works because TaleSpin is a cartoon. Therefore, you can get away with stuff that live action couldn't get away with during that time without making it clearly look fake. Nowadays, it's a moot point since CGI can do all that even in live-action; but back in those days; animation had the "it" factor that made otherwise laughable plots believable and real.) WildCat proclaims that he likes dinosaurs and has models of them as he brings them OUT OF NOWHERE. Well; Dinosaurs as a group were discovered in the late 1800's so it's not out of place. Anyhow; Baloo sees it but doesn't believe it as O'Roarke walks with Baloo away from WildCat showing off his dinosaur collection. O'Roarke wants to make a theme park out of this paradise. Baloo and O'Roarke are going to be rich as Baloo flies, O'Roarke is the tour guide and asks if it is a deal. You know something; they should have re-dub those lines to get rid of the references to Rebecca and Higher For Hire and make this one appear to be an episode that happened before Rebecca showed up so the logic stays constant. Also, repaint the sign to get rid of the HFH part too in The Sound & The Furry. (Yeah; those were mistakes that should have been fixed, because then no one could come out and say where Kit is. Why is that important? Because Kit was the reason why this show got approved, even though Michael Eisner wanted Baloo to be the major star. It's little mistakes like these that show how rushed this show ultimately was.)

WildCat plays with his pink platypus dinosaur on the paradise while Baloo ponders this over. (I should note that in this sequence; there was a lot of talking over other people which I was able to transcribe as much as possible which Disney Captions missed. I can understand them missing some of this; but they were missing stuff that even the talking over sequences had clear enough audio to hear what the one being talked over had to say.) Baloo then proclaims that he has a partner and shakes hands on the deal. O'Roarke proclaims that they need to get to the place near dawn according to the legend and find a way to keep the water flowing because if the sparkle water dries up then as the paradise model demonstrates; it all turns back to sand. WildCat is confused as hell to what is going on and that my friends, is the last appearance for Louie and Louie's in general. Louie would return for Jungle Cubs; and then gets excised by the Prima Estate. (Well; until the new Jungle Book CGI-live action movie was released a month ago and doing almost as good sales at the box office as Zootopia; which is around $930 million as of this writing; and Louie is in this one, only with a completely new voice that is not Louis Prima's soundalike voice. So if TaleSpin gets rebooted, Louie can come back with a completely different voice. Oh well, trademark law sucks anyway.) Scene changer and we head to the Mogabi Desert AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as the SeaDuck flies into view with it's headlights on. We head into the cockpit as O'Roarke is in Kit's seat with the map as WildCat watches on from behind like a spy. Baloo whines about finding nothing on the map and O'Roarke tells him to relax because Mogabi is a big desert. Then he gets out of the chair and points to Baloo that it's there as he brings out the medallion and we get a closeup of it before zooming out to the windshield and we see a hollowed out volcano (!!) and several smaller volcanoes surrounding it. O'Roarke proclaims that this is the spot to land as the SeaDuck flies down and touches down (Complete with wheel opening sequence from In Search Of Anicent Blunders...) onto the ground inside the large hallowed volcano without incident.

The side door opens with steps and out comes WildCat proclaiming that dinosaurs love jellybeans. HAHA! If only WildCat; if only. (That would prove to be true in this world actually as we'll see later on. WildCat: Manchild with a sense of not being lazy. Even though both Baloo and WildCat are manchildren; WildCat's is by design while Baloo is by attitude. Which one would you have more empathy and sympathy for? I would suggest the former here.) O'Roarke jumps out with Baloo as the landing strip will be right where they stand and there are hotels and swimming pools to consider too. Geez; can you sense him turning heel right now?! (Actually; no. If he had just paved paradise and put in a parking lot; that would be heelish of him. O'Roarke wants to turn the paradise into a resort so everyone can see this mystical valley. So no; he hasn't turned heel on anyone but the most acute enivornmentalists out there. Which in the 1930's were so few in number, no one noticed that something was wrong until it was way too late.) We then see WildCat looking around the area and sees nothing let alone dinosaurs. He even asks that question as we see O'Roarke sizes up the cargo inside Baloo's SeaDuck and takes out a backpack. Baloo takes some sand and wonders if they only came here to play in a huge sandbox. O'Roarke tells him to relax of course as they are here in the sand and they are crystallized by the sun. Umm; that makes no sense whatsoever since they should be fossilized first of all and heat cannot crystallize flesh; only cold can. Logic break number one for the episode almost seven minutes in. (Oh, I don't know 2011 me. Maybe this method works since the dinosaurs and folige are Chia Pets anyway.) Any minute now; dawn will arise as we look towards a V shaped hole in the mountain side. The sunlight beams down and creates a sun beam as it fires onto the other side and we hear rumbling. The rock crumbles for a while much to O'Roarke's amazement and it produces a cave as the sparkle ancient water flows down like a waterfall. Notable coloring mistake: The bottom river on the first shot is blue as if water has already flown; but the next shot shows it as bone dry. Yip; Sunwoo is animating as I expected them to. (Nope. I'm guessing that Hanho Heung-Up company limited made this mistake since the episode was animated by Walt Disney Animation Japan Inc.)

Wildcat and Baloo are in shock as we get CH-CH-CH-CH-CHIAIDSE before our very eyes. The trees rise up to the top as O'Roarke is near the SeaDuck calling this fantastic. Baloo, WildCat and O'Roarke rise up from the trees uprooting as we cut to shots of butterflies coming out of flowers, punk frogs rising from lily pads coming up and hopping as we recycle the beginning shot of the episode and then cut to a faraway shot of the sun coming up over the horizon over the volcano. (Probably the only time you will see mohawks worn in this series.) Then we cut to WildCat on the tree looking at a butterfly and he still doesn't see any dinosaurs which is funny considering that in the recycled shot; there is a pterodactyl flying around. (Another reason why the shot at the beginning of the episode was only designed to hook the audience back in after Your Baloo's In The Mail.) I'm tempted to call that logic break number two for the episode; but WildCat must think long neck dinosaurs only apply as dinosaurs in his wacky mind of his. (Oh I almost forgot: When WildCat was playing with the toy dinosaurs at Louie's, he saids the following line:

WildCat: Stegosauruses and brontosauruses and triceratopses and tricerabottomses...

Yes; the obvious joke is a play on top and bottom. That's not the amazing part. The amazing part is that WildCat can pronounce these names without any trouble whatsoever. Yeah; so he's dense, but far from stupid. This makes it more likely that he has autism; which in the real world would make him a bigger babyface than Teddy Ruxpin.) A butterfly lands on his nose as Baloo blows him off because he doesn't know how to take off as the SeaDuck is on top of a tree and there's no landing strip to use here. O'Roarke blows that off because the water dries up at sundown and if that happens than they cannot access it for another another hundred years. Wait; I thought it was a hundred million years?! Ah; irrelevant either way since none of the furries will live pass thirty years anyway. (Yup; it's a transcription error on my part and 2011 me just realized something was amiss; but won't admit that he screwed up.) We then see Baloo, O'Roarke and WildCat climb down the tree via the vines as the pterodactyls fly around the trees. Next we head into the Chia Jungle of Doom as O'Roarke and Baloo with swords cut down some vines. One is being careless; the other one isn't. The answer of who is who will surprise you. (I think it was O'Roarke; which would be a subtle hint that he's the heel; and a really effective naunce as well since I'm sure it was going to be Baloo as usual.) Baloo cuts down an apple and asks for lunch; but O'Roarke blows him off and continues cutting vines down. (In storyline; O'Roarke is being reasonable because he wants the paradise to stay much longer than this paradise would allow and they have pretty much several hours before their planes go up in a cloud of sand dust; so, I can see why O'Roarke wants them to stop eating and get going.) Baloo takes a big bite out of one apple and calls for WildCat to walk faster. We then start the first real funny gag involving WildCat as he has a sack of jellybeans and he's placing them by the hand full onto the ground proclaiming that dinosaurs love jellybeans. HAHA! Dumbass question of the day: Where did WildCat find out that dinosaurs love jellybeans? I wish Jeffrey Scott addressed that one little detail because it would be fun to blow off this as quackery. Then again; this whole episode is one fantasy dose of woo; so there you go. (If this were today; we would find out that WildCat reads TaleSpin's answer to the National Enquirer (called the Wooation Enqurier) and in it states that dinosaurs eat jellybeans and honk like Bunkins (a play on Buicks.).)

WildCat eats some and the butterfly is following them just for fun. O'Roarke cuts more vines near the badly designed V path as Baloo fails to cut the vine down which is enough for WildCat who is walking backwards at this point to head towards the left path (Democrat!) while Baloo and O'Roarke take the right path (Republican!). (Oh come on! WildCat took the right path and Baloo/O'Roarke took the straight path which means Independent. Nowadays; it's hard to tell who is right and who is left anymore, thus forcing us to treat people like human beings. What a shocking concept that is?! Thank goodness I grew out of this joke.) The butterfly flutters around the jungle to waste some time and give us some of the usual awesome background music from Christopher L. Stone as we see Wildcat dropping more jellybeans on the ground and whistling. HAHA! He seriously believes that dinosaurs love jellybeans. (As we will see; the dinosaurs do love jellybeans. At least the longnecks do. The pterodactyls don't like soda pop for some reason, though.) He calls for the dinosaurs and then places one jellybean (a red one) onto the ground and we get a MAN-SIZED thump. WildCat thinks that the jellybeans have become loud. Did Larson & Gary create them?! It's really a sad commentary on the world when even jellybeans need to be injected with steroids. (I don't know if I told this story before; but the guise of the whole Larson & Gary joke started with "Beauty & The Beet"; which was the third episode I officially ranted on outside of TaleSpin, for Darkwing Duck. There was a scene where Bushroot (as a duck furry) is being abused by two scientists named Larson & Gary. They then proceed to take a needle and inject a liquid into a hamburger and it expands to a hundred times it's size. I thought: "Did they just inject steroids into a hamburger? And tell me that this was supposed to be a joke?" So everytime I see muscle heads around, I invoke the Larson & Gary crack. It's the oldest joke I have ever done and it is retired along with the rejected Rhinokey jokes.)

He drops a lime green jellybean and we get another MAN-SIZED thump. WildCat smiles and then drops them two at a time and walks around as the thumping continues. The butterfly turns around and panics, remembering to bail stage left as we see a blue/darker blue dinosaur licking up jellybeans. Did someone seriously think this was a good idea to do to Baloo in Jungle Book 2?! If so; then someone is seriously drunk. (The difference between Jungle Book 2 and this was the dinosaur colors are clearly a stylist choice. Baloo in Jungle Book 2 was blue because the execs seriously believed that no kid would be able to tell where Baloo was at all times. This is the definiton of execs saying "Kidz art dum!" without question. "Execs art dum!"; that's more like it.) This goes on for a bit until WildCat drops a darker green jellybean and it doesn't thump so WildCat calls it a dud. HAHA! Even in the jellybean universe; it's not easy being green. AHHAHAHAHAHAHA! THUMP! Whoa! Ummmm...Well; at least I didn't get punched in the kisser for cracking a fat joke this time...POW! OUCH! Ummmmm... Wildcat throws out all the jellybeans and there is no thump; but the dinosaur invokes the vacuum cleaner mouth and sucks up the jellybeans literally through the nose. Now this episode really sucks! HAHA!

Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Sean Desmond. (Video On Trial joke from years ago when vacuum cleaners are involved in the spot. Simple, easy and effective.)

WildCat turns around and panics and then gets giddy because it's a real life dinosaur. NO?! REALLY?! Then we get logic break #3 for the episode as apparently the jellybean bag is still full when the dinosaur sucks them in after WildCat pats his nose. (Why he dumped out the rest of the jellybeans earlier is still a mystery to me. At least have him have two bags in the overalls.) WildCat blows him off because he's such a greedy dinosaur. HEE HEE! If only WildCat knew how much dinosaurs eat in a day. Then the dinosaur uses the snout to sniff and tickle WildCat good which Fraley oversells. I'm guessing that Fraley is the one who taught R.J. Williams how to oversell a tickling scene. (So; yes they are redoing spots from A Sound & The Furry. Which is amazing considering the climax of this episode.) We then cut to O'Roarke and Baloo near a cliff with tree roots as O'Roarke points to the waterfall on the far zoom in shot. Then we see O'Roarke and Baloo running through the jungle on the sky shot, they head near the river in behind a tree and then stop because there is more thumping noises. Baloo gives two choices and you can pretty much guess which one is right. O'Roarke drops his sword and then brings down the big ass backpack as Baloo calls for WildCat because it's a dinosaur and Wildcat is nowhere to be found. Baloo turns around calling for WildCat as we see O'Roarke assembling a machine gun like rifle (!!!). I didn't know that guns could be assembled by paying customers. (Oh, you should see the outrage pouring from gun control lobbyists when 3D Printing of guns was considered possible. It was nuclear heat on the gun industry. Can you imagine police forces having trouble id'ing guns made from 3D Printers? You know how police hate heels making their detective work miserable.) It certainly makes it much easier to carry around those heavy manhoods that is for sure. (Yeah; because a gun is always a symbol for someone who hates sex and penises. Of course; what a fool I am?! Anyhow; we are now 38 for 45 in episodes with the guns pulled out.). Personally; I don't care if that was a real gun as long as it fires like a real hunting gun. Personally; I find this rifle MORE frightening than the standard hunting rifle if you ask me. (Toy rifles are considered more dangerous because you never know if it's fake or if it's real to the naked eye. Look at what someone did with the NES Zapper and turned it into a real gun: Link. Now granted; it is never going to be mass produced and at least the creators are paying lip service to gun safety, but still.)

Trust me when I say this: You will never see something like that in modern Disney cartoons ever again. (I concur. Although Disney Feature might have guns. Not sure about Zootopia; haven't seen the movie yet.) Nor will you see a plot line revolving around a bomb; nor anyone like Kit Cloudkicker. (I concur too. You might see a mistake like a rifle in Kim Possible; but that's about it. And you know what; I'm fine with that. At least in DTVA. Disney Feature and Zootopia does have Nick as the Kit Cloudkicker character and implied drug references more than replace the bomb thing anyway.) Trust me; it will only happen in anime and by other American companies. (Yeah; I concur with that too, although Japan has cracked down more on forbidden content over the years. I don't need to remind people about the "crazy" word being edited out of Japanese television.) O'Roarke points the gun at the jungle opening as Baloo asks what the gun is for and O'Roarke claims that it's for protection. More thumping noises as we zoom into the jungle opening and that ends the segment nearly eleven minutes in. (By the way; this is like a much better version of The Bigger They Are, The Louder They Oink in that Paradise Lost didn't resort to making jokes for several minutes before setting up the hunt. They make it to the paradise well before the act was over and even gave the characters a chance to enjoy the surroundings. Bigger They Are, Louder They Oink went on and on with the Hogzilla jokes that they didn't even get into the air until the end of the first act; and didn't even start the truffle hunt until midway through the second act! Because Cushner decided that Hogzilla jokes were funny. Hogzilla is amusing; but it shouldn't come at the expense of compact storytelling. If that episode was 44 minutes long; I can understand doing the jokes to pad the running time; but here, it made the rest of the episode look rushed in comparison. Paradise Lost got us to the destination within eight minutes; explained the story, sprinkled one or two moments with WildCat being funny and allowed the characters to breathe before the first act officially ended, thus giving kids the incentive to continue watching. Heck; O'Roarke didn't have to bring the gun out at this point; but it added a bit to the proceedings.)

After the commercial break; we get another angle of Baloo with his sword as he calls out for WildCat and O'Roarke has his makeshift machine gun rifle set to profits. We hear thumping noises as the dinosaur thumps in with WildCat clearly on his neck as Baloo gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and slaps the gun up as it fires a bullet that misses about three feet from the dinosaur's head as WildCat loses his balance proclaiming that he's scaring Tiny. (I have no clue why 2011 me called him "Diny". Come to think about it; maybe 2011 Me was implying that it was a nickname for Dinosaur. Considering Disney Captions being unable to determine naunces in the dialogue; Diny makes sense actually. I'm not changing it in the transcript; but I'll consider it here.) WildCat drops onto the conveniently placed tree bush. Since I saw a yellow bullet flash; Walt Disney Animation Japan is animating this episode. (Thus saying Sunwoo animation animated this is wrong. Thank goodness I found the end credits for the Volume 3 episodes, because I would be lost without them. Strangely; most of the credits I had from my sources were in fact correct.) Good bump on the back by WildCat on the ground as the dinosaur stomps around in a panic and stomps away stage left. O'Roarke gets all pissed off and grabs onto Baloo's shirt protesting this outrage. No subtlety on that heelish attitude, huh?! (Actually; O'Roarke's response is pretty rational. O'Roarke clearly doesn't subscribe to the Disney animals theory of being cute and cuddley; and subscribes to real world reality in which animals are mostly horrible creatures who would kill if given half a chance. It's kind of ironic considering that O'Roarke is a bison chimera basically. More on the spieces later since this ties into the whole episode's theme.) Baloo gleefully blows him off for shooting their main attraction and nearing killing WildCat. O'Roarke counters that he was trying to protect them because that dinosaur is a wild animal. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Psychological projection much there, O'Roarke?! (Yup. Plus; Baloo's response is also rational since WildCat was on the beast and the dinosaurs are considered friendlier than most real life animals anyway. Plus; Baloo at least thinks that this is the main attraction and shooting it sounds awfully counterproductive. That being said; I can see why 2011 me thought that the subtley of the entire character was thrown out the window here; considering what is to come.)

This WildCat gleefully answers that one for me though as he realizes that all his jellybeans in the sack are gone. Baloo then blows off O'Roarke and warns him no more guns as he walks out with WildCat stage right. (Another reason why this should have been Pre-Plunder and Lightning: A good setup angle to justify why Baloo doesn't want guns and other deadly weapons on board. Of course; O'Roarke is such a dick that after Baloo said this; he still kept his machine rifle in it's holder, ready to use on a moment's notice. Memo to Poppa Bear: Order him to disassemble the rifle and put it back in the backpack, you moron!) O'Roarke decides to play along sounding as heelish as possible. Next scene changer as we get a shot of the waterfall as the sun is starting to slowly to set south and then we head deep into the jungle. We get the log bridge cross years before the Lion King turned it into one of the most awesome music dance pieces in Disney history. O'Roaroke looks up at the sun, sees that it is almost sundown and that means the walls which dam up the water will close as well; causing the CHIA WORLD to wilt and make Brain get ideas to conquer the world. Gotta love it when the writers come up with something based on a real life plant product. (Yes; Brain blew up the real world and still couldn't conquer CHIAWORLD~ at the end of this. What a loser Brain, is?! One is a genuis and the other's insane. Even though the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. So in reality; Brain is both! It's so obvious!) O'Roarke and company climb up to the top of the waterfall as Baloo notices that O'Roarke has some dynamite with him. O'Roarke states that he cannot blow the dam walls open because he's doesn't have enough dynamite. However; there's enough to blow up a dead tree on the side as a celebration. He takes out the dreaded lighter which Toon Disney does not cut out and lights the fuse on the dynamite. (No; but watch Toon Disney's editing practices be deemed totally laughable when you do see what they actually edited here. It's hilarious.) Baloo and O'Roarke scatter; but WildCat stays so that he can make a wish and blow out the candles.

Too funny and that's the difference between WildCat and Patrick Star from Spongebob. Patrick's moronic nature is done in such a intentional fashion that Patrick is required to perform miracles in order to look funny. WildCat's is the subtle moron in that he can be funny without it becoming so obvious to the viewer. Both are funny; but Patrick Star has been jack-hammered to death in recent Spongebob shows so the joke isn't all that funny anymore. (Plus; the jokes in the newer Spongebob SquarePants episodes are similar to Family Guy in that they go on and on and are so mean spirited that the joke becomes unfunny and sadistic.) Baloo of course; pulls WildCat away from the fire before he becomes like Spongebob when he falls to pieces as the dynamite blows the roots of the tree and manages to fall right onto the waterfall top which in kind acts like a wedge; stopping the water in its tracks. That is one strong tree there; no wonder George goes splat! (George of the Jungle everyone, in a tree shell!) We then see Baloo, WildCat and O'Roarke behind the bushes as O'Roarke cheers for victory. See when they return to civilization; they will return for more dynamite to keep the slabs open for good. WildCat whinces because he didn't get any presents. O'Roarke proclaims that it's time to return to the SeaDuck as more flying lizards fly around as he has one hundred fifty hunters...ERRR...I mean tourists lined up to see it. He's lying of course as you will see later on. (Not really; he was saying that the first group of tourists/hunters are coming. You are embellishing again 2011 me! It's getting absurd now. Plus; he wasn't lying about the tourist part either. They are tourists from a lodge who like hunting. So he's telling the truth here. I wish he just said tourist outright instead of stammering and giving away the fact that he's a heel here.) O'Roarke climbs down the ridge as Baloo cheers for payday BABEE! Baloo and WildCat follow as we hit the scene changer and see them walking near the edge of the cliff towards a nest with a big ass orange/cheese egg. O'Roarke gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLARITY and grabs the big ass egg as Baloo calls it din-din.

O'Roarke blows it off because the egg is evidence see so the tourists will be convinced. Somehow; I think showing a big ass Easter Egg is not going to convince too many tourists. Regardless if they are real hunters or not. (Yeah; no one is going to buy this O'Roarke.) The egg of course cracks on cue as WildCat grabs the big ass egg, listens to the cracking sounds and it opens to reveal a small little flying lizard. (Now this is more convincing.) It whimpers and then licks WildCat in the face as WildCat proclaims that his mother is going to be mad because they are basically kidnapping him in roundabout terms. Wild Cat pets him close to the ass (!!) and then O'Roarke grabs the lizard by the throat (!!!) blowing off WildCat because it is coming with them as he exits stage right. (Wow; I didn't expect a child animal to get that spot at all. Then again, Ernie got that spot in Bullethead Baloo, so maybe I shouldn't have been.) O'Roarke doesn't get even three feet distance before the flying lizard shadow arrives on the sky shot. O'Roarke wants answers and Baloo thinks it's the SeaDuck. If only as the giant flying lizard arrives and swoops down as everyone ducks for cover. O'Roarke gets up and addresses it as full grown as he drops the tiny flying lizard down the side of the cliff. OUCH! WildCat follows it and they tumble down the cliff taking some really good bumps along the way. OUCH! We then cut to O'Roarke who manages to get his gun, shoot it before Baloo can tackle him down onto the ground and the flying lizard actually gets nailed perfectly right in the right wing. HOLY CRAP! Remember that this episode happened years before Deadly Force from Gargoyles and this is the first time a living breathing thing actually gets shot. A flesh wound yeah; but still pretty nasty. (I was shocked when I first saw this back in 2004 when I first reviewed this episode which I called a Bambi spot out of control! I just wish the selling from the lizard was more profound then it was in this episode.) The lizard drops like a twisting stone as O'Roarke loads up the gun again; but Baloo grabs onto the gun to stop him and he wants answers to this outrage. (Note that none of these scenes were cut by Toon Disney so far.) Baloo warned him no guns as O'Roarke agrees because he doesn't want to let a trophy go to waste as he aims at the flying lizard who manages to stop selling it's injuries somehow.

Bad form there, Jeffrey. (Well; they did it to justify O'Roarke taking another shot at the lizard to set up Baloo's epic blowoff on O'Roarke.) Baloo pushes on the gun again as he wants to know what happened to Dinosaur Land. Baloo thought this would be a family friendly attraction with shooting pictures and not guns as O'Roarke blows him off because he's thinking way too small. We pan down to see WildCat using his mouth to hang onto a tree branch from the tree cliff while he is holding the baby flying lizard. Great spot that could have been better if they weren't twelve feet below the top edge of the cliff. The branch slowly begins to break as Baloo blows O'Roarke for changing the deal because he didn't sign up to do a bloodbath in roundabout terms. We continue on top of the cliff as Baloo continues his rant for animal lovers everywhere and he has had enough. (Ed Gilbert; who is normally not the best actor in this series thanks to R.J. Williams; was awesome here. He was angry as hell that O'Roarke changed the deal on him and basically told him that the deal was off. He hated this decision and Edmund let it loose here. He was on in this episode.) He calls for WildCat to return to the SeaDuck as Baloo walks forward and makes the grave mistake of letting O'Roarke get behind him and O'Roarke shoves the end of the machine gun rifle into his back and forces Baloo to march away back to the SeaDuck. (Thus completing the heel turn. This was something Mommy For A Day never had. Not to say that Mommy For A Day was awful; but O'Roarke's desperation was showing here in that his partner has stop drinking the Kool-Aid and now he is forced to use the rifle on Baloo to humble him. O'Roarke's hunter heel gimmick is much more subtle than McNee's and therefore it was more effective in the long run.) Baloo shouts for WildCat on the way out; but no dice as WildCat is still holding onto the tree branch with his mouth. Wildcat can barely speak as the tree branch slowly; but surely break in dramatic fashion and WildCat free falls with the tiny flying lizard; bumping off another tree bush before finally free falling into the river.

WildCat pops up from the river, grabs the flying lizard telling him not to swim without his snorkel (Because we have to do a joke in the middle of a serious situation.) and then we do the river rush spot for a while. WildCat makes it to a more calm section of the river and manages to get out as his baby friend is stuck inside his overall. No tickling occurs; however as WildCat agrees to return him to his mother. Considering where he is; that's the only thing WildCat can do at this point as WildCat looks around and then asks the lizard where the nest is. HAHA! WildCat is so cute when he is lost. We head back to the tree as we find out that O'Roarke already has enough dynamite wired around the trees which indicates that he is going for the entire dinosaur population in one fell swoop. Baloo and O'Roarke are inside the SeaDuck with the rifle still ready to MURDER Baloo should he decide to turn on O'Roarke. I believe that those shots were cut out by Toon Disney which makes no sense as usual. (Here's what happened: Toon Disney cut out all the shots in the cockpit until Baloo starts the engines. The audio "Start the engines, Mr. Pilot. Now!" is moved to when the shot pans up to the SeaDuck. This is the worst editing job I have seen in this series. Yes; you can shoot a dinosaur several times and even hit one. You can jab the rifle into the back; but you cannot point the rifle in the SeaDuck. I guess it was under the "no guns to the head and face" rule. Still; it makes the edits laughable because the gun is still there for all to see. 4Kids' decisions on editing make much more sense than this. Yes; the point is moot since it's on DVD. Here's a clue: Youtube cuts are Toon Disney versions! Why? I don't know. This also applies to iTunes and Disney+ as well; only those are legal.)

O'Roarke demands that Baloo start the engines at once and Baloo sells. O'Roaroke takes a look at his watch which looks almost like the medallion as the tree finally blows up in a funny spot as the SeaDuck flies into the sky and flies over WildCat's head leaving him marooned (In the middle of the desert?) for pretty much the rest of the episode. O'Roarke is such a cold-blooded hunter. Something that was missing in McNee in Mommy For A Day, I should point out. WildCat calls for Baloo with the flying lizard looking like Kit on Baloo's shoulders; but no dice. We head to AFTER HAPPY HOUR (I just realized and shudder to think what happy hour would be like with WildCat Puma. I have got to see someone come up with ideas here.) as we see WildCat in the deep jungle on a log sitting in front of a roaring fire. There is growling and croaking on the zoom in and close up as we pan over to the river seeing nothing of note. WildCat pets the lizard for a bit as it rocks itself to sleep. We then do a far away shot as all the animals show up in the foreground and some of the EVIL YELLOW EYES OF DOOM from the shadows and that ends the segment sixteen minutes in. Now we come to WildCat's greatest moment of the series. (The only major complaint I have for this is that they set it up; but then they paid it off with absolutely no build. They go to commercial break; and then return to pay off the whole thing without showing the dinosaurs coming out and having WildCat tell the story. It looked awkward to say the least. I hope this was in the prelim script Jeffrey wrote and all of it had to be snipped due to time constraints; or this would be a prime example of Jeffrey not caring in this show.)

After the commercial break; we see WildCat smiling near the campfire actually telling a story (Which has to be the funniest mangling of Mother Goose with a hint of a strong Snow White and even more...) to a load of dinosaurs who happen to be listening to him now in shock. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Poor Webby; she loses her funniest moment to a dimwit! (This is the sort of thing that has been done to death in modern cartoons that it completely loses whatever comedy it once had. Seriously; insanity is not good in real life. It might be funny in entertainment, but it has real consequences in real life. In Dinosaur Ducks in Ducktales; Webby is doing the exact same thing as WildCat here, only she screws it up so badly that she's implying that someone's foot was asleep and kissing it woke it up. WildCat isn't screwing this up at all. This is WildCat being WildCat and for your pleasure; I have the full lines of what WildCat said:

WildCat: And then, Snow White said, "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow little Miss muffet off her tufft." Humpty Dumpty picked her up, but he didn't know what a tuffet was; so he couldn't put her back together again. No way. But it didn't matter, because Pinocchio flew back over the rainbow, where he and Toto lived happily ever after. The end.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA indeed! Plus; WildCat sounds more believable screwing this up than Webby anyway. That was the comedy part of the awesomeness; now comes the drama that Ducktales could never pull off.) However; the baby dinosaur is crying; so WildCat finds the soda bottle and let the baby dinosaur drink it like a bottle. (Which is cherry soda pop; which I mistaken for strawberry soda. I just love how WildCat says that the poor dinosaur must be hungry, and yet he pulls out a bottle of soda. I don't think hungry and thirsty are the exact same thing; but it's close enough for WildCat; so huzzah!) That calms him down for about twelve seconds as he is crying again. WildCat thinks that he likes root beer. (WildCat would make a great mother; I mean it too. Nothing would frustrate this mountain lion. Nothing.) I think he wants his mother who's (probably dead, but...) ...I spoke too soon as the mother appears from the shadows alive and with a bullet hole in it's wing. The baby tries to console his mother as WildCat explains that he's only the babysitter. He takes a cloth and wets it in the river. He then places the cloth on the wing to stop the pain as he helps the mother bird lizard and thus exposes the true side of WildCat Puma which shatters the perspective of the viewer in less than one moment. As I said before in the previous rant: Up to this point; we only saw WildCat as a funny guy who was dimwitted and didn't know any better. This scene shows what I think is the real WildCat; the WildCat that is kind, gentle and can relate to others who are basically unable to defend themselves; like children and animals. This separates WildCat Puma from Patrick Star. Patrick Star is funny; but he's just funny and I like Patrick Star myself make no mistake about it. (Until he started becoming a jerk of in later seasons of course.)

However; WildCat is a 3-D character who is good in character; but even better out of character, something even Kit THE MIRACLE WORKER Cloudkicker, and Molly Cunningham cannot perform. (Believe me when I say this, that this is high praise for Charles. It's one of those moments where time and critical thinking skills really showed WildCat as a wonderful character. Autism is a blessing in this case; instead of the curse that it is normally protrayed, mostly by the anti-vaccine groups of the world. WildCat's a little dense, but he's got skills. I have been hard on Jeffrey Scott over some of his work; including this one, but in this scene, I would build up the suspense just a wee bit more here. And that's all I would do here. I have new found respect for Jeffrey's work after this one. Maybe not on the same level as Libby Hinson or Len Uhley or Jan Strnad; but he has proven that when he cares about writing a good script; he can bring it.) It should be noted that this will not be the last time that WildCat preforms this miracle. Two more episodes await thee who dare watch them. (That would be Flight Of The Snowduck and Citizen Khan by the way.) WildCat is a monster over character in the same vein as Kit, Molly, Don Karnage, Shere Khan and Rebecca. Don't let anyone tell you different. (Shere Khan a monster over character? Really? The other three babyfaces and one heel I can accept carte blanche; but Khan? Granted; he's more over than Baloo and Louie; but really? 2011 Me is embellishing again.) Call me crazy; but I think WildCat and the former WWE wrestler Eugene (which I love to death until WWE creative pissed him way and he got fired for unprofessional conduct) are similar in character. Both are dimwitted; have hearts of gold and are excellent in their profession. WildCat with airplane fixing and Eugene with professional wrestling. Just one of those things that I have noticed; although Eugene has been suggested to be based on a character from the movie: There's Something About Mary too. Nick Dimsmore plays Eugene in case you are wondering and he's supposed to be a great wrestler too; or so I heard. (Nick Dimsmore has been wrestling for many years (as early as 1996 in fact) before he took over the Eugene character back in 2004. I guess I loved the character back then and comparing him to WildCat is pretty laughable in all hindsight.)

Of course; O'Roarke wants to ruin this paradise as we see the SeaDuck land somewhere near the Cosar Lodge (check the deer antlers and western saloon style of the building) as we see an elephant in hunting gear and a stoat (!!! with hat over the eyes) in safari gear blowing off O'Roarke proclaiming that it better be a real hunt and not a snipe hunt. (Urban Dictionary's reference is hilarious: "Turkish soccer player that's fine as hell." It's also the acronym for Central Okanagan Search & Rescue in Kelowna, British Columbia.) I didn't realize this until I read the comments on Youtube on this very video that all three furries used as guests are in fact endangered or wiped out animals. Now THAT is irony BABEE! (The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the short-tailed weasel, is a species of Mustelidae native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. The name ermine is often, but not always, used for the animal in its pure white winter coat, or the fur thereof.[2] In the late 19th century, stoats were introduced into New Zealand to control rabbits. The stoats have had a devastating effect on native bird populations. It is classed by the IUCN as least concern, due to its wide circumpolar distribution, and because it does not face any significant threat to its survival.[1] It was nominated as one of the world's top 100 "worst invaders".[3] So the irony is dead. Elephants and bisons are endangered but stoats are not.) O'Roarke proclaims that the trophies won't even fit in their living rooms as Baloo literally kicks O'Roarke in the ass and blows him off as O'Roarke squashes them flatter than Alexander the Grape. Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk! Baloo pushes the red button, closes up the side door and then flies the SeaDuck high into the sky as the elephant and stoat hunter both lay their hands on O'Roarke again asking about his partner. O'Roarke tells him to relax because he still has the map as he shows the medallion again. All he needs is a new plane and a lot of dynamite. We head back to the hollowed volcano known as Chia World WELL BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (sunrise) and do a slow zoom in.

We head close to the waterfall as WildCat tries to direct the dinosaur to flee at once before O'Roarke comes back and the dinosaurs are of course dumb as hammers. WildCat continues to show his dramatic overselling skills by trying to play dead; but it is screwed up when the baby dino licks him in the face. HAHA! Apparently; you're not allowed to show real guns on children's television; but you are allowed to show role-playing of guns. No, not really. (Geez; after seeing all the actual shooting in this episode, if Toon Disney cut this out (which thank goodness they didn't); then this would be a perfect punchline for how pointless their editing practices are.) WildCat then realizes that the only way to stop them from destroying this paradise is to destroy that tree on the waterfall and make the dinosaur's disappear altogether for another hundred years. WildCat doesn't like it but he has no choice. We do a scene changer and do the old dangle the carrot spot with a big ass long neck dinosaur; only with a pink jellybean. HEE HEE! The dinosaur with great effort manages to move the tree away from the dam just as the sun is beginning to rise. Then a large sequence of events happen as WildCat engages in a misty-eye moment to continue his level of awesomeness. He then allows his baby dino friend to run to his mother as the sand and sun effects make CHIA LAND disappear and cuts a great and fitting bedtime promo before they disappear from the face of the earth. What a beautiful sequence of events and great animation too?! Memo to bigoted commenter on Youtube: You didn't watch the ending to this episode; didn't you? (What the hell? That episode that you commented on was taken down due to copyright for years now. So I have no idea as to why this commenter hated the episode. I'm guessing that it's because WildCat basically killed the dinosaurs. The problem with this is; is that any different than the finish to Her Chance To Dream? Actually yes; because of the ending actually.) Nothing can go wrong now as the SeaDuck appears as the sun has rose and its morning time again. The SeaDuck lands and Baloo jumps off and sees WildCat sitting down looking proud of himself.

Baloo asks and WildCat explains that he couldn't let the dinosaurs get hurt. Baloo puts his hand on WildCat's shoulder to indicate that he did the right thing here. (Yes; he didn't want the dinosaur to get shot dead; so he stopped the river and that turned the dinosaurs to sand, becoming extinct. That makes it so sad because neither option is a good one; but if you followed the storyline, the dinosaurs were made of sand and the sparkle water along with the fogile. Not to mention that they would come back in a hundred years. So they get reincarnated. Killing them with bullets and they are dead forever. That's at least what WildCat thinks.) Baloo also states that O'Roarke is coming back and WildCat shouldn't tell them a thing. However; WildCat sounds just too honest for Baloo's liking. (That was funny.) A red plane arrives and lands onto the sand. The two hunters and O'Roarke get out as even they think that O'Roarke has scammed them out of a hunt. (Well; when the whole place is all sand; I can see why they are already hating O'Roarke. Strangely; even though this place is sand; outside is still lush enough, which pretty much give away the fact that this is real, since earlier in the episode; the surrounding area was all sand. DUMB!) O'Roarke tells them to ask Baloo and WildCat as the elephant furry -- who has gained grenades since we last saw him -- draws his rifle at the two furries. Baloo plays his CANNOT FAIL EVEN IF HE WERE LIT ON FIRE dumb routine. However; WildCat still sounds too honest to be right. (He basically repeated what Baloo told him to say; and he forgot to act. That was funny!) However; the two hunters actually sell it and they turn on O'Roarke anyway (turning babyface); as the stoat is not buying it and he smashes the medallion (Which is the map to the place, by the way...) in the process. (At first, I thought this was a logic break since O'Roarke has a paper map earlier; and than I realized that the place is not on the map anyway. And since it's a million square miles of sand, O'Roarke would be screwed; and that isn't factoring in the hundred years thing.) O'Roarke is so dead as he panics and tries to regather the medallion pieces; but the elephant furry grabs O'Roarke and tells him that he would make a good replacement trophy, which is equal to saying that O'Roarke is going to die.

Hey; he may not have said die; but stuffing him is pretty much a good implication though. Well; look on the bright side O'Roarke at least you're not going to jail for your crimes this time around. (Of course the funny thing about this is that the bison in real life is an endangered spieces and was taken by another endangered spieces while his sidekick is one of the worst invaders in the world. That is high comedy.) The red plane flies away as the Baloo starts the engines and asks WildCat what he is doing, to which WildCat replies that he's doing nothing. See; WildCat is learning how to be worldly now as WildCat climbs into the SeaDuck and Baloo praises him for being noble and having a heart. I cannot argue with that point although we saw that too in The Sound & The Furry. WildCat is thankful as the SeaDuck flies away. However; WildCat does have a plan as a there's a rope which is attached to a rock on a cliff. The rope snap spot rears its ugly head again as the boulder falls down and rubs against a rock filled with matches and it lights the fuse which is connected to a pile of dynamite left over when O'Roarke and the two hunter left the scene. The dynamite explodes (off-screen of course) as Baloo asks what happened and WildCat plays the CANNOT FAIL EVEN IF HE WERE LIT ON FIRE dumb routine on Baloo. WildCat looks out of the window to the tail section and sees the waterfall as the sparkle water flows on again on the valley; and before you know it; it's CHI ,CHI,CHI,CHIA LAND all over again. Like I said; Mr. Bigot needs to find new material since this was so easy to debunk. The dinosaur comes out and smiles looking at the sun to finally end the episode at 21:15. My stance on this episode remains unchanged: Jeffrey Scott has now joined the list of writers who have brought a prefect episode to this series. While this was not much a surprise; this episode was special in the sense that it was all WildCat preforming beyond the boundaries of his character of comedy relief and pulled it off more successfully. (Wait; how is this NOT a surprise? WildCat is the babyface joke machine; and now he's proven his worth as a character? That's shocking to me, considering that I thought only Rebecca, Kit, Don Karnage and Molly could pull off. Then again; this show always surprised me because it was a total rush job.) It's a shame that the series ended after one season because I wonder what the writers could have done with WildCat if Eisner hadn't screwed them to death. Just one beautiful episode and you know what this episode is getting. ***** (100%).

THE REVIEW LINE

WildCat is one of those characters who can surprise anyone with his performance. Most people think that he's only there for comic relief and to annoy Baloo once in a while. This episode I believe can change that perspective in a hurry. He really showed his heart for a group that was virtually defenseless against a furry was a gun who lied to Baloo about his plans of turning the paradise into a tourist attraction and wanted it into a hunting/killing field. This episode approached the animal theme much better than All's Whale That Ends Whale did in the sense that O'Roarke was a much more effective heel. O'Roarke was a heartless cold bastard and almost everyone knew that he was a greedy guts from the start. (Wow; that wasn't what I saw. O'Roarke was a lot more effective because O'Roarke did a great job of creating a facade being reasonable that I almost felt sorry for him. Until he brought out the guns for the second time and then he turned into a heel.) Plus; he didn't own the paradise which made him more effective as a result. While I didn't get as misty-eyed about this episode as some of the others; I blame that more on myself than on the writers effectiveness because WildCat's five minutes was all he needed to change from being just a comedy relief character into a character was a true heart of gold. All that; and he could still be very funny at the same time. What a great episode from Jeffrey Scott. The only flaw in the episode was probably the episode title; Paradise Lost sounded like the writers ripped off the episode title from a book since I felt The Hunt was more daring. (The rating stays as is; but there were a few more flaws than what 2011 me said.) However; the original episode title does sound too violent and probably gave away the whole episode. I think The Hunt For Paradise would have been more effective; then again, that could have been copyrighted as well. (The Hunt is too generic and this is not Gargoyles.) Oh well; all in all, a perfect episode that occurs late in the series and there were only three major characters with only two of them (no Kit or Karnage) playing a major role. Plus; they allowed someone to actually get shot with a gun too; all before Deadly Force. What more could you want from that?! So, we have three episodes left to rant on: The Incredible Shrinking Molly which was an absolute mess with a great guest babyface character, Bygones which is awesome as the Air Pirates' last stand and Flying Dupes which features the last stand for the Thembrians which few saw after 1991. So...

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

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