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Bygones Re-Rant

Reviewed: 03/06/2011
Additional Commentary: 12/12/2021

Bloody Bygones!

Original Airdate: 05/03/1991 (Syndication), Episode #64 (TaleSpin Volume 3, Disc 2), Episode #59 (Production Order).

Bygones Notes
Bygones Transcript

We move onto another really interesting episode because it directly deals with a story of the Great War (2016 Gregory Weagle Says: TaleSpin's answer to World War One...) which before hence has only been touched on in The Old Man & The SeaDuck. I'm amazed that the writers had so many different stories and plot threads to write about; but it all got pissed away due to demographics marketing and Disney's inability to market TaleSpin properly. (Well, TaleSpin was a rushjob and therefore didn't have enough time to jell, along with buying time for Darkwing Duck. Plus; Looney Toons and Tiny Toons are a bunch of old, aged and babies at the same time. That was Disney attempt at creating FUD at Warner Brothers and it failed badly. This show suffered the most because of it. The plot of this episode is: Baloo gets chased by Don Karnage again as a mysterious bear is floating in the sea. Baloo rescues him and slowly discovers that he looks and sounds similar to one of his childhood heroes. However; everyone thinks he's a traitor and a thief since the shipment of silver was never found. Rebecca thinks he's an imposter and this pilot steals the SeaDuck in order to find his plane, his men, their planes and deliver the silver. He get captured by pirates and Baloo must rescue him; while the pilot must convince him not to kill him after he's rescued. This leads to a massive dogfight and the silver is returned and delivered. I actually have a much better idea for this episode that retains most of this episode's plot, while adding a really big amount of closure for a certain someone who isn't in this episode at all.) This is the last appearance for the Air Pirates; although for television purposes, this was NOT the last time we saw Don Karnage. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: There was one cameo appearance planned for Disney Villains; but that got nixed and the game itself didn't go anywhere. The Don Karnage in Ducktales 2017 was clearly a descendent as more or less confirmed by Frank Agones and Tanner Johnson, so there were plans for them to explain what happened to the original Don Karnage had series four not been nixed.) I'll explain that little thing later on. Let's rant on shall we...?

This episode is written by Steve Sustarsic . The story is edited by Mark Zaslove. The animation is done by Walt Disney Animation France and UK. (Nope; just Walt Disney Animation France S.A. and it's "doing business as" companies like Lapis Azul. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Tim Val Hal has confirmed that Walt Disney Animation UK was involved in varying degrees on all Walt Disney Animation France episodes of this series.))

We begin this one with a dark and stormy night complete with thunderclaps as the Seaduck is flying in another storm again. We fly some more as Baloo monologues reading his favorite comic book while flying which has got to be as dangerous as texting/answering the cellphone while driving. (I would think piloting the SeaDuck with your feet would be more dangerous; but this is Baloo we are talking about. I hope Kit doesn't pick up that habit; that is just asking for trouble.) Baloo states that the decisive battle of the Great War was taking place while the Squadron of Seven found themeselves outnumbered ten to one. What's funny is when we read the comic book; we get words on top of the comic page which say some language I do not understand. According to Baloo; the Squadron was outnumbered ten to one which is basically seventy to seven. (Which because of television animation limits; it's only literally ten planes during the finish of this episode. Today's animation you can do 70 to 7 advantage heels easily. Times change. How many times have I said that?) We then pan over to the panel with Rick Skye (a brown bear in a bomber jacket and goggles) and I just realized that he could easily be Kit's real father. (All right; as you are aware, Kit is not in this episode for some reason. Which some reason means: moonlighting as Cavin. Anyhow; I would book Kit in this one as a focus character here as Kit believes that Rick Skye might be his long lost father even though he isn't. (In other words; Kit is Christopher Skye.) Why not?! It's not like Kit and Rick Skye didn't steal anything in their episodes. I had a two parter in mind for this episode and use it to get rid of Your Baloo's In The Mail. I would keep about 60% of this episode pretty much word for word. The major changes would be that Kit is the one who helps Rick find the silver because he thinks Rick is his dad. Later on; Kit would discover that he is not; and is angry until he discovers that the Flying Cross was given to Rick Skye; and realizes that Rick is actually his grandfather who hasn't aged in twenty years because he was preserved in ice all those years. This would allow Kit to have blood relations without revealing who Kit's mother and father are. I would also have him play peacemaker when Baloo gets angry too. This is one of the few Kitless episodes in the series; where they would have been better served if Kit was in it. Although I would have written this as a two part episode in order to incorporate the number of changes I would have made. As it is; Steve did a great job writing this with what he had as characters. It holds up on it's own without any doubt.)

It was time to earn their pay so says Rick Sky. I can tell you right away that Baloo's dialogue doesn't match the words on the comic which probably means someone forgot to erase the wording on the pages and change them to English in post-production. Which is quite silly considering that Larry Latham should have noticed something was amiss. (Actually; it appears that they were originally written in French; and then partially erased to look like gibberish. Which makes the "funny symbols" blast in Sailor Moon S (Cloverway dub of course) look a little less bigoted in hindsight. For goodness sakes dubbers; stop stealing your ideas from this show! It's unseemly to us TaleSpin fans! Stop it!) We then pan down to the third panel and see the lead plane shoot down a red baron plane with bullets. The pilot in the red plane looks like a dog furry. I wonder if this is a ironic rib on the Peanuts angle of Snoopy fantasizing being a World War One flying ace taking on the red baron and failing. One by one the opposition drops like flies as we see Baloo is piloting the plane with his feet again. Geez; what a shock that is?! Baloo gets giddy about being one of Rick's wingman flying beside him, then he flips the cap backwards like Kit Cloudkicker and plays Molly's tailgunner. HAHA! I should note that in the new Disney; playing tailgunner is only legal if you use laser gun noises instead of machine gun noises. (I should note that Molly has that effect on people. At least the laser sounds over the machine guns sounds difference is in fact true.) Then the real machine gun noises beckon. Like I said many times; it's a special day when the guns do not get pulled out. (After 44 episodes of transcribing and re-ranting; 37 episodes are shown where the guns did in fact get pulled out. Two more episodes; and it would be like three seasons worth of episodes featuring actual bullet shooting guns.) Baloo is shocked and we see on the side window Don Karnage and his band of Air Pirates. (Which will be their last appearance on television, save Don's appearance in Raw Toonage. If I do a transcript for that; it'll only be limited to the Don Karnage host segment. I'm not doing the other segments, in order to save my sanity. Hopefully; I can find a video source that has better audio than the one I used for that rant because the middle of that episode was far too quiet to make out anything that he was saying.)

Baloo blows off Don's funny stuff as usual because he has no cargo see and asks for a raincheck. Wow; even in 1990, they did the raincheck spot. Yes; Bea's raincheck stuff in Doris Flores Gorgeous is unoriginal pap. (Yup; and he only did the promo once. I think Bea did it at least three times in succession in Fish Hooks.) Don blows him off because he is out for blood this time. Ooooooooo. So there you go TaleSpin critics; Don Karnage does have revenge on Baloo on his mind. And can you blame him?! Baloo and Kit have screwed Don Karnage so many times now that you cannot expect him to hold back. (This actually makes sense because at some point; Don is going to be reminded about Baloo's heroics. I believe if Kit Cloudkicker was involved, he would have snapped on him more than Baloo; for obvious reasons. I mean; there is no reason for Don to go after Baloo; so Don is just being a monsterous asshole. Strangely, in this episode; Don Karnage is booked a lot more closer to his Plunder and Lightning version than his comedy version we saw in other episodes. It's just an observation that I noticed when doing the transcripts.) More shooting and Walt Disney Animation France S.A. is using pure white flashes on the shooting bullets this time. (I think the flashes change from white to cyan blue depending on what mood Walt Disney Animation France was in. Just wait until the infamous Bomb Cannons come into play later on in this episode; or better yet; the gernades the Squadron of Seven throw.) Baloo does a C-hyperbole into the thunder clouds, proclaims that Don will never find him in there, then catches himself. We get some sparkle noises, the black clouds separate from the sky shot and we see a yellow glowing something in the icy waters. (I just love how Baloo admits that he's lost in there now which shows that he has learned absolutely nothing from his navigator who is not in this episode. I know the answer as to why Rebecca keeps him on the payroll; but still, you would think Baloo would have developed more as a character, if Eisner was going to milk him for all it's worth.)

Baloo rubs his eyes as he lands down, we do some weird yellow sparkles on the pilot in the icy water and then do a really weird scene changer as the SeaDuck lands on the water while Baloo opens the side door. That looks awfully weird for some odd reason. The animation here is great; but the editing is another matter. (The scene had the SeaDuck coming down and hyperbole and then there is a faint scene changer as the SeaDuck has now landed. Very odd.) Baloo yells "ahoy there" and gets answered with a big wave right in the kisser which sends him somehow into behind the backseat. Explain THAT one kids?! (The animators wanted to show off their animation skills there. Easy.) Baloo talks about bringing an umbrella as he notices the conveniently placed life preserver on the plane wall to his left. The pilot grabs it and throws it onto the water as the pilot grabs it yelling for his men. (He basically wants to know if Baloo had seen his men and his plane.) It's clearly Rick Skye from the comic book and Rick Skye is voiced by Simon Templeman. Baloo is pulling the rope with his teeth wanting to talk inside and then we do a whiplash jump cut as Rick Skye is already inside talking. I'm guessing that this is supposed to be a scene changer; but it looked like a bad segueway. Bad editing form there guys. Compared to Rescue Rangers though; this is pretty rare. (This actually isn't too bad; the real logic break was that Rick was wearing his goggles when he wasn't when he was in the water. He might have put them on during the rescue; but that was odd.) Baloo is amazed at the flight jacket and Rick Skye offers it to Baloo as an offering for saving his hide. Rick states bought it from somewhere last week which shows he has no knowledge of time which is important for later on. (Rick said he got it from the PX which means Post Exchange; although that applies to the US Army. I think Rick Skye should have said BX or Base Exchange which applies to the U.S. Air Force. To be fair though, Rick Skye is supposed to be British, so the British air force might be PX instead of BX. Anyhow; it means a retail store on military property. This actually plays into the confusion on weither Rick Skye is an imposter or not.)

Baloo is in awe over it and here comes the CT-37's again, doing hyperboles below the plane. (This is probably the only time Baloo ever work a bomber jacket as per the logo in his series. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Kit would later wear the bomber jacket as an adult in Ducktales 2017, as per the contract he signed with Tanner Johnson.)) Baloo and Rick Skye get into their seat, Baloo restarts the air plane and we jump cut again into the sky; although the transition is a lot smoother this time around; so it's forgivable. Baloo asks what Rick Skye was doing in the water. Rick Skye explains that he and his men were hauling silver for the war but they got caught in a blasted snowstorm. Baloo tries to inform him that the war ended 20 years ago; but Rick thinks Baloo is pulling his ripcord. (Thus playing into the PX/BX thing earlier in the episode.) Baloo wants a name and Rick has manners so he salutes and calls himself Rick Skye. Baloo laughs him out of the building claiming that he's Amelia Bearheart: Ace of the Loonies. No logic break since Baloo intended to be a joke since we all know that the Amelia in the TaleSpin world is Amelia GOD I HATE THAT NAME Airhead. (I had a hunch that there are two Amelia's in TaleSpin. One of them is Amelia Bearhart and one is Amelia Airhead. I can see a feud between the two over their achivements; but of course, it won't happen because Baloo is the milk that keeps on milking. I still wish 2011 me wouldn't shout.) Rick just lets the insult run down his back claiming that he's Rick Skye. (I see he has Kit's confidence in stunts trait from Stormy Weather.) Baloo is acting dumb here because the comics clearly show him to be the same person. (Nope; this is a realistic response from Baloo because...) Baloo also tells him that Rick would be fifty years old today. (Exactly. This Rick Skye looks exactly thirty years ago, and might be Kit's father for all we know.) Rick is going to wish he wasn't Rick Skye because according to reports Rick didn't return from his last mission, everyone thought he stole the silver shipment, here comes Don Karnage and his CT-37 again. Well; that lops off the logic break at least. (What I would like to know is: How come everyone came to the conclusion that he actually stole the shipment of silver for themselves? Now granted; I can see a huge chunk of people think this is all a conspiracy on Rick's part; but everyone?! Not even one person used Occam's Razor here and conclude that they went down in a snowstorm and "died". Although; if this is really Rick Skye, doesn't this prove that the majority of people are correct?)

Don proclaims that Baloo wants to engage in some games while we get even more shooting as we are up to 0.7 Trigun already. Rick Skye then takes over the controls, we do the loop-de-loop long version and then go upside down as Rick Sky proclaims that this handles nicely. Rick then spirals down and spins the CT-37's as Don staggers punch drunk proclaiming Baloo as a naughty boy and almost throws up on camera! Rick resteadies the SeaDuck and we head back into the cockpit as Baloo is amazed. Baloo then gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY while being in somewhat disbelief. Rick Skye asks what about the bloody rubblish of him stealing silver. Yes folks; at around 5:10 of the DVD, Rick Skye actually said bloody. Don't ask me if the UK version edited this one out. I do not know. I don't know if I have the UK cut on VHS. I'll check later. (I checked this out on my VHS tapes: Yes, it's the Disney UK cut and no, they didn't edit it out. I'm surprised he said it since saying bloody in the UK is like saying damn here in North America. It's a moot point now; since damn is one of the few swear words that most parents do not care about anymore, outside of the most God-fearing parents in history.) We go to the scene changer as we head back to Higher...For...Hire as we pan over to Rebecca blowing Baloo off because he isn't Rick Skye and he's some comic book PR guy in roundabout terms. (Actually; she says that he is a comic books fan. Nothing about being a PR for the comics; unless your PR is "Word Of Mouth." Of course, Rebecca is already claiming that he is up to something. I see Rebecca is not jerking around in this episode.) We see that Baloo is wearing the bomber jacket now reading the comic book with Rick beside him surrounded by boxes of fireworks. Rick tells Rebecca to be careful; or Baloo might hear it. (How does Rick know about Rebecca's trait of accusing Baloo of being up to something? They just met for goodness sakes.)

Baloo tells Rick that Rebecca didn't mean it. Riiiiiigggggghhhhtttt Pop-A-Bear. Are we on Woodchuck camera or something? (That was from Ducktales in "Magica's Shadow War" and it was annoying to me now.) Rick is fine with it as he bows to Rebecca politely and walks away stage right. Baloo blows off Rebecca for hurting his feelings and Rebecca blows it off because there is something fishy going on around here. There certainly is Miss Cunningham; Eisner hates your show, in case you didn't notice that already. (Yeah; she really hurt his feelings so much that he simply walks off acting like it's no big deal. Baloo's feelings were hurt; that's more like it. As for Michael Eisner; he doesn't really hate the show, because that would imply that he cares about it. That would contradict my theory that they didn't care about the show in 1990. Which in reality, they didn't outside of the creators and producers trying to save their own jobs from the chopping block.) Scene changer beckons and we see WildCat on the docks hauling a cart filled with junk. WildCat uses the POWER OF THE ASS to bump Rebecca right into the box of fireworks. HAHA! Rebecca blows him off as one of the tires actually bumps right onto WildCat's body. HAHA! WildCat states that he brought his mine cart of gadgets and gizmos to fix the SeaDuck up real good. (I'm guessing Clementine from Citizen Khan gave that mine cart as a friendship present or something.) Rebecca then goes over and steals the comic book proclaiming that if he were Rick Skye; he's still a thief. Baloo blows her off with the flying cross medal as Rebecca instantly changes the subject because Baloo has some fireworks to deliver while WildCat hops around in the background with the tire stuck to his hips. HAHA! (Yes, Rebecca has swallowed the Kool-Aid in thinking that he's a thief. Someone forgot to apply Occam's Razor to these proceedings. Oh; and she clearly said that just to push Baloo's buttons because the second the medal is brough up, she changes the subject. In other words; Rebecca is just being a jerk here.)

Baloo tells Rebecca not to over-rev her engines as he's on it. WildCat rolls in front of them tire first with a good bump into the fireworks box. OUCH! WildCat sees stars (sadly; not the star of the future in Disney though) as Baloo gets the tire off of him and gives him the box of fireworks to load up as WildCat does all the work for Pop-A-Bear. Geez; what a surprise that was? Rebecca reminds him that Baloo is supposed to do this as Baloo wants to talk to someone and walks away stage right. Rebecca is not happy as we see fireworks flying and coloring the sky and shaking the screen. Okay; that looked a wee-bit Z-Gradeish for my liking. (Actually; Rebecca isn't calling out Baloo for being lazy here. Rebecca doesn't want WildCat to load the fireworks because WildCat proceeded to unintentionally set them off; which makes sense when you consider that any friction caused by rough handling can cause the fireworks to detonate. This is something I learned watching How It's Made and it builds on WildCat's character that he's rough around the edges despite his really nice character.) We head to the docks of Higher...For...Hire as all the fireworks are loaded since the docks are empty. We head to the Higher...For...Hire tower for really the first time since From Here To Machinery as Baloo and Rick Skye exchange notes on the situation. (Basically; Rick is not happy because everything has changed since he last saw the world.) Baloo is amazed that Rick shot thirty-seven planes down as Rick corrects him with thirty-eight since he shot himself down. Baloo is surprised to hear that one as Rick recalls that patrol day as we go to greyscale flashback shot of Cape Suzette 20 years ago as there is shooting of the city going on by enemy pilots; but Rick Skye and the squadron of seven gets behind their tails and starts firing. Rick Skye calls the planes dodgers; however, some of the bullets deflected back somehow and nailed his plane's underbelly and brought it down according to Rick.

(This is a great sequence; but he never actually says what city this was, but it appeared to be Cape Suzette. If so; this indirectly explains why the Cliff Guns exist. Anyhow; there is a line in this that might actually be a history making moment for DTVA: When Rick's plane was shot down he explains that the shots cut a line straight up my belly. Why would he say that? Shouldn't he said "The shots went straight into my fuel line"? I think Rick is implying that Rick himself was shot in the belly outright and not just his plane. He obviously recovered from his injuries, but let it be known that in storyline; this is the first actual TaleSpin charater to actually be shot in DTVA history. Years before Deadly Force existed. Also; later on, we would have an implication that a major TaleSpin character actually gets killed. Yeah; seriously.) We see the plane go down with smoke (AND THAT'S BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH AND MOVIE RATING) as we return to reality (no, not really). Baloo actually remembers that battle. Baloo proclaims that this is how he earned his flying cross medal. Rick still proclaims that no one believes him even though Baloo does. Rick proclaims that he cannot rest until honor is restored to the Squadron Seven and he leaves stage left. (This is where I knew Rick Skye was going to steal the SeaDuck and where I figured that Rick and Kit might as well be family: Kit stole the Sub-Electron Amplifier from Don Karnage in the pilot episode because he wanted to start a new life; so Rick is going to steal the SeaDuck in order to find his men and complete his mission. His biological clock is really screwed up; much like Kit's mind is a screwed-up mess because of his past. That's why I would have created Bygones as the series finale and as a two parter like Gummi Bears had. Of course; R.J. Williams was moonlighting as Cavin and this was not the final episode of the series; because they moved Flying Dupes to August of 1991 and created a all new honet's nest of problems within days after airing. The Review Line of Flying Dupes has all the details on that.)

We then go to the scene changer as we see Rebecca at her filing cabinets looking for papers as Baloo comes downstairs asking for where Rick went. Rebecca calls him an imposter as she states that Rick left a few minutes ago and Baloo blows her off again. At this point; calling him a mere imposter is probably for the best since he's real and she would be calling him a thief and a traitor. Then Baloo hears the SeaDuck noises and panics as we see the SeaDuck flying into the sky. Baloo and Rebecca are way too late as they get to the edge of the docks. Baloo concedes that Rick Skye is a phony and Rebecca apologizes for being right about him. Huh?! That makes no sense whatsoever. That actually proves that he IS Rick Skye. (Not really; maybe it's Kit Cloudkicker in a really convincing disguise to prove that he's an adult and can fly. Problem is; that would mean the real Rick Skye would still be at the office.) I wonder if originally in the first run syndication that they changed the lines to say that it proved it was Rick Skye, that he's a traitor and Baloo gets all pissed off when he he is about to throw the bomber jacket into the drink. (Actually; he does throw the bomber jacket; but it lands on the docks. That's when he discovers the blue book inside the pocket. As for the phoney thing: I think you were pissed off that Rebecca said that there was no Rick Skye, implying that Rick Skye is a fictional character in a comic book; even though the story is based on a "real person's" life. It's a fair thing to say because many stories have their names changed and certain things changed to protect the actual characters and their privacy. I know Post-Production did retakes of this episode; but usually it's for animation mistakes, like the one near the end of this episode that was fixed for the DVD version. Which is the second run syndication episode.)

However; Baloo looks into the pocket and notices the rat's log book just as WildCat arrives with his junk box. (Hey; that was a present from Clementine, 2011 me! Give the poor mountain lion some props here.) Baloo opens up the diary and notices that the last entry dates back twenty years ago. Baloo deduces that if he's Rick Skye then he'll trace his last flight plan to find his Squadron Seven. Sadly; he also realizes that he lost his wings in the process thanks to Rick Skye. So WildCat has a plan as he brings out some parts as he proclaims that he can slap a plane together in two hours and since he only has half the parts; it will only take half as long. HAHA! WildCat is making his final appearance in this show count isn't he? (Of course; and it will run half as long as well. However; getting a new plane on short notice is time consuming in this world, even if they had the money, so WildCat will have to do.) Since time constraints are a bastard so to speak; we go to the scene changer as we see probably the best made makeshift plane WildCat could ever make. I see he has been exchanging notes with Gadget again. Probably for the best though. (That would have been something to see. Sadist Gadget with WildCat. Too bad, Gadget's a life-sized mouse. I'm pretty sure I could have fit the making of this plane in all of it's glory if this was a two parter. Besides; with the technology present to quicken up the pace of slower paced episode, I don't see why they couldn't have included this in a remake of this episode.)

We pan over to the docks as Baloo asks if it will fly and WildCat chuckles up a lung for a while before finally saying seriously that it might. Ooooookkkkkkaaaayyyyy. (I was laughing at this because it is so WildCat-ish of him to say that.) We head up into the sky as Baloo is flying the makeshift plane and it's smoking and struggling with all of it's might. Baloo proclaims that the thing can use a tune up. Baloo needs to look up "understatement of the year" and come back to me. (But not "understatement of the series"! That's Kit and Louise's title that can never be stolen.) We then cut to the SeaDuck in the air flying stage left and see Rick Skye piloting proclaiming that he didn't feel like doing this to Baloo the chum (HA!) but he has to do this to restore the honor of his men. (So stealing the SeaDuck to restore the honor of his men was a good idea?! I guess so. On the subject of Kit again: I would have Kit be the one to tell Rick to use the SeaDuck and Rick questions this; with Kit saying that he's Baloo's navigator and it would be perfectly all right. HA!) Here comes Don Karnage in his CT-37 shooting as we get more white flashes from the animators. I guess the white flash is a Walt Disney Animation UK trait since they do additional services. Walt Disney Animation France usually uses black flashes I should note. Don loves this because he thinks Baloo is back. If only Don; if only. (Oh, don't worry Don, he'll be back; but not to play cards with you, that's for damn sure.) Don proclaims that it's now time to pay the pilot as the CT-37's chase in formation and that ends the segment nine and a half minutes in. So far; an excellent episode. (I concur; they set up the episode pretty well; but I can just imagine what this would look like if Kit was involved. I guess the budget overdrafted at this point that they couldn't rehire Jason Marsden to do Kit Cloudkicker for this. Oh well.)

After the commercial break; we finally get our first logic break of the episode as the sky is fully blue. (If that's the best you can do in finding logic breaks in this episode so far; then you are being even more nitpicking than usual.) We return with the SeaDuck in the air as the CT-37's chase him into the conveniently placed Iron Vulture as we see Baloo in the makeshift plane blowing off Rick Skye and the engines finally decide to croak out in the process. (Actually; the plane was chugging about still at this point.) Then the top cannons of the Iron Vulture shoot cannon balls at the makeshift plane as spare parts bounce onto the runway and down. (Okay; I did the transcripts for this and I discovered that the cannons were not shooting cannon balls; but black bombs with lit fuses. Seriously. That is what the pirates had when they were shooting at them. This has to be a rib because as you'll see later, they did allow actual bullets to fly on screen inside the Iron Vulture when Baloo and Rick Skye were escaping.) We then head to the Iron Vulture cockpit as we see Don Karnage at the wheel with Gibber doing his usual whispering of gibberish. (I think Gibber was the one steering the thing.) Don agrees with Gibber on his whispering that someone is flying above him as we cut to outside and see the Iron Vulture rising up towards the makeshift plane. Then we jump cut to somehow Baloo flying right in front of the Iron Vulture guns. Huh?! Logic break number two for the episode as Baloo proclaims that he lost the element of surprise. More like logic; but whatever as the cannons blast away with smoke and the makeshift plane manages to dodge the fire right at close range. Explain THAT one kids?! (Okay; I will. First; the logic break is a logic break because the spare parts hit the Iron Vulture when it shouldn't. There was no sign the Iron Vulture backed up. As for dodging the guns; the concussion of the blast forced the plane to bounce back and avoid the shot. Simple as that.)

Baloo decides on taking evasive actions; but the stick breaks and Baloo wants a talk with WildCat after this episode. Oh sod off Baloo; you should be happy that you got THIS far with a WildCat made plane. It's still better than the Thunderyak Kit flew in Flight School. (I'm more shocked that Baloo doesn't say on top of that: "If I live through this." because it makes much more sense here than in most cartoons around this time.) More cannon ball fire with cannon balls that look like they have poles on them in the weirdest BS&P decision ever. (They are actually lit bombs. How this is possible is only known by Don Karnage, Ratchet or the animators?!) Baloo panics and somehow dodges them all. One of them makes contact on the floor of the airplane as Baloo sees DA...HOLE (slurp!) and now he has a plane with it's own basement. Heh. The cannon ball pole shots hit two more times as we hit 1.0 Trigun easily. The seaplane starts to dive into the clouds and when it shows up in front of the Iron Vulture there's no Baloo present to die for Don. That's because Baloo packed a parachute inside his shirt and is using it to get behind the Iron Vulture so he will not be shot anymore. That one looked contrived for some reason. (Yeah; Baloo shouldn't be on top of the Iron Vulture at this point.) Baloo is clearly having trouble trying to land and is coming close to one of the spinning propellers. He manages to land behind the spinning props and thinks that he is safe. However, the parachute gets caught into the wind of the props and gets shredded into the props with Baloo in tow. Baloo tries to pull the remains away from the prop, but the rope snaps (Not that spot again!) and Baloo falls. Lucky for him; he grabs onto a towline (Huh?) and screams his lungs out in a lame fashion as he looks down at the ground. (How there was a rope around the Iron Vulture is also a mystery to me. I guess it was inside the parachute pack; but that still doesn't make any sense.)

Then Baloo tries to locate his bearings and discovers that the only way in is underneath one of the loaded guns. (Actually; it's the vent where the trash gets thrown out; because they are heels who like littering, I guess.) Baloo thinks that only an idiot would attempt such a thing and therefore he is perfect for this assignment. Baloo swings his weight into the loaded gun and lands inside. Sadly; Walt Disney Animation France screws up since it was still about twenty feet above him and he swing in a horizontal line. (Not only that; but the swing was to the right instead of the left since Baloo would be in front of the vent instead of the rear. Dumb!) Baloo crawls as we see Dumptruck go topside and correct me for giving me the wrong location and dumping trash into the trash compactor. Dumptruck leave the scene as Baloo open the porthole and states that he'll need a bath and it's only Monday. No wonder Rebecca thinks that he's worse than a slob! Baloo walks around and we head inside a room as we see that this is Don Karnage's bedroom. We know this because the bed wall as a K on it and his REGAL CUTLASS along with his cape is on a chair which Baloo grabs. Baloo grabs the cape and does some the worse Don Karnage mimicking ever. (Yeah; not even Don Karnage would ever say "Take these!". Disney Captions didn't notice that naunce in the audio.) He turns his back and in comes Dumptruck with a rolling tray of turkey which is his lunch. (Dumptruck of course like an idiot doesn't realize that Baloo is much bigger and taller than Don Karnage ever could be.) Dumptruck opens the lunch and gets whacked with the metal piece end of the sword instead of the edge right in Dumptruck's face which has changed to his trademark all gray face Walt Disney Animation France seems to love confusing us with. HOLY CRAP! That was pretty nasty. (Luckly he nailed him with the side of the sword instead of the edge of the sword. That would have been a nightmare for BS&P. That was a concussion if I ever saw one. I wonder how brains made of solid bone react to blows to the head? Hmmm...)

Dumptruck asks if he prefers ham while being punch drunk and gets knocked out. We then head outside the hallway as Don Karnage is with Gibber and Mad Dog. Don Karnage thinks he heard a noise and wants Mad Dog to investigate. (Don Karnage sounds weird today in that he's not subverting his grammar and sounding like he wants to kill someone. I think this is where I got the idea for Stephen Cunningham's death in my fanfics. What a dumb idea that was?!) Mad Dog opens the door, peeps inside, then slams the door and makes excuses because it is his room after all. Mad Dog insults Don by claiming that Don made a mess in the room so Don Karnage backhands Mad Dog away and opens the door. (How insulting Mad Dog?! The room was perfectly clean when we saw it.) Mad Dog and Gibber rush inside as we cut to Dumptruck knocked out silly on the floor moaning to himself. Oh, and the turkey is eaten to the bone of course on the tray. Don is not happy to see this as Gibber whispers in Don's ear and Don blows him off because the turkey has been nibbled. (Okay; now he's back to his regular self.) Dumptruck does wake up just in time for Don Karnage to naturally accuse Dumptruck of stealing his turkey and Dumptruck regains his normal face, while Don pulls him up by the sweater. We zoom up to the ceiling as we see Baloo chewing on a turkey leg inside one of the pipes, of course. (Of course, the French dubbers saw that and made everything Baloo said into a food joke for no reason. Naunce is not their strong point. Then again; why bother putting actual effort into it when kids just want comedy. Never mind that kids cannot give informed consent for starters.) We then cut to Baloo crawling down the pipes as we see a grate, drops the turkey leg bone through the vent and down on Rick Skye's noggin. I know this because Rick Skye said "ow." to sell the blow. (Rick Skye did the most boring response to a bonk on the head in the history of British acting. Rick does not give a crap here. Someone would have seen that and say "That was fake!".) Rick Skye asks if he lost something, Baloo blows him off telling him to stay right there.

Then the ceiling collapses and Baloo free falls into the cell while Rick just sits down in a corner asking him about giving Baloo a hand. HAHA! I am so loving this guy. Baloo wants to give him the POWER OF THE PUNCH of course as Rick notices that Baloo is upset about him stealing the SeaDuck. Baloo then tackles Rick against the wall, Rick proclaims that he's sorry since he cannot rest until he gets the silver back and restores the honor of the Squadron of Seven. (I just love how Rick is so calm in all this. It speaks greatly to the way desensitization to kill actually works as it's one of the tactics used in military exercises to convince soliders to kill other human beings that they would normally not kill otherwise. Although Rick Skye clearly has some humanity left at least.) Baloo calls him a liar because he was caught so easily since he was only outnumbered ten to one. Logic break since Rick was actually outnumbered four to one at the most. Irrelevent anyway because Rick Skye blows Baloo off for not putting machine guns on the SeaDuck. HAHA! Nice to see the writers noticed that as Baloo blows him off for not knowing that he was going to steal the Seaduck and if he did know he would install some. Rick Skye accepts his apology anyway and wants to get out of here. (Now this was a funny moment for all sorts of reasons: Rick is basically defenseless without his machine gun in spite of the fact that he's a great flyer. Also; it's a response to everyone who didn't like the idea of the SeaDuck having no actual weapons on board. Even better; even though Baloo clearly didn't apologize for anything, Rick accepted it as an apology anyway; because he's Rick F'N Skye. I am just imagining this if Kit Cloudkicker were in this and it was a two parter.) Baloo's frame in the ceiling looked like a star by the way which is quite cute to see. Scene changer while we head to the SeaDuck in the landing strip as Baloo continues to blow off Rick because Rick is not off the hook. Rick responds by asking him about leaving him to the wolves so to speak.

Baloo is dealing with the fireworks as Baloo proclaims that a low life snake doesn't deserve it; so Rick claims that it proves Baloo loves him. HAHA! (Nothing like a witty retort to make Baloo look stupid. Well; I guess even Baloo wouldn't throw Klang with Don Karnage; which is said because him doing that would be great. Then again; Baloo probably wouldn't because Klang is more dangerous than Karnage and having them team up would be major trouble for everyone involved.) Baloo throws fireworks on Rick's noggin for that one as Baloo has some fireworks and goes to the intercom calling Don Karnage. We then head inside the wheelhouse with Don Karnage on transmitter with Gibber by his side. Don Karnage cuts a cute promo as he becomes SHOCKED because Baloo is STILL ALIVE. Yeah; you think that Disney would really goes full-stereotypical anime and kill off a main character now didn't you?! (Oh don't be so sure of that 2011 Me...) Baloo then explains that there will be a surprise attack given on his bloody honor (my words; not his of course) as Don Karnage runs to the window and looks around. Which of course; there is no planes in sight for him to attack. Don thinks Baloo is only an angel in heaven trying to pull the wool over Karnage's eyes (his words; not mine). Baloo of course; knows what's really going on as he takes a match. Toon Disney didn't cut this one out, I should note. (Wrong, sort of. Here's what happened: Baloo has the match and the fuse in his hands. He cuts a promo. After the promo, he strikes the match and lights the fuse. That's what happened in syndication and the DVD versions. In the Toon Disney, iTunes and Disney+ version; here's what happened: Baloo has the match and the fuse in his hands. He cuts a promo. He then lights the fuse. So, what was missing there? Oh yeah; the striking of the match. Yes; exactly one second was cut out so perfectly I might add that I missed it until after I transcribed this episode, just to remove a striked match. Even though they showed him with a match and fuse; and showed him lighting it. No audio was cut; just one second of a match strike.)

He begins to light the fuse while making defamatory Mexican comments towards Don Karnage once again and since he is a terrorist; he cannot sue. (More like ableism comments; but those are so mild, Don doesn't care at this point. Besides; Don is a monster heel, these kind of people don't sue. They murder and rape people! Okay?!) The fuse starts making the fireworks explode as Baloo and Rick Skye race towards the SeaDuck. The fuse continues to pop through the Iron Vulture and it goes into a spot where all the fireworks are (all off-screen) and they all explode. It's a fireworks display inside the Iron Vulture as we see Dumptruck managing to dodge a firework and start taunting them. (Wow; you know someone's intentionally trying to win the Darwin Award when that happens.) Man; I don't know what's worse: Walt Disney Animation France changing Dumptruck's looks (and not getting the face straight.) or Dumptruck taunting something that will get him burned (It's clearly the later 2011 me.)?! Dumptruck does get burned as a huge explosion beckons, causing third-degree burns all over Dumptruck and we just have body count number three for this series. (Nope. Dumptruck did return later on for the major dogfight with Don Karnage and the Squadron of Seven. However; there is a major death about to occur during that dogfight...) The fireworks continue to rain inside the Iron Vulture as they show a useless scene of the Iron Vulture turning 90 degrees. Back inside; Baloo and Rick Skye put on their safety belts and Baloo starts the SeaDuck's engines. Don Karnage orders them to fire as the Air Pirates scatter from the fireworks. Gibber whispers into Don's ear, Don agrees that he seeing nothing, orders the guns to fire at everything not in sight and the guns do so. HAHA! I see someone wants to get to 3.0 Trigun as this episode is getting more and more violent as time marches on. Don finally gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY as it came from the hanger and it was a trick. No?! Really?!

We see the SeaDuck starting the engines as Don Karnage is at the top ordering the pirates to shoot to kill. Three air pirates run in (including Ratchet) as Rick proclaims that they have some uninvited guests. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there, Rick?! We see the SeaDuck get into the air and fly around as the air pirates shoot their guns, damaging the left wing of the SeaDuck. Of course, Toon Disney leaves in the shooting that would have been cut in Jumping The Guns. Toon Disney censors are so stupid! They should have just blacklist the entire show and be done with it. It's not like Michael Eisner likes this show anyway. (It's also not like it's doing 15 million people for viewership at that point anyway, either.) More bullets fly like flies as Rick Skye thinks there is some sticky wickets. (He even says whot here; which is odd because "Whot" is a British card game and according to Wikipedia: Whot is a game played with a set of non-standard cards in five suits: circles, crosses, triangles, stars and squares. It is a shedding game similar to Crazy Eights. At one point, the game was manufactured by John Waddington Ltd. Early packs were printed with the slogans "a unique card game" and "a game for everyone". The name of the game is given an exclamation mark ("Whot!") on later packs." It also is British slang for "white hot" as a normal saying, but it also is a description for a white woman wearing long brown boots, leg warmers, black leggings and an oversized cardigan according to Urban Dictionary. Where do people get these descriptions from anyway?! Not only that; this proves that the Bomb Cannons were not a BS&P decision because there are bullets shown clearly for all to see. Also of note; the shooting here used cyan colored flashes as opposed to white. I don't know why they changed the colors here.) Baloo proclaims that when things get stuck there is one way to go which is up as we zoom in on the circle window above Don Karnage's head and that ends the segment fifteeen minutes in.

After the commercial break; we return as the SeaDuck is still flying in the Iron Vulture hanger. The air pirates still shoot on the catwalk, pun intended in this case considering the furry makeup. (And Hal is not present with the heels.). We are up to 2.0 Trigun right now even without the fireworks. Rick Skye tells Baloo to go thirty degrees which Baloo actually sells, they go through the glass and it's STONE COLD, STONE COLD, STONE....Oh wait; wrong show. Wow; that spot should have MURDERED Don and Gibber legit since they were only about seven feet from the window actually. Rick calls it a job well done, Baloo roughens him up good because he's a thief and he should throw him out the window. Rick dares him to do anything, but call him a thief. Ummm; you stole the SeaDuck, Rick. I think that incriminates you right there! Baloo drops him on his ass as he has pirates up the ass and if the Air Pirates don't kill him (death reference number one); Rebecca will. Rick blows him off and gives him the flying cross as Baloo grabs it. Baloo suddenly realizes something is familar with this medal and opens up his comic book. He references it to the comic book as it's the real Flying Cross. Except the top half of a cross seems to be removed. Why?! Crosses are allowed in 1990; so this sounds like a copyright decision; not a content censorship decision. (Censorship by copyright, you mean 2011 me.) Baloo finally decides to admit that he is truly Rick Skye, which doesn't impress Rick because he's been over it several times in this episode. Rick then asks Baloo if he's going to MURDER him or not and Baloo decides not to. He gives Rick Skye his medal back and explains a little bit about his childhood. He then agrees to help Rick Skye clear his name which Rick Skye warns that the Air Pirates will make sure that they don't make it home alive. Which Baloo no-sells since Kit THE MIRACLE WORKER knows their weaknesses and Baloo knows the secret anyway. (And since Kit isn't in the episode; he's not mentioned at all. Shame; because making this a two parter with Kit in it would be epic.)

We head to the icy White Cliffs of Rover as Rick proclaims as the SeaDuck flies around and Rick remembers that this is the last place he recalls as he points down at two o'clock low and notices that his plane is stuck in ice and six additional planes are also stuck inside the ice. The SeaDuck lands next to the ice as Baloo and Rick get on top of the roof of the SeaDuck. Baloo appears to have seen a ghost which Rick gleefully points out. Baloo thinks he had as Rick recalls the snowstorm freezing everyone solid (This is straight out of Captain America in that the Squadron of Seven were frozen in an ice mass and lived despite that in real life, they would be dead. (This was also stolen for Yvon Of The Yukon and turned into a massive urination joke. Seriously; Yvon was thawed by a peeing dog. It happened in the opening credits!) Baloo's reaction is really rational when you think about it. Also; Rick Skye is basically the sort of character Ronald Colman would have played if he were still alive and well. (Colman died in 1958 by the way.) Also of of note; The Squadron Of Seven is a reference to The Blackhawks comic from DC comics; only they didn't have a really racist Chinese person joining the staff.). Baloo pounds on the ice and it breaks completely off. Baloo and Rick bail into the SeaDuck and fly backwards to escape as the ice cube lands onto the icy water as Baloo invokes death reference number two for the episode. (The flight sequence at times looked really awkward I should point out; but to their credit, it didn't look really fake compared to Plunder and Lightning. Strangely; there was no ordered retake on one shot where the SeaDuck lost the back wall of the cockpit.) We go to the sky shot as we see the planes encased in ice. I see Baloo's "poppa needs a new pair of shoes" reference is in there during that sequence. (I see someone had the tape of Night Train To Meudo Five and was watching it for pointers. I don't know why; it was a load of Z-Grade nothingness that actively hated it's audience. At least Kathrin Victor was smart enough to do the worst comedy movie ever.) We jump cut to the SeaDuck landing on the ice as Rick Skye reunites with the Squadron Seven. (I should also note that on the sky shot when they saw the iceberg; only six of the seven planes were shown. Very rich.)

The names of the Squadron Seven are Rick Skye, Scott, Johnny, Reggi who is the gray beaver, and he doesn't give names to the other three. (Reggi has a voice and two of the others were named. I'm guessing time constraints prevented the remainder of the cast to be named. I would so remake this episode having all of them speaking. Heck; all of them can be voiced by the same two actors in this episode. I love this episode; don't get me wrong. However; if this was a two parter, HOLY CRAP; we would have proper closure to this series instead of watching the final moments being Spigot hanging a Spigot and nearly killing the High Marshall.) Reggi is voiced by Neil Ross. Reggi asks who the chap is with him near the camp fire on the ice. Which was probably used to unfreeze them; although for the life of me I cannot explain how they lived twenty years encased in ice. (Captain America probably could though.). Rick Skye introduces him as Baloo. (I should also note that Reggi called Baloo an old geezer; even though if they had lived on, they should be older than Baloo! So their biological clocks are screwed up too.) Rick's men fall in as they put paper sheets onto the ice and they get in line. We have a bear, aardvark, beaver, hippo, goat, a penguin (!! (Not only that; but it looks like a penguin that works for Tuskerinni. How sad is this show when no one of this show cameoed for Darkwing Duck, except a minor character with no voice, nor name?)), all wearing bomber uniforms and goggles. (There was no dog furry; which makes me sad because they could have paid off the Peanuts joke. Too bad.) Reggi turns around and notices incoming bogeys as the Iron Vulture and the CT-37's flying in. We head inside to the wheelhouse as Don Karnage and Gibber are still inside alive and well. Not only that; the window is STILL broken! How about that for continuity?! Don has Baloo in his sights. Rick Skye is forced to change his plans by giving the silver to Baloo and having him complete the mission while Rick and the S7 hold off the DOGS OF WAR. Baloo thinks Rick doesn't stand a (ghost) of a chance as Rick Sky goes to his seaplane and opens the cargo hold. There is silver in the cargo hold and therefore the real proof that he is really Rick Skye.

Rick gives the silver to Baloo, rightfully stating that Baloo has no weapons at all. Baloo is the only one who can get the silver to the proper authorities. Why do I get the feeling that Rick Skye is another guardian angel?! (Well; if you watch the ending, we will have a real Twilight Zone moment.) The Air Pirates start pelting the scene with gunfire and time is running out. Rick orders the Squadron to get to their positions as Baloo fiddles with the silver as one block seems to drop every time. Baloo doesn't want to be sent away because he always wanted to fly with him; but Rick does the direct-order no-sell because Baloo is now part of the S7 and therefore he cannot refuse a direct order. (Remember that for later.) Baloo is forced to salute Rick and told Rick to be careful since they are outnumbered thirty-five to one in gunfire power. (Hilarious since it's one Iron Vulture and ten CT-37's; so it's really 11-7 advantage heels. Baloo must think the Iron Vulture counts as 25 CT-37's. That might be true.) The S7 takes off, Rick Skye gets into the seaplane and fly away as Rick offers them the first shot which is silly since the pirates already shot at them first about five times already. We are at 2.5 Trigun at this point. Rick Skye's seaplane flies into the sky with the rest of his squadron as they fly towards the Iron Vulture as Don Karnage starts to giggle loudly thinking that Rick Skye's a joke. Now that's fighting words as Don takes the transmitter and signals for the DOGS OF WAR to attack. The DOGS OF WAR thrust into action with more gunfire; causing the S7's to go into a tailspin (BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!). Don Karnage seems flustered as the S7's fly into sequences which need names and don't have any. Rick Skye gives the thumbs up signal and the Squadron Pilot number two -- I assume it's Scott -- picks on Dumptruck's seaplane as the remainder of the S7's pelt the CT-37's with gunfire. Scott manages to separate Dumptruck from the DOGS OF WAR; which puts them into a 1-to-1 situation and that means Dumptruck is finished. Dumptruck thinks that he's got him and you can tell if Walt Disney-France or Walt Disney-UK by the color of his face. That's just sloppy work. However; Scott flies into a loop as Dumptruck goes through the clouds.

Scott gets behind him and pelts Dumptruck's CT-37 with enough gunfire to destroy the plane and set the tails ection on fire to nice effects. (Not only that; but the feather on Dumptruck's top hat also catches fire in a nice attention to detail spot.) That forces the CT-37 into the icy sea as Dumptruck parachutes. That was not needed since Dumptruck's plane did not explode and therefore his chances of survival were pretty good. You know they could have replaced the parachute Dumptruck used to stick to one color for Dumptruck's face. Mad Dog is then shown and he makes the big mistake of looking down at the sea because the penguin -- I'll assume it's Johnny -- flying the seaplane above Mad Dog on his blind spot up-side down. Johnny throws a bomb -- which looks plastic -- right onto Mad Dog's lap and it explodes complete with a splashing water sound effect (HUH?! No realistic explosion? That's really bad use of sound effect there, natch.)! Believe me; that spot would not be allowed by Business Standards and Practices ever again. That was pretty violent and I'll be surprised if Mad Dog lives through that as his seaplane falls into the drink which uses recycled animation from Plunder and Lightning Part One. (Okay; there was a lot to say about this spot. First; the gernade itself looks like a large green circle with a neck on top. So it looks really fake. Next; the explosion actually was fine; but the thing is: Johnny threw the bomb onto Mad Dog's lap and it exploded right in his lap. Mad Dog looks like he's sleeping with his eyes open and then the plane crashes into the sea. Notice that not once did we see a parachute. Nor did we ever see Mad Dog again on television, I'm sure he returned to the comics, but still... Yes folks; let it be known that in this show, Mad Dog; the number two heel of the entire Air Pirates group has just been killed by a bomb. Wow, just wow. Sure; Rescue Rangers and Ducktales had on death screens; but I didn't expect one from this show! Amazing; just amazing!)

No wonder Merlin hates TaleSpin fans. (Well; he hated DTVA in general and called it a babysitting channel just because Eisner promised to never use Feature characters ever with DTVA. Never mind that the original DTVA characters were not getting over for the most part and Eisner had to use Shorts/Feature characters to save his investment. Like I said before; kids don't care about originality, they care about a great show, even if they just want comedy.) Rick Skye goes after another CT-37 with gunfire as Don Karnage is ticked off again:

Don Karnage: Now you've really got Karnage's dandruff up!

It's going to get worse for him because his hope chest is completely gone at this point as the CT-37's continue to get shot out of the sky and they all crash into the icy sea. The S7 get together with Rick Skye in formation as they have only one foe left: The Iron Vulture itself! Don Karnage is fed up and it's time to bring out of the BIG BERTHA CANNONS OF DOOM. They start firing and this has become the most violent gun play episode in the series so far. The S7's are forced to scatter and the hippo pilot's seaplane is hit and forced to bail out. Rick Skye decides to be more risky than Tony Hawk and fires his guns directly at the cannons; but there is no effect. Rick is so screwed now as he is in the direct line of fire. The Bomb Cannons fires their deadly contents at Rick; but the SeaDuck appears out of nowhere and pushes Rick down away from the gunfire. Baloo then drops my respect for him down a notch by invoking the transmitter on Rick. Rick responds with his calm anger routine since Baloo did DISOBEY A DIRECT ORDER...and he thanks him for it. Welcome to the world of irrationals. You may pick up your education kit on the way out. (At least Rick didn't blame himself for Baloo disobeying unlike what happened at the end of Jungle Book 2. You know; the one with the blue Baloo because execs think children cannot make out the obvious big ass sloth bear?!) Rick and Baloo agree to take out the Iron Vulture which methinks Don Karnage is so screwed now. Now my prayers are answered as Rick Skye starts to shoot right in the Iron Vulture causing Don Karnage and Gibber to scatter as Don realizes that his hope chest is gone. He thinks no one would be stupid enough to take on the Iron Vulture. He of course doesn't realize just how irrational TaleSpin characters are. Rick then proceeds to throw a bomb (the same plastic-looking one) right in front of the Iron Vulture's head and it explodes with an actual explosion sound effect this time. Rick Skye is kicking ass and taking names, which sadly is _NOT_ a Walt Disney trait. (I beg your pardon 2011 Me?!) Baloo uses the SeaDuck to clip the propellers of the Iron Vulture. Geez; all that just because it unintentionally destroy Baloo's parachute?! CONTINUITY~! I guess. That causes the Iron Vulture to tip onto one side and Don is forced to finally cut Retreat Promo #110 (Which is really funny this time since he'll let them go with a warning because he's a pirate of mercy. HAHA!) and uses the wheel to turn the Iron Vulture around and leave the scene with $5.9 million shaboozies in damage.

The final Trigun total for this episode is 3.0 Trigun which sets a new record for a twenty-two minute episode and still almost every shot missed! Somehow. That ends the Air Pirates appearances for TaleSpin on television; but this turned out not to be the last appearance for Don Karnage as he actually got one appearance left doing the CBS Disney cartoon: Raw Toonage! I plan to rant on the segments when Flying Dupes are over. (Already done and posted on the Rant Shack.) Rick Skye and Baloo fly in the opposite direction and declare victory for kicking Air Pirate ass in roundabout terms. However; Rick Skye cannot join Baloo because they are behind the times and they are low on fuel as the sun begins to set slowly. Baloo wonder where they will go now and Rick states it's where the winds take them. Now that's codeword for a guardian angel, says I. Rick Sky's last order for Baloo is for him to deliver the silver back to Lyndon and since he's now part of the S7 Baloo must obey without question. (Lyndon is completely fanonal because there is no mention of where to deliver the silver. He might have meant Cape Suzette for all I know. Anyhow; the guise of this was that Rick Skye has accepted the fact that they will never be accepted in this new world even if they are cleared of any wrong doing. It's similar to Whistlestop Jackson, Legend in that Rick got his one redeeming moment and went out on top before finally retiring. Rick knows that even if he was cleared of wrong-doing, the world would not accept them because they are old geezers basically. It's a sad way for them; but it's one that is closer to reality; and sometimes, you have to let go. I loved this moment.) Baloo sells with a thumbs-up as the S7's assume formation and start to fly into the sunset in an awesome sequence. It makes me sad that the show was already canceled at this point because the TaleSpin teams had a lot of stuff to use for a second season and they couldn't do it since Michael Eisner pissed it all away by bashing Bugs Bunny. This is the poison of a demographics, Detroit Disease company. (Pretty much. I'm just glad Bob Iger took over; because despite having his own problems, I felt that he geninuely tried to get Disney back to greatness and in many way, he's succeeded with Zootopia, Gravity Falls and Phineas & Ferb among others.)

Baloo flies away towards Cape Suzette thinking that he's in the clear as he waves goodbye to the Squadron Seven for good.. Except for one thing. We return to Higher...For...Hire at the docks as Baloo tries to explain what happened as he had to use the fireworks to escape the pirates and help Rick. Rebecca has the Gruffi pose and blows him off because because none of it is believable. (I would have changed a lot of this simply because it sounds so assholish of Rebecca here: You know Rick stole the SeaDuck; so you cannot disbelieve that what Baloo is saying is false anymore. More so when you were kidnapped by them twice in this series alone. STUPID!) Baloo then opens the side door and we see the entire shipment of silver inside glowing. Rebecca turns around and is in SHOCK as Baloo cuts a dental promo. Rebecca stammers like crazy because Baloo has one last job to do as he closes the side door and reads the comic book. We see the final two comic panels as the last time shows the SeaDuck flying away. Baloo proclaims that a lone pilot has delivered the silver and restored their honor to finally end the episode at 21:17. Minus the jump cuts and some mistakes by the animators; this episode was AWESOME! (Joe gave this **** and here's the last thing he said about this episode and it's one of the best responses I have ever heard: The final panel of that comic now pictures Baloo’s plane, “The Sea Duck”! WOW! Twilight Zone, anyone? That is exactly what separates TALE SPIN from other cartoons of its ilk. The ability to deftly combine mythic (even supernatural) yet somehow believable adventure with comedy, and do it with well-realized “funny-animal” characters. Even DUCKTALES can’t quite match it in that “believability” factor. Just imagine how more awesome it would be if it was a two parter and Kit was in it with the angle that Kit and Rick were related in some way. It would have perfect to close the series. Sadly; it didn't happen; because you know...) You could argue that this should have ended the series instead of that last one; but really at this point, no one cares when you have so much stuff to use and the execs didn't want anything to do with the show. **** 1/2 (90%). (The rating stands as it is.)

THE REVIEW LINE

This was another great episode that could have been perfect had it not been for animation screw-up and in this case a minor sound effect problem later in the episode. Rick Skye was great and while he did have a certain mystique to him; it would have been nice if he would show his anger a little more emotionally. He at times sounded just a little too cold. On another great front; it was also nice to have a British-voiced face since there are so few in American Animation and most of them are money snobs. Rick Skye was a good exception to that rule; he had some honor in him. Sadly; he really thought that he was still in a war and the rules of war apply which in many cases clash with the morality of a peacetime world (Rick Skye stealing Baloo's SeaDuck as one grand example.). Still; this is not for a TV-Y audience because the amount of gun play is a lot more than some TV-PG/TV-14 shows that I have seen. Then again; the whole rating system was to sell a useless device so there you go. (Personally; this had enough shooting for a TV-Y7 episode; but the bullets made it look like TV-14 at times. Also, Mad Dog was killed to boot! So; overall, as a 22 minute episode, it was awesome. However; if this was extended to 44 minutes with some of the suggestions I made; this would be super f'n awesome!) So, that officially ends the TaleSpin series on television and...

Kit: {Walks in.} Excuse me? EXCUSE ME!
Gregory: What is it Kit? Can't you see I'm trying to finish this rant?
Kit: Ummm; you only did 64 episodes?
Iger: {Walks in.} Ummm; Kit. Please don't bother the nice man.
Gregory: Yeah; there is no 65^th episode in TaleSpin.
Kit: Yes; there is Mr. Weagle. You forgot the time when Baloo delivered a bomb to the High Marshall. It was called Flying Dupes!
Iger: HOW DARE YOU KIT?! We have been trying to prevent the existence of that episode for 20 years and you brought it up again? (Well; it's a moot point now that TaleSpin Volume 3 was released with Flying Dupes in it completely uncut. Oh, and Iger was the CEO when it happened, too. Completely buries the sketch in hindsight.) That's it! You can forget about a comic revival of TaleSpin from BOOM forevermore. You forgot what happened to Giffords earlier this year?!
Gregory: So you are going to screw over TaleSpin fans just because Michael Eisner and Gary Krisel were dumb enough to green light an episode which involved the possible death of a head of state? Really?
Iger: Yeah; so what are you going to do about it fat boy?!
Kit: {Iger grabs Kit by the throat.} Hey!
Iger: And you Kit are going back to Disney hell for bringing that up. Eisner was right; you are a BS&P nightmare!
Gregory: Actually I'm going to do nothing. I have my own life to live. {Goes to the magically appearing cage with a panther who looks like the sig of Boris Steet} However; I will go to this OUT OF NOWHERE cage and unleash TaleSpin's secret weapon: Rabid Steet! Formally known as Y2Kit!
Iger: OH MY JONAS! NOT RABID STEET! UGH! {Iger drops Kit on his ass and runs away as Steet chases him away. (Oh lord; was "Oh My Jonas!" not the most hilariously bad taking God's name in vain promo of all time?! I thought it was.)}
Kit: Thanks Gregory! When will he change his mind?
Gregory: I give him until June at the earliest and September at the latest. Depends on which torture method Steet gives him when Steet catches him of course. (We're still waiting.)

Yeah; last up for TaleSpin is the rarely seen; but no less forbidden episode of doom known as Flying Dupes. (Yeah folks; I ended this rant on that note. I'm done.) The last appearance of the Thembrians and everyone else. Except for Baloo of course for obvious reasons. So...

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

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