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Waiders of The Wost Tweasure Re-Rant

Reviewed: 12/31/2010
Additional Commentary: 11/12/2021

OO EE OO HAHA! TING TANG! WALLA-WALLA BING-BANG!

Original Airdate: 01/09/1991 (Syndication), Episode #45 (TaleSpin DVD Volume 2, Disc 2), Episode #50 (Production Order).

Waiders Of The Wost Tweasure Notes
Waiders Of The Wost Tweasure Transcript

We end Disc two with a really interesting DTVA debut of the voice actor who voiced maybe the greatest character of all time and Baloo having a pilot rivalry who might as well been the start of the rumors of a really bad joke rumors for the Jungle Book 2 sequel. (2015 Gregory Weagle Says: Oh boy! Let's nip this in the buns right now: Around the time that the Jungle Book sequel was in development, there was word that King Louie was going to be removed completely from the movie as a result of the Prima Estate winning their royalty case against Disney (which they actually lost, but the damage was done anyway), meaning that Jim Cummings could no longer voice Louie, nor did Disney have exclusive rights to the characters. (I word this carefully for a reason since archive footage with the original voices is still apparently allowed as mentioned with the TaleSpin DVD's. Plus, Jim already used the voice back at the San Diego Comic Con in 2013.) So Louie would never appear in the sequel and that causes the High Flight comment board to shudder because someone (I have no idea who started this to be honest with you.) claimed that the replacement for Louie was going to be a clone of Baloo, only it's a woman bear named: Jaloo. Yes, Jaloo. Of course, the rumored character was a hoax and they simply added a few new human kids who were annoying, but at least made sense with what the writers were shooting for. Personally; I think they missed the boat with Jaloo. Why not have a second lead who is a woman, or even the lead and kick Baloo out? Would that make Jungle Book 2 any worse? God forbid that it needs help considering that purists were burying the sequel under principles which are bullcrap; but that hasn't stopped them before. Anyhow; I think I know where the rumor mongers got their idea from: This episode with Airplane Jane. Change her spieces and she might be the Jaloo we all thought she was back in 2003. So, the plot for this episode is: Baloo is delivering trinkets to Walla Walla Bing Bang because Princess Grace is going to be queen of the country. However; a woman pilot buzzes him and we discover that Baloo isn't quite the best pilot in the world and was a friend of his. So Jane is going to Walla Walla Bing Bang (because only in TaleSpin can you have a country named after a phrase from The Witch Doctor song. At least they didn't use Private Tucker's catchphrase, that would have caused the PTC heart attacks.) to help the Queen get back some ruby rings...ERRR...I mean Wuby Wings before some long lost cousin of hers steals the ruby rings...ERRR...I mean Wuby Wings and wins the throne from Grace. Baloo hears this and tries to get the reward before she does to prove that he's better than Airplane Jane. ) Let's rant on shall we...?!

This episode is written by Mark and Michael Edens. The story is edited by Ken Koonce & David Weimers. The animation is done by Wang Film Production Company Limited. (Oh swell, another sloppy episode ensues.)

We begin this one in the skies BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (sunset) as there are lots of grey clouds in the area which would indicates that Kit would be cloudsurfing; but it doesn't happen. (If this episode was done today, Kit cloudsurfing would be the first thing we see and then he goes on and hears Baloo whining about the snow globes as he comes inside. That would be more interesting at least, and I like Kit anyway, so why not?) We head to a window cockpit of Baloo whining about having better things to do than deliver souvenirs to Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang. Why yes Vriginia; the Edens thought using a phrase from The Witch Doctor song the Chipmunks used to sing ad nasuem (And that was long BEFORE their CGI live action movies I might add...) was a swell name for a country, why do you ask? (To be fair; it's not nearly as absurd as calling yourself Ramma-Lamma-Ding-Dong or PU Ferret or even King Squeaky Squeaky in various other DTVA roles. At least this one has a pop culture reference that I actually get.) Kit takes one of the snow globe/paperweights as he claims that they cannot crown a new queen without them. Baloo wants a souvenir map because the last time he went there; he was lost for three days. That's not what Miss Cunningham said that really happened Pop-A-Bear. (Yeah; you spent two days at Louie's and then got lost the third day, only to somehow miscalculate and be in Walla Walla Bing Bang because you didn't have your navigator with you. So that's why Kit is with you.) See; it's enough to make Baloo's head spin and then the red baron airplane nearly bumps the SeaDuck's front causing the Seaduck to take a nosedive to the sea. Baloo does an easy hyperbole into the air off the water with ease and then goes to the transmitter as he catches up to the red baron plane. I should note that the master tape is very worn on that FPS shot. (Actually; the DVD master in general has faded with time since I last saw it, probably due to VLC.) Baloo then blows the pilot off. We then find out that the pilot is female, proclaims that this is the nicest thing he has ever said to him.

She calls him an old hedge hopper. (The only thing I got from a Google search is that it's an achivement from a video game and novel called Metro 2033 and some type of beer. None of these make sense with the theme; so I'll assume it's a thiny-veiled fat joke. That would be great to see since it'll make Baloo look like Rhinokey and Jane like Hoppo from the Wuzzles as Rhinokey gets is comeupperance for his insulting, bad jokes.) Baloo then realizes that it's Plane Jane; also known as Airplane Jane as we see in the cockpit Airplane Jane who is a hippo with the pilot goggles, blue coat and pink scarf on the transmitter (Susan Silo returning from From Whom The Bell Klangs Part 2. (Tribute coming in Feminine Air where she debuted.)). Kit asks who Jane is and Baloo claims that it's a pilot he used to know and he taught her everything she knows. Jane proclaims that it only took one minute. HAHA! It's hilarious how Gadget became such an icon with the fans and yet TaleSpin managed to do a MUCH better job of balance female roles since they were smart enough not to go to extremes with it. (Well; Gadget is sort of a dense genius type of person and thus many sexist men would oodle over her and draw pronographic images of her. When they get tired with that, then they go to Rebecca. These men don't oodle on Jane because she's Baloo's size and thus is ugly in their eyes. Velma had the same problem in Scooby Doo Mystery Inc.; only it was far worse for her since she was the number three babyface of the entire show, while Jane was a one shotter, who deserved better. Although, you can say that with any one shotter in this show. I just love Jane simply because she's throwing all of Baloo's cocky behaviour right back in his face, and it's funny because it embarrasses Baloo and teaches us why submitting to arrogance is a bad idea.) Jane proclaims that she can fly rings over Baloo and that's exactly what she does counter clockwise to boot. She even lands upside down on top of the roof of the SeaDuck as Baloo proclaims that he would show her some real fancy flying; but he has some cargo to deliver, see.

What a coward this Pop-A-Bear fellow is?! (Isn't he just admitting that Jane is truly better than him and because Rebecca always has him on a short leash that he has to weasel his way out of this.) Jane proclaims that she is on a special mission for Princess Grace and Baloo mocks her on that one. (Using a really thick-veiled fat joke in saying that Jane is only there to make Grace look good, since it's implied by Pop-A-Bear that she is fat. Considering Baloo's weight; he should know better than that.) Jane counters that she and Grace went to finishing school together as the SeaDuck does some flips for fun. Baloo mocks that and Jane admits that she never finished. If this was the new Disney she would have finished number one and Grace would have finished number two easily. Oh; and none of the boys would have finished because boys are sexist evildoers. Nightflight said that in doublespeak; so it must be true. (You don't have to imagine that this would happen in the modern cartoon era. Watch Teen Titans Go and the episode "Boys VS. Girls"; and just remember after watching that my imagination was limited.) Jane is being asked by Grace to recover something lost as there is a big reward for it and then flies away mocking Baloo about getting the crash crew ready. HAHA! Kit proclaims that she cannot be half as good as Baloo. (Once again; Kit is skeptical because he has never heard of her until right now and he knows Baloo more than he does Jane.) Baloo blows it off because she has been trying to prove that she is better than him. Somehow; I think she has proven to be on the same level as you Pop-A-Bear; so she's almost there already. Baloo then admits that she sort of beat him in a race once. Sort of?! Come on Baloo; explain away how this is a sort of. (Sort of in this case equals that Jane squashed him like a bug and Baloo cannot take the fact that he got beat by a woman like the sexist fatass that he is.)

We go to the flashback at the Air Race Area from Feminine Air as the music from From Here to Machinery plays as we see the SeaDuck and the Red Baroness planes with their engines started. (Wang Films really screwed up the crowd in this scene: Far shot had zero people in the stands, closeup pan shot of the starting had the bottom row bleeding into the wooden stands, and the end crowd cheer shot looked unfinished and edgy at times. Not good.) The hippo from Feminine Air waves the checkered flag and the race is off as Wang Films commits coloring mistake number one for the episode almost three minutes in as the Red Baroness plane is cheese orange rather than the usual red color on take off. (Speaking of mistakes; when is DTVA going to realize that when you start an auto race, you use the green flag and then the checkered flag at the finish of the race?! It's not hard to figure this out, and it's not just this show that does it. I think even Kit makes that mistake in Feminine Air; although at least it's Higher For Hire and Kit can only afford a checkered flag, so I'm not going to hold it against him.) It goes back to red on the very next shot as Baloo gets into the lead and lands easily about fifty feet away from the two pink armadillo balloons. (With blue tails and blue rings around their chests.) The object was to release the balloons and win profits. Baloo runs in as his voiceover claims that Jane pulls a fast one on him as the Red Baroness is still flying in the air as Jane looks evil. Riiiggghhhttttt Baloo. (You can tell Pop-A-Bear embelished on this flashback being making Jane look like the heel here; when she clearly is not.) Jane unleashes a switchblade; does a hyperbole up, throws it with a smile, the knife flies (with anime background) cutting the ropes and the armadillo is released into the air giving her the upset win. Well; Baloo's upset anyway. Jane does some loop-de-loops for only fifteen cents just to get Baloo's goat even more. We return to reality (no, not really) as Kit asks that always awesome question:

Kit: Sounds pretty clever to me. Why are you so sore?
Baloo: Because I wished I'd thought of it first.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! A little late to the party, eh? (And as the character dictates, Kit is now impressed with Jane because Jane did beat the best pilot in the world. However; it would have been better if Kit and Jane interacted with each other in this episode. But since Baloo is the star and must be milked and thus is the main character against her rival; those interactions never happened. Watch how they write Kit out of this episode, without actually writing him out of the episode.) Disney Captions keeps missing audio for some reason here since it's clear in the audio Kit asked in a complete sentence here. Baloo then gets a Krackpotkin plan: Beat Jane to the reward and she'll have to admit that he is better. (The great thing about this is that it's not boys versus girls here: It's two cocky pilots who happen to be of different genders trying to see who is the better pilot. That is so wrestling-equse that it might as well be Big Show against Beth Phoenix.) Baloo flies the SeaDuck as it's time to see the queen about more than just mere shipments of paperweights. We head to Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang as we a sweeping view of the Red Baroness flying through the harbour and then landing onto the docks near a long flight of stairs next to a cliff. The Seaduck follows the sequence in kind and then we pan up to the top as we see Jane running into the palace as a white swan furry watches on. Did I mention that Walla-Walla population is mostly swans? (I'm amazed that they put an effort in introducing the entire city and country in a similar sweep to Cape Suzette. It looks like Walla Walla Bing Bang was loosely relate to Greece.) We pan left behind a vase as the MIRACLE WORKERS CONNECTION is hiding behind it. Baloo shh's Kit on the closeup and we practice the fine art of not being seen as Baloo hides behind a tree and then around it and behind the white swan guard who is yawning and then he has the meeting of the minds with a black swan in general's gear with the helmet stuffed over his eyes and it's not at the water cooler. (So yeah, Baloo was smart enough to get behind the white swan guard; but still doesn't look where he is going and still bumps into Wudolf.)

The guard unstuffs his hat and blows off Baloo as a miserable wretch. He is Prince Wudolf in my eyes (or Wudolph if you like) as Disney Captions has him as Prince Rudolf which means that Disney Captions has either failed miserably to notice the secret naunce of Walla-Walla's changing R's to W's; or they think that is racist and omitted it. Never mind that this completely ruins the funny payoff later on. (Disney Captions only use the R to W gimmick on the wings themselves despite the fact that Wudolf/Gwace pretty much changes their L and R into W's at random. This was the more interesting episode to do a transcript because of the randomized nature of how Grace/Rudolf uses the accent.) Prince Wudolf is voiced by Dan Castellaneta with started in 1986 with Nothing in Common and then got the break that would be behind the voice of the most popular and one of the greatest characters of all time in 1988 as he became the voice of Homer Simpson in The Simpsons. IN YOUR FACE COMPETITION~! (Fun Fact: Homer's infamous "I am so smart" catchphrase misspelling came to fruition unintentionally when Dan screwed up a line in Homer Simpson fashion so much that it just had to be kept which shows how ab-libbing makes a huge difference in how a production succeeds or fails. Kind of like improvising a match in wrestling actually which is another connection to cartoons in general.) Anyhow; Wuldof is second to the throne of Walla-Walla and Baloo asks him to relax because he is going to raise his blueblood pressure. Maybe talking to him that way is doing it; Pop-A-Bear. You ever thought about that?! I didn't think so. Needless to say Baloo get handed by the white swan guard as Baloo blows him off on the threads and we cut to Kit behind the statue counting something. I just knew the Edens twins would be the ones to make him go persona non grata somehow. (I think Kit was cleaning his invisible fingernails; as if he had claws.) Baloo gets thrown over his head and off-screen to the third wussiest bump I have ever witness. OH TAG Wang Films! (That is the least of this animation studio's problems. I realize that TaleSpin was a rush job, but Wang Films took it too literally.)

Kit goes over to Baloo and asks if he's all right and Baloo proclaims that they never laid a hand on him. Even though we clearly saw white swan guard lay a hand on his shoulder about thirty seconds ago. The boot print in the ass proves that Baloo is a liar methinks. (Ah Pop-A-Bear, still denying after all these years.) Scene changer as Baloo and Kit have somehow gotten to the top of the castle where the princess' bedroom/study hall is (I think). (It's her bedroom. The bed in the background gives it away.) See; this is why I never bought it when Kick Buttowski does it on top of a doughnut sign. Kit and Baloo take ropes and lower down to the bedroom as we finally see Princess Gwace (Sorry Disney Captions; in Walla-Walla, R's are pronounced as W's. Elmer Fudd Syndrome, please return to this show.) talking to Jane and exchanging notes while Kit swings around outside. Princess Gwace is voiced by Victoria Carroll. See, Wudolf -- her long lost cousin -- has returned to challenge her right to the throne. Yeah; what a sexist fellow this Wudolf is; if we knew what kind of princess Gwace was. Baloo, gets his ankle stuck in the rope and breaks a roof shingle and falls down upside down as Kit is struggling to keep control of the rope as Baloo swings in a pedulum. We find out that the proof to rule is in the Wuby Wings (Wow; Disney Captions KEPT that naunce; but not on the rest of the dialogue?) from Queen Mauween (Maureen according to Disney Captions.) which were lost centuries ago and are supposed to be hidden somewhere in the Walla-Walla Bing Bang Wockies (Rockies according to Disney Captions.). Wudolf seems to have found a map for the location of the tweasure. Yeah; I mispelled it on purpose since Disney Captions doesn't seem to get the damn point about Walla-Walla (It's Ralla-Ralla-Bing-Bang; a parody of the Witch Doctor song I mentioned earlier in the rant. It's funny that Disney Captions doesn't really get the joke even though it's clearly spelled out in the episode title.) Wudolf keeps it in a safe in his weading woom (Disney Captions actually gets this one right. What the hell?!) and Jane and Baloo don't get her "W lisp" one bit as she corrects herself saying it's the library which the woom with books (Disney Captions gets this one too).

Jane finally gets it as Gwace has promised a reward of ten thousand Wubles (Another one Disney Captions gets...) as Baloo finally has managed to grab onto the pink curtains and is in awe. The pink curtains rip and some more pendulm action as Kit is using his legs to grab onto the flag pole. Man; that is amazing strength from Kit if he's able to hold on to a four hundred pound plus bear for more than two minutes. (Kit's groin has been taking a beating in this show; even more so than Burger getting kicked in the groin.) Jane wonders how he's going to get the ruby rings and Gwace calls them the Wuby Wings. Jane does Kit's "whatever" response which is less times than I alone have used on an average Kick Buttowski rant. See; Wudolf is throwing a ball and Jane is to find the map during that time as Baloo likes parties see. Sadly; Kit's grip is not forever as the rope finally goes through his fingers and Baloo freefalls just as Jane and Gwace turn around to look at the window. Baloo bounces off the canopy and does some flips and lands with a hard bump into the fountan. HAHA! Now Baloo knows how Kit feels in A Bad Reflection on You Part One. Baloo spits water like a fountain and calls it a close call. Kit runs in somehow (Must have jumped down the other side. (Hey, he can surf down with his airfoil from anywhere, so it's not a stretch of logic to figure out how he got down.)) and asks if Baloo is all right. Baloo squeezes the water from his cap and both exit stage left to find the map. We go to the scene changer as we see the chariot come in with swans coming out dressed in costumes more suited for a Halloween gathering; but still close enough to be formal. Did I mention that the population is swans? I did? (And one of the swans has the same outfit as Blue Mages in Final Fantasy 5.) Okay; moving right along as we hear classical music playing as we pan over to the guest chattering about inside the palace as we see Kit and Baloo hiding behind the bushes (in the foreground no less.). Kit states the obvious for me. Baloo tells Kit to spilt up, look for costumes and then meet each other inside by the food, of course. Considering that there is only three characters that aren't swans; (Two bears and a hippo.) this isn't going to work.

Then again; the Eden silbings aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer when it comes to writing. (Actually; I think when they write together; they write pretty well for themselves compared to most 1980's cartoons I see. It's Mark Edens going solo that is where he sucks.) Anyhow; Baloo exits stage left as Kit asks how would he know if it's him? Okay; this is a stupid question to ask since Baloo and Jane are the only two furries in the entire area that have clear big bellies and Baloo's the biggest. It's clear Kit asked a stupid question since Baloo delivers a non-answer that is equally stupid. (You know it's a special day when I accuse Kit of being stupid. It's a rare occurance.) We follow Kit around looking for a costume and notices the swan armor piece in the palace which is perfect since it allows Kit to blend in. However; the suit is clearly too big for him as he climbs inside and gets stuck managing to flip the helmet he was wearing onto the steel neck as he falls into the chestplate. (Wow; Kit did something really stupid for a change. What is this "Gary Stu" thing, you critics complain about?) Yeap folks; this was the beginning of the burial of Kit in earnest (Which I'm sure came too late for Eisner's liking...) as the most over character in the series (or second most over) and the most over child character in Disney history is disabled for the rest of the episode. (Actually; Kit was in Princess Grace's throne room when this happens and no one noticed him at well. I see this palace has little security and most of them side with Rudolf. Sadly for Eisner; Kit does get out of his burial in this episode.) We cut to inside the palace as Baloo goes to a trash can and finds a flower pot and breaks it into a crown. Well; that's more believable than Oscar making roses in Doris Flores Gorgeous. (Yeah; that flower pot looked like it was made of glass, the sound we heard when it shattered.) Baloo calls himself crowned (basically) as he grabs a table cloth, wraps it around the neck, then goes to a second trash can to pull out a green fly swatter (How symbolic is that?), twists it and pokes two holes in the webbing to create the shade glasses I often see in those costume balls. (Wang Films' creditibility streak continues as the holes in the fly swatter magically repair itself. Although the fly swatter already is a mesh; so poking holes in it is kind of useless.)

Baloo waddles along the sidewalk outside hoping that there is a prize for the best costume. We cut to inside the costume ball as the guests (all swans) mingle and we pan over to Baloo stuffing his face at the food tables while a white swan seems disgusted. What a shock that is?! (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Keep in mind, this aired after My Fair Baloo. On the other hand, the lesson failed to take in that episode, so there was nothing to restart.) Then a big ass fly comes in and lands on the grape jelly doughnuts which Baloo invokes the fly swatter and the gape jelly gets squished into the swan waiter. Whatever Pop-A-Bear. (Yeah, because there has to be a fly when a fly swatter is involved for a laugh. I didn't find it all that funny. Oh, by the way; I rarely say "whatever" when it comes to TaleSpin. You know this episode is not very good at this point.) Thankfully; here comes Jane in her middle Eastern costume complete with fake blond hair, pink feather on top and a pink cover on her mouth tapping Baloo on the shoulder. I think it's safe to say Baloo will NOT be winning the door prize at this costume ball. (She looks like Jeannie from I Dream Of Jeannie, only it's someone who is big and cosplaying the role. This would be Brendala's wet dream come true. Considering that Brendala loves Airplane Jane, I'm not surprised as to why.) Jane is looking for the reading room (because someone has to give Al Khan a heart attack at some point in this episode) and Baloo is looking for someone and the big ass fly lands on his nose again. What is this; a contest by Sunwoo and Wang Films to see who can draw the biggest most contrived fly in the animation universe? (Sunwoo wins this because they are merely bland.) Baloo wants to get together and discuss literature. I'm amazed Baloo can SAY that word. But I betcha he cannot spell it because if he could then I would be forced to retire from ranting due to the surrealness of it all. POW! OUCH! Ummmm... (Yeah; Vowel Play does that to me.) Jane points out the obvious to me and then walks out stage left. HAHA! Baloo then notices the fly on his nose and then gets the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY realizing that it's Jane. Geez; I thought the fact that she's a HIPPO and the size of Hoppo would have given her fatass away. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmmm...

Baloo runs after her and then claims that she looks better in a veil. Personally; I wished she took that veil and used it as a gag on you Pop-A-Bear. At least you would shut up. (Yeah; he made another thinly-veiled fat joke and basically calls her having a butterface. Just peachy.) Sadly; she is helpless against the awesome speaking powers of Drake Mallard. (Because nothing in DTVA can shut Drake up. He's the Chuck Norris of talking.) Meanwhile; back inside as Prince Wudolf is giving marching orders to the Walla-Walla swan guards. I'm going to make this easy and say all the guards are voiced by Jim Cummings. He tells them to mingle with the guests and stay alert as the white swan guards salute him and put on the old standby horse suit. We see it gallop away nicely and no one cares. (It just cannot be a party without two people in a horse suit.) We head to outside of the reading room as we see Baloo and Jane run towards each other inside. Baloo is on the right side (Republican!) while Jane is on the left side (Democrat! (Geez; what a shock that is?)). Baloo runs in and notices a bookshelf in front of him while Jane notices the same on the other side. I guess it didn't occur to them that there are two pathways on the sides of the same bookshelf? Baloo runs over to the blue books and they are fake as the thing opens to reveal a safe and Baloo works the combination. (Those weren't books at all. It was cardboard painted to look like books. Very clever of Rudolf to do that.) We see Jane REPEAT THE SPOT -- which actually makes SENSE here -- and the safe beeps. Huh? Baloo manages to open the safe. How did HE know which combination to use? There's logic break number three for the episode almost ten minutes in. (Why does a 1936 safe beep? Also why are you calling Baloo opening the safe a logic break when Jane is in the same pickle?! Grace never gave her the combination to the safe, so what gives?!)) on his side as we see the map which is a scroll with a red ribbon attached to it. Geez; even this series is doing the Dave The Barbarian state the obvious spot with the pedstal saying map in golden letters. (I just love how easy it is to prove critics of modern shows wrong and show them that ancient cartoons have been doing this since being in the Nile River so to speak.)

Jane opens the safe which makes sense here at least. (No it doesn't. Jane and Baloo are equal in terms of working the safe.) Jane grabs onto the map and we have the map tug of war which would be a main event anywhere in the TaleSpin world. Thankfully; after a *** ½ tug of war; the paper rips in two and the fatasses go flying with off-screen MAN-SIZED bumps; which the FURRY JACKASS OF DOOM notices as he is mingling with a swan couple in costume. The furry jackass walks away as the ass end of the duo misses his cue and gets streched away. (Ah, someone was watching Z-Grade movies in 1937.) Baloo has landed, toppled Wudolf's chair and footstool. Jane comes in and blows off Baloo and demands answers to this outrage. (Baloo actually breaks the chair and the footstool (NOT THAT ONE!) gets toppled over.) Nice to see Jane actually notice the obvious pathway blocked by the bookshelf which makes her the smart one of the duo by proxy. Before Baloo can answer; here comes the furry jackass and the white swan guard number one (the front end) opens the costume and takes out his pistol. Like I said; it's a special day when the guns DO NOT get pulled out. (Yeah; yet another episode where guns were pulled out and we are as of this writing, we are 26 for 31 episodes in guns being used. Save The Tiger! avoided the guns completely somehow.) Baloo and Jane raise their arms in the air as Baloo proclaims that it's getting caught like she is now. That ends the segment ten minutes in. Not a bad episode at all; but little mistakes are hurting this one. A note on Jane: When Jungle Book 2 was in development; King Louie was axed from the project due to legal trouble from the Prima Estate; so the rumor was that Baloo would get a girlfriend to replace him and that she would be called Jaloo. Yeah; that would make money. Sadly; guess who was the name of the alternative world pilot in Unforeseen Impact? Jaloo of course. My life sucks; what a surprise? (Yeah; your ideas were great, but your writing sucks, most so with dialogue and excess grammar. So yeah; Jaloo is now Fanon in the TaleSpin universe. Can can any version of me sleep at night?)

After the commercial break; we see Swan Guard number one with the pistol out as we pan west to the FATASSES OF ATTITUDE with their arms up. Jane naturally blows off Baloo's appearance, Baloo blows her off and swan guard number one yells for "siwence". (Disney Captions misses it of course.) Baloo notices the guard is under the book shelf with the red books with letters on it from A to Z. Baloo casually tips the A book and the book pushed off the big ass W book and swan guard number one takes a MAN-SIZED bump off of it. Must be Walla-Walla Bing Bang Encyclopedias too. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It reveals swan guard number two who has his pistol out and proclaims the obvious. Now THAT's being on the ball, eh?! Sadly; we get logic break number four for the episode as all the red books fall on him in a book tomb. (Geez; that was so fake that Lance Storm would see this and say: Damn; that looked so fake. I mean; how did the books fall from the shelf if all of them were stable on the shelves when down?) Baloo points out the obvious for me as he wants to get the hell out of here; but Jane has a better idea. Oh; this could be good. We see that the big people have removed most of the books from the guards and stole their costume. (This is perfectly fine as a spot because they had to remove the books in order to gain access to the costume. That makes sense actually.) Jane sums this disguise perfectly:

Jane: I'll be the head...(Puts the horse's head on.)...and you can just be yourself.

HAHA! I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. POW! OUCH! Ummm... Baloo is not amused by that one as I expected him not to be. (The guise of this is that Jane is implying that Baloo is a horse's ass. If they were in a donkey costume; she would imply that he's a jackass. Either way works because Baloo really is an asshole.) Scene changer and we head into the party again with classical music playing. (I have no idea what public domain music Christopher L. Stone is composing as music in these scenes. I'm no expert in classical music, I just like it.) We then see the furry jackass walking in as Jane's use of the head leaves a bit to be desired as Baloo seemly stops on a dime which allows Jane to bump into Wudolf from behind and knock him on his ass. Wudolf asks if he has seen any intruders and the horse's head shakes his hand. Wudolf asks how many times did they roam the palace and Jane stomps three times and Wudolf unleashes the sword out; only to recoil since Baloo stomps two more times to indicate five. Sadly; the white swan guards run in proclaiming that the map has been stolen. D'OH! Oh and the costume has been stolen as Jane stuffs the head of a horse on Wudolf (how fitting?) and flees. (I betcha if Grace knew how much of a fraud Wudolf is, she would send him a literal horse's head and place it in Wuldof's bed, just to force the point of what she thinks of him. That would be hilarious.) Baloo asks about the rest of him as Wudolf wants them grabbed, so Baloo bails stage right and the guards rip off the rest of the costume. Damn it! We need that costume for Up And Awry next year. (Actually; this is a form of sabotage that I can tolerate considering how screwed up Kennedy Cartoons and the writers were with that episode.) We get the SCOOBY DOO CHASE SEQUENCE THE WAWWA-WAWWA-BING-BANG EDITION~! (You should have retired that pun a long time ago 2010 me. It's so over the hill when you have to use it to reference a bunch of swans chasing Jane and Baloo; who might as well have Baloo be called Dick at this point. Kit; of course would play Spot in that role for obvious reasons.)

This goes one for a while as it looks something out of a "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" video game. Yeah; I went there; so shoot me. (Seriously; Baloo and Jane run on the bridge like the crooks and the swans act like the police complete with pointing their swords straight up and then straight forward, repeating the animation over and over again. It's like when Family Guy characters land, they land face and belly first with their arm against their back. Oh, and hell of a pop-culture reference there Eden siblings. When TaleSpin makes a pop-culture reference, critics don't notice it at all. 25 years later, Breadwinners does a Star Fox 64 reference and everyone screams bloody murder over it. What incredible myopia these critics have? Kevin Johnston is right about us being terrible at analyzing animation, but I think they do it on purpose to protect their favorites and their confirmation biases. Too bad they should also stop hiding their conflicts of interests as well.) We see the goofs make it to the SeaDuck as Baloo orders her to untie the Duck so he can start the engines. Jane blows him off for that one as Baloo claims that they need to take his plane because he has the half of the map showing where the treasure is while Jane counters that she has the map to show where to go to get to the treasure. Wow; that is circular logic and a half as we see Prince Wudolf and his two white swans go down the stairs (Disney Captions still doesn't get the naunce as Wudolf pronounces in the audio that it's wobbers.). Jane then admits defeat and decides that it's better to take the SeaDuck. In the new Disney; Baloo would be the one saying to take the Red Baroness. I made it up; I know. The goofs get into the plane and the engines start and the SeaDuck backs up and flies away allowing the white swans to dive into the water for fun. Wudolf is PISSED off as he orders his swans to get the blimp ready because they haven't eluded him yet. We cut to the SeaDuck flying through the harbour as Baloo realizes that Kit is still in the palace somewhere. Jane then annoys me by claiming that Kit is safer in there than with Baloo at the controls. Baloo is not amused and neither am I. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: Jane has zero clue that Kit is the craziest one of the buddy duo.) Kit is actually more dangerous anywhere when he's free and not stuck in a suit of armor.

Which so happens to be where Kit is as we cut to Kit being stuck in the swan suit of armor. He wants a can opener too. (And this is why he carries a switchblade on his person in Louie's Last Stand at all times.) In hindsight; it would have been better to write him out until the end because the Edens seem to pad the running time of the episode by focusing on Kit trying to get out of the suit of armor and failing. This just makes Kit look really weak. Yeah; I know that he is supposed to show weakness at times; but this makes him look weak as a character. (Sadly; the weakness only lasted for one episode as Kit was at his strongest in Flight School Confidential. In a strange way, Michael Eisner's plan to bury Kit might have had the unintentional consequence of getting him over even more since it doesn't make him a Scrappy and increases the likableness of his kid appeal character.) Anyhow; we head to the Walla-Walla Bing Bang Wockies as Baloo is looking at his side of the map and running out as he then asks for Jane to watch for a way in. Jane decides to mock Baloo's lack of direction and decides to be his eyes. Baloo of course is using this as a trick because the other half of the map is in Jane's left pocket. Baloo attempts to grab it; but Jane slaps the hand away just in time. She must be taking notes from Louie's. THEY ARE A TIGHT-KNITTED COMMUNITY I TELL YA! Baloo and Jane start aguring about who's the better fat furry in history. Yeah; this is Baloo against Jaloo and I would say the Jaloo side is winning on the point system by a fair margin. Jane does the worst scream I have ever heard as even Baloo agrees with me on that. Susan Silo really needs to learn how to scream and not from Sally Struthers. However; the canyon between them is experiencing an acute case of FALLEN ROCKS SYNDROME. Now Baloo's regretting taking his plane as the SeaDuck flies above the rocks and does a 360 around a large piece of jagged rock and then drops down to the ocean right in front of a small mountain side. The SeaDuck doesn't take any bumps though. Baloo opens the side door of the SeaDuck and places the inflatable raft onto the water.

Okay; I admit, I'm losing my touch on the stupid puns side of things this time around. (I think this was around the point where decided to tone it down to almost nothing because even I was annoyed by that gimmick.) Jane then throws the anchor into Baloo's hands. Baloo is confused and Jane pushes Baloo into the water and gets back at him for tricking her earlier. Why?! Baloo failed to grab your side of the map. That was pretty pointless if you ask me. (Nah; it was meant to be funny and it was because Baloo tried to screw her out of the map and Jane got back at him by tricking him into tying up the SeaDuck.) Jane jumps into the raft and rows to shore. I'm surprised that it didn't sink. SOMEONE FIRE THAT RAFT~! (Back in midseason form I see, 2010 me.) Baloo claims that she was trying to trick him. NO?! REALLY?! Jane makes it to shore as Baloo swims to shore and follows her from behind. Jane stops about a good thirty feet from the door and states that the door is just ahead. Stupid move Jane as Baloo hears her and runs right ahead of her. This just in: That fat, greedy , irresponsible bear is actually ahead of someone and she's actually thinner than Baloo. (Yawn, I've seen the "someone who is thin has to pretend it's slower than the fat person." spot before.) This is becoming a comedy of tragedy and that's probably how the Edens wanted it. (Nah; it's more of just a comedy foot race between two fat people.) Baloo finally makes it to the large wooden door. I'm expecting Jane to pull ahead here as Baloo sees the sign "Pull Rope" in black letters above a piece of rope. Baloo thinks he's outsmarted Jane and he pulls the rope. The rope snaps (Not that spot again!) and the wooden door squashes Baloo flat as a pancake. OUCH! Serves him right and I hope he wins the Darwin award of 1990 for that stupidity. Sadly; this is a cartoon and he wouldn't count. Jane enters the cave first as I expected her to. That was just too easy to spot. Jane runs deep into the cave which is so plain that sometimes I wonder if this series was better off with a decent movie budget than a television budget. (The background artwork was great as it was, but it felt a bit bland compared to Walla Walla Bing Bang.)

Baloo manages to wiggle out of the wooden castle door. Now that was really stupid as Baloo chases Jane from behind. Jane sadly trips onto a rope, falls into the net and get hunged into the air like Louie getting dunked into the basketball hoop; only the artwork and animation is better. Kudos to Wang Films for not screwing up. (Sometimes, Wang doesn't screw up much. See Jolly Molly Christmas. At least they didn't do shadow characters nor a million scene changers like Allowance Day.) Baloo insults her; as usual and runs away. Jane is swearing in a voice that sounds more like mumbling and takes out the Swiss army knife (Nice to see that thing return in some way...) and cuts half the net. She falls down and takes a MAN-SIZED bump (off screen because she's a lady.) onto the ground. Baloo thinks he's ahead for good; but he trips and is caught between a chasm. He's hanging on for dear life as Jane steps on him and passes without incident. I'm surprised Baloo didn't break his back on that spot. Jane runs and makes it to a large hole about fifteen feet above her complete with another strand of rope. Oh come on, Jane! You know what's going to...Don't pull the...! Too late. That triggers the spear and they shoot Jane against the wall. Sadly; none of them pierce through her body or clothes for that matter. Come on, Wang Films! Baloo got his clothes caught when Walt Disney Animation Japan Inc. was animating. (Yeah; I get you cannot have the spear stab flesh; but clothes are perfectly legal.) Baloo mocks her again (It's Wuby Wings you fatasses! POW! POW! OUCH! OUCH! Ummmm.... Why did Scott Steiner hit me?) and climbs the ropes and makes it to the top without incident. Jane is ticked off and the urge to kill is rising now. Apparently that trap should be fired for lack of "Wuby Spears" too. HA! I KILL ME!! (Edited the joke for clairty reasons and Wuby Spears is a million times funnier anyway.) Baloo runs around and discovers two doors and apparently one of them is a trap. Which probably means that both of them of full of traps. Remember who's writing this episode Pop-A-Bear. (and I end up being right in this case.) Jane catches up as I expected. Baloo asks which wheel should he turn and Jane proclaims that it is the left one. Baloo sells it and tries to twist; but he stops.

Baloo then calls Jane out and states that she's trying to trick him. Baloo then speaks some silly stuff that I don't know and he then decides to twist the left wheel after all. (Basically he end arounds her and picks the left door anyway. Proves to be pointless in the end since both doors contained the exact same trap.) The door open and a rolling stone sound ensues. Oh boy; Pop-A-Bear Bear is done as he is forced to run away towards the cliff as a round stone ball rolls behind him. It completely misses Jane of course as she mocks Baloo right back. I would say that the Jaloo joke has now been overexposed in this episode. Jane twists the right wheel and opens her side of the door and guess what? She's now being chased by a rolling rock! (I thought it was the Heiadenkranna?) Sorry folks; but I'm pretty much dead on the stupid puns joke. Although this episode is turning into a semi-joke by the Edens. (Why? Wang Films is screwing up the episode more than the writers are.) Baloo manages to grab onto a tree brach on the side of the cliff as the rolling stone falls into the drink. Baloo thinks he's fine; until Jane appears and grabs onto Baloo and does a semi-whiplash spot as the rolling stone falls into the drink. The tree branch snaps (Well, they are about nine hundred fifty pounds combined...); but Baloo manages to grab onto the cliff edge. Man; Baloo's got the vice-like grip going today. Jane climbs up and stomps on Baloo just to get him back for confusing her. She should stomp on Edens for their lame attempt to fourth-wall breaking. (What fourth wall breaking? The only one that did happen was Buzz waving hello to the camera in Bullethead Baloo. And that was in fact funny.) It doesn't work on this show well. (See Bullethead Baloo and be mistaken yet again 2010 Me.) Jane and Baloo separate and walk through the door with Baloo taking the right door (Republican!) and Jane taking the left door (Democrat) and make it through to the next section without incident. Oh man; that was pretty useless as Jane looks at the map and states that they should pull the chain.

Of course; there is the chain hanging from the ceiling. I smell another trap commencing as Jane attempt to pull on the chain and nothing happens. (And 2010 me was wrong in that regard.) Baloo pushes her aside (So much for no "male on female" contact being allowed in a children's cartoon. (Now that was man on woman violence in a nutshell.)) and states that she is useless as he attempt to pull on my chain..Of course; nothing happens. Baloo states that he needs more weight and Jane ribs him for that comment. Jane then channels the powers of Kit THE MIRACLE WORKER and states that it's time to work together. Baloo agrees; but after this, it's every pilot for himself. Jane invokes political correctness and Baloo just ignores it as usual. (It's every pilot for itself, Pop-A-Bear and 2010 me.) Baloo and Jane pull the chain and it in fact works. Imagine that! It took almost one thousand pounds of fat to pull that chain. Someone fire... ah, forget it! The joke is dead on arrival now. The rock door opens and both pilot enter into the room. They stare in awe of the light becuase there are the Wuby Wings attached to a statue of Queen Mauween. Jane finally gets it right as Baloo is amazed at the sight. (See; they all assumed that Grace wanted a ruby ring, but it's really a set of ruby wings. Thank goodness Kit Cloudkicker is not here because if he was, he would be salivating to steal those wings away. Screw being the king of Walla Walla Bing Bang and controlling a country; he would just want to fly. Like Teddy Ruxpin's sixth crystal, he better never meet Kit and if he does, he needs to secure that crystal in his crystal belt. Otherwise, he's only going to have five crystals left.) however, trouble is about to ensume as Prince Wudolf arrives with his two swans loaded with elephant guns ready to kill. WALLA-WALLA BING BANG indeed!! Wudolf makes me laugh because when he says "clear" which when he translates it to "cwear" in Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang speak; it sounds like he is saying "queer". EEK! (Thankfully for us, Wudolf is going to lose the accent completely in the next act; because he's a phony prince of WWBB.) That ends the segment seventeen and a half minutes in.

After the commercial break; we see Baloo and Jane backing up as the prince proclaims that he has been made a fool of for the last time. He does sound like Elmer Fudd; literally. I wonder if Hal Smith is the real voice because he did Elmer Fudd from 1960 to 1961. (I'm surprised Warner Brothers didn't cast Dan in the role of Elmer Fudd in The Looney Tunes Show. I mean, Wudolf seriously thinks he's Elmer Fudd.) Anyhow; Baloo is right next to the coveniently placed pully system and he pushes the lever (JESUS~!) as the walls grind and the swans panic and they back up to allow the door to close. Huh? Why not just run forward? That looks really contrived to me guys. (They don't even need to move since they were behind the door and would still be safely inside even if they didn't move.) We then cut to Baloo taking the Wuby Wings off the statue and placing them on Jane's back. Baloo snaps the necklace part of the wings as he wants Jane to glide with the wings back to the SeaDuck. Wow; I'm surprised that Baloo would want her help after going through most of it blowing her off. Anyone notice that Rudolph is the only black swan in the entire episode? The other two are white swans. I think that proves that the good swans and the heel swans aren't separated that easily. (Well; of course not because there is only one black swan in the entire episode.) I've heard some debate over telling the difference; but I'm certain that those two white swans are heels without question. Although it can be debated that Rudolph is a stereotype on blacks with the big lips and he is black (Mr. Popo and Jinx). Problem is that swans also have big lips with the duck beaks; so that illusion is gone as well. I must be missing something. (No you are not. Last Horizons is more racist than this episode by orders of magnitude.) Anyhow; Jane refuses saying that she doesn't want to owe him anything. Another trick to her I guess. (Geez; Jane should have accepted the wings, and glide back to Walla Walla Bing Bang so she can stick it to Baloo for being stupid. That would have been great. Instead, she thinks Baloo is tricking her, at a time where a trick on her is a bad idea.) Baloo doesn't want to argue and pushes Jane off the cliff. WHAT THE HELL?! He pushed a lady off the cliff!! I take back everything I ever said about Genki striking Pixie; now I know where they got that from!! (How could I forget the moment in Monster Rancher when Genki punched Pixie in the face and the North American dub kept all of this in? They removed all of Hare's fart jokes; but kept a punch to a woman's face? Really?)

Baloo then admits that he's too heavy to handglide of course. Jane glides into the sky with the most peaceful music ever played in the series. Too bad boy viewers want rock music in every peaceful scene in America (Dragon Ball Z dubs). (Then again, TaleSpin was for everyone and is an adult show disguised as a kid's show; because kids just want comedy.) Baloo goes through the stone door as he proclaims that it is solid as a rock and it will take all day for them to break through. Just to me himself look more stupid; he takes out a sandwich and eats it as we see Wudolf break through the wall literally with the jackhammer of doom. Also, this one is battery operated. Well; there is the fridge logic for ye. Wudolf poke's Baloo's chest and Baloo notices that Rudolf's accent is completely gone. This would have been more convincing if Disney Captions would have sticked with the program from the start. Like I said before; I swear to god Disney Captions hates deaf people. (Also they listen to you by never subtitling Volume 3 of the series, thus making those episode transcripts be made harder. (November 2016 Gregory Weagle Says: WRONG! They did subtitle the DVD sets; but you have to use VLC's subtitle options menu to access them rather than getting them from the DVD itself. Still stupid.)) Baloo finally gets the LIGHT BULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY on that and the two white swans grab Baloo by his ears as Rudolf proclaims that he wants the princess to think he's her long lost cousin. See; he wants to steal the kingdom as Baloo blows him off because he's too late since the wings have flown the coup. Rudolf realizes that Jane has them so he decides to have the two white swans throw Baloo --- the imbecile --- out the window. Oookkkkayyyyy. Baloo proclaims that he was better off when he couldn't understand him and the two swan throw Baloo out of the window. Baloo freefalls and lands right into the 90 degree SeaDuck side door with a thud. Baloo goes into the cockpit and sees Jane piloting the SeaDuck. Forget it; calling her Plane Jane is insulting to my intellegence. I love Airplane Jane better; it sounds sexy. Plane Jane sounds senile. (Yeah; it sounds like an insult like Plain Jane, as in: she's a bland person.)

Jane wants approval for her flying the SeaDuck; but Baloo states that there is no time because the SeaDuck is under attack by the HUGE NEWTON GIMMICK AIRSHIP OF DOOM! No really; it almost looks like Newton Gimmick's airship from Teddy Ruxpin; with guns on it. (Imagine an airbag with two chocolate cookies as the shape and fifteen guns firing from the bowels of the airship. Otherwise, it's completely lifted from Teddy Ruxpin.) They are firing away and I can finally bring back my Trigun rating back. (The way the cannons are firing is comically similar to one of the fencing battles King Babar had in his youth in his own show at around the time Brizzi Studios was working with Nelvana on the show.) Rudolf approches the cliff as the mini basket is lowered from the airship and Rudolph gets in and gets pulled up without incident. Well; at least the goofiness from Edens writing has died down as Jane wants Baloo to fly the plane and Baloo refuses thinking that she's better at it now. I think he's trying to screw with her mind if you will. Baloo then tells Jane to fly towards the airship; right into the middle of the gunfire. Jane sells because she's as crazy as Baloo is! The airship continues to fire its guns; it is up to 0.5 Trigun at this point as the SeaDuck flies towards the the top of the airship. For some reason; the right propeller of the SeaDuck is busted for some odd reason. Must have gotten hit by the cannon fire. (Once again, a cut gets snipped out due to time, although that might be because the SeaDuck is overloaded with five hundred pounds of extra mass and it still is able to fly somewhat. Take that Wooly Whatisit and Newton's defectively designed airship!) Baloo then invokes the anchor and it pops the bubble of the airship. Rudolf is really upset now as Baloo mocks him as a windbag. Rudolf? A windbag? HA! I think Drake Mallard would have a lot to say about that. And I DO MEAN A LOT! BLAM! HEE HEE! Missed again! You are NOT...POW! OUCH! Ummmmmm...

However; karma strikes again as the SeaDuck takes a bump and Baloo flies out and it forced to grab onto the rope. Remember the karma gods, Pop-a-Bear?! Sadly; the plan is about to take a tumble because the airship is going down and taking the SeaDuck with it. Jane throws Baloo her Swiss army knife and Baloo grabs it. Baloo cuts the rope and the plane snaps back a bit; causing the airship to fall into the water and that pretty much assures that Rudolf is either dead or near drowning at this point. Man; they didn't even give Rudolf a real chance to fight back this time. That's just lame. (Nah, Rudolf is fine along with the guards, but he's going to wish he wasn't.) Baloo and Jane declare victory as the SeaDuck flies into the canyon again and apparently nothing will go wrong. Yeah right! Remember; this is the Edens writing here. The rockslide is too high and the SeaDuck is JUST TOO FAT and cannot fly on one engine. Finally some dramatic writing from the Edens. Jane needs the SeaDuck to lose weight and Baloo has a plan: Dump the paperweights out. Nice to see them use the most obvious thing inside the SeaDuck guys! (This is such an idiotic moment because if Baloo had just delivered the paperweights as promised and then do the adventure; then he wouldn't have to force Jane to cough up the money to pay for damages.) Baloo takes the packages of paperweights and dumps them into the water right on top of the heels as Rudolf and his two swans are still alive. FIRE MOTHER NATURE!! (I would like to point out the joke on Jackie Fargo, but he died in the end, so Mother Nature won out.) They get pelted with the paperweights as the SeaDuck flies to safety on one engine. Man; that was pretty lame and I sense Baloo is going to get his true reward; if you know what I mean. We go back to Walla-Walla Bing Bang at sunrise and the throne room of the newly crowned Queen of Walla-Walla Bing Bang wearing the famed Wuby Wings as she thanks Baloo and Jane for finding the Wuby Wings. She gives Jane ten thousand wubies for finding them because she did ask her to find them first. (That makes sense; but what happened to Wudolf and the two swan guards? Did they go missing or something?)

Baloo is complaining about it as Queen Gwace gives Baloo his reward: The big ass bill of doom for destroying all those paperweights trying to save Jane's hide. (Yes, in WWBB there is a Ministry of Souvenirs and it's taken seriously. This makes the Chamber of Commence look like the bank.) Baloo can sense the WRAITH OF BECKEY commencing and Baloo actually states that Rebecca is going to kill him when he gets back to Cape Suzette. That's why the Acorn Cafe is a complete joke in my view. (They can claim to be Rescue Ranger fans, but they don't analyze their own show well enough, because they are in an echo chamber. "Never Say Die" is usually averted in DTVA from The Wuzzles till right now. And shows also say god quite a few times too in other shows. This is what happens when I pay attention and the Acron Cafe doesn't.) Then Jane channels the powers of the MIRACLE WORKER us by actually giving Queen Gwace the money back and thus gets back the 1/2*. She got Kit's genes; yes siree! Baloo and Jane exchange notes together as there is still one thing left to do. Find Kit THE MIRACLE WORKER and thankfully; the suit of armor that Kit is in crashes to the ground (With a really good off-screen bump...) as Kit pops out and feels relieved after ten minutes of suffering without him. The only solace in this: Kit gets the most screen time in the next re-rant I am doing. Kit wonders if the party's over to end the episode and disc two at 21:19. Despite the lameness; the story was solid enough and the Baloo/Jane rivalry was decent while it lasted and even the Edens couldn't screw that one up. Sadly; they really screwed Kit's creditability as a character. *** 1/2 (70%). (The rating stays as it is; and most of this is pretty much what I said in 2010. Wang Films did more damage to this episode than the Edens and thus the story was better, it was the animation that was more screwed up.)

THE REVIEW LINE

Our last episode of disc two was another average TaleSpin love in with some nice little gimmicks spread in between them. I would have loved to see an arc of Prince Rudolf's back story in there; but then again Eisner never liked character design. This was basically a battle between Baloo and Jane trying to outdo each other and they looked pretty above average doing it. However; what really dragged the episode down was the use of Kit Cloudkicker. He did very little and he was on the butt end of short jokes doing the suit of armor gag which wasn't really all that funny. I felt that they were trying to bury him instead of turning him into a funny character. Kit is not design for comedy; he's designed for drama with a few well-timed wisecracks to balance his character. (2020 Gregory Weagle Says: I watched The Lost Cargo Of Kit Cloudkicker and Kit Cloudkicker as a comedy adult is actually awesome!) Michael and Mark Edens should be ashamed of themselves for doing this. (Personally; I have mellowed out on this. Not to say that I'm wrong about what they did, but Kit's burial really didn't happen until the series was over and TaleSpin wasn't needed anymore to fill a block. After 25 years of hindsight, I can safely say that blaming Kit Cloudkicker for causing the concept of kids being in the main event, and being hip and cool and smug is not an unreasonable response. Still; Kit Cloudkicker was done properly and most cartoons can't pull off a child character like this.) A couple of logic breaks and silly fourth wall breaking hurt this episode as well and instead of ending up looking great; it was just there to be above average. Oh and Disney Captions was it's usual idiot self from the first volume after being mostly on it's best behavior throughout the second volume. So that ends Disc 2 of Volume 2 of TaleSpin. We have eight thumbs up and one in the middle (Citizen Khan); plus two perfect episodes. Not volume one, disc one of TaleSpin; but still nice. There is still one more disc to go before the Youtube rants and I start New Years with the episode that convinced me to watch this show again in 1994: Flight School Confidential; or as I call it: The Kit Cloudkicker Protest episode. Yippee! Kit finally makes his dreams come true while being the BS&P nightmare that he has become while doing it. (Oh sure, have Kit fly to a country that is basically the Soviet Union and learn how to fly planes and find corruption. That'll really impress the boss, Martin Donoff. I'm serious! Martin Donoff was the writer of this next episode.) So...

Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you next time.

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