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CardCaptor Schlueter
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 Posted - July 25 2006 : 1:32:04 PM
 
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Totally Spies! Escape From WOOHP Island (2004)
A Recap By CardCaptor Schlueter
Summary:
Britney, the elusive fourth spy last seen in "Alex Quits", has crash-landed her plane on an island containing WOOHP's Super-Max holding facility. Our intrepid trio must save her within four hours or she'll be blown up along with the rest of the island. Meanwhile, in the B-Plot, Clover tries to peddle some seriously questionable cosmetics. Avon calling!
Well, here I am recapping yet another episode of "Totally Spies!". Originally, my plan was to finish the "Evil Promotion Much?" recap before doing something different, but unfortunately the other two episodes I recorded got erased before I could finish. The good news it that this may not be a problem in the future since Marathon Animation has announced the release (at least, here in Canada) of four boxed sets in the fourth quarter of 2006 including sets for "Totally Spies!" and "Martin Mystery". Personally, I'm looking forward to these, especially since Teletoon, the Canadian broadcaster of "Spies!" recently dropped the rights to seasons one and two of the show and as a result there's been an endless cycle of crappy season three episodes... Which brings us to today's subject.
"Escape From WOOHP Island" is actually a follow-up (sort of) to a season two episode called "Alex Quits". In that one, Alex was having a particularly bad day and, to make things worse, they got a new trainee spy on the team who had an instant connection with Sam and Clover. The trainee, named Britney, inadvertently made Alex feel like a second class spy leading Alex to quit the team. Well, "Escape" is Britney's first reappearance since "Alex Quits".
The episode opens with a giant four engine propeller plane cruising through the sky. Just to let us know who owns the plane, we get a close up of a giant WOOHP logo on the side. We cut to the inside and in the pilot's seat is Britney, the elusive fourth spy (voiced once again by Lindsay Ridgeway). A hologram of Jerry suddenly appears on the control panel and congratulates her on a job well done. What job? Flying a plane? I figured since the spies had been piloting all kinds of planes, trains and automobiles throughout this series that this wouldn't exactly be praiseworthy. It turns out this is just a set-up, because a storm immediately kicks-up causing the plane to shudder.
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Just another day at the George Kennedy Flight School.
Britney announces she's taking the plane off of auto-pilot. What? She wasn't even really flying the damn thing? Of course, the hologram fizzles out and Britney is unable to reconnect. The plane comes out of the cloud cover and appears to be heading for an island. Although the island still seems pretty far away, Britney immediately lets go of the controls and throws her arms in front of her face. And on that note, we go to the episode's title card.
The episode, as usual, starts out at the Beverly Hills villa where our intrepid trio resides. In a rather goofy mistake, the X-Files styled location caption refers to this as the "Girl's Villa". So... only one of them lives there now? As I mentioned in my recap of "Evil Promotion Much?", the trio all moved in together in order to make it easier to have all three spies in the same place at the same time. That said, the idea of having the trio dealing with the difficulties of being roommates lead to some interesting B-Plot opportunities. Unfortunately, only a couple of good ones ever turned up in season three. One would be Sam's insistance on a chore rotation (in "Morphing Is Soooo 1987") and the other involved hostilities over the contents of Clover's Diary (in "Planet of the Hunks"). The rest of the roommate stuff was overlooked until season four. Anyway, back to this episode.
In the living room, Alex (whose voice is provided by Katie Griffen, replacing Katie Leigh from the first two seasons)is wearing a gi and practicing some kung-fu moves, by which I mean we get a long close up of her concentrating before she does one mildly elaborate jumping attack. Suddenly, the doorbell rings. Alex goes off to answer it by using another kung-fu jumping move. She opens the door, and whaddaya know, it's today's B-plot! More accurately, it's Clover (voiced by Andrea Taylor from season one) carrying a pink case and wearing a weird pink uniform. Alex asks if Clover forgot her housekey. Sam (voiced as always by Jennifer Hale, who's voice will sound very familiar to a lot of you given the number of shows and video games she's been in), who's sitting at the dining table reading, asks if she also forgot her fashion sense. Yuk, yuk.
Clover announces that she's a "Beautilicious Betty", which sounds kind of like something you'd hear in a Gidget movie. Alex is confused by this Frankie and Annette lingo and it turns out that Clover is "a door-to-door peddler of all that's right in the world". That must explain why the case is so small. Clover opens the case to reveal a display of cosmetics. Alex gives the products a suspicious glance and points out "Didn't the news run a story on these shoddy products?". Clover responds by pointing out the "nothing was proven". Well, that's reassuring. Sam notes that, for shoddy products, the price tag is awfully high. Clover counters again by saying you can't put a pricetag on beauty. She then goes on to point out a zit on Sam's face and that Alex's hands are apparently rough from scrubbing the toilet (Ick...). Alex replies that "toilets don't scrub themselves". Isn't that the truth?
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"Today we're having a special on Marcellus Wallace's soul."
Clover begs them to try the products for her sake. She also mentions the upcoming WOOHP company picnic. This is the second episode I've seen that mentions a WOOHP company picnic (The first one being season two's "Animal World"). Do spy agencies really have this many picnics? Anyway, this finally convinces Sam and Alex to cave in. The duo are actually thrilled with the results until Clover announces that they owe "$69.42" causing Sam and Alex to facefault. Alex fires off the obvious retort about "putting a price on beauty". As the girls pay up, a trap door opens under their feet and they're off to Wonderland yet again.
The trio lands in Jerry's office, where Jerry (voiced by Adrian Truss, a poor replacement for Jess Harnell from the first two seasons) is looking somewhat grim. He announces that they have a crisis on their hands. Clover says the "only crisis is [his] pasty complexion" and offers to sell him another skin product. Jerry informs them about the plane crash. I won't go into much detail here because basically Jerry recaps the entire intro sequence. Jerry mentions that Britney could be injured. Yeah, because a plane crash wouldn't, you know, kill her or anything. The girls mope about this and get into an argument over whether Alex was jealous of Britney when she first showed up (which is a reference to "Alex Quits"). The trio immediately volunteers to go after her, but Jerry has more bad news. The island Britney crashed on is home to WOOHP's highest security prison. Not only that, but the plane destroyed the security system which has triggered the island's self-destruct system[!!!]. Wow. That is high security if they're willing to blow up all the prisoners rather than risk them escaping. So, what happens to the guards and personnel on the island? Jerry says they have just over three hours to perform the rescue before the island detonates. Apparently, this exploding island fail-safe isn't that effective. I mean, doesn't that suggest thst WOOHP is willing to give its most dangerous prisoners a window of several hours to escape? Anyway, the spies are still determined to go, so Jerry uploads the data on the facility into the girls' communicators. For those unaware, the spies communicators (called "Compowders" in seasons one and two and "X-Powders" in seasons three and four) are pink and made to look like compacts, kind of like the one April O'Neil used to use on the old Ninja Turtles cartoon. You know, back when instead of a slightly goth redhead, April was a reddish brunette in a funky yellow jumpuit loaded with pockets? You know, as much as the remake series is way closer to Eastman and Laird's original graphic novels, there are times when I miss seeing April in that ridiculous jumpsuit. Maybe it's because when I was twelve I thought she looked pretty hot in that thing. Was I the only one? Huh? Oh, right, this episode.
Then comes the moment I've been dreading since I first started recapping Spies. Jerry hands things over to GLADIS.GLADIS is another of the bright ideas they added into season three, it's a Gadget Lending And Dispensing Something-or-other computer that Jerry installed in his office to dole out whatever Q-style trinkets the spies would be using. Unfortunately, the writers thought it would be funny to have GLADIS be obstinate and self-centered. Oh, and the main computer unit is designed to look like a super-sized version of the spies' communicators. Anyway, let it be said that most spies fans hate GLADIS and get on with it.
This time around the spies are handed the N-Ray Contact Lenses (a recurring gadget that gives whoever uses them sort of an infared/x-ray vision), the laser nailfile (one of God knows how many laser themed trinkets seen on the show) and a hologram projecting mood ring. The trio changes into a variant on their usual bodysuits, which looks kinda like stunt biker gear, and takes off on three flying hover bikes. I guess all the WOOHP planes were in the shop then?
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The Spies go on the hunt for Ross Hagen.
Anyway, we cut to the trio flying through the air. Sam asks for info on the criminals kept on the island. Clover responds that there are three major ones: The first is a giant tubby robot thing named Gargantuan [?!] that tried to destroy the planet [?!?]. Alex dismisses this giant death machine by saying they can always fry the creature's motherboard. Hmmm... Think it will turn out to be more complicated than that? Bachelor number two is "The Surgeon" (Woah! Clever!) who set out to disfigure the world "one face at a time". Ummm... Okay. Lastly is "Alienator", an alien creature that "wants to devour us all". This, by the way, is one of many instances where "Spies!" seemed to be using gimmicks left from the cutting room floor of Marathon's other series, "Martin Mystery" which really is about aliens and monsters. Anyway, the alien is supposed to be blind, but it's other senses are heightened. You suppose they're going to botch this particular tidbit later on? Go on. Guess.
Suddenly, Sam starts complaining about the uniform, saying that something about the helmet is causing the face to itch. Alex adds that she thinks there's something wrong with the gloves 'cause her hands feel weird. Clover on the other hand isn't having any problems at all. Think this has something to do with Clover's cosmetics? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Clover wonders why they haven't seen the island yet and now we head into our first brain-killer moment. Sam explains that the island, being top secret, is "cloaked"[?!?!] Okay, what?! Now at first, I assumed this meant the island was invisible, but given the editing it may just be invisible to radar or something. Still, would you really want to have a top secret island that just about any boat could run into by accident? If the island isn't invisible, what's the point? Anyone close enough to use radar would spot it with just by looking at the horizon. If the island is supposed to be invisible, then how come Britney was able to see it in the intro? And isn't that even more dangerous for random boats? Whatever.
Anyway, the spies land on the island in a long sequence that's fairly dull. They stand around in a clearing for a while and, given the silence, Alex suggests that maybe the villains don't know the security is down. This, of course, immediately jinxes them as the ground starts to shake and giant thudding footsteps are heard. Sure enough, it's the first of the big bad trio we heard about, Gargantuan. And now that he's finally made his appearance, we cut to commercial.
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Escape From Kaiju Island
When we come back, we get an "I'm Huge!" shot of the spies looking up, waaaay up at Gargantuan who is about to step on them. They fire off a couple of exchanges of dialogue about what to do, before firing up their jetpacks (a gadget that became standard issue in season three). In the time it take them to do this, they should be squished, but apparently Gargantuan is reaaallly reaaallly sloooooowww. There's some aerial acrobatics that ends with Alex being grabbed like Faye Raye in "King Kong". Sam and Clover plan a rescue, but Sam's face is bothering her again. She takes off her helmet to reveal she has blotches all over her face now. She blames this on Clover's skin cream. Clover dismisses it as poison ivy (how?) and claims she can sell Sam an ointment for it, but that they have bigger problems on hand. Clover puts in the contact lenses and discovers that Gargantuan isn't a machine but actually an organic lifeform covered in cybernetic armor. This vetoes the frying-the-motherboard tactic mentioned earlier, although I have no idea how they were going to pull that off anyway. Meanwhile, Gargantuan is being very patient and hasn't crushed Alex like a grape yet.
Clover comes up with a Plan B, which is basically a rip-off of the AT-AT Walkers scene from "The Empire Strikes Back" where she fires the grappling hook trinket in her belt (another gadget that became standard in season three) and loops the cable around Gargantuan's legs. You've seen it all before I'm sure. Anyway, big guy trips and crashes sending Alex flying, who's helpfully caught by Sam. Alex is thrilled to still be alive until she discovers she has huge patches of hair on her hands [?!?!]. She blames it on Clover's hand cream. Either that or we know why Alex spends so much time in the bathroom now, huh? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Clover tries to placate her by saying Beautilicious makes a great shaving cream. So, Beautilicious makes products that cause problems that can only be solved by other Beautilicious products? I thought only Microsoft could get away with that these days.
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Well, we know what causes hairy palms, but I don't want to know what causes this.
Anyway, the spies remember why they'rr there in the first place and go rushing off. The run, they slide down a gravel hill and jump off a cliff and land without getting injured. Hey! Forget what the Mythbusters said! Try this at home, kids! More running and they finally come to a clearing to find Britney's plane, which is completely intact. They check out the footage from the plane's exterior cameras, which reveals absolutely nothing to me, but Sam concludes that Britney didn't crash but was "forced down". The trio is curious as to who could have done this and I'm wondering if that means that the violent storm we saw in the beginning was irrelevant or created by someone or just conveniently timed. The spies rush off yet again, but are caught in a net trap[?!?]. Where the hell did that come from?
We cut to a jungle-style elevated complex and we see that our trio are strapped into dentist chairs. Looks like we have another mad villain sequence up. A guy in a white coat, who is The Surgeon mentioned earlier, looks over an array of scalpels and other sharp trinkets. Surgeon examines Clover's face for a bit and makes several compliments. Clover says she "can't take all the credit. I was born this way." The Surgeon, who has sort of an Igor face, plans to make her face look just like his. Clover naturally freaks out. Next Alex asks if he can do something about her hands. Uh... Why is Alex asking him for help? Oh, wait, it's a distraction so that Sam can cut herself loose with the nailfile. Not a very good one as a second later, Surgeon takes it away and crushes it. He then follows it up with the standard villain maniacal laughter. He turns his back for a few moments and when he turns around Sam has gotten loose. What the hell?! How did she do that? Sam says "If at first you don't succeed..." and then there's a pause of, like, three seconds before she launches into an attack. Surgeon defends himself by... holding his arms up and not moving. Hoo boy. When Sam's assault ends, he smirks and says that he knows karate. Sam responds with one final kick that wipes him out and follows it with this catchy line:
Sam: You may know karate but I'm a black belt in Pilates.
Oww! Make it stop!
Anyway, after another transition, the spies have locked up the Surgeon in one of his own chairs. Alex fires off a snide "see how you like it" comment and spins his chair around to make him dizzy as they take off. So... they're just going to leave him there to die, I guess? In another room, the trio finally finds Britney, who's also strapped into a chair and gagged. The trio has a reunion complete with group hug. Britney notes that Sam and Alex look different from usual though. Sam notes that there's something odd about Britney too. Britney mentions there'll be time for that later after they "escape from WOOHP island." Am I the only one who really hates it when they put the title in the dialogue like that? They all agree to take off and we're off to our next commercial break.
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"I wasn't in 'Crossroads', dammit! I'm not that Britney!!"
When we come back, the Fantastic Four are off. The spies try to go back to the plane, but Britney says they should head for the beach because she dropped a submersible from the plane. The trio is a little stunned by this, but they go along. When quizzed about how they'll find the beach, Britney says they'll follow the wind patterns and does the standard finger lick trick. How this works when she's wearing gloves is left unanswered. Next, out of nowhere, we get a close up the spy trio so bizarre, you have to see it for yourselves:
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This is what happens when you drop the brown acid.
Next we see the spies continuing down the garden path. There's another round of bitching about Clover's cosmetics. Clover once again denies that her products are responsible and to prove it, she sneaks up on Britney and sprays a couple of tubes of cream on her face. The cream hardens and cracks away instantly. Clover and Co. freak out and Sam deduces that Britney's face is made of latex. Sure, enough, Britney is a fake and under the mask is a freaky looking guy with a goatee. The trio immediately identifies this guy as "Willard". No, not the guy who talked to rats. This guy was the villain from "Alex Quits" and right now I'm stunned that anyone would believe that he could disguise himself as Britney, especially when he tosses away the rest of the disguise and reveals that he's clearly at least a foot and a half taller than Britney.
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As if I didn't have enough disturbing images to fuel my nightmares...
Now, the disguise aside, Willard is one of the major flaws in this episode. In "Alex Quits" he was basically the standard mad scientist who had a beef with the world because people said he was too slow. Not mentally slow, physically. Willard talks slow, runs slow etc. So he created a weapon that caused people to move in slow motion, which wasn't exactly an amazing evil plan. Since Willard's evil plan was basically the B-plot of "Alex Quits", he didn't exactly make much of an impression. So why is he considered an uber-villain who needs to be put on this island? And why did he have himself tied and gagged? On the off-chance the spies would find him? What it comes down to is that Willard is only in this episode because he was in "Alex Quits" and thus the only villain conected to Britney in the first place.
Willard starts out with a round of exposition about how he knew the spies would come after Britney so he created a device that would bring down the plane intact so he could escape. They let a mad scientist have access to high-technology? Maybe this island isn't so secure after all. Alex tells him to go ahead and escape because they're only interested in Britney and Willard counters that they're "rushing" and that he don't play that game. Clover asks how Willard thinks he can outfight them when he got his butt kicked last time. Willard responds by frying Clover with his ray gun (presumably, based on his rant, this is the same gadget he used to bring the plane down. Now that's versatility!) Sam and Alex agree to listen to his mad ranting and he ceases his crispy-frying of Clover. He then explains he spent three weeks writing his villain's speech and claims that the least the trio could do is listen. He then fires off the usual spiel about how after he does away with them, he and his prisoner cohorts will take over the world. In one particularly funny moment, the spies respond to this with snoring and Sam, speaking for everyone, asks "That took three weeks?". They then launch into another round of "Where's Britney?!" and Willard growls and zaps them with his gun.
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A typical script read-though on the set of season three.
So now we cut to the reunion with the real Britney as all four of them are in a cage. Basically, it's the same scene from before only this time, Britney is the real deal. She's reassures the trio that they'll find a way out. Willard appears and claims she's "rushing" to conclusions. And this is the cue for the alien monster to make it's appearance. So, is this thing working for Willard too? Why? Willard sneaks off and blasts apart the cage on his way out. Clover claims that as long as they don't move, the alien can't find them. Considering that we get close ups of the creature smelling for them, I'm pretty sure this strategy won't work. They're all able to hold still for a little while until Sam's face, which now has lumps on it, gets to be too much and she's forced to scratch her face, which alerts the alien to their presence.
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The spies check out their latest Neilsen ratings.
A fairly dull bit of hide and seek breaks out next. The alien spots Britney in a tree and Alex climbing up to her. It uses its tail to slice through the tree and send them flying. Britney uses her own grappling belt to latch onto... something... and swing over to the other spies. "When in doubt, accessorize," she quips, which isn't all that clever. After a bit of banter, Sam reminds them to keep quiet. This bit gives Britney an idea. She pulls out a small metal trinket and steps into the clearing. The alien spots her and she gives it the standard Morpheus "come and get me" wave. When the creature attacks, she blows into the trinket, which turns out to be a whistle. The whistle causes the alien to freak out and run off whimpering [??]. This is apparently the "WOOHP standard issue ultrasonic dog and alien whistle". Oh, boy... I'm not even going to go into any explanation on this one. My brain is too fried from this crap. Make up your own joke, folks.
Alex hears something that she thinks is the whistle and it turns out that it's just Sam's watch. Alex responds with "Whew... For a second there I thought I was an alien." which is actually mildly amusing. Sam explains they have four minutes left until the island blows up. Clover asks if Britney has a map to the plane. She says she has something better and displays a map on her X-Powder which shows a "laser trail" back to the plane. Clover is impressed and Alex suggests they get Britney to team with them permanently. Britney responds that she already has a team and it turns out her teammates are two guys named Demitri and Javier. Their pictures (displayed on Brit's X-Powder) immediately cause the trio to go into the standard schoolgirl love fits. Britney offers to introduce the girls to her dynamic duo at the company picnic, which, I guess, means they're not Brit's type? Or maybe they're a different kind of duo (cough).
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Britney shows the girls the more "intimate" pictures she gathered from her days spying on Brad Pitt.
The four spy-keteers find Willard giving orders, or something, to a group of villains. They divise a plan that involves using the hologram ring to project a fake plane as a decoy and trap them. Britney claims to have just the thing to accomplish this and asks for a two second head start. Alex does the count and then the trio takes off for the plane. WIllard spots them and does the standard "After them!" routine and suddenly, there are only three other villains with him as opposed to the dozen or so we saw just a second ago. A chase breaks out and Clover notes that "for a guy who hates rushing, [Willard] runs really fast." Cut to Willard running really fast. This contradicts what we already knew about Willard from "Alex Quits", by the way.
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The Legion of Dumb.
The spy trio arrives at the plane and, oddly, Britney is with them now. So what was that head start stuff about? Next, Britney uses the ring to project the fake plane. How she got it, I don't know, because the spies never gave it to her. Just then Willard and Co. arrive and now there are five villains with him. Willard does the "get them" routine and they all rush into the fake plane. The plane immediately disappears and Britney points a spray can at the group of villains. Willard asks if the can is filled with cologne. Britney responds in the negative "as much as you could use it." She sprays the stuff causing giant vines to spring up from the ground [?!?!?] and grab the villain group. Willard uses his ray gun to blast the spray can from Britney's hands and then the two of them get into a bit of a martial arts match, which is actually pretty good. Sadly, it's also over pretty fast as Britney finishes Willard off with a judo throw. Alex then takes credit for teaching her that move. (coughbullshitcough)
Anyway, in the next scene, the group have Willard and Co. locked up in the plane and they all fly off. We get the countdown of the last few seconds and then the island goes boom. So aside from Willard and his group all the others are dead now, huh?
We go back to WOOHP for the wrap up as Jerry has come up with a skin care treatment that cures Sam and Alex. Britney gets her last line of the show by saying "That's the Sam and Alex I know". Sam and Alex then confront Clover, who eventually relents and agrees to stop her selling of sham cosmetics. Sam asks when they can get their money back. Clover counters by saying all sales are final. So, Sam and Alex spray her with her own products causing her face to immediately break out. And with that the episode comes to a close.
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Clover didn't do so well as a contestant on "Double Dare".
Well, not quite. Over the end credits we get another of the season three touches. In season three they started putting little monologues from characters over the credits. This actually turned out to be a good idea in most cases. This time we get Alex going on about Britney and the whole jealousy thing. Basically, it's a rehash of stuff from "Alex Quits". And now the episode really is over.
When I first saw this episode, I was kinda glad that they finally did another episode about Britney. Spies fans are generally on the fence as to whether she's a serious attempt at a fourth spy or just an annoying Mary Sue character. Personally, I believe it's the latter. That said, it doesn't change how much this episode sucks. For starters, Willard's plan is totally insane and full of holes. The story implies that he crashed Britney's plane in order to lure Sam, Alex and Clover to the island. How did he know Britney was on the plane? Why would he bother going to all that trouble? Why not just use the plane to escape? And what did he hope to accomplish by disguising himself as Britney? If Willard's plan had been to bring down a plane to knock out the security and provide himself with an escape vehicle, that would have at least been believable.
Also, the idea of having the Spies fighting an island full of villains has promise, but none of them ever ammounts to much and since two of the three "worst" threats on the island are monsters, it seemed like no one wanted to hire more voice actors. And what about Willard's team o' evil? If you look close, some of them are actually other villains from previous episodes. But, they don't say or do anything. They appear a couple of minutes before the end of the show so they can rush into a trap and get caught by Britney's killer plant.
I still hope for more Britney episodes to come, and with season five already in development and season four still running there's hope.
And now, I'm afraid, I have to go back to work on "Evil Promotion Much?".
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"I lost my job at Burger World when I punched out this customer who touched my butt." -Anzu Mazaki, Yu-Gi-Oh!
"If ignorance is bliss, I must be ecstatic." -Alice Liddel, American McGee's Alice
"Have you ever realized how insignificant your existence is on the planet?" -Haruhi Suzumiya, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
"Noah, man. Nobody &*%#$ with him. Not even Chuck Norris." -James Rolfe, The Angry Videogame Nerd
CardCaptor Schlueter, Anzu's Angel and Eternal Fanboy |
Edited by - CardCaptor Schlueter on July 25 2006 1:33:19 PM |
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Sirkenz17
I'm Cherokee Jack!
USA
1619 Posts |
Posted - July 25 2006 : 1:50:34 PM
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I'll say this, and I'll say this now: I don't hate the show. True, it's silly, but I like Jennifer Hale as Sam.
Plus, I miss Katie Leigh. |
"If you see anything, film it and put it in." --Tom Servo, MST3K Experiment #619: Red Zone Cuba
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Goblin Monarch
Every Nation's Refugee
554 Posts |
Posted - July 25 2006 : 4:50:45 PM
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| Wow, what an awful episode! It must have been terribly embarassing for everyone involved. Was each scene written by a different six-year-old, or were they all just celebrating Incompetence Day? Good recap, though! |
Oh, it's eight millimeter film. |
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MockingBert
It was this or learn Klingon
Belgium
579 Posts |
Posted - July 26 2006 : 07:07:21 AM
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I hate this show more than life itself,I swear.Especially because the Dutch translation is done by people who can't you know,speak Dutch,namely the Dutch.In fact,pretty much every cartoon here has been butchered by these people.We got kids talking with a Dutch accent all over the place because they watch that stuff all day long(damn you,Nickelodeon!)
Edit:Great review though |
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The Waffle Man
Flakey Pastry
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Posted - July 31 2006 : 07:46:42 AM
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Yeah, everybody else on the Island died.
Why?
Because it's acceptable to kill robots and aliens on kids shows. If we just assume the Surgeon was a robot and/or alien, it's all morally kosher.
I've never really understood this rule, because as you sort of hint at in the recap, you can't actually say the word death on kids shows.
Which is something that's starting to annoy me, because it makes shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender awfully awkward. |
Strawberries are also edible, but should not be picked in case tiny fairies are using them for hats. Nothing angers the giant fairies quite like people who decapitate the tiny fairies. -Mark Trail |
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