Cow and Chicken - "Confused"

Yep, I'm going to review a Cow and Chicken episode. Haven't done that before, but let's go anyway. This episode is Confused.

After a small incident in the house where a part of the pork chip falls onto the floor, Cow and Chicken's parents send them to Military School. WHY ON EARTH WOULD A PARENT SEND THEIR KID TO MILITARY SCHOOL?! That's cruel and unusual punishment! But now, here's where it gets really exciting. The funny is that The Red Guy is running the Military School, that's weird, in a good way. When Cow and Chicken's strict attitude goes too far, Mom and Dad send them to a sensitivity center, but after all that, it was all a dream. Yep, I spoiled the ending, sorry about that.

Now, let's talk about how I enjoyed the episode.

I like how strict and over-the-top The Red Guy is when it comes to being a drill sergeant. And amazing in the barber's room, he acts as two characters where the barber's all calm and collected while the sergeant is so over-the top and angry. I especially like how he sings "Five and five and five is ten, I'm gonna make you mainly man, company halt!" And I like how the Red Guy says "I want you gals to run through these tires." And they do that while it was on fire, and The Red Guy puts on his firefighter gear and cools Cow and Chicken once they've run through the tires. This is just crazy, ladies and gentlemen.

So, bottom line, this episode is crazy and funny at the same time, I still don't like the fact that Cow and Chicken's parents sent them to Military School, as I've said before, that's cruel and unusual punishment. After all, it was just a pork chip, it wasn't much of mess. You know, they're parents overreact over every little mishap.

Did I mention that the creator of Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane wrote this episode?

In conclusion, go find this episode if you haven't already, you might find it on Hulu by now.

ChalkZone - "Chocolate Brunch" Review

Now, let's review the 3-minute short episode of ChalkZone starring Snap. It's called, Chocolate Brunch.

Around breakfast time, while looking for food, Blocky finds some eggs and he and Snap bring them back home. By the time Snap finishes cooking the eggs, they hatch and they reveal to be chocolate bunny rabbits. Snap, being a carnivore that he is, wants to eat the bunnies, but Blocky won't let him, slapstick ensues! Pat Ventura was pretty good at writing this stuff more than those Jamal the Funny Frog shorts on Oh Yeah! Cartoons. No wait, he storyboarded this, not wrote it, Jenny Nissenson wrote this episode. Sorry about the incident.

This short is REALLY FUNNY! I couldn't stop laughing at all the slapstick in this episode. Snap never feels out of character, it's just that he feels hungry, why couldn't they go for the waffle fly they were chasing at the beginning? And I like that after the bunnies pop out of the buns and say to Snap, "Daddy!" causing a boing sound effect and Snap cries in a comedic fashion and ultimately gives in simply by saying, "Oh, I just can't do it!" The one thing that still bugs me is that they had to pitch shift Blocky's voice despite the fact that he's voiced by Robert Cait. What was wrong with his natural voice, and another thing, I like Candi Milo as Blocky more than Robert. However, I have nothing against Robert Cait.

What's the verdict? It's a genuinely funny episode! At least Snap and Blcoky's hunger were satisfied when the mother bunny gave them chocolate milk. All I can say is that that's a nice turn around from being an angry monster trying to kill Snap and Blcoky to an actual mother figure for those bunnies. All I can say is that don't do any of this stuff, especially steal her eggs, if you mess with the mother bunny, she'll mess with you.

Peace.

ChalkZone - "Chip of Fools"

Whoa, I guess it's been a while since I've talked about my last time I've reviewed a ChalkZone episode. Now, I'm going to get back on track. Today, I'm reviewing, "Chip of Fools."

While exploring ChalkZone, Penny, Snap, and Rudy come across the Chocolate Chip Cookie Tree, I can say that that's the kind of tree that Cookie Monster would go do. While collecting a lot of cookies, Rudy and Penny see the bubble forest and leave Snap into keeping an eye on it. But Snap eats all the cookies before they could come back to inspect the chip to crumb aspect ratio. Snap becomes tired and falls asleep and gets a very eerie nightmare about talking cookies kidnapping Snap and turning him into a chocolate chip cookie too.

I know a lot of people have not followed ChalkZone, but I have. I like ChalkZone. I especially like this episode. I like how Snap is so cookie hungry and the nightmare he had is just visually interesting. I can understand to Rudy and Penny that chalk food would still taste like chalk. And I understand. The thing that kind of bugs me is the cookie snorfeler, if that's how you spell its name. It's like a vacuum cleaner, a vacuum that only like cookies. It's easily frightened though whenever people come across the tree. That's a good sign.

Bottom line, I like the episode and it was much better than the Halloween episode that aired before this one, which although I have nothing against Tim Curry, that Halloween episode was just a weak, weak, episode. But this, this just a better episode! Too bad it only airs on Halloween, kind of like "What is Blue Afraid Of?" and "I Was a Teenage Gary."

Go ahead and watch it online, if you're a true fan of ChalkZone or any of the Frederator stuff.

ChalkZone - "Chalk Rain"

Has anyone heard of ChalkZone? I have, well, here's an episode of the series that only aired on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, "Chalk Rain."

The plot of the story is that during the annual ChalkZone Snap-a-Thon, Chalk Rain comes into town, chalk rain is what happens when the rain of the outside world melts away a chalk drawing from the road, Most drawings are small and they only last a minute, but this one is a very big chalk drawing! It transforms into a dragon like monster simply known as ChalkZilla! Snap and Rudy Tabootie try their best to stop this monster, but to no avail. So, what to do, Rudy goes back to the real world o find his creator. And it turns out that it was a Chinese artist who drew the dragon, he was originally suppose to be the flying dragon of the sky, but the rain wash him away before she had a chance to draw his wings. So, Rudy talks the artist to ChalkZone to help calm down ChalkZilla, and Rudy draws the wings onto ChalkZilla, resulting him into the calmest dragon in all of ChalkZone, creating a chalk rainbow.

Several clips from this episode do appear in the Season 1-2 intro, but the episode never appeared in the first season. I often wondered why? Did it have something to do with 9/11? I'm not sure. The highlight is of course the monster terrorizing the city, and not only that, but the artist voiced by none other than the voice of Mulan herself, Ming-Na Wen. Isn't that ironic. Ming-Na Wen voicing two people from China. And don't even get me started on the upcoming live-action rehash of the movie. Anyways, the episode is pretty interesting, it has a good plot, an awesome character design for the monster, and a nice showing of cooperation. And now, here's my parody song of Trogdor.

"CHALKZILLA! CHALKZILLA! ChalkZilla was a man, I mean, he was a dragon-man. Or, maybe he was just a dragon, but he was still CHALKZILLA! CHALKZILLA! Burninating the country side, burninating the citizens, burninating all the people and if thatch-roof COTTAGES! THATCH -ROOF COTTAGES! And the ChalkZilla comes in the NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Oh, oh yeah.

Tutu the Superina

Oh, my gosh, how did this short never catch on. Get this, it was created by Bill Burnett and it was about a ballerina who's not an ordinary ballerina, but also a superhero ballerina, or superina for short. THAT'S THE COOLEST IDEA EVER.

What I admire about this cartoon is the fact that she can easily fight off crimes with her ballerina and haiku tricks. And her cute voice was improvised by Candi Milo. Also, Earl Boen (the voice of Commander from Dexter's Lab) provides the voice of the animal robber. Whenever evil rears its unwelcome head, we know what Tutu must do. And for flight, she always calls for swans. These people really know how to mix girls stuff with superhero oriented things attached.

If you wanna see the story: Just click here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCYzBzFZvB0