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.

Johnny Bravo - "Cookie Crisis"

Well, just like I promised, I am now reviewing my favorite Season One episode of Johnny Bravo. It's called, "Cookie Crisis," it was written and directed by Butch Hartman. Now, let's begin.

The plot centers around Little Suzy, Johnny Bravo's next door neighbor and friend trying desperately to sell her girl scout cookies, but Johnny Bravo simply just refuses. And then, hilarious hijinks ensue, with rhyming and foxes, cookies, and so much more. Little Suzy will stop at nothing to get Johnny to buy her cookies.

What I admire about this episode so much is that, it's a satire on the ever popular. Dr. Seuss classic, "Green Eggs and Ham," where Sam I Am tries desperately to get his friend to try his green eggs and ham, but his friend just simply refuses, until the very end. This episode does this kind of format, except with more than 50 words like in the original book. I especially like Johnny's self-awareness, saying things like "Man, this rhyming stuff really hurts my tongue," and "I'm a poet, and I don't know it. I'll make a rhyme every time." I should also mention that this was the first episode where Little Suzy actually cries, and Johnny takes pity on her by buying her cookies.

Okay, lets wrap things up with my final thoughts. This episode is a clever satire, it's funny, witty, self-aware, and the rhyming never gets old or feel out of place. The moral of this story is that you should please buy the cookies from your friends otherwise they might cry. This is just big-time Hanna-Barbera comedy here.

If you have the first season DVD on Johnny Bravo, you can watch it anytime.

Or if you want to see the adaptation of Green Eggs and Ham which features the voice of Paul Winchell, click here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KRkR8HaR9c

Animaniacs - "Cookies for Einstein"

It's time to review an episode form those zany to the max, Warner Brothers and Sister, the Animaniacs! Let's take a look at the first half of the second episode, not counting "Yakko's World," "Cookies for Einstein." Fun fact: This is Paul Rugg's favorite episode.

It takes place in Bern, Switzerland, 1905, home of clocks, chocolate, and neutrality, but mostly chocolate, says Frank Welker. We see Yakko, Wakko, and Dot walking down the streets of Bern singing a little ditty as cookie scout salesman, Wakko goes even so far as to yodel, and says to the camera, "Sorry, it's the chocolate soaking." After selling numerous cookies, they arrive at one more stop, Albert Einstein's path. Once they sell their final box of cookies, they can get their merit badges. Inside, Albert Einstein is trying his very best to figure out the theory of relativity, when all of a sudden, there was a knock on the door. Because of Albert's Switzerland accent, the Warners think he is a dermatologist. Einstein wonders why they're here, and Dot replies that they're trying to sell cookies, and says to the camera, "Dumber than advertised." Albert refuses to buy any cookies at the moment because he's too busy working on the wonders of the universe and demands the Warners to run away and slams the door, which leads to this cute scene.

The background turns black and a spotlight is hit on Dot, and she mellows out "Oh! Oh! My heart aches with the sorrow of a thousand scouts! No merit badge. I mourn my loss," and she cries. Once the background brightens up again, Yakko compliments that those acting classes really paid off, and reassures the other Warners that they'll sell Albert the cookies whether he likes it or not! Like try dying, or at least to some tie dying. Meanwhile, Albert Einstein meassures the speed of light and discovers that was quick. When, yet again, The Warners interfere.

They've tried everything. It wasn't until Yakko decides to spell Acme backwards, which results in Albert Einstein finding out the theory of relativeity, resulting that E equals MC squared! and declares the Warners as geniuses and cries out to the heavens "E EQUALS MC SQUARED!" Moments later, the Nobel prize was given to Albert Einstein and the Warners for their hard work and cookies. Yakko states that it's no merit badge, but it will do. And the episode ends.




The episode is my favorite episode of the first season, the main reason is because this was the first episode I've seen as a kid. And when I grew up, I've forgotten all about it, but when I looked up on this one day and after watching The Nostalgia Critic's Animaiacs Tribute/Behind the Scenes video, I know remember where the screenshot in my head of Dot in the spotlight came from. The bottom line is that this episode is exciting, visually interesting, and funny, complete with a Swiss Nurse Miss selling hot chocolate. This episode is amazing and it's only the second episode in the series. If you're a die hard Animaniacs fan, go ahead and check this episode out if you haven't already. This is Veston Bruno signing off.