The Fairly OddParents - "Future Lost"

If SB-129 was in love with The Jetsons, this would probably be the innocent love child. It's called "Future Lost."

While cleaning out stuff in the attic, Timmy Turner comes across a book that takes place in the future of the 21st Century, with futuristic technology. And without any surprises, he wishes that all of Dimmsdale was in the future like in the book he found from Mr. Turner. By the way, the title of the book was called Stevie Sparks. Everything looks so futuristic that even Mark Chang shows off his regular form to the kids. Everything goes fine until the Big Brain takes over the world and brainwashes the robots into making the humans do their bidding. How will Timmy get out of this? Stay tuned to find out.

This episode is pretty cool. It really knows how to portray the future right, like how The Jetsons and SpongeBob did. I even like Denzel Crocker's muscular janitor version of himself. He still does the spasms, but this time he says "ROBOTS ARE EVIL!" Oh, Carlos Alazraqui, never change. I even like the idea of a 5-second school day. I wish my school had something like that, too bad it never works like that, the only upside is that I don't go there anymore because I've retired and went to work at the DAC. I even like the Cosmo and Wanda robots, especially the Cosmo Four Slice, where he can make toast. And the rockets are much better than wings.

Overall, this an episode that is really worth seeing. It is one of the last good ones before Poof came along. It has a lot of goods, a lot of humor, and a lot of action. I just wish that Big Brain guy who was voiced by Jim Ward wound sound more like Orson Welles.

Oh well, I guess we'll never know.

Overall, as of now, you don't have to be a Psychic Pokemon in order to see what's coming up in the future. Isn't that right, Alakazam?

KA-ZAM!

AAGH! That's my cue to say, watch it if you run across it!

By the way, that was a reference to the Professor's intro in Pokemon the First Movie.

Dexter's Laboratory - "Rude Removal"

In 1998, there was word that there was an episode of Dexter's Lab that had Dexter and Dee-Dee create evil versions of themselves, the kicker, this episode had a lot of Bob Saget levels! For years, the reason for it's creation has been sketchy. Some say it was made as a joke and never intended to air, others said it was meant to air and Cartoon Network banned it for its harshness, however, the main rumor is that it was made only for select people to see, as it have been may have been shown at Genndy Tartakovsky's home for cocktail parties and whatnot. But that's just a hypothesis. For years, we were all curious about the episode and hope we would find some answers soon, and we did in 2013, thanks to Adult Swim. They once uploaded on YouTube on their channel to widespread appeal, but then they switched it to private, forcing fans to find other sources to be the only way to see it. But after all the wait, was it worth it? Let's find out.

So, we see the basic norm of the show, Dexter working on his latest creation and Dee-Dee coming in to wreck it all. Dexter tells Dee-Dee that he invented the Rude Removal System, a device made to take the rudeness out of one person, during the discussion they argue over who's the rude one, which quickly results in a sibling fight which causes them to accidentally work the Rude Removal System. On the upside, it works! On the downside, the rudeness has to go somewhere. At least all the curse words are censored in this one, I assume Adult Swim censored it themselves So anyways, Dexter and Dee-Dee have to deal with evil clones of themselves who shout their mouths off faster than the comedy sty-lings of Andrew Dice Clay.

Before these guys could mess up the now nicer duo, they hear their mother call them up for lunch, and that was where things get interesting. You just have to watch and see how it turns out for yourself. Anyway, before the now nicer duo can clean-up their mess, they hear their rude duplicates messing around in their laboratory But the weirdest part of this episode is Dexter and Dee-Dee having British mannerisms, that's just weird! Anyways, they go down to the lab to stop them once and for all in something I would like to call, "reverse psychology." Bugs Bunny-isms, works every time. Well, all's well that ends well.

Well, it's great to see something like this existed, Rude Removal feels like a typical episode. I can understand the reason for the ban, but if Rugrats, SpongeBob, The Powerpuff Girls, and Arthur can get away with teaching the moral of swearing, I can see this is getting by.


Well, except for the title card, but there's a nice nostalgic vibe that makes it worth seeing.

Just don't be that hyped.

Besides, if they had change the title card and made it a bit more kid friendly, then it would've been a cartoon to put on the show itself. Maybe it could've replaced the banned Dial M for Monkey cartoon "Barbequor," which actually HAD an excuse for removing it.

I rest my case.

That's all for now.

SpongeBob - "Plankton!:"

This is perhaps my favorite episode in the entire series. This first aired on July 1999, back when SpongeBob was just knew back then and all the other older shows still rerun more than this one, like Rocko's Modern Life for example. Okay, let's see if Plankton's first appearance is as good as I remember.

Now, after SpongeBob messes around with Squidward, the krabby patty comes to life and it's actually revealed to be Sheldon J. Plankton! Stealing the krabby patty! Once Mr. Krabs get rid of him, he states he's been trying to steal his secret formula for years, you mean before SpongeBob was hired at the Krusty Krab? And later that night, Plankton meets up with SpongeBob and tries to pretend to be a good guy, kind of like the wolf from The Little Red Riding Hood, he gives SpongeBob a golden spatula and he also likes booster seats. However, SpongeBob is smarter than you think, even if that plan failed, Plankton will not give in once he has the formula!

Later, Plankton sneaks into SpongeBob's house, and goes into the brain and controls it to steal the Krabby Patty Formula. Nobody could help SpongeBob, not even Squidward, because Plankton called him a mediocre clarinet player, which sadly is kind of true, He has a terrible way of playing the clarinet. This episode kind of reminds me of a Dexter's Lab episode if you ask me. Will SpongeBob get Plankton out of his head before it's too late? Stay tuned to find out!

This episode is a lot better than it's sister episode, "Jellyfishing," don't get me wrong, I like that episode, but it's not THAT good. It's very funny and filled with sci-fi elements to it. It has the second appearances of Mr. Krabs, The Krusty Krab, and Gary, and it's also the first appearance of Plankton, and it's also Mr. Lawrence's first experience on the show as a writer, if you don't count "Tea at the Treedome." I especially like how Karen analyzes Plankton when he gets his comeuppance, saying "Plankton - 1% evil, 99% hot gas." I even like how Plankton thinks all the food SpongeBob mentions for the Krabby Patty was actually the formula, causing him to come out of SpongeBob and say "COME TO PAPA!" but lands in the analyzer before even taking a bite.

Okay, final thoughts, while the first two episodes were trying their best being it was the first two episode, this episode really kicked up the SpongeBob spirit. I especially like the colors in this episode. It's all colorful, even at night time and I even like the musical score for Plankton that was composed by The Surfdusters, who also composed several other episodes in the show.

Go ahead and check the episode out if you wanna be more nostalgic about the first season.

One more thing, the episode kind of reminds me of a Dexter's Laboratory episode.

Dexter's Laboratory - "911"

Huh, I really don't have much to say about this episode. Except, it's a pretty cute episode. All right, all right, I'll give you the basic premise, my opinions, and my final thoughts. afterwards, this will be my last review until this Thursday night. So,, let's uh, let's begin.

While watching an episode of Action Hank, Dexter gets interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast System. This results into Dexter solving emergency after emergency, but the signal doesn't stop going off. By the end of the episode, it was revealed that it was just a test, and if it was an ACTUAL emergency, the signal you would have heard would've been followed by information. The test took so long, it skipped over to the end of the Action Hank episode. Poor Dexter, okay, enough with that. Let's talk about my opinions.

What I do like about this episode is that it's cute, very cute. I especially like Dee-Dee's appearance here, She has quite an overactive imagination. For example, laughing for no reason at the TV as if it were a comedy, Dee-Dee becoming scared as if she was watching a horror movie, and even getting up to the point to where Dee-Dee is offended by someone named Jeffrey doing something to Marsha. Even Dexter thinks this is just crazy. Heck, she even thinks the ending of the test of the Emergency Broadcast System was a sad ending. She's not stupid, she's just energetic and quite ditsy, for Dexter's taste at least.

Okay, let's wrap things up with my final thoughts. Even though the beeping on the Emergency Broadcast System got annoying at times, I must say, it is pretty much a good episode. The comedy is cute, especially Dexter mistaking boy babies for girls, as well as Dee-Dee's overactive imagination. It's pretty much just a cute, cute episode.

Not much else to say except, join me Thursday night when I'll review the Johnny Bravo episode, "Cookie Crisis."

The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space

Now, I'm going to review an episode from the award-winning animated television series, The Magic School Bus, starring the voice of Lily Tomlin as Miss Valerie Frizzle. Today, I'm reviewing my favorite episode of the show, which is also the first episode of the series, "The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space."

The plot of this story is that Arnold's know-it-all cousin, Janet comes to visit their school. And Miss Frizzle decides to take the class on a 3, 2, 1, field trip! No big shock there. When the space museum is closed, Arnold proves to Janet that nobody is better than Miss Frizzle by asking her to send him and their friends into Outer Space as their field trip, And that's exactly what she did, and Janet remarks "Highly unusual." Most of the episode is them traveling to other planets and Janet finding stuff from those planets to prove she was in outer space, heck, she even goes to far as to make Arnold do the chores for her, this is overkill and then some. It wasn't until the asteroid Janet was trying to bring back accidentally sends Miss Frizzle and Liz flying, and so, the rest of the cast, with the help of Janet's know-it-all experience, figure out where she is by passing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and finally, Pluto, where the Frizzle is. But. enough of that, what do I think of the episode?

This episode is great! It taught us a lot of outer space stuff, like the nine planets in particular, not counting the sun, It's educational, funny, and interesting at the same time. The highlight of the episode has to be the part where while on Mars, Miss Frizzle and her class jump off the top of the ice cliff shouting "ICE CREAM!" and landing into the red dust, no wonder why it was called a red planet, and Ralphie mistaking Arnold's silhouette for an alien. If you ask me, I think most of the humor comes from Ralphie and Carlos, whom for some reason didn't get called out for his lame puns like Meteor-wrong.

Interesting fact I should mention is that in the original PBS broadcasts of the Magic School Bus, the show usually ends with the Producer, voiced by Malcolm-Jamal Warner, getting phone calls from fans about the show. These segments were both funny and interesting. Unfortunately, when Scholastic sold this show off to syndication rights, when the show reran on TLC and Qubo, they cut off the Producer segments, to make way for commercial breaks, THEY CUT THE PRODUCER SEGMENTS FOR PETE SAKE! So, the only way to really see them uncut are on DVD, if you have the complete series of The Magic School Bus on Newvideo, you can watch those segments any time you want. This segment had an alien calling about the pile of litter on Pluto.

Okay, final thought, this episode is a whole lot of fun. It's exciting, weird, funny, educational, visually interesting, and has a lot of fun traveling in outer space and giving the kids an adventure. Being someone who's interested in space, I should know. You can watch the episode on Video and DVD any time you want. One more thing I forgot to mention is that this show was actually animated by Nelvana up in Canada. Isn't that ironic? Nelvana producing an American project with American voice actors, I guess it makes sense since Susan Blu, the show's voice director is from America and all that sort of stuff, and Erica Luttrell, the voice of Keesha, would later go on to do voices in America for shows like Dave the Barbarian as Candy as well as Steven Universe.

Okay so, oh, THAT'S THE END!