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King Moonraiser



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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:22 pm    Post subject: S05E08 - I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future  

This entire episode is an homage to the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" show created many, many years back. It features one of the most famous female voice actors in history, June Foray, as a crooked psychic. They even introduced a fake commercial break just to do the trademark "next episode" bumper that was in every RaB episode.

I wish they would have tried to capture more of the feel of the RaB episodes, even if it meant altering the drawing style of the characters. Yes, I did notice the scene transitions, the classic RaB jokes (e.g., "Faster than you can say..."), the repeating backgrounds, the announcer, the wacky plot twists, and the overall pacing of the story. However, a better example of this type of episode was the one of Dexter's Lab, "Mock 5," that parodied Speed Racer.

BTW, the Jay Warden reference was not lost on me either.

Two stars

http://www.rowdyruff.net/reviews_s5.shtml#5_5-1
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Xion Nightblade



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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:40 pm    Post subject:  

hoo, boy, an utter and ridiculous episode...see, this is what i'm telling people, but it don't sink in...The PPG show has gone downhill!
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Agent Orange



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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:34 pm    Post subject:  

Brick X5 wrote: hoo, boy, an utter and ridiculous episode...see, this is what i'm telling people, but it don't sink in...The PPG show has gone downhill!

Or maybe you are just too spoiled with seasons 1 to 4? Even though I didn't get most of the jokes (as I'm not familair with Rocky & Bullwinkle), I still liked this ep a lot.
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King Powerpuff



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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 12:40 am    Post subject:  

Another episode on my 2c list, I do admit that the newer episodes have declined, probably leading to the Grand Finale episode with the gnome. But I still want to see all the episodes at least once.
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