The Incredible Hulk "They Call Me Mr. Fixit" Talkback (Spoilers)

[James Harvey]

Discuss this second season The Incredible Hulk episode!


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Episode #17 - "They Call Me Mr. Fixit."
Original Airdate - October 26, 1997

A new super-villainess named Allure arrives in Chicago along with her enforcer Crusher Creel. But before she can take over the town she'll have to get through an even newer player in the Chicago underworld: She-Hulk and her right hand man, "Mr. Fixit"!

Thoughts?

[dmxx116]

This episode sucks just like the rest of season two.

[Manhunter]

Not even gray Hulk dressed as Mr. Fixit could save this episode.

[macattack]

This was probably the best season 2 episode, but it was mediocre if you're kind. Basically, the whole plotline is a piece of trash and She-Hulk is as aggravating as ever. Even with the fanboy pandering because of the presence of Mr. Fixit, the episode is barely worth a glance. Mr. Fixit is a decent character and I'd have loved to have seen an arc centered around him with the original writers and producers around, but the way he was treated here was basically as an excuse to drag Grey Hulk into the proceedings.

There is a huge logical fallacy in this episode as well as they don't explain how Grey Hulk apparently overwhelmed Banner for months. The comics explained it well enough but here it is basically for no reason.

[dmxx116]

Bruce and She-Hulk fight Allure, a powerful crime vixen with the hypnotic ability to seize any male she desires. She-Hulk goes undercover as Lady Green, with The Grey Hulk serving as her bodyguard Fixit, and come under attack from The Absorbing Man and Bruce's inability to resist Allure

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[JTMarsh]

Didn't Jennifer Hale voice Allure?

[macattack]

Didn't Jennifer Hale voice Allure?

Yeah that's her.

When I look at this episode, I think it's a bowdlerized microcosm of what a good portion of the second season would've been like, Mr. Fixit taking over the "town", so to speak. And the Absorbing Man probably would've made the primary antagonist for a while. You will notice that a 1st season writer, Bob Forward, wrote this episode, though it's so unlike his season 1 material that I'd have to believe his original vision was thoroughly screwed with.