1980's fans! What's the wierdest GI Joe episode?

[wonderfly]

Here's a fun bit of nostalgia for GI Joe fans of the 80's cartoon classic. Some of these episodes were just plain goofy. Others were supposed to be serious. A couple even managed to strike an emotional chord, but the fact is: all of these episodes were just plain wierd. Which episode/moment in the GI Joe show was the wierdest? I've included a poll, with a list of wierd moments, but if there's another episode/scene you think is wierdest, just list it below by saying "Other".

Any good fan will remember most of these episodes, but if you need an explanation to one of them, I'll do my best to give it, (though there are some episodes I listed which I only faintly remember...mostly because they were wierd!)

[J.C.]

Went with the two-parter about Shipwreck in the town of melting people. The end of the first episode with Shipwreck being carried away by the mutated clones of his fellow Joes really freaked me out when I was a little four year old runt and it was still more then a little weird when I saw it on CN recently. The Viper one is definatly up there on the weirdness, too.

[Tobias]

The one where Shipwreck tells the story to the orphans. That was the only episode of G.I. Joe had me in tears with laughter.

[Muttley]

The one where they introduced Sgt Slaughter and ruined the franchise..

[Tobias]

Besides Arise, Serpentor, Arise, and the Movie, I don't think Slaughter appeared in too many second season eps.

But I think they did overdo it with him. I mean, look at the first part of ASA when he first shows up, the Joes are looking at him like he was Jesus or something!

[Kenobi]

What about the one where Dr. Mindbender had that machine that erased women's faces to suck their youth into older women?

That one always freaked me out.

I would also like to bring attention to the fact that the Shipwreck episode with melting people is kinda similar to that episode of Star Trek: TNG where Riker was being held prisoner in the Romulan asylum where he couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't....or is it just the fact that Jonathon Frakes could play Shipwreck?

[wonderfly]

hmmm...we have votes for all 3 of the Shipwreck choices. I wonder why everything wierd always happened to him? Shipwreck is probably my absolute favorite Joe, because he's just so down to earth, unlike the rest of the Joes, who are all so high and mighty. :p

I think everyone here remembers the Melting people episode. It was creepy enough to give you nightmares!

There was one other episode I thought about including...except I don't remember much about it...but in one scene, Dr. Mindbender turns one of the Joes...a black man, who was a medic? anyway, he turned him into a giant whale. Bizarro! :rolleyes:

[Kenobi]

His name would be Lifeline, if I remember it right...

[Manhunter]

Originally posted by wonderfly
There was one other episode I thought about including...except I don't remember much about it...but in one scene, Dr. Mindbender turns one of the Joes...a black man, who was a medic? anyway, he turned him into a giant whale. Bizarro! :rolleyes:

He was an arctic trooper, and his codename was Iceberg.


Originally posted by Kenobi

His name would be Lifeline, if I remember it right...

No, Lifeline was the white pacifist medic. Doc was the black medic.

[wrenchien]

adults into kids.. whee.

how i wish i could have adults turning into kids in my next toon series as an episode and homage.

[j32885]

The wierdest GI Joe Episode had to be the with some of the Joes are turned into kids and the other was "I am the Viper".

[wonderfly]

"adults turned into kids" and "I am the Viper" and "Melting People" are all tied. See? There's lots of wierdness in GI Joe?

Does anyone besides me remember the episode with Destro's family monster? Destro's supposed to be like the Baron of some Eastern European country, (kinda like Dr. Doom) and he's got this ancient beast that his ancesters used to worship locked deep in the dungeons of his castle...until it breaks free to roam the Earth! I only vaguely remember that episode, but my question is: why would Destro have freed this creature earlier(this was after Arise Serpentor Arise), given all the Cobra plots involving creating mass destruction?

:rolleyes:

[Tobias]

Destro didn't set it free, G.I. Joe did. Sit back kids, and I'll tell you a tale:

Skeletons in the Closet - After Destro insults her, the Baroness does some research and finds that he's related to Lady J, so she cons the Joe into thinking she's inherited a castle in Scotland (?).

Lady J just happens to go there on the same night Destro and his family are doing their yearly ritual and gets caught when she investigates the noise. Oddly enough, J is in her nightgown for most of this episode. So she's strung up and about to be to said monster from previous posts.

Flint's suspicious of Lady J's inheritance and follows her and frees her, with the rest of the Joes following. Long story short, they destroy the castle and Baroness gets her revenge on Destro by destroying his ancestral home. But when the smoke clears, the path is cleared for Destro's monster to roam the Earth.

Hope this clears things up a bit. Luckily I just watched this episode a few days ago.

[wonderfly]

Thanks, Tobias. It's all come back to me now.

What, no votes for StormShadow getting Excalibur? We all know how much magic and swords and sorcery have a place in the Joe universe, after all. :rolleyes:

What's really peculiar is that Excalibur made an appearance in Thundercats as well, and Mumra was the one who recieved it! :eek: That sword really gets around.

[Tobias]

FYI, that episode's still available on Kid Rhino Home Video, along with a few others. They started releasing the series a few years ago, but never put anything out past volume 9.

[Robin2099]

I'd have to say the weirdest one I remember had something to do with either the Joes, or some members from Cobra becoming rockstars. Don't remember the specifics though, maybe someone else does.

[Tobias]

Cold Slither - Cobra goes bankrupt, and eventually comes to the point of having to shut down. They eventually borrow money from the mob (I think that's who it was) and invest the money in Destro's latest scheme, which is to insert subliminal messages into rock music.

Using Zartan and the Dreadknocks as a mock band, they use the music to hypnotize people and climb to the top of the sales charts. Once Cold Slither is #1, they lure a stadium full of people, including Shipwreck, Rock'n'Roll and Clutch, and hold them for Ransom.

Lady J, Scarlett, and Cover Girl infiltrate the stadium as groupies of Cold Slither and take the band out while the others Joes stop Cobra Commander and Destro and destroy the machine and free everyone's mind.

In the end, someone says it's not fair that the people paid for a concert then don't get one, so Duke gets an idea, and "The Real American Band" is born, performing for the audience. This episode is also available on Kid Rhino home video.

[Nin-Nin69]

Its a tie between The Parrallel Universe, Adults turned into Kids, the Viper, Melting People, and Storm Shadow gets Excalibur. :p

[dtemplar]

The wierdest episode of all time:

The Viper is Coming

[Juu-kuchi]

Definitely "There's No Place Like Springfield". An interesting yet absurd premise that episode was.

In some sense "Into Your Tent I Will Silently Creep" was a bit weird as well. How Cobra has an ancient temple and a mass number of slaves underneath a local Chinatown or city of something is beyond me.

And I wanted Storm Shadow to kick that hick Cross Country's ass.

[GL2k2]

The Shipwreck episodes are the weirdest. That one where people were melting was on one of last I saw this year. I came from a bar sober, and thought I was experiencing secondhand drunkeness.