DR. BELCH
09-22-2001, 09:24 PM
POK:JLC--"Carrying On"
Another relatively tame episode, even more than last week's, about carrier Pidgeys. Team Twerp meets up with a boy named Malachi whose grandfather rases and trains these birds. Malachi plans to inherit the business when his grandfather dies or retires, but the old man is convinced he isn't ready and that when he goes, so does the Pidgey delivery business.
Besides the amazing amount of self-sacrifice involved, he realizes what a living anachronism he is--the last refuge of Civil War-era thinking in an age of e-mail and Fed Ex. Just because it's a good product doesn't mean it can last forever, as said by the man who manufactured buggy whips after Henry Ford came along.
When the old man's Pidgeys come up missing, the trail leads to Team Rocket, who is capturing them via balloon) and plans to give them to the boss (and keep whatever they're carrying fo themselves. A couple of amusing bits: Jessy calls out Arbok, forgetting they're at 10,000 feet and snakes don't fly...and Nachtowl hypnotizes them into shooting a poison sting attack at nothing, thinking it's Ash, Brock and Misty's balloon.
In the end the Pidgeys pop the Meowth balloon, the medicine the birds were delivering to the Pokemon center finally arrives, and Malachi's grandfather decides to let the boy inherit the business. If he's smart the kid will take the profits, lose the birds, and funnel them into a dot.com company...
CBX-- "Dondon for Dinner"(?)
Dondon, the little droid that always flutters around the busty little girl's head, witnesses a robot being eaten by a disposal droid (who sounds like Rodney Dangerfield). Three other droids have disappeared mysteriously, and it looks like Dondon's going to be the fourth course. Somehow Dondon's voice chip gets buggered up (terror-induced laryngitis, I'd say), and he can't speak to tell the kids who the "killer" is.
Nit: Cubix can speak, and witnesses one attack on Dondon, but why doesn't he come to the little tin can's defense?
We learn a Solex explosion killed Hella's father, and that Dr. K used to be his research partner at the university. Might be interesting to see that "you murdereded my father" scenario play out at the end of the season.
One mildly amusing bit involving the doctor and a parody of those lame-donkey self-help tapes ("Everybody hates you!").
JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES
Note it was aired out of order, but they showed "Enter the Viper" right after for continuity's sake.
While searching for the snake talisman in a cave somewhere in the Amazon, Jackie and Jade meet up with a guy named Rank, a crooked archeologist who seems to be a parody of "The Crocodile Hunter" (down to the khakis and the Australian accent). Ignorant and cowardly as well, Rank attempts to sabatoge Jackie at every turn when he learns the truth about a chalk marking of a snake on a cave wall (going as far as to desecrate it). Jackie, after reviewing footage of the drawing, realizes it was a map of sorts to the talisman and that its biting its own tail symbolized ends are also beginnings (very Zenny, and, yes, I didn't get it either).
Vintage Jackie moment in which he swings from "vines" in the ceiling, which are actually snake tails, after retrieving the talisman from a carving overhead.
Rank is rather like Valmont without the brains; note his willingness to double-cross Jackie after he gets the talisman and leave him behind to die in the cave, or to pick Jackie's pocket to get it (though also note Jade is no slouch at pocket-picking herself).
The cameraman shows remarkable patience with his incompetant boss, and even a bit of savvy in blinding the giant reptile with the camera light, realizing they have no eyelids. It pays off; after Rank is exposed as a fraud, he takes over the show and kindly donates the talisman to the NY museum.
Note that Jade, as usual, is a lot better at rationalizing orders than following them...and that Uncle and the Dark Hand get very little air time in this episode.
POK:JLC--"Hot Water Battle"
Team Twerp finds a hot spring on their way to Ecradine City and decides to have a little beach party. Note Brock and Ash climb into the water fully dressed.
Totodile, Cyndaquil, and one of the other Pokemon start fighting like dogs after Totodile loses their beach ball, and Ash has to break up their tussle before someone gets hurt. They run off in search of the lost ball and discover that several monkey Pokemon have swiped it. Funny bit after one of the Pokemon "demands" it be returned and the monkey pats its butt as if to say "kiss this" before tossing the ball into a cave.
Meanwhile Team Rocket is sampling the local produce from the trees. They hear about the springs and estatically want to take a dip (except Meowth, who has the typical feline aversion to water)...but run afoul of the coconut-throwing monkeys and a fruit-hungry Snorlax. They duck into the cave, which is promptly blocked off by Snorlax's big butt.
Meowth gets seperated from Jessy and James at a fork and runs into Ash's Pokemon, also lost. Meowth, feeling sentimental at the kindness they show him in helping escape, tells them they're his best friends...which lasts right up until the moment they get out of the cave, then he tries to capture them! ("I'm a Team Rocket Member, first, last and always!") That's cats for you, with their general contrary nature.
Jessy and James do get their dip in the spring--after a flood washes Snorlax away from the opening--and the Pokemon, their differences now settled (they don't even recall what the fight was about) rejoin Ash and the others.
[color=blue]CARDCAPTORS
In the first episode--which is oddly untitled--Kero meets Spinner at a school bazaar and, not recognizing him thanks to Eli's magic, immediately strikes up a friendship. He loads up Spinner with sugary snacks (there's a vaguely disturbing scene where we see him shoving a huge chocolate bar into Spinner's mouth), casuing him to flip out and go on a mad eating binge. Kero ends up getting blamed for it, because the girls don't believe there was a second beast, and his description sounds awfully familiar...though it's worthy to note that Eli has a weakness of sorts i nthat his guardian beast is a crazed sugar addict that flips out whenever he overindulges. Note also that Ruby seems to be trying to seduce Tori, and Spinner hates it when she calls him "Spinny". In the second short, "Out of Bounds", Li's suspicion and grudge against Eli deepen after a basketball game during which he utters a cryptic warning into the boy's ear about watching his back lest he lose what he cares for most. At one time it was the cards, but now it may well mean Sakura herself....
Li traces the trail of Eli's magic back to the school, where a scenario reminiscent of "The Maze" ep unfolds: all the doors seems to be magically rerouted, creating a labyrinth, in which Madison vanishes. There's also a reference to a scene in "The Ultimate Test", one that was lost in the dub, where Madison guides Sakura to her with her hauntingly beautiful singing voice.
We also learn that Eli is the reincarnation of Clow Reed himself, although he immediately wipes Yue's memory. I knew there was some connection between them. It seems Clow feels it necessary to test his young charge's mettle...though personally I would think a nice little multiple-choice exam with a couple of essay questions would do nicely.
Another relatively tame episode, even more than last week's, about carrier Pidgeys. Team Twerp meets up with a boy named Malachi whose grandfather rases and trains these birds. Malachi plans to inherit the business when his grandfather dies or retires, but the old man is convinced he isn't ready and that when he goes, so does the Pidgey delivery business.
Besides the amazing amount of self-sacrifice involved, he realizes what a living anachronism he is--the last refuge of Civil War-era thinking in an age of e-mail and Fed Ex. Just because it's a good product doesn't mean it can last forever, as said by the man who manufactured buggy whips after Henry Ford came along.
When the old man's Pidgeys come up missing, the trail leads to Team Rocket, who is capturing them via balloon) and plans to give them to the boss (and keep whatever they're carrying fo themselves. A couple of amusing bits: Jessy calls out Arbok, forgetting they're at 10,000 feet and snakes don't fly...and Nachtowl hypnotizes them into shooting a poison sting attack at nothing, thinking it's Ash, Brock and Misty's balloon.
In the end the Pidgeys pop the Meowth balloon, the medicine the birds were delivering to the Pokemon center finally arrives, and Malachi's grandfather decides to let the boy inherit the business. If he's smart the kid will take the profits, lose the birds, and funnel them into a dot.com company...
CBX-- "Dondon for Dinner"(?)
Dondon, the little droid that always flutters around the busty little girl's head, witnesses a robot being eaten by a disposal droid (who sounds like Rodney Dangerfield). Three other droids have disappeared mysteriously, and it looks like Dondon's going to be the fourth course. Somehow Dondon's voice chip gets buggered up (terror-induced laryngitis, I'd say), and he can't speak to tell the kids who the "killer" is.
Nit: Cubix can speak, and witnesses one attack on Dondon, but why doesn't he come to the little tin can's defense?
We learn a Solex explosion killed Hella's father, and that Dr. K used to be his research partner at the university. Might be interesting to see that "you murdereded my father" scenario play out at the end of the season.
One mildly amusing bit involving the doctor and a parody of those lame-donkey self-help tapes ("Everybody hates you!").
JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES
Note it was aired out of order, but they showed "Enter the Viper" right after for continuity's sake.
While searching for the snake talisman in a cave somewhere in the Amazon, Jackie and Jade meet up with a guy named Rank, a crooked archeologist who seems to be a parody of "The Crocodile Hunter" (down to the khakis and the Australian accent). Ignorant and cowardly as well, Rank attempts to sabatoge Jackie at every turn when he learns the truth about a chalk marking of a snake on a cave wall (going as far as to desecrate it). Jackie, after reviewing footage of the drawing, realizes it was a map of sorts to the talisman and that its biting its own tail symbolized ends are also beginnings (very Zenny, and, yes, I didn't get it either).
Vintage Jackie moment in which he swings from "vines" in the ceiling, which are actually snake tails, after retrieving the talisman from a carving overhead.
Rank is rather like Valmont without the brains; note his willingness to double-cross Jackie after he gets the talisman and leave him behind to die in the cave, or to pick Jackie's pocket to get it (though also note Jade is no slouch at pocket-picking herself).
The cameraman shows remarkable patience with his incompetant boss, and even a bit of savvy in blinding the giant reptile with the camera light, realizing they have no eyelids. It pays off; after Rank is exposed as a fraud, he takes over the show and kindly donates the talisman to the NY museum.
Note that Jade, as usual, is a lot better at rationalizing orders than following them...and that Uncle and the Dark Hand get very little air time in this episode.
POK:JLC--"Hot Water Battle"
Team Twerp finds a hot spring on their way to Ecradine City and decides to have a little beach party. Note Brock and Ash climb into the water fully dressed.
Totodile, Cyndaquil, and one of the other Pokemon start fighting like dogs after Totodile loses their beach ball, and Ash has to break up their tussle before someone gets hurt. They run off in search of the lost ball and discover that several monkey Pokemon have swiped it. Funny bit after one of the Pokemon "demands" it be returned and the monkey pats its butt as if to say "kiss this" before tossing the ball into a cave.
Meanwhile Team Rocket is sampling the local produce from the trees. They hear about the springs and estatically want to take a dip (except Meowth, who has the typical feline aversion to water)...but run afoul of the coconut-throwing monkeys and a fruit-hungry Snorlax. They duck into the cave, which is promptly blocked off by Snorlax's big butt.
Meowth gets seperated from Jessy and James at a fork and runs into Ash's Pokemon, also lost. Meowth, feeling sentimental at the kindness they show him in helping escape, tells them they're his best friends...which lasts right up until the moment they get out of the cave, then he tries to capture them! ("I'm a Team Rocket Member, first, last and always!") That's cats for you, with their general contrary nature.
Jessy and James do get their dip in the spring--after a flood washes Snorlax away from the opening--and the Pokemon, their differences now settled (they don't even recall what the fight was about) rejoin Ash and the others.
[color=blue]CARDCAPTORS
In the first episode--which is oddly untitled--Kero meets Spinner at a school bazaar and, not recognizing him thanks to Eli's magic, immediately strikes up a friendship. He loads up Spinner with sugary snacks (there's a vaguely disturbing scene where we see him shoving a huge chocolate bar into Spinner's mouth), casuing him to flip out and go on a mad eating binge. Kero ends up getting blamed for it, because the girls don't believe there was a second beast, and his description sounds awfully familiar...though it's worthy to note that Eli has a weakness of sorts i nthat his guardian beast is a crazed sugar addict that flips out whenever he overindulges. Note also that Ruby seems to be trying to seduce Tori, and Spinner hates it when she calls him "Spinny". In the second short, "Out of Bounds", Li's suspicion and grudge against Eli deepen after a basketball game during which he utters a cryptic warning into the boy's ear about watching his back lest he lose what he cares for most. At one time it was the cards, but now it may well mean Sakura herself....
Li traces the trail of Eli's magic back to the school, where a scenario reminiscent of "The Maze" ep unfolds: all the doors seems to be magically rerouted, creating a labyrinth, in which Madison vanishes. There's also a reference to a scene in "The Ultimate Test", one that was lost in the dub, where Madison guides Sakura to her with her hauntingly beautiful singing voice.
We also learn that Eli is the reincarnation of Clow Reed himself, although he immediately wipes Yue's memory. I knew there was some connection between them. It seems Clow feels it necessary to test his young charge's mettle...though personally I would think a nice little multiple-choice exam with a couple of essay questions would do nicely.