'Toon Reviews 19: OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Season 1 Episode 41: Villains' Night In

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Villains Night In

In this cartoon, Darrell and Shannon look after Professor Venomous’ kid assistant Fink while he and Lord Boxman are at the villains’ party via the last cartoon.  You might think this is just eat up airtime.  However, what we get is hilarious and brings up interesting ideas. 

In her few appearances, Fink has been portrayed as your average little brat. Still she was a hilarious little brat with smart-alecky comments awareness of how dumb what she has to put up with is.  That’s how she’s enjoyable here when exposed to Darrell and Shannon excited about having a new “playmate.” All the while, it’s fun to watch these robots hang out doing fun little kid fare when they’re not out attacking Lakewood Plaza Turbo.  These moments give the antagonists an interesting little kid layer, and its exaggeration makes what we see funny stuff.  When Fink deals with this juvenility, her bratty nature is a great comedic foil to how crazy Darrell and Shannon are acting.  I imagine it being like what most older people might think when watching something childish. 

If you have the right frame of mind, you could spot a deeper meaning in these babysitting scenes.  Much of what Darrell and Shannon do to keep Fink entertained shows how much they value following orders from their “daddy.” However, their devotion seems a bit unsettling given he has cruel standards like them needing to “earn” his love.  Once again, Fink’s bratty behavior has weight for not just being fun to watch, but also making a point of showing the importance of stepping up to cruel authority. In her case though, her authority is more annoying than anything.  Even Darrell and Shannon seem to fit this idea as they lament about how hard it is to make their dad proud of them. 

Both sides get a chance to see what challenging authority is like when Fink comes up with a plan to attack the employees of Gar’s Bodega. This will get her out of being babysat and potentially help Darrell and Shannon make their dad proud even if Fink could care less about that.  The robots see it as the ploy to get them in trouble it is, meaning that they still have a ways to go in standing up to Lord Boxman.  Fink on the other hand fits challenging authority to a tee as she breaks free from their care with the help of a glorb, giving relevance to the processing plant from the last cartoon. 

 

With Fink powered by that glorb, there’s a fun fast-paced chase where Darrell and Shannon run after her to Lakewood Plaza Turbo.  There’s also a lot of standout moments during the chase. K.O. catches Fink pop out of the toilet. Rad and Enid take their time realizing something’s wrong.  They all give few quick hits to send Fink and the robots back to exactly where Darrell and Shannon want to go. After all this excitement comes the ending where the points to Fink’s behavior doesn’t really lead to anything.  When she tries to complain about Darrell and Shannon, Fink gets tuckered out leading to a surprisingly tender moment as Professor Venomous fatherly caries her home. As for Darrell and Shannon, they continue to put up with their unloving dad just because he nonchalantly throws them t-shirts he got from the party as “presents.”  It could be argued that it still has merit since good things came even though Darrell and Shannon technically went against orders. If that is what the cartoon was going for, it probably could’ve stood out better maybe if Lord Boxman and Professor Venomous actually found out what happened. 

As it stands, for its interesting ideas being brought up and strong comedy and excitement all throughout, this is some of the more exciting babysitting plots I’ve seen.

A

The Ranking

1. Face Your Fears
2. Let’s Take a Moment
3. You Have to Care
4. T.K.O.
5. Back in Red Action
6. No More Pow Cards
7. Glory Days
8. Legends of Mr. Gar
9. We’ve Got Pests
10. I Am Dendy
11. Let’s Have a Stakeout
12. You Get Me
13. Let’s Be Heroes
14. You’re Everybody’s Sidekick
15. We Got Hacked
16. K.O.’s Video Channel
17. Jethro’s All Yours
18. Know Your Mom
19. Everybody Likes Rad?
20. Villains Night In
21. A Hero’s Fate
22. Plaza Prom
23. We’re Captured
24. My Dad Can Beat up Your Dad
25. Let’s Be Friends
26. We Messed Up
27. Parents Day
28. Plazalympics
29. Presenting Joe Cuppa
30. Sibling Rivalry
31. Second First Date
32. Stop Attacking the Plaza
33. Just Be a Pebble
34. The Power is Yours
35. Do You Have Any More in the Back?
36. Villains Night Out
37. You’re Level 100
38. You Are Rad
39. We’ve Got Fleas
40. Rad Likes Robots
41. One Last Score

The next OK K.O. review is on a cartoon that turns the show into a show within a show where K.O., Rad, and Enid are actors watching the original Lakewood Plaza Turbo pilot.
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