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Parents Day (not
to be confused with the Hey Arnold
cartoon of the same name)
I’m always up for looking into backgrounds of
interesting characters. This includes exploring their families. This cartoon on Parents Day at Lakewood Plaza
Turbo, gives a good opportunity to look into many families though only one pair of parents truly stands out.
When asked about her parents, Enid says that
they’re ninjas who can’t come. K.O. and
Rad decide to go to her house to bring the fun of Parents Day to her. Lots of cartoons have given believable
reasons for Enid’s prominent apathy, and we continue the trend with a more
personal reason.
K.O. and Rad are surprised to learn that she
lives in a haunted house. Fitting for
the setting, it turns out that Enid is a witch.
This explains a lot about her main powers of fire kicks
and turning into a stump which can attribute to witch spells. As for Enid’s parents, they add to the feel
of the haunted house with a vampire mom and a werewolf dad, two monsters so
different yet make a charming married couple.
They give a tour of their home, and as someone who sees haunted houses
as a great setting for creative animated storytelling, exploring the house is a
highlight for the cartoon. There’s a hall of paintings with moving eyes, legit
answers to Rad’s questions of “bats in the belfry” and “skeletons in the closet”,
and are aided by their goblin sons. They may be typical for the setting, but I
can’t imagine anything else to capture the feel of a spooky place. Enid’s
parents, despite being spooky themselves, add wholesomeness to make it stand
out.
However, their good qualities can
get a little much when they embarrass Enid with an album of her youth. Also, when word gets out that Enid calls
herself a ninja, and her parents disapprove of that because ninjas aren’t
spooky. For how charming they are, it’s
hard to buy that Enid’s parents would be this adherent to conformity.
This attitude doesn’t last long though when
two ghosts, who bring to mind old-school cartoons design and voice wise, have
some fun of their own possessing K.O. and Rad. Enid combines her witch self and ninja skills
to summon a tornado creature and capture and stop the ghosts. She impresses her parents so much that they
grow more accepting of her being a ninja. That said, their change of heart has less weight to
it since they put more emphasis on how spooky they find her ninja skills to
be. Still, it’s nice that Enid is more
willing to bring her parents to the next Parents Day even though they still
embarrass her. She shows that for all the problems she has with them, they’re
still her family and nothing will ever change that.
Adding to the heart of the ending is Rad
actually having a nice moment with Enid after teasing her for the whole cartoon.
He confides in her since he also has embarrassing parents as seen in the
beginning and also says he likes Enid’s parents overall. This tender moment means a lot coming from a
usual egomaniac like Rad. It presents
the cartoon as a good display of heart as well as enjoyable atmosphere. It's not perfect, but it's still very
interesting, creative, and fun to experience.
A-
The Ranking
- Face Your Fears
- You Have to Care
- T.K.O.
- No More Pow Cards
- Glory Days
- Legends of Mr. Gar
- We’ve Got Pests
- I Am Dendy
- Let’s Have a Stakeout
- You Get Me
- Let’s Be Heroes
- You’re Everybody’s Sidekick
- K.O.’s Video Channel
- Jethro’s All Yours
- Know Your Mom
- Everybody Likes Rad?
- A Hero’s Fate
- Plaza Prom
- We’re Captured
- My Dad Can Beat up Your Dad
- Let’s Be Friends
- We Messed Up
- Parents Day
- Plazalympics
- Presenting Joe Cuppa
- Sibling Rivalry
- Second First Date
- Stop Attacking the Plaza
- Just Be a Pebble
- The Power is Yours
- Do You Have Any More in the Back?
- You’re Level 100
- You Are Rad
- We’ve Got Fleas
- Rad Likes Robots
- One Last Score
The next OK K.O. continues the spooky trend when Lakewood Plaza Turbo is put through a hack straight out of a horror movie.
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