Big Gino / Jamie O in Love (Hey Arnold Season 4 Episode 4) - 'Toon Reviews 28

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Big Gino

Shows can easily appeal to both kids and adults with a strong use of stories and characters.  A broader approach is having a story star kid characters who also make references adults are more likely to get.  In this case, the adult reference is of one of the most acclaimed films ever, albeit one I’ve personally yet to see, The Godfather.  This cartoon doesn’t just reference that film, it has an interesting take on its tone by combining it with childlike mannerisms and interests. 

There’s a Godfather-like kid called Big Gino, who’s actually quite small, with his own personal mafia of schoolkids.  Sid offers to sell candy from him, and makes big bucks fast although he’s supposed to give Gino some of the profit.  Instead, Sid uses all his earnings to buy a toy he’s always wanted, a rocking horse.  For not holding up his end of the bargain, Gino and his gang show they mean business via a G-rated version of the infamous horse head scene from The Godfather. 

At Arnold’s encouragement, Sid goes to Big Gino to explain his mistake and try to work something out.  Through hamming up the established homages and references, Gino says the best way for Sid to repay his debt is for him to be part of his gang.  From there, Sid joins the kid mafia by pressuring kids into buying things from Big Gino, and enjoys the power and perks that come with it.  It’s a usual case that Sid would be easily swayed to do anything no matter how extreme, and it’s interesting that he values Gino treating him like a friend more than any money he gets. 

That said, it is kind of unclear if Sid does benefit monetarily from joining the kid mafia.  Arnold, the reasonable one, looks into the situation logically as he watches Sid get easily swayed by Gino’s influence.  He brings up to Sid the question if it’s really wise to consider Gino his friend.  After all, since he did have Sid’s favorite toy destroyed, he’s still not exactly the understanding type.  Sid thinks nothing of these claims, but he does get conflicted somewhat not long after.  Gino hears Arnold badmouth him, and assigns Sid to give him a swirly, i.e. put Arnold’s head in the toilet.  It’s pleasing that Sid grows a backbone out of this through getting conflicted over doing this.  He even goes up to Arnold, explains the truth on the matter, and asks him if he could give him a swirly.  Of course Arnold says no to that, but it’s far better than the expected outcome of Sid being awkward about the setup instead of open and honest.  It’s a welcome and logical change of pace coming from him. 

However, he also repeats old flaws of ignoring Gino who keeps checking up on him to see if he got the job done.  You’d think Sid would know the consequences of not listening to Gino by now.  Then again, Sid usually isn’t all that logical.  He’s caught by the kid mafia after a time asking Sid who he really values.  While it is at the last minute, Sid does show some logic by choosing Arnold over Gino, even if it means getting tossed out of the gang and getting a swirly himself.  This probably would have happened if Sid told the truth from the start, but it’s still great that he makes the right decisions on his own accord.

So, in addition to having a lot of nice class from what it parodies, this cartoon benefits as a strong starring role for Sid, which is honestly pretty rare.

A

Jamie O in Love

One big thing that typically works against something turning out good is if it stars a character who’s one-dimensionally bad for no reason and gets little to no consequences. 

This is the case for Gerald’s older brother Jamie O.  Prior to this cartoon, he’s mostly made cameos with occasional scenes of his overbearing jerkiness.  Now, it’s the catalyst for an entire cartoon which already starts working against it.  There’s also no believable reason to why he treats his own brother so badly other than a stereotype that it’s just what tough older siblings do.  It’s frustrating to watch the innocent put up with such one-dimensional brute force that no one bothers to do anything about.  Yes, siblings mess with each other, but it’s usually balanced out with some form of love.  They’re part of the same family, so they should understand they need someone to look up to in life. 

Then one day, Jamie O suddenly adopts a completely new persona where instead of mercilessly bullying Gerald, he’s blissfully at his service.  He’s making him deserts, buying him stuff, and driving him places.  Given how hard Jamie O was unapologetically messing with Gerald at the cartoon’s start, this is practically surreal, and also out of nowhere.  It’s so strange that Arnold and Gerald spy on Jamie O to see the cause for his change in behavior.  Through picking up the details, it isn’t because he’s seen the error of his ways.  It’s all because he’s in love with a cute looking girl named Cherice.  Even if it’s great to see Gerald get served this much from his brother, the fact that Jamie O is doing this out of love is pretty shallow.  Is there some sort of code that tough boys are supposed to lay off their animosity because of a crush?  Love for an outsider wouldn’t just automatically get rid of another part of one’s character, bad as it is.  It also doesn’t make sense that Jamie O would be this willing to server Gerald.  He already puts in a lot of labor and money for Cherice, so how can there be this much of them left to spare? 

Then Gerald notices a catch to the crush when Cherice reveals to her friend that she really doesn’t reciprocate Jamie O’s feelings.  She’s just faking it so he’ll do stuff for him, also unfortunately making her seem one-dimensional.  Gerald’s all set up to expose this fraud to his brother, but that would be at the risk of losing the brotherly love he’s getting now.  It’s honestly confusing as to what the right thing for Gerald to do is.  It’s bad that Cherice is using him, but given how thuggish he was to Gerald, helping Jamie O should probably not be this pressing of a matter.  There also isn’t a good reason for this other than Jamie O’s his brother, but even then, he never really made much of an attempt to respect him as a brother prior to meeting Cherice. 

Even Gerald can't stand to see Jamie O break down over failing to get things done for a fraud, and that moment leads him to tell him the truth.  Jamie O later overhears Cherice badmouth him, and is basically back to normal.  Fortunately, he does seem to mean it when he says he’ll treat Gerald better as the cartoon ends with him expressing brotherly love, in his own authoritative way though.  At least it’s some form of respect.  The ending does save the cartoon from being outright bad, but a presence of one-dimensional jerks and shallow and confusing plot points leave a sting too big to ignore.

C-

The Ranking

1. Dinner for Four
2. Stinky’s Pumpkin
3. Big Gino
4. Phoebe Skips
5. Eugene’s Birthday
6. Student Teacher
7. Jamie O in Love
8. Full Moon

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'Toon Reviews 18: Rocko's Modern Life Season 1 Episode 13: Clean Lovin'/Unbalanced Load + Final Thoughts

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Clean Lovin’

Spunky is certainly a really cute dog to watch and Rocko’s love for him is one of this show’s more heartfelt elements, but you honestly don’t have anything that interesting to take from him since most of his major appearances have him get into trouble Rocko has to get him out of.  Basically, Spunky is mostly a basic dumb dog as a character, and the trend continues in this cartoon. 

That said, his dumb moment is certainly out of the ordinary in which he falls in love with Rocko’s mop.  The way Spunky develops this crush is fairly interesting as he sees the way Rocko uses it similar to how a romantic couple dance on TV, though it’s also random as completely unrelated scenes of things like a donut getting dunked, a train, and toast being buttered are cut inbetween Spunky falling for the mop.  How do any of these scenes connect to his crush? 

Anyway, when Spunky finally reaches the mop and it knocks him out giving him many visions of them going on a date, it’s pretty cute and funny to see him get this excited over something like a mop.  At the same time, it’s hard to get too invested since as the cartoon goes on, the story expects the audience to take Spunky’s crush on the mop seriously, and whether or not this is just a dog thing, it’s hard to get behind why Spunky should get together with the mop.  Apart from looking like the romantic couple seen earlier, there is nothing special about the mop at all, so it’s near impossible to look at Spunky’s love for it as more than what it really is, a stupid joke only meant to be laughed at.  Because of this, when Rocko finds out and takes the mop away, it’s hard to sympathize with Spunky and root for his attempts to get it back with little weight or strong reasoning behind him wanting to be together with it. 

Fortunately, the direction the story goes in paints Spunky’s obsession with the mop as a problem as opposed to putting Rocko in the wrong for wanting to break them up which is good considering how serious his crush was.  Rocko finds an ad for Dr. Katz, a pet psychologist, who specializes in breaking pets’ unhealthy attachment to inanimate objects and takes Spunky there to cure his obsession.  Following a pretty boring scene in the waiting room where next to nothing happens, Spunky goes in to see Dr. Katz in a room where only patients are allowed to go.  However, we don’t see the operation Spunky is put through, so when Dr. Katz comes back with him, saying he appears normal, it’s a little concerning that Spunky’s lust for that mop is going about untreated after all.  That said, there is a humorous twist to the conflict when Dr. Katz declares that it’s the mop that’s sick which is really a ploy for him to start dating it himself. 

The trained doctor turning out crazy with infatuations is an effective concluding point since the staging makes his love for it feel way more like a joke than something serious like with Spunky’s love for it.  Also, Spunky himself does end the cartoon well by going after an actual dog with mop-like fur, so it’s satisfying enough that this dog saw some sense in the matter…until it’s revealed that he was actually going for a fire hydrant.  At least this crush makes more sense for a dog. 

This is ultimately one of those cartoons that’s good for a laugh whenever Spunky’s dumb dog moments aren’t staged as something to feel sympathetic towards.  He may not be interesting as a character, but he is a good one to bring about absurd yet interesting concepts.

B

Unbalanced Load

Just as we started this season with a cartoon fitting the norm of the show’s style, we’re ending it the same way.  This cartoon offers nothing big for the characters or game-changing plot points.  It’s an expected antic-driven look at Rocko taking on one of life’s necessary challenges.  That doesn’t make the cartoon any less entertaining. 

This is a take on the huge task of doing laundry which is one my family can really relate to.  Rocko’s clothes have piled up and are starting to smell bad, and right away we get an exaggeration to the importance of the job when the excessive clothes attack Spunky, prompting Rocko to use a fire hose of fabric softener stored in a glass case to save him.  It’s a highly imaginative way to get across how daunting managing laundry as well as constantly needing to remember to do it is. 

As you could imagine, the exaggerations don’t stop there, and they continue the show’s theme that even places designed to make tasks easier have lots of challenges to deal with coming in when Rocko goes to the laundromat.  Tasks as simple as getting a machine to accept a dollar to convert to change are big hassles as it keeps spitting out the bill no matter how hard Rocko irons it out.  Right away, there’s relatability to the situation in spite of its exaggerations. I’m sure everyone has dealt with a machine that wouldn’t take dollars at least once.  However, the actual washing process has bigger challenges. 

Through a big washing machine coming alive and coughing up the dirty stuff as Rocko tries to close it and it getting filled with detergent the way a car is filled with gas, it’s an imaginative way of showing the difficulties of having to operate the huge machines that clean your clothes and sheets. 

When Rocko gets the machine going, he shows a believable attitude of having nothing to do while waiting for the clothes to get washed, but given his luck, even waiting gives him a challenge when the big machine becomes runs loose.  Even if it’s not what most people deal with when doing laundry, it creatively shows how machines don’t always work as they should.  We also get an exciting chase as the washing machine drags Rocko by its plug while bouncing along only stopping when Rocko does a relatable thing to machines that don’t work, hitting it. 

That’s just the washing process though.  The drying has a lot of gags to it too such as getting Spunky to rush to cool himself after getting caught in the dryer and getting static cling that attracts all the clothes in the area.  To top it all off, there’s a huge personification of how clothes sometimes end up with holes when talking socks take Rocko’s shirt, the only clean thing, down to a secret layer to give it really big holes.  This gag admittedly happens too fast and doesn’t really need to be here after all the other ones, but you can still enjoy it for how creative an interpretation it is as well as its relatable weight unlike other things that go too far with ridiculousness.  When it all ends, even with a fair share of what Rocko encountered passing through, there’s an undeniable feeling of satisfaction of how much laundry got done in spite of the obstacles.  With all this said, we close this season with a cartoon that’s par for the course as looks at modern life go, but the strengths of all the antics are winning enough to make what we see a satisfying finale.

A

The Ranking

1. Popcorn Pandemonium
2. Cabin Fever
3. Skid Marks
4. The Good the Bad and the Wallaby
5. Canned
6. To Heck and Back
7. Who Gives a Buck?
8. Dirty Dog
9. A Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic
10. Trash-O-Madness
11. Jet Scream
12. Unbalanced Load
13. Rinse and Spit
14. Carnival Knowledge
15. Who’s For Dinner
16. Keeping Up With the Bigheads
17. Rocko’s Happy Sack
18. Sand in Your Navel
19. Spitballs
20. No Pain No Gain
21. Flu-In-U-Enza
22. Clean Lovin’
23. Power Trip
24. Love Spanked
25. Bedfellows
26. Leap Frogs

Final Thoughts

For a slice-of-life show, Rocko’s Modern Life is one of, if not the most unique shows of that kind.  From the first season alone, it astounds with how it both relates to challenges normal everyday people face in every little thing they do and stretches the animation medium for creative ways to interpret the challenges all at once.  It can’t be so easy to do both yet it comes off as consistently entertaining and a show I can’t get enough of.

As I’ve mentioned several times throughout these reviews, the main entertainment source is its exaggerations in the challenges that come with every little task in everyday life.  Most slice-of-life shows feature characters simply doing a relatable task that isn’t too far off from how people would do them in real life.  I’ve seen a few shows of this kind that stand out for the charming approach to them from the perspectives of the characters involved, but the approaches hardly ever stressed animation’s endless possibilities.  With this show, it goes all out with stretching the imaginations of the people behind this show with antics galore out of anything in life they can think of.  Day-to-day chores such as taking out the trash, vacuuming the living room, going food shopping, doing laundry and so much more are turned into big adventures or dangerous escapades.  They could feature little sight gags like showing house flies react to certain states of being or objects coming to life to initiate the cartoon covering the task.  The actual chores also get a lot of entertainment mileage out of them too tying into a theme where no matter what you do in life, things can still go wrong.  It’s never a matter of being mean to anyone taking them on or punishment.  It’s simply a fact we all have to deal with.  As a result, it’s easy to enjoy the characters enduring the difficulties of what they do instead of feeling sorry for them which is also helped by the exaggerations.  Through machines that go out of control when not operated properly, the need to save less intelligent characters from certain hazards, or believable obstacles to the tasks beyond anyone’s control, each time Rocko and his friends do something in life is really funny, creatively staged, and moving at a lively pace.  It even goes beyond life’s important tasks, and can apply to leisure like riding a plane, going to a baseball game or the movies, or ending up snowed in while in a cabin in the mountains.  Above all, even if the antics are exaggerated, they’re highlights of the series for having an air of relatability towards them that emphasize the difficulty of doing a job or enjoying an activity.  True, some antics like giant mutant teeth and meeting sentient half-eaten food that cure colds are too hard to believe for not really tying into anything relatable, but moments like those are very rare and don’t take away from the overall strengths of the show’s style.  The wild imagery and antics to life’s challenges combined with the usual air of relatability make this show a good utilization of the art of animation as a form of entertainment, but also able to make a point.  It’s mainly for this reason that this animated series is able to stand out as something great.

What makes the comedic life difficulties work are the characters we follow through them all.  They too feel like perfect fits in this show’s depiction of modern life in several noteworthy ways.  Visually, they’re about as wild as the antics used to represent the many different aspects of life, being anthropomorphic animals that are either highly unusual for mainstream TV like wallabies, or common animals with unique designs and color schemes like round yellow green-haired cows, turtles with fat shells, toads with big heads, etc. 

Interesting looks aside, the way the characters are written is of special mention to how well they work.  Rocko himself is mostly an average nice homeowner, but the craziness that comes with everything he does from necessary workloads to just hanging out make him interesting enough to follow.  Nothing is ever completely easy for Rocko to get through, and the comedic antics to these things emphasize this concept, yet Rocko remains positive and friendly through them all despite occasionally snapping when pushed too far, which is often hilarious due to how rare it is.  Plus, even if things mostly go wrong for him, these instances work because Rocko almost always has a good reason to be content with his state in the end. 

Other characters in the cast seem to be created to enhance the difficulties Rocko has to put up with, but even then they’re very enjoyable.  Sure you have your shady salesmen or strict instructor, but they’re mostly seen as comedic takes on people just doing their job.  They also apply to main characters too like Spunky the dog, who’s often too dumb to make logical decisions, thus bringing on a lot of trouble Rocko has to endure, and the gluttonous dim-witted steer Heffer, Rocko’s frequent companion who often gives him ideas that land him in trouble and stands around and eat.  Even if they do make life difficult, there’s still a lot to enjoy from them like Spunky being particularly cute and bringing out an endearing side to Rocko as he takes care of him, and Heffer showing on many occasions that he means to be a good friend despite his faults.  Plus, they make for some creative story concepts with Spunky falling for a mop and having a sitcom of bugs on his back, or Heffer facing the devil for being a glutton or uncovering the truth about his family. 

Then there are the Bigheads, whose starring roles often result in Rocko’s less negative outcomes.  Ed’s mean attitude with unwarranted scorn at his neighbor and Bev’s somewhat seductive moments are often met with karma working against them via creative and satisfying consequences for their behavior.  It’s a nice interpretation of how those with the best of attitudes are those who truly prevail in life, even if there’s challenges to endure along the way. 

Other characters like Filburt, Dr. Hutchison, the Chameleon Brothers, Really Really Big Man, and more, also leave many memorable impressions in their few appearances which make Rocko’s world all the more lively.  They don’t stand out much in this season, but they leave a lot of promise for development, which they get in the following seasons.  Just as the things Rocko gets up to when going through life have a wildly imaginative aesthetic to make it stand out as an animated series, the characters he follows are no different.

After this thorough analysis of the first season, I can easily say that Rocko’s Modern Life is one of the most appealing Nickelodeon shows ever created.  With premises that effortlessly come off as hilarious and relatable all at once and identifiable characters to follow all the way through, it pushes the animation medium several lengths with its antics while also offering the values you expect in slice-of-life shows.  It might not be your thing if you like shows more restrained in real-life, and that’s fine.  However, if you’re like me and enjoy creative worldviews, this is definitely a show to track down on your favorite form of media.  There’s more to explore from this show, but for how impressive Season 1 is, all I can say about it is, “That was a Hoot!”

Highly Recommended

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'Toon Reviews 16: Hey Arnold Season 3 Episode 15: Arnold and Lila/Grand Prix

Arnold and Lila

It’s hard to believe how long a time has passed between Lila’s major appearances.  She first appeared as a seemingly perfect, but troubled character given her poor lifestyle.  Starting with this cartoon, her lifestyle, her most interesting trait, is no longer discussed, and she acts perfect and overly kind with no trouble at all.  Not only that, she molds into a role of a potential love interest for literally all her other appearances which not just keeps her from being as interesting as she could’ve been, but more annoying than ever for a severe lack of relatable flaws.  To be fair, the way she fits into such a role is well-executed. 

It happens when Helga, while privately expressing her love for Arnold, is led to do capitalize on her feelings by writing “Arnold loves Helga” on a nearby wall.  However, since other people can clearly see the wall, she erases her name and just happens to replace it with Lila’s before anyone comes by.  Everyone believes Arnold like-likes Lila and push for the apparent romance of the sight despite Arnold only liking Lila as a friend.  From here, Arnold finds himself spending a lot of time with Lila, and she just can’t get enough of him all while Helga is forced to deal with the fact that the boy she loves getting attached to someone else was brought on by herself.  The latter point is especially interesting for Helga dwelling on her own faults instead of blaming someone else which makes it easy to take the conflict seriously. 

As for Arnold, it becomes difficult for him to keep living the misunderstanding, though I don’t get why he’s also teased for being together with Lila, especially by kids who liked the idea of getting together with her earlier.  It would make more sense for them to be jealous of Arnold.  Arnold finally ends the whole thing through honesty by telling Lila that he never wrote the message while admirably being gentle with letting her down, and Lila seems to take it well despite apparent disappointment.  Still, even with him explaining the truth, everyone calls him a “fickle” through saying he loved Lila (which he never did) and now denying it.  The strangest thing is, Arnold actually grows to like-like Lila after all through thinking hard about their time together which appears to be a combination of admiring the appearance of a cute girl and the peer pressure of everyone witnessing him live a lie. 

From here, this starts a reoccurring trend of plots in which Arnold expresses to Lila that he like-likes her and she keeps telling him that she only likes him as a friend since she only like-liked him because she thought he felt the same about her .  It’s not exactly the best route for the series to take for making Arnold look very closed-minded and making it seem like Lila is only good for being a love interest.  At least Arnold’s come a long way with expressing his true feelings to crushes.  Also, we end with a nice moment on a couple worth supporting when Helga appears and actually lets up on bullying Arnold, shows concern for his feelings, and is touched when Arnold talks about the pains of unrequited love.  This brief ending scene lays the foundation of truly healthy couples to get behind, and shows that it could work if Arnold was aware of the true Helga. 

In the end, while it does rob Lila of anything potentially interesting for the rest of the series and Arnold is put down for something he didn’t even say, this cartoon shines for the great way it handles the subject of what makes a healthy romance. 9/10

Grand Prix

So far, this season has prided itself on giving strong development to side characters and interesting story ideas, but there’s still room for cartoons on Arnold and the gang doing basic activities popular with kids, the activity here being about go-cart racing.  As a result, it’s not one of the more interesting cartoons, but it’s no doubt charming and fun thanks to the strengths of the characters. 

The main racing teams are Arnold, Stinky, and Sid with their cart called the Dark Avenger, and Eugene with his cart called the Mauve Storm.  Now, at this point in the series, it’s a given that if Eugene is involved, there’s going to be some major obstacle to work through.  Sure enough, his known status as a jinx and overconfidence of his cart during the first race causes both the Mauve Storm and the Dark Avenger to crash, yet they somehow qualify to be well enough to compete in the grand prix if the teams can get the carts fixed.  It’s at least good that the crews of both carts have a chance to keep on fighting especially since this race features a one-dimensional bully like Wolfgang never allowing them to live it down. 

Also, as basic as the following story is with the crews combining forces to fix the carts by putting whatever isn’t broken from each of them into one new cart, it’s still thoroughly entertaining with a few funny moments throughout the repair process as well as some of the better moments from problematic characters.  The season has not been very kind to Sid and Stinky as characters with their major roles making them come off as annoying and stupid, uninteresting, and at times unlikable.  This cartoon puts aside their negative traits and utilizes them for more entertaining and funny moments through putting the cart together and expressing worry if it stands a chance against the competition.  As for Eugene, there’s a lot more believable behavior from him than in most of his appearances including his previous one.  Unlike in moments from those cartoons, he’s able to see how bad the situation is with his prized go-cart destroyed, and rather than being all happy, he’s firm with saying that he wants to take part in the construction and driving of the cart, and it’s always nice to see normally friendly characters show a bit of a backbone.  It shows that there’s more to them than their basic character traits. 

Everything leads up to the titular grand prix where the broken carts are fully repurposed as the Mauve Avenger which I have no idea why they think it’s a bad name.  The race works as an exciting payoff filled with many great character moments.  Some of them offer different character perspectives on running the race either racing furiously, statistically, or even nonchalantly.  They come off as cathartic when all of Wolfgang’s bullying for the cartoon is met with humility when he wipes out, Eugene desperately trying to drive safely as the Mauve Avenger falls apart, and of all characters, Phoebe races the roughest of all taking first place.  Even one-shot characters of a French racer and an Italian racer have a few humorous moments as they take off to race, let their minds wander, and wipe out, though they may cause discomfort to some through sounding stereotypical.  It all ends well with the truly bad characters losing what they deserve, and the cartoon’s main players being happy with their position even if they lost their cart and didn’t win first place which is as good an ending you can ask for. 

Again, it’s not the most interesting or thought-provoking, but if you’re into racing, you’re in for a lot of fun with this cartoon. 9/10

The Ranking

1. Helga Blabs it All
2. Harold the Butcher
3. Cool Party
4. Grandpa’s Birthday
5. Crabby Author
6. Mr. Hyunh Goes Country
7. Road Trip
8. Helga Vs. Big Patty
9. Hey Harold!
10. Curly Snaps
11. The Aptitude Test
12. Pre-Teen Scream
13. The Pig War
14. Olga Gets Engaged
15. Oskar Gets a Job
16. Arnold and Lila
17. Phoebe Takes the Fall
18. Best Man
19. Career Day
20. Gerald’s Tonsils
21. Grand Prix
22. Rich Kid
23. Dangerous Lumber
24. Casa Paradiso
25. Arnold’s Room
26. Helga and the Nanny
27. Roller Coaster
28. Stinky Goes Hollywood
29. Sid’s Revenge
30. Arnold Betrays Iggy

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