The Oz Effect, Death from the Sky, and The Magma Mole Review

Thank you. This is Optimus Solo, and welcome

to the Mayhem. This is Massed Mayhem, episode

5, and with me as always is my Thunderhawk co

-pilot, TFG1Mike. Welcome aboard, man. Fucking

hell. That's gonna come into play later on. Yes,

sadly yes. Fucking hell. Anyways, you guys will

all catch up on the jokes. Temporarily and if

you've been listening since episode one, which

you all should be and if you're not go back and

start at episode one Then you will start to get

the inside jokes In this episode of mass mayhem.

We will be giving you our thoughts on episode

9 the Oz effect episode 10 death from the sky

and Episode 11 the magma mole. It's another threefer.

So buckle up and enjoy the bumpy ride. Where

did you find the recorder in the village? You

know, Matt, that's the third village that's been

hit by a storm in the last few days. But the

villagers disappearing too. And now Sarah. Don't

blame yourself. Something's had a whack about

this whole thing. Excuse me a moment, Dr. Clay.

So first up today is episode nine, The Oz Effect.

So for a quick plot synopsis, we start with a

group of natives. A native of where? We're not

exactly sure. but they seem to be celebrating

what we find out to be the harvest season. And

there's a nice little blonde female reporter

type individual who is documenting or reporting

on this celebration. Then we meet what is called

at the time the High Priest who is threatening

the people that the Wind God is angry. Welcome

in Venom because Sly Rax was the High Priest.

they are responsible for scaring all these people

away and seemingly making some of them disappear

go to a city in the sky fall down from the city

in the sky there's all kinds of weird stuff going

on obviously mask is alerted of the charade so

we then assemble team mask we have a quick shot

because we've got to see when mask is assembled

what the heck Scott and T Bob are doing and they

are out in the pool taking a swim oh god um well

t -bob swimming not scott so mask is assembled

and they go to visit the site of the wind storms

and to meet and talk discuss what's going on

with the natives then they decide to put buddy

in disguise buddy in disguise um and to see what

exactly is happening which leads us to our first

mask and venom showdown of the episode venom

though does have a plan for this because during

the showdown they unleash their tornado effect

which halts mask in their tracks basically and

lets venom get away mask regroups and then they're

going to try again and then they have a little

run in with some quicksand uh... they've actually

get out of the sand and it's getting towards

the end of the episode so they eventually foil

venom's plans and uh... figure out where the

wind was coming from and they take care of business

and save the day anything you want to add about

the ending of the episode kinda went over that

kinda quick i guess it's so fucking stupid I

will say I did enjoy them doing something different

this time with the plot where they put Buddy

undercover. Yeah, that was cool. I thought that

was cool as far as just a general plot line.

Instead of it being the regular chase that we

get, you know what I mean? They're actually using

their brains. I mean, it's hard to get 100 %

away from the chase because obviously the main

part of this is all their vehicles, one of the

main ones. So there's going to be some vehicle

oriented stuff. But yeah, it was a little bit

different. I forgot to say, obviously, the members

that we had going on today, we had all of the

mask members, all eight of them taking the trip

to this native land, which I still don't know

where it was. And for Venom members, we had all

four. But there was another image. of somebody

that to me resembled a one Bruno Shepherd that

I know will have a bigger part later on. The

thing that was confusing about this is number

one, they don't speak to him as far as calling

him his name or anything. He speaks a little

bit, but then there's also seemingly multiple

of him. Yes. There wasn't just one person that

looked like him. There was like an army of Brunos.

Yes, so I don't know if this really technically

qualifies as his first appearance or not or We'll

have to wait to see I guess but it definitely

looked like Bruno Shepard You know so we can

only assume that it was his earliest appearance

I Do have a question that's not really a high

beam or a low beam so I thought I'd throw it

in now Throughout the episode sometimes we now

we've talked about them Putting the mask on and

taking them off. There's a couple times in this

episode and this probably happened before where

The masks seemingly come out of nowhere Yeah,

and they're just like lowered down from the sky

and the mask members or the venom members grab

their masks It's almost like another Transformers

reference. It's almost like Optimus Prime's trailer.

Like where did these masks come from? I'm not

exactly sure But I don't know the plot was interesting.

It was again a one without Scott and T Bob really

having much to do with it They go on behaving

at home. They weren't involved necessarily it

is also though another episode where we are randomly

in a location that seems to be In mystery world

Like I would keep ending up in like what seems

to be different countries maybe different continents

They're not really keen on letting us know where

they're at Yeah, no, I think that's good or bad.

It's just an observation so any other thoughts

on the on the plot of this one No Oz and the

Wizard of Oz I Just I guess just because there's

a tornado in there that you can call it the odds

effect isn't that as an episode Yeah, it really

didn't have anything else and the whole flying

island thing I mean, I guess you could equate

that to her house spinning through the tornado

I was waiting for the building to land on something

with red and white striped socks. Yeah, I was

waiting to see a little bit more of some Wizard

of Oz connections, but I was happy to see that

Vanessa made a reappearance, though. Yes. I don't

remember which episode it is today, but I think

it's episode 11. and we'll get to that eventually

but there's a scene in there that really caught

my eye so but yeah now the plot for this one

is just kind of wasn't it wasn't horrible but

it wasn't like oh my god i can watch this again

come on we gotta get out of here I wasn't bit!

Rattlesnakes can only be found in the Americas.

These are Venom's toys. Let's go! So it's time

for some high beams for episode 9, The Oz Effect.

Starting with the clip that you just heard, I

got to appreciate that we got to see a little

bit of Buddy's intelligence with the snakes.

I thought that was a clever scene where he goes

in there and he's not even afraid and he takes

care of the snakes And the girls like what are

you doing? You're gonna get bit you're gonna

die and he's like these aren't snakes these robots

blah blah blah Rattlers are not native to this

area that we're at which I think they might have

actually mentioned where they were or else he

said that Rattlesnakes are only native to America

Yeah, that's what he said. So he at least told

us where we're not. Yes, he told us where we're

not. But I liked seeing a little bit of Buddy's

intelligence as far as that area of expertise.

So that was cool. This is going to be a very

general and vague comment, but I thought that

the scenes that showed the mask members doing

things in this episode were really well drawn,

animated, and painted. I thought it was just,

I thought the colors were good. I thought everything

about the scenes that were showing just the mask

team, not when they're interacting with other

people, but when they're interacting with each

other, I thought they were very well done. So

I'll give them kudos for that. It was probably

by far up to this point, my favorite mask. There

needs to be like a phrase for this, the mask,

like lowering down to them, that whole sequence,

the montage. The energized sequence. The energized

sequence, it was the best one I've seen so far

because number one, they got rid of the word

energized. The team did not say energized in

this episode, but it was sped up like the previous

one where they did say it. So we got this whole

sequence sped up and done in a cool manner. You

still get to see it, but it's not dragging on

and they didn't make the gay little energized

chant. So this was my favorite energized scene

so far. My other high beam is, and this is gonna

be partially in the high beams and then you're

gonna hear again in the low beams, but this episode,

they seemed like they were playing around a little

bit with some effects and whatnot. One of which

I really didn't like and one of which I did like.

And the one that I really did like was the slow

motion that they did and the sound effects when

the vehicles were passing each other at the one

scene. The Venom vehicle is basically jumping

and catapulting over the mask vehicle and they

do almost like a slow -motion like cool little

kind of old -school Sequence that you would almost

think that you would find in like the bionic

Or the six million dollar man or Knight Rider

or something like that. It was just like a little

cool like Scene I thought I thought it was a

cool effect and see the first time I've seen

him do that little slow -motion thing Yeah, so

those were my my high beams for episode 9 All

of my notes for episode 9 revolve around the

assembly of the team for the whole sport Bruce's

was He just left the cars go and they were racing

off the track. Yeah Alex's birds of a feather

He was doing something with birds. Dusty goes

back to grab the lunch. He's like, oh, watch.

I got to go. Puts his pizza down. And then he

runs off. He comes back and grabs it and goes

off again. This is the fourth time that Matt

says assemble mask. I absolutely love the fact

that Matt throws education in scott's face ha

encyclopedias have lots of pictures i absolutely

love that i thought that was awesome uh i think

my favorite thing uh out of this episode was

the music during the first twister battle between

the teams yeah I don't know, I just, like that

background music popped out to me and I absolutely

loved it. It wasn't necessarily the mask theme,

but it was a different piece of music within

it that kinda, it was kinda similar to the theme

song, but it was just purely instrumental and

I really, really dug it. I thought it was great.

And as I said before, for plots, undercover episode,

very, very interesting and different plot line

and that's really all I have for iMeans. There

wasn't, like, specific stuff for me. I don't

want to make it seem like there wasn't a lot

of high points for this episode because I actually

did like the episode. Yeah. But there just wasn't

a lot of specific things that I could point out.

It was more just a general, like, flow of the

episode, look of the episode, sound of the episode

that seemed like it was one of the better put

together ones for me. Oh, yeah, I agree. So so

high beams are kind of general in this one. So

you're probably wondering what the heck you just

listened to, and the reason I put that clip in

there was because I didn't have faith in myself

articulating my one low being well enough, so

I thought I'd let you listen to it yourself.

At one point, the mask and Venom teams are fighting,

and Venom unleashes this tornado effect to stop

mask. And basically the tornado comes in, mask

stops, and we have a little scene where the tornado

is destroying some things, but there was a weird

awkward, odd silence. Like the tornado goes and

it's real loud while the tornado is going and

then tornado kind of dissipates. And as it does,

the sound kind of goes out. And then with no

sound whatsoever, it scans the village. Then

it starts scanning the ground and then it zooms

in on this on the pendant or the whatever it

was. And then, like out of nowhere, Some like

go -to commercial music comes on And it was just

a weird awkward silence You just got to listen

to it and hopefully you were thinking that that

was pretty awkward to me That was not well done.

It was the only part of the episode that didn't

flow or wasn't right You know, otherwise pretty

good put -together episode So I thought that

was kind of a weird moment and I didn't quite

understand why they did it like that And then

I talked about some of the effects that were

new to this like the slow -motion thing, which

I liked Another new one which I absolutely didn't

like was the I can only equate this when I see

this type of stuff I think of anime type stuff

um but I know it's not specific to anime but

they did like split screen images at least three

times in this episode and they didn't do them

all the same there's one where buddy is in the

background Mm -hmm, and they just put three different

squares showing three different mass members

who are talking about Something related to what's

about to happen Now I realize that they wanted

to have a conversation between them, but I just

hate it when shows do this I hate it when all

of a sudden you're seeing three or four different

people in different locations on the same screen

There was a couple ways that weren't so bad.

They did show Again a split screen when each

mass member put their mask on That one wasn't

as bad, but this one just looked awful It just

it looks terrible. It looks like a kid like just

cut things out and threw it on the screen And

I'm just not a fan of split screen. So that's

a little low beam for me The only other one was

the joke at the end for me. I Don't understand

why that joke then Matt told was funny Like usually

they try to say something at the end that's somewhat

clever or somewhat like makes fun of someone

or something and the whole group laughs That's

kind of a classic thing to do in these types

of cartoons. Well, they do this, but the thing

they said is not even clever, not funny, nothing,

and they all bust out laughing, and I just couldn't

quite connect to that. So those are my... It

was so bad, I don't even remember. It was just

something that wasn't even... It wasn't a joke,

it was like a statement. So it made it sound

really weird. So those are my three little nitpicky

low beams for this episode. What things didn't

you like about episode nine? I only have two,

surprisingly. Stating the motherfucking obvious,

and why the fuck is he swimming in the first

fucking place? Oh, you just won't let T -Bob

go, will ya? This, okay, T -Bob specifically

says, why am I swimming? I don't have to swim,

blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, well, no shit,

dumbass. You know, I just don't his question

was legit. He was asking Scott why he needed

to be in the pool exactly, but He stated that

he's a robot. He doesn't need to swim. That's

that's stating the obvious and then of course

You know what? That's why he was confused because

it seemed obvious to him why he shouldn't be

in the pool And then the fucking PSA Oh God I

lost the PSA. The PSA was hilarious. Everyone

fucking knows you don't stick a fucking fork

in the fucking toaster. That was one of the greatest

PSAs I think I've ever seen. I was almost rolling

on the floor laughing when I saw that. Yeah,

but those are my only low beams for this one.

Overall, I really did enjoy this episode. It's

not my favorite episode of the day, but it was

very enjoyable. It wasn't like, oh my god, I

cannot watch this. I must turn it off now. For

the record, though, the PSA T -Bob, who is made

of metal, sticks a fork, which is made of metal,

into a toaster, which is made of metal. I know.

And then gets electrocuted. It was fucking hilarious.

The most bizarre PSA I've ever seen. Sorry. Yeah,

yeah. I agree with you. It's a very well put

together episode as far as the actual... You

know, beyond the plot, beyond the dialogue or

whatever, just the mechanics and the artistic

stuff that was put together, you know, the sound,

the painting, the animation, everything. It was,

it came together besides that awkward silence.

It came together really well. What? Must be a

nightmare. I do not believe this. Believe it

or not, it's real, Mr. President. This has only

been a small demonstration of my power. Who are

you? A friend. So now it's time to talk a little

death from the sky. Episode 10 now in episode

10 we we journey back to America So we had our

episode in wherever we were at South America

or something like that now. We're back in America

for a minute and the Only for a minute though.

Yes, because then we're quickly gonna be in Europe

for the rest of the episode There is a president

of some country. I don't know It doesn't seem

to be the president of the United States, right?

Because they're speaking Some type of other language

it seems like but these than the plane is flying

through the air and venom takes over control

of the plane with a tractor ray that is being

used from a submarine and basically takes control

of the plane the plane loses a wing and Miles

demands a 25 million dollar in gold ransom or

the free world will pay dearly Quite the generic

threatened ransom there. Yeah So he wants himself

some gold. Anyways, they let the plane down softly.

And then we shoot to a scene with the mass people.

And first of all, with Scott and T Bob with what

can only be one of the biggest racetracks I've

ever seen, which was designed by Bruce Sato for

the kids. And then he also had a Scott and T

Bob had cars that were Who gave him that it was

buddy that they stole some of buddy's fuel is

something No, it was buddy because buddy is the

mechanic. Okay. Yeah, that's right So anyways

Scott and T -Volver racing cars and whatnot To

the point where one of the cars flies in by Matt

who happens to be watching news on the television

of this threat that Miles Mayhem has made, but

he doesn't know who it is, so he goes to his

computer, mask computer, and runs a voice recognition,

which actually had happened in the previous episode

too. So we had two episodes in a row where the

mask computer is doing voice recognition. But

anyways, that tells him that Miles Mayhem is

behind the ransom demands, so we obviously are

going to assemble the mask team and lead us almost

directly into a mask and venom showdown. Yep

in which Venom steals a power booster and this

time it kind of does a clever little thing where

they They leave the plane Ready to basically

crash and take off for the power booster knowing

that mask is going to try to save the plane and

forget about venom And then the next thing it

kind of takes a little bizarre twist but venom

is trying to basically increase the threat and

and get their Ransom of gold. So now they are

claiming that they're going to break off a part

of a comet That is going nearby if they're not

paid and then they're gonna let the comet do

some destruction on the free world and whatnot

At this point mask has regrouped and they track

them to one of the three or four different possibilities

one of three possibilities and the mass computer

basically says 99 % that they're gonna go to

Norway to be able to shoot this thing off to

get the comet So they go to Norway and we have

another Mask and Venom showdown, in which case

this time Mask is obviously successful and saves

the day. Yay. Yeah, buddy. As far as agents go,

we again get a full roster of Venom agents. Miles,

Vanessa, Sly and Cliff. So we got all of them.

And Mask agents, we only have five this time.

Matt Tracker, Bruce Sato, Alex Sector, Hondo

and Gloria. Hmm So those are the it's a five

on four. It's a little bit more even on this

fight. I will mention though Before there's another

new twist. I think we've seen a lot of different

variety as far as how the mass team is assembled

Yeah, I've never heard him say this before but

maybe I just missed it But I specifically noticed

this time that Matt tells the computer to scan

the personnel files Yeah he says that phrase

scan personnel files and you know blah blah blah

giving them the best team yeah and i had not

seen that before um and also um was it this one

or is this yeah that's no that's that's what

i was gonna say it's just another version of

that mask assembly team that we've seen and it's

keeps it interesting we should almost be keeping

track of how many different ways they assemble

the team but What did you think about the plot

in this one and what was going down here? I?

Thought the plot was kind of stupid I mean It's

your classic You know and when I say classic

I mean classic in general it doesn't have to

be 80s could be 60s 70s 90s now every cartoon

movie TV show that has a villain like the Miles

Mayhem character at some point they're going

to have a flight disruptor ray or plane crash

ray or you know something you know what whatever

you want to call it you know plane tractor beam

ray whatever you know they just are I didn't

the overall plot is just kind of silly to me

and I'll get into that a little bit with my low

beams, but I Just didn't really care for I was

kind of following with it at first like at first

when they are Using this, you know to control

the plane and they're at ransom You know blah

blah blah, and they're gonna get the booster

so it can do more but then when the comic came

in to play I Really thought that was a stretch.

Yeah That's a huge stretch, and I'm going to

bring this up here, even though it's... I don't

have it listed in my low beams, but what's a

huge stretch for the Comet is because even with

the booster, this tractor beam... I'm calling

it a fucking tractor beam. I'm not calling it

a goddamn tractor ray. That was so fucking stupid.

This tractor beam thing... with the power booster

has enough power to divert a Comet's trajectory

to have it go towards Earth. It didn't just divert

it though. Well, right. No, I know. I know. I'm

getting to that. I'm getting to that. Hold on.

I'm getting to that. It didn't just divert it

to Earth. It pulled it towards Earth like it

was a gravity beam. And it didn't just change

its trajectory like it took a slight left or

a slight right or a slight up or a slight down.

It did a U -turn. Yeah, essentially, yes. It

made the Comet 2 a complete U -turn mid Comet

force whatever you want to call the flight of

a comet. That was the most cartoony moment of

this episode. Well, no, it's that moment and

at the end, after the array is destroyed, the

comet immediately turns around by itself and

it's like the oh god I forget which episode it

is in in G1 when the when the the giant asteroid

is is is broken open in this creature gets released

remember It was in Season 3. There is an episode

where Bruticus and somebody else is in space

and they crack open this giant asteroid which

is apparently this creature's food. It was that

kind of a thing with this whole comet thing of

pulling U -turns and doing this and doing that.

I'm like, you gotta be fucking kidding me. Yeah,

it had me for most of the episode. It lost me

definitively at that point. Are you sure we need

all this crap? Maybe more. I promised Bruce I'd

check out this new line of race cars he's designing.

What I didn't tell Bruce was Dusty gave me a

can of high -performance race car fuel to power

my cars. I don't rate high -performance fuel.

Look out! So we had just talked about it a little

bit in the plot and you just heard the cliff

of it. But one thing I did like, I did like that

Scott has interaction with the mask members outside

of the missions. It kind of gave me like a feel

like, you know, obviously Scott's mom is not

in the picture. and his dad is a somewhat busy,

you know, big wig type person. So I thought it

was cool that the other M .A .S .S. members almost

serve as like uncles or, you know, whatever you'd

want to relate them to, to Scott and they're

giving him, you know, helping him with his, you

know, toys and, you know, obviously playing with

him at some point and stuff like that. So I thought

that was a cool way to show that interaction.

And it also was a way to show Matt has some good

tennis form there. When the car goes into the

room that Matt's watching TV and he like backhands

it with his tennis racket into the garbage. That

was pretty cool. So I liked that part, that little

entry and initial segment at Matt's house. I

also like, sticking with Matt a little bit, that

he actually showed some leadership capabilities

in this episode in the form and the fact that

he actually delegated team members with certain

tasks that they needed to perform at one point.

Mm -hmm. It was you know halfway through the

mission or whatever and he's like, you know You

too, you know, you scan the plane you go use

rhinos, you know, whatever and there was like

three or four jobs that he assigned to different

people Right and and I thought that was one of

the first times I've actually seen him delegate

stuff So that was cool. How about another thing

that I noticed in this episode along with Matt?

That the Thunderhawk has co -pilot Thunderhawk

has a co -pilot named Gloria freaking Baker in

this episode and in the next episode so for those

of you following with us since episode one I

was definitely right when those said that the

Thunderhawk shut up and should have a co -pilot

shut up yes who's right optimus solo okay but

that's beside the but the point is Hold on, hold

on, because I gotta address this since you're

bringing it up in your high beams. The point

is, neither of us want to be Gloria Baker. So

that's why we need to use Rhino because we would

prefer to be inside Gloria Baker versus actually

being that woman. Oh wait, on that note. Horrible,

horrible. So those are the high beams for me

for the good characters as far as venom goes

I thought it was a slick move and it showed kind

of that They actually do have some brains working

when they when they left the plane for masks

to save so that they could get away Yeah, I thought

that was a slick move and I also like the shots

that for the first time show us that venom is

not completely a four -man team There are some

segments and some shots where they show what

seems to be almost an army of people, like a

foot soldier, so to speak, or since they look

like Cobra characters, almost like Vipers. There's

a whole scene where they're showing inside the

thing that is being used to, you know... Shoot

the inside the submarine of the submarine inside

the submarine and they show at least you know

Half a dozen to a dozen people that all have

the same type of mask on all have the same type

of uniform So it was cool to see that venom is

more than meets the eye So what did you have

for things you liked about death from the sky

I? Guess this could technically be a low beam,

but I put it in my high beams I just, I thought

it was funny. Just some of the, some of the,

the way that they pronounce stuff or certain

things that are called stuff. Tractor Ray. We

aren't in hillbilly country. Maybe they couldn't

call it Tractor Bean. Maybe, maybe Star Trek

or somebody has like a copyright on that word.

I'm just kidding. And then, uh, then I go into

my, um, my notices of, of, of the team members

stuff. Bruce just drops the damn box. He's like,

Oh, Matt's calling. I gotta go. I don't care

if whatever's in these boxes. gets messed up

or whatever, he just drops the bug in boxes.

Hondo essentially did a five point shot. Yeah,

he had a nice basketball shot there. What I've

noticed is, and this is throughout the last nine

episodes as well, Gloria is always abandoning

people in cars and cars themselves when she is

called. Yeah. And as you mentioned earlier, In

in the podcast nothing this episode was stated

about the energization For for the mask assemble

scene it was however Yeah, it was it was a completely

different Assemble team again. Yeah, and this

time it was back to being the very slow version.

Yeah so it almost makes me wonder if number one

either these episodes did not are not in the

production order, or that they determined the

assembly montage based on how much time was taken

by the rest of the episode. I'm guessing it's

that they're not being ordered in the way that

they were made. Because it seems weird that we've

had a couple where it's sped up and then we go

revert back to the old slow version of the Energize

segment sequence. And then we go back to the

fast one next episode. So it's kind of all over

the place. Yeah, it is. That was a little too

close to call for Thunderhawk almost going off

road. I thought that that whole scene of the

car hanging off the cliff a little bit. It's

like, yeah, it's a little too close for comfort.

And then my final high beam was holy shit. Now

that was an explosion at the end when the thing

blew up. Yeah. Versus an explosion we had a couple

episodes ago that it looked like it was more

of a fireworks display versus an actual explosion.

Right. And that's what I have for my I -beams.

Good work. To all crew on board, evacuate immediately.

Bruce? Hanks, I'm okay. All right, let's get

low time for the low beams. What do you have

sir? Well, I was gonna say this for episode 9,

but it's more It's more fitting here Lifter has

very limited power source granted attempting

to lift an entire 747 or you know, three five

five, you know however, however, like however

many tons of plane ways is kind of nuts, but

They spend all this time energizing these masks.

And I, okay, I know I'm kind of like, you know,

doing the double edged sword thing here, but

they spend this time energizing these masks.

And yet we actually see Bruce barely able to

hang on and Lifter immediately loses power after

less than five minutes of attempting to. And

I got to piggyback on this because this leads

me to probably my biggest fault in this entire

episode. there's specifically you know he uses

it he saves that the plane basically and he makes

a statement you know right after that that lifter

is drained and done like lifters done yeah okay

they never go back to mask headquarters right

and they never go back anywhere and all of a

sudden at the end of the episode he uses lifter

again yep that's terrible writing yeah it is

Like, you can't have someone zapped, like the

whole point of that is that Lifter was done,

he has zapped it, he used everything he could

to do that, so that should have been out of commission

for the rest of the episode unless they somehow

returned to Masked Headquarters and re -energized

it. No, there's no way. Right? Because they would

have shown that. No, I'm saying unless they would

have shown that, which there was no time for

that in that episode, he should never have been

able to, they should have found a different thing

to use at the end rather than use Lifter already

when we clearly have been shown that it's out

of commission. So I hated that part. Keep going

with your others, though. I only have two more,

actually. Okay, how the hell did Masque get to

Norway? No, no, no, seriously. How the fuck did

all these land vehicles get to fucking Norway?

That's a good question. Given the fact that they

are based somewhere in the U .S. I meant to bring

this up before when they were in Central America,

but that makes it, you know, that's more a little

bit more plausible that you can drive through

Mexico. Yeah, but really, how do they keep getting

to all these different countries? Right, exactly,

because Norway is across the fucking ocean. They

had a big plane that carried them all. I mean,

okay, like, again, referencing transformers in

G1. When Optimus and the Autobots had to get

to Megatron's dam, they rode hydrofoils on water.

You know what I mean? Yeah, we are going to have

to institute one Transformers reference per show.

Well, you had your references when podcast, but

I do have to say, though, because a bunch of

listeners and this is hopefully in the point

where you can remember some stuff that we said

earlier on, like maybe episode zero or episode

one. Now we realize it's a cartoon. people so

please don't fault us for that we realize it's

a cartoon we realize that some of this stuff

is not meant to be perfect and that you know

they have to assume that kids aren't going to

think of some of the stuff we're thinking now

but the point of these podcasts is for us to

pick on you know be some do some nitpicking and

pick out stuff as an adult what we've noticed

i don't i don't think that my nitpick here is

ill is no no no i'm just saying just in general

I'm just throwing this out as a general disclaimer.

We realize that some of this is being nitpicky

and stuff that, yeah, it's a freaking cartoon.

It's made for kids. But the point of these podcasts

is viewing these through adults eyes as the cartoons

we grew up in and picking out the stuff that

doesn't make sense. Yeah. And that makes no sense.

You know, the same thing that I need to double

check and make sure it's not in my, you know,

the other thing is I know that mask. Technically,

they haven't really come out and say that they're

a government agency. You know what I mean? Right.

I mean, it's supposedly like a private -run military

thing. You know what I mean? It's a private military

company. But it's like between going to Central

America or South America, whatever, and now going

to Norway. How do these people get through customs?

How do these, you know, it's, it's, it's, I mean,

it's just, it's, and I know I'm nitpicking here,

but it's, it's serious stuff that you have to

wonder because, like I said, unless, you know,

unless they drove to New York, got on a giant

ass ferry, you know what I mean? It is just one

of those things that doesn't make sense. And

then this has always been a pet peeve of mine

that it isn't just because this was the PSA in

this episode. but ride with the flow of traffic

not on the fucking sidewalk it is called a sidewalk

so people can fucking walk on it not ride a fucking

bike not roll on rollerblades not use a fucking

skateboard it has always pissed me off in life

when people are riding bicycles down a fucking

sidewalk and essentially nearly running fucking

people over that are trying to walk down the

fucking sidewalk I'm sorry. That's just How do

you really feel shut up? But that's uh, that's

it for my okay. So besides lifter being drained

I did have one of my rare moments where I didn't

like t -bob in this episode and That is when

he does the weird gay dance thing that he says

when he says well blast my bolts He looks retarded

right then. Yes. He did. I'm so bad t -bob. I

also just want to criticize the writers in general

on these three episodes. Well, more so last episode

than this episode, I guess. But they they've

gone back to not using T -Bob as the comedic

character, not giving him good lines and almost

just not using Scott or T -Bob at all. Yeah,

which can be good and can be bad. Another low

beam was obviously, like I said before, going

back to the slow mask sequence, the energizing

sequence. I didn't like that. Another weird question.

When Sly Rax is in his bike with the co -pilot,

like the little side car, when he jumps into

the side car and takes off, who then drives the

bike? I can only assume it's an autopilot function.

I had that exact same thought. I didn't write

it down because I thought that you would have

brought it up because that, again, makes sense.

But the easiest explanation I can say is before

he jumped, he hit a button that has autopilot.

Yeah, I guess. And my last low beam is they use

all their powers there to save the plane by freezing

that thing up and giving the that's nicely setting

the plane down on that like mountain of ice that

is the most unsafe evacuation i've ever seen

in my life and that's like crew evacuate immediately

and they come out of this plane which is basically

on the peak of an ice mountain and they slide

down and they start sliding down it looks like

pretty high speeds yeah that made no sense either

and was that was that a radio? no way will they

just jump out there without being like whoa that's

pretty steep yeah well it was the eighties but

now it was meant on a radio or did he have a

bullhorn apparently his uh... vehicle he was

in was able to project his sound it sounded like

a bullhorn yeah that's what i thought it was

too so that was yet definitely the most unsafe

evacuation i think i've ever seen so my message

is simple mister prime minister if japan does

not agree to my demands i thought you might make

more to make mount fuji erupt Tokyo will be destroyed

completely. You are aware of the power of Magma

Mole from that little demonstration earlier.

You have 12 hours to make your decision. And

finally today, we get down with episode 11, the

Magma Mole. Now, we were in some type of Central

American country in episode 9. Then we went to

Norway in episode 10. And now in episode 11,

we are in Japan. So anyway back to that whole

idea of where how the vehicles get to Japan So

we're in Japan where venom agents have been cited.

This is a rare Episode actually where we start

Almost every episode starts with some weird people

that we've never seen before a weird person that

we've never seen before some country We don't

know where we're at and venom is like the first

thing that comes along Mm -hmm this episode.

We're actually introduced to mask first Yeah,

we're in Japan where it's said that venom agents

have been cited, but we're with Matt and Scott

and T Bob and Bruce. Yeah Now there seems to

be a water problem there. Tsunami! Oh wait, is

that too soon? No, too soon, too real. And Matt

and Bruce decide that they need to investigate

so they dive to see what is causing the problem

and they find, well Matt finds a rare element

as he gets put on another amusement ride, theme

park ride. I'm surprised they didn't use the

same line. and he comes up with this rare element

and Then the mask team is assembled as always

and we immediately get a showdown between the

mask team and venom but this time Venom has a

little trick up their sleeve and it's called

the magma mole And it is a basically this humongous

thing with three different like spiky I Don't

know what you want to call them that basically

digs like a mole Yes, I guess is the only way

to describe it and it basically Creates a trap

for the mask team in these tunnels that they

have been Searching through to try to follow

venom and etc And they become trapped in the

tunnels until Matt finds a way out which we'll

talk about later. Yes then miles Basically, we

have another ransom that is the theme of today

is ransoming by venom. They basically puts out

a threat that if he does not get paid, he's going

to make Mount Fuji erupt. All right. Well, Mask,

meanwhile, who has escaped their trap, regroups

and comes down for showdown number two in this

episode. They actually showdown twice. And this

is an interesting one because we have Miles,

who is running the magma mole and doing what

he has to do. And we have Vanessa, who is actually

flying. Switchblade. Switchblade, thank you.

You are the machine, the vehicle genius. So Vanessa's

doing that, so we kind of have a different formation

there. And at one point it seems like Vanessa's

actually about ready to take down a mask member,

where then Miles, by remote control, takes control

of Switchblade so he can get back on it. And

then we have MagmaMole, which is basically...

Way down deep going to China and and Matt has

to go stop it Matt's almost on the verge of death

And we have a new something that I've never seen

before as far as the season goes unless I've

just missed it We have the introduction of the

penetrator Which is used to rescue or save Matt

and I don't know who came up with that name,

but Was Brad's uh... right it was a new power

by brad's yeah well i think yeah you're right

i mean this is the first time we've we've seen

introduced to this power function of the vehicle

right because brad to my knowledge i mean he's

been in a couple episodes so far but he hasn't

been predominantly like it's almost nobody yeah

yeah it's not dusty and buddy where they kind

of rotate episodes or else we've seen a lot of

alex and bruce And so the penetrator is used

to rescue and save Matt and thus ends the episode

basically Because the magma mole is no longer

being used by venom obviously Yes, we have almost

all the mass team. We're missing one Dusty Dusty's

off doing pizza deliveries or something. And

we do again have all four members of Venom, so

we have Vanessa once again, thank you. So it's

seven on four this time. Thank you very much.

Anyway, we'll get to that later. I did notice

this time, instead of, there was another new

thing that the computer said when they were scanning

the personnel files. Not only does the computer

say scanning the files, but after they finished

naming all the team members, she says selection

complete. Yeah. which I had never heard before.

I believe she has said it before a couple of

times, but it's not something that I... Another

thing that sometimes is there and sometimes is

not. Yeah, I think I remember it from the pilot

episode. Okay, and this was another sped up Mask

Energized segment. Just again that I've noticed

it once again one of the mask members obviously

Bruce and Matt were there to begin with so when

they when the computer selects Bruce there is

no scene of any kind because Bruce is already

there. Right. Yeah, but it's good that the computer

does like it because what if Bruce was there

and the computer didn't select him? Does he have

to leave then? Bruce exits episode. He has not

been chosen for this mission So any thoughts

about this plot, you know the the magma mole

Okay for those of you who have been listening

to the podcast over the last five weeks You know,

we have said that I specifically have said, outside

of watching clips on YouTube, I have not seen

this series since I was a kid. I do not remember

a lot of what any of these episodes are about,

hence why we're doing this podcast. But when

I saw the title of this episode, I was like,

oh, that sounds really interesting. man I was

hoping that magma mole was an actual mole that

spit liquid hot magma not a drill I like the

drill no I like I like it but it's you know it's

like misleading title because and and like I

said before liquid hot magma it's a dr. evil

reference there that accent I know but I don't

know. I was expecting something completely different

than what we got. I was expecting like invasion

of the mole people. I was expecting something

really off the wall. Kind of like the Rotex thing,

even though we found out that Venom was behind

that. At first, it's a really off the wall thing

that these metal eating bugs show up. You know,

and that's just going off the episode title for

this episode, that's what I was expecting as

far as the plot goes. It was a badass machine

though, I'll give it that much. Oh, it was. No,

yeah, I agree. I don't have any problems with

the magma mole, I just thought it was a mole

that spit magma. Would've been cool. Yes, would've

been cool. I'll get him with the penetrator.

Don't try it, buddy. Penetrator doesn't have

nearly enough power. to go through that much

rock. You're gonna come up here and stop me?

Firecracker's generator will give you extra power!

Buddy... You must stop at precisely the coordinates

given by spectrum, or you'll materialize in solid

rock. And I don't know if penetrator circuits

can take it. I know! I know! Let's do it! So

the clip you just heard is what we kind of talked

about a little bit in the synopsis part of this,

plot synopsis. Something I kind of did like,

even though I questioned the name of the ability

there, but when Brad uses the penetrator, I thought...

Sorry, I can't even say that. It sounds like

a bad porno name. It does. But when his vehicle

uses this penetrator mode or whatever, I thought

it was cool because it's something we had never

seen before. Basically it goes through rock.

It makes this car being able to pass through

rock in order to get to where Matt was. And I

thought it was a cool function of the vehicle.

And it's something that we've seen a lot of the

other vehicles and what they can do. Obviously

Thunderhawk is featured a lot. You know, obviously

the Venom vehicles are featured a lot. As far

as, they haven't really shown a lot of their

special abilities, but they have shown their

different modes and whatnot. But Thunderhawk

has been showcased a lot. Rhino has been showcased

a lot. Even Condor has been showcased to a good

point. In this one, Brad's vehicle to this point,

and I can't remember the name of his vehicle,

so everybody can harass me and throw stones at

me. But Brad's vehicle really hadn't been showcased

too much up to this point. And this is the first

instance where you can kind of get personalized

with his vehicle and be like, oh, that's what

his vehicle can do. And it puts it on par at

the same level as the other mask vehicles as

like, that's legit vehicle. Let's go buy it.

I want this one too. So I thought the fact that

they did this whole penetrator angle, I wish

they would have named it something different,

but I did like the fact that we got to see a

power from a different car. So that is one of

my high beams. Again, like I said before, I thought

it was interesting that they opened the episode

with mask rather than venom. That was kind of

a change. So we broke the formula a little bit

and I always like when it doesn't become like

a cookie cutter formula every single episode.

So that was cool. Did you get a good look at

the diving gear that Matt and Bruce were wearing?

Yes. I've never seen diving gear that looked

like that. That looks pretty cool. I don't know

why it had to not look like scuba gear and why

it had to look like they were going into outer

space, but Uh, it was an interesting look. I'll

give you that. I got to steal your thunder a

little bit. Cause I know you, I know you like

talking about the sequences when the mass team

is selected, but one of them really stood out

to me this time. And that was when Alex was cleaning

and using the broom in like the monkey cage and

he gets called. So he just hands the broom to

the monkey and the monkey continues cleaning.

I thought that was freaking hilarious. So I loved

that. I have a question. I don't know how observant

you were in this episode, but at one point they

show an old guy. Was that the same old guy that

was the bike guy that we saw in Gloria's segment?

Don't you look just like the guy that that was

with whoever was dusty and then they he's like

takes the car And so he like says hey you can

ride the bike and then we saw him later on in

the episode. Oh Yeah, where like I showed up

again in this episode. Oh, I'm not sure I think

he was in glorious segment. What vehicle were

you having issues with thinking? What is Brad's

vehicle? It's a Gator or not Gator Condor Okay,

then it wasn't Brad. What's the Jeep? It's the

Jeep. The Jeep Gator? Is Gator the Jeep? Yeah.

Dusty? Okay, because there's two cars that I

don't know the names of it's Gator and what's

the what's the Because there's Condor, Thunderhawk,

Rhino, Gator, Firecracker and Firecracker. Yeah.

So I can't keep Gator and Firecracker straight,

but the other Thing that I liked about this episode.

I loved magma mole. It was pretty freaking impressive

looking So I thought that was pretty badass with

the three drills and whatnot. What did you like

about magma mole episode? Nothing Brad is always

rocking out He's Every scene has it is something

to do with him and his band or is him playing

His guitars um at least hondo said class dismissed

this time versus just running out of the classroom

i do like though that he randomly dismisses the

class and where are they going like home where

did they just go to the hallway when all the

other classes are still in session like just

randomly dismisses class but you're right at

least you said something this time gloria stole

a car again Don't know why I said again, I don't

think And and again as you mentioned earlier

This ties back in hey wait didn't Gloria have

her own damn vehicle at one point fuck now Thunderhawk

does have a co -pilot I still have a team though

Yeah, buddy, Thunderhawk has a co -pilot. Anyways,

I love, what I absolutely loved about this episode

was the animation. I love the way the tunnel

scenes are animated. It's so high action, so

the, just, it was just so great. Yeah. I mean,

the animation in this episode specifically, it

seemed like it was more high quality than the

previous 10 episodes. Agreed. Except for the

I did like the like I said in episode 9. I did

like a lot of the animation in that one as well

I thought right to were animated really well.

Yeah, um Apparently Gloria's or a helmet is more

powerful than lifter. It's defeated the magma

mole. Yeah did oh boy Should have been able to

but it did yeah didn't even get drained and then

at the end Gloria runs up to Matt like she was

gonna jump his bones and she threw her helmet

Yeah. Her mask. She throws her mask. Now, okay,

it's fine if you're throwing your helmet like

on a baseball diamond if you're going to home

plate and you're throwing your baseball helmet

because it doesn't have superpowers. When your

mask is your most important thing that you have,

you don't chuck it in the air just because you

see Matt. Yeah, this isn't graduation for Christ's

sake. And then it disappeared, FYI. Yeah. In

the animation, she throws the mask and it disappears.

Because I was looking for it in the next scene.

Fucking disappeared. It did. Yeah, it's so mad.

But it's good to see that Gloria had a hard on

for Matt. Or wait, yeah. That's all I got. I

think before this goes any further. And some

final low beams for this episode Concerning the

magma mall Starting with my biggest I'll get

to the nitpicks later and a little things There

was only one big huge thing that I didn't like

about this episode only one major thing and that

is at one point the mask team is trapped inside

the the tunnels of love and You know Venom's

done a good job barricading them in and they

don't know what they're gonna do mass Matt, excuse

me, Matt Tracker just randomly goes up to a wall,

scans it, tells the guy to shoot right here,

and voila, there's another tunnel. Okay, well,

to be defending the choice here, he does explain

that... He explains terribly. Well, he explains

that he used sonar, which really makes no sense

because sonar is... Isn't sonar for underwater

type stuff? Or can sonar be landing? It's usually

underwater that you hear, but basically he was

saying that he used, you know, the vibrations

and the bounce stuff off of the rock to see where

it was and where it wasn't, and he found it.

But the fact that he knew exactly where to look

for it is my problem. He didn't start walking

along the entire wall and then scanning, scanning,

scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning, and finally

found a spot. It's like he walked over and within

seconds was like, eh, shoot here. And oh magically

we have a whole tunnel here that you guys can

escape out of it was a little too nice and Neat

and clean for me So that was my major one minor

ones Why were they surprised to see Vanessa?

She's flying the switchblade and they all acted

like that was like the biggest shock of the episode

Well, it wasn't all of them. It was Matt specifically.

He's like Vanessa Warfield Warfield what like

Yeah, she drives. I don't know. Maybe it was

that plunging neckline that got his attention

so much. It was almost like he had never seen

her and it was like an old lover or something

like that. When I make the video version for

this, that image of Vanessa in the switchblade

is going to be playing for at least a minute

and a half. Guaranteed. It was just a weird thing.

Like, yeah, she's there. She's part of Venom.

So that just caught me off guard. Like I said

before, at least it was a quick energize, but

they did go back and bring the Chanton again.

Yes, they said energize together again. Oh, I'll

kind of piggyback off of that I Guess Matt delegated

it to Hondo this time because Hondo was the one

that said it Yeah, I know says it and then they

all say energize or whatever is it was I don't

know Like I said, I don't know what the actual

production order of this is but it seems almost

like there was certain decisions made like at

first we're gonna have a long one and we had

this for a certain number of episodes and then

we did energize a couple times but we realized

that didn't work so then we just took it out

and had the fast version but in the order we

see we see one episode from this version one

episode from this version and we're like jumping

around that's almost what it seems like to me

and my only other little tiny nitpick was t -bob

getting seasick no god I how does robot get seasick?

Yeah, I know That bugged me a little bit. He's

like hanging off the boat like seasick and I

was like, no, that's stupid How about you? Um,

the one thing that really pissed me off about

T Bob wasn't even really his fault it's more

so a a writer in a writing plot fault and Animation

fault. How the fuck did the squid get in his

fucking brain hole? Serious how did the squid

get under his metallic head in his brain circuits?

Is it never showed in the animation and never

when T Bob went overboard it never showed That

his his headpiece opened up. So how the fuck

did the squid get in there? Matt when is it Matt

and Bruce that were diving? Yes, I know I knew

I knew it was Matt but but Matt says the the

current is terrific What? I mean, could you say

something like, holy hell, the current is really

strong, or oh my god, we can't swim in this.

It's one of those seldomly used definitions of

terrific. Yeah, exactly. My final one, because

the last one actually has to do with the... PSA

but My final only actual little beam in the actual

episode. Well, I do applaud Scott for trying

to save his dad But since when did he get a fucking

boating license? And how the fuck is he not a

drive a goddamn boat in the first place? Come

on this kid spoiled to all. I mean he goes to

the Caribbean for school projects He probably

has his own boat at home. Like he he's a good

driver You just got accepted He drives T -Bob

around all the time. That's not saying much.

I mean, T -Bob essentially is the DMV vehicle

for driving tests. Yeah, so Scott has had his

driving test multiple times. Yeah, and my note

about the PSA was it's nothing too terribly bad,

but it's essentially... This was the this episode's

PSA was recycled because it's like oh jumping

into deep water or yeah, I don't get why we've

had to reuse PSAs twice now Yeah, yeah, it was

it was again with the deeping diving into deep

water. Yeah, make sure it's deep enough. We just

saw that Yeah, like come on There's a lot of

things you can do if you're if you if you got

to the they must be desperate because not only

are they're reusing them But we also had to stick

a fork in a toaster Stick a fork in a toaster

and then we'll reuse them. They must have been

desperate these couple weeks to come up with

PSA's Maybe so I Just I don't know I just Think

that there would have been a million other things

that you could have done PSA is about that. You

should never need to redo them well, I you know,

this is almost like Remember in school we had

to take those stupid uh tests like yeah you're

not gonna get graded on this but it's gonna you

know tell you what your career is going to be

you know those those types of tests or the or

the personality test that the board of education

makes you take yeah where they'll have tell us

why you feel angry How do you react when you

feel angry against it? You know they'll have

the same They'll have one question and then like

five questions later. They'll have the exact

same friggin question just worded differently

Yeah, and just simply right and between this

PSA and the one that came before it not in this

podcast episode, but a couple weeks ago You know

essentially it's the same thing. It's just worded

differently Exactly, and there's plenty other

ones that could have thrown in there, so that

just was a lack of creativity or a lack of time

spent on the PSAs, but they probably didn't want

to do them since they were only doing them because

they had to anyway. So I guess that makes sense.

I think it's time for a super dose of Bruce Sato,

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It's already plenty hot, Alex. But I can't stop

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so now that we are all wiser for listening to

that commercial break and Bruce Sato's words

of wisdom, it is now time for our overall thoughts

on today's episodes, episodes 9, 10, and 11.

Before you give us your ratings, sir, how do

you feel about these episodes? I liked episodes

9 and 11 the best out of the three episode 10

was kind of yeah, I Mean episode 10 was definitely

the weak one of the bunch. Yeah, it was You know

the first one we got some different things with

the the storm the wind God so to speak and whatnot

and We had some different like types of animation

used we got to see maybe a hint of Bruno Shepherd

It was interesting episode 10 was more like one

of those bad original plots that we were dealing

with those first couple episodes of the series

Where it just kind of went a bunch of different

ways. We had this comet thing involved The only

thing I really liked about episode 10 majorly

was that we got to see a little bit of the venom

force So to speak the foot soldiers, I guess

if you want to call them that And then episode

11 again went to some more interesting plot there

with the magma mole, kind of like episode nine.

So I definitely agree with you that that nine

and 11 were were the high ones and 10 was more

of a fallback into earlier episodes. Maybe it

was written with the earlier episodes. Like I

said, I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot

of these are out of order, which would make sense

if we found out that they were later on. And

I'll do some digging to see if we can find out

if there is a correct production order as opposed

to the air date order. Yeah. Yeah, how about

ratings for first for episode 9 which is the

Oz effect? Three out of five masks this time.

I mean, I I liked it. I thought it was interesting

enough At the same time through the first like

five minutes of the episode of like you dumbasses

that sly axe That's not a priestess or whatever

the hell it was supposed to it's you know, it's

not a high priest It's it's fucking venom That

wasn't the problem. I think the thing that kept

me from raiding it a little bit higher was not

that there was anything bad. To me, there wasn't

anything bad. There just wasn't anything that

really set it up as this is a really great episode.

Like they didn't do anything wrong, but it still

wasn't a great episode. Yeah, that's why I gave

it a three. I mean, I enjoyed watching it. I

thought it was really, really interesting as

far as the way the animation looked. Um, and

it was overall, I enjoyed it. That's why I gave

it three out of five. I also gave it a three

because like I said, it was a good episode. So

it deserves at least a three. Was it the best

episode we're going to see the entire series?

No, I hope not. Um, and I think there has been

at least one that's one or two that we've already

reviewed that have been better, but it was still

good. So I still give it a three. Now, the one

that we said is the worst of the day, which is

episode 10, a death from the sky. How do you

rate that one? I'm being generous here. It's

not the worst episode. No, it's not but it's

not the best either. So I'm giving it a two out

of five. Oh The world is gonna explode. I'm also

giving it a two Basically the same reason that

I gave the first one a three I gave the first

one a three because it was a good episode, but

it wasn't the best episode I'm giving this one

a two because it was a bad episode, but it wasn't

the worst episode, right? So I agree with you

on the two and then we finished off with the

magma mole. And what is your rating for the magma

mole? It gets this rating for two reasons Vanessa's

plunging neckline and the awesome animation in

the in the in the in the tunnel scenes It's the

very first five out of five really. Yes Interesting.

I really really enjoyed magma mole overall. I

I found myself hardly making any notes for it

I mean like my low beams. I only had You know,

even counting the PSA, I had three low beams.

Whereas my high beams for it, I had close to,

you know, what, eight or nine? So I really, really

enjoyed Magma Mole. I really, I did enjoy it.

To me, I couldn't decide though, when I came

to rating these, I couldn't decide between nine

and 11 which one was a better episode. Like 11

is better. I like them both for different reasons

and I didn't really have too many bad things

to say about either one of them I mean there

was just a couple like little nitpicky things

I didn't have like a major thing like I had with

episode 10 I Couldn't quite rate it as high as

I rated an episode. I think last week or the

week before So I gave them the same rating. I

gave 9 and 11 both threes I can see why you gave

Episode 11 a little bit higher I don't know about

five out of five, but what I can see in the higher

rating, but I'm going to stick with a three on

that one. Alright, so your first five we'll see

if I ever give out a five So that's it for episodes

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