Episodes 105-107: No Job Too Small, The Bitter Rose, The Gambler

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on episode 105 No job too small episode 106 the

bitter rose episode 107 the gambler in other

words we are calling this episode the Kenny Rogers

episode so we hope you're ready because it's

time to go back to Eternia so I guess in this

version we're casting Tila as Belle and Beastman

as the Beast but where would I be without he

man you would still be Prince Adam Come on, your

father awaits us. This mission to Phantos is

very important. Our diplomatic relationship has

been poor. Prince Adam is going to Phantos. If

Skeletor were here, it would be a perfect opportunity.

Unfortunately, Skeletor is not here. But perhaps

I... Perhaps you what? We have strict orders

to make no moves while Skeletor is... Enough,

you fool! Do you think I can do nothing without

Skeletor? Ha! Think again! Oh, we'll leave in

the morning, Father. Here is our chance! King

Randor will pay any price for the ransom of his

son and his friends! Alright, we start today

with episode 105, No Job, Too Small, written

by Don Heckman. Airdate of Monday, November 5th,

1984. And the plot goes something like this,

while on a visit to planet... Phantos Tila man

-at -arms Norco are captured by evil and beast

man a whiplash working on their own accord With

Skeletor away evil and takes the captives to

snake mountain and uses her new reducto ray to

shrink them Down to a miniature size he was unable

to get his friends without springing an elaborate

trap allayed by the villain So he decides that

this time he has a better chance to save them

as Prince Adam instead So as we mentioned bad

guys, we got beast man evil in whiplash they

whiplash they do mention Skeletor and we do see

panther and then the Masters are the regular

Masters the PSA is all about being strong is

Wonderful, but intelligence and imagination are

just as valuable and it's given to us by man

-at -arms And as far as or goes fun facts Pantos

returns obviously The only appearance of me Chi

the guy that he man is wrestling with at the

beginning of the episode and apparently in the

Original script he man says that he can't beat

him because he's too much beef He's too beefy

too much beef, but they change that to muscle

too much muscle And it's one of the rare times

where we see human shown turning back into Prince

Adam As far as the transformation goes so what

did you think of the plot of no job too small

and the whole idea of? miniature miniature characters

They should do this more often. They should have

the entire show in miniature. I Thought that

was hilarious I like the plot. The plot is interesting.

It's a fun episode But it's not without its faults

Because there are several things in the series

and when we get to you know When we start Mists

of Etherea later on in the series Of podcasts

that we're doing here, you know, even they have

the same issue They they do the same damn thing

that that they do in this one that i'll get to

in my stink mountain moments But I like the plot

overall, you know It's so funny when they change

the scripts and when you when you bring this

stuff up because all I can think of is that old

wendy's commercial Where's the beef? Yeah, exactly

And of course guys this episode was uh produced

in order to um in order to sell a line of miniature

action figures. No, just kidding. Of course,

that's what everybody would say. Well, it's not.

There was no miniature action figures back then

in the day. Right, but there are now, though.

And honestly, I like some of the... I think some

of the Motu minis are somewhat better than the

classics that they... Oh, it's inspired by episode

105. Keep going, though, with your thoughts.

I really thought this was, I remember in episode

35, in the closing, I was like, when I was reading

off the episodes in the outro, I'm like, no job

too small. Oh, great. The widgets are back. And

this surprisingly had nothing to do with the

widgets. Wait for a couple of episodes. Yeah,

true. Yeah, I like the idea of the actual characters

being shrunken down. I like that the elaborate,

I guess, elaborate trap setup that they have.

And I think my favorite part about the plot is

that it's a it's evil warriors minus Skeletor

I like that evil in is taking charge and she's

running the roost. Well Skeletor is away on business

So I thought there was some interesting elements

to this plot stuff that we haven't necessarily

seen over and over again I mean, we don't always

see Skeletor away and the evil warriors doing

something. We haven't seen a whole bunch of episodes

where they're all miniature sized and We have

seen episodes where it takes Adam instead of

human but not so much where it where it feels

like it's the same thing over and over again

yet right right so definitely some good elements

for the plot and i guess we'll have to wait until

we get to castle grey skull and snake mountain

to see how they were executed but i think the

elements for a good plot were definitely there

yep absolutely all right well let's get to castle

grey skull so we can see how exactly they executed

the plot that we feel has potential Now we have

them. Follow them down and hover behind the crest

of those mountains. Skeletor is not going to

like this. Skeletor is not here. Come on, let's

take a look outside. Now, Beastman. we must move

in very carefully all right for the first time

today we're at castle greyskull talking about

our favorite parts of no job too small mike why

don't you go first transformation in space that

looks cool he man in space i'll wait that comes

later uh adam does have a really interesting

plan on how to free them because it's a whole

you know counterweight and countermeasure and

doing math and even though math is evil it is

a very interesting plan that he does have hey

look it's panther yay but there's no battle cat

to fight him damn um and then mini panther is

awesome Already got the image there to be an

image of the post of of Adam actually holding

mini panther and like his pinky I don't know

his pinky his index finger and his thumb. This

is just hilarious What about you? No, I'm like

I said previously. I'd really like the idea of

Skeletor being quote -unquote gone and the evil

warriors being left a snake Mountain to figure

things out without him and That they even kind

of mentioned that he's away on business or whatever

They say like so I kind of like that they acknowledge

that and I like to set up with evil and kind

of running things I like the return reference

to Phantos. So anything that lends to any type

of continuity is always good. Evil Wind is great

in this episode. I especially like the dialogue

she's given here. I think this is a great episode

for evil in And then I have like you panther

with an exclamation point in my notes and then

two lines down later I have mini panther with

exclamation point How about this for once? That's

something that won't end up in snake Mountain

when it usually does for once or go realizes

He can float down from the imprisonment. Yeah,

he's like well. I can just flow down Why didn't

you realize this? 105 episodes ago I loved Evelyn

at the end with her head in her hands and Beastman

pounding on the glass That was kind of humorous

and I like how Adam was needed in this episode

Like I said, it's not the first time we've seen

it But I kind of like how it was used and how

he had to kind of use his smarts and it wasn't

all about Just muscle in this episode. It wasn't

all about the beef So even though it was at the

beginning of the episode in that wrestling match

So yeah some some good things some good execution

some funny moments some good dialogue Lots of

lots of it. Go ahead. I love the this was 85,

right? Well, if you paid attention during the

air date, it was 85 1984 Whatever anyway, so

We are three years before Humans would be turned

into a warthog and a rhino and I swear to God

the mini rhino in this episode that they put

panther in next to in the cage looks just like

The right of the that they end up using for rocksteady

and TMNT Yeah, I forgot about the little rhino,

yep All right. Well, let's make our way then

to snakebound to see if there was anything negative

about this episode I've found the release. We'll

have to take a chance that opening the door won't

turn on the reducto ray. So far so good. Now

what? I mean, I'm okay because I can float down

from here, but what about you guys? I've got

an idea. Adam, be careful! Okay, I'll brace the

line here. Now slide down, one at a time. Very

carefully. All right, you first. No, Father.

You're the one with the twisted ankle. You go

first. Okay, Orko. Time for you to float and

me to slide. Let's go! We're doing okay. Now

wait here. Stand together in the circle and try

to aim it without releasing the boulder. Through

the door, quickly, before they hear us. I'll

catch up. If I have this timed right... Pantle,

what's going on in there? Sounds like it's time

for He -Man. But first, you'll be okay here.

By the power of Grayskull! All right, it's time

for our Snake Mountain moments for episode 105,

no job, too small. I'll start us off here. Why

did Adam separate from the group? Did he know

they were about to be in danger and not warn

them? Because literally he separates from the

group before any danger happens, so that he can

be away and in a place where he can turn into

He -Man and help them out. But, number one, he

should not have known that they were in danger.

And if he did know they were in danger, then

wouldn't he have just warned them before they

got into danger? I was confused as to why he

separated himself from the group. They didn't

really explain that. Yeah. Ah, this rope left

randomly on the floor may come in handy. Gotta

love it when some props are just left randomly

in places they probably wouldn't be. And who

all is at that party? I don't know. They're like,

oh, we're partying up in this other room while

Skeletor's gone. And like, the only three people

that we have seen in the episode go in there.

And it literally sounds like there's 50 people

in that room in Snake Mountain. So it must have

been everybody that we've ever seen as far as

a bad guy was in that party room Panther would

have seen Adam Yeah, animals are very good at

seeing small bug -like creatures so even though

Adam was shrunken down a Panther a Panther or

a cat would not have missed that No, they would

have seen that no matter what. Um, absolutely

and I don't know about how that Time the time

ray or the ray why it took so long Um only that

time every other time it was much quicker But

the one time where we needed it to be longer

so that Adam could do this that and the other

it all all of a sudden took a long time a very

risky transformation there He transformed and

could have easily been spotted. We point that

out almost every time it happens, right? How

are they going to explain? The evil warriors

regaining their size Yeah, that's true because

he shrinks them down and then he destroys the

ray that supposed to be able to reverse it So

apparently those evil warriors should just be

small now for the rest of the series Um, yeah,

but they won't be no and then the one other thing

the rock is going to fall and hit the ray He

man stops the rock and then uses the rock to

destroy the ray Like why didn't he just let it

Destroy it on its own. Why did you have to stop

it and then destroy it with it? That made no

sense. Yeah, I don't know. How about you? An

adventure in space, huh? Then where are their

bloody helmets? We don't need no helmets in Eternian

space. Space is a giant void where you cannot

breathe. No, no, no, outer space. No, no, no,

no, you cannot do that because Space in general

outer space anywhere you have to have something

protecting you because it is so cold and so dark

and so void and whatever it just it always pisses

me off when they don't Figure out some way to

have them use a goddamn helmet when they're in

space Why the hell would the villains just party

after they should be on guard? Skeletor's not

there to keep them in line Yeah It's like when

the teacher leaves the classroom Yeah So that's

it. All right, not too much from you then so

that means we might be up for some good awards

and rankings We'll have to see let's get to the

next section to see how we actually grade this

episode All right, it's awards and rankings time

for episode 105 no job too small. Do you have

any hardware to give out sir? Nope No hardware

for him, so I will make up for it. I will give

a power sword to Prince Adam for his ability

to solve the problem without he man and I will

give a power sword to evil in because I thought

evil in was excellent in this episode funny good

dialogue good character So I'd really like to

evil in so those are my two power swords to make

up for the zero and Mike's yeah yeah yeah just

for showing up panther gets a power sword alright

hey come on now and uh as far as how many cringers

or battle cats are giving out orcos oh yeah you

do it weird no you do it weird i mean technically

i could switch um and i could just say i'm gonna

give it three panthers oh man so three Yeah,

I like the episode. I think it's a good episode,

but it's not like mind -blowingly awesome. I'm

gonna disagree with you slightly. I'm not saying

it's mind -blowingly awesome, but I liked it

more than you. I thought it was cool having some

references to prior stuff with the Phantom stuff.

Thought it was neat having Skeletor away. I thought

Evelyn was good in the episode. I like the miniature

things. Panther shows up. Good to see all kinds

of fun stuff. So I give this one a four. Battle

Cats out of five. so I'm a little bit more pleased

with this episode than you possibly but that

could change as we make our way to the next episode

so let's get on to episode 106 the bitter rose

next it is with great pride and special pleasure

that I present you with all right or go now it's

very beautiful Duncan Thank you. Please tell

us about it. Well, the picture is that of the

legendary Bitter Rose. It's said that the rose

was formed by the tears of a goddess. Every day

she climbed Rose Mountain to look for her husband

to return from the war. Alas, he never came back.

Her tears poured from her cheek and entered the

ground. One day she disappeared, but where she

stood was a single solitary rose. It's the only

thing that grows on Rose Mountain. It's a wonderful

gift. Next up is episode 106, The Bitter Rose,

written by Michael Chase Walker. Airdate of Tuesday,

November 6, 1984. When Orko plucks the fabled

Bitter Rose as a gift for Driel, Rose Mountain

starts to crumble and threatens to destroy the

village of the insect people. Not aware of its

power, Skeletor now would also like to want to

get his hands on the Bitter Rose to use the power

that he now knows it possesses. Bad guys, we

have Beast Man, Trap John, Skeletor, Masters,

we got our regulars. King and Queen making an

appearance. PSA is Orko not listening to his

conscience. When in doubt, listen to your conscience

and it's given to us by man -at -arms. What did

you think about The Bitter Rose, The Mountain

Crumbling, The Insect People, Orko and Driel?

What do you got? I like it. I think it's a good

episode. You know, I was half waiting for Tila

to become Belle and Beastman to become the Beast,

but still. I enjoyed it. I thought it was interesting.

It's nice seeing Orko and Driel outside of having

to save Tralla, because that just seems to be

what... when those two characters get together,

it seems like that's all they're doing. They're

either saving Eternia or saving Tralla. So, I

mean, okay, sure, in this one they are saving

Eternia because of the mountain or whatever else,

but it just... it's nice to see them in some

sort of love story kind of thing instead of just

a... you know, bringing on along a kid's sidekick

in her brother or whatever the hell. Yeah. And

I mean, we do have some continuity here again

with Driel reappearing with the insect people

on the Garth and whoever showing up again. So

I thought that was interesting. I don't know.

I thought this is somewhat of a complex episode.

I mean, it seems simple as far as, hey, there's

this rose and orcoplexa for Driel and it causes

some problems, but it's a little more complex

than that. It's actually probably one of our

more detailed and complex episodes that we've

had in a while. I don't get too wide I think

that now a little bit later but I think it's

a relatively simple plot that in this execution

becomes a little more detailed and there's a

little bit a few more layers that you're not

expecting to come about. So I actually dug this

episode. Same here. All right let's get to Castle

Grayskull then. Let's get going to lunch. I wish

I could give her something as beautiful as that

rose. There is nothing more beautiful than the

bitter rose. It's perfect. Granger, you got it.

I have? It's perfect, the perfect gift. See you

later. I don't get it. Or do I? Oh, no. All right,

it's time for the Castle Grayskull moments for

the bitter rose. Sir, what do you have? Orko's

heart was in the right place, but his head sure

wasn't pulling that rose I Don't know why I wrote

this down, but I wrote down lol Cringer. What

do you know about the rose? Because Cringer makes

some sort of comments to or go about the rose

Can we say that Oracle was thinking with his

wand and not his mind? Depends on what kind of

wand he has And then they start using baseball

puns. That's awesome. Oh my. They did. You didn't

hear that? You didn't notice that? I must've

missed that. Yeah, they start using baseball

puns. Beastman is... He's not a comical character

at all. A flower in a flower vase. He says vase.

It's vase, god damn it. I thought that was pretty

funny. Mm -hmm. That's why we're talking about

it in our castle very small moments. Yeah, what

about you? I enjoyed that the insect people made

a reappearance as everybody can tell now any

time a character reappears in the series It's

usually a good thing for me. Even if it's executed

bad I appreciate them at least acknowledging

that these characters existed also dreel returning

Love the reference of trap. John Beastman thinking

Skeletor thought he heard them mumbling not rumbling

So it was just kind of a very humorous nod to

the fact that a lot of times these evil warriors

are plotting them Against skeletal or on their

own or this end the other so the guilty conscious

I guess came out I thought that was very clever

something that kids probably wouldn't have gotten

but as an adult I thought that was funny I like

Duncan inventing something that isn't a weapon

So it's good that he was inventing something

that had some other type of practical use Actually

thought Beastman was funny with the frozen orco

and the flower vase vase Yeah I thought it was

clever that they actually said mother Eternia

instead of mother earth So thank God they got

it right for once could there was some cool shots.

There's a cool shot of oracle flying straight

on towards the camera They don't usually do that,

but he's coming basically straight on towards

the camera and the background is moving behind

him No, I thought that was cool. And then they

also did something similar with the evil warriors

and their flying machine I forget what the name

of that thing was That was an actual toy, right?

Yeah, it's a cool. It was a cool vehicle that

they were in it was like a circle That kind of

spun around Yeah, I don't remember. Oh, yes,

so that was cool I like I like the shots of them

flying in that because I don't think we've seen

that up until this point in the series Like I

said, I think there's a decent story here some

backstory behind it as far as how the bitter

rose Had an effect on the mountain and how when

they plucked it It was an actual basically representing

an actual person who had become bitter and it

was them Choosing her that kind of set things

different and she kind of basically reinvigorates

the whole rose mountain I thought that was kind

of cool I know a lot of people probably thought

it which would would think it was cheesy, but

I like that Extra layer here, and I love the

ending with a fake flower and trap drop painting

it try to give it to Skeletor That was hilarious.

This is a classic We've lost your pet or we've

lost your thing and we're gonna try to replace

it and you won't know the difference which never

works Never works at all. Nope. All right Well,

let's make our way to snake mountain then and

see if there's any negative parts about the better

rows And found it! I must find out the source

of this infernal rumbling! We weren't mumbling,

Skeletor! Not mumbling, you meatheads! Rumbling!

Rrumbling! Wait! Rose Mountain seems to be collapsing!

Another piece of the puzzle! Garth is searching

for something, but what is he looking for? And

now another clue! That little menace, Orko! But

what's that he's holding? It looks like a flower

to me, boss. It is a flower! That's the bitter

rose! No wonder the mountain's crumbling, and

I thought it was just superstition! But a foolish

thing you've done, Orko! But I like it! Looks

like it's moving time for the insect people!

Alright, as far as Snake Mountain moments for

The Bitter Rose, they don't really explain how

or why Driel is in this episode or how she is

on Eternia. So they kind of skip over that, she's

just here with Orko, apparently on a visit. Every

other time we've had some type of explanation.

So that's kind of weird a little heavy on the

foreshadowing with the maturation machine That

there I go Wouldn't want to use this on a one

-of -a -kind original. That was a little heavy

Why did it focus on battle cats foot being stuck

in that one scene? They like focused on his foot

being somewhat into the mountain and then they

never did anything with that And I think the

travel times are an issue in this episode because

It seems like it's taking forever for them to

get to a certain point and then they're like,

oh we need to go back to the My workshop and

then we'll meet you over here. Like it's just

gonna be like some type of quick trip Which honestly

if they would have had to go that far And it

would have taken as long as it did to get back

there as I did to where they got to that point

We would have had some issues. So there's definitely

some time issues in this episode. What about

you? Somebody grab the time wheel so we don't

have time issues Really I really enjoyed this

one overall There weren't too many things that

made me you know scream out loud or just Stop

the episode and sit here and write a whole diatribe

on what I don't like about it one thing Yeah,

shut up Okay, one thing I did put down for snake

Mountain moments is something you absolutely

Enjoy every time this happens true. Love saves

everything yay Yeah, I mean I agree with that

to a point I usually don't like that, but It's

somewhat explained in this episode to where it

didn't drive me nuts like yeah It's kind of cheesy,

but like if this is the only time it happened

it would be okay If this would happen like episode

after episode after episode back -to -back with

some of those other ones that it did, then it

would have been a bigger issue. Yeah, very true,

very true. Anything else? Honestly, no. I really

did enjoy this one. I thought it was a really

good one. Well, let's see how much you actually

did enjoy this episode as we get to our ranking

section. Thanks a lot. You saved me. You can

thank me later. We have to get that rose back

to the mountain to stop the avalanche. The avalanche?

The rose? You mean, the rose had something to

do with it? Oh, gosh. How did that happen? Our

legend tells us the rose is all that holds the

mountain together. Okay. We got company. We can't

let them get away. Yes. Oh, we'll be in real

trouble with you -know -who. Alright, it's awards

and rankings time. I will go first for the Bitter

Rose because I don't have anything to give out

just like Mike last episode. So Mike, do you

have anything to say? Wait a second. I gave one

to Panther. Oh, yeah, that's right. Do you have

anything for this one? I'm going to give one

to... Why'd you have this played out beforehand?

Shut up. I'm gonna give one to Gringer because

every episode he has some sort of funny line,

and I love how they are using him... more and

more every time like it's one thing I've noticed

in the last 10 or 15 episodes that we've done

almost every time we go to a transformation he

has something before or during the transformation

to say about the transformation about becoming

battle cat so I'll give one to Cringer all right

I guess that works so that's the only hardware

we're giving out for the bitter rose as far as

rankings you were three with no job too small

what are you at for bitter rose four Alright,

we're in a complete agreement. I give a four

to the last one. I give a four to this one I

thought we had two pretty solid episodes in a

row. Nothing mind -blowing like you said, but

nothing bad They're both above average episodes.

So I am in complete agreement. We will both give

this one Four out of five. So let's see how we

end today as we get to the next episode episode

107 the gambler Money isn't everything except

for when it is Guess which sphere contains the

apple and it's yours. That's easy. So it looks,

my lady. But I am so sure you'll get it wrong

that I'll make it more interesting for you. An

apple and a diamond? Wow! Games are easy, but

a diamond, ladies and gentlemen, you will have

to work for. I think it's the left one. What

do you think, Orko? I know. It's the one on the

right. I understand his magic tricks, I think.

All right, then. Right it is. Uh -oh. I guess

it was the left one. Your turn, Smudge. It's

the middle one! Congratulations, young sir. You

have a keen eye. Of course he does. That's why

Smudge is chief guard at the Choridite reactor.

Is that so? Oh no! The emergency signal! Alert!

Alert! Mine shaft number three has collapsed!

Rockfall in mine number three! That's where we

get Choridite from. Come on, Father. The widgets

may need help. We better tag along just in case

He -Man is needed. Wait, Smudge. Give me a chance

to win my diamond back. I'll bet this diamond

that you cannot pick the right sphere again.

But there's trouble! I have to... Listen, would

you really bet this big diamond against this

small one? That's the deal. Melbreg the Gambler

tricks Smudge the Widget into giving him some

precious Chordite, then uses it to weaken and

capture He -Man for Skeletor as a prize. For

our masters we have our regulars, with an appearance

by the King, and for our bad guys Skeletor is

mentioned, although we never see him, but we

do see a little guy by the name of Spikor. His

only appearance right I don't know if we're gonna

see him the rest of the way or not But this is

at least the first time we've seen him and the

PSA is about respecting other people's property

and not trying to gamble away Something that

doesn't belong to you What do you think about

Mel Breg the gambler the cordite and all this

in this episode with the widgets Mike you were

afraid You're gonna see the widgets earlier now

you get to see him where you upset or happier.

How did you feel? Tell me how you felt We'll

see in two weeks folks with episode 37 of tales

of attorney This episode is horribly boring horribly

boring horribly boring The only castle grayscale

moment I have is nice actually finally getting

to see spy car The rest of it it They introduce

us to this new widget called smudge why Not Snarlag.

What the hell's the other kid's name? Fuck. Snarlag.

No, the... Um, crap. The whiny Prince Adam widget.

What the hell is his name? Oh, Snitch or Stitcher.

Whatever the hell. The one we normally always

see. Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

why couldn't it just be him doing this instead

of introducing us to a new widget that we'll

probably never ever see again unless he's just

in the background it just this episode just felt

useless to me maybe you feel useless do you ever

think of that no no it's the episode it's the

episode so you like the episode overall no i

hate the episode overall um i don't know i wasn't

Wasn't as negative as you maybe on the plot issue

We've seen like different circuses and road shows

and this that in the other so like that there's

this Magic trick guy here, you know, I thought

that was somewhat interesting. I thought the

whole idea of gambling Could be an interesting

plot, but I'm not a huge fan of the widget. I'm

not a huge fan of That going on with the cordite

and the widgets and Whatever. Yeah, it's just

lame Yeah, but I wasn't gonna write off a whole

episode just because of the widgets. I was gonna

try to give it a chance to see how it went but

I don't know. I thought if they did it right

maybe it would work, but we'll have to see if

they actually did it right So let's make our

way to Castle Greyskull and start talking about

all the things you loved about this episode That

seems to have hit the spot now, let's find Melbrake

Ah, that must be Skeletor's man now! You are

Milbred? Yes, who are you? I am Gospikor, greatest

of evil warriors, servant to Skeletor! We have

arrived at Castle Grayskull for the last time

today to talk about all the things Mike loves

about the gambler. Mike, go ahead. Nothing. Nothing.

Absolutely nothing. It was nice seeing Spike

Orr, that's it. Alright, you had one thing then,

not nothing. We haven't had many episodes that

featured or even showed the animal or the insect

life of Eternia, so I liked the inclusion of

the timber bugs. And showing those guys, I thought

that was interesting to see that there actually

is insects here on Eternia. I thought it was

interesting to watch Orko running from the transformation

sequence. I like the idea of showing the negative

sides of gambling to kids. Even though you might

think that's too much of a mature topic for kids

to be subjected to, I think it's actually a good

thing to show them that gambling can lead you

up a creek and without a paddle and all that

stuff. Spike Orr. As you said, that was cool

to see him. I have some problems with him, but

I did enjoy actually seeing a new evil warrior

since we haven't had to been able to do that

for a long time. Your issues with Spike Orr cannot

be as many as the issues I always have with Whiplash

showing up every single episode. No, I don't

have a problem with people showing up. I have

a problem with maybe some other things. I like

that at the end Mel Bragg says, we're going to

do what any evil genius would do, run for it.

And I thought it was cool that the the explosion

the reactor Came back into contact with Mel Brague

even though he was running away and I like the

crinters slept through the whole episode basically

Smart kitty, so yeah, I thought that was cool.

So so there was more than nothing as far as good

parts of the episode there were some good things,

but Maybe the bad possibly outweighed the good,

so let's see exactly how many Snake Mountain

moments Mr. TFG and Mike has next. It's wakening

me. I can hardly stand. I used some of the cordite

I got from that silly widget to power this ray.

Even you can't stand up to it. Hang on, He -Man!

I'll save you! Let me go! Let me go! Who's gonna

save you, Shrimp? Hey, you've caused me a lot

of trouble, He -Man. But that's over soon. You'll

be in the hands of Skeletor and I will be a rich

man All right snake mountain moments. I'll go

first because I feel like I have less than Mike

Melbreg Really, that's the name we came up for

this guy Obviously just the letters and gambler

mixed up. I thought that was kind of lame My

only problem with spike or is the voice again

and the speech pattern I get they're trying to

do something different. So he doesn't just sound

like some of the other people voiced by the same

individual, but it kind of drove me nuts a little

bit. And I have a big problem with the ending.

With human throwing that first picking up that

whole reactor thing. I mean, I thought it was

cool how he was like, oh, I'm gonna have to use

all my Every ounce of strength or whatever I

thought that moment could have been used in a

different episode in a better way Like when he

was really in some type of peril where he really

had to use every ounce of his energy and strength

I liked how they did that but him picking up

the reactor and throwing it into space First

of all, if it takes that much energy just to

pick something up. You're not throwing it anywhere

much less into space Well, we've seen him do

this before. That's the solve all. Throw everything

into space. It'll have no effect on us. Well,

we've seen him do that before because there was

that one time in season one when he threw the

staff into outer space and you're like, oh no

he didn't. He just threw it across the planet

and I had to go back and show you the staff in

space. I forget what staff it was. I don't remember

that happening. Yeah, it did happen. Let's face

it he man and the science of being able to do

stuff is non -existent Normally people can't

lift or break things and normally can't break

but throw in a huge ass reactor in outer space.

Let's get real people Anything else sir Overall,

it was a boring episode smudge is the worst widget

ever I Hope we never see him again And guess

what? The gambler actually works for Skeletor.

Oh, give me a friggin break. You know, I know

I've I specifically have complained about using

one off villains that have nothing to do with

evil warriors, but it's even worse when at the

end of the episode, it is revealed that, oh,

yeah, I'm working for Skeletor. When Skeletor

wasn't even in the episode, like he wasn't predominantly

in the episode. I just mentioned. Yeah, pisses

me off. All right, so we know Mike like this

episode So let's get the awards right at all

so you can see exactly how high he rated this

low Excuse me, but I believe these belong to

you It's time for awards and rankings for episode

107. Hover swords or Havoc staffs? I have a feeling

I know where you're going with this one, but

let me know anyway. Havoc staff to the writer,

Havoc staff to... the gambler havoc staff to

the entire episode itself oh my god it's just

horrible let's not get over exaggerated and carried

away here it's so horrible it's not that horrible

it is horrible it's not nearly one of the worst

episodes we've ever had no i i will agree and

and my rating will reflect that i'm not going

to give this a straight zero because it's not

that bad but It's pretty bad. Even a 1 would

be exaggerating here. I'll give mine first. I'll

give this a 3 out of 5. It's just kind of an

average episode. It's not bad. It's not good.

Just kind of there. There's some good things

about it with Spike Orr being there. I like the

idea of gambling being in an episode. And there's

some bad stuff as far as He -Man being able to

throw stuff around and this that and the other,

but it's not terrible. So I'm going to go right

in the middle with a 3. How about you? One and

a half. All right. I think it's a little low,

but one and a half. No, no, no. No job too small.

That's a middle ground episode. That is it was

a good episode. But yes, we know. Thank you.

What I'm saying is for me, that for me was a

middle ground episode. Hence why I gave it a

three out of five compared that to this. That

should get a fucking five compared to this episode,

because this episode is just So not middle of

the road. This episode is bad. Very, very bad.

No, not at all. All right. Well, two master Tim

will agree with me and disagree with you. No,

he won't. Tim, if you agree with him, I will

disown you. He agrees with me on everything,

which is why he's my favorite fan of the Powers

of Grayskull series so far. Shut up. Hell, he's

our only fan. No one else comments or leaves

a site for reviews. No, we've had a few other

ones. Don't don't count them out. They just agree

with me so much that they don't feel the need

to post anything about it outside of Toon Master

Tim and Royal Sorceress. Those are our only Those

are our He -Man and She -Ra fans of the show.

Everybody else never says a damn thing. That's

okay. They're silent partners Silent fans and

in their silence. They also agree with me No,

not at all people speak up so he can see the

truth We're gonna get at least one more person

that you've never heard from before That's gonna

post on this episode just to let you know that

they agree with me, right? You're wrong. It's

gonna happen We're gonna get to some ads and

some PSA's and all the other happy He -Man crap

and we'll be back with the closing after that's

only be hanging here guys post He's gonna be

hanging off a cliff, ladies and gentlemen, because

he's wrong. He is always wrong. Being strong

and powerful is wonderful, but you know what?

There are some things even more wonderful. Things

like imagination and intelligence. In today's

story, it wasn't he man's muscle that saved us.

It was more Adam's clever mind and quick thinking.

Exercising so you can be as strong as possible

is a good idea. But exercising your mind, like

reading books and doing your homework, that's

also a very good idea. Dear, think it over. Today,

Orko nearly made a terrible mistake by not listening

to that small voice in all of us that tells us

right from wrong, our conscience. When Orko decided

to impress Driel, he suspected that he might

be doing something wrong. Whenever you're in

doubt about what you should or shouldn't do,

stop for a moment and listen to your conscience.

It'll usually tell you what's right or wrong.

But just in case you're still not sure, talk

it over with your family or someone else who

cares about you. See you soon. You know, a big

part of growing up is learning to respect other

people's property. When Smudge lost all his money

gambling, he gambled with someone else's property.

And that's when things went from bad to worse.

If you want to use something that belongs to

someone else, ask their permission. Well, if

you don't, you may get more than you bargained

for. Right, Orko? All right, we are back here

and tells returning episode 36, um, do we have

any thoughts so far since last year Since last

year. Oh, yeah since this episode goes up in

2015. Oh We're traveling time Hey, well, I mean

we're at the point where we only have 23 episodes

left Yeah, that's only about if my math is correct

about eight or nine episodes here of the actual

podcast So yeah, just over 20 episodes left.

I've been relatively happy in the second half

so far of season two I've only given one episode

a bad rating the greatest show on attorney I

gave a one Otherwise, I've been three or above

on everything including including five that were

four and above So, I mean I've been relatively

happy with where we're going Obviously, I've

already made most of my things known throughout

the time of doing this of what I would like to

see in the remaining Episodes and obviously we're

running out of time for any of that stuff to

happen and I'll be happy and surprised and shocked

and if it doesn't tell It's kind of what I expect.

So we'll see how this this whole series winds

down here as we get through the final 23 episodes

Yeah for me There's no saving the show at this

point. We've had a lot of great episodes, we've

had a lot of middle -of -the -road episodes,

we've had a lot of bad episodes, but there is

no more room for growth at this point. With only

23 cartoons left and eight podcasts left to do

in this part of Powers of Grayskull series, they're

not all of a sudden going to build all the character

development. in the last 23 episodes. No, I'm

just looking for some new characters, some evil

warriors or something. Yeah, something. Alright,

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109, and 110, those being Tila's triumph, Orko's

new friend, and we finally discover everything

with the problem with power. Best episode of

the entire series. It should have been the series

finale. For now, I am TF2 and Mike with... I

haven't seen the episode, so I'll judge it when

you hear me next time. So this is Optimus Solo.

not jumping ahead I didn't jump ahead I just

remember the goddamn episode let's see if it's

still the same greatness as you remember it oh

yes it is watch it first by the power of grayskull

you all have the power