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Overall
Rating- 5/6
While
LB pulls the wagon up a winding dirt road, Tweeg practices his MAVO
membership acceptance speech.
TWEEG-
"I tweeg, Evil Genius... ah yes
that's it Evil Genius, I like that.
I Tweeg, Evil Genius."
LB-
"Evil Genius? You know one Tweeze?"
TWEEG
I'd watch your oversized mouth, LB, when I'm master of MAVO you'll be
sorry you ever trifled with me."
LB
purposefully takes the wagon over a large rock, sending Tweeg sprawling.
The
trio are up in the Airship following Tweeg to MAVO.... Teddy has
widdled another realistic looking crystal out of the Salt Crystals
Grubby blew up in the previous episode.
Tweeg
and LB arrive at MAVO headquarters and are promptly greeted by Ickley,
who facetiously thanks them for stopping by "our humble headquarters
today" and then proceeds to scream at them from MAVO rulebook page 4,
paragraph one.... only MAVO members are allowed in. Tweeg quotes
Quellor's previous threat that anyone who stands in the way of MAVO
having the Crystals will suffer. Bognostraclum changes his tune and
allows Tweeg entrance.
Quellor
is quite pleased that MAVO finally has the crystals, and allows Tweeg
to become an apprentice. Elanor, meanwhile, is not happy that Tweeg
went over her head and brought the crystals straight to Quellor.
The Trio land at MAVO and quickly realize that the airship is very
likely to be spotted. Grubby inadvertently gives Gimmick the idea to
shrink the Airship with the reducing machine. Teddy thinks it'd be a
great idea to shrink them, too, that way they could easily get into
MAVO to get back the crystals. Gimmick isn't sure how they will operate
the reducing machine to get back to normal size if they shrink
themselves again - as in "Take a Good Look"- but quickly comes up with
a plan. The miniature trio climb in the newly shrunken Airship and fly
into MAVO.
Ickley
Bognostraclum is greeting guests at the MAVO party. Some of the honored
guests include "Rancid Lautin," "Vlatsmere Ruggle, originator of the
Slime Pie" and "Lord Porfman Stedsome, who's a bad manners consultant.
Eleanor is quite upset that she's been seated next to her son and LB.
Tweeg is still practicing his speech even as the party begins.
The
Understander of Legends appears with the Crystals, and says that MAVO
is now free from the theat of Goodness forever. Tweeg mudders that "it
was nothing".
QUOTE-
ELEANOR-
"You teach them bad manners and
they show some disrespect to their elders, then you kick them out into
the world."
Quellor
welcomes Tweeg as a new apprentice member. The crowd then begins to
sing the MAVO theme-song, and the trio spots this as their chance to
replace the real crystals with the phony salt crystals. The trio zap
the crystals with the reducing machine and then net them as they fall
to the ground. They then use some of Grubby's root stew as a adhesive
and carefully place the salt crystlas in their place. Once the trio has
all the crystals, they quickly try to split. Unfortunately, the MAVO
members have chosen that moment to pop the corks on their celebratory
drinks, and the Airship is hit with the flying objects, sending Grubby
overboard and into the salad of a unsuspecting monster. A quick
thinking Teddy grabs the reducing machine and zaps Grubby back to giant
size just before he's eaten. Grubby causes quite a raucous before he
returns to the airship, shrunk back to miniature size. The gigantuan
Grubby is quickly blamed on Bognostraculm... "He'll let just any
monster in here." Eleanor says she has never been less embarrased by
Tweeg now that he's a MAVO member.
The Trio
make it out of MAVO and return the airship to normal size. Gimmick says
he's going to make an extra effort to find out what powers the crystals
have now that they are in posession of them again. Teddy wonders what
the Understander meant when she said the Crystals would never again be
in the hands of an Illiop, Gimmick doesn't know, but says he has never
even heard of crystals before Teddy came along and marvels at how
exciting things have been lately. Grubby remarks, over the laughter of
the other two, that all this adventuring has sure made him hungry, and
suggests that they eat.
EPISODE REVIEW-
Another show where
Tweeg gets the laughs- mostly at him and not with him,
however.
The trio's enginuity, teamwork and imagination in this
episode, and the classic subtle humor (I love the
"Bad Manners Consultant" line) show off some of the
best writing of the series. The episode is also very good
visually. One of my favorite scenes from the series is
the Airship heading off into the sunset following the end of
this episode.
It also sets the mood for the upcoming blocks of shows,
featuring the epic battle to keep the crystals out of MAVO's
hands and Teddy's continuing quest to uncover their
secrets.
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