ROCKS 9C: Bucky O'Hare episodes 7-9

WELCOME EVERYBODY TO THE THIRD DISCUSSION IN THE NINTH STRAND OF THE NEW CLUB "R.O.C.K.S." - REWATCHING OLD CLASSIC KIDS SHOWS!
A big thanks to everyone that are joining us through all of this.

Threads 9A through 9D will be focusing on the 1991 animated classic "Bucky O'Hare And The Toad Menace" - and as the series only had one short season of 13 episodes, we're going to cover it in its entirity.

This week we're covering episodes 7-9:

The Komplex Kaper
The Search For Bruce
Corsair Canards

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Another great selection of episodes.
The Komplex Kaper was very interesting.
I really enjoyed The Search for Bruce. It was cool seeing that he was still alive and it really gave Brusier the spotlight. I think if they had made a second season we would have seen Bruce being found.
Corsair Canards was my favourite of these episodes. I was really surprised by the traitor reveal at the end.

I watched them last night, but have only just got my internet back.

The Komplex Kaper really put the spotlight on the villains, and while it was dressed up in comical bells and whistles, if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor, the mass hypnosis plan was a good one. Even when badly done, as in the Defenders Of The Earth episode "Ming's Household Help", it's a good plan for the villains to try.

The Search For Bruce is one of the most interesting episodes of the series, exploring as it does what became of their original engineer. From what I've read online, in the original comic strip adventures Bruce was actually killed (and Bruiser wasn't in the original comic), while here he's simply been transported to some other dimension, and it's that exact "chance in a billion" that he tried his transporter at the same time the toads used theirs. This is another gimmick that crops up all over the place, most notably in Star Trek's "Mirror, Mirror". It's very well done here, as Bruiser has to make the difficult choice, made no easier by the fact that Bruce knows the right thing to do and is telling him. I think you're right Mark about if they'd had a second season, the Bruce angle would have been explored further. This episode was very well done.

Corsair Canards is one of only about two episodes I ever recorded as a kid, and we get a glimpse into Dead-Eye's pirate past, alluded to in the opening episodes. Willy's enthrallment at the world of these pirates is also well done, pirates are one of those concepts that are presented as jolly to children from a very early age, but the reality is anything but. His reaction to the ducks' drink is classic. Also the flying disc is worked very well into the story, Willy uses it first to save a child's life, and then it becomes the tie-breaker in the pirate challenge. The ploy of getting the pirates to join forces to fight the toads is logical, and entertaining, and it's a shame we didn't get to see more of this. Again, if they'd have a second season . . .

Couple of things I forgot to mention.

Corsair Canards was the last appearance of Al Negator - a pity because he was an intriguing character, but also a good last bow for him because he left the show on good terms with Bucky - that is to say, he did him a service in exchange for his freedom.

The Komplex Kaper with the Toad TV business - all that stuff about it being torture to everyone else is a recurring joke of course, but one line at the end when the mammals get their brains back, "I feel like I've just been subjected to nine months of Quayle speeches!" - as a kid I probably thought they were talking about a quail as in the bird. Looking back at it now I realise that it was a joke about Dan Quayle, famously the stupidest man in politics at that time. (He has since been trumped for that prize.)