"Review this episode" a quote from my best friend Dylan. Well Dylan, I'm doing it now so hope you like it. A little bit of context for everyone, this is my favorite episode of season 3 (my favorite season, but not best written) in this show.
This episode is very similar to the Loud House episode A Dark and Story Night, my favorite episode from that awful show. Take that episode, add different animation styles (still can't over the fact they did that), add characters I care way more about, and this episode is the lovechild of whatever genius did this. The sadder thing is that this episode aired over a year before that Loud House episode came out.
This episode handles the "story handed over to the next person" plot because it has more relevance to the story and once again DIFFERENT ANIMATION STYLES FOR EACH PART OF THE STORY. Also, each part is longer because there's less characters, making it a lot less hard to focus on each part.
I'm not gonna go too deep into the beginning, but it is about the kids being in this camp obstacle course... however Melvin's the only one who doesn't want to do it which causes everybody to not be able to do anything until they all complete it. So they have their friend Gooch dress up as Melvin which causes him to think he is Melvin for the first few minutes of the episode. I really like this episode's use of background characters, the whole season too (like Dressy in Melviathan). Also, whenever the rain starts and they have to figure out what to do, the way Gooch "finds himself" again is really funny with him just smirking in the mirror and him being back all of a sudden.
While this is all happening, Melvin is trying to clone all of the campers to make versions more like Melvin, throughout this episode he is snooping on everyone and his little remarks always get a chuckle out of me.
BUT now to get into the bulk of this episode, the game of plot potato. It starts off with George and Harold, their comic is about Combotato (a potato with all the heads of monsters). Pausing here to say this is such a creative idea for a villain. Especially since it's with a potato of all things. It's nothing too noteworthy, really just the standard George and Harold comic.
Then, the story gets passed off to Dressy. The style of her part doesn't change much from the usual, but her part is still weirdly enjoyable. Not much happens but they end up falling from the sky in the end. It feels like a bit of an acid trip with all the rainbows though.
Stanley's part changes the animation style to a Powerpuff Girls/Samurai Jack-esque style, it's very nice to look at and probably the best in terms of how clean it looks. It's also a western where Combotato is an outlaw and Captain Underpants has to fight him. They end up breaking the roof of a train they're on and pull up to Popu-larr High.
Which leads to Jessica's part in a Loli-Rock style. This part is probably my favorite just for how silly it is. Jessica and the Sophie's have a rap battle with Captain Underpants and Combotato. The raps are so goofy you have to listen to them to believe it. Well, Jessica and the Sophie's don't like their rap so instead they work on the gym committee.
And Gooch's part is in a style similar to Mr. Men and Little Miss, they just mess up the gym and that's pretty much all the happens. Well, it finishes this part on a cliffhanger. So Erica comes and "finishes" the story in a courtroom in an Archer style.
One thing I wanna say is how I love the fact that all of the animation styles for the stories fit the characters so well, especially Jessica and Gooch.
Since they all hated Erica's part, they go to Melvin to try and finish the story once and for all. However, a mishap happens and the plot potato combines with the dna of all the campers, making Combotato for real. Once again, really cool villain concept.
I don't want this review to be too long, but when they get Captain Underpants, the Potat-O-Rama is really funny. I always love when they incorporate puppets into this show. It's still raining outside from earlier, so no more Captain Underpants. Which causes the campers to have a chase with Combotato and Melvin is the one to defeat it. I love the fact that this episode is super unique and that it's not resolved in the traditional way, also due to the fact that this is the only episode with different animation styles (not counting the cutaways or anything like that)
This episode in general is really enjoyable and you should watch it, it's way better than the Loud House episode it's similar to (totally not trying to get people who read my Loud House reviews to see this) and just amazingly fun. I sum it up in my ranking, but yeah. 10/10.
This episode is very similar to the Loud House episode A Dark and Story Night, my favorite episode from that awful show. Take that episode, add different animation styles (still can't over the fact they did that), add characters I care way more about, and this episode is the lovechild of whatever genius did this. The sadder thing is that this episode aired over a year before that Loud House episode came out.
This episode handles the "story handed over to the next person" plot because it has more relevance to the story and once again DIFFERENT ANIMATION STYLES FOR EACH PART OF THE STORY. Also, each part is longer because there's less characters, making it a lot less hard to focus on each part.
I'm not gonna go too deep into the beginning, but it is about the kids being in this camp obstacle course... however Melvin's the only one who doesn't want to do it which causes everybody to not be able to do anything until they all complete it. So they have their friend Gooch dress up as Melvin which causes him to think he is Melvin for the first few minutes of the episode. I really like this episode's use of background characters, the whole season too (like Dressy in Melviathan). Also, whenever the rain starts and they have to figure out what to do, the way Gooch "finds himself" again is really funny with him just smirking in the mirror and him being back all of a sudden.
While this is all happening, Melvin is trying to clone all of the campers to make versions more like Melvin, throughout this episode he is snooping on everyone and his little remarks always get a chuckle out of me.
BUT now to get into the bulk of this episode, the game of plot potato. It starts off with George and Harold, their comic is about Combotato (a potato with all the heads of monsters). Pausing here to say this is such a creative idea for a villain. Especially since it's with a potato of all things. It's nothing too noteworthy, really just the standard George and Harold comic.
Then, the story gets passed off to Dressy. The style of her part doesn't change much from the usual, but her part is still weirdly enjoyable. Not much happens but they end up falling from the sky in the end. It feels like a bit of an acid trip with all the rainbows though.
Stanley's part changes the animation style to a Powerpuff Girls/Samurai Jack-esque style, it's very nice to look at and probably the best in terms of how clean it looks. It's also a western where Combotato is an outlaw and Captain Underpants has to fight him. They end up breaking the roof of a train they're on and pull up to Popu-larr High.
Which leads to Jessica's part in a Loli-Rock style. This part is probably my favorite just for how silly it is. Jessica and the Sophie's have a rap battle with Captain Underpants and Combotato. The raps are so goofy you have to listen to them to believe it. Well, Jessica and the Sophie's don't like their rap so instead they work on the gym committee.
And Gooch's part is in a style similar to Mr. Men and Little Miss, they just mess up the gym and that's pretty much all the happens. Well, it finishes this part on a cliffhanger. So Erica comes and "finishes" the story in a courtroom in an Archer style.
One thing I wanna say is how I love the fact that all of the animation styles for the stories fit the characters so well, especially Jessica and Gooch.
Since they all hated Erica's part, they go to Melvin to try and finish the story once and for all. However, a mishap happens and the plot potato combines with the dna of all the campers, making Combotato for real. Once again, really cool villain concept.
I don't want this review to be too long, but when they get Captain Underpants, the Potat-O-Rama is really funny. I always love when they incorporate puppets into this show. It's still raining outside from earlier, so no more Captain Underpants. Which causes the campers to have a chase with Combotato and Melvin is the one to defeat it. I love the fact that this episode is super unique and that it's not resolved in the traditional way, also due to the fact that this is the only episode with different animation styles (not counting the cutaways or anything like that)
This episode in general is really enjoyable and you should watch it, it's way better than the Loud House episode it's similar to (totally not trying to get people who read my Loud House reviews to see this) and just amazingly fun. I sum it up in my ranking, but yeah. 10/10.
