Another emergency review? You got it!
I recently found out that LarryBoy was in another episode of Veggietales In The House, although it was released on Netflix back in April. Now, I'm at it again with an emergency review, because not only is this a LarryBoy episode, but also because I have a lot of time in my hands since graduation. So here it is: "The Birthday Thief."
-Really? Couldn't come up with a better episode title than that? Why not "LarryBoy and the Birthday Thief"? That would've told people: That's right! LarryBoy is in this episode!
Opening;
So the episode opens with a birthday party with the weirdest-looking vegetables in this series...
-Don't ask why.
-And plus, sorry for the subtitles. Not sure why they're there.
... and the birthday boy makes his wish.
Birthday Boy: (whispering his wish)
-Um. Are you sure he's not muttering a curse?
(a vacuum sucks up the cake and presents)
-Yep. He muttered a curse.
Birthday Boy: "Wait! This is not what I wished for!"
-Well, it looks like it.
LarryCave:
Meanwhile at... the newest version of the LarryCave that still lacks an Alfred Asparagus...
LarryBoy gets a distress call from Archibald Asparagus, who tells him that birthday parties are being ransacked by a mysterious force.
-But listen to how Archibald addresses the situation to our hero...
Archibald: "Someone is stealing birthdays!"
-Stealing birthdays? Don't you mean birthday cakes and presents? Not birthdays. No one can steal birthdays...
So LarryBoy suits up...
-Wait. What? He's already in costume. Why would he waste time suiting up, if he's already in costume? This pointless moment brought to you by DreamWorks.
As soon as LarryBoy speeds off in his LarryMobile...
which, again, didn't need the big change... Bob is left with a dilemma:
getting out of the LarryCave.
-Uh... the door is all the way over there...
On the scene:
Then LarryBoy finally arrives, only to be greeted by people complaining to him about the incident.
Archibald: "Don't worry! LarryBoy will figure this out! Right, LarryBoy?"
-Why are you asking him that, if you yourself called him in the first place?
LarryBoy: "Of course! No kid deserves this!"
-You're right! No kid deserves this! In fact, no LarryBoy fan deserves a half-assed storyline and dialogue! No LarryBoy fan deserves an extreme makeover on the characters, design, and concept... Let it go, Whatsoever Critic. Let it go...
LarryBoy: "Who stole your birthday parties?"
Female citizen: "It was a big machine!"
-Whoa! Who's voice is that? That doesn't sound feminine!
Just then, LarryBoy gets a call from Junior Asparagus, saying that things are going wrong at Laura Carrot's birthday party, which prompts our hero to head over to the scene... but not after he gives something to the birthday boy to cheer him up.
LarryBoy: "Don't cry, kid. You can play with the nuclear chronoplasmere... It shifts time."
-Why would you give a child that? What if the kid uses it to mess with time?
At Laura's Party:
Things are heating up, as all the gifts are stolen, and Laura is captured inside a gift box and sucked with all the other gifts.
-But that's okay, because she's none-the-wiser at this point. Good work, writers.
LarryBoy finally arrives at the scene, only to learn that the party is gone, and that Laura Carrot has been captured.
-But anyways, that's not important, because take this next scene where...
Back at the LarryCave...:
...Bob is still trying to find a way out of the LarryCave.
(Bob searching up and down for a way out.)
-This is boring.
In town:
Junior hitches a ride with LarryBoy, as they pursue the birthday thief...
-Yeah. I still hate that title.
They soon learn that the trail of gifts lead to Motato's lair...
-Aww, come on! Not that guy again! As if his weird appearance and voice-acting weren't enough to keep him away from another episode in this series!
Junior begs LarryBoy to let him tag along, until LarryBoy accepts.
-Uh, no, Junior. You ruined The League of Incredible Vegetables. We don't need your help this time.
At Motato's Lair:
The duo arrives, only to see that the bathroom door is closed...
-Yeah, I can never get used to the fact that Motato's lair is a human bathroom.
LarryBoy then comes up with a plan: hide inside gift boxes, so that the vacuum machine can take them inside the lair.
-You know, that plan is identical to the one in LarryBoy and the Yodelnapper, where LarryBoy had to disguise himself as a yodeler to find out who the yodelnapper was...
Just saying. That would make this scene unoriginal.
They try out this plan, and they get captured by the evil machine.
LarryCave:
(pause)
-No point of going back to this scene.
Bob is just messing with LarryBoy's costume-change machine and bumping into stuff.
Motato's Lair:
LarryBoy and Junior finally make it inside the lair.
One radish minion: "You know the drill. Small, squishy presents that are probably socks or undies go in the trash pile."
Other minion: "And the big presents and delicious cakes go to Motato. I know."
-So the minions finally talk now? That's new, compared to the previous episode.
So one of the minions gets his ass handed to him by LarryBoy, thus allowing our hero and Junior to search through the gift boxes to find Laura.
-In my opinion, screw Laura. Let her naive behavior have her learn a hard lesson in what naive-ness can land a person in.
But it isn't long before they find Motato sitting on his throne...
-Feel free to make a joke about that, since his throne is on top of a human toilet. I can totally see all the memes for this scene now.
One minion: "Happy birthday, boss!"
(Motato throws cake at this minion.)
Then Motato explains why he doesn't like that phrase.
Motato: "Nobody ever remembered my birthday growing up, and that's why I'm here: to destroy all birthdays, not celebrate them."
-(pause) So... the reason why you became a villain in the first place, is because nobody gave a damn about your birthday growing up? Weak motivation to become evil! I wonder what would happen if other villains' back-stories went down like that. I mean, really think about it!
Example:
Purple Guy never got a birthday party growing up. So he planned all the murders at Freddy Fazbear's pizza.
-How lame would that have been if that was the true back-story of the Purple Guy in the Five Nights at Freddy's series?
Another minion: "Then, happy non-birthday, boss."
-Whatever.
LarryBoy and Junior see that the gift box that Laura is in is about to be given to Motato. But LarryBoy snatches the gift, before Motato can open it.
Motato: "LarryBoy! How dare you steal my stolen present?"
-Put a sock in it, Motato. That gift wasn't yours to begin with.
Motato sends his radishes after the duo, but LarryBoy carries Junior and the gift box away from the scene.
-No, really. He actually cares a person and a gift box.
-(mimicking LarryBoy) That's right, Internet and fans. I did that.
After throwing some cake at the minions, LarryBoy and Junior open the gift box, only to find that Laura is not in there.
Laura: "What you guys doing?"
-But... but... How? How did she get out of the box? That was BS.
Laura: "What you guys doing?"
LarryBoy: "Oh, we're just trying to rescue Laura."
-Hint: Look behind you...
So seeing that Laura is nonchalant about encountering evil, LarryBoy gets a call from Motato, and... Man. This ought to be rich...
Motato: "I have a special present for the whole house, LarryBoy."
-Bring it.
Motato: "Prepare for the de-birthday-ficator."
-Admit it, Motato. You only shoved the word "birthday" into the word "defecate"... with an "or" at the end. Stupid choice of words.
Oh! And how does this villain showcase his evil plot?
Motato: [rapping] "It's my unhappy not-birthday..."
-Don't worry. I'll save you with my remote.
>>fast-forwarding
-Motato can't rap. The writers of this song should feel pretty bad about themselves. And... imagine if that was Dr. Blowhole doing this.
Would you think that Dr. Blowhole was cool if he rapped out his evil plan like this?
Anyway, Motato plans to freeze everyone, so that no one can have a birthday...
-(pause)... because this show breaks the laws of reality and doesn't think that birthdays would still go on, even if a person's frozen.
So Motato's plan is set into motion, as the whole town is freezing from the house's AC vents.
LarryBoy drives over to the vents to figure out his next plan.
Birthday boy: "Did you save my presents?"
-(pause) Who the fuck cares about your presents right now, kid? The whole house is freezing! You can at least shiver!
LarryCave:
We still have to sit through Bob's antics in trying to find a way out of the lair.
But after discovering a raft, LarryBoy calls Bob, saying that Motato's freezing weather is coming through the AC vents.
Female Citizen: "I have a sandwich!"
(LarryBoy throws the sandwich at the vent, only for the cold to blow it back at him.)
-Lame.
They learn that they need something big to clog the vent, which prompts Bob to finally leave the LarryCave.
-Finally! Thank you!
Back at the Vent:
LarryBoy: "Cucumbers are made up of 192% water, and I'm freezing up!"
-Um... great fun fact, LarryBoy, but do you mind saving these people, or doing something superhero-ish?
Female Citizen: "We need a superhero to save us!"
LarryBoy: "Hey!"
Female Citizen: "Oops. Sorry, LarryBoy."
-No. You're not sorry. He's here, because of what's going on, you ungrateful bitch! In fact... who wrote this episode? I want names.
Just then, Bob arrives to save the day...
-Why isn't LarryBoy doing this?
After clogging the vent with the inflatable raft, the people rejoice, and Motato's machine is forced to return all the gifts.
Motato: "Worst de-birthday-ficator party ever!"
-Stop saying that word! It's not a word!
End of episode:
The episode ends with LarryBoy and Junior giving Motato a birthday cake and a gift...
-So Motato gets a reward for stealing gifts and cakes, and almost freezing the whole town? (pause) Blow me.
And that was the LarryBoy episode "The Birthday Thief" from Veggietales In The House... Now, I've been a LarryBoy fan for so unbelievably long! So what caused Big Idea to ruin the LarryBoy franchise?
Okay, I'll admit: I sort of liked the "For The Honor of LarryBoy" episode better, because I knew that more effort was put into that episode than this one. The plot (especially subplot) was a bore; the characters were stalk-boring empty vessels; and... I didn't even show you half of the dumbest things that came from this episode. And after looking up who wrote this episode, it turns out that he's the same person that wrote "For The Honor of LarryBoy."
So here's how to fix this: find a better writer who could tell a better story.
Plus, just because this episode was bad, doesn't mean that my LarryBoy fandom has gone to shreds. Nope. Because I know that LarryBoy has been in worst movies and series:
-LarryBoy the Cartoon Adventures
-The League of Incredible Vegetables
-"For The Honor of LarryBoy" VTITH episode
So, I'm still going to go back to LarryBoy. However, I don't think we need any more lame stories like this one. Seriously, Big Idea, either find a better writer, or teach your writer to write!
Whatsoever Critic
Sources:
Veggietales In The House
LarryBoy The Cartoon Adventures
Five Nights at Freddy's series
Penguins of Madagascar (TV Show)
Courtesy: Big Idea/DreamWorks; Scott Cawthon; and DreamWorks Animation
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