This is a shout out to my Facebook group who somehow still voted in the poll even though I barely use it any more! Thanks! Them posting made members of my discord angry because they felt their votes were being unheard! I’m sorry but everyone gets a vote! This is a democracy! You know we will end up talking about Bonkers soon enough because we have to talk about every single show that appeared on the Disney Afternoon (along with like every single show that appeared on television in the past at the rate I’m going. I’m really amazed I’ve done 118 of these things. I guess they just amuse me and I’ll do it until it doesn’t amuse me any more)
This show actually predates the Disney Afternoon! It ran from March 4th, 1989 to November 19th, 1990. The Disney Afternoon didn’t start until September of that year, with TaleSpin being the big new show to join Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Duck Tales and Chip N Dale. It was originally gonna be a show involving the Rescuers but that guy who ran Disney and made all those shitty Disney sequels decided it should be Chip N Dale in the end. I’m glad he made that decision even though I do not care enough to look up his name. I am a very lazy man. Oh wait I think it was Michael Eisner? I wonder if he has any relation to comic book artist Will Eisner? I don’t know because again I am very very lazy. Anyway Michael Eisner may have made a lot of decisions people don’t like but he did good work with the Disney Afternoon (and I suppose One Saturday Morning too)
Anyway, I’m really surprised it took me this long to do this one (to be fair I was planning on it during the run up to 100 but Christmas came and I wanted to do Christmas themed stuff even though I do not think I’ll be able to find any more Christmas episodes for this series of blog posts. Oh well.) because Chip N Dale might just be one of the first things I was ever into. I was given a VHS tape of Chip N Dale (which I will find again mark my words) by my uncle when I was born thirty eight years ago. I am that old because I can remember things like VHS tapes and rental stores and I don’t shut up about the past because the future is frightening. Anyway that tape had three Chip N Dale cartoons, one involving some chickens that I always skipped, one called the Lone Chipmunks (which is hilarious) and one of the greatest pieces of animation ever made Chips Ahoy where they steal Donald Duck’s little toy boat and hilarity ensues. I do not care if I live to be 183 years old in a weird cyborg body I will always laugh at this one scene. It will never ever get old. I am not mentioning it because Portnoyd will try to make it feel old because he’s a jerk.
Anyway, let’s do a little bit of history on Chip N Dale, because It’s something I feel I ended up missing from the other posts about Disney cartoons. All of those other characters had anywhere from 20 to 40 years of history before any of these shows came out. Chip N Dale started out in a 1943 cartoon called Private Pluto. They were created by an animator called Bill Justice who has one cool fucking name. For the first two cartoons they were a foil for Pluto and then Mickey and Pluto. Then they realized they would be perfect foils for another Disney character, Mr. Donald Duck. With the majority of their appearances being with him. Then in 1956 Disney stopped doing as many shorts and by the mid 1960s were not doing any at all. So Chip N Dale just appeared here and there until Michael Eisner gave them their own show. The show concept and everything else involved with it was created by Tad Stones (Darwking Duck baby!) and Alan Zaslove. I am talking about Alan Zaslove because he has a great name and because he was in the animation business from 1943 to 2002. 59 fucking years! the man was like 15 or 16 in 1943 and left it a tired grizzled old man of 75 in 2002. He worked with UPA (Mr. Magoo), Popeye, Fractured Fairy Tales and George of the Jungle (Jay Ward. I need to do those shows soon), Scooby Doo and Go-Bots (Hanna Barbera) and then Disney stuff. Those are only some of the things he worked on because he worked for 59 fucking years on this stuff! Sadly he passed away in 2019 at the age of 91.
Also I don’t know who decided to make Chip N Dale look like Indiana Jones and Magnum P.I. but I love it. I will give that person a hug and a kiss. A big wet slobbery kiss. One you will never forget no matter how hard you’d like too! Anyway, the show involved Chip N Dale, along side Gadget, Monterery Jack and Zipper. They would solve crimes that ususally involved other animals and the bad guys were usually either Norton Nimnul or Fat Cat. Not always though. I don’t know where to mention this but I will have to finally mention the NES games because I forgot to with Duck Tales and Darkwing Duck. The NES games are fucking great regardless of what discord hooligans may say. This goes for all of the Capcom Disney games, made on the NES or the SNES. I really should start reviewing every NES game because why not?
Anyway, let’s get to the Final Episode entitled “They Shoot Dogs, Don’t They” after the 1935 novel entitled “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They” that has the plot of people trying to win money in a gruelling Depressing era dance marathon (was also made into a movie in 1969). I’ve already seen a horror movie called the Dead Don’t Die that had dance marathons in it and while I liked that movie I think that’s enough dance marathons for one life time. This episode was directed by John Kimball & Bob Zamboni who seemed to be involved with just about every episode of this show. Only needing help from a few other people. The episode was written by Bruce Reid Schaefer, Ken Koonce & David Weimers. Between the three of them they have written for Hercules, X-Men the Animated Series, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck, Peter Pan and the Pirates, Mummies Alive, Casper, Harry and the Hendersons, Aladdin, Dumb and Dumber, Muppet Babies, Galaxy High School, Alvin and the Chipmunks, 101 Dalmatians The Animated Series, Smurfs and many many more.
The Final Episode involves a dog character named Canina Le Fur (I thought her name was based on an actress because shes a dog actress but I was just thinking of Sasha La Fur from All Dogs Go to Heaven. Anyway she’s voiced by musical theatre legend Carol Channing. I have never seen any of the musical theatre she did because it’s decades old and I am also not fancy enough to be seen in a theatre for musicals. I will be shot on sight. I am not fancy enough for the Grand Ol’ Opry for crying out loud! Anyway she sends a message to the Rescue Rangers to help her because she felt someone is trying to kill her. It’s kinda jarring to hear kill in a cartoon because of the all the WIMPS and WIENERS who can’t handle it these days. Anyway they get there where she’s filming the dog food commercial, the great nation of taxdermia where every animal is able to be hunted, mostly just for one hour. It seems to be for the benefit of one hunter but we will come back to him.
Anyway after she is almost crushed by a giant can of dog food, she introduces the Rescue Rangers to Zsa Zsa Labrador (you know joke on the name of Zsa Zsa Gabor, who I know was more popular but I’ve seen more things her sister Eva Gabor did. What the hell was up with there accent anyway?) whom she thinks is trying to kill her. She tells the Rescue Rangers while in her house about two other attempts on her life. Zsa Zsa Labrador then ties her dog house to a truck and it gets pulled around and ends up off a cliff! You’d think the rest of the episode would be about the entire team getting back to the movie studio but nope, they are already back right after the commercial break, probably showing some cool Ninja Turtles toys that I would pester my parents for. Anyway they realize the studio is empty and rush to find the plane. They get on the plane but while the two bitches fight (lol I am so funny) Monty gets into the action which just causes him and Canina to get knocked off the plane.
They end up finding the boat the Rescue Rangers came in on made by Gadget (a cartoon mouse who has a cult in Russia, No I am not joking, LOOK IT UP!) they end up getting on the Right Side of the Amazing River (or some joke about the River sounding like the Amazon River) and that no ones survived that river! I mean they fall off the Water Fall (after being chased by the goofy looking hunter who clearly has more guns than most Americans…okay some Americans) Monty fixes the boat and they make it to safety after finally stopping the Hunter by making him think he actually killed Canina La Fur and when he brings her on board she bites his ass.
The other Rescue Rangers try to get the hat Canina wears that Zsa Zsa Labrador stole but they end up getting captured and she gets to go to the big award show just to find out that Canina is there and she’s PISSED. She wrecks the shit out of Zsa Zsa Labrador and that’s it. She fogets Montys actual name one last time and Monty complains about that. That is how Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers ended.
FINAL VERDICT: Talk about being all over the place. I do not believe they had a real idea but Carol Channing was down for two episodes with her character and they had to come up with something fast. Kinda all over the place really. I’m not going to say it’s bad, I still had a good time with this episode. Monty and Canina arguing with each other was very fun. It’s just that I don’t even remember this episode and in like 2003 I’d sit down and watch like two hours of old 80s and 90s shows . Alf, Boy Meets World, Sailor Moon and this show. I still remember several episodes that I know would have been more fun than this one. The fact that Chip, Dale, Gadget and Zipper don’t get a lot to do makes for a sad finale. Also I don’t know where to put this but the people who performed the Theme Songs to this show (and every other Disney Afternoon show) are musical gods that I like more than the Beatles and I’m not joking.
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