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Baloo and Wildcat deliver a stone tablet to the dessert, and end up with much more than they bargained for, when they wind up discovering a lost pyramid guarded by a cursed muumy Starring:
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Delightful TaleSpin theme music begins this episode, as we see the Sea Duck flying over the ocean. Inside, Baloo's complaing to Wildcat that they should have arrived at their destination an hour ago, and asks him where they are. Ok, question - where is Kit?? No wonder Baloo's lost, wit no trusty navigator to navigate for him. Wildcat just can't cut it :) He looks at the map, then turns it upsidedown (or maybe turns it right way up? We'll never know...). He then gives up on the whle map reading concept, looks out the window and tells Baloo that they are 'way high up in the air'. Well, that sorts everything out, dandy! Baloo gets a hold of the map and sorts out the travel direction, telling Wildcat they have to to Aridia and deliver a stone tablet by 3. Wildcat: "Or else you'll never work in this town again?"
Nice to know he has his priorities in order. Cut the the Vulture - hehehe you just know an episode is gonna be funny when you see the Vulture :) Karnage complains that the Sea Duck is late (for it's ambush, aparantly) and starts getting impatient (and grumpy). Karnage: "I cannot wait! I must have that tablet!" Dumptruck asks him if he has a headache (ha!) and Karnage, looking annoyed, says he's not after an asprin tablet - but the ancient stone tablet which will lead him to the treasure. Maddog asks how he plans to read it if it's in 'some funny language', to which Karnage reveals a handy book entitled 'Ancient hyroglifics - made easy'. Hehehehe. The Sea Duck approaches, and Karnage orders him men to their 'ambush stations'.
Alas, there is no one there to greet them. Baloo concludes that they must have got tired of waiting and went home. Hence, they decide to carry the stone to the museum. Funyn little scene here of Baloo dragging the stone with the "help" of Wildcat. Hehehe.
Myra: "I can't believe the tablet of King Utmost was discovered at a thrift shop!"
She then thanks them and says goodbye. Well. Baloo certaintly isn't a happy camper ("What about dinner?!") and Myra apologises and says she'll take them to a meal - providing they can bring the tablet, of course, as she can't wait to translate it. So off they go to the Casbar Cafe - a kinda rundown, ricketly little place. The sit at a table and Wildcat suddenly gets smart and rattles off a lengthy speech about Aridia - including about how the pyramid of King Utmost is a mystery, and no one's ever been able to find it. Baloo is dumbfounded, and asks Wildcat how he knows all this. Wildcat: "Says so on the menu" Classic. Anyway, Myra reads the tablet and realizes that it reveals the location of the pyramid. Whoopee! She orders three house specials from the waiter, who returns to the kitchen only to be ambushed by the air pirates. Gibber, Dumptruck and Maddog don tux's and moustaches and attempt to pose as waiters. But, nope. Baloo ain't fooled - "We're gone". He excuses himself and prepares to make a quick exit, only to have Dumptruck demand the tablet be handed over. Baloo hands the tablet to Wildcat (who seems to carry it with remarkable ease) and they make a dask for it. Dumptruck closes in on WIldcat and Myra, but Baloo jumps between them Baloo: "You'll have to get past me first Dumptruck!" Noooo problemo. Dumptruck grabs Baloo by the shirt and tosses him across the room as if he were a tennis ball. Heh! Baloo then grabs a plate and smashes it on DUmptrucks head. Hmm no effect... How about a lamp? Nope, still no effect... Lets try a chair! Hmm no, still no reaction. But now Dumptruck's mad. He grabs Baloo by the collar, and says it'll take more than a chair to stop him. Fair enough - send in the piano! Thank you very much, Myra. With the pirates out of the way, Baloo bids fairwell to Myra and prepares to leave. Myra: "Oh, beofre you go, do you think you could make sense of these coordinates? Pleeaase?" Sign. No rest for you, Baloo. Next stop, airport. Baloo, Wildcat and Myra are standing in the middle of the airport, Baloo caliming the coordinates point right there. Myra argues, saying a phramid couldn't be here. Baloo agrees - because if it were here, they'd be standing on it! Wait a minute... Zoom out... The air port is square, and they are standing in the pyramid. Know why? Cos it's upsidedown! A digging we will go... Baloo and Wildcat dig into the airport/pyrimid while Myra keeps watch. Eventually, they find a door and enter. Elsewhere in the dessert, a perioscope emerges out of the ground, has a quick squiz around, and re-submerges. Rise Karnage, Gibber and Dumptruck. Karnage: "If the pyrimid will not come to Karnage, then Karnage will come to the pyrimid" Back to the pyrimid - Myra is walking around inside, and we see that the whole kit and caboodle was built upsidedown. Meanwhile, Baloo's hunting for Wildcat Baloo: "Wildcat! Where are you?"
Splat! He falls. Bwahaha. No matter how many times I see it, it still cracks me up. The three of the wonder why anyone would want to build a pyrimid upside down Wildcat: "Maybe they all walked on their hands?"
Off they go, wondering around the piramid, and Myra warns them to be careful of traps. Baloo dismisses her warning, convinced that no one would be crazy enough to put a trap on the ceiling (this actually sounds quite logicaly to me), but *wrong* the walk over a trap door (on the roof?) and are send sliding down a passage into a new chamber. Myra notices an inscription and runs over to translate it. But, alas, it's upsidedown. In the words of Baloo - "Why am I not surprised". Myra tips herself sideways and translates: Myra: "Beware of mummy. Keep reading for further details" Baloo starts laughing at the concept of a mummy and what, at that moment, should choose to sneak up behind them? A really funky looking mummy! Grrrrrr! I think the mummy's cool :) He swings a few punches at Baloo, who dodges just in time, sending the mummy's fists into the wall behind him. The mummy is STRONG. That's a powerful thud against the wall... Baloo runs over to Myra, grabs ahols of her hand and they and Wildcat make a break for it intn the next room. Baloo: "Aw great. We had to picka a room with high ceilings!" In runs the mummy! The trio climb up a column to escape. Well, Wildcat and Myra do anyway. Baloo battles a bit Wildcat: "What did you do to make him mad, Baloo?"
Hehehe. Just as Baloo is about to reach the top, the mummy starts punching brinks, bringing Baloo's column lower and lower to the ground... Finally, the last brick is basked and Baloo jumps onto the mummy's back. Wildcat, looking like a kid at Christmas, claims that it's his turn to ride the mummy next, and Myra pleads with Baloo not to damage him, as he's a historical artifact. Geez, poor Baloo. Myra says that they've got to do something to help, and Wildcat takes a wonder and comes back with an 'accordian'. Myra: "That's not an accordian - it's a ladder!" She lowers it down to Baloo but winds up accidently dropping it (Myra: "Oops..." and Baloo and the mummy are caught in a ladder lock. Hehe you gotta see this - it's too hard to describe. Cool music in the background though! Baloo manages to grabs the ladder, prop it up against the wall and make an escape - sending a statue crashing onto the mummy. Think he's done for? Think again. He pops out from under the rock as if it were feathers. Uh oh. Once again, they make a break for it, only to come face to face with Karnage and the pirates! Who have, by the way, gathered up a nice collection of treasure. Myra yells at Dumptruck to put the vase he is carrying down as it's priceless - so he drops it, smashing it into a thousand pieces. Karnage asks him why the heck he did that and he replies that "she said it wasn't worth anything". Sigh. Cue the mummy. Baloo tries to warn Karnage about the mummy but Karnage (obviously) doesn't believe him. In runs the mummy. Dumptruck and Maddog make a run for it. Baloo, Wildcat and Myra run another way. Karnage: "This cheap mummy costume does not fool me. Now, stand aside, or you will need a new band aid!" Mummy not happy. He whacks Karny's sword out of his hand. Ok now Karnage is convinced. Karnage: "Hehehe - nice suit! And what a fit. I tell you this- you let me take the treasure and I split it with you 50-50?
Mummy still not happy. Karnage orders his pirates to "Get him!" while he himself runs in the opposite direction. Ah, the brave leader. Meanwhile, Baloo, Wildcat and Myra find themselves crawling through a tunnel. Baloo (thinks he)discovers the way out. But, nope. They're back in the chamber with the inscription. Myra stands on her head and attempts to read it, in hope that it will tell them how to get rid of the mummy. Outside, Karnage racks his brain for an easier way to pillage the pyramid. Gibber whispers a plan, and Karnage radios the vulture to bring the cabels (the big ones, fats ones!). Sounds like trouble. Back to Myra - here's the low down: The mummy was once a foreman, who built the pyrimid upsidedown by mistake. The pharoah was so ashamed that he put a curse on the foreman, so that he was destined to forever guard the phyramid, so that no once would come accross the sameful secret. (Poor guy) And - to rid the mummy of the curse, the pyramid must simply by turned right side up! (Baloo: "Oh, is that all").
Baloo: "This way!"
They climb out of the pyramid, and Myra says that she's worries about leaving the pirates in there. Baloo laughs, and replies "Why are they gonna do? Take the whole pyramid?"
Baloo: "Now listen here Karnage - put down that pyrimid, or else!"
More great dialogue: Baloo: "You know, all I asked for was a couple of dancing girls and a free meal! Instead I've been jumped by pirates, chased by a crazed mummy, lost in an upsidedown pyramid and now I'm being shot at!"
Back in the vulture, Karnage orders the pirates to ready the big gun (which makes the loud ka-boom-boom. Hahaha!) and aims it at the Sea Duck at point blank range Wildcat: "Hey Baloo, what's big and round and made of black metal, and hollow in the middle?"
Yikes. Baloo dodges the very big bullet just in time, and flies to the bottom (or top? The pointy bit!) of the pyrimid to hide. But, who should be hanging onto the botton my the mummy! Well, nice to know he didn't fall to his death (?) after all. The mummy lets go of the pyramid and drops onto the Sea Duck. Wildcat them has the brilliant idea of toasting the cabels using a blow torch, and climb out onto the wing to do just that while Baloo circles. Mummy creeps up behind Wildcat, picks him up and throws him onto the pyramid, leaving him to wonder where the plane went. The mummy continues to wreak havock, and climbs into the cockpit. Ah great. In the vulture Karnage announces that the Sea Duck has returned, and for his men to fire at will. Which, they do - they fire on Karnage's second mate, 'Will'. HAHAHAHAHA! Karnage then, calmly, tells them not to fire at Will, and to fire at the Sea Duck! Back in the Sea Duck, Myra's had enough of the mummy and lets him have it. Myra: "Will you knock it off! What is your problem! It's not our fault you built the lousy pyramid upsidedown! We didn't put the curse on you! We're trying to help you! You can stomp around all day growling like an idiot, or you can give us a hand. Now look - that pirate's stealing the pyramid, are you gonna let him get away with that!?"
You go girl. The mummy leaps from the Sea Duck back onto the pyramid, and puts Wildcat back onto the wing. He them pulls at the cabels, releasing one side of the pyramid (and sending Maddog and Dumptruck again back into the tunnel. Oh they are never getting out!). Baloo comments that if the mummy plays his cards right, he might actually lift the curse. The remaining cabels snap (sending the vulture zooming into the air like a rocket) and the pyramid makes a perfect landing right side up, in front of the museum gates. Could it be any more perfect? The museum is open, and quite a popular site it seems, judging by the ques of people. The mummy, the star attraction, takes a well deserved rest. Myra is rapt, saying that they'll even take in enough for a new airport. Baloo: "Andwhat else?" Oh, right - and a nice red carpet, and some dancing girls! Myra tells the crowd of people that, if they listne closely, you can still hear the voice of the pharoahs. Hmm all I can seem to hear are the voice of two air pirates, still roaming lost :)
Quote Of The Episode Kanrnage: "Bring out the great big gun that makes the loud ka-boom-boom!" Karnage: "Either the Sea Duck is late for it's own ambush, or we forgot to change our clocks to Aridian standard time" Karnage: "The sitting duck approaches" Baloo: "Watch that first step - it's a lulu" Karnage: "Do you think I am stupid in the head?" Karnage: "What is happening to our posterior back-end back there?"
Baloo and Wildcat dragging the tablet. Is Wildcat not the greatest help? The air pirates dressed in waiter getup Dumptruck being (eventually) knocked out Baloo and the Mummy having a stand off with the ladder Karnage taking on the mummy and trying to negotiate with him Myra yelling at the mummy Wildcat suggesting toasting marshmellows
Not much to say on this one - all in all, a great episode with a sky high humor value! Karnage has one liners galore, and the mummy's a hoot. There's a few little sub stories that make this episode interesting - like Dumptruck and Maddog getting lost in the pyramid, and 'alomost' making it out 3 or 4 times. It's also nice to see Wildcat get a bit of spotlight. He was great in this episode, acting totally within him character, maing you smile whenever he spoke. I also noticed some good music in this episode! There's this kind of spanish type music (maybe even kind of western) playing when Baloo and the mummy were having that showdown. These little touches always add that little something extra I have to say - me usually not being a fan of any once-off characters - that Myra is definatly one of the best one shot characters in TaleSpin - a real girl with attitude! Til next time - Lee ^-^
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