Retiring this blog

This blog barely gets any attention from my watchers, so I'm not going back to using it. Plus, doing reviews is a waste of time anyway. Also, most of my reviews are outdated anyway, as my opinions have changed since then, and from now on, whatever I reviewed here, I will only enjoy it or not enjoy it on their own merits.

So, goodbye, Blogger.

A decision I've been making for quite some time....

First of all, before I make my decision, I want to talk about one thing I've noticed on the links I've been making on my Deviantart journals to these blogs. Every time I make a review on Thomas the Tank Engine, they seem to be the only ones to obtain comments. And whenever I review other things, like TUGS, Magic School Bus, or Kids Next Door, I barely get any comments on those blog links. Here's the question I want to ask. Is Thomas really the only thing you care about on my blog?

This has brought me to the decision I've been making. I have been thinking about retiring this blog. I barely get comments on my reviews, making it seem as though nobody is reading them. Also, I get exhausted when making reviews on various shows that require a load of pictures. And lately, I've been thinking this; doing reviews on this blog is a waste of time.

So yeah, I've been feeling this way lately, and I might want to retire this blog. Don't take it the wrong way, it's just how I feel now.

Codename KND S1E04: Operation: P.I.R.A.T.E. & C.O.W.G.I.R.L.

Yee-harr! I'm going to go to an episode featuring some lolly loving pirates, and an episode featuring a cowgirl.

6. Operation: P.I.R.A.T.E.

Pirates Invade Repository And Treats Extracted.
Written by: Robert Leighton, Mo Willems, and Thomas Warburton.
Aired: 20 December 2002.

A pirate ship is moving through the neighborhood and leveling everything in its path. Meanwhile, in the Sector V Treehouse, Numbuh 5 opens a treasure chest full of candy and gives it all to the rest of Sector V. Suddenly, gum wads start coming through the wall and hitting them. It's the "Sweet Revenge" pirate ship. The pirates on the ship all aboard the treehouse. Numbuh 5 quickly hides the treasure chest full of candy. The pirates and the kids fight. 

Sector V manages to defeat some of the pirates with their SLUGGUHs, but the pirates soon overwhelm them. Having secured the treehouse, two of the pirates, Chewy and Gooey, signal this to the chief pirate, Stickybeard, who promptly comes in.

Stickybeard is a candy-obsessed pirate, given the candy cane peg leg (that is, it's just the straight part of the lollipop) with gum on the end of his peg leg, some candy is stuck in his beard, a candy cane for a hook hand, and his teeth are in really bad shape. He demands all the candy, and Numbuh 5 refuses, saying he can have anything except the candy. But the pirates still take all the candy and take it to their ship. The pirates are about to leave, when Stickybeard notices the hidden treasure chest of candy. He takes it, too, and Numbuh 5 manages to burst out from beneath the pirates that were holding her and the other Sector V members dog pile and grab the treasure chest.

She says there's no way she's letting go of the candy, so he just takes her and the chest and warns the rest of the Sector V members not to follow them. The ship "sails off" and Chewy and Gooey bind Numbuh 5 to the mast with licorice, but she just eats it and gets free. She sneaks around and tries to take the treasure chest with her. The pirates notice her and try to attack her, and she's about to get away, but the weight of the chest pulls her down. Stickybeard takes the chest and throws it into the hold of the vessel with the rest of the candy.

Seeing how much Numbuh 5 likes candy, he offers to make Numbuh 5 his first mate, and that they'll rob kids of their candy, and that she'll become captain of the ship and get all of his candy when his teeth are completely rotted. He tells her that she'll have all the candy for 200 miles. He adds that the 200 miles is in nautical miles, which he believes is more than normal miles. Numbuh 5 thinks about it, but then rejects Stickybeard because she doesn't want to leave the KND.

Stickybeard makes Numbuh 5 walk the plank, but Sector V arrives and saves her in the nick of time. The kids had reconfigured their treehouse into a flying ship and they proceed to attack the pirates. This time the KND manage to take out the pirates. During the course of the fighting, Numbuh 5 tries to find her candy and finds it deep down inside the ship's hold. She's about to leave with it, but Stickybeard interferes once again. Numbuh 5 says she will see Stickybeard at the dentist. Then the two engage in a classic sword fight using candy cane swords, but Stickybeard manages to destroy Numbuh 5's sword, much to both of their displeasure, and he pins her against the wall.

Meanwhile, Numbuh 2 and Chewy and Gooey are fighting over the steering wheel, causing the ship to move about in different directions. The steeple of a building smashes open the hull of the vessel, releasing all of the candy and stopping Stickybeard from finishing off Numbuh 5. A bunch of kids all see it and start eating the candy. Numbuh 2 asks Numbuh 5 if she's okay, and she says she's feeling sweet. The episode ends with Stickybeard, Chewy and Gooey sadly rowing off into the sunset in a really small rowboat named the "Bittersweet".

Here it comes. The Sweet Revenge. 

Well, here's a cool virtual sumo game. 

Who wants candy? 

Here's the Sweet Revenge! A giant neighbourhood destroying pirate ship. 

Hide the treasure! 

Numbuh 3 pirate fight! That's the way! 

Here we go! The pirate known as Stickybeard. 

Well, Numbuh 5 doesn't want her candy to get stolen, does she? 

That's very clever, Numbuh 5. Eat that licorice! 

Blurpleberry! 

Losing your balance, Numbuh 5? That chest is heavy. 

That is one sweet sweet imagination she has. 

Walk the plank, you scurvy girl! 

That's a Gonzoriffic catch you made, Numbuh Two! 

One unexpected moment. Throw gumballs in the pirates' way! 

Go for it, Numbuh 4! Blow that bubblegum! 

There's a good fight here! Numbuh 5 against Stickybeard! 

Abandon ship! Abandon ship! 

All the kids want all that candy Stickybeard has for them! 

Row, row, row your boat, gently down the street. Yo, ho, ha, har, Stickybum's in defeat! 

Well, we got another main villain introduced to the series. That's Stickybeard, voice by Mark Hamill, best known for playing Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episodes 4-6.

There was an unpredictable shot. Numbuh 3 threw gumballs in the pirates' path. You'd think they'd trip over them, but they just chewed on them.

Well, this was an unpredictable episode. A lolly-loving pirate. A villain that does fit well in this series, since kids love lollies, and adults want to have all the confectionery all to themselves. I mean, that confectionery did look delicious. And that moment where Numbuh 2 saved Numbuh 5 was epic. And like many KND fans, I support the pairing.

My rating: 9/10.

7. Operation: C.O.W.G.I.R.L.
Crazy Old Woman Goes Increasingly Really Loco.

Written by: Thomas Warburton, Thomas Eaton, and Mo Willems.
Aired: 20 December 2002.

 Sector V is retreating from Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb's Superchair robot, and Numbuh 2 holding some kind of glowing rock in his hand. Suddenly, a rope appears and grabs Sector V, saving their lives. The robot stops and Mr. Fibb and Mr. Wink don't understand what happened. The person who saved them resembles a cowgirl. The mystery person tells Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb that they can have the KND and the glowing rock over her dead body. Mr. Fibb and Mr. Wink fire missiles at her, but she jumps away.

However, Sector V loses the glowing rock they had from before. Sector V all wake up in a treehouse... but it isn't theirs. This one is a fairly broken-down in a strip mall. The cowgirl from before appears, and she introduces herself as Lasso Lass. She claims to fight adults, despite the fact she appears to be at retiring age. She's also the last member of the Cowboy Kids Club, which seems to be some KND-style organization. Lasso Lass shows Sector V around, except all of her "technology" she has is really outdated.

But everyone except Numbuh 1 is absolutely amazed at it for some reason. (When Lasso Lass shows her tin can phones, she says, "Hello, can you read me?" and Numbuh 1 replies: "Hello, would you like to accept a collect call FROM THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY!?")

Meanwhile, Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb are arguing about whether or not they should open the dome (they're referring to the thing that the KND were running with earlier). Back at Lasso Lass' treehouse, while the rest of the KND are continually impressed by everything, Numbuh 1 gets impatient. Numbuh 1 notices a picture of what were some ex-members of the Cowboy Kids Club, and Lasso Lass says they were really good adult-fighters until they grew up before breaking down into tears. Numbuh 1 sympathetically says that is too bad. Then she says that with Sector V they can reform the Cowboy Kids Club. But Numbuh 1 points out they're not cowboys and that you can't really fight adults if you're an adult. Lasso Lass gets mad and says she's not an adult. The two argue about whether she's an adult or not and Lasso Lass claims she can do anything the KND can, so Numbuh 1 challenges her to go get the dome. Lasso Lass leaves on her horse Clip-Clop to retrieve the rock in the dome. Numbuh 1 wants to leave, but the rest of the KND insist on staying and waiting for Lasso Lass.

A whole day passes, and Numbuh 1 says they should leave. They're about to leave when Lasso Lass calls them on her old radio. She starts saying that they're having a pizza party at Mr. Fibb and Mr. Wink's house, but then says that they shouldn't come and it's a trap. Meanwhile, Mr. Fibb and Mr. Wink have Lasso Lass and Clip-Clop tied up suspended over what seems to be a pool of acid. Numbuh 1 shows up with a pizza box, and says he has to check to see if there's onions on it, and then he has to "call this one in". Using one of those outdated telephones, he calls "Kids Next Door, BATTLE STATIONS!" Sector V appears in Lasso Lass's Cowboy Treehouse, transformed into a giant horse robot. Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb pull out their Superchair robot and they fight with them. Finally, the two robots collide and explode.

Next thing we see, the Sector V are also tied up and suspended over another pool of acid. Mr. Fibb accuses Lasso Lass for never growing up and quitting the organization years ago. He then angrily states she should have gone to the prom with him. Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb finally open the dome -- it turns out it was just a wig, which Mr. Fibb puts on. It turns out that both Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb were once members of the Cowboy Kids Club. Mr. Fibb is mad at Lasso Lass because she only liked people with a full head of hair, and he was bald ever since the age of 14, so she didn't go to the prom with him (She went out with a guy named Texas Tommy according to Mr. Wink). The branch that was holding up the rope Lasso Lass and Clip-Clop was tied up in snaps and she is free. She says she thinks Mr. Fibb looks really cute with the hair (though she calls him "Timmy"), and says he's so cute she could kiss him. She's just about to, and he gets really scared and runs away. Mr. Wink also starts running from Clip-Clop, who seems to be in love with him. Lasso Lass and Clip-Clop gallop after them into the sunset, leaving the kids still suspended over the acid pool. The KND (except for Numbuh 1, of course) are all bidding them farewell using "wild west" terms (i.e., "May our trails cross again!"). Numbuh 1 frustratingly demands that they cut it out, but they don't listen.

We now once again meet the first KND villains, Mr. Fibb and Mr. Wink. Trying to capture the Kids Next Door. 

An outlaw has caught the KND! 

Now they're a robot! Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb are a robot! 

Now that's an inadequate treehouse at the mini mall. 

And this here, is the one who saved the KND. Lasso Lass! 

Numbuh 1 doesn't think it's a glory. It's a duuuuuuuuuuump! 

Well, there's some molten lava, and Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb have the dome. 

Well, Lasso still has her stoopid rope lassoing Numbuh 1. 

The Cowboy Kids Club, what Lasso Lass used to be a part of. 

And there's an old steed. Clip-Clop.

Calling the Kids Next Door! Lasso is on the air. 

She and Clip Clop are at the worst pizza partay ever! 

That's a clever use for the pizza box, Numbuh 1. 

It's Horse vs. Chair!

The chair leg hit the lava! And it broke! 

Or did it? It grew another one, and it's tying the horse treehouse! 

Now the Kids Next Door and Lasso Lass are trapped! 

Well, Mr. Fibb has hair again! Though he is balding. 

Don't worry, Mr. Fibb. Lasso loves ya. 

Well, Mr. Wink doesn't want to love Clip Clop.


Well, here was a strange mission. The Kids Next Door being helped by an uh-dult. This uh-dult is Lasso Lass, who used to be a kid.

One thing this episode reveals are Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb's first names. Mr. Wink's first name is John, and Mr. Fibb's first name is Timothy.

What I've noticed in this episode is Numbuh 3 had Caucasian skin throughout.

Also, I noticed that Lasso sounded a lot like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory.


Well, Numbuh 1 did act like a jerk in a lot of this episode, but for a good reason; They needed to get that dome back. And Lasso Lass acting like a kid shows you're always young at heart. And Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb's first names revealed was something. But the problem with the ending was the Kids Next Door weren't saved at the end. But then again, still a decent watch.

My rating: 7/10.

This was still an interesting episode. We got the introduction of Stickybeard, who will be a recurring villain later on, and Lasso Lass, who loves Mr. Fibb, which didn't resolve the Kids Next Door's rescue. Oh well, still a good episode.

Episode rating: 8/10.

Season 1 scorecard:

No P in the OOL: 9/10.

1. Operation: CAKED: 9/10.

2. Operation: I.-S.C.R.E.A.M: 10/10.

3. Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N: 9/10.

4. Operation: N.O.-P.O.W.U.H.: 8.5/10.

5. Operation: T.E.E.T.H.: 9/10.

6. Operation: P.I.R.A.T.E.: 9/10.
7. Operation: C.O.W.G.I.R.L.: 7/10.

Season 1 so far: 9/10.