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IF YOU DISAGREE WITH SOMETHING, THAT'S FINE AT ALL COSTS
Airdate: April 24th, 2014.
Written by: Samantha Berger, Joanna Lewis, Ray DeLaurentis, Will Schifrin, and Kevin Sullivan [WHAT!?!]
Directed by: John McLntyre
Produced: 2012
GOOD QUALITIES:
- The lightning bulb and question mark inventions from Keswick, those are pretty passable.
- It didn't cause the show to go downhill. I don't think there ever was since there were only three seasons.
- The action scene does make up for what this episode had in mind when it gets to where they finally STOP with that dreaded running gag.
BAD QUALITIES:
- The synopsis was pretty bad. It just shares the same bad trope as "The City of Frownsville" (an episode I didn't bother trying to watch) and "A Day Without Tears" where a character cries repeatedly over small things.
- Dudley is out of character in this episode. How much can you make him at his worst can you throw in an episode with an insufferable plot like this?
- Message: If you just cry miserably or throw a temper meltdown crying, you still get what you want.
- Overuse of the jokes where a character cries.
- The squirrel kid character (whatever her name is) is just a spoiled baby who gets what she wants.
- How can it take five writers to go with a plot so bad?
- I think Kitty Katswell would have grown enough of what Dudley is doing the whole episode because this antic of his is just bad advice from a kid who just has to whine and cry to get what she wants.
- This episode just has the worst running gag in the show. Dudley plucking his nose hair out to cry and make up excuses to get what he wants. I can't tell how many times I facepalmed at this episode.
Thoughts:
Usually, I praise T.U.F.F. Puppy myself. This is one of those only episodes I can find that is the worst written one. I didn't bother trying to watch the episode when I first heard of it when reading the sypnopsis in 2017. I heard of that episode from BrendanDoesArt, he showed me the link to the episode on the show's wiki, and I was not pleased with what the hell the writers were even thinking.
I didn't watch it until 2 years later, after 2017 and 2018 have gone by, and I got to say, this is definitely one of those bad episodes from good shows. This one was just a terrible episode in my opinion. How can you go for a fuck up episode to be this ungodly annoying? LET ALONE RUNNING GAGS in general! I enjoyed a few bits, but even then a few good things don't save this episode from how badly irritating it is to sit through. Dudley crying to get what he wants is just cringeworthy to watch. I know I have seen worse episodes from good shows like "Wonky Whistle", "Three Steam Engines Gruff", "Do Me a Solid", "High Steaks", "Making the Grade", "Brawl in the Family", "The Principal and the Pauper", "My Sister, My Sitter", etc. But this is just one of the worst T.U.F.F. Puppy episodes in my opinion. I hope this is the only one that was bad because I can't express that it's just so bad it is just cringeworthy. Oh, and how can it take like five fucking writers to write an episode that's such a big fuck up in the show? If "Arnold Betrays Iggy" was panned for the mean spirited nature towards Arnold, and how much of a harsh grudge holder Iggy was to Arnold? Then why is this episode not talked about as the worst episode?!?
I'd rather watch a better episode over this one because again, I love T.U.F.F. Puppy, but this was just shit. It's just so against Dudley's character, that I know he is naive and all, but not to the point where a grown dog like him would cry over what he wants as an excuse to get what he wants, making the episode just nonsensically and annoyingly bad. If you want to see something really annoying in real life, go to a Walmart (or any other shop) and look at a spoiled little kid cry because he/she cannot have a toy or ice cream, whatever.
I get that there is a side of comedy where it's "dumb comedy", but it's just executed so poorly here, it just made a fuck up. I have seen worse, but I don't know which episode from good shows is worse, "Arnold Betrays Iggy" or ugh... "My Sister, My Sitter" (my long despised episode in The Simpsons).
Overall, it was a facepalm fest to sit through. It's pathetic, it's premise is stupid, it's storytelling was at it's worst in this episode, and it's just ungodly amounts of annoying. It may not be as bad as "Wonky Whistle" or whatever episode is the worst in good shows of all cartoons, this one was just a fail to impress fans.
Rating/Ranking: 1.5/10 [Terrible].
Written by: Samantha Berger, Joanna Lewis, Ray DeLaurentis, Will Schifrin, and Kevin Sullivan [WHAT!?!]
Directed by: John McLntyre
Produced: 2012
GOOD QUALITIES:
- The lightning bulb and question mark inventions from Keswick, those are pretty passable.
- It didn't cause the show to go downhill. I don't think there ever was since there were only three seasons.
- The action scene does make up for what this episode had in mind when it gets to where they finally STOP with that dreaded running gag.
BAD QUALITIES:
- The synopsis was pretty bad. It just shares the same bad trope as "The City of Frownsville" (an episode I didn't bother trying to watch) and "A Day Without Tears" where a character cries repeatedly over small things.
- Dudley is out of character in this episode. How much can you make him at his worst can you throw in an episode with an insufferable plot like this?
- Message: If you just cry miserably or throw a temper meltdown crying, you still get what you want.
- Overuse of the jokes where a character cries.
- The squirrel kid character (whatever her name is) is just a spoiled baby who gets what she wants.
- How can it take five writers to go with a plot so bad?
- I think Kitty Katswell would have grown enough of what Dudley is doing the whole episode because this antic of his is just bad advice from a kid who just has to whine and cry to get what she wants.
- This episode just has the worst running gag in the show. Dudley plucking his nose hair out to cry and make up excuses to get what he wants. I can't tell how many times I facepalmed at this episode.
Thoughts:
Usually, I praise T.U.F.F. Puppy myself. This is one of those only episodes I can find that is the worst written one. I didn't bother trying to watch the episode when I first heard of it when reading the sypnopsis in 2017. I heard of that episode from BrendanDoesArt, he showed me the link to the episode on the show's wiki, and I was not pleased with what the hell the writers were even thinking.
I didn't watch it until 2 years later, after 2017 and 2018 have gone by, and I got to say, this is definitely one of those bad episodes from good shows. This one was just a terrible episode in my opinion. How can you go for a fuck up episode to be this ungodly annoying? LET ALONE RUNNING GAGS in general! I enjoyed a few bits, but even then a few good things don't save this episode from how badly irritating it is to sit through. Dudley crying to get what he wants is just cringeworthy to watch. I know I have seen worse episodes from good shows like "Wonky Whistle", "Three Steam Engines Gruff", "Do Me a Solid", "High Steaks", "Making the Grade", "Brawl in the Family", "The Principal and the Pauper", "My Sister, My Sitter", etc. But this is just one of the worst T.U.F.F. Puppy episodes in my opinion. I hope this is the only one that was bad because I can't express that it's just so bad it is just cringeworthy. Oh, and how can it take like five fucking writers to write an episode that's such a big fuck up in the show? If "Arnold Betrays Iggy" was panned for the mean spirited nature towards Arnold, and how much of a harsh grudge holder Iggy was to Arnold? Then why is this episode not talked about as the worst episode?!?
I'd rather watch a better episode over this one because again, I love T.U.F.F. Puppy, but this was just shit. It's just so against Dudley's character, that I know he is naive and all, but not to the point where a grown dog like him would cry over what he wants as an excuse to get what he wants, making the episode just nonsensically and annoyingly bad. If you want to see something really annoying in real life, go to a Walmart (or any other shop) and look at a spoiled little kid cry because he/she cannot have a toy or ice cream, whatever.
I get that there is a side of comedy where it's "dumb comedy", but it's just executed so poorly here, it just made a fuck up. I have seen worse, but I don't know which episode from good shows is worse, "Arnold Betrays Iggy" or ugh... "My Sister, My Sitter" (my long despised episode in The Simpsons).
Overall, it was a facepalm fest to sit through. It's pathetic, it's premise is stupid, it's storytelling was at it's worst in this episode, and it's just ungodly amounts of annoying. It may not be as bad as "Wonky Whistle" or whatever episode is the worst in good shows of all cartoons, this one was just a fail to impress fans.
Rating/Ranking: 1.5/10 [Terrible].
