Not Another D&D Podcast - The View Crew - Donkey Kong Country: "A Fine Line Between Love & Ape"

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

Welcome to the View Crew, an all-new podcast that's officially Too Dumb for Books!™  For their inaugural viewing, the Crew celebrates Romance Month by watching the 1997 Donkey Kong Country episode "A Fine Line Between Love & Ape." Note: This episode is dedicated to all the Blusters out there. Never stop searching, never stop singing, never stop LOVING.Sound Mixing and Editing by Trevor LyonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. Welcome to the View Crew, everybody. Yeah, we thought that 8-Bit Book Club at this point, we were just lying to the audience because there were very few books involved at all. So rather than call it that, we're going to try this out. This also gives us an excuse to watch some of the terrible cartoon shows that we've come to love over on the Patreon,

on the Mixed Bag tier. It's 2025, books are over. It's time to move on to television from the 90s. The whole world is getting dumber and so are we. We're leading the charge. We're leading the charge. Yeah, so this is from the Donkey Kong Country TV series, which is very bad CGI.

This episode, we thought it was appropriate because it's- Because Valentine's Day has just passed. Valentine's Day has just passed. But we're watching it pre-Valentine's Day. So passed. Valentine's Day has just passed. But we're watching it three Valentine's Day. So this will be just kind of inappropriate because it'll be like, this is gonna come out like February 24th or something.

Amorous, romantic. We can all say that like holidays at this point in time, they last the whole month, right? Yeah, for sure. I think that you need your Christmas lights up after Christmas. Also, if you forget Valentine's Day and you're like in the dog house,

you could show your significant other this episode and all will be for you. Oh, and be like, babe, remember what day it was on Friday. Babe, you're the candy to my bluster. Okay. Yeah. So this episode was from the Donkey Kong Country TV series. It was called A Thin Line Between Love and Ape. And that's right how you know you're in for a good time. TV series, it was called a thin line between love and ape. And that's right. Now you know, you know you're in for a good time. So, so right off the bat, Emily and I,

I think are gonna have it out here. We had a conversation after we watched the second episode. Yeah, so we watched two because we're gonna do one for the Patreon and one for here. We watched this for the main feed and we watched for Patreon. We watched Mario and Joliet for uh from the Super Mario Brothers Super Show for the Patreon. So we watched both. After we watched the second one, Murph says something to me and I, in the nature of a normal

conversation, how you kind of finish each other's sentences, that's a way to say yes, I agree with you. Love is in the air yes Murph said wow Mario really made Donkey Kong look and then took a pause and I was like good right or something like that is that not word-for-word what it was exactly what happened I'm just shaking my head because I can't believe you liked apparently you liked Donkey Kong more than Mario? I really enjoyed Donkey Kong. I'm too DK. What the fuck? No, you! I also liked, I mean, I thought they were both bad,

but I liked DK more. Are you guys something? No, no, no! Something about that animation is just age. Wait, it's so bad! No, it's like, it's like a cave-aged cheese man. It's just gotten really funky and nice. It's not funky and nice, it's so boring and bad!

There are no characters ever in the background! They're always dancing! All the background characters are dancing! It's just gotten really funky and nice. It's not funky and nice, it's so boring and bad! There are no characters ever in the background! They're always dancing on the background camera! It's so stupid! But I can give you a very specific reason. This can't be real! I can give you a very specific reason. I loved Bluster.

No! Yeah, Bluster was great. He was tragic. No, he wasn't! You guys are fucking lying that you like this! guys are fucking lying that you like no fucking Cold well you are a fucking animator Definitely like No people saw this shit, and we're like you know what we don't have to pay

It was on the frontier man 3d animation would not exist without Donkey Kong. I did, this came out after Toy Story. Yeah, yeah, but Toy Story. And it looks so much worse. On a Canadian TV budget, man, are you kidding me? Yeah, they worked miracles. They worked nothing.

These look like pre-rendered, when like you go through a wall in a video game, you see just Donkey Kong's eyes or something. Hey get off each other guys get off each other. Let go I'm gonna put you in a barrel. Okay, the super We're gonna get into this on the patreon the Super Mario Brothers Super Show is corny as fuck But it is confidently like drawn. Mm-hmm. It is competently animated the voice acting is not just is competently drawn, it is competently animated, the voice acting is not just terrible and purposely annoying.

Do you have an issue with Bluster's voice acting? I have an issue with everything about this show. Bluster was incredible. Finally a love potion and it's mine. Oh mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. Bluster is not. You don't think that though. What do you hate so much about Bluster? It's mine, oh mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. You don't think, you don't think that though. What do you hate so much about Bluster?

I do, Murph, and here's how I'll prove it to you. First off, you can't tell me what I like. What I like is Bluster, and this morning, this morning. I just don't believe, I don't believe that all of you guys like this. I don't fucking believe it. This morning I listened to three other Bluster songs. Okay, well first off, you guys have to say,

you guys have to tell the audience who Bluster is because Bluster Kong is not real. He owns a barrel factory. He owns a barrel factory. That's what he needs to do man. Technically, Jake, I actually did a little research. Technically his mom who's never seen on camera owns the barrel factory.

Which is why then when he's singing about making a love potion for candy, he says, oh girl, I could bring home to mom. We understand the gravitas of that because mom owns the barrel business. So it's like a family company. I just got the chills. But we don't know what bluster share is.

With so many Donkey Kong characters and with all of them being silly, why the fuck do we need to invent a new comic relief character? Why? Because honestly, at one point Diddy Kong spoke and I was like, thank God we haven't had to listen to this guy.

I just was saying how bad the voice acting was. Why do you? Donkey Kong needs like a slick foil. It's kind of like how there's that- A slick? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know how like Donald Duck,

there was that like fancy ass duck that was always trying to steal Daisy from him? Sure. He had like a weird kind of perm in his hair just by having feathers. Certainly it must happen to some primal desire to have someone going after your woman. Because it's a recurring theme

and it comes up in Donkey Kong because the premise of this episode is that Bluster Kong is trying to steal Candy Kong from Donkey Kong. because the premise of this episode is that Bluster Kong is trying to steal Candy Kong from Donkey Kong. Who I guess, okay, so Bluster Kong, first off, his animation is insane. All the animation is atrocious. The throat hole, can we talk about the throat hole?

You guys notice that's deep? Crazy. No. When they open their mouths, you see. Oh. Yeah, they open their mouths. You can see their tongue, kind of like the pink inside of their mouth. And then there's this gaping black hole in all of their throat. Yeah, it's like dry silly putty.

It's no good. And so they can no chew eat bananas. Yes, that has to be, it's for deep throating food. There's no other reason for it. Yeah, their throat muscles are so strong. You can mush them up down there. So yeah, it opens with Bluster. Bluster is giving Candy a ride in his helicopters

or maybe his mom's helicopter. Right, yeah, because Bluster flies a fucking helicopter. Yeah, because he's rich. He owns a barrel factory. He owns part of a barrel company. We don't know what the breakdown of the shares is. He also, Bluster looks so nude. He really does.

He looks so nude. He really does. He has just the cuff. Just French cuffs. He's got French cuffs. He's got a Peaky Blinders haircut, which does not look good on a monkey. I don't hate the cuff. Just French cuffs. He's got French cuffs. He's got a Peaky Blinders haircut, which does not look good on a monkey. I don't hate the haircut. He somehow shaved the hair inside of his eyes.

He has like a Gomez Adams mustache. Yeah, he has a mustache, which is hot. Yeah, I think that, I mean, this is like why the show is so imaginative is because you're not allowed to do that to a monkey in real life, it would be cruel. But via the magic of computers, we can see what it would look like. I just want to look out.

So just for my own sanity, just to make sure because some, because you guys destroy me, right? Like you guys, I feel nuts here. I'm going to look at Metacritic right now. Okay. Because I feel insane. You can do that. That I'm like, clearly one was competently made and clearly one was way worse.

Murph, I'm telling you that oftentimes I exaggerate things. There was something just about Bluster that tickled me. I think it's cause he sounds like Maggie Smith. He's very prim and proper. And he was like, he was almost like Niles Crane adjacent. Yes, very much. And so I just really got a kick out of it. Also the guy who sings his song had a beautiful voice.

Oh yeah, there were two songs in this episode. Songs are so bad. No. What do you mean no? I disagree. Well, I actually, so having watched Bluster's at least four of his songs, actually the best one is Creepin'

and the second best one, it was called like, I'm just, he has an alter ego, like Stefan Erkel, that's like Leo Bluster, where he's a cool guy. Wait, wait, so they just stole that from Family Matters? Or Family Matters. Just to pull it off. We don't know which one came out first, Brian. Yeah, no, we do though.

And there's no way to find out. We know that Family Matters came out first. We don't know, cause this could have been from like the original Donkey Kong, this could have there's no way to, there's no way to find out. We know that family matters can never be found. We don't know, cause this could have been from like the original Donkey Kong, this could have been the scrap, this could have been like, you know, she could have named both as Bible from Donkey Kong, could have mentioned Bloodswater.

Oh, so we don't know. We don't know if the writers from Family Matters got it, the scripts. We don't know if the Family Matters writers were going out to drinks with the Donkey Kong writers, the Donkey Kong writers are being like, yeah, we're trying to break this story. It's parallel.

We're getting into IP and it's really murky waters. I don't think we can really, really think of it. Okay, Donkey Kong Country has a 5.4 out of 10 on IMDB. Okay. Super Mario Brothers Super Show, let's see, 6.3. I mean, I will agree with Murph that like, the animation quality is better on Mario But that's because it was established like they've been doing this for decades at this point

So it was an established routine to make a cartoon show on that budget with that time. Oh, yes and Donkey Kong They were blazing a new trail exactly Five or six years post-toy story Not having any characters in the background just sort of a soulless cave is what the whole show takes place in. Before we keep going, we should give just a proper synopsis of what happened. So basically Buster is dropping off Candy and his copter, not a helicopter because we know from the song

where he's making a love potion that he calls it a copter. So he's dropping her off, he's saying, why don't you be with me? She's saying, you silly man. I love Donkey. Yeah, you know I'm Donkey Kong's girl. He does say you know I'm Donkey Kong's girl, which is really funny.

I mean, which is kind of like a dream we all have. And then says the Crystal Coconut also says that Donkey Kong is going to be the king of Fungalongo Island, which is like, sure. But it's like, there's no king now. I know. They don't rep. It's not cranky. He's not the king of the Long Island, which is like, sure. But it's like, there's no king now. It's not cranky, you're not the king. It's a classic story of a businessman versus someone who comes from old money.

It's new money versus old money. Yeah, this was a Hallmark Christmas movie, really. And then Bluster Kong decides, OK, well, he says, just because the crystal coconut says that Donkey Kong is going to be king doesn't mean Donkey Kong is going to be king, doesn't mean that Candy's gonna be queen. True. So he actually doesn't take issue

with Donkey Kong being the king. Yeah, he's like, he's gonna be the king. So he's like, I'm gonna- I guess King K. Rool is the king, and they just don't listen to him. They're like- He's the king of the czar, it's different. Okay.

And then Bluster Kong, I'm guessing he's also a Kong? Yeah, his name's Bluster Kong. I'm just saying- He's made up for this fucking show. Candy and Donkey are dating, but they have the same a Kong? Yeah, his name's Bluster Kong. He's made up for this fucking show. Candy and Donkey are dating, but they have the same last name. Yeah, right. Well, I think the Kong is more like,

that's their clan, I guess. It's like for the whole geography, they're all clans. Yeah, so then Bluster Kong is like, I'm gonna get the Crystal Coconut to find out how to make Candy fall in love with me. Well, yeah, meanwhile, Candy and DK and the little baby monkey go- Diddy Kong?

I think that's all he deserves. The little baby monkey. So I didn't know Bluster was made up. I thought he was just as established as the young Kong. He's in 39 episodes of Donkey Kong Country. Yeah, they just put him in the- Yes. They were excited about Bluster.

He has a whole alter ego. What I'm trying to say is they have a picnic. They go on a picnic. They go on a picnic. Diddy Kong of Diddy Kong Racing and Donkey Kong. The little baby monkey. Games that you definitely played. The little baby monkey.

Strange little infant eight. He's not a baby. So yeah, he goes on a date with Candy and Donkey Kong. It's a tag along. So they go on a banana picnic. And then Bluster comes up and tells Cranky that they went on a picnic in Orchid Valley. And Cranky Kong freaks out because,

quote, the orchids are poison this time of year. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Right. I mean, yeah, we don't know anything about this. Do any of you fans wanna- I think Yeah. Right. I mean, yeah, we don't know anything about this. I think it's kind of fun to think that, like Congo Bongo Island has this whole ecology that is operating in the background.

Don't you think though, that just from a purely writing perspective, there would have been a better lie or something where they wouldn't have had to- No, I think a good world building. Good world building. No, I think the lie is actually, the lie is perfect because it has that kernel of truth.

Couldn't he have just said- It is actually happening. Oh, okay. Couldn't he have just said that they were attacked while they're having a pick-connect or something? Well, that's not unbelievable because Donkey Kong would obviously defend Candy and Diddy from any attackers.

Right, but he wouldn't defend them from poisoned flowers. Well, we all know that Donkey is lovable, but not the smartest banana in the bunch. Yeah. Okay, all right. So this, so yeah. So Bluster says this to Cranky Kong. I shouldn't have explained explain this to you.

And of course, we don't know that this is a lie because this writing is terrible and just doesn't make any fucking sense. So he goes up and he's like, they're going for a picnic at the Orchid Valley. And you watch this and in your head you're like, yeah, that is what they're doing. And then he responds and Cranky's freaking out

because the Orchids are poison this time of year. Right, yes, world building. And then you're in your head, you're like, wait, orchids are poison? Yeah, world building. How do you ever heard of that? That's an unreliable narrator. You're completely taken out of the plot.

Oh, unreliable narrator. Buster's tricking you as well. I think that's cool. Shit, what came first, this or Memento? Were the writers of Memento? Yeah. Okay. Were the writers of Memento getting a drink with the writers of Donkey Kong? Yeah.

Everybody is hobnobbing in Hollywood. We find out like four lines after we're supposed to that Bluster Kong has lied to Cranky Kong to get him to run off. And that was a shattering review. So Cranky Kong- And he says, I'm terribly allergic to orchids. I sneeze till it hurts.

Oh yeah. Yeah. And he, again, this is what I. I sneeze till it hurts. Oh yeah. And he, again, this is what I love about the show is like the acting is so over the top that when he does that, he like does a little dance. Every time they deliver a line, they do a little dance. But they're all like weird CGI uncanned dances. One might argue that this soulless computer generated show probably just had like code for their little dances

and just reused it over and over and over again. Do you critique the cave bear painted by cavemen? No, you appreciate what it was. No, I don't, that would be better. That was drawn by people. Those dances were all copy pasted. Cause we saw them a billion times. Every time those eyes squished and squashed

and did a weird little dance that looked like a worm on top of a monkey's head, it just tickled me. It delighted me. Go on. OK, so then Bluster goes in, talks to the Crystal Coconut because Cranky runs out. Crystal Coconut gives him the ingredients for a love potion. Which I have to ask, what does the Crystal Coconut

represent in Donkey Kong? I may have asked this. It is a computer. Yeah, it's just ultimate power. The ring of power slash a computer. So what is, cause King K. Rool wants it. What is he gonna do? Just Google something? Well, that great question cause he does get it later and he does nothing with it. He just dances and sings about how he has it.

He doesn't wish anything for it. He's gonna figure out how to use it. He just dances and sings about how he has it. He doesn't wish anything for it. He's going to figure out how to use it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he, spoiler alert, he gets it and your answer, what will he do with it? The answer is nothing because he got it in this episode. So he didn't do anything, right? Well, he got distracted. If you gave a crocodile access to unlimited information, eventually it would like use that to its benefit and we'd be lost as a society. Eventually, perhaps not in this show or in this episode. I mean, he'd probably make AI that was sympathetic to Alligator's needs. Well, we saw him, we saw what he would do with it, right?

And it was sing a bad song. Or if it'd be Alligator Intelligence, it'd be Alligator Intelligence. Well, they're extenuating circumstances. There were other things happening that prevented him from using it. Okay, so then we see Bluster gets the ingredients for love potion.

Then it cuts to Cranky running through the forest. Cranky runs directly in front of the picnic. And no joke. And that's the moment when we find out it was a lie. As he runs by, he literally runs through their picnic, doesn't notice them, keeps running. And they literally go, that sounded like Cranky sounded. We saw them see him.

We saw this happen. Cranky is an old man. He's always passing a little bit of gas at a high pitch. Right. So then Cranky turns around. Banana flavored. Finds, has the same conversation that we just had. I thought you were having a picnic.

We are having a picnic. No, I thought you were having a picnic. We are having a picnic. No, I thought you were having a picnic with the poison flowers. No, everybody knows those are poison. These are like- This time of year world building. This time of year world building. So then they-

Now we're all caught up, yeah. So now us the viewer is caught up to Bluster's insidious plot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is where we really realize, oh, Bluster is being evil, unlike that episode where he's saying, Bluster the benevolent,

and he decided to become good. Wow, so many shades of Bluster. Can we take a pause real quick? I just want to point out, this is another one I've called, was a little praises of animation here. Just the way that they run, the way that it looks just kind of like,

their butts look like two tennis balls trying to escape. Yeah, very nice. Really tickled me. I took small issue with the picnic where there was a big blanket laid out, but everyone was sitting on the grass outside of the blanket.

You know why? Hey, it's not gonna be perfect, Jake. Do you know why? Do you know why? Yeah. Because it would have taken effort to like- Oh, to put them on- Draw in between them and stuff like that.

Yeah. And they needed to spend more time world building. I get that. Exactly. Well, maybe that was, have we considered, have we considered that that was delicate world building? It was saying, in this world, a picnic is gather round the picnic blanket

and show it respect by giving it space. That is beautiful world building. That's cool. I like Emily's answer more than Murph's because it's in line with what I was thinking already. Right. Cause like there's so little we know about Congo Bongo Island.

Really? It's kind of a sanctuary outside of human existence. So like any one of these clues really gives us a lot of information. I really want to learn more about the ecology. I would love if maybe Bluster Kong would do sort of like a, introduce us to the ecology of Kongabongo Island. It's true, well we know that the Orchids are poisonous

this time of year. This time of year. We don't know what time of year it is. They're not allergic to it. Well, actually later Bluster says that he's allergic to it, which further confuses what's happening, right? No, he was lying. That was part of his master plan.

Yeah, yeah, no, I know. But why does he need to lie if they're poisonous? Because they're poisonous and he's allergic. I just feel like Severance could learn a thing or two from this show about how to put together a really compelling mystery box. Well, I agree. I think Severance is doing too much,

but we can talk about that on another show. Yeah. Okay. Mr. Stiller, I've got some Donkey Kong episodes you should really check out. Yeah. Okay. So then they go back and then there's a scene where they chase Bluster out of the house. Didn't need to be. Bluster already got what he needed. And then they just go, well, he didn't take the crystal coconut. I guess everything's fine. And then it cuts to Bluster making the potion. He makes the potion, but it cuts to King K. Rool and his goons outside.

Which is like- Did you just absolutely blow past the song? He breathed past the song. The song happens now while he's making it. Yeah, but you said he makes the potion and then King K. Rool. Well, King K. Rool overhears the song. Right, King K. Rool gets to watch the whole song,

that lucky bastard. Yeah. God damn. Yeah, so Bluster starts singing a song. That's King Carol gets to watch the whole song, that lucky bastard. Yeah. God damn. Yeah, so Bluster starts singing a song. That's what being the king gets you. Emily, would you like, you were singing, before we started, you were singing Bluster's song. Would you like to sing Bluster's song? Please. Please.

I don't know if I remember how it sounds, but he was like, I've mixed up a potion, and soon Candy will realize that all she ever wanted was to be Dear Buster's bride. To finally be together is a dream that will come true. Flying off into the sunset in a copter built for two. Some say I'm dishonest.

Something like that. I'm crying. But it is important in the song, that was beautiful in the song. He's like a total crew nerd. Yeah, yeah. In the song he reveals what the ingredients are to the potion.

Oh yeah, I can say that too. Cause I think actually I haven't. That's world building. I would imagine that people are gonna enjoy that world building. Yeah, it's one banana peel, one banana. Is it a banana? It's one pinch of banana roots

sent straight from my heart. Two drops of berry juice and we will never part. Wow, right. Three flower petals, oh candy, if only you knew, being together forever. Shoo bee do bee do. Now, Jake said- That's cool, that's really cool.

I actually really like that. Do you guys think that they could have come up with other words to rhyme? I can't say, having rendos out loud, I can't stand by. Shoo bee doobie doo. No, love is more than words. This whole show was made in Texas. Love is a feeling.

OK, I'm telling you. Love is a feeling. Shoo bee doobie doo. This script was written 10 minutes. I'm joking, but I'm not joking when I say someone sat in a room for an hour and a half, had two cups of coffee, and pounded the sacks. OK, I just got romance.

And they went home to their kids. I got romance. I'm sure their kids loved them. They definitely had great family life. There is no problem with work-life balance here. Another easy day at the Donkey Kong factory. Although, let's be honest, this was definitely probably the network's fault, where it was like,

you need to make 40 episodes in two weeks. And they're just like, ah! And just did the whole thing. Because I think we've looked at the timeline before. I feel like Donkey Kong Country came out, and then they're like, oh shit, we got to capitalize on this. People are going bananas. They're like, we need to do 80 episodes in two years.

Yeah, and they need to come out yesterday. People just stayed awake the whole time. So I guess, yeah, I'll dunk less hard on the animators themselves and just on the work that was put out by the people that I'm sure demanded it at an unrealistic timeline. While I cannot stand by those lyrics, I will say that the performance was fantastic. The singers are pretty good.

The man was crooning his heart out. He was crooning his heart out for sure. Can you imagine being at like a smoky bar and you're like, you get there, you're just there for a drink. You don't realize that there's gonna be a singer and then Bluster Kong steps on stage and you're like, you get there, you're just there for a drink. You don't realize that there's going to be a singer. And then Bluster Kong steps on stage and you're like, oh, great. Let me get the check, I guess. But then he just starts belting and you change your mind.

You change your life because you've gotten to see Bluster Kong perform. And that's really the tragedy here is like he doesn't even know that this is his calling. Yeah, yeah, he should be singing and he's trying to run his mother's barrel factory. And he with his friend's girlfriend. Bluster, you got to get it together, man. Yeah, bluster sucks. Like, do you want candy because you like her or do you want to take something from Donkey Kong? Great question. I think yeah, because Donkey Kong lives like such a free and easy lifestyle.

Does Donkey Kong have a mom? I know he has like a doesn't have like a grandma who's a ghost or something. He does. Yeah, let me pull up the family tree. OK, so here's what's happening. I think I actually can I can psychoanalyze it now. Buster is seeing Donkey Kong unfettered by this like maternal relationship, which Buster loves his mother, but he also feels beholden to her.

He feels like obsessed with her and wanting to be free from her at the same time. And that's confusing, conflicting. Donkey Kong doesn't have to go through that. Yeah, he's so carefree. And that's what Candy's attracted to. And he's following his passion as well. And Buster is actually ignoring his passion

to try to make his mom proud. To try to make barrels. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. To try to make barrels, yeah. You guys have such insight. So all we know is that Donkey Kong Jr. is Donkey Kong's father. His mother is not mentioned, at least in the timeline I'm looking at, she might be a war casualty.

Oh my God. Right, because we know that there's several wars that have ravaged. Is that canon? Because I've also heard that Donkey Kong is Donkey Kong Jr. You know what? This is just the first result on Reddit.

So it could be wrong. Oh, who knows? It could be wrong. Yeah. It could be wrong, Yi Kong. So Bluster should really consider that he's projecting all this onto Donkey Kong because his mom might be widowed by the war or made.

By the war? Or lost to the war. I guess in the arts. Yeah, the Sharks and Kongs. Yeah. Okay, so Bluster singing the song. Talk about world building. Again, Shards and Kongs. Yeah. Okay, so, Blesser singing the song. Talk about world building. Again, it's just rhyming shooby dooby doo.

It's like the most, everything is the most first thought stuff, especially down to King K. Rool in, King K. Rool's the best character. King K. Rool looks the best with the animation and his voice acting is not annoying. What was going on in the 90s that everyone was like, turtles and alligators are villains. We hate them.

We hate them. I mean, we were just a closed minded society back then. We hadn't opened our hearts to turts. The reptile super show wasn't making a service. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were like the most famous thing in the world. All right, I take it all back. Shoo bee doo bee doo. That's true, they all back. Right. Shoo bee doo bee doo.

But even though they were outcasts. Shoo bee doo bee doo. That's true, they were outcasts. Shoo bee doo bee doo. So King K. Rool overhears this and he's got two dumb guys with him. Yeah. Crusher and General Clump.

Crusher and General Clump. General Clump's a little bit smarter than Crusher. I think we've talked about their titty pecks before, but my god. Clump has the ideal body. Yeah. I think that's like- For sure. Absolutely yoked.

And that's where they register as villains is because like you've never seen a lizard with pecs before. Like a lizard with biceps is just, we know in our heart, in our primate heart that that is wrong to see. And you want to destroy, you want to stomp on their heads when you see that.

So he overhears him singing about the love potion. So then King K. Rool busts in and they shove bluster in a barrel and steal his love potion. And then King K. Rool tries it out and his henchmen fall in love with him. So he's like, great, this works. They go back to their cave. And we get edged cause they don't kiss.

And we get edged because they do not kiss even though it seemed like they might. All of the dialogue for everyone who was under the effect of the love potion was so carefully, like, non-sexual. Yeah. It was all like, I adore you. I adore you, your eminence. Candy's got pretty sexual.

She said, your place or mine. Yeah, she did. But that was like so jarring compared to everything else. Yeah, they were really careful and then every once in a while one would slip in. Yeah. Whenever it was straight, they'd let it go a little further. A little further for sure.

Yeah. Do you think that they use bananas as condoms? Stop. How? Stop. Banana peels? Yeah, banana peels. Stop.

It is about to be Valentine's Day. People are having post-Valentine's Day makeup effects. Do not use a banana peel. Do not use a banana peel. Unless you're a Kong, unless you're a greater ape. Don't do it. Even then. Okay.

Doesn't seem like it would work. So then they run into Candy in the woods. Oh yeah. She just by herself in the woods. Sure. Yeah. And he sprays her with the love potion. Candy, I don't like how they design her. Yeah. Right.

She was the only one that didn't really look like a gorilla. Yeah. They make her really skinny. And then they give her like a pixie cut that doesn't work on her. I'm just going to say. All of the animation is strange.

I sprays Candy with the love potion. She says, your place or mine. Yeah, it was right into it. And he says mine, and they go back to King Carol's cave, which again, just the lack of imagination with the set design in these places. At least the Kong- It's true, it was just a big cave. At least the Kong village, right?

The Kong village has like, it's like a tree top city. There's no one in the background. There's nothing going on. There's no movement. So it is kind of dead and devoid of life, but at least like you can look at it and be like, oh, that'd be cool. I'd like to live in a tree house.

When you see King Karel's evil cave, it is literally a completely huge, just cave that has nothing in it. It's just dark so that somebody could like copy and paste a computer wallpaper and use that as the background for the whole thing. You know what it reminds me of? Everquest.

Yes, it is like Everquest. I think it's intentional from the animators, the designers, the writers to show everything that King K. Rool is missing in his life. His walls are stark as is his heart. He is an empty pit of need. That's why he's searching for things. I would say that the show is operatic in nature,

where they use a minimal set to really highlight the performances of the characters. Yeah, the characters. They didn't finish animating the characters, but yeah. It feels like more of a Greek tragedy to me. Yes, it does. Yeah. Yeah. So King K. Rool says, go get me the crystal coconut

now that you're in love with me. And Candy says, OK. And goes and gets it and then brings it back. And she shoves a Cranky Kong in a chest. She throws Cranky Kong in a treasure chest. Right. And then she reveals that she loves King K. Rool to DK, I think, as she runs away. No, she says it to Cranky Kong.

Oh, she just says it to Cranky Kong. All right, great. So then- I only watched it three times, so I wasn't 100% sure. Yeah. Do you guys think, I actually thought that this was, this may be my only complaint. Oh yeah.

It was a bit of- They didn't use a banana condom? A bit, yeah. I really wish Candy had taken out a banana peel and said, your place, her mine. For your protection. I just, it's like, what message are we telling the kids if they don't use a banana condom? True.

I think that like the idea that a love potion, yes, my imagination will stretch that Candy will now want to be with King K. Rool, but why is she willing to now turn on people for him? Love makes you do crazy things. That must be what they're trying to say. Yeah, she's so blinded by her devotion. I think it's an all encompassing love.

That she'll, I'll do whatever you need at any cost. If you love King K. Rool, you hate his enemies. Yeah, which if we've learned anything, there's a thin line between love and ape. Too true. Exactly. So that makes sense that as's a thin line between love and ape. Toot her. Exactly. So that makes sense that, as her love grows, so does her ape. Yeah. Exactly.

So then Candy Kong takes the Crystal Coconut, brings it back to King K. Rool. King K. Rool gets it. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong come back. They find out that Cranky Kong has been captured in a chest. They free him. They realize that Candy Kong has been brainwashed. So they run off to go find King K. Rool's cave. They find it.

King K. Rool sprays Donkey Kong with the love potion. So Donkey Kong. That's where things get really interesting. Really? That's where things got very interesting. So then King K. Rool gets the crystal coconut you think truly is something to wish for. Well, he gets distracted. He doesn't'd think truly is something to wish for.

Well, he gets distracted. We don't get to see him interface. Because Donkey Kong came in. He now has everything he wants and more, exactly right. What does he want? What does he want, though? Well, he wanted the crystal coconut. He doesn't know.

But now his greatest foe is at his mercy. And that's kind of a distracting thing for him. Why didn't he do anything? And also, we know from the set design that he doesn't know what he wants because he can't even buy furniture. Precisely. Yeah, precisely.

Exactly. Too true. Even when he has what he wants, he's just dancing in hollow victory. It's as hollow as the Crystal Coconut itself. Wow. Is this when he sings and dances or is that not? So he sings and dances now.

He sings and dances and everyone does their Warcraft slash dance animation. Just does the same thing over and over again while King K. Rool sings his song about having the crystal coconut. And then as, so Donkey Kong got ahead, Cranky and Diddy are going, and this is just another plot point

that is just like the orchids thrown in there for no fucking reason, you didn't need it. Cranky Kong goes like the thing about the potion is that it runs out after a while also if you spray somebody with it twice they hate the person. Well because there's a thin line between love and hate. So then it's sort of a very wacky montage ensues in which everyone is double spraying each other to make the like turn into love then hate.

I was cackling laughing here by myself. Where are you? Where are you? No you weren't. I was dying. No. Yeah I woke up my baby for sure. So that she would watch it.

Yeah, exactly. You got to see this, Tali. So they're going back and forth between loving and hating each other and all running around in circles. It sounds like it might be a little funny. Trust me, it is not. I would say this was less effective than any time that Bluster was on screen,

for me personally. It's true, yeah, we were asking, where's Bluster? Yeah. Bluster was missed, I think. I think so. It's kind of the secret sauce of the show. Sure. Yes.

So then after like spraying people a whole bunch and everything, they eventually just steal the crystal coconut back because Donkey Kong gets angry because he gets sprayed twice, so they beat up King K. Rool. They get the crystal coconut back, and then while they're fumbling for the potion, it sprays on Bluster who sees himself in a mirror that is there for some reason.

Yes. Which was a great ending for Bluster. He learns. So he loves himself. Self love. Yes, exactly. Not just self acceptance, but self love. The journey is beginning.

Radical self love. Yeah. When are we gonna get the Bluster Kong game? That's what I'm asking. The Switch 2 is coming out and I feel like I can't think of a better launch title than Bluster Kong game? That's what I'm asking. The Switch 2 is coming out. And I feel like I can't think of a better launch title than Bluster Kong Country. I just feel like there were so many games

and so many Kongs. You live in a little mansion. Why could you? Oh, oh! That's you like trying to not trip over fancy tablecloths. I must fulfill an order of 44,000 barrels by sundown. How would I ever? My god.

Yeah, and then he's in love with himself, and then they cut to the tree house, and Candy and Donkey Kong are about to kiss, and Cranky goes, there's already enough love in the air, come check this out. And then there's a a quasi laborious shot of all of them walking out that like why you needed.

So a lot of shoe leathers. Yeah, for some reason, them walking out. And then you see down in the forest, the exact same joke from before, which is bluster. Well, this time he has more mirrors. He's surrounded by mirrors. Which is actually pretty good world building because it's just like, okay,

so the apes are capable of creating mirrors Which means that they must have like some sort of like smelting materials around. Yeah Like there must be a fountain. He goes to the for exactly. Yeah, they've got like rare minerals on Congo Bongo Island Oh, that's interesting. Yeah Yeah, and that's episode. Hey everybody. It's Emily here to talk to you about mint mobile You might like keeping your money where you can see it. Unfortunately, traditional big wireless carriers also seem to like keeping your money too.

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I know nothing about it other than what I've had to watch. Bluster's not there, so it's kind of a miss. Yeah, so you guys are not, Bluster Kong isn't in the video games. No. He really should be. He really should be. He was a star. Why?

He was awesome. Why? He made me laugh. The haircut's cool. So this type of character. He was Niles Crane. Not Niles Crane. This type of character I really beef with because who is Bluster for?

Me. It's for me. It's the first character I've liked in Donkey Kong Country. I can say that emphatically. It's not, but like, okay, so... It's for people, it's for the cross section of people who like Dr. Evil and Niles Crane. But theory, so this show is,

this whole show is not funny, right? But theoretic, like everyone is lighthearted and making jokes. So why do you need a like comic relief character? The whole show is comic relief. Well, it's kind of interesting to have an antagonist within the Kong community. Like within the Kong family.

I don't disagree with that, but it's just, why do... I think it's like another antagonist to bounce off of. Murph, it looks like you're getting a migraine. Are you okay? No, I have one. I think also why do they put it in? If the fantasy is to be Donkey Kong, cause you get the girl, you have a tiny best friend.

Yeah. You're gonna be king. Your grandma is a ghost. You're gonna be king. Your grandma is a ghost. You're gonna be king of a place that doesn't have a king. That has a lot of natural resources, that we've learned. You have an AI coconut that can tell you secrets. Who the fuck, what is he the king of?

There's no one there. The king of the crystal coconut. It is MC. There's five people in this world. There is a point. Yeah, and a copter. What do they need all the barrels for? Murph. Yeah.

Candy says that she has on her lunch break and that's why she can go on the picnic at the point. What do they need all the barrels for? Murph, Candy says that she has on her lunch break and that's why she can go on the picnic at the beginning. What are they working at? World building would dictate there that all the other apes are at their jobs. Oh, okay, world building. That's actually really immoral. There's so little light in the show.

Google it on a crystal coconut. Oh man. Ask the crystal coconut man. Yeah. What would man. Ask the crystal coconut, man. Yeah. What would you guys ask the crystal coconut? What's the secret? Well, first, what I wanted to ask you guys. Let's hold this show before it came out. It can't do time travel, Murph.

What would we ask? I wanted to ask you guys, so the crystal coconut, it's like something that you fought for in the games, right? No. The crystal coconut is invented in the show. Really? All of this is not Donkey Kong. Wow.

This is all just made up shit for no reason. I assumed that the Crystal Coconut had deep, meaningful lore. This is for, literally for some reason. Until like 2010, everyone decided like, oh, we're making this video game thing, we gotta change everything. Everything's gotta be different.

They would just make up characters like Bluster. Like that's just normal. Well, sometimes they do necessary additions like Bluster. Sometimes they do unnecessary additions like the Crystal Coconut. What did K. Rool want in the video? He steals the banana hoard. The banana hoard, yeah.

All of their bananas. That's just all of the bananas? All of the bananas. He's a meat eater. Why does he like the bananas? I don't know, dude. I mean, because in the games, the bananas are currency as well, right?

Yeah, the bananas are currency. So you need those so that you can buy flights with Funky. So like maybe King K. Rool is using the bananas because he needs them to feed his troops, I don't know. Oh, okay. He needs them to feed his two troops. Well, now he's the king. And so now he is on the human quest of like,

how did I get here? Why am I here? These are the philosophical questions that are plaguing him and that's why he needs the crystal coconut. You know what? I'm gonna give Murph a win here. Murph needs a little W. Do I?

Yeah. Which is that, you know, and this is a huge gaffe on the show's part. And I noticed this and I was like holding my tongue, but I think, you know what? You deserve a win here. Okay. So King K. Rool is described as a crocodile

and that is fucking absurd because crocodiles have narrow mouths and he clearly has the shape of an alligator mouth. I don't want you. I don't want you. Murph, this is a W for you to accept it. I don't want you on my side. Accept it gracefully. I refuse the W.

Look at that. Look at that. Oh man, they really goofed on that one, huh? I'm agreeing with you. I'll give you that. Don't give him anything. That is the one thing. Don't give him.

You're totally right. So, Murph, you have to stand up. But I think overwhelmingly the evidence is in favor of the show being kind of awesome. Although could you argue that wide mouthed crocodiles is just more Congo Bongo Island world building? Oh shit, because it's a diversionary path. It's a Galapagos Island situation.

Sorry, Murph. That's a really good counterpoint to you. One valid. Yeah. And Charles was actually trying to go to Congo Bongo Island, and he got lost. And he got to the Galapagos. Again, I know that I'm not nuts for thinking that the Mario

Brothers show was better than this because they literally just made a Mario movie that broke all kinds of box office. With Donkey Kong in it. Right. With no references to this show, but a ton of references to the original Super Mario Brothers Super Show, which just stood the test of time.

Is that true? I didn't know that. Yes, they make them plumbers from Brooklyn. It's from the show. They do the rap. Yeah, it's true. They do the Mario rap. Do the Mario. I tried to do the Mario we'll get to that we'll get to that I

tried to do it it's truly the most horrendous dance of the world well first off how dare you but yeah the I feel the need to defend the Super Mario Brothers Super Show even though that also was very bad that was really bad not as bad as this was the worst this This was so much worse. I thought this was more fun. Murph, I have no ape in my heart for either of these shows. I love them both. Why?

For different reasons. No, this one, there's not even a nostalgia reason to like switch that. I think that some of the stupid animation does feel nostalgic to me. Yeah, it is like, I mean, this really was like a nascent art form at the time. It came around at the same time as like Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.

There's a lot of like very early CGI TV shows that were like trying to replicate Pixar success, but on a much smaller budget. And it was there were stumbling blocks clearly, but it was fun to kind of like see them try to figure out how to make something exist on that scale, but then have to like duplicate it 40 times over to fill like an entire season of television. Yeah. So I thought the animation, though bad, was funny. And I agree.

Yeah, it was endearingly bad. I have a nostalgia for bad CGI, I think. Yeah. And also I thought it was really sweet how much Donkey Kong loved candy. He was always talking about- What do they have in common? Yeah, see, that's the thing is they don't, but like, I think that it is kind of one don't but like I think that don't it is kind of

One note but like Donkey Kong does deeply care for her. He's always talking about his girl I do agree with that. I do agree that do you I don't think they're in-game though. Yeah, you think bluster is I don't think bluster I think bluster needs like he has exactly what how he ended this episode is what he needs He needs to fall in love with himself. It felt like Bluster already did love himself a lot. Yeah, yeah, I know, for sure he did. I could see how you were saying that, but I also disagree. Because if he loved himself,

why is he so insecure about his position of the barrel factory underneath his mother? And why is he trying to steal someone else's girl? You know what, maybe he was like fixated or obsessed with himself, but he didn't love himself. You'll learn to do that at the end of the episode. Sometimes self-hate can be very myopic. And I think that Bluster is a...

There's a thin line between self-love and self-ape. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So do you think that the Bluster game is going to be like barrel management sim, but then also with the platforming element? I think it's a dating sim. Yeah. For sure. That makes sense.

Yeah, that checks out. All right, why don't we take, so the view crew will take the 8-bit book club rating thing of what is, is A bad or good? I don't remember. A is very bad. A is really bad. Not for me and J, I just gotta have it.

All right, I'm gonna say, okay, so J is good, A is bad. I'm going to say Bluster sucks. I'm going to give it a B. Wow. It's not the worst thing we've ever watched, but it's pretty goddamn close. Wow. I'm going to give it an I for,

I didn't realize how much Bluster was going to tickle me. I'm going to go beyond J to K for creature comfort. Because I loved watching these Kongs on screen. Something really tickled me about the ways that their pupils danced and squished. Like weird black grapes. It is very uncanny valley in a fun way. Yeah, it's a relic.

It's a beautiful relic. For anyone who's like curious, but they're like, I don't want to watch this whole thing. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. You guys are saying it's good. Tell them to watch the whole thing. No, I'm going to tell them to Google bluster song, specifically the bluster song Creepin' is really good. Here I go creeping, shh don't make a sound.

Get the crystal coconut and candy come around. Donkey Kong eat good enough, anyone can see that the only ever burring Kongu Pongu is me. Creepin? Creepin? He's like being a creep. What's he creepin' on? I was going to give it a G for Google the songs, so you can see what we saw.

I think that makes it stand out. Yeah. There's also like a nice trippy part where Bluster's making his love potion and then at first, for no reason, he just is transported to a world of pink clouds. Oh, do you wanna know the reason though? So they didn't have to animate anything.

So they could just copy and paste and then come back around and have him float around. It was a creative workaround. The budget was, it was tighter than Kong's ass. I definitely agree that most of this is on the budget and I'm sure the animators are actually very talented and were just given two days to do it. I bet you every episode was made in a day.

And you're just saying you can really tell. Yeah. Can I say my golden bananas for the episode? Just like a really fun little tidbit I wanna highlight, which is that, so you learn at the very beginning that Donkey Kong has recently defeated K. Rool by bunching him up into a ball and rolling him across all of the rest of his minions,

bowling ball style. And then the next time you see King K. Rool, he's wearing a cast and the cast has been signed by everyone. And I thought I thought that too. I also clocked that. And I was like, you must be like a pretty nice leader. Can I bring up a beef? I'm just gonna raise my hand right here.

So it was signed by like a million people. How come there's only two guys in the cave? They were all at work, Murph. But they work for King K. Rool. They're honest. They're honest. They're like six Kongs and like three bad guys. Why don't they just fucking kill King K. Rool?

They might all be on the move because they were bowled into like a bowling ball. That was the implication. Did you ever think about the fact that maybe Donkey Kong killed most of his men? Yeah. He's wallowing in grief. And their last act was signing his cast before they passed.

Okay. It's actually really tragic. That's what I'm done with. It's actually really fucking sad. That's actually super fucking sad. Your last breath, your strength leaving your body, you were signing your name one final time.

On your king who you died for. That's why I was crying gently at the beginning. Yeah, I know. Yeah, wow. I can't, I literally can't believe I'm on a show with you guys. And that's why when you were saying what does, what purpose does Bluster serve?

He is a little laugh after you bear the weight of that story. I just cuts the dramatic tension. When I see the Mario Brothers show, right? Yeah. I'm like, I know this is corny, but this is like a cartoon that was on TV. When I see this, I'm like, what the fuck is this?

So I'm just so confused that I'm on such a different page from you guys. I think much like the Crystal Coconut, finding this show feels like cracking open something and finding a secret that was meant for you. It should not exist and yet it does and we must rejoice for that. I think for me it was really just the guy

who did the voice for Bluster really tickled me. He worked for it, yeah. So I think I just was on board because of Bluster. I do, I mean, shout out to the crew that was undoubtedly made to make this show in two weeks. That's it. You got it done. You got the paycheck. They definitely got it done. that was undoubtedly made to make this show in two weeks. That's it. That's it. I was- You got it done.

You got the paycheck. They definitely got it done. I'm sure if they told me how little time they had to do this, I'd be like, it's actually pretty good. Yeah. That's why I got a B and not an A. All right. With that-

They were crunching with a K. Yeah. Let's go ahead and wrap this one up. Thank you all so much for listening. We'll be talking about Super Mario Brothers Super Show and I'll be having a classic Murr freak out because apparently it was worse than I thought it was, which I didn't think was that good. I hated it compared to this one.

Wild, wild. I got lots to say too. I just, everybody, if you want to and you don't have to because both shows are not very good, watch an episode of each and just comment if you think that my co-hosts are correct. Cause it just- You could also just watch either Creepin'

or Bluster the Benevolent or Leo Luster. I think his song was like, I'm back baby. I'm just me. Oh, Leo Luster was my wedding song. That was my first. Really? That's really good. All right.

Well, thank you all. We'll be over on our Patreon, having an argument. Patreon.com slash nadpod. Does N-A-D-D-P-O-D don't sing yet? Does anyone have anything they'd like to plug? Oh yeah, Murph and I just saw in theaters this weekend, Hard Eyes.

Oh, it fucking Josh. Josh Rubin's movie. From College Humor and many other things, directed a really funny Valentine's Day slasher. It's so fucking good. I was smiling the whole time. It's so funny. And there's, yeah, just like a great slasher movie,

great character, great design for the bad guy. And Josh has one little cameo at the end. It was great seeing him there. Oh my god. Good Josh. I love Josh too. Josh Rocks, friend of the show, please support that movie and it's a good movie.

Is Donkey Kong level good? Way better. Much goddamn better than that. And he was also fun. I love Donkey Kong and I wanna shout out the movie more. It was fun to see Hard Eyes in theaters too because there's some gross out horror that's fun and campy and it was fun to see Hard Eyes in theaters too, because there's like some gross out horror that's like fun and campy.

And it was like fun to be in a theater, people reacting to it. Yeah, it rocks. Nice. Go see Hard Eyes. Yeah, I'll second that. But also, if you haven't yet, go listen to the three Black Halflings arc

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