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Post by fonebone on Mar 23, 2023 2:11:26 GMT -8
Meet The Batwheels "The Knight Shift"
Cute. (Ish). ***1/2.
Meet The Batwheels "Silly Stowaway"
They aren't fooling me. I actually know bats aren't really cute. They're totally gross.
I'll keep the Duckie car though. ***.
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Post by fonebone on May 3, 2023 0:02:09 GMT -8
Batwheels "Bam's Clawful Mistake"
The toddler morals grate, but the truth is Kitty is pretty much just the cutest. ****.
Batwheels "Harley Did It"
You can't Bugs Bunny Batman. However, when Harley actually has to explain the Bugs Bunny gag to toddlers in the audience who have never seen an old Bugs Bunny cartoon, she lets all of the humor out of it. A famous comic once said "If you have to explain a joke, there IS no joke!" Who was that anyways?
The song was pretty great this week. The original music on this show is above average from most cartoons made for TV.
For the toddlers watching this, the clues pointing to the Penguin make the mystery solvable. As a Batman fan, they make the mystery tedious instead.
Also how does one lose a corner piece when you are missing only one when the jigsaw puzzle is almost finished? Puzzle solvers always build from the corners FIRST.
The cartoon was all right though. ***1/2.
Batwheels "Buff In A China Shop"
That was straight up terrible on every level. The show is telling clumsy kids in the audience that the way to become more coordinated is to believe in yourself. This is what is known as a lie. Adults LOVE telling kids those. A responsible preschool show would NEVER preach that specific moral.
Also the Riddler EXPLAINING his Batpuns really makes me think less of the show.
The sand riddle was awful. To the show's credit, Batman thinks it's too easy. To the show's demerit the Riddler is actually surprised he solved it.
Riddler's motivation to destroy the sand castles makes no sense. If he destroyed them (and he didn't try to hide his identity in the episode when he attempted to), not only would he have been disqualified, the contest would have been postponed at best, canceled at worst. But frankly, what is Batman doing there at all? What Riddler is doing isn't an actual crime.
Sometimes I enjoy this dumb show in spite of myself. This was not one of those times. The flaws were simply too great to overlook. Sometimes I can shut my brain off for this show. But the problem with the episode is it thinks I don't actually have one. That's not okay. 0.
Batwheels "A Tale Of Two Bibis"
Cute and not overly insulting to my intelligence which is all I ask for.
Although to be honest, the fake Bibi learning the location of the Batcave seems like a serious oversight on the writer's end. It's a preschool show, so they couldn't exactly kill her off either.
Still, I like that Fake Bibi mentions that chassis are made of metal and cannot stretch. This is not an observation another preschool show would normally make, which is another reason I liked it.
Cute and inoffensive. My jam. ***.
Batwheels "Batty Race"
"Cheater never win" is a nice lesson to drill into toddlers, but it's simply put, not remotely true. Cheaters win FAR more often than good guys do.
The thing I liked is that Buff doesn't take Snowy's betrayal personally. He knows he knows better, but believes he's just misguided. His "Bye, Snowy!" shows he knows they are still friends. I don't much like Snowy later happily boasting to his friends that he "iced" him, but if the show handled that idea perfectly, it would be a miracle. It's impressive Buff and Snowy's friendship usually works as well as it does.
All right, but outside of the Buff and Snowy stuff, nothing special either. **1/2.
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Post by fonebone on Jul 5, 2023 2:14:59 GMT -8
Batwheels "When You're A Jet"
Green Arrow, huh? I didn't know other DC heroes would be allowed to guest star. This show just became slightly more interesting.
But while the animation is colorful, and the montage song doesn't suck, I feel like the writing and dialogue are subpar. And unfortunately, I think that many preschool shows believe writing NEEDS to be for toddlers to follow along. That's not actually true and Bluey spends every second of every day proving this mindset totally wrong. I wish more preschool shows were like Bluey. **.
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Post by fonebone on Jul 12, 2023 0:32:53 GMT -8
Batwheels "Ride Along"
Kitty is just the cutest.
The Gray Ghost! The legacies of both Batman: The Animated Series and Adam West live on.
Penguin is a spoiler troll? He's an even bigger monster than I thought.
Adorable. ***.
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Post by fonebone on Jul 19, 2023 3:03:15 GMT -8
Batwheels "Wheels Just Want To Have Fun"
Underwhelming. Before you counter with "Well, Matt it's a preschool show, of course it is," both Bluey and Elena Of Avalor say that does NOT need to be a given. It's a choice.
Now I'll give the show this: It's not awful like Spidey And His Amazing Friends and Rescue Bots Academy. But underwhelming isn't a great thing to be either. **.
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Post by fonebone on Jul 24, 2023 17:09:29 GMT -8
Batwheels "Tough Buff Blues"
It's not great, but unlike Spidey And His Amazing Friends and Rescue Bots Academy, it's not horrid either.
So, y'know, partial credit. **1/2.
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Post by fonebone on Jul 31, 2023 12:06:59 GMT -8
Batwheels "Wheel Side Story"
Pretty lame, even for this show. The songs were cute though. **1/2.
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