The opening is totally '90s, man.
Episode One is titled "Inherit the Wheeled". It's an obvious pun on the Jerome Lawrence play:
The episode starts with Pelswick and his two friends talking about the 8th grade camping trip to some mountain. One friend is the stock overweight moron, and the other is the stock nerd. The stock moron says that they won't lose a limb in the woods like "the other guy."
Pelswick talks with the stock girl love interest, (Julie) and she asks whether he will be okay in the woods. Cutaway to Pelswick rolling away from a wolf and fire to be eaten by a bear. Okay.
Then Pelswick bumps into the stock bullies, who call him "sitting bull", because he "is always sitting and full of bull". Whatever. Julie laments that the horrible boys are always the most attractive. 5 minutes and this cartoon is just a string of clichés.
By the way, there is a cutaway gag every thirty seconds or so.
Now the show gets...odd.
Julie tells Pelswick that they will roast marshmallows together this weekend. Pelswick floats on a cloud to the vending machine and gets a soda, but his guardian angel pops out instead. This is the first episode, and it wasn't based on an existing property, so this is confusing.
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| Who is this? Whom, objective case. |
His guardian angel is really annoying and makes rude jokes.
The principal gives him a note to take home to his parents. I'm pretty sure it will be about not letting Pelswick to go on the trip.
There are a few funny jokes. Pelswick goes home his father asks him how school was. Pelswich says he is "zeroing in on that pole-vaulting scholarship" and asks his father what he has been doing all day. His father replies that he is teaching Peslwick's younger siblings the folly of gender-based stereotypes by cleaning and cooking while nurturing Bobby and reading Kate a story about equality. I can't add anything to make this funnier.
Pelswick gives the note to his father, which, of course, suggests that his son not go on the camping trip due to his special needs and gives a list of "alternative activities", like reading books about owls and whittling. His father says he will advocate for his son and claims "Nobody is wrong- they're just differently right." When did this show get amazing?
Pelswick's guardian angel appears in his room. He's the most annoying character on the show. Then Pelswick's grandmother tells him that if trees didn't exist, there would be no discrimination.
Pelswick's friends tell him that the reason he can't go on the trip is that the school doesn't want him to get hurt. Pelswick says that he'd be the safest one there, because he's the only one who can't get accidentally paralyzed. Why did this show get cancelled?
Speaking of cancelled, Pelswick's dad complained and a civil liberties group got the entire trip cancelled. Pelswick's sister makes a protest against Pelswick. This involves making a giant balloon of Pelswick to pop. Also, the bullies from before want to climb on top of a mountain and put up a flag of them hitting Pelswick. Okay. The grandmother pays off some guys to cut down the trees on the mountain. Where did this plot point come from?.
Pelswick gets on stage and declares that he didn't want to go camping anyway.
Turns out Julie invited the lawyers because she doesn't want Pelswick to be miserable. The principal says that he can't let Pelswick go camping because school insurance doesn't apply to outside the school grounds. Pelswick asks if they can move the trip to the principal's backyard, The episode ends with his grandmother chasing the bullies off the mountain.
I never thought I'd be disappointed that a TV show was good. I guess, as a general rule, good content produces bad blog posts. This is the best thing I've watched for this blog so far, and it is aimed at children. Overall, Pelswick is a funny, well-written, and respectable show. It is similar to Peanuts in cruel but funny humor. The writer and animator was a paraplegic. I was going to go through each episode like Undateables, but there is no point because I don't think I can add to the humor of the show.
Also, the second episode is called "I Won't Run, Don't Ask Me."
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