Jumping The Shark In A Single Bound
Okey dokey folks, here's the recap of last Thursday's episode of Who Wants To Be A Superhero? for your reading pleasure.
As always, the episode picks up where the previous week's left off. The lair has been robbed, the secret identities of the heroes have been stolen, along with the pencil Stan Lee write his first comic with. Okay, two things. One, why was that pencil there and not at Stan's house up on his mantle? And two, would he even still have that thing in the first place? He wrote his first comic forty years ago. But anyway, the stress of the robbery causes Whip-Snap to have a breakdown. Since we can't go one episode this season without somebody being an emotional wreck.
Stan gets ahol of them the next morning, revealing that among the stolen goods was a check for 50,000 bucks from Esurance that was intended for the Friends of the Urban Forest charity. Again, why was that in their safe? What did that have to do with them at all? So it's up to the heroes to find the check. And to help them out, Stan is sending Erin Esurance their way to run intel. Yes, Erin Esurance, the pink-haired secret agent from the commercials. You hear that sound? That's the sound of a superhero dressed like Fonzie jumping over a shark on a motorcycle. Erin directs the heroes to a city thoroughfare, where a courier will be passing off the stolen items to one of Doctor Dark's henchmen. Their mission: to find three pieces of clothing - a shirt or jacket, pants, and shoes - to form a disguise, then intercept the courier (with the code phrase, "I need ears, can I have yours?") within fifteen minutes.
So the heroes go about tracking down their disguises, but as soon as they acquire them, they're given another mission: a lady walking around asking for her missing child. Just like last season's debut episode, we've got a challenge involving a lost kid. Of course, the heroes are supposed to help the lady, naturally.
Anyway, Partheon ends up finding the courier and retrieves the package, but finds that the pencil wasn't in there. Oh well, at least they have the Esurance check and their secret identities, and two out of three isn't bad. As they leave, Stan sends them to a comic book shop (with various Dark Horse comics subtly highlighted in the background), and presents them with poster-sized versions of their own comic covers. They also get some kind words from Dark Horse's president too.
They get back to the lair and start discussing their searches for their disguises. Defuser brings up the lady with the missing kid, and he and the others all mention that they thought helping her was the most heroic thing... except for Basura, who feels kinda stupid since she blew the lady off. Stan butts in after a while and reveals that since Parthenon found the courier, he gets to call home. He also gets to choose another hero to call home, too. He ends up choosing Hygena, and they make their calls home; Parthenon to his boyfriend, while Hygena calls her husband. After the calls, it's time for the heroes to do their mission reports, in which we learn that the heroes believe that the Defuser is too quick to seize control, and that Defuser believes that both Whip-Snap is missing something and that Hyper-Strike hasn't come out of his shell yet. Man, Defuser's a real dick.
But now it's time to cut somebody. On the chopping block are Basura, for failing to help the woman and for not being very assertive; Defuser, for being a jerk to the others; and Hygena, who spent too much time cleaning off her disguise before putting it on. Unfortunatly, leaving the lair is Basura, thus killing the show's cleavage factor. The weird thing is that after turning in her costume, she looks like Ugly Betty. In a good way, I mean. As the episode ends, we see that Doctor Dark has successfuly obtained Stan's DNA from the stolen pencil. Could that mean Bizarro Stan Lee? I hope so.
So after this whole Erin Esurance thing, I really believe the show has come dangerously close to jumping the shark. Maybe that's just because I friggin' hate Esurance commercials. Seriously, if I had the bad luck of going to Hell, I'd be strapped down and forced to watch Esurance, Zwinky, and HeadOn commercials for eternity. But shark jumping or not, I'll still be tuning in for the rest of the episode. I just have to see how it ends.
As always, the episode picks up where the previous week's left off. The lair has been robbed, the secret identities of the heroes have been stolen, along with the pencil Stan Lee write his first comic with. Okay, two things. One, why was that pencil there and not at Stan's house up on his mantle? And two, would he even still have that thing in the first place? He wrote his first comic forty years ago. But anyway, the stress of the robbery causes Whip-Snap to have a breakdown. Since we can't go one episode this season without somebody being an emotional wreck.
Stan gets ahol of them the next morning, revealing that among the stolen goods was a check for 50,000 bucks from Esurance that was intended for the Friends of the Urban Forest charity. Again, why was that in their safe? What did that have to do with them at all? So it's up to the heroes to find the check. And to help them out, Stan is sending Erin Esurance their way to run intel. Yes, Erin Esurance, the pink-haired secret agent from the commercials. You hear that sound? That's the sound of a superhero dressed like Fonzie jumping over a shark on a motorcycle. Erin directs the heroes to a city thoroughfare, where a courier will be passing off the stolen items to one of Doctor Dark's henchmen. Their mission: to find three pieces of clothing - a shirt or jacket, pants, and shoes - to form a disguise, then intercept the courier (with the code phrase, "I need ears, can I have yours?") within fifteen minutes.
So the heroes go about tracking down their disguises, but as soon as they acquire them, they're given another mission: a lady walking around asking for her missing child. Just like last season's debut episode, we've got a challenge involving a lost kid. Of course, the heroes are supposed to help the lady, naturally.
Anyway, Partheon ends up finding the courier and retrieves the package, but finds that the pencil wasn't in there. Oh well, at least they have the Esurance check and their secret identities, and two out of three isn't bad. As they leave, Stan sends them to a comic book shop (with various Dark Horse comics subtly highlighted in the background), and presents them with poster-sized versions of their own comic covers. They also get some kind words from Dark Horse's president too.
They get back to the lair and start discussing their searches for their disguises. Defuser brings up the lady with the missing kid, and he and the others all mention that they thought helping her was the most heroic thing... except for Basura, who feels kinda stupid since she blew the lady off. Stan butts in after a while and reveals that since Parthenon found the courier, he gets to call home. He also gets to choose another hero to call home, too. He ends up choosing Hygena, and they make their calls home; Parthenon to his boyfriend, while Hygena calls her husband. After the calls, it's time for the heroes to do their mission reports, in which we learn that the heroes believe that the Defuser is too quick to seize control, and that Defuser believes that both Whip-Snap is missing something and that Hyper-Strike hasn't come out of his shell yet. Man, Defuser's a real dick.
But now it's time to cut somebody. On the chopping block are Basura, for failing to help the woman and for not being very assertive; Defuser, for being a jerk to the others; and Hygena, who spent too much time cleaning off her disguise before putting it on. Unfortunatly, leaving the lair is Basura, thus killing the show's cleavage factor. The weird thing is that after turning in her costume, she looks like Ugly Betty. In a good way, I mean. As the episode ends, we see that Doctor Dark has successfuly obtained Stan's DNA from the stolen pencil. Could that mean Bizarro Stan Lee? I hope so.
So after this whole Erin Esurance thing, I really believe the show has come dangerously close to jumping the shark. Maybe that's just because I friggin' hate Esurance commercials. Seriously, if I had the bad luck of going to Hell, I'd be strapped down and forced to watch Esurance, Zwinky, and HeadOn commercials for eternity. But shark jumping or not, I'll still be tuning in for the rest of the episode. I just have to see how it ends.
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