Originally wrote June 14, second time getting this approved
Oh boy... I can't remember the last time I've had less to say about an episode than Be Careful What You Fish For. I'm really happy to see the return of Chandler though. I might get hate for this, but I think Chandler is a really entertaining character. To me, he is the Chloe Bourgeois of this show. A very unlikeable personality but really fun to watch as the main characters the two make fun of (Lincoln and Marinette) are both unlikeable and not enjoyable to watch.
Steeling Thunder is another episode that rips off multiple other better episodes. However, this time, they rip off the episodes The Loudest Yard and Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow, and more which I will mention later.
For this episode, as a high schooler, it's very strange to see middle schoolers be assigned to make movies for a film festival. I don't know if it's just my area but this doesn't seem right to me. Whatever, that's honestly the least of my issues here. Because Lincoln is a terrible stunt guy (which reminded me of how he reacted to woodshop in What Wood Lincoln Do?), he hires Lynn to do the stunts for him. Which is where we see the ripoff of The Loudest Yard... at least this time Lynn was wearing a wig?
At the film festival, Lincoln of course wins and lies about being the stunt guy because he's getting attention. What's really sad is this is a ripoff of a season 7 episode, Hunn-Cutt Gems, where Liam went through this same "lying for fame" plot. It doesn't make sense for Lincoln's character however as he should have already learned this lesson in episodes such as The Loudest Yard and What Wood Lincoln Do. I get the writer of this episode, Whitney Wetta, had no part in either of those episodes... but that's not a valid excuse.
So Lincoln gets attention hogged and even the teachers excuse him from tests and assignments, just like how Lynn was treated in Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow for her kick at the soccer game. The weird thing is that Bolhofner played a part in both of this favoritism. This is where Chandler starts to come in as he gets jealous from all the attention Lincoln's getting and tries to get to the bottom of it.
Honestly, I'd be into an episode like this. I don't know if it's just because I don't like Lincoln as a character, but I'd be so into this plot if it was just established earlier and more entertaining. So Chandler has the movie on the school computer and he finds a little bit of Lynn's hair exposed. Which... first of all... that's not how wigs work, especially since she was wearing a helmet. Two, Chandler didn't even acknowledge it was Lynn. He just said "Lincoln's a liar" and that's it.
But as you can probably expect, it just ends up embarrassing Chandler. So then he wants Lincoln to do the stunts in front of everyone else. Okay, fair enough I guess. So blah blah blah happens and Lincoln falls out of an airplane without any broken bones. The episode says this is "punishment enough" which is at least better than what they did with Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow but it's not enough to redeem this episode.
It kinda just ends here as the kids are still enthralled by Lincoln's "incredible stunts". Do children even act like this seeing stunts, or bother to care if it's that same person or not? Man, imagine how they'd react to dirt bike stunts... 4/10. This episode really could've been decent if there was just a little something more to it. Also the fact that multiple episodes were ripped off here doesn't help its case.
Now we move on to what I mention as being the most nothing episode in a long time, Be Careful What You Fish For. I don't even know what to say about this episode. It's a ripoff of Big Caesar from Hey Arnold, moving on.
Lance and Shiloh from Twas the Fight Before Christmas (an episode I gave a 1/10) return in this episode, where they were just as annoying as they were in their first appearance. Lance's only personality in this episode is being the "big brother" type and Shiloh is only there to be the "weird" one. Think characters like Curly from Hey Arnold or Hazel from that weird FOP reboot (I'm planning on potentially reviewing that). Leonard was also really annoying in this episode. Not as annoying as his appearance in episodes like Bummer Camp, but I really just do not like seeing his character. It's less of a hatred and more of a "why should I care" situation.
This whole episode is just riddled with "why should I care" type questions. The whole time watching this, I was pretty much just staring at my screen in confusion at what I was watching. This episode is also a ripoff of Dopey from SpongeBob (I can't say the other word for language reasons, sorry), which was actually a really good and investing episode. The entirety of Fish will just make you annoyed and/or confused, there is no other reaction you could get out of an episode this boring and lackluster.
It's really one of those you need to see for yourself in order to get what I mean. 2/10.
Oh boy... I can't remember the last time I've had less to say about an episode than Be Careful What You Fish For. I'm really happy to see the return of Chandler though. I might get hate for this, but I think Chandler is a really entertaining character. To me, he is the Chloe Bourgeois of this show. A very unlikeable personality but really fun to watch as the main characters the two make fun of (Lincoln and Marinette) are both unlikeable and not enjoyable to watch.
Steeling Thunder is another episode that rips off multiple other better episodes. However, this time, they rip off the episodes The Loudest Yard and Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow, and more which I will mention later.
For this episode, as a high schooler, it's very strange to see middle schoolers be assigned to make movies for a film festival. I don't know if it's just my area but this doesn't seem right to me. Whatever, that's honestly the least of my issues here. Because Lincoln is a terrible stunt guy (which reminded me of how he reacted to woodshop in What Wood Lincoln Do?), he hires Lynn to do the stunts for him. Which is where we see the ripoff of The Loudest Yard... at least this time Lynn was wearing a wig?
At the film festival, Lincoln of course wins and lies about being the stunt guy because he's getting attention. What's really sad is this is a ripoff of a season 7 episode, Hunn-Cutt Gems, where Liam went through this same "lying for fame" plot. It doesn't make sense for Lincoln's character however as he should have already learned this lesson in episodes such as The Loudest Yard and What Wood Lincoln Do. I get the writer of this episode, Whitney Wetta, had no part in either of those episodes... but that's not a valid excuse.
So Lincoln gets attention hogged and even the teachers excuse him from tests and assignments, just like how Lynn was treated in Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow for her kick at the soccer game. The weird thing is that Bolhofner played a part in both of this favoritism. This is where Chandler starts to come in as he gets jealous from all the attention Lincoln's getting and tries to get to the bottom of it.
Honestly, I'd be into an episode like this. I don't know if it's just because I don't like Lincoln as a character, but I'd be so into this plot if it was just established earlier and more entertaining. So Chandler has the movie on the school computer and he finds a little bit of Lynn's hair exposed. Which... first of all... that's not how wigs work, especially since she was wearing a helmet. Two, Chandler didn't even acknowledge it was Lynn. He just said "Lincoln's a liar" and that's it.
But as you can probably expect, it just ends up embarrassing Chandler. So then he wants Lincoln to do the stunts in front of everyone else. Okay, fair enough I guess. So blah blah blah happens and Lincoln falls out of an airplane without any broken bones. The episode says this is "punishment enough" which is at least better than what they did with Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow but it's not enough to redeem this episode.
It kinda just ends here as the kids are still enthralled by Lincoln's "incredible stunts". Do children even act like this seeing stunts, or bother to care if it's that same person or not? Man, imagine how they'd react to dirt bike stunts... 4/10. This episode really could've been decent if there was just a little something more to it. Also the fact that multiple episodes were ripped off here doesn't help its case.
Now we move on to what I mention as being the most nothing episode in a long time, Be Careful What You Fish For. I don't even know what to say about this episode. It's a ripoff of Big Caesar from Hey Arnold, moving on.
Lance and Shiloh from Twas the Fight Before Christmas (an episode I gave a 1/10) return in this episode, where they were just as annoying as they were in their first appearance. Lance's only personality in this episode is being the "big brother" type and Shiloh is only there to be the "weird" one. Think characters like Curly from Hey Arnold or Hazel from that weird FOP reboot (I'm planning on potentially reviewing that). Leonard was also really annoying in this episode. Not as annoying as his appearance in episodes like Bummer Camp, but I really just do not like seeing his character. It's less of a hatred and more of a "why should I care" situation.
This whole episode is just riddled with "why should I care" type questions. The whole time watching this, I was pretty much just staring at my screen in confusion at what I was watching. This episode is also a ripoff of Dopey from SpongeBob (I can't say the other word for language reasons, sorry), which was actually a really good and investing episode. The entirety of Fish will just make you annoyed and/or confused, there is no other reaction you could get out of an episode this boring and lackluster.
It's really one of those you need to see for yourself in order to get what I mean. 2/10.
