Episode #14: Risky Beesness
Rating: ***
AD: 4/23/89 TDC
9/22/89 synd.
D: John Kimball, Bob Zamboni
SEd: Bryce Malek
S: David Wise, Tad Stones
TP: Linda Woolvertoon
RSC: (none)
Voices: Corey Burton
Peter Cullen - Monterey Jack, Queenie's drone, rock concert announcer
Jim Cummings - Another of Queenie's drones, truck driver, Mr. Sneed, leader of "Iron Goose"
Sidny McKay - Queenie, Irwina Allen
Notes:
First really major parody ep: New Wave rockers (Blondie), Silly Symphonies (opening musical scene), Irwin Allen's "The Swarm."
First ep to feature Zipper. Emphasized are his smallness and resulting feelings of inferiority and unimportance, also his bravery.
Queenie a hard-edged "heroine": selfish, self centered but ultimately earns our sympathy for being a "pure" victim. You can understand her feelings after being deprived of attention.