Episode #20: The Luck Stops Here
Rating: ***½
AD: 10/6/89
D: John Kimball, Bob Zamboni
SEd: Bryce Malek
W: Kevin Hopps, LuAnne Wood
TP: Kevin Hopps
RSC: (none)
Voices: Corey Burton
Peter Cullen -- Monterey Jack, Mr. Gribbish, mover
Jim Cummings -- Clyde Cosgrove
Tress MacNeille -- rich woman with dogs, black cat, Kismet (or "Gizmat", depending on your TV speaker)
Notes:
Basically a Gadget solo w/assists to Zipper & others.
One of the most successful attempts to combine Ranger "adventure" with
character study: in this case, Gadget and Clyde Cosgrove (||!
Alvin
and the Chipmunks inventor Clyde Crashcup) who each learn something.
G is a "self-made" inventor who doesn't believe luck plays a role in
doing things (though it actually does). Learns that luck might play
a role after all.
Cosgrove has carried belief in luck to an obsessive extreme -- even
thinks G is a lucky omen and carries grass chunk home from park to look
for four-leaf clover. But his affection for "little mouse" G (though
partially due to luck belief) helps him. Will touch a chord w/anyone
who thinks they have "lost the touch."
No real "mystery" here at all. Just an attempt to help someone
in danger of losing his job.
Kismet is the ultimate Fat Cat -- bloated, arrogant, spoiled without
even FC's occasionally redeeming gentility. (Celeb parody??)
MacN uses rich witch voice for her -- fitting.
[Rich lady with dogs would get the name Lady Richmore in "Bulge", only
to marry/divorce and become another lady Clutchcoin in "Gorilla". Small
city, eh?
Flower Street is located close to the Disney Studios; right next to
their Imagineering buildings, from what I hear. -- MP]
If you'd like to read a transcript of this episode, it's availible on Julie Bihn's The Super Gigantic Rescue Rangers Episode Guide.