Episode #23: An Elephant Never Suspects
Rating: ***
AD: 10/11/89
D: ? (John Kimball, Bob Zamboni, maybe?)
SEd: ? (Bryce Malek?)
W: Julia J. Roberts
RSC: (none)
Voices: Corey Burton -- Jeebee
Peter Cullen -- Monterey Jack, skunk, reporter voice
Jim Cummings -- Bear, hippo
Tress MacNeille -- Reporter voice
Sindy McKay -- Elliott, female panda
Alan Oppenheimer -- Zoo announcer, Captain Kernel
Rob Paulsen -- Heebee, male panda
Notes:
Only time RR accused of not being heroes but rather crooks (comp. crabs
of "Shell Shocked" who are at best bemused and complain re RR's lack of
efficiency). Ironically, a bunch of animals suspect them.
"Animal society" of a different kind than the "subculture" explored
in other eps: these animals don't act and dress like mini-humans but are "normal"
animals in a zoo who just happen to be able to talk.
Captain Colonel and Elliott || Colonel Hathi and son of The Jungle
Book. Capt. Colonel the same sort of imperious British-Raj type
elephant.
Clever twist on the cliche of Chinese pandas coming to American zoos
as a goodwill gesture. These pandas are mechanical geniuses (ref.
to Far Eastern economic prowess) and would like to go home!