'The Crapman' Episode 'Cash for Toys' Sucks
This episode is painful in not only its unoriginality, but its annoyance factor. The writers for this series have no idea of how low they sink every time they write a piece of trash, but somehow they surprised even me by grabbing a shovel.
The Premise: A toymaker named Cosmo Krank has his toy line pulled due to Bruce Wayne's campaign. In revenge, he tries to kidnap Bruce Wayne with elaborate, toy based schemes.
The Faults: It's Toyman. Really, this episode is all about ripping off Toyman. The villian, Cosmo Krank(watch too much Seinfeld, Crapman writers?) calls himself simply 'Krank' when he turns evil. But despite the new name, he's Toyman. He uses overly large versions of children's toys as weapons, he talks about kids having fun, he quite simply IS Toyman with a different name a spikey blue anime hair.
The episode tried to create a 'buddy comedy' idea by pairing Bruce Wayne with an overly egotistical detective who looks A LOT like Flass from 'Batman: Year One'. But, in the new naming convention, he is called 'Cash Tankerton'. Can there BE a more made up name? There was something in this episode that might have been savable in the planning stages, but given these writers, any sort of unique spark fell silent.
Cash Tankerton becomes an egomaniacal stereotypical foil character when once in real danger begs for his life. For some reason, the Crapman covers for his cowardice, even though for the whole episode the guy just got in his way.
As for Krank? Once again, no sympathy for him. What's more unbelievable is once the Crapman wraps a cord around Krank, within a minute, Krank simply FLEXES and breaks it. You read me right: The Crapman's 'capture the bad guy grappling cord' is weaker than tissue paper.
And as for the way the villian of the day, a really bad Toyman ripoff, was defeated? His remote control was knocked out of his hand. It wasn't much of a remote control either. A simple joystick with two buttons, which for some reason can send complex commands to an army of toys.
This show needs a 6 year old to edit the scripts, because I can tell you, the 6 year old can do a better job than their current editor.
The Premise: A toymaker named Cosmo Krank has his toy line pulled due to Bruce Wayne's campaign. In revenge, he tries to kidnap Bruce Wayne with elaborate, toy based schemes.
The Faults: It's Toyman. Really, this episode is all about ripping off Toyman. The villian, Cosmo Krank(watch too much Seinfeld, Crapman writers?) calls himself simply 'Krank' when he turns evil. But despite the new name, he's Toyman. He uses overly large versions of children's toys as weapons, he talks about kids having fun, he quite simply IS Toyman with a different name a spikey blue anime hair.
The episode tried to create a 'buddy comedy' idea by pairing Bruce Wayne with an overly egotistical detective who looks A LOT like Flass from 'Batman: Year One'. But, in the new naming convention, he is called 'Cash Tankerton'. Can there BE a more made up name? There was something in this episode that might have been savable in the planning stages, but given these writers, any sort of unique spark fell silent.
Cash Tankerton becomes an egomaniacal stereotypical foil character when once in real danger begs for his life. For some reason, the Crapman covers for his cowardice, even though for the whole episode the guy just got in his way.
As for Krank? Once again, no sympathy for him. What's more unbelievable is once the Crapman wraps a cord around Krank, within a minute, Krank simply FLEXES and breaks it. You read me right: The Crapman's 'capture the bad guy grappling cord' is weaker than tissue paper.
And as for the way the villian of the day, a really bad Toyman ripoff, was defeated? His remote control was knocked out of his hand. It wasn't much of a remote control either. A simple joystick with two buttons, which for some reason can send complex commands to an army of toys.
This show needs a 6 year old to edit the scripts, because I can tell you, the 6 year old can do a better job than their current editor.
posted by ComicToonsThatSuck at 7:08 AM
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Ooooo, /burn/.
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Chuckg
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