Dangermouse (2015)

We're currently on hiatus, but there was room for this year's Christmas special in the schedules this week, and it was a parody of "Frozen" called "Melted". Pink Dawn, Penfold, Col. K and Squawk all love the movie (Squawk doesn't even like films but enjoys Melted more for the experience) and DM doesn't see the point of it. We later learn DM has a repressed childhood memory of being criticised for his singing.

Dawn decides to reenact the plot of the movie and assumes the role of Princess Zora, who has the power to melt things, she casts DM as the villain and begins melting the polar ice caps as part of her method acting. Only she can turn the device off, so DM has to appeal to her fanatical devotion to the film in order to save the day. He ultimately takes on the role of Zora's manservant and crush Bumpseydaisy and manages to successfully pull off the big musical number at the end. Dawn is captured and realises the movie was more trouble than it's worth and vows never to watch it again.

The Ship Teasing in this episode is off the chain, especially with DM and Dawn, which surprised me since there's a lot of Jail Bait implications if it were more serious. Dawn 's spiel about her and DM being cracked gave DM empathy with her due to his own issues with singing and his whole world crashing down on him back then, he admits to understanding how she felt. Dawn is the one who suggests DM become Bumpseydaisy, her excuse is that it will be more humiliating for him, but one can't help but wonder, given the info dump on this character Penfold was giving DM earlier in the episode with his "poseable action figures" (aka dolls), there was perhaps something more to it, and what it tells us about DM (again, probably nothing they can afford to delve into without attracting the Lolitta crowd)

There was some adult humour too, when Penfold tells Squawk not to touch his "honker" (in reality, a plush doll called Honker the Magic Walrus), Squawk is pretty cute throughout this episode, embracing more of a sentimental side to herself, her reaction to Penfold playing with his dolls is great, and DM's singing even moves her to tears.

Next to the Halloween special and "A Fistful of Penfolds", this is definitely my favourite of the lot we've gotten so far this season.

Edited by Zarius on Dec 23rd 2018 at 5:17:26 AM

Hiatus came to an end last week. Only four episodes a week due to the Friday slot being taken up by Sam and Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up. We had a clip show last Thursday, nothing much to write home about. There was an interesting twist in Crouching Hamster, Hidden Wagon with Penfold's grandmother being the villain.

The episode Jam Session involved Penfold having to choose between taking DM to an Adventure Park, or Squawk to a pop culture cosplay convention...they both wound up doing favours for him to try and earn his choice. Squawk gave him and his teddy bear massage therapy...here I am thinking "what kind of "pal" does THAT for a favour?"

Edited by Zarius on Feb 25th 2019 at 3:53:24 AM

Any idea when this new batch of episodes will appear on Netflix?

No news on adding the episodes to Netflix at the moment. The only streaming service that the new episodes are a part of is the BBC i-Player

I checked the wikipedia page...apparently at some point season three was retconned as the second half of season two so both that and season one would have fifty episodes each. By the time we get to Tuesday's episode, we'll be up to episode 49 of this season, meaning there's only one episode left to go, which is both the 100th episode and likely the finale, so why not air it on Wednesday? Not unless it's a half hour story and they don't have a slot open to show it.

Heh, I was over on a Youtube clip making a comment and someone suddenly sprang on me and asked if I was "that one guy who 'ships Squawk and Penfold on a site called Rangerboard"...nice to know my weird obsessions are getting that particular site some buzz

Latest episode confirmed that Squawk/Danger Mouse is canon to the show's future

My life is a lie.

Edited by Zarius on Mar 5th 2019 at 1:05:49 AM

We all have to suffer a sunken ship sometime.

I suppose one way of writing this off as that there are canonically two Earths due to the events of the episode "Duplicated Mouse", so this may have taken place on one of those.

Wasn’t there an episode earlier that had them pretending to be married and slow dancing and such? Subtlety is not this show’s strong suit. Or it’s weak suit. Or really a suit that gets anywhere near the table at all.

Yeah, that aired the week prior

And then there was that Halloween special where Penfold pretended to be Squawk and came on to DM...

..Actually, I'm not sure which 'ship that was supposed to serve...

I watched an episode I missed earlier in season two, "Dark Dawn" and found that Dawn's child like form is actually a projection of her tiara, and that without it, she's an older and moodier teenager of an undisclosed age.