Review: Wild Grinders “Midas Touch”;”Pre-Teen Mutated Karate Warrior”

“Midas Touch”

The show starts off, like most episodes do, with the gang focused on some form of food related conquest. They combine a myriad of different foods into a pan and put it in the oven. As you could imagine, this doesn’t turn out well especially when Rob’s sister takes the first bite and runs away screaming. In her haste she drops the magazine she was reading. It’s your stereotypical teeny-bopper magazine and it’s right up Meaty’s alley. The cover story is about a child prodigy who’s turning pro skater.

Shecky is his name and apparently he was once just a local kid who used to skate at the Y. Now he’s too “talented” and “popular” to skate those places. The magazine that he’s featured in also has a bunch of quizzes and tests to see if you’re as cool as he is. Clearly the boys are going to try this out. When they add up all of their scores, it turns out that **SPOILER ALERT** Goggles isn’t cool. We then get a sweet homage to Charlie Brown with Goggles taking on the role. Stubford assists him in the “Lucy pulls the football away” spot. Goggles is leaning over a brick wall when Rob and Meaty (who is dressed like an old school fighter pilot like Snoopy) walk up and say they’ve got just the thing to help Goggles out: Shecky.

Shecky strolls up and talks with Goggles. Their stories are oddly similar. Shecky used to be a nerd who rode a short board but after taking Rob’s advice he gained a ton of confidence and now he rides around in limos and is incredibly popular. Shecky gives Goggles a suit that will shock him every time he does something uncool and hopefully this will do the trick. Shockingly (GET IT???) the plan works! Goggles changes his ways and becomes the new cool kid in Sprawl City. But Goggles goes overboard and acts like he’s too cool for everyone.

Rob and the Goggles-less gang roll up on Rob’s house and hear someone crying. It’s Goggles. He likes being cool but just wants to be himself again. Shecky walks in and says that Goggles passed the final test because the only way to truly be cool is to be yourself.

“Pre-Teen Mutated Karate Warrior”

Rob is in charge of taking care of the class turtle, Gary, for the weekend. Turns out that Gary is a super hero. The next 9 or so minutes are spent making jokes and trying not to get sued by TMNT. Though it sounds like it would be really lame, the jokes actually stick. Its kinda like how parents would laugh at Spongebob for different reasons that their kids would.