User Reviews

I never liked this shambles of an episode, not even as a little kid. It's not particularly fun at all, and everything about it feels a little off and lazy somewhere, from the bizarre setting of the oddball Swedish storybook village which is creepy and not in a good way, and which Max immediately dubs "Lederhausen heaven!", to the dodgy peanutbutter and onion sandwiches, and most of all the irritating as hell excuse for a villain who sounds as if he's voiced by Bobcat Goldthwaite, and the even sillier still monster, a giant pink gross oozing mass that looks a little like taffy, and that has captive human beings inside it that constantly shriek and moan like so many wailing spirits of the damned! I guess the way that it's clearly a little homage to "The Blob" is cute, but I just found that 'monster' to be plain boring. It was just a big 'ol sloppy generic-looking mess that I didn't find to be visually appealing or interesting whatsoever. And the goofy running gag with the audience never getting to find out the bad guy's real name wasn't amusing, it was stupid. I mean who the hell cares who this ugly creep's name is!? According to the toys it was Mort! What was his motivation, so he just invented some kind of super-duper glue one day and went mad with the power? What's the point of sticking three dogs together? It makes no sense! I was very let down by this one when I first ever saw it because the name "Corpus" that's said right at the beginning of the story comes from the zombie cemetery themed "Mighty Max Survives Corpus", which was one of the scariest and most disgusting of the Horror Heads toy-line to look at, but they changed the concept of the monster so much that what shows up in the episode ends up bearing absolutely no resemblance to the source material. I guess they just felt the need to make it less scary for kids but it's really too bad, because they completely wasted one of the scariest ideas for a story, and one thing this show never seemed guilty of was patronising its young target audience that way. I strongly dislike it because it feels like I'm watching a cheap corny cartoon, which is something that unlike some, I don't consider every last thing that's animated to be. Even the end moral is inconsistent with the rest of the story, it's nothing to do with blob monsters or crazy garbage men, but is a rather touching lesson about how you should treat your friends right. Now that I did like! I also liked the part where poor Norman was too big to fit into the cute little house and said, "I want my sword! It was a gift!" Norman was always so consistently funny in a very low-key subtle kind of way. At least the title's apt. It certainly is a missing link, a bad rotten link that single-handedly takes off a considerable amount of shine from a mainly admirable series! Thank god there were no other episodes this bad, otherwise I might be forced to understand why such a classic show has been so unjustly cast to the winds of obscurity! Whew, I suddenly want bubble gum!