Fridays Talkback - The Life & Times of Juniper Lee [3/17/06]

[Freedom Fighter]

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In a world full of monsters and demons...
The Life & Times of Juniper Lee continues with its second season! The 11-year old girl with superhuman abilities and a need to consider taking anger management classes resumes her duties as the Te Xuan Ze, protector of Orchid Bay!
Last Week: #19 "There's No Mitzvah Like Snow Mitzvah" Talkback (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=162102)
This Week: #20 "Bada Bing, Bada Boomfist"
Premieres Friday, March 17 at 9:30 pm
Encores Tonight at 3 am, Tomorrow at 11 am, and Next Sunday (3/26) at 11:30 am
Summary: Magic brings Ray-Ray's comic book hero and his evil nemesis to life.Juniper premieres are back on Fridays again! Yippee! Don't forget... Fridays also debuts new episodes of Foster's, Lazlo, and Gym Partner tonight, too! (Poll coming later tonight!)

[RayChuang]

Question: why the unusual premiere time for the latest episode of Juniper Lee? I've never heard of doing it on Fridays at 2130 hours local time. :confused:

[One Radical Dude]

I give it an A-. I thought it had some really funny parts in there, some of the things Boomfist said made me laugh, and I thought he was a great superhero (even some of his advice was bad, like to not drink milk). It is good to have June back on Fridays.

[Freedom Fighter]

This is one of those 'it's funny only if you understand the jokes' episodes. This episode kinda made a mockery of superhero clichés, and if you don't know them to begin with... this isn't all that much funny.

- I actually found Wrongness to be funnier than Boomfist. The evil echo of his name. His name, too... best villain name in years! The fact he wouldn't be on a rampage if not for that dedicate fanboy that appeared. Getting a job to pay for the comics of Boomfist that he must destroy to become real in our world. Okay, maybe not the last one... irony ha-ha is hard to pull off, and the episode doesn't make it believable that Wrongness would follow a law to break a different law.
- Boomfist, on the other way, played out just as we'd expect from someone Ray-Ray idolizes. He says fists are the answer, he watches TV when he's not fighting crime, and his weakness is milk! Really, milk? Never heard of someone having a weakness of milk, but really... MILK?
- June kinda sits back in this episode and watches everything unfold within (or not) her control. On that note... the fact she's afraid of flying like Boomfist kinda contradicts the fact she herself can leap tall buildings in a single bound and jump off them without getting hurt.

The purpose of the episode was to give us a convoluted superhero that looks like an ordinary hero but has odd, unflattering quirks. A kryptonite-like weakness in milk. His race nearly destroyed by dogs, yet his life spared thanks to some cats. And he's against the preachy stuff... against school, against parents, against solving problems without violence.

Great idea in theory, lost some punch in execution. (Boy, how many times have I said that for this show?)

6.5 out of 10 for "Bada Bing, Bada Boomfist." Not the worst episode of the season (*coughs* "The Great Escape" *coughs*), but certainly not the best.

[judyindisguise]

The thing about "Juniper Lee" is that it LOOKS pretty but that to me is the only thing really attractive about it. It isn't particularly original and it isn't particularly funny. The only JL ep I've ever liked is the one with the chirpy girl with the magic pony. That was funny IMO. Otherwise I've never warmed up to this show for some reason.

[JuniperLee]

This was an amazing episode on so many levels.
I'm going to ignore the fact that a few of you like to dissect this 22 minute comdey driven cartoon like it was an episode of LOST, and just say that funny is funny. and THIS was soooo funny. Wrongness in a dress, when ray ray and boomfist sit on the couch waiting to be heroic, when monroe says, " I'm on your side Superpants...", when wrongness is working at the Starbicks-like coffee shop...

This was fun, clever and even got a little bit poignant at the end when Ray ray saved the day.

this is a truly great show that never fails to make me laugh and keep me watching.

[Batman91]

I think this is my favorite episode so far.I really liked Boomfist and the entire idea of what a terrible role model Boomfist was.Boomfist:don't make friends, join a gang.
Then there was Wrongness in a dress,trying to make a living heating coffe up.

Whoever wrote this episode did a really good job,there was a lot of cool bits in this episode.A

[Kagetsu]

:sad: what am I doing wrong, I can't find this on Friday, I tried to tape it this morning and got Zixx :p By CN sched, I should have another shot at both Snow Mitsvah and Bing Boom tomorrow. :sweat: