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Life with Loopy: Loopy Takes Flight

KaBlam! S02E02 - Won't Stick to Most Dental Work

Quickly

Loopy metamorphoses.

Thoughts and Details

The KaBlam! episode ends with temporary co-host Hector being thrown into a car trunk. Dark.

I tend to eschew "reviewing" because I love cartoons. Even the ones that I don't fall in love with, I watch to see what I can like about it. I would just keep writing top ten lists of my favorite parts of episodes. Although that might actually be a good idea. When a cartoon has a dimension I don't like, like a Merry Melodies I saw recently involving squirrels that bugged me and made Dr. Texas sad, I can see the quality of the animation, the creativity, the historical context and the reason behind the choices even if the end result isn't much fun. That being said, I love this cartoon...let's try a list.

Top Ten Favorite Things About Butterfly Loopy

1. KaBlam! is a great show and this episode has a particularly strong story for Henry and June.
2. Life with Loopy has a unique character style that is so clearly Life with Loopy. The characters are drawn concisely and they're not just drawings. They have dimension even if they are flatheads.
3. Charlie Chicken Crunch Cereal
4. Loopy's Mom's fuzzy slippers
5. When Loopy flies out of the kitchen, it appears to be a switch to basic puppetry. I love puppets.
6. The toy robot on Larry's desk.
7. The etymologist hosting the nature show at the beginning is the same etymologist that tries to capture Loopy at the end.
8. I love how stop motion characters have tiny props. I have loved miniatures since I was little and there was a dollhouse store in town.
9. Loopy is a cloud cuckoolander in a cuckooland.
10. The end of Hector.

Way Too Much Detail

Loopy is frustrated by her appearance. She wants to look "beautiful and glamorous" like her mother. She hears the butterflies achieve in a week what take people a lifetime. She builds a cocoon. At the end of a week, she emerges with wings. She flies around the yard. At dinnertime, she doesn't want to come inside. A mad etymologist pursues her with a net. Larry makes a butterfly suit to get to her down for dinner. Loopy lands to get away from the mad etymologist. She loses her wings to a bug zapper. The etymologist gets his prize in the Amazing Butterfly Boy Larry.