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Soap Box Derby / Talent Suckers Return / Prisoners of Yoyovia

Season 2, Episode 13, Aired Nov 25, 2005

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Soap Box Derby: Ami, Yumi, and Kaz try to outcheat Axel and Rod Skidmark by winning the annual soapbox derby. Talent Suckers Return: The Talent Suckers owe Darrel Dome $600 and they are broke. He lets them try to work it off, but they can't do anything right. Prisoners of Yoyovia: Ami, Yumi, and Kaz become citizens of Yoyovia to make the king happy. But soon they regret it.moreless

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GUEST STAR
Rob Paulsen

Darrell Dome / Axel Skidmark

Grey DeLisle

Yumi
Janice Kawaye

Ami
Puffy AmiYumi

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Yumi Yoshimura

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Ami Onuki

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Keone Young

Kaz

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This was a donut episode-it had a hole in the middle

4.0

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By jboice0, Nov 26, 2005

The second season of Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi lands with something of the thud thanks to the second episode, where Ami appear for about three seconds and the rest of the cast don't appear at all.
The first episode "Soap Box Derby" was good once you get over the idea that Ami is still upset over losing a soap box derby race to some cheating kids years ago, and that you can run a gas powered car in a soap box derby and no one would notice. In other words, its completely silly but it stands up and says its silly.
The cartoon reminded me of something out of Jay Ward the way it had Kaz talking about how they were characters on a TV show- and there is a great gag involving Ami's use of the old adage "two wrongs don't make a right".
The middle cartoon was "Talent Suckers Return" and it's all about the Talent Suckers from the first season. They play a concert and are so bad they don't get paid- in fact the arena owner (who seems to be a characteriture of somebody- I just don't know who) tells them they owe HIM money. So they go to work backstage at the arena- and they're just as incompentant at that. Talent Suckers remind me a lot of the Dingbats from the old Heathcliff cartoon of the 80's. I didn't like the Dingbats either. I hope the Talent suckers go back to Slovakia.
The final cartoon gives us Ami and Yumi
(thankfully) doing a concert in Yoyovia and being made honorary citizens. Turns out citizens of Yoyovia have it rough: the king gets to take your possessions, and you have to work manual labor for him, and Ami and Yumi are no exception. I'm not a big fan of episodes where they go to oddball lands- but this wasn't badmoreless
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Not what i expected but still good.

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By YamataDragon, Nov 26, 2005

Soap Box Derby was about Ami wanting to win against Axel & Wad Skidmark because they always cheated in the soapbox derby. It was cool how the Tour Bus transformed into a giant robot. That was cool. Talent Suckers Return was about the Talent Suckers. They ruin the arena owners arena & they have to pay him back. But, they destroy the arena & leave the owner with the ruins. Prisoners of Yoyovia was the part i was expecting alot out of. I thought Yoyovia was a desert like place but it was just a kingdom. Ami & Yumi have to except the membership or else. Kaz is made the jester while the girls work for the king of Yoyovia. They find a way to escape Yoyovia.moreless
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TRIVIA (1)
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- At the beginning when Ami says, "Thank you, Yoyovia!", she says it in Yumi's voice.
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- Ami: (refusing to cheat to win the soapbox derby) Two wrongs don't make a right! Kaz: Actually... (Writes down a formula on a blackboard resulting in two wrongs equaling a right) Ami: Huh? I'll be darned. Okay. Let's cheat.
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- Ami: What if we call it the "Yu-Mean Machine"? Yumi: Get the motor running, baby!
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- Ami: (to the Skidmark Brothers) You're cheating again! Rod: (grabs Ami) What are you gonna do about it, you day-glo munchkin? Ami: (nervously) Um, good luck.
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- (After the Talent Suckers get kicked out) Ami: The Talent Suckers, folks! Weren't they... uh... loud?
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- (The Talent Suckers have just been thrown out of the Darrell Dome by the crowd) Vlad: 25 seconds! Our longest show yet! Nikolai: (optimistically) We're on our way...
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- Ami: We got spirit, yes we do. We got spirit, but we're still gonna lose.
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- Ami: (to the citizens of Yoyovia, after they finish performing) Thank you, Yoyovia! We love you in a non-romantic way!
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- Kaz: All systems go! Yumi: Drivers standing by! Ami: Zoom, zoom, zoom in! Our team is more than human! (Realizing everybody else is gone) I sure hope our gig is downhill.
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- Kaz: (Stuck in a traffic) Move it or I shall bruise it!
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- Axel: Give up now. You can't out-cheat the cheating masters. (Count down for race to start; the gang and the cheaters take off while the other racers go slow) Ami: Hi, guys. Nice day for a fanny wacking, isn't it? (Gives them a raspberry; one cheater looks to the other, and they ram the gang off the track) Okay, that was just rude.
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- Main Villain Bios: Axel and Rod Skidmark - Two soapbox derby racers from Australia like to cheat in any race. They are also swore enemies of Ami.
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- Darrell Van Criters, the Co-Owner of Renegade, is in this episode as a cartoon character.
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- Ami calls their soapbox go-cart the "Yu-Mean Machine".
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- In "Prisoners of Yoyovia", the audience members are the auctioners for Ami's painting in Artist Ami.
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- In "Talent Suckers Return", after Vlad and Nikolai get hit with sandbags, the hands that pulling the ropes up are Wall's hands from The Oddyguard and Uninvited.
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- The submarine tour bus from Rock N Roe returns in "Soap Box Derby", only this time it's not an illusion.
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- "Talent Suckers Return" marks the 5th "return episode" of characters from Season 1 in this season. The other 3 are: Harmony (In Harmony's Way) The delivery boy (Camping Caper) Chad (Janice Jealous). Eldwin Blair (Arbor Day)
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- The arena the girls play for Yoyovia at the beginning of "Prisoners of Yoyovia" looks a lot like the arena where the bullfight with El Diablo took place in Olé!
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- "Hoi" is the Yoyovian word for "yes".
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- "Schmengee" is the Yoyovian word for "jester".
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- Featured Songs: Sayonara Sui-Sui Nagaiki Shitene
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- Running Gags: 1) Every time Nikolai frets, Vlad smacks him in the face. 2) The King of Yoyovia referring Puffy AmiYumi as "Ami the Yumi Puffy."
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- In "Talent Suckers Return," the Talent Suckers come back. Only this time, they are not evil.
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- The names of the soap box derby cheaters are "Axle and "Rod Skidmark".
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- The name of the arena in "Talent Suckers Return" is Darrell Dome, which is owned by "Mr. Darrell".
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- In "Talent Suckers Return," the names of the Talent Suckers are revealed. They are: Vlad, Mitch, and Nikolai.
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- Credits: The bus transforming into a giant robot.
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- In "Talent Suckers Return," Ami and Yumi only make a cameo appearance after the vampires get kicked out, and Kaz is absent for the first time since Team Teen.
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- First appearances of Axel and Rod Skidmark.
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- The Yoyovian King's scepter has a heart on it. This is a spoof off the Queen of Hearts' scepter from the hit Disney movie "Alice in Wonderland".
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- Appearance: Darrell Dome The look of the Darrell Dome in "Talent Suckers Return" is based on the famous Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles, California, which is now part of the Arclight Cinemas complex run by Pacific Theatres.
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- Name: Spiffy Pop The popcorn in "Talent Suckers Return" was named "Spiffy Pop," which is a spoof of the Jiffy Pop brand of popcorn, especially when the roof of the Darrell Dome explodes with all the popcorn that the Talent Suckers use to pop.
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- Name: Darrell Dome Named after series supervising director "Darrell Van Citters".
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- In "Soap Box Derby," when the bus transform in a giant robot, the robots looks exactly like Megas from Megas XLR, another Cartoon Network show. It also can be referenced to other robot-types such as Power Rangers and even Voltron.
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- Episode Title: Soap Box Derby There just happens to be an annual All-American Soap Box Derby that culminates with the finals in Akron, Ohio every summer. More Info
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