"Stuffed Animals" (French: "Zig Mon Doudou") is the fifth episode from season two of Zig & Sharko and the eighty-third episode overall. It was written by Yannick Hervieu and storyboarded by Louis Musso.
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 Great, the first torture episode of an otherwise amazing season.
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Plot
In this episode, While he is about to capture Marina, Zig becomes the soft toy of an inconsolable baby dolphin for the loss of his soft toy. It's hard for Sharko to watch over his favorite mermaid: the dirty kid sticks Zig like a magnet and Marina passes him all...
Bad Qualities
- The main problem with this episode is that while it could have been heartwarming due to a baby wanting Zig, he only want it because he think that he is a toy, and that is used as a torture rather than a good friendship, which is a waste of potential.
- Misleading Title: In English, the episode is titled "Stuffed Animal" yet those kind of animals does not appear nor are a plot focus as well, howewer the French original does not had that misleading title issues.
- The dolphin baby is a very irritating and also unlikable character because of constantly torturing Zig, and his crying is absolutely annoying.
- In fact, the running gag of him crying is show two times, one where Sharko did get a plush to stop his crying, and another time in the ending just because he did drop his plush in a dirty ground, which is stupid considering that you can clean up the plushs for most of them.
- Also, his crying blow up the entire island, which is another failed attempt at being funny, but it obviously fail.
- He is also ungrateful, since when he got offered an chess game he was not happy, we know that it isn't what make childrens the most happy but at least he got something and not nothing like he actually deserved to.
- In fact, the running gag of him crying is show two times, one where Sharko did get a plush to stop his crying, and another time in the ending just because he did drop his plush in a dirty ground, which is stupid considering that you can clean up the plushs for most of them.
- There's a very annoying scene where the baby dolphin did tried to steal a toy from another children at the beach until Sharko thankfully stop this nonsence, but after that he cry in an heavily strong way, which once again sound annoying.
- Marina serve almost no purpose in this episode other than taking care of the baby but even then it is heartwarming but not executed really well since this episode just take the torture plot instead.
- The scenes where Bernie is lost in the desert serve no purpose other than being fillers, at such this episode could be considered a filler (see BQ#7).
- Also, Bernie do almost nothing in this episode other than that desert scene, in fact aside from those scenes, you could remove him from the episode and almost nothing would be different.
- Plot-Holes:
- Why does Marina and Sharko don't try to find the parents of the baby instead, since it would have likely avoided the troubles caused in this episode, even if they founded them at the end.
- How and in this episode does a bus came in a desert ? We know that this is a cartoon with some surreal events but not to this extend and at such, it was just here so that Bernie come back to the island.
- Mediocre Ending: While Marina and Sharko founded the baby parents, the baby accidently drop his plush to a dirty ground, and he once again cry, he cry so strongly that the castle got throw at the moon.
- The episode had no impact to the show, as the baby dolphin would not reappear as a major plot again and no ones ever mention the events of this episode (as with many episodes though), which mean that you can watch every other episodes except this one and will will miss nothing.
Good Qualities
- The main characters are still likable.
- The animation as usual is amazing, so with the voice acting (except for the dolphin baby)
- At least it had some heartwarming moments such as when Marina take care of the baby, or when Sharko is happy for the baby when he finally manage to give him the plush.
- The action scene where Sharko do parkour to getting in the castle to give the plush to the baby is definitely the best moment of this episode, especially the way he do and he even reference Street Fighter by doing a Shoryuken similar to that franchise.
Trivia
- This is the only episode where the Child Dolphin had his hair colors to pink hair instead of yellow hair and the Female Dolphin pink with orange hair, instead of blue hair.
- When Sharko is trying to break open the crane game, he pulls off a Shoryuken from the Street Fighter games.
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