The Impostor King (Johan and Peewit)
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 This episode is an imposter.
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"The Impostor King" is an episode of Johan and Peewit (part of Season 2 of The Smurfs series). It originally aired October 23, 1982 on NBC.
Summary
An impostor kidnaps the King, takes his place and steals the royal jewels. The Smurfs help set the King free and then hurry to help Johan and Peewit save the jewels.
Why It Sucks
- This episode is one of the weaker Johan and Peewit episodes. In addition, this episode has an additional subplot involving Peewit's birthday, which could've worked better as a separate episode.
- Like most episodes of the Johan and Peewit series, it starts with the Smurfs before we get to the humans.
- Peewit uses too much yeast when he was making his cake and gets caught in it. In reality, yeast isn't that sticky and it is easy to break free of.
- Nobody can tell the difference with the imposter king and the real king, as they both have significantly different voices.
- Dame Barbara is easily the most fooled during the scene with the bust. She doesn't even suspect that man in disguise isn't the King.
- Peewit literally asks everyone if an object is for his birthday, but to no avail. This means people were "aware" of his birthday but didn't care about it.
- The exception is the Smurfs, who happen to care about Peewit's birthday the most.
- The writers are still uncredited as per usual.
- The real King does an idiot move where he kicks rocks in a wolf's face, which surprisingly gets the wolf to growl and walk away, only to return with a pack of wolves to scare and corner the real King.
- An animation error at one point where Peewit says "concentration is all it takes, Johan" without moving his mouth.
- Peewit's tantrum when he figures out that he's going to miss his own birthday sounds cringeworthy. Not only that, but it wastes the talents of Frank Welker.
- Dame Barbara serves no purpose to the story other than being a gag character.
- She also sabotages Peewit's birthday party as she is the one who forces Savina to attend the Prince's wedding, which led to Johan and Peewit having to escort them to the event.
- Her voice is also terrifying and shrill to listen to, especially when she gets angry.
- As mentioned above in WIS# 3, she is easily the most fooled out of the others in the castle and doesn't find out the man in disguise isn't her King.
- "Bad Ending:" Peewit is told to bring the present by the real king. However he drops it. Johan saves it and Peewit says that he always does it but he accidentally breaks it. Angered by the damage, Dame Barbara chases Peewit around the castle as the episode ends.
- This bad ending bears similarities to an episode of Casper and the Angels, entitled "Space Circus". It involves similar characters messing things up just to prove nothing's changed. Both Peewit and Hairy Scary attempt to tell similar jokes that are too common or too boring, and constantly cause trouble while trying to help. The only difference is the former not being thrown out of the castle.
Redeeming Qualities
- Good animation and voice acting as usual.
- At least Johan and Peewit stopped the imposter and rescued the royal jewels before the ceremony.
- The Smurfs were technically the only ones to care about Peewit's birthday.
- Some funny moments here and there, such as the fake King enjoying Peewit's terrible music (while Dame Barbara is covering her ears).
- The Smurfs were able to save the real King from the pack of wolves and helped clear his name.
- It was clever for Sabina to slam the stagecoach door open in front of the crooks, which Dame Barbara praised her for.
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