Turbo F.A.S.T (season 3)

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Turbo F.A.S.T (season 3)
"I got it! How about we turn this show into a gross-out show composed entirely of vulgar humor, while also inventing awesome gross-up close-ups that will endure throughout the ages! Wouldn't that be RADICAL?!" - Some underpaid intern at Dreamworks Animation
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 22 minutes (11 minute segments)
Country: United States
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Network(s): Netflix
Created by: Chris Prynoski
Distributed by: DreamWorks Animation Television
Starring: Reid Scott
Eric Bauza
Michael Patrick Bell
John Eric Bentley
Grey DeLisle-Griffin
Phil LaMarr
Amir Talai
Ken Jeong
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 25


Turbo F.A.S.T is an American Flash-animated web television series based on the 2013 computer-animated film Turbo. Produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and animated by Titmouse, it is being exclusively released on Netflix in the United States and in the 40 countries where Netflix offers its services at the time, but it became available worldwide via Netflix over time. It is the first Netflix original series for children, and the first DreamWorks Animation series produced for Netflix.

While the first two seasons of the series were mostly well-received, the series took a nosedive in quality during its third and final season.

Why This Season Goes S.L.O.W

  1. The main problem with this season is that it predominantly lacks the charm, wit, and cleverness of the first season, and to a lesser extent, the second season. On top of that, the writing downgraded from being very creative and interesting to being formulaic, dull, and mostly unfunny. Worst of all, only seven people wrote this season's episodes which is the same number of writers as the second season and less than season one which had 10 writers, which is a shame since all seven writers have also written/worked on much better/bad shows and are usually great at doing their jobs. These writers include:
    • Devin Bunje and Nick Stanton, writers of some shows for Disney such as The Replacements, Phineas and Ferb, The Emperor's New School, and Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, staff members of Zeke and Luther, and later creators of Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything, Prince of Peoria and Hailey's on It.
    • Madison Bateman, a staff member of Motorcity would later become a writer for DuckTales (2017), The Ghost and Molly McGee (where she also serves as story editor), and two other Netflix shows, Spy Kids: Mission Critical and Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh.
    • Travis Braun, creator of Fast Layne, Pupstruction, and T.O.T.S.
    • Sam Cherington, a staff member of DreamWorks Dragons, actor, and producer of the shorts, The Adventures of Normal Beans and It's Complicated, and writer of some later shows such as The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Where's Wally? (2020 series), Where's Waldo? Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer, Spy Kids: Mission Critical, and Hanazuki: Full of Treasures.
    • Todd Garfield, writer of The Secret Saturdays, The Penguins of Madagascar, Slugterra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Monsters vs. Aliens (TV series), Thundercats (2011), Guardians of the Galaxy (TV series), Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters, Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular, My Gym Partner's a Monkey and Voltron Force, producer of Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh, and the recently cancelled Adventures in Wonder Park series, and production manager of American Dad!, Sunday Pants, and Samurai Jack.
    • Jim Martin, staff member of the Heroes franchise, writer of Raven's Home, Talking Tom & Friends, and Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja.
  2. Speaking of A handful of main/minor writers from the first two seasons weren't involved in this season such as Jack Thomas, Eric Trueheart, John O'Bryan, and John Behnke.
  3. This season has a really big number of bad/average episodes, such as:
  4. Most of the characters have been flanderized so badly, to the point of becoming unlikable and lacking the charm they previously (or usually) had.
    1. Turbo went from a speed demon, yet likable and fun-loving racer with speed to an egotistical Gary Stu, and the show's version of Scorch Supernova from Escape from Planet Earth who usually cares about winning (this can be justified due to Turbo won the Indy 500 race in the movie but still), his fans, Mustaches, and reputation more so than in the first two seasons, and trends to do terrible plans to the fast crew since in 137 Hours, the reason why the Fast crew goes on vacation to Florida to go build homes for manatees rather than doing what the rest of the crew enjoy there such as the beach and the tropical drink bar, resulting in the crew to waste their vacation week and a huge sellout in Turbo Real where he tries to promote Sweaties Cereal during the filming of the crew's reality show which is product placement.
    2. Skidmark went from a very crazy, yet clever and intelligent scientific mechanic to crazier than he was in the first two seasons and often cares more about conspiracy theories, science, and trapping mystical creatures and gets off scot-free from his actions (especially in Best Frenemies where he gets away for trapping Turbo in a portable toilet around town just because he's friends with White Shadow).
    3. Burn went from a snarky, yet strong and badass action girl who cares about her teammates while serving as the bodyguard of the group to a greedy and aggressive mean popular girl who constantly bullies her teammates (even Chet) whenever they mess something up for her or get what she wants, sometimes if by accident and even for petty reasons, especially in Hawaii Five-No where she was at her worst since she acts like a huge, spoiled brat who demands the other team members to get what she wants to have one of them go to Hawaii with her and gets rewarded at the end when she didn't deserve it after her incredibly toxic behaviour towards the crew over bringing someone to go to Hawaii.
    4. White Shadow went from a dim-witted yet funny snail with some intelligence to a dumber idiot than he was in the first two seasons who constantly behaves as if he's lost all signs of intelligence and only cares about food than his other traits (e.g. Kung Fu, and racing), especially in the series finale, Stalks on a Plane, he thinks that the remote-control plane is a dog and treats it as a pet during the touching contest. and Belle of the Gumball where he eats a diamond, thinking it's edible, causing his teeth to shatter.
    5. Whiplash went from a serious, intelligent, skilled, and kind leader to a psychotic, immature, controlling, abusive, short-tempered, loud man who often treated the other snails like slaves in a very similar manner to Franklin Bean from Fantastic Mr. Fox (with Crew Detective being the worst offender since his behaviour towards his other team members over his broken pumice brush and dirty sleep mask was so cruel and mean spirited he makes Franklin Bean (even when he's raging over certain animals stealing his stuff and treating his men (especially Petey) like dirt) seemed more mature by comparison) and became very dumber in some episodes much like Skidmark and White Shadow, particularly in Worst in Show is that he took a lost poodle moth with a tag to a pet show rather than calling his owner that he found him (he thinks that the owner's phone number is a fake number) and later stole another pet moth from a grasshopper to take him to another contest.
    6. Smoove Moove went from an egotistical, yet helpful and groovy DJ to a lazy slacker whose insecurities and egoistical personality get worse, he is also becoming even more of a huge punching bag of the group than in the first two seasons, and his team (including Chet) does nothing to help when he gets treated like a huge punching bag similar to Lance in Voltron: Legendary Defender Seasons 7 and 8.
      • In fact, the infamous episode "137 Hours", in particular, is nothing but a very harsh Smoove Moove torture episode.
    7. Chet, while likable for the most part (except in a few episodes like 137 Hours), can be an OCD overprotective Neat Freak at times as he wants everything to be perfect and became a misfortunately bigger punching bag than the first two seasons just like Smoove.
    8. Hardcase went from a rival to the Fast Crew to much of a filler generic doomsday villain who once nearly got everyone in Turbotown killed by the stink bomb attracted on the dryer in Turbo Does Laundry.
    9. Dunce has become a plot device that only served as filler and to keep up with the plots in Turbo-focused episodes similar to Mr. Weaselbrat from Buddy Thunderstruck where he serves as filler in certain episodes (with Get the Hock Out being the biggest offender).
    10. Mel Shellman went from a funny, yet mature speaker man of the races to being an overprotective, yandere-typed jerk over Charlie too much to the point where he couldn't let the latter get a new best friend.
    11. Tito, while likable, became extremely underused in this season, as he only appeared in four episodes (one of which even had a major role, Desserted Island where he was reduced to a huge Butt monkey who gets tortured by the lion and gazelle from his plane and later the curse ship guy who pour fish guts on him to feed to the sharks, making his subplot a cruel Tito torture episode).
  5. While most of the characters (mostly the villains) from the first two seasons returned, some of the recurring characters such as Kim Ly (who didn’t appear much since Season 1), Dean Cuzieen and his snail group, Rockwell, Marty, Clip and Clap, Breakneck, and some of the F.A.S.T crew’s families, (such as Whiplash’s parents and Burn’s sister, Ember) are nowhere to be seen or have extremely minor roles in this season.
    1. While some new characters are interesting like Darryl, a few can be very unlikable, especially the Jamaican Jerk Chickens who are mean-spirited Jamaican stereotypes as well as mean popular jocks who only cared about winning and themselves, making them Guy Gagné wannabes only without the twist villain trope.
  6. The humor in this season went from creative and funny to downright awful, mean-spirited, and cringe-worthy in comparison to the first two seasons, with most of them consisting of fart jokes, toilet humor, and gross-out humor, which became common traits in this season.
    • Some episodes have gross-out entirely, like "Stalks on a Plane", which shows grotesque moments of the grilled cheese and even characters like Skidmark and Charlie being infected by it, Belle of the Gumball which has gross scenes involving chewed gum like the shot of Burn being covered in the chewed gum,
  7. While decent, a few episodes can be poorly directed, two examples are once again Hawaii Five-No and Crew Detective coming from Phil Allora who would later direct the infamous DC Superhero Girls episode, Breaking News.
  8. The plots are nonsensical, boring, and stupid due to this season having a more cartoony feel compared to the previous seasons. The show always had some cartoonish elements in the movie and the first two seasons, but they weren’t there to advance the plot.
    • On top of that, there's much less snail racing in this season since there are only 6 race-related episodes, especially compared to the movie and the first season which has 22 race episodes, resulting in the F.A.S.T crew's shell powers (even Turbo's speed) being rarely used, but at least had more raced-related episodes than season 2.
    • Because of that, there are a lot of episodes that has very little to no racing at all, with Turbo Real, Best Frenemies, Hawaii Five-No, Turbo Does Laundry, 137 Hours, and Stalks on a Plane being the most infamous offenders which their premises (A reality show, a rom-con, a sitcom, an two part analogy, an 127 Hours parody that is an huge Smoove Moove torture episode, and a touching contest) has nothing to do with racing, because of the premise change in this season to a gross out comedy, to the point where it feels highly generic and out of place, considering that racing is the original film and the first two season's main element, to the point where this season could give the another infamous DC Super Hero Girls episode, Scrambled Eggs a run for its money in terms of removing every aspect of their main elements (in that show's case, it's super hero theme which is its main element) in favour of comedy.
  9. Most of the episodes in this season have mostly made solely for filler such as Turbo Does Laundry which has even more filler than that of other episodes of this season since it's a two-part episode in which nothing happens other than Turbo washing his Mustaches and minor characters doing things that were only there to pad out the running time of the episode, 137 Hours involves Smoove getting his tail stuck with the golden speaker he got from the Delivery Snail in the clubhouse and literality nothing else for almost the entire episode, not even having a subplot of the Fast crew at a nonsensically pointless manatee home building charity in Florida that even Burn and White Shadow pointed that out, and Party Poopers involving the Fast crew trying to stop the toilet frogs from hard-partying for almost the entire episode.
    • The episode, Stalks on a Plane is a very poor way to end not only the season but also the Turbo franchise as it was completely loaded with gross-out humor coming from the grilled cheese (especially that one infamously overly detailed shot of Skidmark's infection from the cheese), filler scenes, and did not give the series a proper conclusion unlike most of the other DreamWorks Netflix series.
    • Nearly a year after the show was cancelled, some of the filler was carried over to Buddy Thunderstruck (another Netflix cartoon involved racing) just to have more focus on filler than racing with Get the Hock Out and Stunt Fever which thankfully didn't turn out well, making it the only two episodes in that show which served as a filler and were mostly ignored in later episodes, aside from a few events in the two episodes like Buddy and Big Tex’s interaction and Muncie’s hatred towards Arkansas.
    • The pacing of this season has been downgraded from being fast to slow, mainly due to the filler episodes compared to the first two seasons (no puns intended).
  10. There are so many questionable and unfitting, disturbing, disgusting, infuriating, mean-spirited, nightmarish, and/or violent scenes that were rarely present in the first two seasons with most of the episodes written by Devin Dunje, Nick Stanton, and Madison Bateman, Best Frenemies, Don’t Feed the Troll, and Stalks on a Plane being the biggest offenders out there.
  11. Some of the concepts while good, it's poorly executed due to the fewer writers working on this season and the overall lacklustre writing.
  12. The writing in this season has become very lazy since it often recycles and rehashes episodes from the previous two seasons and sometimes even from other TV shows or movies. Many of the writers also don't seem to show any respect for the show’s fans, as proven by how they have disrespected their audience's intelligence several times. While this could be due to the writers running out of ideas, it can become extremely repetitive at times. Even more baffling is that, unlike most other cartoons that experience seasonal rot, Turbo F.A.S.T wasn't even five years old by the time this season premiered, proving how limited storytelling ideas have become with this series. for example.
    • How to Train your Titmouse while good, rehashes the 2010 DreamWorks film, "How to Train your Dragon", but with snails as the Viking humans and birds as dragons as well as the noticeable similarities of the two, for example, the way Turbo named the bird (who is basically Titmouse's mascot) Beakless similar to how Hiccup named his dragon Toothless.
      • Speaking of, there was a scene where Turbo and Beakless watched a clip of the movie on the crew's smartphone he stole in their secret hiding place, the Tomato Grove.
    • 137 Hours rehashes Zoo Lander and Home on Our Own where one or two members ditch the Fast crew just to stay at the clubhouse (unlike the latter two episodes which involved Skidmark and White Shadow playing hooky while Whiplash and the Fast crew members go out to do training, it's Smoove who takes the hooky focus while Turbo took Whiplash's role as the outing planner for the Fast crew) which ironically, both Zoo Lander and 137 Hours were written by Devin Dunje and Nick Stanton.
      • It is also a rehash of the book, Between a Rock and a Hard Place and its 2010 film adaptation, 127 Hours.
    • Best Frenemies rehashes Chet Gets Burned, only with the Skidmark and White Shadow relationship shoehorned into it.
    • Crew Detective rehashes Conspiracy from Season 2 since both episodes involve the investing of mystery with their friends, In that episode which finds out the disappearance of the fast crew apart from Skidmark, Whiplash finds out who broke his pumice brush, which is nonsensical since he could've at least gone to a store in Turbotown and get a new Pumice brush instead of being a spoiled brat towards the other snails and forcing them to stay up all night to investigate his dirty sleep mask when he also could've simply put it in the wash and have backup sleep masks in case his other one's dirty or torn.
    • The Dry Spell and The Whiplash Effect both rehash "Surf'N Turf", Skidzo-Brainia", and "Over Shadowed", (all from Season 1), since all five episodes have one of the fast crew change their personality only for them to get tortured.
  13. There are so many continuity errors that contradict the events of the first two seasons and even the movie:
    • In Hawaii Five-No, Whiplash was shown to be in a singing contest despite his singing and DJ skills being terrible (though off-screen) despite that in the season 1 episode "Smoovin' On Up", this is something that Smoove would do.
    • Smoove was still annoyed by Buster's annoyance in 137 Hours even though he was doing fine with the latter in the previous seasons' episodes.
  14. This season has a lot of noticeable plot holes.
    • One example was in the episode "Crew Detective" where Whiplash takes his extreme anger out on his crew over his broken pumice brush and later dirty sleep mask when he could've just gone to a store and bought a replacement brush, and also put his sleep mask in the wash and either sleep with his spare sleep mask or not have it on in bed (as seen in the season 1 episode, Smoovin' On Up.).
    • In Hawaii Five-No, when Skidmark was told by Burn to get milk for her cereal, how would a giant cow fit in the snails' small clubhouse without even stepping on anything or the snails?
  15. While the show still teaches good morals from here to there, some of the morals in this season feel rather tagged on at times.
  16. The voice acting, while just as great as in the previous seasons, can get annoying and obnoxious in this season due to some of the voice actors often yelling the majority of their lines.
  17. There are some episodes where some of the crew do not care about their members (or anyone that is not part of the crew) being treated like crap, such as the infamous ending scene in 137 Hours where the fast crew sadistically decided to leave Smoove in the damaged clubhouse with Buster Moove while they head to Funkville as if they only cared about their vacation rather than cancelling their remanding vacation days to take him to the hospital for his injuries caused by being stuck in a golden speaker for too long, resulting in his near death from health failure and repair their clubhouse, which is proof they sometimes show a careless and sadistic side for the other members, unlike the first two seasons.
    • To add salt to the wound is that even Chet, who has an ambulance shell and always loves safety towards other snails, comes along with the others' sadistic actions without even worrying or caring about Smoove being in a dangerous environment seriously injured and that who's going to clean up the clubhouse and take care of Smoove.
    • Another example of this is that neither of the other Fast crew members (aside from White Shadow) nor Tito even noticed that Turbo has disappeared or is trapped in a portable toilet by Skidmark as if nothing happened to him.
  18. This season just screams rushed in every single way as most of the episodes have been made in just one day AND IT SHOWS.
  19. This season never has the flanderized characters develop, as they learn their lesson in the end and apologize, only to revert to their old ways in the next episode.
  20. This season overall killed the Turbo franchise and the show once and for all, along with the fact that the show was removed from Netflix in April 2023, making it the final nail in the coffin for both the show and the franchise in general.

Redeeming Qualities

  1. There are still a handful of good episodes such as:
  2. As usual, the flash animation is still great, along with the voice acting as long as it's not screaming lines.
  3. This season introduced new characters such as Darryl who is an interesting character and Turbo and Chet's father.
  4. There are still a few characters that haven't been flanderized and remain their likable and original personalities:
    1. Chet (despite being an overprotective freak)
    2. Tito (despite being underused)
    3. Court Tickula
    4. Ace Gecko
    5. Hayaku
    6. Thora
    7. Hubert
    8. Singe
    9. Charlie
    10. Evra
    11. Captain Dirtbeard
    • Likewise, the flanderized characters (such as Turbo, Burn, Skidmark, Whiplash, White Shadow, Smoove Moove, Hardcase, Dunce, and Mel Shellman) occasionally have their original personality and are sometimes likable.
    • Most of the other characters from the first two seasons returned briefly in this season.
  5. There are still some funny moments here and there.
  6. There are still some good morals here and there, such as the League, which at least teaches viewers a good and important life lesson: don't spend too much time on technology and try something new.

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  • In April 2023, the show was delisted from Netflix.

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