Release: November 23, 2010
Film: The Thief and the Cobbler (1995)
This review contains examples of:
- Baby Talk:Critic: Okay, hold on... "Tack", "ZigZag", "YumYum"? These aren't names, these are words an infant is trying to say for the first time! [a picture of a tack is shown] Tack! [maze] ZigZag! [piece of pie] YumYum! [The Thief and the Cobbler logo] Shitty fuck fuck fuck shitty fuck shit fuck!!!
- Call-Back: To the Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat: The Movie review:Critic: ZigZag has an evil plan to, you guessed it, take over the...
M. Bison: Of COURSE!
Critic: ...World.- After his first phone conversation with Vincent Price, The Critic is hit with a pumpkin, a callback to his Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog review.
- Deal with the Devil: How a dead Vincent Price manages to know the future.
- Department of Redundancy Department:Critic: But before I talk about the film, let's... talk about the film.
- Downer Ending: Vincent Price blows up the Critic at the end with a hidden time bomb. As a post-mortem line, he says, "Ooh, I love it when I'm nasty!"
- Good News, Bad News: (according to The Critic) The bad news is, the movie (as released) sucks. The good news is, "The Recobbled Cut" is a much better movie.
- The Hero Dies / The Bad Guy Wins: The Critic is killed by Vincent Price. The Critic is back in the next episode, though.
- Noodle Incident: Vincent Price can't figure out why his character ZigZag spoke in rhyme in The Thief and the Cobbler, beyond the fact that it had something to do with Rock Hudson and a banana cream pie.
- One, Two, Skip a Few: Said word-for-word by Vincent Price when he gives the Critic 50 seconds to flee before the time bomb explodes.Price: One, two, skip a few, fifty! (KABOOM!)
- Take That!: The Critic remarks that Tack has more inner monologues than Samus from Metroid: Other M.
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Vincent Price's answering machine message knows exactly what the Critic will say and do.
"Now that I have the balls..."
