Title- Pursuit of the Magic Hoop (September 21, 1991)
Game- One of the various basketball games, I don’t really care what.
Guest Voice
Clockface-Long John Baldry
The first sport based episode, when you see this, it makes you glad of how they never shoved in real life sports stars in the first season. I didn’t find this Larry Bird guy too bad, he showed them that they had to work as a team and also sacrificed himself. My main problem other than the reliance on basketballs to get through the challenges was Hoopless.
This is a textbook example of how you make an annoying character, the first and second series avoided this through the limited time they gave characters who could become annoying, keeping them likeable slightly. Here this Hoopless guy gets a lot of screen time, is the main reason that there’s danger and defeats the chance of us getting to ever see King Charles again, which when you consider his voice actor was in the episode, is very weak.
Overall another disappointing episode for a disappointing series.
