TMNT Season 3 Best Episode Tournament: Meet Mondo Gecko vs. The Croaking
 

Welcome back everyone, Round 1 is about to bid farewell as we are down to the final match before the top episodes come in.

Race with the Demon was eaten alive by Casey Jones' Underworld.

Our final Round 1 Match is 14 vs. 19, which featured two classic characters return from the abyss. One will move on, the other will return from wence it came.




Round 1 Polls will last 3 days and will be private polls, but of course you can still discuss who you voted for and your reasoning why.

To check out the complete up to date bracket, the link is here:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cf...Best%20Episode

Now with that said and done, it's time to take a look at the "Tale of the Turtle Tape"!

Official Seed: #14
Where JTH seeded this episode: #22
Total Points Received: 21
Official IGN Review: 8.3/10
Current TV.com Rating: 8.8/10
Highest Rating Episode Received: #2 (TurtleTron)

Official Seed: #19
Where JTH seeded this episode: #24
Total Points Received: 15
Official IGN Review: 7.7/10
Current TV.com Rating: 7.7/10
Highest Rating Episode Received: #5 (snake)

Winner faces #3 Return to New York in Round 2


JTH's Prediction:


Which episode wins in your mind, vote away. Remember...please...HAVE FUN!!! :D

I'm not terribly fond of either of these. The Croaking i found to be just uninteresting, whilst Mondo Gecko was like having a Mikey clone for an episode (which to be fair.... he was voiced by a former Mikey :) )

That said, I did at least like that they gave Fishface a little more attention. He's an interesting character who had got badly sadlined - so it was nice to have some more screentime with him again.

On the other hand, as the one who was trying to analyse how mutagen worked in a vaguely logical way - I was a little dismayed to see Pizza face in Mondo's ep.

Croaking just didn't click for me. I wasn't fond of the punk frogs, or the set up. As much as I want to find some major fault to complain about I think the worst thing about it is just how utterly unmemorable it is except for Mikey being annoying.

Personal preferences perhaps, but there we are :)

Yeah I'm with you on this one.

I liked the whole Jon Heder / Napoleon throwback, but as an episode The Croaking did seem a bit dull in regards to Mikey as a character. I'm not one of these 'oh they made him look stupid again' people, but the set up seemed a bit forced.

I wasn't bothered for the Mondo Gecko thing personally although I can understand why it was a big deal for other fans, especially with Robbie Rist providing a cameo.

For me the reason I chose the Mondo episode was because of the super fun race sequence and having the villains watch it like gladiator sport. It was rather surreal trying to imagine the villains on down time. And watching Tiger Claw's ear go BACK when Baxter puked over his food.

Two episodes on my hit list of the weakest this season, both weren't entirely great. I choose Meet Mondo Gecko, but I'll discuss both.

Robbie Rist was great as Mondo, though grating at times of how he can be this macho man type persona. I will admire the effort to make him what he is, but the story feels flat out of left field with Xever reintroduced. Although I'm grateful for Xever to finally be a villain again, this was poorly executed on how and why he built a stadium; better yet on why the plethora of mutants didn't attack. :roll: For what it is, I find the episode guilty entertainment. As for the next episode, I'm putting Croaking under spoilers because this is pure unadulterated rage that I've been waiting for...



This is simply a summary of my hatred for the Croaking, it's by far my least favorite episode of the series besides Clash of the Mutanimals. Even if both episodes were terrible Michelangelo based before his decline throughout the season and later bouncing back at the end, Mondo feels like a better experience.

Now, this, I can definitely agree with.:lol:
I'm not sure what happened with this one but I remeber staring at the screen like 'What the heck, Mikey? You know better'
I mean, it half made sense. The fact that he made a bit of a mess while imitating Crognard amde sense- because he's Mikey. But then running away because they told him to clean up felt a little too forced.

So, yeah, not the best of the best. But I did enjoy Mikey making a new friend and there were sone laughs here and there...

So the crown would definitely have to go to Meet Mondo Gecko because it was rather....different than the others. Unique and new pair ups with Casey and Mikey and seeing that whole skate-o-rama was cool, too.:D

So Meet Mondo takes the cake, I suppose. :tsmile:

Mondo for me as well. Mikey was better in it than the Croaking, and I like Mondo better than Napoleon. Plus it had some Casey and Mikey bonding, which is a pair up I don't think we've seen before.