An Intellectual Perspective on "Flapjack"

great gains only come with great risk and this is the core theme the essential motif of the television program of the flapjack show which aired on Cartoon Network from the 2008 year of our Lord until its finale in 2010 the story centers around the titular flapjack a young boy with a heart of gold one who seeks the thrill of adventure accompanying him is one captain k'nuckles a down-on-his-luck sailor who teaches flapjack how to make it in this cruel world and of course we have a talking whale bubby whose sexual energy is as perverse as her desire to keep flapjack on the straight and narrow these three find themselves floundering to make their way in storm along harbor a cacophony of misadventures awaits them as they sneak out both candy island and of course the candy itself yeah in this world candy is just alcohol it gets you drunk in the sailors like that this is explored several times and explains why k'nuckles has such poor decision-making skills in young flapjack less than an average IQ and as such Kentucky and flapjack often find themselves partaking in less than savory acts to fuel this addiction they steal they lie cheats and even prostitution is on the table sometimes and that's the show Kentucky wants something drags flip jump and a shitty situation and maybe they get out of it or maybe not now flip doop you don't like it when k'nuckles delves into the morally gray but Kentucky finds a way to convince him that hey the ends justify the means and this works because to hoople's canoe key is a hero a true adventurer everything that fumbles aspires to be in life is too young too naive to distinguish between the tall tales captain Kenobi tells them in the truth that everyone else seems to already know that a reality he's just a selfish unemployed perpetually drunk bum whose only friend is the kid who lives in a whale so I assume many of you are asking at this point what about candy island when do get to candy Island Tyler let's go to candy island see that's complicated because candy island is less of a place and more of a an idea an aspiration something that represents a better life where this drunken bliss awaits you at every corner but if it was easy to get there well everyone would go and while in most shows our euros would overcome adversity and one day make it to their destination proving that you can do anything if you put your mind to it this isn't most shows and they're heroes they're not really heroes they're just weird and even a flapjack is a happy-go-lucky kid right now you're just gonna end up like Kentucky one day he's gonna get wasted and do anything to fuel his addictions the show itself has little continuity so forgive me if my synopsis lacks a detailed blah there's a self-contained story every episode an adventure sometimes there's an octopus sometimes there's a dog it doesn't really matter none of it matters except for one episode the final episode entitled fish out of water the episode begins with pontoon and his loyal pack boys are coming to their addictions once more but this time they're they're really hitting it hard see here it's believed that if you eat too much candy you'll turn into a fish so they eat too much or drink too much and they turn to fish and then they get kicked out a storm along tribbey and fish so then they go to the fish world and they get admitted to the fish hospital and then they recover it's all good and unexplained now hey eating candy it can't turn you into a fish they just said Ebola or something so then they return home and guess what they haven't quite learned their lessons so they well just watch we all turn into face who said anything about turning into fish and that's it they become real people and get kicked out a storm along for good the final shot is just I'm casting off to go find a new home sailing away on their talking sexy ass whale they [ __ ] up one too many times and now they gotta leave the docks leave this fantasy world where candy can sustain you for months where employment is merely an option and well you'll always make it through at the end of the day but now it's real life and flapjack and k'nuckles are cast into reality vaults and all it's a fine ending it's simply a good conclusion to a good show or at least it was Cartoon Network surprised everybody with a bit of new flapjack 9 years later what we got was a live-action film a continuation to the flapjack story we were promised that this would answer the great mystery at the end of the show what happens when our friends are forced away from the Ducks and how would they deal with living in the real world entitled the white house it definitely ranks as one of the better Cartoon Network films possibly on par with the classic Johnny Bravo goes to Bollywood so first off remember that laugh check did not take place in modern times the movies the bicycles proper medicine he was all just being invented so yeah it seems to assume that this whole show took place during the late 1800s well the film stays true to this rule he stays close to the late 19th century roots it's these small details that I like it lets you know that the director wasn't just doing this for a quick paycheck but that he was really a true fan of the source material and before I go into the film I just want you to know I'm gonna spoil this okay we start off fittingly enough and a boat definitely staying close to those nautical roots I see life's been rough for our duo it's safe to assume that bubbie is dead cuz she's just not in the movie she probably got dissected or something for being this what a shame flapjack and k'nuckles well they're in a pretty rough state after all this I have to assume that they had some sort of falling-out because I mean they act like total strangers at first flappy's in desperate need of employment though and it just so happens that concoct needed in assistance a lighthouse keeper so there's your call to action it's really odd how loopy doesn't say a word to his old pal at first he just works and eats and sleeps really puts into perspective that whatever has happened to flop since we last saw him well it's changed him then we see Kentucky just staring at the lighthouse it's all weird and flu pool is walking out to the ocean he sees a dead body and then he falls in and there's a mermaid but it's a dream or maybe it's not I'm sure we're gonna have another marvelous misadventure but for how much has stayed the same a few things they're staunchly different gone his flapjacks love for adventure gone is his love for the sea even his love for his old pal Captain Crunch hasn't stood the test of time again a few drinks in him and hits just like old times yeah candy might have made you drunk and storm along but here you're gonna need something thicker and by that I mean liquor Canuck he is still privy to giving us those parcels sailor wisdom he tell us flappy hey boy mermaids are bad and make crazy the last guy who worked for me went crazy or maybe they're fake maybe the guy was just crazy and there's no mermaids Canuck II don't know you don't know the cumber bumps off leap flute fighting with seagulls earlier and he lets him know Seabury find out that captain ginyu was also married at some point probably took this woman but yeah it's not just all fun and Dame's slap-dab is still a bit off just a little weird oh he keeps trying to see what's at the top of the lighthouse the Koopa King is laying up is my way house against chichis advice fluke duped goes anyway and he tries to sneak a peek up there no-ho-ho and thus Teddy gets a hole I fool is something he wasn't looking for captain can nutty is up there whacking it and there's some tentacles that I assume belong to a darned Willy - then flap check he goes out and he smacks a seagull against Iraq for a minute or two because and now the winds have changed they're changing so then they get drunk again they sing some songs they have a few laughs after this it took a piss want to go and check Twitter and when I got back flappy bird was finding another mermaid and she just screams at him he runs away so I assumed the mermaid curse the island cuz then a big storm hits a no ship can get to the island now huh huh oh fat whack stuck there and then over the next undisclosed period of time cat sack and Kakarot are left to their own devices stranded with little to satiate the pain but a swig of Captain Morgan & Co Ichi keeps telling Phil the future weird [ __ ] that contradicts all the time he says they've been stuck there for weeks but yeah it just feels like a day and he lies about his broken leg but in the original these legs were fake and flapjacks catching on poop says he doesn't like captain toad cookie dough he curses him with the power of the sea flumph junk tries to get the key to the lighthouse when it captain cocoa pebbles is sleeping but then he just tries to kill him then he doesn't then he starts laughing and they get drunk again and they almost given to those feelings we always knew they shared for each other but said they just start punching hug it out then floopy doop he goes and he ruins it like he always does he spills the beans Johnny he sells to can't Sam that he killed some guy he used to work with cuz he was a big bully yourself flume ride then goes to the top of the lighthouse then he sees captain Willy stand and naked with lights coming out his eyes I mean it's very core flapjack stuff this imagery the next day sack map tries to escape on a little boat but canned food see you don't like this so he chases him with the knacks and flap is all like hey that's that cool and Kentucky's is all like what do you mean me boy it was you who tried to split me in Twain with an axe i flapjack well are you trying to do to your old pal Kentucky captain Cookie Crisp fires him then they fight some more and Kentucky turned into a mermaid and sidon a flapjack turns him into the dog and as a dog k'nuckles he's a good boy he follows orders to a tee and when asked promptly falls into his grave anyway farrah fawcett as Keys goes up to the lighthouse where he tries to at least before Kentucky comes Adam with the shovel poor Thunderbird though as an experienced fighter in Kamehameha doesn't stand a chance so now flapjack is free to go up and see what awaits him in the lighthouse and when he gets there we don't actually see what's in there but it seems pretty good at first I mean don't he look happy I assume that he's probably seen candy Island because I mean isn't that all he ever wanted other than adventure and k'nuckles and he's done he's got a fair share of adventure today and k'nuckles but then I guess it's not too great anymore and he's a pretty upset and then he falls down a staircase and seagulls eat him and that's the movie that's the end of flapjack now the abstract imagery and somewhat incoherent events throughout the film seems to have confused some lesser minded people they speculate the flapjack was supposed to be Prometheus trying to get the fire in the lighthouse so that's just seventh grade literature [ __ ] they're [ __ ] dumb Poseidon rules the sea dumbass the film is not that complicated my god it's about it [ __ ] twelve-year-old show on Cartoon Network and if you view it through the lens of the original program the source material it makes sense the draw of candy Island perfect world without conflict only brings man to a breaking point so yeah they never got to candy Island no streams of soda pop trickling down the rocks something that's so good it can't possibly be true the greatest rewards will always come with the greatest risks and that's is the point of all of this the lesson of the show and its subsequent film all we ever needed to know was right there from the start who needs candy island it's safer on the docks this is Tyler of Knowledge Hub [Music]

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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 04 2020