The WORST episodes of TaleSpin
Every episode of TaleSpin ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of TaleSpin!
Baloo the Bear stars in an adventurous comedy of love and conflict with his friend Kit Cloudkicker. Rebecca Cunningham and her daughter Molly purchase Baloo's failing company. Baloo must fly transport runs to clear his debt while dodging Don Karnage and his sky pirates.
#1 - Bullethead Baloo
Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 2/7/1991
A Dr. Axelottel tries to sell Khan a Mechanical Electric Laborer (MEL) robot. When Khan turns down the robot, Axelottel vows revenge on him. Meanwhile, The Jungle Aces are obsessed with Bullethead, an action comic book character. Kit says that comic book heroes are not like real heroes: pilots. When forced to use an example, he uses Baloo. But Baloo proves to be yesterday's news. Not wanting to let Kit down, Baloo borrows a rocket device from Prof. Buzz. Baloo and Buzz then setup a scheme to impress the Jungle Aces, which interferes with a kidnapping plot involving MEL. When Buzz confesses to the police that his role was part of a gag, Baloo has to prove that there still really is a threat to Khan.
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#3 - The Incredible Shrinking Molly
Season 1 - Episode 63 - Aired 4/8/1991
Molly is tired of no one noticing her, especially when she has something to say. After watching a movie one night, she's convinced the tower a few blocks down is the home of a mad scientist. Since no one ever notices her, she goes to investigate on her own. While she's there, she accidentally turns on a machine that shrinks her. When Baloo, Kit, and Becky find that she's missing, they search high and low for her. Only they don't know how low they should be searching.
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#4 - The Sound and the Furry
Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 2/13/1991
Crazy Eddie has a scam. It involves little furry critters that, when certain frequencies ring, they move at incredible speeds destroying and disassembling everything in they come across. Eddie puts them in pilot's engines and takes their money to fix the damages the critters cause. She unknowingly loses them over Cape Suzette, where Wildcat finds them. Thinking they're fuzzy lobsters, he adopts them. When he finds out they're homesick for their natural habitat, Bayou Country, he promises to return them when he's done helping Baloo win an air show. But Eddie repossess the critters and uses them against all the other pilots in the air race. When Wildcat starts gathering them back up, pilots find it suspicious that their planes are falling apart and Baloo's is not. Especially when Wildcat's been nosing around all the planes.
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#5 - War of the Weirds
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/13/1990
Baloo wants a two week vacation, but Becky refuses to grant him one. Baloo comes up with the idea of having Wildcat pretend he's a Dr. Gesundheit the Rocket Scientist. Wildcat then asks Baloo to fly to Mars and guarantees free publicity. Becky goes along with the charade and is given a radio to communicate to while he's 'in space.' Becky spends all day talking to Baloo, asking him to bring back items from space. Baloo starts to improvise, but eventually pretends that he's attacked by Martians and throws the radio into the lake. However, it turns out the military was listening in on their communications and begin preparing for a Martian invasion.
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#6 - Flight of the Snow Duck
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/5/1990
While Molly is being babysat by Wildcat, they read a book about a Snow Duck. Afterwards, Molly wants to see snow, so she and Wildcat stowaway on the Sea Duck when Baloo goes to Thembria to deliver pink flamingos. Upon arrival, they make snowballs, snowmen, and go sledding. Unfortunately, having fun is outlawed in Thembria so they are imprisoned. While everyone is trying to figure a way to escape, Molly reassures them that the Snow Duck will come and rescue them. But when she starts to give up hope, Wildcat says it's still important to keep your imagination running. This gives Molly an idea that will get them out.
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#7 - Feminine Air
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/30/1990
Cool Hands and other pilots give Baloo some ribbing that he works for a woman. This is also starting to lose business for 'Higher for Hire.' Trying to prove that he's still a great pilot, Baloo enters himself into the Great Air Scavenger Hunt, which has been won by Cool Hands every year. Baloo goes to ask Becky for the day off for the race, but she beats him to it by telling him she needs to spend the day for drumming up publicity. However, she needs the Sea Duck to do it, and things get worse when no one will sponsor Baloo. It comes down to the D.O.A. (Daughters Of Aviation). Not giving up, Baloo dresses like a woman and calls himself Tan Margaret. When Tan is assigned a plane he's surprised to be given the Sea Duck. Turns out it was donated to D.O.A. for this contest to drum up publicity, and the navigator will be Becky.
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#8 - Last Horizons
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/1/1990
Baloo is pouting that he's never had a parade in his honor. When asked what he's ever done to earn a parade, Baloo remembers his journey to find Panda-la, city beyond the last horizon. No one believes him and Baloo becomes determined to find it and earn his parade. After weeks of searching, Baloo gives up. But before he can turn back for home he's caught in a whirlwind and grounded. He starts searching for help and finds a large, beautiful city. It's Panda-la, and the natives honor him upon his arrival. They fix his plane and give him gifts for his return home. When Baloo arrives back at Cape Suzette, he's greeted by everyone and a celebration is underway. But the festivities barely get planned when the entire city of Panda-la is upon them: in the air. With enough fire-power to down Cape Suzette's entire army and defenses, it's up to Baloo to save the day.
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#9 - Paradise Lost
Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 2/25/1991
Baloo is asked by a man named O'Rourke to fly him into the Mogavi desert. When Baloo questions what's out there, he tells them a tale of a lost paradise, where dinosaurs roam and long lost vegetation grows. It only appears once every 100 years, when at the break of dawn, a door opens. From that flows ancient waters deep from within the Earth. When it touches the sands of the Mogavi desert, it turns into the lost paradise. O'Rourke wants to open a tourist attraction there, and he's cutting Baloo in on the profits. All he has to do is fly him to the spot and blow open the door permanently. But when O'Rourke starts showing a darker side on their journey, Baloo begins to reconsider the deal.
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#10 - The Old Man and the Sea Duck
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/8/1990
Behind schedule, Kit finds a passage that will get them home quicker. Baloo complies, but then inquires why he's never heard of this route. Kit tells him it's the Mirle Pass. Baloo panics, because the Mirle Pass takes a miracle to get through. They end up landing in the ocean and Baloo bangs his head. When he wakes up, he can't remember anything including how to fly. When Wildcat and Kit take him back up, they get caught in a thunderstorm. They're forced to bail, but Baloo gets trapped behind in the Sea Duck. He's rescued when a man named Joe McGee coaches him down over the radio. McGee attempts to help him overcome his fear of flying and remember his many successful flights.
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#11 - The Balooest of the Bluebloods
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/15/1990
Baloo is told he's the long-lost 13th Baron of Bruinwald. He's then taken to his Chateau and introduced to his staff: a butler and a cook. However, ever since his arrival there seems to be multiple attempts on his life. Turns out there's a Bruinwald Family Curse which makes it's members expire under peculiar circumstances.
#12 - The Road to Macadamia
Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 2/21/1991
Louie and Baloo are going to Macadamia to drop off cargo and pick up some Macadamia nuts. But the cities economy had dropped since their last visit. When they went to the king to collect their payment and nuts, they're turned away. When they protest, a Chancellor Trample comes and tells them that they cannot afford to pay them. When Baloo and Louie investigate, they find that the chancellor is intentionally running the economy into the ground in hopes the absent-minded king will force princess Lotta L'Amour to marry him. With their income and cargo still needed, and now the help of the princess, Baloo and Louie decide to stay and help prove the chancellor is cheating the royal family.
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#13 - A Baloo Switcheroo
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/16/1990
Baloo and kit are hired to fly Professor O'Bowens, an archeologist, to a forbidden temple to find a mystical idol. After he acquires it, the pirates reveal themselves and demand the idol. Not to lose the it so easily, O'Bowens gives the idol to Kit and Baloo and tells them to return without him. He warns them not to look into the idol's eyes during a thunder storm, but the two get curious as to what would happen and tempt fate, resulting in them switching bodies. The two must then cope with their new positions until O'Bowens returns, and avoid the pirates who are still seeking the idol. However, they find they have until sunrise the next day to return to normal or be trapped like this forever.
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#14 - Save the Tiger
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/7/1990
Baloo helps a plane in distress before it crashes. Turns out the that the plane was transporting Shere Khan. Khan promises Baloo anything in return for his saving his life. After asking for a few small items, Baloo starts to get greedy. He visits Khan every morning and asks for more things, including enough money to pay back Becky and quit Hire for Higher. Khan knows he's being taken advantage of, so he arranges Baloo to be kidnapped. Kit and Becky liquidate everything Baloo owns in order to pay the ransom, including Hire for Higher. But when they make the drop-off, not everything goes according to plan.
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#15 - Pizza Pie in the Sky
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 2/5/1991
Becky enrolls in the Better Business Boot Camp. In the meantime, Baloo and Kit are in charge. Baloo takes advantage of his own business and pairs up with Louie to deliver pizzas. With no real business know-how, Baloo tries all the normal techniques on a larger scale. He ends up taking all the petty cash from Higher For Hire, buy rancid anchovies that make Louie (their only chef) pass out, and get the attention of the Health Department.
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#16 - Louie's Last Stand
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 1/31/1991
Junior executive Douglas Benson takes over Louie's profitable island.
#17 - For Whom the Bell Klangs (1)
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/27/1990
Baloo and Louie go on vacation, they get caught on a wild goose chase for treasure. Salvaging what's left of their time away, they decide to ignore all damsels in distress and buried treasures. But when they get involved with Katie Dodd, an archaeologist in search of the Legendary Lost City of Tinabula, they find themselves once again involved in a treasure hunt. This one comes with a mysterious villain named Thadeos E. Klang. He and his minions are also trying to find the city for their own personal gain...
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#18 - Whistlestop Jackson, Legend
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/22/1990
Shere Kahn is making an under-the-table deal with the Finance Minister of Klopstokia to give Kahn Enterprises exclusive delivery contracts. At Higher for Hire, Baloo is excited that Whistlestop Jackson, the legendary ace of the skies, is helping Higher for Hire, even if he's just going to be the vice president. Jackson offers to show Baloo a few pointers, but Baloo ends up bailing him out. Becky blames Baloo for showing off, enraging him to fake an injury so Whistlestop will have to make the next delivery and reveal that he is a fraud. But the next delivery is to Klopstokia, and if done properly will result in an exclusive delivery contract. This gets Kahn's attention and he is not about to let Whistlestop, his old rival, get the upper hand... again.
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#19 - Double or Nothing
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/24/1990
Baloo's favorite record, handed down by his father, is broken and so is Baloo's heart. He finds the last existing record is for sale at an antique store for $100. With $50 of Kit's hard earned money for starting cash, Baloo sets out to show Kit that you don't need to work hard for 'easy money.' However, the easy street requires them to cross Trader Moe, who's not about to lose his trades to someone muscling in on his action.
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#20 - Flight School Confidential
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 1/10/1991
Kit wants to fly, but Baloo says that he's too young. When he learns that Thembria is training pilots as young as 12 years-old, Kit enlists. The piloting school is anything but training kids how to fly. General Spigot and Dunder are in charge of preforming the aerial flounder formation. Turns out Spigot accidentally ordered a whole fleet of small planes. To avoid punishments (or death), Spigot plans on having small kids in the plane creating the illusion that they're the appropriate size. Dunder is put in charge of bolting all the planes together, and the lead plane will be flown by a Tiny Bubbles, a professional Thembrian pilot. When Kit finds out that they will never be actually flying, he starts scheming how he's going to get himself in the air.
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#21 - Bringing Down Babyface
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 1/17/1991
Baloo is put in charge of transporting Babyface Half-Nelson from Prison Island to Cape Suzette. However, Babyface has knocked out the officer transporting him and switched outfits. Baloo, who's never seen Babyface before, takes them back to Cape Suzette and let's Babyface walk away. When the officer awakens, he arrests Baloo for aiding in the escape of a prisoner. Meanwhile, Babyface's mother hires two goons to free her son, who also have never seen him. Baloo begs for forgiveness and the cops are about to let him go since he doesn't seem the type to work with gangsters. It just happens that right then, the goons nab Baloo, thinking he's Babyface. When they arrive back at their hideout, Babyface is already there. Since he knows too much, they order the goons to 'retire' him. With the cops now convinced that Baloo is working with Babyface and the gangsters out to kill him, Baloo has to do everything he can to clear his name.
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#22 - Waiders of the Wost Tweasure
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 1/9/1991
Baloo has to deliver a package to Walla Walla Bing Bang. While en route, they run into Airplane Jane, an old friend of Baloo's who beat him in a race years back. Since then, there's always been a rivalry between the two. Princess Grace of Walla Walla Bing Bang is being challenged to the right of the throne by her long lost brother Prince Rudolf. In order to prove her right to rule, they need to produce Queen Mureens Ruby Rings at the coronation. The Rubies were lost centuries ago in the mountains of Walla Walla Bing Bang and it's up to Airplane Jane to find it. But Baloo sees this as an opportunity to win the rivalry once and for all.
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#23 - In Search of Ancient Blunders
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 1/30/1991
Baloo and Wildcat are assigned to deliver an Egyptian tablet to Aridia. The tablet has directions on how to find the lost treasure of King Utmost, and Don Karnage is not going to let this one slip past him. When they arrive, they find the Museum of Ancient History... coming soon. It's (going to be) run by Myra who is an archaeologist for the Ministry of Culture. Baloo and Wildcat agree to help her find the location since she can't read the coordinates, but find that once they're involved, they have to survive traps, pirates, and a mummy that's protecting the treasure.
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#24 - Baloo Thunder
Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 2/6/1991
Prof. Buzz gives Baloo and Kit a tour of his research and development section of Khan's business. When they leave, Buzz overhears Perry, one of Khan's white-collars, on the phone with Miniversal Crop. Turns out he's going to steal Khan's Top Secret Flying Project for the rival corporation. Upon hearing this Buzz goes to inform Khan. But when Perry finds out Prof. Buzz is onto him, he alerts security that Buzz is the traitor. Buzz escapes with the Top Secret Project, only further incriminating himself. It's up to his best friends Baloo and Kit to clear his name and reveal who the real traitor is.
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#25 - Sheepskin Deep
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 2/4/1991
With his High School reunion coming up, Baloo anticipates the arrival of his invitation. When none comes, he asks Louie where his invitation is. Turns out Baloo never graduated from Grade School. He decides to enroll in classes with Kit. This way he can graduate and still attend the reunion. However, along with school, he still has to make his deliveries for Higher for Hire. When this doesn't work out, the principal threatens to expel Baloo, he's allowed one last chance by taking an equivalency test. With Kit helping him, they attempt to make the impossible possible.