Vendettas

"Vendettas" is the fifty-ninth televised episode of the series Gargoyles, and the forty-sixth episode of Season 2. It originally aired on May 1, 1996.

Crew

With the Voice Talent Of

Supervising Producers: Frank Paur, Greg Weisman Written by: Cary Bates Story Edited by: Cary Bates Directed by: Bob Kline Voice Casting Director: Jamie Thomason Music by: Carl Johnson Title Theme by Carl Johnson Music Editing: Marc Perlman Dialogue Director: Greg Weisman Animation by: Koko Enterprise Co., LTD Backgrounds by: Koko Enterprise Co., LTD Additional Production Facilities: Anima Sam Won Co., LTD

Ed Asner: Hudson Jeff Bennett: Vinnie Grigori Clancy Brown: Hakon, Wolf Jim Cummings: Mr. Acme Keith David: Goliath

Summary

Main Plot

Goliath and Hudson are on patrol when they are attacked by Wolf wielding a battle axe containing Hakon's ghost. Wolf battles with the two gargoyles on a pier until Wolf is knocked out, and Hakon leaves the axe to take over his body. The ghost possessed mutate fares better against the gargoyles, even forcing Hudson to attack Goliath as their battle continues in a warehouse. Wolf forces Hakon out of his body, however, and they follow the gargoyles to a junkyard, where Wolf fights with Goliath, and Hakon with Hudson. Wolf is defeated when a pile of cars topple onto him, while Hakon's Axe is crushed in a compactor, causing the ghost to leave the Earth-plane. Goliath and Hudson are glad the night is over, when Vinnie suddenly shows up swearing revenge, and hits Goliath in the face with a banana cream pie.

Subplots

Vinnie purchases a pie-throwing gun which he dubs "Mr. Carter", and proceeds to get revenge on the gargoyles while explaining to his gun how the gargoyles have ruined his life. He refers to several instances from former episodes when he ran into misfortune by accidentally clashing with the gargoyles. He lost his driver's license when Lexington accidentally crashed his motorcycle in "Awakening: Part Three". He lost two security jobs when Goliath and Demona destroyed Fortress-1 in "Awakening: Part Five", and when Goliath kidnapped Sevarius in "The Cage". He pursues Goliath and Hudson as they fight Wolf and Hakon, seemingly oblivious to their plight, and getting into unfortunate situations until he finally reaches up to them.

The Story

Previously on Gargoyles

• Recaps: ("Upgrade", "Grief")

Act One

Heavy rain pours down on the village and surrounding highlands of Wyvern, Scotland. Lightning crashes as a police car patrols the coastline. The constable comments how no one – man or beast – should be caught out in the storm when he sees a tall figure in a trench coat doing just that. Figuring the fellow's car must have broken down, he slows to pull alongside to ask if the tall figure could use a ride. Revealing himself as Wolf, the tall figure accepts the constable's offer, when suddenly draws from his trench coat a giant battle axe! Swinging it high in the air, the man-beast with glowing red eyes slices through the hood of the patrol car. Moments later, the constable is now the one left in the rain; Wolf and the patrol car peeling away into the night. Driving down the coast, Wolf laughs at his latest crime . . . but he is not the only one that's laughing – it appears that the battle axe resting in the passenger seat next to him is also cackling!

Two weeks later in a Manhattan weapons shop, Mr. Acme asks Vinnie what does he think about his custom-order. Dressed in tactical gear, Vinnie praises the craftsmanship, saying the large bazooka looks like a million bucks. "You must have followed my blueprints to a T!" he tells the shop owner, and he can't help but express his excitement of the weapon's capabilities. "I guarantee, whoever ends up on the receiving end of this baby is gonna get creamed!" Mr. Acme then points out the palm-print trigger in the bazooka's handle that will only work with Vinnie's hand. "Cool – I don't want nobody firing Mr. Carter but me!" Vinnie explains, as he struggles a bit to lift the weapon over his shoulder. Once he does though, he's looking through the scope and fantasizing at the target he intends to hit. Mr. Acme is confused, "Mr. Carter? You're giving it a name?" Feeling the dig, Vinnie swings the bazooka at Mr. Acme's direction, asking if he really has a problem with Vinnie naming the weapon. Mr. Acme throws his hands up, immediately coming around to the idea, saying the name perfectly "suits him".

As Vinnie walks down the street with Mr. Carter concealed in a large duffel bag, he talks to the bazooka, "What goes around comes around; it's one of them cosmic rules that catches up with everyone sooner or later . . . even gargoyles!" Passersby look and turn their eyes away from the obvious kook out on the New York street. While all of Manhattan ignores Vinnie, he shares his tale to Mr. Carter, how just a year ago, a few blocks from where he now walks, was the first time he saw a gargoyle. He was riding along on his motorcycle, when a gargoyle swooped in beside him. The shock of seeing him throws Vinnie off balance and he flies off the bike as soon as he hits the curb. Landing several feet away (and probably saved from his helmet), Vinnie – completely unfazed as he recalls – runs away down the street to hide behind a building, oblivious as to how the "creature" managed to steal his motorcycle. The gargoyle takes a seat and tries to accelerate the bike when he suddenly loses control, crashing into a park wall. "Hey, can you believe it? Turns out he didn't know the first thing about motorcycles!" Mr. Carter hears how the gargoyle flew off into the night once his motorbike burst into flames, and how, worse still, when Vinnie tried to explain what happened in court, the judge thought he was intoxicated and revoked his driver's license.

Meanwhile, a glowing red wisp flies between the skyscrapers. Turning corners here and there, it eventually finds its way back to Wolf, who's scrounging for food in a dumpster. As Wolf chomps down on a discarded turkey leg, the wisp tells the man-beast, "I found him! Our mutual enemy, the object of out hate." The wisp takes possession of the battle-axe. and explaining that their target lies a mile to the west, heading northward . . . and, further, that the old gargoyle is with him. Wolf responds to the battle-axe that it'll be two against two, "I've got no problem with that." Neither does the battle-axe. Wolf scampers off after their quarry. A reflection from a small puddle by the dumpster reveals two gliding silhouettes in the night sky. Goliath and Hudson patrol the city, and Hudson ponders aloud why they call New York the "Big Apple". Goliath tries to comfort his old friend that some questions are best left for humanity to resolve. They do not see Wolf watching from a rooftop above them. Spotting the gargoyles, Wolf leaps off the building, to the next, gaining ground to pounce on Goliath mid-air! As he and Goliath plummet to the pier below, Hudson dives after them. Gargoyle and werewolf crash and Wolf rolls away from the collision, dismounting flawlessly from the impact with a limp. Even the battle-axe compliments the feat.

Still sprawled out on the dock of Pier 13, Goliath tries to assure Hudson he's suffered no major injury as the old gargoyle land between him and their old adversary. Wolf draws the battle-axe as Hudson draws his sword, promising to inflict major injury at the next opportunity. "You'll have to get through me first!" Hudson says as he parries his blade against Wolf's axe. Wolf and the axe are fine with that, taking a fist to knock Hudson out of their way. Wolf's next battle-axe swing shoves Hudson to the ground, knocking the sword out of his hand, which the werewolf quickly kicks aside. Hudson notes Wolf's new weapon of choice, commenting that he thought the mutate preferred his own fangs and claws. Wolf dismisses the dig, responding, "Tonight is battle-axe night!" Goliath takes the moment to punch Wolf in the face, separating him from the battle-axe. Wedged now in the dock's wood beams, Hudson tries to go for the weapon just as Wolf's retaliatory attack knows Goliath straight back into Hudson. Goliath helps Hudson to his feet but he hears Wolf's growl and, seeing the werewolf charging towards them both, swings his arm back to punch Wolf but hits Hudson in the face! The accidental hit distracts Goliath, which helps Wolf land another blow! Wolf continues to tear down his prey as Hudson cradles his jaw, groaning. Before Wolf can land another blow, Goliath takes advantage of being on his back to kick Wolf into the air, repelling the mutate away from him. Goliath begins to advance when Wolf begins to show his first signs of slowing down. Goliath, ready to attack on a hair trigger, almost punches Hudson again when his old friend approaches him! He catches himself this time and the two brace each other for the next round. Wolf charges and he and Goliath circle and pace one another before locking claws; their brute strengths in check.

As the two duke it out, a forklift moving crates with fragile goods advances slowly to the scene – the driver is Vinnie! He tells Mr. Carter how lucky their night is; he found the big gargoyle! Goliath, at this point, manages to lift Wolf in the air before chucking him past Hudson and unfortunately, near his battle-axe which is still wedged into the dock. Wolf pries the battle-axe out and, as Goliath continues the battle, Vinnie prepares to get into position and recalls the first time he saw Goliath was when he worked security for Cyberbiotics, and stationed aboard Fortress-1 on its final voyage. Recalling how he was the first crew member to spot the gargoyle, even though another was thrown across the hallway, he remembers how natural he was to put up a fight against the monster, inattentive to the details of how his gun was immediately taken. Admitting how Goliath's brute strength overwhelmed him (specifically that he fainted as soon as Goliath picked him by the shirt), Vinnie recalls how as soon as Fortress-1 crashed into the East River, so did his career. "Can you believe it?" he complains to Mr. Carter, "A gargoyle stuck it to me again!" But now, he assures his bazooka, it's time for payback. Determined to even the score, he unzips the large duffle bag. But the jostling from his struggle to unsheathe his weapon hits the gear stick of the forklift, sending it into reverse. The forklift drifts back more and more and, just as Vinnie finally frees Mr. Carter from the bag, the forklift hits the dock's edge! Still in the forklift, Vinnie crashes into the East River again with an "Uh oh!".

As the forklift sinks, Goliath and Wolf's battle can still be heard in the distance. Goliath manages to dodge Wolf's swing of his axe as the werewolf reminds himself that taking Goliath out with the ancient weapon would have been too easy when he can have the fun of tearing the gargoyle apart with his bare hands. He grabs Goliath by the wing and throws him at some crates, which the gargoyle crashes through before falling on Hudson again. Still down, Goliath takes a moment to strategize with Hudson, realizing that Wolf is stronger than the both of them. "I'm open to suggestions," an exhausted Hudson deadpans. Goliath tells Hudson to follow his lead. The two take a strategic withdrawal, running to the dock's edge and gliding off into the night. Wolf runs to the end of the dock, shouting how the gargoyles can run, but can't hide from him. The battle-axe, however, sees the ruse, and tries to warn the werewolf, but Wolf's unconcerned, prepared to "swat 'em away like a pair of gnats!" But arguing with the weapon was enough to distract the mutate as Goliath and Hudson suddenly swoop down to punch him into the pier's crane. His body is waist deep into the machinery. "I must admit, I enjoyed that," Hudson tells Goliath, who's glad that at least someone did. The wisp suddenly leaves the battle-axe and goes to the unconscious Wolf and reveals himself to be the ghost of Hakon! "You call that a battle?! You're a disgrace to the entire bloodline." With Wolf out cold, Hakon's ghost enters Wolf's body, determined to have his turn.

Act Two

Hearing Wolf laugh maniacally, Goliath and Hudson would be stunned to see mutate recover from their knockout blow so quickly, if not for the fact that the whole pier was beginning to shake. The crane begins to crumble and collapse, all the while Wolf's body continues to impale it. A plume of dust clouds their surroundings. Before it has a chance to settle, the body of Wolf steps into view, walking calmly. Hudson can't believe Wolf caused all the destruction single-handedly, but the possessed mutate only reveals his hand so much, commanding the battle-axe to rise from the dock and fly into his hand. Hakon-as-Wolf takes a swing of the battle-axe, missing the gargoyles directly in front of him, but the strike causes enough force to split the dock into two, causing both gargoyles to fall in the water. Hakon-as-Wolf hovers above the waters and the split dock, relishing how the tables have turned in this battle. Diving head first into the water, he suddenly bursts out of the East River several yards away, holding the axe keeping him airborne and calling out Goliath's name into the night. Fortunately, Goliath and Hudson manage to emerge from the depths even further away from where the possessed mutate was searching, but the effort has certainly tired them out.

Little do Goliath and Hudson know that they are now just feet away from the still-soaked, numbskull nimrod that is Vinnie. From behind a building, he listens in on the two gargoyles. "Since when do werewolves fly?!" Hudson gasps. "The question isn't when, but how," Goliath ponders. Turning his attention to Mr. Carter once more, Vinnie remarks at how Goliath supposedly had the gall to think he could get away from him. "But he was wrong," Vinnie explains, recalling the night he worked his last security job, this time for Gen-U-Tech, not long after surviving Fortress-1's crash. But luck did not favor him, Vinnie tells Mr. Carter, because he was on night duty the evening Dr. Sevarius was abducted on the way to his car. Vinnie shares that he did all that he could to help while he remained in the parking lot booth reading the paper, and is dumbfounded how he could have been given the boot shortly after Goliath kidnapped the geneticist. After taking the time to learn who cost him that last job, Vinnie's determined to make the gargoyle pay. Preparing to finally ambush them, Vinnie's surprised that both gargoyles are nowhere to be found. "Where did they go?" he mutters to himself. He looks up just in time to see them climbing the face of the Elexem Steel warehouse.

Goliath tells Hudson that they'll head back to the Clock Tower and bring the others with them as reinforcements. Before Hudson can reply, Hakon-as-Wolf flies and crashes into them both and sends them through the building wall. They land on the warehouse floor as Vinnie makes his way to the warehouse window, scrubbing the grime away with his arm to get a better look at the commotion inside. But, as soon as he does, he slips off whatever is propping him up and resituates himself. Inside, Hakon-as-Wolf faces their long time prey, ready to resume the battle. Hudson draws his sword and charges first. The possessed mutate doesn't move, nor does he brace for contact. Hudson swings his blade and the sword goes right through the suddenly transparent werewolf, without nary a scratch! Goliath and Hudson are astonished while Hakon-as-Wolf begins to laugh at the old soldier. Solid once more, Hakon-as-Wolf slugs Hudson out of the way with backhanded punch and the gargoyle hits the warehouse wall, exposing the bricks behind the plaster.

Vinnie, meanwhile, has made his way into the warehouse, taking a sniper's position above the conflict and reassuring Mr. Carter now he has the luxury of picking his shot. He trains the bazooka with his eye piece. Down below he can see Goliath take a turn with the possessed mutate, who turns transparent once again, and therefore immune to Goliath's strikes. As he responds with another knockout blow, Hakon-as-Wolf asks the gargoyle, "What did you expect, a fair fight?" Goliath hits the structure Vinnie's perched upon, causing the human to lose his footing and Mr. Carter. "Uh oh," Vinnie says just before he falls a story or two. Goliath recovers and goes back for another attack, when the possessed mutate vanishes right before his eyes in mystical red light. "When will it dawn on you, gargoyle, you are dealing with forces you cannot possibly overcome," their voice echoes, chillingly. Hudson suddenly comes to, but he is now influenced by Hakon! Instead of seeing Goliath, he now sees Wolf. Hudson takes his sword and, to Goliath's shock, charges to attack his rookery son!

Act Three

Goliath just misses the deluded Hudson's blows and retreats some distance to pull up a bolted worktable for a makeshift shield. The possessed gargoyle strikes the metal worktable with a fury rarely seen. Goliath uses the worktable to shove Hudson to the ground, knocking the sword out of his hand. But he is still under the influence of Hakon, and still mistaking Goliath for Wolf. Hudson takes his sword but Goliath tackles him to the ground, crashing into an overhead loading chute. Goliath climbs out of the debris and begins to free Hudson as well, but once he does, Hudson goes on the offensive once more, rolling on the ground until Goliath kicks Hudson away, sending him to a wall. Hudson is still mistaking him for Wolf and charges at Goliath, sword high in the air. Before the blow can land, Goliath shoves Hudson through the wall they first crashed into and the two fall down a ramp taking them outside to a loading zone on the pier again. Hudson still aims to kill, but Goliath grabs Hudson by his jerkin and desperate tries to get him to snap out of it. Still looking and sounding like Wolf, he cries out, "Hudson, it's me!" and emphasizing he's Goliath, Hudson finally sees clear. "Oh, Jalapeña. Forgive me, lad," Hudson says, massaging his head, completely baffled what came over him. But Goliath begins to realize what's actually happening.

"Get out!" the voice of Wolf cries out in the empty warehouse. Hakon insists that, had he not possessed his unconscious body, Goliath would have apprehended him. "Well I'm awake now," Wolf insists, suddenly appearing in the warehouse, "and I got no intention of sharing my body with a viking ghost!" Speaking through Wolf, Hakon reminds him that his blood already flows in Wolf's veins since he's Hakon's descendant. He explains how that, and their mutual hate for Goliath is what drew Wolf to Wyvern in the first place. And now, with his supernatural abilities, Wolf is all but invincible, and would be a fool to reject Hakon. But Wolf isn't having it. "I'm tellin' ya, Grandpa, if you don't bug out now, I'll fire up that incinerator and chuck in the axe!" Wolf starts to make his way towards the active inferno and Hakon pleads for him not to. "This far from Wyvern, the axe is my one link to the Earth-plane! Without it––" but Hakon is cut off my Wolf's indifference. Hakon finally relents and leaves Wolf's body, manifesting as a shade of his former self. "How you could be descended from me, I shall never know," the ghost tells the mutate before repossessing the battle-axe once more. Wolf tells his ancestor to get over it, especially since they still have some unfinished business.

At an Auto Junkyard, a crane operator lifts a car onto a conveyor belt. As the car is then dropped into a giant compactor, he spots Goliath and Hudson walking through the car stacks. The sight is enough to make him abandon his work. Leaving the crane, he blames the cold medicine he's been taking. Goliath meanwhile explains to Hudson how the last he saw this kind of power at work was during his adventure in Wyvern, Scotland on the world tour. It was there that he was locked in battle with the ghost of Hakon. Hearing the sound of the Viking's name stirs up the wounded memories of the Wyvern Massacre for Hudson. Wolf suddenly appears right behind the gargoyle, telling Hudson to ignore the phantom when there's Wolf to be dealing with! Picking Hudson off his feet, he throws him against a car stack. Goliath sees Hudson down and, eyes glowing, runs toward Wolf, tackling him to the ground. Wolf pushes them both back on their feet as Vinnie finds another sniper position on the rooftop across the street. Starting to show some bruising from the night's events, Vinnie laughs to Mr. Carter at how his luck has finally changed – for once he has an unobstructed view and far enough to stay clear of the conflict. "Hey, like they say Mr. C, third time's the charm!" Looking through the eye piece near a water tower, he sees Goliath and Wolf continue to duke it out. Wolf kicks the gargoyle forcing Goliath to take a few steps back. Lifting a motor from one of the totaled vehicles, he lifts it over his head, saying, "Hakon had his way of getting revenge, and I got mine!" Hurling the engine at Goliath, it hits the gargoyle in the abdomen with the momentum sending him to another car stack. Wolf continues to pry engines out of the dilapidated jalopies, burying the gargoyle in a half-dozen motors. Wolf's prepared to keep up the pummeling until Goliath begs to be finished off. But Goliath bursts out the pile of engines and grabs the hood of a car, telling the mutate, "Gargoyles do not beg!" Wolf hurls a motor at Goliath, which hits the car hood instead. Wolf grabs another engine and Goliath decides to change tactics. He begins to climb one of the car stacks, and Wolf grows angry. He hurls the engine into the air but misses the now gliding gargoyle, but hits the water tower across the street instead! Vinnie's been too distracted by his clean shot to notice, but as the water tower begins to topple and looks up. "Uh-oh," he says as water cascades and floods the rooftop, sending Vinnie off the building into a brief waterfall that conveniently drains in a garbage truck below. The garbage truck drives off.

Goliath takes charge once more at Wolf, who's swats him out of the sky with a car bumper. Goliath hits the ground with a skid. Before he can get up, Wolf looks down on him. "Any last words?" But Hakon-the-battle-axe has other ideas, explaining, "If anyone delivers the death blow to Goliath, it's going to be me!" Wolf disagrees telling "Casper" to dream on. Hakon realizes they are losing the opportunity before them, and offers to eliminate Goliath together. That way, they can both have the vengeance they so desperately crave. "Now you're talking sense," Wolf tells the battle-axe. "Let's do it – two against one!" But Hudson's sword counters the haunted axe before it can hit Goliath! "Two against two!" Hudson says, evening the battle. Frustrated that Hudson's returned, the possessed battle-axe promises to chop the gargoyle up in little pieces and locks blades with Hudson's sword. Goliath turns to see Wolf egg him on, and Goliath tackles him to the ground. "Big mistake gargoyle – now you've made me mad!" He propels Goliath behind him, throwing him into another car stack, but this time the impact has destabilized the makeshift tower. "I was counting on that," Goliath says to himself. Hudson meanwhile parries against the levitating battle-axe, and the two move closer and closer to the junkyard's compactor. From the battle-axe, Hakon promises a quick death if the gargoyle were to surrender now, but Hudson counters with the same offer to the battle-axe. Hakon laughs at the thought, telling Hudson, "Me? Surrender? Not a ghost of a chance!" Hudson's totally fine with that, taking the haunted weapon by the handle as the step on the compactor's conveyer belt. The ghost of Hakon takes form to free the battle-axe from Hudson's grip. He criticizes Hudson, wondering what taking ahold of the battle-axe is supposed to accomplish. Gargoyle, ghost, and groover fall into the compactor. Hakon picks up the battle-axe, threatening to let the compactor finish Hudson off, but Hudson will have none of it, calling Hakon Clan-Slaughterer and asking if he's lost his desire for vengeance and if he's lost his edge. He takes a swing at the gargoyle but misses, being suckered into driving the axe's blade into compactor's base. Hudson climbs out of the machinery as Hakon becomes trapped. With the battle-axe destroyed, the spectre of Hakon emits from the compactor, with a pathetic cry for his revenge. "Get an afterlife," Hudson responds. At the same time, Wolf and Goliath pace each other in a circle, and Wolf asks, "Come on, gargoyle, are you afraid to die like a man?" Goliath is curt, responding, "What would a mutate werewolf know about being a man?" Wolf deems those fighting words and charges at Goliath, who manages to throw him over his shoulder. Wolf crashes into a car stack and the pile gives way, crashing on him.

Moments later, Goliath pulls the last car off of Wolf, who is still unconscious from the blunt force trauma. "What a night," Goliath says, exhausted. Hudson agrees, happy that it's at least over. But then Vinnie suddenly appears! "Oh, no no no no no no no. Not over yet!" Exhausted from the night as well, Vinnie's struggling to carry Mr. Carter. Covered in bruises, trash, and East River, he tells both gargoyles that this is the moment he's been dreaming of! Hudson and Goliath look at each other, thoroughly confused as Vinnie declares there is nothing to stop him from taking his "sweet revenge". He aims once more, telling Goliath, "Gargoyle, prepare to get creamed!" He fires his bazooka and Goliath is hit square in the face full of pie! Flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and cream drip from Goliath's face! He and Hudson are speechless at what just happened. Satisfied, Vinnie abandons Mr. Carter in the junkyard. Wiping his hands clean of the matter, he tells Goliath and Hudson they are now even. The gargoyles are still speechless at what just happened. With that, Vinnie turns and walks away into the night, humming to himself a very catchy tune.

Finally managing to say something, Hudson asks, "Who in the world was that?!" Beginning to be fume with the indignity of being hit with a pie, Goliath responds, "I haven't the slightest idea." He glares at Hudson who takes a talon to Goliath's face and takes a taste. "Mmm! Banana Cream!"

Featured Characters and First Appearances

Gargoyles	Humans
Lexington (No Lines) Broadway (No Lines) Brooklyn (No Lines) Goliath Hudson Demona (No Lines) Angela (Mentioned Only)	Scottish Police Officer Wolf Hakon Vinnie Grigori Margot Yale (No Lines) Brendan Quarters (No Lines) Court Judge (Mentioned Only) Jogger (No Lines) Anton Sevarius (No Lines) Junkyard Construction Worker

Places	Objects	Media
Rogues Gallery Pier 13 Elexem Steel Auto Junkyard	Mr. Carter	Casper the Friendly Ghost

Quotes

• "I guarantee, whoever ends up on the receiving end of this baby is gonna get creamed!" - Mr. Acme

• "'Mr. Carter?' You're giving it a name?"

"Hey, you got a problem with that?" - Mr. Acme and Vinnie

• "I still can't see why they call it a 'Big Apple'." - Hudson

• "I must admit, I enjoyed that."

"I'm glad someone did." - Hudson and Goliath

• "Since when do werewolves fly?"

"The question isn't when, but how?" - Hudson and Goliath

• "Gargoyles do not beg." - Goliath

• "Dream on, Casper!" - Wolf

• "Get an after-life." - Hudson

• "Come on, gargoyle, are you afraid to die like a man?"

"What would a mutate werewolf know about being a man?" - Wolf and Goliath

• "Gargoyle, prepare to get creamed!" - Vinnie

• "Who in the world was that?"

"I haven't the slightest idea." - Hudson and Goliath

• "Mmm, banana cream!" - Hudson

Continuity

Hakon appears for the first time since "Shadows of the Past".

This episode takes place at approximately the same time as the following episode, "Turf".

Vinnie mentions the events of this episode (specifically his attack of Goliath with a cream pie) in "Nightwatch" and "The Journey".

Wolf was presumably arrested shortly after the events of this episode, since in "Phoenix", Elisa reports that Jackal had broken him out of prison.

Tidbits

This is the only episode which ends with an iris-out (another sign that it was designed as primarily a comedy).

Brendan, Margot, and the Jogger are among the passersby who stare at Vinnie as he lugs Mr. Carter along.

Greg Weisman realized too late, after making this episode, that the weapon that Hakon was joined to should have been the mace that he used in the Wyvern Massacre rather than a battle-axe.

Vinnie's name, and Mr. Carter's, were both references to the television series Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-79): the characters of Mr. Kotter and Vinnie Barbarino.

Mr. Acme's name was a reference to the Warner Brothers classic Roadrunner-and-Coyote cartoons, derived from the numerous Acme products that Wile E. Coyote used in his unsuccessful attempts to catch the Roadrunner. (Obviously the Coyote robots aren't the only Wile E. analogue in the Gargoyles Universe; Vinnie's own self-caused humiliations parallel Wile E. Coyote's perfectly.)

Vinnie's choice of ammo for Mr. Carter was based off a gag in the Bonkers episode "The Toon That Ate Hollywood" pertaining as to which pies were the funniest.

Vinnie hums the Gargoyles theme music as he walks off after finally pieing Goliath (with no explanation as to how he became aware of it).

Toon Disney/Disney XD Edits

A close-up of Vinnie pulling Mr. Carter's trigger just before the water tower spills on him has been cut. Due to Vinnie's voiceover during that shot, the previous shot of Goliath in Mr. Carter's cross-hairs is slowed down to make up the time.

DVD Release

• Gargoyles: Season Two, Volume Two

See Also

• Greg's Ramble
• Extensive Synopsis and Review

<< Previous Episode: "The Gathering" Part Two

Next Episode: "Turf" >>