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101 Dalmatians: The Series

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  Episode Information  
Title: Out To Launch / Prophet and Loss
Episode Number: 12
Season: 1
Season Episode #.: 12
Original Airdate: Saturday January 10th, 1998
9/10 (1 Vote cast)
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Episode Crew
Director: Ken Boyer
Skip Jones
Writer: Don Gillies (1)
Thomas D. Hart (1)
  Episode Summary  
Out To Launch: Lucky has recently been obsessed with Roger’s space flight simulator, though when his friends believe he’s developing an unhealthy habit, they force him to come with them to check out Cruella’s trash. Meanwhile, Cruella De Vil has purchases a rocket that was formerly owned by the U.S.S.R., in which she wishes to turn it into the world’s first weight loss center in space.

Prophet and Loss: When a series of circumstantial events causes the animals on the Dearly Farm to believe Cadpig is a psychic, she attempts to tell them that they’re incorrect in their belief. However, when she discovers the many perks of being a psychic, she decides to play the part in order to be praised and to control their lives, much to the chagrin of Spot, who believes it’s all nonsense.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
Paddi EdwardsvoicedLucyRecurring (6th appearance)
Tress MacNeillevoicedCorneliaRecurring (5th appearance)
  Episode Notes  
In the episode ‘Out To Launch’, it is revealed that Cruella De Vil is continuing her attempts to expand her business beyond that of the world of fashion. While this isn’t the first episode to depict her additional business ventures, this episode showed that she was taking the prospect of an outer space weight loss center quite seriously.
 
The episode ‘Prophet and Loss’ marks one of the few times where Roger and Anita’s shed is seen; the shed is located behind the barn and it is where Roger and Anita store various items, including those used for actual farming. A refrigerator is also stored inside of the shed; its model is an Arctic Igloo Fridgee Freeze.
 
  Episode Quotes  
(Lucky’s friends are distraught since he’s too busy playing the computer game)
Cadpig: How long do you suppose Captain Fleadip will be conquering space today?
Spot: Probably just his usual romp to the Omega Quadrant and back.
Rolly: Oh, come on, Lucky! You promised we’d check out Cruella’s trash; got all kinds of great new stuff in it.
Lucky: (paying the computer game) No way! There’s no reason to stop playing the game now.
Rolly: I can give you at least three reasons why! One: you promised!
Spot: Two: it’s not good for you to sit inside all day long and play video games!
Cadpig: And three: you look like a rabid dog behind those controls. You need to relax, pup, and get outside!
 
Cruella: Whoever dreamed that I would have the wherewithal to acquire my very own Kapootnik Battle Cruiser?!
Jasper: We heard bankrupt commie countries are practically giving them away.
Horace: And that you only had to trade a truckload of pantyhose for this one.
Cruella: (monotonous) Yes.
 
VLAD: Pleased to introduce myself. I am VLAD.
Rolly: The onboard computer?
VLAD: Every Kapootnik Battle Cruiser comes equipped with a VLAD.
 
(Rolly, Cadpig and Spot are terrified over the fact that they’re in space)
Lucky: Hey guys, don’t panic; lighten up!
Cadpig: Lighten up? We’re already weightless!
Rolly: What are we supposed to do? We’ve never flown a ship before.
Spot: Well, do we know about anything that’s like it?
Cadpig: Hey, this looks like a steering wheel! Maybe it’s like racing go-carts?
Lucky: Got it. This looks like Roger’s flight simulator. Not exactly, but close enough that if we work together, we’ll manage.
Spot: (referring to VLAD) Well, he does seem to need us to push the buttons.
Lucky: Yeah, that’s the spirit! If we don’t panic, and work together, we’ll figure it out!
 
Lucky: Well, VLAD, it’s been a pleasure reliving the Cold War with you, but I’ll be steering us home now.
VLAD: Neit! VLAD must seek! VLAD must destroy! VLAD must decimate large populations while leaving all buildings intact!
Cadpig: We all need to express our dark side, VLAD, but give it a rest!
 
Mayor Ed Pig: The annual puppy races are here by about to commence up something fierce!
Mooch: Hey, Rolly-Slowly! At least we’ll know who’ll come in last!
(Rolly sighs in depression)
Cadpig: Don’t you listen to him, Rolly! Mooch is just expressing his inner pea-brain.
Rolly: Nah, he’s right; I’m no good at running. Most everybody’s faster than me.
Cadpig: Now I don’t want to hear another word from ol’ Mr. Bad Vibes; you’re a fine runner! You get excellent traction and for what you lack in speed, you make up for in momentum!
Rolly: Hey, you really think so?
Cadpig: Absolutely! In fact, I bet you win the race today!
Mooch: Right, when pigs freeze over!
 
Cadpig: (awakening to discover a mob of animals) Huh?!
Cornelia: You said my eggs were going to hatch this morning, and they didn’t! What gives?!
Lucky: (with his nose bandaged) I dug all around Snider’s Mill and didn’t find a single bone; just a really angry crawfish! I thought you were psychic! You got some explaining to do, little girl!
 
Cadpig: So now I’m old news; yesterday’s meta-cognitive mentor. I guess the birthday predictions weren’t enough. I need to predict something big Something that will put me back on top! Let’s see, an earthquake? Hmm, no. Mange? Ooh. Locusts? Too crawly. Hey, that’s it! An ice-asteroid! That’s my plan; all I need is the old freezer out in the shed.
 
(Lucky and Rolly are shivering while soaking their feet in warm water)
Cadpig: Hi, uh, want me to warm up your foot baths?
Lucky: No thanks. I don’t trust you not to boil my toes.
Cadpig: Okay, okay, I said I was sorry! I admit it, I only pretended to by psychic. It was just nice to have everyone look up to me for awhile; to take my advice. It gave me a feeling of importance.
Lucky: Well, it gave me chills and a fever, and frostbite on my tail.
Cadpig: Oh, and what about you? You all believed I was psychic because you wanted to, not because there was any real evidence.
Rolly: Ah, she’s right.
Lucky: Yeah? Explain that to Spot!
(Spot is seen frozen solid inside of a large block of ice)
 
(VLAD has just asked Lucky if he wants to go on a test flight)
Cadpig: There is no chance, no how, no way we are flying into space!
VLAD: Did VLAD say flight? VLAD meant make-believe flight! Please to be thinking of VLAD like ride in capitalist amusement park; big fun for little comrades!
 
Cornelia: Don’t deny it, you are psychic!
Cadpig: Psychic?
Dumpling: Tell me when I will find true love!
Cadpig: Well, I…
Mayor Ed Pig: (interrupting) How much to buy the next election?
Cadpig: I, uh…
Lucy: (interrupting) Cadpig, I want you to be my spiritual guide. You tell me how to live my life, and I’ll do it!
Cadpig: Tell you how to live your life? Hmm!
 
  Episode Goofs  
In the episode ‘Out To Launch’, it shouldn’t have been possible for the animals to communicate with VLAD, as despite the fact that it was a computer program, it was created by humans and in the series, humans cannot speak with animals.
 
In the episode ‘Out To Launch’, when the Dalmatians ride VLAD into outer space, they are seen buckled tightly into a seat as it is exiting Earth’s atmosphere. However, in the next scene they are freely floating around the rocket, despite the fact that very little time had passed from one scene to the other, so they shouldn’t have been able to exit their seats so quickly.
 
In the episode ‘Out To Launch’, the world that the series takes place in was seen, as the characters went into outer space. However, despite the fact that the series is supposed to take place in the United States, and that the planet is supposed to be Earth, the world in the episode looked much different than the world we live in, especially in terms of ocean size and continent structure.
 
In the episode ‘Prophet and Loss’, when Cadpig confronts the animals when they ran past her psychic stand, her collar is seen as being red. This is an animation error, as her collar is blue throughout the rest of the series and it is blue both before and after the scene in question.
 
In the episode ‘Prophet and Loss’, Rolly told Cadpig that Cornelia found a goldfish in Stiffle that could predict thunderstorms. However, this doesn’t seem feasible since Cornelia is a chicken who seldom leaves the farm, let alone goes to a city that is as far away from the Dearly Farm as Stiffle is.
 
In the episode ‘Prophet and Loss’, during the scene where the ice-ball is rolling towards Spot, it stops briefly before it continues rolling; this is an animation error, as the ice-ball should have been rolling towards Spot in a consistent fashion.
 
  Cultural References  
Jasper: We heard bankrupt commie countries are practically giving them away.

This is a reference to the end of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving many of the republics that once were a part of it near bankruptcy. While these republics went on to become their own independent state, the damage dealt by the collapse of the Soviet Union plagued them for years after. The reference is made in the episode ‘Out To Launch’, when Horace and Jasper talk to Cruella about her recently acquired U.S.S.R. rocket.
 
Lucky: Well, VLAD, it’s been a pleasure reliving the Cold War with you.

This is a reference to the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union competed in an arms race in an attempt to prove superiority over one another. The Cold War began shortly after World War II in 1947 and it didn’t end until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; though the Cold War changed the way many people thought about nuclear weapons. This reference is made towards the end of ‘Out To Launch’, when Lucky decides to work with his friends and family to pilot VLAD back down to Earth.
 
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