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The Planet of Oz (I don’t think they’re in Metropolis anymore)

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When I reviewed The Fear, I mentioned a few of the more ridiculous plot lines ever for Superfriends: the episode where the Superfriends visit Space Camelot, the one where the Superfriends visit Space Arabia, the one where the Joker teams with Darkseid (OK, that one was just improbable rather than ridiculous, but it was in Super Powers Team, so it was very out of place alongside The Fear), and...

If you would like to watch this blatant ripoff exciting episode, you can find it on KissCartoon.

We open to the mother of all twisters heading for the Hall of Justice (quick note: According to Superfriends canon the Hall of Justice in in either Gotham or Metropolis depending on the episode (in this one it’s Metropolis), and according to DC canon, Metropolis is in New York. Therefore, we are seeing an F5 tornado in New York. Something you don’t see every day...) Batman is trying to pull a Twister on the tornado using the Bat-copter...

...and even the comic relief wants to help. However, despite Batman’s (and I suppose Gleek’s) best efforts, the tornado rages on...straight toward the Hall of Justice...

...tearing it loose from its foundation, with Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman inside! Eventually, the Hall of Justice lands in a strange land.

Well that explains a lot. After Superman tells the kids watching Wonder Woman that they have to trick Myxlplyx into saying his name backwards to send him back to the Fifth Dimension...

(Thanks to the Fifth Dimension)

...no, not that one!

Myxlplyx explains he’s brought them to the land of Oz and the only way home is to follow the yellow brick road to see the Wizard. Now, if I were Superman I would grab Aquaman and Wonder Woman and fly there...but that would make for a short adventure, so Superman forgets he can fly apparently.

As they follow the Yellow Brick Road (that sounds like a song cue or two)...

...a chloro-fiend (hey, it sounds cooler than “plant monster”) enters the road and attacks! Now, Superman could use his heat vision to torch it, or any of them could use their strength to tear it apart, but when Superman goes to deal with it...

...Myxlplyx used his powers to alter the Road (and mess with the Superfriends’ powers), so they run off the path (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?) to what looks like a house made of candy.

Inside is an old witch (what else) who transforms the Superfriends into...

Who’s surprised by this? It turns out the witch (and the chloro-fiend) was actually Myxlplyx. Superman declares they need to play along for now, so back on the road (again) they go. Later...

...crows take Aquacrow away! (guess he wasn’t a very effective Scarecrow. About as effective as Michael Jackson was)

(Thanks to Fandango)

After a while the crows drop Aquacrow into a nearby river, where his straw body prevents him from swimming effectively, so he uses his ability to talk to fish (you knew it would come into play somehow) to summon a jellyfish, which coats his body with a waterproof mucus (but his straw is already full of water. How is that supposed to help?) that allows him to swim to safety. He then tries to find the rest of the Superfriends.

Back on the road, Wonder Lion (why would a female lion have a mane, anyway?) runs off after Aquacrow, but...

...quickgrass? She sinks into the ground and is deposited into a swamp. As she attempts to find her way out, she’s attacked by a pack of wild boar. (wait, don’t lions eat boar?) Rather than use his godlike powers (or even her lasso) to deal with the boars, she runs like her cowardly namesake. She eventually hides up a tree, but the branch a weak and is threatening to snap, so...

...she uses her lasso to fly a kite? An approaching storm sends a bolt of lightning down the lasso, frightening the boars away. Ben Franklin would’ve been...well, probably embarrassed that his discovery was used for such an inane out.

Meanwhile, back on the Yellow Brick Road, Supertin (hey, they can’t all be gems) is continuing, apparently not worried about the fates of his friends. Guess he really is heartless. Suddenly it starts to rain, causing him to rust. [Now, I know that in The Wizard of Oz the Tin Woodsman rusted solid when exposed to water, but in reality rust is oxidized iron. Oxidized tin is used in pottery glazing. OK, reality check over. Now back to the water-ed down retelling of a children’s book] To make matters worse...

...the Yellow Brick Road has turned green and is glowing. Three guesses what the bricks are now made of. Myxlplyx shows up to taunt Supertin, so Supertin uses his heat vision to transform his tin body to lead (protecting him from the Kryptonite), with a rustproof coating (Now wait just a damn minute! Are you telling me that Superman’s heat vision is hot enough to alter subatomic bonds enough that every atom in his body added 32 protons and electrons (and however many neutrons) Scotty, what do you have to say about that?

(Thanks to Meme Generator)

That’s what I thought.)

As Myxlplyx bamfs away, Wonder Lion and Aquacrow arrive from somewhere to rejoin Superlead and explain what they went through before continuing on.

Further down...

...the Superfriends are attacked by...Jawas? Apparently Hannah-Barbara wasn’t afraid of George Lucas’s lawyers. Whatever they are, they tie up the Superfriends with laser cable (because everyone remembers when the Jawas used lasers on Dorothy and Toto) The Jawas take the trio to a giant hourglass. Superlead wonders why they need one so huge.

Well, ask a silly question. I guess time is about to run out on the Superfriends.

When they slip to the bottom, a giant serpent appears to ask the Superfriends to dinner (with them as the main course. I hope it has powerful teeth for Superlead. The serpent ducks under the sand and pulls the Superfriends under one by one. However, instead of the belly of the beast, they fall through a vortex and land outside the Wizard’s castle (HOW CONVENIENT!)

They enter the castle through a door large enough for a giant. Then they find him.

...and he doesn’t disappoint. Maybe they should be looking for a curtain. It turns out the Wizard is a big jerk who refuses to help (given the source material, no big surprise there) and instead transforms into Myxlplyx (also no big surprise)

He then changes the Superfriends back, with the remnants of their Oz-themed bodies on the floor. It turns out that the misadventures they’d had formed ingredients that combined would prevent Myxlplyx from being forced back to the Fifth Dimension (but I like their music...oh wait. Sorry) After drinking his cocktail (couldn’t he have created the potion himself rather than go through this Rube Goldberg plotline?) he declares victory. Superman doesn’t believe him and dares Myxlplyx to say his name backward, which he does...

...and begins fading. In a bit of off-camera deus ex supershit they figured out Myxlplyx’s plan and Superlead used his heat vision to change back into Supertin, ruining Myxlplyx’s formula. I think Deadpool might have something to say about that...

(Thanks to Tenor)

With Myxlplyx gone, the Superfriends and the Hall of Justice return to Metropolis as the credits roll.

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Dakota Higgins 2020 Mountain with Weeds Quickgrass on offset print with acrylic tape in Artist’s frame 15 x 11 1/8 x 1 3/8 inches Photo by Diana Relth

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