Post by niecie on Aug 5, 2013 18:28:35 GMT -5
This episode is so goofy. The deputy is goofy, the sheriff slightly less goofy. Tennyson's character in disguise is goofy. Artie's disguise character is plenty goofy. Even Jim's disguise mustache is goofy.
Fatal Trap was the fourth episode made but the fifteenth aired. It's one of my favorites for some reasons, embarrassing for other reasons.
When the guys are in the baggage car toward the beginning while Jim is using the hand-cranked rotary printing press to make the Wanted posters with his face on them, watch at the end of the scene when he goes back to the printing press and look beyond Jim to the right. There's a set of bunk beds there. I don't think they ever show up again, but I wonder were they supposed to be for Jim and Artie's use, or if they were for the engine crew.
Mojave Mike tells corny jokes in this one. I like the way he snaps his fingers at the bartender who doesn't laugh when the joke's done, then says something about the man standing in front of a store like a wooden Indian. Later, when Jim shows up and Artie is falling all over himself introducing 'Frank' to Viper and the Dawson brothers, watch as Artie starts to go inside, because then he really does trip.
Ah, the Dawsons: Matt, Mark, and Luke. I kept expecting there to be a John as well. (And one of them is played by Alan Sues!)
Jim's first trip out to the hacienda and his behavior at the dinner table is hilarious to me. Just how boorish can he be? Breaking a 200-year old wine glass, keeping his hat on at the table, polishing the silverware as if it's not clean, dumping the salad onto the entree plate -- man! Col Vasquez looks like he's going to have a cow!
And then there's Linda. Linda Medford happens to be one of my favorite characters on WWW, with her little half-smirk and the way she looks at Jim. She's not star-struck by him, but she does seem to like him -- doesn't trust him. They have a backstory from a previous case when Jim called himself Harrison Briggs and wooed her in order to capture her 'father' the counterfeiter.
One thing I've never figured out about Linda is just what sort of accent she has. Sometimes she sounds Southern, sometimes Mid-Western (I think). And she has a curious quirk of sitting on table tops, desk tops -- and when she's on the train and sits on the sofa, she sits on the arm, not on the seat.
I don't understand why Mojave Mike has to go around pretending he's wanting to sell out his ol' buddy Frank for the reward money, except that it's a way to draw attention to the reward posters. His apparent betrayal comes back to bite him when Col Vasquez insists on Jim shooting Artie.
The scene when Tennyson and the sheriff (that was the sheriff, right?) go into the hotel room and yell their plans at each other to ensure Viper in the next room overhears -- goofy. The later scene when Jim talks to the deputy, then pretends to knock him out and the deputy just won't shut up -- goofy. The scene where Tennyson gets stripped to his skivvies and won't go with the others, goofy.
And then after all the goofiness, we get the terrific fight scene on the moving wagon, followed by the horrendous crash! Col Vasquez is apparently killed, and no one seems to recall that two of the three Dawsons were in the back knocked out, so I guess they died too.
The tag is one of my favorites, when Linda teasing Jim about going straight -- 'Together?' -- and him just about doing a spit take. And then the best present anyone could give a girl. My word, but she just about kissed the daylights outta Jim, didn't she?
Fatal Trap was the fourth episode made but the fifteenth aired. It's one of my favorites for some reasons, embarrassing for other reasons.
When the guys are in the baggage car toward the beginning while Jim is using the hand-cranked rotary printing press to make the Wanted posters with his face on them, watch at the end of the scene when he goes back to the printing press and look beyond Jim to the right. There's a set of bunk beds there. I don't think they ever show up again, but I wonder were they supposed to be for Jim and Artie's use, or if they were for the engine crew.
Mojave Mike tells corny jokes in this one. I like the way he snaps his fingers at the bartender who doesn't laugh when the joke's done, then says something about the man standing in front of a store like a wooden Indian. Later, when Jim shows up and Artie is falling all over himself introducing 'Frank' to Viper and the Dawson brothers, watch as Artie starts to go inside, because then he really does trip.
Ah, the Dawsons: Matt, Mark, and Luke. I kept expecting there to be a John as well. (And one of them is played by Alan Sues!)
Jim's first trip out to the hacienda and his behavior at the dinner table is hilarious to me. Just how boorish can he be? Breaking a 200-year old wine glass, keeping his hat on at the table, polishing the silverware as if it's not clean, dumping the salad onto the entree plate -- man! Col Vasquez looks like he's going to have a cow!
And then there's Linda. Linda Medford happens to be one of my favorite characters on WWW, with her little half-smirk and the way she looks at Jim. She's not star-struck by him, but she does seem to like him -- doesn't trust him. They have a backstory from a previous case when Jim called himself Harrison Briggs and wooed her in order to capture her 'father' the counterfeiter.
One thing I've never figured out about Linda is just what sort of accent she has. Sometimes she sounds Southern, sometimes Mid-Western (I think). And she has a curious quirk of sitting on table tops, desk tops -- and when she's on the train and sits on the sofa, she sits on the arm, not on the seat.
I don't understand why Mojave Mike has to go around pretending he's wanting to sell out his ol' buddy Frank for the reward money, except that it's a way to draw attention to the reward posters. His apparent betrayal comes back to bite him when Col Vasquez insists on Jim shooting Artie.
The scene when Tennyson and the sheriff (that was the sheriff, right?) go into the hotel room and yell their plans at each other to ensure Viper in the next room overhears -- goofy. The later scene when Jim talks to the deputy, then pretends to knock him out and the deputy just won't shut up -- goofy. The scene where Tennyson gets stripped to his skivvies and won't go with the others, goofy.
And then after all the goofiness, we get the terrific fight scene on the moving wagon, followed by the horrendous crash! Col Vasquez is apparently killed, and no one seems to recall that two of the three Dawsons were in the back knocked out, so I guess they died too.
The tag is one of my favorites, when Linda teasing Jim about going straight -- 'Together?' -- and him just about doing a spit take. And then the best present anyone could give a girl. My word, but she just about kissed the daylights outta Jim, didn't she?