And now for Episode 2: "The Mysterious Tooth Crisis."
![:OhYou Chomper :OhYou](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/e7001181.png)
Now, I'll admit it: I'm gonna be kind of biased in my review of this episode. It was a favorite of mine when I was a kid, one of my handful of much-watched LBT episodes. There were a few reasons why that was--and
@Goldenwind actually pointed out one of them, which is the fact that this episode contains an endless amount of silly-looking moments that just got laughs out of me.
![:p dino :p](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_tongue.gif)
Plus, I just tended to like episodes that focused on Chomper. As for that final reason...
Ah, yes, Tria's "surprise" for Cera at the beginning of the episode. I know the side plot about the spa--I mean, the mud pool--really has nothing to do with the main plot of this episode other than the fact that it removed Ruby from the picture up until the end, but I found it kind of fun for a personal reason...I really relate to Cera in this episode. Even as a kid watching this episode for the first time, I knew that I
was Cera in it. I'm that person who often has to be dragged into new things, but chances are I enjoy them in the end--even if, like Cera, I'm a little too stubborn to flat-out admit that ("Well...it's better than usual mud..."). So, yeah, I guess that plot just offered me a bit of self-awareness, not to mention some assurance that, y'know, it was okay to like things that I didn't want to like at first. Plus, Cera resting in the mud with a tree star over her head cracks me up.
![:lol dino :lol](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_laugh.gif)
Chomper's initial reaction to losing his tooth always amused me. ("BUT MY TEETH ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN MY MOUTH!!!!!!")
I agree, though, that Mr. Threehorn STANK in this episode.
![x(cera by RockingScorpion x(cera](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/cera_wuetend2_by_rockingscorpion-d9nxkrc.png)
WHY would he do that to Chomper?? It wasn't even really in character--Mr. Threehorn might be a grouch, but since when does he just go around picking on already-freaked-out kids just for the sake of it?? If the writers needed a bully character, why didn't they just use Hyp and his pals?
Then there's Mr. Thicknose. Um, since when is he a baritone? His TV show voice still weirds me out after all these years. That song still tickles my funny bone, though! Why is Chomper shoving tree sap, pollen, and mud up his gums so funny, anyway? Probably because it's just as silly and absurd as it sounds.
![:lol dino :lol](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_laugh.gif)
Then there's that Looking Rock scene. (And then I realized that my childhood love of this episode was showing through in the "Yellowbellies Rule!" RP, because I stuck both the Looking Rock and the mud pools in there.)
![:p dino :p](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_tongue.gif)
I really love Petrie's moment of bravery here--go, Petrie!
![:DD dino :DD](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_happier.gif)
I soon found myself being annoyed at Petrie, however, because as Chomper is in the sinking sand refusing to let go of his tooth, why in the wide, wide world doesn't Petrie just swoop down and TAKE THE TOOTH FROM HIM?? Seriously, no one thought of this??
![:rolleyes dino :rolleyes](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_roll-eyes.gif)
Then they get to the mud pools, where Cera delivers one of my favorite TV series moments of all time:
*blink* "WHAT?? You interrupted my relaxing day for a TOOTH?? A
TOOTH?!?!?!"
I always got a kick out of that!
![:lol dino :lol](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_laugh.gif)
Ruby comforts Chomper in a sweet, big-sister-ish way, and that pretty much wraps things up. Oh, wait, then there's a few funny moments where Chomper insists on shoving his teeth in the other characters' faces.
![:lol dino :lol](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/dino_laugh.gif)
Yeah, story-wise, I admit this wasn't the greatest episode. Personally, though, I just enjoy the sillier, lighter tone of it.
![:chompysmile by Vojeds :chompysmile](https://www.gangoffive.net/Smileys/gof/chompysmile.png)
But yeah, like I said, I'm biased.