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A spectacular group of Masters of the Universe fans have taken the challenge to watch all 130 Episodes of the 1983 Filmation Cartoon Series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe“ for 130 days straight, one episode per day. We are the RE-WATCH-A-THON-ERS!
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Today’s Episode is:
The Rarest Gift of All
| PRODUCTION NUMBER | EPISODE TITLE | DIRECTOR | WRITERS | PREMIERE DATE | RE-WATCH-A-THON DATE |
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| MU71 | “The Rarest Gift of All” | Gwen Wetzler | J. Brynne Stephens | September 14, 1984 | Feb 5 |
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| Synopsis: Orko messes up Man-At-Arms and Teela’s preparations for the King and Queen’s wedding anniversary. When he decides to run away, Cringer goes along to keep an eye on him. | |||||
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OUR REVIEW:
Another episode where Orko doubts his self worth and his palace family has to convince him otherwise. The power draining Talgoth feels tacked on here... and Orko's plight might feel more compelling if these self-pity beats weren't so retreaded. Nice animation though. (3/10)
Comment, Review and Discuss below:
Tomorrow’s Episode is: “The Great Books Mystery”
I DESPISE this episode, it’s definitely a top 5 on my worst list. It feels like they took that abomination of a song from the Horn of Evil and turned it into an episode. It also does a lot of what I consider to be Season 2’s weakness – leans into Orko being effectively a toddler, feeling sorry for himself and leaving, heroes have to get involved, etc…
That said I will say at least that Cringer gets to shine in this episode. There are two bits that I really love: When they’re at Grayskull and he initially thinks Adam is talking about him, and earlier when he tells Adam he’s going to get the Royal Fire Department only for Adam to say “There is no Royal Fire Department!" as he starts to transform.
@battlecat327 I don’t despise any episode but I do understand the trouble people have with this one. Orko feels bad about himself and then runs away putting everyone at risk who chases after him. That behavior is unacceptable for someone who lives at the royal palace. If there is anything to take away from this one it is Orko is very insecure.
The fire department bit was hilarious. And you are correct – Cringer was the highlight in this one.
This was crap. It was so bad I was rooting for Orko to get eaten by the monster.
Orko is one of my favorites. As the kid stand-in character, he’s adorable, but yeah this episode made me realize he’s one of the many comic relief side characters that usually just don’t work as main characters in stories.
But one part I find funny is the future vision Sorceress shows is not at any all messed up or strange as you would probably expect, but rather everything’s just the exact same except everyone is just like “Oh I miss Orko.
Yeah that wasn’t a future vision. Sorceress is lying and I’d like to jokingly think that a real future without Ork is absolute hell to a hilarious degree, even to Skeletor and co. and somehow for an inexplicable reason he’s the balance of the universe that’s missing idk. 😆
3 stars. Cute episode surprised its getting so much hate. Snout spout is in tears about the lack of royal fire department line.