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TAKE the CHALLENGE! A fantastic group of He-Man and She-Ra fans have accepted a 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! Be sure to check out the RE-WATCH-A-THON celebratory memento shirts and mugs (long sleeve shirts options are available too). Today’s Episode is: The Gambler PRODUCTION NUMBEREPISODE TITLEDIRECTORWRITERSPREMIERE DATERE-WATCH-A-THON DATE MU107“The Gambler”Richard TruebloodAntoni Zalewski,Larry DiTillioNovember 6 1984Mar 13Synopsis: Melbrag the Gambler tricks Smudge the Widget into giving him some precious Coridite, then uses it to weaken and capture He-Man for Skeletor…
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I've always found this episode to be entertaining, but it's far from perfect. I feel like it would have worked better if they used Squinch instead of creating Smudge for this one. Melbrag makes for a charming new villain but he definitely doesn't fit in the Eternia vibe, frankly it's even a little dated caricature for an 80's cartoon, feels like more of something from the 50's.
It's also both exciting and sad that we're far enough long now that we're getting into the US Season 3/1985 wave with Spikor and the Land Shark, at least they both get more memorable appearances before we're done.