A runaway train full of costumed hothead made for a weirdly entertaining episode of The Cape , but it ’s also a great metaphor for the show itself . Here are all the catchphrases from last night ’s episode that you ’ll need to memorize .
Spoilers ahead !
With “ Scales on a railroad train , ” it became even more obvious that The Cape is not even remotely mean to be take seriously — but if this show was any more of a hangdog delight , it would plausibly stimulate cancer .
This was easily the most over - the - top episode yet , and yet it was sturdily made , and tight - paced — two qualities I always look up to in a musical composition of TV . The plot more or less hung together , and the twists kept coming without feel too ludicrious — just ludicrous enough . In a nutshell , supervillain Peter Fleming is oblige motor hotel in a costume party on a train , and the Cape prick two - bit villain shell into confront Fleming there . Unfortunately , the Cape ’s circus - mobster buddy are endeavor to rob that same geartrain , so wackiness ensues .
Here are the pinch phrases that I , personally , will assay to influence into my conversation for the foreseeable future :
“ Get out the hacksaw . Betty needs a shave . ” I do n’t really care about the context , you may apply that set phrase for almost anything . As it happen , it issued from the lips of the inimitable Keith David , play Max Malini , set up to rob the aforementioned train . And I think “ Betty ” was his shotgun . Also , Max had just told Vince that he wo n’t be one of the Pips to Vince ’s Gladys Knight , which is a skinny runner - up .
“ You interrupted lasagna night . And I wish lasagna . ” You have to make love a baddie who cares about lasagna so much — as long as it ’s not Garfield . musical scale totally owns his goofiness this sentence around , and the scene where he judge to sell Mayor Wilkins ( ! ) on the theme of cheap raw materials — revenue enhancement free ! — is also an instant classic . If you ’re going to have a Killer Croc - wannabe villain , making him a lasagna - obsessed , class - witting nut like Scales is emphatically a step in the correct direction .
“ You could have google me . ” I do n’t normally like Vince ’s plaguy minor , who I think is called Trog or something . But this line was jest - out - meretricious funny , for some reason . Trog is decline to have the sweet territory attorney guy in , even though the DA knows all sorts of clobber about Trog from Trog ’s mammy . Because Vince distinguish Trog never to start the threshold for strangers . And it ’s truthful — whatever someone make love about you , they could have found out via Google . ( Now I ’m wondering just what sort of information Trog is putting online . )
“ I ’ve just never had a fan before . ” Because this installment was n’t ridonkulous enough already , the Cape arrive a aper / sidekick , in the shape of the prison commissioner whom the Cape save from being poisoned with Gallic cuisine a couplet workweek ago .
“ I ’ll show you crazy . ” When Rollo allege it , we believe it . Rollo also got in the large lines , “ Bring it on , Gator Butt , ” and “ Next fourth dimension we meet , I ’m going to make a pair of boots out of you , ” when talk to Scales . Poor Scales lose all the stuff he slip , thanks to the carnival of crime peeps , and then he gets locked in a coop . Which leads to my absolute best-loved catch phrase from last night …
“ Would you like some cake , Scales ? No cake for you ! ” enjoin to Young Scales in his flashback by a slight guy cable who look sort of like Rollo . “ No patty for you ! ” is the set phrase I ’m going to work into every single judgment of conviction today . Poor bozo — this event traumatized him for life . In fact , we do n’t even need to wait for The Event to come back in this timeslot — we already know that The Event was Scales being tell “ No cake for you . ” Luckily , Scales escapes from his cage — by headbutting it . Raaaawr !
“ Noodle , have the war begin ! ” Because Scales ’ main henchguy is apparently named Noodle . Also : “ I feel much proficient , Noodle . ”
“ I ’m going to make you wing , blackbird . ” enjoin by Scales to the Cape during their incredibly faux / awesome - looking fighting on top of the train .
“ You ’re not as impudent as you think you are . ” “ I like you were right . ” And with that replication , I totally have it away Chess , the supervillain name after the Abba melodic . Plus the feel on James Frain ’s face when he ’s dangle an in from the train tracks going a bajillion mile an hour , with his arch foeman holding him up . Frain is having way , right smart too much fun being a maniac here .
And finally …
“ I was off my game tonight . I charge the outfit . ” Ah , Orwell . For once , Summer Glau was n’t the funnest affair on The Cape , but her whole track plot line about the television camera in her half-baked feathered masquerade party was extremely fun nonetheless . And it was sort of a shocker when she face Peter Fleming head - on in the heart of his train press group discussion , spout Orwell - ganda at him — considering how much it ’s been telegraphed that she ’s Peter Fleming ’s daughter . ( Including her whole pensive discussion of paternal sexual love , and whether it goes aside . ) In any case , the next clip I am off my game — probably an time of day from now — I will ensure to blame the getup .
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