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"A Baloo Switcheroo" is the twenty-eighth episode of The Disney Afternoon animated series, TaleSpin. It premiered on October 16, 1990.

Plot[]

Deep in the jungle, an archaeologist named Professor Obowin is exploring a ruined temple where he uncovers a strange Idol with two faces and shining with jewels. Don Karnage and the Air Pirates show up, being after the Idol themselves. Professor Obowin escapes with the Idol and gives it to Baloo and Kit to return to Cape Suzette while he stays behind to hold off the Air Pirates. They are warned not to look at the Idol during a thunder storm. During the flight home, Kit and Baloo are flying through a storm. Suddenly the Sea Duck is struck by lighting and causes the Idol to magically make Baloo and Kit switch places. Unknown on how to change back, they pretend to be one another until the Professor returns. During this time they find it difficult being one another. Baloo has a hard time at Kit's field try outs, while Kit struggles flying the Sea Duck at the Fly Offs.

Later at night, Baloo and Kit meet up with the Professor, who tells them how to change back. Little do they know that Karnage is in the house looking for the Idol, and accidentally switches places with Rebecca. Karnage, in Rebecca's body, escapes with the Idol. Professor Obowin tells Baloo, Kit and Rebecca that, unless they change back before sunrise, their switch will be permanent. And with no storms in the sky it would seem unlikely to do so to begin with. Just then, Baloo comes up with an idea on how to artificially create a lighting storm: Cloud Seeding.

As the sun starts to rise, they fly after the Iron Vulture, and request a trade for the Idol and Karnage. But on Mad Dog's orders, the Pirates instead launch a fighter attack on the Sea Duck. They soon spot a small cloud and begin to pour salt into it. However, in Rebecca's panic, she takes the wheel, causing all the salt to fall overboard and into the clouds, creating a hurricane. With their storm made, they land aboard the Iron Vulture and get to the Idol just in time to switch back to their original bodies. In the process, the Idol falls overboard when Rebecca drops it. Suddenly, a huge bolt of lighting strikes the Iron Vulture, causing it to lose altitude. Baloo, Kit, Rebecca and Obowin quickly make their escape aboard the Sea Duck, and make it safely out of the storm. Meanwhile, Mad Dog and Dumptruck discover they have been switched by the Idol, and now have to find it in order to switch back.

Cast[]

Home video releases[]

DVD

  • TaleSpin: Volume 2

Gallery[]

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Trivia[]

  • This episode's plot is sort of a take on the film Freaky Friday.
    • This episode's plot also bears similarities to the 1988 film Vice Versa. Both introduce a magical object, and both have two characters switch places.
  • There is such thing as Cloud Seeding, which is a form of weather modification, by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical processes within a cloud.
  • Dumptruck and Mad Dog's voices are erroneously switched earlier by a dubbing inconsistency, before the scene that actually depicts the actual switch taking place at the end of the episode.


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Media
TaleSpin (Videography/Soundtrack) • Walt Disney's World on Ice: Double Feature... Live!Raw ToonageNES gameGenesis gameComic book
Characters
BalooKit CloudkickerRebecca CunninghamMolly CunninghamWildcatLouie LamountAirplane JaneClementine ClevengerKatie DoddPrincess GraceKing AmokLotta LamourPrince Nevarhas Bin-BroakBandar-logCaptain William StansburyJoe MageeDoctor CooperRick SkyWhistlestop JacksonNanukMyra FoxworthyDetective ThursdayInspector BurrowOscar VandersnootShere KhanKhan's PilotsDon KarnageAir PiratesIvanod SpigotSergeant DunderJack CaseDaring Dan DawsonAce LondonGeneral PattonTrader MoeThaddeus E. KlangKitten KaboodleIgnatiusDr. AxolotlDr. ZibaldoBuffy and Muffy VanderschmereDouglas BensonPrince RudolfChancellor TrampleEmperor Wan LoProfessor Martin TorqueSeymourCovingtonMacKneeSheriff Gomer Cleghorn and Deputy WendellCrazy EdieCool Hands LukeHans and Helga
Episodes
"I Only Have Ice for You" • "Time Waits for No Bear" • "A Touch of Glass" • "It Came From Beneath the Sea Duck" • "The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink" • "The Idol Rich" • "Stormy Weather" • "Plunder and Lightning" • "From Here to Machinery" • "Mommy for a Day" • "Molly Coddled" • "Polly Wants a Treasure" • "Vowel Play" • "Bearly Alive" • "Her Chance to Dream" • "All's Whale That Ends Whale" • "The Golden Sprocket of Friendship" • "For a Fuel Dollars More" • "A Bad Reflection on You" • "On a Wing and a Bear" • "A Star is Torn" • "A Spy in the Ointment" • "The Balooest of the Bluebloods" • "A Baloo Switcheroo" • "Whistlestop Jackson, Legend" • "Double or Nothing" • "Feminine Air" • "Last Horizons" • "Flight of the Snow Duck" • "Save the Tiger" • "The Old Man and the Sea Duck" • "War of the Weirds" • "Captains Outrageous" • "The Time Bandit" • "For Whom the Bell Klangs" • "Citizen Khan" • "Gruel and Unusual Punishment" • "Jolly Molly Christmas" • "My Fair Baloo" • "Waiders of the Wost Tweasure" • "Flight School Confidential" • "Bringing Down Babyface" • "Jumping the Guns" • "In Search of Ancient Blunders" • "Louie's Last Stand" • "Sheepskin Deep" • "Pizza Pie in the Sky" • "Baloo Thunder" • "Bullethead Baloo" • "Destiny Rides Again" • "Mach One for the Gipper" • "Stuck on You" • "The Sound and the Furry" • "The Road to Macadamia" • "The Ransom of Red Chimp" • "Your Baloo's in the Mail" • "Paradise Lost" • "The Incredible Shrinking Molly" • "Bygones" • "Flying Dupes"
Locations
Cape SuzetteHigher for HireLouie's PlaceWildcat's HouseboatKhan IndustriesThembriaPirate IslandWalla-Walla-Bing-BangMacadamiaTinabulaPanda-La
Songs
Spin ItI'm GoneHome is Where the Heart IsSky PiratesMonkey In Your TankFriends for Life
Objects
Sea DuckKhan TransportIron VultureSpruce MoosePirate FightersIdol of the Spirit-SwitcherThe Ruby WingsThe Three Bells of Tinabula
See also
The Jungle BookThe Disney Afternoon
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