A Star is Torn

TaleSpin"A Star is Torn"
Season 1
Number 25
Episode information
Production code	017
Written by	Dev Ross
Storyboards by	Lonnie Thompson Wendell Washer
Directed by	Larry Latham
Original airdate	October 4, 1990
TaleSpin Episodes
Previous	"On a Wing and a Bear"
Next	"A Spy in the Ointment"

"A Star is Torn" is the twenty-fifth episode of The Disney Afternoon animated series, TaleSpin. It premiered on October 4, 1990.

Plot

Baloo is starstruck when he meets film star Kitten Kaboodle, and immediately signs on as her stunt pilot. Concerned for Baloo as his friend, Rebecca learns that the "accidents" on Kitten's set are, in fact, not accidents.

Gallery

Home video releases

DVD

• TaleSpin: Volume 1

Trivia

• The title "A Star is Torn" is a reference to the 1937 American Technicolor romantic drama film, A Star Is Born.
• Tantamount Studios is a pun on Paramount Studios.
• Famous Hollywood stars were seen drawn as animals:
  • Charlie Chaplin as a cat
  • Mae West as a pig
  • The Marx Brothers as foxes
  • Laurel and Hardy as a pelican and a walrus
  • Clark Gable as a monkey.
• Pomfrey Hogart is a pun on the actor, Humphrey Bogart.

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Media TaleSpin (Videography/Soundtrack) • Walt Disney's World on Ice: Double Feature... Live! • Raw Toonage • NES game • Genesis game • Comic book Characters Baloo • Kit Cloudkicker • Rebecca Cunningham • Molly Cunningham • Wildcat • Louie Lamount • Airplane Jane • Clementine Clevenger • Katie Dodd • Princess Grace • King Amok • Lotta Lamour • Prince Nevarhas Bin-Broak • Bandar-log • Captain William Stansbury • Joe Magee • Doctor Cooper • Rick Sky • Whistlestop Jackson • Nanuk • Myra Foxworthy • Detective Thursday • Inspector Burrow • Oscar Vandersnoot • Shere Khan • Khan's Pilots • Don Karnage • Air Pirates • Ivanod Spigot • Sergeant Dunder • Jack Case • Daring Dan Dawson • Ace London • Weazel • General Patton • Trader Moe • Thaddeus E. Klang • Kitten Kaboodle • Ignatius • Dr. Axolotl • Dr. Zibaldo • Buffy and Muffy Vanderschmere • Douglas Benson • Prince Rudolf • Chancellor Trample • Emperor Wan Lo • Professor Martin Torque • Seymour • Covington • MacKnee • Sheriff Gomer Cleghorn and Deputy Wendell • Crazy Edie • Cool Hands Luke • Hans 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 Suzette • Higher for Hire • Louie's Place • Wildcat's Houseboat • Khan Industries • Thembria • Pirate Island • Walla-Walla-Bing-Bang • Macadamia • Tinabula • Panda-La Songs Spin It • I'm Gone • Home is Where the Heart Is • Sky Pirates • Monkey In Your Tank • Friends for Life Objects Sea Duck • Khan Transport • Iron Vulture • Spruce Moose • Pirate Fighters • Idol of the Spirit-Switcher • The Ruby Wings • The Three Bells of Tinabula See also The Jungle Book • The Disney Afternoon