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It's the "Weird Science" issue, hosted by Prof. Sydney Fruitcake of the Cobra clan! Featuring a crash course in every major scientific dicipline: physiology...psychology...biology...chemistry...
engineering...social studies...elementary physics--it's a whole semester condensed into 24 full-color pages!
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Issue #: 306

Issue #: 30

Release Date: Sep 24, 2007
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Story (out of 24 pages): 4 p. (wraparound; 1 pp. at the beginning of the issue, 2 pp. between the three stories in the issue, and 1 pp. at the end of the issue)

Summary:

Professor Sydney Fruitcake, trying to figure out what makes the Treehouse Warriors such a formidable group, spies on them with hiden cameras and record his observations, which are offered as three scientifically-themed vignettes. Of course, he interprets everything he sees as having potential criminal applications.

Notes

page 1. The failed attempts to take over the world Fruitcake lists include mind-controlling drugs in "A Fair Fight", the mutagen missile from "A Girl and Her Chair", and the exact clone of Jon who was sent to to destroy him in "Demi-Jon"

page 1. Josh is referred to as "The Wizard of Dutch Street"--a take on Thomas Edison's nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park", the small New Jersey town where the famed inventor and holder of some 600 or so patents lived and worked most of his adult life.

page 10. The buttons on the console read, from top to bottom, "CK" (partly obscured), "KILLER ROBOTS", "SS" (partly obscured), "THE RED ONE" (a nod to a gag in "Design for Leaving", 1954, directed by Bob McKimson, in which salesman Daffy Duck admonishes homeowner Elmer Fudd, "Not the wed [sic] one! Don't ever push the wed [sic] one!"), "OKEY LIER" (partly obscured), "TOXIC GAS", and "COFFEE".

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Title: "Joshua Cline's Experiment File #21886: Hecklin' Jeckyll"

(Original Working Title: "Dr. Brandy and Mrs. Bitch")

Story (out of 24 pages): 8 p.

Writer: Mencken H. Watts

Penciller: Scott J. Hanna

Letterer: Noah Jewett

Colorist: Newton E. Haas

Summary:

Brandy is accidentally exposed to Josh's inhibition-reducing formula, causing her to undergo a startling transformation from a sweet, gentle dog into a vicious, amoral animal. Fun-loving Buddy enjoys the new Brandy--at first. However, when she goes too far with her bad behavior, Buddy realizes he liked the old Brandy a whole lot better.

Notes

page 2. The basic plot is a take on a story that has been around the block a few times: Robert Lewis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The title puns on both the good doctor's name and "Heckle and Jeckle", the comic magpie duo created by Terrytoons Studios, who also gave us Mighty Mouse, as well as a number of fairly forgettable characters like Deputy Dawg, Gandy Goose, Sourpuss, and Hector Heathcote. The experiment number refers to the number of duality--2--followed by the Stevenson story's year of publication.
     Though a number of cartoons and studios have adapted or outright parodied the Jekyll/Hyde's tale, this story was particularly influenced by the Beetlejuice short "Dr. Beetle and Mr. Juice". Sweet, who also voices Buddy, has stated that Buddy and Brandy's personalities and voices are heavily based on Beetlejuice and his human friend Lydia Deetz.

page 2. The song Buddy is mangling is "Hot Blooded," a '70s-era hit by the British-American band Foreigner.

page 4. Brandy's mutated form somewhat resembles Boo-Boo Bear after he flips out in John K.'s "Boo-Boo Goes Wild", as well as Ren Hoek near the end of the Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon "Ren Seeks Help".

page 4. The pedestrian the dogs attack is one of the gang members from "Ear-Phonies".

page 5. Buddy and Brandy's pose as they snicker together are a reference to Precious Pupp, a fairly minor Hanna-Barbera dog character from the early sixties. Daws Butler would later use this distinctive laugh for a more well-known canine, Muttley, who appeared as a sidekick to villain Dick Dastardly in Whacky Races and Yogi's Treasure Hunt.

page 8. The factory worker seen in the lower left foreground of the first panel is one of the Mexican dock workers from "High-Sea Hijinks".


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Title: "Joshua Cline's Experiment File #90807: Censored!"

Story (out of 24 pages): 6 p.

Writer: Jake C. Thomas

Penciller: J. M. Sweet

Letterer: J. Antwon Shea

Colorist: Jack Staten Monahew

Summary: Larry has been invited to speak in front of a crowd--the problem is, he can't control his propensity for casual swearing. He asks Josh and Jon for help in breaking a bad habit--and it's science to the rescue as Josh employs every device and gadget at his disposal.

Notes

The "CENSORED" sign appears a total of 47 times in dialogue.

Elements of the script were heavily inspired by the Tiny Toon Adventures short "To Bleep or Not to Bleep"--in particular, the gag with the negative reinforcement machine, right down to the design of the apparatus, and the story's twist ending, were lifted right from the cartoon.

page 14. C.H.U.D. is referenced/parodied again in the series.


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Title: "Joshua Cline's Experiment File #91101: Spastic Explosive"

Story (out of 24 pages): 6 p.

Writer: Nathan E. Stowe

Penciller: Scott J. Hanna

Letterer: J. Antwon Shea

Colorist: Annette T. "Jo" Shaw

Summary:

Ben, while playing in Josh's lab, unwittingly drinks a liquid explosive that causes him to blow up every time he sneezes, and he has to struggle to control the formula's effects.

Notes

page 18 . The experiment number for this story refers to the date Sep 11, 2001, the day of the disasterous attack on the World Trade Centers in New York City. This issue--in particular the section of wraparound with Fruitcake's comment about "spontaneously explosiding suicide bombers"--was being pencilled during the sixth anniversary of the attacks.

page 21. Ben also did the powder magazine gag in the short "Taking a Powder", except in that version it was Monty who was blown up, not he.


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