"Gruel and Unusual Punishment" is the forty-second episode of The Disney Afternoon animated series, TaleSpin. It premiered on December 4, 1990.
Plot[]
To lose weight for the Pilot's Ball, Baloo goes to what he thinks is a weight loss camp, but the camp turns out to be a Thembrian prison.
Cast[]
- Pat Fraley as Wildcat
- Ed Gilbert as Baloo
- Michael Gough as Colonel Spigot
- Allan Melvin as Warden Slammer
- Lorenzo Music as Sergeant Dunder
- John Stephenson as Professor Crackpotkin
- Sally Struthers as Rebecca Cunningham
- R.J. Williams as Kit Cloudkicker
Home video releases[]
DVD
- TaleSpin: Volume 2
Trivia[]
- The plot of the episode is a parody of the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The episode completes the homage to the show with the prison camp's warden, Slammer, bearing a name similar in meaning to Hogan's warden, Colonel Klink.
- While Baloo is making his way through the jungle on Bedevilled Island, he is seen floating down a stream on his back and eating fruit, much like in the "Bare Necessities" sequence in The Jungle Book.
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