Marvel’s Super Hero Squad Show
“Mental Organism Designed Only for Kissing,” Season 1,
Episode 14, 2009
Dan Says:
As gateways for younger viewers go, Marvel’s Super Hero Squad Show, which ran on
Cartoon Network from 2009-11, was a lot of fun. It pulled from a deep bench of
classic Marvel characters and stories, always kept things light and, when
necessary, peppered in fart jokes.
The basic premise of the show was that all the superheroes
(except Spider-Man, who never appears) lived in their own city, the mayor of
which was Stan Lee. Just over a heavily fortified wall was Villainville, where
Dr. Doom spent all this time plotting, yelling at his henchman and generally
being a real crankypants. The main hero characters are Iron Man, Wolverine,
Thor, Hulk, Falcon, and Silver Surfer, replaced by Scarlet Witch in Season 2.
The main villains are Doom, the Abomination, and MODOK.
In this episode, Amora the Enchantress comes to Doom
claiming she can make Thor fall in love with her, thus allowing him to be
turned to Doom’s devices.
When asked what Amora gets out of the deal, she flashes back
to high school, when Thor was in a garage hair metal band with the Warriors
Three and she had a huge crush on him. As they play, Thor demands more cowbell.
That level of humor, clearly presented for the parents watching with their
children, is prevalent throughout the series.
Unrequited love apparently is rampant on Asgard. Skurge the
Executioner is in love with the Enchantress, who is in love with Thor, who is
infatuated with the new-in-town Valkyrie.
(It should be noted that Thor offers to take Valkyrie, or
Val, out for shawarma, three years before the Avengers were seen exhaustedly
stuffing their faces with it on film.)
Amora’s love spell goes wrong amid a battle between goodies
and baddies, leading Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers, who hadn’t yet been promoted to
captain) to fall in love with MODOK. Within the world of the show, Ms. M is a
high-level SHIELD agent often portrayed as being in a bad mood, and MODOK is an
incompetent giant floating head with a voice like a malevolent chipmunk. A
montage shows the two sharing root beer floats, running/floating through fields
and making goo-goo eyes at each other against a fake Beach Boys song that’s a
lot funnier than my description of it.
Their relationship makes Ms. M a liability, however, and
SHIELD sends Hawkeye to take her out. The Enchantress, grossed out by what
she’s done, provides him with an arrow that can break the previous spell,
setting everything to rights, which is to say Ms. M comes to, beats the crap
out of MODOK and throws him in jail. Roll credits.
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