Review: The Jellies “Walla Walla Wallabees B”

It’s time to pay homage… finally.

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Cornell doesn’t know anything about old-school hip hop, but unlike almost everybody else, he’s open-minded enough to learn. The twenty-piece group of rappers he sees performing at the local record store hardly brought in any fans. But once Cornell learned the members might go extinct if they weren’t “paid homage,” our little buddy was quick to lend a helping hand.

The squad was called New York New York, and boy did they never shut up about their love for NYC. So, when a random rap name generator renamed Cornell: Naughty Yankee Cakes (the initials N.Y.C., which NEVER happens), the group happily took him under their wing.

The next day, when Naughty Yankee Cakes brought the gang to school, his friends weren’t as understanding. Instead, they lampooned the old timers and outwardly dismissed everything the rappers glorified—even smoking weed!

The tense scene erupted into a total school takeover by New York New York that eventually escalated into a hostage situation. Using an homage-worthy golden slipper as a Trojan horse, a SWAT team invaded the gymnasium, and in typical Jellies fashion everyone started shooting and many people died. However, before it was too, too late, Naughty Yankee Cakes forced the survivors to stop fighting with the power of his pure heart and just a little bit of magic.

Our Take

Finally we got to see the illusive episode that was supposed to air weeks ago. And now that we know more about it, it’s safe to say the delay wasn’t because of a copyright issue with the Wu Tang Clan, and incarcerated Pharma-Bro, Mark Shkreli didn’t buy the only copy of this episode at auction. (Does that reference hold up, by the way?) The most likely culprit for the delay must’ve had something to do with the depiction of gun violence in school.

An average Jellies episode has a ton of violence, some of it gun-related, but until now, it hadn’t taken place inside a school. In this case, since none of the gunplay was committed by or enacted upon a student, the scenes weren’t as distressing as they could’ve been to certain vulnerable audiences. And so, the artists behind this show got to express themselves, and their typical depiction of “cartoon violence” wasn’t censored at the expense of larger, national issues.

Okay, enough with these weighty topics… Oh hey, did anybody else notice that aside from a brief shot of KY running around the school amidst the chaos, no other jellyfish-born member of the Jelly family appeared in this episode? Pretty weird, eh?