Norty's Halloween Spooktacular 2: Tutenstein

Norty

10/12/2024

What the heck is this?

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00:00Seriously, what the hell is a Tuttenstein?

00:08Airing on Discovery Kids from 2003 to 2008, this show seems to be about a mummy of a long

00:13dead Egyptian pharaoh named Tut-en-k-en-sit-men, who awakens in the 21st century and is found

00:21by a girl named Cleo and her talking cat Luxor, and now has to fit into modern day.

00:25I had no idea this was a thing, and if it were up to me I wouldn't be talking about

00:28Danny Phantom or Phil of the Future again, but it's not my choice.

00:32This is the Season 2 episode, The Day of the Undead.

00:36So we start in a museum, and oh shit, are we in for another Spider-Man-Jessie crossover?

00:40No, we see two kids, for some reason alone, checking out the mummy exhibit.

00:45The boy dares the girl to touch it, and while she's totally willing to do it, he stops

00:49her and does it himself.

00:51Oh great, you've started the apocalypse, good job kid.

00:56This is our protagonist, Tut-chick-it, fuck it, I'm calling him Tut.

01:00After all, that is what Cleo calls him.

01:02Did you scare those kids, those strangely costumed commoners?

01:05They interrupted my pedicure.

01:07Hi Carl.

01:08Tonight's Halloween.

01:09Hallow-what?

01:10Halloween, sire.

01:12Once known as All Hallows' Eve.

01:14That's Darren Norris, by the way.

01:17I would not have recognized him.

01:19Then go to people's houses, say trick or treat, and get candy.

01:22Candy?

01:23I believe I like candy.

01:25It's those big pinky squish things inside human heads, right?

01:28Tut wants to go trick or treating, but Cleo doesn't want him going.

01:31It is the perfect night for the pharaoh to go out.

01:34The risk will be minimal.

01:35Not to my reputation.

01:36He'll embarrass me.

01:37Whoa, girl, that is freaking harsh.

01:40She agrees to let him join them, and we see that Luxor is an alien, I guess.

01:44And Cleo is Indiana Jones.

01:46As for her friends?

01:47What's up?

01:48I mean, what's shaking?

01:51Ayyyy.

01:52She then tells him he's her friend, Stein, from Wisconsin.

01:55And you know this episode is set halfway in season 2.

01:58How have they not met him yet?

01:59Wicked costume, dude.

02:01It reeks.

02:02I don't think it's just the costume.

02:03Well, he is from Wisconsin.

02:04I mean, they make a lot of smelly cheeses there.

02:10Damn, Cleo, first you say your friend is embarrassing, now you insult an entire state?

02:15I mean, it is Wisconsin, so who gives a shit, but what if it was a state that mattered?

02:19Of course, these kids are way too old for trick or treating, and will instead be going

02:22to a haunted house.

02:23The group heads off, and from what I can gather, these three kids' names are Natasha, Cleo's

02:27best friend, Jake, who Cleo has a crush on, and Kyle, who has a crush on Natasha.

02:32Of course you make the Kyle a simp.

02:34They get to the haunted house, which does look pretty cool.

02:36What do you think is scary?

02:37When Apep coils his giant tail around you in the underworld, shivers run down your spine.

02:38When Set, the god of chaos, grabs you in his claws, your embalming fluid runs cold.

02:39And when Amut, the devourer, tries to eat you, your heart scatters.

02:40Cleo, I think your friend is a psychopath.

02:56Are you sure he hasn't skinned any dogs?

02:59What are you doing?

03:00Showing these commoners that I am not a baby.

03:01I know what the true meaning of scary is.

03:02I'm dead!

03:03And I'm going to die of embarrassment!

03:04Okay, I assume I missed something.

03:05Is there a reason she doesn't tell her friends her friend is a mummy?

03:13I mean, that's, like, insta-cool.

03:15Ah, on second thought, if that scared him, then nothing will make him cool.

03:25Damn, this is a big house.

03:27There is some good atmosphere, too.

03:28I legit got a little creeped out.

03:30Tut decides to summon a real ghost.

03:32Don't worry, though, it's just some magician who turned people into bugs to feed to scorpions,

03:36and when he died, was banished to the underworld.

03:39Nothing too scary.

03:40Yes, I shall scare the pharaoh's people to death!

03:45Aw, come on, man, you went from turning them into bugs and feeding them to scorpions to

03:50just scaring them?

03:51You lost your touch, man.

03:53The ghost tries to scare them, but of course, they all think it's fake.

03:56I mean, this is a pretty good haunted house, but I don't think they can afford shape-shifting

04:00holograms.

04:01This thing is legit creepy, and pretty soon, Cleo catches on.

04:04Aquinum Cow, evil magician banished by the gods, one of the unjustified dead.

04:09His name means the ghost who eats life.

04:12He swallows his victims and destroys their car.

04:15Holy shit, a ghost that literally eats you.

04:17Cleo takes Tut and hides, leaving the other three to die.

04:20Tut, you've got to get rid of Aquinum Cow!

04:25Oh, shit!

04:28This may not reach the heights of Courage or Gravity Falls, but I could see this actually

04:32giving me nightmares as a kid.

04:33She tries to flush it where it can meet up with Moaning Myrtle, but it doesn't work.

04:37But Tut won't send it back until the others think he's cool.

04:40Tut!

04:41Aquinum Cow, enough!

04:42I command you to stop!

04:45Your commands mean nothing to me, pharaoh.

04:51Well that was pointless.

04:52They manage to save her, but it opens a portal because of course it does.

04:56They try to get everyone to leave, but again, they refuse.

04:59It pops up behind her, and they lock it in the coffin, and somehow the other three just

05:03don't notice this.

05:04Like at all.

05:05You may praise me now for saving your life.

05:09You're weird.

05:10It chases them, and they fall down the portal.

05:12They're all transported to another land.

05:14Wild!

05:15Can you believe what the Silvermints did to their basement?

05:20You're a moron.

05:21Cleo, I know Natasha's your best friend, and you have a crush on Jake, but you can

05:25at least sacrifice Kyle.

05:26I normally wouldn't want a fellow Kyle to die, but I'm willing to make an exception

05:30here.

05:31The three finally realize this is probably not the Silvermints, and this time are actually

05:34running for their lives.

05:35But it captures them, so Tut decides to summon more ghosts to help.

05:39Solve the problem by doing the same thing that caused the problem in the first place.

05:42I see why you died so young.

05:44Well he summons the ghost victims, all three of them, and they distract the ghosts long

05:49enough for the kids to escape.

05:50Thousands of years ago, you took our lives and stole our cars.

05:51We want our cars back.

05:52What the hell is a car anyway?

05:59Oh, it's just Egyptian for soul.

06:01Okay, my mistake for not knowing my Egyptian.

06:10Please make him explode.

06:11No, they just take their cars back, and take him back to the gods for punishment.

06:15They return back, and the other three convince themselves it was all fake.

06:19Again, I don't see why she doesn't tell them he's a mummy.

06:22They run out after being scared by the Silvermints, and Tut learns a valuable lesson, and they

06:26even have time to go trick or treating.

06:28Treat or trick?

06:31The pharaoh thanks you.

06:34Yeah, that episode was pretty good.

06:39It's not the most original thing in the world, but I like the conflict of Tut trying to impress

06:43Cleo's friends, Cleo trying to keep it cool while also keeping them safe, and the fact

06:47that it takes place in a haunted house, making them think this is all an act, adds a little

06:51something different to the mix.

06:52The Halloween aspect is great, setting it at a haunted house the whole time basically

06:56makes it a better version of Doug's Halloween adventure, plus the costumes allow Tut to

07:00take place in the story without hiding.

07:02The ghost is legit creepy, and there's a lot of good atmosphere.

07:05I'll give the episode a 7 out of 10, and the Halloween factor an 8.

07:08Not much else to say, just a really solid episode.

07:11Okay, so what's up for 2005?

07:15Oh yeah, that show existed.

07:22He eats lives!

07:23Only when he's hungry!

07:24He's hungry!

07:25Oh, he's hungry!

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