THE FANATIC'S GUIDE TO

"O Partner, Where Art Thou?"

English Version Written by Steve Blum

First Appearances: Rika's mom, Rika's grandmother (Seiko Hata), Impmon, Kyubimon

Guest Starring: Allomon, Dokugumon, all thim thar Digimon what wanted Rika to tame them

• The recap for "Dream a Little Dream" has Davis the Narrator pronounce Vilemon's name as "Veel-mon," rather than "Veel-ah-mon."

• Why are the parents attending a talk about the rainforest? It seems more to me to be one of those "Parent talk" days, where the parent comes in and tells the class about their job, and that why it's a big deal that Rika's mom has to run out. But maybe that's just me.

• When Rika's mother answers her phone, she says, "This is Makino." This would make it seem as if it's her first name, and a later episode will corroborate this. But episodes beyond that contradict it. We'll get to the nitty-gritty of it all when we get to those episodes.

• When Renamon says "And we're the entertainment," her hand is coloured yellow instead of white (see screenshot).

• Rika identifies the Modify Card she slashes as "Agumon's Frozen Wind" - seems more like it should be "SnowAgumon's Frozen Wind" to me, what with that being a SnowAgumon, and all.

• The Digimon who want Rika to tame them are:

First window (view screenshot)
Gekomon
Deramon
Minomon
Musyamon
WaruMonzaemon
Something that's probably Dolphmon *

Second window (view screenshot)
Apemon
Phantomon
Tapirmon
Tsubumon
Mummymon in his human form

Third window
Gizamon
Tuskmon
Aquilamon
Apocalymon (!)
SkullMeramon, in his hat and trench coat from season one

• The first two hands that reach for Rika are fairly nondescript, but the third appears to belong to a Zudomon.

• The footage of Yamaki in his chair from "Guilmon Comes Alive," with the Yuggoth symbol behind him, is reused again. But as well as re-used footage, the ol' Mak-Daddy gets some re-used dialogue here, saying of Wild Ones: "They just never learn, do they?" - exactly the same line he spoke in "It Came From the Other Side."

• Tally's voice has now lost its clipped, British edge. She sounds better without it, too.

• If Renamon has such exquisite control over her Diamond Storm that she can use it to free Rika without so much as scratching her, why was she getting her undies in such a bunch when Terriermon stepped between her and Guilmon back in "To Fight or Not to Fight?" - with the kind of control she exhibits here, she could have easily have avoided Terriermon and nailed Guilmon. Bret Johansson suggests she was aiming for Rika all along, which is as good an explanation as any.

• This episode is a particularly good example of "Calumon the Plot Device." He simply pops up when someone needs to Digivolve - we didn't even see him arrive or watch the battle, he was just there all of a sudden.

• This is a regular animation problem for Kyubimon - the feet and the tips of her tails are supposed to be on fire (or composed of fire, whatever), and yet for the entirety of this episode, they're static and unmoving, except when she jumps and they move with the rush of air, while in certain other episodes, they do indeed twitch and move like fire. I'll point out these differing instances when we come to them.

• In distance shots and views from the front, Kyubimon's mouth doesn't move when she speaks. You might excuse this, recalling that many Digimon in the past two seasons didn't move their mouths when they spoke either - but Kyubimon IS shown to move her mouth for several of her lines in this episode. Make up your mind!

• I've never understood Dragon Wheel. Every time it's used, in any episode, Kyubimon spins on the spot, and is clearly shown to transform into a stream of fire, which then hits the enemy and dissipates - and then after the impact, we always cut away, and there's Kyubimon standing there, as if she hadn't been the fire at all. Whasupwidat?

* - Thanks to WYNNEJ428@aol.com for this one!