Episode Five - "Old Reliable"

Summary

In a frozen wasteland far to the north of the DigiWorld, the Digimon Emperor is forcing a group of Gizamon to build a prison for him. He starts to whip one that fell down from exhaustion, but Gomamon jumps in and stops him. Annoyed, the Digimon Emperor tells the Gizamon they will receive something nice for beating Gomamon, and they attack him. With Gomamon badly hurt, the Gizamon receive their prize: dark rings that turn them into loyal slaves. After the Digimon Emperor leaves, Gomamon barely makes it to a TV to call Joe.

The DigiDestined receive an SOS from the DigiWorld and head to the computer room. However, Cody is not with them because he is practicing Kendo with his grandfather. Eventually his grandfather helps him realize that he should be with the others, and he arrives just in time to accompany Joe and the others to the DigiWorld. After rescuing Gomamon and nursing him back to health, the DigiDestined build a sled to go to the control spire. They're attacked by Frigimon and Cody falls off the sled into icy water. Gomamon saves him and he, Joe, Cody, and Armadillomon stay behind in a cave while the others go off to destroy the spire. They are then attacked by a controlled Shellmon. Realizing that they can give the others time to destroy the spire, Digmon fights Shellmon and frees him, but then Ebidramon attacks, pulling Digmon into the water.

Luckily, the other kids manage to destroy the control spire, and Gomamon digivolves to Ikkakkumon to save Digmon, and the two of them free Ebidramon.

Trivia

What day does Gomamon think it is?
What day is it really?

Thoughts and Rating

Another good episode. Seeing Gomamon and Joe again was great. I was happy to finally see the attacks of the new Rookies, as well, even though we did see Veemon's V-headbutt attack before. The other really cool thing was the conversation about how Cody was part Izzy and part Joe, like Yolei is Sora and Mimi and Davis is Tai and Matt. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5.

Favorite Quotes

"Yeah, I spent the whole night looking in the mirror." - Joe's friend regarding studying for an anatomy test
"I just remembered that I forgot to remember something." - Joe
"I have been to many lands and met many people, and in all my travels, I have found only one thing I can count on: prune juice!" - Cody's grandfather
"Why did one Shellmon take the other Shellmon's lunch? Because it was Shellfish!" - Gomamon
"That's the great Gomamon charm?" - Joe
"Try the knock-knock jokes!" - Joe
"That's not Plan B you fool!" - The Digimon Emperor
"Don't blame me, I can't spell!" - Wormmon

Nits

COMMERCIAL ONE
Okay, I know it serves to move the plot along in this episode, but really, it doesn't make sense for Cody to choose Kendo practice over the DigiWorld. There are innocent digimon being hurt in the DigiWorld, and Cody decides to go practice with sticks? It's very uncharacteristic of him.
When Joe arrives in the computer room, he says that "Even though Tai told me about it, it's still strange seeing the digimon in the real world." Why would that be strange to him? He saw a lot more than those five digimon in the real world while Myotismon was around. All of the DigiDestined's digimon were there, as well as countless enemy digimon.
Why is it that Davis, wearing long pants and a heavy jacket, is colder than Kari, who's wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt?
COMMERCIAL TWO
When the digimon-drawn sled jumps across the canyon, the sled tilts up at least 45 degrees, but yet everyone manages to stay perfectly still seated on the sled, even though they aren't really holding onto anything.
After Cody is rescued, the scene shifts to the cave where Cody is warming up. TK says to the other three that they'll have to leave Cody behind. All three, including Davis, nod in agreement. Immediately after that, Davis stands up and says "What?!?" as if he thinks it's a bad idea.
The second time they show Flamedramon attacking the Frigimon, he instead says "Flamedramon, the fire of Courage." This is the first and only time this ever happens in the second season.
COMMERCIAL THREE

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