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HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Wow. I didn’t know I was able to hold it that long. Just goes to show how excited I am to be reviewing this show! #26. “Night of the Living Guacamole” – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera [February 19, 2007] Ladies and gentlemen of this thread, it took 25 shows but we finally made it to a show that is a serious contender as my favorite Nicktoon. Yes, above Teenage Robot. Yes, above Korra. Yes, above the yellow fucker himself. El Tigre is a level of peak I don’t think I’ll ever see on this network again. Now I never really had this thought before. I was 8 around the time of its premiere and I was still into SpongeBob at the time, so much like Nickelodeon, I left this show by the wayside. I only remember watching the first half of the show and then just quitting due to lack of interest. It wouldn’t be until 26 years old when I gave the show another chance. Literally all the memories of these episodes kept flooding back and I now appreciate it more than I ever have when I first watched it. So let’s talk a little about the show first. It was created by Jorge Gutierrez, known for his work on MAD, The Book of Life, and the very best sitcom on Nickelodeon. It’s about a kid named Manny Rivera, who is raised by his heroic father, the White Pantera, and his retired villain grandfather, Puma Loco. If that premise alone doesn’t get you excited, I really don’t know what will. We’ll be talking about the show’s first episode, which happens to also be one of my favorites! Let’s dive into it like it’s a chip diving into guacamole! Manny is reading Puma Loco’s villain magazine for an ad for a laser tattoo maker worth $100. He wants to get it but his father, White Pantera, forbids him because tattoos are evil. He and Puma are about to sit down to watch a soccer game on TV while eating chips and guacamole, but Puma Loco forgot to buy it. As he and Pantera fight over who has to pick up the $100 guacamole, Manny volunteers, mostly because he wants to buy that laser tattoo maker. He meets with his friend Frida who tells him to buy the tattoo maker using his dad’s money but he also doesn’t want to let down his dad by not buying the guacamole. Suddenly, a mysterious old woman appears and offers the two free guacamole and they take it. It is revealed though that lady was actually Dr. Chipotle Jr. (which has to be like the 12th time I’ve heard Richard Horvitz’s voice in a cartoon), who wants to get revenge on Manny for getting his father arrested. Just before they use the tattoo maker, Pantera and Puma burst through the door as giant monsters from all the evil guacamole they consumed. The only way for Manny to defeat them is to sell the tattoo maker and buy the right kind. Since they’re sold out, he goes all the way to the Andes Mountains and buys it off a lady. He saves both of them using the power of the guacamole, but all of the goop starts forming an impenetrable guacamole monster. Manny goes inside the monster and opens up the tub and defeats it. He then tells the truth about what happened and White Pantera decides to punish the two by making them crush guacamole for one year. Sigh……you know, at the beginning, I was gonna call this a great show but after re-watching this particular one, I may have exaggerated a bit about it being my favorite Nicktoon on this list. Actually, maybe I haven’t exaggerated enough because THIS SHOW IS FUCKING AWESOME. I mean, I certainly wasn’t expecting this show to be bad, of course, but I seriously wasn’t expecting it to be this blisteringly awesome either. “El Tigre” manages to be that perfect blend between comedy and action I absolutely crave. There are a lot of highlights in this episode I’ve left out of the summary so I will do the same I did with Barnyard and talk about them. And that’s just from this episode, by the way. “El Tigre” in general is just a perfect show. All the characters are interesting, the villains range from funny to threatening to the rare combination of both, the jokes are entertaining, and if that theme song doesn’t get your head banging and blood pumping, you’re probably dead inside. I might have nitpicked on Teenage Robot a bit, but you can’t get me to find a single flaw here. So have a happy belated Cinco de Mayo everyone and make sure the guacamole you buy when you watch this isn’t evil. Oh, by the way, I have watched the series finale of this show. I am not going to spoil much what happens in it, but I am going to say this: I absolutely dare the SpongeBob writers to write a better finale than this. That is all. VERDICT: Diez/Diez (With absolutely no weak spots, I feel comfortable calling El Tigre my favorite Nicktoon………….I think) RANKINGS: That was an absolute blast to write about. Will my next show match it in greatness? I somehow doubt it, but we'll see!

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