He-Man Reviewed: Season 1 Episode 7 “The Curse of the Spellstone”

I hope that in this episode, He-Man foils Skeletor’s plot by befuddling him with a sort of spell and speak. We will find out right after Prince Adam discovers his… you guessed it, FABULOUS SECRET POWERS!

-the actual moment he says fabulous-

This episode opens with a creepy, twisted, slowed down version of the He-Man music playing as we pan over to this weird gold palace we’ve never seen before. I wonder who lives there… Apparently it's the spellstone. Skeletor is outside with Evil-Lyn and uses his staff to magically break the doors open, and its just right there on a pedestal. What a let down! Then, Skeletor, I shit you not, says, “The spellstone! It better be worth all this trouble, Evil-Lyn"! Seriously?! What trouble? I’ve had more trouble opening a beer! OK, it was my 5^th or 8^th beer, but still!

Evil-Lyn assures him it's worth it, then babbles some gobbledegook at it, while we cut scenes to the royal palace, but by way of a long, never-before-seen pan over a lush green valley, above which the palace and village are perched on a giant plateau of bare stone, overlooking it. Whaaaa? Now they are just being revisionist. I mean, why would they build the villiage on top of a giant stone plateau if there was this fertile valley there the whole time? I suppose that maybe it’s a flood plane, what with that river and all.

Anyway, inside the palace, King Randor stands motionless, gazing out at said valley with his arm around Man-At-Arms. Awwww. Cringer sleeps peacefully under a table. Awwww. Orko is playing some dumb guess-the-hand trick while Prince Adam (with the most shit-eating grin I’ve ever seen), Queen Mariena, and Teela watch. Oh, fuck. Thankfully, Prince Adam totally punks Orko and makes him look like an asshole, which causes Teela to do this sexy laugh as she tosses her head back.

Panning back, complete with peaceful music, King Randor is still fondling Mat-At-Arms, gazing out the window. Suddenly they are talking about a weather controlling satellite that Man-At-Arms invented, and is now demonstrating. How reckless, fucking with an ecosystem like that for your own selfish comfort! Of course, the thing messes up and causes a thunderstorm. A bad one. Man-At-Arms, the arrogant bastard, denies that there is any way his machine could fuck up like that.

He immediately suggests that it has to have been the spellstone, being manipulated by somebody evil. Not that anything should surprise me any more, but really? That’s the first conclusion they jump to? There isn't one red herring? Anyway, blah, blah, blah, Cringer is terrified of becoming Battle Cat, blah, blah, blah, Prince Adam turns into He-Man.

Elsewhere, Skeletor and Evil-Lyn are watching the spellstone as it pulsates and “works its evil” which will destroy Eternia with (un)natural disasters. Skeletor is already day dreaming about how he will rule the land, and Evil-Lyn is all like, “you mean we”, and he’s all like in your dreams, wench. So she turns into an old lady.

He-Man, Stratos, Ram-Man and Battle Cat are cruising in Attak Trak to go find the temple of the fire-people where the legendary spellstone supposedly resides. The fire-people are a fierce tribe known for anal raping outsiders with flaming logs. And they have tentacled lava snakes that pop up from lava pool. I know because one just did. The lava snake just picks up the entirety of Attak Trak in its mouth and everyone is like, “What the shit are we gonna do, He-Man”? I hope he gives that pink fucker a cleft palate with his magic sword! Instead, he just presses a button and electrocutes it and it drops them and disappears under the lava, disappointingly still alive.

Meanwhile, the storm is totally fucking up Eternia and causing fires everywhere. Man-At-Arms and Teela are using this remedial looking portable water tank to try and put out the fires while the old hag Evil-Lyn and a bearded old man look on. She continues to mentally command the spellstone, via voice over, to continue to fuck up Eternia. If only the old man could hear her inner-monologue, then he'd know who's behind this!

The storm continues to rage, with homes catching on fire and women and children burning alive in their huts. Mmmm, I can almost smell the barbecue! A lightning bolt strikes the remedial fire-fighting water tank, causing Man-At-Arms and Teela get thrown to the ground. The old hag Evil-Lyn stands over Teela, licking her lips, about to squat on her face.

Instead, the old man and his children start bitching about the loss of their home, and the old hag is all like, “It’s the King’s fault. And Man-At-Arms. Didn’t you see them torching your shit"? Hey, that actually makes sense! Man-at-Arms did make that weather machine. It probably is his fault.

Teela is all like, “oh, I’m so dainty and I got the wind knocked out of me”. And Man-At-Arms is all like, "Oh, yeah, that looks bad, we better go, we’ll be back"! He then runs off with her like she's some gory infirmed. What a pussy. I’ve had the wind knocked out of me when a mob of angry villagers is after me before. No big deal. I guess it’s not her fault since she’s spent her whole life being subjugated, even if she is a tom boy.

Anyway, old hag Evil-Lyn has convinced the whole village that King Randor and Man-At-Arms caused the anger of the gods, due to their voyeurism, embracing, and mutual masturbation earlier. Evil-Lyn convinces everyone that the best punishment of the royal court would be to use the Creeping Whore-Ak on them (what ever that is), which coincidentally the old man knows how to find. Since he's a widower and old people dig other old people, she promises him some cooze if he takes her to it.

Meanwhile, at the temple of the fire-people, He-Man et. al. discover the empty pedestal that the spellstone used to sit on. Just as they wonder what happened to it (really?) Skeletor pops out with Trap Jaw at his side and sics a bunch of his robots on them. He-Man smashes a few of them and remarks about how easy it is to defeat them when a bunch more of them take him out. Battle Cat, speaking for, I believe, the first time, remarks about how much he loves robots. He tries to pet them and love them, but ends up slashing them apart.

Back in Eternia, the old hag Evil-Lyn and the villagers are indicting King Randor while he stands on his royal-fucking-patio. The old man is holding a rectangular box, which I’m guessing is the creeping Whore-Ak. I'm guessing that the creeping Whore-Ak is some kind of pocket-pussy-come-chinese-finger-trap device. Actually, considering the King's philandering, it would be pretty clever to use that on him.

Somehow, Teela figures out that the old hag is Evil-Lyn. She must be able to smell that old lady clam even from the balcony, and recognized it from the female tea bag she received earlier. As Teela runs off to grab a bolo, of all things, old hag Evil-Lyn demands that the old man hand over the creeping Whore-Ak. The old man begs her not to use it, because he’s used it before, and well… lets just say, you don’t want to get your dick stuck in this sex toy.

Teela snares old hag Evil-Lyn with the bolo and so she just turns into normal Evil-Lyn and the bolo just falls off. She hurls the creeping Whore-Ak at Teela and hits the wall instead. It appears to be infected with some kind of freaky STD which starts spreading up the outside of the palace wall causing the royal court to run away while expositionally discussing how the creeping Whore-Ak used to be used to punish criminals by growing over their homes until all the air was sucked out. Harsh. Suffocated by a giant STD that emerges from an ancient sex toy. That's both cruel and unusual!

Meanwhile, He-Man, Ram Man, Stratos, and Battle Cat are kicking the shit out of Skeletor’s robots. Once they’ve all been taken out, He-Man makes a move for Skeletor. Before He-Man can lay his sweaty palms on him, Skeletor uses his staff to show him the creeping Whore-Ak trying to suffocate everyone he cares about. He-Man, all too familiar with STDs, yields to Skeletor. Then he pulls a trap door on their asses.

They land in a cave, and, perhaps in his most directly homicidal move yet, Skeletor cranks a valve that begins to fill the cave with water. Gee, he sure does seem to have the fire-people’s secret temple figured out pretty well, seeing as how he knows where all the defense traps are... And, by the way, we have not yet seen any of these so-called “fire-people”. Anyway, however will they escape?! Skeletor makes the premature determination that He-man will definitely be killed by this trap and solicits Trap Jaw to come to his palace and celebrate his victory with him.

He-Man discovers that the floor is hollow and uses a boulder to smash a hole in it. The water then just flows harmlessly down into it. Just as they wonder aloud how they will actually escape the cave, the walls magically part revealing a staircase. Really? It was that easy!? When they emerge at the top, we finally meet the much-mentioned-not-yet-seen fire-people. Ram Man pussies out and ducks back into the staircase.

Back at the palace, the creeping Whore-Ak is seeping through the metal doors like a tip-drip from a clap-infected cock. Teela decides it’s best to try and burn those warts off, and attacks the Whore-Ak with a torch. Like the honey badger, it doesn't give a shit, and takes hold of her. You know, I have to admit, Teela is pretty hot, and has a nice ass. I’m rather saddened that she is now tainted by an STD. Hopefully, it’s a curable one.

Elsewhere, the fire people are addressing He-Man. Their leader accuses He-Man of having stolen the spellstone. Really? These guys are the least observant creatures on the planet. Did they not notice that Skeletor has been hanging out in the temple for who knows how long? And that he’s been setting off all the booby-traps? Sheesh. He-Man tries to plead his case, but the chief is having none of it and orders them all drawn and quartered.

As they come under attack, He-Man orders the crew not to hurt them, explaining that they are not really enemies. Goddammit, is this guy fickle. Murderous one moment, life-cherishing the next. I think he’s bipolar. Though, that’s not surprising from a guy with a dual identity, no matter how flimsy the veil between the two. Back at the palace, the royal court is almost out of rooms in which to avoid the continued pursuit of the creeping Whore-Ak. Man-At-Arms tries one of their vaporizing rays on it, but it doesn’t work.

Quickly, we cut back to some fire people chiding He-Man for the location of the spellstone. He’s playing hippie-dippy and still trying to love on the fire-people by putting daisies in their proverbial gun barrels. Having none of it, they continue their assault and He-Man continues to take the high road. God, this guy pisses me off. Just kill them already!

Suddenly, that tentacled lava-snake shows up and grabs one of the fire-people. You wouldn’t think this creature would be in a hurry to assist He-Man after being tazed, but what do I know. Topically, it turns to He-Man and says “don’t taze me bro”! He-Man obliges, since he’s feeling preservationist today, and instead throws a giant bolder into its mouth, jamming it, and thus causing it to drop the fire-person. Since He-Man saved him from the pink lava snake, the chief decides he’s alright and lets them all go. And now, instead of being pissed that the spellstone is missing, he hopes He-Man finds it. Fire-people must be bi-polar, too. Or democrats.

We cut to Man-At-Arms et. al. gathered in the last room in the palace. Man, that creeping Whore-Ak spreads faster than herpes at at a gang-bang! They are hoping that yet another door will protect them from its burning itchyness. Outside, Skeletor is kickin' it with Evil-Lyn and some villagers. However, the villagers are pretty pissed at him. Skeletor's all like, “what are you gonna do about it, huh”? Then He-Man shows up. Evil-Lyn tells Skeletor what a fuck up he is, since He-Man is supposed to be dead and all. He-Man just keeps walking toward the camera until his chest fills up the whole screen. Twice.

Skeleor pulls out a sword that looks identical to He-Man’s and swings it at him, but He-Man easily knocks out of his hand and into orbit. Evil-Lyn goes all "Wizard of Oz" and creates a tornado that picks all the heroes up into a spin cycle. He-Man’s hair is really wafting, it's a thing of beauty, really. It must be inspiring because the villagers too, because they get all uppity and run over and just take the spellstone away from Evil-Lyn.

As soon as they do this the He-Man song comes on, so you know the battle is over. Oh, psych! Skeletor verbally commands the spellstone, apparently it being the only thing that can stop the creeping Whore-Ak (that’s convenient), to return to its realm. So, it takes off like that silver ball in those spooky-ass Phantasm movies. Of course, He-Man runs after it. He-Man runs so fast that he can lean into the wind and not fall. Man, that’s fast!

Simultaneously, the creeping Whore-Ak is, well, creeping under the door of the last room in the palace. Ever the while, He-Man is chasing the spellstone. The He-Man song comes on again, so you know he’s about to catch it. He hurls the spellstone at the palace, smashing it into the creeping Whore-Ak. Skeletor is all like, “I think I hear my mom calling” and takes off. Magically, the creeping Whore-Ak disappears, and because, why not, the spellstone disappears back to the fire-people. As if the royal court haven’t had a bad enough day already, a little later, Orko fucks up a trick for them by creating a lighting cloud to appear instead of a rainbow. Too soon! A number of villagers lost their hovels and women and children due to lighting, just this afternoon, you fucking dick!

Time for this week’s moral. I think its going to be about how STDs are bad and you should never stick your dick in a used pocket pussy. Man-At-Arms comes on to tell us all about it. Instead, he explains that Orko’s tricks suck and he fucks them up all the time, and you shouldn’t play practical jokes because, “someone could wind up losing a finger or an arm, or maybe even an eye”. Yeah, he actually said that.