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spiderbraidsBack in Game Central Station, Calhoun, Felix, and some random soldier are approaching the entrance to Sugar Rush while surge protector explains what happened. Calhoun explains that the Cybugs will eat through the game "faster than a chicken hawk in a coop of crippled roosters." This analogy confuses the heck out of Felix :-D so she explains that the bugs don't know that they're in a game, and "without a beacon to stop them, they’ll consume Sugar Rush. But do you think they’ll stop there?" The correct answer is No, as Calhoun adds they'll just move on to other games, "until this arcade is nothing but a smoking husk of forgotten dreams." (While she's explaining this, if you look carefully you can see Pong taking up residence in the middle of the station :-))
After Calhoun has the random soldier give her her cruiser, Felix almost rhetorically asks if she's always this tough. Random soldier responds that in her (hilariously tragic) backstory, the one and only time she didn't do her usual perimeter check, it resulted in holy matrimony suddenly turning into "holy crap!" with her groom being eaten by a Cybug.
And you probably haven't seen a bride this homicidal since Uma Thurman :-D
(Disney Screencaps)
Back in the present, Calhoun lays down her hoverboard, and Felix wants to come along with her, but she cites the Sonic PSA about not regenerating. However, Felix rightfully points out that it applies to Calhoun as well, adding: "It is my job to fix what Ralph wrecks. And I cannot ask you to risk your life cleaning up his mess." After a few seconds, Calhoun moves forward and makes room for Felix on her board, and Felix hops on (with the electronic bounce sound too! :-)) before flying off into Sugar Rush...
...where a bunch of young kart racers are arriving at the start/finish of a racetrack. All with candy-themed karts and outfits, of course :-) Even the crowd is candy :-) (In an interesting touch, some of the racers are merely recolors of each other :-)) The girl with Ralph's medal sneaks in by one of the bleachers, as a round piece of green candy (in a constant low and gravely monotone) introduces the rightful ruler of Sugar Rush, King Candy...
(Disney Screencaps)
...and our dear Alan Tudyk hams it up in a performance I'm told is based on that of the Mad Hatter in the animated Alice in Wonderland, as he throws a bunch of regular candy to the living candy crowd (Cannibalism? What cannibalism? ;-)) and identifies the green candy as Sour Bill. We learn the conceit behind the "new racers daily" thing: The racers will have a race, and the first 9 finishers will then be put up on the roster. The King explains it's a pay-to-play event: "The fee to compete is one gold coin, from your previous winnings, if you’ve ever won, which, uh-huh, I have." So yeah, he throws his coin on to a catapult, which then throws it into a cup, putting his name on the scoreboard. Other racers throw in their coins and get their rather cutesy names put up on the board, but the only ones we'll need to focus on are: Taffyta Muttonfudge (Mindy "Lahiri/Disgust" Kaling), a lolly-sucking girl dressed in pink with a Hasbro-era Strawberry Shortcake-style cap (who utters to the crowd "Stay sweet!"), Rancis Fluggernutter, a blonde pretty boy wearing a giant Reese's piece as headwear, and Candlehead, a dorky girl whose headwear is topped with a lit candle (!) Meanwhile, the girl with Ralph's medal pushes her kart under a blanket up to the starting line...
While this is going on, Ralph, covered in green goo, is making his way to the starting line, as the girl with his medal tosses it in, gets the friendly roll, and we finally find out her name: Vanellope von Schweetz, as she pixelates in excitement :-) King Candy (as well as the candy crowd) is shocked at her intrusion, as Taffyta unveils Vanny's rather un-raceworthy kart and calls her "the glitch"... The King decides to send out security for her (one guess as to what they are :-))
So yeah, Vanny runs away from the security donuts towards the bushes, when she encounters the green gooed up Ralph, who scares everyone, as he chases Vanny, upending the bleachers filled with crowds of candy in the process until eventually getting trapped in a ginormous cupcake :-D Yes, it's as silly as it sounds :-) The donut cops come in to beat up the Hulk-like creature with their batons, while we see the carnage Ralph has caused, include the bizarre image of a heart candy spectator chasing her own head :-D King Candy promises that they will have their race before the arcade opens, and Vanny pedals away in her so-called kart. Taffyta, in disgust (HEH) at the glitch's participation, decides to go after her with Rancis and Candlehead, while the King decides to have that green thing taken to his palace... after the cops give him a good tasering :-D
At King Candy's castle, there are a couple of sandwich cookie guards chanting O-Re-O :-) as Cupcake!Ralph is rolled in for his encounter with the King, who rides in on his kart. King has Sour Bill de-taffify the monster's head to reveal Ralph, to which he reacts "Milk my duds, it's Wreck-It Ralph?" to which Ralph responds "Who are you, the guy who makes the donuts?" :-D Ralph looks around the castle and notices that the King appears to be a fan of pink, the color, to which he fobs him off by saying it's salmon :-D
Back to business. Ralph brings up the issue with the medal, and mentions winning it in Hero's Duty, to which King responds, "Ralph, you’re not going Turbo, are you? Because if you think you can come in here to my kingdom and take over MY game, you’ve got another thing coming!" Anyways, long story short, the medal is currently code and won't be available again until it's won in the random roster race. Ralph says that he'll just have to talk with the winner, to which King replies: "Is that a threat I smell? Bleh, beyond the halitosis you so obviously suffer from?" :-D But anyways, he wants Ralph out of the game (threatening to throw him into his Fungeon), so he heads off to deal with the glitch while the donuts decide to bring out a chainsaw to deal with the cupcake. Cupcake!Ralph runs off and breaks through the palace wall, thus freeing himself from the cupcake :-) The donuts decide to bring out the devil dogs to sniff out Ralph without success. We're not talking Cerberus here, but rather these sandwich cake things...
(Funny thing: I was dictating parts of this summary on my phone and the voice recognition actually recognized the word "fungeon" :-D )
Ralph turns out to have been hiding in a in a chocolate lake, and he... doesn't like it very much :-) After emerging from the lake, he sees a couple of karts passing, and decides to follow them to the junkyard... where Vanny is busy tuning up her so-called kart.
From a distance, Ralph looks at her pedal kart and suspects she built it herself... and he's right :-D So, Vanny shows off her kart, the Likkety Split, to the racers, but Taffyta reminds Vanny that glitches can't race. Vanny glitch-flickers as she answers: "I'm not a glitch Taffyta, I just got Pixelexia, okay?" Taffyta heads over to Vanny's kart and gets in to illustrate why it's a problem for her to race, by mocking her glitching... and ripping the steering wheel out :-0 "See? You're just an accident waiting to happen." The other racers decide to join in on the demolition, mocking her glitching in the process, and Ralph think it's uncool.
Vanny grabs Taffyta as she's glitching, causing her to glitch too: "I just want to race like you guys." Taffyta: "You’ll never be a racer, because you’re a glitch, and that’s all you’ll ever be!" Taffyta shoves her into a puddle of choco-mud (just like Ralph in his game, huh :-)), and that strikes a chord with Ralph, so he decides to chase away everyone, threatening to toss them into the mud as well :-0
Back to Vanny now, and Ralph chews her out for taking his medal. After Ralph points out he won it in Hero's Duty, the writers decide to appeal to the 12-year-olds in the audience, by having Vanny launch into a barrage of jokes hinging on a word that sounds similar to "duty" :-D (A rather appropriate example: "I bet you gotta watch where you step in a game called Hero's Duty :-D") Potty humor aside, she says: "Unless you’ve got a go-kart hidden in the back folds of your neck, I can’t help you."
Ralph proceeds to take out his frustration on a bunch of nearby candy trees and a boulder that just refuses to break. Vanny: "What a moron. Hey genius, it’s a jawbreaker! You’re never gonna break..."
Well, what do you know? The jawbreaker splits in half and Vanny reacts to this the only way she knows how: by glitch-flickering in amazement. After calling Ralph a diaper baby :-D Vanny decides to make a deal with Ralph: "Here’s what I’m thinking; you help me get a new kart, a real kart, and I win the race and get you back your medal." Ralph: "You want me to help you??" Vanny: "All you got to do is break something for me :-)" Vanny holds her hand out, but though Ralph insists "We are not friends," he pretty much doesn't any choice, and so decides to take her up on her offer. To quote a certain classic, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship ;-)
Coming up: Ralph gets shaking and baking.
After Calhoun has the random soldier give her her cruiser, Felix almost rhetorically asks if she's always this tough. Random soldier responds that in her (hilariously tragic) backstory, the one and only time she didn't do her usual perimeter check, it resulted in holy matrimony suddenly turning into "holy crap!" with her groom being eaten by a Cybug.
And you probably haven't seen a bride this homicidal since Uma Thurman :-D
(Disney Screencaps)
Back in the present, Calhoun lays down her hoverboard, and Felix wants to come along with her, but she cites the Sonic PSA about not regenerating. However, Felix rightfully points out that it applies to Calhoun as well, adding: "It is my job to fix what Ralph wrecks. And I cannot ask you to risk your life cleaning up his mess." After a few seconds, Calhoun moves forward and makes room for Felix on her board, and Felix hops on (with the electronic bounce sound too! :-)) before flying off into Sugar Rush...
...where a bunch of young kart racers are arriving at the start/finish of a racetrack. All with candy-themed karts and outfits, of course :-) Even the crowd is candy :-) (In an interesting touch, some of the racers are merely recolors of each other :-)) The girl with Ralph's medal sneaks in by one of the bleachers, as a round piece of green candy (in a constant low and gravely monotone) introduces the rightful ruler of Sugar Rush, King Candy...
(Disney Screencaps)
...and our dear Alan Tudyk hams it up in a performance I'm told is based on that of the Mad Hatter in the animated Alice in Wonderland, as he throws a bunch of regular candy to the living candy crowd (Cannibalism? What cannibalism? ;-)) and identifies the green candy as Sour Bill. We learn the conceit behind the "new racers daily" thing: The racers will have a race, and the first 9 finishers will then be put up on the roster. The King explains it's a pay-to-play event: "The fee to compete is one gold coin, from your previous winnings, if you’ve ever won, which, uh-huh, I have." So yeah, he throws his coin on to a catapult, which then throws it into a cup, putting his name on the scoreboard. Other racers throw in their coins and get their rather cutesy names put up on the board, but the only ones we'll need to focus on are: Taffyta Muttonfudge (Mindy "Lahiri/Disgust" Kaling), a lolly-sucking girl dressed in pink with a Hasbro-era Strawberry Shortcake-style cap (who utters to the crowd "Stay sweet!"), Rancis Fluggernutter, a blonde pretty boy wearing a giant Reese's piece as headwear, and Candlehead, a dorky girl whose headwear is topped with a lit candle (!) Meanwhile, the girl with Ralph's medal pushes her kart under a blanket up to the starting line...
While this is going on, Ralph, covered in green goo, is making his way to the starting line, as the girl with his medal tosses it in, gets the friendly roll, and we finally find out her name: Vanellope von Schweetz, as she pixelates in excitement :-) King Candy (as well as the candy crowd) is shocked at her intrusion, as Taffyta unveils Vanny's rather un-raceworthy kart and calls her "the glitch"... The King decides to send out security for her (one guess as to what they are :-))
So yeah, Vanny runs away from the security donuts towards the bushes, when she encounters the green gooed up Ralph, who scares everyone, as he chases Vanny, upending the bleachers filled with crowds of candy in the process until eventually getting trapped in a ginormous cupcake :-D Yes, it's as silly as it sounds :-) The donut cops come in to beat up the Hulk-like creature with their batons, while we see the carnage Ralph has caused, include the bizarre image of a heart candy spectator chasing her own head :-D King Candy promises that they will have their race before the arcade opens, and Vanny pedals away in her so-called kart. Taffyta, in disgust (HEH) at the glitch's participation, decides to go after her with Rancis and Candlehead, while the King decides to have that green thing taken to his palace... after the cops give him a good tasering :-D
At King Candy's castle, there are a couple of sandwich cookie guards chanting O-Re-O :-) as Cupcake!Ralph is rolled in for his encounter with the King, who rides in on his kart. King has Sour Bill de-taffify the monster's head to reveal Ralph, to which he reacts "Milk my duds, it's Wreck-It Ralph?" to which Ralph responds "Who are you, the guy who makes the donuts?" :-D Ralph looks around the castle and notices that the King appears to be a fan of pink, the color, to which he fobs him off by saying it's salmon :-D
Back to business. Ralph brings up the issue with the medal, and mentions winning it in Hero's Duty, to which King responds, "Ralph, you’re not going Turbo, are you? Because if you think you can come in here to my kingdom and take over MY game, you’ve got another thing coming!" Anyways, long story short, the medal is currently code and won't be available again until it's won in the random roster race. Ralph says that he'll just have to talk with the winner, to which King replies: "Is that a threat I smell? Bleh, beyond the halitosis you so obviously suffer from?" :-D But anyways, he wants Ralph out of the game (threatening to throw him into his Fungeon), so he heads off to deal with the glitch while the donuts decide to bring out a chainsaw to deal with the cupcake. Cupcake!Ralph runs off and breaks through the palace wall, thus freeing himself from the cupcake :-) The donuts decide to bring out the devil dogs to sniff out Ralph without success. We're not talking Cerberus here, but rather these sandwich cake things...
(Funny thing: I was dictating parts of this summary on my phone and the voice recognition actually recognized the word "fungeon" :-D )
Ralph turns out to have been hiding in a in a chocolate lake, and he... doesn't like it very much :-) After emerging from the lake, he sees a couple of karts passing, and decides to follow them to the junkyard... where Vanny is busy tuning up her so-called kart.
From a distance, Ralph looks at her pedal kart and suspects she built it herself... and he's right :-D So, Vanny shows off her kart, the Likkety Split, to the racers, but Taffyta reminds Vanny that glitches can't race. Vanny glitch-flickers as she answers: "I'm not a glitch Taffyta, I just got Pixelexia, okay?" Taffyta heads over to Vanny's kart and gets in to illustrate why it's a problem for her to race, by mocking her glitching... and ripping the steering wheel out :-0 "See? You're just an accident waiting to happen." The other racers decide to join in on the demolition, mocking her glitching in the process, and Ralph think it's uncool.
Vanny grabs Taffyta as she's glitching, causing her to glitch too: "I just want to race like you guys." Taffyta: "You’ll never be a racer, because you’re a glitch, and that’s all you’ll ever be!" Taffyta shoves her into a puddle of choco-mud (just like Ralph in his game, huh :-)), and that strikes a chord with Ralph, so he decides to chase away everyone, threatening to toss them into the mud as well :-0
Back to Vanny now, and Ralph chews her out for taking his medal. After Ralph points out he won it in Hero's Duty, the writers decide to appeal to the 12-year-olds in the audience, by having Vanny launch into a barrage of jokes hinging on a word that sounds similar to "duty" :-D (A rather appropriate example: "I bet you gotta watch where you step in a game called Hero's Duty :-D") Potty humor aside, she says: "Unless you’ve got a go-kart hidden in the back folds of your neck, I can’t help you."
Ralph proceeds to take out his frustration on a bunch of nearby candy trees and a boulder that just refuses to break. Vanny: "What a moron. Hey genius, it’s a jawbreaker! You’re never gonna break..."
Well, what do you know? The jawbreaker splits in half and Vanny reacts to this the only way she knows how: by glitch-flickering in amazement. After calling Ralph a diaper baby :-D Vanny decides to make a deal with Ralph: "Here’s what I’m thinking; you help me get a new kart, a real kart, and I win the race and get you back your medal." Ralph: "You want me to help you??" Vanny: "All you got to do is break something for me :-)" Vanny holds her hand out, but though Ralph insists "We are not friends," he pretty much doesn't any choice, and so decides to take her up on her offer. To quote a certain classic, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship ;-)
Coming up: Ralph gets shaking and baking.
