"Dinky's Doomsday Pizza" is the season 1 finale of The Littles. Well meaning, but dumber than a bag of hammers Dinky decides to start a pizza delivery service-----by air. His idea of ingredients, since he makes the pizzas himself, leaves something to be desired.
Unfortunately, Dr. Erick Hunter may have something to say about Dinky's misfortune.......
Plus, Lucy and Henry show how to make a glass car. A drinking glass car, that is.
Rating: B.
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Interestingly, in John Peterson's books that the Littles cartoon is based on, there was a Cousin Dinky character who was a pilot, but he wasn't the bumbling buffoon that the producers made him on the show. In the books, Dinky was competent pilot who lived with his mother rather than the main family. Also, in the books he eventually marries a woman named Delia.
Apparently, head writer Jeff Scott decided Dinky was set up to be the comedy relief character on the show.
Strangely, with the series about to turn 40 next year, no one's tried to revive the series or do a more faithful adaptation, so that Dinky isn't presented as a clown.
It does strike me as being somewhat curious that as of yet no one has attempted to revive The Littles, especially considering that ABC greenlight the series in an attempt to counter the popular Smurfs SatAM cartoon over at NBC.
While the Smurfs were given new life on the big screen 11 years ago. Go figure.
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