The Legend of Kid Friendly / Silent but Deadly

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The Legend of Kid Friendly / Silent but Deadly is an episode of the animated Nickelodeon show, The Angry Beavers.

[edit] The Legend of Kid Friendly

Norb takes Dag (who doesn't want to go), to a western theme park based around the legendary Kid Friendly, the grinning gunslinger who "kills ya with kindness" and folksy humor. When the Kid Friendly robot goes berserk, all that stands between Norb and a grinning demise is Dags' bad attitude.

[edit] Silent but Deadly

The Beavers wake to find their dam filled with sleeping wolverines. They must maintain silence at all costs to try and escape being ripped to shreds by the slumbering carnivores.

[edit] Trivia

• In the segment Legend of Kid Friendly, country legend Waylon Jennings (the spelling above is wrong in the Guest Stars credit, R.I.P.) suppiles his musical talents for the episode as the narrator/singer.

• The Legend of Kid Friendly is an explicit parody of Sergio Leones' Westerns, with some very general (and some very specific) references to Leone's films. Some of the more explicit ones include:

- The creaking windmill throughout the episode is taken directly from the opening scene of Once Upon A Time In The West.

- A variation of Farewell To Cheyenne, from the OUATITW soundtrack, plays throughout the episode.

- Kid Friendly refers to Norbert at one point as "Blondie", the nickname for Clint Eastwood's character in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

- The exaggerated gunshot noises used throughout all of Leones' films are used frequently in the episode.

- A song similar to the Overture from A Fistful of Dollars plays at several points.

- The "three-way" showdown at the end recalls the climaxes of both For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

- The trademark Sergio Leone closeups are used throughout the episode.

- At one point, Norb says to Dag "Yes way, Dag 'em high...", a reference to Hang 'Em High (1968).