Donkey Kong Country, Season Two

DONKEY KONG COUNTRY, SEASON TWO

Today, let's cover the second and final season of the Donkey Kong animated series, and definitely the worse of the two, with a distinct and rather jarring drop in the animation quality and significantly weaker writing (most of the episodes basically boiling down to "Everyone is mad at Donkey Kong for reasons they really shouldn't be mad at him specifically for"). It's also significantly shorter than the first season, likely meaning it was cancelled about halfway through.

Donkey, Diddy, Cranky, Candy, Funky, and Dixie all return, not bringing too much new to the table, as do Bluster Kong and Eddie the Mean Old Yeti, with Bluster developing the ability to shoot lightning from his eyes at one point and Eddie acting as the guardian angel in an "It's a Wonderful Life" parody episode. King K. Rool, Klump, and Krusha all return, all mostly being as awesome as they were before, as do Captain Skurvy and his crewmates.

The most notable one-off character appearing this time, is from what seems to have become the most meme-able episode of the series, in which Donkey Kong gets his brain swapped into the body of a robot he dubs Metal Head. The Metal Head robot can walk around, use a hammer, put together a barrel really fast, stomp heavily, walk on his hands, hop around, and remove his head and toss it around.

Most of the standard locations of the series return, including Cranky's Cabin, Donkey Kong's Cabin, Funky and Candy's boardwalk, Barrel Works, King K. Rool's lair, Skurvy's pirate ship, and the White Mountains.

Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

TV Mario: plungers, wrenches, plumber's snakes, climb with plungers, pizza cutters, pizzas, spaghetti, fire flowers, fireballs, growing giant, invincibility, raccoon tail, frog suit, handstands, toss, chisels, fire flower, spring, cape, inflate, tennis

TV Luigi: plungers, wrenches, plumber's snakes, climb with plungers, pizza cutters, pizzas, spaghetti, fire flowers, fireballs, growing giant, invincibility, raccoon tail, frog suit, handstands, toss, chisels, fire flower, spring, cape, inflate, tennis

Donkey Kong: punch, beat up, booby traps

Diddy Kong: shoot bananas, booby traps

Tommy Treehugger: roller blade, yo-yo, throw trash, golf, destroy set, remote

Co-MC: roller blade, yo-yo, throw trash, golf, destroy set, remote

Cranky Kong: spells, potions, teleport

Princess Toadstool: flowers, sled, vegetables, float, shrinking wand, surfing, paraglider, P-Wing, tennis

TV Toad: flowers, snowboard, biker, hat parachute, vegetables, surfs, disguises as plant, powerful wand, giant pipe creatures, P-Wing.

Candy Kong: punch, banana pie, barrel works

Yoshi: tongue, wings, breathe fire, extendable tail, eat everything.

Oogtar: swing, rope, wheel, berries, hoe, club.

Funky: surf, plane

Dixie Kong

Bluster Kong: barrel works, cake, super potion, love potion, eye lightning

King Koopa: snowmobile, cage, Piranha Plant gun, door potion, magic carpet, net, vampire, turn people to stone, flies a plane, freezes people, hat shield, catapult, pesticide, grow gigantic, giant shoe, magic, Klown Kar, Ratso.

King K. Rool: schemes, traps, cannon

General Klump: mostly the same, Klaptrap guns

Krusha

Cheatsy: magic wand, transform, pull things from TV, booby traps.

Big Mouth: tornado breath, bo staff.

Kootie Pie: tantrum, throws things, wrap in a scarf.

Bully: nunchaku, fire hose, garbage.

Kooky: time travel machine, rain machine, Lame Brainer, nice spray, Koopa Doopa raiser-upper, Goopa, Mega Mechanisaur

Hip and Hop: ball.

Robo Koopa: bullet bills, bombs from the toe, laser cage, stomp, fist from the chest, rocket pack.

Captain Skurvy: cannon, cannonballs, dig, barrels, Kutlass, Green Kroc, Polly Roger

Mouser: bombs, Cobrats, BMX bike, mace, spinning hat, dinosaur

Tryclyde: spits fireballs, poison, net, trident, sword, BMX bike

Koopa: spin in shell, BMX bike, Werekoopa

Wizenheimer: lightning, fog, create bombs, hypnotize, vanish, egg transformation

Dino Riders: motorcycles, graffiti, throw bowls, stink bob-omb

Evil Eric: knock out, tie up, puppets, same as Co-MC

Tammy Treehugger: knock out, tie up, puppets, same as Co-MC

Eddie the Mean Old Yeti: stick, fire, roar, snowballs, giant ice block, angel

Birdo: wings

Flurries: ski, ice skate, carve up blocks of ice, ice wands

Beezos: fly, spears, lances, swords, rope, nets

Rex: spears, pies, other things from the previous games

Mervin the Magician: teleport, vanish, see the future, golden plunger, plumber's snake

Genie: trampoline, stink spell, flying spell, lamp, magic carpet

Mark Twang: steamboat, rope, cannon

Brutius Maximus Grouchimus: throws shells, lions

Queen Rotunda: strength, love potion

Captain Clump: peg leg, parrot, barrel, club, rigging launch

Bunsen: hacks into computers, drills, Plumbinator, plunger sword, flyswatter, shoots eggs

Sheldon the Witch Doctor: brews potion

Mermushroom: swim, whale

Hercufleas: great fireball, launch fire, race really fast, swing a pillar

Salvado Drainaro: plumbing focus

Hooded Robin: flies, shoots plunger arrows

Flab Boys: throwing discs, zapping, boosting, bouncing on their large bellies, exploding disc launcher, rolling around

James Blonde: wrench phone, explosive drain cleaner, atomic screwdriver, laser drill, plumber missiles, pummel gun, hose nozzle with a mini plunger

Vampa White, fireballs, fangs, turn into bat, werekoopa

Zero: whip, rapier, fly with cape, cacti, turnips

Captain Abidab: harpoon, plunger shooter, rope, bucket, catapult, divers' suit

Mugga the Medicine Woman: bone, torch, brews potions, swings on vines, dropes bones

Misaki: punches, kicks, jumping kicks, throws, chops, staffs, plunger staff, nunchaku

The Three Mushrooms: pie catapult

Pronto: plumber gun, lasso, Ostro

Sergeant Kooperman: also plumbing focus

Waldo the Wizard: shrinking potion, growing potion, floats, disappears, uses magic, enchants a flying boot

Old Gray Wolf

Quirks: horns, strong sounds, fly spaceships, shoot lasers, use magnets

Queen Mushroomkhamen: staff, stomps, wrap up in tape, smash through wall

The Wizard King of the West: powerful wand, snail steed, pipe monsters.

Junior: dropping vase, boomerang, other messes, boulder catapult.

Mighty Plumber: plunger  rope, wrench, burst of water, plumber's snake, rafting on a grate, pipe battering ram

Crime Wave Clyde: tuck  into a basketball, bob-omb chain, see some Koopalings above.

King Windbag: dog

Kong Fu: martial arts, dance, swing around, karate chop, throw

Baby Kong: vacuum, punch, grab and throw, cry, bite, throw objects

Metal Head: walk, hammer, put together a barrel, stomp, walk on hands, hop, toss head

Stages:

Snow Land

Wild West

Cramalot

Forest of Perpetual Night and Terrible Dangers

Sultan's Palace

River World

Sinister Star

Linguini Empire

Beanstalk

Rotundaland

Kingdom of Youth

Planet Quirk

Pirate Ship

Roboland

Chateau Koopula

Jungle Land

Aqualand

Mythus

Sayonara

Land of Romance

Lava Land

Snow World

Victoria

Sherwood Forest

Carland

Pasta Land

Rap Land

Spyland

Fort Hardknox

Tunnel of Doom

Cloudland

Shamrock Kingdom

Toadstool Castle

El Desert Land

Ocean World

Mighty Peapod

Koopalus

Delawide River

Swiss Cheese Alps

Caveman Land

Crime Land

Sockhop Land

Parsley Land

North Pole

Pyramid Land

Red Sauce Sea

Double Cross Ranch

Plumbers Academy

Down Under Land

King Koopa's Summer Castle

Kooplyn

Temple of Koopa

Koopatraz

Far Off Woods

Castle Koopa

Doomship

Giant Land

Desert Land

Pipe Maze

Dark Land

Sky Land

Mushroom House

Ace Magic Wand Factory

Temple of Gloom

Mertropolis

Hawaii

Brooklyn

Hollywood

Miami

Venice

Paris

Dome City

Neon Castle

Lava Pits

Enchanted Forest

Haunted House

Star Path

Club Mario

King Koopa's Kool Kartoons

Cranky's Cabin

Donkey Kong's cabin

King K. Rool's Lair

Bluster's Barrel Works

Captain Skurvy's galleon

Mellow Yellow Banana Plantation

White Mountains

Forbidden Forest

Temple of Inka Dinka Doo

Thanks for reading! Next up, let's cover a live action segment connected to the Donkey Kong Country series, Donkey Kong Planet!