The Age of Retention is the second half of the 14th episode of Blazing Dragons. It was preceded by A Killer Makeover and followed by The Lost Ruby Hat of Omar the Ham.
Plot[]
King Allfire revises a labor union manifesto, and notices a castle in the distance that does not seem to be following the rules, so he goes over to it with Flicker, Sir Loungelot, Sir Burnevere, and Sir Blaze, Loungelot bringing Queen Griddle's fruitcakes with them as a housewarming gift. The castle is owned by a toymaker named Duke Rudolph, who gives the dragons a tour. Flicker notices a door that says "Absolutely no entry", and Rudolph says it's Barry's room.
Flicker soon becomes suspicious of Rudolph, who seems evil and is keeping Allfire and the knights busy. Princess Flame decides to investigate, and takes Flicker with her. They enter Barry's room, but Rudolph traps them in a cage and reveals his war machine, the Behemoth Artillery Reinforced Raiding Yeomen, or BARRY. When Allfire and his knights enter, Rudolph traps them inside BARRY and makes them use their fiery breath to heat up the boilers, threatening to kill Flame if they don't.
As Rudolph drives BARRY to Camelhot to destroy it, Flicker uses one of Griddle's fruitcakes to smash the lock on the cage he and Flame are imprisoned in, and together they set up conveyor belts and launch more fruitcakes at BARRY. The fruitcakes are so hard that they smash through BARRY, which falls into the moat. The cockpit explodes and sends Rudolph flying into the distance (is it unknown if he survived). Allfire and his knights survive, and Loungelot finally gets some "bickies".
Trivia[]
- This is the first time bickies are mentioned. Loungelot's favorite food are cookies or biscuits that he calls "bickies".
- This is one of the last episodes in which Flame plays as big a role as Flicker, as her role diminishes in Season 2.
- This episode on YTV (Canada) aired in 2003-2004, Feburary-November 2005, Halloween 2006 and January-December 2007.
Allusions[]
Back to the Future
- Duke Rudolph opens the time machine room door for Rudy's Rollicking Grump toy company and says: "Flux capacitor... fluxing." - one of Marty's lines from the movie.
- dialogue by Sir Burnevere
- Flicker says "Count Geoffrey gives problems with time-travel panels to go back in time to 1985B Castle Threadbare?"
- Sir Galahot talks about this movie
- Princess Flame refers to the film
- Sir Blaze mentions that movie and that he that is so the smartly dressed and fashionably late has arrived of Camelhot.
- The 2015 DeLorean appears in Castle Threadbare, while Count Geoffrey using the time machine to travel through time.
- Sir Hotbreath spoofs Marty McFly by saying: "Whoa! Rock and roll."
- King Allfire holding the Back to the Future merchandise at Rudy's Rollicking Grump toy company, with the Flux Capacitor and they flies back to Castle Camelhot.
- The reactions to Duke Rudolph explodes the "BARRY" war machine, flies in the air sitting a toilet and lands on the ground feeling unconscious spoof the reactions to Marty's skateboard in 1955.
- The Camelhot van with Cowsius Clay's time machine attached, functions similarly to the DeLorean time machine from the Back to the Future film series. As with the DeLorean, the van has to drive at a fast enough speed in order to time travel, although the van also needs an object from the same era the driver intends to travel to. The van also hovers during the time-traveling sequence, as the upgraded DeLorean does at the end of the first film. At the end of the episode, when King Don, Duke Rudolph and Cowsius Clay makes the jump to 1985 Camelhot, the van leaves a pair of fiery tire tracks and Duke Rudolph's license plate, which is spun around and falling down, just like the DeLorean does during its first time travel.
Back to the Future Part II
- King Allfire revises a labor union manifesto and the hoverboard appears.
- Referenced by Queen Griddle during topic discussion
- Flicker asks Princess Flame if Count Geoffrey wants to see the film at the cinema in Castle Threadbare.
- Sir Loungelot discusses an analogy to what he says is Back to the Future, but he is actually describing the plot point from Back to the Future Part II, where Biff Tannen gets a book with sports scores from the future
- The movie is referenced by Duke Rudolph
- Sir Burnevere asks for the year that Marty gets a hoverboard in the film
- Peasants uses the alternate timeline created by Biff's actions as an example of the problem with time travel.
- Princess Flame talks about this movie
- Sir Galahot mentioned the film while during his time travel back to the distant future.
- Sir Hotbreath discussed this film
- Chancellor references this film
- Sir Blaze mentions the hoverboard
- Cinder and Clinker has the Sports Almanac.
Back to the Future Part III
- Sir Loungelot noted those bickies similarity to Flicker referring to the film as "Bickies to the Future Part III"
- Flicker says to Princess Flame that Cassandra dressed up as Clara Clayton in Back to the Future III.
- King Don mentioned this film
- Cowsius Clay spoofs Doc Brown by saying: "You're just not thinking fourth-dimensionally!"