Cartoon Reviews: Gravity Falls Episode 17 - Boyz Crazy

The Story

It’s just another day at the Mystery Shack in Gravity Falls with Mabel being Mabel and Dipper fawning over Wendy as usual.

Cartoon Reviews: Young Justice Invasion Episode 20 - Endgame

The Story
The Justice League are convicted on Rimbor; Megan and Connor arrive just too late with the confession from the Light and the Reach. On earth Blue Beetle, Green Beetle, and Aqualad attack the Reach ship. Green Beetle's scarab is destroyed by Black Beetle. When Black Beetle tries to do the same to Jaime, the latter and his own scarab turn the tables on Black and destroy his scarab. During the short connection Jaime reads Black Beetle's plans to destroy the world.

Cartoon Reviews: Gravity Falls Episode 16 - Carpet Diem

The Story

When Mabel invites her friends Grenda and Candy to a sleepover, Dipper finds it unbearable to stay in the same room. Soos discovers a hidden room in the Shack, Dipper and Mabel fight over it as Grunkle Stan decides to have a contest to decide which twin gets it.

Cartoon Reviews: Gravity Falls Episode 15 - The Deep End

The Story

In order to beat the heat wave, the Pines and Soos decide to hit the Gravity Falls local pool. There Dipper runs into a hot-blooded pool manager, Stan contends with his arch nemesis Lil’ Gideon, Soos risks his life to save life-saving inflatable ducks, and Mabel befriends a merman.

Cartoon Reviews: Young Justice Invasion Episode 19 - Summit

The Story
The Light and the Reach meet together to discuss recent events in their plans. During the meeting Aqualad and Artemis's cover is blown. The two are executed by Deathstroke, but Aqualad still manages to reveal the Light's treachery to the Reach. Aqualad and Artemis turn out to still be alive, and Deathstroke reveals himself to actually be Miss Martian in disguise.

Cartoon Reviews: Young Justice Invasion Episode 18 - Intervention

The Story
While Blue Beetle continues to pose as a hero, the team mobilize to free him from Reach control. Impulse and Batgirl ambush Blue Beetle, but are easily taken out. Zatanna and Rockette are able to trap Beetle in a bubble made by mixing Rockette's powers and Zatanna's magic.

Cartoon Reviews: Young Justice Invasion Episode 17 - The Hunt

The Story
With the team captured, Lex Luthor contacts the runaways and gives them a way to break into the war world and break the team out. In the meanwhile, Arsenal is running from the Reach, trying to get in touch with the outside world, and Nightwing and Miss Martian are searching for the team on the war world.

Cartoon Reviews: Gravity Falls Episode 014 - The Bottomless Pit

The Story

Grunkle Stan shows Dipper, Mabel, and Soos the Bottomless Pit. While using it to throw away things they don’t need, they all fall into the pit. So what do the four do to pass the time?

Cartoon Reviews:Gravity Falls Episode 013 - Boss Mabel

The Story

When Stan goes too far in controlling his employees and duping the customers, Mabel steps in. The two make a deal that if Mabel makes more money than Stan while he is on vacation for three days, she will become the boss, and if Stan wins Mabel has to wear a humiliating T-shirt for the rest of the summer.

Cartoon Reviews: Young Justice Invasion Episodes 01 - 16

The Story
Five years after the end of season one of Young Justice, a lot has changed. The team has a much expanded roster, many of the original team members have moved on, and aliens are invading the earth. The majority of the season deals with the team at first discovering that the earth is under invasion by a species known as the Reach. Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and the rest of the Justice League implicated by Vandal Savage had to leave to stand trial for the crimes they committed off-world.

Most of the season focuses on the new characters, in particular Blue Beetle, with surprisingly minimal focus given to the original cast. Superboy and Miss Martian broke up during the past five years, after she tried to use her psychic powers to wipe an argument they had from his mind. Surprisingly out of character moments, compared to the first season at least, abound.

Cartoon Reviews: Young Justice

The Story
After being spurned by the Justice League, young sidekicks Robin, Aqualad, and Kid Flash form their own team. After discovering a clone of Superman in a secret genetics lab, they are formed into a Justice League sanctioned team. From there they are sent on covert missions by the league.

Over the course of the story they discover the existence of a league of villains only known as The Light. They deal with the aftermath of the many layered plots of this society, only to find themselves struggling to keep up before The Light can enter their endgame.

The majority of the episodes are standalone episodic, with an intertwining story connecting them. The format of each individual episode is the traditional format where each episode wraps up the important plot elements for that particular episode. This allows the viewer to be engaged in the series while also getting a complete experience every episode.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 64 - Games Ponies Play

The Story
Carrying on from Just for Sidekicks, Games Ponies Play show us what happened while Twilight and friends were in the Crystal Empire. Despite preparation, everything seems to go wrong as they try to impress the inspector for the Equestria Games. Up to and including confusing a random visitor for the actual inspector. Finally, after the misunderstanding goes on for far longer than warranted, they discover their error. But fortunately the good time they showed the visitor is paid back when she tells the inspector of how good she was treated.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 63 - Just For Sidekicks

The Story
With Twilight and the rest of the mane six going to the Crystal Empire to help prepare for the Equestria Games inspector, Spike takes the opportunity to earn some gems by sitting all the pets. But it turns out Spike has bitten off more than he can chew, as he finds himself unable to control the pets. Bit by bit the gems he earned dwindle down to one last one, and Spike and the pets find themselves on a train to the Crystal Empire.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 62 - Keep Calm and Flutter On

The Story
Celestia tasks the mane six, specifically Fluttershy, with reforming Discord, so that his considerable magic powers can be used for good. The incarnation of Chaos has no plans to play by anyone else's tune, but slowly Fluttershy's sincere friendship gets to him. Discord comes to realize that if he keeps doing whatever he wants he will lose the only friend he's ever made. By the end of the episode he has decided to use his magic for good, because having a friend is more important to him than even his own unbridled chaos.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 61 - Spike at Your Service

The Story
When Applejack saves Spike from some Timberwolves, Spike plegdes a lifetime of service to her, as dictated by his Dragon Code. Unfortunately the normally competent Spike turns out to be inept at farm chores, and his help is more trouble than it's worth. Applejack and her friends try to find some way to trick Spike into giving up his Dragon Code. The mane six put together a plot involving a fake Timberwolf, to try and get Spike to believe that he saved Applejack's life.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 60 - Apple Family Reunion

The Story

Apples from all across Equestria are coming to Ponyville to celebrate their family reunion. To help Granny Smith take it easy and enjoy the reunion, Applejack takes over planning and organizing the reunion. But good intentions go overboard when she plans every single minute of the reunion, without giving anyone any time to enjoy each other's company.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 59 - Wonderbolt Academy

The Story

Rainbow Dash's dream is finally within grasp, as she is accepted into the Wonderbolt Academy. At first everything seems to be going well. But then Rainbow is made wing pony to another pegasus, Lightning Dust, who is just as good as Dash, only a lot more reckless. Things start to go downhill as Lightning's dangerous attitude almost gets the other cadets hurt.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 58 - Sleepless in Ponyville

The Story
Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle go camping with their big sisters and Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo tries to impress Rainbow with how tough she is, a feat made all the tougher by Rainbow's scary campfire stories. Scootaloo tries to stay up at night to escape from her nightmares, but falls asleep anyway. In one of Scootaloo's dreams, Princess Luna saves her from the headless horse. Luna tells Scootaloo that she needs to face her true fear.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 57 - Magic Duel

The Story
Trixie returns with the alicorn amulet, an object that gives her untold power, and she uses it to get revenge on Twilight. After Trixie drives Twilight from Ponyville it's up to the purple unicorn and her friends to figure out a way to defeat Trixie.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 56 - One Bad Apple

The Story
When Apple Bloom's cousin, Babs Seed comes to visit, Apple Bloom is at first excited to have a new friend. But Babs soon turns out to be a bully when she joins Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon in harassing the Cutie Mark Crusaders.