Gruel and Unusual Punishment

"Gruel and Unusual Punishment" is the forty-second episode of The Disney Afternoon animated series, TaleSpin. It premiered on December 4, 1990.
==Plot==
To lose weight for the Pilot's Ball, Baloo goes to what he thinks is a weight loss camp, but the camp turns out to be a Thembrian prison.
== Cast ==
* Pat Fraley as Wildcat
* Ed Gilbert as Baloo
* Michael Gough as Colonel Spigot
* Allan Melvin as Warden Slammer
* Lorenzo Music as Sergeant Dunder
* John Stephenson as Professor Crackpotkin
* Sally Struthers as Rebecca Cunningham
* R.J. Williams as Kit Cloudkicker
==Home video releases==
DVD
* TaleSpin: Volume 2
==Trivia==
* The plot of the episode is a parody of the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes. The episode completes the homage to the show with the prison camp's warden, Slammer, bearing a name similar in meaning to Hogan's warden, Colonel Klink.
*While Baloo is making his way through the jungle on Bedevilled Island, he is seen floating down a stream on his back and eating fruit, much like in the "Bare Necessities" sequence in The Jungle Book.
==Gallery==
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Category:TaleSpin episodes