Three Cubes to Darkness

"Pyramid of DarknessPart 3:Three Cubes to Darkness"
Attribution
Writer(s)	Ron Friedman
Production company	Sunbow Productions
Production code	#600-39
Season	1
Original airdate	September 18, 1985
General information
Continuity	A Real American Hero animated continuity
Series	G.I. Joe
Preceded by	Rendezvous in the City of the Dead
Followed by	Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls
Three Cubes to Darkness

The Joe Team struggles to stop Cobra from installing the control cubes.

Plot

One of the control cubes for the Pyramid of Darkness.

Appearances

Featured Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

G.I. Joe	Cobra	Civilians
Airtight (17) Alpine (20) Bazooka (21) Duke (30) Dusty (28) Flint (3) Footloose (16) Frostbite (22) Greenshirts (6) Junkyard (27) Lady Jaye (4) Mutt (29) Roadblock (15) Shipwreck & Polly (8) Snake-Eyes & Timber (7) Tollbooth (23) Wild Bill (5)	Buzzer (25) Cobra Commander (11) Cobra Trooper (1) Crimson Guard (14) Destro (2) Major Bludd (19) Snow Serpents (18) Storm Shadow (32) Torch (26) Tomax (12) Xamot (13) Zartan (31)	Colonel Slash (9) Fatal Fluffies (24) Satin (10)

Featured Vehicles and Equipment

G.I. Joe	Cobra
Bridge Layer Mauler M.B.T. Polar Battle Bear Skystriker XP-14/F Snow Cat	Trubble Bubble

Notes

Animation and Technical Errors

• Just after being attacked by the control cube, Lady Jaye is shown wearing her cold weather parka.
• Storm Shadow is missing his Cobra insignia in his first frontal shot.
• When Colonel Slash and his men arrive at Satin's dressing room, the dressing room door reads "SATN." In the next shot, it reads "SATIN."
• The name of the club that Shipwreck and Snake Eyes enter is "Snake Club." However, when the announcer introduces Satin, he refers to the establishment as The Snake Cafe.

Continuity Errors

• Dusty is shown on Earth with Roadblock moments after being shown on Space Station Delta, where he's been for the past two episodes.
• Airtight steps on a pressure-sensitive stone inside "The City of Lost Souls" and activates the temple's defenses -- which is odd considering Cobra had just driven the multi-ton cube over the same spot and failed to activate it.

Quotes

"This looks like a good place to get something to eat, like maybe a broken leg of lamb."
--Shipwreck, entering the Snake Cafe with Snake Eyes.

"Let's just say I have a soft spot for weirdos."
--Satin, talking to Shipwreck and Snake Eyes.

"Now I know how a frozen pizza feels!"
--Alpine, after getting buried in an avalanche with Bazooka.

Miscellaneous Trivia

• Lady Jaye has a javelin that can create a bubble filled with air, and one that spreads a net over a large area.
• Snake Eyes and Timber are adept break dancers.
• Shipwreck refers to himself as "Shipwreck Delgado."
• The song that Satin sings in the Snake Cafe, "The Cobra That Got Away," appears again later in the series. It is the song heard playing in the background of the club Dial-Tone (RAH), Leatherneck (RAH), and Wet-Suit (RAH) take their dates, in the episode "Joe's Night Out."

Real World References

• The statues in the City of the Dead are based on the terracotta warriors of X'ian, China.

Footnotes

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