Micki, Ryan, and Jack go after a sinister-looking Cupid statue that causes women to fall in love with its owner who must then kill them after he seduces them and gets them to formally declare their love for him.
"Cupid's Quiver" is just beyond terrible. Many more episodes like this and the show might have actually gotten canceled.
The things that really make this episode bad are as follows: the special effects are not very good, though better than "The Poison Pen" (almost anything is), it moves along at a snail's pace, Denis Forest and Carolyn Dunn give lousy performances, no college would allow one of their students to live in a basement, Micki foolishly goes to meet the guy alone, somehow procures a blond wig in the middle of the night and the villain tries to escape by walking along a flimsy pipe.
I haven't even gotten to the worst part of all: the death scene of the woman in the bar. I'm not referring to woman who is strangled in the prologue, mind you, but the woman that our loser villain picks up later. He kills her by locking her in a truck with angry bees. First of all, where did he get a beehive in the first place? How did he not get stung himself carrying the thing over there? Finally, the special effects used to create the bees are just awful. It looks like she's being attacked by a bowl of Rice Krispies.
I would list some positives but I just can't think of any here. "Cupid's Quiver" is definitely the low point for this series. Fortunately, it does get better. If you want to see this kind of plot done better, I would recommend the episode "Vanity's Mirror" later in this season. Even though Denis Forest and Carolyn Dunn absolutely stunk they would be given chances to redeem themselves in later episodes (as different characters each time, amusingly enough). Denis alone would go on to torment the Curious Goods trio in three more episodes.
"Cupid's Quiver" is just beyond terrible. Many more episodes like this and the show might have actually gotten canceled.
The things that really make this episode bad are as follows: the special effects are not very good, though better than "The Poison Pen" (almost anything is), it moves along at a snail's pace, Denis Forest and Carolyn Dunn give lousy performances, no college would allow one of their students to live in a basement, Micki foolishly goes to meet the guy alone, somehow procures a blond wig in the middle of the night and the villain tries to escape by walking along a flimsy pipe.
I haven't even gotten to the worst part of all: the death scene of the woman in the bar. I'm not referring to woman who is strangled in the prologue, mind you, but the woman that our loser villain picks up later. He kills her by locking her in a truck with angry bees. First of all, where did he get a beehive in the first place? How did he not get stung himself carrying the thing over there? Finally, the special effects used to create the bees are just awful. It looks like she's being attacked by a bowl of Rice Krispies.
I would list some positives but I just can't think of any here. "Cupid's Quiver" is definitely the low point for this series. Fortunately, it does get better. If you want to see this kind of plot done better, I would recommend the episode "Vanity's Mirror" later in this season. Even though Denis Forest and Carolyn Dunn absolutely stunk they would be given chances to redeem themselves in later episodes (as different characters each time, amusingly enough). Denis alone would go on to torment the Curious Goods trio in three more episodes.