Editing The Amazing Rollerskate Race

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|image=[[File:SaturdaySupercade TheAmazingRollerskateRace.png|200px]]
|production=8309
|segment=''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Junior]]''
|airdate={{flag list|USA|November 12, 1983<ref>https://thetvdb.com/series/saturday-supercade/episodes/42469</ref>}}
|season=1
|episode=9
|writer=Matt Uitz
|before=[[Junior Meets Kid Dynamo|<<]]
|after=[[A Christmas Story|>>]]
}}
"'''The Amazing Rollerskate Race'''" is the ninth episode of ''[[Saturday Supercade]]''{{'}}s ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Junior]]'' segment. The title is a reference to the phrase "the amazing race."

==Plot synopsis==
The episode opens with [[Donkey Kong Jr.]] and [[Bones Bailey|Bones]] leaving a local city zoo, as they had just mistaken one of the zoo's gorillas for [[Donkey Kong]]. As Donkey Kong Jr. vows to find his father sooner or later and zooms off, they encounter a group of rollerskaters known as the [[Roller Stars]], who aim to win an international skating race in [[Mexico City]]. Donkey Kong Jr. stops the motorcycle to prevent it from crashing into one of the skaters, causing Bones to fall off and get his hands caught in a pair of skates, careening out of control towards a manhole. After Donkey Kong Jr. saves him from falling, they perform skating moves together in front of the awestruck Roller Stars.

The Roller Stars reveal that they intend to compete in the Mexico City race in order to purchase a clubhouse with the prize money, eliminating the need to skate on the streets. Unbeknownst to them, two thieves are watching them from an alleyway. [[Al's partner|One of them]] tells his partner, [[Al]], that the skates' gold-plated wheels are worth a fortune, and they agree to steal the skates, quickly taking the box containing them. Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones give chase as the thieves attempt to escape in their convertible car, only for Donkey Kong Jr. to use a lasso to snag the car's loose rear bumper. This separates the car's chassis from its body, sending the box with the skates to Donkey Kong Jr. and forcing the thieves to flee on foot.

Skates in tow, the Roller Stars leave for Mexico City via bus, with Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones tagging along in case the thieves return; meanwhile, the thieves follow them by buying their own bus tickets. As the group arrives at their locker room for the event, Donkey Kong Jr. has the Roller Stars undergo his father's warm-up routine, putting Bones on guard duty. However, the thieves soon grapple the box away from a hole in the roof, hooking Bones on the same line before taking off. Bones alerts Donkey Kong Jr. to the situation; upon seeing the thieves' van, the duo immediately give chase by riding a burro after feeding it chili peppers.

The thieves eventually stop at a cantina, where Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones learn of their desire to auction off the skates for their gold-plated wheels. Thinking quickly, Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones disguise themselves as stereotypical Mexican musicians, "entertaining" the thieves with a rendition of {{wp|La Cucaracha}}. After getting close to them, Donkey Kong Jr. uses a guitar string to tie a hat over the head of Al's partner. Al then incapacitates Bones in the same way and orders the skates back; Donkey Kong Jr. pretends to surrender, only to unleash "Monkey Muscle!" and quickly spread beans on the floor of the cantina. The thieves subsequently slip and fall, dropping the box in front of Donkey Kong Jr.; after immobilizing them in a "baddie burrito", Donkey Kong Jr. rushes off to give the Roller Stars back their skates.

Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones manage to return the skates to the Roller Stars just in time for the race to begin, and the Roller Stars begin to ascend the ranks. However, in a last-ditch effort, the thieves knock over a fruit stand to trip up and subsequently kidnap all of the Roller Stars except TJ. Bones then attempts to help TJ cross the finish line while Donkey Kong Jr. chases the thieves, but Bones soon gets lost and asks a policeman for help. The policeman is actually Al's partner in disguise, who misleads Bones into a tunnel, causing him to enter a bullfighting arena. He then attracts the attention of the bull in the arena, who leaves the arena with Bones in tow. As the thieves spot TJ and give chase, Donkey Kong Jr. gets on the bull's back and has it puncture a tire of the thieves' van with its horns. Unleashing "Monkey Muscle!" again, he grabs a nearby cloth to tie up the thieves, then frees the Roller Stars that were kidnapped. The group then watches as TJ wins the race.

Later, the Roller Stars thank the duo for contributing the reward money for turning in the thieves to the purchase of their new clubhouse, to which they reply that they are only glad they could help. Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones leave on their motorcycle, promising to return once they reunite with Donkey Kong.

==Gallery==
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SS The Amazing Rollerskate Race title card.png|Title card
SS Burro.png|Burro
</gallery>

==Characters==
*[[Donkey Kong Jr.]]
*[[Bones Bailey]]
*[[Roller Stars]]
*[[Al]]
*Al's partner
*Bus driver
*Rollerskaters
*Matador
*Burro
*Bull

==Animation and continuity errors==
*When the [[Roller Stars]] praise [[Donkey Kong Jr.]] and [[Bones Bailey|Bones]]'s skating abilities, Donkey Kong Jr.'s blue skates briefly flash pink for a few frames.
**A similar mistake involving the skates' color occurs at the end of the episode, where Nito and the unnamed skater's skates change from red to blue as they skate over to stop Bones from falling.
**In the same scene, the unnamed skater's skin is noticeably tanner than normal.
*Throughout the episode, the number of fingers Bones has on each hand swaps between four and five.
*When Donkey Kong Jr. tells Bones to watch the skate crate, he moves without moving his legs for a brief moment.
*When Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones learn of [[Al]] and his partner's true motives, the latter's left arm overlaps the former's jaw.
*When Donkey Kong Jr. ties a violin string to Al's partner's head, the rest of the violin disappears into thin air.
*When Al and his partner walk off with the skates after Donkey Kong Jr. hands them over, the former's gloves are missing.
*When Donkey Kong Jr. unleashes "Monkey Muscle!" to reclaim the skates for the second time, he is briefly seen in his normal leotard instead of his musician disguise.
*In a couple of the scenes after Al and his partner kidnap, Anita, Nito, and the unnamed member of the Roller Stars, they can still be seen skating.
*When Bones realizes that he is in a bullring, the rose he is holding disappears into thin air.
*When Bones peeks out from underneath the cloth as he sees the bull heading towards him, his helmet is the same color as his hair.
*When Al's partner tells Al to run, his mouth does not move.
*When Donkey Kong Jr. picks up the thieves after wrapping them up with a cloth a second time, the thieves' pants are colored black instead of gray.
**In the following shot, Donkey Kong Jr. skates over to the van while carrying Al and his partner despite it being behind them.

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SS TheAmazingRollerskateRace layer error.png|The overlap error
SS The Amazing Rollerskate Race error.png|Bones's miscolored helmet
SS The Amazing Rollerskate Race error 2.png|The thieves' miscolored pants
</gallery>

==Notes==
*The musician disguises [[Donkey Kong Jr.]] and [[Bones Bailey|Bones]] wear when attempting to sneak up on [[Al]] and his partner bear great resemblance to the disguise [[Mario]] would wear in "[[El Donkey Kong]]" of ''[[Saturday Supercade]]''{{'}}s ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' segment, with the only differences being the hat and the color of bowtie and stripe.
*According to a reference sheet for the episode, the burro Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones use in the episode was originally more of a brownish color, as opposed to the more black color scheme used in the final episode.

==References==
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