A not-so-honest pawn shop owner named Ho Toy (Clement Low) is closing up shop for the evening when suddenly he's approached by a roughly twenty-something young man who calls him by the wrong name, accuses him of causing trouble for a girl named Judy Moon and fires a few slugs into him killing him instantly. So why did this guy shoot the pawnbroker? Did he stiff the guy on a deal? Was he dealing with stolen goods? Not this time. His only crime was that he looked like one of the villains from the Judy Moon comic strip. And he's the third victim of this psycho killer who thinks of himself as Judy's guardian angel.
The Judy Moon comics are in the same category as Brenda Starr back in the period when she was wearing a black wig over her more familiar redlocks. Unfortunately, the Island of Oahu was populated with people who have the misfortune of looking like many of the villans from this loser's favorite comic strip. Along with Ho Toy, you've got a banker, a lawyer, and a random sailor from the US Navy. The poor guy probably had some well-needed shore leave from Vietnam after the phony Paris Peace Treaty, only to get gunned down by this dim bulb.
And wouldn't you know it, Arthur happens to encounter a woman in a local restaurant named Mary Ellen Farmer (Susan Foster) who just so happens to look like Judy Moon herself. And what a woman she is. I'd even go so far as to say she was better looking than her cartoon counterpart. The cops are clueless about why all these random people are being killed until a trip to the barber shop for McGarrett and the reading of the comics in the newspapers left for customers makes him realize what's going on.
A female psychiatrist and profiler (Jean Tarrant) tells the the Five-O gang that he's a lonely, low-life paranoid schizophrenic, but that's only half the story. This guy's not just psychotic, he's stupid. Luckily McGarrett knows what to do. He lures the Judy Moon cartoonist from the US Mainland (Lowell Palmer) to help them set up a trap by creating a new villain; a crooked cop who looks a lot like Lt. Danny Williams!
My opinion of the episode? Sure, I liked it. Though I honestly have no idea why other fans like it more than most. In the 12 seasons that this show ran, it had plenty of episodes that stood out more than others, and this was certainly one of them. But then so were episodes like "A Woman's Work is With a Gun" and "A Distant Thunder."
Speaking of shows that ran 12 seasons, decades after this in the first season of "The Big Bang Theory" we see a young girl on a bad date with Raj, and Sheldon notices that she looks like a major character in an Indian folk tale his mother used to read to him as a child. Sheldon Cooper had more tact on this issue than this lunatic.
The Judy Moon comics are in the same category as Brenda Starr back in the period when she was wearing a black wig over her more familiar redlocks. Unfortunately, the Island of Oahu was populated with people who have the misfortune of looking like many of the villans from this loser's favorite comic strip. Along with Ho Toy, you've got a banker, a lawyer, and a random sailor from the US Navy. The poor guy probably had some well-needed shore leave from Vietnam after the phony Paris Peace Treaty, only to get gunned down by this dim bulb.
And wouldn't you know it, Arthur happens to encounter a woman in a local restaurant named Mary Ellen Farmer (Susan Foster) who just so happens to look like Judy Moon herself. And what a woman she is. I'd even go so far as to say she was better looking than her cartoon counterpart. The cops are clueless about why all these random people are being killed until a trip to the barber shop for McGarrett and the reading of the comics in the newspapers left for customers makes him realize what's going on.
A female psychiatrist and profiler (Jean Tarrant) tells the the Five-O gang that he's a lonely, low-life paranoid schizophrenic, but that's only half the story. This guy's not just psychotic, he's stupid. Luckily McGarrett knows what to do. He lures the Judy Moon cartoonist from the US Mainland (Lowell Palmer) to help them set up a trap by creating a new villain; a crooked cop who looks a lot like Lt. Danny Williams!
My opinion of the episode? Sure, I liked it. Though I honestly have no idea why other fans like it more than most. In the 12 seasons that this show ran, it had plenty of episodes that stood out more than others, and this was certainly one of them. But then so were episodes like "A Woman's Work is With a Gun" and "A Distant Thunder."
Speaking of shows that ran 12 seasons, decades after this in the first season of "The Big Bang Theory" we see a young girl on a bad date with Raj, and Sheldon notices that she looks like a major character in an Indian folk tale his mother used to read to him as a child. Sheldon Cooper had more tact on this issue than this lunatic.