before we had drake and josh we had the og dynamic duo keenan and kell a powerhouse force from their
work together on all that to their own show and of course the legendary good burger we shall cover
that hopefully soon the perfect comedic timing playing off each other with keenan's straight
man always looking to get a head attitude battling kel's sporadic and borderline absurdity constantly
getting in the way spanning four seasons with a total of 62 episodes the show tale ended the 90s
with a master class in acting off of one another as much as i'd like to sit here and gush about
how great of a show kenan and kel was we are actually going to talk about the ending of the
show specifically episode 63 through 65 which was played as a tv movie titled two heads are better
than none and since it's a little bit spooky what better time to talk about it than october
the movie starts off noticeably different from the show in the context of no studio audience
and it's shot like a movie rather than a sitcom the rockmoors are just about ready
to leave on their cross-country drive but kell shows up ready to tag along until getting a
firm note from roger and cheryl so keenan and kyra hide kel within the luggage in the back
of the car and hope to keep that hidden until they are far enough they can't just turn back
this quickly goes awry when kel begins making some noise that concerns roger who goes to check
the surroundings of the car for any issues with the tires and when seeing that nothing is wrong
gets hungry and goes to grab a snack out of the back where kell hands him a sandwich it
takes him a few moments to realize he was just handed a sandwich so he goes back to see kell
hidden in the trunk after some convincing kel is officially allowed to be a part of the trip
proceeding to even more quickly annoy them all during the drive now did you notice something else
missing from these opening moments well the show itself always started with keenan and kell having
some banter back and forth in front of a studio audience before introducing the episode itself
here we don't see that instead after the coolio theme song we just enter the movie but oddly
enough there is a bit that wasn't played for tv but rather was shown only on the itunes release
where in which keenan and kell walk out like they usually would but there isn't an audience
there is no laughter no noise just keenan explaining to kel that they are going on
a road trip so there is no audience and kel tries his hardest to understand that funny enough there
is a laugh track on this version on itunes that feels so much more out of place than the version
without it you'd think after explaining that there is no live audience that means no laughter but for
some reason on itunes there is i can't remember when it originally premiered on tv if it had the
laugh track or not but watching it the way i did where there is not since there is no live
studio audience is the superior way to watch it and that's just my opinion but hey do what
you want it's your life keenan and kellstar in the original nick flick two heads are better than none
and two heads are better than none their first resting point on the trip is camping
out rather than getting a hotel so we get roger singing in the voice that clearly isn't his
and that's stuck and then they are all surprised and scared by the ketchup loving duo of shelly
and shelly wilson an odd couple that we will hear from again later along with more mentions
of ketchup in case you were wondering now sitting around the campfire telling ghost stories keenan
finds himself walking alone in the woods where he sees a headless knight exclaiming i want you
ahead causing him to freak out and run back to the campsite where no one believes his story they
all make fun of him cheryl makes a joke about it causing kel to hit her over the head with a guitar
then keenan runs into a tree it's a magically spooky time for all to be had the next day on
the road they spot a sign advertising the believe it or else museum so after the majority of the
car says yes to it roger drives the car to the museum where we run back into the shellies oh joy
and going on the theme of basketball players being referenced and even making cameos in the series we
see the head of dennis rodman made out of meat and that's neat a monkey plays superstition by stevie
wonder and everyone just breaks into a dance and sing-along i mean if you license out a song
you might as well use it if you got it kel ends up destroying the whole place with the world's
biggest ball of string people running in fear large lemons being knocked over cars being crushed
okay this dude had plenty of time to avoid that come on now before leaving the scene of the crime
keenan sees the headless night as an exhibit at the museum and begins reading the tale of the
headless night out to everyone and still no one believes him one of the employees backs up his
claims of it being real in the last sighting being in a place called rockville there's no such town
as rockville oh yeah roger what do you call this rockville that night at a motel keenan and kell
are settling in for bed and noise startles kanan the sounds of armor moving can be heard and the
door handle is jiggling a red light shines through as it opens with nothing outside but behind kanan
is the headless knight and he's just standing there menacingly keenan wakes up from this
nightmare only to find the same red light shining through once more and the silhouette of a headless
knight holding an axe raised above in the air but it's quickly interrupted because kell hits him
with a fly swatter and the illusion disappears but the door was wide open with a slightly less
luminous red light coming through and here comes one of the best lines in the film in general
when keenan asks kell why is the door open i didn't want to open a window because who knows
a stranger could come through the window ah it's moments like this banter here that make the entire
series such a classic for me and just the way that they deliver their lines with kell still finding a
way to make things worse with the bed massager going off all night just the whole constant
barrage of terrible things happening to kanan and how he's dealing with them is just perfection at
the end of the series then we legit get to see some highway robbery with changing gas prices
and more annoyances for keenan as well of course an old man comes and warns the family to stay away
from rockville what's the matter with rockville i've been there many a times nice places to eat
nice parks what's not to like guess we shall find out shortly down the road their car breaks down
and they are gonna be saved now by the shelleys who are passing by just kidding they just waved
and thanked them for the ketchup classic shelly and shelly moment so back to that being stranded
thing so keenan and kell head to the nearest town to look for help and it happens to be rockville
what in the world uh rockville
i don't know if i'm scared or if this is the origins of my superpowers either way rockville
it's then revealed that kel pulled out some wires from the car because he thought they were pretty
meaning that once again kel is a menace to the rock moors while drinking water in the rain
five people are going to get that joke they make their way to rockville seeing a mansion on top of
a hill in what seems like a desolate town after walking through the gate it is then locked back
up by a hooded figure oh boy i love the spooky season a stoic looking butler answers the door
unamused by kel's doorbell antics and dance moves they are then led into the mansion
showcasing the horrifying interior with eyeballs and paintings a full suit of armor and this guy
arthur this whole scene is why i think this movie works so well in being an
interesting divergence from the main show sitcom formula while retaining what made it special in
the first place by transcending the way this media is told it proves that beyond the sitcom this duo
has that same perfect flow between one another without the pauses for laughter unless you're
watching the itunes version don't do that here they are taking so many well-known and overused
horror tropes car breaks down scary mansions scary man scary headless man and so much more
but adding in their unique canon and kell twists in which makes it more special teetering that
line of an interesting story being told and being an outright parody of the genre
catch an extra keenan entail tonight at 7 6 central only on nickelodeon full hour of keenan
kell this saturday at 8 30 7 30 central in smick on nick inside we find the shelleys once again
as well as another couple and their grandfather this guy's grandfather not keenan or kells all as
guests who had their own driving troubles causing them to stumble upon the same place arthur invites
them all to join him for dinner as the storm becomes increasingly worse outside all the while
the rest of the rockmoors are dealing with the weather back at the car and watch this rockville
you want to see me do it again rockville okay okay i'll stop with with great power
comes great laughs or whatever at the dinner one by one excuses pushing certain guests to leave
the room happen with those guests not returning this scene is another powerhouse performance of
how kell completely loses himself in the role and how keenan being overly cautious about everything
has to divert kell from being well kell at the same time directing attention to the oddities
happening all around from a scream to the food and of course a moment when arthur's neck begins
to leak out water arthur quickly leaves the room then exclaiming about never wearing this
head again after tonight showing that his head is fully detachable and that the legends heard and
the fears keenan has are true we also hear about the missing guests being put in a dungeon while
returning everyone at the table is discussing the legend of the headless knight thanks to keenan so
kell starts spilling the beans about the rest of the legend to arthur despite kanan's best
attempt to get him to shut up after arthur tries to dispel the rumors they then get offered to
spend the night as the weather remains pretty bad outside which is worse being trapped in an
awful thunderstorm in a broken down car or stuck inside the house of a potential headless knight
what i can't fully say he's a knight just yet we only know that he's headless the night outfits
that we've seen mean nothing to me good sir once they are in their room another scream captures
their attention and they have to find a way to break out of the room quickly after realizing
that they were trapped in after kell uses his head to bust the door open they are now walking through
the hallway with the butler following right behind them and with every attempt he pulls to grab kel
fails in the most hell of ways let's just call this movie kell causes everything bad to happen
the movie from the guitar hit to the string ball to the car and now everything in the mansion
luckily in that case they found an entrance to the dungeon unluckily arthur was right behind
them and corners them causing them to ramble out a pick your best list of excuses until
arthur approaches them and keenan knocks his head clean off his body with a book the disembodied
head warns them that their heads are next as they run down the dungeon and the brainless body
is searching for where the head is on the floor now in a more morbid scene we see the shelley's
about to have their heads removed and we see the heads of the other guests as just heads it's one
thing when the head is you know alive like with arthur but those heads are clearly just
dead those people are dead but keenan and kell play it off like ah no big deal just some heads
of people we saw alive just moments ago it's okay arthur comes down to attack them which leads to
his head being removed once again and keenan and kel start playing hot potato with it along with
some upbeat elevator music in the background it really eases the tension of the other you know
deadheads as the sun is starting to shine through signaling the morning keenan kel and the shelleys
fight back against the lackeys and make their escape outside before freedom however the gate is
still locked remember that hooded figure and when dodgy and axe thrown at them by arthur it breaks
the chains and they head towards the shelley's car but arthur is still in hot pursuit with the
axe nope never mind that still didn't work this time man this guy has taken a lot of l's no wonder
he lost his head as a knight because he doesn't seem to be a very good one i thought you said he
wasn't classified as a knight yet because we haven't seen arthur in the actual armor well
i guess you're right or or i'm wrong hey hey wait a minute who are you me i'm the ghost of the old
version of the logo for this channel that all the comments demand back okay ouch that's rude but
please do continue on though as they are getting away in the car arthur then removes his head once
again and throws it at the car landing on its hood ornament then thanks to a stop sign it falls off
but the body jumps on the back of the car the rest of the rock mowers finally have their car fixed
thanks to kyra and they end up crossing paths with the shelley so keenan and kell say goodbye and
leave their car but they do notice that arthur's body is still holding on to the back of it and
the shellies just drive away of course the family doesn't believe their stories and drives back to
the mansion to see if their stories are real and then roger is greeted by the head of arthur still
on the side of the road asking for help he doesn't say a word and he peels out of there faster than
when he wanted to leave kel on the side of the road after discovering him in the back of the car
and that's it that's the end are we not going to talk about the actual dead people the lifeless
heads on the table hello alright little unsettling to breeze past that fact but let's move on on
the shelly's car there is still the body of the headless knight which way hold on a second the
headless knight works with no head that's why he's headless and with the options he's lined
up for head swapping as we know that he can do why is the head still the brains and not
the body who is treated like a fumbling dumb dumb wouldn't the tail be the bodyless knight
why is everyone yelling at me about the bodyless head design compared to my previous bodyless head
design did they ever stop the string ball rampage tune in to keenan and kell tonight 8 7 central
only on snake it's a gift wrap keenan and cal six still two today only on nickelodeon
nah it ain't all that serious maybe the whole getting roasted about my new logo is words do
hurt you know but regardless the movie has a ton of plot holes unresolved situations and it's it's
all over that's it the entire series of keenan and kell is over we never even got to see them
get to their real destination on the road trip but you know just how a lot of the episodes would end
throughout the series this is kind of on brand as this would be the only part of the narrative
they wanted to tell and it's come to its natural conclusion albeit i still wanted to see where they
went what's nice though is that it does actually feel like a soft ending for the series meaning
that if they wanted to come back with another season or another tv movie or anything in relation
it could work out i mean that two-part moving away set of episodes at the end of season two
felt more like an ending to the series with how serious they set those episodes to be but i am
truly glad they didn't end it there at least the ending playing into the horror genre made
sense to have it come out during the spooky month wait this came out in july alrighty then that's
fine i guess but the real crime here is no chris makes sense he's not here but at least a nod
references cameo at the museum something especially since the real regular final
episode is just to take on a clip show and while those can sometimes be fun it just never feels
like a proper send-off so with this being the end of the series it did end in a shockingly weird way
while it still had that same humor it wasn't shot as a sitcom it wasn't based upon some culminating
event from the show prior it honestly felt like a live-action scooby-doo setup just minus the
dog but it still had that keenan and kell dna all throughout it so yeah while it was weird it was
still a very fun time i never would have pictured this concept for the finale of the series but hey
i'll take it keenan and kell meant a lot to me growing up and paved the way for its spiritual
successor drake and joss to continue to soar with a great formula behind it i love that this
send-off for the show ended in a way that didn't feel like a goodbye but rather a fun celebration
of how ridiculous the show can be while still having its heart on its sleeve through and through
i love the show keenan and kel i still love the show maybe we will dive into it more down the
road let's just hope our car doesn't break down no problem let me know your thoughts on how keenan
and kell ended as well as your general thoughts on the show as a whole i appreciate you all
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