Cole Becomes an Unknown Kid

"Cole Becomes an Unknown Kid" is the thirty-first episode of the American animated television series Gabriel Garza. It first aired on October 17, 1992 on Gingo and was written by Joe Feder and Mala Miles and directed by Joe Feder. This episode is known for being one of the worst of the series as the characters' personalities are portrayed as being very jerk-like and stupid, having multiple plot holes, making the characters suffer for no reason, and many more issues. The episode's co-writer and director, Joe Feder, severely regretted making this episode, and was suspended from working on the show until the episode "The Vacation."

Summary
Gabriel tricks Cole into becoming lost, so he can win a $500,000 reward because Cole resembles the real missing child.

Plot
Gabriel goes to get some milk, and sees on his milk carton a missing child poster. He reads that the reward is $500,000 for finding the missing child. Gabriel shouts this out in awe, and seeing it catches his attention, so he looks at the silhouette used for the child, and sees that it resembles his brother Cole. He goes to the other room with the milk carton, puts it on the floor, and talks to Cole. They end up outside, in a far part of the city, and Gabriel runs away back to his house and sneaks in through a window, making it seem like he was in the house the whole time. Roge greets Gabriel, and doesn't notice that Cole is missing. Gabriel then exits outside to retrace his steps to find Cole and win the reward. Meanwhile, in the city, Cole is tripped over by an adult, and is stampeded by people walking on him. He cries, and goes into a bus where he is slammed all the way to the back and falls through the window. More coming soon!

Production
During the production of this episode, Geo Garcia, series creator, was busy at the time and had to hire a stand-in, so they had hired an at-the-time beginner Joe Feder. Joe Feder recalls in an interview in 2003 promoting Zina/Garza "...I hadn't watched a single episode of Gabriel Garza. Not a single one. I didn't care for the series back then. It took me many episodes to realize that I had actually cared for the show. But in the episodes when I didn't care about the series, there was one that stood out badly. My very first episode. This was my writing debut on television. Sure, I wrote some short films before Gabriel Garza, but this was my official debut. And boy did it suck." In the voice department, Debi Derryberry, the voice of Gabriel Garza, comments about the episode "I barely got past my later half of lines."

Reception
The episode was recieved extremely poorly. Nearly all of the reviews were negative and the rest were neutral. Due to all of the negative reviews, and the reaction of the crew members during the production, Joe Feder was suspended from Gabriel Garza for 2 years.