The Thingy!

	"Thingy!"
	Season 2, Episode 4;
Production Code:	204
Airdate:	June 22, 2013
	Credits
Director:	Jason deVilliers
Story:	Richard Grant Bennett; Jason deVilliers
Written by:	Warren Fitzgerald; Matt Chapman; Jason deVilliers
	Episodes
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"The Thingy!" is the 4th episode of The Aquabats! Super Show! from Season 2, although it was accidentally aired as the 2nd episode.

Synopsis[]

On the road home from a snowy ski trip, The Aquabats encounter a body-snatching alien set on turning them into spaceship fuel. Crash evades capture and must overcome his fears to save his friends.

Plot[]

While returning home from a relaxing ski vacation, The Aquabats get trapped in a snow embankment and are forced to spend the night without power in The BattleTram. In an overt parody of the 1982 film The Thingy, a malicious alien lifeform sneaks aboard the vehicle and begins assimilating (and thus imitating) The Aquabats one by one as part of a plot to melt them down into rocket fuel. Successfully evading capture, Crash must learn to overcome his fears and rescue his pals from certain doom.

Characters[]

Cartoons[]

Origin Story[]

Crash remembers how he met the other The Aquabats "on his first day of public school" (quoting the band's 2000 song "Pizza Day!").

Lil' Bat Cartoon[]

Lil' Bat discovers that his soda burps allow him to levitate into the air, soon carrying him into space, after some confrontations with a bird, a jet plane, and an alien.

Commercial[]

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Music[]

"I'm A Bad Thingy!"[]

The Thingy sings this song, describing his plan to melt The Aquabats down into spaceship fuel, and use The BattleTram as his new ship to fly back to his galaxy.

Trivia[]

Cultural References[]

Crash's origin cartoon was animated by Shmorky of the humor website Something Awful.

Aquabats Trivia[]

The instrumental for Comic Book Man is playing in the background of the commercial.

Production Trivia[]

The Hub logo was omitted in the remastered version.