| "The Return of the Aquabats! (episode)" | |
Season 2, Episode 1 | |
| Production Code: | 201 |
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| Airdate: | June 1, 2013 |
| Credits | |
| Director: | Jason deVilliers |
| Written by: | Christian Jacobs |
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For the album of the same name, see The Return of the Aquabats.
"The Return of The Aquabats!" is the 1st episode of The Aquabats! Super Show! from Season 2.
Synopsis[]
When The Aquabats return from outer space, they are received as heroes who saved the world, but are quickly overwhelmed by all the people needing their help, and a super powered enemy!
Plot[]
(Contains Spoilers)
Following their previous encounter with Space Monster 'M', The Aquabats have crash-landed their BattleTram on a possibly hostile planet with long hair and beards. After waking to fuzzy memories, EagleBones must act quickly to pull the other Aquabats to safety from a sudden alien attack while dealing with The MC Bat Commander's space madness. After fending off the hungry aliens' attack with his laser guitar, help arrives in the form of the U.S. military proving that this hostile planet was Earth all along.
The Aquabats are whisked away to a bright and confusing press conference with their long hair cut off and beards shaved, where it quickly becomes apparent that they have no memory of what happened or who they are. After a quick team huddle where they decide to tease the information out of the gathered reporters, they learn about their battle with Space Monster 'M' and settle once and for all that Crash indeed likes ice cream. A reporter, reportedly good at skateboarding, then asks The Bats about their origins, leading to EagleBones' origin flashback.
Before the press can ask any more questions, the press conference is busted in upon by a hideous monster. The reporters flee as the monster breaks things on his way to taunt The Aquabats. EagleBones then summons The Dude and uses her mystic powers to restore his memories, revealing that the monster that stands before them is Ronmark, who has been mutated after being sprayed with a liquid mutagen from a meteor in the desert. After running from Ronmark, EagleBones calls upon his team mates to defeat the monster, knowing that if they saved the world, they can definitely handle a single mutated clownbag. Now on the offensive, the bats attack Ronmark with physical attacks, but to little effect. Jimmy is bashed into The Commander, which gives EagleBones an idea. He removes Jimmy's head, pretending he is damaged, in order to manipulate Crash's emotions, causing him to grow large and hurl Ronmark into space. The Aquabats dust themselves off, realizing that all the blunt trauma to their heads from the battle has fixed their memories and space madness respectively.
Hailed as heroes by the adoring public, the band starts to piece together their new identity as world-saving heroes. After EagleBones unilaterally decides to help all the people who ask for their help with menial tasks, the band find themselves overwhelmed with demands from citizens seeking their help. After a musical chase scene where they run away from the crowd, they try to sneak through the crowd using disguises, only to be revealed by EagleBones' desire to please people. After a little more fleeing, The Aquabats stumble upon a new and tricked-out BattleTram, which contains a note that the shiny new vehicle was paid for by a "secret friend." Jimmy presses a new button to reveal that this BattleTram can fly, and they escape the crowd pursuing them. As The Aquabats fly away, they attract the attention of the hungry hungry aliens from before, and the episode ends with Jimmy saying "Here we go again."
Cast[]
- Christian Jacobs as The MC Bat Commander
- James Briggs as Jimmy the Robot
- Chad Larson as Crash McLarson
- Ian Fowles as Eagle "Bones" Falconhawk
- Richard Falomir as Ricky Fitness
- Paul Rust as the Voice of Ronmark
- Tony Hawk, Eric Koston and Camilla Laib as Journalists
- Jarrod Phillips, Rodney Lewis and Dave Dinsbach as Government Agents
- Mark Fordham as Monster Ronmark
- Evan Sinclair as Fast Food Apron Guy
- Nan Weber, Raymond Kelleher and Rich Bennett as City People
- Derrick deVilliers as Ice Cream Yeller
Cartoons[]
Origin Cartoon[]
EagleBones explains in an animated flashback how he came to join The Aquabats, meeting the band in a desert roadhouse (with alien patrons) during a nomadic journey. This segment uses rotoscoped animation.
Lil' Bat Cartoon[]
Lil' Bat, while sleeping, dreams of skiing down a mountainside, which causes problems when he begins to act out his dream. Despite crashing into a tree and falling into the water in his dream, he spits water out of his mouth in real life instead of his dream.
Commercial[]
New from Gloopy, it's the Sonic Boom 3000!
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Warning: Side effects may include shattered glasses, whiny dogs, and stunned birds.
Music[]
"Help Me!"[]
The Bats sing a song while being chased by citizens yelling for their help.
Trivia[]
Cultural References[]
- The missiles on the souped up battle tram have the number NCC-1701 written on them, a reference to the U.S.S Enterprise from Star Trek.
- EagleBones' animated segment is animated in a rotoscoping technique inspired by the 1981 film Heavy Metal.
- The Aliens are designed as a reference to the late 70's B-film: Laserblast.
- The MC Bat Commander makes several references to the band "The Pixies" by quoting their lyrics in several of his incoherent responses.
Aquabats Trivia[]
- The episode is of course named after the band's first album.
- In Eaglebones' origin cartoon, he makes references to how the band had horns before he joined. In the cartoon, it means that they wore horns over their helmets, but this is a reference to the fact that the band had many horn players in their SKA/Punk phase.
- This is the first of many conflicting origin stories that were revealed in Season 2. This continues the running joke that has always been present in Aquabats lore that the band constantly changes or retcon's things to fit the situation.
- The music for the "Previously... on The Aquabats! Super Show!" segment was later reused for the 6th episode of The Aquabats Super Kickstarter campaign.
Production Trivia[]
- Crash would later have a beard during the later years of The Aquabats.
- One of the journalists was played by Tony Hawk. Hawk was planned to appear in an episode of The Aquabats RadVentures, but this has never happened.
- The crowd of people running were later seen in Kitty Litter.
- The Hub logo was omitted in the remastered version.
- According to a Q&A with Ian, there was a cut scene in which Ronmark gets blown up in a dynamite explosion.
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