PP Popcorn | |
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Season 1, Episode 1a | |
Air date | 2002 (Canada) |
Sister Episodes | The Great Ghandizen / Let the Raindrops Fall Where They May! |
Link | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUCg6wYEVlI |
Featured Planet | Unnamed rocky brown planet |
Episode guide | |
Previous None |
Next The Great Ghandizen |
PP Popcorn (Also "Pop Pop Popcorn"[citation needed], "Pop Pop Corn"[1] or, in French, "PP Pop Corn") is the first episode of Kaput & Zösky: The Ultimate Obliterators. Like all other episodes, it is part of a trifecta in its airing block. Its sister episodes are The Great Ghandizen and Let the Raindrops Fall Where They May!. This episode is very loosely based off of a similar story from the comic.[citation needed]
Plot[]
Kaput and Zösky are scheming in their ship about what they're going to do when they land on planet Beta Sector. Zösky notices they should be there already and reads the map incorrectly, causing them to land on a mysterious planet that seems almost entirely desolate. They call out for inhabitants but there seem to be none, their voices echoing for miles in all directions.
Kaput reminds Zösky of the Beta Sector travel brochure and quickly angers, destroying the piece of paper. Zösky ignores him and goes to check the map again, calling him over a moment later to point out their location on the map. The two argue briefly before a little orange alien bounces up behind them, startling them. It hops onto the map and locates Beta Sector for them. Kaput and Zösky draw their weapons and demand to know where the rest of the inhabitants are, but the alien replies that it's the only one. Kaput doesn't buy it and shoots the alien. Zösky scolds him angrily for doing so before the two are once again interrupted by the alien's voice, except now there are two of them. They share a look and begin to laugh deviously.
They order the two aliens to build a throne for them atop a hill, which they do rather quickly. The aliens pamper them until Zösky gets another idea: keep shooting the aliens in order to populate the planet further. Kaput is enthusiastic at first but quickly bores of this, Zösky then ordering the aliens to carry out the duplicating for them instead. The copies keep multiplying and multiplying until they overwhelm the two, engulfing the entire planet. Kaput and Zösky flee and Kaput, furious, urges Zösky to turn back so he can slaughter them. Zösky gently dissuades him from this and Kaput realizes he's right. The two chuckle briefly before suddenly turning the ship around, roaring with maniacal laughter.
Setting[]
PP Popcorn takes place on an unnamed brown, rocky planet. It's very flat, empty and quiet with dying trees and sparse wildlife. It is inhabited by what is initially a single small alien which undergoes mitosis when shot. By the end of the episode, the number of aliens overwhelms the surface of the planet.
Transcript[]
(Opening and title card; enters on Kaput and Zösky's ship buzzing through space past a blue planet and an asteroid belt.) | |
Zösky: | We're only ten light-seconds from Beta Sector! |
Kaput: | Conquer, rule, dominate! |
Zösky: | (Laughs mischievously) We'll burn their villages! Enslave their children, their friends, their childrens' friends...! |
Kaput: | ...And the friends of their childrens’ friends! (Laughs maniacally) Once we're their masters we'll cheat in their casinos! And we'll win tons of mo... (Pauses) ...Eh, Zösky? What's up? |
Zösky: | Um, something's wrong. (Chuckles nervously) We should already be there. |
Kaput: | (Groans in frustration) D'ogh, it's always the same story: we have to get lost before every massacre! |
Zösky: | Hold on a second, let me check. (Unfolds map) |
Kaput: | (Mockingly imitates Zösky) |
Zösky: | Hmm...there's the Nosy Nebula.... There's the Black Hole ramp.... Exit after Tau Cheti.... Eh, Beta Sector...! (Ship stops mid-air) Turn, um...RIGHT! (Ship makes a hard right turn and abruptly falls towards a lumpy, brown planet) |
Kaput and Zösky: | (Screaming) (The ship falls to the planet, bouncing across the surface a few times before the two hop out) Ow! Oof! Ouch! (In unison:) Beta Sector! Here we are! (They each make surprised exclamations as their voices echo dramatically) |
Kaput: | (Calling out) Hey! Everybody out so we can...massacre ya! |
Zösky: | Hmm, that echo's kind of weird. Everything's so flat and empty. |
Kaput: | (Reading from travel brochure:) "Beta Sector is a land of contrasts with abundant prairies filled with flowers and vast, verdant forests. The weary traveller seeking peace and solace will enjoy his time in this land of won-ders." (Grumbles; turns to Zösky) You've screwed up again! This isn't Beta Sector! (Throws the brochure to the ground and stomps it into pieces) D'oh, where did you learn to read a map?! (Growls and complains incoherently, continuing to jump on the shredded paper) |
Zösky: | (Returns to the ship and lays map open) And that? (Points to spot on map, annoyed) That's not Beta Sector? Hmm? |
Kaput: | (Joins Zösky by the ship; Zösky points out the spot once more) On the map, maybe, but we're not there. We should have turned here, after this cluster of asteroids. |
Zösky: | That's not a cluster of asteroids, that's your dandruff! |
Kaput: | Then you should have turned after my dandruff! |
Alien: | (Hops up between the two) The map is upside-down! |
Kaput: | (Pats the inhabitant on the head) Stay out of this. |
Zösky: | We're a little busy right now. |
Kaput and Zösky: | (Reel back in surprise) ?! |
Alien: | (Hops up on the map and begins studying it; grins and finally stops beside an illustration of a planet) Uh, Beta Sector's over here! |
Zösky: | (Aiming crisperizer) Where are the others?! |
Kaput: | (Aiming crisperizer) Yeah, where are the others?! |
Alien: | (Cheerfully) I'm the only inhabitant of this planet; I am at your service. |
Kaput: | LIAR! (Shoots the inhabitant) |
Zösky: | (Pauses) Good going, you've just destroyed the only inhabitant of this planet! Now who are we going to rule over? Ourselves? The rocks? THE DIRT?! |
Kaput: | What's with you? I got him on the first shot, didn't I? |
Alien(s): | (In two voices) Gentlemen, if you need any assistance, please do not hesitate to call upon me! Your wish is my command, and to serve you is my wish! |
Kaput and Zösky: | (Exchange a blank look before beginning to laugh manically) (Cuts to the aliens carrying piles of rocks) (In unison:) One, two! One, two! One, two! One, two! One, two! One, two! |
Zösky: | (Halts) Stop! (Points to hilltop) There! The throne of their highnesses, Kaput and Zösky! And move it! (Cuts to Zösky upon a throne made of rocks) (Sighs contently) Zösky the First.... |
Kaput: | (Upon his own throne; sighs in satisfaction) Kaput the Great.... |
Kaput and Zösky: | (Sigh in unison; the two pause for a long, comfortable moment) |
Zösky: | (Sits up) Hey, I've got an idea. |
Kaput: | Eh, leave me alone; I'm ruling. |
Zösky: | How would you like to rule over the most populated planet in the universe? |
Kaput: | Yea-ah! Eh, but how? |
Zösky: | Like this! (Draws crisperizer; Kaput perches on the arm of his throne and does the same) |
Kaput and Zösky: | (Grin devilishly; begin to laugh manically as they point their weapons to one of the aliens) (Cuts to the two alternating between shooting at respective lineups of aliens, calling "Next!" after each shot) |
Kaput: | Aren't you getting bored? (Continues to clone the inhabitants; sighs) We have enough now, how'bout we take a break and rule over 'em for a while? |
Zösky: | Are you kidding? There's barely enough to fill a neighbourhood! Zösky the Great does not rule over suburbs. |
Kaput: | (Wearily:) Well, we're gonna have to find another way to do this, I'm bushed. |
Zösky: | Hold on. (Hops off throne; approaches line of marching aliens) Stop! (The aliens turn to attention) Worthless slaves! Prepare to do service to your masters! |
Aliens: | (In unison:) My only wish is to serve you. (Cuts to a sea of the aliens shooting at each other and repeating the same phrase) |
Kaput: | Don't you think that's enough? (Yawns) We can't even see the ground anymore. (Yawns again) |
Zösky: | (Excitedly:) Oh, just one or two more! You know, for luck! (One more pair of aliens is shot and divided) Okay, enough! (Clears throat; addressing crowd:) Kaput the Great and myself will now enjoy dominating you! |
(The sea of alien clones begin to envelop the thrones) | |
Kaput: | Yikes! |
Zösky: | Put down your weapons and bow.... Gah! (The crowd begins to carry him off) |
Aliens: | (In unison:) Your happiness is my greatest joy! |
Kaput: | Way to go, genius! |
(The aliens tower them up higher and higher before engulfing them and eventually the entire planet; Kaput and Zösky exclaim repeatedly) | |
Zösky | Kaput! I-I can't handle crowds! (Laughs nervously) I-I-I get p-p-pa- (wheezes and stutters) -PANIC ATTACKS! |
Aliens: | My only wish is to serve you! |
Zösky: | Oh, no! |
(Spaceship finally breaks from the crowd, carrying Kaput and Zösky inside it; a stream of the little aliens are strewn behind them) | |
Kaput: | Turn back! We'll fly over them and I'll toast them with my plasma gun! |
Zösky: | Eh, hm, maybe we'd better not; you never know, heh. |
Kaput: | (Nervously:) Eheh, yeah, you're right. (Laughs) We sure showed them! |
Zösky: | (Laughs nervously) Erm, haha, yeah, yeah. |
Kaput and Zösky: | (Pause) (The two begin laughing maniacally and turn around back towards the planet) |
(Credits) |
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- ↑ From the IMDB page.