"A Game of Cat and Mouse" is the third episode of the second season of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero. It premiered on July 11, 2017.
Synopsis[]
The trio is transported onto a space ship where its human inhabitants are set to arrive on a new planet to colonize. However, Penn finds himself in the form of a mouse and must save the ship from Rippen, transformed into a cat, who seeks to plunge it into a black hole.
Plot[]
The episode starts at The Odyssey, where Phyllis tells the heroes to pay attention before she emerges a hologram of herself from her mouth. The hologram then tells the mission; they have to get a chip back to a spaceship, so it doesn't get sucked into a black hole. Sashi tells Phyllis that telling missions is her thing, so Phyllis responds her saying her thing isn't screw up missions before she goes to the Multi-Universe Transprojector's control panel via grappling hook so she can zap them in.
Penn zaps as a mouse, quickly finding out he can't talk, onky making squeaks. Boone asks where is Penn and Sashi, so Penn, hearing him, goes to the control panel, tripping into a button that activates a video showing Bill Nye telling the viewer that they are on a 1000-year journey towards Kepler-452B, with everyone inside cryogenized. Penn then sees Rippen, being a cat, taking out the transgenerator chip from the engine room. A voice tells an emergency call saying the chip has been removed and that the spaceship will get sucked into the black hole in 9 minutes. The voice is revealed to come from Boone, who turns out to be the spaceship's computer, so he activates various disco lights so he can release his dream of becoming "the galaxy's hottest electronic DJ". Penn then steps on a button that opens up Sashi's cryogenic pad, waking her up, but she finds out she can't move. Penn sees Rippen fleeing away, so Penn chases him.
Penn goes through the spaceship's hallway, encountering Rippen and Larry, who is a floating robot. Penn sees the chip Rippen is carrying, so he scales up a wall and jumps into Larry, making him bump into Rippen, who releases the chip. Penn gets the chip and flees away, so Rippen chases him through the hallway. Penn sees the map to the engine room, but Rippen catches him before he reaches it. Disco lights appear as Boone, wearing glasses, appears on a screen in the ceiling, closing and opening the doors and emitting disco lights. The spaceship, getting sucked into the black hole, tumbles, causing Penn and Rippen to trip and roll to the robot repair room. The two roll into a box filled with springs, with Rippen having his head surrounded by springs. Penn chuckles at him, angering him as he gets out of the box and picks him up, so Penn pokes his eyes so he can escape. Rippen runs infront of him with his mouth open, letting Penn inside his mouth. Penn hits him from inside, making Rippen's head bump into things from the ceiling. Penn, going through Rippen's inside, exits through his eye and escapes. Penn then goes through a small hole in the wall, so Rippen uses a vacuum to suck him out. Penn, watching Rippen through another hole, brings the vacuum's tube to Rippen's tail, leading him getting sucked into the vacuum. However, Rippen's head and limbs emerge from the vacuum, with his torso being inside it. Penn enters into a cabinet, so Rippen tries to enter, but he sees exiting through other cabinets, so he tries to get him, so Penn leads him inside one of them, getting rid of Rippen's vacuum body in the process. During the chase, the two then see the background repeating and moving, so they shrug before they resume. Penn tries to hide, but he sees Rippen beside him, so he hits his toe with a hammer and escapes. Penn sees a bag of sand and an empty sandbox nearby, so he pours sand into it. Rippen sees the sandbox, filled with sand, and gets distracted by it and goes into the sandbox, realizing Larry is watching him.
Sashi manages to gets out of her cryogenic pad and goes to the control panel, moving with her chin. Sashi reaches the control panel, accidentally pulling a lever that deactivates artificial gravity, causing everything to float while also activating a video of Bill Nye explaining gravity. Penn and Rippen try to get the chip, but it gets accidentally flung away by Larry, so Rippen mounts on Larry to fly towards it. Boone tells that the spaceship will be sucked in 2 minutes, so he wonders how is Penn and Sashi doing. Penn sees Rippen trying to get the chip, so he tosses a wrench at his face and gets it. Sashi picks an object with her mouth and spits it at the level, activating artificial gravity, but getting herself inside her cryogenic pad, much to her dismay. Rippen falls to the floor and sees the chip near while Penn activates a laser, burning Larry's head. Ripoen tries to stand up, but his leg is tied by a string, so he pulls the strkng, causing Larry, still burning, to get pulled towards Rippen, knocking Rippen and himself inside an "everything explosive room", causing an explosion inside.
Explosions emerge from the room, causing the door to fall off. Rippen appears inside with his eye glowing as he walks out, revealing himself to be actually a robot cat. Penn points towards something, so Rippen looks to it, distracting him so Penn can escape. Rippen's arm turns into a missile launcher as he fires missiles towards Penn, but they miss him, leaving holes around, so Penn goes through one of them. Penn goes into an elevator to get into the engine room, but, however, Rippen emerges from the floor, so Penn exits the elevator from above as he scales up the string holding the elevator, so Rippen cuts the string, leading to the elevator to fall down and explode, as he scales the string too. Penn goes to the engine room and is about to put the chip back, but Rippen knocks him away into an airlock before Rippen opens it. Penn sees the chip about to get sucked into outer space, so he uses his tail to grab it while also hanging himself to not get sucked out too. Sashi manages to gain control of her body and get out of the cryogenic pad, so she goes to the control panel and sees Penn hanging in the airlock with chip in his tail. Sashi tells Boone Penn is the mouse and that he is about to get sucked. So, Boone activates the airlock back, preventing Penn from getting sucked out. Rippen tries to shoot lasers towards Penn, but he dodges them and gets out through a hole made by those lasers. The airlock doors get sucked out as Rippen tries to not get sucked, but Larry flies into him, getting themsekves sucked out. Penn then puts the transgenerator chip back, allowing the spaceship to fly away from the black hole as Boone starts displaying colorful lights from the spaceship's outside. Rippen and Larry then get sucked into the black hole. The spaceship reaches Kepler-452B while it is emitting disco lights before a black screen engulfs the scene as orange words spelling "THE END!" appear, ending the episode.
Cast[]
- Thomas Middleditch as Penn Zero
- Tania Gunadi as Sashi Kobayashi
- Adam DeVine as Boone Wiseman
- Alfred Molina as Rippen
- Larry Wilmore as Principal Larry
- Sam Levine as Phyllis
- Bill Nye as himself
Trivia[]
- Bill Nye makes a guest appearance as himself.
- This episode resembles the classic 40s-50s cartoon Tom & Jerry.
- Rippen's emergence as a robot cat parodies Arnold Schwarzenegger's similar emergence as a cyborg assassin in the 1984 film Terminator.
- This is the second time someone other than Sashi or Larry has explained the mission, the first one was in "Alpha, Bravo, Unicorn".
- It reveals that Phyllis has a hologram inside her throat.
- When Rippen did same as Kitty Galore's Henchmen is Paw from Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.
- In this episode Penn and Rippen's voice actor are replaced by Best Voice Actor is Dee Bradley Baker, who voiced as Animals sound. When Penn sounds like a mouse and Rippen sound like a cat.
- It is also the only time where Penn is brief speaking before zap.
- Sashi is the only character on the space ship that was human as the others are either animals or robots.
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