"The Big Job" is an episode of Wander Over Yonder.
Synopsis[]
Wander and Sylvia join the Insurgent Generals, a rebel team set out to stop Lord Hater's latest scheme. While Sylvia's job is fighting, Wander's is to guard the door so no one enters. This is proven hard though, when he ends up leaving it open for others to come in.
Plot[]
The Insurgent Generals are a group of tough action hero-like individuals consisting of General Outrage, Brainz, Wildcard, and Clipper. They have a new recruit named Smash and Sass, who is actually Sylvia, and Wander. General Outrage is confused as to why Wander is part of the team, but Sylvia insists that he is necessary to complete the mission. The group must take down the HT-125-F, a large radioactive looking power generator. Wander is given the simple task of standing outside the door to the building and not let anyone in. As soon as the team go inside, Wander ends up politely letting a Watchdog scientist in. He runs inside to tell Sylvia what happened and she tells him to knock him out and drag him outside.
Wander locates the scientist, but when he asks who he is, Wander goes back to Sylvia and comes back claiming to be the janitor. The actual Watchdog janitor hears this and becomes upset; telling him that he will show him which of the two is better and makes a mess. The scientist tells Wander that he has lost his keys and decides to go to the room where the HT-125-F is. Wander claims that he found the keys in the bushes outside the building, but the scientist tells him that he does not like that bush. Afterwards, he inadvertently locks Wander out of the building.
Wander contacts a locksmith who manages to get the door open, but asks to use the restroom. Wander does not want to let anyone else in, but the locksmith tells him that he promises he will be in and out. The restroom ends up being out of order, so the locksmith calls a plumber who tells him that he will be there all night and orders a pizza, with a pizza delivery guy arriving and trying to find them. Wander goes back to Sylvia who is baffled by the abundance of people who are in the building and demands that Wander find a way to get rid of them. Wander rushes outside and declares that there is a radioactive spill, but this results in a radioactive team coming in to handle the situation.
Wander becomes sad and one of the agents asks him what is wrong. Wander tells him that he just wants to fulfill his friend's dream of being an action hero and wants everyone out of the building. The radioactive team concede and leave, followed by the pizza guy who gives him the pizza, followed by the plumber who fixed the pipe and finally the locksmith who kept his promise and leaves. Finally the Watchdog janitor leaves too; admitting that he had anger issues. Wander goes back inside to see Sylvia and the Insurgent Generals who are horrified to learn that the HT-125-F needs two keys to deactivate, but the scientist enters and pushes the alarm.
General Outrage is angered at Sylvia for letting Wander mess up their plans, but Wander takes full responsibility. He finds the second pair of keys and he and Sylvia deactivate the HT-125-F. The rest of the team place a bomb on the device and flee, though Wander rushes back in to get the scientist. Everyone makes it out as the entire building blows up and Wander and Sylvia are made official members. However, the two of them are flummoxed to learn that the HT-125-F was actually the device that heated Lord Hater's bath. Not only that, but the Insurgent Generals are all revealed to be sensitive cowards who find Hater scary. Wander and Sylvia turn down being members; accepting that the two of them are already a team.
End Credits[]
Lord Hater does a dance and then gets in his tub, but he gets stuck as it's basically ice now, during the logo, he screams "NOOOOO!"
Background Information[]
- Commander Peepers does not appear in this episode.
- The original storyboard and production arts depict Wander with his own profile description like the others, but that does not appear in the episode itself, possibly to save time.
- However, Craig McCracken posted the profile descriptions early on his Tumblr a few days before this episode aired, and Wander's was included, with the same description, "Not really on the team". The profile has a promotional image of Wander in it, and was likely put there to make Wander fit in with the rest of the characters.
Trivia[]
- Second episode Hater is only seen in the animatic. ("The Void")
- Second time Lord Hater appears without Peepers. ("The Stray")
- Fifth episode where Wander and Lord Hater do not interact with each other. ("The Prisoner", "The Little Guy", "The Bounty", "The Stray")
- Fifth time Hater has a cameo. ("The Good Deed", "The Pet", "The Day", "The Void")
- This is the second time Sylvia gets a nickname. ("The Time Bomb")
- Fourth episode to never show a planet's overview. ("The Hero", "The Day", "The Buddies")
- Moral: Be responsible when it comes to a task.
Continuity[]
None
Errors[]
- In the first part of the episode, the front door to the building opens without the need of a key, while later on a key is needed to open it.
- When Sylvia beats up the German Watchdog Scientist and says "Smash and Sass.", Wander's last finger is missing.
- The Watchdog Janitor and the German Watchdog Scientist don't know who Wander is, though they should since Watchdogs are loyal to Lord Hater.
- When Wander first tries to get the Scientist out of the building, his pupils are different sizes.
- The bomb is activated before the egg hits it.
Allusions[]
- The team's name, the Insurgent Generals is a pun on the term "Surgeon General".
- The A-Team - General Outrage says, "I have great enjoyment when a plan works out accordingly", in reference to Hannibal's line "I love it when a plan comes together." The whole team itself is actually also a pun on the A-Team.
- The German Watchdog Scientist may be an allusion to another Disney character named Ludwig Von Drake.
Production Information[]
- This episode was confirmed on Craig McCracken's Twitter account.[1]
- This episode was made available to verified Watch Disney XD app users and Disney XD On Demand Users starting November 12, 2014.
- Eddie Trigueros posted the entire storyboard for the episode on November 27th, 2014. The credits animatic was originally supposed to happen right at the end of the episode, and Wander's reaction in which he deflates was supposed to be much longer than it ended up in the episode.[2]
- Spain dub trivia
- Disney XD Spain calls this episode "La Gran Misión". (The Grand Mission)
- All onscreen text is still in English. None of it is subtitled, except for the title card which still says "the BIG JOB", but is subtitled "La gran misión".
International premieres[]
- November 22, 2014 (Disney XD Canada)
- March 23, 2015 (Disney XD UK and Ireland)
- TBA (Spanish-speaking country)
Cast[]
- Jack McBrayer as Wander
- April Winchell as Sylvia
- Steve Blum as General Outrage, Additional Voices
- Jeff Bennett as Brainz, Additional Voices
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Clipper, Locksmith (uncredited), Additional Voices
- Dwight Schultz as Wildcard
- Keith Ferguson as Lord Hater (Cameo), Scientist Watchdog, Plumber, Additional Voices
- Additional Voices: Sam Riegel
References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/CrackMcCraigen/status/499686356864745472
- ↑ Trigueros, Eddie. "The Big Job Storyboard". Retrieved on 2014-11-28.
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