This article is about the episode from Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero. For other episodes, see Trading Faces.
"Trading Faces" is the twentieth episode of the second season of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero. It premiered on July 26, 2017.
Synopsis[]
When an incident with the multiverse portal goes awry, Rippen and Larry end up swapping bodies. Now Rippen must be stopped before he ends up ruining Middleburg Central High.
Plot[]
The episode starts with Rippen going into Middleburg Central High, parking his car. He then gets sprayed by the automatic water sprayers as he wanders his way in, looking unbothered. At the entrance, before reaching, Rippen watches Larry's limosine dirving towards him, so he dodges it. The butlers then exit the car to open the door to Larry's seat for him to exit and greet Rippen. Inside the school, Rippen is greeted by Ms. Monkenfluffer, who asks him how was his evening, so he responds her it was terrible. So, Monkenfluffer gifts him an apple pie labeled "Your Terrible Evening is Over!", but Rippen tosses it in a trashbin. Larry then greets Alex, Matilda, and Mr. Egsgard, calling him his favorite gym teacher.
At art class, Rippen sees Penn's sculpture, a gravy boat, and tells him it is the "saddest gravy boat he has ever seen", so he gives him a Z- as he breaks the gravy boat with a hammer. Larry, via speaker, announces that tomorrow is "bring your teacup elephant to office if you have one" day and that he will bring his pet elephant Tony tomorrow. Rippen sighs in disdain, so Larry asks him if he is sighing in disdain again, so Rippen tells him that's none of his business, but Sashi tells him he can't hear him, so Larry tells her he doesn't need to.
At Fish Stick on a Stick, Phil is preparing fish sticks while Rippen and Larry are in Color World, where Rippen is competing in a race against Penn. Rippen is about to win, but Larry knocks him out of the way with his fox, allowing Penn to reach the finish line, much to Rippen's dismay. Outside, Phil is eating fish sticks as a piece of it drops into the control panel causing it to go slightly haywire before Phil zaps the villains out. After zapping out, Rippen, im the body of Larry, tells Phil he got humiliated by Larry, in the body of Rippen, riding his fox towards him. Phil tells them they switched bodies, so they look at their reflection in the glass, seeing they are in each other's bodies. Rippen!Larry starts touching Rippen's hair, saying it is soft and asks Larry!Rippen what product he uses. Larry!Rippen grabs him and tells him the product is none of his business and then demands Phil to switch them back. Phil tells them he has a body switcher and will find it tomorrow, but he has to go bowling, so he tells the, they have to spend a day in each other's bodies, much to Larry!Rippen's dismay.
Next day, Rippen!Larry goes to Middleburg Central High while happily doing cartwheels. Larry's limosine reaches the school as the butlers opens the door to Larry!Rippen's seat for him to exit. He is then given Tiny the elephant as Matilda appears and wishes him happy "bring your teacup elephant to office if you have one" day, so Larry!Rippen thanks her while having a bored expression. Rippen!Larry comes to Ms. Monkenfluffer and gifts her cinnamon swirls labeled "Happy Thursday!". Larry!Rippen wanders along with Tony and finds Mr. Egsgard, who asks him if he is going to tell him if he is his favorite gym teacher, so he responds him saying he himself is good, so Mr. Egsgard tells him that is his favorite part of the day.
At art class, Rippen!Larry sees Alex's pelican and gets impressed, giving him a good grade. He then sees Matilda's wedding card involving Penn, so he asks her if he is invited, so she responds him no. He then sees Penn's new gravy boat and gets very impressed and dazzled, calling it the prettiest gravy boat he has ever seen. Larry!Rippen announces via speaker that everyone got detention and laughs evilly. Penn gets confused at the way the two villains behave, so he comes to Rippen!Larry and mock his hair, telling him his hair looks like "a skunk exploded on his head". Rippen!Larry tells him the hair is soft, so he asks Penn to touch it, but he refuses. Penn asks Sashi and Boone if they noticed if they noticed Rippen has been acting "Larry-like", so he calls Rippen!Larry by his real name, so Rippen!Larry congratulates him for his "detective work", telling him they both swapped minds at Fish Stick on a Stick as he shows him a sweater depicting the two villains with swapped heads. Rippen!Larry tells them Phil is going here today to switch their bodies back, so he asks the heroes if they want to come and watch, so Penn accepts.
At the principal office, they see it has been given a new villainous look by Larry!Rippen, now adorned with spikes and skulls around. After shortly struggling to stop his chair from spinning, Larry!Rippen tells Rippen!Larry he found out about them switching bodies. Phil appears with the body switcher kept in a bag, saying he closed Fish Stick on a Stick. Old Man Middleburg is then shown standing in the restaurant's entrance, seeing at a sign saying it will stay closed until Phil comes back, so he goes to sleep like a dog in front of it. Back at the office, Phil shows them the body switcher, so Larry!Rippen asks him if he can get it. Phil gives him the body switcher, but, however, he laughs evilly and keeps it in a vault behind a picture, saying he doesn't wanna switch bodies anymore. He then tells them he realized being a principal is as good as being a full-time villain as he shows them a mockup of a villain version of Middleburg Central High, having spikes around and a huge skull above the entrance, calling it the "first intentionally evil high school in America". Boone then sees miniature dolls of him and Sashi chained up, so Larry!Rippen shows Penn a miniature version of him frozen in carbonite.
At the cafeteria, Rippen!Larry tells the heroes that Rippen's body feels so itchy and he doesn't want to be itchy forever. So, Penn comes with a plan; Rippen!Larry distracts Mr. Egsgard guarding the office door so the heroes can crawl through the vent system to the office. Penn then wraps himself in a rope so he can hang down to the guard so the floor sensors doesn't detect him. Penn's sweat almost hits the floor, but Penn traps it with his tongue, disgusting Sashi and Boone. Penn then deciphers the vault's code and opens the vault, but, however, the body switcher isn't there. The wall then moves down inside the floor, revealing the actual wall and Larry!Rippen with the body switcher.
Penn asks him how did he had time to install a fake wall, so he responds him saying that was actually installed here before. Boone then falls to the floor with a parachute while Sashi landing on top of him and then on the floor. Penn tells Larry!Rippen to give the body switcher back, but he refuses, trapping them in a couch coated with sticky glue. He then attaches the body switcher to Penn's head and then connects it to a potato, telling him he will switch bodies with it and that he will coat him in butter. The poatto falls off the desk and rolls under, distracting him. Rippen!Larry sees Tony and convinces him he is the actual Larry in Rippen's body by telling him only he knows he has a broccoli-shaped birthmark in his left ear. Tony, convinced, then reattaches the body switcher to Rippen!Larry's forehead and then connects it to Larry!Rippen's forehead. Boone then gets out of the couch, with his clothes ripped off by the glue, to press the switch button, allowing the body switcher to switch the two villains back to each other's bodies. Rippen, back to his body, starts feeling itchy and so goes to the desk to ask via speaker to bring calamine lotion to the office, 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 Phil
Trivia[]
- This episode reveals that Matilda used to love Penn, until she start to date Alex in the final episode "At the End of the Worlds".
- This episode reveals Rippen's car's license plate to be "LDYSTRBLSTR", a reference to Lady Starblaster.
- After "Larry Manor" and "The QPC", this episode is the third to mainly be set in Middleburg.
- Miniature Penn being encased in carbonite in the mockup is a reference to how Han Solo got frozen in carbonite in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
- In the part of the episode where Penn tries to open the safe until a drop of sweat dripped off his face, he let out his tongue to reach for it. Same as to Oggy and the Cockroaches episode "Mission Oggy/Crackdown on the Fridge".
- The episode title shared with the Kim Possible episode "Trading Faces".
- The episode is also similar to "Mind Games", When Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable are ends up switching bodies.
- Freaky Fraturday is a parody of Freaky Friday and its 1976, 1995, and 2003 adaptions.
- It is also is similar to Darkwing Duck episode "Trading Faces".
v - e - d  | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|