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Bug Off
Season 4, Episode 14
Air date February 19, 1994
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Bug Off is the fourteenth episode in the fourth season of Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

Main Characters[]

The main characters featured in this episode are:

Plot Synopsis[]

A swarm of mutated boll weevils created by Verminous Skumm attack a small town in North Carolina. The Planeteers go to stop the swarm before it eats the town. At the same time, Linka fights a cold using an herbal remedy created by Ma-Ti.

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Significant Moments and Facts[]

  • Wheeler makes a reference to the film Alien.
  • In real life, Venus flytraps don't simply close when food enters their leaves, and then automatically reopen after they've consumed it. They have three spikes on each side of each leaf (not six as indicated in this episode), two of which must be moved, or one moved twice. This is to prevent the trap from closing on things that it cannot digest. After the trap has caught the prey, it doesn't reopen until it has digested it, which takes about 10 days. Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants eat animal prey because these plants grow in nutrient-poor soil (Zimmer, Carl. "Fatal Attraction", National Geographic, vol. 217, no. 3, Mar. 2010, pp. 84-95).

Quotes[]

  • Captain Planet: See no weevil--hear no weevil!
  • Captain Planet (to Skumm, upon seeing the 3-ton boll weevil Sherman): Well...imagine that. A pest bigger than you.

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