Meltdown Syndrome is the fourteenth episode in the first season of Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
Villains[]
Plot Synopsis[]
Duke Nukem targets a nuclear power plant. Worse, the power plant is suffering from a nuclear meltdown, as its administrator, Dr. Borzon, ignored earlier signs of trouble. Duke Nukem captures Dr. Borzon in order to stop him from preventing the meltdown in order to feast on its festering radioactivity. The Planeteers are sent to stop Nukem and the meltdown. When it approaches critical mass, Captain Planet cautions that this may be worse than Chernobyl and Three Mile Island combined. Captain Planet decides to save the day by flying the entire plant to a place well equipped for nuclear explosions - the Sun! However, he also warns that he cannot keep saving the day like this. Dr. Borzon thanks the Planeteers for saving him and admitted he failed to warn others of the dangers of nuclear power due to his beliefs that it was clean and plentiful, and that issues like smog are indeed environmental problems. Gi recommends Dr. Borzon study geothermal energy in his quest to find a clean, abundant energy source.
Episode Summary[]
Duke Nukem enters a nuclear power plant with a radiation-leak while the manager is seeing reporters instead of repairing it. He breaks into the machinery and prepares to trigger a meltdown to give himself strength. The Planeteers arrive to stop him, but Dr. Borzon mistakes them for more reporters and locks them in a cramped room full of radiation where their rings don't work. They need Captain Planet to prevent Nukem's creating a worldwide fallout, but first must save themselves and regain their powers.
Planeteer Alerts[]
Captain Planet: We all take energy for granted, but power has its price.
Gaia: Think about it. When you turn on your lights or stereo, you're using up energy.
Captain Planet: But you are also using up Earth's resources and contributing to pollution.
Kwame: We need energy, but we also need to use it wisely.
Gi: Don't waste it.
Linka: Turn off the lights and TV when you are not in the room.
Ma-Ti: The little things you do at home can make a big difference for our planet.
Wheeler: The power to save power is yours.
Significant Moments and Facts[]
- Captain Planet can shake the ground by stamping his foot.
Quotes[]
- Computer: Alarm system off, but danger not fixed.
- Dr. Borzon: [pounding the computer whose alarm system he closed] Stop nagging; I'll fix it as soon as I can!
- Computer: Warning! Radioation leak in coolying system. You still haven't fixed it.
- Dr. Borzon: I'll get to it; I'm only human!
- Leadsuit: [about to be locked in a closet] But, I - I'm scared of the dark!
- Wheeler: If you were smart, you'd be more scared of your boss.
- Duke Nukem: Why don't you grab a rod and go fishing - nuclear fishing, get it? (which is a pun as the word "fishing" sounds similar to "fission")
- Captain Planet: [Nukem's gamma-ray blasts the top of a water tower off its base] Ah, just what I needed: a Duke-catcher!
- Captain Planet: This cooling-rod is full of radiation. We have to put it in a storage-vault where it won't harm anyone. Any volunteers?
- Leadsuit: [retreating] Uh, count me out!
- Wheeler: Eight, nine, ten, you're out! Now pick up that rod and get going!
- Dr. Borzon: Wh-who are you?... Wh-*what* are you?
- Duke Nukem: Duke Nukem, radiation king, at your service. As for *what* I am... [begins to glow]
- Duke Nukem: The ignorants call me a mutant. *I* prefer to think of myself as the future of mankind! And I could use a guy like you on my team. You could be a leader of the nuclear age: unlimited power, all the electrons you can eat! Are you with me, or against me?
- Dr. Borzon: Scientists don't take sides.
- Duke Nukem: Scientists aren't supposed to *lie*, either. But you do. You're my kind of guy, Doc.
- Dr. Borzon: Well, maybe I was, but not now. Not after meeting you!
- Duke Nukem: [singing to the tune of "On Top of Old Smoky"] My name is Duke Nukem./I'm a radiar shark./I'm hotter than Elvis,/and I glow in the dark.
- Wheeler: [brandishing his ring] Back off, Nukem! I'm warning you!
- Duke Nukem: Oh, boy, dueling death-rays!
- Captain Planet: [seeing the power plant in the process of Nukem's meltdown] Uh-oh! Disaster time!
- Duke Nukem: [jumping from the building to the ground] You said it, Planet!
- Captain Planet: Can't we settle this peacefully, Nukem?
- Duke Nukem: Sure, Captain Planet, I'll blast YOU to pieces.
- Duke Nukem: How dare you trash my Nukemobile! I just had it painted!
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