Skumm Lord is the fourth episode in the first season of Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
Main Characters[]
The main characters featured in this episode are:
- Kwame
- Wheeler
- Linka
- Gi
- Ma-Ti
- Captain Planet
- Gaia
- Shaman
- Verminous Skumm
- The Rat Pack
Plot Synopsis[]
Verminous Skumm creates a chemical disease called Rat Rot and contaminates several water supplies with it. Anyone who drinks the contaminated water will turn into a mutant rat like himself and be under his control. Unfortunately, Wheeler, Linka, and Gi are among his victims. It's up to Kwame and Ma-Ti to rescue them, along with the other mutated people, before the whole world is overrun with mutant rats. The only thing that may cure Rat Rot is a rare Amazonian plant that is in danger of being lost to cattle ranching, and only Ma-Ti's friend the Shaman knows where to find it.
Episode Summary[]
Verminous Skumm creates a substance that, when placed in water, will mutate its drinker into a rat-resembling character who willingly serves him. The Planeteers go to stop him, but Wheeler falls into a vat of it, and Linka and Gi are splashed, so the others must hurry to recover an endangered plant Ma-Ti's friend the Shaman believes may cure them. Meanwhile, Skumm plans to place the liquid in Ma-Ti's village water supply, then the Amazon to infect the country and perhaps even the world.
Planeteer Alerts[]
Ma-Ti: They are cutting down more rainforests, Captain Planet.
Wheeler: The world's rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of a football field a second.
Gi: What can we do about it?
Captain Planet: Don't use paper products that are only used once and thrown away.
Gaia: You can recycle newspapers so that new trees won't have to be cut down to make wood pulp.
Kwame: And stand beside the people who are standing up for our forests!
Captain Planet: The power is yours!
Significant Moments and Facts[]
- When the Planeteers are shown the image of Verminous Skumm on the Planet Vision, Linka says "I am sick" in Russian, and then repeats it in English. Interestingly enough, the Russian equivalent of "sick" (Bolen) is used in the masculine. The correct, feminine form would be bol'naya.
Errors[]
- During the summon sequence, Suchi's mouth is seen moving when Ma-Ti yells "Heart!"
Quotes[]
- Wheeler: What fun is a silly old shaman and a bunch of stupid plants? [sees a vine]
- Wheeler: But *this* plant - this plant is bodacious! [jumps on it and swings, yodeling, but loses his grip and crashes into a tree branch - and into the coils of a snake]
- Wheeler: AAH! SNAKE! [pushes himself far enough way that he falls to the ground]
- Wheeler: Whoa. That was close. [sees his hand rests on an infested plant]
- Wheeler: OUCH! ANTS! Ow! Ahh, ow, ow! Ow, ah... I'm burning!
- Ma-Ti: [runs over to examine his hands] Fire ants! I can help you. [runs to grab a set of flowers, takes a stone and grinds them in a strip of tree bark, then runs back]
- Ma-Ti: Wheeler, here. Try this.
- Wheeler: Wh-What's that? What're you doing?
- Ma-Ti: [moving his hand near the bark] Relax. It will help the pain. [rubs the powder on then bandages his hand]
- Wheeler: Thanks. That does feel better. Where'd you learn that?
- Ma-Ti: [grinning] Oh, just something the silly old shaman taught me.
- Wheeler: [blushing] Oh, yeah, him.
- Linka: Verminous Skumm. Ya bolen! I am sick!
- Gi: I have no idea what you just said, Linka, but I know I agree.
- Captain Planet: Ah, Verminous Skumm. I knew something smelled bad. Better air this place out. [turns into a whirlwind, causing Skumm's poisoned followers to fall back from the factory]
- Captain Planet: Sorry I can't let you do Skumm's evil work.
- Verminous Skumm: My evil work's just starting, Windbag!
- Wheeler: C'mon, guys, let's put that wretched rodent out of business!
- Gi: Don't you think we should... make a plan? [Wheeler runs off]
- Linka: [groaning] Wheeler...
- Kwame: [Ma-Ti is piloting the Geocruisesr low between cliffs at high speed] Have you ever done this before?
- Ma-Ti: Of course. Well, not really - once, on Hope Island, on the flight-simulator.
- Verminous Skumm: I gotta pull myself together. What am I - a rat or a mouse?
- Kwame: [the Geocruiser heads for a narrow stone-blockaded gap in between cliffs] We are going through that?
- Ma-Ti: [causing him to turn aside] I hope so! On the simulator... I never did make it.
- Verminous Skumm: Hey - Planet! What're you gonna do with me?
- Captain Planet: Hm, good question. It's either the police station, or the zoo.
- Verminous Skumm: The zoo, the zoo sounds good! They never have rat exhibits at the zoo. I could start a new trend.
- Captain Planet: Say "cheese", you rat!
- Verminous Skumm: (growls as a prison door slams shut)
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