History Recap / LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E20TheAsteroid

* AnAesop: Home is where your heart is.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: {{Averted|Trope}} with the squatter for whatever reason, making him one of the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise's few aversions among non-experiments.

* [[DropTheHammer Hammerface (X-033)]]: He is mistakenly called "Hammerhead" by Pleakley.

Everyone celebrates as the ship lands safely back on Earth, and Cobra thanks Lilo and Stitch for saving the planet. Of course, the government will pretend that the asteroid never existed, so the duo are forced to keep their victory a secret, but Cobra presents them with a document stating that they are now honorary agents in the Earth Defense Agency... "Under-12 and Illegal Genetic Experiment Division." Cobra decides to stay for dinner, but after it's revealed that ''Jumba'' did the cooking, everyone decides to order pizza instead.

* [[ShockAndAwe Sparky (X-221)]]: He jump starts the ship when its battery is dead.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: The squatter on the asteroid is a grouchy little hermit who will try to scare anyone off, but Lilo can empathize how it must feel to basically be told he's about to lose his home. This prompts her to find an alternative to saving the earth without destroying the asteroid.
* PatriotInExile: Jumba starts missing his home planet "Kweltikwan / Quelte Guan". During the mission to intercept the asteroid, Jumba hijacks the ship and attempts to return to his home planet. Pleakely has to remind him he was banished from his home planet and will be apprehended the instant he sets foot on it.

* [[YourWorstNightmare Spooky (X-300)]]

Lilo and Stitch are visiting a planetarium when they find and overhear Cobra Bubbles speaking to a scientist about a large asteroid that's expected to collide with and destroy Earth. The duo head home to tell Jumba about the imminent danger. Jumba offers to prepare his spaceship for escape, and Lilo and Stitch head out to warn their 'ohana about the evacuation.

Just as they are about to leave, Nani tries to stop them, not believing that such an asteroid could exist without making it onto the news. Lilo retorts that she should ask Cobra Bubbles about it, and the ship takes off when Nani isn't looking. Nani bumps into Cobra and realizes that Lilo was telling the truth about the asteroid. After Nani explains the situation, Coba contacts Lilo via communications uplink. He warns her to be extremely careful on the mission, because even if they did destroy the asteroid, their ship would likely be destroyed by the debris. Jumba tries to call off the mission and escape to his home planet, causing Stitch to tie him up and start driving the ship himself. Lilo tells Jumba that Earth is his new home, and convinces him to help save it.

Lilo voices her concerns to Jumba, who theorizes that they could instead use the ship's hyperdrive to simply knock the asteroid off course without destroying it. Of course, removing the hyperdrive from Jumba's ship means that he and Pleakley may never be able to return to their home planets again. However, they decide that it their true home is on Earth with their 'ohana. Swirly (X-383) hypnotizes the squatter into pacification while Kixx (X-601) prys the hyperdrive from the ship. Digger (X-529) digs a hole in the ground as Stitch places the hyperdrive in it. Everyone boards the ship, which takes off while the hyperdrive pushes the asteroid safely out of Earth's trajectory.

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%%Lilo and Stitch (along Lilo's fellow classmates from the halau) are visiting a planetarium when they find and overhear Cobra Bubbles speaking to a scientist about a large asteroid that's expected to collide with and destroy Earth. The human-alien duo head home to tell Jumba about what they heard.

* [[ShockAndAwe Sparky (X-221)]]

* [[DrillMole Digger (X-529)]]
* [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Kixx (X-601)]]

* NotSoDifferentRemark: The squatter on the asteroid is a grouchy little hermit who will try to scare anyone off, but Lilo can empathize how it must feel to basically be told he's about to lose his home. This prompts her to find an alternate to saving earth without destroying the asteroid.

* DefiniteArticleTitle: The only episode of the show titled as such.

* NotSoDifferent: The squatter on the asteroid is a grouchy little hermit who will try to scare anyone off, but Lilo can empathize how it must feel to basically be told he's about to lose his home. This prompts her to find an alternate to saving earth without destroying the asteroid.

* UngratefulBastard: Despite the ''ʻohana'' trying to ''save'' his home, he just angrily yells at them the whole time. Justified since he cannot speak English and doesn't understand what they are trying to do.

* YouCannotGoHomeAgain: While Jumba is exiled to Earth, his ship still has a hyperdrive that allows him to head out to anywhere he wants in the galaxy, including his home planet Kweltikwan. However, he sacrifices the hyperdrive to quickly redirect the asteroid away from Earth, accepting that Earth is his home now even though his ship is no longer capable of heading anywhere in a short period of time.[[note]]That said, in ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'', his ship is used to get to and from the Galactic Council for their ceremony.[[/note]]