When Mr. Baumann, the grouchy storekeeper, realizes his temper comes from being lonely he starts soul-searching. Eventually he stumbles across a secret not from this earth.
Tropes in this episode
- A Day in the Limelight: As the title indicates, this episode focuses on Mr. Baumann.
- The Bus Came Back: Vulkanus returns for his first episode as the antagonist since “Greetings from Techadon”.
- Interspecies Romance: Baumann falls in love with and eventually engage to Sheelane, an alien woman who resembles a mermaid.
- Retcon: After the previous two series showed Vulkanus as a baby sized alien in Powered Armor, here’s he’s revealed to have once had the type of body you’d expect a guy who looks like that to have, before Ben blew up his arms and legs.
- Time Skip: The episode takes place across 10.44 years.