History Recap / SamuraiJackS3E2JackAndTheRave

Jack manages to reach the stage to confront Stylbator, knowing that destroying Stylbator's turntables will silence his hypnotic music and bring the kids back to their senses. Stylbator tries to fight back via lasers from his gold tooth, but when he finds himself outmatched by Jack, he turns his DJ equipment into a large robotic mech for him to beat Jack with, dragging the fight to a nearby ravine. At one point, Stylbator has Jack at his mercy and ready to deliver the killing blow, but Jack, seeing the hypnotized children and remembering his vow to save them, recovers his katana, hacks Stylbator's mech apart, then destroys the turntables once and for all, killing Stylbator, and silencing his dark music permanently. As Olivia and the other kids come back to their senses and wonder what happened, Jack explains everything, tells them to return home, and never dance to Aku's music ever again.

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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Jack steals the clothes of a raver to infiltrate the rave party. It includes baggy pants, a [[BareYourMidriff short shirt]], a hat that looks similar to what Literature/TheCatInTheHat wears, and a pacifier.

* BareYourMidriff: About half of the participants of the rave party, regardless of gender, wear short shirts that show some abs - including DJ Stylbator and Jack himself.

* VideoGameAdaptation: Creator/CartoonNetwork created a Flash game based on this episode where the player controlled Jack and had to destroy five loudspeakers while avoiding the hypnotized raver children as well as not hurting them, either. After destroying the speakers, Jack could confront DJ Stylbator and take him down.

* NewMediaAreEvil: [[AmbiguousSituation While it's unclear if this was the writers' intent]], the episode can be interpreted as an attack by MoralGuardians on the concept of a rave, given that the rave is run by an evil mind-contoller, and at least one parent has "lost his child" to it.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
** Among the articles of clothing Jack steals from a passing-by raver is a pacifier, which real-life ravers use to combat the dry mouth and teeth-grinding that comes as a result of taking ecstasy.
** The evil DJ is named Stylbator. As in his style is "masterbatory" (self-aggrandizing).

* DisguisedAsTheEnemy: Jack steals the clothes of a raver to infiltrate the rave party. It includes baggy pants, a [[BareYourMidriff short shirt]], a hat that looks similar to what Literature/TheCatInTheHat wears, and a pacifier.

* PaperThinDisguise: Jack disguises himself as one of the ravers, but is immediately recognized by Stylbator.

* MindControlledEyes: The ravers have demonic red eyes while under Stylbator's control.

* PutOnABus: After this episode, Olivia was not seen again for the rest of the original series. Her father is also never seen again, but given that he appeared middle-aged in his debut and 50 years went by, he may be deceased.
** TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Olivia returns in Season 5, now 50 years older, and leading a new generation of ravers as their DJ, passing on the legend of Jack's heroism saving her and the other ravers from Aku and .]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Among the articles of clothing Jack steals from a passing-by raver is a pacifier, which real-life ravers use to combat the dry mouth and teeth-grinding that comes as a result of taking ecstasy.

** TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Olivia returns in Season 5, now 50 years older, and leading a new generation of ravers as their DJ, passing on the legend of Jack's heroism saving her and the other ravers from Aku and Stylbator.]]

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Olivia returns in Season 5, now 50 years older, and leading a new generation of ravers as their DJ, passing on the legend of Jack's heroism saving her and the other ravers from Aku and Stylbator.]]

* VideoGameAdaptation: Creator/CartoonNetwork created a Flash game based on this episode where the player controlled Jack and had to destroy five loudspeakers while avoiding the children as well as not hurting them, either. After destroying the speakers, Jack could confront DJ Stylbator and take him down.

* MissingMom: Olivia's mother is never seen nor mentioned

* PutOnABus: After this episode, Olivia was not seen again for the rest of the original series.

* TheBusCameBack: However, in Season 5, with the revival of the series, Olivia reappears, 50 years older, and now the DJ of a new generation of ravers, passing Jack's legend with saving her and her generation of ravers from Aku and Stylbator onto the future generation so Jack's legend won't be forgotten once Olivia and those ravers that are still alive pass on.

Continuing on his journey, Jack arrives at a small town as darkness falls, deciding to find an inn for the night. When he finds it, the innkeeper is in a state of mournful sobbing, unable to stop as he checks Jack in and shows him to his room. When Jack inquires as to why, the innkeeper simply states, "the music", before slamming the door. No soon does Jack begin to ponder on this when music begins to reverberate out of the woods, and several shadowed figures emerge from the woods, enter the town, and begin to vandalize it.