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Out of this World is a comedic sci-fi animated series made up by Magnus Force^note "Planet Zed" was added to the title to avoid confusion with the real Out of this World TV series which Magnus Force was unaware of until after he developed his idea.

Out of this World centers around two 13(?)-year old friends, idealistic Anne and neurotic Mark. They've become friends because both of their parents work as scientists for a top-secret military facility searching for extraterrestrial civilizations. One day, Anne and Mark are sucked into a strange interplanetary gateway (discovered by said organization) under mysterious circumstances and end up on Planet Zed, a city planet populated by aliens and robots of all kinds. On Planet Zed, Anne and Mark find they have no way of returning home and must accept their new lives as citizens of the alien metropolis. However, the duo have difficulty adapting at first due to President Boltho, Planet Zed's dictator. Boltho rules the planet with an iron fist, using lies and propaganda aimed against humans to keep his subjects' attention diverted from his rampant corruption, oppressive policies, and general megalomania. Anne and Mark manage to overcome this obstacle (long story; covered in the first episode). The duo are also adopted by a friendly alien couple - the well-ordered Gaitha and easygoing Zemir. Oh, and I can't forget to mention the resident robot characters - Gaitha and Zemir's sardonic housekeeper Calculus and President Boltho's world-weary aide Modem.

The show's first episode was a one hour premiere special and divided into a two-parter for later airings. The series ended with another one-hour special (also split into a two-parter for later airings) where Anne and Mark finally reunite with their parents and President Boltho is forced to resign. Calculus becomes the new president of a democratic Planet Zed and Anne and Mark stay on Planet Zed with their parents.

This is the original draft for my sci-fi cartoon series left for archival purposes (and because I cannot delete the page). It has been succeeded by Roger Rocket and the City of the Stars and the City of the Stars.

Characters

Anne Macintyre

The first of the two kids stuck on Planet Zed, Anne is always looking on the bright side of life and seeing the best in everyone and everything. She's enthusiastic, perky, fun-loving, and always trying her best to make everybody happy. Her sense of adventure is what gets Mark out of the house.

Mark Antonioni

The other member of the main duo, Mark is polar opposite to Anne. Whereas Anne enjoys conversing with others and exploring the world around her, Mark is introverted and nerdy - preferring to learn from books than from the outdoors. He's also terribly fearful, but able to keep Anne's craziness in check.

Gaitha

When Anne and Mark get stuck on Planet Zed, they are taken in by an alien couple. The wife of the pair is Gaitha, a pink-skinned alien with a face like an anteater. This teacher for President Boltho Secondary School is well-ordered in her manners and habits to stuffy levels, but also a loving wife and adopted mother.

Zemir

Although Zemir is Happily Married to Gaitha, you couldn't find a more different couple. Zemir is a fat brown alien with four arms, an easygoing and slovenly attitude, and a love for lowbrow activities like wild parties and rowdy sports. Still, he's also a skilled mechanic who runs his own repair shop.

Calculus

Apartment servant and good friend of Gaitha and Zemir, Calculus is a small, boat-shaped robot with a compartment-like body containing every kind of gadget possible from glove-like hands to rocket jets to portable rooms. Although sarcastic in demeanor and incredibly arrogant as well, Calculus is deeply loyal to his friends.

President Boltho

The supreme leader of Planet Zed, President Boltho is a dumpy green alien whose more playboy than politician. He's selfish, lazy, immature, arrogant, greedy, stupid, corrupt, oppressive, hedonistic, and an all-around jerk with an intense hatred of Anne and Mark for making his regime less despotic.

Modem

Spindly Modem is a bitter and pessimistic robot who acts as President Boltho's servant. Balancing on a single wheeled leg with one eye and clamp-like hands, Modem acts as as Boltho's brains in their various schemes when not slaving away under Boltho's petty demands or making snide remarks about said demands.

Mr. and Mrs. Antonioni

Mr. and Mrs. Macintyre

The General

Episodes

Season 1

• The Beginning: Two friends named Anne and Mark are stranded on the alien city world Planet Zed. With no method of getting back home the two must settle in, but the problem is that the planet's dictator President Boltho has nearly the entire populace riled up against Earthlings as a farce for his corruption and oppressive policies.
• The New Students: Having settled comfortably on Planet Zed, Anne and Mark are sent to President Boltho Secondary School. There, the two have to make themselves a place for themselves amongst Planet Zed's diversity of aliens and robots once again.
• The Hunter: President Boltho wants to hunt a Murderous Slayerkiller^note imagine the Nexu mixed with the Acklay from Star Wars, except the size of an elephant to earn bragging rights, but since it's native to the Death World Cholak III, he has one shipped over to Planet Zed instead. It escapes though, and now one of the galaxy's most dangerous predators is roaming freely on Planet Zed! However, Anne befriends the vicious beast and tries to protect it from Boltho.
• The Podball Racer: Mark is constantly teased by Anne for his lack of confidence when it comes to gym class, so he enters the sport of Podball ^note think Star Wars Podracing with giant hamster balls to prove himself. However, Mark may have bitten off more than he can chew as it is the most dangerous sport in the galaxy!
• The Airrails: Gaitha, Zemir, Anne, and Mark need to take Planet Zed's airrails^note Basically a flying monorail to do some very important business on the other side of the planet, but hilarity ensues in its crowded, chaotic system as they all get lost and separated.
• The Virus: Mark has the common cold and when he spreads it to Gaitha and Zemir, hilarity ensues as their Bizarre Alien Biology causes them to behave strangely as a result. Gaitha becomes a deranged genius while Zemir becomes extremely hyperactive.
• The Roommate: Zemir's old college roomie, Pranter ^note A blue alien with a trunk, antenna, and compound eyes, moves into the apartment. However, Pranter's irresponsible, wild partying lifestyle prove to be a nuisance for Zemir, who has learned to balance his life since college.
• The Wildlife Park: President Boltho wants to turn the Planet Zed Wildlife Park^note a country-sized zoo/aquarium containing species from across the galaxy into a source of meat for his in-progress personal buffet. The animal-loving Anne tries to talk Boltho out of it by making herself (and Mark) at home with the animals.
• The Goop: Planet Zed's moonfill is so full of garbage that the sky is literally raining trash that has fallen off the moon. To solve this problem, Planet Zed's scientists have made a special liquid called G.O.O.P. to eat it up, but the substance grows to vast proportions and floods the planet.
• The Pizza: Anne and Mark introduce Planet Zed to the wonders of pizza, and soon it becomes the talk of the city planet. This gains the attention of Planet Zed's most renowned culinary expert, Ortho ^note a short, pudgy, yellow alien with elephant-like ears, who seeks to buy the recipe for his own restaurant businesses.
• The Hologram: Somebody has uploaded an embarrassing video of President Boltho onto every hologram projector^note this means billboards, television, computers, and any other way to display ads, entertainment, and the like. on Planet Zed, and Boltho believes that Anne and Mark did it. Can Anne and Mark clear their names and help Boltho regain his dignity?
• The Market: Anne and Mark are taken to the Planet Zed Ultramarket^note a city-sized mix of a supermarket and a farmers' market that sells foodstuffs from every part of the galaxy. There, they experience the craziness of intergalactic groceries, including a trio of dim-witted aliens^note Larro, Mozor, and Kurllen, whom all resemble green humanoids with antenna, black eyes, and rat-like snouts who mistake them for escaped produce from the meats' section.
• The Master of Disguise: Calculus disguises himself as an organic being to enter the high-quality no-robots restaurant, The Comet. Meanwhile, Modem does likewise, and when the two discover each others' secret, an undercover war ensues to get the other kicked out.
• The Infinity Loop: President Boltho's newest money-making scheme is a carnival where the main ride is the Infinity Loop, a roller coaster that sends its passengers back to when they entered the carnival, repeating their time there all over again and creating an infinite stream of money for Boltho. Anne and Mark get caught and try to break out of it, causing havoc in the space-time continuum.
• The Admirer: Mark finds out that a geeky robot named Polygon^note a humanoid robot girl with antenna and orange hair-like wires on her head has a crush on him. Anne, overjoyed by her friend's first romance on Planet Zed, decides to try set the two up with each other and hilarity ensues in the process.
• The Pranksters: President Boltho and Anne both love to play pranks, but whereas Anne's pranks are all harmless and lighthearted, President Boltho's pranks are his idea of funny - cruel and mean-spirited. Anne decides to teach Boltho her method of pranking by challenging him to a pranking contest to see who can pull off the biggest pranks on Planet Zed.
• The Insignificant Seven: In this homage to Seven Samurai, Anne and Mark are getting picked on by a gang of bullying robots for being organic, so they hire a ragtag group of aliens for protection. They are Felfew^note the small but tough female leader in concealing robes and with only two small eyes for facial features, Hargot^note a hulking but gentle guy with tusks, four eyes, and white fur, Kerba^note a kooky, orange guy with one eyestalk, tentacles, and a beak, Jettle^note a grey-skinned gal with a head like a hammerhead shark and a love for jokes, Dulthen^note a silent blue guy with one eye and a big nose, Rendees^note a grumpy red-skinned guy with a lamprey mouth on the forehead and eyestalks by the chin, and Tessar^note a plucky green gal with a long head crest and a tube-like snout. However, this Band of Seven fear the robots even more than Anne and Mark do.
• The President's Assistant: Calculus suddenly wins an "award" to become President Boltho's assistant for a day while Modem takes a day off. However, Modem has actually chosen Calculus specifically so that he can make his sworn enemy suffer like he constantly does when working for Boltho.
• The Tower Team: Anne wants to prove that she and Mark are the best duo on Planet Zed, so she enters the two of them into a contest to scale the Planet Zed Watchtower, Planet Zed's tallest building (it's the height of Mt. Everest!). There, the two face all sorts of perils a la mountain climbing like chilly temperatures and territorial wildlife.
• The Happy Holidays: Planet Zed's least favourite holiday rolls around the corner again in the Christmas Episode - Bolthotide, where everyone on Planet Zed must make gifts for President Boltho. Anne and Mark decide to do something about it by taking all the presents and handing them out to everybody on Planet Zed.

Season 2

• The Robotsitter: Gaitha and Zemir go out for the day, so Anne and Mark are asked to take care of Calculus, who finds it insulting that he has to robotsat. However, Modem kidnaps the humans for Boltho when the three visit the Planet Zed Robot's Emporium ^note a mall solely catering to robots. Now, it's up to Calculus to save them.
• The Holovision Star: President Boltho decides to make himself the star of his own television show, so that he can gain popularity with the youth and get away with more outrageous dictator antics in the future. However, he needs actors, and the only people willing to star alongside him are Anne and Mark (the latter convinced by the former to do so).
• The Gladiator: Calculus enters the world of Robot Combat to prove to his hated enemy Modem that he is capable of being more than just a lowly house servant. However, he soon finds himself disappointed when he learns that the rough-and-tough sport is all faked.
• The Cityship: The cityship, Aquilar City, lands in Planet Zed to pick up repairs. However, President Boltho becomes paranoid about the cityship's real motivations and does everything in his absolute power to make sure they city's residents don't ever leave Planet Zed.
• The Teacher: President Boltho Junior High is in need of a new teacher and Zemir takes the role. He proves to be popular with students (Anne and Mark included) due to his easygoing style. However, this annoys Gaitha, who prefers discipline and cleanliness in teaching.
• The Idealist: Modem decides to quit moping about and move on with his life. However, since he lacks the optimism and self-confidence to do so, he turns to the ever-idealistic, all-loving Anne to teach him the ways of positive thought.
• The Baby Sister: Zemir's latest customer at his repair shop leaves her baby^note a little hairy guy with eyestalks and fangs behind by accident. Now, Gaitha and Zemir have to take care of the baby until mother returns to retrieve her. In the meantime, Anne and Mark debate over how to take care of it.
• The Gadget Thief: A young pickpocket named Trebin^note a brown alien vaguely resembling a possum and her adopted brother Bytes^note a small, run-down humanoid robot steal Calculus' gadget box, the source of all his thousands of tools and toys. Now, Gaitha, Zemir, Anne, and Mark have to try live without the comforts provided by Calculus' gizmos.
• The Helping Hand: It's no secret that Anne loves to help people, so she leaps to the opportunity when Zemir needs an extra hand at the repair shop to fix a ridiculously gigantic 18-engine delivery speeder^note the Planet Zed version of an 18-wheeler truck. However, her lack of mechanical knowledge and playful behaviour maker her into more a nuisance than she wanted to be.
• The Landship: President Boltho attends the Annual Vintage Vehicles Convention and finds a Landship^note a giant tank-like vehicle on four legs., which he promptly buys. However, Planet Zed's streets aren't meant for ground vehicles, since those haven't been used on Planet Zed in decades, so Boltho's new transport causes all sorts of trouble for the populace.
• The Maker: Anne and Mark meet Sprocket^note a large mustached humanoid robot with tank treads and an exhaust pipe hat, owner of Sprocket's Sprouts, the facility where every robot on Planet Zed is built^note Think a mix of a robotics facility and a nursery. Sprocket considers himself a father to Planet Zed's robots, but hates organics and plans to have Zeddian society totally segregated with robots ruling supreme.
• The Rock Star: Gaitha encounters her high school friend, Thoona^note a yellow alien with three eyes, nose, and prehensile antennae for hair, who is now the most popular rock musician on Planet Zed^note Rock n' Roll was introduced to the galaxy by Elvis Presley when he left Earth, though records of his species are scant. She wants to reunite with her at a big concert that Anne and Mark are visiting, but is afraid she's become too "uncool" for her.
• The Fantastical Mechanical Voyage: Mark accidentally leaves his top-secret school project inside of Calculus' portable room gadget. Now, Anne and Mark will have to travel through the vast and bizarre world of Calculus' gadget systems to retrieve it. Hilarity ensues, of course.
• The Prince: In this homage to The Little Prince, Anne befriends the young, precocious Prince Xuper^note a yellow alien with plant-like hair, who claims to be visiting Planet Zed in his father's stead. While, the two maybe-lovers enjoy their time together, a hooded stranger follows them. Could Anne's friendship with the prince be dangerous?
• The Pet Show: Anne enters a reluctantly disguised Calculus into the Planet Zed Pet Show so that she can prove to her schoolmates that she owns the greatest pet on Planet Zed. Meanwhile, President Boltho has entered the pet show to gain some extra glory points by disguising Modem as his pet.
• The Inseparable Duo: President Boltho fires Modem from his position as president's minion. The two soon learn that they can't live without each other as Modem works under the criminal, Biltar^note A muscular green alien with a pig-like nose and tube-like antenna, who is so dumb that Modem can't have him follow their schemes, while Boltho hires Karak^note A reptilian alien resembling a scaly man with cat-like eyes, who is so intelligent that he can overthrow Boltho with no trouble.
• The Party Speeder: Zemir feels that he and Mark don't do enough together while Gaitha feels likewise about Anne and herself. So, while Gaitha decides to spend a "Girl's Night Out" with Anne, Zemir takes Mark onto a wild Party Speeder^note a party bus, where the excitement never ends and everyone just goes by their own flows.
• The New Kid: President Boltho has to go back to secondary school when it turns out he never finished his education. Used to a life of supremacy over others, Boltho is now sitting at the bottom of the popularity chain, and if he is to make his way to the top, he must start by befriending Anne and Mark, to his chagrin.
• The Aqua Center: During a heat wave, Anne, Mark, Gaitha, Zemir, and Calculus decide to visit the Aqua Center, Planet Zed's largest pool (around the size of Lake Erie) and an indoor beach of sorts. It turns out that the pool is absolutely crowded, so the cast do their best to get the most out of their time. Obviously, hilarity ensues instead.
• The Fright-O-Night Ball: In the Halloween Episode, Anne and Mark go to the school's annual Fright-O-Night Dance. However, things take a turn for the terrifying when somebody begins to literally scare people stiff! Can Anne and Mark catch the culprit in this whodunit mystery?

Season 3

• The Lost President: Anne and Mark visit the Planet Zed History Museum to see a special exhibition featuring the still-living brains of Boltho's ancestors (Planet Zed's previous dictators). During the trip, they find a cellar containing the frozen body of Planet Zed's real first president^note A member of Boltho's species called President Valtus, who was just and fair! They free him, and he is appalled by his oppressive, new surroundings.
• The Gravity Switch: Gaitha and Zemir put their home up for rentals. However, they've got two occupants staying on alternating nights - Anxxar^note a yellow, 10 foot tall alien with a long reptilian face and a rhino-like horn, who prefers high gravity, and Willew^note an extremely skinny, pale alien with six arms and big black eyes, who prefers low gravity. So, Gaitha and Zemir buy a Gravity Switch^note Looks like a temperature adjuster, but changes gravity in a room; expensive, but will they end up regretting it?
• The Masked Marauder: President Boltho is being harassed by a mysterious revolutionary who calls him/herself The Masked Marauder. Although the people of Planet Zed love him/her, Boltho won't be happy until the Marauder's head is mounted on his wall. However, he needs to find out the true identity of the mysterious Marauder. But just who is this Zeddian Robin Hood?
• The Scoop: Gaitha unexpectedly gets a job as a field reporter for Planet Zed's Channel Z News, where she will get to rub shoulders with main reporters Vinka^note a pink alien with one eyes, a beak, and tentacles for hair and Trigonometric^note a hovering robot with multiple arms, a camera-like face, and a spherical body. However, she finds that the news crew are nothing more than apathetic, biased, propaganda-spewing sensationalists, whereas Gaitha just wants to do fair and honest reporting.
• The Collector: Anne and Mark meet Kilowatt^note a short humanoid robot with a telescope-like head and extendable neck and limbs, who is obsessed with collecting stuff from remote worlds (Earth included). This attracts the attention of President Boltho, who convinces the greedy robot to add Anne and Mark to his collection and get them out of Boltho's antenna.
• The Inheritor: President Boltho's birthday makes him realize that he doesn't have somebody to inherit his dictatorship. So, he pretends that he has a son to keep the people of Planet Zed assured that their repression will not end with him. But, how long can he keep up his charade?
• The Vacation Coupon: Gaitha and Zemir receive a mysterious coupon that gives them a free one month vacation to only one planet of their choice. Gaitha wishes to go to elegant Arisar VII while Zemir wants to visit partying Vegalas Prime, and the argument soon escalates into an all-out feud.
• The Z Word: A mysterious electronic virus turns every robot on Planet Zed into "zombies", effectively creating a robot revolution across the city world. How will Anne, Mark, Gaitha, Zemir, and President Boltho survive the wrath of their robot companions? Will a cure for them be found?
• The Anger: President Boltho gets fed up with Modem's snarky comments after a particularly mean one. So, he secretly inserts a restraining bolt to disable Modem's emotion chip. With Modem unable to make snide remarks on Boltho's idiotic megalomania, Boltho's schemes begin to get totally ludicrous while Modem's emotion chip starts to break down under the duress.
• The Guard: Gaitha and Zemir buy a robotic guard pet after a robbery spree in their area. Calculus takes a dislike to the second robot in their home, and the pet doesn't like him any much more. However, unbeknownst to all, Gaitha and Zemir's pet is actually the partner of the thief, who sends his companion in to rob from unexpecting homes!
• The Lookalikes: Anne and Mark begin to believe they are not the only humans on Planet Zed after spotting a boy and girl of similar age snooping around Planet Zed. Curious, they decide to track her down and meet them. Little do they know though, that their humans are actually Nanite and Nanoid, twin shapeshifting masses of nanobots and the most advanced robots on Planet Zed!
• The Need for Speed: Zemir's repair shop becomes the hangout of a racing gang made of three aliens named Zeeda^note A short purple lizard-like alien with tusks and no tail, Turgo^note A yellow alien with a small beak and eight spider-like eyes, and Drenkel^note A blue alien with a massive tube-like head projection, as well as a robot named Hydraulics^note A humanoid robot with a tall head and four arms. Initially, Zemir disapproves of their presence, but his desire to feel young again grows, and he joins their high-speed nighttime races.
• The Genius: President Boltho finds out that he is the least intelligent despot to have ever ruled Planet Zed while Anne is becoming unhappy with her lack of brains compared to Mark, so when Planet Zed's greatest scientist^note Dr. Kaskan, a green alien with a bulbous jelly-like cranium carrying multiple brains announces he is donating two of his brains to science, they take to it. After the operation, both find that their minds are now linked to each other's.
• The Storm: After Anne and Mark tell President Boltho about the wonders of weather^note which has been extinct on Planet Zed for centuries due to the terraforming by Boltho's ancestors, the president has a weather machine constructed. Initially, Planet Zed's populace enjoys this change, but Boltho ends up creating a gigantic lightning storm that threatens to put the entire world in a society-halting blackout.
• The Club: President Boltho forms the Putrid And Nasty Tyrants Society, a gathering of the galaxy's worst dictators, in an effort to gain allies. Things go swimmingly until his newfound friends demand to see him put his constant boasts about his incredible tyranny in action. Now, Boltho will have to increase his ruthlessness a hundredfold - something made difficult by Anne and Mark.
• The Augmentation: Mark decides to improve his sense of self-confidence by engaging in Planet Zed's newest hip trend - bio-augmentation. He decides to get himself a handsomer body first, but soon begins to augment himself with more and more alien parts - something that will have consequences for him.
• The Number One Pastime: Gaitha and Zemir take Anne and Mark to the Planet Zed Grand Blorkoball Stadium (it seats over a million!) to see a game of blorkoball^note sorta like baseball mixed with American football, but more nonsensical and over-the-top . Hilarity ensues as Anne and Mark compete with President Boltho and Modem to catch the ball as doing so means the team that pitched it scores 1000 points.
• The Cast of Thousands: In an episode inspired by The Simpsons' "22 Short Films about Springfield", Anne and Mark are bored and out of things to do, so they decide to find out what kind of misadventures everyone else on Planet Zed (except Gaitha, Zemir, Calculus, President Boltho, and Modem) get into.
• The End: Anne's and Mark's parents finally rebuild the portal that stranded their kids on Planet Zed. However, the General who ordered its usage wants it to invade Planet Zed. Now Anne and Mark must choose between staying on Planet Zed or returning to Earth, while Planet Zed's people fight guerrilla-style against the invaders and a now-disposed President Boltho tries to regain his power.