Dodgers and the Cadet must team up with Commander X-2 to defeat the assimilating menace of The Fudd.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Cassandra Truth: When I.Q. warns the Queen of Mars about the Protectorate soldiers her forces are about to arrest having caught the Fudd, she thinks he's making it up.
- Chekhov's Gun: X-2 mentions that he's terrified of heights, while Dodgers reveals that he's completely illiterate; Cadet mentions that Dodgers returned the literacy tapes he bought for the captain last Christmas. At the end of the episode, X-2 needs to overcome his acrophobia, while Dodgers is the only person able to save the day by reading a document. Thankfully, he remembers the songs from the tapes and is able to read because of them.
- Deadline News: A news anchor reporting on the Fudd apocalypse is transformed mid-sentence.
- "Eureka!" Moment: When having trouble reading the instructions, Dodgers reveals he returned the literacy tapes because he already memorized the songs, allowing Cadet to point out that it should allow him to read if he reminds himself how they went.
- Face-Revealing Turn: Dodgers comes to I.Q. High to talk, only for the doctor to turn, revealing a Fudd face.
- Feigning Intelligence: After a disagreement regarding finders versus keepers over an asteroid, with X-2 referring to a treaty in order to win the argument, a fact-checking Cadet concedes and hands over the treaty to Dodgers, who tries to hide his illiteracy by simply staring at it for a while. X-2 starts to wonder if he's even reading it whereas the Cadet isn't fooled for a second, as he knows Dodgers returned the Addicted to Reading tapes he gave him last Christmas.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Elmer Fudd, who's controlling anyone transformed by the titular disease, turns out to be one entirely by accident—after changing nearly every sentient being in the galaxy into a loyal slave, he rounds them all up to invade the Sun. Yeah.
- Too Dumb to Live: Elmer Fudd is an evil alien with the power to change all sentient beings into mindless clones through a disease called "The Fudd." After successfully infecting the entire populations of Earth and Mars, plus the entire Galactic Protectorate except for Dodgers, Cadet, and X-2, Elmer reveals his master plan: gather all of his Fudd slaves and have them...invade the Sun. The fact that everyone doesn't die is more down to the heroes' last-minute victory than to the Fudd's talent for self-preservation.
- The Virus: The Fudd turns people into stuttering, balding versions of themselves similar to Elmer Fudd. It turns out that alien technology merged with Elmer Fudd, so they could amass an army to INVADE THE SUN! Yeah, there are obvious problems with this plan.
