On the satellite, Tuddrussel is encouraging Otto to lift weights while Larry is meditating. Tuddrussel gets annoyed with the peaceful music Larry's radio is playing and tries to turn on rock music but Larry refuses. This causes Tuddrussel to get angry and threaten to attack him. But before he can hurt Larry, the History Instability Alarm goes off. The team sees that Beethoven is its next mission and heads off, while Tuddrussel is annoyed at having to visit a "musical type".
The team appears in a man’s bathtub while he is bathing, annoying Otto and Tuddrussel, and the team flees the house. Suddenly, Otto notices posters of Beethoven covering a pole, advertising him as a wrestler. The team then attends a wrestling match featuring Beethoven wrestling “The Python.” Beethoven wins, making Tuddrussel think both wrestlers were pathetic, and disgusting Larry.
After the match, the team introduces itself to Beethoven, and Otto and Larry ask why he gave up composing music. Beethoven replies that it was for his fans, and shares a story about one of his concerts a few years ago. While he was playing, a heckler in the audience kept taunting him, so he got up and threw him out a window, earning a lot of applause. This continued in all of Beethoven’s concerts, as people began to enjoy watching the fighting. Eventually, people only attended concerts just for the fights, so other composers like Haydn challenged Beethoven to fights.
Otto asks if Beethoven ever missed being an artist, which Beethoven does admit to, but he says that he is a wrestler now. Tuddrussel then challenges Beethoven to a wrestling match but is told by the referee that he must fight other famous wrestlers to earn a rank worthy enough of challenging Beethoven. Tuddrussel obliges, easily defeating Rossini, Haydn, and Mozart.
Finally, Tuddrussel and Beethoven fight. Beethoven generally has the upper hand, and he eventually has Tuddrussel in a tough hold around the arms and torso that makes it increasingly difficult for Tuddrussel to breathe but no matter how much Beethoven tries to persuade him into giving up while he's still conscious, Tuddrussel stubbornly refuses. Larry and Otto fear for Tuddrussel's safety and wonder how they will be able to help. Otto suddenly has an idea and turns the dial on Larry’s radio, trying to find Beethoven’s music. Larry switches the radio to AM, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony plays. The music catches Beethoven off guard, and he is amazed at the beauty of it. Otto tells him that he will eventually write it, and Beethoven drops Tuddrussel, deciding to go back to composing music.
Later, Otto, Larry, and a beaten-up Tuddrussel are listening to Beethoven play a concert. Tuddrussel claims to be the one who taught Beethoven a lesson, and he is hit with Beethoven’s stool before the team leaves.
Tropes present in this episode include:
- Crowd Chant: Fans in the crowd demand that Beethoven break Tuddrussel's spine by chanting "CRUSH HIM!".
- Enraged by Idiocy: Beethoven does not appreciate rudeness or idiocy when you attend his concerts.
- Iconic Song Request: Hecklers in the audience kept demanding that he play songs that wouldn't even exist yet for hundreds of years, like Freebird.
- Just Here for Godzilla: In-Universe example; Beethoven explains that after several concerts where he beat up obnoxious and idiotic hecklers during his performances, and the rest of the audience cheered him for it, pretty soon people were only attending to watch him beat up the next heckler. This is why Beethoven chose to change careers and become a professional wrestler, to give his fans what they want.
- Landing In Someones Bath Tub
- Large Ham: Beethoven. Mostly when he's angry, but also in the ring when it can be assumed that it's all a part of the act.
- Pro Wrestling Episode
- Talk to the Fist: How Beethoven handles hecklers who keep interrupting his concerts.
- Throwing the Fight: Beethoven throws the fight with Tuddrussel when he realizes that what he's doing is wrong and decides to go back to writing music.
- The Web Always Existed: Larry explains that while he CAN receive radio transmissions, the reception is terrible any time before the 20th century. He still gets an AM station that just so happens to be playing Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
- What Have I Become?: Beethoven ponders this when he realizes that he ran away from being an artist to become what he calls a "sideshow freak".
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Larry's reaction when he sees a poster for one of Beethoven's fights.
