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Recap / Time Squad S 01 Ep 21 Nutorious

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Time Squad appears in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1915, where all of the citizens are rapturously enjoying peanut products. Larry reminds Tuddrussel that they are looking for George Washington Carver, but Tuddrussel merely admires his new laser instead of being impressed. Otto notices that the citizens are celebrating Peanut Day, and George Washington Carver is a botanist who is immediately established as discovering new ways to make the peanut useful. This realization confuses him because Carver's life seems to be historically accurate.

Meanwhile, two shady characters dressed like peanuts are giving away free peanuts with little skulls and crossbones on them. Despite the markings, the free peanuts are all taken by eager customers. The scene is being watched by a man in a giant peanut-shaped blimp who claims that his 100 evil uses of the peanut are better than Carver’s 100 good uses.

In the city, Carver is giving autographs to his fans. Tuddrussel introduces himself and explains that he's looking for historical incontinuity here, and Carver says that everyone is finding out about how amazing peanuts are, and explains that everyone is here to celebrate the unveiling of his latest new use for peanuts to the public later today.

In the blimp, the men dressed like peanuts inform the man that they have finished handing out the packets of peanuts. The man is excited, revealing that he is Carver’s younger brother, Todd Washington Carver, and says that the world will now see that he is the true genius.

Meanwhile, Carver is given the key to the city by the mayor, to great applause. Time Squad considers leaving since everything seems fine, when suddenly the blimp flies over the city. Todd W Carver uses a megaphone to talk to the people below, saying he came to join in the festivities. George is surprised, since he thought Todd hated peanuts, and Todd says he has ways to make everyone else hate them, too. He fires peanut pellets at the crowd, which are extremely painful, followed by a stinky peanut gas.

Otto tells Tuddrussel to do something, so Tuddrussel takes out his new laser and tries to find the antimatter ray on it. While he fiddles with it, he hits the grappling hook button, launching himself at the blimp. Todd feels a tremor, but ignores it, announcing to the crowd that his next evil use for peanuts involves everyone who ate his free peanuts. He hits a button on a remote that hypnotizes the citizens below, making them want to attack and kill the mayor and George W Carver. Otto asks Carver what his new use for peanuts was, hoping it will help. Carver, who is now thinking of quitting on peanuts, says that it was peanut glue, which Otto says to spill onto the zombie-fied citizens.

On the blimp, Tuddrussel bursts into Todd W Carver’s room with his laser. Todd calls his henchmen to attack, but they just fall over themselves. Tuddrussel has more difficulties with his new laser, so Todd tries to grab it from him. In the struggle for the gun, Todd accidentally hits the laser button, which shoots a laser out the window. Tuddrussel asks what Todd did, and Todd tries to remember, accidentally hitting a self-destruct button. The blimp blows up, and everybody onboard falls painfully below. The cops come to arrest Todd and his men, while the citizens wake up from their trance. They taste the peanut glue they are stuck in, saying that it’s tasty and would work great as a snack.


Tropes present in this episode include:

  • Artistic License – History: Oh boy. It should be made aware that George Washington Carver did have a little brother, but who died in infancy.
  • Attack of the Town Festival: Todd tries to destroy his brother's reputation by attacking the citizens of Tuskegee, Alabama with his one hundred evil uses for peanuts.
  • Cain and Abel: Todd is the Cain and George is the Abel.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: Todd openly refers to his schemes as evil.
  • Evil Is Hammy: Todd chews the scenery, calling his minions "fools!"
  • For the Evulz: Before hypnotizing the townspeople into attacking Time Squad, George, and the mayor, Todd pelts them with peanuts to hurt them and sprays them with smelly peanut gas that burns their eyes just to be a jerk.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: George is awfully trusting of his jerk of a brother.
  • Jerkass: Todd attacks the town festival with the intention of killing his brother and the mayor, and just before hypnotizing everyone into acting as his zombie slaves, he attacks them with peanut pellets and stinky peanut gas just to be a jerk.
  • Lean and Mean: Todd is much skinnier than George.
  • Mind-Control Eyes: The hypnotized townspeople's eyes turn to red spirals.
  • Never Say "Die": "Must destroy George Washington Carver".
  • Obviously Evil: The peanuts with skull and crossbones branded on them should have been a tip that something wasn't right.
  • The Professor: George.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: The hypnotized townspeople have red spiral eyes.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Todd is angry at his successful big brother and he claims that "Momma always did like HIM best."
  • Swiss-Army Gun: Tuddrussel's new gun is this.
  • Too Dumb to Live: The townspeople for taking free peanuts with skulls and crossbones on them and not being suspicious
  • Would Hurt a Child: Todd has no problem hurting children with his peanut pellets or stinky peanut gas that can burn their eyes, nor does he care when Otto, an innocent bystander, is almost killed by the hypnotized townspeople along with Larry, George, and the mayor.
  • Zombie Gait: This is how the hypnotized townspeople walk.

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