Adrift

Adrift
Season 3, Episode 4
Original air date	July 23, 2020
Written by	Matt Maiellaro
Directed by	Matt Maiellaro
Episode guide
Previous Awaken	Following You Made This

Adrift is the 25th episode of 12 oz. Mouse overall. This is the fourth episode of Season 3. It aired on July 23, 2020.

Plot:

A schooner on a ship breaks through the defenses of Lotharganin, with its T.O.P.A.Z. defense system failing to stop it and all clues point to Professor Wilx and his underlying connection to Shyd Industries. Golden Joe and Peanut have trouble starting up their jet skis.

Characters/Cast:

Major Characters

• Mouse Fitzgerald (Matt Maiellaro)
• Aria (Mary Spender)
• Professor Wilx (Paul Painter)
• Golden Joe (Vishal Roney)
• Peanut Cop (Nick Weidenfeld)

Minor Characters

• Shark (Ned Hastings)
• Rectangular Businessman (Kurt Soccolich)
• Clock
• Pineapples (Max Simonet)
• Spider

Cameos

• Bug

Trivia

• This episode is rated TV-14 LV, but was originally given a TV-14 L rating, along with "Invictus", "First 12", and "Awaken" respectively.
• The Bug crawls on the walls of the office when the Shark and the Rectangular Businessman abomination appear at the beginning of the episode, indicating that he escaped and the glass coffins were broke open, presumably from Skillet. Rhoda and Liquor most likely got out of them as well. The coffins were later seen again in "Prime Time Nursery Rhyme" and "Portal to the Doorway" respectively, now broke open, confirming why the Bug is out of his coffin.
• Shark is voiced by Ned Hastings instead of Adam Reed as of this episode due to the latter being unavailable during the third season.
• The various sounds that the Bug makes are:
  • Whirring
  • Chiming
  • A plop! noise
  • Digital charming
  • Chirping
  • Jigging
  • Drums
  • Car honks
  • Motor roars
  • Alarm clock rings
  • Chainsaw whirs
  • Jackhammer hammerings
  • A cat meow
  • Scurrying
• When the Rectangular Businessman tells Shark, "your voice is so f-cking irritating", the word "f-cking" was bleeped out by the Bug's chainsaw whir noise. A similar thing happens at the end of the episode when Aria says "no sh--" before cutting to the credits.
• This episode reveals that the Cardboard City was created by a simulation program from a long time ago, which Aria and Professor Wilx walk through. Over 222 buildings were created in there.
• There is a flashback of a Flex Time Idea Carnival that was held at some point, which Mouse Fitzgerald, Peanut Cop, Golden Joe, the Rectangular Businessman, and Shark attend.
• Golden Joe's tooth is missing in his mouth when he and Peanut Cop are starting a pair of the Jet Skis.
• The scene of Peanut Cop and Golden Joe turning on the Jet Skis is similar to the scene of Shark trying to get his car started in the Season 2 episode "Star Wars VII", which even uses the same starting sounds as the Jet Skis. This continues in "You Made This".
  • Coincidentally, both "Star Wars VII" and this episode are the fourth episodes of their respective seasons.
  • Peanut Cop and Golden Joe's Jet Skis originate from an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• When the Pineapples watch Golden Joe and Peanut Cop on Jet Skis, the first one states that he lented one of his jet skis to a couple named Margaret and Nathaniel for their divorce, followed by the second one telling him that he'll go off on them like a Bakersfield monkey upon replacing the Jet Skis with replicas.

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Videos

Quotes

• Shark: What have you done? What have you done?
• Rectangular Businessman: Embarrassing. Your gills are breathing on my face. This is going to cost someone plenty.
• Shark: Oh, God. Stop talking to me.
• Rectangular Businessman: Maybe I should be heard. The most.
• Shark: Anyone's you. Seriously.
• Rectangular Businessman: Your voice is so f*cking irritating. West tide. Grant denied.
• Shark: I will find you when you are alone.
• Rectangular Businessman: My network of donors is worldwide. Do not commit. I will be doing all the talking from here on out.
• Aria: This quadrant turned out rather interesting, wouldn't you agree, Professor Wilx?
• Professor Wilx: It's quite perfect. I admire your work, Aria.
• Aria: I didn't imagine it to render as so...simple. The logarithms were insanely complicated.
• Professor Wilx: Simplicity is merely what lies beneath complication. It serves great purpose.
• Aria: But why so many? Why do we need 222?
• Professor Wilx: Because that's what they acquired.
• Aria: And who are they?
• Professor Wilx: You know I can't.
• Peanut Cop: Ahh. Seriously, there is a better way out of here than those useless doors. I should ha--I should have told you that before. But I didn't. Didn't I? About the doors?
• Golden Joe: Man, trust in you I do not your jiffy ass. How much work does it take to be as dumb as you?
• Peanut Cop: Come here. Look at these Jet Skis. Jet Skis, man! Ain't those totally bitching?
• Golden Joe: This is my dream come true, Pean! Let's bounce this dog's house! Peanut! We ain't got no gas!
• Peanut Cop: You think? I've never met a Jet Ski that didn't have gas. Watch me trying. Keep trying.
• Pineapple 1: What are they doing?
• Pineapple 2: I don't got eyes, so I don't fricking know.
• Pineapple 1: Sounds like motors. Sounds like Jet Ski motors. Sounds like you left your Jet Skis in the room.
• Pineapple 2: Impossible! I lent my jet-skis to Margaret and Nathaniel for their divorce. So they--they are definitely not in the room.
• Pineapple 1: Ahh, they must have--
• Pineapple 2: They replaced them with replica Jet Skis! I will go off on them like a Bakersfield monkey!
• Professor Wilx: Your skills are beyond useless. It's a wonder he ever hired you. What's he doing in there? A ship? Approaching, you say? No one on the outside knows? Unless...I'll handle this.
• Aria: Hey are you okay?
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Oh! Yes. I must've been sleeping with my eyes open.
• Aria: Oh, good. Do you remember where you were before you arrived?
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Mmm. Not yet. 'Cause I'm a rock star now. I can feel it. I can totally feel it. There's something you must know.
• Aria: How did it pass through the field?
• Professor Wilx: TransMolecular sonic phase inversion.
• Aria: No! That's not possible!
• Professor Wilx: That's something else. Deploy TOPAZ. He will see an end to this.
• Aria: TOPAZ is a relic, he's not been fully tested, you know that!
• Professor Wilx: It's all we have!
• Aria: There's no guarantee. It's not going to work.
• Professor Wilx: There's never a guarantee, Aria. Nothing's guaranteed. How do you think we ended up here? Let TOPAZ out. We're good. This is fine.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Mmm. So what's, uh, this TOPAZ thing?
• Aria: An outdated Zed 38 prototype. And extremely unfit for duty?
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Uh, and uh, what's it do?
• Aria: We shall see. All surveillance offline!
• Professor Wilx: Thermal imaging?
• Aria: Down.
• Professor Wilx: Vizrad?
• Aria: Obliterated.
• Professor Wilx: Endoplasmic reticulum?
• Aria: DOA!
• Professor Wilx: Ffrvrnrever godossenen sensors!
• Aria: Every defense we have is gone. All of it. We are sitting ducks.
• Professor Wilx: Mmm. Okay, then. Shit happens. We'll figure this out. I'm serious, we'll figure this out, it's not like it's the end of the...this world.
• Mouse Fitzgerald: Think, uh, someone's here.
• Aria: No, sh--

External Links

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