Solar Specs is sixth episode from the second season of Krypto the Superdog. It was originally aired in the United States on 1st May 2006.
Summary
Mechanikat blocks out the yellow rays of the sun with his new satellite, creating red light instead. When Krypto and Streaky become powerless, Stretch-O-Mutt has to save the day.
Plot
Stretch-O-Mutt gets up and notices the daylight is oddly red and the sun’s sudden addition of sunglasses . A moment later, he notices Krypto and Streaky running past him. He transforms his appearance into his heroic form, then he meets with Krypto and Streaky, who are still running. It turns out they are being chased by the Catbots. Stretch-o helps them in dispatching Mechanikat's minions. Krypto explains that the red light is rendering Krypto and Streaky powerless. In the middle of Metropolis, the heroes spot Snooky standing near his spaceship. They develop a plan with Stretch shapechanging into a Catbot and bringing Krypto and Streaky to Snooky, so that he would take them to Mechanicat. Snooky gets fooled by the plan easily and takes the heroes to Mechanikat, as planned.
The feline arch-villain, accompanied by Delilah, meets with Snooky and the heroes in the landing bay of his newest invention - The Solar Specs Space Station. Stretch-o remains undetected and is told to take the captives to the cells. Once in the corridor, Stretch-O-Mutt morphs into his regular shape. The heroes decide to split up and investigate, what happened. Streaky is skeptical about the idea.
Stretch-o is travelling around the corridor and elects to examine a marked room. He has apparently discovered Delilah's private bedroom. When he is done looking around, the room's occupant comes by, complaining about Snooky's latest success and Snooky winning the latter's favor. Stretch morphs into a chair before Delilah could spot him. She sits on him, not being aware od and intruder inside her bedroom, and starts to improve her makeup. She takes too much powder and sneezes. Stretch helps her against sneezing, which makes her suspicious. When Agent 9L leaps off Stretch and sets a combat pose, Stretch changes his shape into Mechanikat, then he introduces himself as such. Delilah is beguiled effectively, even despite Stretch-Mechanikat keeps calling her "Deborah". Snooky interrupts the dialouge by entering Delilah's bedroom. He is amazed that his and Delilah's leader has visited the latter in her bedroom, so he asks "Mechanikat" if he decided to tell Delilah the news personally.
Stretch-O-Mutt has no idea about those news the real Mechanikat was to tell Delilah, so he presses on Snooky while Delilah remains puzzled. After a considerable argument, Snooky finally gives in and reveals the plan to celebrate victory with a feast. Delilah cannot believe this was the top secret message. Stretch in Mechanikat's form leaves Delilah's room excusing himself he has other things to handle. Delilah notices the one, who looks like Mechanikat, has been acting strangely, but Snooky does not seem to care about this.
Back in the ship corridor, Stretch-O-Mutt transforms into his regular form and finds another room. This time the interior is dark bluish and arranged for self-sustenance. Looking around is interrupted by the real Mechanikat, who steps in complaining about the burdens of being a villain. Stretch avoids detection by shapeshifting into a jukebox while Mechanikat is having a drink from his personal fridge. The feline arch-villain of the cartoons elects to turn on "the radio" nearby. Stretchy feels tickled, so he laughs when Mechanikat is trying to set the frequency. Miraculously, he doesn't get detected, so he tries to sing twice, though not pleasantly for ears. After two attempts, Mechanikat "sets the frequency" to sports and he gets poorly imitated sport event transmission. At the same time, Delilah approaches Mechanikat and reports about the progress. Mechanikat forgets about "the jukebox he never had", so Stretch-o-Mutt can slide away, morph into Snooky, and beguile the cats. He does so quite rashly, that Delilah is scared. When she calms down, she notices that the one, who looks like Snooky, looks bulkier than normally. "Snooky" tries to lie about exercising at the gym. Delilah is suspecting something, but Mechanikat does not seem to care about Snooky's body shapes. He takes Delilah and Stretch-O-Mutt in Snooky's form into the bridge.
It turns out that Mechanikat has built a satellite intended to reverse the sun rays color into red, so it can render Krypto and Streaky helpless, therefore allowing Mechanikat the conquest of Earth. Before the device is turned on, real Snooky Wookums appears on the bridge with two Catbot guards and he asks, why are Mechanikat and Delilah starting the plan without him. The remaining cats glare at Stretch-O-Mutt in Snooky's form, who shapeshifts into his true shape. Mechanikat orders his robotic minions to seize the intruder. Stretch transforms into a ball and tricks the two Catbots into smashing the station’s control panel Thrus disabling the red tint making the sun yellow again.
Stretch gets caught by remaining Catbots, but before Mechanikat can get even, Krypto and Streaky with regained powers appear in time and complete the destruction. The feline villains attempt to flee to the escape pods on the board of Mechanikat's ship, but they get trapped inside Stretch-O-Mutt, who has shapeshifted into one of those vehicles.
Streaky and Krypto congratulate Stretch-O-Mutt, on capturing Mechanikat, and his goons, who are struggling to escape. The episode ends.
Characters
Main Characters
Major Characters
Minor Characters
Trivia
- This episode marks Delilah's final appearance.
- This is Stretch-O-Mutt's third appearance.
- This episode is written by Mark Garabedian,
- This is the second time Stretch-O-Mutt is in his normal form. The first time was in Stretch-O-Mutt to the Rescue.
- Stretch-O-Mutt, meets Mechanikat, Snooky, Delilah, and the Catbots, for the first time.
- Snooky and Delilah appear to have a rivalry going on.
- While posing as a jukebox in Mechanikat's room, Stretch-O-Mutt attempts to sing "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss.
- He also makes a reference to Abbot and Costello's "Who's on first, What's on second" routine.
- This episode marks the first time Snooky and Delilah have appeared in an episode together.
- Delilah's casual gait with Mechanikat is composed of 17 frames. She is differently animated than Mechanikat.
- When Delilah and Mechanikat discover, that Stretch-O-Mutt is impersonating Snooky, Delilah's brow moves downwards for a moment. It does not seem like an animation error.
- While leaving the Solar Specs's station bridge, Mechanikat runs for his life in the exact same way Snagglepuss did perform his iconic "Exit, stage left!" move.
- In the ending credits, Kathleen Barr isn't mentioned as Delilah's voice.
Goofs
- Delilah is seen at least once with her tongue colored white instead of pink.
- While winking at Mechanikat in the part of the episode, where Stretch-O-Mutt impersonates Snooky, Delilah partially loses her eyeshadow color two times consecutively.
- Throughout the episode, Delilah completely loses her eyeshadow color twice: first, when Mechanikat is gloating upon Krypto and Streaky being captured, then during the scene when Stretch-O-Mutt in Mechanikat's form and Snooky Wookums are bickering inside Delilah's room.
- Earth dogs are color-blind, therefore Buddy/Stretch-O-Mutt acknowledging the Sun changing colors seems awkward.
- In a couple of scenes, Snooky opens his lips unnaturally wide.
- When Stretch-o-Mutt is shapeshifting into Snooky Wookums, he is seen on closeup with an odd line crossing his hand. In addition, his eyes seem bursting in tears for no reason.
- When the Catbots are defeated by Krypto and Streaky, Snooky loses his tongue color for a moment when he asks Mechanikat for permission to retreat.
- Later on, Snooky loses a whisker, when he, Delilah, and Mechanikat are trapped inside Stretch-O-Mutt shapeshifted into an escape pod.
Quotes
- "Another beautiful day! The birds are singing, the red sun is shining, and... Hey, the birds aren't singing! AND IS THE SUN SUPPOSED TO BE RED?!" - Stretch-O-Mutt at the begining of the episode
- "Great work, bouncy!" - Streaky to Stretch-O-Mutt
- "Finally, you two superpets WILL BOW BEFORE the awesome might of Mechanikat! Hey! Didn't I send three Catbots after you?" - Snooky Wookums to Krypto and Streaky
- "Oh yeah, yeah. Come on in the ship!" - Snooky Wookums to Krypto and Streaky
- "Do you think he can do it?" - Krypto to Streaky
- "Let me put this way... We're doomed." - Streaky's reply
- "That Snooky! Now that he has captured Krypto, he'll surely be Mechanikat's favorite! All the more reason to look my best for the invasion." - Delilah inside her quarters
- "I've forgot where the bridge is, Deborah." - Stretch-O-Mutt in Mechanikat's form to Delilah
- "Delilah." - Delilah's reply
- "I AM THE GREAT MECHANIKAT AND I ORDER YOU TO TELL DEBORAH, err.. Delilah, THE SUPER-IMPORTANT NEWS!" - Stretch-O-Mutt in Mechanikat's form to Snooky Wookums
- "Yes! See? That's not hard." - Stretch-O-Mutt in Mechanikat's form to Snooky Wookums
- "Do you think that Mechanikat is acting funny?" - Delilah to Snooky Wookums
- "While we're getting sticks? Who cares!" - Snooky's reply
- "I wonder what's behind the door number two?" - Stretch-O-Mutt entering Mechanikat's room
- " All this invading made me thirsty! This isn't easy being evil." - Mechanikat entering his room
- "GAH! What station it is?!" - Mechanikat after hearing Stretch-O-Mutt singing "The Blue Danube"
- "Ehh.. Have you gained weight, Agent Snooky?" - Mechanikat to Stretch-O-Mutt
- "Ahh... I've been working out!" - Stretch O Mutt's reply
- "In a... ten minutes?" - Delilah's comment
- "We can discuss Snooky's weight problem later. For now, let us go to the bridge." - Mechanikat cutting the discussion
- "Hey! Are you starting without me?" - the real Snooky Wookums
- "You'll pay for this, YOU BOUNCING BUFFOON!" - Mechanikat to Stretch-O-Mutt
- "Permission to retreat, o fiendish furry one?" - Snooky Wookums to Mechanikat