This episode guide is not mine. It belongs to TVTome. Many thanks to John for allowing me to borrow it! BTW, scattered here and there in red font are SwordSkill's Notes, which I added myself for more info.
1. The Torque Armada
guests: Brad Garrett (Torque) Phil LaMarr (Rocket Crocket, Smeego)
Zurg gives Torque the cloning device that mostly serves to define Torque's character. Team Lightyear has
to deal with him. Episode pretty much just introduces us to Torque; pales in comparison to later
episodes.
w: Gary Sperling d: Don MacKinnon
2. Gravitina
guests: Kerri Kenney (Gravitina, Sally) Frank Welker (Ranger)
Gravitina (blue-ish skin, very large head, telekinetic control over gravity) decides to help Zurg wipe
out Star Command. 'Tina pummels Star Command with meteors; 42 investigates; Tina falls for Buzz; they
save Tina from falling into a sun.
w: Tad Stones & Kevin Hopps d: Victor Cook
3. XL
guests: Bobcat Goldthwait (XL) Jon Favreau (Crumford Lorak) Corey Burton (Brent Starkisser)
A rash of stolen technology leads Team Lightyear to discover that the proto-version of XR, XL, has been
fixed up by Zurg and sent out to soup himself up and wreak revenge upon Star Command. When Buzz attempts
to lure XL into a trap by using XR as "bait" Commander Nebula ends up kidnapped, instead.
4. Little Secrets
guests: Kath Soucie (Kids) Joel Murray (Professor Triffid)
After an inspection of planet Rhizome's bio-defenses, Team Lightyear are all given energy plants by
Professor Triffid. Booster instead picks up a red one instead of a white one (the white ones pretty much
just sit there and produce electricity via photosynthesis, the red ones convert the extra energy into
advanced growth), and the plant is slowly taking over the ship, and then Star Command itself. XR has
begun to give unauthorized tours for Buzz Lightyear fans behind everyone's backs. At the same time as
Booster & Mira attempting to quell the swarming plants, and XR trying to keep Buzz from finding out
about the tours, Buzz is attempting to locate and identify a conspirator that is somewhere on Star
Command (...actually one of Zurg's grubs in an LGM suit...)
w: Nicolas DuBois d: Victor Cook
5. Inside Job
guests: Barney Martin (Ambassador Major) Kevin Michael Richardson (Tremendor) Charles Fleischer
(Monumentus) Roz Ryan (The President) Frank Welker (Bad Gargantians)
Buzz is impressed by a new rookie, Flash Flemming, much to Booster's chagrin. When the planet
Gargantia's ambassador, Ursona Major contacts Star Command in order to join, problems ensue. It turns
out that there are rebels, who oppose the idea of Gargantia joining Star Command, and thus possibly
losing their individuality, led planet-side by Tremendor and on-site by Monumentus. The new rookie,
Flash, turns out to be actually about a half-dozen of the Gargantian Resistance rebels in a person-suit
(...the natives of Gargantia stand about 6" tall...).
6. NOS-4-A2
guests: Craig Ferguson (NOS-4-A2) Dan Castellaneta (AP-99)
Zurg lets Buzz capture NOS-4-A2's coffin; NOS takes over XR and Star Command; XR proves his mettle.
7. The Planet Destroyer
guests: John O'Hurley (King Nova) Roz Ryan (The President) Kevin Michael Richardson (Lardak Lurdak)
Zurg sends planets to other dimension, making it look like they've been destroyed; Mira's dad, King
Nova, steps in and helps out w/ this phasing powers, and teaches Mira how to stick her hand into folks'
brains and read them with a "mind-grope" kind've thing.
8. The Beasts of Karn
guests: French Stewart (voice of Rentwhistle Swack) Linda Hamilton (Dr. Furbanna) Dan Castellaneta
(Hunters #1 & #2, Lackey & Casey Kasemish DJ) Frank Welker (Bat Creature, Slime Beast, Jessica &
Stratoshrike)
Dr. Ozma Furbanna is researching critters; Rentwhistle Swack is poaching; Booster gets poached.
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz activates helmet and wings; all the other toys are bowled over by the wings
9. Tag Team
guests: Paul Rugg (Ed) Jonathan Harris (Era) Bill Mumy (Eon) Frank Welker (Epoch) Diedrich Bader (Warp
Darkmatter, Zurg Spy)
After a run-in with Warp Darkmatter, the LGMs discover that there is an odd implanted device within
Buzz. In contacting Warp, Buzz finds out that he, too, has a similar device within himself, and that
both of them were implanted long before Warp even left Star Command. It turns out that the devices were
planted by three Chlorm scientists, Era (who is studying "evil"), Eon (who is studying "good"), and
Epoch (who seems to be studying insanity...), who realized Warp's potential for evil and wanted to see
how the two test subjects would differ.
10. The Main Event
guests:
French Stewart (voice of Rentwhistle Swack) Mitchell Whitfield (Klerm) Kath Soucie (Flon) Dan
Castellaneta (Mr. Zoop, Alnip) Brad Garrett (Torque)
Bill Gates-ish kid (his business is Compu-klerm) has Zurg and Buzz fight; Rentwhistle is his
"agent/bookie/tour guide".
11. The Return of XL
guests:
Bobcat Goldthwait (XL) Ed Asner (Fixer) Jon Favreau (Crumford Lorak)
XL has found that the primary difference between he and XR is that XR has a component called an "AFD",
so he kidnaps XR and removes his AFD. In order to locate a new one, XR ditches Team Lightyear, goes to
TradeWorld and contacts Crumford Lorak, who directs him to a semi-black market dealer in robot parts
called "The Fixer". The Fixer has XR work as a delivery boy in order to work up the funds for buying a
new AFD. When XR goes to the one source for AFDs that The Fixer knows about, the source turns out to be
XL, who set up a "fake" ad for "spare AFDs" in order to lure XR in. XL hooks up XR to a Star Command
G-Force Trainer (which XL likes to call his "centrifigator"), but Team Lightyear (after trailing XR for
most of the episode) shows up in time to let XR know that the AFD is just an Air-Freshening Device
(country fresh scent).
12. Strange Invasion
guests:
Russi Taylor (Becky) Stephen Root (Sheriff) Corey Burton (General, Floyd, Tour Guide) Peter MacNicol
(Major) Tom Kane (Soldier, Tech)
Team Lightyear ends up crashing on the distant planet Roswell. Roswell is populated by the typical
Roswell-crash "greys"; the plot is much like the whole Roswell-incident, but in reverse, due to Mira and
Buzz being the humanoid "aliens", and the natives being what we would consider aliens (but w/ an odd
"Andy Griffith/Mayberry RFD" flair); Booster and XR have to save Buzz and Mira from the local military
authorities, aided by the local sheriff (who is very Andy Griffith-like), and his daughter Becky (...who
becomes fast friends with Booster, and calls him by the pet name, "Pickles"...).
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz strikes a disco pose
13. The Taking of PC-7
guests:
Brad Garrett (Torque) Clyde Kusatsu (Warden Yung) Roz Ryan (The President) Jim Cummings (Security
Computer, Tough Prisoner)
Torque is taken to Penal Colony Seven by Booster and XR; he escapes from them and wrests control of the
prison (with the aid of his many "clones"). At the same time, the President of the Galactic Alliance is
being given a tour of PC-7 and being shown its high-tech security system. The security system proves to
have some "bugs" when it determines that all non-secure persons in PC-7 MUST be escaped prisoners, thus
it attempts to capture and subdue not only Torque (and his "clones"), but also the Galactic President,
Booster, and XR. From orbit outside PC-7, Mira and Buzz attempt to help out, but the system interprets
their actions as aid for the supposed "prison break" going on inside.
14. Mindwarp
Compu-klerm Co. brainwashes Buzz into thinking that he is an office clerk. Buzz's combat skills are
downloaded into the Klerm Slambots, which Team Lightyear then have to fight to save Buzz.
15. Mira's Wedding
guests: David Warner (Lord Angstrom) John O'Hurley (King Nova) Rob Paulsen (Fop Doppler) Kevin Michael
Richardson (Lardak) Jess Harnell (Clay) Jon Kassir (Marl)
Tangean noble Lord Angstrom tries to get Mira to wed Fop Doppler, a fairly minor member of the Tangean
noble clique (and fairly snooty) so as to provide a distraction as a band of Tangean "Grounders" attack
and allow for Lord Angstrom to overthrow Mira's father. The Grounders are a humanoid race that shares
the planet Tangea with the race that Mira is native to. While the blue-skinned, svelte, and fairly
bourgeois Tangeans ("Tangean Blue-bloods") have the psychic ability to phase through solid objects
(...aka..."ghosting"...), the taupe-skinned, stocky, and fairly proletarian Tangeans ("Tangean
Grounders") have the psychic ability to project focused force-blasts (...aka..."boom-boom"...). For some
reason, the native psychic abilities of both Tangean races are nullified if either race is in close
proximity to the other. Lord Angstrom's plot is foiled by Team Lightyear, and the arranged marriage of
Mira and Fop is called off.
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Zurg is awaiting Buzz's arrival and shoots a Nerf gun
16. Panic on Bathyos
The crystals for Crystallic Fusion Generators (the primary power source for almost all Galactic Alliance
technology) are mined on the landless ocean planet Bathyos; an anti-air breather movement, hoping to
cause an embargo that will force the Galactic Alliance to bow to the will of the Bathyosians, is lead by
Gularis [Harvey Korman], a shark-esque big-wig native of Bathyos. The movement is taking terrorist
actions, causing "accidents" to happen in the crystal mines, but Team Lightyear is called in as a safety
measure, and they uncover Gularis' plans.
17. Shiv Katall
guests:
Dan Castellaneta (Brain Pod #13) Jon Favreau (Crumford Lorak)
One of Zurg's Brain Pods (Number 13) goes AWOL, so Zurg hires the Boba Fett-esque bounty hunter Shiv
Katall to track him down; Buzz turns out to've been Shiv all this time, in order to make defectors from
Planet Z seem to be dead, when they're really in a witness relocation program; Buzz gets found out, so
Commander Nebula has to do the Shiv-thing (...which he USED to do, before Buzz came along...), in order
to make Zurg regain trust in the existence of Shiv Katall.
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz strikes a disco pose
18. Stress Test
guests:
Tony Jay (Dr. Animus) David Alan Grier (Tubunch) April Winchell (Pwerta)
Buzz captures "Pen-like Activation Device" for Zurg's HYPER-DEATH RAY in a fairly accidental manner
(Buzz thinks that it MUST be important and just LOOKS like a pen...everyone else thinks that it MUST be
just a pen and that Buzz LOOKS to be going a little loopy...)
;Buzz is sent to Rhizome to work out overworking-stress w/ Prof. Triffid. Zurg goes to Rhizome to get a
clear shot at Star Command with his HYPER-DEATH RAY
, unaware that Buzz is there. Buzz channels his emotions and uses the Rhizome plant-tech to stop Zurg.
19. A Zoo Out There
guests:
Jonathan Harris (Era) Bill Mumy (Eon) Frank Welker (Epoch, Senator Phlegmex, Alien Guard) Jim Cummings
(Senator Aarrfvox, Alien Dad) Mary Kay Bergman (Alien Mom, Alien Kid)
Chlorms (Epoch, Era, & Eon) kidnap Galactic Alliance senators for zoo exhibits. Team Lightyear gets
nabbed, but Buzz attempts to rescue them. They all end up shipped to product testing due to a lack of
co-operation. They escape and return to Star Command.
20. Root of Evil
guests:
Conchata Ferrell (Ma) Fred Willard (Pa) Tom Wilson (Buster) Grey Deslisle (Mom) Frank Welker (Dad)
Zurg mutates Jo-Ad vegetables w/ Transdibulator. Team Lightyear goes to Jo-Ad to investigate the
problem. Booster's childhood pal, Buster, was lured into helping Zurg w/ the promise of glory and power
(he had been jealous of Booster getting to join Star Command while he was stuck back home on the farm).
21. Super Nova
guests:
John O'Hurley (King Nova) Corey Burton (Brent Starkisser)
Mira ghosts into a Crystallic Fusion Generator Core and becomes a glowing, supercharged,
power-speed-junkie. Mira's father warns Mira about how her race can fall prey to such temptation, but
Mira has to find out on her own. Eventually, after she attempts to battle Zurg on her own, she realizes
that her need for "re-charging" is getting worse and worse and is beginning to take control of her life,
but she manages to overcome her "energy addiction".
22. Downloaded
XR downloads Star Command Mainframe to prevent the system from crashing (due to Warp Darkmatter using
info-stealing techno-ticks); Zurg heists XR in order to gain Star Command classified information; XR
uses techno-ticks to help HIM out.
23. The Plasma Monster
guests:
Nikki Cox (Petra) Michael Showalter (Plasma Boy) Corey Burton (Hammerhold)
Petra, a senator's daughter, is shipped off to Space Ranger Academy to keep her from Plasma Boy; Booster
falls for her; both Petra and Plasma Boy end up in Space Academy.
24. The Crawling Flesh
Zurg hits Mira & Buzz with gas that melts & melds them into a shoggoth-like creature, then sends them on
their way back to Star Command; Mira/Buzz accidentally infect all of Star Command upon their
return.
INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Zurg is awaiting Buzz's arrival and shoots a Nerf gun
25. Dirty Work
guests:
Joel Murray (Professor Triffid) Paul Rugg (Cosmo and Ed the Courier) Craig Ferguson (NOS-4-A2) Roz Ryan
(President) Kerri Kenney (Sally) Corey Burton (Brent Starkisser)
Cosmo gets K-3000 Uni-appliance for Cosmo's Diner (the diner that Team Lightyear seems to spend too much
time at); the K-3000 Uni-appliance is an experimental device that absorbs one's kitchen appliances into
itself, and is able to use them all due to its powerful, experimental energy source and its "liquid
steel" structure (...possibly constructed of nanobots?...very much like a robotic shoggoth, from
H.P.Lovecraft's stories...). NOS-4-A2 senses the power within the K-3000 when the courier delivering it
passes close to the abandoned ship that he was residing in, trails after it, and takes control of the
K-3000, all of Cosmo's restaurant equipment, and then all of Cosmo's Diner. Team Lightyear is in the
process of returning Professor Triffid to his home planet, Rhizome, after a failed attempt on his part
to convince Star Command to incorporate "organic vegetative technology" into their systems, when they
receive the distress call from Cosmo. When their usual methods fail to defeat NOS-4-A2 (since, with the
K-3000, he is able to not only take control of their weapons and Space Ranger Power Armor, but to also
have it work against THEM...), Team Lightyear must work w/ Prof. Triffid and use his plant-tech to
defeat NOS-4-A2.
w: Ken Koonce, Michael Merton & Bob Forward d: Victor Cook
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT... Buzz activates helmet and wings; all the other toys are bowled over by the
wings
*BOB FORWARD...For those of you who don't watch Beast Wars (...the Canadian-made CGI Transformers
series...), Mr. Forward was one of the two primary creators and writers for the show (along with Larry
DiTillo). If you see a cartoon w/ Mr. Forward as the writer, it's REALLY worth checking it out...
26. The Slayer
guests:
Cree Summer (voice of Savy SL2) Craig Ferguson (NOS-4-A2) Paul Rugg (Guard) Joe Alaskey (Soda Vendbot,
Newspaper Vendbot) Tress Macneille (Old Lady Alien, Mrs. SL2, Robot Washing Machine)
After investigating a rash of robo-homocides, Team Lightyear discover that NOS-4-A2's loose on
TradeWorld with a self-appointed "slayer" on his floating tail -- Savy SL-2, a human orphan that was
adopted by a robot couple. NOS-4-A2 had "vamped" her adoptive parents, so she decided to step in as a
vigilante vampire-robot-slayer (...a la Buffy...). With her assistance, they hunt down NOS-4-A2, fight
his horde of enslaved robots, and defeat him, freeing those robots that were in the grip of his dark
forces (...including XR who, as usual, was an easy mark for NOS-4-A2...).
*I've been all through this episode twice and still can't find Paul "Freakazoid!" Rugg's appearance as
"Guard" -- am I missing something, or was he cut? And what's with the Soda Vendbot: Beat it, ya
freeloaders! NOS-4-A2: Right you are... exchange? I know the vendbot's line is a repeat; is this a
mistake or a cover up?
27. The Lightyear Factor
guests:
Jeff Glen Bennett (Brain Pod #18, Brain Pod #81, Dreadnaught Computer) Frank Welker (Brain Pod #17)
Testing a new weapon of mass destruction, Zurg opens a gate to parallel universe where Buzz is evil and
managed to take over the universe (...and just might be more evil than Zurg himself...). He drafts the
evil Buzz into helping him fight our good Buzz and repeat the takeover that happened in the parallel
universe.
w: Julia Lewald d: Steve Loter
*NOTE: INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz overshoots and splats into TV screen
28. Clone Rangers
guests:
Patrick Warburton (Zzub) Stephen Furst (Blister) Nicole Sullivan (Feara) Neil Flynn (X-Treme) Tress
Macneille (Brain Pod #94, Kids) Frank Welker (Brain Pod #39)
After pilfering samples of Team Lightyear's DNA with mosquito-esque micro-hornets, Zurg clones Team
Lightyear; in his rush, he removes them from the maturation tanks before they have a chance to grow up
into adults (...as an example of his hurried-ness, he initially planed to instill them with an "Evil
Level" up in the thousands, but upon realizing that he himself has an "Evil Level" of a little over a
dozen, he only gives them a level a little under his own...), so Team Lightyear has to deal with evil
little kid versions of themselves named Zzub, Feara, and Blister (...after a lot of whining about not
having a robot of their own, they get an evil version of XR called "X-Treme"...). When the eventually
realize that due to being clones, the Evil Li'l Team Lightyear has the same character flaws as
themselves, Team Lightyear manages to use their "flaws" as advantages and win the fight. As a joke
tag-line, Zurg attempts the cloning process again at the end of the episode, but this time leaves them
in too long resulting in geriatric versions of Team Lightyear.
w: Greg Weisman
29. Bunzel Fever
guests:
Brad Garrett (Torque) Bobcat Goldthwait (XL) Fred Willard (Pa) Conchata Ferrell (Ma) Jess Harnell
(Bartender Heads, Gramps Munchapper, Bomb Vendor)
Team Lightyear receives a call from Jo-Ad while in the early phase of an investigative mission
(involving a series of thefts); Booster's family is letting Booster know that the bunzel harvest (the
primary crop on Jo-Ad, which resembles eggplant) is due. When Booster claims that his duty to the Space
Rangers supersedes his farming history, his Grandfather reminds him of the legendary "Bunzel Fever",
that strikes down any native of Jo-Ad that isn't involved in the bunzel harvest. Booster dismisses the
legend and eschews the harvest. When it turns out that the legend isn't a myth, Booster goes through a
"pon-far"-type thing, that is marked by him "hulking out" into a large, bellicose form that is
determined to harvest bunzels, or anything bunzel-esque (...and since this transformation is also marked
by him having spells of mistaking anything roughly ovoid for a bunzel, this gets fairly hazardous for
anyone who is rotund and/or in a space ranger suit, XR, and Team Lightyear's ship, #42...). This
initially causes problems for Team Lightyear's mission, but Booster's hulked form serendipitously
manages to help them defeat Torque and XL (...who are behind the crime spree...). When Booster is
brought to Jo-Ad, he begins maniacally harvesting bunzels, thus assuring that he'll be back to normal in
no time.
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz activates helmet and wings; all the other toys are bowled over by the wings
30. Devolutionaries
guests:
Diedrich Bader (Warp Darkmatter) Frank Welker (Binipinardians) Jim Cummings (Binipinardian #1,
Announcer) Jeff Glen Bennett (Binipinardian #2 & #3)
Warp Darkmatter goes to the distant planet of Binpinardia to nab a naturally occurring de-evolving gas,
guarded for eons by the local Binpinardians (...who happened to take a coffee-break at exactly the wrong
time...). When Team Lightyear arrive on Binpinardia, they find the locals to be missing, and the only
critters that seem to be around are some semi-sentient lemur-like things. XR is marketing his comic
book, breakfast cereal, and adventure series at the time, so when the rest of Team Lightyear go off to
look for the missing Binpinardians, he stays behind to look after the ship and to test out some product
marketing research on the lemur-like things. Shortly after discovering that Warp Darkmatter has set up a
pumping station, to ship the gas to Zurg, the rest of Team Lightyear gets hit by the de-evolving gas;
Mira becomes ameboid, Buzz becomes neandertalic, and Booster becomes ankylosaurus-ish. When he finds out
what has happened to his comrades (...and that the native Binpinardians have been de-evolved into the
lemur-like critters that he has been working with...), XR has to save the day w/ little to no advanced
help from the rest of the team.
31. Head Case
guests:
Bobcat Goldthwait (XL) Tony Jay (Dr. Animus) Paul Rugg (Ed the Courier) Phil LaMarr (Rocket Crocket)
Answering a distress call, Team Lightyear discovers a ship under attack by Vulturans (a vaguely
bird-like race, that XR recognizes as a race that tends to have a thing against robots). Team Lightyear
fights them off...but in the battle, XR flies into a mad rage (gets a little "blowie-uppy") and ends up
being seriously disassembled. When the LGMs fix him up, they discover signs of metal fatigue. Their
report is sent to Commander Nebula, who accidentally spills coffee on the report, smudging the lettering
and making it look like "mental fatigue". XR is sent off to the resort world of Mahamba 6 for a weekend
pass, before having to take a psychiatric evaluation from Star Command's resident psychiatrist, Dr.
Animus (...who resembles a native of Binpinardia...). While on Mahamba 6, XR is picked up by a taxi
driver who turns out to be XL (...he sent XR a fake "you have just won a free vacation!!"-flier to XR to
lure him in...). XL kidnaps XR and steals his body. XL returns to Star Command, posing as XR, awaiting
the arrival of an insanely large bomb that he sent in the mail before abandoning XR's head. XL locks
down the exit routes in and out of Star Command, plants the bomb in Star Command's Fusion Core, and then
attempts to make his getaway before the bomb goes off (...but he already locked down all the exit
routes, remember?...). While trying to escape, XL is picked up by Buzz and taken for his
evaluation...which he fails dismally. Meanwhile, XR has managed to wrangle his way onto XL's body. Upon
his return to Star Command, XR is mistaken for XL and locked up. When the countdown for the bomb is
nigh, both XR and XL are struggling to disarm the bomb, while trying to convince the rest of Team
Lightyear that THEY are the "real XR". When XL asks to be put on the "stronger body", and XR asks to be
put on the body of a robot ranger, Buzz realizes just one is the real XR. XR defuses the bomb and saves
the day.
w: Jess Winfield d: Don MacKinnon
32. The Yukari Imprint
Zurg's latest creation, Project X, a Lurker-like blanket thing that wraps over one and takes control of
one, is sent to destroy Buzz Lightyear, etc... The shape stealer first takes over Buzz's next door
neighbor, Mr. Hayman, and tries to kill Buzz with hedge clippers, then when Buzz has to fly off to
TradeWorld to deal with Lardak Lurak [Kevin Michael Richardson] (a petty criminal), it takes over Ed the
Courier and flies off to catch up with him. Once on TradeWorld, the shape stealer takes over a Vulturan,
then some piggy-looking bystander, and then a bus driver, all of whom attempt to stab, shoot, or run
over Buzz. When the bus crashes, the shape stealer is nowhere to be seen. When Team Lightyear return to
Star Command, the shape stealer proves to've been just biding its time. It takes over a LGM (who tries
to shoot Buzz), then Booster (who tries to beat up Buzz), and then it just takes over Buzz himself...but
without showing any signs of having done so. When Nebula locks Buzz into Star Command's Combat Control
Center (for his protection), the shape stealer has Buzz detach the Control Center from Star Command and
set Star Command to auto-destruct. Mira flies out to the Center, ghosts into it, dukes it out with the
shape stolen Buzz, and manages to detach it and send it off into space.
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz lands on Bullseye's back
33. The Shape Stealer
Crumford Lorak hides in Senator Banda's fishtank (ambassador from Bathyos) in order to gain and sell
Galactic Alliance secrets to the Raenoks at the Luna 9 Station. Booster is talked into purchasing a
Yukari-egg; Yukaris, it turns out, are small creatures which take on the form of their "mother"
(whomever is around the egg in the latter stages of development), but are quite ravenous and reproduce
at an astounding rate (...imagine a cross between "Gremlins" and tribbles...). Booster's "fuzzy buddies"
(...the name that the salesman was marketing them under, since his "demo model" was one that had taken
on a fairly cute form...) ravage 42 and eventually all of Luna 9 Station, when Team Lightyear arrives
there in order to help serve as protection for the ambassadorial delegates that are meeting there.
Booster's (and thus the Yukari's that were imprinted from him) love for chocolate saves the day, by
helping to round up the Yukaris and by using them to then subdue the Raenoks (by dousing the Raenoks
with chocolate sauce, right after their espionage plans are revealed).
w: Bill Motz , Bob Roth & Greg Johnson d: Don MacKinnon
34. Star Crossed
guests: Jeremy Pivens (Brain Pod #57), David James Elliot (Romac)
When Brain Pod #57 defects to Star Command, Zurg hires Romac, a Tangean Grounder bounty hunter -- and
Mira's ex-boyfriend -- to bring him in.
w: Greg Weisman
35. Haunted Moon
guests: Ron Perlman and Bronson Pinchot (Crew), Charles Napier (Wild Bill Coolie)
Crew on asteroid attempting to deflect comet. Ghost on asteroid seems to be interfering with mission,
uttering "Enola Eno-No!!" (...with silent "e"s...). Asteroid crew runs off with 42, leaving Team
Lightyear to solve the problem. 50 years ago, Wild Bill Coolie had attempted same mission, but ended up
frozen in comet's tail. He was trying to tell them that it was a two-man mission to shunt the comet, but
it was coming out in reverse (...IE: "No-one Alone!!"...). Buzz thaws out Coolie and the two of them
shunt the comet.
36. Stranger Invasion
Zurg tries to take over the planet Roswell, in order to set up a partner planet to Planet Z. Becky
contacts Booster, and Team Lightyear shows up to defeat Zurg and save the day. The climactic battle
between Zurg and Buzz takes place in the reactor chamber that is powering his self-constructing
re-formation of Roswell; when they begin fencing with glowing reactor rods, and when Zurg attempts to
throw Buzz off guard by claiming to be his father, the Star Wars references fly fast and furious. The
self-constructing machine is thrown into reverse, Roswell is saved, and Zurg is defeated.
37. Eye of the Tempest
guests: Ryan Stiles (Professor Spyro Lepton/Von Madman) Tara Charendoff (Bonnie Lepton)
Answering a distress call from a planetoid within ion storm, Buzz encounters Spiro Von Madman, and his
daughter, Bonnie. Spiro Von Madman, previously known as Spiro Lupton when he worked with Star Command,
was a scientist who had come up with the notion of equipping Space Rangers with a semi-organic
energy-absorbing crystalline form, thus resulting in what he called a "cryborg" (...very much like the
concept behind Star Trek's Borg, but with a crystalline basis), eliminating the need for the Pulsar 400
Envirosuit & Battle Armor that is standard issue for the Space Rangers. Spurned by Star Command, Spiro
had gone off into seclusion to further his research. When Spiro had worked for Star Command, he and his
daughter were acquaintances with Buzz, and it would seem that Bonnie has been carrying a torch for Buzz
all these years. She helps him to escape her father's Cold Slab of Revenge, and to bring her father in.
While in jail, Spiro sees Bonnie & Buzz walking together, which drives him into a mad rage. Sapping
energy from the cell's television, he charges up his cryborged body and breaks out of jail. He becomes
supercharged via the main energy plant on Capital Planet, and grows to enormous size (...one of the
benefits of the cryborg process is that one can absorb most all energy sources in order to use the
energy to soup up one's own power/growth/firepower...). When Bonnie realizes that her father has grown
mad with power, she aids Team Lightyear in quelling his cryborg-powers, and he realizes the error of his
ways.
w: Robert Askin d: Victor Cook
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Wheezy, riding RC, knocks Buzz off-screen.
38. Revenge of the Monsters
guests: Craig Ferguson (NOS-4-A2) Bobcat Goldthwait (XL) Steve Hytner (Ty Parsec/Wirewolf) Frank Welker
(Senator)
After being bitten by NOS-4-A2 on the mysterious planet of Canis Lupus, Ranger Ty Parsec is transformed
into a Wirewolf (...imagine a form of lycanthropy blended with either Star Trek's Borg techno-virus, or
with Transformers' Key to Vector Sigma...) [this whole bit is shown in summary, as if it were reminding
us of an earlier episode...except there IS no earlier episode about this as far as I can tell] *SwordSkill's Note: For the story of this flashback thinggy, see episode 52.* Even
though the transformation only takes place when on or near Canis Lupus, Commander Nebula decides to boot
Parsec from the Space Rangers for his own, and everyone else's, good. While this meeting is wrapping up,
NOS-4-A2 and XL show up. They have a chunk of Canis Lupus, that causes Parsec to re-transform into a
Wirewolf, and they kidnap the en-cursed Parsec. [...the "Monster"-bit in the title refers to how Parsec
is pretty much a robotic werewolf, XL is pretty much a robotic Frankenstein's monster, and NOS-4-A2 is a
robotic vampire...] With Parsec, they oust Zurg from Planet Z and take over (...transforming many of the
Hornets into NOS-4-A2's dark minions, and turning all of Zurg's "Z" monograms over 90 degrees, thus
making them all "N"s...standing for NOS-4-A2...). They design a cannon that can shoot the Wirewolf curse
over galactic distances, and en-curse all of Capital Planet and Star Command. Team Lightyear convinces
XL that NOS-4-A2 will consider him expendable before too long, and manage to get him to help them out.
With XL's help, the cannon's powers are reversed, Parsec is returned to normal, and NOS-4-A2 is impaled
on a spire, resulting in his explosive destruction. XL returns to work for Star Command, and is
re-fitted as a photocopier.
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz lands on Bullseye's back
39. Lone Wolf
guests: Park Overall (Zoey), Ricardo Montalban (Vartkes), Mills Lane (the Judge)
At a trial, Team Lightyear seems unable to present the evidence to make charges stick. Buzz relates a
story about him losing hope in the system 20 years ago. He had quit Star Command after one of his first
missions (...so, if one graduates Star Command when one is a little under 20 years old, then that'd make
Buzz a bit under 40 yrs old...) and his "bike" [very Lobo-esque looking] broke down on a distant
arcadium gas-farming planet. He helped a widow, Zoey, and her son stand up against the local gas-baron,
Vartkes. After the tale, he presents the disrupter rifle evidence to the judge and they win the case.
40. Planet of the Lost
guests: Mark Hamill *SwordSkill's Note - Mark Hamill is Luke Skywalker from Star
Wars. (waves little Star Wars flag) Yeah, Luke! (Flint) Sam Gifaldi (Dyb) Kevin Michael
Richardson (Villager #1, Villager #4) Kath Soucie (Villager #2, Villager #6) Roger Rose (Villager #3)
Kelly McGillis (Gorgeous Woman)
Ship 42 scopes out area where ships have vanished. Upon scanning the planet, they detect large amounts
of technology on the planet, but upon landing it seems quite barren. Flying manta-like shriekers attack
Team Lightyear's technology, leaving them stranded and defenseless. Roaming the countryside, they
encounter a man named Flint [Mark Hamill] who runs a town of castaways from spaceship-wrecks. Upon
investigation, Flint turns out to be a renegade work robot (gamma series construction robot), who built
the robotic shriekers in order to strand organics on the planet, so that he could order THEM around as
revenge for his time spent in forced labor (...as a stock-boy...). Team Lightyear shut down the
subterranean shrieker construction plant that Flint had built, and defeat Flint, freeing the hapless
castaways.
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz activates helmet and wings; all the other toys are bowled over by the wings
41. Revenge of the Raenoks
guests: Phil LaMarr (Smeego, Rocket Crocket, Prisoner) Kevin Michael Richardson (Varg, Diplomat #1,
Ruffian) Fred Willard (Pa) Conchata Ferrell (Ma) Russi Taylor (Becky, Old Lady) Stephen Root (Sheriff,
Sentry #2) Clancy Brown (Kleev, Sentry #2) Corey Burton (Brent Starisser)
When Booster is kidnapped by the Raenoks, in order to conduct a prisoner trade for Varg (XR is sent to
guard Varg, who quickly escapes and takes XR to Raenok), Buzz & Mira fly off to save him w/ a newly
developed cloaking device that can render 42 and/or its crew invisible. While attempting to sneak into
the Raenok prison, Mira and Buzz spot Booster's folks, who heard about their son's capture and decided
to attempt to save him. This allows the invisible Mira & Buzz to get through the first line of defense,
while the capture of the Munchauser's provides a distraction. When they're attempting to figure out how
to get through the second line of defense, Becky and her father, the Sheriff from Roswell, arrive
(having also heard the news of Booster's capture). The capture of the Roswelleans provides yet another
distraction. Finally, the LGMs also decide to help, which almost allows for Mira & Buzz to free Booster
(...and XR, and Booster's parents, and the Roswelleans...), but they end up being discovered. Buzz ends
up in club-duel with Varg in order to have he and the other captured folks go free. Only trouble is, the
clubs are almost as large as Buzz is, so he is at a marked disadvantage, but he manages to win (in a
fairly underhanded way...) by landing the cloaked 42 on Varg (...since it's invisible, it looks like
Buzz managed to defeat Varg long enough for the outcome to be ruled in his favor...).
w: Adam Armus & Kay Foster d: Steve Loter
42. The Starthought
guests: Diedrich Bader (Warp Darkmatter) John O'Hurley (King Nova)
While Team Lightyear is conducting mock-combat training with Team Rocket (...headed by Crocket
Rocket...), Crocket goads Mira into getting herself tagged. King Nova presents Mira with an invention of
his, the Starthought; a small spacecraft guided by one's thoughts. Mira has doubts about it until she
realizes that it'd really bother Crocket to see her zipping around in such a spiffy ship. While testing
the Starthought, Mira runs into some tourists, who are actually Warp Darkmatter, along with one of
Zurg's Brain Pods & a Grub, on a reconnaissance mission to scope out any new Star Command developments.
Zurg sets up a fake raid on a Gulgarian mining outpost, in order to lure Mira, and the Starthought, into
his clutches. After successfully losing the Starthought to Zurg (...success for Zurg, dismal failure for
Mira...), Mira goes to Cosmo's Diner to sulk, but Team Lightyear & King Nova show up and convince Mira
to go out and re-nab the Starthought back from Zurg. They sneak into Zurg's palace, and find that Zurg
has decided that HE'S the only one with the mental capacities to fly the ship (...and he's not too bad
at it, either...). After an extended chase scene, Mira ghosts into the ship along with Zurg and starts
to clutter up his mind with suggestions of stomach-churning maneuvers. She ghosts the two of them out of
the Starthought, and allows the ship to crash, thus preventing it from ever falling into the wrong hands
(...although, why King Nova doesn't just build a NEW one that's only attuned to Mira's thoughts is
beyond me...).
w: Lisa Klink d: Don MacKinnon
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz overshoots and splats into TV screen
43. Millennial Bugs
guests: Linda Hamilton (Dr. Furbana) Phil LaMarr (Rocket Crocket, Patron) Frank Welker (Pteradoc,
Tarpax) Rob Paulsen (Docent, Waiter)
Zurg nabs an exhibit of an extinct species of large, Alien (as per the movies)-esque insects, planning
to resurrect the species in order to help him in (...what else...) take over the galaxy. Dr. Ozma
Furbanna is roped into helping Zurg revive Alien-style bugs, by having her scientific morals preyed
upon. Zurg sics the bugs on Capital Planet. Before things can get too out of hand, Team Lightyear
discovers that the bugs can be stopped by belly-tickling (...it over-rides their nervous system...), and
with that they manage to save the day.
: Nicolas DuBois d: Victor Cook
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Zurg is awaiting Buzz's arrival and shoots a Nerf gun
44. Conspiracy
guests: Roz Ryan (The President) Charles Fleischer (Monumentus, Thug #1) Kevin Michael Richardson
(Tremendor, Thug #3, Behemor) Jon Favreau (Crumford Lorak) Corey Burton (Brent Starkisser, Judge) Frank
Welker (Ranger, Tentacled Alien)
Gargantian Militants suit themselves up in a Buzz suit (a la Pinky & the Brain) to make it look like he
attempted to kill the Galactic Alliance President. When Buzz has a sanity exam, they also pose in a
psychiatrist suit, at his hearing they pose as the judge, in the prison-ship to PC-7 they pose as a
trouble-making prisoner that allows Buzz to escape to TradeWorld, on TradeWorld they pose as Crumford
Lorak to sell out Buzz's location to those that have grudges against Buzz (...in order to ruin his name
and have him killed...). [...plot-wise, a more complex version of "Inside Job"...]
45. At Large on a Small Planet
guests: Kevin Michael Richardson (Tremendor, Punk #1) Charles Fleischer (Monumentus) Barney Martin
(Ambassador Major) Rob Paulsen (Titanux, Punk #2)
Ambassador Major (from Gargantia) attempts to open Pizza Planet franchise on Gargantia, but the
Militants oppose it (as usual). Buzz and Booster have to reduce themselves to their size to help out,
but the Militants get their hands on the size-changing device and make themselves "regular" size.
w: Adam Armus & Kay Foster d: Nicholas Filippi
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz lands on Bullseye's back and suffers a... "personal" injury.
46. Sunquake
guests: Kerri Kenny (Gravitina) Patrick Warburton (Buzz Lightyear (...the evil one...)) Roger Rose
(Trucker, Tech #1) Arizona Brooks (Ranger #1, Computer) Max Brooks (Tech #2, Ranger #2).
Shiv Katall is stealing numerous high-tech devices; this seriously confuses Team Lightyear, since Buzz
and Commander Nebula were the only ones to take on the guise of Shiv. Shiv turns out to be actually Buzz
Lightyear; the EVIL Buzz Lightyear (...it only makes sense that he would've come up with the whole Shiv
idea in HIS universe as well...). When Buzz (...the evil one...) flies too close to Capital Planet's sun
for 42's scanners to detect his location, Mira and Buzz (...the good one...) fly down in Star Skimmers
to try to find him. They discover that Buzz (...the evil one...) is working with Gravitina, setting up
another device that can boost her psycho-gravimetric powers to such a degree that she can cause
"sun-quakes" that can launch solar plasma-balls towards Capital Planet, Star Command Headquarters, and
just about any planet whose solar system is nearby (...Tangea is mentioned as a possible target...). The
first volley of plasma-balls are prevented from wiping out Star Command by numerous rangers working with
laser-drills. When Mira & Buzz (...the good one...) are kicked off of Gravitina's & Buzz's (...the evil
one's...) low sun-orbit base (which resembles the cloud city from the movie, The Empire Strikes
Back...), Mira manages to ghost into Buzz (...the good one...) and they sneak back on board. They set
the base to automatic self-destruct, and offer to help Gravitina and Buzz (...the evil one...) off, if
they turn themselves in. They manage to get Gravitina off of the base, but Buzz (...the evil one...) is
left behind. At the episode's end, we see (unbeknownst to Team Lightyear) Buzz (...the evil one...)
riding off on an errant rocket engine.
w: Eddie Guzelian d: Don MacKinnon
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Wheezy, riding RC, knocks Buzz off-screen.
48. First Missions
guests: Robert Picardo (Professor Reddschift) John O'Hurley (King Nova) Kevin Michael Richardson
(Advisor #1, Senator, Announcer)
Professor Reddschift, Mira, Booster, and XR are pinned down by Zurg's hornets, who are attempting to
kidnap Prof. Reddschift. The Prof. is worried that Buzz won't be able to arrive in time to save him from
capture. To try to buck up his spirits, Mira relates her first encounter with Buzz, back before she
enlisted in Space Ranger Academy. King Nova had been nabbed by Zurg and his Hyper-Hornet in the midst of
a conference attempting to convince Tangea to join the Galactic Alliance, but Mira & Buzz managed to
defeat Zurg, save King Nova, and convince Tangea to join the Alliance (and Mira to join the Space
Rangers). This proves to be less than impressive to Reddschift. Booster then relates HIS first run in
with Buzz. Zurg had attempted to take over Jo-Ad with his Mega-Hornet, thus cutting off food supplies to
most of the Galactic Alliance. But with Buzz's timely arrival, and with Booster's strength, they managed
to stave off Zurg. Again, Reddschift isn't impressed. XR then tells HIS story. A few hours after being
on-line, he was in the Star Command commissary, attempting to buy some lime sherbet. Shortly after
discovering that they were out of lime sherbet, Buzz stepped forward and gave XR the lime sherbet that
he had bought for himself (...NOTE: This is the only conflict I have found between the series and the
movie. Buzz's first meeting with XR was when XR was first turned on. But this might be able to be
written down to XR's faulty memory. If one watches the movie, one will know why XR acts so "odd"...).
This act of generosity and sacrifice manages to finally convince Reddschift of Buzz's capability, but
Zurg then appears in his Grande-Hornet (...this time, a very large power armor unit, not unlike
something from Robotech or Macross...). Almost on cue, Buzz arrives in Star Command's latest LGM
creation, the Vente Ranger (...also a very large power armor unit, resembling a cross between Star
Command and the Iron Giant...). The two then battle it out, and Buzz prevails.
w: Bill Motz & Bob Roth d: Vincent Cook
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Zurg is awaiting Buzz's arrival and shoots a Nerf gun
*Again, (much like in "Stress Test") very good animation quality. Pay close attention to the "first
act", before Mira relates her tale...Kudos to the animators!! (in fact, the animation was SO good, that
this is one of the few episodes that I actually "taped to keep")
*Personally, I consider this episodes' animation some of the worst of the series; it's stiff, awkward,
and unexpressive. But, to each his own...
49. War and Peace and War
While Buzz is testing out the LGMs latest invention (...some sort of space-scooter...), the LGMs are
struck by a need to "heed the heed". As if hypnotized, they all commandeer a ship and fly off. While
Zurg is attempting to dispatch hornets to defeat Buzz and capture the space-scooter thing, the same
thing happens to the Grubs. The Grubs and the LGMs arrive on a distant planet (...Buzz and Zurg catch up
in a few minutes...), where a giant, intangible, glowing head named Guzelian the Alien [Eric Idle] (...a
member of the Heed, an advanced race that has transcended physical form...) tells them that they must
work to bring peace throughout the galaxy. The Grubs return to Planet Z, the LGMs return to Star
Command, and both of them then proceed to dis-assemble any weapons or armaments that they have, in order
to issue in this new age of peace. After a charming little ditty written and performed by Mr. Idle,
entitled "Let's Make Peace!", Buzz grows wary of Guzelian's intentions. He tracks down the transmissions
coming from the deserted planet that the LGMs & Grubs were summoned to, which leads him to the ACTUAL
Guzelian. It would seem that the Heed are just a regular race (...albeit a tad short...) from a distant
galaxy who are planning to take over THIS one. By having both Star Command and Zurg's forces disarmed,
there would be nothing to stand in the way of their conquest. Buzz teams up with Zurg (...who had the
same idea to track down the Heed...) to defeat the aliens. They then race back to their respective
sides; Zurg hoping to get his Hyper-Death Ray back on-line to shoot down Star Command, and Buzz hoping
to get the Ultra-Spire back on-line to absorb the potential blast from the Hyper-Death Ray. Since there
is a Season Two, Buzz obviously manages to get the Spire working in time.
w: Gary Sperling d: Victor Cook
*INTRODUCTORY ODD BIT Buzz strikes a disco pose