|Home Episode Summaries Season 1 The Germ
"This is the best date I’ve had in weeks!"
- Shipwreck (jumping into the river after Cover Girl promises to go on a date with him)
But the doctor tells the Joes that the germ is not dying but is going
through the stage of mitoesis, a process of cell division. And as Flint
watches the two germs head in opposite directions, Scarlett notices that
one of the germs is headed toward New York City.
Under a tree, Airtight tells the Joes that it looks like he failed,
and Ace, who has a bandage around his tree, tells him, “Join the club.”
Shipwreck explains that he believes that they could still poison the germ,
however, Ace reminds Shipwreck that the insecticide didn’t work.
Shipwreck: “What we need is a candy-coating.”
Ace: “What you need is a transfer.”
But Airtight chimes in that Shipwreck might have a feasable idea. The
doctor explains that apple seeds contain a very small amount of poison
and adds that if the Joes can give the two germs enough poison, they might
be able to stop the them.
Flying above the germ, Ace, Dusty and the other Joes take advantage
of the germ’s mindlessness by firing missiles at the ground and causing
the germ to move toward an apple orchard, but not enough apples are consumed.
Therefore, the Joes destroy a cliff near another orchard and cause the
germ to slide down and consume its final dose. The germ explodes and the
residue splatters the Skystrikers.
Flint congratulates the Joes via a radio while he and Cover Girl watch
several generic Joes load crates of apples onto Aramdillos, Sluggers, AWE
Strikers and trucks. While traveling to the point of interception, the
convoy is forced to halt due to a river that doesn’t have a bridge. Shipwreck
learns from the driver that there is a blockade in the road so he kills time by
making a pass at Cover Girl, who folds her arms, turns away from Shiprwreck and mutters, “Oh,
brother.” Shipwreck then sits down next to her and soon receives a jab in the ribs for annoying her.
Flint radios for Tollbooth and his Bridgelayer, and after Tollbooth
extends the bridge and drives over it, the Maulers and other Joe vehicles
follow him. Flint tells Ace that they need his team to buy the Joes some
time since they were delayed, so Ace fires his last missile at a dam and
tries to drown the germ. But Bacteria X surfaces and continues to move
toward New York City.
In front of a Slugger, Gung Ho stands beside Flint and the two wait
for the germ to make its appearance, however, Shipwreck is impatient. So
he jumps onto the roof a truck, raises his fists into the air and tells
the germ that this battle will be its Waterloo, its Alamo. Suddenly the
germ towers over Shipwreck and as Cover Girl shouts the sailor’s code-name,
Shipwreck tells the germ in a frightened voice, “Ju- just kiddin’, big
Grunt pours apples into Roadblock’s bazooka and then fires it while
Thunder, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Quick Kick and Snake Eyes ride on AWE Strikers
and shoot at the germ, but it continues to advance. Unsure how to stop
the germ, Cover Girl tells Shipwreck that he should ask it out on a date.
Flint orders the Joes to dive into the river, however, Shipwreck remains
behind and continues to toss one apple after another and shouting, “This
might be the one!”
Cover Girl tells Shipwreck that if he leaves with her now then she will
go out on a date with him. They fall off the roof and Shipwreck happily
exclaims, “Anchors away!” Shipwreck is told that they will go on a date
as soon as possible and that they will go swimming. And as the two dive
into the river with the other Joes, Shipwreck shouts, “This is the best
date I’ve had in weeks!"
Ace and his Skystriker team arrive and dump more apples from the cargo
bays in the planes into the germ, which effectively ends the germ’s life.
Spirit and the other Joes watch the germ explode and the same disgusting
residue that splattered the Skystrikers earlier covers the Joes.
The two Cobra Eels who were trapped inside the germ fall into the river
with the Joes and Roadblock comments, "It must be a worm from the germ."
"I guess that germ found Cobra as hard to swallow as we do," adds Gung
Ho, and the Cobra Eel in Roadblock’s grasp looks around and listens to
the Joes laughing at him.
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