03x15 - Blast From the Past

[bunniefuu]

♪ Go on ♪

Virgil: "this
was the final showdown:

"Good vs. Evil.

"Soul power braced himself.

"Would his superpowers
stand up to...

The horrible hats
of the haberdasher?"

Ha ha! Dig that.

Soul power's scared of hats.

Boy,
don't be dissin'
soul power.

Those hats
are deadly.

Come on, mr. Grant.

How dangerous
can a hat be?

Oh, leave the boy
alone, morris,

And quit interrupting.

I keep hoping
maybe this time

That arrogant soul power
gets it in the chops.

Dennis, I'm this close to
givin' you a knuckle sandwich.

Just keep reading it,
sparky.

And give it
some sixties' groove.

You kids today
have no sense of style.
Back in my day--

Not again.

Cars were faster,
threads were finer,

And the girls
were foxy.

Oh...
Mm-mmm!

That's it. Lunchbreak.

Hey, you're not done
with soul power.

Trust me, I'm done
with soul power.

Stay tuned for
weather and sports
after these messages.

Sharon, you gotta
let me go home,
please?

What's wrong now?

It's mr. Grant.
He's making me crazy.

Virgil, you said

You'd come here
to the retirement home
to help me.

Now you wanna
leave me shorthanded.

What kinda help is that?

But i--

This is community service,
virgil.

It's your duty
as a citizen.

Besides,
you could learn a few things
from the older generation.

Like what?

How to annoy people?

We interrupt this broadcast
for a special report.

A major crime is in progress
at the dakota museum
of technology.

It began just moments ago.

Uh-oh. Looks like
it's time for
my kind
of community service.

Whoa! Slow down, boy.
Where's the fire?

Wha-ah-aah!

Good-bye, old folks.
Hello--

Static?

Mr. Grant?

♪
Yeah ♪

Huh. Well, I guess
you're wondering,
"what's with the costume?"

Well, i, um--

Don't sweat it, boy.
I knew you were static
when I first met you.

Wha--you did?

Yep. I can feel
the electrical field
around you.

Whoa, how'd you do that?

Because I have
a secret identity, too.

This'll help you
recognize me.

You're...

The lone ranger?

No, boy, it's me--
soul power.

What?!

And you're gonna take me
with you to that museum.

Whoa, man,
are you trippin'?

Why would I do
a whack thing like that?

Because if you don't,
I'll tell all my friends

I met a real
superhero today:

Virgil hawkins.

No way.
You can't blackmail me.

You're not goin',
and that's final.

Whoa! Whoa!

Ooh! Ooh!

Are you sure
you won't fall?

Of course not.

Heck, in my day,

I got around by
surfing the power lines.

They had electricity
in your day?

Don't be flip, sparky.

Please don't
call me "sparky."

Hey, how'd you get
to be a superhero
anyway?

It all started
in the early sixties.

I was just a normal cat
until I got in the way
of some thugs

That wanted to
trash hoover dam.

Transformer blew,
giving me the power
of turbines.

I fought all sorts
of scum in my day,

But the worst of them all
was my arch enemy--
professor menace.

Professor menace?

What? Was the name
dr. Bad dude
already taken?

Laugh all you want, kid,

But menace came this close
to takin' over the world.

Back in ' ,
we had our last big battle.

I had just about b*at him
when he suddenly stepped back,
hit a switch,

And his whole lab exploded.

I got out ok,

But I never did
find any trace of him.

A bad guy who wants
to rule the world--
heh!

That's original.

Was he gonna do it
all by himself

Or did he have help?

He used robots exactly
like the ones at the museum.

What?

That's why I had to
come with you.

Those robots on tv
once belonged to...

Professor menace.

Right on!

Hey, come back here!

[Sirens]

[g*nshots]

Yep. Those are them,
all right.

Looks like about
minutes work.

Be right back.

No. Wait! Wait!

Huh?

Aah!

You kids today
don't listen, do ya?

I told you,
professor menace
was my arch enemy.

That means he knows
how to fight someone
with electrical powers.

Ok, ok!

So maybe I can't fire
right at these
old school junk piles,

But I have other tricks
up my sleeve.

See? These oversized
wind-up toys might
have been the b*mb

Back in your day,
but to me--

Look out!

Whoa! Uh-oh!

Argh!

What's--what's happening?

He's draing you!

Ahh...

After all these years,
it's time for a little...

Soul...

Power!

Ha!

Hunh!

Hunh! Hahh!

Ahh...uh!

Uhh!

Back off!

Menace, I know
you're listening.

It's me--soul power.

Hello, old foe.

And I do stress
the word "old."

What a surprise
to find you still alive,
if only barely.

How can you
still be so young?

[Chuckles]

When I
destroyed my laboratory,

I secretly slipped
into a hidden chamber.

There, I
was cryogenically frozen
and preserved.

Now I've reawakened
in this modern time,
and with these,

I can finish what
I started years ago.

Well, I don't know
why you've stolen them,

But I'm not gonna
let you keep 'em.

Ah! Ooh!

Oh...

Alas, dear soul power,

You just
don't have the juice.

How fitting that I
should be the one

To finally
turn out your lights.

Oonh...eh...

Ah!

Unh!

Enh...

Come on!

I could destroy you now,
but I'll wait.

I want you to participate in
my ultimate moment of triumph.

That robot took us on
like we were nothin'.

We're not licked yet,
sparky.

Will you stop
callin' me that?!

And from now on,
there's no more
we.

If I'm gonna
get whooped again,

I don't need
your commentary.

♪ You're gonna get it ♪

♪ Ah ha ha ha oh ah ♪

Robert:
see how great he was?

♪ Soul power ♪

♪
Soul power ♪

Robert: and after
he'd defeat a villain,

He'd do his funky
soul power dance.

♪
Ah, funky twist ♪

♪
Doin' a funky twist ♪

♪
Oh, the funky twist ♪

Yeah. The soul power.

Heh heh. Soul power.

Ha ha ha ha!

Pops, do not dance!

Heh! Heh heh!

Yeah, soul power
was a real hero, all right.

I had all his comic books
until my mother made me
throw them away.

Oh, the money
I could have made.

Yo! I just asked you
what you knew about him.

I didn't realize you
were a superfan boy.

People forget that he
was the static of his day,

Heh, maybe even better.

I don't think so.

I remember one time--

[Doorbell rings]

I got it.

Uh-uh.
Hey!

Hello, missy.

Mr. Grant,
what brings you here?

Virgil promised to
help me with something,

If he's not too busy.

Of course.
He's not busy at all.

Are you kiddin'?

I gotta clean my room,
mow the lawn,

And have you seen
our gutters lately?

Virgil,
if you made a promise,
you better keep it.

All right. All right.

Nice to see y'all.

What a sweet old guy.

I'll bet virgil could
learn a lot from him.

Wah-eeh-doo!

Actually,
this is pretty cool.

It beats
the senior shuttle bus.

So, this
is your big plan,

To hide in the smelly,
old subway?

No.

My plan begins
inside here.

Welcome, sparky,
to my old hq:

The power pad.

I mean it,
stop callin' me--whoa!

You have
got to be kiddin'.

Have a look round
while I see if things
still work.

Hey, why'd you
give this place
a lame name

Like the power pad?

Hey, it was cool
in the sixties.

Why? Where do you
hang out?

The abandoned
gas station
of... Solitude.

Oh, yeah.
That sounds much better.

Hey, who's that?

That was my teenage sidekick.

Good kid, but kinda mouthy.

What was his name?

Sparky.

Years without
cranking it up,

And it works like a charm.

I'm programming invader
about what menace stole today.

It should tell us
what he's up to.

I was afraid of this.

What?

Soul power:
seaside georgia, .

[Thunder]
peacefull little place

Until menace came to visit
with a lean, mean,
w*apon machine.

[Thunder]

[Screaming]

Hyah!

Hunh!
Ah!

Ah!

Unh!

♪ Can you feel it? ♪

♪ Can you feel it ♪

♪ Right on ♪

♪
The power of soul ♪

It took everything I had
to b*at him.

Ah!

But now the computer says
he's at his weather control
game again

And if we don't stop him,
we're in big trouble.

Ok, how do we stop him?

We get prepared.

What's this?

An electro-amplifier.

It can boost your power
in an emergency.

Or...since it's
over years old,

It could short out
and fry me.

Good point.
Better use it
as a last resort.

I hope this isn't why
sparky's not around
anymore.

Now we're
ready to go,

But we're
going in style.

I give you...

The soul mobile.

Can this clunker
even start?

[Screech]

[Static screams]

Where are we going?!

To see a man
about a map--

A
weather
map.

[Screech]

Man:
after all these years,
I can't believe it.

Believe it, phil.

I'm back,
and I need your help.

I want access
to your satellites.

I'm sorry, soul power,
but I can't allow that

Unless you're
a government-approved
client.

Look, years ago,
you were a young man
who used to call me his idol.

Now you're
the powerful mr. Rollins,

Head of this big
defense satellite firm.

Don't tell me you're
too high and mighty to
help out an old friend.

Times have changed,
soul power.

Everything these days
is about
security clearance.

I can't do it.

Back in the sixties,

I fought so that young men
like you would have a chance
to get to this position.

You also taught us
never to break rules,

And I won't,
not even for you.

Besides,
aren't you too old
for this sort of thing?

You're never too old
to fight for justice.

Ooh...that's debatable.

I'm sorry, soul power.

Come on, kid.
We have work to do.

Is he the new sparky?

No!

Static: now what?

Back to the power pad.

I need to
tap into those
top secret satellites.

You stole his security card?

You know how things
cling to you when you
have static electricity.

[Chuckles] right on.

Solid.

Now, search for any kind
of rare weather pattern.

Most of that's
just global warming.

[Keystroking]

I'm pickin' up
a disturbance.

It's outside dakota
in the high hills.

I think I'm finally
getting the hang of this.

So what exactly
are we lookin' for?

Uh...never mind.

It's got to be
his headquarters.

That's his
weather machine
on top.

Remember, this time
we work as a team.

Ah!

How fortunate for me
that you two dropped in,

And right on time.

What do you mean?

I was missing one component
for my weather machine:

Enough power to
make it truly effective.

Now you two
shall be my batteries.

Aah!
Aah!

Unh! Ergh!

Ah! O-orgh! Eh!

When the world sees
what I can do
to the city of dakota,

They'll pay me
never to do it again.

[Static and soul power
screaming]

[Beep beep beep beep]

Argh...ah!

It's all my fault!

This was a trap!

Argh! Uhh!

Maybe--maybe
I can use...this

To short-circuit
this arm.

♪ He's a striker ♪

♪
Great wizard ♪

♪
He's the best ♪

♪
Yo yo, it ain't easy ♪

♪ Cut loose ♪

♪
Go, homey ♪

♪ It ain't easy,
come on, son ♪

♪ Get peace ♪

♪
Come on, homey ♪

♪
Go, homey, get peace ♪

♪ Hit the wall ♪

♪ Get peace ♪

Soul power,
are you ok?

Maybe I am too old for this.

Thanks to me,
dakota is doomed.

Gotta get back
to the city.

How? I don't have
enough power left to fly.

I can barely walk.

Maybe I can help.

Static: mr. Rollins!

What are you
doin' here?

Menace has
taken over my satellites.

He's using them
to control the weather.

How'd he manage to do that?

He pretended to
be one of my government
defense clients.

We gave him
top-level access,

And, boom!
So much for security.

But how did you
find us?

I still have
our old tracers...

Partner.

Heh heh!

Just like old times, eh?

Whoa! You're sparky.

That's right.

My old costume
stretches enough
to still fit.

You guys ready for a recharge?

You bet!

Get ready, world,

'Cause it's time
for a little...

All: soul...

Power!

So how'd you
get your powers?

My costume
is electrically charged.

When I was a kid,
I invented it
to be like him.

Soul power:
so where to, sparky?

How should I know?

He was talking to me.

Oh.

Down there. That building.

Soul power:
the dakota
retirement home?

Yes. According to my data,
someplace underground.

♪ Feel the power ♪

I never knew there
was anything
down here.

Sparky: blast
through that wall.

[Cracks knuckles

[Alarm sounds]

No! Not you again.

He's
my
enemy.
Leave him to me.

Destroy them!

Ah!

♪ Gonna prove
that it's right on ♪

♪ The power of soul ♪

♪
Gonna move ya, oh, yeah ♪

♪
The funkified force ♪

♪ Gonna prove
that it's right on ♪

♪ The power of soul ♪

♪
Gonna move ya, oh, yeah ♪

♪
The funkified force ♪

♪ Can you feel it? ♪

♪
Soul power ♪

♪ Gonna get it,
it's so hip now ♪

♪ Oh, yeah,
the funkified force ♪

♪
Gonna get it ♪

♪ It's gonna get you ♪

Give up,
solar power.

You're too old.

You're never too old
to fight for justice,
lamebrain!

Hear that, menace?

These kids today are...

Uhh...pretty smart.

Are you thinkin'
what I'm thinkin'?

Right on.

Unh...

Engh!

Aah!

Uhh!

Look. It was all
a holographic illusion.

He really is old,
like me.

Dennis.

All these years,
I've waited

And planned my revenge,

And now,
you've still won.

I should have stuck
to basket-weaving.

Oh...

Mr. Grant: well...
That's that.

With the last
of my supervillains
out of the way,

Soul power
is officially retired.

Listen, um,
I just wanted to
say that...

I learned a lot from you
after all, so...

You know, uh...

Thanks.

Hey, that's what you do
with knowledge, kid.

You pass it on.

Cool, but you know,
there's one thing
you didn't teach me.

What's that?

That dance.

How do those
funky moves go?

First of all,
[soul power
theme plays]

You've gotta muster up
a little...
♪ Yeah ♪

Soul power.

Right on.

♪ Soul power ♪

♪ Soul power ♪

♪ Soul power ♪

♪
Yeah eh-eh-eh ♪