Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Captain Planet and the Planeteers was an American-Belgian-French animated program created by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle. The series was produced by Turner Program Services and DIC Enterprises and broadcast on TBS from September 15, 1990, to December 5, 1992. The story centered around the Planeteers, five young adults who were given the powers of fire, water, earth, wind, and heart from Gaia, the Spirit of the Earth, fight villains who were polluting the Earth. When troubles got difficult, the Planeteers combine the five powers to summon Captain Planet.
Skumm Lord (Season 1, Episode 4)[edit | edit source]
Verminous Skumm, a mutant humanoid rat and one of the major villains of the series, creates a chemical disease called Rat Rot and contaminates several water supplies in Brazil with it. Anyone who drinks the contaminated water will turn into a mutant rat like himself and be under his control. The Planeteers manage to shut down one of Skumm's plants producing Rat Rot, but Wheeler, Linka, and Gi, in trying to shut down another of Skumm's plants, are exposed to Rat Rot and become mutant humanoids rats under the control of Skumm. Kwame and Ma-Ti, the remaining Planeteers, grab the others and head to the jungle to locate a plant capable for curing Rat Rot. The plant is in danger of being lost to cattle ranching, and only Ma-Ti's friend the Shaman knows where to find it. With the plant in hand, The Shaman cures the other Planeteers of Rat Rot and Captain Planet gathers the flowers and spread the cure to all of the affected people.-
Verminous Skumm takes his Rat Rot and contaminates a local well
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A local woman drinks the contaminated water...
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and begins to change into a humanoid rat
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The transformation is complete...
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and she scares away a local man
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Skumm summons her by whistling...
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she turns and follows Skumm...
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into the sewers to his base
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Many people are transformed into rats by Rat Rot
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A young boy sees the Planeteers coming...
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heads for the sewer entrance...
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and runs through the sewers to Skumm's base
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Skumm completes another batch of Rat Rot
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The Rat Rot people gather the Rat Rot into barrels for transport
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Skumm whistles for his Rat Rot victims to get the Planeteers
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The Rat Rot victims hear the whistle...
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and amass on the Planeteers
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Skumm orders the Rat Rot victims to get the Planeteers
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Rat Rot victims at Skumms's second base see the Planeteers
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Wheeler uses fire to damage Skumm's helicopter
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Skumm uses a load crane to capture Wheeler
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Skumm raises Wheeler up...
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then drops Wheeler...
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into a barrel of Rat Rot
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Wheeler pulls Linka into the Rat Rot in trying to get out...
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and splashes Rat Rot onto Gi
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Linka and Wheeler get out of the barrel
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Skumm sends more Rat Rot victims to get the Planeteers
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Wheeler tries to reach for a rope from the Geocruser...
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but instead begins to feel the effects of Rat Rot...
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and becomes the latest rat henchman of Skumm
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Gi and Linka see Wheeler's transformation...
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and then begin their own transformations into Skumm's henchrats
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The new Rodenteers (as Skumm calls them) look up at the Geocruser
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The Rodenteers huddle around the rope...
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until Skumm summons them with his whistling...
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which they hear...
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and come over to Skumm
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Skumm puts the Rodenteers to work loading Rat Rot...
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until they are roped up and away by the Geo-cruser
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The Rodenteers are contained while Kwame and Ma-ti try to find the cure for Rat Rot
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The Rodenteers look on...
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as Skumm undoes the lock...
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and sets them free ...
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and orders them to dump Rat Rot into the water supply
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The Rodenteers head out to dump the Rat Rot
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Rodenteer Wheeler is about to dump the Rat Rot...
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when the animals heed Ma-ti's call...
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and cause Rodenteer Wheeler to drop the Rat Rot...
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while the monkeys tie the Rodenteers up
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The Shaman brings the Rat Rot cure to Gi
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gets her to inhale the vapor
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...and cures her of Rat Rot
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The Shaman does the same thing for Wheeler and Linka...
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and cures them of Rat Rot
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Captain Planet spreads the Rat Rot cure by rain...
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and cures all the Rat Rot victims