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"The Bus Boy" | Premiere Order "The Justice Friends: Things That Go Bonk in the Night" |
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"The Bus Boy" | Production Order "The Justice Friends: Things That Go Bonk in the Night" |
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| The Justice Friends: Things That Go Bonk in the Night | |
| Season 2, Episode 12b | |
| Episode name reference to/pun on: The phrase "things that go bump in the night". | |
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| Air date | October 1, 1997 |
| Production number | 209b |
| Written by | Craig McCracken Genndy Tartakovsky Gary Lionelli (Music by) |
| Storyboard by | Craig McCracken |
| Directed by | Genndy Tartakovsky Craig McCracken (Art Direction) |
Things That Go Bonk in the Night, the eighth episode of The Justice Friends, is the second segment of the twelfth episode in season 2 of Dexter's Laboratory. It first aired on October 1, 1997.
In this episode, Krunk stays up late watching the T.V. Puppet Pals marathon. When he falls asleep, he has a dream where he meets Puppet Pals Clem and Mitch.
Plot[]
Krunk is up late watching the T.V. Puppet Pals. Major Glory tells Krunk that he watched the T.V. Puppet Pals marathon for four days. He and Valhallen both go roller-skating and asks Krunk to get some sleep. Krunk suddenly gets the idea of counting sheep.
Later, while Krunk is sleeping, a zebra in a peacoat roller-skates toward Krunk and has him jump into a portal where they go to the Puppet Pal Palace. In there, Krunk takes in the whimsical sights then sees Puppet Pals Clem and Mitch doing a show. They welcome Krunk by doing a bonk joke, causing Krunk to laugh uncontrollably. Despite Mitch telling him that the joke wasn't funny, Krunk doesn't relent on his laughter.
Krunk then stops laughing and tells Clem and Mitch that he wants to be a Puppet Pal too. They then act out a scene where Krunk puts a golf ball on Clem's head, to which Mitch, after delivering the punchline for his joke, hits with a golf club. While Krunk and Clem laugh, Mitch loses it and uses his bonk stick to hit Krunk on his head, shrinking him with each hit. Just then, hand puppets of Major Glory and Valhallen appear and battle Clem and Mitch while Krunk watches.
Suddenly, they stop fighting. Major Glory, after revealing that he was puppeteering Puppet Pal Mitch, tells Krunk that he tried to turn him against the T.V. Puppet Pals because he spent too much time watching TV rather than being a superhero. Another fight between Major Glory and Mitch embroils, causing Krunk to startle himself awake and realize it was just a dream until he sees the zebra sitting in a chair behind him.
Mitch, having startled himself awake from his dream, tells Clem that it is the last time they stay up watching the four-day Justice Friends marathon. Just as they go back to sleep, Mitch tells Clem that there's a spider in his bed. Clem quickly sits up and hits his head on the bottom of Mitch's bed, to which Mitch says; "Bonk!"
Characters[]
Trivia[]
- Fourth Wall Break: Near the end of the episode, Puppet Pals Clem and Mitch mention they've been staying up watching the Justice Friends marathon.
Cultural References[]
- This episode can be referred to as a crossover between The Justice Friends and TV Puppet Pals. Interestingly, The Justice Friends are parodies of Marvel characters and TV Puppet Pals are parodies of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street are created by Jim Henson's Muppets as both the Marvel characters and the Muppet characters that the Justice Friends and the TV Puppet Pals are based on are both owned by the Walt Disney Company.
Notes[]
- This is the first segment of The Justice Friends to not have a laugh track, nor have the characters read the episode title out loud.