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Bringin' Down the Mouse/To the Moon

Episode Number: 1    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Saturday July 9, 2005    Prod Code: 101A/101B
Originally aired: Saturday July 9, 2005 on Nickelodeon
Writer: Mitch Watson, Peter Hastings
Director: Michael Girard
Show Stars: Kevin McDonald (Waffle), Wayne Knight (Mr. Blik), Rob Paulsen (Gordon), Maurice LaMarche (Hovis)
Recurring Role: Maurice LaMarche (Judge)
Guest Stars: Phil LaMarr (Squeakus)
Production Code: 101A/101B

Bringin’ Down the Mouse

To get ready for the Mouse Hunters’ Ball, Mr. Blik has Hovis help him try on hats, while Gordon puts on an armor suit. Waffle suspects that it is Halloween, so he uses a popcorn bucket and says that he will go as a bag of unpopped cat. Gordon and Blik tell Waffle that only they are going because Waffle has never caught a mouse. Waffle tries to turn that around on Gordon and Blik by saying that they have never caught a mouse, but Mr. Blik declares that they both have a brilliant illustrious history of catching the rambunctious rodents.

Waffle becomes determined to go to the ball, so he receives help from Blik and Gordon. Mr. Blik ties a picture of a mouse onto the end of a fishing pole and has Waffle pounce on it, however he is too slow every time. Then, Waffle mistakenly thinks that a mouse is in Gordon’s chest, so he attacks. This is when Gordon tells Waffle that he can always use the cat breath to stun a mouse if all else fails in catching one.

Waffle finally sets off to catch a mouse… However, he brings back something wrong (like a toaster, a stop sign, and an old lady) everytime. Understanding that Waffle is getting the wrong impression, Gordon asks Waffle about who told him what a mouse looks like. It turns out to be Squeakus, the meanest mouse ever, who just so happens to be Waffle’s "friend." Gordon and Blik reveal to Waffle that Squeakus tricked him, so Waffle decides to go after Squeakus. His first attempt is still too slow, so Squeakus ties him up and explains to him (by bring out a dictionary with an attached picture of Gordon and Mr. Blik under mouse) what a mouse "really" looks like.

With the wrong impression, once again, Waffle goes after Blik and Gordon. This only leads them to Squeakus who ties the two up. Mr. Blik and Gordon question Waffle again about his mouse ideas, so Waffle reveals to them the dictionary with their picture. However, the picture falls off and Waffle finally understands who the real mouse is. Waffle also ends up tied, like his brothers. This is when Waffle uses cat breath and stuns Squeakus, who loses all his teeth because of it! Waffle (with Mr. Blik’s important hat) proudly goes the ball with Gordon and Blik (who wears a silly green hat from earlier) knowing that his first mouse catch was the meanest of them all.

In the end, Waffle gives just one glance and Squeakus and scares him badly. Waffle also switches his hat with the silly green one because that’s his important hat!!



To the moon


Waffle plays with a toy rocket, when Gordon notices that "real rocket smoke" is coming from the back. Puzzled, Waffle realizes that the smoke is not coming from rocket, but from outside. Gordon and Waffle jump to the conclusion that the lawn is on fire. So, the two run outside, grab the house, and begin running toward the area the smoke is coming from. Gordon hands the nozzle to Waffle, who accidentally sprays all the water into Gordon’s mouth. Waffle jumps onto Gordon, who is now fat with water, and the water finally reaches the smoke-filled area.

The smoke clears, revealing Hovis and Mr. Blik, who had been trying to cook some ribs on the barbecue. Mr. Blik becomes very angered because he was trying to cook the ribs for a barbecue cook-off, but Hovis reveals that the ribs would have been ruined either way because Mr. Blik left the wrapper on again. Mr. Blik tries to cover that up by saying that it was just an experiment (of failure, Hovis adds). Gordon asks Mr. Blik about why he wants to win the cook-off so badly. In reply, Mr. Blik says that he’s a winner and "winners win!"

This prods Gordon to tell Blik the story of Duke Eark Splee! This was a story about a man obsessed with perfecting fire-roasted ribs, so he sold his soul to a seal woman for some moon rocks. The moon rocks for creating the best roasting fire. The ribs were amazing, of course, but Eark Splee had sadness in his heart. After hearing the story, Mr. Blik decides to get rocks from the moon in order to cook the best ribs and win the contest. So, the cats with the help of Hovis fix their car, Gear, allowing them to go to the moon!

On the moon, Blik finds the perfect pile of rocks to collect, but Waffle decides to play a slow mo game of basketball and Gordon creates a statue of the "catstronauts." Gordon makes one last touch on the statue, when a crack grows to the top and breaks the whole thing! The cats run away, back into Gear, which fills up with the perfect amount of moon rocks. Blik realizes that Gear is now too heavy to lift off with all the rocks, so Waffle volunteers to go out and push. Gordon becomes sad when they realize they’ve left Waffle behind on the moon, which also causes Blik to start crying. However, Waffle was still safe and inside Gear. As it turns out, Waffle took out the moon rocks because it was adding too much weight.

The catstronauts begin to fight with one another as they are landing back at the park where the cook-off is being help. Unfortunately, the top of Gear opens and Blik’s ribs begin to fly out. Fortunately, the rocket fire from the end of Gear cooks the ribs. Blik arrives at his contest post and is upset by the fact that he doesn’t have any ribs on a plate or in the barbecue. This is when the ribs that were cooked by Gear land on the plate, which the judge tastes. The judge declares that the ribs taste like rocket fuel! But Blik still wins – He wins the prize for the worst ribs ever. Blik is very pleased with the fact that he is still a winner (even if it is for worst ribs ever, he still one because "winners win").

Later, back at the cats’ home, Gordon asks Blik if he’s ever heard of the story about Mr. Blik and the legend of the jet engine-roasted ribs. To which Blik replies that he has not, but he can already tell that he will like it!

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Episode: Bringin' Down the Mouse/To the Moon
Season Number: 1
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