Lilo and Mertle go head to head in a battle of the sports. First the game is baseball and Lilo kicks Pleakley from the team because he's very very bad in favour of a baseball playing experiment. Pleakley is understanding, Lilo feels somewhat bad, but a bet with Mertle has her Elvis records on the line for the chance to crow about winning Mertle's beloved dolls!
Mertle, after discovering the baseball playing experiment pulls a fast one, since she doesn't want to lose and picks up Gantu for her team and switches the game to basketball. Halfway through the game, in which Lilo is getting her butt kicked, Pleakley shows his very very good at Basketball and helps Lilo's team win after giving a lecture about playing sports for fun being more important than playing for the sake of winning alone.
The 'friends are more important than winning' message is a common one in kids shows. It's been done before and surely it will be done again. But its a good message. Even Gantu realizes trying your best is all you can do and says as much.
The point of sports for kids is fun and learning. This is a message more parents should receive as there are more and more ridiculous incidents of parents creating fusses at their children's games. The only sour note, I felt, was at the end Lilo is carting away Mertle's dolls to a local children's hospital, that maybe they should leave one with Mertle.. and then, naaaah. Its very easy to be generous with someone else's belongings. I felt that the right message would have been to return all of them and say that Mertle *should* choose one to donate to other kids but not "force" her into anything. But just my two cents Canadians. ;)moreless
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Episode Summary
Experiment 608: SLUGGER''''After Pleakley's incompetence in baseball causes Lilo, Stitch, and Stitch's cousins to lose to Mertle's team, Lilo and Mertle arrange a rematch, with Lilo's collection of Elvis records and Mertle's collection of dolls on the line.
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Tress MacNeille
Experiment Computer Voice
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Jeff Bennett
Dr Rubert "Jacques" Von Hamsterviel
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Jillian Henry
Elena
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ADD TRIVIA- In Spring 2004, Disney Channel ran a 'Fan-tastic Marathon' to find out the Top 10 fan-favorite experiments. 'Experiment 608: Slugger' was #9 on the Top 10 list. Edit
- In this episode you see Mertle loses her doll but in other episodes like Shush she giving away her dolls even though she gave them away. Edit
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ADD NOTES- A: Airdates for channels other than The Disney Channel (US) 1. ABCKIDS (Canada/US) None 2. THE FAMILY CHANNEL (Canada) Tue 02/24/04, Mon 04/19/04, Fri 06/11/04, Sun 07/25/04, Sat 07/31/04, Thu 08/05/04, Fri 10/15/04, Sun 12/12/04, Mon 12/13/04, Mon 02/07/05, Thu 02/24/05, Wed 05/04/05, Wed 07/13/05, Tue 08/02/05, Wed 09/07/05, Tue 11/01/05, Fri 12/09/05, Tue 01/31/06 3. DISNEY CHANNEL (Australia/NewZealand) 4. DISNEY CHANNEL (UK) 5. TOON DISNEY (UK) 6. DISNEY CHANNEL (ASIA) To be added Edit
- B: Miscellaneous Notes --> The music played during the end of the basketball game is an acapella remix of the show's theme song 'Aloha E Komo Mai'. --> Pleakley was a four-time brisnolabrak champion on his home planet. Edit
- C: Today's Experiment Info and Standard questions Name: Slugger Number: 608 Pod Colour: Blue Activated: Bat by little leaguer into a cooler. Function: - Designed to deflect incoming projectiles. Gender: Male One True Place: joins the Little League Baseball team Experiment Cameos Who is missing? Moral: Always be a team player. Nani's Job: Was the Buggy destroyed?: Character Nicknames Edit
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Quotes
ADD QUOTES- Jumba: You know what they say... Evil geniuses can't jump. Edit
- 625: At least you're consistent. You're a loser at pretty much everything. Edit
- Jumba: Question. If we win, does the other team be our servants for the rest of their lives? Lilo: What?! No!!! Jumba: That's how we do sports on home planet. Edit
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Allusions
ADD ALLUSIONS- Harlem Globetrotters Whistling background music and fancy ball tricks during the game were both references to the Harlem Globetrotters, a combination basketball/performance team renowned for their unusual playing style. The whistling done during the episode was a whistled version of the themesong, rather than the Globetrotter's music, "Sweet Georgia Brown". Edit
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