Original title
The Aquabats! Super Show!
Released
3/3/2012
Origin country
US
Genre
Action & Adventure
Production companies
Wildbrain Entertainment, The Magic Store, Awesome Forces!
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
21
The Aquabats! Super Show! is an American action-comedy television series which premiered on March 3, 2012 on the United States cable network The Hub. The series was created by Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, both the creators of the Nick Jr. series Yo Gabba Gabba!, and Jason deVilliers. Based on the superhero mythology of The Aquabats, a real-life comedy rock band which series co-creator and lead singer Jacobs formed in 1994, The Aquabats! Super Show! follows the comic adventures of a fictionalized version of the band, a musical group of amateur superheroes, as they haphazardly defend the world from a variety of villains and monsters. Styled similarly to the campy aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s children's television and Japanese tokusatsu, Super Show! utilizes various mediums of visual styles and special effects, mixing live-action storylines with cartoon shorts, parody advertisements and musical interludes.
Original Pilot
Ricky's perfect Christmas is threatened when the Aquabats arrive in a strange village and are convicted of breaking a law that forbids any Yuletide celebration. Their only chance at saving themselves and Christmas is for the big man himself, Santa, to lend a mitten! Guest starring Matt Walsh and Robert Smigel.
When a gang of vicious mutant land sharks emerge from the sea to wreak havoc on land, The Aquabats join forces with the legendary Shark Fighter, a wavy-haired ocean vigilante on a self-imposed quest to fight sharks. Impressed by his potential, the Shark Fighter takes Crash under his wing to teach him the art of shark fighting, but Crash may just see more in the Shark Fighter as the big brother he's always wanted.
When the city's cutest kittens start being abducted by gigantic teleporting cat men, The Aquabats trace it back to Kitty Litter, a ferocious feline using unwilling kittens to power a gigantic cat robot as part of a scheme to cover the planet with garbage. When most of the band are kidnapped by Kitty Litter, it's up to Crash to get over his pet dander allergies and save the world from becoming a global trash heap.
While investigating a series of bizarre attacks on fast food restaurants, Crash is captured by the maniacal Manant, a half-man, half-ant creature that he had a genie create for him when he was a kid. Siphoning Crash's growth power to enlarge himself to human-size, Manant intends to use the extracted growth juice to create an army of giant ants to take over the world. Part One of the animated Aquabats have them crash landing on the moon and encounter space bees with Bat Commander being captured by Mooncheese, the pirate of the moon.
The Aquabats incubate a giant egg, not realizing the mayhem that will happen when it hatches. It's up to JImmy the Robot to save the day!
EagleBones' estranged brother plots revenge and returns for an epic guitar solo showdown. Guest starring Jon Heder and Lou Diamond Phillips.
A run-in with filthy muck monsters leaves The Aquabats in need of a visit to the laundromat, where they encounter an evil mastermind and her new monstrosity.
After The Aquabats rescue a group of beachgoers from motorcycle-riding mummies, Ricky falls for a mysterious siren.
After the MC Bat Commander eats a burrito from a gravesite, the Battletram is haunted by an angry ghost.
After saving miners from a huge mole monster, The Aquabats face a robot gunslinger in a fake Western town. Guest starring Paul Scheer.
While golfing, The Aquabats encounter the mysterious Uberchaun who gives them three challenges they must overcome to avoid being cursed forever. Guest starring Dana Micheal Woods.
The Aquabats befriend a shape-shifting Pilgrim Boy while Detroit is under attack by a giant bug. Guest starring Samm Levine & "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Exhausted after a playing a rock concert, The Aquabats pull into an isolated truck stop to catch some sleep. Their peace and quiet is short-lived, however, when the mythical Floating Eye of Death invades their rest area, transforming its inhabitants into mindless zombie drones. Holing up in the convenience store, The Aquabats must find a way to defeat the floating menace before they too start falling victim to its soul-stealing powers. Guest starring Becca Greene as Tina. It's a Cartoon!: As Jimmy's anti-virus software kicks in and eradicates his brain parasites, The Aquabats race to escape from Jimmy's body before they too are destroyed. Commercial: Stooped Fone!
When a strange meteorite crashes in the desert, The Aquabats arrive at the scene hoping to sell it for some quick cash, only to find it possesses dangerous otherworldly powers. With The MC Bat Commander horribly mutated from its effects, the band must find a way to not only restore their leader to his former self but also rescue a nearby woman from the clutches of a crazy cactus monster brought to life by the meteorite's same powers. Guest starring Paul Rust as Ronmark and Kate Freund as Zalgar. It's a Cartoon!: After escaping from Jimmy's body and successfully dodging the space worm, The Aquabats set a course for a strange nearby planet to repair the Battletram. Commercial: S.C.A.B.S.
In the midst of traveling on a world tour, The Aquabats are lured into a shady roadside sideshow advertising a "real-life CobraMan", only to end up having the Battletram stolen by a wrestling mask-wearing carnival barker named Carl (modeled after co-director/performer Chapman's Strong Bad character). Facing certain unemployment without transportation, the band must challenge Carl to an all-or-nothing duel with his CobraMan monster to reclaim their vehicle, or else they'll have to return to their day jobs. Guest starring Matt Chapman as Carl. It's a Cartoon!: When the Battletram lands on a planet inhabited by friendly barbarians, The Aquabats try to find a way back home with the aide of a magic dagger. Commercial: Scruffy Scruff
Down on their luck and out of money, The Aquabats try to find an opportunity to re-establish their superhero status in order to help sell their surplus of merchandise. When an impending alien invasion masterminded by the diabolical Space Monster "M" defeats the city's other, far more competent superhero teams, it's up to The Aquabats alone to summon their collective strengths and stop him before he destroys the planet.
Following their previous encounter with Space Monster M, The Aquabats crash-land back on Earth, awakening to realize they have no memory of what happened or who they are. Hailed as heroes by the adoring public, the band starts slowly piecing together their identities. After managing to destroy a rampaging mutated Ronmark (from the episode "Night of the Cactus!"), the band find themselves overwhelmed with demands from citizens seeking their help.
The Aquabats spend the summer participating at Camp Radventures, a summer camp where kids are trained in The Aquabats' superpowers to become AquaCadets. When a group of campers is kidnapped in the middle of the night, the band realizes it's the work of a mythical shapeshifting beast, and the Commander's suspicions quickly fall upon the camp's beloved and irrepressibly perky counselor Jewel. Guest starring Leslie Hall as Camp Counselor Jewel.
After a giant mutant "flea beetle" attacks a local supermarket, The Aquabats trace it to a nearby farm growing genetically enlarged produce, which happens to be run by Jimmy the Robot's estranged parents. Tensions rise between Jimmy and his eccentric scientist father over Jimmy having abandoned his farm life, but when a gigantic mutant worm swallows Jimmy's mother, the two must work together to rescue her.
While returning home from a relaxing ski vacation, The Aquabats get trapped in a snow embankment and are forced to spend the night without power in the Battletram. In an overt parody of the 1982 film The Thing, a malicious shape-shifting alien sneaks aboard the vehicle after disposing of Jimmy to assume his form and enacts a scheme to turn the Battle Wagon into a rocket to return to his galaxy while having the human Aquabat members turned into rocket fuel. Successfully evading capture, Crash must learn to overcome his fears and rescue his pals from certain doom.
Two competing bands vow revenge on the Aquabats and join up with the sinister and mysterious Silver Skull, who transforms them into the evil AntiBats to destroy them. Meanwhile, Ricky abandons The Aquabats for newfound love and must choose between his new girlfriend and saving his friends as the mighty AntiBats close in.
Ricky's perfect Christmas is threatened when the Aquabats arrive in a strange village and are convicted of breaking a law that forbids any Yuletide celebration. Their only chance at saving themselves and Christmas is for the big man himself, Santa, to lend a mitten! Guest starring Matt Walsh and Robert Smigel.
When a gang of vicious mutant land sharks emerge from the sea to wreak havoc on land, The Aquabats join forces with the legendary Shark Fighter, a wavy-haired ocean vigilante on a self-imposed quest to fight sharks. Impressed by his potential, the Shark Fighter takes Crash under his wing to teach him the art of shark fighting, but Crash may just see more in the Shark Fighter as the big brother he's always wanted.
When the city's cutest kittens start being abducted by gigantic teleporting cat men, The Aquabats trace it back to Kitty Litter, a ferocious feline using unwilling kittens to power a gigantic cat robot as part of a scheme to cover the planet with garbage. When most of the band is kidnapped by Kitty Litter, it's up to Crash to get over his pet dander allergies and save the world from becoming a global trash heap.
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