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"Joke's On You, Bro!" is the twenty-ninth episode of the first season of Power Players. It first premiered on February 28, 2020, on the official Cartoon Network website, and it later premiered on March 29, 2020, on TV on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis[]
Axel and the team turn Galileo's camouflaging pranks around on him, convincing the gullible gecko that he's permanently invisible - to disastrous results![3]
Plot[]
The episode begins with Galileo going around and pranking his fellow teammates in Axel's room with the use of his camouflage ability. He interrupts Sarge Charge's training and Bearbarian's "ancient spirits" offering ritual in the closet, which angers the two toys into chasing after the toy lizard. While being chased, Galileo accidentally runs into Bobbie Blobby's clay sculptures of her teammates and destroys it, which angers her as well. After Bobbie traps Galileo on a door with her clay, the Power Players are all about to give him a piece of their minds, but Action Axel tries to calm his teammates down to avoid drawing attention to his uncle who's downstairs. He also asks Galileo if he could lay off the invisible hijinks since he thinks the toy lizard is taking his prank way too far. However, Galileo misses the point of what Action Axel is saying and assumes the reason he said it because the rest of the Power Players didn't have a sense of humor like him so he walks away from his friends. Action Axel decides that since Galileo didn't learn his lesson on pranking his teammates, they should play even with him.
Meanwhile, at Madcap's lair, the villain is greeted by his minions as they all bowed down to him when he gets onto his truck to get to the throne. But after he sits on his throne and it's about to levitate up, the throne suddenly gets hit by a blast and he falls back down onto the ground. Madcap angrily asks his minions who forgot to pay the electric bill of the warehouse, but it turns out the blast is coming from Porcupunk who is testing out his new weapon. Madcap is irritated by Porcupunk deciding to test out his new weapon at his warehouse since he would accidentally aim at someone and hurt them so he threatens the porcupine toy to get out of the lair or else he's going to hurt him.
Back in Axel's room, the Power Players have pranked Galileo into thinking his stealth-mode button is broken and that he's permanently invisible by pretending that they didn't "see" him. Galileo easily falls for their trickery and tries to get his friends' attention for his help, but the teammates are still doing the ruse and they all ignore him. Axel then asks his friends if they're ready to hit the park and the toys get inside Axel's backpack, while they all ignoring Galileo and Axel "assumes" he wants to stay home. Axel leaves the room with his toys and gets out from the back door, happily glad that the prank on Galileo actually works. Galileo felt upset that he didn't get to go to the park with his friends so he goes to Axel's computer to research for the solution for his "malfunctioning" stealth mode, but only to find no results. Galileo believes that the "malfunctioning" stealth mode is not a glitch, but a punishment for making fun of Bearbarian's ancient spirits ritual earlier in the episode. He was initially worried about his next 15 minutes of fame if no one can see him, only to realize that since he's "invisible", he doesn't have to worry about hiding from anyone anymore and he decides to do whatever he wants. So he gets out of the room and heads outside to the city to walk out in the open along with its civilians.
Meanwhile, at the park, the Power Players had explained to Zoe what they did to Galileo earlier. However, Zoe doesn't like the idea of them making Galileo think he's invisible as payback for his pranks and thought it's mean. Axel tries to tell Zoe that it's meant to be funny, but Zoe finds it cruel for them to do such a thing, which convinces Axel that he'll tell Galileo about it when they get back home, thinking Galileo is still at home watching himself on video.
However, unbeknownst to the Power Players and Zoe, Galileo is proudly out dancing in the streets of the city, and because many people see him, many of them start recording him but Galileo is still oblivious to the fact that he's not "invisible" and continues strolling down the streets. But then Galileo heard a sudden blast near an alleyway so he investigates it and sees that the blast is coming from Porcupunk who is playing around with his new weapon. Galileo, not wanting Porcupunk to damage the alleyway and harm any civilians, decides that he should stop him, saying that it's a mission for a "Super Invisible Spy Lizard".
By then, words about the "unidentified lizard toy that's got the moves" have been spread very quickly by the bystanders who witness Galileo strolling down the street out in the open that Galileo ends up in a local news report. At the park, the Power Players and Zoe all find out what happened when Zoe watches the report from her phone, which stated that it's an oddity that's may or may not be a hoax, but it sure is convincing. With the Power Players' secret in jeopardy, Axel and the toys knew that they must find Galileo as soon as possible to tell him the truth before they must do something quick to cover up the possibility of living toys in the world.
At the alleyway, Galileo's attempt to stop Porcupunk failed when the latter reveals to him that he can actually see him and that he's never invisible at all. Before Galileo could find out what is happening, Porcupunk knocks him out and ties him up on a neon sign. Once Galileo reawakes, he realizes that Porcupunk is about to blast him into smithereens with his new weapon. Not wanting to get blown up into pieces, Galileo stalls for time by requesting Porcupunk to take a picture of him which Porcupunk did. After taking the picture, by convenient or not, Axel arrives just in time and transforms into Action Axel to fight off Porcupunk and rescue Galileo. The rest of the Power Players also shows up at the alleyway and they start fighting against Porcupunk. Action Axel rescues Galileo from being tied up on the neon sign and tells him the truth that they can actually see him and that his teammates were trying to prank him by pretending that he's "invisible" as payback for always pranking them. The Power Players, meanwhile, are having trouble fighting Porcupunk because of his new weapon. After Porcupunk knocks down Bearbarian, he is about to grab World Breaker to use it against the toys, but the Power Players all try to trick Porcupunk into thinking that he would "anger the ancient warrior spirits" if he touches the hammer. However, their ruse was ruined when Galileo forgot to turn on his stealth mode to lift World Breaker to make Porcupunk believe that the hammer is "levitate" and the toy lizard turned it on too late. However, instead of using his weapon again, Porcupunk suddenly starts laughing since he finds how Galileo's failed attempt to trick him is actually pretty funny. And while Porcupunk is distracted by his laughter, the Power Players easily win their fight against him and defeat Porcupunk. After their fight against the villain, Zoe arrives and picks up Galileo to tell him that they must tie up some loose ends about the "dancing toy lizard" that the city saw earlier.
Later at night, Axel and Zoe both uploaded a "revelation video" online and reveal to everyone in the city that the "living-lizard" video is a "hoax" by having Galileo pretends that he's moving in stop-motion in the video. This manages to get everyone to believe them and the Power Players' secret is safe again. But near the end of the episode, Galileo's stealth mode ironically malfunctions for real which Sarge takes notice. However, Galileo believes that he's pranking him again and walks away from his friends, oblivious to his malfunctioning stealth mode.
Characters[]
Major Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
- Zoe
- Madcap
- Orangutank (background)
- Dynamo (background)
- Princess SugarSalt (background)
- Dr. Nautilus (background)
- Uncle Andrew (mentioned)
- Slobot (statue)
- Civilians
Trivia[]
- In the French version, the episode title is called "Je t'ai eu!", meaning "I got you!".
- This marks the first episode to have its worldwide premiere be in the French dub instead of the English dub.
- This is the second time Galileo's love for pranks is shown after the webisode "Boo!". And just like in the webisode, the Power Players turn his pranks around him.
- This is the second episode in which someone, other than Axel and Zoe, sees the Power Players as living toys after "All Trick No Treat". In this episode, Galileo, mistakenly thought his camouflage mode is broken and is unaware that his friends are pranking him, roams around the city which leads to many civilians notice him and he ended up on the news. However, Axel and Zoe both manage to create a video and trick everyone into thinking that the "living-lizard toy" is a hoax.
- This episode reveals that Madcap and his army regularly pay the electric bill of the warehouse. However, it's unknown where they get the money to pay the bill.
- It's implied that this episode takes place before "Side Kicked" and "Iced Out" since both Ice Crusher and Pyrant are the only members of the army who isn't present at Madcap's lair.
- Slobot is the only member of the Power Players who didn't appear in this episode. However, Bobbie made a clay sculpture of him at the beginning of the episode.
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