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"Attack of the Killer Potatoes"
Season 1, Episode 8
08 AttackOfThe
Prod. Code: 103b
Premiered: September 26, 2012
Credits
Written by:
  David Shayne
Storyboard by:
  Miles Thompson & Chuck Patton
Directed by:
  Mike Milo
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"Attack of the Killer Potatoes" is the eighth episode of the first season of Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. It premiered on September 26, 2012.

Synopsis[]

Randy and Howard want to win a science fair, but things don't go as planned.

Plot[]

Randy as the Ninja fights a robot, smokebombs to temporarily escape from it, and enters the NinjaNomicon in order to get help. He uses the chain-sickle but failed, then used a shovel on the robot and won. He finds the fart box and keeps it to show Howard later.

In science class, Mrs. Driscoll tells Randy and Howard that they'll fail science class unless they win the science fair. Meanwhile, Marci McFist suggests that McFist and Bash work together on Bash's science project. Neither are up to the idea, though, and McFist just has Viceroy build a robot that runs on cat-poop for Bash.

Back at Randy's room, Randy shows Howard the Fart Box, and both boys play with it the whole night. Unable to come up with any ideas until morning, the boys resort to using the Fart Box in the Norrisville High Science Fair under the title "The Sound of Science", in order to pass science. However, Mrs. Driscoll gave him and Howard an F for it. Suddenly, the Fart Box emits a strange beam that causes Bucky's couch potato project come to life as a mutated potato monster.

The mutated potato monster rampages through the science fair, causing Mrs. Driscoll to hastily grade everyone's remaining projects. Ninja keeps slicing the potatoes, which only multiplies them. Viceroy then seizes this commotion as a chance to turn the cat-poop machine into a killer robot. Nonetheless, this prompts Ninja to understand the lesson of countering a mighty force with a mightier force, ending the fight with the robot steamrolling the mutated potatoes, and subsequently tripping the robot into destruction. Of course, Ninja is kind enough to save the cat from the poop robot.

In the end, the science fair is cancelled for the day, and Randy and Howard are assigned to clean up the mess they made after they fall for Principal Slimovitz's trap of giving credit to those who solve the school's food crisis. However, both boys are just happy they manage to get a passing grade from Mrs. Driscoll, and they joke about farts as they continue cleaning up the potato mashes.

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Trivia[]

  • The title is an allusion to the 1978 comedy horror film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
  • The mutated potatoes in this episode are similar to the Phineas and Ferb episode "Lotsa Latkes" where the potatoes were also mutated by accident.
  • Bash complains that Mrs. Driscoll doesn't know how to count to C, a reference to Randy's math book having the title Math: Easy as 1-2-C.
    • Speaking of this, Bash said "It's the Number C, dummy!, which is wrong since "C" is a letter not a number.
  • A background joke in this episode consists of many of the science projects having a name beginning with "Our Friend the ..." with the final word increasing in absurdity with each new shot, including "Our Friend the Potato," "Our Friend the Tree," "Our Friend the Log," "Our Friend the Changing Room," (into which Randy dodges to change into the Ninja), "Our Friend the Sheet Rock," "Our Friend the Priceless Oil Painting," and "Our Friend the Plate Glass Window."
    • The last two mock the convention in action movies to have objects such as paintings and panes of glass shattered in the course of a fight or chase scene, which cleverly, both are damaged in Randy's robot fight here.
      • One of the unidentified background students yelled that his project was destroyed after the glass was shattered by the robot, which Randy apologized for.
  • One of the science projects is an ant-farm under the title "ANTZ." This may be a reference to the 1998 DreamWorks animated film of the same name, the first full-length animated feature released under the DreamWorks label.
  • Some signs of Randy's implied ADHD are shown in this episode, such as remarking to himself that he should pay more attention to science class, almost forgetting his science lesson, and being distracted by the Fart Box (more details in his trivia).

Goofs[]

  • In one shot at the science fair, S. Renisewn is doing his project about melons, but the next shot has him introducing a different science project.

Storyboards[]

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