Captain Girl

Infobox Television episode
Title=Captain Girl
Series=Drawn Together
Season=2
Episode=9
Airdate= February 1, 2006
Writer= Jordan Young


Caption = Toot holds her adopted Nicaraguan baby.
Director= Dwayne Carey-Hill
Production = 208
Guests = Paget Brewster as Child Services Woman
Chris Edgerly
Prev=Terms of Endearment
Next=A Tale of Two Cows

"Captain Girl" is the sixteenth episode of the animated series "Drawn Together".

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As the housemates are enjoying a relaxing day by the pool, Captain Hero suddenly sees the Hero Signal in the sky; he shrugs it off, claiming that if it's important, his new sidekick Captain Girl will page him. His pager then goes off, and Hero is off to the rescue. However, later that day, he returns to the house holding what appears to be Captain Girl's bloody uniform. He tells the housemates that Captain Girl has been killed by the evil Mad Libber, and the only clue he has to solve her murder is a note from the Mad Libber. Naturally, the note is in the form of a Mad Lib, which the housemates solve by filling in every blank with the word "penis".

After Captain Girl's funeral, Captain Hero wonders what he'll do for a sidekick. Wooldoor, who has dreamed of being Hero's sidekick ever since he's been in the house with him, asks for the job; Captain Hero, not really feeling like giving the matter much thought, agrees. Although the pair have some success fighting villains, the relationship between Hero and his new sidekick is rather strained, as Wooldoor can't seem to live up to what Captain Hero thinks a sidekick should be. After a cable car full of people crashes into the mountains because of Hero's apathy and Wooldoor's inability to fly, Hero unfairly blames Wooldoor and fires him.

Wooldoor is despondent, but sees a chance to redeem himself when he sees a news crawl at the bottom of the screen that the Mad Libber is causing havoc again. He rushes to the scene, but he is too late; the Mad Libber has already made his getaway, leaving behind another Mad Lib. Wooldoor at first is unable to make heads or tails of the note, but then realizes that if he tries filling it out with words other than "penis", he might be able to solve the case. With Spanky's help, he does just this, although at Spanky's insistence, he leaves one "penis" in the note, because a Mad Lib just isn't a Mad Lib without the word "penis" appearing at least once. The finished note tells Wooldoor that the Mad Libber is planning to blow up the town's dam, and will detonate the bomb by remote control from the "penis" tower. When Wooldoor finally locates the penis tower, sure enough, the Mad Libber is on the roof, preparing to unleash his evil scheme. He confronts the Mad Libber about the death of Captain Girl, but the Mad Libber informs him that there's no such person; Captain Hero has never had a sidekick because nobody else can stand to work with him. Wooldoor then sees Captain Hero standing off to the side, and Hero steps in to tell him the truth, that he pretended to have a sidekick because he was jealous of all the other superheroes with sidekicks. Even the Mad Libber has a sidekick, a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic man named QuadrapliJack. Wooldoor comforts Captain Hero by offering to be his sidekick again, an offer which Hero gladly accepts. While Hero and Wooldoor are sharing this heartwarming moment together, the Mad Libber flees the scene, but not before he sets off the bomb and blows up the dam, flooding the entire town. Hero and Wooldoor escape from the flood using the QuadrapliJack's wheelchair.

Meanwhile, a seriously depressed Toot is trying to fill the void in her life with something other than food, and upon seeing a happy young mother, thinks she has found the answer: a baby. She resolves to get herself pregnant, so when none of the other housemates will have sex with her, she gets a black light to detect the presence of semen in the house. The light reveals the entire house (including Foxxy's hair, tail and in a moustache shape on her face, and all of Xandir's body) to be covered in the stuff (Xandir exclaims "I'm a really friendly ghost!" ala Casper). She finds a veritable gold mine of it in the hot tub. As Toot immerses herself in the hot tub, Foxxy, Clara, and Xandir suggest to Toot that before she gets pregnant, she should try an experiment to see if she is ready for motherhood. After Clara tells Toot about a school project where the kids have to carry eggs around for a week, they give Toot something with which she can try the same experiment—a baby from Nicaragua.

Toot's mothering skills, unfortunately, leave something to be desired, as she spends more time drinking than taking care of the baby. The baby turns out to be a bratty tramp who finally runs away from home. Toot becomes distraught and orders the housemates to go find the baby while she lies by the pool drinking. The baby is found, but not by any of the housemates; a woman from Child Services confronts Toot and tells her that the baby has not only been caught shoplifting, but is pregnant. As Foxxy, Clara, and Xandir gather around the operating table with her, Toot berates the baby harshly for becoming a mother without considering the responsibilities of motherhood, then quickly realizes that is exactly what she herself did. As the baby delivers its own baby, the housemates laugh over the lesson Toot has learned, right before the Child Services woman shows up to take both babies away.

Musical number: "Captain Hero Theme", a parody of the famous "Batman" theme song.

Notes and inside references

* This episode reveals that Foxxy has had two children taken away by Social Services: Kwametta, whose first mention is in this episode, and Ray-Ray, the child living with her in "Ghostesses in the Slot Machine". The Child Services Woman informs Foxxy they've been renamed Heather and Raymond-Raymond, respectively. With the addition of Timmy(Dirty Pranking No 2), this brings the total number of Foxxy's known children to three.

* During Captain Girl's funeral, when Toot says she knows the answer to all her problems, an anonymous character shouts "Yeah, ice cream, lardass!" from offscreen. This is the same voice as the one that shouts to Captain Hero that he sucks in the episode "Ghostesses in the Slot Machine."

* The music Wooldor dances to is the same one Captain Hero dances to for Foxxy in Requiem for a Reality Show

* The magazine Captain Hero looks at in this episode is the same one read by the teenager who lost his eyesight due to masturbation in "Clum Babies."

* In this episode, Wooldoor reveals that he won the 1997 Miss Universe pageant with the help of fake breasts (which he still has). (The real life winner of that particular contest was Brook Mahealani Lee of the United States). Wooldoor's fake breasts would return in the episode "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree".

* Tara Strong (who also plays Toot and Clara) plays the voice of Toot's baby, using the exact voice she used for Dil Pickles in the original "Rugrats" series.

* Captain Hero announces that Captain Girl is being buried as a Mormon, "not because she was one, but because she hated Mormons and it would make her happy to bury one." This is another example of a Jewish in-joke in the series. The line is a slightly modified version of a joke told in the Jewish community about an old Jewish man converting to Catholicism on his death bed, claiming, "Better one of them should die than one of us!" [http://www.snopes.com/rumors/onejew.htm]

* The Distinguished Gentleman who was first featured in this episode appeared again as the narrator for "Drawn Together Babies".

* In the televised version, Toot says "open the "farkakt" door", while in the uncensored version, the line is changed to "open the "fucking" door". "Farkakt" is a Yiddish vulgarity meaning "lousy" or "messed up, hence the televised version also gives a clue as to Toot's origins.

* When Toot discovers her baby has run away, the baby's pacifier is lying inside the crib. However, when Toot falls to the floor wailing, the pacifier is on the floor beside her.

* When Toot's baby pulls Ling Ling's hair and Ling Ling is speaking next, he says his name properly, instead of the usual 'Ring-Ring'.

Cultural references

* Although she turns out to be a fabrication by Captain Hero, the character of Captain Girl is based on a number of female superhero counterparts which were modeled after themselves, such as Supergirl and Batgirl. Like Captain Girl, both heroines met violent fates—Supergirl was killed, and Batgirl was shot and paralyzed.

* Although Captain Hero usually parodies Superman, this episode contains numerous references to Batman.
** The Captain Hero Signal is based on the Bat-Signal.
** The title sequence that introduces Wooldoor as Captain Hero's new sidekick while their theme song plays in the background is a parody of the title sequence from the 1960s "Batman" TV series.
** Wooldoor's costume is modeled after that of Robin, Batman's sidekick.
** The Mad Libber, who leaves clues in the form of Mad Libs, is based on Batman's foe, the Riddler, who left clues in the form of riddles.
** Wooldoor slides down a pole to change into his costume in the same manner as that of Batman and Robin.

* Upon losing the "Not-It!" game to decide who would impregnate Toot, Ling-Ling commits seppuku, a Japanese act of ritual suicide, also commonly known as hara-kiri in Western society. He reappears unharmed later in the episode.

* Ling-Ling says to the baby, "For female baby, you sure don't seem very tied up in bag and dropped in river", a reference to infanticide of female babies in certain overpopulated parts of Asia.

* Toot's using the black light to look for semen parodies investigative news reports which use them to expose uncleanliness in restaurants and hotels.

* Under the black light's ultraviolet rays, the semen-saturated hot tub emits a phosporescent glow; this is a reference to the movie "Cocoon".

* At one point, Clara addresses Toot as "Mommie Fattest", a reference to the book and movie "Mommie Dearest". Toot's cruelty and poor parenting skills in this episode mirror those of Joan Crawford, at least according to the book's depiction of her.

* Wooldoor's time traveling car, the Wooldelorean, is based on the Delorean from the "Back to the Future" trilogy. Right after the car disappears leaving fire trails, another Sockbat clad in Western gear (a reference to "Back to the Future Part III") runs up behind where the car was, then fades out of existence- a reference to the original "Back to the Future" . Wooldoor's voice actor, James Arnold Taylor, is also the voice of the cowboy, doing an impression of "Back to the Future" star Michael J. Fox (for whom Taylor occasionally serves as a voice double).

* When the Child Services woman informs Toot that her baby was caught shoplifting, Toot responds by shaking the baby violently. This is a reference to Louise Woodward (aka the British Nanny), who was convicted of second degree murder for shaking a baby to death in 1997.

* When the Child Services woman encourages the spaying of babies, spayed or neutered it parodies Bob Barker's speech, pleading the same for pets, at the end of every episode of "The Price Is Right".

* At the end, QuadrapliJack's mask is seen floating in the flooded water. This is a reference to the 1994 movie, "The Mask", where the mask was seen floating in the river at the end of the film.

* The picture of an island (as well as the line "3 days later" and the voice it is spoken in) is reminiscent of "SpongeBob SquarePants".