The Egg-pire Strikes Back

The Egg-pire Strikes Back is a full-hour television special, based on the animated television series "".

Plot

King Goobot and Ooblar from the movie return to Retroville and pretend to be nice to the citizens. However, Jimmy knows that they are up to something evil to destroy Retroville (most likely in revenge of Goobot's humiliation in his defeat from the first film). When he tries to tell people that they are lying, the citizens won't listen (since "children"...even genius ones, are never "believed"). So he puts a recording of the Yolkians through his lie detector and he finds out it is, in fact, a big lie, only to gain the townspeople's loyalty and turn them against Jimmy. He runs to tell his Mom and Dad and then he figures out that they have gone to the Retroville park for an announcement. And what he finds there is a giant egg that looks exactly like the one that the Yolkians' "chicken" god, Poultra, hatched out of in the original film. To Jimmy, this confirms his worst fears, but the citizens of Retroville are too turned by the Yolkians to listen to him. To Jimmy's surprise, the large egg does not contain a mutant carnivore chicken, but a shower of invitations to a party hosted by the Yolkians. This gets Jimmy rejected for being rude to the Yolkians. Later, Goobot sneaks into Jimmy's lab and steals his generator to re-create Poultra from Poultra's toenail, the last piece of her that contains her DNA. With all the help Jimmy can get, he saves the night using the fact that "chickens can't burp". The citizens, who are alerted of Poultra's arrival, but unable to escape the party, help Jimmy into luring Poultra to drink a large tank of soda and eat a dummy made of what is essentially Pop Rocks. When Poultra consumes the entire tank and eats the dummy, she cannot release the excess gas created by the soda and candy, and explodes due to the buildup of pressure. The end of the movie reveals that all the Yolkians (excluding their robotic shells) take off from the earth in a large container mounted on a rocket (the container holds the yolk-like alien bodies, as Yolkians seem to possess no evident skeletal structure).

Themes

This special deals with the theme of "children" not being "believed" by "adults", even when the "children" in question know and try to tell the truth about any given situation. Jimmy knows that the Yolkians are trying to destroy Retroville, but even before the townspeople were turned against him, they still didn't believe him. It wasn't until the citizens actually "saw" Poultra that they began to realize that Jimmy was right after all.

Trivia

* The title is a parody of The Empire Strikes Back.
* Also, The Eggpire Strikes back further expands on a recurring theme of Yolkian revenge. Another such episode is The League of Villains, although The Eggpire Strikes Back can be considered a sequel to The League of Villains
* In the end, Butch is playing on the "shells" of the Yolkians, similar to the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi.
* In the series, final appearances of Ooblar and Poultra. In League of Villains, Goobot reveals Ooblar was traded for sulfur butter.
* Also, as noticed in commercials, King Goobot and Ooblar will not be played by their voice actors in the film, Patrick Stewart and Martin Short. Instead, S. Scott Bullock and Paul Greenberg voice them here.

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