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| The Prime Minister Has No Clothes | |
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| Season 1, Episode 10a | |
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| Mission | 5Z588 |
| Historical Figure/Event | Winston Churchill |
| Time | 1941 |
| Place | Great Britain |
| Aired | September 28, 2001 |
| Storyboards by | Kurt Dumas |
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Synopsis[]
Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister who led England through World War II, is also leading everyone into being naked — including Larry. However, only after realizing how ugly he is without clothes, does Winston decide to change his mind.
Plot[]
On the satellite, Time Squad is watching some of Larry’s recorded videos from past missions. The mood suddenly sours when Tuddrussel is upset by Larry playing footage of him singing in the bathroom, until the History Instability Alarm goes off. The team sees that Winston Churchill is the next mission and heads off. The team arrives in London, but something is strange about the city. Otto looks around and panics, seeing that everyone is naked, causing the team to scream in terror.
The team finds Winston Churchill, completely naked (save for socks and shoes), giving his speech to the House of Commons, with the one change being his declaration that Britain's people will continue without clothing. Otto awkwardly tries to praise Churchill’s speech, but then asks him where his pants are. Churchill explains that the war is a battle for freedom, which includes the freedom to wear nothing at all. Tuddrussel and Otto disagree, but Larry is moved, realizing that he is naked as well, realizing how liberating the shared feeling is. An enraptured Churchill and Larry take off in a motorcycle, forcing Otto and Tuddrussel to give chase across the English countryside.
Churchill then invites Time Squad to see his troops, who are equally naked and miserable because they keep stubbing their toes on rocks while they march. Otto says the British may have a chance at winning with an air force, but the pilots are all freezing due to the lack of clothing in high altitudes. Even the Royal Navy must work naked, and they have no pockets to carry things in.
Otto is relieved when he sees American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Russian Chairman Stalin arrive, hoping they will straighten Churchill out, but the two world leaders think Churchill’s idea is fun and go to join him. They all go to Churchill’s “Naked Barbecue,” where Larry calls everyone together for a movie. Larry replays all of his recorded footage since arriving in Britain, focusing on the his fun spent with Churchill, which the Prime Minister enjoys, until he asks "who’s the fellow with the gigantic butt?” A confused Larry informs Churchill that "the fellow with the gigantic butt" in the movie is him, causing him to be horrified after he realizes what he looks like naked. Embarrassed, Churchill declares his previous stance on nudity to be "indecent" and immediately searches for any article of clothing to wear, demanding that FDR and Stalin do the same. Otto congratulates a dejected Larry on saving the mission, and Tuddrussel demands that Larry start wearing pants. Larry refuses, and a chase ensues where Otto, Tuddrussel, Stalin, FDR, and Churchill chase Larry into the horizon.
Trivia[]
- This episode features Tuddrussel's bare butt.
- The footage from Larry's video at the beginning of the episode includes scenes from "Dishonest Abe" and "To Hail With Caesar."
- The title of this episode is a reference to an idiom "The emperor has no clothes" (it is often used in political and social contexts for any obvious truth denied by the majority despite the evidence seen with their eyes, especially when proclaimed by the government).
- Tuddrussel gets mad at Larry when he wants to "talk British," but Larry already has a British accent. (This probably is just because of British modes of speech like "Indeed.")
- Tuddrussel appears naked in this episode.
- Time Squad arrives in 1941, but a newspaper boy claims that Germans invaded Poland, which happened in 1939.
- Churchill's speech is based on his actual speech "We shall fight on the beaches," (from 1940) except he adds "and above all, we shall fight without clothes on."
- When Larry announces he has a movie to watch, Churchill says he hopes it's a "talkie," the retired term for a movie with audible speech.
- The final chase scene in the episode is reference to the infamous chase scenes featured on the British comedy show The Benny Hill Show, with the accompanying music being loosely based on "Yakety Sax" featured in the referenced scenes.
- During the final chase while Tuddrussel chases Larry the pants switch from his left to right hands.
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