Our world is in peril.
Gaia, the spirit of the Earth,
can no longer stand the terrible destruction
plaguing our planet.
She sends five magic rings to five special young people...
Kwame from Africa, with the power of Earth.
[ Sirens wailing ]
From North America... Wheeler, with the power of fire.
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From Eastern Europe... Linka, with the power of wind.
From Asia... Gi, with the power of water.
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And from South America... Ma-Ti, with the power of heart.
When the five powers combine,
they summon Earth's greatest champion...
Captain Planet!
Captain Planet: The power is yours!
[Circus music playing]
[Honk, honk]
[Eco humming]
[Vocalizing indistinctly]
[Honk, honk]
[Continues vocalizing]
You know, wasting water is the pits.
We can all save water by taking shorter showers.
[Creak! Sproing!]
Ask your parents to install water-conserving shower heads.
They're really cool!
[Honk honk honk]
That clown's all wet!
He's polluting kids' minds with eco-hogwash!
Putrid programming like this
might show kids they really can clean up the environment.
Yeah. And where would that leave us?
[Squeaking]
Enough clowning around!
It's time to kick off operation sweeps week
and sweep the weak right off the air!
Yeah! Let's rip his wig off!
I get his nose.
[All grumbling indistinctly, laughing]
MAL: Hear, hear.
Lerner: 1/4 of the world's people
don't have safe drinking water?
50 species a day disappearing?
An area the size of 10 city blocks
of tropical forest being cut down every minute?
Nuclear waste being dumped today
will remain poisonous for more than 10,000 years?
Landfills overflowing and nowhere to put garbage?
We'll get the message out, Mr. Lerner,
starting right now.
World population to nearly double
over the next 50 years?
You know what the future is, my boy?
[Gasps]
Oh! Plastics?
Communication.
Print, television, and film
have made me what I am today.
A giant in the industry?
And if I can use TV to show what's happening to our planet,
then people can fix it.
[Clears throat] Another thing I've learned
is you don't get anywhere sitting on your...
Desk.
Uh, I was just leaving.
Oh!
Now, that's what I call an entrance!
What do you think you're doing?
Call it an unfriendly takeover...
[Blows nose]
Freddy boy.
Very unfriendly.
We're tired of your goody green-shoes programming.
We're at the controls now...
[Chomping loudly]
Ready to give the public a hog helping...
[Chomping]
Of what they really want.
Yeah... waste and violence.
People are smarter than that. They won't stand for this.
Then they'll have to sit.
[Crash]
'Cause it's adiós to your regularly scheduled programming,
pal!
[Laughter]
Eco: Oh! Oh, me, no.
[Laughter]
Here's a bright idea, kids.
Replace your burned-out light bulbs
with energy-efficient ones.
And always be sure you turn off the light.
[Whistle!]
[Crash!]
But... [Groaning]
Wait till you leave the room.
[Honk honk honk]
[Laughter]
Eco the clown's catching on.
[Laughs] He's a riot!
[Chuckles] The message is good, too.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled boring broadcast
to bring you the show you've all been waiting for...
The world's most violent videos.
And now your hosts...
Huh? What's going on?
[All yelling indistinctly]
[ Clears throa ] Hello. You're on the air, folks.
All right, skummbuds. Let's get nasty!
[Coughing]
[Laughing]
How can this be happening?
I don't know, but it is.
We'd better check it out, pronto!
Lerner: This is an outrage!
Somebody put a sock in these suits.
[Coughing and gagging]
[Telephone rings]
Hello.
I'm sorry.
Mr. Lerner's all tied up at the moment.
Now to show these corporate clowns
how low television really can go.
[Chomping loudly]
Okay. [Snorts]
Roll tape.
Watch and learn, Lerner.
Our new shows will send the ratings through the roof.
MAL: Coming this fall, Greedly's girls.
Watch them slop till you drop.
[Girls giggling]
And stay tuned for this season's electrifying new hit,
"The Kilowatt Clan."
You'll really get a charge
watching them enjoy life under the power lines.
Now, that's entertainment!
[Beeping]
Now what's going on?
"Fun with Filth," I am afraid.
Listen up, all you Skumm lovers.
Welcome back to "Fun with Filth."
Today, we learn how to make new friends.
[Squealing]
Try this at home, and they'll come
by the thousands!
[ Laughs ]
Verminous Skumm giving advice to children?
Bozhe moi! We'd better hurry!
MAL: Get smart, kids.
Pester your parents into buying you Soldier Sam
and the Sadistic Slammers.
Complete with eight different weapons
to maim and mutilate anything that moves
and turn your home into a war zone.
And now for the new and delightfully gross.
"Brainless and Mutthead Show."
I can hardly wait.
Let's destroy some kids' minds, Mutthead.
Sure, Brainless.
But first, let's destroy some more brain cells
with lethal radiator fluid.
[ Chucklin ] Yeah. Um. Yeah. Um.
[ Dinging ]
Until next time, kiddies, think toxic thoughts!
[ Boing! Sproing! ]
[ Muffled shoutin ]
There's some pretty foul stuff on TV.
And generally I like it,
but this has definitely gone too far.
Kwame: Something must be very wrong
at Lerner Communications.
So how we gonna get in?
There is a line entering the studio to see some kind of show.
Yeah? Hey, what is it?
The marquee says, "Rumble for the Rainforest."
Enviro Dan, the Planet Pansy,
"Versus Nuk-Lo, the Planet Destroyer."
Look. Greedly.
Tickets!
Tickets.
[Snort snort] Tickets.
[Chomping]
Tickets.
Huh?
[Bell dings]
MAL: And in this corner, we have Dan the Planet Pansy!
[Cheers and applause]
And over here, Nuk-Lo, the Planet Destroyer!
[Crowd jeering] I'll rip him apart!
I'll squash him like a bug!
I'll extinctionalize him!
Cut him off at the knees...
Uh, the trees, that is.
Hey, he's got a chain saw?! What do I get?
Lost!
Aah!
Help! Help!
Help!
Stand still, twerp.
[All jeering indistinctly]
- Save the animals! - Come on.
Come on. Save the rainforest.
Who's gonna save me?
Oh! Aah! No! Aah!
You broke my chain saw.
Oh, well.
Wheeler: Hey, pick on someone your own size.
What?
It's the real Planet pests.
Nice going, Wheeler.
All I can say is sorry and run for it!
Don't just stand there, you big oaf.
Do something!
Aah!
[Crowd screaming]
Take that, and that, and that!
Watch out!
Stand still, ecoists!
I would rather shake things up.
Earth!
Whoa!
I'll handle the eco geeks.
Handle this. Wind!
Stop those show crashers!
I'll nail them this time.
- Aah! - Aah! Look out!
Ever hear of target practice?
This way.
[All gasp]
You're about to be canceled.
[Laughs]
There is nowhere to go.
But up! Earth!
Fools! They're getting away!
Hurry, Planeteers.
Time to lower the boom.
[Shouting indistinctly] Look out!
No lying down on the job.
You're coming with me, fur face.
- [Speaks indistinctly] - This way. Come on!
Hurry.
Show's over.
Now what?
Uh-oh. Moe and Curly.
Hit the dirt!
[All screaming]
[Shouts indistinctly] It's TV time.
Let our powers combine.
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!
[Clears throat] I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.
But first, an action sequence.
- Help! - Help!
[All continue screaming]
Captain Planet!
No time to rehearse my lines.
Got to "pipe" right up.
[As Humphrey Bogart] Here's lookin' at you, kids.
[All speaking indistinctly]
Thank you.
[Sighs] Thanks, Cap.
If you need me, just whistle.
Not so fast, Humphrey Blowhard.
[As Rocky] Hey, yo, Nuke. Get out of my neighborhood.
[As Cary Grant] Nukey, Nukey, Nukey,
when will you ever learn?
Aah!
- Oh, no! - Are you all right?
Oh, no.
[Groaning]
[Gasps] Captain Planet.
[As James Cagney] Skumm, you dirty rat.
Roll cameras. Let's shoot it.
Yeah, it will make a great segment for "Fun with Filth."
How to have a blast
creaming a superhero with toxic ooze.
[Groaning]
Planeteers, must recharge.
[Weakly] The power is yours.
Time for us to regroup. Exit, stage left.
Maybe you ought to get your hero a stunt double!
[Cackling]
Dr. Blight: Regular toilet bowl solutions may be bad for the environment.
But our new Toxic Bowl is real awful.
It contains enough bleach and phosphates
for hundreds of foul flushes.
Guaranteed to really screw up the ecosystem.
And turn any ocean into a real sewer.
[Gasping]
Dr. Blight: Toxic Bowl is just one of the fabulous new products
we will be guiding to the marketplace,
and I've come up with a colossal new movie of the week
to showcase our entire line.
Unfortunately, the script calls for us to blow up the studio,
but, hey, what sells better
than good, old-fashioned violence?
Greedly: Where's the commissary? I'm hungry.
[Honk honk honk]
What is that?
It sounds like it is coming from the closet.
Careful, little buddy.
Eco the clown?
Wow! It really is!
I can't believe those creeps would do this
to a great actor like you.
Thanks. I was slamming my nose against the wall for hours
hoping someone would hear the squeak.
What's going on?
The Eco-Villains have taken over the network.
We need your help.
I'm your clown!
Ta-da!
Okay, Planeteers, time to do our yabba dabba duty.
Amazing.
Oh, wow!
Isn't this cool?
Look at this.
Nukem: Hey!
Who are you guys?
Uh, we're, uh... The Filthstones.
Dr. Blight hired us to star in her new show.
Oh. Okay. Break a leg.
Easy does it.
We've got to stop them.
They're planning to blow up the studio!
[Gasp]
Blow up the studio! Bozhe moi!
Dr. Blight: All right, folks.
This is "Nukbo: Even More Blood."
Take one!
[Chomping]
Now, remember, Nukey baby, this movie's about a guy
who volunteers to hand-drop a nuclear bomb.
Right. But... But what's my motivation?
I mean, am I a good guy or a bad guy?
Ohh!
Violence! Your motivation is violence!
Jerk!
As long as you slice and dice,
the public will be thrilled.
Mm... actors.
Roll camera.
And... action!
Hold it. Hold it. Bring in the bomb.
Nukey, baby... Sweetums...
Is that a real nuclear bomb?
Naturally.
[Grunts]
I'm a method actor.
- Hey, man, look out! - Fine, but the rest of us
prefer not to be irradiated.
Here's a terrific little bomb that will level the place
but will forego the radiation, okay?
Oh, all right.
Hey, they're not in the script.
No problem.
We need cheap extras to blow to smithereens.
That is my cue. Wind.
How do you like our version of "Gone with the Wind"?
Here's what I think of it.
Geez, everyone's a critic!
Fire.
Nobody upstages the Duke.
Sorry to upset you.
But Earth.
Whoa!
Definitely time to call Cap.
Let our powers combine. Earth.
Fire.
Wind.
Water.
Heart.
By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!
Take two.
Well, folks, it looks like this flick's a real long bomb.
Hate to break up the play, but...
interception.
Score one for the Gipper!
- All right! - All right! Yeah!
And score two for the Nuker!
[All shout indistinctly]
Look out!
Forget the prop.
Reality television's what sells.
- Hey! What are you doing, here? - What is he doing?
Do something, Doctor, or this is the last picture show.
Uh, Nukems, baby, I've been thinking.
Maybe violence really is a-a bad message.
Hey, I'm just telling it like it is.
Well, if we can't stop it, shoot it.
Make sure you get my good side.
That guy's a bigger ham than me.
[Laughing, snorting]
This way. Come on!
[Weakly] No. [Coughs]
Stay back, Planeteers.
This is it, the big bang.
Got to... stop him.
Time to put Nukem in the deep...
[Grunting]
Freeze.
Bombs away! Hey.
No fair. It's frozen to my hand.
I'm frozen, too.
The iceman cameth.
[All shouting indistinctly]
Nobody leaves till the show's over.
Now for Nukem's costars in crime.
That's a wrap.
Good show.
The power is yours!
How's that for a curtain call?
Check it out. Fan mail from all over the world.
They hated the new programming.
They want their eco TV.
And we're going to give it to them.
- Cool. - Terrific.
You kids are incredible.
How about starring in your own series,
"Captain Planet and the Planeteers"?
It definitely has a nice ring to it.
[Honking]
All: Go, Planet!
The best weapon against the problems facing our planet today
is information.
The more we know about the energy crisis,
pollution, and disappearing resources...
The more we can help.
Television is also a great way to learn about other cultures
so we can understand each other better.
Read, watch the news, and share what you learn.
Knowledge is power.
And the power to make a better world is yours!
All: Go, Planet!
Gi: We are all products of the world around us.
Teachers, friends, TV shows,
and especially our parents
all make strong impressions on our minds.
Kwame: It is up to all of us to put our differences aside
and learn to communicate.
Ma-Ti: At home, school, play, or work.
Everyone appreciates respect and kindness.
So let's treat others the way we want to be treated.
- The power is yours! - The power is yours!
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water! Heart!
All: Go, Planet!
By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!
♪ Captain Planet
♪ He's our hero
♪ Gonna take pollution down to zero ♪
♪ He's our powers magnified
♪ And he's fighting on the planet's side ♪
♪ Captain Planet
♪ He's our hero
♪ Gonna take pollution down to zero ♪
♪ Gonna help him put asunder
♪ Bad guys who like to loot and plunder ♪
You'll pay for this, Captain Planet!
♪ We're the Planeteers, you can be one, too ♪
♪ 'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do ♪
♪ Looting and polluting is not the way ♪
♪ Hear what Captain Planet has to say ♪
The power is yours!
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