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Mermaid Man Begins

Rating:

8.1

Airdate:	September 23, 2011
	@8:00 pm EST
Season:	8
Prod. Number:	163a
Air Number:	193a

Paired With:	Plankton's Good Eye
Directors:	Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Sean Charmatz (Storyboard), Vincent Waller (Creative), Alan Smart (Animation)
Writers:	Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Sean Charmatz, Richard Pursel
Plot:	We learn the origin story of the underwater superhero Mermaid Man and his sidekick Barnacle Boy.

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"Thanks for nothing, Squidward."
-Patrick

"In a split second both men find themselves in a free fall that sends them squarely through the roof of the Vats of Acid factory and into vat of acid that is tipped over by an errant alien spaceship, carrying the two blindly on a wave of acid during a solar eclipse on a leap year, precariously careening into a bomb testing site, where a cataclysmic explosion exposes our heroes-in-waiting to highly toxic radium gases. Then, as fate would have it, magical storm clouds move in, zapping both men with a neon-clad lightning bolt and raining radioactive ooze, which through centrifugal force and electromagnetic turbulence causes a powerful earthquake deep in the jungle 2000 miles away, consequently unearthing a magical crystal with wings that flies to Ernie and Tim's exact location and, powered by super gamma energy currents, pilots them to open skies until, not paying attention, the crystal clips the top of a billboard, flinging the two back to their apartment, miraculously unharmed. When …"
-Announcer