Original subtitles

(male narrator) 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.

From North America, Wheeler, with the power of fire.

From Eastern Europe, Linka, with the power of wind.

From Asia, Gi, with the power of water.

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!

[water bubbling]

[honk honk]

[vocalizing indistinctly]

[honk honk honk]

[continues vocalizing]

You know, wasting water is the pits.

We can all save water by taking shorter showers.

sproing

Ask your parents to install water-conserving shower heads.

They're really cool!

[honking]

That clown's all wet!

He's polluting kids' minds with eco-hogwash!

[slushing]

[electricity crackling]

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! - | get his nose.

[all grumbling indistinctly]

[all laughing]

- 'Come on!’ - 'Hear, hear.’

(Lerner) ‘One quarter of the world's people’

‘don't have safe drinking water?’

‘Fifty species a day disappearing?’

An area the size of ten 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! am today.

A giant in the industry?

And if | 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--

Uh, desk.

Uh, | was just leaving.

Oh!

Now, that's what | 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]

... 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.

‘Cause it's adios to your regularly scheduled programming

pal!

[explosion]

[all laughing]

(Eco) ‘Oh! Oh, me, no.’

[all laughing]

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]

[groaning]

Wait till you leave the room.

[honk honk honk]

[all laughing]

Eco the clown is 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?

s[all yelling indistinctly]

[clears throat] Hello. You're on the air, folks.

Alright, skummbuds.

Let's get nasty!

[all coughing]

[laughing]

- How can this be happening? - | don't know, but it is.

We'd better check it out, pronto!

This is an outrage!

[all groaning]

Somebody put a sock in these suits.

[speaking indistinctly]

[coughing]

[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]

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!

[engine whirring]

[beeping]

Now what's going on?

"Fun with Filth," | 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.’

[explosion]

‘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."

| 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.

[chuckling] Yeah. Um. Yeah. Um.

[dinging]

Until next time, kiddies, think toxic thoughts!

boing! sproing!

[Mutthead muffled shouting]

There's some pretty foul stuff on TV.

And generally | 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.

[snorting] Tickets.

[chomping]

Tickets. Huh?

[groans]

[bell dings]

(MAL) ‘And in this corner, we have Dan the Planet Pansy!’

[all cheer]

And over here, Nuk-Lo, the Planet Destroyer!

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 | get?

- Lost! - Aah!

[chain saw whirring]

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 | 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!

| would rather shake things up.

Earth!

Whoa!

I'll handle the eco geeks.

Handle this.

‘Wind!'

[groans]

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!

[rumbling]

Fools! They're getting away!

- Hurry, Planeteers. - Time to lower the boom.

[Greedly shouting indistinctly]

Look out!

[crash]

No lying down on the job.

You're coming with me, fur face.

- Shh. - 'This way. Come on!’

Hurry.

(Dr. Blight) ‘Show's over.'

Now what?

[window clanking]

Uh-oh. Moe and Curly.

Hit the dirt!

[all screaming]

If you ask me, it's TV time.

Let our powers combine.

Earth!

Fire!

Wind!

Water!

Heart!

By your powers combined, | 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!

- Aah! - No time to rehearse my lines.

(Captain Planet) ‘Got to "pipe" right up.’

[imitating 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.

[imitating Rocky] Hey, yo, Nuke. Get out of my neighborhood.

[imitating Cary Grant] Nukey, Nukey, Nukey, when will you ever learn?

Aah!

- 'Oh, nol - Are you alright?

Oh, no.

[groaning]

[gasps] Captain Planet.

[imitating James Cagney] Skumm, you dirty rat.

Roll cameras. Let's shoot it.

[snorting] 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.

‘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 really 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?

[honk honk]

It sounds like it is coming from the closet.

Careful, little buddy.

Eco the clown?

Wow! It really is!

| can't believe those creeps would do this

to a great actor like you.

Thanks. | 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!

[clock ticking]

Ta-da!

Okay, Planeteers, time to do our yabba dabba duty.

Amazing.

- Oh, wow! - Isn't this cool?

- Look at this. - '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) ‘Alright, 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?

| mean, am | 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.

[grunts] Here's a terrific little bomb that will level the place

but will forego the radiation, okay?

Oh, alright.

Hey, they're not in the script.

No problem. We need cheap extras to blow to smithereens.

That is my cue. Wind.

Oh!

[crash]

How do you like our version of "Gone with the Wind"?

Here's what | think of it.

[blasts]

[all exclaim]

Geez, everyone's a critic!

Fire.

Nobody upstages the Duke.

Sorry to upset you.

But Earth.

[rumbling]

Whoa!

Definitely time to call Cap.

Let our powers combine.

- Earth. - Fire.

Wind.

Water.

Heart.

By your powers combined, | 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!

- Alright! Yeah! - Alright!

And score two for the Nuker!

[all shout indistinctly]

Look out!

[explosion]

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.

[snorting]

This way. Come

[groani No! nel

[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.

He, chill out, Nukem. The iceman cameth.

- Oh! I'm outta here! - I'm out!

Uh-uh-uh. Nobody leaves till the show's over.

Now for Nukem's co-stars 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]

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

(Gi) ‘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 do to 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!

~ Earth! f

J Fire! I

< Wind! Water! Heart! J ~ Go Planet! f

(Captain Planet) By your powers combined, | am Captain Planet!

~ Captain Planet I

S He's our hero S

~ Gonna take pollution down to zero f

f He's our powers magnified f

f And he's fighting on the planet's side J

~ Captain Planet I

S He's our hero S

~ Gonna take pollution down to zero f

£ Gonna help him put asunder J

~ Bad guys who like to loot and plunder.. f

You'll pay for this, Captain Planet!

~ We're the Planeteers you can be one too f

~ 'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do J

~ Looting and polluting is not the way f

~ Hear what Captain Planet has to say.. ff

The power is yours!