Exclamation Strikes Back

"Exclamation Strikes Back" is the thirtieth episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Hamster & Gretel, and is the season one finale.
==Synopsis==
Professor Exclamation traps Hamster and Gretel and takes away their powers.
==Plot==
===Part One===
Professor Exclamation recruits FistPuncher and The Destructress to lead him to the superpower-sucking rock from Las Vegas as part of his plan to destroy Hamster and Gretel and take over the world. Meanwhile, Hamster and Gretel are to receive the key to the city in honor of their many instances of saving the city. However, Gretel gets into an argument with Kevin upon learning that he will not be attending the ceremony in favor of attending his date with Hiromi, with Gretel going so far as to vent about it to the audience in lieu of giving a speech. As Kevin arrives to J.J. Weekend's, he is captured by a robot that resembles Hiromi and taken to the creepy doll factory, unbeknownst to the real Hiromi, who arrives immediately after the incident.
FistPuncher and The Destructres interrupt the key ceremony to relay this information to Hamster and Gretel, after which, Professor Exclamation's robot army terrorizes the citizens. Once Hamster and Gretel arrive, they are captured alongside Kevin, allowing Professor Exclamation to tell the three about his five-step plan to conquer the world. He then removes Hamster and Gretel's powers and uses them to power a giant robot he built out of Unbendium, which he will use to take over the world.
===Part Two===
Professor Exclamation arrives at city hall and demands that the citizens dismantle it and rebuild it in his image. Fred and Bailey, who were attending the ceremony, manage to escape and locate Kevin, Hamster, and Gretel. After learning about the situation, Fred finds that Professor Exclamation's device has enough power left to give Gretel one punch, which they plan to use to destroy the rock and restore Hamster and Gretel's powers. They confront Professor Exclamation through their use of confiscated devices from villains, only for Gretel to lose her chance at destroying the rock when a piece of debris gets in her way.
A chase scene leads the group to peril at Cliffside Park, which Bailey manages to evade utilizing CopyCat's mechanical tail. When Kevin discovers that Gretel's key to the city is also made of Unbendium, he orchestrates a plan to propel himself to Professor Exclamation's robot and destroy the rock with the key. He succeeds, after which Gretel is able to rescue Kevin from falling off the cliff after regaining her powers, leading to Hamster and Gretel defeating Professor Exclamation. Kevin then realizes he is late for his date with Hiromi and attempts to explain to her that he was taking care of Gretel. However, she tells him that despite her feelings for him, she does not believe their relationship will work out. The aliens then arrive and reveal that they created villains in order to prepare Hamster and Gretel for a greater evil that will arrive "next season" and that Kevin was never intended to receive superpowers.
==Songs==
*Key To The City
*Thimbles
*Creepy Doll Factory (instrumental)
*Gotta Get Away
==Cast==
*Meli Povenmire as Gretel Grant-Gomez
*Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
*Beck Bennett as Hamster
*Joey King as Fred Grant
*Priah Ferguson as Bailey Carter
*Phil LaMarr as Professor Exclamation
*Romi Dames as Hiromi Tanaka
*Alyson Stoner as Lauren/The Destructess
*Brock Powell as Lyle/FistPuncher
*Chris Diamantopoulos as Crooner
*Brett Dalton as Mayor Meyer
*Dan Povenmire as Male Alien
*Joanna Hausmann as Female Alien
==Trivia ==
*This is the second episode in the series to be a full episode instead of two segments, following "U.F. UH-OH!".
*Hiromi tells Kevin despite her feeling for him their relationship can't work and breaks up with him.
*The aliens reveals the reason they gave superpowers to Hamster and Gretel and gave superpowers to villains was to prepare them for greater evil soon, they say "next season" which is also breaking the fourth wall for Season 2.
*The aliens also reveal to Kevin that he was never intended to receive superpowers.
*Kevin gets hit by water for the sixth time in the season 1 finale.
*This is the last episode to air in 2023.
== External links ==
*Exclamation Strikes Back on Hamster & Gretel Wiki
Category:Hamster & Gretel episodes
Category:Television specials