Invasion of the Elder Snatchers

:"Why am I not surprise about being out with the old?"
:— Jimmy Neutron
"Cell Outs!" is the sixth episode of Season 2.
Invasion of the Elder Snatchers	Invasion of the Elder Snatchers
Season 2, Episode 6 	Season 2, Episode 6
Air date 	September 13, 2008
Written by 	Andrew Nicholls
Darrell Vickers
Directed by 	Wincat Alcala
Keith Alcorn
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==Plot==
Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, Libby, Timmy, Lincoln, Lori, Leni, Lisa, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lily, Kenny, Kat, Peter, Hugh, Lynn Loud Sr., Blythe, Sunil, Vinnie, Russell, Zoe, Minka, Penny Ling, Pepper, Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, Martin Prince Jr., Tod, Kyle, Timon, Pumbaa, Ben, Gwen and Grandpa visit an old maid relative only to find that her retirement community has been overtaken by a shapeshifting aliens called Limax.
==Synopsis==
On the drive to Vera's retirement village, Ben complains about how boring the visit will be, except Jimmy how he was happy to see her in person evantually, no one else agreeing with him. Waiting for them to arrive, Vera chats up her next-door neighbor Marty. When he goes back inside his house to enjoy some TV, he gets attacked by a blob of something, covered in shadow. As the Rust Bucket arrives in the village, Ben notices an old man perfectly backflipping off his roof. He's amazed, though Gwen and Max didn't see anything. They arrive at Vera's house and Ben is annoyed by the heat; Gwen shoots him with a water gun. Ben notices Marty in his house, glaring and hissing from the window. After that odd interaction, Vera greets them and brings them inside. They have dinner, consisting of an odd orange pork-flavored gelatin mold, and coffee beans as candy. Ben and Jimmy are repulsed by it all and runs to the bathroom to hide. He gets the idea to use Ghostfreak and Jimmy turns into the bat to phase through and sneak out of the house.
Ghostfreak and Jimmy Neutron the Bat roams around the town, looking for fun things to do in his invisible state. He finds a golf cart to ride, then finds an apple pie on a windowsill. The elderly woman who baked it, frustrated with trying to swat a fly, clings to her ceiling and devours it, shocking Ghostfreak and Jimmy Neutron the Bat. Marty takes the golf cart, making an odd effort to swerve around a neighbor's sprinkler. Ghostfreak and Jimmy Neutron the Bat decides to follow him. Marty stops at the village dump, having brought a rolled-up carpet. Instead of using the gate, he elongates his legs to step over it. As he opens a trapdoor under a dumpster, the Omnitrix inopportunely reverts Ghostfreak back to Ben and Jimmy Neutron's watch reverts Bat form back to Jimmy Neutron. Marty sees him and attacks them, screeching and stretching his arms. Ben drives away using the golf cart, but Marty easily catches up. They scuffle, leading in Ben and Jimmy not looking at the road and crashing the cart. Marty is undamaged and has Ben and Jimmy in his grip, until the neighbor's sprinkler goes off. It scares Marty away, leaving Ben and Jimmy with even more questions.
Back at Vera's house, Ben and Jimmy recaps all that he saw to Jimmy's friends Gwen and Max, asking them to come investigate Marty's house. Even though Vera was hurt by Ben and Jimmy sneaking out, Max agrees. They find it abandoned, nothing out of the ordinary, except for the missing rug. As night falls, Max, Hugh and Lynn Loud Sr. urges Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Lincoln, Ben and Gwen to get some sleep, promising Ben and Jimmy they will continue investigating tomorrow. Blythe returns to the house to find that Lynn Loud Sr. is being directly possessed by mysterious blob, The loud later finds Hugh's corpse, but Lincoln convinces them not to call the police and takes their phones. During the night, another mysterious blob attacks Vera in her sleep. The next morning, Vera comes into the kitchen. Her mannerisms are stranger: she speaks monotonously; pinches the kids' cheeks harder than usual; and completely freaks out when Gwen and Cindy spills a glass of water. Once she leaves the house (to go find Max), Ben, Jimmy and Timmy accuses her of being "one of them". Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, Libby, Timmy, Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, Martin, Todd, Kyle, Kat, Kenny, Blythe, Sunil, Vinnie, Russell, Minka, Penny Ling, Zoe, Pepper, Lincoln, Lynn, Lori, Leni, Lily, Luan, Luna, Lana, Lola, Timon, Pumbaa, Ben and Gwen decide to go sneaking around the neighborhood: Ben wants to take another look at that hidden trapdoor by the dump. Meanwhile, the Faux Vera meets with the Faux Marty in an alleyway, and they discuss the gestation of "pods" for some kind of transportation preparations. Marty is worried Ben suspects them too much.
Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, Libby, Timmy, Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, Martin, Todd, Kyle, Kat, Kenny, Blythe, Sunil, Vinnie, Russell, Minka, Penny Ling, Zoe, Pepper, Lincoln, Lynn, Lori, Leni, Lily, Luan, Luna, Lana, Lola, Timon, Pumbaa, Ben and Gwen pass by two old women playing shuffleboard. They instantly hiss at the sight of them and knock shuffleboard pieces at them. Running away, they turn the corner and run into Max. It becomes clear that even he is one of "them", as he tries to attack Ben and Gwen. Some elders pick up a car and throw it at them, but accidentally squish Max. Gwen yells, thinking he's dead, but the creature reassembles into Max's body from greenish slime and gives chase. Ben and Gwen finally arrive at the dump. Gwen attempts to move the dumpster; Ben transforms into Wildmutt and Jimmy transforms into a Tiger and moves it for her. Wildmutt "tells" Gwen to open the door while he fends off the small army of elders after them. The trapdoor reveals a long tunnel going down. Wildmutt picks her up and jumps in. At the bottom, Wildmutt and Gwen find a series of underground pathways. They try to lose the elders in the tunnels, but the one impersonating Max manages to sneak up on them. Wildmutt and Jimmy Neutron the Tiger fights them off and wins until the creature repairs his face to look like Max and appeal to Ben and Jimmy's nature. Wildmutt hesitates, letting the creature get a leg up. Gwen reminds him who his real family is, and Wildmutt comes out on top. Hugh Neutron, Lynn Loud Sr. and Peter Cassidy attempts to infect them. Timmy and Bart injects his the wooden stake into Lynn's eye, Hugh's chest and Peter Cassidy's chest, killing them. He then suddenly detects something and sprints through the tunnels, crashing through a wall before turning back into Ben and turning back into Jimmy, Gwen on his back and Cindy on his back. Gwen and Cindy are enraged, but Ben and Jimmy justifies that he picked up some kind of scent.
Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, Libby, Timmy, Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, Martin, Todd, Kyle, Kat, Kenny, Blythe, Sunil, Vinnie, Russell, Minka, Penny Ling, Zoe, Pepper, Lincoln, Lynn, Lori, Leni, Lily, Luan, Luna, Lana, Lola, Timon, Pumbaa, Ben and Gwen find an alien ship with hundreds of green pods surrounding it. Inside the pods are the real residents of the neighborhood, along with Max, Hugh, Peter Cassidy and Lynn Loud Sr. Ben, Jimmy, Kenny the Shark and Lincoln frees Max, Hugh, Peter and Lynn Loud Sr. from their pod. The fake elders interrupt their reunion, having caught up. They unmask their true forms as tall green blob-like aliens called Limax. Gwen discovers a door to the Limax's ship. Inside are many more pods loaded onboard, Aunt Vera's included. Ben transforms into Heatblast and Jimmy Neutron transforms into a Bear to fend them off with fire, however, doing so has no effect. The Limax assemble into one large entity and berate Heatblast for choosing to attack them with heat. They love heat, it's the reason they invaded a desert location in the summer. The giant Limax grabs Heatblast and Jimmy Neutron the Bear and buds two smaller Limax from its body, to stop Carl, Sheen, Cindy, Libby, Timmy, Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, Martin, Todd, Kyle, Kat, Kenny, Blythe, Sunil, Vinnie, Russell, Minka, Penny Ling, Zoe, Pepper, Lincoln, Lynn, Lori, Leni, Lily, Luan, Luna, Lana, Lola, Gwen and Max from unloading the pods from the ship. As they swipe at Gwen, they knock her backpack open and her water gun falls out, terrifying them. Gwen and Jimmy Neuotron the Bear, Heatblast piece it together: they hate water. Heatblast shoots a fireball to break an overhead water pipe. and Jimmy Neutron the Bear shoots Water Blaster, Water sprays out, dissolving the giant Limax. The puddles retreat into their now-emptied ship as its thrusters begin to heat up. The Tennysons, Jimmy Neutron and his friends, The Bart Team, Blythe and her Pets, Timon, Pumbaa and The Loud Kids, watch as the spaceship tunnels out of the underground and leaves Earth. They then discuss how to get everyone in pods back to their homes.
The next day, the Tennysons say their goodbyes to Vera. She gives Max a hug and Gwen an equally odd gelatin mold to take on the road (Ben's idea). Vera tells Ben she hoped the visit hadn't "bored him to tears", but Ben admits that he had lots of fun. As they drive away, down in the crater of the fight, one Limax, left behind, crawls along the cave floor.
==Transcript==
Invasion of the Elder Snatchers/Transcript
==Quotes==
Lori Loud: First Marty gets attacked by the slime, and now this? That's disgusting. I'm calling the cops.
Lincoln Loud: No, no, no. No cops!
Lori Loud: I'm going to warn Bobby.
Lincoln Loud: No more cops!
Lori Loud: What did you do?
Todd Flanders: Maybe Lincoln's right. We should call Vera. I mean, look at... If this gets out, it's gonna be bad.
Jimmy Neutron: Listen, no cops, no Shill. Okay, we cannot afford that intrusion right now.
Timon: Guy looks like a roasted salami sandwich up there. What's wrong with that?
Lincoln Loud: I understand. This is bad. And this is sad. But if we call the cops right now... they're gonna turn this place into a crime scene and you can kiss that awesome drum sound goodbye forever.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
* This episode shares many themes with The Body Snatchers novel and adaptations, however in this case instead of trying to take over the world, the aliens are kidnapping humans for food.
** The scream made by the pod people from the 1956 adaptation is used throughout the episode.
** The episode also contains an allusion to the 1978 adaptation where in Vera is lying on her bed and subsequently replaced by a Limax.
* This episode is similar to the Ben 10 episode Permanent Retirement, where the elders get possessed by Limax, which worries Ben and Gwen and question who is possessing them.
* This episode also has a similar plot to the Powerpuff Girls episode Tough Love, where the loved ones of the girls get possessed by Him, which worries the girls and question who is possessing them.
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