The Waste of Time

"The Waste of Time" is an episode of Wander Over Yonder. It aired on April 11, 2016.
==Synopsis==
When Wander and Sylvia accidentally buy Time Orbbles, Sylvia must keep Wander focused or risk being lost in time forever.
==Plot==
Wander and Sylvia stop by an abandoned Orbble station that is still active. As Sylvia goes inside to pay, Wander fills up the bottle and continue on their way. However, as they pass through space, they spot the planets aligning and see Hater and Awesome at war with each other and Wander arriving with a basket for a picnic. The two realize that Wander accidentally got Time Orbbles and they have traveled to the events of "The Picnic". Sylvia warns Wander about the nature of time travel and paradoxes and they resolve to go back to their current present, but not before Wander makes a pit stop to the events of "My Fair Hatey".
Wander and Sylvia jump forwards in time and end up in the future events of "The Search for Captain Tim". While Wander wants to help, Sylvia tells him to make a note of the event when they get there. They head back to the past and find a similar event to "The Picnic" except it is between Major Threat and Admiral Admirable and Wander is going by Tumbleweed, a name he had in the previous galaxy. They travel to another era where Sylvia was still a bounty hunter and fighting Killbot 86 over her target: Wander. Sylvia is ashamed of her past as a villain, but Wander comforts her with the knowledge that they ended up friends.
With only a small amount of Time Orbbles, they end up back at the fueling station, but in the past, and meet the Wright Brothers who have just invented Orbble Juice. They ask for Time Orbbles, but they do not have any and will not have some for fifty years. Wander and Sylvia resolve to work at the station until then. Cut to the present and Wander and Sylvia spot their younger selves. Wander leaves a sign over the Time Orbble stand to read out of order, thus allowing the younger Wander to fuel with the correct Orbbles. Young Wander and Sylvia leave the station while the older Wander and Sylvia happily fade from existence.
===End Credits===
Wander watches his past self attempt scoot down the hill during the events of "The Picnic"
==Trivia==
*Sylvia breaks the fourth wall when she says "We can't keep wasting our time watching past episodes...of our lives."
*This episode confirms that Wander was previously known as Tumbleweed, a fact that was first mentioned in "The Good Bad Guy". It is possible Wander could be thousands of years old or immortal.
*Apparently, Sylvia worked as a bounty hunter before she decided to join Wander on his travels, and even captured Wander at one point, a fact that she is not proud of but Wander already knew she was once bad.
==Continuity==
*This episode shows how Wander and Sylvia first met.
*Wander and Sylvia visit the events of the past episodes including "The Picnic" and "My Fair Hatey"
*The scene where Wander meets Major Threat is played out exactly the same way as the opening scene from "The Picnic".
*When Wander sees Hater trapped in the spider web, it foreshadows the episode "The Search for Captain Tim".
*During the last time-travel sequence, a scene where a monkey in an astronaut outfit can be seen.
**Due to the design of the monkey's face, it's heavily implied that the monkey is supposed to be Lord Hater, and he was once an astronaut chimp from NASA before taking his role as the ruler of the Hater Army.
**This was probably a concept meant for the canceled third season as the end credits of "The End of The Galaxy" showed a space shuttle with monkeys screaming, reinforcing the notion of Lord Hater's backstory being one the major plot points intended for the, now cancelled, Season 3.
==Allusions==
*Star Wars - At one point, Wander quotes the opening line of this film franchise.
*Wilbur and Orbble Wright are an obvious parody of Wilbur and Orville Wright who made the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
==Cast==
*Jack McBrayer as Wander
*April Winchell as Sylvia
*Piotr Michael as Major Threat
*Andy Bean as Oroble Wright
*Fuller Codon as Wilmur Wright
*Sam Riegel as Admiral Admirable 
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