S3E06: The Old Switcheroo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians Version)

## Summary

"The Old Switcheroo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians Version)" (Japanese title: Strange Behaviors! Cloud and Vanitas Mind Switched) is Season 3's sixth episode, and the twenty-sixth episode of the series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians (1987)."

## Plot

The episode opens with Grubber J. Gribberish entertaining Elise Oriana III, Christopher Aonuma, and Tai Kamiya's groups at the Channel Six building. Afterwards, Elise's group is called up by J. Jonah Jamieson to go do a story involving "Weird characters" at Cybertek Laboratory, and to take Christopher and Tai's groups with. At the sewer lair, the TMNM, Tiny Tiger, Dingodile, Yuffie Kisaragi, Cloud Strife, and Aerith Gainsborough are introduced to a pizza-maker by Miles "Tails" Prower, who built it in case the pizza oven Elise's group gave them broke. After making a successful pizza, our heroes ask Tails to make more, to which he agrees. Suddenly, the pizza-maker malfunctions and explodes debris everywhere. Then our heroes receive a call from Elise, Christopher, and Tai's groups, Kara Wallaroo, and Roxanne Pear about Loki's group and their henchmen at Cybertek Labs and they head out, with Cloud and Aerith going with them in case of "An unfriendly encounter." At Cybertek Labs, Loki's group and their henchmen are stealing equipment-filled crates while Elise and Tai's groups, Kara, and Roxanne videotape them and Christopher's group got ready to fight them. Suddenly, Big William "Billy" W. Williams accidentally gets Elise, Christopher, and Tai's groups, Kara, and Roxanne caught when he accidentally knocks a wrench down. Then our heroes arrive and a battle ensues. But during the fight, Vanitas and Cloud are struck by a beam from a machine, knocking the two out. Concerned, our heroes and the villains retreat with Cloud and Vanitas' respective unconscious bodies. In a catering truck they stole, Loki's group and their henchmen check on Vanitas, and unknown to them as soon as he woke up, it's revealed that Cloud's mind have switched from his body to Vanitas' body. At the Mobian Van after Elise, Christopher, and Tai's groups, Kara, and Roxanne leave to file the story, our heroes check on Cloud, and also unknown to them, Vanitas discovers his mind is in Cloud's body as well.

With Loki's group and their henchmen, they and Vanitas/Cloud return to the Module and with it, returns to the Jotundrome. Back at the sewer lair, our heroes and Cloud/Vanitas returned and our heroes got confused when Cloud/Vanitas eats a slice of pizza. When they ask why he ate a slice, despite Cloud telling them that he and Aerith never liked pizza, Cloud/Vanitas snaps in anger and orders them to train hard, despite our heroes pointing out that they trained this morning already. At the Jotundrome, Loki's group, their henchmen, and Vanitas/Cloud returned to Uka-Uka's group and Uka-Uka's group also noticed with Loki's group and their henchmen Vanitas'/Cloud's strange behavior. Back at the sewer lair, Cloud/Vanitas roughly fights our heroes during training and makes them train hard even more. Back in the Jotundrome, Loki and Uka-Uka's groups and their henchmen, suspicious of Vanitas'/Cloud's strange behavior, places Vanitas/Cloud in a Brain Scanner to scan his brain wavelengths.

But luckily, Vanitas/Cloud tensed up, tricking the villains into believing he's still Vanitas with the brain wavelengths. Then Uka-Uka's group orders Vanitas/Cloud, Loki's group, and their henchmen to go back to the surface and get them a Thermocouple Galvanometer they have failed to get from their last trip. At the sewer lair, our heroes finished cleaning the place the second time under Cloud's/Vanitas' orders. Then after Elise, Christopher, and Tai's groups, Kara, and Roxanne arrive, our heroes convince Cloud/Vanitas to go to the surface without him to "Train." Once at the surface along with Elise, Christopher, and Tai's groups, Kara, and Roxanne, our heroes discuss about Cloud's/Vanitas' ruthless behavior. Suddenly, Loki's group, Vanitas/Cloud, and their henchmen arrive in the Module and almost got into a fight when Silver the Hedgehog levitated the villains, except Vanitas/Cloud, into another alleyway. Then Vanitas/Cloud, after Myotismon and Hunter J returned to check on him, convince our heroes and even Myotismon and Hunter J that he's Cloud's mind in Vanitas' body and that the real Vanitas' mind is in Cloud's body. Then Myotismon and Hunter J grudgingly agree to a temporary truce with our heroes just to get Vanitas back to them, and they all decide to lure Cloud/Vanitas to Cybertek Labs to have the Mind-Transfer Device switch Cloud and Vanitas' minds back to their own bodies. Back at the sewer lair, our heroes succeed in luring Cloud/Vanitas to Cybertek Labs while Myotismon, Hunter J, and Vanitas/Cloud wait for them there. Then Loki's group and their henchmen arrive and another fight ensues. But thankfully during all of this, our heroes manage to switch Cloud and Vanitas' minds back to their own bodies. Back in the Jotundrome, Loki's group and their henchmen soon learn about Vanitas having Cloud's mind in him and his mind in Cloud's body earlier. And back in the sewer lair, Cloud is glad to be back in his body and thanks our heroes for their help in his return. Then Cloud compliments our heroes' work on cleaning the lair earlier, to which they gladly agree on.

## Notes

* Heroes' Insult Count: 17 (1 by Jamieson, 3 by Charmy, 1 by Aerith, 1 by Mimi, 1 by Christopher, 3 by Knuckles, 1 by Tails, 3 by Billy, 1 by Silver, 2 by Amy)
* Villains' Insult Count: 20 (1 by Cortex, 2 by Loki, 2 by Ripper, 2 by Vanitas, 1 by Komodo Joe, 2 by Mummymon, 5 by Myotismon, 2 by Hunter J, 1 by Sephiroth, 2 by Pinstripe)
* Insult count: 37
* Locations: City Streets, City Sewers, Mobians' Sewer Lair, Jotundrome, Center of the Earth, Channel Six Building, and Cybertek Laboratory
* Vehicles: Mobian Van, Pneumatic Module, and Catering Truck
* Gadgets: Mobiancom, Mind-Transfer Device, and Brain Scanner
* Grubber is revealed to have three special talents; Imitating other characters' voices, playing a violin, and adjusting his body into a normal figure temporally (Which also makes him talk normal).
* The music Grubber played on his violin at the beginning of the episode was a excerpt of the Spring section of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons."
* Koala has, by now, warmed up to riding in Modules. Before, he hated it due to the rides being bumpy.
* Tails' pizza-maker invention looks unsurprisingly like Playmates "Pizza Thrower" vehicle. The toy debuted in 1989.

## Goofs

* In the shot where Cloud, in Vanitas' body, calls Moe a "Scrofulous ignoramus," Vanitas' body's eyes are colored a darker shade of yellow instead of a normal shade of yellow.
* In the shot where Vanitas, in Cloud's body, says "I said, 'Attack,'" Cloud's body's eyes are blue instead of aqua green.
* When Elise, Christopher, and Tai's groups react to Jamieson calling out to them, Ace's wristbands briefly flash from red, white, and blue striped to solid blue to red, white, and blue striped again.

## Character Appearances

**Heroes**

* Ace D. Copular
* Adagio Dazzle
* Aerith Gainsborough
* Agumon
* Allison Oriana
* Amy Rose
* Applejack
* Aria Blaze
* Big the Cat
* Big William "Billy" W. Williams
* Biyomon
* Blaze the Cat
* Braeburn
* Caramel
* Charmy Bee
* Cheese the Chao
* Chris Thorndyke
* Christopher Aonuma
* Cloud Strife
* Comet Tail
* Cosmo the Seedrian
* Cream the Rabbit
* Dingodile/Dale Wallaroo
* E-123 Omega
* Elise Oriana III
* Ember
* Espio the Chameleon
* Flash Sentry
* Fluttershy
* Froggy
* Gabumon
* Gatomon
* Gomamon
* Grubber J. Gribberish
* Izzy Izumi
* J. Jonah Jamieson
* Joe Kido
* Kara Wallaroo
* Kari Kamiya
* Kayla the Wolf
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Li'l Arturo de la Guerra
* Matt Ishida
* Max the Wolf
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Mimi Tachikawa
* Palmon
* Patamon
* Pinkie Pie
* Pokey Pierce
* Rainbow Dash
* Rarity
* Rouge the Bat
* Roxanne Pear
* Sanford "Snake" D. Ingleberry
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Soarin
* Sonata Dusk
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sora Takenouchi
* Spike
* Starlight Glimmer
* Sunset Shimmer
* Tai Kamiya
* Tentomon
* Thunderlane
* Tikal
* Tiny Tiger/Tucker Tigerson
* TK Takaishi-Ishida
* Trixie
* Twilight Sparkle
* Vector the Crocodile
* Yuffie Kisaragi

**Villains**

* Arukenimon (Temporally changes into her Beast form in this)
* Cubot
* Demidevimon
* Dr. Eggman
* Dr. Nefarious Tropy
* Dr. Neo Cortex
* Dr. Nitros Brio
* Dr. Nitros Gin
* General Traag
* Granitor
* Hunter J
* Infinite
* Koala Kong/Kent Kong
* Komodo Joe/Joe Komadipatatim
* Komodo Moe/Moe Komadipatatim
* Loki
* Mephiles the Dark
* Mummymon (Temporally changes into his Beast form in this)
* Myotismon
* Nitros Oxide
* Orbot
* Pinstripe Potoroo/Paul "Pinstripe" Potolini
* Rilla Roo/Richard Rooter
* Ripper Roo/Ricky Rooter
* Sephiroth
* Tribot
* Uka-Uka
* Vanitas

## Episode Titles in Other Languages

* Japanese
	+ 奇妙な行動！ クラウドとバニタスのマインドスイッチド
	+ Kimyōna Kōdō! Kuraudo to Banitasu no Maindo Suitchido
	+ Strange Behaviors! Cloud and Vanitas Mind Switched
* English
	+ USA: The Old Switcheroo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians Version)
	+ UK: The Ol' Switcheroo
* Latin America Spanish
	+ Extraño Interruptor Mental
	+ Strange Mind Switch
* Castilian Spanish
	+ Extraño Interruptor Mental
	+ Strange Mind Switch
* Catalan
	+ Comportaments Estranys
	+ Strange Behaviors
* French
	+ Le Conscience Commutateur du Cloud et Vanitas
	+ The Mind Switch of Cloud and Vanitas
* Canadian French
	+ Bouton nan Lespri nan Cloud ak Vanitas
	+ The Mind Switch of Cloud and Vanitas
* German
	+ Seltsame Verhaltensweisen
	+ Strange Behaviors
* Italian
	+ Gli Strani Comportamenti di Cloud e Vanitas
	+ The Strange Behaviors of Cloud and Vanitas
* Portuguese
	+ Cloud e Vanitas de Mente Trocada
	+ Cloud and Vanitas Mind Switched
* Brazilian Portuguese
	+ Cloud e Vanitas de Mente Trocada
	+ Cloud and Vanitas Mind Switched
* Mandarin Chinese
	+ 奇怪的行为！云与瓦尼塔斯思维转换
	+ Qíguài de Xíngwéi! Yún yǔ Wǎ ní tǎ sī Sīwéi Zhuǎnhuàn
	+ Strange Behaviors! Cloud and Vanitas Mind Switched
* Cantonese Chinese
	+ 奇怪的行为！云与瓦尼塔斯思维转换
	+ Qíguài de Xíngwéi! Yún yǔ Wǎ ní tǎ sī Sīwéi Zhuǎnhuàn
	+ Strange Behaviors! Cloud and Vanitas Mind Switched
* Korean
	+ 이상한 행동! 구름과 바니 타스 마음 전환
	+ Isanghan Haengdong! Guleumgwa Bani taseu Ma-eum Jeonhwan
	+ Strange Behaviors! Cloud and Vanitas Mind Switched
* Danish
	+ Den Gamle Kontakt
	+ The Old Switch
* Dutch
	+ De Vreemde Schakelaar
	+ The Strange Switch
* Swedish
	+ Det Konstiga Växla
	+ The Strange Switch
* Icelandic
	+ Hið Undarlega Hugur Skipta
	+ The Strange Mind Switch
* Norwegian
	+ Det Rare Tanker Bytte om
	+ The Strange Mind Switch
* Thai
	+ พฤติกรรมแปลก! เปลี่ยนคลาวด์และวานิทัสจิตแล้ว
	+ Phvtikrrm Pælk! Pelī̀yn Khlā wd̒ læa Wā ni thạs̄ Cit Læ̂w
	+ Strange Behaviors! Cloud and Vanitas Mind Switched
* Russian
	+ Чумовая пятница ум переключатель
	+ Chumovaya Pyatnitsa Um Pereklyuchatel'
	+ Freaky Friday Mind Switch
* Polish
	+ Zakręcony Umysł Przełącznik
	+ Freaky Mind Switch
* Finnish
	+ Pelottava Mieli Vaihtaa
	+ Freaky Mind Switch
* Hungarian
	+ Cloud és Vanitas Ész Kapcsolt Kalandja
	+ Cloud and Vanitas' Mind Switched Adventure
* Greek
	+ Το μεγαλο Διανομέας μυαλού
	+ To Megalo Dianoméas Myaloú
	+ The Big Mind Switch
* Hebrew
	+ מתג השכל הגדול
	+ Mtg Hshkl Hgdvl
	+ The Great Mind Switch
* Arabic
	+ تبديل العقل
	+ Tabdil Aleaql
	+ Mind Switch

## Episode Links

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