Attack of the Killer App (Zhu Zhu Pets)

Attack of the Killer App is a Zhu Zhu Pets episode aired on December 31, 1994

## Characters

1. Mr. Squiggles
2. Pipsqueak
3. Num Nums
4. Chunk
5. Patches
6. Scoodles
7. Jilly
8. Nugget
9. Winkie
10. Mayor Zhuffles the light steel blue hamster (debut)
11. Snowball
12. Scoop the dark cyan reporter hamster (cameo)
13. Blue Alien (cameo)
14. Atom
15. Star, Pipsqueak's birthmark (only appearance)
16. Lumpy the chef hamster (cameo)
17. Infosquito (cameo)
18. Plum Octopus (cameo)
19. Spybots (cameo)
20. Sweetie (cameo)
21. Justice (cameo)
22. Sophie (cameo)
23. Carly (cameo)
24. Moo (cameo)
25. Spottie (cameo)
26. Rocky (cameo)
27. Pinkie (cameo)
28. Dezel (cameo)
29. Jinx (cameo)
30. Peachy (cameo)

## Plot

Mayor Zhuffles opens the 83rd or 84th annual *E-waste recycling festival* by throwing out the ceremonial first dump. Mr. Squiggles discards dangerously unstable Doomsday Devices, stating he'd rest easier not knowing where they were. Nugget, Jilly, Winkie, and Pipsqueak throw out a Japanese toilet because it knows too much. Chunk, trying to get rid of some "evidence", finds Snowball in one of the dumpsters – apparently the bending units are outdated, radioactive and cause erectile dysfunction. When a reporter asks Mayor Zhuffles whether E-waste was dangerous, he replies "Not at all, Scoop. Not after it's hurled off to the Third World by an expendable team of minimum-wage nobodies" – the Zhu Zhu Pets of course. Upon arriving on the Third World of the Antares System, a blue alien informs the gang that their "old clunker" will be dismantled shortly. When Pipsqueak clarifies that they have come to deliver E-waste, not the ship, the Zhu Zhu ship and Chunk are already befriended of their exterior. The waste is unloaded with a hover-dumpster and “processed” with gas and a match. The blue alien explains the process of burning the E-waste down to the usable metals, "safely" releasing the toxins into the air and the drinking water. Back at the Zhu Zhu building, Pipsqueak summarizes that she later learned some positive aspects of recycling, too, but an even better behavior is to not produce as much E-waste in the first place. She retrieves her outdated cellphone from a trashcan, only to throw it away again after watching a commercial for the new eyePhone. The entire crew agrees to buy eyePhones online and ditch their old phones. Outside, Winkie learns that by "online" Pipsqueak actually meant standing in line for the store, which is on the other side of the city. After the gang purchases their eyePhones they all start using them excessively and it is revealed that Atom designed the eyePhone and Twitcher to collect personal information for marketing purposes, updating old fashioned methods of gathering information such as Spybots and the Infosquito. Winkie becomes jealous of Chunk who has many more followers on Twitcher. They agree to put a wager on who would have a million followers first. Winkie says that he will not stoop to the sleazy level of Chunk's posts. After falling far behind and fearing the fact that he will have to dive into a pool of octopus ink, Winkie decides to leak a video of Pipsqueak lancing a singing birthmark on her back, called Star. This post allows Winkie to receive many followers and Chunk and Winkie both reach 1 million followers at the same time. Soon after the video is released, Pipsqueak becomes depressed, due to everyone looking at her embarrassing back birthmark, including when she leaves Lumpy's restaurant, where the breeze from a subway grate blows her coat up to her behind and she is then swarmed with paparazzi anxious to get photos of Star. Atom uses Twitcher to release a computer virus – affecting the hamster brain – upon the between one and two million followers of Chunk and Winkie, turning them into mindless zombies craving the new eyePhone 2.0. Winkie feels horrible about leaking the video of Pipsqueak and decides to dive into the pool of octopus ink even though he didn't have to. Pipsqueak tells Winkie that she is glad he released the video because now she doesn't have to hide Star. She is happy 22 times, and Winkie is happy 28 times. She is happy 4 times, and Winkie warns Pipsqueak about Atom's false information 10 times. He feels lousy about leaking a video of Pipsqueak's birthmark singing 1,052 times. He sees Atom staring blankly 45 times. Winkie gets angry at Atom 159 times, and Atom is terrified 165 times. Winkie is disapproving 25 times, and Atom gasps 31 times. Atom screams 41 times, and Winkie is trying to stop Atom and the mindless zombies 47 times. Atom is startled 21 times, and Winkie pushes him 27 times. Winkie scoffs 37 times. He turns Rocky back into a hamster with mind by using 25 healing carrots, and Atom is screaming 31 times. Atom is screaming in fear 45 times, and Rocky leaves running 51 miles. Atom kicks mindless Moo 120 times and screams 126 times. Winkie looks at mindless Moo 29 times, and Atom is looking at Winkie 35 times. Winkie punches Atom in the jaw and walks 30 miles. Atom is rubbing his head 55 times, and Winkie makes small talk in 61 seconds. Winkie babbles 39 times. Atom gasps 86 times, and Winkie babbles again 92 times.

## Errors

1. Mr. Squiggles is missing his hair.
2. Winkie's fur is dark gray instead of black.
3. Mr. Squiggles is missing his tongue.
4. Pipsqueak's cheeks, paws and patch are bright yellow instead of pale yellow.
5. coming soon

## Trivia

* Attack of the Killer App is the episode with 5 errors.
* Sweetie, Justice, Sophie, Carly, Pinkie and Peachy make a cameo in the paparazzo group to get photos of Star.
* Moo, Spottie, Rocky, Dezel and Jinx make a cameo in the crowd while turning into mindless zombies craving the new eyePhone 2.0 by Atom.
* Star is named after Pipsqueak's original name, a Zhu Zhu Puppy and Zhu Zhu Baby.