I'm Bored

"**I'm Bored**" is the first segment of the eight episode of the first season of *Hamster & Gretel*, and the fifteenth episode overall. It is paired with "Cutie and the Beast" and premiered on Disney Channel on September 24, 2022.

Gretel announces that she is bored, which proves to be a mistake as Carolina forces her to do chores around the house because of it. Kevin and Hamster manage to escape, leading to them facing off against the rodent-hating X-Terminator.

## Plot

One day, Gretel complains to Kevin about there being nothing to do, quoting Shakespeare in the process. However, she makes the grave mistake of saying, "I'm so bored," out loud, prompting Carolina to task her with various household chores. This leaves Hamster and Kevin to have some bonding time per suggestion of Gretel, only for them to respond to a distress alert about a collapsed building. With help from Fred, Hamster and Kevin track the location of the distress call to an abandoned warehouse, where they encounter X-Terminator, a mad scientist who was fused with a rat containment unit during a lab accident. X-Terminator traps Hamster and plots to get rid of all rodents in the world.

Hamster defeats an army of robot minions, while Kevin manages to use PiRat―another one of the X-Terminator's gadgets―to his advantage, freeing Hamster and defeating X-Terminator. When Gretel finally manages to escape being constantly bombarded with chores thanks to Dave making the same grave mistake as Gretel, she is disappointed that she missed the battle, but is simultaneously happy that Hamster and Kevin were able to bond.

## Cast and characters

* Meli Povenmire as Gretel Grant-Gomez
* Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
* Beck Bennett as Hamster
* Joey King as Fred Grant
* Carolina Ravassa as Carolina Grant-Gomez
* Matt Jones as Dave Grant
* John DiMaggio as X-Terminator
* Debra Wilson as GPS Voice

## Songs

* Stomps (jingle)
* Get Ready for a Rumble

## Transcript

*Click here to read the full transcript of **"I'm Bored"**.*

## Background information

### Trivia

* This and "Cutie and the Beast" is the first pair of episodes of the season and series to air out of production order.
* This episode (along with "I'm Bored") premiered on Disney Channel right after the mid-season 3 premiere of *Big City Greens*.

### Allusions

* ***Macbeth*** - Gretel's first line in the episode is a paraphrase of a line from this Shakespeare play.

### Errors

* On the Disney General Entertainment Content press website, "I'm Bored" has its synopsis erroneously merged with that of "Cutie and the Beast", while "Cutie and the Beast" is instead given the synopsis for "U.F. UH-OH!" Parts I and II by accident. The erroneous synopses match precisely with the synopses for these episode pairs as they appear on Disney+, so it is likely that the error stems from the Disney+ synopses being copied and indiscriminately applied to "I'm Bored" and "Cutie and the Beast" separately (with the fact that the production code for "I'm Bored"/"Cutie and the Beast" is 109 and that of "U.F. UH-OH!" is 110 making this causation more likely).

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.dgepress.com/disneybrandedtelevision/shows/hamster-gretel/episodes/im-bored-cutie-and-the-beast/
2. ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/hamster-gretel-vol-1/id1635863430