Dom and Bern: Motor Madness

**Dom and Bern: Motor Madness** is the eighth episode of the Punch Time Exploders Chronicles series. During the events of Punch Time Exploders and the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, the United Universal Police Department has discovered that Bernadette has been operating various vehicles without a driver's license, as her Greylands-issue driver's license had expired. But when SpongeBob accompanies her, and his actions cause him to fall into the clutches of a dangerous street gang, she may need a little help to get him back, and not just from Dominator.

## Trivia

* This marks the Chronicles debut of Officer Axel Wattson, who appeared in *Punch Time Exploders and the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie*.
	+ The Chronicle also introduced the United Universal Police Department, as well as Sam and Max, the latter of whom Bernadette will meet properly in a later moisode.
* Before post-production, The Rage Rovers were originally going to have darker backstories.
	+ Max Rover was originally supposed to be the shadow leader of the Rage Rovers. He was also originally a disgruntled office worker whose hatred of traffic slowups got the better of him drove him to dealing with the United Universal Mafia and forming the aforementioned street gang, but Scroopfan had changed the script so that his brother Reagan was the main villain all along.
		- This change occurred because the logic of Max winding up the way he did, even if cause of mafia interference, seemed strongly questionable of giving someone with a proven hatred for bad drivers that kind of power even if it's meant to be for parole purposes, and that these abuses would've been reported and gotten Max arrested again by now. Additionally, the change to make Reagan the leader instead and not have Max be a shadow leader cause it also contradicted why Max would bother with an infamously known bad driver if as a supposed paroled DMV/True Leader figure, he should've already known nothing good would come with any interaction.
		- On the Subject of Max, Max was also revised to be a kinder figure to Spongebob, even being a fan of him to add flavor to the fact that Max was the one helping him out, while also being more earnest in the revision. Additionally, Reagan was made more aggressive than originally and basically had Max's former origins, give or take tweaks.
	+ The Frozen Kids Treat Man was originally a victim of circumstance when a group of children managed to tip over the truck, causing him to get revenge by creating a prop frozen pop containing a fake skeleton called the "Frozen Kids Treat" as a scare tactic, hence the moniker.
		- The reason for the change speaks for itself. Even for what PTE and SAF had been guilty of letting happen, causing or threatening a kid with death was too much. So, it was changed that FKTM became so afraid of children that he couldn't even THINK about wanting to do anything.
	+ Techwagen was originally charged with the assumed murder of his wife when he got revenge on her by getting out of his flying car while driving her to work. After he was imprisoned, his wife, revealed to be alive, finalized a divorce.
		- The reason was also for much of the fact that this was considered too intense and ergo was toned down to that the divorce happened sooner and for reasons not relating to the flying car, working with the angle of a troubled marriage.
	+ The Rat Dog Pack were originally part of a circus act that they quit after losing family to bad drivers. Fortunately, this was the only origin that was kept in. Largely because it's assumed that the lost family members were mostly adults and happened in circumstances beyond control. And/or are more related to the Road Rover's aim at bad drivers where it's argued that FKTM and Techwagen technically don't have a real reason to be in a group like such and didn't even get victimized by bad drivers but instead personal trauma (FKTM) and marriage problems (Techwagen), though their place was justified by existential crisis and divorce rage, added to Reagan being manipulative, being why they're here at all.
	+ Additionally, there was going to be a final battle involving Max controlling a giant robot to destroy cars while leaving the drivers alive.
		- This change was in relation to the bigger changes with Max and Reagan overall, along with the other rovers.

## See Also

Dom and Bern: Driver's License: A non-canon fallback Short.

Dom and Bern: Motor Madness (X-OvrLuvr Version): The original scrapped version of this episode.