Firing Squad

**Written By** | Thomas Ridgewell
 **Animated By** | Ben Smallman
Anthony Price

**Firing Squad** is the sixth episode of Crash Zoom and the season finale of Series 1. It was released on May 18, 2018.

## Synopsis

Fired once again, Ben and Lucy must find a new job. That is, if Ben's film-making antics don't get in the way.

## Plot

Ben tries to make a cat food advert, but gets fired, due to it being an action movie featuring nothing about cat food.

Returning to Lucy, she scolds him for making every job into an action film, and offers him a job with her in retail. Ben's reckless behavior starts immediately as he blinds and turns a young man racist. Too bad he was already blind. Lucy stuffs Ben into the security room, as Ben pits the whole store against each-other in a death match for a Soupon (a coupon for soup). Before getting fired, Ben has both of them quit.

Returning to their rugged apartment, the two decide to look for a new job.

Job hunting doesn't go quite well, with every job being sabotaged by Ben and his reckless film-making.

One last job offer remains, help at a Science Laboratory. Before entering, Lucy warns Ben to not screw up this next job.

The scientist introduces himself as Bill Tedderson. After a small tour, he appoints them to the lavatory. Quickly becoming bored, Ben reverts back to film-making. Lucy, furious, throws Ben's camera out into the hallway, where it lands into a vat of ooze and transforming into a giant monster. Lucy calls Ben a trouble-maker who doesn't care about anyone but himself and his worthless movies. Upset, Ben walks out. Regretting her harsh words, she runs after him to apologize. Wherein she finds the camera monster.

Ben stands out on the balcony with Bill, where he tells him that he reminds him of himself. Young and blinded by ambition to the point where all his friends had left him. Leaving him with the advice to "cerise these moments, it may not last forever".

Ben walks back inside to apologize to Lucy, before being interrupted and ordered by her to defeat the monster. Ben jumps into action with a mop and defeats the beast. The camera turns itself into a giant green ooze monster, where it is promptly captured and contained by Bill.

Bill then fires the both of them for destroying his lab.

Back at the apartment, Ben announces his retirement from film-making. Saying he cerise's Lucy's friendship and company over his ambition. Inspiration strikes, and Lucy gets the idea for the two to make a film company.

In a post credits scene, the ooze monster is stolen by Kate and contained in a skull staff. Bill is about to shoot her, but puts the pencil-gun down in sadness.

## Characters

* Ben
* Wobbly advertising People (debut)
* Slide Whistles Person (debut)
* Fancy Person (debut)
* Lucy
* Kate
* That's Asdf Price's Boss (debut)
* Bill Tedderson (debut)
* Bill Tedderson's Dog (debut)
* Camera Monster (debut)

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to be released after a near two-year hiatus, with the last episode being uploaded in 2016.
	+ This is also the first Crash Zoom episode to have a runtime of 14 minutes, making it the longest episode of the show so far.

* This episode features an Ska version of the show's intro theme, along with different clips of the trio's escapades.
	+ An extended version of the show's main theme song also plays during the end credits.

* This episode is a remake of the first pilot episode "Fired", and features many elements and references as such from the unfinished pilot.
	+ Ben being fired from a company for making a terrible cat-food ad, the music heard in Ben's cat-food ad is also the same as it is in the scrapped pilot. The boss even uses the same voice clip.
	+ The way how he exists the building is also the same as in the original pilot.
	+ Lucy having a job at a supermarket.
		- At 2:10 Lucy's badge has the name Elliot crossed out and Lucy written over, this is in reference to the character Lucy was originally based on called Elliot.
* Kate plays on an orange and purple version of the Nintendo Switch.
* The line, *"Why the eye thing?"* is a reference to the same line an episode of Eddsworld- another web-toon both Tom and Eddie have previously worked on.

* A door with the words "No DeeDee" is a reference to *Dexter's Laboratory.*
* In 12:36 Lucy mentioned some team names the first is cakebomb and the second is turbo panch the first name cakebomb is the name of a team that tomska created with some friends in 2007 they broke up in 2010 and the second name turbo panch is the name of the team that make the crash zoom episodes