Peabody's Adventures of Sniffy Out West

**Peabody's Adventures of Sniffy Out West** is the 2nd episode of the second season of *Peabody's Jamming Adventures,* and the tenth episode of the overall series.

## Synopsis

Emperor Sniffy and Lady Kaitlin are having a fall vacation in their train, the Oklahoma Zephyr, when they are blasted by Sir Raybert the mollusk-man to the ghost town of Sulphur, Colorado, where they meet young Space Cowpoke Dean Littleton and a broken down android. The android turns out to be an woman with amnesia and a price on her head. It is in fact Abigail Ballard, princess of Sulphur, who has been put in this predicament by the power hungry vizier Scarcheek Capote. Dean, the Oklahomans, and loyal guardian Magpie Cowlick help Abigail claim her throne, battle the armada of mollusk-men and settle a dispute with General Odie Seuss, the Space Cowpokes clan leader, and his daughter Raffaela, as the fate of royalty hangs in the balance.

Meanwhile, Mr. Peabody and Sherman reunite with Ash Ketchum and Pikachu, and this time, they make the aquaintance of Ash's old playmate, Molly Hale, whose psychic powers can save them from familiar foe Dr. Claw and nasty newcomer Cat R. Waul, as culture will never be the same.

## Plot

In a framing device, dog genius Mr. Peabody introduces himself, his boy Sherman and the WABAC machine to the viewers, and then proceeds to tell the time-travel story.

In 2005 Colorado, Emperor Sniffy and Lady Kaitlin are searching for the ghost town of Sulphur, on their private train the Oklahoma Zephyr, when a menacing spider tank crawls by and performs a transmission. This tank belongs to a squid-like extraterrestrial overlord namednamed Sir Raybert who threatens to zap the Zephyr for an intergalactic bypass, which he does. The wrecked Zephyr lands coincidentally on Sulphur. The Oklahomans temporarily visit the town until they have the train fixed. At the same time, Mr. Peabody and Sherman arrive to study Coloradoan culture, only to reunite with Sniffy and Kaitlin. Back too, are Ash Ketchum and Pikachu, who remember their team-up with Misty and Brock, but with those characters out of the picture now, the current teammates prepare to study someone else, as the dog tells his son, "Time works in mysterious ways." With those words, Peabody & Sherman take their history lesson around Granby, the town next door.

The duo's action is being spied on by their old enemy, Dr. Claw, who is aided by new henchmen, a British aristocratic cat named Cat R. Waul and a shifty spider named T.R. Chula. Claw tells them that now that he can longer compete with Peabody physically with electricity, only mentally with a vinyl record that plays experimental music for mind control. He then sends Waul to "scratch out Peabody" to prevent anymore escapes, and Chula to "stun whoever is in cahoots with Peabody," so no one can protect him then. With their help, Claw would be able to harness his victims' imagination to "become the cleverest man there is."

Nearby, a rugged Space Cowpoke named Dean Littleton has finished his lunch at the Stagecoach Inn, only to be met by crimelord Flim Flaneurz. The burly bounty hunter demands the money that Dean owed him. The cowpoke tries to gain some time, by means of gathering 50 bits at the Ute Mine. Flaneurz agrees, but he makes it clear that if Dean fails again, he would put such a high price on his head, that he won't be able to go anywhere without an entire army of hunters waiting to collect it. Eventually, Dean meets the Oklahomans, and offers them a reward for getting him out of his scrape, an amount of enough bits to fix the Zephyr, and the duo agree.

Sniffy, Kaitlin and their new friend Dean befriend a mysterious woman disguised as a droid. Captured by Flaneurz, they are forced to mine magnesium, a valuable unstable chemical element used in science labs, which Flaneurz plans to sell to the authorities. In the mines they meet Magpie Cowlick, who identifies their friend as Abigail Ballard, Princess of Sulphur. Together they defeat the crimelord and escape the mines before they are destroyed in a magnesium explosion. After making themselves at home, the Oklahomans share an evening in town.

At the same time, Mr. Peabody and Sherman start to make wigwams, as Ash and Pikachu are approached by a bear-like pokemon Ash identifies as a Teddiursa. Peabody tells Sherman to play dead, and Teddiursa is sucked back into his pokeball, whose owner is a blonde-haired, blue-dressed girl. She apologizes for her pet's "snack issue," and Ash remembers her as his old playmate, Molly Hale, as they hug after being apart for so long. Touched by this reunion, Mr. Peabody and Sherman introduce themselves, and Molly has also heard of Sniffy's heroism over the magic eclipse years ago. Sherman has a happy thought that "everyone near or far knows Sniffy." Suprisingly, Molly agrees with Sherman about Sniffy's fame, and the stunned Sherman asks if Molly has "read his thoughts," and she explains that she has psychic powers during her encounter with mind warping pokemon called Unown, which inspired her to go on a pokemon quest of her own. At first, Mr. Peabody finds this action "normally intrusive," but allows it in light of Molly's long-forgotten friendship with Ash. As the teammates wish each other good night, the eavesdropping Waul is genuinely fascinated with Molly and her psychic powers to the point of putting her near Claw's record player, despite the initial doubt of Chula.

The following day, the evil vizier Scarcheek Capote embarks upon a scheme to do away with Abigail for good. He used his magic to transform the princess into an addle-brained amnesiac. Dressing her up as a broken-down android, he exiled her from Sulphur, forcing her to wander the country as a simple-minded drifter. Magpie recovered the Royal Scepter and fled her home world in the hopes of one day returning it to the princess. This greatly angered Scarcheek, for without the scepter, he could not legally assume the power of the throne. Scarcheek hires his minion Fluffy and instructs him to recover Abigail and the scepter.

Back in town, Dean, Magpie & the Oklahomans welcome Abigail to her first day back at the throne, requiring responsibility. The princess needs someone to guard the recovered scepter, and Dean guesses it would be the Oklahomans. The normally arrogant Sniffy tried to object, adding that he "didn't come this far to be mugged," but the rational Kaitlin reminds him of the deal, that in order to have their train fixed, they have to "stay on the cowpokes' good side," so he agrees.

That night, Fluffy eventually tracks them back to Sulphur and manages to acquire the royal scepter. With it, he was able to successfully capture Abigail and bring her before his boss. Scarcheek casts the princess into a dungeon pit in the hopes that she would be consumed by a monstrous monitor lizard. The only thing left to do was to assume the mantle of King of Sulphur.

In order to properly obtain the title, Scarcheek has to present the royal scepter to the Keeper of the Tower and place it inside of a special housing at the first sun of the equinox. However, with help from Dean, Magpie and the Oklahomans, Abigail manages to escape from the lizard pit and intercepts Scarcheek at the tower. He takes the scepter from her and places it inside of the tower. After the Oklahomans disguise themselves as Fluffy and scare the vizier, while the real Fluffy fainted, Scarcheek was then imprisoned for his treason, his chances of becoming king forever lost. After witnessing Abigail obtain the throne, and Dean serving as her friend, and Magpie serving as Dean's guardian, the Oklahomans spend another night in the city.

Back at their campsite, Mr. Peabody and Sherman are approached by Pikachu, whose speech is translated by Peabody, who interprets that the yellow mouse is hanging out with the dog boys, so Ash and Molly could date undisturbed. At that moment, Ash trains Molly how to control her psychic powers. Suddenly, the training is interrupted by a surprise invasion by Claw and his men. Holding the kids captive, Claw greets Ash and describes Molly as "the psychic girl his boys wouldn't stop wimpering about." The misty-eyed Waul agrees with this remark, and Chula suggests they take their prisoners to their lair. As Claw hauls them away, Ash has Molly use her brain power to call for help, which she desperately does. At the campground, Sherman recieves a telpathic message and alerts his father about Claw returning and kidnapping Ash & Molly. Peabody tries to tell his son that this capture is only a trap for the dog boys, but Sherman insists that he saves his imprisoned friends, before they are at the mercy of Claw, as Peabody and Pikachu follow behind to "make sure he doesn't hurt himself."

While delivering much needed salt to Sulphur, the pump is hijacked by Sniffy & Kaitlin's old foe, Sir Raybert. Dean, Magpie and the Oklahomans are captured and taken to the alien fortress Mollusk-men, Inc. As soon as they land within the mountain base, Raybert’s henchmen swarm upon them and imprison them in the dungeon hold of the spider tank. The Mollusk-men force them to walk the plank into the Grand Lake below. A large green waterbug, known as the Fly Spy, rises from the lake depths. Raybert admires the four friends' courage, and punches Kaitlin hard into the water below! Sniffy dives in after her, only to start sinking too! As the Mollusk-men crawl off, Dean and Magpie struggle in the water, Kaitlin pulls them to safety, and Sniffy wrestles away the Fly Spy. They are grateful to have saved each other, and they race off to stop Raybert and his men.

At his lair, Claw, strapping Ash & Molly to chairs, claims that using his mind record, he will sell his music to countless music stores across the globe that will "allow him to acquire all knowledge of the universe." Ash retorts that "dizzying him won't get Claw anywhere." Claw agrees, but has his men dizzy Molly instead, rendering her to an "immobile couch potato!" Ash urges them to let her go, but Claw retorts that Ash "should've chosen his friends more carefully." They leave in seeming triumph, and when they are gone, Ash frees himself and begs the comatose Molly not to leave him. Luckily, Mr. Peabody and Sherman arrive on the scene, thanks to the telepathic message. Ash tells the two of Molly's unconciousness, and the upset Sherman finds his history lesson a failure. Just when all seemed lost, Peabody remembers the notion that vinyl siding can melt when exposed to high temperatures. Ash has Pikachu use his thunderbolt attack to destroy the much hated record. Hopeful for this action, Ash begs Molly to wake up and promises that he will never take her kindness for granted ever again. Molly comes around, and the delighted Ash tells her that he "has friends in high places." Sherman then gets a phone call from Sniffy, who tells him to meet the team at Mollusk-men, Inc, because they need a whole army to take down Raybert. Hanging up, Sherman tells his father and friends Sniffy's instructions, and they scurry to battle in that direction.

Raybert escapes and kidnaps Raffaela Seuss, the daughter of General Odie Seuss, Abigail's political rival. Dean, Magpie and the Oklahomans follow Raybert to Mollusk-men, Inc. to rescue Raffaela before Abigail is handed over in exchange. This leads Sniffy and Kaitlin to overcome their differences and fight for the town together, which the Cowpokes also plan to do. When Dean and friends free Raffaela, Mr. Peabody, Sherman and the Pokegang introduce themselves, and they all prepare to get rid of Raybert once and for all.

But it was too late, Raybert had spotted them, and has one alien blast them with a hand stunner, shooting bolts of electricity. Magpie knocks out the crew. But more villains were approaching. Claw furiously boasts about "winning against the milk-suckers," and that they don't matter. and they challenge him to a classic pokemon match. Waul attacks with a revolver, but Pikachu uses his agility to corner him. When Chula takes Molly hostage, Molly sics Teddiursa on the spider, trapping him in his own web. When Peabody orders Claw to put his hand (and claw) up, Claw draws his scythe and advances on him for "putting his limbs out on a limb for too long." This obviously means that he is no longer willing to run away from a fight. They duel out, and the heroes use a nearby catapult to send Dr. Claw, Cat R. Waul and T.R. Chula out of Sulphur. The villains fly into the air and land into a mailbag, which a passing train picks up and leaves, as Claw vows revenge.

Sniffy tries to save Dean, but Raybert zaps the emperor with his own stunner. Kaitlin fights Raybert back for harming her friend, only for Raybert to zap her too. Seeing this attack on his friends, Dean draws his lightsaber and engages Raybert in a final battle. As the Oklahomans look on, Dean and Raybert slash at each other in a spray of sparks. Raybert disarms Dean, and the cowpoke knocks the evil alien to the ground. Raybert sheaths his sword, but pulls out a ray gun, ready to strike the final blow.

However the tables are turned when Abigail arrives with Odie and a squad of Sulphur soldiers cruising aboard their jeeps. Raybert attempts to escape during the ensuing firefight between his crew and the soldiers, but he is tackled by Sniffy and captured.

After seeing the renovated Sulphur, Ash and Pikachu, filled with mixed emotions, bid farewell to Molly, a proud pokemon trainer. Mr. Peabody and Sherman, having been close to her as well, bid her farewell too. Now that Dean is safe and has a loving family, Sniffy and Kaitlin reveal to Dean that they must move on to help another peasant in trouble. They say goodbye to Dean and happily ride away on the fixed Zephyr, back to Oklahoma. As they do, Emperor Sniffy and Lady Kaitlin are grateful to be friends at last.

Back to the framing device, Mr. Peabody and Sherman confess their love for each other, and the impressed dog remarks that "every dog should have a boy."

### Post credits scene

Raybert's voice can be heard complaining over the last 16 seconds of the film that everyone got a happy ending except for him.

## Trivia

### Story Behind the Story

Though this is technically a western, it has a few sneaked in space references, hence the plot based partly on *Star Wars* and partly on *Indiana Jones.* As for the plotline, *Chicken Little 2: Mission to Mars* is a cancelled sequel to *Chicken Little*. According to the book *Chicken Little: the Essential Guide*, it was going to be a sequel, but that never came to fruition, so the video game *Chicken Little: Ace in Action* serves as an actual sequel to that film. But liking how that game turned out was just the beginning; the more source materials I came by, the more chances I had at making another Sniffy entry, once again with a few original JAM touches.

### Peabody's Side

As stated above, there are western and space references, hence the appearances of the *Pokemon, Inspector Gadget* and *American Tail* characters.

### Early Concept

Originally, the movie didn't plan to show Mr. Peabody or Sherman telling Molly goodbye as well as Ash. It was only through studying the earlier telepathic message scene that the farewell scene was included.

### Connections

* 2005 saw the release of another Don Bluth production, *The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses.*
* 2005 saw the release of *Pokémon the Movie: Destiny Deoxys*.
* 2005 saw the release of *Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever.*
* The song *Pokemon Theme - 80's Remix* is inspired by Buckner & Garcia's video game based songs.
* Before Dan Castellaneta was chosen to play T.R. Chula, Jon Lovitz was also a candidate for the role. Dan and Jon had previously appeared together in *The Simpsons.*
* Magpie Cowlick is named after the *Home on the Range* character Maggie the Cow.
* Abigail Ballard is named after the *Chicken Little* character Abby Mallard.
* General Odie Seuss is named after Odysseus of Greek mythology.
* Raybert's lair, Mollusk-Men, Inc., is named after *Monsters, Inc.*

## Cast

Mr. PeabodyShermanAshPikachuMollyDr. ClawCat R. WaulT.R. ChulaSniffyKaitlinDeanMagpieAbigailRaybertScarcheekFluffyFlaneurzOdieRaffaelaNarrated by Steven Weber

### Songs:

* Peabody's Improbable History Theme Song
* Don't Go Breaking My Heart
* This Isn't Love
* He's the Greatest Dancer
* Together Again
* Pokemon Theme - 80's Remix
* Totally Bunga!
* End Title Songs: Roll to Me by Del Amitri and Way Back When by Steve Holy

## Full Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUGku-HucBQ|Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lZzx8qRpPA|Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh2uZVf4UAA|Part 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04SuXKagCuk|Part 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3AcypOBl0|Part 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOBR5Vtv\_Qw|Part 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U\_ApM4nBQc|Part 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyTqpHioUY0|credits

## Promotional Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymxd4cD-nnY&list=PLOixNFd7Oo8-AcbKYRTHCAEtA7lQScx-a&index=19|credits