2-D Blacktop (Zhu Zhu Pets)

2-D Blacktop is a Zhu Zhu Pets episode aired on February 17, 1996

## Characters

1. Mr. Squiggles
2. Pipsqueak
3. Num Nums
4. Chunk
5. Patches
6. Scoodles
7. Jilly
8. Nugget
9. Winkie
10. Benny the light steel blue hamster
11. Minx the plum hamster

## Synopsis

Mr. Squiggles decides to turbo-charge the ship to make it even faster than before. Pipsqueak is not too thrilled with the idea and gets the ship towed for being unsafe. Mr. Squiggles manages to save the ship and join a street race gang while Pipsqueak gets a new ship that's completely safe.

## Plot

When Mr. Squiggles turbocharges the Zhu Zhu Ship and names it Bessy, something goes horribly wrong and the gang crash lands in the launch bay after a stall out.  When the gang has the ship towed to the salvage yard, Squiggles breaks in and upgrades the ship with parts from the scrap heap. On leaving the yard, Mr. Squiggles is accosted by two cars of street-racing hoodlums and challenges them to a race around central park, the loser of which is to make the winner's Medicare Co-payments for a year. Mr. Squiggles manages to win the race and evade the police by engaging his "dimensional drift." Later, meeting up with the hoodlums, he is invited to join their crew. They are apparently lead by Benny, who is romantically attached to Minx, an attractive young female gang member who keeps alluding to "unspoken verbal abuse" by her father. (Two other members of the gang do not have their names used in this episode.) Meanwhile at ZhuZhu Building, Pipsqueak has obtained a new safer, almost featureless delivery vehicle. They break in  the vehicle with a delivery to Glorianimus 3, a planet orbiting a fabulous rainbow giant star which unfortunately can't be seen during the delivery due to the fact that the new ship has no windshield. In fact, the new ship seems to take all the adventure out of the deliveries and the crew is surprised to find themselves back in the launch bay with the ship having made the delivery automatically. The gang becomes listless, waiting in the ready room, so Scoodles sends them on a grocery run and has Pipsqueak drop Winkie and Chunk off at their Karate class. Returning from her boring errands, Pipsqueak collides with a stop sign and finds herself accosted by Mr. Squiggles and his new crew in much the way Mr. Squiggles met the new crew. She challenges him to a drag race, which is to take place on a Moebiüs Drag Strip ("Once around both same sides of the half twist, and back to the start and finish line.") After a race sequence in which Mr. Squiggles again engages the dimensional drift, the two vehicles suffer a head-on collision in which Winkie is caught between the two vehicles. Again, Scoodles has to call the tow truck. Meanwhile, Winkie, Squiggles, Pipsqueak and Chunk (who was taking a nap in Pipsqueak's ship) find themselves in a two-dimensional realm called "Flatbush." Here they are taken to a feast in  their honor by the king of Flatbush, but they discover that they can't eat because their two-ended digestive system would divide a 2 dimensional being into separate pieces. When Mr. Squiggles determines that they need to return to the 3rd dimension or starve to death, the creatures of Flatbush become offended and the Zhu Zhu Pets has to escape. They make it to the original Zhu Zhu ship and theorize that if the dimensional drift feature let them go through the 4th dimension when the ship was 3D, engaging it as a 2D ship might return them to the third dimension. During their attempt, Mr. Squiggles notes that the number of dimensions they occupy is growing continuously ("two point one dimensions... two point two... two point pi") and the ship is seen surrounded by fractals. Meanwhile, at the scrap heap, the remaining Zhu Zhu hamsters and the street racing crew watch as the flattened remains of the two ships are about to be incinerated. As the blast furnace engages, the disk of scrap metal begins to bubble out and the Zhu Zhu Ship rematerializes in the third dimension. Finally, as everyone is celebrating, Minx receives a call from her father and gives everyone a thumbs up.

## Trivia

* 2-D Blacktop is the episode with no errors or deleted scenes.