No Chalk

All of Space Tree's chalk seems to have disappeared. And that's PECULIAR.

## Transcript

*{Cut to Space Tree at the chalkboard.}*

**SPACE TREE:** Alright, class, it's time for the roll call. *{pulls out index card}* Mmm-hmm. *{reads}* Amanolla comma Allon?

*{Cut to the Commander and Allon at their desks. Allon's desk is still split in half.}*

**ALLON:** *(raises hand)* Here.

**SPACE TREE:** And finally, Commander comma the.

**COMMANDER:** Uh, he's *not* here. *(both him and Allon snicker)*

**SPACE TREE:** Now I'll write today's lesson on this board here and... huh, that's peculiar. All of my chalk seems to have disappeared!

**COMMNANDER:** Heh. I wonder how *that* could have happened.

**ALLON:** Heh, because we stole it.

**COMMNANDER:** Allon!

**SPACE TREE:** What are you talking about?

**COMMNANDER:** Well, Allon revealed it a little early, but we were just playing a little chalk prank on ya, Space Tree! Heh heh. Ahh... High five, Allon!

*(raises hand)*

**ALLON:** ... I can't reach that high.

**SPACE TREE:** Wait, so... without the chalk, with the- chalk, I don't- *(robotic)* DOES NOT COMPUTE!

*(he explodes, showing wires and crap inside him)*

**COMMNANDER:** ...

**ALLON:** ...

**COMMANDER:** Calm down, Space Tree. It's only chalk.

*(they're over by S.T. now)*

**ALLON:** Uh, I think he's *dead*, Commander!

**COMMANDER:** SAY WHAT!?

**ALLON:** I told you we shouldn't have chalk-pranked him!

**COMMANDER:** *(looking in Space Tree's mouth)* What's all this wires and crap inside him?

**ALLON:** Whoa. Space Tree was a robot?

**COMMANDER:** A robot? Geez... this whole time... in front of my own, *(blinks, his eyes are made more beautiful)* beautiful eyes!

**ALLON:** I don't know, Commander. This whole thing seems a little... improbable.

**COMMANDER:** No, it doesn't! It's all starting to make sense, Allon! In fact, I do remember this one time...

*(whoosh/flashback to episode #1)*

**SPACE TREE:** Space Tree is over here. Also, I'm a robot.

*(whoosh back to episode #35)*

**COMMANDER:** The evidence was right in front of me all along!

**ALLON:** Well, should we repair him now, or what?

**COMMANDER:** We have no choice, Allon. We have no choice.

**ALLON:** ...

**COMMANDER:** ... Do you know how to fix a robot?

**ALLON:** No. Do you?

**COMMANDER:** Well, I watched "Blade: Trinity" last night, so I think I have some idea.

**ALLON:** OK.

**COMMANDER:** Now let's fix this robot!

*(the screen shrinks to widescreen; slowly fade into a music video of the Commander fixing Space Tree)*

**COMMANDER:**

♫Fixin' a robot

Fixin' a robot

I've got a big hammer and I'm fixin' a robot tonight

Tonight...♫

♫Four steel plates will make it look good

Despite the fact that this robot is made of wood

It don't matter, cuz somehow it still looks right♫

♫Because I'm fixin a robot

Fixin a robot

I am the Commander and I'm

**COMMANDER AND ALLON:** Fixin' a robot...♫

*(fade out into normal, non-singing reality)*

**COMMANDER:** Well, it's been a gruelling 5 minutes of work, but I think Space Tree is finally repaired! *(pan out to see Space Tree "fixed" with steel plates and tape)* Pull the switch, Allon!

*(Allon pulls the switch, activating Robo-Space Tree)*

**SPACE TREE:** *(garbled)* I now know what it means to be loved.

**COMMANDER:** All right, he's back to normal!

*(He explodes)*

**COMMANDER:** God dammit, Allon!

**ALLON:** Sorry.

*(enter real Space Tree)*

**SPACE TREE:** What the hell did you two do to my robot clone?!

**COMMANDER:** Robot clone? I mean, robot *clone*?

**SPACE TREE:** That's right. I built this thing from various parts lying around the ship, then I left it here to teach the class while I went to run some errands down at the cardboard factory, and I told you this before I left this morning!

**COMMANDER:** Well, I thought you were being ironic!

**SPACE TREE:** ... Oh-ho, Commander... You're such a wacky and zany guy!

**COMMANDER:** I sure am, Space Tree!

*(S. Tree now wears his trademark sunglasses; both of them laugh for a few seconds, then after a while, the Commander's laughter becomes very forced)*

The End

*(roll end credits)*

## Easter Eggs

* On the left side of end screen, there is a hidden "Commander holding a saw" thing. Click it to see an alternate, revealing scene from Episode 1.
* On the right side, there is a hammer, it reveals Space Tree saying something "Italian".

## Fun Facts

* Often Students in High School or College will hide all the chalk in a classroom to force the teacher to leave and get new chalk.

* Ed Atlin confirmed in a post on the Space Tree forum that the sentence the clone says is "I now know what it means to be loved" backwards and then reversed, "so it would sound weird".
* Fixing a Robot is the Song sung by the Commander and Allon.

## References

* Allon's desk is still broken from episode 13.
* Space Tree teaches about Triangles
* This is the second time that Allon & the Commander have spoken simultaneously.
* This is the second home-made creature created by Space Tree from parts laying around the ship, with Jenalisha being the first.
* This is the 4th episode to reference or show a clip from the 1st episode. See also: Trouble at the Command Center.
* When Space tree says 'Oh-oh Commander,' it is in the same style as the Hairy Guy.

## Commentary Track

**With Space Tree and the Commander**

(Found on the March 2006 Secret Page)

**COMMANDER:** Hi, everyone. My name is Space Tree.

**SPACE TREE:** Just do it properly.

**COMMANDER:** Uhh, this is a commentary. And, uh, that's me. Sitting behind the desk. And, uh - why is that one still broken, Space Tree?

**SPACE TREE:** I dunno; you guys broke it.

**COMMANDER:** Why didn't you fix it?

**SPACE TREE:** Well, I didn't really see the point. You guys never seem to actually open the desk and take stuff out. I mean, look at it. You can see it's empty, right there. Plus, I don't think you ever actually, like, lean paper on the desk to write stuff down, any notes or anything.

**COMMANDER:** Well, that's probably your fault for not teaching us anything. You're always up there talking about, like, triangles...and rectangles.

**SPACE TREE:** Rectangles? I don't think I even mentioned *those.*

**COMMANDER:** Well, I - I invented them. That's why.

**SPACE TREE:** No you didn't. But, uh - whoa. What's all that stuff in my mouth?

**COMMANDER:** Uh, you just - that's not you. It's the robot. It just exploded.

**SPACE TREE:** Oh, right, yeah. A robot clone.

**COMMANDER:** See, it even had you fooled. I bet the audience was all like, "Whoa, man! Space Tree was a robot this whole time? They fooled us for thirty-five episodes. Or thirty-four. Whatever number this is.

**SPACE TREE:** Yeah. Um - what was up with your eyes there?

**COMMANDER:** They're my beaut - *(blubbers)* - beautiful eyes. Baby blues.

**SPACE TREE:** Yeah. More like...now this is my voice from Episode 1, where I'm like, "SPACE TREE IS OVER HERE! DOO DO DOOOOO, DOOHDUH!"

**COMMANDER:** Well, what's the difference, Space Tree? You still talk like that, pretty much.

**SPACE TREE:** No I don't.

**COMMANDER:** Yeah, but now you say, like, "Mama mia," as well.

**SPACE TREE:** Yeah. More like, *you* say that. And what is *Blade Trinity,* that you just mentioned on the screen?

**COMMANDER:** Y'know, it's that movie with...um...the robots, and Harrison Ford, and...

**SPACE TREE:** I think that's, uh...a different movie.

**COMMANDER:** Um...uh...that's the one with Will Smith.

**SPACE TREE:** What? Oh, just shut up, all right? Why are you singing here, and why did we suddenly go to widescreen? None of this cartoon makes any sense, all right?

**COMMANDER:** Well, this part's pretty cool. I get to, like - I'm fixing a robot. I...for some reason blood just squirted out of the robot. That's kinda weird.

**SPACE TREE:** Did that hurt, when you cut your fingers off, right there?

**COMMANDER:** No, I...sewed them back on with those colored bandages. That was pretty cool.

**SPACE TREE:** Well...nice goggles you had on, too.

**COMMANDER:** Well, you know, there's gonna be sparks flying around, so...I needed them to protect my beautiful eyes. And I did it all in five minutes, as well. "Pull the switch, Allon" ... "I now know, what it fee - "

**SPACE TREE:** Shut up, alright? I just...quote along with the thing. And it's - I'm talking backwards there, as well, which is kinda weird.

**COMMANDER:** It's not *you*, Space Tree. It's a robot.

**SPACE TREE:** Yeah, I know. I mean, a robot clone. But I - I played both parts, so...

**COMMANDER:** What do you mean?

**SPACE TREE:** I mean, y'know, we used that split screen technology, so I could play both roles on the screen, and then they...digitally, uh... in post production...put, like, a blue screen sound effect, into the... megadrive.

**COMMANDER:** Space Tree, you're makin' stuff up!

**SPACE TREE:** Yeah. But I did - those are my real sunglasses that I wore, sometimes. And, uh - that wasn't in the script, y'know. You just start, like, fake laughing, you - you just frigged it up.

**COMMANDER:** Nah, you know, I just ad-libbed it. I thought it'd be pretty cool.

**SPACE TREE:** Well, I think it'd be pretty cool if we stopped talking right now.

**COMMANDER:** No, I'm just gonna keep - I'm just gonna stay here for a while.

**SPACE TREE:** Well, I'm leaving.

**COMMANDER:** Well, fine. Go then.

**SPACE TREE:** *{distant}* Okay, bye.

**COMMANDER:** See ya.

**SPACE TREE:** *{still distant}* I'm going.