The Backyardigans (Monsters University Style) Season 2 Episode 19/20 The Time Traveling Remark

**The Backyardigans (Monsters University Style) Season 2 Episode 19/20 The Time Traveling Remark** is an upcoming double length episode on The Backyardigans (Monsters University Style) series. It is the last episode of Season 2 before Season 3. It is also featured in the 2023 Fall-logy.

## Synopsis

Art, Mike and Sulley must fight Commander Squishy who wants to seek vengeance on them and has acquired a spell that could change the past, present, and future forever. The boys continue to try to stop Commander Squishy from changing the past, but they worry their efforts may be in vain.

## Plot

The episode begins with Art, Mike and Sulley practicing for an upcoming lecture about Past, Present and Future. They then greet the viewer and introduce themselves as The Traveling Threesome who travels time and do lectures. They then sing "The Traveling Threesome" as they explain how they do it. They mention about having to being extra careful that mean monsters may lurk around. Art tells them to start their lecture at the School of Gifted Monsters, the trio run off. The background transforms into the School of Gifted Monsters. During their lecture the next day, Mike, Sulley and Art talk about Oozma Kappa's winning glory that led to them becoming real scarers. In the middle of their lecture, Art briefly sees Squishy in the audience recording while snickering, but he disappears just moments later, making Art nervous.

On the way back to the traveling hotel, Art worriedly wonders what Squishy could be up to. In the hotel room, the boys find Squishy sitting in one of the thrones. He reveals his name as Commander Squishy, the boys sing "I am Commander Squishy" as he uses a magic scroll. Commander Squishy casts a spell that opens a portal over the time traveling machine, and he vanishes through it, leaving the scroll behind. When Mike touches the scroll, the spell on it activates again, and Sulley, Mike and Art are dragged through the portal as well.

Twilight and Spike land in the Scaring Program. When they see the misfits, they realize they have traveled back in time to the day the misfits failed the Scaring Program one way or another. During the Dean's argument, Commander Squishy watches as the misfits leave, humiliated as he harshly casts them out.

As Sulley confronts Commander Squishy about what he has done, the time portal opens again and pulls him, Mike and Art inside, returning them to the future. As a result of Squishy's actions in the past, history has been altered: the house, leaving only the map; much of Monsters University has been abandoned; Monsters Inc is now an industrial apple-processing plant; and the Winter Realm is encroaching upon the rest of the Monster World. They find Terri/Terry, and they explains that when before the WInter Realm was vanished, Icynator forced all of the winter citizens into her army and began to wage all-out war against the Monster World, and the rest of the teams now serve as members of Celia's army.

Intent on setting things right, Mike and Sulley use the scroll to travel into the past again, making sure to arrive a few minutes before they arrived last time. However, Commander Squishy is there waiting for them, and he traps art, Mike and Sulley in a giant rainbow colored crystal block. He explains the spell is programmed so that if Twilight tries to use it, Commander Squishy will always arrive before they do. After singing "The Past, Present and Future will be under my control", as he will succeed on his dream/goal on control the Past, Present and Future, he shoves the crystal and it plummets out of the clouds. After Mike frees himself, Sulley and Art from the crystal before it hits the ground and it's too late, they go to confront Commander Squishy and finds him talking with the Dean and the misfits that they have to be nice and try harder, convincing them to be helpful with tutoring.

With the misfits doing better than before with great advice, Mike approaches the Dean and tries to convince her to do bring them back in, but the Dean refuses, unnerved by Art's behavior and status. As Commander Squishy gloats, Mike, Sulley and Art are suddenly pulled back into the future again.

When the boys return to the future, the timeline has changed yet again, with Monstropolis being covered in dense trees. Don and Sherri confront them at spear-point, accusing them of being changelings.

Twilight Sparkle and Spike insist to Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and the other ponies that they are not changelings, but they don't believe them. Zecora appears and covers Twilight and Spike in a magical salve that indicates they are from a different reality. As the group walks through the woods, Zecora explains how Queen Chrysalis rose to power, and Twilight explains how Starlight Glimmer's actions have changed history, resulting in this alternate timeline.

Zecora leads Twilight and Spike to a wooded camp, where ponies hide away from Chrysalis' sight. When Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash appear and say Chrysalis has attacked Ponyville, Zecora immediately recognizes them as changelings in disguise. Applejack is revealed to be the changeling queen herself, and her army descends upon the camp. As Zecora and her resistance fend off the attack, Twilight and Spike race back to the Cutie Map and return to the past.

Upon returning to past Cloudsdale, Twilight faces off against Starlight in a clash of magic. Filly Rainbow Dash stops the race to watch their battle, causing the sonic rainboom to be prevented again. Twilight and Spike are pulled back to the future once more.

Twilight and Spike are returned to a future of perpetual nighttime, and a group of timberwolves chases them toward the Castle of the Two Sisters. As a result of the timeline being altered again, the castle still stands, Nightmare Moon rules over Equestria, and Rarity and Rainbow Dash are her followers.

Upon learning that Twilight has been traveling through time, Nightmare Moon demands to know the source of her time magic, intending to change history herself so that the Elements of Harmony are never discovered. She even takes Spike hostage to ensure Twilight's compliance. Twilight leads Nightmare Moon to the Cutie Map to dispose of the timberwolves before she catches her off-guard, rescues Spike, and uses Starlight's scroll to return to the past once again.

Twilight returns to the past yet again, determined to stop Starlight Glimmer's efforts. A montage sequence follows in which Twilight fails to stop Starlight from preventing the sonic rainboom and she is returned to a different future each time. In one alternate timeline, Lord Tirek lays waste to Equestria virtually unopposed. In another timeline, an unreformed Discord rules Equestria with his chaos. In yet another, Flim and Flam bulldoze entire forests to fulfill their needs.

Despite her numerous failures, Twilight refuses to stop trying, even if her conflict with Starlight could last for eternity. Just before she is pulled back to the future, Twilight drags Starlight with her to show her the outcome of her actions.

When Twilight, Spike, and Starlight return to the future, Equestria has been reduced to a desolate wasteland. Though initially shocked by the outcome, Starlight refuses to believe this is the result of the Mane Six not being friends, and she lashes out at Twilight for ruining what she built. Twilight says she doesn't know what Starlight has been through to make her this way, and Starlight angrily decides to show her, bringing the three back to the past one more time.

Starlight takes Twilight and Spike to her old hometown, where she was once best friends with a unicorn colt named Sunburst. After an incident in which Sunburst stops a tall stack of books from falling on top of Starlight, Sunburst gains his cutie mark. When he leaves for Canterlot to study magic amidst praise from the whole town, Starlight is left feeling abandoned. She never makes another friend out of fear that a cutie mark would take them away from her too.

Starlight brings the three back to past Cloudsdale and prepares to stop the rainboom from happening again. She also prepares to rip the time travel scroll so that her changes to the timeline are permanent. Twilight pleads to Starlight once more, having witnessed numerous terrible futures. Starlight again refuses to accept that Twilight's relationship with her friends is special, but Twilight tells her the Mane Six's differences are what make their friendship strong.

Starlight is still heartbroken over her friendship with Sunburst, so Twilight tells her to make new friends and work out problems that arise together. She extends her hoof to Starlight, and Starlight slowly takes it as the sonic rainboom goes off uninterrupted.

Twilight, Starlight, and Spike return to the future with the original timeline restored, and the time travel scroll vanishes in a flash of light. Twilight's friends arrive to see what is going on, and they are troubled by Starlight's presence.

A short time later, Twilight tells her friends about her ordeals while traveling through time, and they discuss the best way to deal with Starlight Glimmer. Applejack believes that Starlight is too powerful to allow to roam free, so Twilight decides to help her learn more about friendship and make Equestria a better place, and the rest of the Mane Six agree. In recognition of her new beginning, Starlight Glimmer leads her new friends in an uplifting song about how friendship changes the world.

Uniqua's stomach rumbles. She invites the cast over for toast and jam at her house. The rest accept Uniqua's offer as the factory transforms back into the backyard. The children sing the end song and enter Uniqua's pink house. Uniqua and Tyrone open the previously closed door and shout "Can't stop the cops!"

## Roles

* Art as
* Mike Wazowski as
* Sulley as
* Don Carlton as
* Scott "Squishy" Squibbles as Commander Squishy
* Terri Perry as
* Terry Perry as
* Sherri as