Attack of Thermometron 9000

**"Attack of Thermometron 9000"** is the third episode of the first season of *Power Players*. It first premiered on August 30, 2019 on the Cartoon Network website, and it later premiered on TV on September 28, 2019 on Cartoon Network.

## Synopsis

Axel must wrangle Galileo and Bobbie to shut down a rogue thermostat – improperly upgraded by Slobot – as it plunges the house into extreme hot and cold zones.

## Plot

In Axel's room, Axel and Zoe are playing a fighting game that's based on the *Junior Genetic Spy Lizard* franchise, Galileo's toy line. However, during the game, Axel and Zoe start fighting over the volume of the game; Axel wants it louder while Zoe wants it quieter. At the same time, Galileo and Bobbie Blobby are having a feud of their own; Galileo complains that Bobbie Blobby keeps turning down the temperature which freezes him, while Bobbie Blobby complains that Galileo keeps turning up the heat which causes her clay to melt. Zoe, wanting to help, explains to the two toys that they have to compromise on a temperature that's not too hot and not too cold since they're friends. Axel unintentionally makes her, hypocritically, argue with him after he turns up the game's volume, causing the two parties to continue bickering in the room. Their bickering makes Masko unplug the game in hopes that it will stop Axel's and Zoe's argument, but Zoe angrily leaves the room to go back to her house to play.

Feeling guilty for not agreeing with his best friend, Axel transforms into Action Axel, and he hosts a team meeting on the communication monitor to figure out a solution for Galileo's and Bobbie Blobby's feud. Slobot suggests he could build a device to localize the temperature so it's just right for Galileo and Bobbie Blobby. Action Axel, liking the idea, asks Slobot if he could build the device as fast as he can in the hope it would end the argument as soon as possible. Bearbarian and Sarge Charge find this request humorous since everyone on the team is aware of Slobot's deliberately slow speed. After some waiting, Slobot successfully invents the intelligent thermostat bot by the name of Thermometron 9000. The bot demonstrates itself to the toys by asking them for the desired bedroom temperature, and Action Axel responds by saying that he wants it normal. The bot fulfills his request by firing small plugs onto the room walls which stabilize the room temperature before the bot flies downstairs.

While Action Axel stays in his room to play some video games on his computer, the rest of the Power Players follow Thermometron 9000 downstairs, and the bot asks them for the desired living room temperature. Because Bobbie Blobby and Galileo are still mad at each other, they split the second floor in half. One side (the living room for Bobbie) is so cold that the room is covered in snow, while the other side (the kitchen for Galileo) is so hot that it makes both Masko and Galileo feel like they're at a beach. To make matters worse, Bobbie and Galileo both unintentionally break Thermometron 9000 and cause it to go haywire when the two toys request the bot to make their sides of the house hotter and colder at the same time. After Action Axel gets bored playing video games by himself, he decides to go apologize to Zoe. He steps out of his room and is very surprised that Thermometron 9000 still hasn't ended Bobbie's and Galileo's feud.

Now fearing that Uncle Andrew will be home any minute and he'll see the mess in the house, Action Axel requests Thermometron 9000 to make the temperature on the first floor be normal. Because of Thermometron 9000's breakdown, the bot goes haywire, and it fires more small plugs onto the walls before it flies away. After the Power Players destroy some of the plugs in the living room, Action Axel explains to the team that they have to find and stop Thermometron 9000 before the bot causes more chaos in the house and Uncle Andrew comes home to witness the chaos. However, Bobbie complains that they must warm up while Galileo complains that they must cool down first, ironically because of how long they have stayed in their sides of the second floor. Action Axel tells the two toys that because they are still not compromising, they must stop arguing with each other so they can help the team search for Thermometron 9000. Slobot arrives and alerts his teammates that Thermometron 9000 is in Axel's room to "make it normal". While what Thermometron 9000 did can be a good thing, the bot is still going haywire, and the Power Players have no choice but to stop it.

When the Power Players arrive in Axel's room, Thermometron 9000 fires out so many small plugs onto the bedroom walls that the bot has generated an inversion layer and creates a tornado in the room that could destroy the whole house. The Power Players try to destroy the rest of the small plugs inside the room, but because there are numerous objects flying to the tornado, Slobot tells them that someone must stop Thermometron 9000's generator to shut down the bot. Galileo and Bobbie Blobby, wanting to reconcile and forgive each other, both decide to work together to shut down Thermometron 9000. Galileo gets onto the bot and throws down a rope for the team to pull Thermometron 9000 down to prevent it from flying away. Galileo and Bobbie both open the bot's generator and have Action Axel push the red button and turn it off.

After the room gets cleaned up, Zoe returns to play video games with Axel in his room. Axel, Zoe, Bobbie, and Galileo forgive one another after they all settle their respective compromises: the volume of the game won't be too loud or too quiet for the kids to play, while the temperature won't be too hot or too cold for the toys. Meanwhile, underneath the desk, Slobot has rebuilt Thermometron 9000.

## Characters

### Major characters

* Axel Mulligan/Action Axel
* Galileo
* Bobbie Blobby
* Slobot
* Thermometron 9000

### Minor characters

* Masko
* Bearbarian
* Sarge Charge
* Zoe
* Madcap (snowman)
* Uncle Andrew (mentioned)
* Civilians

## Trivia

* The French title for this episode is "Dérèglement", meaning "Deregulation".
* The game that Axel and Zoe play is similar to the fighting game Axel played to get inside Uncle Andrew's lab in "Unboxing Part 1". However, instead of having Sarge Charge and Bearbarian in the game, Axel and Zoe both play as Galileo.
* This is the first episode where two members of the Power Players have a fight. This will happen again in "The Dynamo Dynamic" with Sarge Charge and Masko.
* This is the first episode where the living room of the Toy Store has been frozen. It will happen again by Ice Crusher in "Freeze!".
* This episode reveals that Galileo is from the *Junior Genetic Spy Lizards* toyline.
* According to Bobbie Blobby, she likes the cold temperature to prevent her clay from melting.
* Throughout the episode, Bobbie is seen sculpting three different clay models:
	+ When the Power Players are waiting for Slobot to finish making Thermometron 9000, she is seen making a small clay model of Galileo.
	+ When the living room is freezing, Bobbie is seen sculpting a clay model of her battle suit pulling on Galileo.
	+ When Axel and Zoe are playing video games again, Bobbie is sculpting a clay model of Galileo striking a pose.
* After Action Axel enters the living room, a snowman of Madcap can be seen.
* This marks the first time when a character's name is mentioned in an episode's title.

### Errors

* According to the Cartoon Network description, Slobot "improperly upgraded a rogue thermostat" in this episode. However, this is not true since he actually *invented* a mobile temperature controller.
* After Zoe slams the bedroom door closed, a cap that's placed on the desk lamp is missing. It later reappears after Masko explains to Axel about the disagreement the latter had with Zoe.
* When Bearbarian is seen throwing a palm tree decoration away after the objects fall down to the ground after the Power Players shutd down Thermometron 9000, Slobot's eyes and mouth can be seen phasing through the palm tree decoration.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/power-players/listings/
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/CNschedules/status/1167510410335068162
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/CNschedules/status/1166156724014854147
4. ↑ https://usa.newonnetflix.info/info/81204650
5. ↑ https://www.france.tv/france-4/power-players/
6. ↑ https://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/power-players/attack-of-thermometron-9000-episode.html

**Future episodes**
*Saving Madcap* • *Impactful!* • *A Noise in the Night* • *When It Itches...* • *Broken* • *What is Happening to Uncle Andrew?* • *Seek!* • *Triple Game* • *Sergeant Lacharge* • *The All-New All Beautiful Power Players* • *Night Operation* • *A Good Spirit* • *No Pot* • *Pyrant Park* • *The Load* • *The Kings of the Jungle* • *Bad Track* • *The Funniest* • *A Maxi Villain - Part 1* • *A Maxi Villain - Part 2*

**Future specials**
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