Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Difference between revisions

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Captain Planet, in the heat of battle.

* [[I Ate What?]]: In "Horns Aplenty", Wheeler eats some authentic Chinese food, where Gi warns him that this isn't the kind of Chinese food he's used to.

'''Wheeler:''' (eyes bulge out and he begins to cough) "Suddenly, I don't feel so good..." }}

** Done again in the same episode at the end where Wheeler eats what he thought was pasta.

''Kwame, Linka, Gi, Ma-ti and Mabu:'' "...... NAAAAAAAAH!" (laughter) }}

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Although the "Heart" power is useless in a fight, it ''does'' come with immunity to the Idiot Ball, especially in Ma-Ti's character focus episodes.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Captain Planet's designs look similar to [[X-Men|Colossus]]. Mostly Colossus's older design.

** Wheeler does several shout-outs to certain shows and movies.

'''Wheeler:''' "I don't know. Turtles, pizza, must be something subliminal." }}

** When Gaia tells the Planeteers that the timestream had been disrupted which caused the Grand Canyon to be turned into a dumping site, Wheeler makes a subtle comparison to ''Back to the Future''.

** Wheeler also makes a comment about ''Alien'' after hearing a researcher's plan to naturally kill off Scumm's mutated weevils by using wasps to lay their eggs in them and their young burst out of them.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Bambi Blight actually cares about the environment unlike her sister, Babs Blight.

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|Linka and Wheeler]], of course.

* [[Strawman Political]]: Too many to list, but taken to ''ridiculous'' extremes with Looten Plunder. In one episode in the future, he even promised tax-cuts for the rich while running for President, because "The more you have, the less you should share!". Hoggish Greedly counts too, being a [[Deep South]] style CEO who partially represents the damage caused by obtaining and using fossil fuels.

** Just in case anyone doubts the veracity of any of the above, here's the tagline from Plunder's TV ad when he was campaigning:

'''Candidate Plunder:''' I believe in ''[[Large Ham|BIIIG]]'' tax breaks -- The bigger the income, the bigger the break! No matter how you got it … [[The Scrooge|You shouldn't have to share it]]! }}

* [[Strictly Formula]]: Nearly every episode follows a very specific formula. Occasionally, they might break the formula- the episode where Looten Plunder won, or the [[Very Special Episode|Special Episodes]] with no Eco-Villians, for example, but that was about it.