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Elemenstor Save My Earth: An Earth Day Wiz-Bitstraveganza

The Wizbits, Special 301

Aired 22 April, 2001

Summary

The Wizbits make one of their apparently-fairly-common visits to the future to find the earth in shambles, as the descendent of Char Reyarteb, creatively named Char Reyarteb the 1.93×10⁹th, has filled the earth with pollution-spewing factories and jute mills. After a whirlwind tour of the ruined earth, the crew finds the world let itself slip into a toxic mire due to apathy; the Elemenstors-to-be pool their efforts and inspire the people to change.

While the basic summary makes the special sound, well, fairly clean-cut, the episode itself perfectly exemplifies the series' infamous director's slide into what many have derided as "nigh-schizophrenic madness." The aforementioned factories and jute mills are depicted as being staffed by shambling zombie terrors that go home and loom menacingly over their wives and children; the pollution spewing out of the factory includes, if one goes frame by frame, several babies, all depicted with little menacing faces; and Char Reyarteb the 1.93×10⁹th proudly brags about his eight Serafina Real Life Size Interactive Love Doll wives, whom he dotes and obsesses over more than his half-human half-doll children (which many also find considerably odd).

The special was curiously successful, despite its somewhat questionable elements (including the suggestion that every third person should be shot and fed to venus flytraps), and was rerun several times.

Notes

• Char Reyarteb 1.93×10⁹'s children were inspired by similar creatures found in one of James Langomedes's favorite books, The King In Yellow, which, incidentally, was a text concerning the unspeakable mind-numbing horror of a thing whose very name inspired madness. Langomedes often read portions of the book aloud to children as part of his numerous mandatory public service hours.

• This is the episode that Defibrillies most often cite for proof of the existance of the Heart element.

• Like the second Christmas Special, An Elemenstor Xmas: Penny Farthing's Specialist Gift, this episode contains no moral because the entire episode is a moral.

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