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Lithtenese: Listen, Simplex.
If we don?t beat Athens,
we?ll be crawling home
to Sparta like worms.
Simplex: Argh!
Lithtenese: Yes! Forty five cubix.
Hey! Beat that one, you Athenian twerp!
Hey! Who are you two? Where?s Glocus?
Judge: The Olympic judges demand to know
what you?ve done with
the Athenian athlete Glocus.
Fred: We didn?t do anything with Glocus.
Did we?
Samantha: Maybe he warped out
when we warped in!
Lithtenese: Your honors.
Clearly, Glocus has fled the field.
Therefore, Sparta should be declared
winner of the Pentathlon.
Judge: But Lithtenese,
abandoning the Olympic field is unheard of.
Perhaps you had Glocus kidnapped
to ensure a Spartan victory.
Lithtenese: Me?
I?ve never seen these two
strangely dressed weaklings in my life.
Judge: Well,
if neither side can produce Glocus,
then both teams will be disqualified.
Lithtenese: Disqualify us?
And I?ll make sure Sparta has
these two pests executed.
[Ooh]
Judge: You can?t execute players
during the Olympic truce.
That would mean
Lithtenese: That the truce would be over,
Sparta and Athens would be back at war,
and the Olympics would be canceled
for the first time ever!
[Ooh]
Judge: We decree that you will throw
the discus on behalf of Athens.
Samantha: Me? But
Judge: It is the only way to
preserve the Olympic truce and avoid war.
But if you lose,
Athens has the right to execute you.
Fred: Wait a minute!
That means the only way
we won?t be executed is if
Judge: You win the competition.
Good luck, young man.
Fred: Oh! She?s not a
Samantha: Shh! Women weren?t allowed
to compete in the Olympics
under penalty of death.
Fred: Ahem!
This macho manly guy here says he?ll do it.
Samantha: Ugh! Whoa!
Fred: Samantha,
you?ve only got one more throw!
Samantha: I know, I know!
I?m doing the best I can!
Fred: If you don?t get that thing airborne,
we?re going to lose the game!
Samantha: That?s not all we?re going to lose!
[Song] Be careful what you wish for!
Go!
There they go,
three boys surfing on the time continuum.
There they go,
Green mist fills the air,
the book can take them anywhere!
Go!
There they go,
three girls warping time
it's 2105.
There they go,
you can catch a ride
with the Time Warp Trio.
Go!
Traveling through history
with the Time Warp Trio.
Go!
Fred: They say a picture is worth
a thousand words.
Well, this one was worth just five.
It was all Sam?s fault.
Samantha: Sam?
Why do you look like a brain-sucking
alien in this picture?
Sam: Haha.
Because I was just about to sneeze.
Fred: Yeah, and topple the whole pyramid,
and cause me to sprain my arm
right before the ultimate match.
Sam: Why did you put me on the bottom
right near the grass?
You know I have allergies.
Samantha: Haha.
I?m surprised you were even playing.
So how?d it go?
Did you guys lose without Fred?
Sam: Um, actually?
We won, and I scored the winning goal.
Fred: Okay, okay.
Do we have to rehash the whole game?
Here. Happy Birthday.
Sorry it isn?t wrapped.
Samantha: Hey.
I?m lucky to get any presents at all,
since I won?t be born for
another ninety years.
What do you think?
Sam: You look like a boy,
A very weird-looking boy.
Sam: Hey!
You haven?t touched
my birthday present yet.
Samantha: Oh yeah!
Mmm. They?re so greasy.
Fred: I can?t believe fried food is banned
in the twenty second century.
How do you live?
Samantha: It?s not so bad,
When you can borrow a little something
to take you back in time
for special occasions.
Mmm! These rings are almost as good
as the ones at Mabel?s.
Fred: What?
Do you know a place with better rings?
Samantha: Ooh.
What an awesome dessert case.
I?ll be right back.
Fred: I still can?t believe
I wasn?t there today.
Sam: Oh come on, Fred!
It was just a game!
It?s not like it was the Olympics or anything.
Fred: Just a game?
A game is never just a game.
Sam: You?re right! It was amazing!
You should?ve seen me.
I was all over the place and
when I threw the winning goal,
Aah! Fred? What are you doing?
Fred: If I didn?t get on that pyramid,
none of this would?ve happened.
Hey, look.
These must be the buttons for
the past and future.
I bet Samantha would tell me
to just lightly tap this one.
Sam: Aah! Hit the other button!
The other button!
Samantha: Huh! What are you doing?
Trio: Aah!
Samantha: Ugh.
Fred: If you don?t beat that big ox?s toss,
they?re going to throw us to the lions.
Samantha: Fred,
you?re thinking of the Romans.
That?s five hundred years from now.
The Greeks will probably just fling us
off a cliff.
Fred: Wait a minute! I?ve got an idea.
Samantha: Ugh.
[Laughter]
Lithtenese: Look how he?s holding it!
[Laughter]
Lithtenese and Simplex: Huh?
[Ooh]
[Applause]
Judge: No one has thrown the discus
that far since,
since the God Apollo hit Hyacinthus
with one.
Fred and Samantha: We?re not going to die!
Lithtenese: Not so fast!
By winning the discus throw,
Athens and Sparta are tied two to two,
but the Pentathlon is five events.
There?s still a tiebreaker.
Fred: So? What?s that?
Synchronized swimming?
Lithtenese: Wrestling.
[Gulp]
Fred: I take it back. We are going to die.
Samantha: So. You don?t have any
beefy wrestlers hidden in that sling,
do you?
Fred: We?ve got to get the book
and get out of here.
Samantha: We can?t just leave.
Athens and Sparta could go back to war,
and it?ll have been our fault.
Fred: You?re not seriously thinking about
wrestling that guy?
He?ll cream you!
Samantha: We?ve got to find this Glocus.
It?s our only hope.
Aah!
Plato: A woman? You?re a woman?
The authorities shall hear about this and
they?ll demand nothing less than your death.
Fred: Wherever Sam is he better
be getting help.
Sam: Woo! That was close.
I thought for sure we were going to war.
Fred? Samantha?
Huh! What the?
Napoleon? Blackbeard?
With a milkshake?
What?s going on?
Glocus: Excuse me?
Is this seat taken?
The name?s Glocus.
Sam: I?m Sam.
At least I was when I woke up this morning.
Now I?m not so sure.
Is this the Olympia Diner?
Glocus: Diner? I don?t know what that is.
But this sure isn?t Olympia.
I can tell you that much.
I was just there.
Sam: You were?
Glocus: Yup.
I was competing in the Olympic Games,
and I was about to throw the discus
for Athens when there was
this flash of green light and
Sam: Wait! You weren?t at the diner.
You were at the real Olympia
in Ancient Greece!
Glocus: There?s another Olympia?
Sam: I had just mentioned the Olympics
when Fred took the book out.
It must?ve warped you out
and warped Fred and Samantha there!
But where are we?
Mabel?s.
The best diner on the edge
of the space-time continuum. Open forever.
It?s some kind of rest stop for time-travelers.
Hey! Did you see that?
Glocus: Yeah. She left her fish.
Sam: The greatest hits of history?
Wow! Instead of playing songs,
this jukebox must take you back
to famous events.
Battle of Waterloo.
Gettysburg Address.
Aha! Ancient Olympics!
Yikes! There are over two hundred entries!
Glocus: They?ve been going on for
as long as I can remember.
We even play when there?s a war
by calling a truce for an entire month.
Sam: Wow!
Not one entire game cancelled
in a thousand years!
Glocus: Yeah, and I?m missing it.
I?d do anything to be back there
defending Athens? honor.
You see?
We just surrendered to Sparta
after thirty years of fighting
Sam: Aha! The Peloponnesian War.
Here it is.
404 BCE.
Now all we need is a token.
Waitress: They don?t come ala carte, honey.
They?re only with the blue plate special.
Today, it?s baked flounder.
Comes with a side salad and two tokens.
Sam: Then make it the blue plate special.
Quickly!
Plato: Imposters!
Flogging centuries of tradition!
Samantha: Wait, please!
Listen to reason!
Plato: Listen to reason?
Why, that?s what Socrates would
always says to me.
Samantha: You know Socrates?
Plato: Of course. I was his star pupil.
Samantha: Wait! Are you?
Plato?
Plato: That?s just my nickname.
It means broad shouldered.
They call me that because
I?m a pretty good wrestler.
Fred: Plato? Hey!
Are you the guy that invented that clay that comes in
all different colors?
Samantha: Fred, he?s Plato, not Play-doh!
This is the greatest philosopher of all time!
Plato: Oh, come now!
I?m just one of the greatest.
Samantha: Well, didn?t Socrates teach his
students to challenge traditional beliefs?
Plato: Well, yes, but
Samantha: So challenge the Olympic
ban on women!
Plato: But you can?t wrestle Simplex.
He?ll break you in two!
Samantha: I?ll think of something.
After all,
necessity is the mother of invention.
Right?
Plato: Where did you hear that?
That?s one of my sayings!
Fred: Uh. It?s not a very good saying.
It doesn?t even rhyme.
No pain, no gain?
Now that?s a good saying!
Samantha: Hey! Plato said he got his name
because he was good at wrestling.
Maybe you could teach us some moves!
Fred: He?s a philosopher.
Eggheads like that don?t know
a thing about wrestling.
Plato: Oh, really?
Fred: Ugh!
Samantha: So. Are you going to turn us in
or will you help us defeat Simplex?
Plato: Hmm.
It?s an interesting problem in ethics.
Samantha: Plato was big on ethics.
You know?
Figuring out how humans should behave?
Fred: Well, he didn?t seem to have
an ethical problem flipping a boy in a sling!
Lithtenese: Hurry up with that ox!
Look. My sources tell me
our competitor is training just over there
in the old holding pen.
Simplex: But Lithtenese!
I want to wrestle that puny kid!
Lithtenese: You saw the way he
threw the discus. He?s stronger than he looks.
Anyway, we don?t to risk
your little problem ruining everything.
Now, do we?
Simplex: No.
Lithtenese: It?s better if that runt
and his friend run into a little
oxidant!
Hahaha!
Fred: Argh!
Plato: In my study of ethics,
I have found that laws are useful.
But good people don?t need them
to act responsibly.
I hope you?re taking notes
on this stranglehold.
Sam: Samantha, Fred!
We?ve been looking everywhere for you.
This is Glocus, and
[Bang]
What was that?
Simplex: Argh!
[Screams]
Plato: Glocus! You?ve returned.
Who is that?
Fred: Plato. Sam.
Sam. Plato.
Sam: Plato? You mean the Plato?
The great Greek philosopher?
Samantha: Yeah.
And he?s going to die along with all of us
unless we find a way out of here.
Sam: Glocus, wait!
Where are you going?
[Whistle]
Glocus: Over here!
Over here!
If that man truly is a great philosopher,
then his life is worth more than mine.
Over here, you dumb ox!
Sam: What about my life?
Aah!
Samantha: You came from Mabel?s!
Sam: Wait a second! How did you know?
And why are we still alive?
Samantha: Um,
maybe because you?re holograms?
Sam: Uh, we are?
Samantha: The jukebox at Mabel?s
has at least ten thousand battles.
As a hologram,
you can visit them without getting killed.
Sam: Wait a minute!
You?ve known about Mabel?s,
and you haven?t told me?
Samantha: We?ll argue about it later.
Where did the jukebox drop you off?
It?s a time portal,
so the book?s probably there.
Sam: I can?t believe you never told me
about Mabel?s!
Samantha: Argh! Why couldn?t you just
tell us where the time portal is?
Fred: What just happened?
Samantha: Each token is only good
for twenty minutes.
They won?t know where
to meet us next time!
Plato: So. Are you two gods from
Mount Olympus?
Fred: I get that a lot.
But no.
Samantha: We need to stay alive
long enough to get back a special book
of ours.
Plato: Well,
Glocus and the one you called Sam
saved my life.
My ethical duty is clear.
I must help you in any way I can.
Fred: Uh oh! He?s thinking again!
Plato: Now. We know that Simplex
and Lithtenese were behind this ox incident.
But why?
Why are they worried about facing you?
Come with me. Quickly!
Fred: Hey!
If we pass a food cart on the way,
can we get something to eat?
I?m starving!
Simplex: Argh! Argh!
Lithtenese: He?s undefeated!
He?s killed twenty men.
Only the mighty Hercules
could beat Simplex!
If his Athenian opponent knows
what?s good for him, he?ll pull out before
the wrestling match.
Indeed.
Perhaps he already has.
Samantha: Maybe I should pull out!
This guy is invincible!
Plato: They?re just grandstanding.
Lots of athletes do it or order
to intimidate opponents.
Samantha: Well, it?s working!
I?m intimidated.
Plato: We must study him closely.
All humans have a flaw, an Achilles? heel.
Fred: A what?
Plato: In the Iliad,
Homer described how Achilles was
invincible everywhere but his heel.
Paris killed him by hitting his heel
with a spear.
Fred: Oops. Sorry.
Plato: What is this?
Fred: It?s just ketchup.
I snagged them back at the Olympia.
They really improve the sausages.
You know? Ketchup? From tomatoes?
Samantha: Fred,
tomatoes won?t make it to Europe
for another two thousand years.
Plato: Ugh! I have to go wash out my mouth.
Lithtenese: Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh.
[Yawn]
Samantha: If Simplex has an Achilles? Heel,
it sure isn?t anywhere I can see.
Simplex: Ugh. I?m bleeding! I?m bleeding!
Lithtenese: It?s okay. It?s okay.
It was just a little bug.
A bug! Okay?
Fred: Did you see that?
Samantha: He?s afraid of his own blood!
Fred: Maybe there?s something
you can poke him with.
Samantha: Like what? My finger?
Ugh.
If only there was some way that we could
make him think that he was bleeding
without actually drawing blood.
Fred and Samantha: Ketchup!
Sam: Hey! There you are!
It took us forever to find you!
Samantha: Hey Guys!
We figured out a way to beat Simplex!
Sam: Great! Listen.
We don?t have much time.
We found the book!
It?s in the Temple of Zeus,
right in the statue?s hand.
Fred: Why didn?t you guys just take it?
Sam: Because A,
We?re holograms, remember?
and B,
We?re in big trouble
because the statue is
Fred: The statue is what?
[Horns]
Samantha: Uh oh!
I think that means the wrestling match
is about to start!
Fred: Here! Take them all!
I?m going to get the book.
Samantha: This better work.
Fred: No one?s here.
They must all be at the wrestling match.
Okay. This shouldn?t be too hard then
because A,
Sam said the book is right
in the statue?s hand,
and B,
The statue is
Sam: Forty feet tall!
The statue is forty feet tall!
Glocus,
how are they ever going to get the book?
And how will Samantha survive
a wrestling match with Simplex?
Waitress: Here?s your bill, honey.
Sam: Four hundred and fifty dollars?
Waitress: That?s four hundred and fifty
in twenty first century American.
In Ancient Greek, it?s uh,
Twenty four drachmas.
Sam: Glocus?
Waitress: Well, if you can?t pay it,
then you can just leave.
Sam: Really? Ugh!
Fred: Great!
How am I supposed
to climb up there
with my arm in a sling?
Guard: Yes, indeed.
One of the seven wonders of the world.
I?m a temple guardian.
I could give you a tour.
Fred: No thanks!
Guard: Although,
I?d rather be at the wrestling match.
I hear it?s going to be a bloodbath.
Fred: If only Simplex were afraid
of other people?s blood.
Samantha: Ugh!
Ugh!
Simplex: Ugh! I?m bleeding, I?m bleeding!
Help!
Oh, my blood?s coming out.
It?s everywhere!
Plato: That?s right! Let him have it!
Lithtenese: Whatever you do, don?t fall.
If you fall, we lose!
Yuck!
Hey! This isn?t blood!
Samantha: Uh oh!
Simplex: Rrr!
Fred: Come on, Fred! Think! Think!
What are you going to do?
Plato: Remember Fred.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Fred: Who has time to invent anything?
Plato: Well, you?ve already invented
the image of a great philosopher
to help you think.
Fred: Okay!
But how am I going to invent
something useful with my arm in a sling?
Wait a minute! That?s it!
My sling!
Guard: Hahaha! Singing frogs!
That Aristophanes cracks me up!
Don?t you know the punishment
for desecrating this most sacred of statues?
Fred: Ugh. Let me guess. Death?
Simplex: You?re a woman?
[Ooh]
Judge: Don?t you know the punishment
for defiling these Olympics
with your womanhood?
Samantha: Let me guess. Death?
Glocus: What happens if we go out there?
Sam: Uh, let me guess. Death?
Waitress: Yup!
Fred: Okay. You?ve got me.
But before you take me away,
just tell me this.
What?s a Grecian Urn?
Guard: Well, it?s like a vase?
Fred: Wrong! It?s a drachma a day. Get it?
[Applause]
Lithtenese: Get her!
Samantha: Uh! Fred!
Guard: He?s absconded with part
of the sacred statue of Zeus!
Save him!
Fred: Samantha! Catch!
Samantha: Fred!
Fred: We?re done for.
Waitress: Of course,
you can also pay with time.
Sam: With time? Oh.
You mean like over the course of a few weeks?
Waitress: No. I mean with time.
Time is money, right?
Well, the blue plate special will
cost you a couple of hours.
Sam: A couple hours of what?
Waitress: Your life.
Sam: My what?
Glocus: Look at this.
Steak and eggs will set you back
two days, ten minutes.
Wow!
The blue plate special really is a special.
Sam: Two whole hours?
That?s my life we?re talking about!
Glocus: There?s only one thing for us to do.
Sam: What?s that?
Glocus: We?ll split it. An hour a piece.
A few months ago,
I spent two whole hours watching a cow.
I could give up some of that.
Sam: I suppose I can give up some
TV hours I could lose.
Wait a minute!
What if I gave up that hour when I sneezed?
Glocus: You sneezed for a whole hour?
I would definitely give up that.
Sam: If I didn?t sneeze, Fred wouldn?t have
hurt his arm,
and then he wouldn?t have wanted
to go back in time,
which means I wouldn?t be in trouble now.
Sam: There?s only one problem.
Glocus: What?s that?
Sam: I really liked that hour.
I won the game for our ultimate team.
Glocus: A victory is a hard thing to lose.
But surely,
the lives of your friends are
more important than winning.
Sam: Waitress!
Judge: It is decreed that both of you
shall be led directly from the stadium
and thrown off a cliff.
Your so-called book shall be burned until
Samantha: Sam.
How come you?re not in the picture?
Didn?t you play today?
Fred: Yeah. Where?d you go?
You were gone for like an hour.
Sam: Huh! I?m not sure.
Fred: Hey! Happy Birthday, Samantha.
Sorry I didn?t wrap.
Samantha: I?m lucky to get
any presents at all,
since I won?t be born for
another hundred years.
What do you think?
Sam: You look like a boy.
A very weird-looking boy.
Hey! You haven?t touched
my birthday present yet.
Samantha: Oh yeah! Mmm.
These rings are almost as good
as the ones at Ma
Sam: Wait! Were you going to say Mabel?s?
Samantha: You know about Mabel?s?
Sam: Yeah. I mean no.
Do I?
[Whistle]
Fred: Anyway.
Even if you had been around for the game,
Sam, it wouldn?t have helped.
I mean, I was playing and we still lost.
Sam: Oh well. It was just a game.
It?s not like it was the Olympics or anything.
[Music]