Feisty Geist is episode 5b of Season 4 of Rocko's Modern Life.
After a visit to a spirit reader, Heffer is plagued by a spirit of his own.
Plot[]
At the Madame Doreeno store, Rocko, Heffer, and Spunky glare into the crystal ball in deference to Madame Doreeno herself. Doreeno introduces the friends to the spirit life to introduce Heffer to his past life. She calls for Mortimer Khan, the forgotten son of Genghis Khan who appears in the crystal ball. He has Heffer close his eyes and tells him that his past life was a hungry passenger on the blimp. His weight ends up causing the blimp to crash down. Prior to this, he lived in Italy and ended up tilting a tower he was standing on. Mortimer also tells Heffer that in Mongolia, his past life fell prey to bribes for food and ruined his plans of conquest, literally leaving him and Mortimer to rake mud as "muckrakers". Mortimer promises revenge on Heffer's past life for his stupidity.
Mortimer then tells Heffer of his fate because of his past lives, as the latter apologizes but Mortimer is not soothed and breaks out of the crystal ball. Rocko and Heffer return to Rocko's house, Mortimer is seen hiding right inside Spunky. Mortimer, inside Spunky's body tries to attack Heffer and Rocko notices that Mortimer has taken over Spunky's body. He then ties him to a post outside and while Rocko and Heffer are trying to come up with a way to get MKortimer out of Spunky's body, Filburt come around and tells the two that he has a tube of spirit away and typo-session cream in his scooter to get Mortimer out of Spunky's body. As Filburt rubs the cream on Spunky's body, Mortimer is ejected and flies into Filburt's body.
Realizing that Mortimer will just find his way into another object, Rocko orders a jumbo size bottle of spirit away and he and Heffer sneak back into the kitchen with giant squirt guns, only to find that Filburt is missing. They finally find Filburt in the bathroom and the turtle gets another giant squirt gun to join the other two on completing the task. To Rocko and Heffer's surprise, Mortimer has taking over a toilet and emerges out after Rocko sprays it with the spirit away. Filburt returns with a squirt gun and Mortimer has taken over toilet paper, wrapping up Heffer in the process. Rocko and Filburt spray Heffer and Mortimer emerges out. Rocko and Filburt chase the spirit to the kitchen and find that he has taken over the refrigerator. Heffer comes around and sprays the refrigerator, prompting Mortimer to emerge out and locate upstairs. Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt find that Mortimer is taken over every type of object in the bedroom and spray at everything around the room.
As the room is now covered in spirit away, Rocko finally spots Mortimer in the snow globe and he and Heffer return it to Madame Doreeno's store. To thank them, Madame Doreeno gives Rocko, Heffer, and Spunky a free look into their past and another spirit, that of General Custer, appears into the crystal ball. When he recognizes Heffer, he shouts out threats to him, Rocko, Heffer, and Spunky run out of the store, with the spirit, still inside the crystal ball, shouting out threats from behind while bouncing outside.
Characters Featured[]
Quotes[]
- Madame Doreeno: Mortimer... Mortimer... Braker, braker.
- Rocko: Heff, this is stupid.
- Heffer: I dunno, Rock, kind of a catchy tune.
- Mongolian: So tell me more about this invading horde of yours.
- Madame Doreeno: I've lost my discount spirit guide!
- Rocko: Cobblers! My dog is channeling a 13th century horde leader!
- Mortimer Khan: Blast this device. It is ingenious in its simplicity.
- Filburt: Hi, Heff. What's new?
- Heffer: Oh, you know. Spunky's been possessed by a vengeful spirit of a failed 13th century horde leader bent on my destruction. You know how that can be.
- Filburt: You should've called me! I have a tube of Spirit Away anti-possession cream in my scooter.
- Heffer: Cool!
- Mortimer Khan: (possessing a roll of toilet paper) Feel the strength of my two-ply!
- Heffer: It doesn't get any grosser than this!
- Heffer: NO! Not the fridge!
- Mortimer Khan: Spartan dog! MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
- Heffer: YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR FOOD! TAKE THAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!
- Mortimer Khan: (possessing a sweater) Feel the itch of real wool!
- Heffer: Hey, look at him go! It's a blizzard!
- Madame Doreeno: Look, a blizzard!
Trivia[]
- The second half of the episode parodies Ghostbusters.
- Filburt suggest Rocko to look because his glass ripples to the footsteps of Mortimer Kahn possessing the fridge, a homage to the revelation of the Tyrannosaurus Rex in Jurassic Park.
- Mortimer Khan mentions one of Heffer's past lives as a passenger on the doomed zeppelin Hillenburger, a reference not only to the Hindenberg disaster of 1937, but also to writer and creative director Stephen Hillenburg.