The High Five of Doom

The High Five of Doom

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The High Five of Doom
Season	4
Episode	8a
Broadcast Information
Airdate	July 17, 1996
Production Code	402A
Credits
Directed & Storyboarded by	Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh Dan Povenmire (Assistant)
Story by	Martin Olson
Animation direction by	Pete Michels
Episode Guide
Previous	Sailing the 7 Zzz's
Next	Fly Burgers

"The High Five of Doom" is episode 47a of Rocko's Modern Life. In this episode Filburt is suspected by Rocko and Heffer of being an alien after they peek at Filburt's private journal that he accidentally left behind.

Plot

The episode starts with Heffer watching a chicken commercial on TV. This makes Heffer hungry so he goes down to the Chewy Chicken restaurant. As soon as Heffer goes through the front doors, he immediately notices Filburt at one of the tables doing something. But Filburt does not want Heffer to know what he is doing. When Heffer tries to take a peak and accidentally falls on Filburt's shell, he sees that Filburt is working on a book. Filburt takes his book back claiming it's a diary and no one can look at it. Filburt then realizes he is almost late for a meeting. While Filburt leaves to go to the meeting, he accidentally drops his diary on the ground. Heffer sees that diary on the ground and feels like returning it back to Filburt, but he choices not to. Heffer then walks out of the Chewy Chicken restaurant while Rocko and Spunky notice him. Rocko asks Heffer on what he is reading. Heffer says, "Nothing." But Rocko notices it's Filburt's diary and says that it is rude to read somebody else's diary. Heffer is nervous so he gives the diary to Rocko so he can return it to Filburt.

Meanwhile, at Rocko's house, Rocko puts the diary down on the living room coffee table and states that he'll return it to Filburt later. Rocko soon becomes tempted to read Filburt's diary. While vacuuming, Rocko accidentally drops the diary from the coffee table onto the floor. Rocko then picks up the book and opens it. Heffer immediately comes in asking if Rocko is reading the diary. Rocko is nervous and he lies to Heffer. Heffer begs Rocko to read the diary book. Rocko then asks Heffer if he'll be satisfied by reading 1 page of the book. Heffer replies "Yes, I'll be satisfied." Heffer then opens the book to a page that says, "The earth log of Filburt Shellbach. Page 2. I am an alien. For our evil plan to take over this mutant planet, see next page." After reading that 1 page, Heffer puts down the book on the coffee table and suggests that him and Rocko go play badminton. Heffer and Rocko take out their badminton rackets and walk outside. The pals then immediately come back inside the house as they want to see the next page. The next page explains about the evil plan on how they have been sent to Earth their supreme leader.

Heffer and Rocko eventually read through the story that tells how Filburt and his alien allies make their way to earth, using Chewy Chicken as their headquarters to devise an evil plan, which consists on the "Quarnozian High Five of Death," a high five that vaporizes any victim who returns the gesture. Rocko and Heffer are convinced that Filburt is an alien and arrive at Chewy Chicken, where Filburt is enjoying his lunch. Rocko and Heffer meet up with him and Heffer interrogates him, asking him why turtles are at Chewy Chicken. Filburt explains that it's the only place that serves lettuce with broccoli squeezings. Rocko and Heffer leave the restaurant and spot Filburt squirting mustard on his armpits, convinced that he is eating mustard through it.

They follow the turtle to his trailer home and find that he is wearing antennas in his head. They run away in fear and return to Rocko's house to read the last chapter of the journal. To their horror, they read that a wallaby and a steer have found out about his plans and must be destroyed. When Filburt arrives, Rocko and Heffer barricade the door and Heffer finds that Filburt is inside, oblivious to the fact that the turtle is already inside the house. Eventually, he finds out and becomes horrified. FIlburt finally comes across his journal and offers Rocko and Heffer a high five. The two take cover and tell Filburt that they thought that he was an alien. Filburt explains that he wrote the theories for a science fiction novel. He also elucidates that he put the TV antenna on his head for good reception and that he squirted mustard on his armpits in replacement for cologne. FIlburt offers Rocko and Heffer a high five, and the two are instantly vaporized in the process.

It is later revealed that everything that happened in the plot was all what Rocko and Heffer had been reading as they came to the conclusion. Rocko and Heffer then find that what they read really was a novel and that Filburt wouldn't high-five anyone to death. Nonetheless, they end up getting scared when the turtle comes around and they barricade the doors, much to Filburt's confusion.

Characters Featured

• Rocko
• Heffer
• Filburt (main antagonist (presumably in his novel only))
• Spunky

Trivia

• The episode contains several references to sci-fi films including Soylent Green, Alien, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
• Also the title is a spoof of classic 50's sci-fi films, specificly Plan 9 from Outer Space.
• The artist working on a painting who gets vaporized by the high five of doom is the Andy Warhol spoof from "Junk Junkies".
• This episode is similar to the Camp Lazlo episode "Beans Are From Mars".

Quotes

Rocko: Oh, dear. Filburt's diary has fallen off the coffee table and... it didn't open. Thank goodness.

Heffer: I can't sleep! I can't think! I... I can't even eat! (Rocko gives him a dirty look.) Well, okay. I can eat.

Heffer: (reading) "The Earth Log of Fillburt Shellbach. I am an alien. For my plot to destroy this pathetic planet see next page." Well, that's one page.

Rocko: Yeah. That's one page.

Heffer: Play a game of badminton?

Rocko: Okay.

Filburt: Nice melons. High five?

Filburt: Hi, guys.

Heffer: Hello, Filburt. If that is your real name?

Rocko: Got any plans?

Filburt: What kind of plans?

Heffer: Oh, you know, go to the park? See a movie? BURST OUT OF SOMEONE'S CHEST?!?!

Heffer: Klaatu barada nikto? Huh?

Filburt: Huh?

Rocko: Huh?

Heffer: That's alien language. I saw it in a sci-fi movie.

Heffer: Chewy Chicken is people! Chewy Chicken is people! CHEWY CHICKEN IS PEOPLE!!!

Chicken father: Phew! That's a relief.

Heffer: We'll follow him and see if he leads us to... Well, we'll follow him!

Filburt: Why spend money on cologne when mustard is free?