Episode 58: MegaMan Jr. High Loves the 90s
It was another day at MegaMan Jr. High.
ElecMan: Class, it's time for early October break. Everyone has a week off, starting yesterday. Now go away!
Sigma: Shut up.
ElecMan leaves the teacher's lounge.
Meanwhile, the main character's prepare for another vacation together.
Light: I have a big surprise for everyone! I was rumaging through the dumpster with all the one time use devices and found the time machine we used to go to Soviet Russia. We can use it to go on our next vacation.
MegaMan: Let's go to the middle ages!
Bass: The dinosaur age!
Roll: Texas!
Zero: I have a much better idea. Let's go to some place we all love.
Light: GameFAQs?
Zero: The 90s!
Light: That's a great idea! I haven't been to the 90s in weeks!
MegaMan: Yay! We can see SNES and The Simpsons and other things we still have!
Light: So it's setteled. And I won't make the same mistake I did last time. Time machine, take us to the 1990s!
The group emerges in ancient Egypt.
Light: GRIS! AD!
They emerge in a Goosebumps store.
MegaMan: I can't believe it, we're back in the 90s!
Light: It's incredible! But safety comes first. No messing with the past.
Someone is walking by.
Light: Do you recognize us?
Person: No.
Light: Guess we're not famous yet. Well we will be! Until then, don't make any fanfictions about us! Ever! It could mess up things!
90s KI: Okay...
KI leaves.
Light: What should we do first? There's an entire world to explore.
Cut to the characters watching Nickledeon.
MegaMan: Stick Stickly!
Roll: Inside Out Boy!
Zero: Good shows! Although I don't remember Inside Out Boy and Stick Stickly appearing at the same time...
Light: This is great!
MegaMan: Let's go to an arcade that you can use quarters in!
Cut to the character's at 7-11.
MegaMan: Look! Arcade machines without novelty controllers! I thought those were just a legend!
Roll: We've got so much to see.
Bass: Let's parody that Family Guy song! That episode hasn't aired yet, we won't get sued!
MegaMan: Okay, but after the act break.
Act break.
Act 2:
The song starts.
MegaMan: 1990 brought The Simpsons series. And five years later things have changed indeed. We kept The Simpsons but we lost Fish Police we've got a lot to see!
Roll: SNES arrived, and perfected gaming. Nickelodeon had Nicktoons you didn't want to be maiming, we've got a lot to see!
Light: Arcades were alive at convenience stores, Atari tried again and failed even more, we've got a lot to see!
Bass: Y2K filled us with dread, but we managed to lay that fear to bed. It wasn't the computers that we should have dread, we've got a lot to see!
Zero: That awesome Killer Instinct game!
Ceil: That awesome Spiderman cartoon!
MegaMan: Piccollo blowing up the moon.
Roll: Neil Armstrong wait, was he that the trumpet guy?
Everyone?...
Zero: Nobody knows my nostalgia laden friends, just quite what caused it to end
(we see tarot cards with Nickelodeon's apocalypse, a calender turning to the year 2000, and Lavos on them)
MegaMan: You heard it from the robot's mouth, the world has changed that is except the south (not that it ever made it to the 90s) and you'll agree!
Zero: You can pretend there were no flaws, and follow us there because, you've still got a lot to see!
Everyone: We've got a lot to see!
The song is over.
MegaMan: It's so great to be back in the 90s. There's a new Simpsons episode from the fifth season on tonight, Killer Instinct comes out tommorrow, and SNES launches next week.
Zero: That's not how things happened!
Light: Who cares, we're back in the golden age, swimming in nostalgia.
Roll: I can't swim!
Roll narrowly avoids drowning.
Zero: Yeah, the 90s are great. But months passed during that song, we have to leave soon.
MegaMan: Leave? But I love the 90s, didn't you see the title.
Light: I say we stay here forever! There's no need to face the present!
Zero: But something horrible could happen if we stay too long in the past.
Cut to the present:
KI: I still remember those robots telling me to never write a fanfiction series about them... Good thing I didn't listen.
Act break.
Act 3:
Zero: Look, I know the 90s are great, but we really do have to leave.
MegaMan: No! We've returned to the 90s, we never have to leave again! Nickelodeon will remain good, SNES will still be alive, and the Ninja Turtles will have a better theme song!
Light: Let's look at this from a scientific viewpoint. In the 90s the sun revolved around the Earth twice as fast because of vintage Simpsons episodes, and that allows us to stay here as long as we eat fudge and cream Twix every full moon.
Zero: Look, I love the 90s as much as anyone, except maybe RL Stein, but we have to go! We can't just revert to the past! And it's not like the 90s were perfect.
Bass: LIAR! Nothing bad happened in the 90s except Lavos!
Zero: sigh I guess I'll have to remind everyone of what happened. You see...
Initiate pointless flashback sicne they're already in the 90s.
Game Magazine: FMV games are the future!
News Reporter: That obscene Simpsons grabage won't last a month!
Nickelodeon: We've got a new show coming, Rocket Power!
Game Magazine: Who cares if SNES has the best lineup of any system, some games have slowdown and MK1 doesn't have blood!
Sprite: Drink Sprite to win free stuff! We're done with our parodies!
Kriss Kross: I was late for the school bus YO!
End pointless flashback.
MegaMan: Was all of that from the 90s?
Zero: Yes.
MegaMan: I guess you don't appreciate what you have until it's coated in nostalgia. But I don't want to face the future!
KI appears.
KI: I just used time travel to spend 25 years in the 90s, and I agree with Zero. Look, just because the 90s are over doesn't mean their spirit is gone! Every time you play SNES, every time you watch a vintage Simpsons episode, every time you reminisce, you're back in the 90s. The 90s live on in all of us.
Zero: You turned the election episode's moral into a plug for Super Mario World, but you'll get serious about this?
KI: Just go back to the present, it will be okay.
The characters return to 2004.
MegaMan: Well, we're back home. The 90s are great for a visit, but I wouldn't want to live... WHO AM I KIDDING! I want to go back to the 90s! Please, let me stay there!
Everyone bursts into tears.
And so (sniff) the characters return to the present. Stay tuned for the next (sob) MegaMan Jr. High.