[instrumental music]
(Virgil) '"This was the final showdown. Good versus evil.'
'"Soul Power braced himself'
'"would his superpowers stand up to'
'the horrible hats of the haberdasher."'
Ha ha! Dig that. Soul Power is scared of hats.
Boy, don't be dissin' Soul Power.
Those hats are deadly.
Come on. Mr. Grant, how dangerous can a hat be?
Oh, leave the boy alone, Morris. And quit interrupting.
I keep hoping maybe this time that arrogant Soul Power
gets it in the chops.
Dennis, I am this close to givin' you a knuckle sandwich
Just keep reading, Sparky, and give it some '60s groove
You kids today have no sense of style. Back in my day..
Not again.
Cars were faster, threads were finer
and the girls were foxy.
- Oh! - Mm-mmm
That's it. Lunchbreak.
Hey, you're not done with Soul Power.
Trust me, I am done with Soul Power.
Stay tuned for weather and sports after these messages.
Sharon, you gotta let me go home, please.
What's wrong now?
It's Mr. Grant. He is making me crazy.
Virgil, you said you'd come here to the retirement home
to help me. Now you wanna leave me short handed.
- What kind of help is that? - But I--
This is community service, Virgil.
It's your duty as a citizen.
Besides, you could learn a few things from the older generation
Like what? How to annoy people?
We interrupt this broadcast for a special report.
A major crime is in progress at the Dakota Museum of Technology.
'It began just moments ago.'
[dramatic music]
Uh-oh. Looks like it's time for my kind of community service.
Whoa! Slow down boy, where is the fire?
Wha-ah-haa!
- Good bye old folks! Hello.. - Static?
Mr. Grant?
[theme music]
♪ Fight the criminal's chase the bad guys ♪
♪ Save the world fly through the sky ♪
♪ Half kid half amazin' okay ♪
♪ Static Shock who you facin' ♪
♪ Yeah one zip then you zapped ♪
♪ Good against evil get trapped ♪
♪ Look in my eyes I got the power ♪
♪ Villains run from the static shower ♪
♪ Superhero static shock ♪ ♪ Woo woo ♪
♪ Criminals get twisted this superhero gifted ♪
♪ Bell rings and I'm back in school ♪
♪ Nobody know what I do okay ♪
♪ Superhero static shock ♪
♪ Woo woo ♪
♪ Superhero static shock ♪
♪ Woo woo ♪
♪ Superhero static shock ♪
♪ Woo woo ♪
♪ One zip then you zapped good against evil get trapped ♪
♪ Look in my eyes I've got the power ♪
♪ Villains run from the static shower ♪
♪ Criminals get twisted this superhero gifted ♪
♪ The bell rings and I'm back in school ♪
♪ Nobody know what I do okay ♪
♪ Superhero static shock ♪
[guitar music]
[chuckles] Well, I guess you're wondering what's with the costume.
Well, I, um..
Don't sweat it, boy, I knew you're Static
when I first met you.
- Wha.. you did? - Yep.
I can feel the electrical field around you.
Whoa! How did you do that?
Because, I have a secret identity too.
This'll help you recognize me.
[instrumental music]
You're the Lone Ranger?
- No, boy, it's me, Soul Power. - What?
And you're gonna take me with you to that museum.
Whoa, man are you trippin'?
Why would I do a whack thing like that?
Because if you don't, I'll tell all my friends
I met a real superhero today
Virgil Hawkins.
No way, you can't blackmail me.
You're not goin' and that's final.
Whoa! Whoa! Ooh! Ooh!
Are you sure you won't fall?
Of course not. Heck in my day
I got around by surfing the power lines.
They had electricity in your day?
Don't be flip, Sparky.
Please don't call me Sparky.
Hey, how'd you get to be superhero anyway.
It all started in the early '60s.
I was a just a normal cap until I got in the way
of some thugs that wanted to trash Hoover Dam.
Transformers blew, giving me the power of ten turbines.
I fought all sorts of scum in my day.
But the worst of them all was my arch enemy
Professor Menace.
Professor Menace? What?
Was the name Dr. Bad Dude already taken?
Laugh all you want, kid, but Menace came this close
to taking over the world.
Back in '63, we had our last big battle.
I had just about beat him, when he suddenly stepped back
hit a switch and his whole lab exploded.
I got out okay, but I never did find any trace of him
A bad guy who wants to rule the world. Heh. That's original.
Was he gonna do it all by himself? Or did he have help?
He used robots exactly like the ones at the museum.
What?
That's why I had to come with you.
Those robots on TV once belonged to Professor Menace.
- Right on! - Hey! Come back here!
[sirens blaring]
[gunshots]
Yep, those are them, alright.
Looks like about five minutes work. Be right back.
No. Wait!
[zapping]
Huh?
Aah!
You kids today don't listen, do ya?
I told you Professor Menace was my arch enemy
That means he knows how to fight someone with electrical powers!
Okay! Okay!
So, maybe I can't fire right at these old school junk piles
but I have other tricks up my sleeve.
[zapping]
[creaking]
crash
See, these oversized wind up toys might have been the bomb
back in your day, but to me..
- Look out! - Whoa! Ah!
[grunting]
What's...what's happening?
- He is draining you. - Ahh..
After all these years, it's time for a little
Soul Power.
[dramatic music]
Ha!
[grunting]
[grunts]
[cranking]
Unh!
[gasps]
[grunting]
Back off!
Menace, I know you are listening!
It's me... Soul Power!
Hello, old foe, and I do stress the word "old."
What a surprise to find you still alive, if only barely.
How can you still be so young?
[chuckles] When I destroyed my laboratory
I secretly slipped into a hidden chamber.
There I was cryogenically frozen and preserved.
Now I have reawakened in this modern time
and with these I can finish what I started years ago.
Well, I don't know why you've stolen them
but I am not gonna let you keep 'em.
Ah! Oh! Oh!
Alas, dear Soul Power, you just don't have the juice.
How fitting that I should be the one to
finally turn out your lights.
[intense music]
[groaning]
[grunting]
[both groaning]
Come on!
[Menace laughing]
I could destroy you now, but I'll wait.
I want you to participate in my ultimate moment of triumph.
[whirring]
That robot took us on like we were nothin'.
We are not licked yet Sparky.
Will you stop calling me that?
And from now on there is no more we!
If I am gonna get whooped again I don't need your commentary!
♪ You're gonna get it ♪
♪ Ooh ah ah ♪
(Robert) 'See ya, greedy one.'
♪ Soul Power Soul Power ♪
'And after he defeat a villain'
'he'd do his funky Soul Power dance.'
♪ Funky twist doin' a funky twist ♪
♪ Oh the funky twist ♪
Yeah, Soul Power. He heh, Soul Power!
Ha ha ha ha!
Pops! Do not dance!
Heh heh heh! Yeah, Soul Power was a real hero alright.
I had all his comic books
until my mother made me throw them away.
Oh, the money I could have made.
Yo! I just asked you what you knew about him.
I didn't realize you were a super-fanboy.
People forget that he was the Static of his day.
Heh. Maybe even better.
I don't think so.
I remember one time..
[doorbell rings]
I got it.
- Uh-Uh. - Hey!
Hello, Missy.
Mr. Grant, what brings you here?
Virgil promised to help me with something.
If he is not too busy?
Of course, he is not busy at all.
Are you kiddin'? I gotta clean my room, mow the lawn..
And have you seen our gutters lately?
Virgil, if you made a promise, you better keep it.
Alright. Alright.
Nice to see y'all.
What a sweet old guy.
I'll bet Virgil could learn a lot from him.
[upbeat music]
Wah-eeh-doo!
Actually, this is pretty cool.
It beats the senior shuttle bus.
So, this is your big plan, to hide in the smelly, old subway?
No.
My plan begins inside here.
Welcome, Sparky, to my old HQ, the power pad.
I mean it, stop callin' me.. Whoa!
You have got to be kiddin'
Have a look round while I see if things still work.
[music continues]
[zapping]
Hey, why'd you give this place a lame name like the power pad?
Hey, it was cool in the '60s. Why? Where do you hang out?
The abandoned gas station of solitude.
Oh, yeah. That sounds much better.
[instrumental music]
Hey, who's that?
That was my teenage sidekick.
Good kid, but kinda mouthy.
- 'What was his name?' - 'Sparky.'
30 years without cranking it up and it works like a charm.
I am programming in data about what Menace stole today.
It should tell us what he's up to.
- I was afraid of this. - What?
(Soul Power) Seaside Georgia, 1961, peaceful little place
Until Menace came to visit with a lean mean weather machine.
[thunder rumbling]
[people screaming]
[both grunting]
♪ Can you feel it? ♪
♪ Can you feel it right on the power of soul ♪
It took everything I had to beat him.
Ah!
But now the computer says
he's at his weather control game again.
And if we don't stop him... we're in big trouble.
Okay, how do we stop him?
We get prepared.
- What's this? - An electro-amplifier.
It can boost your power in an emergency.
Or since it's over 30-years-old it could short out and fry me.
Good point. Better use it as a last resort.
I hope this isn't why Sparky's not around anymore
Now we're ready to go. But we're going in style.
I give you The soul mobile.
[dramatic music]
Can this clunker even start?
[tires screeching]
[Static screams]
Where are we going?
To see a man about a map. A weather map.
[tires screeching]
After all these years, I can't believe it!
Believe it, Phil. I'm back, and I need your help!
I want access to your satellites
I'm sorry, Soul Power, but I can't allow that
unless you're a government-approved client.
Look, years ago, you were a young man
who used to call me his idol.
Now you're the powerful Mr. Rollins
head of this big defense satellite firm
Don't tell me you're too high and mighty
to help out an old friend.
Times have changed, Soul Power.
Everything these days is about
security clearance. I can't do it.
Back in the '60s I fought so that young men like you would
have a chance to get to this position.
You also taught us never to break rules.
And I won't, not even for you.
Besides, aren't you too old for this sort of thing?
You're never too old to fight for justice
Ooh, that's debatable.
I'm sorry, Soul Power.
Come on, kid. We have work to do
- Is he the new Sparky? - No!
[instrumental music]
- Now what? - Back to the power pad.
I need to tap into those top secret satellites.
You stole his security card?
You know how things cling to you
when you have static electricity
[chuckles] Right on.
Solid. Now, search for any kind of rare weather pattern.
(Static) 'Uh, most of that's just global warming.'
[keyboard keys clanking]
'I am picking up a disturbance.'
It's outside Dakota in the high hills.
I think I'm finally getting the hang of this.
So what exactly are we lookin' for?
Uh...never mind.
(Soul Power) It's got to be his headquarters.
'That's his weather machine on top.'
Remember, this time we work as a team.
[dramatic music]
crash
Ah!
How fortunate for me, that you two dropped in.
- And right on time. - W-what do you mean?
I was missing one component for my weather machine.
Enough power to make it truly effective.
Now you two shall be my batteries.
[both screaming]
[crackling]
[both grunting]
When the world sees what I can do to the city of Dakota
they'll pay me never to do it again.
[dramatic music]
[beeping]
[grunting]
It's all my fault this was a trap!
[grunting]
Maybe, maybe I can use
this to short-circuit this arm.
♪ Hit the wall he's a striker ♪
♪ Great wizard he's the best ♪
♪ Yo yo it ain't easy get this ♪
♪ Go homey it ain't easy come on son ♪
♪ Get this come on homey ♪
♪ Go homey get this ♪
♪ Hit the wall ♪
♪ Get this ♪
Soul Power, are you okay?
Maybe I am too old for this.
Thanks to me, Dakota is doomed.
Gotta get back to the city.
How? I don't have enough power left to fly.
- I can barely walk. - Maybe I can help.
(Static) Mr. Rollins! What are you doin' here?
Menace has taken over my satellites.
He's using them to control the weather.
How'd he manage to do that?
He pretended to be one of my government defense clients.
We gave him top level access and, boom!
So much for security.
But how did you find us?
I still have our old tracers partner.
Heh heh! Just like old times, eh?
- Whoa! You're Sparky? - That's right
My old costume stretches enough to still fit
You guys ready for a recharge?
You bet! Get ready, world 'cause it's time for a little..
(all) Soul Power!
[dramatic music]
So how did you get you power?
My costume is electrically charged.
When I was a kid, I invented it to be like him.
(Soul Power) So where to, Sparky?
How should I know?
- He was talking to me. - Oh.
- Down there. That building. - The Dakota retirement home?
Yes. According to my data someplace underground.
I never knew there was anything down here.
(Sparky) Blast through that wall.
[dramatic music]
[cracks knuckles]
[alarm beeping]
No! Not you again.
He's my enemy. Leave him to me.
Destroy them!
[clanking]
[zapping]
[dramatic music]
Ah!
♪ Gonna prove that it's right on ♪
♪ The power of soul ♪
♪ Gonna move ya oh yeah ♪
♪ The funkified force ♪
♪ Gonna prove that it's right on ♪
♪ The power of soul ♪
♪ Gonna move ya oh yeah ♪
♪ The funkified force ♪
♪ Can you feel it?
♪ Soul Power ♪
♪ Gonna get it ♪it's so hip now ♪
♪ Oh yeah the funkified force ♪
♪ Gonna get it ♪
♪ It's gonna get you ♪
Give up, Soul Power you're too old.
You're never too old to fight for justice, Lame brain.
Hear that, Menace?
These kids today are, uh...pretty smart.
Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
Right on.
[grunting]
Aah! Unh!
Look. It was all a holographic illusion.
He really is old, like me! Dennis!
All these years, I've waited, and planned my revenge.
And now, you've still won.
I should have stuck to basket-weaving. Oh!
(Grant) 'Well...that's that.'
With the last of my supervillains out of the way
Soul Power is officially retired.
Listen, um, I just wanted to say that
I learned a lot from you after all, so..
You know, uh, thanks
Hey, that's what you do with knowledge, kid.
- You pass it on. - Cool.
But you know, there's one thing you didn't teach me.
- What's that? - That dance.
How do those funky moves go?
First of all, you've gotta muster up a little Soul Power.
[Soul Power theme song]
Right on!
♪ Soul Power ♪
♪ Yeah eh-eh-eh ♪
[theme music]