[video game music plays]
Darryl, Darryl, Darryl, back again.
I hear you won't participate in team sports in gym class.
I'm a lone wolf. [howls]
Darryl, you need to learn team skills.
How about you join my Turnipball team?
Uh, how about I join the e-sports team instead?
We don't have an e-sports team. Besides there's no teamwork in video games.
Pff. Ever heard of co-op games, as in cooperation?
Yeah, they're all about teamwork. It's right in the name.
I'll pull together an e-sports team and play any game you want,
and if I beat it with no resets, first try,
you make e-sports an official school sport
- and we'll call this team stuff good. - All righty-o.
- But if you lose, you join the Turnipball team. - Deal.
So, I need a few people to join my team.
Oh, please ask me, please ask me, please ask me,
please ask me,
- Please ask me, please! - Hmm, who should I ask? Oh, um...
- Molly, wanna play? - Yes! I am so honored you asked.
Being able to support you in a time of need
- is a big sister's dream. - Okay.
I need one more rube-- I mean player. [laughs]
How about you, Libby? Wanna join team Darryl?
Uh, access your inner warrior, Libby.
[epic music plays]
- [roars] - Okay, I'm in. [laughs]
Hi, hello, I-- I was not specifically asked,
which I assume was an oversight but, yeah, I'll join the team.
Sorry, Scratch, O'Connor won't be cool with a ghost on the team,
mostly 'cause he doesn't know ghosts exist.
But I wanna play!
Aw, Scratch. Ooh, oh!
What if we become our own mini team within a team, huh?
You could possess half of my body
and that way we can both play on the same controller.
I like it! I'll possess your left half
since you're so uncoordinated on that side anyway.
Ah, pff, no, I'm not. See.
It's okay, Lefty, you'll get it one day.
Whoa!
Ooh, Scratch, Scratch, it's too big.
Sorry, I don't know how to drive this thing.
- Legs. - [O'Connor clears throat]
[laughs nervously] Just, uh, limbering up.
All right, what are we playing?
[Darryl] The Fizz Wizz's Emporium?
My favorite game when I was a kid.
Lucky for you, it just got ported to the Playbox Six.
Never heard of it. Ah, doesn't matter, I got that game sense.
[video game music plays]
♪ It's time for adventure, a virtual quest ♪
♪ You're ready for action, perhaps overdressed? ♪
♪ You got a bit carried away ♪
♪ Get into the game ♪
Ooh, I like that one. No, where you going?
♪ Two player mode's proving hectic ♪
No, down.
♪ Now your outfit's becoming eccentric ♪
Okay, now hit wide. No!
♪ Nothing seems to color-coordinate ♪
♪ Get into the game ♪
And please, if we have got the option to go colorful,
we are going colorful!
♪ Evading the fashion police ♪
[Scratch] Come on, if we're going full peacock
wrapped in a rainbow, let me have something.
♪ So many micro-transactional fees ♪
[Scratch] Whoo!
♪ Cast your fears aside ♪
Ow!
♪ That wasn't your best high-five ♪
♪ Your journey awaits, you're destiny's date ♪
♪ Only the strong will survive ♪
[laughs] Just a sec. Almost got it.
Uh...
There.
♪ Get into the game ♪
♪ You'd rather play on your own ♪
♪ Get into the game ♪
♪ Your look says, "I work alone" ♪
♪ Get into the game Get into the game ♪
Let's do this.
♪ Get into the game ♪
Welcome to the Fizz Wizz Fizzy Factory.
You've won a lifetime supply of soda.
[gasps] Cool.
Because you'll be stuck here forever.
Oh, there's always a catch.
Unless, you can recreate
my super-secret soda recipe.
[laughs]
All the soda I want with no risk of cavities or health problems?
Do we have to leave?
Yes, that's how I win the game. Uh.
I just need to try different flavor combos until I get the right one.
[Molly] Ah, ah, ah.
Whoa. Hey, Scratch, Scratch.
We are trying to go this way. Will you stop button mashing?
I'm trying to unlock a cool combo.
You're gonna fight me-- Whoa!
Seriously? You just burned a life.
Yeah, as I said, it was her.
- It was her. - It was him!
It was so clearly him.
[sighs] This is why I don't do teams.
Me and you both, brother.
[grunts]
Let's try vanilla,
strawberry,
ooh, childlike whimsy.
Nope, not that.
Oh, well, if you like the hat so much,
[laughs] Here, take it.
[laughs] Bleep, bleep, bleep.
Ah, that really works on you.
Bleep, bleep, bleep.
Libby, don't talk to the NPCs,
they don't help or have interior lives.
But she said my hat was poptacular.
It would be rude not to converse.
[Scratch] Did you try strawberry?
Darryl, Darryl, you hear me?
I said strawberry.
Try strawberry!
Ugh, teammates.
Cinnamon, ooh, caramel,
a little sodium benzoate and boom.
Yes.
The only team I need is me, myself and Darryl.
What?
All right, so this is a platforming level and--
- Bleep, bleep, bleep. - Libby.
- Bleep, bleep. - Really?
Getting a bottle opener
would fulfill all your hopes and dreams?
Bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.
Well, I'm happy to oblige, new friend.
- Whoo-hoo! - No!
Scratch, wait, we can barely move in a straight line.
We're gonna learn on the job.
Whoa!
[Scratch screams]
What was that?
I loved it!
I'm gonna call it... "the Scratch Attack."
Stop wasting lives!
You're right, Scratch Attack's probably too powerful.
Why would you use the Scratch Attack,
all we needed was a short hop there?
Why would you hop when you have access to the Scratch Attack?
Because the Scratch Attack launched us to our death, Scratch!
Stop!
[sighs] New plan, I'm player one.
The camera follows me.
I'll take on the level and you guys
can just ride behind in a soda bubble.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
I wanna play, not be some guy in a bubble.
Yeah, we're a team, aren't we?
Sometimes teamwork means letting one person do everything.
One, two, three, go!
Okay, last one's slow, got it.
Mm hm. Jump earlier than you think.
Mm, Darryl, hey, is it our turn yet?
No.
Yes, I did it!
[Molly and Libby] Oh.
Come on, dead weight-- I mean, team.
That was it?
Ho-oh, I nailed this game.
Come on, guys.
So, you've got past my obstacles.
But you'll never get past me.
[laughs]
Wait, the final boss almost sounds like the--
Let's see if you've learned your lesson.
Bring it, O'Connor.
Hey, um, maybe we should try talking it out instead.
If I could just learn what his motivation is and, uh,
maybe his Enneagram personality type.
[Darryl] That's not how video games work.
Just stand over there.
I've only got one life left.
Bleep, bleep, bleep.
Oh, I love that backstory.
So rich, so complex, and of course,
you can have this bubble gun.
Darryl won't let me use it anyway.
Bleep, bleep, bleep.
Okay, hop, hop, and--
[Scratch] Scratch attack!
[laughs] Ah!
[laughs] Darryl, Darryl, look, we finally got it.
Down to a science.
Uh, don't distract me!
Your last life is mighty low.
Dare you strike me again on your own?
[laughing]
I can't survive another hit.
I need my team.
Oh, really?
'Cause I thought you wanted us to stay out of the way.
Yeah, I remember you saying we were all dead weight,
which by the way is offensive to me on multiple counts.
[gasps] I didn't even think about that.
[Scratch] Most people don't.
I know what I said, but I can't do this on my own.
So, what do you need us to do?
[Darryl] Yoo-hoo, over here.
Try and catch me.
[Scratch] Scratch Attack.
Libby, the coast is clear.
Go, go, go, go!
[Libby whispering]
Attack!
[Scratch] Scratch Attack, Scratch Attack.
For the neck!
You cannot defeat me
with these measly punches and kicks.
[Darryl] Oh, just hold down a little longer.
What!
Bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.
Okay, everyone, attack at once as a team!
[Scratch] Scratch Attack.
Scratch Attack.
[Libby] Go.
[screaming] No!
[Fizz Wizz] The Fizz Wizz has fizzled out.
[triumphant music plays]
[all] Yes!
- [laughs] Yo! - Yo!
- Yes! - We did it. We won!
We sure did.
Yeah, sorry.
I shouldn't have tried to lone-wolf it.
Thanks, team.
Was this whole thing a clever way to trick me
into learning a valuable lesson about teamwork?
Sure was.
Another life lesson imparted, O'Connie.
Good job. Good job.
Not psyched that you're getting the W on this, but I think
the real win is that I don't have to play a vegetable-based sport.
[Molly grunting]
What are you doing?
I'm dancing. I'm celebrating.
I think you have no control over your body.
Just seeing the way the body moves.
It's an embarrassment, and not of riches.
♪ The Ghost and Molly McGee ♪
[theme music plays]