Plot Synopsis
Well we're on the second episode already and it's time to turn the brains off. We start off with Dr. Wily and his robots attacking a power plant. Mega Man shows up in time and quickly disassembles Cut Man and Guts Man and renders Bright Man useless by putting on sunglasses. Wily quickly uses his flying Wily Machine however and blows Mega Man up!
"No!" protests Proto Man, "I want to be the one to destroy my brother!" We now see that Dr. Wily and his robots are playing with a small scale model of the power plant. Apparently Dr. Wily must not have much faith in his robots because he greatly anticipates their failure. Anyway, Wily concedes that Proto Man can destroy Mega Man and they take off for the power plant.
In the mean time Dr. Light has created a new series of helper robots that look like butlers and maids that he is showing at an expo when they all hear an explosion. Mega Man jumps on Rush and heads down to the power plant. There he finds Wily and his bots again and starts taking them out. He beats Bright Man with a mirror this time, leaving viewers with the question of "what the hell use is Bright Man?" Mega Man defeats them all and Wily runs off.
Back at Wily's hidden base, he explains that he has a spy in Dr. Light's lab. We now go to Mega Man washing up in a bathroom sink when the door slams behind him, is barred shut and the room starts filling with acid! Mega Man tries to blast the door down, but it's been reinforced to keep Wily out apparently (maybe it's made out of a met helmet). Luckily Dr. Light happens to walk by and gets Mega Man out. He then orders his robo maid to clean up the acid which corrodes through metal with a mop... hmm...
All while this is going on, Dr. Wily finally install his micro chip thing into the power plant. This gives him control of all the electronics in the city, which he controls with an Atari looking joy stick. How well does his control of these electronics extend to? Well he can tie up a security guard with a phone cord, send vacuums after innocent civilians and toss hot dogs and cheese at them... right...
Mega Man goes after Wily with Rush, but unfortunately Rush has been reprogrammed by the Robo Maid to fly Mega Man directly to Guts Man and Cut Man. Since that plan was obviously terrible from the get go, Mega Man beats both of them and goes to rescue a bunch of citizens in a store who are being attacked by unplugged appliances and exercise bikes. After stopping them, Mega Man returns to Dr. Light's lab to see if he's discovered the source of this ridiculous crap. He gets there just in time to rescue Dr. Light from the Robo Maid who spouts some awful Terminator catchphrases before Mega Man completely dismembers her. Ah, you gotta love that since they are robots, they can have their heads and limbs chopped off!
Dr. Wily has the governor hand him over the city, but Mega Man goes back to the power plant and installs a new chip made by Dr. Light to counter act the magical other chip. Mega Man heads to the governors mansion where he fights with Pharaoh Man for about 10 seconds and Wily flies off defeated and pissed. Mega Man heads back home where the Robo Maid has been reprogrammed to be a servant to Rush, who is a bit of a cruel master. Everyone laughs, credits roll.
Critique
It's amazing how Wily can control an entire cities worth of electronics with only a joystick and two buttons and you have to wonder why he even brought Bright Man with him at all.
This episode is particularly bad with the puns. "I got a feeling the butler did it!" "Time to work on my back hand!" (picks up a tennis racket), "Who do you call when you can't trust the police department? The Fire Department!" (sprays a bunch of water with a fire hydrant). They just keep coming at a hundred puns a minute.
Ignoring the more idiotic stuff though the majority of this episode just repeats itself. Mega Man himself goes and fights the Robot Masters three out of the four times this episode goes to the power plant. There's all kinds of chaos without any sense of peril for our blue hero either, trivializing most of the battles. This hits it's peak of stupidity once the security guard is tied up with the phone cord, and while that's worth watching initially because of the "so bad it's good" factor, they repeat this type of joke ad nauesum the whole episode, wearing it out really fast.
An overall mediocre episode that isn't so hilariously bad it's worth seeing.
Rating: Thumbs Down.
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