Mooned (Zippy)

"Space Out" is the first segment of the first episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Zippy.

Synopsis
Zippy and Wet Willy sneak onto a rocket ship which blasted them off to the moon.

Plot
The episode start with Zippy and his friends, Ceela and Jenny at their treehouse look at the planets through a telescope that Ceela invented. Zippy's best friend, Wet Willy comes to SpongeBob's house and gives him some "Alien Repellent," which Jenny says that there are no aliens on the moon. Ceela says the Zip Comet can only be seen when on the moon. Just then, they see an astronaut running to the pilot area. Zoomie and his brother, Jolly explains that he's going to the moon for a test expirement. Zippy tells his parentsthey see a rocketship and sneak into spray the windows.

Even though they agree to only spray the windows, Willy inadvertently enters the rocket, and he and Zippy follow. After playing with the ship's various features, Zippy accidentally starts up the rocket and starts to launch, which alarms Ceela and Jenny and notice them. Zippy and Wet Willy fall right down the rocket. Luckily, the lack of gravity takes over them while their in outer space. Zippy finds the control room and takes over the ship. The ship falls down and crashes to the moon.

Upon arrival, they begin sampling and gathering cheese, then have a little picnic, and then watch the Zip Comet. Zippy has Mark initiate autopilot, but he didn't install one. All of a sudden, Zippy and Willy are almost sucked out of the moon from a meteor. Another meteor gets stuck in the gears. Jenny tells Zoomie and Jolly to distract the general as she and Ceela head to the control room to help Zippy. Zippy begs Ceela to do something, but she has another idea, she sets the ship's course to crash into the meteor. Jenny says Ceela's idea might work and they might get back to Earth. Meanwhile, Zoomie and Jolly show the general and astronaut Zippy and Wet Willy in space. Zippy has Willy launch the escape blast to survive the crash. he manages to do so and are launched back to Earth. However, the comet explodes, and the spaceship. Ceela, Jenny, Zoomie and Jolly meet their friends and Zippy shows Ceela videos of the comet. The general arrives and tries to chew them out for ruining the experiment just before he and the astronaut are crushed by a chunk of the meteor covered in goop and the episode ends with the kids and astronaut laughing.

Cast

 * Michaela Dietz as Zippy
 * Greg Cipes as Wet Willy
 * Laura Marano as Ceela
 * Dove Cameron as Jenny
 * Kerri Kenney-Silver as Flo
 * Brian Hull as Greg, The General
 * Alan Tudyk as The Astronaut
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic as The Narrator

Trivia

 * The episode was originally going to be called "Space Zips" and "Give Me Some Space" before settling on "Space Out".
 * This is Zippy's first space-themed episode, second being Zippy's Adventures of Star Wars.
 * The scene where Zippy and Wet Willy are messing around in the rocketship is a reference to the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Sandy's Rocket".
 * The Narrator can be heard in this episode, but we wouldn't see him until the Season 1 finale "A Zippy Little Christmas".
 * The episode can be seen in a giant screen in the film Zippy: The Cyberspace Movie.

International Premieres

 * May 13, 2022 (Canada)
 * May 20, 2022 (Japan)
 * July 1, 2022 (Australia, New Zealand)
 * September 16, 2022 (United Kingdom, Ireland)