Mooned (Zippy)

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

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

Plot
At school, Zippy and his classmates are watching a documentary movie about the moon. Wet Willy claims that "the moon is made of cheese", but nobody takes him seriously. Being bored, he, Willy, Ceela and Jenny sneak out of the class to go to the moon and ask his human friend, Billy to cover for them. They see an astronaut head to a rocketship and decided to follow him and sneak into his rocket where they see his partner getting ready for takeoff.

After playing with the ship's various features, Zippy accidentally starts up the rocket and starts to launch, which alerts the two astronauts. Zippy, Willy, Ceela and Jenny fall right down the rocket. Luckily, the lack of gravity takes over them while their in outer space. The astronauts find the base of the ship and then crash to the moon. Upon arrival, Ceela creates a coin-operated robot to sample and gather cheese and moon rocks. Zippy inserts a coin, but nothing happens. After the four leave, the robot comes to life and gathers the dirty plates left at their picnic spot.

The robot discovers Jenny's fashion magazine, and yearns to travel to Earth for itself. It repairs a broken piece of Moon that Wallace had cut off, issues a parking ticket for the rocket, and becomes annoyed by an oil leakage from the craft. The robot sneaks up on one of the astronauts and prepares to strike him, but the money Zippy inserted runs out, and it freezes. Returning to life, the robot realizes Zippy, Wet Willy, Ceela and Jenny can bring it to Earth with the astronauts, and follows them. Zippy panics, and he, Wet Willy, Ceela and Jenny retreat into the rocket. Unable to climb up the ladder, the robot cuts into the fuselage using a can opener. Upon entering the dark engine section of the rocket, it lights a match and accidentally ignites some fuel. The resultant explosion throws it off the rocket, and the four friends and two astronauts lift off. Initially distraught at losing its chance to go to Earth, the robot fashions discarded rocket fuselage into skis, and skis across the lunar landscape. It waves goodbye to Zippy and his friends as they return home and will soon return to Earth. They returned to school quietly where their teacher, Ms. Walker and her class still asleep and Zippy tells Billy about their trip on the moon.

Cast

 * Michaela Dietz as Zippy
 * Dante Basco as Wet Willy
 * Laura Marano as Ceela
 * Dove Cameron as Jenny
 * Jeremy Shada as Billy Peterson
 * Ashly Burch as Frankie Maddison
 * April Winchell as Ms. Walker
 * Brian Hull as Astronaut #1
 * Alan Tudyk as Astronaut #2
 * Brandon Greene as Robot
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic as The Narrator

General

 * The episode's plot is similar to the Wallace and Gromit short, A Grand Day Out.

Errors

 * When Zippy and his friends evacuated to the rocket, Jenny's eyes are purple instead of blue.

International Premieres

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