All About That Base

"All About That Base" is the second segment of the second episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Zippy.

Synopsis
When Zippy’s softball team struggles to believe in themselves, Ceela decides to invent a baseball that can manipulate the game and make them feel like winners.

Plot
Zippy is watching Billy's softball team the Ziptown ThunderDogs lose miserably. Despite his optimism and support, the team members are well aware of how terrible they are. Frankie decides that she, Zippy and the others to join their team (with Flambo as their mascot) so that she can "en-happy-fy" them and turn them into believers, though Billy thinks that her efforts will end badly. Zippy and the others, as it turns out, are just as terrible, if not worse, and cannot even toss the ball properly. While up against their rivals, the Skylers, their star player Beth Myers calls Zippy a "clown". This infuriates Ceela, and has plan to make her team win. Quickly, Ceela heads to her room and creates a baseball that can help her team. She comes back to the game and uses her baseball to make the ThunderDogs win for the first time.

Ceela later tells Zippy that she was her new ball to manipulating the events and not to tell anyone about this. Zippy is happy that he would help his team, but Molly is upset over this revelation, she refuses to cheat. However, Zippy convinces his team to continue with the charade as the ThunderDogs would be miserable losers without his and the residents of Ziptown need to be happy, at least for Frankie's sake. Ceela decides to continue with cheating and sends the ThunderDogs to the top. The ThunderDogs go up against the Skylers again in the finals, but Frankie is disappointed to learn that her teammates still do not believe in themselves, as they have been totally focused on supporting her and Zippy. Ceela tells Zippy that isn't fair to cheat and they're not even trying. Even if they lose, they would still give it their best effort.

Zippy finally decides to believe in himself for real and agrees to stop cheating. He tosses the ball where Beth strikes it, but it is caught by Wet Willy, with his face. The Zips win for real as they celebrate their win. Frankie is glad to see that the ThunderDogs believe in themselves now when Beth comes and continues to call Zippy "dumb and pathetic" and Flambo goes and scares her, which Zippy points out that she's fine.

Cast

 * Michaela Dietz as Zippy
 * Dante Basco as Wet Willy
 * Laura Marano as Ceela
 * Dove Cameron as Jenny
 * Ross Lynch as Zoomie
 * Calum Worthy as Jolly
 * Kari Wahlgren as Pinky
 * Jeremy Shada as Billy Peterson
 * Ashly Burch as Frankie McKean
 * Patton Oswalt as Flambo
 * China Anne McClain as Tiff Tucell
 * Anna Akana as Mandy Kwan
 * Issac Ryan Brown as Dexter Woodman
 * Lara Jill Miller as Ellie Rigby
 * Chandler Kinney as Beth Myers
 * James Arnold Taylor as Slugger
 * Dylan Sprouse and Cole Sprouse as Jack and Mack
 * Jake T. Austin as Cody Carpenter
 * Kerri Kenney-Silver as Flo
 * Brian Hull as Greg, Announcer
 * Brandon Greene as Buddy the Squirrel
 * Tom Kenny as Paul Peterson
 * Jill Talley as Linda Peterson

Trivia

 * The title is a parody of Meghan Trainor's song "".
 * There's a real-life baseball team called the Long Island Thunderdogs.