Saving Private Chum Chum
Episode	Season 1, Episode 22
Airdate	May 15, 2010
Writer	Eric Horsted, Scott Kreamer
Storyboard	Todd Waterman
Supervising Producers	Shaun Cashman, Jason Meier
Director	Brian Sheesley
Production code	142

“	There's a kid out there who never gave up on me. And I'm not gonna give up on him!	”
— Fanboy

Saving Private Chum Chum is episode 22a of Fanboy and Chum Chum season 1.

Characters

Main Characters

• Fanboy

Major Characters

• Chum Chum
• Hank Mufflin
• Yo
• Lupe
• Kyle Bloodworth-Thomason
• Chris Chuggy
• Fankylechum

Minor Characters

• Duke
• Michael Johnson (Only speaks in unison)
• Cher Leader (cameo; only speaks in unison)
• Nancy Pancy (cameo; only speaks in unison)
• Francine (cameo; only speaks in unison)
• Russ Poopatine (cameo)
• Goat

Synopsis

After Hank takes everyone's toys away, he mistakes Chum Chum for one and he takes him as well. Fanboy recruits Kyle, Yo, Lupe, Chris Chuggy, Fankylechum, Duke, Michael and Cher, and they work together as a rescue team to get Chum Chum back.

Plot

At school, the kids are sitting in class, bored, waiting for Hank to show up. Chum Chum wonders if he locked himself in his truck again. Hank eventually arrives, however, he is wearing shades and clumsily knocks over everything he walks into. He explains that he suffered from poor vision and recently got laser eye surgery. He states he will see what the kids will be up to.

Fanboy and Chum Chum discover that Hank can't see, and that meant toys in class! Everyone takes out their toys and begin playing. The children have the time of their lives enjoying various toys. Hank sees his watch and learns it's time to take his shades off, but when he does, he sees everyone playing with toys. A fed-up Hank begins taking all the toys away one by one, due to the no toy rule in class.

Fanboy and Chum Chum do their best to hide their toys but while they were, one of their bouncy balls' flies out of it and flies right into Chum Chum's mouth, causing him to be unable to speak. Fanboy tries to remove the ball from his throat but Hank approaches. He quickly accuses Chum Chum is a "toy" and throws him in the drawer with all the other toys. Evilly, he tells the kids they won't get their toys back until the end of the year, leaving everyone upset. Fanboy, however, is indignant.

At lunch, Fanboy has some of his friends join him and listen to his indignant speech. He announces that Hank has crossed the line into selfishly taking every single toy. Lupe says that they can get more, but Fanboy tells her that his best friend is in there. Yo says they all lost best friends, by telling him she lost Scampers but replaced him with a newer version of him. Fanboy reminds her Chum Chum is in the desk. Yo finally becomes serious and orders everyone to focus on saving Chum Chum.

That night, after Janitor Poopatine leaves after cleaning up, Fanboy gives the all-clear sign and everyone pops out of their desks. However he hears Hank and gives the signal to hide. Hank walks in, brushing his teeth, to which Fanboy becomes bewildered why he didn’t go home. After Hank opens his desk revealing a bed, Yo is shocked when she learns he lives at the school. Fanboy decides to wait, assuming he’ll eventually fall asleep.

Sometime later, Hank has turned his bed-desk into a tent as he pretends to be a human bat while playing with the kids' toys, to which upsets Duke, and angers Yo. Fanboy assumes positions of communications and Dutch to Yo and Lupe respectively, and lets Chuggy, Fankylechum and Kyle be his privates. He gives the nicknames "Chowhound" and "Fresno" to Chuggy and Fankylechum respectively.

Lupe calls Hank on the phone, tricking him into thinking his refrigerator is "running" and that he should catch it. Hank falls for the trick and runs out of the room. After managing to get past Hank's mean guard goat, they arrive at the desk and Fankylechum uses his safe-cracking skills to open the desk drawer. Kyle digs through the drawer and retrieves all the toys, but no Chum Chum. Fanboy panics and wonders where he is. Fanboy discovers Chum Chum is being carrying by Hank, who thinks there are Night Monsters in the classroom.

Fanboy wants to get Chum Chum as he does not want to leave without him. Kyle decides to leave but ends up tripping over a garbage can, causing Hank to noticed him, who mistakes him for a Night Monster. He starts shooting out lasers from his eyes, revealing that he got lasers put in his eyes. He zaps all over the place, causing everyone to duck for cover.

A terrified Duke panics and Lupe states they should leave. A completely determined Fanboy does not want to give up on saving Chum Chum and leaves the desk fort, The other team members help him by throwing their toys at Hank. Fanboy then leaps at the teacher slamming a pair of goggles on him, causing him to let go of Chum Chum.

However, Hank makes the goggles explode. Fanboy gives Chum Chum a hug in sadness. He squeezes him so hard, the ball comes free and pops out, hitting Hank in the face which destroys his laser eyes. The kids look over him to see if he's okay, and Hank discovers they're not Night Monsters, but his students trying to get the toys back. Chum Chum is grateful of Fanboy saving him. Happy to have him back, Fanboy and the kids have a victory celebration.

However, Hank turns into the human-bat version of himself and flies out of the school.

Transcript

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Gallery

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Running Gags

• Mr. Muffin acting crazy.
• Mr. Muffin mistaking Chum Chum for a toy.

Trivia

• This is the first episode to have only Chum Chum's name in the title.
• This is the first episode in which Hank is the main antagonist.
• First time Yo appeared on the title card, along with Chuggy and Fankylechum.
• It's revealed that Hank, in fact, lives at the school. But in some episodes, he is seen in a house.
• This is the craziest Hank is. As he never learned to share, he almost killed everyone with his laser eyes, and gain human bat powers and flies out saying he will have his revenge, and he stubbornly accused Chum Chum as a toy. The first time he acts insane is in "Precious Pig" when he accused Fanboy of trying to hurt the class pig and teaching the pig to do dangerous things.
• This episode was paired up with "Norse Code" during the original American airing but has since been re-airing with "Jingle Fever."
• This episode may reveal Fanboy and Chum Chum are in grade 6 (Hence the dialogue "He's been in your grade for the last five years."), or perhaps they were held back for six years.
• One of the motions Fanboy sends in his message to his privates is the "I'm watching you" motion.
• This is the last episode to show Yo’s crazy obsession with Chum Chum.
• Chum Chum doesn't seem to talk so much in this episode, due to the ball stuck in his throat.
• Janitor Poopatine appears in this episode but does not speak.
• There's a deleted scene where the kids play keep away with Hank to keep him from catching Chum Chum, and Fanboy yells " Chum Chum! Quick! Tell him You're not a toy!" And Chum Chum yells while being tosses around, "I'm. *squeak* not. *squeak* a. *squeak* toy! *squeak*". Also, there's one where Hank pops out of nowhere and confiscates Yo's New Scampers, saying "I'll take that!" And when Hank promises to give them back near the end of year, he cackles evilly. These scenes can be found here.
• The Fanboy Bible tells us that this episode was originally going to be called “The Desk Job”.
• Nancy, Francine and Cheech are the only ones that didn’t go on Fanboy’s mission to rescue Chum Chum. Though it’s debatable if Cher was actually part of Fanboy’s troop since she only appears with the others towards the end and there isn’t a scene where Fanboy asks her to help him out.
• Toys that kids are seen playing with.
  • Redheaded doll and yo-yo (Fanboy)
  • Firetruck and paddle (Chum Chum)
  • white toy ninja and Lil' Warlock Kit (Kyle)
  • Yamagutchi digital cat Scampers (Yo)
  • Black toy ninja, teddy bear and green ball (Lupe)
  • Toy weights and toy ninja (Chris Chuggy)
  • Blonde haired doll and skateboard (Duke)
  • Skateboard and toy ninja (Micheal)
  • A ball and redheaded doll (Nancy)
  • Paddle and Nighttime Goggles (Fankylechum)
  • Unknown (Cher and Francine)

Morals

• Friends will go to great lengths and take risks for one another.
• Achieving a difficult goal is often only possible through unified effort and cooperation.
• Facing overwhelming odds requires courage and persistence.

Continuity

• Fifth episode to take place entirely at the school. ("Wizboy", "The Janitor's Apprentice", "Little Glop of Horrors" and "The Book Report of the Dead")
• Following "The Hard Sell", "Chicken Pox", "The Janitor's Apprentice", "Secret Shopper", "Little Glop of Horrors", "The Tell-Tale Toy", "Cold War" and "The Book Report of the Dead this is the eighth episode where almost all the events only take place inside a building.
• Nearly all the events take place at night ("Digital Pet Cemetery", "Moppy Dearest", "Night Morning", "Total Recall", "Sigmund the Sorcerer").
• Second time Kyle's wand is taken away. ("Wizboy")
• The toy Chum Chum takes out when everyone takes out their toys is a miniature version of the glop fire truck from "Little Glop of Horrors".
• Lupe is seen juggling Groc, Thorvald's battle axe, which will be introduced in "Norse Code". This may indicate this took place before that.
• A mysenhoffel can be seen in Fanboy's desk as F&C dig through their toys ("I, Fanbot", "The Incredible Shrinking Fanboy").
• After Kyle loses his Lil' Warlock Kit to Hank, his "oh" sound clip is recycled from "Wizboy".
• Second time Hank won't let someone get something back until the end of the year ("Wizboy").
• Like "Wizboy" and "Little Glop of Horrors", Fanboy's name was not said until near the end, but Chum Chum's name was said several times.
• Kyle's gasp from when Hank pops out of his cauldron was recycled from "Chicken Pox".
• The fire truck that Hank chases after is the recalled vintage fire truck from "Total Recall". Fanboy and Duke were also briefly seen with Baby McCuddles and a sailor baby respectively. Also, the Battleship Potompkins ship can be seen in Fanboy's desk.
• Sixth time Chum Chum gets trapped ("Trading Day", "Chicken Pox", "Excuse Me", "Sigmund the Sorcerer" and "The Book Report of the Dead")

Goofs

• Before and during the mission, only Lupe, Kyle, Yo, Chuggy, Duke, and Fankylechum were asked to help but then, Michael appeared out of nowhere.
  • He could've just been off-camera or wasn't there to join the team yet
• At the finish, when Hank flies off into the night as a human bat, Cher appears in the classroom even though she wasn't part of Fanboy's troop.
  • Unless Cher walked in the classroom before Hank flies off or Fanboy asked her to help him out off-screen before the mission.
• When Hank says "On second thought, it is" his eye suddenly overlaps his eyelid.
• When Hank zaps near Kyle with his laser eyes, Kyle starts running, but after Hank says "Want some? Get some!", Kyle is on the ground, fainted, even though it is only eight seconds in between.
  • However, it's possible he was running from the lasers off-camera and fainted at an unseen moment. Also, it's possible one of the lasers Hank shot while the spoke caused Kyle to faint.
• When Fanboy and the gang fall on each other Fanboy hits Kyle chest to chest, but when Duke starts speaking after the fall, Fanboy rolls off Chuggy's back, indicating a position error.
• At 6:56, when Fanboy sends the message to his privates, he looks to his right. No one is behind him, but in the next shot, we are in Fanboy's perspective, and we see he is facing the window; thus, the privates are in front of him, yet in the shot after that, he is to their left and is looking at them from their angle.
• Near the end, when Hank discovers his kids are not Night Monsters, they are circling him, but after he gets up, they are not in a circle and are in lines. Also, they change spots between the time Hank says, "You're my students trying to get your toys back" and the time he says, "You monsters!" and walks away.
• Sometimes when Kyle is fainted his eyes are closed, but other times they are open.
• After Kyle says, "What on earth was that?!?" his right eyebrow appears to go through his right eyelid.
• Yo's backpack isn't shown throughout most of the classroom scene, but at 1:12 and 2:25 her backpack appears on her body out of nowhere.
• Fanboy is shown to be afraid of goats as we see him screaming at Hank's guard goat, but somehow, he wasn't afraid of Mitzi.
• For some reason, Duke is wearing Chum Chum's helmet and using Fanboy's skateboard.
  • Maybe he borrowed Chum Chum's helmet and Fanboy's skateboard.
• When Hank says "You're my students, trying to get your toys back" Kyle is a little taller than usual.
• When Hank sees Kyle as a Night Monster, Kyle is in the corner of the room, but when Kyle says, "I'm okay!" he is in front of the blackboard. This indicates a jump cut error.

• At 6:49 when Fanboy's team marches past him, Kyle's right arm turns transparent.
• When Fanboy and the gang fall back over the desk fort, only Fanboy and Kyle fall back over it, but in the next shot, Fankylechum and Chuggy fall with them out of nowhere.
• In the overview of Hank shooting lasers, Kyle, fainted, is on the ground next to the teacher's desk and placed horizontally, but when Fanboy runs up to Kyle and picks him up and carries him, Kyle is facing vertically.
• When Kyle says "I'd rather hope I'd be Tex" the order of kids marching is Kyle-Fankylechum-Chuggy-Yo-Lupe, but in the next shot, the order is Fankylechum-Kyle-Chuggy-Lupe-Yo.
• After everyone takes their toys out, Kyle is holding a ninja, but in the next shot he has his Lil' Warlock Kit.
• When we see everyone lined up ready to get Chum Chum on the flag shot, the red stripe on the bottom of Kyle's shirt is larger than usual.
• At 6:41 when Lupe salutes, she salutes with her left hand when it should be her right.
  • This is a common error on TV.
• When Chum Chum gets tossed into Hank's desk drawer, he appears to be larger than the drawer, but when we see him enjoying himself in the drawer with the toys, Chum Chum is smaller than the drawer.
• While Kyle is digging through the toys in the drawer his left leg goes through his cape for a single frame.
• When Fanboy cries at Chum Chum's loss, his left elbow goes through his cape for a single frame.
• When Hank says "Get back here, you toy" his mouth doesn't move.
• When we see Chris and Michael playing ninjas together, Chris and Michael are sitting where Francine and Yo were sitting. They go back to where they were originally sitting when Mr. Muffin first sees the class with toys.
• When Mr. Muffin takes the ninja toys away, Chris and Michael are in Duke and Nancy’s seats.
  • During the same scene Cher is sitting where Francine was sitting. Nancy is in Lupe’s spot. Also Francine is now sitting in Yo’s seat, Yo is in Micheal’s seat and Fankylechum is sitting where Cher was originally at. Kyle and Duke are also sitting where Fanboy and Chum Chum were seated.
• Duke’s ramp disappears when Mr. Muffin starts taking the toys away.
• When Chum Chum starts bouncing around the classroom, Lupe, Nancy, Cher and Francine are nowhere to be seen. Francine reappears when Mr. Muffin says "Then, what’s that you’re holding?" however she disappears again and doesn’t reappear for the rest of the episode. Cher also reappears when Mr. Muffin takes Chum Chum away but disappears after that and doesn’t appear again until the ending where Mr. Muffin flies out of the classroom.
• Kyle and Fanboy are in Nancy and Francine’s seats when Chum Chum bounces around the classroom.
• After Chris and Micheal’s toys are confiscated, Nancy is absent for the rest of the episode.
• When the class freak out about not getting their toys back until the school year is up, Lupe is in Nancy’s seat and Kyle is in Yo’s seat. Fankylechum is also in Cher’s seat.

Allusions

• The title is a spoof on "Saving Private Ryan".
• When Fanboy is going to rescue Chum Chum he sings "Ride of the Valkyries" as he leaps from his desk post.
• The Lion King - During the victory celebration at the end, Fanboy holds Chum Chum up high for everyone, the same way Rafiki holds Simba up at the beginning of the movie.
• NBA Jam - Mr. Mufflin dribbling Chum Chum after he swallowed the ball and then slam dunking him into the drawer of toys while saying "Boom shakalaka!" is a direct reference to the video game.
• Paint the Town - Mr. Mufflin said, "You Monsters!" to his students, just like Chowder said, "You Monster!" to Mung Daal.
• Toy Story - The mission scene almost completely mirrors the "Recon Plan Charlie" scene, and the characters seem to act like the solders. Fanboy is Sarge, Kyle is the Minesweeper, Fankylechum is the Bazooka Man and Chuggy is the Mound Guy. The part where Fanboy carries a fainted Kyle is the same way as Sarge carried the Minesweeper.
• Cadet Kelly - When Yo said, "On your feet, MAGGOTS!" this is a reference to Cadet Captain Jennifer Stone; she always has a loud voice and calls her students "maggots".
• Muppet Treasure Island - When Mr. Mufflin said "Boom, Shakalaka!" this is a reference to The Pig Chief said to Kermit The Frog as Captain Abraham Smollett, Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat at the sacrifice. Also a reference to NBA Jam.
• The nicknames given to Chuggy, Fankylechum and Kyle as privates refer to:
  • Chowhound (Chuggy) - Food message board to the PBS cooking website Chow.
  • Fresno (Fankylechum) - A city in central California, United States
  • Tex (Kyle) - A unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibers and is defined as the mass in grams per 1000 meters.
• High School Musical - Hank taking away everyone's toys is similar in a manner Ms. Darbus takes away everyone's cell phones.
• WALL-E - The way Chum Chum swallows the ball at the beginning and Fanboy squeezes him so hard that he spits out at the end is similar to when WALL-E puts garbage in his box and then turns into a cube when it comes out.
• Wow Wow Wubbzy - The way Kyle trips over a trash can is similar to when Widget trips over something on Wubbzy's yard in the episode "Special Delivery".
• The term "MAGGOTS!" was also used in the game Team Fortress 2.
• Aliens - Duke cries out "Game over, man!" much like Pvt. William Hudson (played by Bill Paxton) says in the 1986 sequel to Alien.

Cast

• David Hornsby as Fanboy
• Nika Futterman as Chum Chum and Nancy
• Jamie Kennedy as Kyle and Fankylechum
• Dyana Liu as Yo
• Jeff Glen Bennett as Mr. Mufflin and Duke
• Candi Milo as Lupe, Cher, and Francine
• Wyatt Cenac as Michael Johnson

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Season 1 Wizboy | Pick a Nose | The Janitor Strikes Back | Dollar Day | Trading Day The Hard Sell | Digital Pet Cemetery | Fanboy Stinks | I, Fanbot | Berry Sick Chimp Chomp Chumps | Precious Pig | Fangboy | Monster in the Mist | Brain Drain Fanboyfriend | Chicken Pox | Moppy Dearest | Norse-ing Around | The Janitor's Apprentice Excuse Me | Night Morning | Marsha, Marsha, Marsha | Secret Shopper | Prank Master Little Glop of Horrors | Total Recall | Refill Madness | The Frosty Bus | The Tell-Tale Toy Cold War | Fanboy in the Plastic Bubble | Sigmund the Sorcerer | Fanboy A'Hoy! | Fan vs. Wild The Incredible Shrinking Fanboy | Separation Anxiety | Strings Attached | The Book Report of the Dead Stan Arctica | Man-Arctica the Ride | Fan-bidextrous | Saving Private Chum Chum | Jingle Fever Eyes on the Prize | Battle of the Stands | Lord of the Rings | The Incredible Chulk | Norse Code The Great Bicycle Mystery | A Bopwork Orange | Freeze Tag
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