Dome of Doom is an episode from Season 3.
The episode was produced in 2001 and premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on July 26, 2002.
Plot[]
There has been a drought, with Courage and his owners being unable to grow food, much to Eustace’s dismay. Suddenly, a newspaper blows onto Courage’s face containing an ad for free food. They call the number on the ad. After arriving, the specialist installs a greenhouse dome and provides the seeds to the vegetables. They enter the dome to plant seeds and press a button, causing a terrible storm which causes the Bagge family to run inside the house for shelter. The storm eventually stops and they look outside. To their delight they see a beautiful vegetable garden. Muriel goes to harvest the vegetables. as they do so, a pea plants begins to growl at Courage. Frightened, Courage tries to tell Muriel. However, Muriel simply thinks that Courage is hungry and assures him that the food will be ready soon. In the kitchen, Muriel ispreparing to cook, but suddenly the peas begin to attack her. Courage manages to save Muriel by slathering her in olive oil so that she can slip out of the pea plant's grasp. Now in the living room, Muriel tries to warn Eustace that the plants are actually trying to eat them. However, Eustace doesn’t listen and says that if she won’t feed him, he’ll just feed himself.
Eustace then takes out a cabbage and, as he goes to eat it, the cabbage springs to life and bites Eustace's head. Muriel then screams for Courage to help and beats the cabbage off of Eustace’s head with her rolling pin. The family then fled from the house and attempted to break the dome door to escape but to no avail. At this time, suddenly, the tomatoes spring to life. They grow stingers, and attack Eustace, stinging his face. Courage picks up the peeled seed packet and discovers that the vegetables’ DNA had been crossed with the DNA of dangerous animals including hornets, pythons, and piranhas. Courage then presses the button three times, eventually causing it to snow in the dome, and freezing the vegetables. Muriel and Courage are relieved. However, Eustace was still being chased by the tomatoes, so they run back into the house and barricade it as the snow stops and the vegetables begin to thaw out. Inside, Eustace still demands food and Muriel begins to scold him but he ignores her as He looks at the TV and sees a cabbage. As he gets excited about it, the cabbage jumps out the TV and goes to attack, it smells Eustace’s foot and tries to bite it off. However, Eustace manages to pull his foot free but loses his shoe to the cabbage’s sharp teeth. The cabbage then proceeds to chase after Eustace as the rest of the plants begin to sprout and enter the house. Muriel and Eustace run upstairs to hide in the attic. Courage decides to fight back and attack the vegetables, even going as far as trying to get a cow to eat them. But his plans fail and Courage flees to the attic where Muriel and Eustace are hiding. Helpless, the family is cornered by the vegetables, but fortunately Courage remembers that the cabbage liked the smell of Eustace's feet so Courage wrings the sweat from Eustace’s sock into a flit gun and sprays it on the vegetables to entice them and make them eat each other, turning themselves into plant mush in the process. Eustace is now delighted that he has food and proceeds to devour the remains of the vegetables. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Eustace ate all the vegetables and is now fat. He demands more food and falls through the floor due his weight, all the while demanding dinner.
Trivia[]
- This episode shares the intense music from "Shirley the Medium".
- Through the episode it's revealed that besides meat, Eustace also likes to eat vegetables.
- This is the second episode to use Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood" piece. The first was "Campsite of Terror".
- Although the specialist only gave them the seeds of peas, cabbage, and tomatoes, in some scenes we see in the garden there are eggplants, pumpkins, and gourds.
- One could argue that when the vegetables attack and turn each other into mush, they essentially turned themselves into Coleslaw.
- Each vegetable appears to have its DNA spliced with a certain animal's DNA
- Tomatoes - Hornets, due to having stingers and the ability to fly
- Peas - Pythons, due to attacking their prey by wrapping around and squeezing it.
- Cabbage - Piranhas, due to having razor sharp teeth and identifying prey by its scent.
- There are insides shown when Eustace is electrocuted:
- Yellow lightning
- Green lightning with skeletons (1 and 5)
- Lime green lightning with baseball and screw in his head
- Blue and indigo lightning with nuclear symbol in his head
- Yellow and black lightning with a duck in his stomach
- Blue and black lightning
- Goof: When Eustace goes to eat the remains of the vegetables, he is seen with both of his shoes on.
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the United States on July 26, 2002, it was actually produced in 2001 according to the credits.
- This episode was finished in October of 2001.[1]