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| “Has anyone heard the story of... the Sleep Bug?” |
| — Syntax |
Sleep Bug is the first episode of Season 2 and the eleventh episode overall of Monkie Kid.
Synopsis[]
Short DescriptionA new game sweeps across the city, but instead of fun and frivolity, the game is a virus that knocks out everyone who plays it.[1] ExtendedA new game sweeps across the city, but instead of fun and frivolity, the game is actually a virus that knocks out everyone who plays it, leaving the "Cloud" free and clear to be pilfered by one of Spider Queen's minions - the Tech Spider! It's up to MK to swing into action, shut down the cloud, and wake up the city.[2] |
Plot[]
The Spider Queen gets mad about her recent defeat until the mysterious girl tells her that they need a special artifact for their plan, which was at the Cloud. After hearing about the Cloud, Syntax convinces the Spider Queen to let him go there to get the artifact, claiming that he can use his tech skills to take advantage of the Cloud, and creates a game called Sleep Bug to distract the citizens during the process.
Meanwhile at Flower Fruit Mountain, the Monkey King tells MK that he's leaving, as he wanted to go on vacation after he chose MK to be his successor. While MK complains that something bad could happen, the Monkey King tells him not to worry and that he needed to take care of himself on his next journey. Once Monkey King left, MK briefly gets mad at him and went to Pigsy's Noodles to complained to his friends about Monkey King leaving, only to find them, along with the other citizens of Megapolis, asleep.
Sometime later, MK was with a sleeping Pigsy until he received another notification about Sleep Bug. He soon realized that the game caused everyone to fall asleep and decided to go to the Cloud to get rid of the game. Unbeknownst to MK, once he left, he accidentally caused Pigsy to go downhill after he went to the Cloud.
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Cast[]
Features[]
Characters[]
Main:
Supporting:
- Mei
- Monkey King
- Guardians of Knowledge
- Pigsy
- Tang
- Little girl (possessed)
Antagonists:
Locations[]
- China
- Flower Fruit Mountain
Objects[]
- Magic cloud
- Mei's phone
- MK's phone
- Monkey Mech
- Peach Chips
- Peaches
- Pigsy's phone
- Skeleton Key
- Sleep Bug
- Spider crown
- Syntax's goggles
- Syntax's mechanical spider legs
- Locked box
- The Golden Staff
- Trigram Furnace
Vehicles[]
- Bone mech (projection)
- Cloud Bike
- Spider Queen's mech
- Tuk-tuk
Species[]
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Translation, etymology, and notes |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | الحشرة المنومة | Translates to The Sleeping Insect. |
| Bulgarian | Сънният бръмбар | Translates to Sleepy Beetle. |
| Cantonese | 睡蟲 | Translates to Sleep Bug. |
| Croatian | Usnulica | Translates to Sleep Bug. |
| Czech | Spávek | Translates to Sleeper. |
| Danish | Søvnkravle | Translates to Sleep Crawler. |
| Dutch | Slaap-tor | Translates to Sleep-Beetle. |
| Finnish | Unetus | Translates to Insomnia. |
| French | Dodo Bug | Translates to Sleepy Bug. |
| German | Der Schlaf-Virus | Translates to The Sleep Virus. |
| Hebrew | חרק שינה | Translates to Sleep Bug. |
| Hungarian | Az altató bogár | Translates to The Sleeping Bug. |
| Italian | La Pulce del Sonno | Translates to The Sleep Flea. |
| Japanese | 眠りつく街、スリープバグを追え！ | Translates to Sleeping City, Chase the Sleep Bug!. |
| Korean | 잠벌래 | Translates to Bedbug. |
| Mandarin | 瞌睡虫来袭 | Translates to Sleepy Bugs are Coming. |
| Norwegian | Sovekrypet | Translates to Sleep Crawler. |
| Polish | Wirus snu | Translates to Sleep Virus. |
| Portuguese | Bug do Sono | Translates to Sleep Bug. |
| Romanian | Somn ușor | Translates to Sleep Tight. |
| Serbian | Spavalica | Translates to Sleepyhead. |
| Slovene | Spalni hrošč | Translates to Sleep Bug. |
| Spanish (Spain) |
El bicho del sueño | Translates to The Sleep Bug. |
| Swedish | Sömnbuggen | Translates to Sleep Bug. |
| Taiwanese | 瞌睡病毒 | Translates to Sleepy Virus. |
| Thai | แมลงหลับ | Translates to Sleeping Insect. |
| Turkish | Uyku Böceği | Translates to Sleeping Bug. |
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to be released before it reached China.
- This episode was adapted into a comic book one month before the Chinese premiere of the episode, in Monkie Kid Comic Story 6.
- This is one of the few Season 2 episodes that Villads Spangsberg revealed when the episodes were being worked on.[3][4]
- Originally, LEGO's Standards and Practices wanted the scene where MK pushes Pigsy around in a shopping cart cut in fear of children recreating the action and potentially getting injured, as kids generally aren't supposed to be in shopping carts due to safety concerns. It was kept after Villads Spangsberg disagreed with the denial, as Pigsy was both an adult and a pig.[5]
- The Demon Kids cameo in a crowd shot of this episode.
Errors[]
- In the Television New Zealand and Amazon websites, the episode is titled, "The Sleep Bug", instead.
Censorship[]
- All scenes that showcase the phone ad for Sleep Bug are cut during airing on international Cartoon Network channels.
- The scene where MK throws his phone away after seeing the ad was also cropped out.
Characters' roles[]
Protagonists[]
- MK serves as the main focus character for this episode.
- Mei, Pigsy, and Tang supporting but minor roles in this episode. Due to not knowing the truth about Sleep Bug, they all played the game and were put to sleep due to its effects. In the end, they all get mad at MK, who claimed that nothing bad happened after he saved the city, despite being indirectly responsible for putting Pigsy in a cast.
Antagonists[]
- Syntax serves as the main villain of this episode. Upon discovering that one of the six artifacts that the Spider Demons needed was at the Cloud, Syntax convinced the Spider Queen to let him go there due to his tech skills. Furthermore, he uses a game titled Sleep Bug to put the Guardians of Knowledge and everyone else to sleep so he could steal one of the six artifacts that would help the Spider Queen conquer the city.
References[]
- ↑ 9Go! Program Guide from TV Tonight, April 25 2021
- ↑ Foxtel Guide
- ↑ Villads Spangsberg's Instragram post (1)
- ↑ Villads Spangsberg's Instragram post (2)
- ↑ Spangsberg, Villads. Actually, I’ll give you one example that did not get cut, but I had to fight for it to stay in. I believe it was S&P (Standards and Practices) who told us that we could not have Pigsy in the shopping cart. There’s an episode where Pigsy is asleep in the shopping cart while MK is pushing it around, and kids are not allowed to be in shopping carts because that’s dangerous, since shopping carts can tip over. So normally, you wouldn’t show anybody riding in a shopping cart, but I had to argue like, “First of all, he’s a pig. And he’s an adult. Can we please keep it?”.