Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series)

The Ark (1991)

LeVar Burton: Kwame, Opening Narrator

Quotes 

• Hoggish Greedly : You're lookin' at the future cite of Hog Heaven Golf Resort - sweetest little pork-barrel project you ever saw.

  Wheeler : In a pig's eye!

  Hoggish Greedly : Outta the way, smart-aleck! We're playin' through! Fore!

  [revs up the golf-cart] 

  Gi : Sorry. *This* hole has a nasty habit. Water!

  [draws water from a pond to spray them, Greedly topples into the rear] 

  MAL : This situation calls for a driver.

  Gi : I'll mow 'em down, MAL, baby.

  [gets into the driver's seat and takes off, Kwame dives aside from it and finds himself in its path again after it U-turns] 

  Kwame : I can see *this* hole. Earth!

  [creates an earthquake to cause a divide] 

• Gi : What happened to the Ecocopter?

  Wheeler : It's like it vanished into thin air!

  [runs into something invisible] 

  Kwame : [touches it]  This is more like *thick* air.

• Gi : [part of the "sky" is burned away by Wheeler's ring to reveal a creature on the other side]  A saber-... toothed... tiger?

  [it leaps through the hole toward them] 

  Kwame : It can't be. They died out thousands of years ago!

  Wheeler : D-don't tell me - tell him!

• Collector : Why did you open the hatch? Didn't you know what would happen?

  Ma-Ti : We had to risk it. We must get back to Earth.

  Collector : [makes an exclamation of bafflement]  But this isn't a punishment. I'm offering you safety - a new home.

  Kwame : Collector, we do not *want* a new home. Just another chance to save the old one.

  Collector : I understand now.

  [activating a control] 

  Collector : I underestimated your courage. Your unselfishness. If everyone on Earth had your dedication, then perhaps humans would not be an endangered species after all.

• Hoggish Greedly : [hitting exploding golf-balls at them]  Now I'm really teed off!

  Kwame : Time for us to call a heavy hitter of our own! Let our powers combine!

• [last lines] 

  Gaia : Thanks for bringing back my Planeteers, Collector.

  Collector : [with two unidentifiable creatures]  It's a rare pleasure, Gaia. Most of my creatures no longer have homes to return to.

  Gaia : Just one other thing - I'd rather you left *those* two behind as well.

  [gestures to Greedly and Blight, in one of Collector's matrices ready to be transported, Collector releases them] 

  Collector : Now behave yourselves.

  Hoggish Greedly : Oh, y-y-y-y-yes, yes, sir, uh, uh, uh, ma'am, uh, it.

  Dr. Blight : ...Whatever you say!

  [they hustle off] 

  Collector : You know, Gaia, I didn't think anyone would miss those two.

  Gaia : No one would. It's just that I can't bear to have the rest of the galaxy think *they* represent humanity.

  Gaia : It *would* be a shame. Wouldn't it?

  Linka , Wheeler , Gi , Kwame , Ma-Ti : YES!

  Collector : And now, I must return to the Space Ark. Keep up your good work, Planeteers.

  [speaks in his native language, Gaia says something back, and with a last word he enters a pipe into space and vanishes] 

  Wheeler : Hey, I didn't know you could speak his language. What'd he say?

  Gaia : Collector says that no matter where you're from or what language you speak, we're all in this together.

• Gaia : [at the planeteer alert]  Zoos are one way of preserving endangered species, but the best way is to protect the habitats where these animals live.

  Linka : Even our homes are built in wild animals' territory.

  Ma-Ti : So if you want your yard to be an animal sanctuary, leave an area uncut.

  Kwame : Trees and brush provide shelter and food to animals such as birds and foxes.

  Gi : By building a blind, you can watch them, but they're wild and can be dangerous.

  Captain Planet : We can live at peace with all of Earth's creatures. The power is yours!