This Week's "StuGo" Shakes Up All the Routines

This week’s StuGo changes up the routine - whether it be daily routine or the routine of a standard human genetic formula.

Night Mutants

Larry is the apparent backbone of a daily routine for all the kids, complete with his cello playing skills to guide him through it. However, he clearly wants more than the standard routine - which also includes a bedtime of 530 PM, so he has yet to experience nighttime on the island. I feel like that’s not true but can’t cite a previous episode for Larry - I know recently Francis and Merian were stuck in a clam on the shore for a night… either way.

This thought prompts Larry to buck the trend for a night and go explore, but he doesn’t get very far. As he steps outside, he finds some mutants on the deck of their abandoned cargo ship home, mostly composed of nocturnal creatures. One of these is Zora, who appears to be the ringleader of sorts for the night mutants. She shows Larry a completely different lifestyle where he is up all night, spray painting parts of the island to share their hatred of the sun and dancing all night in a rave cave.

Larry wants to live like this for a while, but he knows his friends need him to get through their routine. That’s when another friend of the night mutants comes into play - a raccoon who has a taste for the daytime lifestyle. He swaps spots with Larry and fills in “playing" the cello for his friends while they go through their hygiene processes in the morning. Now, Larry can keep partying, spraypainting, and doing all these other night time activities.

However, his friends know something is up with him - mostly because he's not a human child anymore, he is a raccoon. They quickly head to Dr. Lullah who knows just what to do. For some reason, Lullah has a backup brain/memory duplicate of everyone on the island…just in case. This comes in handy as they project it into the head of the raccoon, though the stats show that he is 10% Larry and 90% raccoon. This leads to some experimentation and shaving, but they get there.

At night, the real Larry is realizing that the night life is still a routine, albeit a different one. It’s still a routine. This prompts him to want to go back to his friends, but Zora isn’t having it. Larry has become her only true friend. While being chased through the woods, Larry gets black and gray grubs attached to him - namely his butt - and finds himself inadvertently getting punched in the face at the rave cave, giving him two black eyes. Get it? He’s starting to look like a raccoon!

He finally gets back to the abandoned ship and takes over the cello, where the raccoon Larry has gotten substantially better playing and the kids discover the now mostly human Larry is back, and testing at 90% Larry and 10% raccoon. One more chemical dip, and Swim Trunks should be back to normal!

Chunk Beastknuckles

Chip and Larry are in a field of flowers, you know, doing science stuff. There, they fall into a trap that almost takes out Larry in a pit of spikes, but who set it? That would be Nils. Remember him? Chip’s idol turned nemesis from earlier this season? Yeah, he has stumbled upon this deserted island after the ocean chewed him up and spat him out, and he is ready to take down the island’s biggest apex predator. Too bad this island is far from deserted. Either way, Chip, trying to be all tough in his bell socks, has determined that there is no apex predator here, only him, and demands to be hunted instead.

Well, Nils isn’t having any of that because there’s no way that Chip is the strongest thing on the island and he only agrees to hunting Chip because Chip threw a bit of a tantrum and started crying. Thus, proving he is not the apex predator. After being chased and hunted through the woods, Chip realizes maybe he isn’t as strong as he thinks he is and goes to Dr. Lullah for help. Fortunately, she has two gene splicing formulas that could help, but she refuses… until Chip throws a tantrum and starts crying.

He goes through the whole splicing process and puts parts of different apex predators into one ferocious creature that is him. He then heads back into the wilds of the island to take on Nils as the most ferocious creature on the island and defeat him - which he is doing a pretty good job of until he hits Nils so hard he ends up launched into the lab too, where he discovers that SECOND set of gene splicing formulas.

What follows is a battle of genetic hybrid versions of these two guys before once again, the rule of threes in play, Chip throws a tantrum and starts crying, becoming so annoying and pushing Nils away to find a truly deserted island.

Does Chip stay like this, in this form of the creature? No, he quickly molts and becomes his normal self again, and goes back to the flower field with Larry, who has been helping Chip discover who he truly is this whole time.

This episode of StuGo is now available on Disney Channel and the DisneyNOW website. It will be arriving on Disney+ this spring.