Ben 10

Old George appears at Area 51, busts in, and teleports the entire thing somewhere else, leaving only a huge miles-wide hole scooped in the ground. Cooper - last seen in the last episode of last year - is now a plumber. He calls in Grandpa Max, who brings Team Ben along mostly because they happened to be having a cookout with him at the time.

Once upon a time there was a show called “Ben 10,” which ended. This was followed by a really weak live action made-for-TV movie called “Ben 10: Race Against Time,” in which a one-shot villain named “Eon” did a bunch of stuff, and was defeated. It had Lee Majors in it, but apart from that….well, really even with that, it’s not terribly remarkable.

After beating up an illegal alien elephant (Which is just fun to say, and funner still to type, even if you’ve got carpal tunnel like me), Team Ben is summoned involuntarily to the Plumber Academy. Seems up to this point they’ve only had field commissions (Nice touch), and now they’ve got to go through formal training, or else they’re off the force. En rout they meet up with an alien kid named Tac, who idolizes Ben. As per usual, Gwen is taking everything very seriously, and Ben isn’t.

There’s been a lot of debate as to whether or not the live-action Ben 10 TV movies fit the canon of the series. As of tonight, hey, whadya’ know, they do! Well, one of ‘em does, anyway.

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