The season four finale of Lazy Eyes aired last November (so this blog post is entirely overdue.) The majority of this 3-part episode was quickly written in only one night, yet the editing process took about four days (still, very quick for a 20-minute long episode.) The Artifact blended and combined almost all the characters from Lazy Eyes into one giant story. But to the average newcomer, it might seem a little confusing. And the explanation from the British Jonah app was a little bit fast/deux-ex-machina(ish.) So, here's a (somewhat) simple breakdown of the whole thing+backstory: (When I read it all back I realized how complicated it all is and how I don't blame you if you think I might take drugs (I don't by the way.))
The Artifact is the ancient diary of an Atlantian philosopher who wrote down the meaning of life in it. Atlantis was an ancient city/empire that was more technologically advanced than we are today, controlling the entire ancient world.
Meanwhile, in the present, Donkey Boy (evil mutant villain w/ Donkey Ears) had previously found a dying F.R.O.G. (the same one from an old WWWTs episode where it battles an allosaurus) and revived it, and later mutated it into a giant 3-headed King Ghidorah rip-off/parody: King Frogorah. With the help of his time-traveling portal-technology Donkey Boy sent the King Frogorah back in time to Atlantis to retrieve the Artifact. (The Artifact contains the meaning of life, which Donkey Boy could use to rule the entire world.) King Frogorah terrorized Atlantis and began to burn it to the ground. In order to save Atlantis from burning to the ground (and
the vast sum of knowledge they collected over the years) the Atlantians plunged their city underwater. They also hid the Artifact in a disclosed location.
However, King Frogorah returned to the present with the Artifact (how'd King Frogorah find the Artifact? That's another story, to be told in the near future perhaps...) But before the Artifact could be given to Donkey Boy, Mr. Sassafrass, Manda's religious high-school teacher, stole it and hid the Artifact in a building called the Baptist Biological Dome (BapBio Dome for short.)
The BapBio Dome is actually a pyramid made from a material that allows it to use a cloaking shield, it's an experiment by Sassafrass's Christian scientists to recreate the garden of Eden to disprove evolution. Mr. Sassafrass im
prisons Manda in the BapBio Dome in order to teach her a lesson (since he's deemed her unholy and gothic.) Thinking that it will help her "see the light," Mr. Sassafrass tells her to find the Artifact on a "Christian spirit-quest," using it as a metaphorical forbidden fruit, like the real garden of Eden. Julian, having been tricked by Mr. Sassafrass to help him kidnap Manda, runs off in order to save her as soon as he realizes his mistake. Meanwhile, Donkey Boy has managed to find out where the Artifact is due to the BapBio Dome's cloaking device failing for an unknown reason. Unfortunately (for him) his assistant Agent LD (a talking umbrella with the soul of a dog Jonah previously owned trapped inside it) tells Donkey Boy that he can't send King Frogorah into the BapBio Dome because it's too big and would destroy the BapBio Dome and the Artifact in the process. Donkey Boy instead sends another agent, Agent Goteshe'
(Jonah's narcissistic uncle) into the BapBio Dome instead via portal. Inside, Goteshe' runs into Manda. The two instantly remember each other from when they both were assistants to a T.V. personality who hunts paranormal creatures named Tosh Bates (during that time they had deserted him, but Goteshe' managed to capture the creature they were looking for, a cat-eating chupacabra, and give it to Agent LD for some other evil future plan (foreshadowing!)) By this time Julian finds Donkey Boy's hideout (thanks to a tip given to him by Mr. Sassafrass's mother) and uses one of Donkey Boy's portals to get into the BapBio Dome. Donkey Boy is outraged by this and decides to send King Frogorah to the BapBio Dome despite the consequences. He finds Manda and asks for forgiveness. She forgives him just as Donkey Boy also comes into the BapBio Dome via portal to retrieve the Artifact before it and the BapBio Dome are destroyed by King Frogorah. Goteshe' reveals that he has been working for Donkey Boy the entire time.
Donkey Boy demands for the Artifact, and Julian asks what the Artifact even is. Donkey Boy refuses to tell him, and Manda decides to use an app on her iPod touch called the British Jonah App. The British Jonah App explains everything in about 30 seconds (basically everything written above this sentence. I know, A LOT to take in in such short time!) Meanwhile King Frogorah finally arrives and begins to destroy the BapBio Dome, resulting in the entire building to self destruct in a few minutes. Donkey Boy tells the others they can't leave until they find the Artifact, which Julian holds up and presents to him (he says he found it on the ground.) Manda tells Julian not to hand it over since it would help Donkey Boy take over the world. King Frogorah hits the BapBio Dome with one of its wings which causes the whole building to jolt. The jolt knocks over both Donkey Boy and Goteshe'.
Manda and Julian take this chance to escape using the same portal Julian used to get into the BapBio Dome. Donkey Boy, realizing he's lost, calls Agent LD and tells him to initiate a plan known as "Alpha-D Magenta." The BapBio Dome finally self-destructs, and explodes, supposedly killing King Frogorah, Donkey Boy, and Goteshe'. Manda and Julian step outside the portal elsewhere, and Manda praises Julian for saving the day. They decide to open up the Artifact and read it, and are shown gasping at what they read. Meanwhile, Agent LD plays back Donkey Boy's final call to carry out "Alpha-D Magenta." And the episode ends with showing an evil red clawed hand attacking the camera, supposedly "Alpha-D Magenta."So, too much for one sitting? I agree. But what's done is done I suppose. If you were to be a person who's never heard of Lazy Eyes you'd probably be crying in the first 10 minutes. If you do happen to watch Lazy Eyes you'd probably be crying in the last five minutes. Hopefully this explanation/summary helped. If not, maybe the actual video will. (I dunno why it isn't centered and I don;t know how to undo it, so you should watch it full screen.)
Here's to season five!
