Devolutionaries

Devolutionaries

November 5, 2000 TV Episode Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Studio
Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Television, Sae Hahn Production Co
Distributor
Buena Vista Distribution

Synopsis

Warp Darkmatter goes to the distant planet of Binipinardia to nab a naturally occurring de-evolving gas, guarded for eons by the local Binipinardians (...who happened to take a coffee-break at exactly the wrong time...). When Team Lightyear arrive on Binipinardia, they find the locals to be missing, and the only critters that seem to be around are some semi-sentient lemur-like things. XR is marketing his comic book, breakfast cereal, and adventure series at the time, so when the rest of Team Lightyear go off to look for the missing Binipinardians, he stays behind to look after the ship and to test out some product marketing research on the lemur-like things. Shortly after discovering that Warp Darkmatter has set up a pumping station, to ship the gas to Zurg, the rest of Team Lightyear gets hit by the de-evolving gas; Mira becomes ameboid, Buzz becomes neandertalic, and Booster becomes ankylosaurus-ish. When he finds out what has happened to his comrades (...and that the native Binipinardians have been de-evolved into the lemur-like critters that he has been working with...), XR has to save the day with little to no advanced help from the rest of the team.

Characters

Buzz Lightyear, Booster Sinclair Munchapper, Mira Nova, Emperor Zurg, XR, Warp Darkmatter, Binipinardians

Credits

Directing

Director
Chris Rutkowski, Don MacKinnon

Producing

Producer
Mark McCorkle, Robert Schooley, Tad Stones (Executive Producer)

Writing

Writer
Doug Langdale

Voices

Voice
Patrick Warburton (Buzz Lightyear, LGMs), Stephen Furst (Booster), Larry Miller (XR), Nicole Sullivan (Mira Nova), Wayne Knight (Emperor Zurg), Diedrich Bader (Warp Darkmatter), Frank Welker (Binipinardians), Jim Cummings (Binipinardian #1, Announcer), Jeff Glen Bennett (Binipinardian #2 & #3)

Music

Music
Adam Berry

Production notes

Although all voiced by Frank Welker, one of the Binipinardians sounds very much like Eric Idle.