Its Not Easy Being Gwen Full Episode
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It's Not Easy Being Gwen is the tenth episode of the third season of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and the thirtieth episode overall.
Plot
In the park, Dr. Animo is riding on his mutant frog, carrying a canister of radioactive isotopes. While believing he lost some people who were chasing him, he learns that Kevin, Gwen, and Big Chill have surrounded him. Big Chill freezes the mutant frogs' legs, trapping them in his ice, but they get free and escape. Ben drops off Gwen at her house, and she goes to bed, but gets to sleep for only a little while when her alarm clock beeps for 5:30 in the morning, much to her chagrin.
Gwen starts her day by jogging and studying French. She then comes home to take a shower, and gets ready for school. When she is about to leave, her mother asks her to write out invitations for a formal family reunion. Realizing that there are too many invitations, Gwen tries to use a spell to make her pen write the invitations by itself, but the cards end up catching on fire. At school, Gwen meets with Emily, who says she has a piano concert tonight and she hopes Gwen can come. Gwen promises to be there, despite being very overbooked with activities, invitations, and helping her friends track down Animo. When her lunch break comes, Gwen meets with Kevin. His shirt is ripped up and tattered; he says that he found Animo.
While driving in Kevin's car, Gwen's mother calls and berates her about not finishing the invitations; meanwhile Kevin asks her if she can help him get into high school, to which she agrees. Before Kevin leaves to help Jetray take down Animo's mutant frogs, Gwen gives him a magic pendant that can protect him if he needs it. Gwen goes back to school to finish the rest of her studies and notices Animo placing a threat on the internet and Humungousaur is battling the mutant frogs. She also has to cover for her Algebra teacher's class and do karate. Once the school day is over, Gwen finishes her list of duties for the day by writing the last of the invitations, helping Kevin get a G.E.D., and meeting with Emily to attend her concert. However, Spidermonkey arrives and tells Gwen that they can't defeat Animo without her, now making Gwen's schedule even tighter.
Emily is angry that Gwen would put saving the world from Animo over getting to her concert. When she berates Gwen for always leaving her to save the world, Gwen gets hurt and goes with Ben to help. In an open field, Kevin is battling Animo and his army of mutant frogs. While being picked up, he drops the magic pendant Gwen gave him. As Kevin was about to be killed by Animo, Gwen and Cannonbolt arrive to help him. While battling Animo, Emily prepares for her concert and is saddened to learn that Gwen is not in the seat she reserved for her. Emily starts playing, while Animo fires his transmodulator ray at both Gwen and Kevin, but they manage to survive, thanks to Gwen's shields. Cannonbolt and Kevin work together while Gwen rests from protecting Kevin from the transmodulator ray. Cannonbolt transforms into Ultimate Cannonbolt and finally defeats Animo, then destroys the mind-control headband that allowed Animo to control his mutated frogs. Soon, Emily stops playing the piano and while she is gifted with applause, she believes Gwen never showed up at her performance, but is surprised to see Gwen in the audience. When Gwen comes home, she tells her mother she got the invitations done in the car and Gwen's mother allows Ben and Kevin to join them for dinner. Gwen's mother hugs her and asks how her day was, to which she responds "the usual" and yawns.
Noteworthy Events
Major Events
- Animo becomes a threat again.
Character Debuts
- Emily
- Sensei (Ultimate Alien debut)
- Sparring Partner (Ultimate Alien debut)
- Mutant Frogs (Ultimate Alien debut)
Minor Events
- It is revealed that Gwen's regular outfit in this series is actually her school uniform.
- It is revealed that Gwen takes her spellbook to school.
- It is stated by Kevin that Ben has a pass to go off campus anytime he wants.
Characters
- Gwen Tennyson
- Ben Tennyson
- Kevin Levin
- Natalie Tennyson
- Emily (first appearance)
- Trina (cameo)
- Pierce's Girlfriend (cameo)
- Sensei (first reappearance; cameo)
- Sparring Partner (first reappearance; cameo)
Villains
- Dr. Animo
- Mutant Frogs (first reappearance)
Aliens Used
- Big Chill (off-screen activation)
- Wildmutt (off-screen)
- Jetray (off-screen activation)
- Humungousaur (off-screen activation)
- Spidermonkey (off-screen activation)
- Cannonbolt (x2; first time was an off-screen activation)
- Ultimate Cannonbolt (off-screen activation)
Spells Used
- Scribo in incendia
- Super Theca
Naming and Translations
| Language | Name | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | Nem Könnyű Gwennek | It's Not Easy for Gwen |
| Polish | Niełatwo Być Gwen | It's Not Easy Being Gwen |
| Portuguese (Br) | Não É Fácil Ser a Gwen | It's Not Easy Being Gwen |
| Romanian | Nu-i Ușor Să Fii Gwen | It's Not Easy Being Gwen |
| Russian | Нелегко Быть Гвен | It's Not Easy to Be Gwen |
| Spanish (HA) | No Es Nada Fácil Ser Gwen | It's Not Easy Being Gwen |
| Spanish (Spain) | Ser Gwen no es Fácil | Being Gwen Is Not Easy |
| Turkish | Gwen Olmak Kolay Değil | It's Not Easy Being Gwen |
Cast
| Voice Actor | Role(s) |
|---|---|
| Yuri Lowenthal | Ben Tennyson French Instructor |
| Ashley Johnson | Gwen Tennyson |
| Greg Cipes | Kevin Levin Student |
| Dee Bradley Baker | Jetray Big Chill Humungousaur Spidermonkey Cannonbolt Ultimate Cannonbolt |
| Dwight Schultz | Dr. Animo Teacher #2 |
| Juliet Landau | Natalie Tennyson Teacher #1 |
| Olivia Hack | Emily |
Continuity
- Kevin is seen adding an electrolysis machine (which converts water into oxygen) to his car, as part of his ongoing efforts to make it submersible.
- This machine was first mentioned in In Charm's Way, and Kevin is ten minutes away from finishing it in The Beginning of the End.
- It was previously hinted in The Final Battle: Part 1 that Kevin does not go to school.
Allusions
- The title is based on the phrase "it's not easy being green" from The Muppets character Kermit the Frog.
- Natalie asks what Mogwai is and Gwen says that "it tastes like chicken." This references both the creatures from the Gremlins movies and the saying "everything tastes like chicken."
- At her concert, Emily is playing the song Fantaisie-Impromptu in C- Sharp Minor, Op. 66 by Chopin.
Errors
- When Gwen puts her headphones on the table and gets her spellbook out, neither the headphones nor the MP3 player are there.
- When Gwen walks down the hallway, the students passing by her are a lot smaller.
- When Emily is holding the bagel, some of her fingers are not shown, even in the next shot.
- When the fog clears out after Ultimate Cannonbolt gets whipped around by the mutant frog and lays down, the four spikes on his Ultimatrix symbol are gone.
- When Ultimate Cannonbolt punches the Mutant Frog, the headband on its forehead is missing.
- Ultimate Cannonbolt reverts to Ben without reverting to Cannonbolt first.
Missing MP3 player and headphones
Student sizes error
Missing fingers
Ultimatrix error
Missing headband
Trivia
- Gwen is the only girl in her school wearing a long-sleeved white shirt and a red pullover. All other girls wear a short-sleeved white shirt, grey skirt, grey stockings and black shoes and nothing over their shirt. Some girls wear a red scarf with the uniform, like Emily.
- The episode used an episode of House M.D. as a template.[MW 1]
- The third act of the episode was storyboarded by Jae Hong Kim.[JHK 1] There are a few differences between the storyboards and the final version of the episode:
- Ultimate Cannonbolt is not present in the storyboards. After transforming into Cannonbolt for the second time, Ben changes into Humungousaur off-screen and defeats Animo as him.
- Emily sheds a tear at the end of her performance, heartbroken that Gwen seemingly did not show up.
- Gwen breaks the fourth wall at the very end of the episode by smiling at the camera as she hugs her mother.
References
T.J. Collins
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Matt Wayne
- ↑ File:Verdona Based on Endora.png
Jae Hong Kim
- ↑ https://archive.is/YKoW6
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