Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation for Disney XD. The series debuted on December 5, 2014, as a preview,[1] followed by the official premiere on February 13, 2015.[2] The series was ordered on October 16, 2013, for a scheduled fall 2014 premiere.[3]
On April 22, 2015, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a second season.[4] On July 19, 2016, it was announced that the show would be ending after two seasons.[5] The second season premiered on July 10, 2017.[6] This series was discontinued on July 28, 2017.
Story by : Jared Bush and Sam Levine Teleplay by : Jeff Poliquin
Joseph S. Scott and Heiko Drengenberg
December 5, 2014 (2014-12-05)
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Penn doesn't want to celebrate Christmas because his parents won't be there. However, he is sent to the North Pole to fill in for Santa Claus to save Christmas.
Penn, Boone, and Sashi are zapped into an underwater world to save a merfolk society from an army of cephalopod people, but their mission becomes complicated when Penn finds out that Boone is afraid of water.
When Penn and his team are zapped into an Old West world where cowboys ride dinosaurs, the town sheriff joins them on their mission to prove he still has what it takes.
Penn and Boone's friendship is put to the test when they both fall for a beautiful alien princess whom they must escort through the jungle back to her tribe.
Exhausted from recent missions, Penn is relieved when he is zapped into a seemingly ordinary job as a food court employee in a mall, but it turns out that Penn and his team are in a world where a zombie apocalypse is taking place.
Penn becomes concerned that Sashi takes her role as a sidekick too seriously. Meanwhile, he and his team are zapped into a new world as spaceship heroes to save a starship from destruction, but the mission is complicated when Sashi accidentally turns Penn into a weird space animal.
Phyllis has Penn and his team watch a play-back of a just-completed mission in which they were explorers in a race against time to return an idol to a temple while being chased by Rippen and a giant man-eating toilet.
When the team is zapped into a world where Penn is president, Sashi is a general, and Boone is a Supreme Court justice, Boone finds himself on the most popular game show in the galaxy, where he must plead his case and compete against Rippen in an outrageous contest that will determine the fate of the Earth. However, Boone has stage fright.
While in a medieval world, Rippen holds tryouts to replace Larry as his number two, and Penn goes undercover as Rippen's new minion to find a village's stolen gold.
Penn and his team are zapped into a world where they are enormous and misunderstood monsters. They must convince the human president of a nearby island city that the monsters don't intend to cause harm.
In a world populated by cereal mascots and where cereal is grown on farms, Penn seeks the help of an imprisoned Rippen to catch The Milk Man, a villain threatening to flood all the cereal crops with milk, turning them soggy.
Penn, Boone, and Sashi are zapped back to the superhero world to help Captain Super Captain defeat his twin supervillain brother Professor Evil Professor who has turned all the superheroes evil.
Guest star:Adam West as Captain Super Captain, Professor Evil Professor
Concerned about his abilities as a leader, Penn and his team are zapped into a world populated by sentient sports balls to teach the other balls to defend themselves from their enemies.
The team zaps into a musical medieval world where people sing as they speak. Penn is a princess, Sashi is a knight, and Boone is a fairy godmother. During their mission to save the queen from being turned to stone, their true feelings come out in song.
Larry becomes an acting part-time villain as he substitutes for his ill partner Rippen. The team's mission is endangered when Penn takes pity on Larry.
When Penn and his team are zapped into a world where the colorful Hues and the gray Drabs are in a feud, they must stop Rippen from destroying the rainbow rocks which provide the world's colors.
Dimension zapping is suspended when the power goes out on the whole block, so Larry invites Rippen, Penn, Boone, and Sashi to his mansion. When Larry's pet elephant goes missing, Penn and Rippen compete to see who can find him first. Meanwhile, when the power comes back on, Phyllis and Phil battle each other in another dimension.
Guest stars:Maria Bamford as Matthews, Maurice LaMarche as Fredricks[20]
Penn and his team return to the dino-cowboy world and get help from Sheriff Scaley Briggs to stop Rippen and Briggs' daughter Amber from rustling Cow-o-saurs.
After Boone fools around on the zapping platform, he and Penn accidentally swap roles, so Boone takes on the role of hero for their mission. Boone and Sashi are a science crew who have been shrunken down to cure Penn, an infected patient, by injecting him with medicine from the inside. Meanwhile, Rippen and Larry are also inside Penn's body and are trying to stop the team from completing their mission.
When Penn, Boone, and Sashi return to the underwater world, Penn questions the importance of their mission to find an unpopular royal fish named Rufus.
When Penn discovers that Phyllis is trying to locate the Most Dangerous World Imaginable to bring his parents back to Middleburg, he takes matters into his own hands and attempts to zap into the dimension to rescue them himself. Unfortunately, Penn accidentally zaps into the Least Dangerous World Imaginable, which leads to him to cause trouble in the world.
When the teams zaps into a world populated by anthropomorphic dragons, Penn must overcome his jealousy of popular fellow cadet Blaze to complete his mission and finish at the top of his class at Wingfire Academy.
While in a Victorian London world, Penn accidentally drinks a potion that turns him into a monster Rippen whenever he loses his temper in the style of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with a mix Kamen Rider W.
Penn is excited to be a super spy agent, but when he finds out he's actually a caveman in a prehistoric era with the lowest tech gadgets imaginable, his sour attitude on the situation endangers the mission.
Uncle Chuck and Aunt Rose must prove that they have a heroic side after they break the Quadrithium Power Converter (QPC), an essential part of the machine that zaps Penn back from other worlds, before their nephew is lost forever.
Penn, Boone, Sashi, Rippen and Larry must figure out how to work together when they merge as giant metamorphosing robots, battling for control of an alien planet.
When the fate of two alien planets is tied to the outcome of a sporting event, Penn finds a loophole in the game and must convince the two opposing coaches to admit their love for each other in order to save both planets.
Penn's origin story is revealed in a flashback to his first day of high school when he learns his parents are part-time heroes instead of insurance salespeople.
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"Save the Worlds"
Tom De Rosier and Chuckles Austen
Jeff Poliquin
Kathleen Good, Brandon Warren, Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss and Stu Livingston
Phil and Rippen tunnel into The Odyssey and damage the Multi Universe Transprojector, causing unbalance in the multiverse. Vortexes form in every world that Penn and his team have visited. Penn, Boone, and Sashi must travel to each world and close all of the vortexes before everything and everyone from all the worlds get sucked into The Nothingness. During their mission, Penn finds a crystal shard in The Nothingness, which, according to Phyllis, is the key to finding his parents.
"The Pirates, the Parrot, the Puzzles and the Talking Boats"
Adam Henry and Tom De Rosier
Jeff Poliquin
Brandon Warren Joseph S. Scott
July 10, 2017 (2017-07-10)
121
0.19
After a recap of the events of the first season. Penn, Sashi, and Boone are sent to a pirate world where aquatic creatures serve as ships. Penn must get to a treasure before Rippen does, but finds himself teaming with a competitive female pirate in the process.
The trio return to the dragon world which finds itself under attack by winged unicorns which threaten to destroy Wingfire Academy. However before the team can fight them, they must get Blaze, who has fallen into a slump from a previous defeat by the unicorns, back on his feet to help them.
The trio is transported onto a space ship whose human occupants are set to arrive on a new planet to colonize. However, Penn finds himself in the form of a mouse and must save the ship from a feline Rippen who seeks to plunge it into a black hole.
The trio find themselves in a fairy world in the midst of a wrestling tournament which Penn and Sashi must win to keep the forest out of evil hands. However, things are complicated by an argument between the two, forcing Boone to try to get them to mend their friendship.
Sashi is called in for sensitivity training which Principal Larry forces Penn and Boone to attend as well. The methods seem to work to quell her anger, but soon become a hindrance when the trio return to the underwater world for a mission.
When Sashi's parents find out about her real job with Penn and Boone, Penn has Phyllis zap her and her parents into the Outer Space World.
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"Cereal Fugitives"
Tom De Rosier
Paiman Kalayeh
Brandon Warren
July 19, 2017 (2017-07-19)
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A mission in Cereal Mascot World gets weird when the Milkman makes an appearance.
Guest stars: Paul Reubens as the Milkman, Jeffrey Perlmutter as Uncle Beardy, Maurice LaMarche as Crispity Cockatoo
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"The Last Mountain Beast"
Tom De Rosier and Kathleen Good
Jeff Poliquin
Travis Blaise Hillary Bradfield
July 20, 2017 (2017-07-20)
134
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Penn, Boone, and Sashi must find the last mountain beast to protect their civilization from getting destroyed by Rippen and Larry before the 5th moon rises. However, Penn's MUHU tracks a shard in the dimension, distracting Penn from the mission.
Guest star: Kevin Michael Richardson as Mountain Beast
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"Ninki Ninja Fight Town"
Tom De Rosier
Kenny Byerly
Casey Coffey
July 24, 2017 (2017-07-24)
135
0.15
Penn, Boone, and Sashi visit an Anime World to compete against Rippen in a ninjutsu tournament to bring back an island back with the help of 3 new friends.
Guest stars: Hynden Walch as Yumi, Sparklechum and Mugachow, Michael Chandler as Arata, Roger Craig Smith as Hideo, Steven Blum as Snow Monkey Bus and Announcer, and Brandon Scott as Alex
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"My Mischievous Son"
Kathleen Good
Paiman Kalayeh
Stu Livingston
July 24, 2017 (2017-07-24)
136
0.15
Penn has to stop Rippen from ruining a dinner in a sitcom dimension.
Boone gets a bad report card from Phyllis, making his parents mad. He tries to fix this while on a mission in the Giant Monster World.
Guest star: Maria Bamford as President
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"Mr. Rippen"
Tom De Rosier and Adam Henry
Kenny Byerly and Paiman Kalayeh
Casey Coffey
July 27, 2017 (2017-07-27)
142
0.12
Rippen's origin story is revealed for his first day as a part-time villain.
Guest stars: Fiona Shaw as Hedwin, Vince Gilligan as Axalon, Alex Kingston as Vlurgen, Yvette Nicole Brown as Boat Maria, Sonequa Martin-Green as Pirate Maria
Penn, Sashi, and Boone must travel to the three most dangerous places in the multiverse in order to free Penn's parents as Rippen plans to conquer the Most Dangerous World Imaginable with Larry and those with him after having to close its portal from the other side.
Guest stars: Blake Anderson as Hogarth, Sean Astin as Blaze, Maria Bamford as President, Nug, Land Shark, & Mrs. Monkenfluffer, Beau Bridges as Scaley Briggs, Paul Alborough as Mayor Direginald Hindenburg, Curtis Armstrong as Super Amazing Bouncy Ball, Yvette Nicole Brown as Boat Maria, Olivia Holt as Amber Briggs, Michael-Leon Wooley as General, James Hong as Windmill Monster, Mark Hamill as Adam Tom-Kat Badawy, Elizabeth Henstridge as Princess, Lauren Lapkus as Matilda, Marc Maron as Piv, Sonequa Martin-Green as Pirate Maria, Diana Rigg as Mayor Pink Panda, Paul Reubens as The Butterman, Jeff Ross as Sonny, Adam West as Captain Super Captain & Professor Evil Professor, Henry Winkler as The Snowman