01x01 - The Origin of Captain America/Wreckers Among Us/Enter Red Skull
Posted: 12/06/23 08:03
when Captain America throws his mighty
Shield of those who chose to oppose his
shield must heal
[Music]
his tubes and the Reds and the white and
the blue will come through when Captain
America throws his
that's my least favorite of the theme
songs because all it does is talk about
their Shield Captain America is almost
an appendage to the shield rather than
the other way around and it's kind of
funny Iron Man started right in without
an origin story and he's the only one
who did that all the others begin with
the character's origin though neymars
was done in a wonderfully roundabout way
and cap is no exception
[Music]
America was at w*r and across the
country anybody who could make it to the
draft board under his own steam was
healthy enough to be in uniform
meanwhile in a clandestine meeting
somewhere someone is announcing to a
couple of generals that the experiment
is ready operation rebirth is about to
become reality moments later a speeding
car reaches a gloomy looking stereo shop
half hidden in the shadows and the two
generals now in civilian clothes are LED
into the shop by an intelligence agent I
believe you're expecting us I expect
nobody identify yourselves to my
satisfaction or die
I am
I commend your caution agent arm
watch where it is rebirth shall occur
this night say no more you will follow
me now let's meet Steve Rogers wimp at
love
too puny to be accepted by the Army but
willing to risk death for his country in
the greatest experiment of all I drink
quickly before the chemical loses its
potency
good luck my boy
I've committed the formula of memory so
enemy agents can never steal it the
formula didn't work and the comic folded
after one issue remember how he said the
formula only exists in his head there's
one problem with that approach and it is
a success
we have won soon there will be a million
like never you will and your cursed
experiment shall die within this room
down with democracy down with freedom
Dr Erskine
yeah that's the problem with that
approach it's too bad too and here's why
stop you fool you're running into the
electrical omniverted
stay away you'll never get me
not only did the formula turn him into a
perfect physical specimen it taught in
Judo gymnastics and what an electrical
omniverter is Dr Erskine is dead
and his formula died with him so there
can be no more like me
but I will Champion the fight for
freedom and Justice wherever tyranny
Reigns
in the critical days that follow Steve
Rogers blazes into action like a red
white and blue rocket the old Comics
never really explained where his shield
came from and incidentally in the first
issue his shield was shaped like a
medieval Shield later on he adopted the
round one that we all know when he got
rebooted in the 60s or more precisely
thought out in the 60s the guys at
Advanced idea mechanics or aim once
captured him and analyzed The Shield
They concluded that whatever it was made
of the metal was never mined on Earth
that implied that it was made of
something from a meteoriter similar but
during the time that I was reading they
never clarified that the Valiant
Defender conceals it behind the uniform
of a newly inducted Army private yo
bumbling Meathead is that the only
position you know
hooray
oh not on my foot you idiot
did I do something wrong Sarge yeah he
milks the whole bumbling private thing a
little
[Music]
while back at the post Bucky Barnes the
Camp's teenage mascot exclaims
boy wouldn't it be great to have a guy
like him around here set up complete
let's get on with it I hate to barge in
on you this way Steve but man
it's you
York Captain America
I was careless I should have checked the
ten entrants but now what am I gonna do
with you
gosh cap
there's only one thing you can do
now that I know your secret that may be
your partner teenage Sidekicks were all
the rage in the 40s Batman had Robin the
Human Torch had Toro and Captain America
had Bucky right now I'm wondering how he
do such a bad job of day for night in a
cartoon after months of intensive
training Bucky has given his first
uniform and his first challenge as
Captain America's partner as our new
fighting team is Born the show the
comics and the whole Mythos lost me
right there the camp has a teenage
mascot named Bucky suddenly Captain
America has a teenage sidekick named
Bucky and nobody puts this together
he wears a domino mask that might as
well be eyeliner the first time he
showed up everybody in the camp should
have been saying what's that Barnes kid
doing running around with Captain
America
for as long as Bucky was around I
couldn't suspend disbelief in the 60s
Revival Bucky had been k*lled in the
same expl*si*n that got capped Frozen
for who knows how long cat mourned him a
lot and once he even found a way to look
into the past and be sure because if he
survived who's to say Bucky didn't do
his Excursion confirmed that Bucky
couldn't have survived the blast and
that was the end of it I was just as
happy some time later off a remote
stretch of the coast a forbidding
silhouette appears my suspicions were
right
that's an enemy sub offshore
holy cow Captain look over there and so
Captain America and Bucky prepare to
meet their first deadly challenge
together the theme of the episode is
saboteurs these guys have brought a
whole bunch of expl*sives with the
intention of making things like
factories go boom
[Music]
I've got so many of them numbers don't
matter
take your cue from me and remember what
I taught you
I'll stop him
okay others rushing you from behind
what's applied strap insulate shrine
we wouldn't want you boys stubbing your
toes on our far and Shore cap doesn't
believe in Finders Keepers so like the
good citizen he is he returns the
submarine's property including the raft
look it's going to hit very perceptive
I suggest we return to shore
we'll be a team for as long as the Free
World needs us don't it yet you're right
here out
there's a new act downtown that has
everybody's attention Sando puts the
mysterious Omar in a trance and tells
him to project his visions of the future
into a crystal ball
[Music]
slowly unbelievably a column of U.S army
tanks appear within the crystal ball an
instant later
kind of an odd vision isn't it maybe not
so odd I don't get it Steve how could
Omar know that t*nk would blow up I
don't know but I'm requesting a pass for
tonight how about taking in a show The
Bijou is showing the Wizard of Oz he's
seen it a dozen times and knows all the
songs hey YouTube
major Corey needs two drivers tonight
what he don't know is by putting you
behind the wheel the enemy don't need no
saboteurs
later that evening well good night boys
but major you're involved in an
important Army project maybe we'd better
stick around
nonsense you're dismissed that takes
care of their transportation on with the
show I've got news for you cat the
balcony seats are in the other direction
why we're going this way
I want to see Sando and Omar at close
range look there they are Mr Sando
people are wondering how absolutely no
interviews satisfied
that girl reporter slipping into that
dressing room looks like she beat us to
the punch Steve that's right even in the
60s men were several steps behind women
but still insisted on being in charge
what now this Mr Barnes just what I
hoped you'd say Mr Rogers it won't take
long to find what he expected to find
while on the stage below uh you are
thinking of the bridge which links Camp
Cosgrove with the mainland
[Music]
Pony a psychic act that's fake I'm
shocked shocked I tell you
how dare you break up my ACT hold on
Sando I want some explanation about your
so-called act they won't come out and
say it but Omar's projections or
instructions to saboteurs about their
next Target you will pay for this with
your lives
a girl's voice she must be in deadly
danger
cap look out it's a trap
come in masked man we figured your
charge in here if you heard the Dame
scream stop struggling lady we don't
like girl reporters oh I'm not a
reporter I'm a
man there was a dozen ways to get out of
that hole before that guy knows what
happened meanwhile in the quiet of his
study major Corey relaxes with his pipe
and book unaware of the Sinister
presence drawing closer
good evening major Corey who and blazes
are you I am the Red Skull The Red Skull
was Captain America's Nemesis both
during and after the w*r may still be
for all I know marvel finally gave him
an origin story not long before I quit
reading he was Hitler's own special
creation brilliant crafty and ruthless
we never saw his face once he put that
mask on that was it before that he was
always in silhouette his specialty was
sabotage which frequently brought him
across Captain America's path after the
w*r he disappeared for a while but
reappeared in the 60s at the head of a
Neo-n*zi group called the Exiles their
goal was to establish a fourth Reich
with the Red Skull as fuhrer I stopped
reading while that was still happening
but I assume it didn't work out too well
and you made a fatal Mistake by leaving
your window open it's too late to use
that g*n
beats gas will take away your memory for
months by then we will have Triumph he's
the head of several projects vital to
the w*r effort and with his memory gone
they all go back on the one of these
days shelf I warned you you would pay
with your lives
give us the word Colonel and Captain
America dies it'll take more than a word
let's move Bucky
nice going young man but don't sell the
female species short
I tried to warn him there are some nice
action scenes in their decently animated
like what Bucky was doing there now they
know that free men can play rough too
we fought side by side but we don't even
know your name till we meet again you
may know me as agent 13. agent 13 or
Sharon Carter as we would eventually
learn would figure prominently in Cap's
life in the 60s she's been projected
back to the 40s here but she was an
agent of shield which didn't come into
existence until the 50s according to its
own backstory the two of them worked
together countless times and became very
close in fact before he even learned her
real name he proposed to her she said no
because they each had their Duty and
that came first that prompted cap to
hang up his cow and reveal to the world
that Captain America was retiring
it didn't work out
they've just learned about major Corey
Bucky is the first to come upon signs of
sinister activity and following the
suspects to their Lair Witnesses more
than he bargained for
a spy The Red Skull will want to talk to
him
we've met in a valuable
don't open that door but he's expecting
an Avon order
thank you
never mind that's not the Avon lady The
Red Skull not so easily caught he's
getting away
I've guessed he'd have an Escape Route
this wall is solid steel he got away for
now but they both know he'll be back the
only question is when and where
okay that's two questions I keep telling
people I have trouble counting past one
Captain America
he will not interfere with my plans
nothing can stop the Red Skull and we
know who he's after next later that very
general appears at our camp man this is
Mr Maxson of Max and aircraft
Corporation he is here to personally
watch the Army test his giant plane
and as the bomber takes off
the bomber's on fire
it'll crash with no survivors what could
have gone wrong our newest most valuable
playing lost
that night in Camp
[Music]
what do you suppose went wrong Steve I
don't know but you should have seen the
look on maxson's face as if he expected
it to crash I noticed that too better
check on the general we're too late he's
been hurt
The Red Skull and the General's
housekeeper you again and that fancy
dressed brat this is the last time you
shall interfere with the plans of The
Red Skull he might have finished with
them by now if he'd stop talking and get
on with it I wouldn't bet on that
[Music]
[Applause]
now
what did you do with a real Mr Maxson
American swine he was on the plane well
that's not good and when General Curtis
got suspicious you tried to m*rder him
that's worse
oh thanks to his Torpedoes Red Skull
made a clean getaway but he left
something behind
and I'll give you three guesses who was
next on his Hit Parade The Red Skull
will live to fight another day and he
will and he'll talk just as much then as
he did this time every so often somebody
had an issue with how much dialogue
there was in these Comics even during
the action they'd say it wasn't
believable
I was undecided until I started studying
the life of Wyatt Earp and especially
the gunfight that put him on the map
did you ever see how much talking there
was during that fight it made me believe
ongoing chatter like this is not only
possible it's already happened
I like this show it's off to a good
start we met the hero his sidekick and
his chief adversary we established what
each of them is about and what they can
do and we left a big door open for more
action to come and one of the best parts
to me he used his shield maybe twice the
theme song should be when Captain
America throws his mighty fist all those
who chose to oppose it can't reason
when captain
of those who
k*lled
maybe let's do a fight and they're doing
this dude then the Reds and the white
and the blue will come through when
Captain America
operation rebirth is Operation rebirth
okay is a physical specimen if I can say
that one he adopted the adopted doing or
running
go go you're out
okay here
there's a new act down
here
there's a new act downtown that has
every yeah do that right David good
grief you're showing The Wizard of Oz
no whistling frequently brought him
across a cost she's been she's been
I have no idea what that vowel was
Shield of those who chose to oppose his
shield must heal
[Music]
his tubes and the Reds and the white and
the blue will come through when Captain
America throws his
that's my least favorite of the theme
songs because all it does is talk about
their Shield Captain America is almost
an appendage to the shield rather than
the other way around and it's kind of
funny Iron Man started right in without
an origin story and he's the only one
who did that all the others begin with
the character's origin though neymars
was done in a wonderfully roundabout way
and cap is no exception
[Music]
America was at w*r and across the
country anybody who could make it to the
draft board under his own steam was
healthy enough to be in uniform
meanwhile in a clandestine meeting
somewhere someone is announcing to a
couple of generals that the experiment
is ready operation rebirth is about to
become reality moments later a speeding
car reaches a gloomy looking stereo shop
half hidden in the shadows and the two
generals now in civilian clothes are LED
into the shop by an intelligence agent I
believe you're expecting us I expect
nobody identify yourselves to my
satisfaction or die
I am
I commend your caution agent arm
watch where it is rebirth shall occur
this night say no more you will follow
me now let's meet Steve Rogers wimp at
love
too puny to be accepted by the Army but
willing to risk death for his country in
the greatest experiment of all I drink
quickly before the chemical loses its
potency
good luck my boy
I've committed the formula of memory so
enemy agents can never steal it the
formula didn't work and the comic folded
after one issue remember how he said the
formula only exists in his head there's
one problem with that approach and it is
a success
we have won soon there will be a million
like never you will and your cursed
experiment shall die within this room
down with democracy down with freedom
Dr Erskine
yeah that's the problem with that
approach it's too bad too and here's why
stop you fool you're running into the
electrical omniverted
stay away you'll never get me
not only did the formula turn him into a
perfect physical specimen it taught in
Judo gymnastics and what an electrical
omniverter is Dr Erskine is dead
and his formula died with him so there
can be no more like me
but I will Champion the fight for
freedom and Justice wherever tyranny
Reigns
in the critical days that follow Steve
Rogers blazes into action like a red
white and blue rocket the old Comics
never really explained where his shield
came from and incidentally in the first
issue his shield was shaped like a
medieval Shield later on he adopted the
round one that we all know when he got
rebooted in the 60s or more precisely
thought out in the 60s the guys at
Advanced idea mechanics or aim once
captured him and analyzed The Shield
They concluded that whatever it was made
of the metal was never mined on Earth
that implied that it was made of
something from a meteoriter similar but
during the time that I was reading they
never clarified that the Valiant
Defender conceals it behind the uniform
of a newly inducted Army private yo
bumbling Meathead is that the only
position you know
hooray
oh not on my foot you idiot
did I do something wrong Sarge yeah he
milks the whole bumbling private thing a
little
[Music]
while back at the post Bucky Barnes the
Camp's teenage mascot exclaims
boy wouldn't it be great to have a guy
like him around here set up complete
let's get on with it I hate to barge in
on you this way Steve but man
it's you
York Captain America
I was careless I should have checked the
ten entrants but now what am I gonna do
with you
gosh cap
there's only one thing you can do
now that I know your secret that may be
your partner teenage Sidekicks were all
the rage in the 40s Batman had Robin the
Human Torch had Toro and Captain America
had Bucky right now I'm wondering how he
do such a bad job of day for night in a
cartoon after months of intensive
training Bucky has given his first
uniform and his first challenge as
Captain America's partner as our new
fighting team is Born the show the
comics and the whole Mythos lost me
right there the camp has a teenage
mascot named Bucky suddenly Captain
America has a teenage sidekick named
Bucky and nobody puts this together
he wears a domino mask that might as
well be eyeliner the first time he
showed up everybody in the camp should
have been saying what's that Barnes kid
doing running around with Captain
America
for as long as Bucky was around I
couldn't suspend disbelief in the 60s
Revival Bucky had been k*lled in the
same expl*si*n that got capped Frozen
for who knows how long cat mourned him a
lot and once he even found a way to look
into the past and be sure because if he
survived who's to say Bucky didn't do
his Excursion confirmed that Bucky
couldn't have survived the blast and
that was the end of it I was just as
happy some time later off a remote
stretch of the coast a forbidding
silhouette appears my suspicions were
right
that's an enemy sub offshore
holy cow Captain look over there and so
Captain America and Bucky prepare to
meet their first deadly challenge
together the theme of the episode is
saboteurs these guys have brought a
whole bunch of expl*sives with the
intention of making things like
factories go boom
[Music]
I've got so many of them numbers don't
matter
take your cue from me and remember what
I taught you
I'll stop him
okay others rushing you from behind
what's applied strap insulate shrine
we wouldn't want you boys stubbing your
toes on our far and Shore cap doesn't
believe in Finders Keepers so like the
good citizen he is he returns the
submarine's property including the raft
look it's going to hit very perceptive
I suggest we return to shore
we'll be a team for as long as the Free
World needs us don't it yet you're right
here out
there's a new act downtown that has
everybody's attention Sando puts the
mysterious Omar in a trance and tells
him to project his visions of the future
into a crystal ball
[Music]
slowly unbelievably a column of U.S army
tanks appear within the crystal ball an
instant later
kind of an odd vision isn't it maybe not
so odd I don't get it Steve how could
Omar know that t*nk would blow up I
don't know but I'm requesting a pass for
tonight how about taking in a show The
Bijou is showing the Wizard of Oz he's
seen it a dozen times and knows all the
songs hey YouTube
major Corey needs two drivers tonight
what he don't know is by putting you
behind the wheel the enemy don't need no
saboteurs
later that evening well good night boys
but major you're involved in an
important Army project maybe we'd better
stick around
nonsense you're dismissed that takes
care of their transportation on with the
show I've got news for you cat the
balcony seats are in the other direction
why we're going this way
I want to see Sando and Omar at close
range look there they are Mr Sando
people are wondering how absolutely no
interviews satisfied
that girl reporter slipping into that
dressing room looks like she beat us to
the punch Steve that's right even in the
60s men were several steps behind women
but still insisted on being in charge
what now this Mr Barnes just what I
hoped you'd say Mr Rogers it won't take
long to find what he expected to find
while on the stage below uh you are
thinking of the bridge which links Camp
Cosgrove with the mainland
[Music]
Pony a psychic act that's fake I'm
shocked shocked I tell you
how dare you break up my ACT hold on
Sando I want some explanation about your
so-called act they won't come out and
say it but Omar's projections or
instructions to saboteurs about their
next Target you will pay for this with
your lives
a girl's voice she must be in deadly
danger
cap look out it's a trap
come in masked man we figured your
charge in here if you heard the Dame
scream stop struggling lady we don't
like girl reporters oh I'm not a
reporter I'm a
man there was a dozen ways to get out of
that hole before that guy knows what
happened meanwhile in the quiet of his
study major Corey relaxes with his pipe
and book unaware of the Sinister
presence drawing closer
good evening major Corey who and blazes
are you I am the Red Skull The Red Skull
was Captain America's Nemesis both
during and after the w*r may still be
for all I know marvel finally gave him
an origin story not long before I quit
reading he was Hitler's own special
creation brilliant crafty and ruthless
we never saw his face once he put that
mask on that was it before that he was
always in silhouette his specialty was
sabotage which frequently brought him
across Captain America's path after the
w*r he disappeared for a while but
reappeared in the 60s at the head of a
Neo-n*zi group called the Exiles their
goal was to establish a fourth Reich
with the Red Skull as fuhrer I stopped
reading while that was still happening
but I assume it didn't work out too well
and you made a fatal Mistake by leaving
your window open it's too late to use
that g*n
beats gas will take away your memory for
months by then we will have Triumph he's
the head of several projects vital to
the w*r effort and with his memory gone
they all go back on the one of these
days shelf I warned you you would pay
with your lives
give us the word Colonel and Captain
America dies it'll take more than a word
let's move Bucky
nice going young man but don't sell the
female species short
I tried to warn him there are some nice
action scenes in their decently animated
like what Bucky was doing there now they
know that free men can play rough too
we fought side by side but we don't even
know your name till we meet again you
may know me as agent 13. agent 13 or
Sharon Carter as we would eventually
learn would figure prominently in Cap's
life in the 60s she's been projected
back to the 40s here but she was an
agent of shield which didn't come into
existence until the 50s according to its
own backstory the two of them worked
together countless times and became very
close in fact before he even learned her
real name he proposed to her she said no
because they each had their Duty and
that came first that prompted cap to
hang up his cow and reveal to the world
that Captain America was retiring
it didn't work out
they've just learned about major Corey
Bucky is the first to come upon signs of
sinister activity and following the
suspects to their Lair Witnesses more
than he bargained for
a spy The Red Skull will want to talk to
him
we've met in a valuable
don't open that door but he's expecting
an Avon order
thank you
never mind that's not the Avon lady The
Red Skull not so easily caught he's
getting away
I've guessed he'd have an Escape Route
this wall is solid steel he got away for
now but they both know he'll be back the
only question is when and where
okay that's two questions I keep telling
people I have trouble counting past one
Captain America
he will not interfere with my plans
nothing can stop the Red Skull and we
know who he's after next later that very
general appears at our camp man this is
Mr Maxson of Max and aircraft
Corporation he is here to personally
watch the Army test his giant plane
and as the bomber takes off
the bomber's on fire
it'll crash with no survivors what could
have gone wrong our newest most valuable
playing lost
that night in Camp
[Music]
what do you suppose went wrong Steve I
don't know but you should have seen the
look on maxson's face as if he expected
it to crash I noticed that too better
check on the general we're too late he's
been hurt
The Red Skull and the General's
housekeeper you again and that fancy
dressed brat this is the last time you
shall interfere with the plans of The
Red Skull he might have finished with
them by now if he'd stop talking and get
on with it I wouldn't bet on that
[Music]
[Applause]
now
what did you do with a real Mr Maxson
American swine he was on the plane well
that's not good and when General Curtis
got suspicious you tried to m*rder him
that's worse
oh thanks to his Torpedoes Red Skull
made a clean getaway but he left
something behind
and I'll give you three guesses who was
next on his Hit Parade The Red Skull
will live to fight another day and he
will and he'll talk just as much then as
he did this time every so often somebody
had an issue with how much dialogue
there was in these Comics even during
the action they'd say it wasn't
believable
I was undecided until I started studying
the life of Wyatt Earp and especially
the gunfight that put him on the map
did you ever see how much talking there
was during that fight it made me believe
ongoing chatter like this is not only
possible it's already happened
I like this show it's off to a good
start we met the hero his sidekick and
his chief adversary we established what
each of them is about and what they can
do and we left a big door open for more
action to come and one of the best parts
to me he used his shield maybe twice the
theme song should be when Captain
America throws his mighty fist all those
who chose to oppose it can't reason
when captain
of those who
k*lled
maybe let's do a fight and they're doing
this dude then the Reds and the white
and the blue will come through when
Captain America
operation rebirth is Operation rebirth
okay is a physical specimen if I can say
that one he adopted the adopted doing or
running
go go you're out
okay here
there's a new act down
here
there's a new act downtown that has
every yeah do that right David good
grief you're showing The Wizard of Oz
no whistling frequently brought him
across a cost she's been she's been
I have no idea what that vowel was