Mission to Earth

Mission to Earth is the 62nd episode of Season 2, and was remade as the twenty-ninth episode for Season 7 under the title Welcome to Mars. Oggy and Joey unwittingly catapult themselves to another planet, in this case, Mars. They later see a spaceship leading toward the invasion of Earth from aliens disguised as garden gnomes. The directive is clear and the imperative is obvious now: foil the Martians and get back to Earth at once.

Plot[]

In the backyard, Oggy is applying the finishing touches of paint to one of his numerous garden gnomes when the cockroaches enter one of them and walk over to him to kick him in the rear. As Oggy directs his attention to the cockroach-controlled gnome that kicked him, it waves at him and offers him a lit stick of dynamite before walking off. Oggy, however, is so used to the cockroaches' tricks and barely surprised by them that he simple extinguishes the stick of dynamite with his nose and tries to destroy the cockroach-controlled gnome with a tossed pétanque ball, which fails as the ball ends up bouncing around and breaking his other lawn ornaments instead before finally landing in his nose. Upset at the damage done to his lawn ornaments, Oggy breaks down in tears as the cockroaches pop out of their lawn gnome to laugh at his misfortune.

Motivated to get back at the cockroaches, Oggy sets up a trap with a giant flyswatter and one half of a lawn gnome as a test dummy, but the cockroaches are wise to this and set up another giant flyswatter underneath Oggy as he is pinning the first one in place, which slams him onto the ground and back, right on top of the first flyswatter. Joey removes the stake holding down the flyswatter and waves at Oggy, but the cat grabs him just before it springs up and flings both of them into the air, where they are sent sailing out of Earth and into outer space and crash land on Mars.

Now on the surface of Mars, Joey appears to succumb to the planet's atmosphere and struggles to keep his breath in, but Oggy, after removing a chunk of the ground from his nose, takes a whiff and finds the air to be surprisingly breathable. Joey, however, is still holding his breath when it suddenly swells up and bursts like a balloon over an unamused Oggy's face. Later, Oggy and Joey explore Mars' surface when they suddenly encounter a rover rolling past them and colliding with a rock. Pointing this out to Oggy, Joey makes his way to the rover, opens up a panel on it and presses the button, causing the satellite to swat him flat, to Oggy's amusement.

Oggy and Joey then continue to explore Mars, sitting and riding on top of the rover, when the latter suddenly notices something in the distance and points to it as the rover stops atop a hill. Before their very eyes, the two notice a tall, huge rocket perched in the middle of a space station, which Oggy feels wary about as Joey points to an elevator-like button system from the other way. After the rover wheels over to the system, Oggy presses the up button, which summons an elevator from the ground too small for him to fit in, but just the right size for Joey as the cockroach heads inside before it descends again. Oggy then pushes the up button thrice, summoning a larger elevator from the ground, but when he approaches it, it turns out to lead to a long flight of stairs, leaving him with no other choice but to take the stairs.

Joey's elevator then pops up on the front lawn of a house, adorned with lawn ornaments, in the middle of an extraterrestrial neighborhood as he exits and surveys his surroundings. Believing one of the lawn gnomes to be a living inhabitant of the planet, Joey unsuccessfully tries to get a reaction out of it when Oggy's "elevator" finally arrives, with him exiting with exhaustion, and exasperated with Joey's lack of common sense over the lawn gnome he's attacking, Oggy swats both him and the gnome. The two then peek around the corner of the neighborhood as they see a Martian walking his dog along the pavement. As the Martian stops to eat a protein bar, the dog picks up Oggy and Joey's scent and approaches them. Oggy brings out a cupcake to the dog as a peace offering, but the extraterrestrial canine responds violently by blasting Oggy with his ray gun... before taking the cupcake from him anyway.

On the lawn, Joey panics over everything going on in the Martian neighborhood before Oggy silences him with his flyswatter and points to the lawn ornaments in front of them, conveying that they need to go undercover to avoid suspicion. Disguising himself by placing the top half of a huge lawn gnome over himself, Oggy, with Joey on his stomach, makes his way to a bus stop where another Martian is waiting before the bus arrives, picks them up through the vacuum system and escorts them to the space station. After the bus arrives, a long line of Martians step out of it and into the station, followed by the disguised Oggy and Joey.

Inside, Oggy and Joey see the Martians stepping under a machine which transforms them into lawn gnomes and heading into the rocket from earlier, which is pointed directly at Earth, all while their leader raves and rambles about their plan to unleash an invasion on it. Now realizing what the rocket is for, Oggy exclaims to Joey that they need to stop the Martians from reaching the Earth before it's too late and sneaks towards one of the rocket's legs, now out of his disguise. When kicking and biting the rocket's leg prove futile, Oggy suddenly remembers the stick of dynamite from earlier and brings it out. He relights the fuse and sets it down, but it detonates on him and Joey before he can run for cover. Nevertheless, it works, as the leg comes loose and causes the rocket to collapse piece-by-piece on the Martian town, with the last piece falling on top of their leader.

Enraged by their plans being foiled by Oggy as well as the presumed assassination of their leader, the Martians form an angry mob and chase him and Joey down, cornering them at the edge of a precipice. However, Oggy manages to escape with Joey by taking a deep breath, plugging his nose and jumping back to Earth. On the way down, they get burnt to a crisp by the friction before landing in a bucket of paint in Bob's yard. Getting back up, Oggy sees Bob's lawn ornaments and, believing them to be some of the Martians, tosses another ball at them, which breaks them before landing in Bob's chin. Seeing the damage Oggy did to his lawn gnomes, an enraged Bob rolls up his sleeves and pummels him.