Monster Weather
General Information
Original broadcast	March 24, 2007
Series	Ben 10
Details
Season	3
Episode number	36
Overall episode number	36
Credits
Written by	Thomas Pugsley & Greg Klein
Directed by	Sebastian O. Montes III
Episode Guide
Previous episode	The Unnaturals
Next episode	The Return

Monster Weather is the thirty-sixth episode of Ben 10. This episode celebrates the two-year anniversary of Ben 10.

PlotEdit

Grandpa Max takes Ben and Gwen to a music festival in Chicago to see his favorite old-time band, Shag Carpeting, but the event's interrupted by a weather-controlling robot called S.A.M (short for Sounding Annometer Metograph). Vance Vetteroy, a weatherman who created S.A.M, reprograms S.A.M to create weather rather than report it, but S.A.M gets struck by lightning and then takes on a mind of its own. S.A.M (the cloud monster) first uses water, then lightning and finally a tornado to fight his creator, and then Ben, Gwen and Grandpa Max during the Shag Carpeting concert. Ben (as Four Arms) strums on an amplified guitar to create an opposite feedback frequency to finally destroy S.A.M.

CharactersEdit

• Ben Tennyson
• Gwen Tennyson
• Grandpa Max
• Vance Vetteroy
• Steve
• Brad (cameo)
• Shag Carpeting
• Captain Shaw (cameo)

VillainsEdit

• S.A.M

Aliens UsedEdit

• Heatblast (accidental transformation; selected alien was Ripjaws)
• XLR8
• Four Arms

QuotesEdit

Ben: So, this means we can go to the Sumo Slammer Convention now? Grandpa Max: Sorry. One has nothing to do with the other. Ben: But I went XLR8 to save the day! Grandpa Max: As a matter of fact, I was wondering about that. You just happened to be him when that cloud monster appeared? Ben: Uh, yeah. Why? Grandpa Max: Well, just that XLR8 could have zipped off to that convention without Gwen or me ever realizing you were gone. Ben: Oh, you think you know everything!

(XLR8 lands on the RV's windshield) Gwen: Now that's one ugly bug on our windshield.

Grandpa Max: Hey, hey! The Shag Carpeting autograph booth! So, who wants to come to the booth with me? Ben: I'd rather brush Vilgax's teeth with my tongue than wait in line to get those fossil's autographs.

Grandpa Max: You know I've waited all summer to see Shag Carpeting. (holds up record album) Ben: Those weirdos make Wildvine look normal. Besides, who listens to records anymore anyway?

Naming and TranslationsEdit

AllusionsEdit

• The water monster that appears looks somewhat like Perfect Chaos from the video game Sonic Adventure.

TriviaEdit

• Captain Shaw can be seen fishing in this episode.
• The trio's thirty-fifth stop is Chicago.
• Ben displayed guitar playing and snow boarding ability in this episode.
• Ben mentions Aunt Vera, who the Tennysons visited in Permanent Retirement.
• A running gag in this episode is Ben talking about having a bath or not.
• The water park attendant Brad from A Small Problem can be seen in the audience during Shag Carpeting's concert.