Boss, I Shrunk the Mantis

"Boss, I Shrunk the Mantis" is the first half of the 5th episode of the American animated television series Manticoon Mayhem. It first aired on November 7, 1998 alongside "Beware the Dust Mite" on USA Network as part of Gingo on USA.

Summary
Snappy Mantis and his raccoon gang gets shrunk to the size of ants by Shrinky Woman, so they have to stop the villain before she and her army of ants can shrink everybody except themselves and dominate the entire city, if not the entire world.

Plot
The episode starts with a dog smelling the flowers in his backyard when suddenly, he gets hit by a ray and shrinks down to ant size, as the ants kidnap him and lock him in a glass container, as the ants come back to the villain, who is none other than Shrinky Woman. Meanwhile, Snappy Mantis is studying the other members of his race using a scope, and wonders how it must be like for them to live small, unlike him and the raccoon gang. Just then, they receive a call from his boss of the villain's scheme, shrinking other citizens in sight, and they immediately head over there. Suddenly, however, they hit by a ray and get shrunk down to ant size on their way there, and they are then apprehended by the ant army (who is now bigger), and get kidnapped by them.

When Snappy and the raccoons recover, they discover that they are in a glass container, along with the other kidnapped and shrunken citizens (including other villains). As the ants watch them try to escape with joy, Shrinky Woman arrives and tells them about her plan to dominate the city with her ant army, then leaves to shrink more citizens, as they try to escape their tiny prison, while the ants grow bigger. Later, Snappy and the raccoons, after some planning, decide to work together to escape their prison and stop Shrinky Woman from shrinking the entire city, if not the entire world. After taking care of the ant guards, they head outside as they get on a butterfly and fly over to where Shrinky Woman is.

By the time they get there, the ants are already about a foot tall, and are shrinking things in sight under the control of Shrinky Woman, not noticing the butterfly landing on the ground as the mantis and raccoons get off safely. Shrinky, angry that they have escaped from their tiny prison, tries to get the ants to squish them, but they swiftly dodge that as they try to adjust the shrinking machine that she is holding in her hands so that they can return to normal size. However, she notices them and tries to swat them, only for them to dodge that, too, causing her to hit the machine, making the ants grow to double their height at 2 feet.

The ants realize that they have been controlled, so they decide to take control over her, as the queen ant, their leader, takes the shrinking machine from her and places it on her head, then shrinks her down to ant size and places her in her own tiny prison. They then take Snappy and the raccoons and place them in their own tiny prison, where they then tell their captives that now that they are free to do whatever, they are going to shrink everything they can shrink to ant size and make them their own slaves, as they become the "dominant species" of the planet, if not the universe. The ants start to shrink everything in sight, leaving Snappy and the raccoons to figure out a way to stop the ants from achieving world domination.

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