Episode
Static Shock: They're Playing My Song
Overview
Rubberband Man goes after the rapper he says stole his music, and Static gets caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Virgil gets a job at a burger joint.
Details
- Series
- Static Shock
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2000-11-11
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
They're Playing My Song is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Static Shock. It aired on 2000-11-11. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 4: Grounded
Virgil and Richie vs. a people-eating amoeba that's running amok in the high school late at night and threatening the school-newspaper staff.
Episode 6: The New Kid
Virgil transfers to a school for advanced students, where he works on an electricity-absorbing prototype. Trouble is, the school turns out to be funded by Edwin Alva, and the prototype is used to make a robot that Alva wants for his nefarious ends.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: The Breed
A track athlete Virgil's tutoring mutates into a metahuman and joins Ebon's criminal gang known as the "Metabreed."
Episode 7: Child's Play
A bad boy learns that his younger stepbrother is metahuman, and wants him to use his powers to steal things.
Episode 2: Aftershock
F-Stop, Virgil's teen-gang nemesis, gains his own superpowers and calls himself "Hotstreak." Meanwhile, Virgil learns who's responsible for the gas that gave him and F-Stop their powers.
Episode 8: Sons of the Fathers
Richie's captured by Ebon after running away from home because of his father's racist attitude toward Virgil.
Episode 1: Shock to the System
Virgil gains powers after being exposed to a strange gas that leaks from its cannister when it's hit by a bullet during a gang gunfight.
Episode 9: Winds of Change
A bang baby who can control the wind emerges, calls himself Slipsteam and begins to cause trouble in Dakota. Meanwhile, Richie and Virgil get into a fight over Richie's newest crime-fighting invention, the ZapCap.
Episode 10: Bent Out of Shape
Sharon dates a rapper who turns out to be Rubberband Man, who has escaped from prison. Static isn't pleased and that's not all Rubberband Man has to worry about: two metahuman bounty hunters are on his trail.
Episode 11: Junior
Edwin Alva vs. his son, who's tired of being ignored and dismissed by his father. So Junior, who has figured out how to control the metahuman serum, uses it to become one himself--Omnifarious--and takes on his dad.
Episode 12: Replay
A washed-up child actor with meta-human powers clones Static, and the clone goes on a crime spree.
Episode 13: Tantrum
A purple metahuman goes on a rampage at school, and Virgil and Richie think they know who it is: an honor student whose grades were less than perfect.