Never Look a Trojan in the Gift Horse

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Time Squad Season 1 June 2001 - September 2001 List of Time Squad episodes

Episodes: Eli Whitney's Flesh Eating Mistake/Never Look a Trojan in the Gift Horse Napoleon and the Conquered/Confucius Say... Way Too Much The Island of Doctor Freud/Daddio Da Vinci To Hail with Caesar/Robin' and Stealin' With Mr. Hood Dishonest Abe/Blackbeard, Warm Hart Ludwig van Bone-Crusher/Tea Time For Time Squad If It's Wright, It's Wrong/Recruitment Ad/Killing Time Big Al's Big Secret/Larry Upgrade Besty Ross Flies Her Freak Flag/Every Poe has a Silver Lining The Prime Minister Has No Clothes/Nutorius Kubla Khan't/Lewis & Clark & Larry Ivan the Untrainable/Where the Buffalo Bill Roams A Sandwich by Any Other Name/Shop Like an Egyptian Planet of the Flies/Keeping It Real with Sitting Bull Houdini Whodunit?!/Feud for Thought A Thrilla at Attila's/Cabin Fever Pasteur Packs O'Punch/Floundering Fathers The Clownfather/Hate and Let Hate Love at First Flight/Forget the Alamo Repeat Offender/Ladies and Gentlemen, Monty Zuma Whitehouse Weirdness/Nobel Peace Surprise Out with the In Crowd/Child's Play Day of the Larrys/Old Timers Squad Billy the Baby/Father Figure of Our Country Ex Marks the Spot/Horse of Horrors Floral Patton/Orphan Substitute

Never Look a Trojan in the Gift Horse is the second vignette in the first episode of Time Squad.

[edit] Plot

Tuddrussel is showing Otto some outrageous souvenirs from the past when they get a mission to the time of the Trojan War, where the Greeks snuck a giant, wooden horse into Troy's kingdom, filling it with soldiers to attack when the horse is opened, to win the war. Instead, they're filling it with candy for the king of Troy's birthday. The Time Squad has a hard time trying to get them to build the right wooden animal with the right stuff inside it. In the end, when they tried it the very last time, live wild horses (from Spain) fell out of the wooden horse and went terrorizing the city and accidently burned the city down during the rampage.

[edit] Notes

• Simon The Soldier: "A Lynde Thine Between Hove and Late"
• The Trojan soldier Simon sounds like Paul Lynde, who was known for his appearances on Bewitched and Laugh-In in the 1960's.
• This is the first sight of the History Instability Alarm.
• This episode doesn't have the opening theme song and title sequence (of which there would ultimately be three versions). Instead, it just has a title card that has the show's name and the credit "Created by Dave Wasson". In fact, the first episode with the actual opening theme (the first one where it's a clip show on a background of black and green historic dates) is The Island of Dr. Freud/Daddio Da Vinci.
• Although named throughout the episode as "King of Troy," the monarch in question is Priam.