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Danger Force - Manlee Men (S1E22)
Captain Man's diva antics are off-the-racks at the 100th annual Swellview Fashion Show; with help from some fashion-forward twins, Danger Force tries to uncover the dangerous mystery behind Captain Man's return to the runway.
| Runtime (min) | 22 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | 2021-06-26 |
| Genres | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| TV Rating | TV-Y7 |
| Network(s) | Nickelodeon |
Storyline
The 100th annual Swellview Fashion Show becomes the backdrop for unexpected drama when Captain Man decides to make a grand return to the runway. His diva behavior escalates as he demands special treatment and attention, creating chaos behind the scenes at one of Swellview's most prestigious events. The Danger Force team quickly realizes that something more sinister may be unfolding beneath the glitz and glamour of the fashion world.
With assistance from a pair of fashion-savvy twins who know the ins and outs of the industry, the young heroes work to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding Captain Man's sudden interest in modeling. As they navigate the high-stakes world of fashion shows, complete with demanding designers and temperamental models, Danger Force must balance keeping Captain Man's ego in check while uncovering what dangerous plot might be hiding behind the sequins and spotlights. The team discovers that solving this mystery will require both their superhero skills and an understanding of the fashion world's unique challenges.
What kids learn
This episode offers lessons about the importance of teamwork when dealing with difficult personalities. Children see how the Danger Force members must work together to manage Captain Man's demanding behavior while staying focused on their mission. The story demonstrates that even when someone in authority acts unreasonably, maintaining professionalism and cooperation with teammates leads to better outcomes than confrontation or giving up.
The episode also explores the value of seeking help from people with specialized knowledge. When the young heroes partner with the fashion-forward twins, children learn that asking for guidance from experts in unfamiliar situations is a smart strategy, not a sign of weakness. This reinforces the idea that different people bring different strengths to problem-solving.
Additionally, the fashion show setting provides opportunities to discuss how appearances can be deceiving. As Danger Force investigates the mystery behind the glamorous event, kids learn to look beyond surface-level distractions and pay attention to what's really happening. The episode encourages critical thinking and the importance of staying alert even in seemingly harmless or entertaining environments.
Parents' top 5 questions
| Question | Answer |
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| How does the episode handle Captain Man's diva behavior? | Captain Man's demanding attitude is portrayed as problematic and creates obstacles for the team rather than being celebrated. The Danger Force members must navigate his unreasonable requests while still accomplishing their mission, showing that even authority figures can behave poorly. The episode uses his antics for comedy but also demonstrates the real challenges his behavior creates for those around him, providing opportunities to discuss appropriate conduct. |
| Is the fashion show setting age-appropriate for younger viewers? | The fashion show serves as a colorful, visually engaging backdrop that fits the show's comedic superhero format. The setting focuses on the spectacle and behind-the-scenes chaos rather than mature fashion industry themes. The episode uses the glamorous environment primarily as a vehicle for the mystery plot and Captain Man's over-the-top behavior, keeping content suitable for the show's target elementary and middle school audience. |
| What role do the fashion twins play in the story? | The fashion-forward twins serve as helpful allies who provide Danger Force with insider knowledge about the fashion world. Their expertise helps the young heroes navigate an unfamiliar environment and investigate the mystery more effectively. This partnership demonstrates positive collaboration between characters with different skill sets and shows kids the value of accepting help from knowledgeable sources when facing new challenges. |
| Does the episode teach anything about handling difficult people? | The Danger Force team must balance respecting Captain Man's position while not enabling his unreasonable demands. They work together to manage his behavior diplomatically while staying focused on their actual mission. This provides a practical example of maintaining boundaries and priorities when dealing with someone who demands excessive attention, showing kids that it's possible to be respectful without sacrificing important goals. |
| Is there any inappropriate content in this episode? | The episode maintains the show's typical superhero comedy format with slapstick humor and exaggerated situations. The fashion show setting and Captain Man's diva antics provide comedic moments without venturing into mature territory. As with most Danger Force episodes, the content is designed for children and pre-teens, focusing on action-comedy and teamwork themes rather than anything unsuitable for the show's Nickelodeon audience. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
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| 1 | 1 | Captain Man has a new crew of superhero sidekicks, Danger Force. But when he tells them there’s a “crime drought” in Swellview, they begin to suspect that he’s fighting crime without them. |
| 1 | 2 | The members of Danger Force are given terrible nicknames live on KLVY news, so they come up with a plan to announce to the world who they really are — Volt, AWOL, ShoutOut, and Brainstorm. |
| 1 | 3 | Two new students are enrolled in SW.A.G. and are keeping Danger Force from going on any missions. So Danger Force and Captain Man band together to use their powers to get the new students to leave. |
| 1 | 4 | Danger Force and Captain Man go undercover as bad guys at The Beatin' Dungeon to catch a criminal. If their cover is blown, they'll have to fight all of Swellview's toughest villains at once. |
| 1 | 5 | When Danger Force and Captain Man are called to Paris to protect France’s national treasures, Bose is accidentally left alone to try and stop The Toddler from breaking into The Man’s Nest. |
| 1 | 6 | A gas leak forces Swellview to quarantine and Captain Man and Danger Force are forced to stay in their homes to set an example. But when Captain Man gets a little cabin fever, nothing will stop him from finding out who caused the leakage. |
| 1 | 7 | When Danger Force fails a mission because Chapa is distracted by a crush, the gang has to track down her obsession and get their friend back to her normal self. |
| 1 | 8 | Henry Hart's back and stealing Ray's attention from crime fighting so Danger Force is forced to go on a bunch of exhausting missions without Captain Man. But the mood dims when a scary Bounty Hunter from Dystopia comes to Swellview looking for Henry. |
| 1 | 9 | Mika gets a fine lesson on the art of not snitching, but a surprise from Schwoz's Mom might cause her to fail the test. |
| 1 | 10 | An ancient Prank War re-ignites between Swellview and Rivalton, and ShoutOut's excellent sense for pranking is Danger Force's best hope for winning the conflict. |
| 1 | 11 | The Prank War rages on with Danger Force's best pranker, ShoutOut, now on team Rivalton. It's up to Captain Man and Danger Force to find a way to end this Prank War once and for all. |
| 1 | 12 | Danger Force learns the real story of Christmas. When Santa's sleigh comes crashing down, an ancient spell is broken and the fate of Christmas hangs in the balance. |
| 1 | 13 | The fight to save the holidays rages on. Danger Force is forced to square off with Krampus on his own turf to try and save Christmas. |
| 1 | 14 | Danger Force and Captain Man get hooked making celebrity greeting videos to start raking in cash, but when making celebrity videos turns into a popularity contest, they accidentally send out a video that reveals their secret identities. |
| 1 | 15 | Captain Man puts Danger Force through a series of tests to see if he can trust them; but when the tests get out of hand, the tables are turned. |
| 1 | 16 | When Danger Force accidentally forgets about plans they have with Ray, he surprises them with a brand new member of the team to make them jealous. |
| 1 | 17 | When Mika tries too hard to win Man's Nest Employee of the Month, she creates a monster that could ruin the telethon Danger Force is hosting. |
| 1 | 18 | Captain Man makes ShoutOut and AWOL compete over who can catch more criminals using their own ways of crime-fighting. |
| 1 | 19 | Bose's Mom, Celia, picks up Schwoz's lost radioactive cat from outside SW.A.G. and takes it home, so Danger Force and Captain Man have to try and get it back before she goes nuclear. |
| 1 | 20 | When AWOL starts seeing visions of the future right before they happen, Captain Man believes it must be the work of Swellview's leading time-crime villain, The Time Jerker. |
| 1 | 21 | After Captain Man goes on strike because he declines to pay for artwork that he destroyed while on a mission, the vice mayor appoints a new hero, Monsieur Man, to defend Swellview. |
| 1 | 22 | Captain Man's diva antics are off-the-racks at the 100th annual Swellview Fashion Show; with help from some fashion-forward twins, Danger Force tries to uncover the dangerous mystery behind Captain Man's return to the runway. |
| 1 | 23 | Danger Force tries to help an annoying ghost from the 1920s with her unfinished business so she will stop haunting their school. |
| 1 | 24 | Ray must get Danger Force to take a picture with their parents in the school or be shut down; things get complicated when Chapa hires Jake Hart to be her fake father. |
| 1 | 25 | Strange things start to happen to Bose when he finds himself in love with an alien. |
| 1 | 26 | Captain Man and Danger Force are hired to deliver a big budget Hollywood movie to its premiere, but the producer warns them that rival studios and internet trolls are out to steal the film. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Notorious villain Rick Twitler returns to Swellview with a devious plan to control Mika's mind through an intense virtual reality video game and use her powers to destroy the internet. Danger Force must free Mika of Rick Twitler's control before the world reverts back to the Dark Ages forever. |
| 2 | 2 | After Miles has a vision that Rick Twitler is still around, so Danger Force travels deep into the Man's Nest's to find him, running into an old foe along the way. |
| 2 | 3 | After the entire Man's Nest is launched into space, Danger Force must safely land the ship back on Earth before Rick Twitler and his army of Living Sentient Computer Viruses overtake the world and destroy the Internet forever. |
| 2 | 4 | After Volt and ShoutOut are kidnapped by Cyborg Rick Twitler, Henry Hart returns from Dystopia in an attempt to save his friends and stop the anti-internet cyborg for good. |
| 2 | 5 | Danger Force sees an opportunity to make money fast by hosting Swellview's hottest music festival, but they catch a case of the Kramps when Krampus threatens to ruin their plans. |
| 2 | 6 | To avoid being pulled out of SW.A.G., Danger Force must put on an extracurricular school play while also preventing Frankini from kidnapping the vice mayor. |
| 2 | 7 | When Danger Force borrows Ray's beloved Man Buggy without telling him, it falls into the hands of criminals Stupid Jeff and The Toddler; now the team must track it down and get it back before Ray finds out. |
| 2 | 8 | Danger Force's superpowers are mysteriously on the fritz; as the team searches for an explanation, some new friends at a popular seafood restaurant provide free food and pirate hospitality to keep their spirits high. |
| 2 | 9 | When Danger Force uncovers the ultimate evil plan behind their power problems, they must face their foes on land and at sea. |
| 2 | 10 | Ray calls on the Danger Force Clones for help when Danger Force leaves for an out-of-town mission, but he quickly realizes that, even though the clones look just like their superhero counterparts, they are very different. |
| 2 | 11 | After Danger Force thwarts a robbery at Club Soda and has a legendary night celebrating its win, Ray challenges the kids to repeat their epic night out without their superhero uniforms and powers. |
| 2 | 12 | Volt and ShoutOut hatch a plan to stop their super-clinger fan from making false alarm emergency calls. |
| 2 | 13 | When Mitch Bilsky enrolls at S.W.A.G., Headmaster Ray and Danger Force use a combination of patience and powers to help him achieve the impossible and graduate high school. |
| 2 | 14 | When a mysterious new barber attacks Swellview with a string of terrible haircuts, it's up to Danger Force to uncover their identity before their own hair gets chopped. |
| 2 | 15 | The Supies. Swellview's biggest night for superheros, and Captain Man is not invited. Danger Force enlists Henry's help to make sure the night goes off without a hitch. |
| 2 | 16 | When Danger Force become the newest exhibit at an alien zoo, Miles must find a way to break them out before they become alien dinner. |
| 2 | 17 | ShoutOut has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sell a movie to Hollywood bigshot Deuce Van Nuys, but when her mind goes blank under the pressure, the rest of Danger Force pitch in and share their own epic movie ideas. |
| 2 | 18 | When a tax loophole allows Dr. Minyak to buy the Man's Nest, Captain Man must stand his ground and live with his terrible new roommate while Danger Force tries to find a way to reverse the sale before they lose the Man's Nest for good. |
| 2 | 19 | When Danger Force is challenged to compete in Swellview’s Street Fightin’ Championship, they must master the ancient art of street fighting and battle for their honor without using their superpowers. |
| 2 | 20 | When Chapa's beloved long lost cell phone returns to the Man's Nest under mysterious circumstances, her hunt for the truth threatens to destroy Danger Force. |
| 2 | 21 | When Chapa's little sister needs her help during a city-wide blackout, the rest of Danger Force cross the line as they try to pull her back to power up the Man's Nest and help them win a contest. |
| 2 | 22 | After Schwoz's experiment-gone-wrong causes an infestation at S.W.A.G, Danger Force enrolls at Swellview Junior High and stumbles into an extracurricular crime wave. |
| 2 | 23 | Danger Force is crushing it at Swellview Junior High, but Ray misses his sidekicks and schemes to get them out of school. |
| 2 | 24 | Captain Man and Danger Force offer to host the wedding of the century for Swellview's newscaster Trent Overunder and his internet girlfriend Tracy426; when they worry Tracy426 isn't who she claims to be, their meddling threatens to ruin the big day. |
| 2 | 25 | Danger Force risk exposing their identities when they accidentally leave their fingerprints on some crime scene evidence; a police officer starts to piece together the truth, forcing Danger Force to attempt a mission to save the day. |
| 2 | 26 | When their secret identities get out, Danger Force will stop at nothing to prevent their parents from finding out who is behind their masks. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | The kids are living regular lives after leaving Danger Force, but when their moms go missing, they have to reunite with Captain Man to find them. They quickly discover that all the moms in Swellview have been kidnapped by a mysterious villain. |
| 3 | 2 | As Swellview crumbles around them due to a lack of maternal energy, Danger Force and Captain Man must locate and return the moms to safety. |
| 3 | 3 | Mika and Chapa are determined to prove to Miles, Bose, and Ray that the new kid in school, Buddy Fudgers, is actually Lil' Dynomite, before he successfully completes his plan to get revenge on his nemesis, Captain Man. |
| 3 | 4 | Danger Force is hired by Rivalton's Duke Wellington to protect him and his ponytail from his uncle, Archduke Fernando. |
| 3 | 5 | Miles sells his soul to a demon in The Man's Nest Abyss Room to help Mika win against his rival; Captain Man needs to confront the demon to get back their souls. |
| 3 | 6 | Chapa, Miles, Mika, and Bose are thrilled to have landed dates for the SwellMelonFest, until threats come in prompting Ray to make them work security. |
| 3 | 7 | |
| 3 | 8 | In an effort to hinder Danger Force's performance, The Cell manipulates Jeff and Mitch Bilsky into buying Swellview Jr. High; it's up to Bose to save his friends. |
| 3 | 9 | The kids stumble upon a new door in the Man's Nest and are determined to see what's behind it, despite Ray telling them it's off limits. |
| 3 | 10 | When the kids throw Bose a surprise birthday party, his stepsister, Poopsie, threatens to shut the party down unless AWOL is present. |
| 3 | 11 | Ray breaks up with Credenza; now, Danger Force has two days to teach Ray how to forgive before his relationship is over forever. |
| 3 | 12 | Ray retires from fighting crime, leaving Danger Force to face their biggest threat to date - a monster coming to Swellview to slay a hero and take over the world |
| 3 | 13 | Danger Force boost their powers with Mom Energy, as Big Dark Dynomite wreaks havoc on Swellview. Will Danger Force rise to the occasion and fulfil a new Prophecy? |
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