"Raiders of the Nasal Dark" (鼻の闇の侵略者, Hanano Yamino Shinryaku-sha), also known as "The Runny" (ハナムプトラ, Hanamuputora), is the ninth episode of season 1 and the ninth overall episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. It first aired on October 29, 2010.
Synopsis[]
An ecstatic nose-picking fad spreads across Daten City.
Plot[]
The episode starts with a narrator, who explains fads are part of Daten City's natural order. The setting changes to a café front, where a weather woman in a news network assures the day is going to be sunny, with a chance of 'suji' pollen. Stocking reminds Panty she is picking her nose again, but Panty tells her she's only doing it because Oscar Picker said it was a new type of therapy, and famous people were doing it too.
Stocking explains how delicious her Sparkling Queen Nougat is, before Panty compares her booger with it, for they looked the same. Brief, while using his PKE Meter, assures Panty her booger was radiating a heap of gas. Panty starts punching Brief, believing he was implying her to be a ghost. They were suddenly greeted by Ugly Snot, who introduces himself to both Anarchy sisters. He invites them to a feast aboard his airship, which the angels decide to attend.
Panty and Ugly Snot picking each other's noses.
Inside the airship, Stocking starts eating more nougats, while Panty goes off with Ugly Snot. Upon getting themselves a private room, they begin picking each other's noses. Ugly Snot starts sneezing, for Panty's booger was irritating his nasal membrane, which then made him reveal his true ghost form. Everyone in the airship begins picking their noses uncontrollably, while the ghost takes the shape of the airship itself. Garterbelt tells Panty that anyone who breathed the ghost's dust began picking their noses against their will.
The ghost then starts using a rocket of gas and nosebleed to propell itself towards the Moon, with the purpose of making it sneeze. Everyone's noses begin to bleed due to dehydration, accelerating the airship's speed. Garterbelt tells the Anarchy sisters to use their boogers in order to stop the airship, but since both angels' noses were clean, Brief has to resort to giving Panty his collection of her discarded boogers. Stocking tries releasing the cabin with her katanas, while Panty runs towards the ghost, but it released a horde of smaller ghosts to stop her.
Panty hanging onto the blimp as others watch in arousement.
Panty tries shooting them, but since she wasn't wearing a skirt, she couldn't pull her panties off. Stocking helps Panty out of her shorts by cutting her belt. Panty proceeds to shoot the little ghosts, but upon looking at her panty-less, the people from the cabin have a nosebleed, which accelerated the airship's speed towards the Moon. Panty releases the cabin from the ghost, making it fall onto the ocean. Panty and Stocking defeat the Ghost by putting Panty's booger inside it's nose. The ghost explodes, sending Panty back, while Stocking is sent towards the Moon, making it sneeze anyway.
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General trivia[]
- When Panty is hanging on to Ugly Snot's tentacle protuberance, a censor bar is seen which covers her vagina.
- At the beginning of the episode, Stocking expresses her disgust at Panty picking her nose in public. However, by the time she arrives on the blimp, she also begins picking her nose along with everyone else.
- After seeing Panty's exposed vagina, everyone in the crowd nosebleeds in arousal, including the women.
- Panty breaks the fourth wall at the end of the episode by remarking to the audience: "If it's good, you might as well stick with it, am I right?" before winking.
- In the English sub, Panty asks the audience which hole they like to stick it in.
- At the beginning of the episode, Brief's PKE meter detected Ghost activity within Panty's booger, which foreshadows Oscar being a Ghost.
Cultural references[]
- The episode's Japanese title, "The Runny", is a reference to the 1999 American adventure film, The Mummy, which is titled Hamunaptra: The Lost City in the Desert (ハムナプトラ/失われた砂漠の都 Hamunaputora Ushinawareta Sahaku No Miya) in Japan. Note that Hana (鼻 はな) is the Japanese for "nose".
- The color of the episode's title is a reference to the Indiana Jones franchise.
- The episode's English title, "Raiders of the Nasal Dark", is a reference to the 1981 American film, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- The moon bears a resemblance to the moon in the video game, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
- The moon's design may also be a subtle reference to Cathedral Terra, a character from Gurren Lagann, another series that Gainax produced.
- When the Ghost releases smaller monsters, the sound effect is identical to the one used by Poké Balls.
Errors[]
- At the very beginning of the episode, there is a restaurant that misspells "Hamburger" as "Hanburger".
- When the booger flew into Ugly Snot's nostril, Brief was not seen. However, as Ugly Snot sneezes repeatedly, Brief is again seen with Panty and Stocking.
Music[]
- "Sub Title" - Episode sub title
- "Immoral Church" - Opening narration
- "Burrrrrp" - Nose picking trend
- "Beverly Hills Cock Part 2" - Brief testing Panty's booger
- "Flamenco" - Oscar H Genius
- "Juice" - mutual picking
- "Ghost Town" - Ghost reveal
- "Zombie" - The ghost takes over the blimp
- "Pantscada" - Nose bleeds
- "Beverly Hills Cock" - Angels on the attack
- "Dancefloor Orgy" - The passengers are saved, and the angels are on their own
- "Theme for Panty & Stocking (Slow Version)" - Conclusion and fade out
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