(The episode starts with Ralph, Melissa, and Schaffer fishing at Evergreen Lake.)
Narrator: At first glance, the Evergreen Forest appears peaceful and calm. But beneath the placid exterior, the inhabitants have been quietly preparing to give Cyril Sneer a shocking surprise he will won't soon forget. Yes, the tranquility of the forest will soon be shattered.
Schaffer: They're out there. Did you see that one jump?
Ralph: Oh, they're jumping all right. But they're sure not biting.
Melissa: I'd be very surprised if we catch anything today.
Ralph: Maybe we should give up on the fishing and go back to working on the plan.
Schaffer: Do you think it will really teach Cyril a lesson?
Ralph: (laughs) Once and for all.
Melissa: (laughs) He'll never know what hit him.
Schaffer: That's for sure.
(And all three of them laugh as one of the pigs is spying on them with a pair of binoculars before falling over.)
Pig 2: Did you hear?! He'll never know what hit him!
Pig 1: I knew those meddling raccoons are up to no good! I could sniff it in the air!
Pigs 2 and 3: The boss had better know about this!
Pig 2: The boss will fix them once and for all!
(All three pigs laugh.)
(Transition to the trail, with the Pigs riding on their motorcycle.)
Pig 1: So, they think they're gonna pull a fast one? (laughs)
Pig 2: Yeah! They'll never know what hit THEM! The only teaching anyone a lesson around here is the boss!
Pig 1: Yeah! The boss!
The Pigs: The boss! The boss!
(The Pigs then stop and back their motorcycle upon hearing the sound of a horn.)
Pig 1: What was that?
(The Pigs see Bert Raccoon with Sophia Tutu as the raccoon was playing a bugle.)
Sophia: That was very good, Bert.
Bert: I know. I learned that in Junior Raccoon Scouts. Hey! You wanna hear what I learned this morning?
(And Bert plays the bugle again, badly.)
Sophia: Gosh, Bert. You play it better a few years from now. Surprise me then.
Bert: Nah! You'll enjoy this. Bert Raccoon, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy!
(And Bert continues to play the bugle as the Pigs watch from a nearby bush. Just then, Bert tripped over a rope and fell over leaving him in a daze.)
Sophia: Bert! Are you alright?!
(Sophia then notices what was attached to the rope.)
Sophia: What's this?
(The scene then pans to a hot-air balloon.)
Pig 1: A war machine!
Pig 2: Maybe they're not fooling.
Pig 1: Quiet! Listen!
Sophia: What's it for?
Bert: It's my contribution to the plan.
Sophia: How will a balloon be useful?
Bert: Simple... The balloon goes up in the air. When it gets in the right position, I pull the string! That triggers the release, which ignites the gunpowder, and then... KERBLOOEY!
(The Pigs' hats raise in shock.)
Sophia: That's terrific, Bert!
Bert: Of course, I'll have more than one. I'll make hundreds! (gasps) What a great invention! Gosh! I'm neat!
Pig 1: Did you hear that?!
Pig 3: War balloons!
Pig 2: Hundreds!
Pig 1: Gunpowder!
Pigs (in unison): Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Goodness gracious!
(The pigs then hop on their motorcycle and drive away.)
(The scene then cuts to the Sneer Mansion.)
Cyril: Another Seven-hundred and fifty.
Cedric: Seven fifty!
Cyril: Forty stocks in consolidated consolidations? Cedric, what's that worth?
Cedric: Five eighty, Pop!
Cyril: One small pizza? What's that worth?
Cedric: That's my lunch, Pop.
Cyril: Lunch?! This is no time for lunch! Put it down as four dollars!
(The Pigs enter the vault.)
The Pigs: The gunpowder!
Pig 1: The Raccoons!
Pig 2: And they've got war balloons!
The Pigs: Hundreds!
Cyril: What in blithering blue blazes are you knuckleheads babbling about?!
Pig 1: They said they'll never know what hit you!
Cyril: Who?!
The Pigs: The Raccoons and their friends!
Cyril: You preposterous, paranoid porkers! Those bothersome vermin? Harm me? Never!
Pig 1: I think they mean to do something not at all nice.
Cyril: Not at all nice?! I'll show you 'not at all nice'! What I don't know how much money I've got, I get not nice! Because if I don't know how much I got, I can't be around how much I need! Now GET OUT!
The Pigs: Yes sir! Yes sir!
(The Pigs run out of the vault.)
Cedric: Doesn't sound like anything to worry about, Pop.
Cyril: Of course not! What could they do?!
Cedric: Nothing, Pop. So, where were we?
Cyril: All I've got is this money, my mansion, my power, and my good looks. What would a bunch of dumb raccoons what with that? (laughs) ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!
(Cedric tries to offer his father some of his pizza.)
Cedric: Uh, would you like a piece of pizza?
(Cyril launches the pizza box out of Cedric's hands.)
Cyril: They mean to overthrow me! Why else would they have all this stuff?! They want to take my wealth and power!
(The pizza lands on Snag's face.)
Cedric Uh, Pop? Maybe you're overreacting?
Cyril: Overreacting?! Me?! Rubbish! It's time to call out my secret service!
Cedric: What secret service?
Cyril: It's so secret, I haven't told anyone! Now I'll find out what's going on!
(And Cyril leaves the vault and slams the door shut.)
Cedric: Uh oh! Pop knows something's up! I better tell the others!
(The scene cuts to Schaffer and the Raccoons building something.)
Narrator: Whatever Cedric was worried about, he knew he had to warn Schaffer and the Raccoons before it was too late.
(Cyril is holding a secret meeting with a large group of his bears.)
Cyril: Attention! Now hear this! You are the hand-picked elite! The finest secret service ever created! So secret, you don't even know who each other are! Now, here's your mission!
(A slide projector is then turned on, showing a picture of Ralph and Melissa.)
Cyril: These, my secretive stool pigeons, are the conspirators! Study them, but don't be fooled! They're not as dumb as they look!
(The projector then switches to the next slide, showing a picture of Bert.)
Cyril: Note the masks on their eyes! They're a sure sign of a thief, a robber, or maybe even a filthy agitator! Note this one!
(The projector then switches to a picture of Schaffer.)
Cyril: No eyes! Extremely dangerous! Has a very keen sense of smell! So take a bath!
(Cyril marches down the steps.)
Cyril: Now let's see your secret disguises!
(Four of Cyril's bears come forward wearing their disguises. One is dressed as a duck, the second is dressed as Bert, the third is dressed as Schaeffer, and the last is disguised as a tree.)
Cyril: Perfect! I want you to go out there and find out what those conniving creatures are up to!
(Snag sniffs the tree disguise and is about to go to the bathroom on it before getting kicked by Cyril.)
Cyril: Don't you dare, Snag! I just had that tree dry cleaned!
(Cyril then shows his secret service bears a medal.)
Cyril: This Cyril Sneer Medal will be awarded to the agent who brings back the most information.
(The four bears are now in awe over their reward.)
Cyril: Now get going!
(And the bears leave the room.)
Cyril: Try to surprise Cyril Sneer? Well, I just love to spoil surprises!
(A montage now occurs with "Run With Us" by Steve Lunt playing in the background as the four bear agents follow Ralph and Melissa and attempt to collect information while fighting themselves. The bear dressed as Bert emerges from a cave and follows behind Ralph and Melissa with a camera in his hands. As he is about to take a picture, the camera is snatched away by the bear dressed as a duck, who was sitting on a tree branch, using a fishing pole to steal the camera. The bear dressed as a duck tries to take the picture, of Ralph and Melissa, but the branch gets sawed off by the bear disguised as Schaeffer, who grabs the camera as the other bear falls. The bear dressed as Schaeffer keeps the camera aimed at Ralph and Melissa, only to come face to face with the bear disguised as a tree, who grabs the camera from the other bear before blowing a raspberry at him and running off. The bear disguised as a tree sneaks behind Ralph and Melissa and tries to take the picture, but another bear hiding in a bush lets a skunk run into the tree bear's disguise, causing him to drop the camera and run into a nearby pond before floating in it. The bush bear laughs and tries to take a picture of Ralph and Melissa, only to find that they already left. He is then confronted by the three bears in their duck, Bert, and Schaeffer disguises, who tackle the bush bear and fight him for the camera, leaving all four of them beaten.)
(Back in Cyril's meeting room.)
Cyril: You're nothing but a powerless, paralytic, inept, ineffective, bumbling bunch of deadbeat bears! Some secret service! You didn't even load the camera! You don't seem to realize that if I go, YOU go!
(The bears gasp and Cyril sniffs.)
Cyril: Somewhere out there is an army that's out to destroy everything I pillaged, cheated, robbed, and connived to build! And because of your bumbling, they not only know that I know what THEY know, but I don't even know when they'll do what I know they'll do! Anyway, I don't like not knowing! Now get out there and dig up some dirt!
(And the bears rush out of the room. Cyril then looks out the balcony and sees the bears digging in the front yard.)
Cyril: What are you doing?!
(The bears stop digging and look up at Cyril, who screams at them to make them scatter. Cyril then begins to think.)
Cyril: Well, I could have a moat dug there... and fill it with alligators. That's it! That'll stop them!
(Cyril laughs as he goes back inside. At that moment, the Pigs rush in.)
The Pigs: We have information!
Cyril: Don't just stand there breathing! Spit it out!
Pig 1: Tomorrow is the day they launch the plan!
Cyril: So soon?
Pig 1: They have everything ready! Rockets, gunpowder, war balloons, and a secret weapon!
Cyril: A secret weapon?!
(The Pigs then stack up on one another as the one on top holds measuring tape.)
Pig 2: They keep it in a huge box, hidden away, and it's ENORMOUS!
(The Pigs fall down to the floor.)
Cyril: Nothing is too big for Cyril Sneer to take care of! Now, how do you know this?!
Pig 1: In the woods, we overheard two of Cedric's friends talking.
Cyril: Cedric's friends? Cedric? Of course! He knows some of these vermin! I'll send him out as a spy! He'll find out where they're at, and then I'll move in and put a stop to this!
(Meanwhile, in Cedric's bedroom, Cedric is writing a letter to Sophia as Broo laid on the desk.)
Cedric: Dear Sophia, Pop suspects, conceal all the preparations. Everything is not going as planned. Signed, Cedric Sneer.
(Knocking is then heard on the door, prompting Broo to hide under the bed. Cyril then walks in.)
Cyril: Cedric, I wanna talk to you about-
(Cyril then notices the letter in Cedric's hands.)
Cyril: What's THIS?!
Cedric: My homework.
Cyril: You've been out of school for three years!
Cedric: It's late?
(Cyril mumbles as he reads the letter.)
Cyril: As planned?! My only son has planned all this?! My son?! My ex-son, Cedric Sneer?!
Cedric: Uh, let me explain, Pop!
Cyril: There's nothing to explain! My own son plotting to overthrow me! Very commendable son! I didn't know you had it in you! But no matter, Cedric my boy! It didn't work! GUARD!
Cedric: You've got it all wrong!
Cyril: Take him to the dungeon!
(Broo watches as the bear guard drags Cedric out of the room.)
Cedric: Not the dungeon, Pop! Not again!
Cyril: And no color TV!
(Cyril leaves and slams the door shut, but not before leaving the note on the floor.)
Cedric: Oh, Pop! Let me explain!
Narrator: Now that Cyril had uncovered Cedric's plan, it seemed doomed to failure. The only hope now lay in getting the note to Schaeffer and the Raccoons in time.
(Broo emerges from under the bed and grabs the note before leaving the Sneer Mansion.)
(The scene cuts to a campsite where Schaeffer, Sophia, and the Raccoons are staying. Broo arrives with the note from Cedric.)
Schaeffer: Howdy, little buddy. I haven't seen you for a while. Where have you been?
(Schaeffer takes the note from Broo and reads it while Broo barks.)
Schaeffer: Uh oh! It looks like the plan is in trouble.
(Broo barks again.)
Schaeffer: And Cedric's been taken to the dungeon
Sophia: Oh no!
Schaeffer: This is bad news. We have to rescue Cedric and find how much Cyril knows.
Bert: Ahhh, what could Ol' Hose Nose possibly know?
Ralph: I'm afraid we'll soon find out.
Schaeffer: Ralph's right, so here's what we'll do... Bert, you bring along some of your gunpowder-
(Schaeffer continues whispering to the others.)
(Outside the Sneer Mansion, Schaeffer, disguised as a delivery person, walks up to the front doors while wheeling a big box and is stopped by two bears guarding the entrance.)
Bear 1: Halt! Who goes there?
Schaeffer: Package for Mr. Sneer.
(The first bear whispers into his partner's ear.)
Bear 1: Must be that shipment of alligators.
Bear 2: Put it down over there... WAY over there.
(Schaeffer then wheels the box to the side of the mansion. After checking around the corner, Schaeffer knocks on the box, and Bert emerges, followed by Sophia and Broo, with Sophia holding a hook. "Sooner or Later" by the Dior Brothers begins to play in the background.)
Bert: Hey! I thought we we're gonna get inside the mansion?
Sophia: It's just a minor setback.
(Broo jumps out of the box and checks around the corner.)
Bert: Oh boy, oh boy! It sure is a long ways up!
Sophia: Just keep looking up, and you won't worry about falling.
Bert: It's not the falling I'm worried about...
(Bert throws the hook up through the top window.)
Bert: ...It's the landing!
(The hook hits Snag on the head before attaching itself to the window, leaving Snag unconscious. Bert climbs up the rope, followed by Sophia and Broo. Upon entering through the window, Bert, Broo, and Sophia sneak past an unconscious Snag and make their way through the mansion, running past a sleeping guard, and going down the stairs before reaching the dungeon. Broo barks to get the attention of the bear guarding Cedric's cell, who then runs over to Broo. Bert then sticks out his leg, causing the bear to trip and crash into a nearby cell, which is then locked by Sophia. The trio then approach Cedric's cell and Bert starts knocking on it.)
Bert: Cedric, are you okay?
Cedric: Bert! Sophia!
Sophia: Oh Cedric!
Cedric: What are you doing here? I'm not supposed to have visitors.
(Bert sets dynamite charges on the door.)
Bert: We're not visitors... We're liberators!
(Bert, Sophia, and Broo get behind cover as Bert prepares the detonator.)
Bert: Stand back!
(Cedric gasps as he steps away from the door.)
Cedric: No no! Wait! Wait! It's not...
(Cedric puts his arms over his face before the dynamite explodes, breaking the door open.)
Cedric: ...locked!
Bert: And it never will be! Come on!
(Alarms go off all around the mansion, waking the sleeping bear guard.)
Cedric: Oh no! Now Pop's really gonna get mad! He's just had this room redecorated!
(Broo, Cedric, Sophia, and Bert run up the stairs.)
Sophia: The plan, Cedric! What went wrong with the plan?!
Cedric: There's no time to explain, but we better get back to our base! Pop already knows too much!
(Snag wakes up and runs off to find the intruders. The Pigs rush into Cyril's control room.)
The Pigs: The Raccoons have taken Cedric!
Cyril: What?! They've broken through security?! Nab them before they escape!
The Pigs: Yes sir!
(The pigs run out of the room.)
(Broo, Cedric, Sophia, and Bert keep running up the stairs and past Snag, who was coming down. Snag then turns around and runs after the group. Upon reaching the roof, Bert shuts the door on Snag, who falls down the stairs. Cedric, Sophia, Broo, and Bert look down at the ground below.)
Cedric: Uh oh! What do we do now?
(The Pigs and three bears rush up the stairs and past Snag, who is lying in a daze.)
Sophia: Schaeffer said he'd take care of getting us out of here.
Bert: Well, where is he?!
(Bert turns around and sees the balloon.)
Bert: There he is! Yee-hoo!
Schaeffer: Come on! Jump aboard!
Sophia: Okay.
(With Broo in her arms, Sophia jumps onto the balloon.)
Schaeffer: Hold on!
(Cedric jumps and grabs onto the side of the balloon before trying to climb into the basket.)
Sophia: Come on, Bert! It's now or never!
(Upon hearing the pounding on the door, Bert jumps off the roof and grabs onto the rope, narrowly missing Snag and one of the pigs, who attempted to grab him. As the group make their getaway, Cyril spots them.)
Cyril: Cedric!
Cedric: Hi, Pop!
Cyril: Ha-ha! Now they'll lead me right to the secret weapon!
(As the balloon files further and further, Cyril jumps into the sidecar of the Pigs' motorcycle.)
Cyril: You bumbling nitwits! Follow that balloon!
(The remaining two Pigs and a group of Cyril's bears chase after the balloon.)
Cyril: Get them or it's bearskin rug time!
(As Cyril is waiting, Pig 1 searches his shirt for his keys.)
Pig 1: Uh, boss... Have you got the keys?
(Cyril lets out a frustrated expression.)
Bert: Hey! They're gaining on us!
Schaeffer: I hope Ralph and Melissa are ready!
(Pig 1 is now refueling the motorcycle, much to Cyril's impatience. Bert looks over and sees the base camp.)
Bert: There it is!
(Two tables and the secret weapon are set up. At that moment, Pig 1 had just finished putting air in one of the motorcycle's tires and drives off with Cyril.)
Cyril: I've got them now!
(The balloon lands beside Ralph and Melissa.)
Ralph: Thank goodness! You're just in time!
Melissa: Quick! To your stations!
Cyril: Try to pull a fast one on Cyril Sneer?! Well, it backfired! Give up while I'm still in a good mood! Group A, surround them!
Ralph: All set?
Bert: All set!
Pig 1: There it is, sir! The secret weapon!
Cyril: Ha-ha! Now I've got them! Destroy that weapon! (laughs)
Pig 1: Yes sir!
(And Pig 1 accelerates towards the box.)
Cedric: Wait! Let me explain!
(As the motorcycle gets closer and closer to the box, Cyril put his hands over his eyes as everyone else gasps.)
Cedric: No, Pop!
(And Cedric dives out of the way as Pig 1 and Cyril crash into the secret weapon, which is revealed to be a giant birthday cake. Cyril pulls himself out of the cake as a candle stood on his nose.)
Cyril: Huh? A cake? A cake?! What is the meaning of all this?! Where is the secret weapon?!
(Bert then pulls the rope attacked to the balloon, setting off a chain of fireworks.)
Cyril: What in blazes?!
(Sophia then begins singing "Happy Birthday to You", and is joined by Schaeffer and the Raccoons.)
Schaeffer: Happy Birthday, Cyril.
(Cyril just looked away and crossed his arms.)
The Pigs: Hip-hip hooray!
The Bears: Hip-hip hooray!
(Snag starts howling while Cedric gives Cyril a gift.)
Cedric: Happy birthday, Pop!
Cyril: It's not more underwear, is it?
Cedric: No, Pop.
(Cyril takes the gift while stammering.)
Cedric: Hey, that's okay, Pop. I understand.
(Cyril keeps staring at his gift until one of the Pigs blew a party favor in his face.)
Cyril: Why you! Come back here, you nitwit! Cedric, who's paying for this?! Why isn't this chocolate cake?! Get me a fork! Cedric! And no more surprises!
Narrator: And so, the surprise party turned out to be a real surprise for Cyril, and for everyone else. And much to everyone's surprise, Cyril Sneer, though being an aardvark, turned out to be almost human... Well... almost. He managed to grumble and groan his way through five helpings of cake and ice cream.
(The end credits roll.)