"Hercules and the Big Show" is the fifty-first episode in Hercules.
Plot[]
After Hercules and Icarus humiliate Hades on the Merv Griffin show by screening some of Hercules' career highlights and defeats of Hades, the Lord of the Dead gives Hercules the boot, capturing Merv and Icarus. He then turns the show into The Hades Show where he highlights his victory after convincing Poseidon to extend the River Styx so that Greece was part of the Underworld; there is also a segment featuring Pain and Panic. Adonis and Helen are invited on the show, and Adonis supports Hades by showing how he has humiliated the hero. Helen, however, defends Hercules in a musical number about his exploits. Hercules meanwhile borrows Hermes' flying sandals and frees his friends. Zeus lends him a thunderbolt, and he smites Hades, reverting the show back to Merv Griffin. Zeus and Hercules are guests, and the show runs out of time just as Merv asks Zeus the meaning of life.
Songs[]
- Hercules Might
- Icarus Theme
- My Town
- You're My Hero
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This episode was the final produced episode (Production code: 4347-071) for the series.
- This episode is also the second of two clip show episodes following Hercules and the Yearbook.
- Although, Pain and Panic's clips of their morphs are from previous episodes, Pain's clip of him turning into a banana slug never occured on the show, with their last actual morph being seen in Hercules and the Arabian Night
- The first song in the episode was originally sung in Hercules and the Prom. Instead of Rob Paulsen singing it as Orpheus, it is instead sung by Tate Donovan.
- The second song was originally sung in Hercules and the Hero of Athens.
- The third song, My Town, was originally performed in Hercules and the River Styx.
- In Greek Mythology, Procrustes was a rogue smith and bandit who attacked people by stretching them or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed. He was defeated by Theseus who forced him onto the same iron bed and decapitated him in imitation of how Herc himself fought the Hydra; he was also the last opponent that Theseus fought on his way to Athens.
