"Front Page News" is an episode of The Backyardigans from the third season. CharactersSummary"Berlin cabaret plays as Tasha tries to photograph the big news: the superheroes of Bigopolis taking on a giant robot! But Tasha is the real big news - a new superhero named Super Snap!" PlotTasha is in the backyard wearing a blue hat with a red flower pinned to it. She holds a camera and asks the viewer to say "cheese" before snapping a photo and introducing herself as Photographer Tasha, who takes photos for the Bigopolis Big News newspaper. Tasha sings the song "I've Got a Secret Identity" as she explains that she is not an ordinary photographer: she is also a superhero named Super Snap, who can run at the speed of light but cannot reveal this secret identity. The backyard transforms into the city of Bigopolis. Tasha walks into a tall building, where she enters a room. She greets her boss, Newspaper Editor Pablo, but he is angry. He explains to Tasha that the newspaper needs a picture for its front page story. He tells her he tried to draw one himself, but it did not look like the real thing. He holds a poorly drawn picture of a pink stick figure, supposedly representing the robot. Pablo and Tasha sing "Front Page News" as Tasha tries to persuade her boss to let her take the photo he wants. The phone rings, and someone tells Pablo that a giant robot is attacking the city. Tasha rushes outside and sees the giant robot. Captain Bubble (Tyrone) traps the robot in a large bubble. Tasha is to photograph Captain Bubble in front of the robot when the robot attempts to escape. He repeatedly chants "cheese." Tasha turns into Super Snap and runs around the robot so quickly that a tornado forms and blows the gigantic robot away. Super Snap turns back into Tasha and returns to the tall building and sadly tells Pablo that she cannot take a photo of the robot since Super Snap, who fought the robot, was too fast to take an image of. Pablo gets another call and tells his employee that Bug Girl (Uniqua) is to fight the robot since he has popped Captain Bubble's bubble and has returned to Bigopolis. Tasha walks over to Bug Girl, who can perform actions only bugs can perform. Tasha and Uniqua begin singing "Bug Girl" as Bug Girl picks up the giant robot with her super strength. The robot crashes down. Tasha transforms into Super Snap for a second time and places two carts under the robot's feet before she and Bug Girl push the robot away. Super Snap turns back into Tasha, walks back inside the tall building, and tells Pablo that she cannot retake a photo for him. Pablo informs Tasha that the robot has returned and that Captain Bubble and Bug Girl are about to fight him. Tasha runs outside to see Captain Bubble trapping the robot inside a wall of bubbles. She is to take a picture when the robot breaks the barrier. Bug Girl and Captain Bubble see the robot saying "cheese." The characters begin singing "Cheese, Cheese" as they bring the robot cheese, thinking he wants it. The robot refuses all the cheese they give to him. Tasha turns into Super Snap and suggests that the robot might say "cheese" because he wants his picture taken. She grabs her camera and take a photo. The robot poses. She takes multiple pictures of him as Pablo walks out of his building. Super Snap reveals that she is Photographer Tasha and could not take a picture of the superheroes because she was fighting the robot with them. Tasha sets the timer on her camera and turns into Super Snap. The superheroes and Pablo pose alongside the giant robot as the scene switches to an up-close shot of the new newspaper. Pablo mentions that there is another problem. The heroes ask if he means a giant spider, a giant asteroid, or a giant dinosaur. Pablo's stomach rumbles as he replies, "Nope, I'm starving!" Tasha invites everyone to Uniqua's house and says, "I'll get a snack in a snap!" as Bigopolis transforms back into the backyard, and Bug Girl and Captain Bubble transforms back to Uniqua and Tyrone. Afterwards, the characters sing the end song and rush into Uniqua's house for a snack. Tasha opens the door and asks the viewer, "Can you guess what snack we're having?" Tasha and her friends answer, "Cheese!" before reclosing the door. Roles
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