Gwen Tennyson, Ben Tennyson and others in “The Widening Gyre”

This is unbelievable.

No kidding. I've never smelled anything this bad.

Not since the last time you…

Let the easy ones go, Kevin. This is all man-made… all of it.

How did this happen?

People were careless about where they threw away their trash. Regular debris degrades over time, but not plastic. It doesn't break down. The currents push it all together, and it becomes… this.

This reminds me of that show.

What show?

The cartoon… The one we used to watch when we were kids. You know, the one where they're always fighting polluters. And those five kids fought evil with, like, the power to recycle? You know what I'm talking about. What was the name of that show? Was it, like, "Earth-man" or… or "Major Green"? Something like that? I have the theme song stuck in my head. [humming the Captain Planet theme song] You know it, right? It's gonna come to me, I know it.