The KikoRiki are on a yet another mission of finding alien life on a new planet. At night, the temperatures on the planet drop to the extreme, with the local waters freezing as soon as dark arrives. While exploring, the crew finds a creature frozen in said ice, Krash decides to unfreeze it as soon as possible. While unfreezing it, Wally tries to scare Chiko by telling him about the types of movies that had a similar story of an explorer finding something dangerous and paying a prize for it.
When Krash decides to destroy the creature, Dokko and Pin first decide to do an x-ray of the ice to see what's hiding there. While scanning the photo, the ice starts to crack, with Dokko and Pin hurrying to warn everyone about what's inside... Or who. It turns out that Barry, who was with the crew, accidentally slipped in the water and got frozen. Everyone laughs the situation off, before suddenly remembering about a certain pink pig they forgot as well...
Tropes:
- Art Shift: Chiko's fantasies about what might be hiding in the ice are animated in traditional 2D.
- Genre Savvy: Being very proficient in movie cliches, Wally scares Chiko with scenarios typical for the situation they ended up in.
- Real After All: It turns out that something does indeed live in the local waters of the planet the crew was on.
- Shout-Out:
- The original title of the episode is a reference to The Thing (1982).
- In Chiko's fantasies, the monster jumping on him looks like an alien from Alien Shooter.
- Barry changes his catchphrase to "Bite me, Alien."
- Something We Forgot: At the end of the episode, Rosa ends up being stuck in the ice outside of the ship, though she gets better later.
