[1] The visual effects and animation were provided by Industrial Light & Magic and Pacific Data Images.

When Scoota gets a strong reading on his "coobi meter," the four aliens chase down two children, Michael (Will Nipper) and his younger sister, Jeanie (Sarah Matinek), into the woods.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Gizbourne (a woman played by Rhea Perlman who had a previous run-in with Jeanie and Michael) and her assistant Hans (Richard Moll) are in an old house performing experiments on insects to find the secrets of eternal youth.

It is revealed that by performing these experiments they have nearly drained Crystal Lake, which is the main source of power for a candy factory in town.

Mrs. Gizbourne then demands that Hans find a bug "big and strong enough to survive a nuclear meltdown."