Hercules: The Animated Series.

Hercules and The Apollo Mission.

Narrator: Nighttime over Athens, the ancient world slumbers. But then the inky blackness of night gives way to the golden morn. Apollo pulls his magnificent sun chariot across the sky, bringing with it the start of another day, another step--

???: You're killin' me here with this jibba-jabba.

A pair of scissors cuts through the film. We see a group of women called The Muses, Goddesses of the Arts and proclaimers of heroes. There's Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, leader of the Muses, Clio, the muse of history, Thalia, the muse of comedy, Terpsichore, the muse of dance, and Melpomene, the muse of tragedy.

Thalia holds the pair of scissors.

Thalia: What's your name, baby?

Narrator: I am the narrator.

Thalia: Oh, come on! What's your name?

Bob: Bob.

Terpsichore: That's better. Now, Bob, the name of the show is "Hercules," right?

Bob: Well, yes.

Melpomene: Then why are you talkin' about mankind? We want to here why this day is important to the star of the show.

Bob: Oh, well.

Thalia: Yeah, and speakin' of Hercules, let's go meet meet him at the mall.

Now, at the mall called The Agora, the mall in all of ancient Greece, a young man named Hercules was with his classmates named Icarus and Cassandra with the class was a man named Mr. Parentheses for a special day.

Mr. Parentheses: Welcome students to Internship Week. Five days of immersion into the real world of work, and a week off with the teachers.

Hercules: Wow! A week in the real world.

Icarus: I've often wondered what that might be like.

Cassandra: Yeah, well, keep wondering. Parentheses will give the "in crowd" all the great jobs, and we'll end up enslaved in humiliating drudgery as usual.

Mr. Parentheses pulled out a scroll.

Mr. Parentheses: Adonis, you pampered pup, shall work for Panasonicles, the king of big screens.

Adonis: How fitting. I am royalty, you know. Well, off to, what's that word again? Work. (Laughs)

Mr. Parentheses: Cassandra, our little ray of sunshine, shall staff the Information Booth.

Cassandra: (At The Information Booth) This isn't terrible. I don't hate this.

Mr. Parentheses: Icarus, Zeus help us, you are going to work at Aphrodite's Secret.

Icarus: (At Aphrodite's Secret) This isn't terrible. I don't hate this.

Mr. Parentheses: And finally, Hercules, spawn of Zeus, shall report to Gyro Wurld. (Hercules hugs him tightly from his God-like strength) Aah! Ugh!

Hercules: Yes! I get to work at Hero World!

Turns out, it was actually, Gyro Wurld, Home of the tasty lamb sandwich. It slogan is "Make mine mutton." With the rules like; always wear your oven mitts, lift with your legs, not your back, and mix the fig smoothie sundial-wise, not counter-sundial-wise.

Meanwhile, inside a luxurious temple in The Elemental Kingdom, a god was watching from a mirror to watch apon the mortals.

This was Jake, God of the Elements.