A Small Problem

A Small Problem is the eleventh episode of Ben 10.

Plot

Ben wants to go on a water slide with Gwen, but he isn't tall enough, so he turns to the Omnitrix. The button gets jammed so he whacks it on a wall. The watch seems to malfunction and turns Ben into Grey Matter instead of Ripjaws as he wanted. After he goes down the water slide anyway, an alien hunter named Howell Wayneright comes along and captures Grey Matter. With many failed attempts to escape, Grey Matter is taken to the Forever Knights. Meanwhile Grandpa Max and Gwen try to go looking for Ben. After a lot of searching they find Grey Matter. The man that captured Ben ended up helping Grey Matter escape. They pass a room with a lot of alien tech. Grey Matter then says everything has to go. After a bit of configuring Ben blows up all the devices, reverting back to human form in the process.

Major events

Ben and the gang first encounter theForever Knights.
Ben stays as Grey Matter in this episode.

Debuts

Characters

Villains

Aliens used

Grey Matter(Accidental transformation; selected alien was Ripjaws, also the main alien in this episode)

Quotes

Gwen: (After Gwen and Grey Matter have gone down the water slide) Grampa's not going to let you go alien just to sneak on a ride.
Grey Matter: That's why I'm not going to tell him. In a few minutes, I'll be back to normal, and he'll never know, will he?
Gwen: We gotta towel off. Or in your case, napkin off!

Grey Matter: (Whilst crawling through the ventilation system) (Talking about the Omnitrix) What sort of malfunction? Probably something stupid like a DNA splicing replicator copying a fragment of ammeno acid sequence. (Realizing what he just said) *Gasp* So THIS is what it feels like to be smart.

(While swimming through Howell's water system, Grey Matter bursts out of the water)
'Grey Matter:' Ahhh, fresh air! (Frowns, realising where he has ended up. Camera zooms out to reveal that he is in the bowl of a toilet.) This is so gross.

Trivia

In one scene, Grey Matter has a stripe down his forehead, similar to the stripe on Fourarms' head.
Ben spends an unbelievably long time as Grey Matter in this episode. While the actual transformation time is never disclosed, this is the first time he has spent over half of the episode in one form continuously.
This is the first time Ben gets stuck in alien form, because the Omnitrix button gets jammed, the second is in Con of Rath.
Ben is wearing his swimming trunks when he turns into Grey Matter, but he is in his normal clothes when the Omnitrix times out.

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