User:Caerwine/The Sands of Time (Xiaolin Showdown)

The Sands of Time is episode 208 of Xiaolin Showdown. It first aired in the United States on November 13, 2004.

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Synopsis
The Xiaolin Monks are facing Jack Spicer's Cheerbots when a strange apparition appears. The apparition, which just so happens to be Omi from the future, warns them that the Sands of Time will soon reveal itself. Omi and the other monks must find the Sands of Time in order to prevent evil from getting its hands on it. However, they are having a lot of trouble trying to find it.

Jack Spicer ends up getting the Sands of Time and uses it to summon his evil dream team -- Billy the Kid, Genghis Khan, his old teacher, and Blackbeard the pirate. They fight the Xiaolin monks and are summarily defeated. Jack takes a year-long vacation using the Sands of Time and eventually returns with a new ally -- himself from the future. Future-Jack, now a senile old man, knows the location of every Shen Gong Wu. Jack uses this knowledge acquire the Sweet Baby Among Us (along with other Wu) before they even reveal themselves.

Omi gets the Sands of Time and uses it to get his future-self to the present. They then face Jack Spicer (both of them) in a Xiaolin Showdown. Of course, the Omis are victorious. Omi entrusts the Sands of Time to his future self, who promises to hide it in the future. It ends up in the Xiaolin rock garden, although Dashi and Dojo think its in Egypt and Europe, respectively.

Shen Gong Wu
The Shen Gong Wu that are revealed are:

-The Sands of Time, which is capable of allowing the user to travel back and forth through time. It is implied but not stated that the Sands of Time is capable of manipulating history and ironing out any paradoxes that may occur as a result. It is the focus of this episode and spends most of its screen time in the possession of Jack Spicer.

-The Thorn of Thunderbolt is a Shen Gong Wu that fires thunderbolts at the user.

-The Ruby of Ramses gives the user limited telekinetic abilities.

-Sweet Baby Among Us is a golden baby statue whose powers are not revealed in this episode. Later on, we find out that it summons a huge, golden baby that crushes its opponents using giant diapers.

Guest Characters
Characters other than the eight main characters that appear.

Showdowns
Young Omi and Omi Elder against Young Jack and Jack Elder in a pyramid maze. First team to get out wins. The victory goes to the team of Omis.

Omi and Omi Elder wager the Third Arm Sash and the Thorn of Thunderbolt against Jack's Monkey Staff and Jack Elder's Mantis Flip Coin.

Clay's Downhome Sayings
You can usually count on Clay to come up with at least one of these per episode.

Kimiko's Techno-Fashion
Kimiko has a different outfit in nearly every episode.

Raimundo's Schemes
Raimundo often schemes to make his life at the temple easier.

The Wisdom of Master Fung
Master Fung is fond of inscrutable sayings. Here you can scrute them.

Dojo's Wu Sense
Dojo often suffers a rash or itch when Wu reveal themselves.

Jack Spicer's Bots
Jack spicer starts the episode off with a horde of cheerleader bots