Calvin Who/Rose

"What, you were just faced with homicidal shop models, and you're surprised by a talking tiger?"

- Calvin

Rose was the first episode of Calvin Who. It featured the first appearance of Rose Tyler and started the first season, Spinning Through Space. It can be found here.

Plot
Rose Tyler, a 19-year-old shop assistant is being chased by mannequins in the basement of Henrik's, the department store where she works. She is rescued by Calvin and Hobbes, who destroy the building with an explosion. The next day, the tiger and boy visit Rose at her home where they are attacked by a plastic mannequin arm which they and Rose subdue. She attempts to follow them, but they tell her to leave them alone.

Rose investigates Calvin and Hobbes and meets Clive, who has been tracking their appearances throughout history. Clive tells Rose they're dangerous, and that something bad is about to happen. While Rose is talking to Clive, her boyfriend, Mickey, is kidnapped by a wheelie bin and replaced with a plastic doppelgänger. The obviously fake Mickey takes Rose to lunch and attempts to question her about Calvin and Hobbes, who promptly show up and behead the doppelgänger. They takes Rose and the plastic head to their Time Machine and attempt to use the head to locate the controlling signal. They head to the London Eye. The fake Mickey was an Auton, controlled by a signal from the Nestene Consciousness. Calvin has a vial of anti-plastic that can be used to destroy the Nestene if necessary. Realising that the transmitter is the London Eye itself, the three of them descend underneath it to stop the Nestene Consciousness. They find Mickey, tied up but alive, and Calvin speaks to the Nestene Consciousness- vehemently denying that he's a Time Lord. He tries to negotiate with it, but to no avail. The Consciousness activates all the Autons, and Calvin is held down by a pair of them. Rose and Hobbes rescue him and the anti-plastic drops into the vat where the Nestene Consciousness resides, killing it. With the Consciousness dead, the Autons all collapse. Calvin and Hobbes convince Rose to travel with them, and she runs off, to the future.