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Li’l Elvis wants to break out. He’s sick of playing the King’s music and sick of the four o’clock show. He’s sick of everything. So when obnoxious Janet Rig moves in to share his room, it’s just the icing on the rhinestone-studded cake. But when Janet provides Li’l Elvis and Lionel with a beat, the didgibilli sound is born. Maybe she’s not so bad after all. The Truckstoppers are formed just in time to save the town of Wannapoo from the clutches of billionaire Berkonium baron, WC Moore.
WC reveals his plans to transform Wannapoo into a 1950’s style theme park, based around the Truckstoppers and call it Li’l Memphis. When WC promises to bring Goondianna Smith, Li’l Elvis’ hero, to the official renaming ceremony, everyone is overjoyed - everyone except Li’l Elvis. So as WC Moore’s machines fly in buildings and transform the town, Li’l Elvis vows to rid the town of WC’s influence. But first there’s the matter of a million year old Bog Man to attend to....
WC Moore’s plans to put Li’l Memphis on the map are in full swing. He’s planned a live televised performance of the Truckstoppers to be beamed throughout the world. Lionel’s grandfather, Dex, an ex-country singer himself, gives the kids a “pep talk”, but Li’l Elvis and the Truckstoppers find the story so scary that they are overcome with stage fright and disappear into the desert. They might be lost but the Truckstoppers are doing a lot better than their rescuers who, led by WC Moore, are having a hard time battling the elements.
Li’l Elvis hates his own birthday. Since he was found on the anniversary of the King’s death, Li’l Elvis has had to share the day. So when WC Moore announces that the famous hypno-interviewer, Dick Collingwood from, “48 Minutes Plus Ads” is coming to cover the party for TV, Li’l Elvis jumps at the chance to use Dick to get the truth of his origins from Grace and Len. Meanwhile, Janet and Lionel work overtime to make Li’l Elvis’ other birthday dream come true. He wants to go surfing - no easy task in an outback town surrounded by desert.
Li’l Elvis really wants to make the school football team. But there are a few things that he has to master first like kicking, running, passing, etc.... It looks like Li’l Elvis will never make it and it’s affecting his on-stage performance, which is affecting WC’s wallet. So WC comes up with a brilliant idea, a remote control football that makes Li’l Elvis look like a champion. And just for insurance, WC bribes the other players to stay out of Li’l Elvis’ way. Li’l Elvis learns the truth just as he’s about to play the big match against the Noxious Weeds. Can he justify his place in the team?
The town of Li’l Memphis is buzzing with the news that those archaeological action adventure stars Goondianna Smith and Scotty are coming to Li’l Memphis to film “Goondianna Smith, the Wonder Years”. More importantly for Li’l Elvis, he and Lionel land the roles of the two heroes. But when Goondi declares himself more important than Scotty, who is a mere sidekick, the whole town is divided. The likelihood of getting the movie finished is looking rather remote...until both groups get themselves into deep trouble and some real heroes are required.
Li’l Elvis wants a pet - badly. But Grace rejects his pleas for a dog, cat or highly disciplined earwig. He’s just too irresponsible. Then Li’l Elvis discovers Sea Monkeys, the perfect low maintenance pet, and only twenty bucks. Meanwhile, everyone gathers to watch Herb “Brittle Bones” Petrankovic’s latest attempt at the land speed record. When tragedy strikes, and Herb is blown sky high, Li’l Elvis is sent to buy a wreath and instead buys his Sea Monkeys. But he abandons them when he realises they’re just wriggly bits of algae. He falls asleep, only to find himself somehow transported into the sea monkey world. And the Sea Monkeys are determined to make him pay for his neglect....
Li'l Elvis' favourite sporting hero is Roy Reno, the sultan of sweat, the pontiff of pain. WC Moore, desperate for merchandising opportunities, learns of this and he brings Roy Reno to Li’l Memphis to play a big game and meet Li’l Elvis. Li’l Elvis is excited and WC is dreaming of the profits. But the meeting between Li’l Elvis and Roy Reno turns into a fiasco when Li’l Elvis discovers that Roy Reno isn’t the tough guy he’s cracked up to be. In fact, Roy’s caught in a trap of his own, and Li’l Elvis has just the thing to get him out - a teddy bear.
Li’l Elvis decides to foil WC’s plan to chain up Anzac by secretly re-training the savage junkyard dog to be nice to tourists. At the same time, WC convinces Grace that unless the Truckstoppers do more shows at the roadhouse, they’ll become video game junkies with bad attitudes and wasted lives. The exhausted Truckstoppers work day and night to transform Anzac into a tourist friendly mutt, only to learn you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, Anzac’s old tricks, like chasing WC, are just fine...
WC Moore hatches his sleaziest plot yet to take control of Li’l Elvis’ career. He hires reptilian lawyer, Rhonda Rorts to convince the kids of Li’l Memphis to divorce their parents. Rhonda’s promises of freedom from homework and junk food diets get the kids on side and in court. Then Li’l Elvis discovers WC plans to adopt him when the trial is over. Trapped in a mine tunnel by the evil Rhonda, can Li’l Elvis get back to the trial before the judge hands down his verdict?
On the way to a concert, the Truckstoppers convince Duncan to make a detour to his old hometown. But they are surprised when the irate citizens of Greensburg turn on them on sight. They learn that WC Moore has sucked the town dry in an effort to find Berkonium, the rarest mineral on Earth, and Duncan was his willing accomplice. Or was he? And what does WC’s obsession with mining Berkonium mean for Li’l Memphis?
Now Willard Kurtz was once the world’s greatest Elvis impersonator; some say more like the Man than the Man himself. When Li’l Elvis discovers that Willard was not only passing through town on the night of his arrival, but that Len went to see his show, he believes Willard is the key to his true identity. Despite his parents’ misgivings, Li’l Elvis recruits Lionel and Janet and they make the treacherous journey along labyrinthine mine tunnels to Willard’s last known whereabouts - the Dark Heart Bar.
