Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Season 1 – TV Series

Episodes 01

“Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life”

Scott Pilgrim is the unemployed bassist of the Toronto band “Sex Bob-omb” and he is dating Knives Chau, a 17-year-old high schooler. At a party, Scott meets Ramona Flowers, a girl he has been repeatedly dreaming about. He orders a DVD from Netflix when he learns Ramona works there as a courier and asks her out when she arrives. They get along well, unaware that they are secretly being monitored by Gideon Graves. He is the leader of the “League of Evil Exes”, a group of Ramona’s ex-partners that Scott has to defeat in order to date her. He sends lowest-ranked League member Matthew Patel to kill Scott at a Sex Bob-omb show. Matthew interrupts them at the beginning of the show and “kills” Scott.

Episodes 02

“A League of Their Own”

Scott’s funeral is disrupted by his ex-girlfriend, pop star Envy Adams. Believing he should have control of the League for killing Scott, Matthew summons the 6 other members to a meeting in New York City and publicly challenges Gideon. He wins after a lengthy battle and Gideon is forced to give him the League and his massive media conglomerate. Ramona hears Scott’s voice in her dreams, waking up and realizing he may still be alive.

Episodes 03

“Ramona Rents a Video”

“Young” Neil Nordegraf, the roommate of Sex Bob-omb’s vocalist Stephen Stills, begins writing a screenplay. He wakes in the night to find a mysterious figure writing the rest of it and finds it completed upon awakening. Ramona reviews security footage of the night Scott was killed and realizes that he was pulled into a portal just before Matthew struck him. Stephen’s ex-girlfriend Julie Powers points her toward Sex Bob-omb drummer and Scott’s ex-girlfriend Kim Pine, but while talking to her, Ramona is attacked by one of the Evil Exes Roxie Richter. During the fight, Ramona apologizes for the callous way she broke up with her and the two reconcile. A despondent Gideon approaches his old classmate Julie and she warmly welcomes him; Gideon’s real name is revealed to be “Gordon Goose”.

Episodes 04

“Whatever”

Ramona visits Evil Ex and famous actor Lucas Lee to ask if he had anything to do with the portal. He has been cast in the titular role in Neil’s film Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, which theorizes what could have happened if Scott beat Matthew. Scott’s roommate Wallace Wells is cast as himself. Lucas and Ramona are attacked by the paparazzi when he is discovered to be dating the actress playing Knives, and after a long battle that wears him down, he and Ramona make up and she sneaks him out of the studio. As he is dropped by his agent, he confirms to Ramona that he has nothing to do with the portal. Evil Ex Todd Ingram, Envy’s bandmate and boyfriend and superpowered vegan, arrives by portal to audition for Scott, leaving Ramona suspicious.

Episodes 05

“Lights. Camera. Sparks?!”

As Ramona is cast as Envy’s (playing Ramona) stunt double, Wallace seduces Todd. Envy makes Ramona fight Wallace’s stunt doubles while he informs Todd that their affair was only a fling and he does not care about him, causing him to listlessly break the “vegan code” and lose his powers. As Envy and Ramona try to talk sense into him, the latter shows them the footage and Envy concludes that the portal was not Todd’s. Matthew, the studio’s new owner, shuts down production and reveals to Ramona that Gordon is dating Julie.

Episodes 06

“Whodidit”

Gordon befriends a jobless Lucas. Ramona confronts Julie, who explains that Gordon has been too depressed to plot anything against Scott, and as they come back to Julie’s house, a robot that has been following Ramona runs out. Stephen and Knives give Matthew the idea to turn Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life into a play with himself playing Scott. Ramona realizes that Evil Exes the Katayanagi twins created the robot to be vegan and had it create the portal. Sex Bob-omb informs her that Neil didn’t write the screenplay and that the file information reveals it was written fourteen years in the future. Scott turns up on Ramona’s doorstep, validating her theory but claiming to have set the whole thing up himself.

Episodes 07

“2 Scott 2 Pilgrim”

During the fight with Matthew, Scott is taken into the future by his future self, who explains that, after defeating the League,^[a] he and Ramona got married but later divorced. He started a band with the twins, who had the robot pull Scott into the future. Aiming to erase his past pain, Old Scott refuses to take him back until he gives up on Ramona, and Scott watches Ramona’s journey of trying to save him through the robot. He approaches old Ramona, who reveals that she took old Neil’s memoir he wrote about them, adapted it into a screenplay, traveled back in time, and planted it on his computer. With both of them moved by Ramona’s efforts, old Ramona takes Scott back to the past. After explaining this, Scott apologizes to Knives and tries to kiss Ramona, but they find there is a force field between their lips. Suspecting the League, they head to Matthew’s musical adaptation of Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life.

Episodes 08

“The World Vs Scott Pilgrim”

Scott and Ramona determine that none of the Evil Exes are behind the field. During the play, a deranged older Scott teleports Scott, his friends, Ramona, and the League away, revealing himself as the one who created the field. Since Scott refuses to give up on Ramona, he intends to kill them all. The group fights him, but everyone is sent back except Scott and Ramona. The fight is interrupted by an older Ramona, who reveals that she still loved him when they separated but is disgusted by his current state. Ramona decides she is done running from what she loves and embraces her older self, merging and becoming “Super Ramona”, who sends older Scott back to the future and successfully kisses Scott. They are returned to the play, where Gordon and Julie are caught trying to bomb the stage, but Matthew instead returns his properties, tired of the stress they cause. Matthew continues work as a stage actor, Lucas takes up work as a barista with Scott’s sister, Roxie helps Todd train to maintain his vegan powers, the Katayanagi twins continue to work in robotics, Wallace finds a boyfriend in Paris after taking a vacation with his film money, Knives joins Sex Bob-omb as a keyboardist with Envy occasionally collaborating with them, and Ramona continues work as a stunt double. In a mid-credits scene, Gordon and Julie, seemingly, plot against Scott and Ramona.