Skip, also known as Experiment 089, is an illegal genetic experiment created by Jumba Jookiba and a character in the Lilo & Stitch franchise. He is designed to skip time by ten minutes, but had a flaw in his programming that made him skip ahead ten years instead. When used by someone, they and whoever travels with them will go forward in time by one decade. Luckily, he has a reset button that will bring the time travelers back to the original time they started in.
Background and appearances[]
Experiment 089 was the 89th genetic experiment created by Jumba with Hämsterviel's funding. He was originally designed to skip time ahead by ten minutes (because Jumba was too impatient to wait for his microwave to reheat his leftovers), but there was an error in his programming; when the button on 089's head was pressed, he instead skipped ahead ten years. 089 and the other first 624 experiments were deactivated and smuggled to Earth by Jumba during his mission to capture Experiment 626.
All of the experiment pods were released and scattered across the island of Kauai.
Lilo & Stitch: The Series[]
Lilo pressing Skip's button
At an unknown point, Experiment 089 was activated and then later taken in by the dog shelter.
When Lilo went to visit the pound and asked the dog pound lady if there had been any new "dogs" brought here lately, the latter presented 089 to Lilo. She then adopted 089 from the dog shelter and took him back to her house. After Jumba explained 089's powers to Lilo, she named him Skip. Having grown tired of childhood restrictions, Lilo used the experiment to skip her and Stitch ahead ten years and become a teenager.
When Lilo discovered that adolescence was much more difficult than childhood, she used Skip to flash forward another ten years and become a full-fledged adult. However, Lilo, Stitch and Skip were sent into an alternate future where Hämsterviel was supreme ruler of the world, with Kokaua Town renamed "Hämsterviel Ville" as his capital. The three were puzzled and horrified by this setback, but before they could investigate further, Stitch and Skip were captured by Clink and taken to Gantu, despite Lilo's best efforts to protect them.
When Lilo returned home, a tattered Jumba explained that while she and Stitch were gone for twenty years, their house was repossessed to cover unpaid parking tickets regarding Nani's dune buggy that Lilo had borrowed as a teen ten years from the current day. Jumba then added that since then, Hämsterviel had taken power and captured all the other experiments because Lilo and Stitch were not here to do it themselves. Unfortunately, Nani had to work for Hämsterviel to pay off any debts.
Lilo, Stitch and Skip in the present
Later on, Stitch and Skip were rescued by Lilo, Jumba and Pleakley while Gantu was distracted. Lilo then used Skip's reverse function, which Jumba revealed, to return her and Stitch to the present. After this experience, Lilo realized that being a child actually had its advantages, and that she and Stitch must continue with their experiment hunting to prevent such a horrible future from occurring again.
The Origin of Stitch[]
Skip was one of the experiments that was gliding on the screen, but he is 531 instead of 089.
Leroy & Stitch[]
The first 624 experiments, including Skip, were rounded up by Leroy and taken to a stadium to be destroyed. However, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, Reuben and Gantu arrived before the experiments could be destroyed.
Skip did not participate in the following battle between the experiments and the Leroy clones, instead choosing to retreat with the weaker experiments.
The Leroys soon gained the upper hand in the battle, but were defeated when Lilo, Stitch, Reuben and several other experiments performed the song "Aloha ʻOe", which caused the Leroy army to shut down due to the original Leroy's fail-safe.
Personality[]
Rather than being a troublesome experiment, Skip is rather wobbly and clumsy and enjoys exploring his surroundings. He is also surprisingly happy-go-lucky and easygoing, often smiling and not caring about being confined. Unlike most of his cousins, he doesn't cause trouble on purpose, but tends to cause unforeseen consequences when someone activates his powers. He seems slightly dazed at times, not paying attention to what others are saying and not being observant of his surroundings.
Biology[]
Physical appearance[]
Skip is a red-purple hourglass-shaped experiment with a large head with small white eyes with black pupils, two green dots on his head that serve as buttons, a red nose and a wide mouth with a plump body. He always wobbles when he walks.
Special abilities[]
Each time someone presses the button on Skip's head, Skip and anyone near him will be transported ten years into the future. While to them it only feels like a few seconds, those who are transported actually go missing for one decade and are not immune to the relative aging their species is subjected to in the time that lapses between each "skip". Luckily, Skip also has a reverse setting that sends him and his users back to the present day.
Trivia[]
- Skip was activated off-screen.
- Skip is one of the rare experiments to have sclerae and pupils instead of solid black eyes, the others being Mr. Stenchy, Mrs. Sickly, Clink, Nosox, and Bragg.
- Skip is one of the few experiments to not have his one true place revealed.
- He is also one of the few experiments to not appear in the group photo at the end of Leroy & Stitch.
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