Escape from the Garden is the first episode in the 1985 DIC Audiovisual animated series, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Without ruining the episode I will give the following summary:

The episode begins with Oon trying to escape from Monster Mind Troopers intent on returning the Root to Sawboss. We are then introduced to the other characters, Jayce, Gillian, and Flora who are sheltering behind a wall of light (looks more like a dome) nearby. Thick vines are growing up all around the wall and cutting out the sun, and Jayce is anxious for his father, Audric, to arrive so they can leave before it is too late. At this point Oon flies in through the wall and tells the tale of how the Monster Minds were created in Audric's laboratory and how he was given the task of delivering half of the Root to Jayce. Gillian tells Jayce that he must reunite with his father so that the Monster Minds can finally be destroyed. He proposes they reform an ancient order known as the Lightning League, and from a group of crystals (in a manner remarkably similar to the way Superman in one of his films calls forth video recordings in the North Pole) extracts the Ring of Light, the mark of the leader of the League, and presents it to Jayce.

As the vines begin to weaken the wall still further the characters realize they must leave, and Jayce begs Gillian to build a space barge (on the spot from scratch, mind you) to get them off the planet. Instead, Gillian causes one of the engines of a passing barge, the Pride of the Skies II to malfunction, and it's greedy occupant, Herc Stormsailor is tricked into letting them aboard (for a mountan of gold).

Now begins the battle to actually take off...

Escape from the Garden trivia (contains spoilers):

- At the beginning of the episode when Jayce is eagre to go out in Armed Force and fight the Monster Minds, Gillian tells him that the weapons systems aren't finished. Yet they seem to work remarkably well later in the episode, when Jayce exits the Pride to do battle with the marauding plants. His first move, in fact, is to let loose with the laser cannons.

- When Gillian tells Jayce he has a communicator on his wrist that he can use to communicate with the Lightning League Vehicles, Jayce's first order is "Armed Force, let's go!" The AI in the vehicles has to be extremely advanced to cope with his vague instructions, such as later when he orders, "Lightning League vehicles, get out here!"

- Gillian seems to realize that Jayce has a, how should we say, "unique" way of looking at things, and always strives to speak slowly and clearly when addressing him. In fact, he speaks so slowly and clearly its a wonder Jayce doesn't catch on.

- When Jayce wants to use Trail Blazer to crush some Monster Minds he orders, "Trail Blazer...up in the air...now down!" Since Trail Blazer was already standing at the beginning of the order, one tends to wonder why the huge mecha doesn't try jumping when it receives a command like that.

- Either the characters don't breath air, or there is some strange physics going on on the planet they start off on. The sun is shining, but the stars can be clearly seen so there's no refraction of the light in an atmosphere. The only acceptable conclusion is either that the characters do not breath air, or that the sun is giving out some sort of strange wavelength of light beyond the visible spectrum, though even this is unreasonable since when we see the sun it is white (white light - all the visible wavelengths). To compound the difficulties, there are trees and other plants within the wall of light - though whether their interchanging gases can pass through the wall is a question that may never be answered.

- The voice actor for Jayce has an extremely whiny way of exclaiming "yahoo!" in the episode. He often makes use of this expression, to the detriment of the audiences earlobes. Perhaps the original intent was to help American youngsters identify more strongly with the character.

- This episode also contains Flora's most famous and character defining quotation: "I understand plants and animals and even people (sort of)"

- On the subject of Audric, when the Monster Minds come into being we might expect this to have never happened before. After all, random burst of radiation mutating nutritious vegetables into "plants with evil brains" don't happen every day. Despite this Audric seems to know exactly what has happened and who he is dealing with as he tells Oon, "Oon - we have to flee! The Monster Minds are ruthless!" Later on he works to create a "good plant to destroy those evil ones" - the Root. The fact that Audric knows who the Monster Minds are offers two logical conclusions - the Monster Minds already existed in the universe before Audric's experiment, or Oon has spent years journeying from the lab before he finally meets Jayce in Escape from the Garden. This second conclusion is supported by the reminiscenses of Jal Gorda in the episode Common Bond, wherein he is significantly younger and the Monster Minds are already present on his home planet.

- Oon's lance may or may not be magic, but its certainly springy. When he trips up and plants his lance in the ground, using it to catapault himself through the wall of light he is at the very least 30 or 40 meters away.

- Speaking of Oon, when he stops on the clifftop overlooking the wall of light he wipes his brow. Since Oon is a suit of armor and one would suppose he doesn't sweat, this is an obvious animation mistake.

- The episode contains far too many hand motions per character per dialogue. Every time a character speaks practically every syllable is wildly gesticulated. This becomes even more ridiculous in the case of Sawboss, who is standing in an empty room talking to himself and gesturing madly - not a sign of stable mental health.

- This is almost the only episode where Sawboss moves his base without invoking the power of the Black Light.

- Sawboss seems to derive sexual ecstasy from looking through the eyes of his troopers. One trooper chasing Oon says that if he isn't in the surrounding terrain he must be inside the wall of light. Interestingly enough, a few minutes later this trooper has forgotten his initial idea and even though they are standing right in front of the wall of light he can't finger it as a hiding place. Therefore, Sawboss requests to look through his eyes. This sequence features Sawboss going through heavy breathing and moaning ("yeeeees! yeeeees!") while holding his bloated head - and one wonders how it was considered fit for a young audience. Quite predictably, Sawboss settles on the wall of light for the hiding place.