Backyard Spaceship

Backyard Spaceship is the first produced and aired episode of The Awesome Adventures of Joe & Allen. It received positive reviews from critics. It originally aired August 29, 2011 and was viewed in 2.407 homes when it aired. It was the fourth highest rated premiere of the first season. It followed Joe Roberts, who almost commited suicide until he was saved by Allen, an alien from Mars. The episode was written and storyboared by Mordecai Lopez.

Plot
The episode begins with Joe Roberts, a lonely 23-year old working when his boss Phil Darwins, a single 32-year old passes by. He then tells Joe to take the day off and to enjoy his young life.

Joe proceeds to go to his parked car and unfortunately, its gas runs out. Angrily, Joe begins to walk home and is mugged by a group of thugs in the process.

Back home, Joe checks his Friendbook (a parody of Facebook) status and sees he still has no friends. He then finds a rope and attaches it to a hook on his ceiling and puts his head through a loop in it. He is stuggling and almost dies.

Luckily, a UFO lands in his backyard and an alien comes out who idenifies himself as Allen Azeckqueck. He then befriends Allen and the two have fun. Later, Allen sees a rat in Joe's home and zaps it with a ray, causing his house to catch on fire. Joe kicks him out and fears he will die, but he is saved. In the end, Joe and Allen make up and Allen tells Joe he needs to go to France to find his seven other brothers.