Eight Arms to Hold You

Eight Arms to Hold You

Season 2, Episode 3
Production Information
Air Date	November 9, 2013
Written by	Tom Minton
Supervising director	Dallas Parker
Directed by	Joel Dickie
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Eight Arms to Hold You is the third episode of the second season of Littlest Pet Shop and the twenty-ninth episode overall.

Development[]

When asked whether the episode's title was a reference to an album of the same name by alternative rock band Veruca Salt, Julie McNally Cahill replied that it was actually inspired by the original title of the Beatles film Help!^[1]

Overview[]

Russell is excited about his first overnight stay at Littlest Pet Shop with Blythe until his irrational fear of ghosts interferes. Meanwhile, Sunil and Vinnie pull out every stop to crash Blythe and Russell's nocturnal event.

Summary[]

Russell lets Blythe know he's going to stay at the Littlest Pet Shop overnight the following day, as his owners are out of town. Upon hearing this, Blythe decides to accompany him over the night as well. Their conversation gets interrupted, however, when Blythe slips and falls due to a puddle of water on the ground. The two of them also notice an open can of fish food. They deem it strange but pass it off as no big deal.

When Sunil and Vinnie see Russell packing his pet bed, they ask him what he's doing. Russell excitedly gushes about what his sleepover with Blythe is going to be like, causing the two of them to want to come too.

The next day, Blythe and Mrs. Twombly find another open can of fish food, this time with a chewed-up fish toy. Mrs. Twombly jokes there is a ghost in the shop, which Russell overhears and takes seriously. Blythe reassures Russell that they were just joking, though Mrs. Twombly refers to seaweed as "ectogoop" in the PA message to Blythe, scaring Russell again.

In the day camp, Vinnie tells Sunil how they should break into the Littlest Pet Shop at night to crash the party, though Sunil has his doubts – and repeatedly demonstrates gaping holes in Vinnie's plans, which he ignores. Nevertheless, Sunil chooses to accompany Vinnie anyway.

When Blythe returns to the day camp to begin the sleepover, she sees Russell researching ghosts online. He concludes ghosts are not real but gets worked up over supposed sightings of the Poltergeist, a cryptid resembing a magenta cephalopod that targets hedgehogs. To help Russell with his worries, Blythe has prepared glow-in-the-dark necklaces for herself and Russell. She also brings a board game about princesses, which Russell is not interested in until he sees the gigantic rulebook. Dissatisfied with the materials, Russell decides to make his own game with it.

Meanwhile, Sunil sneaks out of his owner's apartment room, as has Vinnie. They go into the alley behind Littlest Pet Shop and tie themselves to a large metal pipe, then climb up a telephone pole. As Vinnie and Sunil reach the top and leap down towards an unlocked window below, the pipe flies up and jams itself in the telephone's transformer, blowing it out and cutting out the electricity to the entire metropolitan area. Russell panics from the sudden darkness until the emergency lights turn on, and Blythe heads to the back of the store to check the fuses, leaving Russell all by himself. With no one to console him, Russell hallucinates the Poltergeist chasing him around the building, then passes out.

Blythe notices the fuses are still fine, so she resets the circuitbreakers, to no avail, concluding that a power outage has happened. She returns to find Russell, and he tells her that he heard a squishy noise. Blythe heads off immediately to go look for the source, leaving Russell alone again. Blythe finds a trail of puddles at the storefront and follows it.

Undeterred by the power outage, Sunil and Vinnie continue to find ways to get in through the window, which they have since opened the top of. After several ideas from Sunil and Vinnie (all ending in Vinnie smacking into a wall or falling into a tree), Vinnie finds a ventilation shaft on the side of the building and climb in. By now, the maintenance crew has arrived at the telephone pole and are in the midst of repairing the transformer.

Blythe hears a crash and Russell's scream and goes over to see what is going on, leaving the room just in time for Vinnie and Sunil to come crashing down into the Littlest Pet Shop's storefront. Trying not to cause too much noise, they bump into a bunch of stacked cans of pet food, causing a ruckus. As they emerge from the pile, tentacles come down from above without them noticing and snatch them away. Russell hears their screaming, recognizes them, and hurries over to see a silhouette strongly resembling the Poltergeist carrying Sunil and Vinnie. He throws his glow-in-the-dark necklace at the figure, who reveals himself to be a small octopus who was being sent to an aquarium. A recklessly-driving Roger almost had a head-on collision with the truck, causing the driver to swerve and the octopus to spill out the back. The octopus wandered the streets for a short while and got washed into the sewers, where he climbed up a pipe and emerged in one of the wash tubs at the Littlest Pet Shop. He had since stayed in the shop, consuming the fish food and coming out only at night when no one is around. Introducing himself as Ollie, Blythe lets him join the sleepover with Russell and will call the aquarium in the morning to let them know where he is. Blythe has also spotted Sunil and Vinnie and lets them join, too, starting with a game of Princess Supreme using Russell's rules, but not before getting them washed up from the grime in the ventilation shafts.

Cast[]

Trivia[]

This is the first time Zoe is absent from an episode.
- This is the first time that all 4 of the female pets are absent.
The chase sequence is done in the style of The Benny Hill Show.
The music is a remix of "Yakety Sax," which is often used to make the chase scenes funnier.

Quotes[]

Main article: Eight Arms to Hold You/Transcript

Vinnie: After all, no celebration is complete without the two greatest party guests of all time...

Sunil and Vinnie: Us!

Gallery[]

Click here to go on Eight Arms to Hold You image gallery

References[]

↑ Julie McNally Cahill via Twitter

v • e Littlest Pet Shop Episodes, Films, and Animated Shorts

Season 1

Episode 1 Blythe's Big Adventure Part One	Episode 2 Blythe's Big Adventure Part Two	Episode 3 Bad Hair Day	Episode 4 Gailbreak!


Episode 5 Penny For Your Laughs	Episode 6 Mean Isn't Your Color	Episode 7 Russell Up Some Fun	Episode 8 Blythe's Crush


Episode 9 Dumb Dumbwaiter	Episode 10 Eve of Destruction	Episode 11 Books and Covers	Episode 12 So You Skink You Can Dance


Episode 13 Lights, Camera, Mongoose!	Episode 14 Trading Places	Episode 15 Topped With Buttercream	Episode 16 Sweet (Truck) Ride


Episode 17 Helicopter Dad	Episode 18 What's in the Batter?	Episode 19 What Did You Say?	Episode 20 Bakers and Fakers


Episode 21 Terriers and Tiaras	Episode 22 Lotsa Luck	Episode 23 Door-Jammed	Episode 24 Frenemies


	Episode 25 Blythe's Pet Project	Episode 26 Summertime Blues

Season 2

Episode 1 Missing Blythe	Episode 2 The Nest Hats Craze!	Episode 3 Eight Arms to Hold You	Episode 4 Heart of Parkness


Episode 5 Pawlm Reading	Episode 6 The Treasure of Henrietta Twombly	Episode 7 What, Meme Worry?	Episode 8 The Big, Feathered Parade


Episode 9 A Day at the Museum	Episode 10 Alligators and Handbags	Episode 11 Blythe's Big Idea	Episode 12 Commercial Success


Episode 13 So Interesting	Episode 14 To Paris With Zoe	Episode 15 Super Sunil	Episode 16 Sweet Pepper


Episode 17 Shanghai Hi-Jinks	Episode 18 Grounded	Episode 19 Inside Job	Episode 20 Plane it on Rio!


Episode 21 Littlest Bigfoot	Episode 22 Sunil's Sick Day	Episode 23 The Hedgehog In The Plastic Bubble	Episode 24 Standup Stinker


	Episode 25 The Expo Factor - Part 1	Episode 26 The Expo Factor - Part 2

Season 3

Episode 1 Sleeper	Episode 2 War of the Weirds	Episode 3 Some Assistance Required	Episode 4 Secret Cupet


Episode 5 Hamster Hoods	Episode 6 Tongue Tied	Episode 7 What's So Scary About the Jungle? Everything!	Episode 8 Two Pets for Two Pests


Episode 9 Feud for Thought	Episode 10 Fish Out of Water	Episode 11 If the Shoe Fits	Episode 12 The Very Littlest Pet Shop


Episode 13 The Secret Recipe	Episode 14 Winter Wonder Wha...?	Episode 15 Snow Stormin'	Episode 16 Back Window


Episode 17 Room Enough	Episode 18 Why Can't We Be Friends?	Episode 19 Pet Sounds	Episode 20 The Sister Story


Episode 21 A Night at the Pawza	Episode 22 Proud as a... Peacock?	Episode 23 Sue Syndrome	Episode 24 In the Loop


	Episode 25 It's the Pet Fest! - Part 1	Episode 26 It's the Pet Fest! - Part 2

Season 4

Episode 1 The Tortoise and the Heir	Episode 2 Pitch Purrfect	Episode 3 Ivan the Terrific	Episode 4 Senior Day


Episode 5 Littlest Pet Shop of Horrors	Episode 6 Game of Groans	Episode 7 The Tiniest Animal Store	Episode 8 Spendthrifty


Episode 9 Un-vetted	Episode 10 Pump Up the Panda	Episode 11 Snipmates	Episode 12 Guilt Tripping


Episode 13 Petnapped!	Episode 14 Steamed	Episode 15 Two Peas in a Podcast	Episode 16 Go Figure!


Episode 17 A Doggie Biskit	Episode 18 It's a Happy, Happy, Happy, Happy World	Episode 19 Race Team: Buttercream	Episode 20 On the Same Page


Episode 21 Paint a Picture, It'll Last Longer	Episode 22 Bake it 'Til You Make it	Episode 23 LPS: The Moosical	Episode 24 Seeing Red


	Episode 25 Littlest Pet Street - Part 1	Episode 26 Littlest Pet Street - Part 2

Animated shorts

Episode 1 Tail-Rave-Ium	Episode 2 The Ladies of LPS	Episode 3 Littlest Pet Peeves	Episode 4 Eau de Pepper

Episode 5 Where'd the Escargot?	Episode 6 Life of Cake	Episode 7 The Fire Hydrant Song	Episode 8 Naptime's a Ball

Episode 9 Just Not Into It	Episode 10 Monkey Chase	Episode 11 The Biggity-Big Dog Show	Episode 12 Sour Puss

Episode 13 So Like Bored	Episode 14 OmmmMG	Episode 15 What's Next?

[1] Julie McNally Cahill via Twitter

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