| Hamster Hoods | |
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| Season 3, Episode 5 | |
Production Information | |
| Air Date | June 28, 2014 |
| Written by | Guy Toubes |
| Supervising director | Dallas Parker |
| Directed by | Joel Dickie |
Episode Guide | |
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Hamster Hoods is the fifth episode of the third season of Littlest Pet Shop and the 57th episode overall.
Overview[]
When a stolen merchandise from Largest Ever Pet Shop mysteriously ends up in Blythe dumbwaiter, the search for the culprits results in the discovery of an elaborate tube system that leads all the way to Largest Ever Pet Shop and two industrious hamsters named Dodger and Twist.
Summary[]
The episode opens with a special news report from Sally Hairspray, who explains that the Largest Ever Pet Shop has been robbed. When asked for more details, Fisher Biskit instead keeps insisting that the Largest Ever Pet Shop is the "only" pet shop in Downtown City and doesn't divulge any specific information, but offers a reward for anyone who can figure out the thief's identity.
In frustration, Mrs. Twombly turns off the TV in the Littlest Pet Shop she had been watching the news report from due to Fisher's insistence of his lack of competition. Discussing the theft with Blythe, Blythe wonders why anyone would steal specifically from a pet shop, while Mrs. Twombly, fearful that Littlest Pet Shop may be next, decides to practice her kung-fu quilting to better defend the store. As she leaves, Blythe attempts to head back to her room to do her homework, but she instead finds a large pile of stolen merchandise from the Largest Ever Pet Shop in the dumbwaiter. Penny Ling initially suggests returning the stolen items herself, but Zoe points out that doing so will make Blythe look like the thief.
At the Largest Ever Pet Shop, Fisher shows his daughters that business has improved dramatically since the news story about the heist. However, when Monban detects more items have been stolen, Fisher gets set on edge, fearing that if it continues, the Largest Ever Pet Shop will run out of things to sell. Monban also detects the stolen goods turning up in the store, and Brittany and Whittany run down to the source. They see Blythe entering the store with bags of the merchandise and immediately accuse Blythe as the thief. Before they can do anything further to Blythe, she leaves the store, telling the Biskit Twins that she'll figure out the culprit herself. The Biskit Twins, refusing to be one-upped by Blythe again, decide to play detectives too, basing their personas off the main characters of SCI: Super Cute Investigators, a TV show they watch.
In the day camp, Blythe finds a set of footprints that don't match any of the regulars, which leads underneath the armchair. Blythe pushes the armchair aside and sees a hole in the wall with the entrance to a habitrail tube. Figuring this is most likely how the stolen items wound up in the Littlest Pet Shop, Blythe tasks Vinnie and Pepper to go into the tube to see where it leads. They run down the tube, but as they lose contact with the other pets, they discover an enormous labyrinth of tunnels in Downtown City's sewer system.
Back at the Littlest Pet Shop, Blythe makes a list of items she discovered in the pile and goes over it with Zoe to try to find any answers. Before she can make any progress, the Biskit Twins storm through the doors and attempt to coax information out of Blythe using techniques learned from watching SCI, but they have no effect. Eventually, Blythe distracts the Biskit Twins with a pretend TV remote so she can escape from the them, sending the twins back to the proverbial drawing board.
Wandering through the maze of tunnels, Pepper and Vinnie get lost. Pepper asks if Vinnie can retrace his steps, and in the process, he falls through a trap door but finds the entrance to the Largest Ever Pet Shop inside a rodent cage. They don't wait long, however, until a pair of hamsters join Pepper and Vinnie in the cage. At first angry at Pepper and Vinnie for trespassing, they calm down once Pepper tells them they found a tunnel and wanted to see where it leads. They introduce themselves as Dodger and Twist and that they operate a help service around Downtown City, taking things from Largest Ever Pet Shop and giving them to animals whom they feel need those things. Vinnie takes that thought to heart and goes into a fantasy session where he envisions himself as Vinnie Hood leading his Band of Merry Pets to rob the Biskits of Snottingham, though Pepper snaps him out of it before he gets out of hand. Steering the discussion back on topic, Pepper finds out from the hamsters that they've been stashing the items in the Littlest Pet Shops dumbwaiter for some time, where they keep the ones whose recipients they don't yet know. However, Twist tells Pepper that the stash seems to have vanished, so Pepper lets them know Blythe returned them to the Largest Ever Pet Shop. Twist decides they need to "borrow" more things to compensate, but his statement makes Pepper nervous, as she understands they're stealing.
To prove that the hamsters have good intentions, however, Dodger leads Pepper and Vinnie into the tube network to show them what he and Twist do day-to-day. Along with Twist, the four of them deliver rubber balls to bored alley cats, a hamster wheel to an overweight guinea pig, and a toy boat to occupy a trio of noisy ducklings. They return to the cage in the Largest Ever Pet Shop, but Pepper is still not convinced, futilely trying to explain to the hamsters that even if they're trying to do good, they are still stealing. Twist argues that the Largest Ever Pet Shop has far more merchandise than they'll ever use, and Dodger and Twist leap out of the cage. Attempting to stop them, Pepper follows them out along with Vinnie. After turning a corner, however, Monban notices Pepper and Vinnie and apprehends them. Realizing their actions got Pepper and Vinnie in trouble, they double over to the Littlest Pet Shop to let their friends know what happened at the Largest Ever Pet Shop. Hearing the story, Blythe immediately heads over there to free them.
Now that the hamsters feel remorse, Russell proposes they take back all of the items they've taken and return them to the Largest Ever Pet Shop, which would simultaneously atone for the stealing and prove that Littlest Pet Shop had nothing to do with it. To that end, with cooperation from the remaining day camp pets, they receive the toy boat back from the ducklings, the balls back from the cats, and the hamster wheel back from the now-fit-as-a-fiddle guinea pig who still maintains his body in spite of a potbelly.
Meanwhile, Blythe tries to explain to the Biskit Twins and Monban that the goods were going through a network of tubes that wound up in the Littlest Pet Shop. The twins, however, are not convinced and continue to blame Blythe. Sally and Fisher zip over where Fisher immediately points fingers at Blythe. When asked to explain why Blythe is innocent, she finds herself unable to provide an explanation that wouldn't give away her animal-hearing abilities. As pressure mounts on Blythe from every other human in the room, all of the stolen merchandise comes falling from a hole in the ceiling from a removed tile. Fisher examines the pile and finds out that they are all discard items, old merchandise to be thrown away. Blythe, hearing about this, persuades Fisher, on camera, to donate the discard items to needy pets and pledges that Littlest Pet Shop will do the same.
Blythe and Mrs. Twombly cooperate in loading a box of merchandise to part with, though Mrs. Twombly wonders how the pile wound up at Littlest Pet Shop. Unable to come up with a good explanation, Blythe distracts Mrs. Twombly to go back to the day camp room, where she finds Dodger and Twist. They tell Blythe that they'll look for things from the trash instead of from the Largest Ever Pet Shop and provide Blythe with a list of animals they've encountered who may need certain things before heading back down the pipe.
At the Largest Ever Pet Shop, the Biskit Twins ask Fisher to give them the reward. Fisher, initially hesitant because they never discovered the thief's identity, offers his daughters the reward anyway for having helped bring the stolen merchandise back: An extra-large bag of dog food.
Cast[]
- Ashleigh Ball - Blythe Baxter and Sally Hairspray
- Sam Vincent - Russell Ferguson and Fisher Biskit
- Tabitha St. Germain - Pepper Clark
- Kyle Rideout - Vinnie Terrio
- Kira Tozer - Minka Mark
- Nicole Oliver - Zoe Trent
- Peter New - Sunil Nevla, Monban, and Dodger
- Jocelyne Loewen - Penny Ling
- Kathleen Barr - Mrs. Twombly
- Michael Kopsa - Roger Baxter
- Shannon Chan-Kent - Brittany and Whittany Biskit
- Colin Murdock - Twist
Trivia[]
- Dodger and Twist are named after two characters from Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist named Artful Dodger and Oliver Twist, the former also being known for stealing (pickpocketing, in his case).
- Vinnie's fantasy parodies Robin Hood and Tarzan.
- S.C.I. (Super Cute Investigators) is a parody of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Its intro also says, "There are two types of" and "These are their stories;" both lines taken from Law & Order.
Continuity[]
- Monsieur LeGrande makes a cameo appearance, but only during the fantasy.
- Mrs. Twombly uses her Kung Fu Quilting skills.
- Monban the robot makes another appearance.
- Russell's detective ability makes a third appearance after Sunil's Sick Day and Secret Cupet.
- This is the second time that Pepper and Vinnie have been captured in Largest Ever Pet Shop by Monban, the first being in Gailbreak!.
Errors[]
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Quotes[]
- Main article: Hamster Hoods/Transcript
Coming soon!
Gallery[]
References[]
| Littlest Pet Shop Episodes, Films, and Animated Shorts |
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| Season 1 | |||
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| Episode 1 Blythe's Big Adventure Part One |
Episode 2 Blythe's Big Adventure Part Two |
Episode 3 Bad Hair Day |
Episode 4 Gailbreak! |
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| Episode 5 Penny For Your Laughs |
Episode 6 Mean Isn't Your Color |
Episode 7 Russell Up Some Fun |
Episode 8 Blythe's Crush |
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| Episode 9 Dumb Dumbwaiter |
Episode 10 Eve of Destruction |
Episode 11 Books and Covers |
Episode 12 So You Skink You Can Dance |
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| Episode 13 Lights, Camera, Mongoose! |
Episode 14 Trading Places |
Episode 15 Topped With Buttercream |
Episode 16 Sweet (Truck) Ride |
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| Episode 17 Helicopter Dad |
Episode 18 What's in the Batter? |
Episode 19 What Did You Say? |
Episode 20 Bakers and Fakers |
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| Episode 21 Terriers and Tiaras |
Episode 22 Lotsa Luck |
Episode 23 Door-Jammed |
Episode 24 Frenemies |
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| Episode 25 Blythe's Pet Project |
Episode 26 Summertime Blues |
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| Season 2 | |||
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| Episode 1 Missing Blythe |
Episode 2 The Nest Hats Craze! |
Episode 3 Eight Arms to Hold You |
Episode 4 Heart of Parkness |
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| Episode 5 Pawlm Reading |
Episode 6 The Treasure of Henrietta Twombly |
Episode 7 What, Meme Worry? |
Episode 8 The Big, Feathered Parade |
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| Episode 9 A Day at the Museum |
Episode 10 Alligators and Handbags |
Episode 11 Blythe's Big Idea |
Episode 12 Commercial Success |
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| Episode 13 So Interesting |
Episode 14 To Paris With Zoe |
Episode 15 Super Sunil |
Episode 16 Sweet Pepper |
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| Episode 17 Shanghai Hi-Jinks |
Episode 18 Grounded |
Episode 19 Inside Job |
Episode 20 Plane it on Rio! |
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| Episode 21 Littlest Bigfoot |
Episode 22 Sunil's Sick Day |
Episode 23 The Hedgehog In The Plastic Bubble |
Episode 24 Standup Stinker |
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| Episode 25 The Expo Factor - Part 1 |
Episode 26 The Expo Factor - Part 2 |
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| Season 3 | |||
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| Episode 1 Sleeper |
Episode 2 War of the Weirds |
Episode 3 Some Assistance Required |
Episode 4 Secret Cupet |
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| 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 |
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| Episode 9 Feud for Thought |
Episode 10 Fish Out of Water |
Episode 11 If the Shoe Fits |
Episode 12 The Very Littlest Pet Shop |
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| Episode 13 The Secret Recipe |
Episode 14 Winter Wonder Wha...? |
Episode 15 Snow Stormin' |
Episode 16 Back Window |
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| Episode 17 Room Enough |
Episode 18 Why Can't We Be Friends? |
Episode 19 Pet Sounds |
Episode 20 The Sister Story |
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| Episode 21 A Night at the Pawza |
Episode 22 Proud as a... Peacock? |
Episode 23 Sue Syndrome |
Episode 24 In the Loop |
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| Episode 25 It's the Pet Fest! - Part 1 |
Episode 26 It's the Pet Fest! - Part 2 |
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| Episode 1 The Tortoise and the Heir |
Episode 2 Pitch Purrfect |
Episode 3 Ivan the Terrific |
Episode 4 Senior Day |
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| Episode 5 Littlest Pet Shop of Horrors |
Episode 6 Game of Groans |
Episode 7 The Tiniest Animal Store |
Episode 8 Spendthrifty |
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| Episode 9 Un-vetted |
Episode 10 Pump Up the Panda |
Episode 11 Snipmates |
Episode 12 Guilt Tripping |
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| Episode 13 Petnapped! |
Episode 14 Steamed |
Episode 15 Two Peas in a Podcast |
Episode 16 Go Figure! |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Episode 25 Littlest Pet Street - Part 1 |
Episode 26 Littlest Pet Street - Part 2 |
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| Episode 1 Tail-Rave-Ium |
Episode 2 The Ladies of LPS |
Episode 3 Littlest Pet Peeves |
Episode 4 Eau de Pepper | |
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| Episode 5 Where'd the Escargot? |
Episode 6 Life of Cake |
Episode 7 The Fire Hydrant Song |
Episode 8 Naptime's a Ball | |
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| Episode 9 Just Not Into It |
Episode 10 Monkey Chase |
Episode 11 The Biggity-Big Dog Show |
Episode 12 Sour Puss | |
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| Episode 13 So Like Bored |
Episode 14 OmmmMG |
Episode 15 What's Next? |
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