The Hedgehog in the Plastic Bubble

The Hedgehog in the Plastic Bubble

Season 2, Episode 23
Production Information
Air Date	March 29, 2014
Written by	Adam Beechen
Supervising director	Dallas Parker
Directed by	Joel Dickie
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"Russell's losing his quills. Blythe's locked herself in her room with some mysterious illness. It's all too horrible for words!"

—Zoe Trent

The Hedgehog in the Plastic Bubble is the twenty-third episode of the second season of Littlest Pet Shop and the forty-ninth episode overall.

Overview[]

Blythe and Russell find themselves in isolation due to real, but mostly imagined circumstances.

Summary[]

Blythe is busy putting on her shirt while talking to Youngmee about the Fergus & Annabelle book. Foreshadowing the lunacy ahead, Youngmee states that a simple read of the book may make Blythe feel like she is "in the story". Youngmee then emails Blythe the Prince Kissies theme song for immediate download. As it plays, both girls begin squealing with Blythe repeatedly jumping on the bed and Youngmee going in over a dozen circles in giddy abandon. After listening to the download, she realizes she has three red blotches on her head. She searches it up on the Internet, only to find out it is called "Geri-Beri."

Meanwhile, at the day camp, Russell is wearing a mask, asking if he is close. The other pets giggle when Zoe and Minka suddenly come in, alarmed about Blythe's Geri-Beri. Zoe expresses herself by "dancing". The pets giggle some more (not about the Geri-Beri, but about Russell), but Russell suddenly bumps into Penny Ling, making her get stuck by a quill. Minka pulls it out and adds it to her collection.

Roger checks up on Blythe who convinces him she is sick. Her dad heads to the airport. Meanwhile the other pets let Russell know that his quills have been coming loose frequently and have resulted in several injuries. To prevent future harm, Russell paints himself red stating that the color will make his friends know to stay away. This does not prevent a curious Zoe from getting stuck by one of Russell's quills when he accidentally backs into her. After whimpering away a short distance, Zoe lets him know she has problems seeing red. Minka removes the quill from Zoe and the dog goes into another spell of dancing.

Blythe decides to download the captivating romance novel and dives in while Russell isolates himself in a Babel of Tupperware outside the pet center to keep his friends safe. Once again this plan goes awry when Sunil tries to enter the plastic fortress by removing a box, thus sending the rest crashing down on him and Russell. Russell's next idea, covering himself in bubble wrap keeps his friends safe, but also restricts him from moving freely and joining his friends for a fresh lunch. Unwrapping himself Russell resolves to leave the pet shop. The other pets panic and take the dumbwaiter up to Blythe's room.

Once there, they find they cannot enter as Blythe weighed down the shaft door with a paperweight. Worse still, reading the novel has made Blythe delusional (or "Demetrius" as Vinnie calls it, based on a personal experience). Blythe refuses to remove the weight and open the shaft door, thinking she is Annabelle and her friends to be Fergus or Stevius or a gloombot (a lackey for the villain in the romance novel). Next, the pets travel to the roof and lower Vinnie along the wall to enter through Blythe's apartment window. Blythe shuts him out, thinking him to be Annabelle's boyfriend Fergus. She continues to fantasize as Annabelle and stops her friends entering through the air duct by blasting the song she downloaded earlier, forcing the pets to retreat and to Vinnie's chagrin, come into point-blank range of Pepper's skunk spray. Blythe subsequently delivers an aside as Annabelle, contemplating a future of loneliness until she hungers for the taste of noodles given a strong Ramen aroma. She exits the room and finds the pets had cooked Ramen noodles to lure her out. Her vampire delusion fades and admits she got carried away just as Youngmee had hinted. The pets tell Blythe that Russell is planning to leave the pet shop. She is at a loss though, fearing her Geri-Beri is contagious until Roger comes home. He deduces that the spots on Blythe's forehead are acne and that the Geri-Beri symptoms are really side-effects from staring at a computer for too long.

This brings Blythe to conclude that Russell's ordeal has mirrored her own and does some research. Blythe enters the day camp and stops Russell, bindle in paw, from leaving and tells him he is going through quilling, a process that occurs a couple of times during a hedgehog's life where a hedgehog loses its quills without intending to. Blythe and the pets then celebrate playing in the bubble wrap Russell had brought out earlier.

Cast[]

Trivia[]

Over a month before this episode aired in the United States, it aired on United Kingdom on February 28, 2014.
The book that Blythe reads is a parody of Twilight.
In Blythe's imagination, she dresses like Selene from the Underworld film franchise.
The title is a spoof on "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble."

Continuity[]

Blythe and Youngmee talk about the book from Sweet Pepper.
Sunil mentions Vinnie's middle name, first mentioned by Penny Ling in Frenemies.

Errors[]

When Russell is painted red, he leaves behind red pawprints, even though the bottom half of him was not painted red.
When Blythe removes her ski cap, it briefly vanishes from her hand.

Gallery[]

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References[]

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?