The Very Littlest Pet Shop

The Very Littlest Pet Shop
Season 3, Episode 12
Production Information
Air Date	August 16, 2014
Written by	Evan Gore & Heather Lombard
Supervising director	Dallas Parker
Directed by	Joel Dickie
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The Very Littlest Pet Shop is the twelfth episode of the third season of Littlest Pet Shop and the sixty-fourth episode overall.

Overview

A jungle curse shrinks the pet shop to the size of a doll house. Meanwhile, a little girl thinks that the miniature pets are toys. It is now up to Blythe and Zoe to rescue them.

Summary

In the day camp, Penny Ling announces to Russell that she is no longer on speaking terms with Pepper. Being the mediator of the bunch, Russell turns to Pepper, who says that she finds amusement in the way Penny walks. Pepper then points out that everyone has a personal quirk she finds funny, then proceeds to disrupt Minka and Zoe as a demonstration. However, when Russell tries to direct her hurtfulness back at Pepper, Pepper points out that Russell has the most quirks she finds funny.

At the front room, someone has dropped off Dolores, a slow loris, and Mrs. Twombly feeds her snacks. Blythe and Mrs. Twombly fawn over her adorability, but Dolores just stares angrily back as she eats, eventually snarling back at Blythe and Mrs. Twombly, frightening them. Nevertheless, Mrs. Twombly calms down right afterwards, and Blythe decides to figure out what's making Dolores cranky. Blythe picks Dolores up, and on her way to the day camp, Dolores tells Blythe that she hates being stared at. When Blythe starts chuckling at Dolores's high pitched and squeaky voice, Dolores grows angrier, demanding not to be laughed at. Taking that to heart, Blythe introduces Dolores to the other pets and trusts them not to laugh at her—upon which all of the other pets turn to Pepper. Not long after Pepper comes down from the armchair that she starts snickering at Dolores's name. Blythe reminds Pepper not to laugh at Dolores—while Pepper complies, she is barely able to avoid bursting into more laughter.

Later, all of the regulars stand there watching Dolores eat. Pepper comes up from behind Dolores to greet her, but when Pepper hears Dolores's voice, she starts to crack up. Russell and Penny take Pepper away before she can cause any trouble while Sunil distracts Dolores with more pet chow. Somewhere else in the room, Russell and Penny call Pepper out for not following Blythe's instructions and exacerbating Dolores's bad mood. Pepper reacts unapologetically to the whole affair, so Russell warns Pepper that he will keep a watchful eye on her. Meanwhile, Sunil tells Dolores that he will try to make sure her experience is as good as possible and to give her the space she needs. When Dolores voices her approval, all of the pets, save Russell, start snickering. Dolores gives increasingly threatening warnings, though the pets continue to laugh. Knowing that she wouldn't get through to the pets, she recounts her days of terrorizing the other animals in the Jungle of Tamango with her curses. Suddenly, Zoe desperately has to go outside. Blythe enters the day camp to tell the pets that Mrs. Twombly will be away for some time and that Blythe must run the store. Zoe tells Blythe she really needs a walk, and Blythe complies, leaving the store unattended.

With no humans at the store, Pepper decides to try to get Dolores to laugh. She fails to get even a chuckle and instead gets Dolores soaking wet. Russell, watching from afar, can't help but laugh long and hard, and while Sunil and Vinnie cover his mouth to try to stop him, Dolores has already heard the laughing and inflicts a curse upon the Littlest Pet Shop that shrinks the building down to the size of a dollhouse. The pets step outside, in shock at their smaller size. Minka asks Dolores if this was her doing, and Dolores proudly proclaims responsibility, deeming it punishment for laughing at her. Minka points out that Dolores shrunk herself too, but as soon as it dawns upon her, bugs start closing in on the pets, and they run back in as an ant chases them, save for Dolores, who hides behind a rock.

The ant was soon scared off when Alice (from What Did You Say?), showed up believing she found a dollhouse, while her mother doesn’t remember the pet shop building torn down. She picks it up and takes it home, accompanied by her apathetic mother as Dolores, who did not run back inside in time, can only watch. Along the way back, Minka and Vinnie accuse Russell of having put them into this mess, but Russell retorts that he didn't do the shrinking. This does not make the pets any less angry, so Russell takes it upon himself to try to find a solution once Alice puts the building down.

Just when Blythe returns from Zoe's walk, notices the building missing. Zoe, suspicious, starts sniffing along the floor and spots a tiny Dolores. Blythe picks her up and asks Dolores what happened, and Dolores gladly confesses to putting a curse on the Littlest Pet Shop and that Russell was the one who laughed. Blythe asks about the nature of the curse, so Dolores tells her that the building will return to full size in one hour and that a little girl she cannot identify took the building away. Zoe takes up the task of locating the pets, and having found a lock on their scents, especially Pepper's, she dashes over to a building down the street.

By then, Alice has returned to her room and sets the building down on a table. She marvels at her "dollhouse's" realism but regrets that the front door is too small to easily reach the pets. With Alice continuing to jostle the building around, the pets grow desperate to undo the curse. Russell figures to find Dolores, but she is nowhere in sight. With the situation hopeless, Penny bursts into tears.

Zoe follows the scent trail to the front of the building, and when Blythe opens the door to let Zoe in, Zoe continues to track down the scent to a door on the third floor. Turning down an offer by Dolores to put a shrinking curse on the door, Blythe knocks and gets Alice's mother. Although Blythe initially pretends to fundraise for her school, Zoe wastes no time scurrying into the residence and to Alice's room's door. Blythe finds Alice and tries to persuade Alice to give the building back, but Alice puts up a lot of resistance. Meanwhile, the pets recognize Blythe's voice and Zoe's barking.

As Blythe attempts to negotiate with Alice, a breeze drifts through Alice's open window, which Dolores warns is a signal that the curse will wear off soon. Without any time to lose, Blythe picks up the building and tries to walk out, but Alice intercepts and takes the building, running outside with Blythe and Zoe giving chase. Alice trips on a sidewalk crack, flinging the tiny building up into the air, but Zoe dashes ahead and catches it on her belly. Alice retaliates by throwing a stick for Zoe, nabbing the building as Zoe lets go. Blythe gets Zoe to re-focus on Alice and the building, and they find her around a corner, where Alice tells Blythe that she does not want to let the building go because she lost her Princess Precious (whom she calls Vinnie after having captured him previously) and doesn't want to lose something else she found. Blythe reassures Alice that she knows who this Princess Precious is and that she'll allow Alice to come over and play with him any time she'd like. Initially hesitant about how Blythe could know who Princess Precious is, both notice the storm intensifying, now bearing dark clouds and lightning, and Alice agrees and runs home before the weather gets worse. With Blythe to herself, she takes the building and places it in its proper location, seeing Mrs. Twombly returning, albeit struggling to walk in the strong winds. Blythe lifts Dolores out of her shirt pocket, and Dolores runs inside as quickly as she can. With everyone excited to see Dolores, the building returns to its normal size and fills up the space it once occupied.

Mrs. Twombly walks up to Blythe just as the building is fully restored, having not noticed a thing besides the windiness. As Mrs. Twombly steps in, she sees the store has become a mess and that the cash register is still tiny. Blythe, attempting to find an excuse, gets a pumpkin for a head. Mrs. Twombly's head is in turn replaced with a fish and Zoe's with a gigantic eyeball.

At that moment, Russell takes Vinnie out of his trance and back to reality. Russell asks if Vinnie thought about what would happen if Dolores put a curse on everyone, and Dolores, having overheard it, admits that she's never successfully inflicted a curse before. Regardless, Russell apologizes to Dolores but gets repeatedly interrupted by Pepper laughing. This time, Pepper tells Dolores not to get too upset over it because it's what makes her special, which Dolores accepts. Blythe then walks into the day camp and introduces the pets to a girl who's been wanting to visit for a long while: Alice, from across the street. Vinnie immediately recognizes her and curls up on the floor in terror.

Cast

• Ashleigh Ball - Blythe Baxter and Alice
• Sam Vincent - Russell Ferguson
• Tabitha St. Germain - Pepper Clark
• Kyle Rideout - Vinnie Terrio
• Kira Tozer - Minka Mark
• Nicole Oliver - Zoe Trent and Alice's Mom
• Peter New - Sunil Nevla
• Jocelyne Loewen - Penny Ling
• Kathleen Barr - Mrs. Twombly and Dolores

Trivia

• Tamango is the name of a 1958 French / Italian film.
• Slow lorises live in Asia and giraffes are from Africa. Macaws are also from South America.
• 90% of the episode was all just Vinnie's imagination due to the end of his imagination when Blythe's head was a pumpkin, Mrs. Twombly's was a fish's, and Zoe's was a eyeball.

Continuity

• Pepper insults the other pets with her insult comedy like in Penny For Your Laughs. Notably, Penny Ling reacted in anger at Pepper's jokes rather than breaking down crying like she did previously. 
• While doing so, she points out Russell's fear of marshmallows, previously mentioned in Penny For Your Laughs, Shanghai Hi-Jinks, and Littlest Bigfoot.
• Pepper tells Dolores her rubber chicken joke from Blythe's Big Adventure Part Two.
• Vinnie had a flashback of the time he was captured by Alice in What Did You Say?. Alice also remembers her "baby alligator, Princess Precious".
• Minka's claustrophobia from Dumb Dumbwaiter and The Expo Factor - Part 2 comes up again.

Errors

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Quotes

Main article: The Very Littlest Pet Shop/Transcript

"The next one of you to laugh will be hit with a curse, one that I learned in the darkest regions of the jungles of Tamango! When I lived in Tamango, I ruled the jungle! I was known as a fearsome beast who was not to be messed with!"

—Dolores, warning the pets of her curse

"Wouldn't it be hilarious if Lady Never-Laughs over there really could hit us with her wacky jungle voodoo?"

—Pepper Clark

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?