Melty (episode)

"Melty" is the twenty-second episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It aired on December 8, 2003.
==Plot==
It is a windy day in Kokaua Town. The wind blows an Experiment Pod out of a palm tree and is carried away by a dog. The dog drops the pod in his bowl of water, resulting in the activation of Experiment 228: designed to liquefy enemy fortresses, weapons, and transportation by firing blue energy blasts that melt any solid object when hit. 625 is informed by the Experiment Pod Container, but decides not to tell Gantu who is asleep. Meanwhile, Nani is starting her new job at the Birds of Paradise Hotel. Pleakley has given her a professional makeover, and Lilo gives her a creepy necklace made of garbage for good luck. By noon, Lilo and Stitch head down to the hotel to check on Nani. Then, as the clock tower strikes twelve, Experiment 228 runs past them and causes Lilo to fall in a pool of mud. While Stitch goes after the Experiment, Keoni shows up in front of Lilo. Flattered and embarrassed, Lilo tells Keoni she deliberately fell in the mud because she is practicing a hula about a mud monster. This leaves her even more embarrassed. Meanwhile, Stitch chases 228 into the hotel parking lot. He climbs onto the roof, and once he has sight of his cousin, he jumps from the roof and catches him using a metal chimney cap.
The two return home with 228 with Lilo still drowning in embarrassment. She wishes she could go back and redo the whole thing, and that is when Pleakley accidentally reveals that Jumba has invented a time-travelling surfboard. However, he only built it for showing off purposes and is never meant to be used. Jumba warns Lilo and Stitch that meddling with the spacetime continuum can be unpredictable. One small change in the past can cause a big change in the future. Lilo ignores this warning, and as soon as Jumba is gone, the two bring out the time machine and travel back to noon.
They arrive outside the hotel as the clock strikes twelve. At that moment, Experiment 228 runs past them, but this time Lilo manages to save herself from falling in the mud. Stitch goes after 228 while Lilo makes conversations with Keoni. The chase leads to the hotel like before, but Stitch's change of action causes 228 to run into the lobby and melt the hotel. Stitch manages to capture 228, but the incident gets Nani fired from her new job. Feeling bad for her sister, Lilo and Stitch decide to go back in time again, but this time with a plan. They arrive at the hotel as the clock strikes noon. Experiment 228 runs past them, Lilo saves herself from falling in the mud, and Stitch goes after the Experiment as Keoni shows up. This time, the chase goes around the hotel and into the parking lot like the first time. But when Stitch tries to react his original steps, he accidentally throws off the balance of a falling palm tree, which destroys Officer Kahiko's car, resulting in Lilo and Stitch being thrown in prison. They travel back to noon again, and despite making a new plan, another incident happens. Lilo causes a chain reaction: she places her hand against a palm tree and startles a butterfly, causing it to fly above the ocean where a fish jumps up and eats it. An eagle snatches the fish and drops it onto a ship's windshield, which startles the captain and causes his ship to crash into the hotel.
Despite their efforts to avoid any incidents, something unexpected keeps happening, resulting in another redo. Stitch forgets to turn on the paradox inhibitor, therefore causing him and Lilo to meet themselves. Melty unintentionally hurls into the ocean, where his melting blasts open up a volcanic fissure in the ocean floor, causing a massive tsunami to form and destroy part of Kauai. And instead of going back in time, they travel far into the future. Eventually, Lilo and Stitch manage to avoid any mishaps. Lilo successfully talks to Keoni, Stitch catches the Experiment, the hotel is all right, Nani still has her job, and they are not in trouble. To make sure they do not mess anything else up, Lilo and Stitch head home with 228, whom Lilo has named "Melty". 
Just when they think everything has turned out alright, Stitch causes another chain reaction: he blows off a feather that falls onto his arm, causing it to land on an unstable coconut, which falls off its pile and bounces down a hill onto a golf tee. There, it gets whacked into the air by an elderly golfer and hits the hull of Gantu's ship with a loud thud, waking him up. When 625 reveals Melty's activation to Gantu, the latter shows up at Lilo and Stitch's house. Melty breaks out of containment and melts the entire house and the time machine, allowing Gantu to capture the Experiment. Not only that, Nani lost her job after Gantu showed up at the hotel looking for the Experiment and wrecked the place. Mr. Jameson had to close the hotel and lay off the staff until it is repaired. With the time machine destroyed, Lilo and Stitch cannot go back in time and fix everything. Lilo is devastated and wishes she had never gone back in time in the first place. Just when it seems all hope is lost, a Jumba from the future shows up on a new time-travelling surfboard (whom Lilo and Stitch accidentally met when unintentionally going forward in time). He tells Lilo she can still fix everything, but she will have to relive the past exactly as it originally happened. That means Lilo will have to humiliate herself in front of Keoni. Future Jumba tells her it is the only way to restore the timeline, and she must learn to accept her mistakes. If she dwells on the past she will be unable to live in the present and lose sight of the future. Future Jumba sends Lilo and Stitch on their way and they arrive again at noon outside the hotel.
Right on queue, Melty runs past them and causes Lilo to fall in the mud. As Stitch goes after Melty and captures him for the eighth and final time, Keoni shows up and Lilo forcibly embarrasses herself in front of him. Thus, restoring the timeline. Despite Lilo humiliating herself, everything turns out better than expected. Nani got to keep her new job, and Keoni invites Lilo to a movie after giving her a mud monster doll. Meanwhile, Stitch is guarding Melty like a hawk in case Gantu shows up. While they are certain he will not, Lilo and Stitch do not want to take any chances. Gantu wakes up from his sleep much later, but instead of being informed about Melty's activation, 625 tells him he lasered a tattoo on his patookie.
==Cast==
*Daveigh Chase as Lilo Pelekai
*Chris Sanders as Stitch
*David Ogden Stiers as Jumba Jookiba
*Kevin McDonald as Pleakley
*Tia Carrere as Nani Pelekai
*Kevin Michael Richardson as Gantu
*Rob Paulsen as 625
*Shaun Fleming as Keoni Jameson
*Bryan Cranston as Mr. Jameson
*Tress MacNeille as Melty
==Goof==
*When Stitch is guarding Melty, his right eye is missing color.
==Trivia==
*Moral: Don't dwell on the past; learn from your mistakes so you can do better in the future.
*This episode marks Nani's first day working at the hotel, instead of her previous job at the Rental Hut.
*In the timeline where Melty melted the Pelekai residence before Nani lost her job again due to Gantu's intrusion, she revealed that she didn't trust Pleakley with her savings, which is quite reasonable since he frivolously spent 28 credit cards that weren't legally his in a previous episode.
===Experiments mentioned===
*Experiment 228: Melty
*Experiment 625: Reuben
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Category:Lilo & Stitch episodes