Hunkahunka (episode)

"Hunkahunka" is the thirty-third episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It aired on January 11, 2004.
==Plot==
While Pleakley is cleaning/watching a beauty pageant, Lilo and Stitch burst into the house. Lilo is hollering about the approaching catastrophe. She explains to Pleakley that while out in town, she saw Keoni Jameson holding a bouquet of flowers and asking someone for directions to the Pelekai house. She believes he is going to ask her to the upcoming Lono-i-ke-aweawe Dance, but she isn't ready for his arrival. But, the doorbell rings. Lilo runs off to prepare, and Pleakley quickly puts on a wig. Stitch answers, and Keoni asks if the "beautiful young lady" is there. Stitch brings him to the couch, and Lilo approaches. She casually asks Keoni what he is doing, and he explains that he wants to ask the prettiest girl he knows to the dance. Lilo insists that he hurry and ask. But, to everyone's shock, he gives the bouquet to Pleakley, and asks "her" to the dance. This causes Lilo to physically throw Keoni out onto the porch. 
The group enters Jumba's room, while Lilo rants about the situation. Jumba has an idea of what caused Keoni to fall for Pleakley. He believes Keoni is under the influence of Experiment 323, a pecking bird-like experiment who causes its victims to fall in hopelessly in love with the next person they see. Pleakley isn't convinced, saying that his disguise is perfect, and he makes a beautiful woman. Seeing the beauty pageant on TV again, he decides to emulate the international contestants to be more beautiful. Lilo asks if there is a cure for the love sickness. Jumba says yes, but the files on his computer are all corrupted due to Stitch accidentally downloading a virus. He fixes the computer while Lilo and Stitch hunt for the experiment.
According to Jumba, the experiment, which Lilo has named Hunkahunka, is drawn to large crowds. Lilo and Stitch start their search at the beach, which is full of beachgoers. One of those beachgoers happens to be Keoni, and Lilo quickly goes to talk with him. Meanwhile, at the Rental Hut, David is asking Nani to the dance. But, as soon as she agrees, Hunkahunka flies behind David, and pecks him. David's gaze drifts to a random woman, and he declares his love for her, angering Nani. 
Stitch spots Hunkahunka flying around. He goes to catch him, but Gantu arrives, ready with his net gun. The two of them fight, and Gantu gets the upper hand. He is about to launch Stitch into the ocean to drown, but Hunkahunka pecks him. As Gantu recoils from the peck, he sees Pleakley, dressed as a Spanish flamenco dancer, walking by. Gantu declares love for "her" and follows, leaving Stitch behind. Stitch quickly captures Hunkahunka in a drink cooler, and brings it to Lilo. Seizing the opportunity, Lilo takes the experiment out of the cooler, and makes it peck Keoni. He falls in love with Lilo, but Stitch isn't happy. He tries convincing Lilo to help Hunkahunka find his one true place. But, Lilo says they can do that after she and Keoni spend some time together.
Stitch brings the cooler home alone, and talks to Jumba. Jumba has successfully fixed his computer, and tells Stitch that the antidote to Hunkahunka's pecks is a splash of water to the face. Stitch arms himself with some spray bottles, and prepares to leave, but notices that Hunkahunka has escaped the cooler. Not only that, Gantu has arrived with flowers and candy for Pleakley. Stitch sprays Gantu, who snaps out of his love sickness. He leaves the flowers and candy on the porch, and chases after Hunkahunka along with Stitch. Pleakley, dressed in a Japanese kimono, opens the door to check out the noise. He sees the gifts, along with an invitation to the dance. 
Elsewhere, Lilo and Keoni have their date. Lilo notices Mertle and her friends approaching, and tells Keoni to ask her to the dance in front of them. He does so, and Mertle gets annoyed, saying that Keoni is now weird like Lilo. After the other girls leave, Lilo notices that Keoni is acting strange. Keoni keeps asking for Lilo's input on everything, and does everything she asks with an overly cheerful attitude. Lilo asks Keoni why he loves her. He says he doesn't know why, he just does. This depresses Lilo and she leaves Keoni alone.
After chasing Hunkahunka around all day, Stitch eventually corners him at the community center where the dance is taking place. He puts the experiment into a small ticket box by the door. Lilo arrives, saying she has had enough of Hunkahunka's artificial love. She asks if the antidote is inside the box, and opens it. Hunkahunka flies into the community center and starts pecking people at random. Even Nani is pecked, and falls for Gantu, who arrived at that moment. Lilo sprays whoever is pecked, while Stitch tries catching the experiment. This proves difficult due to the experiment's speed and everyone moving around to get to their "soulmates". Lilo realizes that the love sickness doesn't kick in until the victim actually sees another person. Stitch turns off the lights, and Hunkahunka continues pecking, but eventually pauses as no one has fallen in love yet. Then, Pleakley arrives and turns on the lights. Nearly everyone in the room turns their loving attention towards Pleakley. 
While Hunkahunka is distracted, Stitch knocks him out of the air, but Gantu catches him. Nani, still lovesick, approaches Gantu and tries to kiss him. But, he backs up into a fire alarm, which starts the sprinkler system. Water sprays onto everyone in the room, snapping them out of their love sickness. The people start leaving, and Gantu takes the opportunity to escape. Lilo tells Stitch to let Gantu take the experiment, since no one on Earth needs artificial love, and people should love one another as they are. Lilo and Stitch have a celebratory dance, and Nani apologizes to David for unintentionally falling for another man. Pleakley is sad that no one actually thought he was a beautiful woman. But, Keoni approaches and tells "Miss Pleakley" that "she" looks nice. Pleakley immediately sprays him, but Keoni says "she" is beautiful and quirky. Keoni really did have a crush on "Aunt Pleakley", much to Lilo's amusement, and Stitch's disgust.
At Gantu's ship, Gantu prepares to send Hunkhunka to Hämsterviel. The whole time, Hämsterviel is berating him. After the experiment is teleported, it pecks Hämsterviel, and he falls in love with Gantu. But, Hämsterviel continues to insult him, talking about his "cute, dumb face" and "funny, stupid things" he says.
==Trivia==
*Moral: True love is when someone loves you for who you are.
*It is revealed that Stitch occasionally hacks into Jumba's computer system without his permission to surf the intergalactic web, resulting in the computer contracting a deadly virus.
*According to Lilo, who found out from Jumba, Hunkahunka is naturally drawn to large crowds of people.
*Keoni is the only character to have a real crush on someone (albeit unaware that Pleakley is a male) while not under Hunkahunka's effects.
**However, in "Nosy", Keoni revealed that his crush only lasted for that one week, despite the fact that "Nosy" aired before this episode did, thus making it out of chronological order.
===Experiment mentioned===
*Experiment 323: Hunkahunka
==Gallery==
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