Cutie and the Beast

"Cutie and the Beast" is the second segment of the eighth episode of the Disney Channel animated series Hamster & Gretel.
==Synopsis==
Hamster and Gretel face off with a giant sea otter.
==Plot==
Feeling unhelpful after Hamster and Gretel defeat The Amplifier without his assistance, Kevin decides that he must obtain superpowers of his own, which Fred unsuccessfully advises him against. Meanwhile, The Amplifier's growth device causes an otter to grow to an enormous size and terrorize the city. Hamster and Gretel attempt to save the city, but they cannot bring themselves to attack the otter on the grounds that it is too cute to fight.
When Kevin arrives to the scene of the crime in a metal suit he created at a junkyard, he immediately gets picked up by the otter. After Gretel explains the situation to Kevin, he remembers the TV series, England but with Dragons (which he, Gretel, and Fred were watching earlier in the episode), and resolves to cover the otter's face to prevent Hamster and Gretel from being swayed by the otter's adorableness. They then defeat the otter, after which, they learn via Hamster's fluent Otterese, that the otter is simply looking for its mother; Hamster returns the otter to the ocean and reunites it with its family, while Kevin prattles on about searching for the aliens and convincing them to give him powers, much to Fred's annoyance.
==Songs==
*"England But with Dragons"
*"Too Cute to Clobber"
==Cast==
*Meli Povenmire as Gretel Grant-Gomez
*Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
*Beck Bennett as Hamster
*Joey King as Fred
*Liza Koshy as Veronica Hill
*Khary Payton as Amplifier
*Dee Bradley Baker as Otter
==Trivia==
*The episode's title is a play on the 1991 classic Disney movie Beauty and the Beast.
*According to Dan Povenmire, when the police officer is speaking to the otter on a megaphone, asking for a translator, there was an animation error where he didn't put the megaphone down after saying his line. However, rather than fixing the animation error, it was then suggested that they turn it into a joke by having the police officer continuing to speak through the megaphone as the scene continues.
*The episode shares the same title as an Animaniacs episode and as a Garfield and Friends episode.
==International premieres==
*April 11, 2023 (Portugal)
*April 12, 2023 ([[Italy]; premiere on Disney+)
*April 13, 2023 (Spain)
==External links==
*Cutie And The Beast on Hamster & Gretel Wiki
Category:Hamster & Gretel episodes