Toy Store Mayhem

Toy Store Mayhem is an episode of Tamagotchi: Adventures of the Rainbow Princesses. It is the fourth episode of Season 2 and is, overall, the 23rd episode of the series. It first premiered in Japan on October 23, 2021, and in North America one month later on Cartoon Network.
== Synopsis ==
During a trip to the toy store, Kurotchi makes a life-sized doll of herself to give to a Tamagotchi in need, but she accidently traps herself in the box and is shipped to a disabled Tamagotchi in a wheelchair, and the two become best friends.
== Plot ==
The episode begins with Kurotchi flipping through various TV channels, trying to decide what to watch. After a few seconds of deciding, she decides to turn to the latest episode of Gotchiman on Channel 21 (which is a Saturday morning cartoon in Greyscale Village). While watching the show, she encounters an ad for a toy store (named Plushtchi's Amazing Toy Hut) that allows anyone of any age to make a life-sized doll of themselves.
Excited by this, Kurotchi then asks if Shirohimetchi and the rest of the Princesses want to make dolls of themselves as well. Shirohimetchi agrees but tells her that she'll have to wait until Sunday due to the toy store (which is not too far away from StaticEmporium) being extremely crowded on Saturdays. Kurotchi understands and then patiently waits for the next day. While waiting, she notices Greytchi looking up the new Tamasonic PolyStation system on her computer. Seeing it, she then asks why she was looking at one. She responded with the fact that their other PolyStation system, the PolyStation 3, had stopped working, so she's looking at the PolyStation DX to buy it for herself. 
By the time the evening arrived, the seven princesses enjoyed a nice dinner of turkey and corn as they watched the sun set. Then the next day arrives. As the princesses get ready to go to the toy store, Greytchi gets her wallet and coupon to surprise the others on what she was going to buy. Once they arrived at the toy store, they were all given only one thing to get from the store. Silvertchi was the first one to get an item. In this case, a toy hammer. Silvertchi decided to get it because she wanted to impress her friends over at her "secret" meeting held every Thursday night.
Meanwhile, Kurotchi arrived at the Make-A-Doll section and encountered Plushtchi. Plushtchi then offers to make the doll. She asks yes, and Plushtchi asks how many. She replies with two, with the other going to a Tamagotchi in need. After the request, Plushtchi then gives her a quick tour of how the dolls are made. During the tour, she sees Xanatchi finding a metal detector to use for her latest G-Files episode. Confused by this, Kurotchi asks why they're selling metal detectors at the toy store. Plushtchi replies that his toy hut sells toys for all ages (including adults). 
As soon as the tour ends, Kurotchi looks at how the toys are being boxed and shipped away and then thanks Plushtchi for the tour. While preparing to get her toy, a group of Kuchitamatchis fighting over a toy car accidentally pushes one over her and she accidently trips it, causing her to fall into a toy box, which happens to be her height. She tries to escape, but it is already sealed. While the princesses are looking for her, Silvertchi "finds" her and her plush (which happens to be plushes). They take them both home. 
After going home, they then eat dinner. Not knowing that they brought both plushes home, Greytchi noticed that Kurotchi wasn't eating her chicken nuggets (which happens to be one of her favorite meals). Not realizing that they left Kurotchi at the toy store, Shirohimetchi decides to go back and begin to look for her. On her arrival, she then starts to look for her with Plushtchi helping her. Among those arriving at the packing section, she notices a group of five Kuchitamatchis, all sons fighting over a gold toy car. She picks up the car, looks at it, and then asks the Kuchitamatchis about Kurotchi. The Kuchitamatchis replied with "Not really," but they did know that while they were fighting, Kurotchi lost her focus and accidentally tripped over their car that rolled over to her. After finding out, Shirohimetchi asked where the toys were being shipped to, and Plushtchi told her "Rainbow Hills". She leaves, and Plushtchi adds a "No Fighting" rule to his list of rules to follow to prevent a similar incident from happening. He also constructed a higher border between the floor and the packing room because he knew it was little kid-proof, but not teen-proof. 
She arrives at Rainbow Hills after a 45-minute drive. Since then, it has become dark, and she begins to look for a house with a "Plushtchi's Toy Hut" sticker on it. She then arrives at a house that looked like it was covered by glitter that contained the sticker and knocks on the door. A Tamagotchi covered in glitter arrives and welcomes her to go inside. When she enters, she sees Kurotchi with another Tamagotchi. glad that Kurotchi is okay, so she asks her who the Tamagotchi is. She answers with "Shininglovetchi". She further replies by saying that she is on a wheelchair due to her not having the ability to walk well and the two have been talking to each other. Shirohimetchi then decides to give Shininglovetchi the doll and takes Kurotchi home, but before they leave, she gave Kurotchi her address with a quote saying, "I'm a huge fan of Lovelin!".
At home, Shirohimetchi wonders why Kurotchi ended up in this situation, and she responds that a group of Kuchitamatchis were fighting, and the small border between the floor and the packing area somehow made all of this happen. Shirohimetchi then decided to tell her that she saw the Kuchitamatchis and wondered if their parents noticed. Meanwhile, at the Kuchitamatchis home, their parents (a yellow Kuchipatchi lookalike and an orange Kusatchi lookalike) punished the five brothers for their misbehavior and nearly got somebody hurt.
The next day, Kurotchi writes a letter to Shininglovetchi about how much she likes her new doll, and she writes a letter back saying that she loves it and wonders if a Lovelin version exists. The episode ends with Kurotchi smiling.
==Characters==
=== Major===
*Kurotchi
*Shirohimetchi
*Kuchitamatchi (5x)
===Secondary===
*Greytchi
*Silvertchi
*Xanatchi
*Gainsbotchi
*Baegtchi
*Plushtchi (Debut)
*Glittertchi (Debut)
*Papaglittertchi (Debut)
*Mamaglittertchi (Debut)
*Shininglovetchi (Debut)
===Minor===
*Paletchi
*Chamametchi
*Mametchi
*Papamametchi
*Mamamametchi
*Lovelin (Mentioned)
*Bokudoritchi (Mentioned)
*Tamatchi (Painting only)
*Veggiekotchi (Painting only)
*Candyhimetchi (Painting only)
*Gotchiman (TV only)
*Statictchi (TV only)
==Triva ==
===General===
* The episode made its North American debut on November 23, 2021, which is the 25th anniversary of the Tamagotchi franchise.
*This is the only episode where Plushtchi is the opposite gender as in the English dub of this episode only, Plushtchi is male while normally she is female.
**During the Tamagotchi! panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, it was revealed that the Plushtchi in this episode is actually the identical (down to the name) twin brother of the more well-known Plushtchi.
*According to the weather in Rainbow Hills (it was implied to be snowing), the episode likely takes place during the month of January (specifically either the 20th or the 27th).
=== References===
*The Tamasonic PolyStation is a parody of Sony's PlayStation line of consoles, with Tamasonic (a recurring joke in Tamagotchi! anime episodes 2015-onwards) being a parody of the Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic. 
**However, despite being based on the PlayStation series, both PolyStations have little resemblance to any PlayStation home consoles, as the PolyStation 3 resembles an Xbox 360, and the PolyStation DX closely resembles a hybrid of a PlayStation Portable and Nintendo Switch.
*The toy hammer Silvertchi buys bears a close resemblance to the hammer that Masked Dedede uses from the Kirby series (specifically the one from Kirby Super Star Ultra).
*The painting that Tamatchi's on happens to be a reference to "The Scream". A famous work of art created by Edvard Munch in 1893. According to the writers, they nicknamed it "Scared Silly" because of Tamatchi's expressions being goofier compared to that of The Scream's.
*Glittertchi and Shininglovetchi's Japanese names in this episode are named Shimmertchi and Shinetchi respectively, which is a nod to the 2015 Nick Jr. series "Shimmer and Shine". However, they were changed to prevent confusion with Kiraritchi, whose name also means shine, and also to avoid getting sued by Paramound Global (known at that time as ViacomCBS).
===Glitches/Technical Errors===
*In the subtitled version on Tubi TV, Shininglovetchi mistakenly refers to Lovelin as "Lovetchi".
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