Princess Problems

"Princess Problems" is the first segment of the forty-fifth episode of Adventures of the Gummi Bears. It premiered on November 11, 1989, and was later paired with "A Gummi is a Gummi's Best Friend", becoming the first segment of the sixth episode in the fifth season.
==Synopsis==
At first, Grammi and Gruffi are carrying clothes so they can do laundry. In the process, Gruffi complains to Grammi how Sunni isn't helping out with the laundry. Then Sunni comes out of her room and tells Grammi about her leaving to Dunwyn. Grammi stops her and tells Sunni to do her laundry; Sunni promises to do it the next day. Grammi and Gruffi point out that Sunni promised to do laundry the previous day, and the day before. Sunni then tells them about how Calla is expecting a visit from another princess, to which Grammi tells Sunni that it's not who you are that counts. Gruffi then tells Sunni how it's fine to be friends with Calla, but that Sunni must also follow her duties as a Gummi Bear. Sunni eventually convinces Gruffi to let her go see Calla, as Gruffi tells Sunni to be careful.
thumb|250px|Cavin's only appearance in the episode.Sunni would eventually arrive at Dunwyn and is hanging out with Calla, as Sunni asks what the foreign princess would be like. When the bugles sound off, Calla goes off to the throne room, where her father King Gregor is waiting to greet the princess. An announcement is made announcing King Jean-Claude and Princess Marie. Calla and Sunni (who is hiding behind a curtain) are shocked when they find out that Calla is wearing the exact same dress as Marie. King Gregor then greets King Jean-Claude, as Calla greets Marie. Marie then presents King Gregor with their gift, which is a banner that she designed herself; King Jean-Claude praises his daughter. Calla then has Cavin come in and present King Jean-Claude with his gift: an eagle statue. King Jean-Claude examines the statue, as he and King Gregor begin talks, trying improve diplomatic relations with each other and their respective kingdoms, while Marie holds the statue that was given to them and harshly criticizes it openly, claiming that the statue is too common for her father, a comment that makes Calla mad. King Gregor then tells Calla to take Marie to her room and accommodate her with everything that she wants, to which Calla reluctantly agrees. Sunni decides to get a closer look at Marie and sneaks up to Calla's room as well.
Once in Calla's room, Marie complains about the room, as Calla reassures Marie that it's the best room in the castle. Marie then starts throwing the pillows off the bed, with one of the pillows hitting a hidden Sunni, in addition to ripping the curtains and throwing the sheets. Calla, meanwhile, tries to get Marie to stop, but Marie gets angrier and throws the statue that was given to King Jean-Claude out a window. Calla is angry at Marie, as King Gregor and King Jean-Claude come upon the broken statue. When the girls go up to their fathers, Marie tells them that Calla was jealous of her, and threw the statue, while Marie tried to stop her. King Gregor doesn't believe what Marie is saying since he knows that Calla wouldn't act that rude, but King Jean-Claude is furious that King Gregor doesn't believe Marie. Marie then calms her father down, saying that it's fine, because Calla had never been around a "real" princess; which only angers Calla even more. From seeing the confrontation, Sunni hopes that the girls will be able to get along from now on.
thumb|250px|Sunni posing as a doll in Calla's room.Later that night, Calla is talking to Sunni in her own room, since Marie had ruined Calla's dress while claiming that Marie had done it on accident. Sunni tries to cheer up Calla by saying that Marie is probably just tired from the trip to Dunwyn. Marie then barges into Calla's room, as Sunni quickly poses as a doll with Calla's other dolls. Marie comes in complaining about the flowers, as she broke the vase that the flowers were in. She then notices Calla hiding something, as she pushes Calla aside. Marie then grabs Sunni, believing that it's a plain old Gummi Bear doll. She immediately wants to have it for her collection. Calla refuses to let Marie have Sunni (which she says is the name of the doll), as they pull Sunni back and forth. When Calla lets go of Sunni, she rips a small part of Marie's dress. Marie becomes furious for what Calla has done. When Marie storms off angrily, Calla asks Sunni if she's okay. Calla then quickly hurries to her father, before she gets blamed entirely for the disaster. King Gregor assures Calla that he believes her, but wants to make sure it's not just another misunderstanding. Calla is sure that Marie is the one causing the trouble. King Jean-Claude and Marie come to see King Gregor and Calla, to demand an apology from Calla, but King Gregor argues that Marie should be the one offering an apology. Marie is shocked from what she hears, and as a result of the fall-out, King Jean-Claude decides to go to war with King Gregor.
The battlefield is being set up, as Sunni feels terrible about causing a war, but Calla reassures Sunni that it was the right thing to do, not to surrender her to Marie. Sunni then decides to take matters into her own hands and try to stop the war. In a war tent, Marie is complaining about the gruel she was given to eat, as she notices a present outside of her tent on King Jean-Claude's side of the battlefield. When Marie opens her present, she notices that it's the same Gummi Bear "doll" that Calla had (in this case it's Sunni posing as a doll). Marie then becomes dissatisfied and is disappointed that Calla would just give her the "doll" to stop the war. Marie then reveals that she never wanted the "doll" and throws Sunni in the trash, since the "doll" was "too plain". In the trash bin, Sunni cries and is sad, since she feels responsible for the war, as it would have never happened if she hadn't visited Calla that day.
Back at Gummi Glen, Calla is walking with Grammi and Gruffi, asking them if Sunni got back home safely. Gruffi opens Sunni's room, as Calla notices gift-wrapping supplies spread around Sunni's room. Calla then tells Gruffi and Grammi that Sunni must be posing as a doll to stop a war. Grammi then has an idea, trying to find a way to stop Sunni from getting hurt, while hopefully achieving peace as well.
thumb|250pxAt the battlefield, King Jean-Claude and his troops, as well as King Gregor and his troops, each throw boulders at each other using catapults. Near Marie's tent, Grammi, with Gruffi and Calla, has a plan to switch Sunni with a doll version of her that she handily whipped up. After drinking Gummiberry Juice, Grammi and Gruffi bounce to distract the guards and steer them away from Marie's tent. Marie wants to know what's going on, as Calla sneaks into Marie's tent. Calla looks for Sunni and eventually finds her, as Sunni gets out of the trash bin she was in. When Calla places the Sunni doll in the bin, Marie notices Calla and presumes that she was going to steal Sunni. Marie then takes Sunni and runs away with her, as Calla tries to get Sunni back. Gruffi tells Grammi that her plan didn't work, but Grammi won't give up on her plan to do the switch, so Grammi and Gruffi follow Sunni, Calla, and Marie.
thumb|left|250px|Gruffi, Sunni, and Grammi with the doll.
The girls run onto the battlefield, then run up to the top of a fort, and are seen fighting over Sunni by pulling her back and forth. When King Gregor and King Jean-Claude notice, they cease fire, but one of the boulders from King Jean-Claude's side accidently hits the fort that the girls are on, as both princesses and Sunni fall into the moat. The girls continue to fight each other, as Gruffi and Grammi pull Sunni out of the water. Grammi then quickly switches Sunni for the doll, as the three Gummi Bears flee. King Gregor and King Jean-Claude get their daughters away from each other, as Marie picks up the Sunni doll. Out of anger, Marie rips the Sunni doll open and hands it back to a shocked Calla.
thumb|250px|Princess Marie with the torn Sunni doll.Marie then unintentionally confesses that she only wanted the doll since it was Calla's, and how she knew she would get to have it after telling her father that Calla had ruined her dress. King Jean-Claude gets angry at Marie, while she feels embarrassed when she realizes that she accidentally told the truth. Marie claims that she only told "small lies", as King Jean-Claude and Marie leave. Sunni, Grammi, and Gruffi were watching the whole confrontation from the bushes, and agree that Marie is a royal brat.
Back at the castle, King Jean-Claude and Marie apologize, and Calla accepts their apology. Jean-Claude then tells Marie that they're leaving, while Marie tries to tell her father that it was all just a misunderstanding. Sunni, Gruffi, and Grammi watch from a balcony of the castle, as Sunni learns the lesson that it's what you are that counts.
==Cast==
* Corey Burton as Gruffi Gummi
* Hamilton Camp as King Jean-Claude
* June Foray as Grammi Gummi
* Katie Leigh as Sunni Gummi
* Noelle North as Princess Calla
* Michael Rye as King Gregor
* Kate Souci as Princess Marie
==Trivia==
*Cavin does not have any lines in the episode. He briefly appears, handing King Jean-Claude a statuette, but has no further involvement in the rest of the episode.
*In this episode, Calla is wearing a different dress from her usual formal attire, which turns out to be the exact same dress as the one that Marie wears; her usual formal dress looks similar to Snow White's dress.
*This is originally the twenty-fourth episode to premiere separately from its sibling segment, which had aired the previous week. Both segments were later combined, as originally intended, for all subsequent airings; though the episode order was flipped.
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