Houdini (episode)

"Houdini" is the twenty-third episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It aired on December 12, 2003.
==Plot==
Stitch and Pleakley are hired to do a magic show at Mertle's "half-birthday" party. After their act turns out to be horrible, Lilo secretly activates an experiment that turns things invisible to help make the show a success. When it is, Mertle's aunt, a Hollywood producer, hires them to do their trick on national television. However, when Houdini runs away and leaves Stitch invisible, Lilo tries to find them both before she looks like a fraud. Meanwhile, 625 finds 119's experiment pod at the grocery store, mistaking it for 611's pod, but Gantu takes all the credit for it while trying to find Houdini. In the end, Houdini arrives just in time to make the disappearing lighthouse magic trick work. He is then revealed to be the true magician and gets a magic show with Mertle's aunt.
==Goofs==
*Fudgy is Experiment 054. However, in his debut, his pod is labeled 119, most likely due to Jumba's untidy database.
*Hämsterviel stated that Gantu was looking at Fudgy's pod upside-down (which Reuben did beforehand). However, if looked closely, the 1's on the pod did not look upside-down. It is either that Hämsterviel is a hamster-like creature, as hamsters do not have good eyesight, or Jumba labeled the 1's upside-down by mistake.
*For some reason, when Jumba says, "Experiment Six-Oh-Four" while holding Houdini's experiment pod, then later when he asks Lilo, "Did you not find Experiment 604?" upon her returning to his ship with whom she believed to be Stitch, his voice sounds completely different. Either they were meant to be scratch vocals for David Ogden Stiers to voice over in ADR that were somehow left in during post-production, or Stiers either got the lines wrong or missed the lines entirely, and someone on the production staff had to quickly voice the lines to fix the error.
==Trivia==
*Moral: Don't take credit for what someone else does.
*This is one of three episodes where Stitch's fur becomes a different color, the other two being "Swapper" and "Ploot".
*Stitch's outfit of the bandages, coat, glasses, and hat is likely a reference to Jack Griffin in the 1933 sci-fi horror film .
*This episode shows that Gantu apparently has bad karma, as he took all the credit for an experiment pod that Reuben actually found.
===Experiments mentioned===
*Experiment 119: Fudgy
*Experiment 501: Yin
*Experiment 502: Yang
*Experiment 520: Cannonball
*Experiment 601: Kixx
*Experiment 604: Houdini
*Experiment 611: El Fin
*Experiment 619: Splodyhead
*Experiment 625: Reuben
Category:Lilo & Stitch episodes
Category:Birthday productions