Don't Tell Mom

Don't Tell Mom is an episode of Little Clowns of Happytown.

## Synopsis

Big Top and Badum-Bump's family is eating breakfast, and when Big Top tells his mother a joke his father answers it. She tells Big Top to hurry and eat or he'll be late for school, so he does. At Clown School, Hiccup and Pranky are arguing about who should be the magician in their game. Pranky tells Mr. Pickleherring to tell Hiccup that a girl can't be a magician, but Mr. Pickleherring and Tickles explain to him that girls can do anything boys can do. Hiccup proves it by performing a magic trick, so Pranky tries to one up her by sawing Blooper in half. Bebad witnesses the fun and tries to come up with a way to gloom it. After school, Mr. Pickleherring reminds the Little Clowns that boys and girls can be anything they want. The Little Clowns talk about how their mothers have successful occupations and Big Top brags that his mother has the easiest job of all taking care of him and Badum-Bump. That evening at dinner, Big Top's mother announces that she will start her new job as a sales manager at the Happytown Joke and Magic Factory the next day. Big Top tells her she already has a job taking care of him and Badum-Bump, but when she agrees that it's an important job and she loves doing it his father tells him that she wants to do other things too. Big Top and Badum-Bump can't believe it and Big Top wonders who's going to take care of them and the house. His father tells him they've arranged for Mrs. Hyuck-Hyuck to take care of them, and Big Top gets the idea that he can take care of everything because lots of kids do that. His mother agrees, saying that he is old enough to handle the responsibility, which makes him proud. As the family is cleaning up the kitchen, Big Top's mother reads off a list of chores for him. He isn't sure he can remember it all, but she tells him the important thing is that he tries. The next morning, Big Top's father wakes him up to tell him that his mother wants to talk to him about his new responsibility. His mother goes over the rules with him and says he must never tell anyone he's home alone. Big Top promises, but after his parents leave for work, he ends up making a mess of the kitchen. He tells Badum-Bump he will clean it up when they get home and swears him to secrecy. At the Joke and Magic Factory, the manager, Mr. Meringue, is showing Big Top and Badum-Bump's mother around the factory where Bebad is glooming. At Clown School, the Little Clowns notice Big Top and Badum-Bump are wearing each other's clothes. Big Top explains that his mother started a new job and he's still getting the hang of his chores. Hiccup assures him it will work out, and he and Badum-Bump switch their clothes back. A gloom alert goes off at the factory and the Little Clowns and Mr. Pickleherring rush to put a stop to it. Big Top and Badum-Bump's mother notices the other employees being gloomed and realizes that Bebad is up to no good. The Little Clowns and Mr. Pickleherring arrive and defeat Bebad, who swears that the Little Clowns will pay for it. Tickles cleans up the mess with one of her inventions, and after Mr. Meringue thanks the Little Clowns, Big Top's mother is proud of him. She tells Big Top and Badum-Bump that she has to work late and she can count on Big Top to take care of everything until she gets home. He isn't so sure about this, then remembers the mess he made earlier and tells Badum-Bump they have to get home and clean it up. Bebad gets another idea about how to gloom everything again when Big Top says he doesn't want their mom to think he's not responsible. Big Top and Badum-Bump return home to discover that Bebad has covered the place with Gloom Glop and Big Top worries about his mother seeing it. When Badum-Bump suggests he call the other clowns to help clean up, Big Top agrees and swears him to secrecy about it. When the other clowns arrive, Big Top gets a visit from Geek and Whiner disguised as carpet cleaners and he invites them in. He discovers that Bebad has come as well to cause such destruction to the house that Big Top's mother will never trust him again. The Little Clowns defeat Bebad once again and are proud of themselves as they clean up the house so it's just how Big Top's parents left it. Big Top and Badum-Bump's mother comes home and tells Big Top he did a wonderful job, but he tells her all about what happened because he believes he let her down. She tells him he could never let her down because he did his best and that's what counts, which makes him very proud of himself.

## Characters Appearing

Big Top

Badum-Bump

Hiccup

Tickles

Pranky

Blooper

Rover

Mr. Pickleherring

Awful Bebad

Geek and Whiner

Big Top and Badum-Bump's Mother

Big Top and Badum-Bump's Father

Mr. Meringue

Happytown Joke and Magic Factory Employees

Clowny Firefighters

## Songs

We Can Do It, We Can Do It, Yes We Can

Now That We Know (Now That We Understand)

## Trivia

* First and only appearance of Big Top and Badum-Bump's mother, but first or second appearance of their father.
* Big Top and Badum-Bump's mother and father's names are revealed to be Ta-Dah and Abracadabra.
* The episode's two songs are sung by Big Top.
* This episode reveals the Little Clowns' mothers' occupations: Pranky's mother is a police officer, Tickles' mother works for the Clowny National Bank, and Hiccup and Blooper's mother is a writer for the Happytown newspaper, The Daily Laugh. Big Top and Badum-Bump's mother is at first a homemaker, and then a sales manager at the Happytown Joke and Magic Factory.
* It is possible that Big Top and Badum-Bump's father either owns or works in a magic shop for he can perform magic.
* Abracadabra has purple hair in this episode where in "New Dad, No Dad", his hair is red-orange.