Messy Pop Friends

**"Messy Pop Friends"** is the third episode of the third season of *Popples*. It first premiered on July 24, 2016 on Netflix and July 25, 2019 on Discovery Family.

## Synopsis

Feeling misunderstood, pack rat Izzy runs away with a garden gnome who loves collecting treasures too.

## Characters

### Major characters

* Izzy
* Balthazar

### Minor characters

* Lulu
* Sunny
* Bubbles
* Yikes
* Mrs. Snooply
* Squeaky Pop (mentioned)

## Songs

* Messy Pop Friends songs
	+ Don't Stop the Pop
	+ Together with My Friends

## Trivia

* In the French version, the episode is called "Touche pas à mon Poppain!", meaning "Do not touch my Poppain!".
* In France, the airing order for this episode and "It Takes Two to Tangle" have been switched. Instead of this episode having its sister episode be "Hocus Pop-us" like on Netflix, the previous episode both TiJi and Gulli aired is "Tele Popples".
	+ This also happened when the episode premiered on Discovery Family, which makes "Messy Pop Friends" the thirty-second episode to aired on that channel instead of being the thirty-third.
* Both this episode and "Tele Popples" premiered on Discovery Family almost exactly three years after Season 3 was released on Netflix.
* According to Lulu, every time Izzy come back from his explorer expeditions, he'll make a huge mess in the Treepod.
* Lulu's pop-vacuum shares the same model as both the Color Popper from "Pop-Tivity Week" and the Color-Puller from "Dawn of the Dull". Because of it, it's possible that Lulu modified the Color-Puller at some point into a vacuum cleaner.
* If not counting Balthazar and the garden gnomes, this is the second episode in which only Mrs. Snooply and the Best Popple Pals appeared after "Bubble Trouble".
* At one point, Bubbles briefly sang "Don't Stop the Pop" and "Together with My Friends".
* Several balls that shares the same color as Popfoot's can be seen in the mess pile.
* There're several items in the mess piles that references to previous episodes in the series:
	+ Bubbles' white noise machine from "Pop-Tervention".
	+ The Local Big Time Brave Explorer Society's leader's Popple Pete's hat as well as the toy sword from "The Curse of Popple Pete the Pirate".
	+ Margaret Shush's *How to Win Friends, and Keep Them Quiet*, *The Great Book of Earplugs*, and *Zip It: The Art of Shushing* books from "Pop in the Name of the Law".
	+ Bubbles' luggages from "Izzy Lost In Space".
	+ Sunny's bowling ball from "Palentine's Day" and "Pop-Tervention".
	+ The mini Popplecopter from "The BFF App" and "Mayor Bubbles".
	+ Sunny's Poppleball trophy from "Sunny Loses Her Pop" and "Pop-Tervention".
	+ A remote that Lulu sucked in her pop-vacuum shares the same model as the remote for the mini Popplecopter.
* When Izzy is following Balthazar in the cave, the luminous mosses can be seen in the background. This indicates that Balthazar hid his treasure near the area where Sir Edmund Poplary discovered the underground water spring.

### Errors

* Sometimes the mess inside the Treepod is inconsistent. Examples included:
	+ During the scene when Izzy said, "I'm surprised you can see anything with my explorer's flag drape over your head", there's no mess near the kitchen table and only a pizza box appeared.
	+ When Lulu scolds Izzy for making a mess inside the Treepod, a shovel and a marble are both seen near the kitchen and a pile of papers are seen on the floor despite they didn't appear four scenes ago.
	+ When Lulu complained to Izzy that her pop-vacuum is buried inside his mess before Yikes, Sunny, and Bubbles entered the Treepod, a gray pipe can be seen on the kitchen table and there're more mess next to one of the radios on the table. Also, the telescope and the pizza boxes near the entrance door disappeared. The pizza boxes are replaced with a gift box and a bean bag chair.
	+ When Sunny and Bubbles entered the Treepod, the gift box and the bean bag chair disappeared near the entrance door. Also, a bowling ball suddenly appeared in front of the door.
* Izzy, at one point, refers Mrs. Snooply as "**Miss Snooply**".
* Strangely, the luminous mosses in the cave didn't trigger when Izzy walked past them.

## References

1. ↑ https://instantwatcher.com/title/80075962?content\_type=1%202&source=1%202%203&q=Popples
2. ↑ https://cf-media.press.discovery.com/ugc/highlights/2019/06/17/132833/DFC\_Highlights\_-\_July\_2019\_-\_Final.pdf
3. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/11-02-2016/
4. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/gulli/28-03-2016/
5. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/11-02-2016/
6. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/gulli/26-02-2016/