City Clowns, Country Clowns

City Clowns, Country Clowns is an episode of Little Clowns of Happytown.

## Synopsis

The Little Clowns are playing Clowny Basketball with Hiccup and Blooper's country cousin, Hattie, who is visiting the city. When a gloom alert goes off, the Little Clowns head into Clown School and discover that the gloom is at the Toot Toot Toy Shop in downtown Happytown. Hattie gets her first experience with city life when she rides the subway into the city. The Little Clowns get to the toy shop where two children want to buy a kite, but Awful Bebad kicks them out and closes up the store. The children are upset, and when Hattie wonders what they can do the Little Clowns show her how they clown away a frown. The kids cheer up and Hattie doesn't want to go back to the country, believing the city is where all the clowny action is. Bebad is angry at the Little Clowns always foiling his plans and tries to figure out a way to put a stop to it. At Hiccup and Blooper's house, Badum-Bump and Rover are trying to help themselves to Hattie's father's popcorn samples. The Little Clowns catch them and try to figure out a way to keep Badum-Bump out of the popcorn so he doesn't ruin his appetite for dinner. Pranky suggests they put Badum-Bump and Rover behind an accordion to fence them in. Hattie's father, Corny Pone, arrives to take her home to the farm for the popcorn harvest. This makes Hattie angry because she enjoys the city better than the farm and says the farm is boring. As she argues with her father, Badum-Bump uses an invention to try and sneak popcorn, but Big Top catches him. Hiccup suggests that the Little Clowns come to the farm too along with Mr. Pickleherring to make it a class project. They all agree to go to the farm the next day, but Hattie believes they will regret it. This gives Bebad the idea to go to the farm and destroy the popcorn harvest. When the Little Clowns, Mr. Pickleherring, Hattie, and Corny Pone are on their way to the farm, the Little Clowns are excited about experiencing farm life. Bebad comes up with ways to make sure the popcorn harvest never happens and ends up crashing his van into a mud puddle. At the farm, Corny Pone is giving the Little Clowns the grand tour but Hattie isn't interested, telling her father that he should listen to the Little Clowns talk about the city. The Little Clowns are eager to learn about farm life as Pranky has fun learning how cream pies are made. Badum-Bump notices piglets and decides to free them when he remembers how the Little Clowns fenced him in with the accordion. Mr. Pickleherring gets him, telling him that he doesn't want to miss the tour. Bebad disguises Geek and Whiner as a cow and orders them to destroy the Popcorn Harvester. Geek and Whiner try to do that when the cow named Bessie develops a crush on the disguise. Corny Pone shows the Little Clowns and Mr. Pickleherring all the different types of popcorn at the popcorn field. Geek and Whiner watch from the nearby shed where Corny Pone reveals the Popcorn Harvester, unaware that they are in there. Hiccup notices Hattie looking gloomy and Hattie tells her she doesn't want to be a farmer anymore, she wants to be a city clown. Hiccup explains to Hattie that her life on the farm is just as important, but Hattie refuses to believe it. The Clowns see Bessie going after Geek and Whiner's disguise as the Popcorn Harvester breaks out of the shed and destroys the popcorn harvest. The Popcorn Harvester breaks down and Tickles believes she can fix it. Corny Pone explains that if they don't harvest the popcorn immediately, it will spoil. The Little Clowns discover it was the work of Bebad and work together to fix it. As Badum-Bump is trying to set the animals free, Hiccup and Hattie bring him to help them. Bebad is determined to gloom the Little Clowns for good and orders Geek and Whiner to get back to the farm before he realizes that Bessie is lovesick for their disguise. The Little Clowns aren't sure they are harvesting the popcorn properly so Hattie shows them how to do it while Badum-Bump enjoys eating the popcorn. Geek and Whiner roam around the farm to escape Bessie, but she is hot on their trail. After harvesting the popcorn, Badum-Bump and Rover free all of the animals, which makes Bebad think Badum-Bump is doing his dirty work for him. The Little Clowns realize how difficult farm life is and are proud of Hattie for handling it like a clowny champ. They discover that Badum-Bump has freed the animals and Hiccup and Blooper tell Big Top and Pranky that he felt sorry for the animals being penned up. Hattie tells them they have to get the animals away from the popcorn as Corny Pone, Mr. Pickleherring, and Tickles arrive with the repaired Popcorn Harvester. Everyone works together to put the animals back in their pens while Bebad vows to destroy the popcorn harvest. As he tries to gloom the farm and Bessie catches the cow disguise, Badum-Bump frees her bull boyfriend that charges after Bebad, Geek, and Whiner and chases them away. The Little Clowns get on the bus to return to Happytown, and Badum-Bump gets a tummy ache from eating too much popcorn. Corny Pone tells Hattie that she can go back to the city if she wants to. Hattie realizes that everything important to her is on the farm and she thanks Hiccup for helping her see that.

## Characters Appearing

Big Top

Badum-Bump

Hiccup

Tickles

Pranky

Blooper

Rover

Mr. Pickleherring

Awful Bebad

Geek and Whiner

Hattie

Corny Pone

Farm Animals

## Songs

Clownin' Around

Thanks To The Farmer

## Trivia

* This episode reveals that Happytown is in New York City.
* Another episode to feature relatives of Hiccup and Blooper. This time their country cousins Hattie and Corny Pone and this episode is their first and only appearance.
* It is unknown if Hattie and Corny Pone are related to Hiccup and Blooper's mother or their father, but possibly their father due to their eye color (light brown).