Love Makes You Blind

**"Love Makes You Blind"** is the thirteenth episode of the first season of *Sammy & Co*. It premiered on December 25, 2015, on Netflix.

## Synopsis

When Ricky's grandmother tries to spruce herself up and accidentally glues her eyes shut, Ricky guides her on a risky journey to find help.

## Plot

The episode begins at the reef village where Ray is getting ready for his wedding anniversary with Rita. While getting himself clean by the cleaner fish, he tells Ricky, Sammy, and Ella about how he met Rita by rescuing her from being imprisoned by a fishing net. While Ricky is intrigued by the story, Ella asks her grandfather if that really happened. Sammy, who never gets to meet Rita while he was traveling around the world until after he was reunited with Ray many years ago and thus he didn't witness how Ray met his wife, tells his granddaughter that Ray more or less is telling the truth and he knows how his best friend always somewhat embellishes the truth whenever he's telling his tales. Ray tells Ricky that he has an incredible surprise for Rita for their wedding anniversary later that night.

Meanwhile, after Rita retrieves a "fluorescent seaweed cream eye make-up" from César, she is getting ready at her den by applying it to her eyelids. However, after applying it, she realizes that her "cream eye make-up" is actually a paste which makes her eyes glued shut and she's unable to open them again, thus rendering her blind. Outside her home, Ricky is telling Pipo and Annabel about his grandfather's story in an exaggerated way, which Ella teases him for being just like his grandfather for always embellishing the truth, but Ricky doesn't get it and tells her that he never lie. Just then, the kids all heard Rita's crying for help from inside the habitat and they all get in to see a blind Rita. Ricky tells his grandmother that Ray has "an incredible surprise" for her for their wedding anniversary later tonight but because Rita has the sticky paste on her eyes which Ella is unable to help pull her eyes back open, Ricky suggests that he knows a place "where [they] can get [the] stuff off fast" and he leads his grandmother out of their home.

The kids guide Rita to the passageway to get outside the reef, but when the kids are a few miles away from Rita to prevent her from hearing them, Ella asks Ricky where he's taking them and Ricky informs his friends that they're secretly going to take Rita to the Tank that's outside the reef village. However, both Pipo and Ella didn't like his idea since the Tank is way too far for them to go and it is very dangerous for them to get there. But Ricky tells them that it's the only solution left since he thinks the humans there could "always take care of fish when they have a problem". Ella asks her best friend why he couldn't just tell Rita the truth and keeps it secret from her, but Ricky tells her that otherwise, she'd never accepted to follow them out of the reef. The kids guide Rita through the passageway and they all get outside the reef together.

However, upon arriving outside the reef, the kids are all surprised to see two barracudas nearby and Ricky shouts their presence in fear, which scares Rita and she also gets confused since she thought they're still in the reef. The kids all guide her to a nearby cave and the barracudas swim past them. When Rita asks the kids what's going on, Ricky lies to her that they thought they saw some barracudas before assuring her that they were "wrong". Ella pulls Ricky aside and angrily tells him that he shouldn't have said there were barracudas in front of Rita since he scared her for no reason. However, Ricky still doesn't understand what Ella is talking about and tells her to make up her mind since he can't tell if he's supposed to lie or be honest during their situation.

After Annabel makes a make-shift helmet out of seaweeds for Rita to protect her head, the kids all guide her to the direction of the Tank. However, on their way, they encounter a swarm of jellyfish in front of them. Unfortunately, since there's no alternative way to get past them, the kids and Rita were all forced to see right through the jellyfish swarm, which causes Rita to get stung by them three times. After they get out of the jellyfish swarm, the kids and Rita all make it to the Tank.

However, the entrance to the Tank is too small for Rita to fit inside and the kids are all having trouble trying to push Rita in. Since Ricky didn't think things through with his plans, Ella wonders what they should do now. Just then, Annabel blurts out why they didn't just ask the fish cleaners of the village to do so since it didn't take a lot of hustle for them to get there. Her friends are all surprised by Annabel stating a very simple solution that neither of them ever think of earlier and when Ella asks her why didn't she say that sooner before they come all the way to the Tank, Annabel cheerfully tells them that they didn't ask for her advice at all and sees how they travel all the way to the Tank without asking her is a fun little excursion for them, much to Ricky's chagrins since they've been wasting their time getting to the Tank which is all for nothing for them. The kids were all forced to guide Rita back to the village to get herself cleaned by the cleaning fish.

Once they made it back to the reef, Rita is relieved that the cleaning fish are able to get all the sticky cream off her eyelids. But when a cleaning fish shows Rita a mirror, she is horrified to see her reflection has her face being covered in spots in which a cleaning fish reveals that the spots are coming from the jellyfish stings. Rita angrily glares at Ricky for lying to her all day and getting her stung by jellyfish. But when she tells her grandson that Ray will have to say something about his punishment, she realizes that she forgot about her husband who is waiting for her at the island so she has no choice but to leave right away.

On the island, Ray, who's dressing up with a shell on his head and a seaweed wrapped around his neck, is waiting for Rita to show up. But when his wife arrives, he is surprised by Rita's face being covered with spots and starts making fun of her when she tells him the reason is that she "had a little accident". Rita asks Ray why he's wearing such a "ridiculous outfit" and Ray explains that it was César's silly idea to get him to dress up for their wedding anniversary. And when Ray asks Rita what it is with the spots, Rita lies to him that she got them when she "was swimming along with Shelly in the reef" and avoids telling him the truth that it is Ricky's shenanigans that lead her getting stung by jellyfish.

At the playground, Ricky is telling the Rockfish about his journey with Rita to the Tank, but none of them believed him since Glitz sees his story as being an exaggeration and thinks Ricky is lying, much to the leatherback's confusion since he's actually telling the truth after all.

## Characters

### Major characters

* Ricky
* Ella
* Pipo
* Annabel
* Rita

### Minor characters

* Sammy
* Ray
* César
* Barracudas
* Glitz
* Crudd
* Babbles
* John (non-speaking)
* Shelly (mentioned)
* Billy (background)
* Crabs (background)
* Reef inhabitants

## Trivia

* In the French version, the episode is called "L'amour rend aveugle".
* Despite this episode is the fourteenth to aired on TiJi in France, it's the eleventh episode to aired in France on M6.
* At the beginning of the episode, Ray tells Ricky and Ella that he met Rita when he rescued her from being imprisoned in a fishing net. However, since *A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures* is in Sammy's perspective and he didn't get to witnesses how Ray met Rita after he and Ray got separated and Sammy would later meet Rita after the two best friends are reunited, it's unknown if what Ray said is an exaggeration.
	+ Also, Sammy and Ray are both getting cleaned by the cleaning fish so that Ray can get ready for his wedding anniversary with Rita. This serves as a little nod to the film when the two best friends were around ten years old and they were shown being cleaned by a different group of cleaning fish while they're traveling the Pacific Ocean together.
* Ray and Rita celebrate their wedding anniversary together in this episode. Though, it's unknown exactly how many years since they got together.
* "The Tank" from *A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise* is revealed to still exists after seven years have passed after the events of the film and it's located a couple of miles away from the reef village, something that was confirmed on the official *Sammy & Co* website.
* Before the kids guide Rita to leave the reef to get to the Tank, Rita can be seen swimming near the seaweed garden. This foreshadowed that the seaweed garden is the place where the cleaning fish would help clean the sticky cream eye make-up off of Rita near the end of the episode.

### Errors

* When Rita meets up with Ray at the beach, she is seen with the seaweed cream in her eyes despite the cleaning fish cleaned them when she gets ready.

## References

1. ↑ https://instantwatcher.com/title/80042306
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/m6/23-09-2014/
3. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/08-03-2015/
4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160117051510/http://www.sammy-series.com/en/story