The Eternal Smile

"**The Eternal Smile**" is the thirteenth episode of the seventh season of *Happy Heroes*, and the 325th episode of the series overall.

## Plot

Big M. releases a very dangerous criminal named Clown Monster from prison and winds up being one of many people the crook turns into stone with the power of his laugh-absorbing ruby.

## Characters present

### Major characters

* Big M.
* Little M.
* Clown Monster
* Careful S.

### Secondary characters

* Miss Peach
* Ambassador Miao
* Keke

## Synopsis

### Title card

On a black background, Big M. is making various poses for pictures. Then some walls close in on his head, squishing it so that he's making a smile.

### Episode

General Big M. and Corporal Little M. are outside in the middle of the night, and Big M. asks his corporal if he knows where all of Planet Xing's worst criminals are kept. After Little M. gives the answer of "in legend, in imagination, and in my singing!", the general shows him Planet Xing's maximum-security prison and explains that it's for criminals who are extremely dangerous, and thus nobody who ends up in there has a chance of escaping.

The duo go into the building, knock out some guards, and check a computer listing the criminals being imprisoned there. Big M. looks for someone to release from the prison, but has trouble reading their names until he comes across one named "Clown Monster" and decides to release him. When he tries to release him, however, the computer tries to stop him, warning him that he's a very dangerous criminal, but Big M. is persistent and keeps pressing buttons on the computer's keyboard labeled "闭" and "嘴" ("bì" and "zuǐ" respectively; "闭嘴" means "shut up"). When Big M. resorts to threatening to pour water on the computer, it gives up and releases Clown Monster for him anyway.

The duo, with their new clown assistant, sneak around outside the Supermen's house, and Big M. gives Clown Monster the command to get rid of Happy S. however he can. The clown looks through the window and sees Happy S. laughing at a TV program, and then he comments that he doesn't want to get rid of him because he's always so happy. A shocked Big M. is assured by Little M. that the other Supermen aren't like that, but then they notice Sweet S., Smart S., and Careless S. laughing while playing a card game. This turns out to be them sneezing from a cold they are catching, though; this doesn't make Clown Monster any less willing to get rid of the Supermen. Big M. cries about his new accomplice being so willing to not do anything about the heroes, but the clown, who doesn't like crying, does a magic trick for Big M. involving pulling a balloon out of his ear and twisting it into the shape of an umbrella, which pours water all over him. Big M. laughs at the magic act, causing the gem on Clown Monster's chest to absorb the laughter and use it to turn the general to stone. Clown Monster informs Little M. that he used this ability to make Big M. keep his smile forever; Little M. realizes he wants him to laugh as well and tells him he won't laugh. He makes a laugh anyway, though, and Clown Monster turns him into stone as well. The clown sees Careful S. walking out of the house and observes his lack of a smile. The clown trips on a book Little M. dropped earlier and finds a picture of Careful S. in it, and states he doesn't like him because he doesn't smile.

Careful S. Arrives at the maximum-security prison and has the situation explained to him by the computer from earlier. Meanwhile, Ambassador Miao buys and ice cream for his daughter Keke, but she drops it and starts to cry. Clown Monster enters the scene and cheers her up by performing a magic trick where he makes another ice cream cone appear out of nowhere and keeps stacking scoops of ice cream on it. This makes Keke, Ambassador Miao, and the ice cream vendor laugh, and consequentially gets them all petrified. Careful S. goes to investigate the criminal and sees the three as stone statues. Back at the Supermen's house, Doctor H. explains to Careful S. about the gem in the clown's chest that absorbs energy from laughing and launches it back at people to petrify them, and that the petrification is irreversible unless the source of the problem is destroyed.

Miss Peach does a news report concerning the people turning into stone. A robot man sets up a "Planet Xing Stone Museum", much to the confusion of the news crew, and another robot comes and berates him not for making these people into exhibits, but for not setting up a price for tickets, and he drapes a banner saying "Tickers are 5 bucks" over the stone people. Suddenly, confetti falls from the sky, and Clown Monster appears in mid-air. Miss Peach panics and throws her microphone and the camera at the monster, but he juggles the two items and Miss Peach throws her cameraman at the clown to stop him. The clown grabs the cameraman just in time, but the combined weight makes them both fall. When Clown Monster gets back up, he states his intentions on making people smile, mentioning plenty of people don't know how to cherish happiness, and starts to hijack televisions all over the city to get people laughing. Miss Peach ultimately ends up laughing, turning her and many other citizens into stone. Clown Monster recreates his face in confetti pellets when Careful S. drops in; Clown Monster recognizes him as not smiling and Careful S. knocks him out with one of his duplicates. As the two continue their short fight, Careful S. accidentally breaks Clown Monster's mask and reveals his unsmiling face. The monster goes on to explain he was born with facial paralysis and thus can't smile, giving him unpleasant memories from when he was a child - his students were scared of him and he wound up being excluded from a group picture with them by way of his portion of the picture being cut out with scissors. For this reason, the monster invented his special ruby to be able to freeze smiles forever; Careful S. swipes the ruby and breaks it on the spot, returning all the petrified people to normal.

Clown Monster is returned to the high-security prison, and as the door closes on him, Careful S. throws something to him. The thing he threw is a picture of Clown Monster making a smile, which cheers him up.