Beasts in Show

**Beasts in Show**GalleryTranscript

* Title card
* Promo art

## Information

### Official Description

When Barbara Gordon and Kara Danvers spar over whose dog is better, they decide to settle it at the Metropolis Dog Show, where Ace the Bat-Hound and Krypto the Superdog suddenly find themselves called upon to save the day... in more ways than one.

### Airdate

July 26, 2019 (online)
August 1, 2019 (television)

### Storyboarded by

Jackie Cole
Erin Kavanagh
Heejung Lim
Mariah-Rose McClaren

### Length

11:19

***#BeastsInShow*** is the eighteenth episode of Season 1 of *DC Super Hero Girls*.

## Plot

The episode begins with Ace tackling Kara after she picks up a tennis ball. Babs introduces him to Kara and says he's the greatest dog in the universe. Kara disagrees and says her old dog back in Smallville is the greatest dog in the universe. She whistles, and Krypto crashes through a brick wall and jumps to her. Babs and Kara argue whose dog is better, and say there's only one way to settle the issue.

The scene cuts to black and fades into the Schuster Arena where an announcer is announcing the "44th annual Metropolis Kennel Club dog show". The show starts with an obedience trial, in which Ace impresses the announcer while Krypto fails to meet "MKC standards". The dogs continue to take various tests, until the dog show is disrupted by two hyenas that ran away from Harley Quinn. Ace and Krypto fight off the hyenas together, and Krypto throws them out of the dog show.

The announcer announces that the winner is "Waffles the Pomeranian", and Kara and Babs complain that even each other's dog is better than that. They smile at each other and the shot cuts to Pelham Park where Kara and Babs agree both dogs are good boys, and the episode ends with Kara and Babs shouting "bad boys" at the dogs while they chase after a cat.

## Characters

* Batgirl
* Ace the Bat-Hound  *(debut)*
* Krypto  *(debut)*
* Harley Quinn
* Lucy  *(debut)*
* Ethel  *(debut)*
* Dog Show Commentator  *(debut)*

## Cast

* Dee Bradley Baker as Ace the Bat-Hound, Krypto, Commentator
* Tara Strong as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn
* Nicole Sullivan as Kara Danvers/Supergirl
* Fred Tatasciore as Ethel, Lucy

## Trivia

* Harley named her hyenas "Ethel and "Lucy" rather than their original names Lou and Bud.
	+ Lucy and Ethel are the names of the main characters from the 50s sitcom *I Love Lucy*.
* Technically, hyenas are not dogs. They are more related to viverridae.

### References

* The title of this episode is a pun on the phrase, "best in show."
* The climax is similar to the *Krypto the Superdog* episode "The Bat Hound Strikes!," in which Krypto and Ace the Bat-Hound join forces to stop the hyenas Bud and Lou who were wreaking havoc at the dog show.
* Barbara fighting Kara is similar to their original counterparts in the original webseries episode "Batgirl vs. Supergirl."

### Continuity

* Barbara and Kara do not transform into heroes at any point in this episode, making this episode the first time none of the main characters transform into heroes.

## Video

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