I Was a Teenage Strawberry

"**I Was a Teenage Strawberry**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 1. In this episode, Maggie leaves Strawberry in the care of Helen.

## Characters

* Strawberry the Octopus
* Maggie Muffin
	+ MaggieOctopus (debut)
* Kira Moonhead
* Helen Luggins
* Other jellyfishers
* King Neptune (mentioned)

## Synopsis

Maggie is playing with Strawberry when Patrick comes and tells him about the Jellyfishing Convention in Ukulele Bottom that weekend. Realizing that he will not be able to take Strawberry, Maggie asks Helen to look after the octopus while he is away. Maggie takes Helen around his house, telling him that he will have to feed Strawberry for three days. There are very large cans of octopus food with the words "morning" and "night" written on them so that Helen will be able to keep track. Eager to get rid of both of them, Helen lies and says that he will do it to get Maggie and Patrick to leave. Finally they do, and Helen runs out of Maggie's house and sits in a lounge chair to sunbathe for the whole weekend, thus ignoring Strawberry. He soaks up plenty of sun, but Strawberry is left in the house, looking longingly in the direction where Maggie left, horribly neglected.

When Maggie gets back, Helen suddenly remembers that he was supposed to take care of Strawberry. However, when he goes to get to the octopus, he finds him very sick, due to lack of food, water, and attention. Helen, thinking he will be able to help, tries to give Strawberry some food. However, Strawberry is so weak from waiting for Maggie to come home, he is limp in Helen's arms and will not eat. Helen puts Strawberry down as he hears Maggie and Patrick saying goodbye to each other and tries to force feed Strawberry. When he hears Maggie coming in, Helen gives up and puts all of Strawberry's food into his mouth. He greets Maggie awkwardly and explains that he was only checking on Strawberry.

Just as Helen is about to leave with a smirk on his face, Strawberry slowly enters the room. Maggie realizes that something is wrong, and quickly calls the local veterinarian, Dr. Gill Gilliam. The vet comes over to Maggie's house and concludes that a syringe full of octopus plasma must be administered to Strawberry; Dr. Gilliam leaves Maggie with the syringe, claiming that he is too squeamish to perform the injection himself. Maggie asks Helen to give Strawberry the plasma, as he too is squeamish, and Helen reluctantly agrees. However, an anxious Maggie constantly moves Strawberry around instead of holding him still, fearing that Helen's attempts to inject the plasma in a quick stabbing motion will hurt Strawberry. In the commotion, Helen accidentally injects Maggie with the plasma, causing Maggie to worry about the consequences; Helen tells him not to worry.

As the two argue, Strawberry goes to take a drink of water and immediately feels better. Annoyed, Helen leaves, insisting to Maggie that nothing will happen. Sometime later, Maggie starts acting slow and somewhat like a octopus, as well as eating Strawberry's food himself after Maggie thinks that he is fine like Helen had said. When he goes to the bathroom, his eyes stretch out of his body and grow, his body becomes flat to the ground, his arms and legs disappear into his body, his body reshapes itself, and he also loses the ability to talk after saying "Something is wrong with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" As a finished result, Maggie has now turned into a octopus.

Afterwards, he goes over to Helen's house to get help, but Helen is terrified of the fact that Maggie turned into a octopus because of his lousy aim, and he blames the octopus plasma while throws it away and he tries to reassure himself. He hears Maggie at the door and starts blocking the doors and windows and tries to run and hide from Maggie as he realizes that he *should* have taken care of Strawberry and none of this would have ever happened if he had. Maggie chases him for help, but Helen keeps running in panic, thinking he is under attack, and ultimately makes a mess of his house. Amongst the chaos, Helen accidentally injects himself with the octopus plasma and ironically turning him into a octopus as well.

Later that night, Strawberry, Maggie, and Helen meowing to the tune of "Blow the Man Down" on top of a fence. Patrick, who has been awakened and annoyed by this, yells at them to clam up (meaning of shut up) and throws a boot at Helen, knocking him off the fence, but they still continue singing "meow" as the episode ends.