The Tickle Feather Machine

**The Tickle Feather Machine** is the twenty-first episode arc of *The Underdog Show.* In these series of episodes, Simon Bar Sinister runs for dictator and plans to win with the help of a machine.

## Story

### Part 1 (#85 - 1/1/1966)

After many attempts of trying to take over the world failing, Simon and Cad are out of ideas. However, they spot voting posters all over the place, and that gives Simon the idea to run for dictator so people have to do what he says. He replaces all the posters with himself and goes over to houses trying to get people to vote for him, but they don't want to because of how wicked he is. Simon decides that him and Cad will vote for himself.

### Part 2 (#86 - 1/1/1966)

Back at his lab, Simon will be sure that he will win even with two votes - by making sure nobody else votes. Simon tries a series of rays on Cad that affect his mood, such as crying and relaxing, but each time Cad whatsoever makes his way to the voting machine and pulls the lever down to vote. Meanwhile, as Underdog tries to lift the Leaning Tower of Pisa when it falls, Sweet Polly Purebred arrives to Underdog the news. At last, Simon has the perfect weapon to make sure no one votes, a ray that tickles with feathers causing Cad to laugh hysterically.

### Part 3 (#87 - 1/8/1966)

Simon uses his tickle feather machine on some people that cause them to laugh. Sweet Polly notices the strange laughing phenomenon when she interviews voters who just walk by and laugh. Seeing Simon, she goes to tell Underdog who doesn't worry, because there are millions of voters across the country. Simon and Cad realize this as well, and so Simon decides to mass-produce his magical tickling feathers and dump them everywhere, so everybody everywhere laughs endlessly. Once Underdog finishes his business with the Leaning Tower, he flies to the voting booths with Polly where the two villains cast the votes. Simon makes feathers tickle both Polly and Underdog.

### Part 4 (#88 - 1/8/1966)

With Simon successfully being elected as a dictator, and Underdog not being able to stop him, he demands Cad to bring him a banker, a builder, a baker, and Polly. He gives the four specific orders that they must follow: banker has to give him a lot of money, builder has to build a palace, baker has to make him a meal, and Polly has to put on a TV show for his entertainment. Once Underdog breaks free from the tickling, he goes over to Polly's TV studio and tells her that Simon and Cad weren't registered to vote, so their votes didn't count. As a result, everyone working for Simon takes everything back from him. Underdog bends the tickle gun so when Simon shoots it, he shoots it at himself making him laugh. And Underdog gets rid of all the feathers by blowing them off Earth.

## Trivia

* In Part 4, Sweet Polly performs The King and Odie theme.
* Part 1 begins with a recap of *The Big Shrink*, *Weathering the Storm*, *Go Snow* and *The Forget-Me-Net*. However, there are some errors:
	+ Simon is seen spraying his Shrinking Water in a gun, although in the episode it was in a flower. Underdog appears and beats him in normal size, even though he was shrunken in the episode. Technically, Underdog didn't exactly "beat" him either, he was confronted after being shrunk with his water when Underdog and Polly pour the beaker on him, making him even smaller than the two heroes who are small to begin with. They force him to make everyone back to normal size naturally.
	+ Simon's weather machine was designed like an organ, where in this episode it appears as a large ray gun with a control panel. Simon is seen in his hideout, but in the episode he moved his machine to the moon to have better impact on the Earth.
	+ The "Go Snow" Gun was differently designed and was colored blue, but here it is red. Simon falling off the building also didn't happen.
* This is the last episode that Sweet Polly had red lips and pink dimples on her cheeks.