Adventures in Babysitting

A bored Cutea babysitting.

**Adventures in Babysitting** is episode 22 in the College Mates series. Cutea attempts to babysit Chris and Lulu after a spell turns them into babies!

### **Summary**

Chris and Lulu are mucking about in their garden one evening with Lumi, who is testing out some magic spells from a book. They prevent Lumi from concentrating, distracting her with frisbees as she attempts to cast a spell on a flower. The spell is supposed to restore a flower to its bud, rolling back time effectively, and Lumi refers to the tricks taught to her by Eminence. Chris teases her that Eminence will always be the nature expert, but Lumi attempts to defy him by focusing super hard. Unfortunately, a wayward frisbee from Lulu deflects Lumi's magic bolt and zaps both her and Chris. Lumi watches in shock as her the couple revert to little toddlers. She tries controlling them, but the toddlers get distracted too easily and wander around curiously, climbing over her and messing up her mane in the process. With a grumble, she messages her friends to come help.

Eminence arrives with Cutea and Sunshine, and the girls can't help but laugh at their babified friends. Lumi snaps them to attention and pleas with Eminence for a counter spell, but Eminence struggles remembering. She offers to head back to her house to retrieve the spellbook, and Sunshine offers to go with her. Lumi explains to Cutea that she has a dinner she couldn't miss, so Cutea begrudgingly offers to look after the two little toddlers until the others return with the spell. Thanking her, the other three head off urgently. Cutea finds the babysitting difficult at first, but eventually realises that the promise of cookies will discipline them. She offers a baking contest to see who can make the best cookie toppings, which she judges, but is horrified when she chips a tooth on Chris' pebble-filled cookie. She scolds him, and sends them both to bed. The toddlers, apparently regressing as time goes on, crawl into their beds and Cutea sings them to sleep. Believing her job done, she heads down to watch TV on their sofa. She texts Electric who is on a night out with friends, but his seeming stupor makes for poor company and she settles for a romantic movie.

Upstairs, baby Chris and Lulu won't go to sleep. Able to communicate, they notice a photograph in the room of them with Electric and Cutea. They mutter about a magic playground inside Cutea that they heard Electric brag about making, and decide to go looking for it. They manage to turn on the Shrink Ray left in their guest room, and miniaturize themselves. Flying wonkily down the stairway, they find Cutea lazily on the sofa with some popcorn. muttering to herself about how she wishes Electric would be like the romantic lead in the movie. They venture into her popcorn and ride a handful as she tosses them into her mouth completely unaware.

Inside her mouth, the toddlers observe Cutea's chipped tooth from earlier as the jaws nearly crush them and the tongue slides them down the throat, but find the whole experience like a fun playground slide, cheering as they venture down into her stomach. Reaching it, they look around; amid the bubbles and splashing popcorn they notice a house bizarrely tucked into one side, shored by the churning stomach juices. They head into it and explore.

Meanwhile, Cutea angrily messages Eminence for an update; when Eminence explains they haven't found the book yet (in reality they were procrastinating because the idea of Cutea babysitting amused them), Cutea tells them that she's looked after the babies and put them to sleep. Realising they need to act, the girls find the book and make their way back. At this point, Electric bursts into the house and startles Cutea. He playfully teases her about her babysitting endeavour, but stops when she responds coldly. He volunteers to go check on the babies, and upon seeing the empty beds he tries to work out where they are. After noticing the ray beside the photograph there, and hearing Cutea downstairs mumble about a stomach cramp, he realises what's happened. Noticing how hard Cutea has tried, he decides not to tell her what happened, sparing her from knowing the babies had misbehaved. He shrinks himself and proceeds to enter his girlfriend's body. Venturing to the stomach, he finds his two babified friends and absconds with them in a flustered state of anger. He flies up through the throat and escapes Cutea's mouth via a burp. He re-enlarges them back in the bedroom, just in time for Eminence and Sunshine to return with the spellbook. Lumi also returns from her dinner, hoping to atone for her mistake. With Cutea snoring loudly on the sofa, the three head up and find Electric shushing the babies to sleep. The counter-spell works to everyone's relief, and Electric explains that he did indeed construct a house for himself in Cutea's belly, a retreat he uses occasionally. Chris rolls his eyes at his brother, and the six friends jokingly startle Cutea awake, thanking her for helping out.

### **Appearances**

* Christian Clefnote
* Lulu
* Lumi
* Eminence Bloom
* Cuteamena
* Sunshine Denom
* Electric Blue

### **Trivia**

* This episode reveals Chris and Lulu's general love of cookies.
* This is the fourth episode to feature Cutea's Body as a location, after Episodes 5, 16 and 17.
* Electric is supposedly shown to be a competent builder, making a furnished house in the confines of his girlfriend's body.