Likey the Pranks, Giggleping!

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## Likey the Pranks, Giggleping!

* English
* Korean

## Broadcast

### Air date

September 24th, 2020

**“Likey the Pranks, Giggleping!”** is the twenty-seventh episode of Catch! Teenieping. It continues the introduction of Giggleping.

## Synopsis

*Romi encounters a new, unfamiliar Teenieping after receiving some new upgrades to her magic, and longing for an old friend. And this one is unlike any other Teenieping she’s seen before...*

## Summary

### Major events

* Romi gets her Magic Catcher upgraded with the Teenie Heart Shields through Dr. Monziu.
* Giggleping is properly introduced as an antagonist for Catch! Teenieping.

### Magic used

* Romi: transforms with Heartsping into Princess Heart, uses the Teenie Heart Shield to block an attack from Giggleping, uses the Magic Catcher to try and catch Giggleping, but fails twice.
* Giggleping: uses her magic hammer to cause mischief for Dylan, change the sugar to salt for Ms. Olivia’s coffee and to make a stalk of broccoli appear on Romi’s bicycle seat.

## Plot

It’s nighttime and Romi is brushing Heartsping’s hair, while the other Teeniepings are watching the night sky. They start to fight over the telescope until Chachaping sees a glimmer on the moon; something’s coming at them! It’s a box, revealed to be from Dr. Monziu, as he calls in from the Magic Mirror.

Inside the package is revealed to be six new Teenie Heart Shields! These serve as upgrades due to Romi’s magic growing too strong for the Magic Catcher to bear, so a fix was required. Romi adds the Shields to her Magic Catcher, with new hope of catching more Teeniepings!

A dream sequence starts, and a Teenieping is seen walking away from Romi. This is revealed to be Happying, and Romi tries calling out for her, but she wakes up from her dream. The Teeniepings all arrive to Romi’s room to check up on her, and console her when she looks a bit troubled after the dream. They reassure her that they’ll find Happying soon...

Giggleping is seen looking for some trouble to cause, but Dylan passes by, dribbling his basketball past Lena, annoying her. Giggleping then decides to pull a prank by using her Tinkle Puff to make the ball bounce away from Dylan and into a tree! Dylan kicks the tree until it (assumedly) drops the basketball, but he gets an angry raccoon in his hands and runs away! After that event of mischief, Giggleping sees an unfamiliar looking girl, and decides to follow her for the next big prank.

At Heartrose Bakery, things are as they seem, and Jun serves Ms. Olivia some coffee. She adds in some sugar and stirs it in, but once she takes a sip, she immediately spits it out! Romi checks up on her, and she’s admonished by her teacher over the fact that she added salt into her coffee! Gogoping & Chachaping go to check up on Romi after the incident, wondering who it could’ve been, while Giggleping thinks of her next sick trick...

Romi leaves the bakery for a delivery and takes a seat on her bike, but is shocked to find that a piece of broccoli is exchanged for the seat! Now assuming this is the work of a Teenieping, Romi checks the Magic Catcher to see who’s behind this. She finds one hiding behind a flower box, and uses her Teenieping Alert to check who it is but... the image of the Teenieping that typically appears doesn’t show up! Dadaping asks that the Teenieping come out from hiding, and she does.

Not knowing who she is, Romi asks the Teenieping to introduce herself and they do as the Genius of Tricks and Pranks, doing things for a big laugh! However, she doesn’t have a name. Romi gives her the name Giggleping because her pranks up to this point were for kicks and giggles, so it suits her best. Giggleping immediately takes a liking to her new name, with the Teeniepings being more confused about her behavior... Heartsping decides to cut to the chase and offers to transform with Romi into Princess Heart, right in front of Giggleping!

Giggleping can’t recognize who this princess is, and Romi uses the Magic Catcher to try and catch her, but the medal spawned by the Magic Catcher can’t actually catch her! Romi and the Teeniepings are surprised by this, and they try again, but this time Giggleping knocks the medal away with her hammer!

This suddenly gives Giggleping a sick idea: she wants to use the Magic Catcher and pull her biggest prank yet: to let go of all the Teeniepings Romi’s already caught! Giggleping tells Romi to hand it over before lunging out at her with her magic hammer, but Romi’s Teenie Heart Shield comes in handy, as before Giggleping can hit her, she blocks the attack with a shield coming from her wrist!

The Teeniepings all lunge out to try and seize Giggleping, and they somewhat manage to, but Giggleping tries to apologize her way out of the mischief she’s caused. The Teeniepings don’t choose to accept it, but they can’t think of any way to try and catch Giggleping since the Magic Catcher wasn’t able to. Some conversation starts going which allows Giggleping to leave, and fire off some thunderbolts from her magic hammer at the Teeniepings! With Giggleping gone (for now), Romi and the Teeniepings are left promising that they’ll catch this new threat somehow...

## Characters

### Major

* Romi: receives new Teenie Heart Shields from Dr. Monziu, dreams about Happying, bikes to make a delivery, assists Ms. Olivia when her sugar is mixed with salt because of Giggleping, meets Giggleping and gives her a name, transforms with Heartsping into Princess Heart to try and catch her, but fails twice, uses the Teenie Heart Shield to block Giggleping’s attack.
* Giggleping: causes mischief for Dylan and Ms. Olivia, encounters and introduces herself to Romi and the Teeniepings, proposes to pull a prank and free the Teeniepings Romi has already caught, tries to act cute to escape the Teeniepings, but leaves during conversation and uses thunderbolts from her magic hammer to flee the scene.

### Minor

* Heartsping: gets hair brushed by Romi at the start of the episode, transforms with Romi into Princess Heart, meets Giggleping.
* Dadaping, Gogoping, Chachaping & Lalaping: seen watching the night sky with a telescope, open Dr. Monziu’s package, meet Giggleping and try to catch her, but fail.
* Dr. Monziu: delivers new Teenie Heart Shields to Romi.
* Happying: appears in a dream sequence and is seen walking away from Romi.
* Jun: apologizes to Ms. Olivia after (supposedly) mixing the salt with the sugar for her coffee.
* Dylan: seen dribbling his basketball and goes around Lena, gets basketball stuck in tree and kicks it to catch a raccoon.
* Lena: gets annoyed over Dylan’s inconsiderate behavior of dribbling a basketball around her.
* Ms. Olivia: seen having coffee at Heartrose Bakery, reacts in disgust over the salt being mixed for the sugar.

### Background

* Raccoon: falls down tree and scares Dylan.
* Ian & Kyle: seen working at the bakery.

## Trivia

* This is the first time the Teenie Heart Shields are used in the series. They act as shields that block any magic attack from a Teenieping.
* Despite Giggleping beginning her mission to steal the Magic Catcher in this episode, a Teenieping nearly attempted to do it before, but was unsuccessful.
	+ In “Greedy Allmineping,” Allmineping stole the Magic Catcher after she had tried to steal sweets from the citizens of Harmony Town.
* A tease to Happying joining the group — as well as her transformation (Princess Sunshine) with Romi — was revealed with the extra Teenie Heart Shield being reserved for her to correspond with the other Royal Teeniepings.

## Errors

* The English dub of this episode from here on out refers to Giggleping as a boy, but girls are signified by their eyelashes, whereas boys don’t have eyelashes that are as prominent.
	+ This is because Giggleping is an evil form of Happying, who is actually a girl.
		- Why this decision was made — or if Tutum Central Enter knew Giggleping was actually a girl — is unknown.
* The broccoli doesn’t seem to lose its shape when Romi sits on it.