Marylou's Tummy Ache

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## Marylou's Tummy Ache

* English
* Korean

## Broadcast

### Air date

May 7th, 2020

**“Marylou’s Tummy Ache”** is the eighth episode of Catch! Teenieping. It introduces Dreamping.

## Synopsis

*Marylou has a stomachache! This prevents her from eating anything for the whole day. And Dreamping is no help, either, as she makes Marylou imagine all kinds of food with her magic. Can Romi catch her before it’s too late?*

## Summary

### Magic used

* Romi: transformed into Princess Heart with Heartsping, launched prickly plants at Dreamping’s bottom, used the Magic Catcher to catch Dreamping.
* Dreamping: used her magic on a bird and Marylou to create illusions of food, turned herself into a giant balloon.

## Plot

It’s another day at Heartrose Bakery: the boys are at work, while Sarah assigns Jun to check on the bags of sugar. At the Teenieping House, Shyping & Heartsping are seen talking over tea, Dadaping is seen reading, while Charmping is on the swing. Dareping is hosting a treadmill race between Gogoping & Blankping.

Romi & Maya, meanwhile, are seen enjoying apple pies. Marylou enters the bakery, and she isn’t looking so bright. Romi offers her some of the apple pies, and at first she’s excited to eat some, but remembers she can’t. She has a stomachache, and the doctor says she can’t eat anything until tomorrow. She then hurries over to the bathroom.

Outside the school, where two birds are seen fighting over some insects for food. One bird leaves, while the other stays behind. A Teenieping then uses its magic on the bird, causing it to imagine that there’s some food lying on the ground. The bird pecks at it, but it turns out to be just a stone. This is the work of Dreamping, who teases the bird and, when it starts to fly at her, she uses her magic again to trick the bird into seeing an eagle in the sky, scaring it and causing it to fly away. Dreamping wonders what her next fun trick could be, and she turns towards the school...

During math class, Marylou’s stomach begins to growl and she’s really hungry! She then starts to imagine that there’s apple pies right in front of her. But right when she takes a bite, it turns out she was just biting into one of her notebooks! This causes Cindy & Lena to tease her, and it’s the work of Dreamping again, who’s turned into a pencil case. Class resumes as normal, but Marylou is hungry again. Dreamping uses her magic again on Marylou, making her imagine that her pencils are like chocolate sticks! She takes a bite into them, but doesn’t know they’re actually chocolate sticks, causing the class to laugh at her.

All of this concerns Romi, and class ends with Maya leaving Romi, and Romi’s Teenieping Alert goes off. She checks the Magic Catcher and finds that it’s Dreamping, who’s been tricking Marylou all along. She leaves class and transforms with Heartsping into Princess Heart.

Near the soccer field, Dylan & Aiden are seen playing basketball while Marylou watches them, her stomach still bothering her. When Dylan goes for a shot, he misses and the ball heads right for Marylou’s direction. She then starts to imagine that a hamburger is flying right toward her! She opens her mouth but gets hit right in the face! She throws the ball back over to Dylan & Aiden.

Just before Dreamping could try her next trick, Romi & Heartsping have arrived on the scene to try and stop her antics. Dreamping then uses her magic on Marylou again, making her imagine that Heartsping is a piece of chicken with arms and legs! She begins to chase Heartsping all across a nearby set of playground equipment, but Romi stops Marylou in the midst of it all, the effects of Dreamping’s magic wearing off and allowing Dreamping to escape!

Romi & Heartsping arrive down a forest path to try and find Dreamping. As they try to look around the bushes, Dreamping uses her magic to turn herself into a rock; the catch is that her ears make it obvious that it’s actually her. So when Romi can’t find Dreamping, Heartsping clues her in that Dreamping’s disguises are fairly obvious. And when she looks around, she comes across Dreamping and uses her magic to turn Dreamping back into her normal form.

Right when it looks like they’ve caught Dreamping, she runs away and uses magic on herself to turn into a giant inflatable balloon! This terrifying sight at first intimidates Romi, but she remembers that it’s all just an illusion. And when she spots some prickly plants atop a tree, she comes up with a way to make Dreamping turn back to normal... by launching the prickly thorns at Dreamping’s bottom, causing her to deflate and crash into the ground, sending her into a daze. Romi finally catches Dreamping using the magic catcher.

The next day, Marylou is all better and sees the array of sweets that Romi & Maya helped make for her, and is eager to have some. But before she can, she asks if the sweet is real to the confusion of Maya, but Romi tells her it’s fine now. She happily takes a bite and enjoys the sweets prepared by the two of them!

## Characters

### Major

* Romi / Princess Heart: offered sweets to Marylou, became suspicious of Marylou’s behavior during math class, transformed with Heartsping into Princess Heart and caught Dreamping.
* Heartsping: helped Romi catch Dreamping, got chased around by Marylou across the park.
* Marylou: had a stomach-ache, was affected by Dreamping’s magic, causing her to imagine various objects in class — and Heartsping — as food items and tried to eat them
* Dreamping: created various illusions with her magic on a bird, Marylou and herself.

### Minor

* Maya: offers sweets to Marylou at the beginning and end of the episode.
* Lena & Cindy: mocked Marylou’s weird behavior during math class.
* Mr. Dayne: scolded Marylou for not being focused during math class.
* Dylan & Aiden: played basketball together and asked Marylou to pass the ball back to them.

### Background

* Various Teeniepings: seen playing around at the Teenieping House.
* Romi’s classmates: seen talking at class.
* Birds: seen eating food.

## Trivia

* When Romi uses her magic to reverse Dreamping’s magic and turn her back from a rock, a different animation is used when she casts it.

## Errors

* In the beginning scene at the Teenieping House, Dadaping is supposedly reading a book, but there’s nothing in his hands. When it focuses on him in the next scene, the book appears.
* After Dreamping is caught, the same scene where they’re playing at the beginning is used at the end of the episode for the Teeniepings at the Teenieping House.
	+ This was likely to save time/money.