Don't Look at the Mirror

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## Don’t Look at the Mirror!

* English
* Korean

## Broadcast

### Air date

June 18th, 2020

**“Don’t Look at the Mirror!”** is the fourteenth episode of Catch! Teenieping. It introduces Narrping.

## Synopsis

*Marylou meets Narrping, who encourages her into changing her style completely! While her classmates try to figure out what’s going on, Narrping gives them all magic mirrors and they start to fawn over their appearance! Can Romi put an end to this beautiful mess?*

## Summary

### Magic used

* Romi: transforms with Heartsping & Dadaping into Princess Heart & Cloudia respectively, (as Princess Cloudia) summons flying books to take away everyone’s mirrors, uses magic beam to stop Narrping’s magic mirror, caught Narrping with the Magic Catcher.
* Narrping: used her Tinkle Puff to summon mirrors which made people distracted by their appearance

## Plot

Luca is seen in her mother’s bedroom trying on her makeup. Marylou walks in, astonished by what she sees: Luca’s face is a mess! She wipes her face off and Luca leaves, teasing her. Marylou then starts putting away her mother’s makeup, confused as to why girls are so into it, but she hears a voice saying that it isn’t bad to want to look beautiful all the time.

A Teenieping appears behind a mirror, and it’s Narrping! She introduces herself — with Marylou questioning if she knows Heartsping — and quickly offers to help make Marylou beautiful. She uses her Tinkle Puff to summon a mirror, and Marylou takes a look, with Narrping telling her that she’s prettier than she thinks and, with a bit of style, Marylou can become prettier than before.

The next day, a girl in a purple dress walks by and the boys (Raymond, Niall & Dylan) are immediately impressed and wondering who it is. The girl enters class and sits right in front of Romi & Maya — where Marylou usually sits. Romi & Maya ask who she is, but it’s actually Marylou! The girls are surprised about this and wonder what exactly got into her, but she tells them she has realized she is the most beautiful girl in the school and the world. This disgusts Lena, Hani & Cindy...

Outside school, Lena, Hani & Cindy approach Marylou who’s admiring her appearance in her hand mirror and don’t like the way she’s acting, saying they want the old Marylou back. But Narrping approaches the three of them and uses her magic to give them all hand mirrors, and they’re immediately taken aback by their appearance!

At school, the students are cleaning up the hallways while Lena, Hani & Cindy are busy staring at themselves in their mirrors. Raymond admonishes them for not helping out, and he snatches the hand mirror out of Lena’s hand and notices his appearance immediately begins to change in the hand mirror! Lena & Raymond scuffle for the mirror, which gets the attention of Romi, and she sees that everyone suddenly has hand mirrors too, meaning a Teenieping must’ve been behind this.

Narrping then notices Aiden, who appears to be crying. Narrping tries to comfort him but he’s actually crying because he’s admiring how handsome he is. This causes Romi’s Teenieping Alert to ring and she checks the Magic Catcher and finds Narrping racing down the halls. Together with Heartsping, she transforms into Princess Heart to find her.

Romi arrives into Ms. Olivia’s office where Narrping has used her magic on her and tries to stop it by taking the hand mirror away from Ms. Olivia’s hands. Narrping’s magic wears off, and Romi leaves after this awkward moment.

Wondering what to do next, Dadaping appears on Romi’s shoulders and tells her about some reading he’s done on the hunting method polar bears use on seals: polar bears have a tendency to wait above an ice crack for the seal to pop up so that they can eat them. While Heartsping tells him that there are so many mirrors that they won’t know which one Narrping will come out from, Dadaping reasons that they should try and trap every mirror except for one so that Narrping is ready to be caught.

Romi follows through with this plan by transforming into Princess Cloudia with Dadaping and using magical flying books to try and snatch the mirrors away from everyone’s hands. While this happens, Narrping swims through a black void with portals floating through, each of them shutting down when a flying book knocks away a mirror until only one of them remains for Narrping to go through!

Narrping pops out of a mirror that’s placed outside the school and right in front of Romi. Narrping, in a last-ditch effort, uses her magic to create a mirror that summons a reflection of Romi but suddenly starts to suck her in! Narrping then tries to get into Romi’s head, telling her about the old times, when she used to be the princess of the Emotions Kingdom and enjoying her life there, and trying to tell her she’d be much happier going back to that.

Romi, despite wanting to look, doesn’t let this get to her, saying she’s much happier where she is now despite making mistakes, helping at the bakery and meeting new friends. After this, Romi uses her Heart Wing Staff to shoot a beam that causes the mirror to explode into a cloud of smoke to the shock of Narrping. This leaves her with enough room to catch her successfully, with the effects of Narrping’s magic wearing off once Romi’s done.

Romi is biking home and Dadaping congratulates her for her magic improving, but Romi says she still has a long way to go. She stops by and sees Marylou & Luca together, with Marylou back to her usual outfit. She says that she’s happy with the way she is now, and Romi tells her not to change who she is for someone she isn’t.

## Characters

### Major

* Romi: gets surprised when she notices Marylou has changed, transforms with Heartsping into Princess Heart and then into Princess Cloudia with Dadaping, catches Narrping after surviving her mind games, suggests Marylou shouldn’t change her appearance.
* Narrping: convinces Marylou to change her appearance with a magic mirror, gives various students and Ms. Olivia hand mirrors to help them admire their own appearance, creates a mirror to try and trick Romi, and gets caught by Romi.
* Dadaping: introduces an idea to help catch Narrping, transforms with Romi into Princess Cloudia.
* Marylou: wipes makeup off Luca’s face, falls to Narrping’s magic thanks to a magic mirror, drastically changes appearance, appears in a flashback with Romi & Maya, changes back after Narrping is caught by Romi.

### Minor

* Heartsping: transforms with Romi into Princess Heart, joins her and Dadaping in helping to catch Narrping.
* Maya: gets surprised when she notices Marylou has changed, seen looking into a hand mirror courtesy of Narrping’s magic, and appears in a flashback with Romi & Marylou.
* Lena: reacts in disgust to Marylou’s changed appearance, receives a hand mirror from Narrping and starts admiring her appearance, and fights with Raymond over it until Narrping is caught.
* Hani & Cindy: reacts in disgust to Marylou’s changed appearance, receives a hand mirror from Narrping and starts admiring their appearances.
* Raymond: admonishes Lena for not helping until he takes her hand mirror and falls for its magic power, causing him to admire his own appearance, and fights with Lena for it until Narrping is caught.
* Aiden: seen crying while looking into a hand mirror, but is actually admiring his appearance.
* Niall & Dylan: are surprised to see what looks like a new girl at school (but is actually Marylou).
* Ms. Olivia: seen admiring her appearance with a hand mirror.
* Luca: seen putting on her mother’s makeup, gets it taken off by Marylou, teases Marylou.

### Background

* Mr. Dayne’s students: seen cleaning the hallways, then looking into hand mirrors thanks to Narrping’s magic.
* Dr. Monziu: seen yelling at Romi in his lab in a flashback.
* King Heart & Queen Belita: seen hugging Romi in a flashback
* Royal Teeniepings: seen exploring with Romi in a flashback.
* Ian: seen looking surprised at Romi for dropping bread in a flashback
* Old man: seen looking surprised at Romi for biking past her into a puddle in a flashback.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode where Romi transforms into a princess more than once.
* This is the second episode where Romi transforms off-screen.
	+ The first was in “Let’s Sing with Joy” where Romi transformed into Princess Heart.
* We never get to see what anyone looks like in the hand mirror, except for Raymond.
* Happying makes a cameo appearance during one of Romi’s flashbacks.
	+ Despite appearing here, she wouldn’t return to the show until “Happying’s Back,” where she’s converted back to her original form after being turned into Giggleping.

## Errors

* When Romi meets Marylou & Luca after catching Narrping, Heartsping & Dadaping hide behind Romi’s shoulders so as to not be seen. In the next shot, they’ve disappeared.