Cleaning Up Your Act

**Cleaning Up Your Act** is the fourteenth Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the eighty-first episode overall.

## Summary

After King Leonardo and Tommy discover that Chief Gordy and Beatrice’s house is a pigsty, they use the opportunity to humiliate them on public television. Meanwhile, so as not to deal with Leo’s own trashy habits, NLE sends a trash-spitting monster to expel all of the garbage (whom he had sent to NLE) onto Puffy Town.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Manny
* Beatrice
* Chief Gordy
* King Leonardo

### Secondary

* Athena
* Aurora Man (*no dialogue*)
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Daisy
* Dr. Medico
* Felix
* Gamba
* Gene
* Helios & Luna (*no dialogue*)
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Milly
* Miss Yuubin
* Moonlight Man
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter (*no dialogue*)
* Snowdrop
* Tommy
* Trash Grabber (*debut*)
* Twilight Man (*no dialogue*)
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Castle Leonardo, where Tommy is complaining to King Leonardo about the massive mess of discarded food he is making in the throne room while watching television. After being dismissed by the king, Tommy takes matters into his own hands and orders the Viruses to clean things up despite Leonardo's protests. After everything has been collected in trash bags, King Leonardo and Tommy ponder where to dump it, and eventually decide to have it sent through the Monster delivery system, burying Gene in the rubbish. He contacts King Leonardo to ask for the meaning of this dump, and King Leonardo mocks him further by insisting that he will not order any more monsters unless Nebula Enterprises accepts their trash. Meanwhile, Manny is play-fighting with Leeko in his room when Lady Chanter comes in and comments on how much of a mess it is. Instead of cleaning it, Manny runs away with Leeko to avoid the responsibility and heads out to play with the Puffy kids. While playing a ball game, Manny accidentally launches the ball through Dr. Medico's window and ruins an article he was preparing. Manny and the others initially feel remorse about this, but then they see how messy Dr. Medico's room is.

Later on, Manny and the kids inexplicably kick their ball through the other villagers' windows and see how much of a mess their respective rooms are. After eavesdropping on Miss Yuubin, they then watch her take a letter for Beatrice, and they all comment on how nice Beatrice is. Later on, the kids continue their ball game and Manny accidentally kicks Leeko again, launching him through a window into Chief Gordy's house. Seeing that nobody's home, Manny tries to open the door to get Leeko when Milly shows up and asks what he is doing. After explaining the situation to her, Manny decides to enter through the broken window. Instead of Leeko, however, he finds a massive hoard of junk inside the house, and all those assembled are horrified at the sight. Still struggling to believe that the Gordys would hoard this junk, Manny reminds everyone of how neat and tidy they were when treating King Leonardo in the episode Come Get Your Meals!, but Milly explains that nobody saw the inside of their house during that night. After locating and recovering Leeko, the kids are then forced to hide in the junk piles as Beatrice returns home. The kids watch as Beatrice prepares dinner and Chief Gordy returns home. As the two sit down to eat, Leeko fails to contain himself and rushes to the table as well, blowing the kids' cover.

Despite being caught, Chief Gordy and Beatrice greet the kids warmly, but Beatrice is soon forced to admit that she cannot keep the house clean. She explains that the reason for this is because Chief Gordy insists on bringing every unclaimed item from the lost and found home. Chief Gordy deflects the blame further by insisting that the villagers are at fault for constantly losing things. At that moment, he is interrupted when King Leonardo and Tommy pull up and demand his presence in the front. King Leonardo then explains that he lost a pair of swimming trunks and insists on looking for them instead. Chief Gordy and the kids try to stop Leonardo from entering and seeing the mess, but Leonardo easily bashes the door down with his hammer. After surveying the mess, King Leonardo and Tommy promptly return to the castle and prepare to broadcast the situation to the whole town on Channel Lion Out Loud. Later on, King Leonardo, Tommy, a film crew of Viruses arrive at the Gordy household and storm in to document the extent of the clutter in a new television program called "Puffy Town Undercover". The Puffies then rub further salt in the wound by treating the Gordys' cluttered house like a tourist destination and taking pictures in front of it.

As the slobbish Puffies from earlier judge the Gordy's house, Manny points out their hypocrisy, and Milly explains to the crowd that the Gordy's house is like this due to the lost and found getting backed up. Regardless, King Leonardo finishes up shaming the Gordys, and then announces that he is going to visit another house to see their situation, prompting all the gathered Puffies to rush off to tidy up before they are shamed as well. Before they can get far, however, King Leonardo and Tommy see from a distance the castle filling to the brim with garbage. It is then revealed that a monster called Trash Grabber is spitting junk all over the castle, sent by N.L.E to get revenge on King Leonardo for his trash disposing stunt earlier. Milly berates King Leonardo for being so irresponsible as Trash Grabber escapes into town, making a mess there as well. As the group surveys the mess, King Leonardo kicks Leeko in to deal with the monster. Despite Leeko's prior inclinations, even he is hesitant to fight the rancid garbage monster and tries to slowly back away. Leeko is then forced to run as Trash Grabber chases him down, polluting the countryside as it does so.

As the others watch impotently, Leeko is cornered by Trash Grabber. Moonlight Man then appears and tosses Leeko a broom, which he vacuum-mouths to gain the Cleaning Copy Ability. From there, Leeko bats every bit of garbage that Trash Grabber spits at him away, leaving the monster with no garbage left to hawk. Seizing this moment, Cleaning Leeko steps forward and gives Trash Grabber a good swipe, sending it flying off into the sky where it explodes. After that, Cleaning Leeko proceeds to clean up Puffy Town with several swift strokes of his broom, finishing up by clearing out all the junk in the Gordy's house. Meanwhile, King Leonardo and Tommy are left to clean up the castle, as Tommy insists that King Leonardo is responsible for the trash in his "room" rather than the Viruses. The episode ends as Milly and Leeko remind Manny that he needs to clean his room as well.

## Trivia

* This is the second and final episode of *The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Cleaning Copy Ability.
* This is the first episode to air in 2007.
* When Leeko transforms into Cleaning Leeko, Milly and Manny acknowledge that they have not seen it since A Dash Of Fiction.
* This episode reveals that Leeko doesn’t eat garbage, even if its food (despite the fact that he is seen eating rotten sushi in A Raw Deal).