Hocus Pop-us

**"Hocus Pop-us"** is the fourth episode of the third season of *Popples*. It first premiered on July 24, 2016 on Netflix and August 5, 2019 on Discovery Family.

## Synopsis

### Netflix

Sunny puts on a magic show with her pals' help.

### Discovery Family

Later, Sunny decides to put on a magic show with the help of her friends but the fame goes to her head.

### Official YouTube episode clip

Sunny decides to put on a magic show with the help of her friends. She soon becomes a popular attraction, and the fame goes to her head. She takes all the credit and ignores her friends' input - until one of her magic tricks goes awry and her friends... disappear!

## Characters

### Major characters

* Sunny
* Lulu
* Izzy
* Bubbles
* Yikes

### Minor characters

* Babapop
* Mrs. Snooply
* Milton Maynot
* Pete Le Pop
* Gus (background)

## Trivia

* In the French version, the episode is called "A-Pop-cadabra". "A-Pop-cadabra" is a play on the word "abracadabra".
* The episode title is a play on the term "hocus pocus". Throughout the episode, Sunny would sometimes say the phase before doing one of her tricks.
* In France, instead of having its sister episode be "Messy Pop Friends" like on Netflix, the previous episode both TiJi and Gulli aired is "It Takes Two to Tangle".
	+ This also happened when the episode premiered on Discovery Family.
* Mayor Maynot reveals that he loves magic shows.
* Pete Le Pop's company name "Cirque de Pop-le" is a reference to Cirque du Soleil (roughly means "Circus of the Sun" in French).
* This is the second episode which one or two member(s) of the Best Popple Pals put on a magic show after Bubbles and Yikes did it in "Stop the Robo-Pop".
* When Pete Le Pop is first seen, one of the audience members can be seen swooning over him. And when Mayor Maynot took a seat next to Pete, the same female Popple is seen doing an angry glare.

### Errors

* Sometimes there're clones of the audience members.
* Because she's a background character, when Sunny is seen doing her "levitation" trick to the pink-and-yellow young Popple with a blue ponytail, she can also be seen in the audience. And not only that, Pete Le Pop can be seen in the audience sitting next to the yellow Popple with pink hair despite he's not supposed to be there until the grand finale show.
* The picture of Sunny blocking her friends can sometimes be seen mirrored:
	+ When the purple-and-yellow Popple is seen advertising Sunny the Magic-nificent by holding a sign.
	+ When Bubbles showed Sunny the poster while scolding her for not having her on it.
	+ When the Ani Mall is seen by an eagle-view on the day of the grand finale show.
* When Sunny did a "splitting a Popple ball" trick, the Popples she used are Izzy and Bubbles. However when the camera shows the bouquet of roses being toss onstage, Izzy and Bubbles disappeared. And not only that, but in the very next scene, only Yikes and Lulu are seen instead.
* Despite Sunny saying the Theater is full and some of the audience are sitting on the floor, there're a few empty seats and there's no one sitting on the floor when Sunny performs her trick.
* In one scene, Mayor Maynot's top hat disappears from his head while Sunny is performing a levitation trick on Yikes.

## References

1. ↑ https://instantwatcher.com/title/80075962?content\_type=1%202&source=1%202%203&q=Popples
2. ↑ https://cf-media.press.discovery.com/ugc/highlights/2019/08/09/104025/DFC\_Highlights\_-\_August\_2019\_-\_Final.pdf
3. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/28-02-2016/
4. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/gulli/29-03-2016/
5. ↑ File:Popples - Episode Clip - Hocus Pop Us
6. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/27-02-2016/
7. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/gulli/28-03-2016/