The Rival

## Synopsis

A new dog, Cassius comes over to Mike's home, and bad things for Mike, he has a love interest for Iris too.

## Plot

Mike is having a relaxing day, but then he sees the neighbors dog, Cassius, playing with Iris. Mike barks over at Iris to come over to his house, but then Iris barks at a new dog, which is Cassius, to come play with them. Mike, scared by the fact that Iris is interested in Cassius, shows disappointment. Mike walks over to them to play, but little do they know that the raccoons are lurking. They sneak around in a trash bin and enter the back gate. Meanwhile, Cassius gives Iris a nice rose, which makes Mike feel sad and enraged. Cassius does a bunch of tricks for Iris, but this time Iris isn't that impressed. Mike is angry and walks into his house to get a phone, and starts playing calming music while Mike sings along to the song. Cassius, angry at this, pushes Mike off the chair and instead starts singing. They both try to sing, but it sounds horrible, and even Iris covers her ears. While everyone is distracted, Freddy sneaks in the household. Although for Mercury, he sneaks to the phone playing the music and starts playing yodeling music. Mike runs onto the patio and starts tap dancing. Iris is satisfied with the dancing so Cassius starts tap dancing too. Mercury then presses the music again, and starts playing romantic music. When Mike looks over at Iris, Cassius and Iris are dancing together, but Iris doesn't like it and spins over to Mike. Mike spins over to Cassius and they both crash into each other. Freddy grabs Mercury and they both sneak inside while Cassius and Mike battle with pool noodles, much to Iris' boredom. She instead goes on a chair and reads the magazine while drinking a tropical drink. Inside, the raccoons are gobbling a lot of food, and Mercury finds an airhorn. Mercury loves the sound of it, and starts pressing it loads of times and it makes a lot of noise while doing so. Iris hears it and barks over at Mike and Cassius but they are still battling. Iris tries to stop the raccoons, but they throw fruits at Iris. Cassius and Mike try to work together, but Mercury is scared of Cassius and accidentally blows the airhorn. Cassius runs and hides by the sound of it, noting that Cassius is scared of loud noises. Mike finds noise cancelling headphones and puts it on him and Cassius. They run to the raccoons and when Freddy tries to blow the airhorn, Mike and Cassius cannot hear it because of the headphones. The raccoons run in fear and are getting away, but Cassius poses as a horse and Mike gets on him. They charge at the raccoons, but the raccoons pose as a horse too. They charge at each other, but Mike pole vaults upward and they go over the raccoons in slow motion and hit Freddy off into a trash bin, and Mercury runs into a rock. Cassius and Mike high five and the raccoons go tumbling back to their den. Cassius and Mike start dancing and start up their rivalry again by trying to impress Iris. Iris, unimpressed, reads the magazine again, ending the episode.

## Characters

* Mike (protagonist)
* Iris
* Fluffy
* Cassius (rival/antagonist)
* Freddy (antagonist)
* Mercury (antagonist)

## Trivia

* This episode introduces a new character, Cassius.