Pets to the Beach

Pets to the Beach is the 2nd episode of Season 3 of the cartoon series Tales of Little Women. It was released on Netflix on February 14, 2019.

## Description

When pets are banned from the beach, Olivia and Calliope take their fight to town hall and have to deal with Anne Reardon.

## Plot

While Olivia is playing on the beach with Lucy, she is greeted by Calliope. Calliope is walking several dogs and says she has a new dog business called Dr Ong's Pet Centre. Meanwhile, the Reardon family are eating their lunch. Trey is taking pictures of his parents. Angus would rather eat lunch in the house but Anne wants to make others jealous of their luxurious life. Lucy and the other dogs run to the Reardon family. Trey falls down after getting startled by the dogs and the dogs knock over a cake. Anne falls down and the cake lands on her face. The dogs lick the cake off her face and Angus shoos them away. Olivia apologises on behalf of the dogs but Anne calls the dogs beasts and says that they must not be on the beach. Anne talks with the town councilman, Mark over the cell phone and says that she does not want dogs on the beach. Mark is very understanding but he has a pet and tells Anne that humans like pets. She interrupts him and says that propety values will plummet if he does not ban pets from the beach. While Anne is on the phone, Angus is very remote controlling a massage table that she is on. The massage table goes haywire and Calliope brings the dogs but they discover that pets have been banned. All of the pets like the beach so Lucy is very sad when Olivia says that she cannot play there. At the house, Margaret and George are reading and Amber is having a tea party with the other puppies. Amber wakes up Luna to be the guest of honor. When Amber tries to put a crown on Luna, Luna leaps away and Margaret and George laugh. Olivia and Calliope arrive at the house. They are upset that pets have been banned from the beach. Margaret says she just got an email saying that the New York City Council voted 3-to-2 to ban pets from all city beaches, and the law was proposed by Mark. The name is familiar to George, who adds that Mark used to work for Angus. Calliope is strongly against the ban, so George and Olivia suggest that she run for office in the upcoming election. Calliope says she ran for kindergarten hall monitor and lost to their charismatic class gerbil, but she will do it if Olivia is her campaign manager. Olivia agrees, and Margaret and George are pleased. Olivia thinks it will be difficult for Calliope to beat Mark who has more experience, but she and Calliope will do their best. Ken, Quinton and Emily help them to film a campaign commercial. Ken films Calliope asking the viewers to elect her to New York City Council, but Emily messes up the take by not shaking Nikki's hand. Quinton tells Willy to replace Emily in the video, so Emily looks sad. On the beach, Angus is unhappy about the hot weather but Anne doesn't trust people not to bring pets, so she keeps watch with binoculars. Anne is outraged to see Mark walking his dog, and marches over to confront him. Angus is relieved that she is not yelling at him for once. Mark gets nervous and runs away from Anne. At the house, Calliope and Olivia have cold-called over 1000 voters. People are excited about their campaign. George tells them to come watch the news on TV. During a press conference, Mark reluctantly announces that he is dropping out of the election race. Eva thinks Calliope will win easily now, and she leaps for joy. Calliope and the Marches are happy about the news until they find out that Anne is the candidate replacing Mark. Anne puts up lots of campaign signs in the neighborhood and Trey is driving her around in a car that has speakers on top. Trey tells Olivia and Calliope to give up. Olivia laughs when she notices that Quinton and Eva have stuck Calliope's posters onto the Reardon family's car. Calliope and Olivia meet some voters and they receive support, but Calliope is nervous about how much free campaign merchandise that Anne has given away. Olivia is unimpressed by the merchandise, but her family and Ken like it (although they pretend not to). Olivia says Anne may have free merchandise, but Calliope's team has their skills and energy to their advantage. Ken and the March family all help Calliope with her campaign: Margaret and Quinton design buttons and bumper stickers; Eva uses social media to promote Calliope; Ken and Amber go door-to-door; and George plans Calliope's next campaign event. Olivia and Calliope put brochures in Emily, Willy and BJ's mouths for them to show to people. BJ rips up the brochures he was given. Calliope and Olivia have a dance party on the streets of New York City, and Olivia sees on the news that Calliope is leading in the polls by 20 points. Angus reveals the news to Anne, who is failing to draw crowds. Angus thinks people prefer Calliope because she is younger and cooler, so he and Anne attempt to pander to younger people. When that doesn't work, Anne and Angus decide to cheat. The Reardon family replace Calliope's buttons and bumper stickers with ones that misspelled her name, and there is not time for Calliope to get new ones. Amber and Ken haven't had luck going door-to-door, and Ken was even bitten by a dog. Amber says Anne's team has been turning people against them all over New York City, and handing out pictures that mock Calliope for being young. Trey messes up the March family' wi-fi so Eva cannot set up a website for Calliope's campaign. George sets up a debate between Calliope and Anne but he got the date wrong. Olivia tells Calliope not to worry. Later, after George corrects the date, the debate takes place at the beach. Anne says she embodies the spirit of New York City with her expensive looks, and mocks Calliope for being young and having her name spelled wrong on her merchandise. Anne has also brought a large lemon meringue pie for everyone. Trey messes up Calliope's microphone and he has also polished the stage to make it slippery. When Calliope is unable to use her microphone properly, she tries going to the front of the stage to speak. She slips off the polished stage and falls in the pie. Olivia checks if Calliope is okay. Calliope asks why everything is going wrong. Olivia sees Trey hiding a polisher and she begins to suspect the Reardon family. At the house, Calliope, Ken and the Marches are awaiting the results. Amber is impatient, Eva thinks Calliope will lose, and Margaret is hopeful. Everyone is shocked when Calliope loses by a single vote. Calliope and the puppies are sad that pets are still banned from the beach. Anne uses a microphone to announce that her first priority as the new city councilwoman is to commission a portrait of herself. She turns off the microphone and a little girl's dog runs onto the beach. Calliope congratulates Anne on winning. Anne accidentally turns her microphone back on and the audience hears her insulting their intelligence and how they are easily manipulated. The audience chants for a recall election. The do runs over to Olivia and she hands the dog to Anne. The little girl thanks Anne for finding her dog. Anne claims she saved the dog and she pretends she loves pets. Olivia says she can prove she loves pets by reversing the pet ban. Anne lifts the ban. Olivia thinks it was suspicious that Anne won the election in the first place, but at least things turned out well for Calliope who can continue her dog-walking on the beach. Calliope says the campaign made her business more popular. She is so busy that she had to hire Eva, Quinton and Amber to help her walk dogs.

## Cast

* Olivia Chu as Olivia
* Eva Yan as Eva and the Reporter
* Garland Whitt as Quinton
* Amber Lau as Amber
* Ritesh Rajan as Ken
* Priya Matish as Calliope
* Lisa Fuson as Margaret and Anne
* Greg Chun as George and Mark
* Johnny Yong Bosch as Angus
* Kari Wahlgren as Little Girl

Other characters include Emily, BJ, Willy, Lucy and Luna.

## Trivia

* This episode's title bears some inspiration from the movie Pets to the Rescue.
* Calliope mentions her bistro business, Coffee Bistro. The business was announced in Olivia's Cooking with Calliope vlog and previously mentioned in the Tales of Little Women episode Pied Pupper.
* When Anne runs for the New York City Council, her slogan is, "Yeah, we can be fabulous!" It bears some inspiration from Barack Obama's campaign slogan, "Yes, we can."
* The character model for young Ken can be seen in this episode as a kid in New York City.
* Ken says that he was bitten by a Yorkie-Poo dog. The Yorkie-Poo is a mixture of a purebred Yorkshire Terrier and a purebred Toy Poodle.
* Below the Marches' television, there are pictures. The pictures are from The Little Ladies films. A picture is of Quinton in The Little Ladies: Dolphin Magic, one is of Tanaira and Jessica in The Little Ladies: Spy Squad and one is of Olivia, her sisters and Quinton in The Little Ladies: Olivia and her Siblings in a Puppy Chase.
* Mark has the same facial features as Way Lim.
* The little girl has the same character model as Maia from The Little Ladies: Olivia and her Siblings in a Puppy Chase.