A Show For The Tourists

**A Show For The Tourists** is the fourteenth Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the forty-eighth episode overall.

## Summary

King Leonardo wants to put on a show for the tourists, so he downloads Burning Bull meant to destroy Leeko.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* Manny
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Sir Pathogen

### Secondary

* Aerialessa (*no dialogue*)
* Chef Peppermint
* Chicky (*no dialogue*)
* Daisy (*no dialogue*)
* Gamba (*no dialogue*)
* Gene
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Mr. Mage
* Professor Antico
* Sandy
* Sir Chanter
* Snowdrop
* Tourists (*debut*)
* Whitehead (*no dialogue*)
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins with Leeko playing a soccer game with Manny and the Puffy children while Milly reads under a nearby tree. Manny kicks the ball into the long grass and Leeko goes to retrieve it. After finding the ball, Leeko is suddenly flash-photographed several times by strange crystallized visiting Puffies wearing vacationer's clothes. Milly runs in to berate them but they move on without noticing her. She then finds a flyer one of them dropped promoting Usapia as a tourist attraction. Meanwhile, in Puffy Town, similar tourists can be seen everywhere obstructing the flow of the town's traffic. Milly and Manny soon see that King Leonardo and Tommy are operating a tour bus to ferry these strangers around the countryside. Milly and Mayor Bay berate the king for bypassing the consent of the town, but they predictably brushed off. Tommy then calls the tourists in an announces the schedule, but Sir Pathogen translates the tourists' language and tells Tommy they want to eat first.

To meet the needs of the tourists, Chef Peppermint is roped in to prepare the food. The tourists end up disliking it to the point where they are gagging out in the streets, and Leeko helps himself to the leftovers. The tour bus then leaves without paying for the meal and heads toward Professor Antico's collection. Despite Antico's insistence that his shop is not a museum, King Leonardo and Tommy let the tourists in to mishandle the relics, and Leeko carelessly joins in wrecking the place with them. After antagonizing Marvin at his fortune parlor, the tourists head out of town toward their next destination, leaving a massive pile of garbage in their wake. Looking at the mess, Milly comments on it, and then realizes that Leeko is not around. While the tour bus heads for Seashell Beach, King Leonardo reveals that the reason for bringing these tourists along is to give Usapia a good rating for the Nebula Enterprises travel guide. At Seashell Beach, Sandy appears in the water and King Leonardo attempts to impress the crowd by tossing Leeko out there for the clownfish to catch, but Sandy just ends up making small talk with Leeko instead, leading the tourists to become angry. They move on to the next stop shortly thereafter, and leave Leeko behind.

Next up, the tourists are taken to Aerialessa’s Nest to see Aerialessa and her chick. Leeko manages somehow to catch up with them as the tourists antagonize the chick with their cameras. Aerialessa rushes in to attack them, and they attempt to get away in the bus, but are instead toppled down the cliff. After several spins, the bus manages to land upright on the cliff side, but the brakes are broken, leading it to careen off a cliff and falls for a long way into the woods. Despite all the tumult, Leeko and the tourists are pleased with this outcome, thinking it to be an intentional thrill ride. Later on at Castle Leonardo, the tourists are treated to a royal banquet and are given the next day's schedule. The tourists then complain loudly about the relative lack of excitement on their trip, leading King Leonardo to nearly lose his temper. He directs them to take any room they like in the castle to sleep, forcing Milly and her family to camp out in the courtyard for the night, through still bothered by the tourists.

Meanwhile, King Leonardo pleads with N.L.E to send him a monster to make the tour more exciting. Through the Monster delivery system comes Burning Bull: a small, red ball with a burning fire inside. Gene explains that Burning Bull will become more powerful if it absorbs fire and directs them to use it on Leeko. As King Leonardo heads off to bed, he soon sees that his room has been taken up by Leeko and the tourist kids, who continually play rough all night and prevent Leonardo from sleeping. The next morning, due to his fatigue, he hands the responsibility for the tour off to Milly and Manny, who protest being given the job. However, they soon get an idea to sabotage the tour by making it boring so the tourists will not want to come back to Usapia. They begin the tour by heading to Seashell Valley, where the tourists scribble all over the great sage using markers. On the road to the next stop, Milly decides to skip the visit to the Vinebush Forest for the trees' safety and head to Big Boom Volcano instead. At the volcano, King Leonardo and Tommy sneak away and set off some fireworks they had brought along. While doing this, they toss Burning Bull into the main caldera of the volcano, where it absorbs the heat from the lava and transforms into a giant magmatic bull.

Burning Bull then proceeds to attack all of the tourists by lobbing fireballs at them. Leeko steps in to defend them by vacuum-mouthing one of the fireballs and gaining the Fire Copy Ability. Milly then calls for the Shooting Star to help Leeko fight it. Fire Leeko attempts to use his fire breathe on Burning Bull, but it only causes the monster to grow in size, and Leeko is soon batted away. Seeing this, Milly and Manny decide to throw Leeko ice from their thermoses it is not enough to withstand the volcano's heat. They direct the tourists to help Leeko by throwing their ice at him, and he manages to vacuum-mouth enough to gain the Ice ability. Ice Leeko quickly defeats Burning Bull by breathing ice on it until it shrinks to a small size, then vacuum-mouthing it and spitting it out as listless ice chunks which fall on King Leonardo and Tommy. Later, at the castle, King Leonardo receives the feedback from the tourists that they did not enjoy the tour or the food overall, and particularly did not like King Leonardo, but enjoying spending time with Leeko. Despite this feedback, King Leonardo insists on having another tour group, but Gene flat-out rejects them. The episode ends as Milly, Manny, and Leeko celebrate this news.

## Trivia

* This is the fifth episode in *The Beginning* trilogy to feature more than one Copy Ability.
* This is the eighth episode in *The Beginning* series to feature the Fire Copy Ability, and the third episode in *The Beginning* series to feature the Ice Copy Ability.
* This is one of the few episodes where Moonlight Man isn’t around to comment on the Leeko’s abilities, likely because Milly and Manny know his Fire ability so well.
* As a running gag, Leeko has been following the tourists throughout almost the whole episode. He even does what they do, like breaking Professor Antico’s artifacts and throwing pillows at King Leonardo.
* When Mr. Mage sends the Shooting Star, the drawings the tourists did on him have disappeared. It’s likely possible that Moonlight Man, who is absent in this episode, had the time to clean him off.
* This is the twelfth episode where Milly calls for the Shooting Star.
* The prologue of this episode is almost an exact copy of the opening for Midsummer Night’s Scream, Part 1.