The Fresh Pearls Of Puffy Town

**The Fresh Pearls Of Puffy Town** is the thirty-second Season 1 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the thirty-second episode overall.

## Summary

King Leonardo and Manny suffer from toothaches and have to see Dr. Medico to have their teeth drilled.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* Manny
* Dr. Medico
* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

* Beatrice
* Bubbles
* Cavities (*debut*)
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy (*no dialogue*)
* Daisy (*no dialogue*)
* Felix (*no dialogue*)
* Gamba (*no dialogue*)
* Gene
* Helios & Luna (*no dialogue*)
* Jearusa (*debut*)
* Lady Chanter
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Parker
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead (*no dialogue*)
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)

## Episode summary

The episode begins in Puffy Town, at Dr. Medico's clinic. There, Chief Gordy is receiving a dental treatment, but is too scared to cooperate. When Dr. Medico pulls out the drill, Gordy runs off screaming, with Beatrice chasing him. Leeko and his friends, as well as King Leonardo and Tommy, are present outside to witness this. King Leonardo jokes at the expense of the clinic while Tommy deals with a toothache of his own. Later on, Tommy is having his tooth drilled at the clinic while Leonardo laughs at his suffering. Just outside, several more Puffies are waiting for their own treatments, apprehensive as they hear Tommy's cries of pain. King Leonardo aggravates the situation by suggesting the doctor should drill Tommy's teeth "down to the roots", which the doctor agrees is necessary. The kids watch from outside the window and laugh at Tommy's misfortune, but Milly insists they have a little sympathy. After an intensely painful procedure, Tommy is let out with his teeth fixed up as King Leonardo continues to joke at his expense. Tommy reminds Leonardo that he is at a similar risk, but the king laughs this off, insisting his teeth are in perfect shape.

Later at Stop To Shop, King Leonardo fills his shopping basket with candy and other confections. After gloating that he "doesn't even brush", Tommy warns the king that he is putting himself at risk, but Leonardo brushes him off again, assuming Tommy is just jealous. Giving up on him, Tommy tosses extra sugary snacks his way, then goes to buy dental care items for himself, but King Leonardo prevents his purchase because he wants to see Tommy suffer more. Later that night at Castle Leonardo, Manny is reminded by his mother to brush his teeth after dinner, but Manny insists that his teeth "don't get dirty", despite Milly seeing otherwise first-hand. As the family brushes their teeth together - along with Leeko, despite the fact he has none - Manny rushes through his brushing and leaves, but gets berated by his parents. This does not stop him from running off, and the two decide that Leeko could serve as a good example to him regarding dental hygiene.

Meanwhile, while watching one of his own advertisements on Channel Lion Out Loud for "Liontastic Special Toothpaste", King Leonardo is snacking profusely and then heads straight to bed, ignoring Tommy's final warning to him regarding his dental hygiene. That night, as he sleeps, King Leonardo's teeth are set upon by the cavities: anthropomorphized representations of tooth decay who proceed to mine away his teeth using pickaxes. The next day, King Leonardo starts to feel the toothache, which is revealed when he tries to eat breakfast without pain and fails. Upon this revelation, Tommy takes his turn to revel in King Leonardo's suffering as payback. At the same time, Manny is suffering from his own toothache as his family looks on. Both parties decide to take their ailing members to the dentist, but both resist. The two are eventually subdued and brought to Dr. Medico.

At Dr. Medico's clinic, Manny loses his nerve again and tries to run away, but is stopped inadvertently by King Leonardo's arrival. Manny and Leonardo try desperately to get the other to go in first, but Dr. Medico ends up letting both in simultaneously after finishing up with Chief Gordy's teeth. As Medico works on Manny's teeth, King Leonardo attempts to escape, but is fastened in by automatic chair restraints. Despite this, Leonardo eventually breaks free of these and raids the medicine cabinet for some painkillers instead. After momentarily losing his toothache, King Leonardo runs out of the clinic followed by Manny, who has not had his procedure completed yet. That night, at the castle, King Leonardo is enjoying dinner when the effects of the painkillers wear off, and he feels great pain again. Tommy decides that if King Leonardo won't visit the dentist, he'll just whack Leonardo with his hammer so he can think about pain elsewhere instead of in his mouth. Catching Tommy's meaning, King Leonardo runs to get away from his vengeful turtle assistant. While Tommy causes Leonardo around with his hammer, Manny continues to resist going back to the dentist, and the two crash into each other again. As his toothache continues to worsen, King Leonardo decides to call in Nebula Enterprises and have them send a dentist monster to fix his teeth. N.L.E sends Jearusa: a dental tooth fairy monster who "fixes teeth without anesthetics". Hearing this, Leonardo immediately regrets his decision and runs from the monster.

Leonardo runs back out into the courtyard and cowers behind Tommy as Jearusa chases him. After gawking at the monster, Manny is grabbed by Jearusa and has his cavity fixed quickly, albeit painfully. Regardless, Manny is grateful that he no longer feels the toothache and thanks the monster. Still afraid of the monster, Leonardo runs and prompts Leeko to vacuum-mouth it, which he does. However, this backfires, and Jearusa instead grabs Leeko for an examination. Jearusa looks into Leeko's mouth and attempts to examine, but finds no teeth to drill. In her confusion, Leeko is able to vacuum-mouth Jearusa's drill and gains the Tornado Copy Ability. From there, Tornado Leeko summons a giant funnel of wind to blow Jearusa far into the sky, where she disappears in a twinkle of light. After looking on in dismay over losing the monster and still suffering from the toothache, King Leonardo is forced to endure Dr. Medico's drilling. The episode ends as both Manny and Tommy swear to brush their teeth regularly, and Leeko agrees despite not having any.

## Trivia

* The title is a reference to the show *The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air*.
* In an interview, it was stated that this episode was originally not going to air because of how it paints dentists in a bad light and that it can scare children (although it was meant to encourage children to brush their teeth and go to a dentist if they thought they have a cavity).
* This episode proves that Leeko has no teeth.
* This is the third episode in *The Beginning* series to feature the Tornado Copy Ability.
* In some countries, the episode’s title is “Tooth Or Consequences”.
* When Jearusa is searching Leeko's mouth for teeth, her drill bit and plier sink much deeper into Leeko's mouth than they ought to for his size.
* This episode aired a year after the episode In Search For The Ring.