Monsterpiece On The Loose

**Monsterpiece On The Loose** is the tenth Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the seventy-seventh episode overall. This episode is notable for the first appearance of the Paint Copy Ability.

## Summary

King Leonardo opens his own art museum, but he dislikes the imported paintings, so he orders a monster to make his own.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo

### Secondary

* Athena (*no dialogue*)
* Beatrice
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy
* Daisy
* Dr. Medico (*no dialogue*)
* Felix
* Gamba
* Gene
* Madeline
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin (*no dialogue*)
* Moonlight Man
* Parker (*no dialogue*)
* Professor Antico
* Sir Pathogen
* Slammer
* Snowdrop
* Splash Painter (*debut*)
* Tommy
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins in Puffy Town, where Milly is overseeing Leeko and the Puffies as they attempt to draw and paint on canvases. Meanwhile, they are being spied on by King Leonardo and Tommy, who believe that the Puffies may be plotting a rebellion against the kingdom. They move in and interrogate some of the painters, who insist they are only trying to make art, and soon Milly approaches to berate King Leonardo and Tommy for their lack of artistic appreciation. They seem to go along with her at first, and tell her they will show up for the art exhibition the next day, but when this exhibition happens, King Leonardo instead orders his Viruses to hose down the proceedings and toss in smoke bombs, ruining everyone's artwork. When everyone complains to King Leonardo and accuse him of being uncultured, he decides he will prove his appreciation of art by setting up the Leo Academy of Arts on the spot, and invites everyone inside. However, he forgot to include any actual art to go with the museum, so Milly recommends that a contest be held to fill the museum with paintings and sculptures from the Puffies. King Leonardo agrees to this idea and offers a cash prize for the winner, which gets everyone motivated, much to Milly's dismay, as she believes art should be its own reward.

After everyone leaves, King Leonardo and Tommy confirm to each other that they will not be exhibiting the Puffies' art, and instead head back to Castle Leonardo to contact Nebula Enterprises and ask for some paintings and sculptures for the museum. Gene tells them he cannot sell them that due to expenses, but can offer them a painting monster instead, though this is rejected by Leonardo as he does not want another of N.L.E.'s "cheap creepos". To compromise, Gene allows King Leonardo to rent some famous art instead, under the proviso that they be returned untarnished within three days, and Leonardo agrees to this. After everyone finishes their own art pieces, they line up to submit it to the museum, and their pieces are accepted by Sir Pathogen at the front desk. Before long, however, King Leonardo brings the rented paintings in on wagons and tells all the Puffies that their art is no longer needed. Leonardo and Tommy then invite Milly, Manny, and Leeko in to get a first look at the pieces along with them. The Viruses reveal the art, causing King Leonardo and Tommy to recoil in shock at it, but Milly becomes affixed, having never seen anything so beautiful before. After commenting on it, she demands that King Leonardo allow everyone in to see the art, much to his consternation.

A short time later, all of the Puffies gather to see the alien art on exhibition, as Milly and Manny guide the tour. During the tour, the Puffies are impressed at first, but start to lose interest as time goes on, and King Leonardo and Tommy take any opportunity they can to mock the stranger paintings along with the Puffy kids. Eventually, King Leonardo becomes fed up with the tour, and directs everyone to look at his painting instead, shown in a special exhibition room. After unveiling the painting, everybody except Leonardo steps back in revulsion, and as Leonardo starts pointing out details in his crude illustration, Leeko becomes annoyed over Leonardo's depiction of him, and the rest of the crowd starts to burst out in laughter, which makes Leonardo extremely upset. Leeko's anger shortly subsides and he joins in laughing, and King Leonardo, in his outrage, decides to order the monster Gene was peddling after all to "fix" all of the paintings in the museum. Through the Monster delivery system comes Splash Painter, who proceeds to skate over to the museum and vandalizes all of the paintings, changing their faces to resemble King Leonardo and Tommy. Milly and the Puffies try to stop him, but they cannot catch up. King Leonardo then comes in and gloats about the situation, but Tommy reminds him that he was supposed to return the paintings in perfect condition. Remembering this, King Leonardo stops Splash Painter and offers to "pardon" him for his vandalism if he paints King Leonardo's portrait, which Splash Painter agrees to.

As Milly, Manny, and Leeko observe the damage done to the paintings, they try to clean them up, but the additions Splash Painter made come to life and stop them. Meanwhile, Splash Painter finishes King Leonardo's portrait on a very large canvas, and the portrait proceeds to step off of the canvas and attack the king. Splash Painter then paints a laser gun that the portrait Leonardo uses to fire at everybody in its vicinity. While the painting chases after and shoots at Leeko, Moonlight Man appears with a lit torch and tosses it at the painting to destroy it. He then points that everything Splash Painter paints comes to life, as Splash Painter gets busy painting a gigantic bomb. To stop him, Milly sends Leeko to vacuum-mouth, and Leeko catches Splash Painter's paintbrush and gains the Paint Copy Ability. Gaining a pair of his own roller skates, Paint Leeko then chases Splash Painter around the room to try and catch him, but Splash Painter out maneuvers him and proceeds to paint a missile launcher which fires at Leeko, though he ends up missing him. From there, Splash Painter proceeds to continue painting his original bomb. As everyone else flees, Paint Leeko retaliates by painting a white rocket ship and them pointing it at Splash Painter as his bomb is set to go off. From there, the museum explodes in a massive colorful explosion which defeats Splash Painter. Leeko is launched out safely - though splattered in paint - as the paint from the explosion turns Puffy Town into a watercolor painting. The episode ends as everyone laughs and Leeko peeks through the end wipe.

## Trivia

* This is the first and only episode in *The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Paint Copy Ability.
* In addition to the scene where Slammer mimics the expression on The Scream painting, King Leonardo makes the same expression when realizes too late that the paintings he had vandalized were meant to be returned in perfect condition.
* This is one of the few episodes where Leeko draws.
* This is one of the few episodes to have an ending where Leeko breaks the fourth wall.