The Trouble With Tommy

**The Trouble With Tommy** is the eleventh Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the seventy-eighth episode overall.

## Summary

After being overworked by King Leonardo, Tommy creates Tommy 2.0, a robot made to do his duties for him, but Leo uses it to go after Leeko, leading it to be constantly destroyed and forcing Tommy to rebuild it over and over again.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Tommy 2.0 (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Gene
* Hover
* Lady Chanter
* Manny
* Marvin
* Moonlight Man
* Mr. Mage
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Castle Leonardo, where King Leonardo proceeds to start working Tommy harder than usual, forcing him to do all sorts of minute tasks for the king in rapid succession. During this, Tommy accidentally spills hot tea on himself, and instead of taking pity on him, King Leonardo whacks him for spilling tea on the carpet. Tommy then decides he has had enough abuse, and gets to work that night on a robotic replica of himself, convinced that King Leonardo will not notice the difference. The next morning, King Leonardo calls Tommy to get tea again, and instead of delivering it himself, he sends the robot off to do the task for him as Milly, Manny, and Leeko watch. King Leonardo asks the robot for several things which are promptly delivered, but notices something is wrong when he tries to hit the robot to no effect, and ends up with swollen hands instead. As the robot wraps his hands in bandages, King Leonardo realizes that it's not really Tommy, and the real turtle along with the kids come out to laugh at him.

Tommy then explains that Tommy 2.0 will obey any of King Leonardo's commands, so the king decides to test it by ordering it to attack Tommy, which it does. He then sends it after Leeko, who makes a run for it after receiving several hits from the robot. After running through the castle, Leeko manages to avoid the robot as it plummets off a balcony and gets wrecked. Tommy is left to try and repair it while Milly scolds him for building something so dangerous. Tommy then demands that Milly help him rebuild the robot. She refuses at first, but ends up helping him anyway. After another night in the observatory, Tommy 2.0 is repaired and made "unbreakable". From there, it resumes its duties as it cleans up King Leonardo's room. As Tommy watches, he notices the robot nearly dropping a flower vase and runs in to correct it. After the robot is given another task to straighten a painting, Tommy then runs in again to try and do it himself, but ends up dropping the painting along with a light fixture due to his fatigue. At the end of the day, King Leonardo gloats that he managed to break Tommy 2.0 again and demands Tommy to fix it up.

Tommy asks Milly to help him repair it again, and as before, she initially refuses, but ends up helping anyway after her parents urge her to. They work all night to try and fix it, but do not finish in time. So as not to blow his cover, Tommy puts on pieces of the suit and pretends to be the robot, delivering King Leonardo his tea. Tommy then starts to realize his folly as he is forced to perform more duties for the king, having not slept for several days. Tommy tries to excuse himself, but King Leonardo sees through his disguise and plays along, ordering the "robot" to attack Leeko again. Tommy is forced to comply, and proceeds to attack Leeko and Manny out in the courtyard using a bazooka. He starts to become manic and delusional during this attack, but he ends up being stopped by Moonlight Man, who knocks him aside with a slide kick. Later that night, Milly and Manny berate Tommy for trying to attack Leeko, and swear - this time for real - to never help him repair the robot again.

Left with no other options, Tommy decides to contact Nebula Enterprises in the middle of the night and requests them to help him fix up his robot. Gene sends him a "gizmo" shaped like a heart, which Tommy uses to empower his robot with feelings. After flipping a switch, a bolt of lightning strikes the droid to power it up, which also causes the robot to automatically rebuild its outer shell. The next morning, an extremely sleep-deprived Tommy shows off his newly-rebuilt robot to King Leonardo, and shows off its improved abilities when it successfully fulfills King Leonardo's request for it to make him a ten-course meal in less than a minute. King Leonardo then orders Tommy 2.0 to attack Tommy again, but it replies that it was "not programmed to fight" and instead gives King Leonardo a massage. Leonardo commends Tommy for his programming skills, but at that moment, Gene returns to reveal that the robot was powered up using technology from his company, and tells King Leonardo that pressing the green button on the robot's shell will change its temperament from passive to hostile, and he does so, revealing the robot's combat abilities.

King Leonardo then gets an idea to send the robot after Leeko, but Gene warns him first not to push the robot's red button. King Leonardo, however, is overcome with curiosity and presses it anyway despite the warning, turning the robot into a flying death machine with cannons for hands. Tommy 2.0 then flies out of the castle and starts to wreak havoc on Puffy Town, blowing up houses and terrorizing the Puffies. It also ends up destroying Leeko's house and antagonizing both of its residents with further missiles. Milly calls for the Shooting Star to help Leeko fight back, and Leeko ends up inadvertently leading the robot's seeker missiles at King Leonardo and Tommy after they drove in on the Royal Racecar. Leeko then vacuum-mouths one of the droid's missiles to get the Bomb Copy Ability. From here, after avoiding another homing missile, Leeko traps the droid between its own missiles and Leeko's bomb to blow it up in midair. After picking up one of the pieces from the robot, Tommy laments the loss of his faithful robotic servant as the others comment, but then Tommy finally collapses from exhaustion and falls asleep. The episode ends as Leeko follows suit and falls asleep as well.

## Trivia

* Like in the episode Like Brother, Like Turtle, this episode paints Tommy in a sympathetic light.
* It is shown in this episode that Tommy really does not want to destroy Leeko.
* This is the third episode in *The Beginning* trilogy to feature Bomb Copy Ability.
* The scene with Tommy mourning the loss of his droid after picking up one of its pieces mirrors Leeko’s loss of his electronic pet Robo-Puppy in the episode A Puppy To Love!.
* This is the nineteenth episode in *The Beginning* series where Milly calls for the Shooting Star.
* The scene where Tommy 2.0 is given life by a giant switch being pulled and a lightning bolt is a reference to *Frankenstein*.