Something Smells

"**Something Smells**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 2. In this episode, Maggie makes a sundae that gives her bad breath.

## Characters

* Maggie Muffin
* Strawberry the Octopus
* Crossing guard (debut)
* Taiko player (debut)
* Kira Moonhead
* Mirror Maggie (debut)
* Helen Luggins

## Synopsis

The episode starts with Maggie waking up one morning, realizing that it is Sunday, and decides to have an ice cream "sundae" for breakfast. However, he sees he has no ice cream and finds standard toppings like bananas and cherries to be blasé, so he instead creates a new type of sundae made from onions, ketchup, and the contents of a nearly dead potted peanut plant. Unbeknownst to her, the result of eating it is intensely rancid breath.

After breakfast, Maggie begins his Sunday to-do list, which consists of greeting everyone in town but ends up getting universally disgusted by the smell of his rancid breath and run away from her. Maggie is preplexed by this, and asks Kira if he notices anything wrong with her. Kira, not having a nose, cannot discern the foul odor. After running down a list of possibilities, Kira concludes that Maggie is simply ugly. Maggie is dismayed by this revelation and isolates herself in his home.

Later, Kira visits Maggie, who has resigned to become a hermit and tells Kira to just go run away from her like everyone else. Kira then tells Maggie the story of The Ugly Barnacle, which fails to cheer her up. Kira then encourages her to take pride in his ugliness. It works, and Maggie's confidence grows, so they decide to go see a movie at the Reef Cinema.

As they take their seats, all of the movie-goers still try to avoid Maggie, which gets Kira mad and sends her into a tirade, forcing the other viewers to look at Maggie. With every word Maggie speaks, the viewers panic and flee, soon leaving no one in the auditorium. Kira gets hungry, so they go to the lobby to buy a snack. However, no one is at the counter. Instead, Maggie pulls some of his sundaes out of his pocket and gives them to Kira. After eating them, Kira feels a sudden urge to use the bathroom.

While washing his hands, Kira asks a fish next to her for some soap, but he quickly runs away. Upon finding no one will stay within his vicinity, Kira fears he has caught "the ugly" from Maggie and hides in a stall with a paper bag over his head.

Eventually, Maggie smells Kira's extremely foul breath and tries to tell the rambling Kira before shouting at her to get his attention. He then tells Kira that it is not his appearance, but his breath which stinks, much to Kira's relief. Maggie then asks what he ate, after being told it was the sundae Maggie made. The latter realizes that they are not ugly, but simply have bad breath from the sundae.

Immensely relieved their appearance was not the problem, the two begin to run around shouting, "We stink!", causing their noxious breath to melt down the theater. Maggie and Kira run into Squidward, looking at wigs in a window display. The episode ends as Maggie cries out in joy, "Guess what, Squidward? We stink!" as they hug her, leaving Helenstaring blankly as Maggie and Kira start running away laughing and cheering.