Tell Us About Your Human Day

“**Tell Us About Your Human Day**” is the second episode in season one of *Pup Academy*.

## Plot

### Synopsis

Spark gets into a sticky situation when she makes up a best friend to avoid telling her friends she's a stray, and Morgan endures Charlie's off-the-wall caretaker training.

### Full Plot

During a cloudy day at Wolfehead, Spark watches from an alley as Animal Control shove a captured pup into their truck, silently giving it her sympathy. As the truck leaves, King arrives, urging her to accept his proposal for a place in his gang of Lost Dogs. When she rejects, saying she needs no one, he leaves -- but not before offering her "a helping paw." Later, when Spark meets up with Corazon and Whiz at the academy, the two begin chatting about their humans; it appears Whiz spent the morning trying another attempt to herd the sheep with James as we see some of his neighbors, Gertie and her Border Collie, Storm, who have come to demonstrate; while Izzy filmed a "dance party" of some sort with Corazon for her Project Puppy videos.

    When they ask about hers, not yet knowing she is a stray, Spark says she would rather not discuss it -- only for Headmistress Gruff to announce to all the pups in the schoolyard that it is "Tell Us About Your Human Day," much to Spark's discomfort.

After the theme song plays, we learn that Morgan is taking a day off from school for work-study and that it is his first official day at the academy, as well as his training day. He and his mother have a brief conversation mostly about Morgan's father, and Morgan heads over to Pup Academy. When he gets to his grandfather, Charlie is practicing Tai Chi. While expecting to have a more monumental experience for his first task at the academy, Charlie hands him a pooper scooper.

Meanwhile, the "Dos Amigos" have all gotten to their final class featuring the Tell Us About Your Human segment being held by Gruff. She explains that the day is meant to be another orientation. Corazon desperately volunteers to go first, but Gruff insistently chooses Pom-Pom instead. Pom-Pom tells of her human who practices karate, and Mullet's plays the drums.

    Professor Fitz abruptly enters the classroom, and deliberately calls on Spark by the knowledge that she has no human. When the rest of the class wishes to hear about Spark's human, she anxiously heads up to the front of the room and vaguely describes Clark, saying her human has a uniform, interesting gadgets, and won't stop chasing her. Corazon and Whiz are wowed, and the school day is then finished. After Gruff dismisses the students, she angrily calls Fitz out for purposefully picking on Spark since the students are currently unaware Spark is a stray.

Before the Dos Amigos head through their hydrants, Whiz and Corazon compare Spark's description to that of a superhero, to which she unsurely agrees. This excites the two other pups, but Headmistress Gruff wants to chat with Spark. After they leave, Gruff tells her that her secret would need to be revealed eventually, but assures her that she shouldn't be ashamed of it. Feeling a bit better, Spark goes through her hydrant only to find Whiz and Corazon -- who had earlier decided to stay away from there humans a little longer and go with Spark to meet her superhero human -- waiting for her.

Concurrently, Charlie shows Morgan his over-fifty-year-old vacuum cleaner, but when he gives Morgan a try with it, it goes haywire. As Spark leads Whiz and Corazon on an aimless wild goose chase around the streets, pretending to look for her human, Charlie's old vacuum malfunctions and though Morgan suggest getting a newer one, Charlie insists fusing to fix it instead and the two put on their welding masks.

As Clark and Lou spot them, Whiz and Corazon are now sure Spark is guiding them in circles. When she tries to make up another excuse, Whiz supposes Spark would prefer them to not meet her human and both he and Corazon say that they would've understood, had she told them. Seeing her friends' understanding, Spark tries to confess that she is a street dog, but Animal Control cut her off.

     Alarmed, she tries to get her friends to run away from them, but they mistake them for her owners and run up to them. Spark yells from her hiding place, barking at them to escape, but Corazon and Whiz are locked in the truck. Spark is able to shout out one last phrase before the truck departs, telling the pups that those weren't her humans. Spark watches the truck drive off with her new friends in a moment of sorrow, remembering how Animal Control took her family away.
Later, we are shown Spark has dashed off to King's junkyard with a stolen burger. His Lost Dogs circle around her, alerting him as he leaps down from his trashy hideout. Spark mentions his offer to help her on an occasion and gives King her food for the week. He says he'll "hear her out," and she asks King to help her free Corazon and Whiz from Animal Control.

     King does eventually agree to the job, but establishes that he'd only accept bigger payment than the bit of food for something such as that. He asks for a paw-pact; Spark will at some point have to do anything at any time for King if he helps her. Spark agrees to the deal. At Charlie's shack, Morgan's grandfather is shouting for help. Seeing smoke all over the place, Morgan figures out how to use the fire extinguisher and sprays it in Charlie's direction. It turns out that he was just making extra-crispy toast.
While Lou and Clark pull up to the animal shelter and begin to unload the dogs, King hides with Spark in the garbage at the back. He sends a Lost Dog called Head past them and into an alleyway while pretending to have a limp. Animal Control chase after him and as they corner the dog, another runs in and they frighten Animal Control into a dumpster. Spark runs into the back of the truck and leads her friends out of the open cages, calling King the best. The united Dos Amigos run off into the road and King restates to her from atop the truck that she would owe him one.

Morgan and his grandfather are now standing outside the shack. Morgan says he learned what he shouldn't do, and Charlie says that Morgan "stuck with it no matter how many disasters (they) had," implying he set up the mishaps for that purpose. When Morgan suspects this, he jokingly denies. The two have a soft-hearted chat, and Morgan remembers to get home for dinner.

     Spark takes Corazon and Whiz to her little broken microwave home in a backstreet, explaining that that is where she lives, and that she does not have an owner. She tells them that she made up the story of her human, not wanting to reveal to all the other household pets that she was unlike them and apologizes for putting her friends in such trouble in doing so. They say that they'd always appreciate her for who she is, and not any human, reassuring her that they would keep her secret. The three of them say their goodbyes, and Spark doubts to herself that she would end up with a human.

At the Edwards residence, Morgan is being thrown a party for his first day of working at Pup Academy, being told that mistakes are to be learnt from. Charlie gives Morgan his own uniform for the school, and afterwards uses a fire extinguisher to blow out the candles on his cake in a jesting manner, much to the family's amusement.

That night, just before the episode ends, D.O.G storms into the junkyard -- where the Lost Dogs are asleep -- to confront King. D.O.G snaps at King to stay way from his students, and he retorts to stay away from any strays and turns away. Before D.O.G leaves, he looks up at Canis Primus, saying to himself "So much to do, and little time to do it."

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Don Lake as Charlie Edwards
* Christian Convery as Morgan Edwards
* Aria Birch as Izzy
* Gabrielle Miller as Molly
* Riley O'Donnell as Spark (voice)
* Chance Hurstfield as Corazon (voice)
* Dylan Schombing as Whiz (voice)
* Brian George as D.O.G. (voice)

### Recurring Cast

* Islie Hirvonen as Pom Pom
* Emily Delahunty as Mullet
* Jed Rees as King
* David Milchard as Professor Fitz
* Ellie Harvie as Headmistress Gruff

### Guest Cast

* Michael Teigen as Clark
* Lauren McGibbon as Lou
* Nolan Hupp as James
* Dakota Guppy as Gertie

## References

https://trakt.tv/shows/pup-academy/seasons/1/episodes/2

https://whatsnewonnetflix.com/usa/1845103/pup-academy-2020/season-1/episode-2/tell-us-about-your-human-day