The Magic Pen

"**The Magic Pen**" is the twelfth episode of the eighth season of *Happy Heroes*, and the 428th episode of the series overall.

## Plot

Huo Haha's owl swipes a pen from Careful S. that can bring anything drawn realistically enough with it to life. Big M. wants to use it to find the elemental wands.

## Characters present

### Main characters

* Big M.
* Little M.
* Careful S.

### Supporting characters

* Kalo (appears in flashbacks and as a drawing, but not physically)
* Happy S.
* Sweet S.
* Smart S.
* Careless S.

## Summary

### Title card

Big M. uses a pen to draw a treasure chest onto a rock. The rock promptly becomes the chest he drew but then explodes, becoming a pile of ashes and leaving ashes all over Big M. The screen fades to black, and the episode's title appears in golden text with lots of little blue spots of light around it.

### Episode

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Careful S. is walking around the medieval town when he sees a pair of children pass by him. One of these kids gives the other a pretend knight medal, reminding Careful S. of the time he gave Kalo a sort of medal-like gadget after becoming friends with him. Suddenly, Careful S. spots someone who looks very similar to Kalo from behind, follows him, and addresses him as Kalo. The person turns around and turns out to be a troll who was wearing armor; the troll then brings out an entire store and goes on to say that everything in it is on sale. Careful S. walks away sadly, but the storeowner shows him a magic pen and demonstrates its use by drawing a bird with it on a piece of paper. The bird comes to life and flies away, and the storeowner explains that any drawings you make with the special pen will come to life if you draw it realistically enough. Careful S., realizing he could revive Kalo with the magic drawing tool, agrees to purchase it and proceeds to draw his Adelian friend using it; however, before he can draw Kalo's eyes and complete the picture, a bird speeds by and swipes the pen from him.

The owbird, who is Huo Haha's pet owl, flies to Big M.'s hideout to give him the pen. Big M. is glad that he now has the pen since he can use it to draw the magic staff he, Little M., and Huo Haha are after. Big M. is about to draw something with the pen on a big canvas on the wall, but then states he has no idea what the staff looks like and thus can't draw it. He does come up with another idea, though, that being to draw a door in the Supermen's house so that he can sneak in and steal the staff for himself. When asked by Little M. if he even knows how to draw, Big M. tries to prove his skill by bringing out another giant canvas and drawing a door on it. The finished "door" winds up looking like a hole, and Little M. realizes Big M. may need an art teacher.

Meanwhile, Careful S. wants to buy another magic pen to replace the one that the owl swiped, but the troll assures him that was the only one he had in stock. The troll brings the Superman's attention to an item locator he does have in stock; the item locator, which is shaped like an arrow with wings, functions by searching for whatever things whose name you write in the pointed area. The storekeeper gets the finder ready to look for the pen, and Careful S. follows it as it flies away.

Back at the villains' hideout, Little M. has found three art teachers he think could teach Big M. and introduces them. The first one is named Van Golf, and his best-known painting is called the "Back of Sunflowers". Big M. rejects Van Golf, and Little M. introduces the second artist - Va Dinci, whose most well-known painting is the "Masked Lisa". Big M. rejects him as well, and Little M. introduces the third and final artist, a woman named A-huan who drew all the monsters in "Happy Monsters". Big M. is impressed by her hard work and decides to have her teach him, with A-huan making the condition that if Big M.'s lessons don't stick with him, she gets to marry him. This is followed by a montage of Big M. working hard to draw better, with A-huan and her affectionate displays towards him getting in the way; in the end, he does manage to draw a well-done picture, and A-huan, who is disappointed that she doesn't get to marry him, leaves. Big M. then proceeds to use the magic pen to draw a live-action-looking human, but wonders why it isn't coming to life; Little M. realizes that its appearance not fit the style of the cartoon, so it won't work. An angry Big M. decides to use the pen to draw a tunnel into the Supermen's house to steal the staff.

Careful S. is still running after the item finder, which flies towards Big M. and Little M. as they draw a tunnel and jump into it. Once the tunnel disappears, the arrow-shaped locator lands on the ground where the hole used to be, confusing Careful S. Big M. and Little M. arrive on the inside of the heroes' house, where Happy S. puts Careless S. in charge of guarding the Staff of Fire while he and the other Supermen go look for the other magic wands. Big M. uses the magical pen to draw another Careless S., who goes to greet the real one and confuses him since he said seconds earlier that he wouldn't let anyone besides him have the stave. He gives the staff to the fake Careless, but he wants to give it back to the real Careless; they agree to hold the stave together since they're both Careless, much to Big M. and Little M.'s horror. Big M. gets mad and uses the pen again, this time to draw a giant gorilla monster who scares the two Carelesses and makes them drop the wand, which Big M. grabs for himself. Meanwhile, Careful S. pulls the item locator out of the ground, and he continues to follow it as it starts to fly off again to locate the pen.

Back in the medieval town, the gorilla monster is wrecking buildings and scaring people while Big M. and Little M., who are on the monster's head, are doing a happy dance since they found the magic staff. Careful S. appears and duplicates himself, with him and all the clones shooting laser beams out of the gems on the fronts of their helmets to stop the gorilla. To defend himself, Big M. draws a missile launcher with the pen and shoots it at Careful S., who dodges the attack as well as the various weapons Big M. sends flying at him. An angry Careful S. slowly walks towards the villainous duo, and Big M. creates a white flag with the pen and announces that he surrenders and will let Careful have the magical drawing utensil. Careful S. gets out his drawing of Kalo from earlier and draws in his pupils, completing the picture and causing it to start to come to life. However, the gorilla is still attacking the town and Careful S. goes to fend it off, only for it to knock it back. Careful S. notices writing on the pen that says "If the pen is destroyed, everything it conjured will disappear" and comes to the decision to break the pen in half, making the duplicate Careless S. and the gorilla monster disappear. Careful S. uses the chance to take the fire staff back from Big M. and knock him and Little M. into the sky.

Careful S. runs back to his drawing of Kalo, which vanishes as well and leaves blue sparkles in its wake. Careful S. stands there tearing up, still sad that his buddy Kalo is not with him.

## Trivia

* Two jokes in this episode, both in the same scene, break the fourth wall. Firstly, Little M. points out that Big M.'s realistic drawing "doesn't match the style of this cartoon"; secondly, said drawing is of the creator of the *Happy Heroes* series, Huang Weiming.

### Cultural references

* Little M. hires and artist named Van Golf, whose best known work is a painting called the "Back of Sunflowers", to to give Big M. art lessons. Van Golf's name is taken from the real-life Vincent van Gogh, and the "Back of Sunflowers" painting is a reference to Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".
* Little M. also hires an artist named Va Dinci as a potential art teacher for Big M. and says his most famous painting is the "Masked Lisa". Va Dinci and his painting are references to Leonardo da Vinci and the "Mona Lisa", respectively.

### Errors/Goofs

* Miao Mi's English version of the episode contains a pronunciation error. When Little M. says Van Golf's best-known work is called the "Back of Sunflowers", he pronounces "sunflowers" as "sun-FLOW-ers", with the accent on the wrong syllable (it should be "SUN-flow-ers").