Fitness Fool!

**Fitness Fool!** is the twenty-seventh Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the sixty-first episode overall.

## Summary

When King Leonardo and Leeko get fat from eating too many snacks, Leonardo hires a fitness instructor from NLE to thin them out.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Biff Runner (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Beatrice
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Daisy
* Dr. Medico
* Felix
* Gamba (*no dialogue*)
* Gene
* Helios & Luna
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin
* Moonlight Man
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Snowdrop
* Whitehead
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Castle Leonardo, where King Leonardo is watching reruns of his own shows on Channel Lion Out Loud. He orders his Viruses to fetch him a snack, but they are not quick enough to satisfy him. Instead, King Leonardo heads across the throne room to snack on several boxes full of potato chips from Nebula Enterprises that had been intended for Leeko. The Viruses try to stop him from eating these, but he pushes them aside and starts snacking. Meanwhile, Leeko is walking around out in the courtyard when he sees a bag of chips abandoned on the ground. He proceeds to gobble them down and finds them particularly appealing. He then spots another bag nearby and rushes to eat these as well. Tommy watches and snickers from cover, and then heads back to report to King Leonardo that the "chip trap" was a success. Upon entering the throne room, however, he sees that King Leonardo is eating all of the chips and berates him for this, but to no avail. King Leonardo proceeds to gobble up chips all evening, and skips dinner to have more while never moving from his seat.

Soon, King Leonardo's newfound laziness causes the people of Puffy Town to start gossiping and wondering if he is sick or absent. Meanwhile, he continues to watch television and snack on the chips overnight, and his chair begins to sag under the weight as Tommy sleeps. The next morning, Milly and her family wonder what has become of King Leonardo, and berate Leeko after he eats everything on the breakfast table again. This is cut short, however, when a massive thud is heard around the castle. Milly's family and Tommy rush into the throne room to find that King Leonardo has swelled up and became massively obese, while still eating the chips. Sir Chanter suggests taking King Leonardo to the doctor to have him checked before it is too late, so the Viruses are forced to make a new opening to take him through - as he no longer fits through the already large castle doorways - and then lift him up on a large wooden board, requiring hundreds to do so. The Puffies watch in awe as the massive King Leonardo is carried through the town to Dr. Medico's clinic. After a brief examination, the doctor concludes that King Leonardo's metabolism had been hijacked by something, leaving Milly and Manny to investigate the cause.

Back at the castle, Milly, Manny, and Leeko have a look at the leftover crumbs of the chips and collect them for sample analysis. As Milly and Manny head out, however, they lose track of Leeko, who is left behind to snack on the leftovers. Back in town, Dr. Medico has King Leonardo chained up to prevent him from escaping as he starts to have withdrawals from the lack of chips. As this is happening, Milly is analyzing the components of the chips using her chemistry set, and determines there to be "pufferzine" in them. After confirming with Parker that none of her chips are of that particular brand, Milly concludes that Nebula Enterprises is responsible, and tells Moonlight Man about her feelings, suspecting the chips to have been a trap for Leeko. Moonlight Man then asks where Leeko is, and they discover too late that Leeko has also ballooned into a behemoth in the throne room while watching TV. As Leeko falls over and is unable to reorient himself, his friends quickly roll him away when they hear King Leonardo's entourage returning to the castle to consult with N.L.E about the situation.

After berating Gene for making the chips too tasty, Milly and Leeko reveal themselves and Milly berates Leonardo for the situation he put himself and Leeko in. Gene offers a solution by sending in the fitness monster Biff Runner. The monster proceeds to turn the throne room into a disco chamber as he sets both Leeko and King Leonardo up for a rhythm-based fitness routine using dangerous equipment. King Leonardo and Leeko are subjected to all manner of torturous devices, including being electrocuted, stretched and squashed, forced to run on a treadmill away from a spiky rotor, and being punched by boxing gloves. Soon, everyone in the throne room is obliged to dance along with Biff Runner, though Moonlight Man makes a point of standing still on the dance floor. For the final routine, Biff Runner has a giant iron ball fall on Leeko - intent on crushing him - but it instead forces the potato chips he ate out of his body, which returns him to his usual size and shape. From here, Milly instructs Leeko to vacuum-mouth Biff Runner's headset to gain the Mike Copy Ability.

Once Mike Leeko begins to sing, Milly immediately regrets her command, and the whole crowd is forced to endure the horrendous noise. Gene is forced to turn off his screen, and Biff Runner ends up exploding from the pain of the noise. From there, Mike Leeko's singing causes Castle Leonardo to collapse again. From the rubble, King Leonardo emerges, having somehow returned to his normal size and shape. Before Tommy can comment for too long, Mike Leeko emerges from the rubble and continues singing, prompting the two to run away in fear. The episode ends as Mike Leeko continues to sing his song and then strikes a pose.

## Trivia

* This is the second episode of the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Mike Copy Ability.
* The original concept of this episode is Leeko and King Leonardo get shrunk down to ant size, and it’s original title was “Honey, I Shrunk The Star Warrior And The King”.
* In the middle of his song, Biff Runner says “everybody dance!” and everybody (with the exception of Moonlight Man), including numerous Viruses, Sir Pathogen, Milly, Manny, and Tommy, starts dancing.
* This episode reveals that King Leonardo and Leeko are ticklish, as seen during Biff Runner’s workout.