Naughty Nautical Neighbors

"**Naughty Nautical Neighbors**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 1. In this episode, Helen destroys Maggie and Kira’s friendship, only for Maggie and Kira to competed for Helen's friendship.

## Characters

* Helen Luggins
* Maggie Muffin
* Kira Moonhead
* Strawberry the Octopus (cameo)

## Synopsis

On a seemingly normal day, Helen has made a delicious soufflé, but Maggie and Kira's incessant laughter distracts him from enjoying it. Helen sees that they are having a private conversation with bubbles. They whisper a message into the bubble wand instead of blowing into it, and when the bubble pops, the recipient can hear the message.

Annoyed by this, Helen makes bubbles of his own using a biproduct from his soufflé, and proceeds to insult the two while (sometimes) imitating their voices to ruin their friendship. Thinking the bubbles are from each other, Maggie and Kira become angry and get into a fight as Helen comes outside and eats his soufflé, amused at his neighbors' fight. The two eventually declare that they are no longer friends before storming back to their houses (unbeknownst to them that Helen is the one who caused this).

Kira gets squashed with his own house; while laughing and eating, Helen begins to choke on the fork he was using, resulting him in fainting. Kira witnesses this and successfully saves Helen's life by performing CPR on him.

Helen thanks him and he becomes Kira's new friend, inviting him into his house to watch him practice his clarinet composition called "Solitude in E Minor." Despite Kira claiming to love music, he immediately falls asleep as soon as Helen plays a single note.

Meanwhile, a lonely Maggie tries to cheer himself up by drawing faces on three of his fingers and pretending they are his "friends," but this only results in him bursting into tears.

Helen attempts to drag the sleeping, heavy Kira out of his house, and in the process, he throws his back out. Maggie sees this as an opportunity to help him and, despite protests from Helen, he launches himself into the latter's back and cracks it back into place. Helen screams but immediately feels better. He repeats his mistake, referring to Maggie as his "friend" while thanking him, thus making Maggie believe that Helen is his new best friend.

They both walk into Helen's house, where Maggie plays a song (badly) for Helen on his double bass (which he thinks is a bassinet) and when Kira, now fully awake, appears in the window and interrupts the song, Maggie destroys the instrument in a fit of rage. Helen explodes in anger and kicks him out as a result, and decides to take a relaxing bubble bath, but is horrified to find Kira, lounging in the tub and warming up a scrub brush and a bar of soap for him. Infuriated, Helen furiously orders him to leave, but Maggie appears through the window and discovers Kira in Helen's tub, causing the two to argue again. This drives Helen crazy, and he flees his house, hiding in a trash can outside. Seeing the huge terrible mess he created, Helen realizes he needs a plan to reconcile Maggie and Kira (and thus be left alone).

Helen decides to invite Maggie and Kira to a dinner party (without telling either of them that the other is coming) to fix their friendship. When they arrive, they are still mad at each other. Helen tries to get them back together by offering them soda, but the situation devolves into a competition to see who can drink the most soda and thus become Helen's friend. Eventually, Helen runs out of soda and leaves to get some more, telling the two to stay and "chat."

While he is gone, Maggie and Kira, who are both extremely engorged from all the soda they drank, still refuse to talk or even look at each other. Maggie then hiccups a small bubble that makes a burping sound upon popping, which amuses them both. Their immense laughter which follows releases bubbles, reverts them to their normal weight, and they become friends again. However, they create so many bubbles that it causes Helen's house to explode. Upon arriving back and seeing the destruction, Helen gets enraged and angrily tells the two to leave, and slams the door (which is somehow still standing) shut. A bubble pops near the door, causing it to fall over and crush Helen, who moans in pain, concluding the episode.