Baked Baddies

**Baked Baddies** is the twenty-third Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the fifty-seventh episode overall.

## Summary

When Leonardo gets hit in the face with a giant pie, the whole town gets into a pie fight.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

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

## Episode summary

The episode begins with a special cooking program airing on Channel Lion Out Loud. Tommy and the Viruses are attempting to bake a coconut cream pie for King Leonardo in a minute or less. After failing to meet the time requirement during preparation, the Viruses rush to get the pie into a giant microwave for cooking. However, the overclocked microwave ends up exploding, launching the pie directly at King Leonardo and coating him from head to toe in coconut cream filling. Seeing this, Tommy and his crew laugh at Leonardo's misfortune as the audience watching follows suit. Tommy then milks the scene by showing instant replays of the pie crashing into King Leonardo's face from various angles. Later on, King Leonardo storms down the halls of Castle Leonardo frustrated with the situation, where he overhears Milly's family laughing from their quarters. He barges in on them only to have them laughing directly in his face over the incident. King Leonardo rushes out as Tommy continues to exploit the incident on TV as much as he can, this time using a King Leonardo dummy.

At this moment, King Leonardo barges into the studio and throws a pie into Tommy's face to try and get even with him. Tommy retaliates by throwing more pies at Leonardo, resulting in the two engaging in a pie-throwing fight which results in the Viruses getting hit in the crossfire. Sir Pathogen breaks up the fight by pointing out that they are still filming, and the kingdom is laughing at the two over their petty struggle. Seeing this, King Leonardo decides to cancel the cooking show and get his revenge on his people. Later on, as the Puffies gather together in Puffy Town plaza to reminisce on the show, King Leonardo drives in with his film crew and a mountain of pies, and announces his intentions to toss them at all of the people who "break the law". He starts by catapulting three pies into the faces of Leeko, Manny, and Gamba, though Leeko seems to enjoy it. When Chief Gordy objects to the idea of being superseded legally by pie throwing, King Leonardo orders pies flung into his face as well. The rest of the Puffies start to complain about the disrespect Leonardo is showing his people, but he ignores them and proceeds to pie everybody. The Puffies retaliate by tossing the pies back at Leonardo which results in a large-scale pie battle.

During the fight, as Leeko gobbles up pies in mid-air, Milly marches over to King Leonardo and scolds him for needlessly wasting food. King Leonardo prepares several pies to be launched at her, but Leeko gobbles them all up before they hit her. Leonardo gets frustrated and pulls out his hammer to attack Leeko, but he is immediately pied by four of the Puffies before he can get out of his car. Seeing this, Tommy orders all the Viruses to pull back for the moment. As time goes by, the Puffies have become enamored with the pie war idea, and soon start throwing pies at each other for sport, while Chef Peppermint takes advantage of the craze by baking more pies for throwing. Milly attempts to berate Peppermint for this profiteering but to no avail as the other Puffies buy up his pies. Milly tries to tell the town that their pie-throwing obsession may be another one of King Leonardo's plots. Meanwhile, back at the castle, Nebula Enterprises sent a fruit basket to King Leonardo to rub salt in the wound over his pie incident. King Leonardo then requests a monster that can pelt Leeko with cream pie and overpower his ability to simply eat it up. Surprisingly, N.L.E has a monster perfectly suited to this specific request, and sends it along.

Meanwhile, back in town, the people have set up a barricade of furniture with more pies at the ready to prepare for King Leonardo's return, as Milly appears to have accepted the inevitability of the fight and has joined in. King Leonardo and his troupe then arrive and announce that from then on, anybody who says the word "woomy" is guilty of treason, naturally targeting one person in particular. After Leeko pops his head out and says the banned word, the Viruses drag him up to face his sentence. As expected, Leeko is able to quickly gobble up the pies thrown at him. King Leonardo then follows up by introducing his new horrific monster: the flying pie-throwing goliath Bowelbuster. The monster proceeds to pelt Leeko repeatedly with pies which the pink mouse refuses to eat and buries him in custard. After Leeko inadvertently splashes the onlookers when he emerges, King Leonardo orders Bowelbuster to attack the Puffies as well. After pelting them all, the monster proceeds to attack King Leonardo and his minions as well. After Milly gets hit by a pie that Leeko avoided, she angrily shouts at the pink mouse for a moment, but then has a taste of the pie and realizes who he won't eat them. Her visceral reaction gets the monster's attention, and it notices that nobody else is enjoying its pies either. Moonlight Man then appears on the scene and warns Milly that Bowelbuster is getting angry.

As Bowelbuster renews its assault, Moonlight Man spots Leeko hiding under the barricade. Milly demands Leeko to suck the monster up, but Leeko outright refuses. From there, Bowelbuster flies after Leeko, who jumps into the Royal Racecar with King Leonardo and Tommy for cover. Bowelbuster then proceeds to slam into the car, throwing its custard everywhere. From here, it rises up and throws off its outer later revealing its true form as a massive obese ghost-like monster and swallows the car with its occupants inside. Once inside, King Leonardo and Tommy notice the stomach acid starting to eat away at the tires of the Royal Racecar, and fear they may be digested as well. King Leonardo remains calm and pulls out a bomb from the trunk of the car to detonate, not realizing it will cause them to explode as well. Thinking fast, Tommy tells Leeko to vacuum-mouth the bomb, giving him the Bomb Copy Ability. Using this ability, Leeko tosses bombs all around the stomach interior, which causes Bowelbuster to explode. As Leeko falls out of the sky, Moonlight Man tosses him Beatrice's parasol so he can float gently down, while King Leonardo and Tommy plummet into the custard below. The episode ends as the town laughs at Leonardo's misfortune and Leeko floats gently down into Milly's arms.

## Trivia

* The episode’s title is a reference to the phrase ‘baked bads’.
* This is one of the very few episodes where Tommy commands Leeko to fight.
* This is one of the very few episodes where Milly actually enjoys watching television, even though she dislikes it.
* This is the second episode of *The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Bomb Copy Ability.
* Every character in this episode has gotten hit by a pie at least once. The only one who didn’t get hit is Beatrice, who manages to block them off with her parasol. King Leonardo was pied the most.
* All of the characters that got pied in order:
	+ 1st: King Leonardo
	+ 2nd: Tommy
	+ 3rd: Leonardo (two pies at once)
	+ 4th: Tommy (two pies at once)
	+ 5th: Leonardo (fourth pie)
	+ 6th: Viruses and Sir Pathogen
	+ 7th: Tommy (fourth pie)
	+ 8th: Manny, Leeko, and Gamba
	+ 9th: Chief Gordy and Mayor Bay
	+ 10th: Bubbles (two pies; first one targeted at him and second one he blocked for Marvin)
	+ 11th: Hover
	+ 12th: Leonardo (fifth pie)
	+ 13th: Various Puffies
	+ 14th: Miss Yuubin, Felix, and Madeline
	+ 15th: Chief Gordy (fourth pies at once - fifth pie)
	+ 16th: Viruses (second time)
	+ 17th: Leonardo (four pies at once, then three pies at once - twelfth pie)
	+ 18th: Manny (second time), Gamba (second time), Whitehead, and Daisy
	+ 19th: Leeko (fantasy - second time if counted)
	+ 20th: Leeko (second time - third, counting fantasy)
	+ 21th: Leeko (four pies at once, then five more pies at once - eleventh pie, twelfth pie counting fantasy)
	+ 22nd: Manny (third pie), Chief Gordy (sixth pie), Mayor Bay (second pie), Hover (second pie), and Professor Antico
	+ 23rd: Generic Puffy, Dr. Medico, Bubbles (third pie), and Marvin
	+ 24th: Leonardo (three pies at once - fifteenth pie) and Tommy (two pies at once - sixth pie)
	+ 25th: Viruses (third pie) and Sir Pathogen (second pie)
	+ 26th: Felix (second pie), Madeline (second pie), and Parker
	+ 27th: Milly
	+ 28th: Various Puffies (second pie)
	+ 29th: Leonardo (three pies at once - eighteenth pie) and Tommy (two pies at once - eighth pie)
	+ 30th: Various Puffies (third pie) and Viruses (fourth pie)
	+ 31st: Moonlight Man (five pies at once)
* This is one of the very few times in the show that any character other than Leeko says the word "woomy".
* This episode marks the first time that Leeko refuses Milly's order to vacuum-mouth something.
* Although they aren't heard speaking, the Viruses can be heard laughing when they laugh at King Leonardo in the beginning of the episode.