Trashed!

**Trashed!** is the thirty-third Season 1 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the thirty-third episode overall.

## Summary

A spaceship dumps interplanetary trash over Puffy Town and the Blazing Tiger is supposed to incinerate it.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* Manny
* King Leonardo

### Secondary

* Beatrice
* Blazing Tiger (*debut*)
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Felix (*no dialogue*)
* Gamba
* Gene
* Helios & Luna
* Hover (*no dialogue*)
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline (*no dialogue*)
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin
* Moonlight Man
* Mr. Mage
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Snowdrop
* The Aliens (*debut*)
* Tommy
* Whitehead
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins out on a balcony of Castle Leonardo, where Milly is using her telescope to observe astronomical bodies while commenting on the possibility of alien life out in the universe to Leeko and Manny. While Manny and Milly debate about the intentions of any visiting aliens, Leeko has a look in the telescope and spots a UFO in the sky. He tries to tell his friends, but when they have a look, they don't see anything. After failing to spot the object again, Leeko becomes concerned. The next day, the residents of Puffy Town find a massive pile of garbage covering the tree in the central plaza. Seeing this, Milly immediately assumes that King Leonardo is responsible, but he and Tommy show up in the Tank car and appear none-the-wiser, and King Leonardo soon needs to be evacuated after inadvertently dumping trash on himself. Leeko then decides to jump into one of the tires in the trash heap and roll around in it, distracting the other kids in the process. Milly tries to get Chief Gordy and Mayor Bay to take responsibility for cleaning it up, but they attempt to dump the task on each other instead.

Back at the castle, Tommy orders the Viruses to clean up the tank car and checks in on King Leonardo who is taking a bath. Meanwhile, Puffy Town eventually gets its act together and starts collecting the garbage, but Gordy and Bay continue trying to push the responsibility onto the other by shifting the garbage pile into their respective yards. The garbage pile later ends up at Castle Leonardo, as the Puffies want nothing more to do with it. Seeing this, King Leonardo tries to stop them from leaving it, but trips on a tire and crashes straight into the garbage pile again. Despite this attempt to push the trash away, the Puffies find the next day that even more garbage has been piled into Usapia, burying the entire countryside with junk all the way out to Leeko's house and beyond. While the mayor and the police chief continue arguing over responsibility for the garbage, Professor Antico runs in and finds something in the rubbish heap he could use. The Puffies then get the idea to re-purpose some of the rubbish in order to help clean up, but a frustrated Milly insists it will not work. While Leeko and the kids continue to play, a number of other ideas are thrown around, but none of them are particularly wise or feasible. Milly snaps them out of it and insists that they need to find the dumpers responsible first.

That night, Milly sets out to catch the dumpers in the act, and Manny joins in against her wishes. While the two wait for a sign, Leeko shows up and eats the snacks Milly brought along, then falls asleep, prompting Milly and Manny to do the same. Just at that moment, the UFO returns and dumps more trash on top of them, causing them to be startled awake and swept away in the rolling garbage. After some tumbling, the three are rescued by Moonlight Man, who explains the situation. Spotting the flying saucer, Milly captures a photo. The spacecraft then takes off after dumping directly on Castle Leonardo. The next morning, Milly and Manny show the Puffies the photo and explain that the garbage has been dumped from another planet. The Puffies begin to despair at the thought of trying to stop an advanced alien race from dumping on their planet and dump responsibility on Chief Gordy to "arrest" them. Meanwhile, at Castle Leonardo, it is revealed that Nebula Enterprises set up the universal dumping provision on Usapia as punishment for King Leonardo not paying his bills to them.

King Leonardo refuses to pay up, and instead (somehow) endeavors to hack the Monster delivery system and call in Blazing Tiger to burn the trash away. After a rough introduction, Blazing Tiger crashes through the throne room door out into the countryside. There, it begins to terrorize the Puffies by setting fires everywhere. Milly and Manny send Leeko out to deal with it, but Leeko only ends up getting a mouthful of garbage when he attempts a vacuum-mouth. Blazing Tiger then proceeds to target Leeko and traps him in a blaze. Seeing this, Milly calls in the Shooting Star to help Leeko escape. While Leeko is on the Shooting Star, Blazing Tiger tries to shoot him down with a fireball, but Leeko swallows it and gains the Fire Copy Ability. Fire Leeko then proceeds to duel with the monster by exchanging fireball shots. Blazing Tiger then flies into the air and attempts to mow Fire Leeko down with a continuous stream of fire breath, but Fire Leeko counters with his own, filling Blazing Tiger up like a balloon, then tossing it into the ocean where it is destroyed.

Over the course of the battle, most of the trash is incinerated by the flames. The Puffies celebrate this turn of events, but Moonlight Man reminds them that the trash problem is not solved yet. At that moment, the spacecraft returns, presumably to dump more trash onto Usapia. However, the saucer instead lands in Puffy Town and three of the alien pilots exit the ship to greet the villagers. Most of the Puffies are terrified, but Milly steps forward to demand they clean up their mess and never dump in Usapia again. The aliens apologize, telling the Puffies that they were given clearance to dump here, and proceed to take away the remaining trash and fly away with it. As they leave, both Milly and Leeko breathe a sigh of relief, but King Leonardo decides to take credit for what Milly did and walks triumphantly back to the castle. That night, Milly peers through her telescope again and discovers a meteor shower, but the "meteors" turn out to be the garbage from the alien spaceship burning up in the thermosphere above Usapia, as they still have no other place to dump it. Regardless, Leeko and his friends are fooled, and the episode ends with Milly making a wish for Puffy Town to remain beautiful and Leeko enjoying the sight.

## Trivia

* This is the fifth episode of *The Beginning* series to feature the Fire Copy Ability.
* This is the last episode to air in 2002.
* This is the fourth episode to have a one-word title; first being Blockbusters, second being Pillowed!, and the third being Snowed!.
* The tenth episode where Milly calls for the Shooting Star.
* Milly’s pondering on the existence of alien life out in the universe flatly contradicts several aspects of the series up to this point, including the existence of Leeko and the Star Warriors, Nebula Enterprises, and the events of Princess Or No Princess?, to name a few.
* This episode aired a year after the episode Sleeping Leeko.