Schooled 3: Teacher’s Threat

**Schooled 3: Teacher's Threat** is the sixteenth Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the eighty-third episode overall.

## Summary

A new teacher comes to Puffy Town to teach at the Leonardo Academy, but he’s actually a contract monster.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Button Bowtie (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Beatrice (*no dialogue*)
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy (*no dialogue*)
* Daisy
* Dr. Medico
* Felix (*no dialogue*)
* Gamba
* Gene
* Hover
* Madeline (*no dialogue*)
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin (*no dialogue*)
* Moonlight Man
* Mr. Daiken (*debut*)
* Professor Antico
* Sir Pathogen (*no dialogue*)
* Snowdrop (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins with a brief recap of Schooled! and its sequel episode by King Leonardo to Tommy at Castle Leonardo. After a few snarky remarks from his right hand turtle, King Leonardo resolves to rebuild the Leonardo Academy and enroll in it as a student so he can learn to outsmart Leeko. Meanwhile, out in the countryside, a sudden rainstorm interrupts another one of Milly's impromptu lessons. As the group huddles under a tree, a stranger passes by, who comments on their efforts. After pointing out that the rain is only a sun-shower, the stranger introduces himself as Button Bowtie; a teacher who is looking to work in Usapia. Milly tells him there is no school for him to go to, but shortly after the rain clears up, the bell from the Leonardo Academy rings and gets the kids' attention. The group then walks over the hill and sees the school fully rebuilt, and everyone prepares to go back to school again. King Leonardo and Tommy address the assembled townsfolk, and tell them that instead of acting as Principal and Vice Principal, they are appointing those roles to Professor Antico and Mayor Bay Brittleton, respectively. Milly then suggests that the newly-arrived Button Bowtie act as the teacher and - to everyone's surprise - King Leonardo and Tommy agree to learn under Button Bowtie as students. After some banter, Chef Peppermint enrolls as a student as well.

Shortly after that, Button Bowtie's class begins. During the roll call, King Leonardo and Tommy immediately start bullying Leeko and try to get him in trouble, but Button Bowtie ignores it. Later on, as Leonardo continues being a nuisance, Button Bowtie asks him to come up to the board and write his initials. Leonardo agrees to this, but ends up butchering it, drawing an "I" instead of an "L" like Button Bowtie showed. Next, Button Bowtie introduces some basic arithmetic problems, and Leonardo and Tommy try to bully Leeko again, but this time, Milly sees what Tommy is doing and attacks him. Button Bowtie breaks up the fight and assures Milly that he saw what Tommy was doing, prompting Leonardo and Tommy to try and taunt her instead. From there, Mr. Bowtie tries to host a science demonstration involving light, but King Leonardo and Tommy continue being disruptive. King Leonardo then tosses his flashlight at Mr. Bowtie and it hits him right in the face, which prompts a physically violent response from Milly and Manny.

Later on, while Button Bowtie is being patched up at Dr. Medico's clinic, he is examining an x-ray scan of King Leonardo's head, and becomes more determined to help the mentally-deficient king. Back in the classroom, Chef Peppermint serves lunch, King Leonardo and Tommy start trouble again by causing a food fight, which then leads to throwing other objects, too. As Button Bowtie walks in on this, he gets a face full of curry as Leeko continues eating. After a week of teaching, Mr. Bowtie decides to hand out a test for his students over King Leonardo and Tommy's objections. The other students, including Tommy, note how easy the test is, but King Leonardo still struggles with it. Leonardo tries to cheat by looking at Tommy's paper, but his faithful turtle rats him out instead of helping him. Once everyone is done, Button Bowtie grades the test and gives everyone 100%. A gust of wind scatters the stack of tests and blows it back to the students, where they see that Leonardo actually got every problem wrong, and Leeko did not appear to know what he was doing at all. Frustrated over this humiliation, King Leonardo and Tommy leave class early and drive away in the Royal Racecar. Milly asks Mr. Bowtie why he didn't punish Leonardo more harshly, and he replies by telling her that Leonardo needs encouragement is he is going to learn.

After school, Milly and Button Bowtie converse out in the hills. Button Bowtie explains that he used to work in a factory in his hometown, not too far away from Usapia, but he decided to follow his dreams and become a schoolteacher instead. Milly insists that he is the "perfect" teacher and she wants to be just like him, and as she leaves, Button Bowtie shows some apprehension at this notion. That night, in the castle courtyard, Moonlight Man appears and tells Milly that she should be wary of Mr. Bowtie, giving her a cryptic hint that not everything is as it seems with him. Milly refuses to believe that anything could be wrong, and after Moonlight Man leaves, she starts to become infatuated with the idea of Button Bowtie. The next morning, Tommy tries to get King Leonardo up for school, but Leonardo insists that he is not going. Instead, he complains to Nebula Enterprises that the school is not working as intended. Gene reveals to them that Mr. Bowtie was sent by them and was supposed to attack Leeko, but did not fulfill his end of the bargain, so he promises Leonardo that he will send a new teacher to replace him.

Shortly after Button Bowtie's class begins, King Leonardo and Tommy arrive slightly late and reveal to the kids that Mr. Bowtie is in fact a monster sent by Nebula Enterprises. Milly refuses to believe this, but Button Bowtie confirms that he was indeed sent by N.L.E to attack the students, but that he simply couldn't bring himself to do it. King Leonardo then tells Mr. Bowtie that he has been replaced by a new teacher. He tosses an orb to the floor and bursts into a cloud of smoke, then reveals the monster Mr. Daiken. Mr. Daiken then proceeds to attack Leeko with a bokken. Button Bowtie attempts to intervene, but Mr. Daiken bats him away. After Leeko gets launched through a window, Mr. Daiken follows but trips on his way out, giving Leeko an opportunity to vacuum-mouth his bokken and gets the Sword Copy Ability. Mr. Daiken recovers and pulls out a laser sword, then proceeds to duel with Sword Leeko again. After a series of quick strikes and moves, Sword Leeko manages to gain the upper hand on Mr. Daiken and cleaves him in two with a Sword Beam attack, destroying him in an explosion which takes the academy with it. King Leonardo and Tommy make a run for it, but are trapped when the bell from the school's roof lands on them. A short time later, Button Bowtie bids the Usapians farewell, insisting that he must move on. The episode ends as everyone waves him goodbye.

## Trivia

* This is the third and final Leonardo Academy episode in the *Leeko: The Beginning* series.
* The episode’s title is a reference to “teacher’s pet”, a term used to describe a student who is favored by a teacher over others.
* This is the sixth and final episode of the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Sword Copy Ability.
* This is the third episode where Milly is shown crying.