Toon In!

**Toon In!** is the twenty-second Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the eighty-ninth episode overall.

## Summary

King Leonardo orders an anime group from NLE, but they end up doing an anime show about Milly instead.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Drowsy, Grunty, and Skinny (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Angelaie/"Nicky Lodean" (*debut*)
* Athena (*no dialogue*)
* Beatrice
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy (*no dialogue*)
* Daisy
* Dr. Medico
* Felix
* Gamba
* Gene
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin (*no dialogue*)
* Moonlight Man
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Slammer (*no dialogue*)
* Snowdrop
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Castle Leonardo, where King Leonardo recaps the events of Cartooned! to Gene and asks if he could try again, but this time with a professional animation team provided by Nebula Enterprises. Through the Monster delivery system comes three geeky-looking guys named Drowsy, Grunty, and Skinny. Gene reminds King Leonardo that these three are employees under contract and not monsters, and signs off. King Leonardo and Tommy get to work debriefing the guys on their idea for the cartoon and show them their previous effort from the episode "Cartooned!" as a reference, but they seem more interested in Milly and decide to make the cartoon about her instead. Against King Leonardo and Tommy's objections, the animators head out to find Milly so they can get a better reference. Out in the countryside, Milly, Manny, and Leeko are having a picnic, but Milly keeps getting distracted by ruffling in the bushes. As Manny and Leeko head out to play hide-and-seek, Milly notices a small microphone attached to her picnic box. She starts to become nervous as Drowsy, Grunty, and Skinny stalk her just out of sight, looking to obtain more of her voice clips for their purpose. They continue to stalk her through the evening, but she manages to spot them outside her bedroom window that night.

The next day, Milly reports the incident to Chief Gordy in Puffy Town, and recruits him and some other Puffies to help her catch the crooks. While walking down a dirt path in Usapia, Drowsy, Grunty, and Skinny stalk her again, but when they run to hide, they are immediately set upon by Milly's hired help and captured. Once at the police headquarters, the three animators spill the beans and reveal their intentions. Milly berates the three for stalking her and demands they come up with an original idea instead of using her likeness, and the Puffies decide to help out by pitching ideas for the three to use. However, all of the Puffies ultimately end up pitching ideas that cater specifically to their own character. As they bicker about the concept, Milly shouts them down and points out that the three animators have slipped out of the building. Meanwhile, back at the castle, Gene informs King Leonardo and Tommy that they only have two days to complete the project or else they will not get their production money back, prompting Leonardo to frantically search for his animators. They soon find them and force them to work on the cartoon without breaks in the dungeon until they complete it.

As time passes, Milly and her friends wonder where the three animators ended up. Moonlight Man shows up and tells them that King Leonardo has the three animators locked up in his dungeon. Hearing this, Milly and company rush to the castle to berate King Leonardo for what he is doing, and tell him that he is not necessarily going to get the cartoon he wants, and after checking their work, Leonardo realizes she is right. With little other resources due to the tight deadline, King Leonardo tries to negotiate with Gene again, and requests for a new animator to speed things up. Through the teleporter comes the legendary animator Angelaie, who Milly and Manny turn out to be huge fans of. When King Leonardo tells Nicky what the deadlines are, he suggests using CGI to speed up the process, and sets up a motion-capture studio. After applying several optical sensors to King Leonardo, he starts to make progress as King Leonardo's movements are transmitted to his computer and made into a rendering of the king in 3D. Milly objects to the idea of replacing artists with motion capture technology, but does not get far before Nicky hooks up Leeko as well and gets him ready for the show. Nicky Lodean then tells Leeko and King Leonardo to act like they are battling, but King Leonardo decides not to merely act and starts clobbering Leeko repeatedly with his hammer. Nicky tells Leonardo to keep it up, as the kids watch in concern. Milly then concludes that this cannot possibly be the real Nicky Lodean, and turns out to be correct, as the disguise is thrown off to reveal the computer monster Angelaie.

Angelaie then proceeds to transform his equipment so that he can control the actions of the two "actors". He forces King Leonardo to continue hammering Leeko while at the same time forcing the poor pink mouse to be unable to move or resist the attack. After receiving even more punishment, Leeko is knocked into the ceiling, and when he falls back down, the sensors fall off of him. Milly tries to run in to help, but Moonlight Man stops her and instead tells Leeko to vacuum-mouth the defective sensors to gain the Spark Copy Ability. Using this ability, Leeko quickly overwhelms Angelaie and destroys him. As the group recovers from the explosion, King Leonardo and Tommy realize that there is not much time left before the cartoon is supposed to air. He rushes back to Drowsy, Grunty, and Skinny and sees that they managed to complete the cartoon just in time. Not caring what the cartoon contains, King Leonardo puts it on the reel and sets it up for live broadcast. As everyone gathers to watch the animation, Milly compliments Drowsy, Grunty, and Skinny for getting it done so fast, but soon regrets doing so when she sees the way they depicted her and chopped up her voice clips. After enduring it for a moment, Milly flies into a rage and chases after the three animators using King Leonardo's hammer. The episode ends as Leeko joins in on the chase, thinking it to be a game.

## Trivia

* This is the third and final episode of the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Spark Copy Ability.
* Madeline’s idea of a cartoon references the Toy Story series. Additionally, Professor Antico’s idea is a reference to Indiana Jones.
* This episode is considered to be a sequel to the episode Cartooned!.
* This is one of the few episode where Leeko draws. It is also noted that Leeko’s drawing skill is improving.