A Pretend Fight

**"A Pretend Fight"** is the thirty-seventh episode of the first season of *Sammy & Co*. It premiered on February 29, 2016, on Netflix.

## Synopsis

When Ricky and Ella pretend to disagree, their fight turns real, leaving Pipo and Annabel to try and make peace between their friends.

## Plot

The episode opens at the reef village where Pipo and Annabel are helping Ricky and Ella rehearse for a dolphin initiation. Ella is about to do a triple somersault trick and charges towards Ricky at full speed, but she accidentally misses him crash into a sea plant. As Ricky and Ella are talking about their excitement for the initiation, Pipo and Annabel are disappointed that they can't come with them since they haven't fully trained and it's far too dangerous if they tag along with them. Suddenly, Glitz, who's racing with Crudd and Babbles, bumps into Annabel and instead of apologizing to the octopus, Glitz instead scolds and blame her for getting in her way. Annabel, who's too nice and naive to stand up to Glitz, innocently apologizes for being in her way, but Glitz continues to intimidate the octopus until Annabel moves out of her way as she commands her. Ricky, however, is upset about Glitz bullying Annabel that he and Pipo are about to swim after the Rockfish to give them a piece of their minds, but Annabel grabs them with her tentacles and stops them. Annabel tells them that while it's nice of them for wanting to fight back Glitz, she has to agree with Glitz that it was the octopus's fault for completely in the way. Annabel's friends, however, disagree with her and point out how overly nice she is towards Glitz despite the scorpionfish's obvious meanness towards her and it's her naiveness that makes herself unable to stand up to Glitz with a comeback and lets her walk all over her. Wanting to help Annabel learn how to be more respected like them, Ricky and his friends tell her that it's high time for her to be taught how to be assertive and not being treated like a doormat anymore.

At the playground, the kids are trying to teach Annabel how to be assertive by having Ricky and Ella demonstrate for her. Ricky pretends to be a bully while Ella pretends to be a victim standing up for herself. When Ricky insults Ella by asking if her shell has been put on weight, Ella fires back a cheeky comeback by retorting that the two of them both know that it's because of his big head that he can't help bumping into people. Pipo and Annabel find the demonstration to be very instructive. But what the two didn't expect is that the argument between Ricky and Ella has been escalated when they both start insulting each other over their differences. Realizing that the two turtles have been taking the pretend argument too far that it actually turns into an actual fight, Pipo and Annabel both intervene to put a stop to it by reminding them that they're friends and friends don't fight each other. Ricky and Ella are relieved that their friends stop them before things get worse between them and find their argument to be silly. But when Pipo mentioned the time Ricky pretended he was sick so he wouldn't have to go out with Ella, unaware that the incident only happens because Ricky was only pretending to be sick to get out of school that one time, he inadvertently causes Ricky and Ella to fight again that the two turtles officially end their friendship in front of him and Annabel.

Now that the friendship between Ricky and Ella have shattered into pieces, the two refuse to talk to each other about it that Pipo and Annabel have to act as their mediator; Pipo is with Ricky while Annabel is with Ella. And as time goes on, their fight gets even worse than Ricky and Ella both even refuse to hang out with each other anymore. For Ricky, he sees her as a teacher's pet, while for Ella, she sees him as a liar.

Seeing the hostility doesn't seem to end, Pipo and Annabel both have to find a way to get the two turtles back together as friends whether they like it or not. They both try everything, but each attempt fails since Ricky and Ella both refuse to acknowledge each other's presence. And since Ricky and Ella both have to swim with the dolphins at the very next day, Pipo and Annabel both know that time is running out to get the two turtles to make up.

But just as things didn't get any worse, when Ricky and Ella are "rehearsing" for the dolphin initiation, they're still at each other's throat that the two deliberately mess up and taunt each other for their clumsiness. And since the two aren't in sync throughout their rehearsal, it gets to the point that Sammy and Ray, who're both surprises since they never see Ricky and Ella are against each other since the two have been friends for all their lives, threaten their respective grandchild that if they didn't stop bickering, they won't participate at the initiation with the dolphins. Ricky and Ella didn't care about the dolphins anymore and they tell their respective grandfather that the two young turtles don't want to see each other anymore.

Pipo and Annabel both watch the "rehearsal" and they felt upset over Ricky and Ella both too stubborn to apologize to each other that they'd rather miss swimming with the dolphins. Annabel felts ashamed and blames herself for indirectly causing the argument to happen all because she's been so nice to Glitz without showing any assertiveness. Pipo tells Annabel that it's not her fault and he felts it's his since he shouldn't mention to Ricky and Ella about the incident about Rucky pretending to be sick out loud. Before Pipo and Annabel can think of another solution, they suddenly see a shark fin ahead and they become frightened about the possibility of a shark somehow enter the reef. However, it turns out the shark is only their friend Albert who apologizes for scaring him because he was napping. Seeing each other getting after initially mistaken Albert for a shark outside the reef, it gives both Annabel and Pipo an idea on how to get Ricky and Ella back together.

Later that day, during class at the shell school, Pipo and Annabel inform Ricky and Ella respectively about a school of dolphins being spotted around Fin's Rock and the turtles should check them out later that day. Ricky and Ella both agree with their respective friends that they'll check out the dolphins, unaware that Pipo and Annabel actually urge them to go to Fin's Rock at the exact same time so the two could make up.

Once Ricky and Ella both make it to Fin's Rock outside the reef village, the two turtles are surprised to see each other showing up at the same time so they pretend to act casual. Just then, Ricky and Ella both see something up ahead and it is Annabel and Pipo swimming toward them, each wearing a disguise. Annabel is wearing a pink glove on her head, while Pipo covers himself in seaweeds. The two turtles, however, find their disguise to be ridiculous that they both can't help but laugh at them. However, their laughing fit comes to a halt when a barracuda suddenly arrives which scares the kids that the four all swim away from him, but the barracuda chases after Ella while her friends are hiding behind Fin's Rock. Pipo swims out of the rock throws his seaweeds onto the barracuda, covering his eyes and allowing Ella to escape. Annabel also helps by scaring the barracuda away because of her disguise. After the barracuda is out of their sights, Ricky and Ella both apologies to each other for their petty fight and two finally make up.

The next day, Ricky, Ella, Sammy, and Ray are all about to leave the reef for the dolphin initiation. But before they all left, Sammy and Ray both notice that their respective grandchild is visibly upset and they ask what's the matter. Ricky and Ella tell them that they really want Pipo and Annabel to come with them and at least to watch the dolphins because they're sad about leaving the reef without them. Sammy and Ray allow them to do so since they know how much the friendship between the four kids meant so much to them. Upon hearing that they're allowed to go with the turtles, Pupo and Annabel both swim to them. Just then, Glitz bumps into Annabel again and the scorpionfish starts intimidating the octopus again. Annabel is about to stand up to Glitz this time, but Ella tells her that she just forget about the incident, not wanting a repeat of last time. As the kids all follow Sammy and Ray out of the reef, Ella even admits to Annabel that she's right about it's not worth getting upset since it can only make things worse.

Later that day, the kids, Sammy, and Ray all made it to the dolphin initiation. When a dolphin parade swims by, the kids all follow them and start riding on one of them, each of the four all having a great time. Sammy and Ray both watch the kids having fun together and are glad to see how inseparable their friendship is after Ricky and Ella both made up.

## Characters

### Major characters

* Ricky
* Ella
* Pipo
* Annabel

### Minor characters

* Glitz
* Lulu
* Sammy
* Ray
* Albert
* Barracuda
* Crudd (background)
* Babbles (background)
* Aroun (background)
* Mika (background)
* Alpha (mentioned)
* Dolphins
* Reef inhabitants

## Trivia

* In the French version, the episode is called "Une dispute pour de faux", meaning "An argument for fake".
* Despite this episode is the thirty-seventh to aired on TiJi like its US airing order, it's the twenty-seventh episode to aired in France on M6.
* This episode makes a callback to "The Imaginary Invalid" when Pipo mentioned the time Ricky pretended to get sick. But this episode reveals that after the incident, Ricky's friends are still upset over it and they mistakenly assume Ricky was only pretended to be sick "so he wouldn't have to go out with [Ella]", unaware that Ricky was only doing it so he could skip school and stay home when he thought there's going to be a pop quiz on that day. This meant neither of the kids is informed about the full truth from Ray yet since he was the one who causes a misunderstanding between them in the first place in that episode.
* In a way, Glitz is indirectly responsible for causing Ricky and Ella to have a fight if she didn't intimidate Annabel after bumping into her, which is something Annabel points out within the episode.
* In one scene, Mika can be seen playing the coin toss game with someone.
* While Pipo and Annabel are figuring out a way to get Ricky and Ella back together, they briefly mistake Albert for a shark from outside the reef who somehow manage to find the entrance. In "A Divided Reef", their worst fear has been realized when an actual shark enters the reef and briefly terrorizes the villagers. Coincidentally, both this episode and "A Divided Reef" feature one member from both Sammy's and Ray's family having a fight.
* The glove Annabel wears as a monster disguise when she and Pipo are attempting to scare Ricky and Ella at Fin's Rock is the exact same glove the four kids use for their Monster Shoe-Glove disguise in "The Abominable Seamonster".

## References

1. ↑ https://instantwatcher.com/title/80042306
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/m6/25-11-2014/
3. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/22-03-2015/
4. ↑ https://www.netflix.com/title/80042177