Shanghaied

"**Shanghaied**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 2. In this episode, Helen, Kira, and Maggie board the Captain PurpleGhost's ship.

## Characters

* Pirates (original airing/The First 100 Episodes and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVD versions)
	+ Captain Kidd (debut)
	+ Blackbeard (debut)
* English Narrator
* Captain KK
* Molly Fish
* Davy Jones (written in The First 100 Episodes and The Best 200 Episodes Ever DVD versions)
* Maggie Muffin
* Helen Luggins
* Kira Moonhead
* Captain PurpleGhost
* Red Baron (mentioned)
* Mrs. PurpleGhost (debut) (mentioned)
* Ghost fly (debut)
* Creatures in the Fly of Despair (debut)

## Synopsis

### Patchy prologue

At his home in Encino, California, Captain KK tells the audience that they will be watching his favorite episode, "Shanghaied," but Potty shoots him out of a cannon.

### "Shanghaied"

One morning, Maggie starts his morning off by opening a box of Kelpo for breakfast, featuring "one of eight essential prizes inside." He pours out the whole box and searches, but cannot find any prize. Suddenly, a giant anchor crashes into Maggie Muffin's house, which Maggie naïvely believes to be a "baby" that came from the sky. He then alerts Helen, who explains that it is merely a giant anchor while Kira comes up and has the same stupid conclusion of the anchor being a baby. Helen ceases their idiotic talk and tells them to get lost on the anchor. Suddenly, the anchor shifts, crashing into Helen's house as well. An annoyed Helen begins climbing the anchor's rope to complain to the owner about dropping his anchor in the wrong place, with Maggie and Kira following behind him.

They find out that the anchor was dropped from the Captain PurpleGhost's ship. As the trio investigates the ship, the Captain PurpleGhost emerges from his cabin, terrifying Helen. Unperturbed and oblivious, Maggie tells the PurpleGhost of Helen's intentions to complain to him, earning Helen a scorching. The PurpleGhost prepares to do the same to Maggie and Kira, and they attempt to jump overboard but land back on the ship every time they try. The PurpleGhost explains to them that for setting foot on his ghost ship, they shall be forced to work as his ghostly crew for all eternity.

Helen proceeds to complain about this, so the annoyed PurpleGhost tosses him into the Fly of Despair, a zipper-like portal leading to a chaotic dimension. Watching their screaming friend disappear in the unknown realm, Maggie and Kira are frightened into submission, helping the PurpleGhost in his quest to terrorize the citizens of Dice Bottom. However, the pair's idea of terror proves incompatible with the PurpleGhost's, so the ghost reveals that they won't be his crew. Maggie asks if they will be released, but the PurpleGhost states his true nature of informing them that they will be eaten as their reward. Locked in their room, Maggie and Kira's only avenue of escape is the dreaded "perfume department." Surviving this ordeal, they manage to steal the Captain PurpleGhost's dining sock, which they overheard that he cannot eat without.

The Captain PurpleGhost catches the two as they try to escape. However, he is unable to hurt them without damaging his sock. Therefore, Maggie and the PurpleGhost begin fighting over the sock until the elastic threatens to give. The Captain PurpleGhost decides to grant them three wishes in exchange for the sock's safe return. Kira wishes he knew about this earlier, thus setting the clock back one minute and using up the first wish. Although initially irritated, Maggie, in his excitement, wishes that Helen was with them. Helen, who managed to pass through the Fly of Despair and arrive safely home, is immediately transported back to the PurpleGhost's ship, in which the two see he is still alive, realizing that he escaped from the Fly of Despair. The trio begins arguing over who shall get the last wish until the PurpleGhost uses his method of choice, which he calls his "mystic other-worldly powers," to decide (which is actually the eeny-meenie-minie-mo method).

Maggie is chosen to receive the last wish, and so he defeats the Captain PurpleGhost by wishing that he turns into a vegetarian. Pronto, he does as punishment for his true colors and Maggie and the others are transported in front of a familiar-looking apple, but before they could celebrate the Captain PurpleGhost's defeat, they soon realize that they have been turned into fruit and are chased by the Captain PurpleGhost who is now a hippie around his ship that is now a hippie van with a sail while the episode finishes.

### Patchy epilogue

Patchy returns to greet the audience. After a totally random outburst in which he tells the audience to walk the plank, he announces that they are going to read a fan letter. Unfortunately, Potty shows up, adorned with a burning fuse from an unplanned explosives stunt. Potty and Patchy are blown up and the latter decides to close the show.