A Queen's Best Hobby

A Queen's Best Hobby is the 8th episode of Happy Tree Friends: King Beaver's Royal Show and the 8th episode of season 1. This episode marks the debut of the anteater ballerina Heather In this episode, Queen Ballerina shows love for her best hobby of ballet. This episode also reveals how King Beaver married Queen Ballerina and made her his queen.

## Cast

**Starring**

* Queen Ballerina
* King Beaver
* Duke Gutenberg
* Heather (debut)
* Joni
* Debbie
* Dorothy
* Jenny Penny
* Phoebe
* Odette
* Lin
* Terri
* Trisha
* Veronica

**Featuring**

* The Diaper Princess
* The Diaper Prince
* Prince Smartypants
* Princess Umi
* Prince Baby Mojo
* The Princess Rabbit Trio
* JD Winkerman (with diaper in the present day, diaperless in a flashback)
* Gia
* Billy
* The Little Girl Skunk
* Giggles
* Petunia
* Toothy
* Cuddles
* Russell
* Sonya The Merfox

**Appearances:**

* Kira (Her singing voice heard on a radio)
* Ballerina Gal (Plush)
* Robbie
* Mayor Rick
* White Dog (with diaper)
* Generic Tree Friends

## Plot

Queen Ballerina ballet dances in her ballet room cause she always love ballet. The radio plays Kira's opera singing voice while the queen dances ballet to it. Meanwhile, King Beaver reads a scroll, The Diaper Princess and The Diaper Prince were playing chess in the arcade, Prince Smartypants was reading books in the library Princess Umi was polishing her tiara and Prince Baby Mojo was in his crib taking a nap. Duke Gutenberg was walking down the hall, He checks on Queen Ballerina who's still dancing ballet as he was delighted on that and walks along. Kira has invited her ballet friends to the castle for a day of ballet. JD Winkerman and his family arrive at the castle along with Russell and Sonya. The Little Girl Skunk helps the merfox into the castle. White Dog comes in and Cuddles follows him. Cuddles pulls down White Dog's diaper and White Dog scolds Cuddles. Petunia, Giggles, & Toothy arrive at the caslte from the bus. Heather walks in with Joni, Oddette, Terri, Veronica, Trisha, Debbie, Dorothy, Jenny Penny and Lin. Princess Umi wakes up Prince Baby Mojo and gives him a Ballerina Gal Plush to play with. JD Winkerman heads to the bathroom and goes potty in the toilet as he does not want to go in his diaper. When The Winkster finishes, he directs everyone to the palace theater room.

Queen Ballerina tells everyone of how she loves ballet and became the queen. A flashback starts when Queen Ballerina was just an ordinary ballerina who loves to dance. She tells how King Beaver married her and that is how she became queen. King Beaver was a lonely king and wanted a wife to be his queen, So he ordered Duke Gutenberg to bring all girls in the town to let him choose his wife. King Beaver chose her because he loves a girl with ballet skills. JD Winkerman says to Queen Ballerina that it was the king's choice to marry someone who is not royal and King Beaver agrees with The Winkster and they give a high five. Then what happen on that day where the group of ballerinas did a ballet dance for the King and the audience and only Queen Ballerina would be the chosen one. When the finished, King Beaver chose his chosen one to be his queen. Sonya The Merfox is amazed by this and The Winkster tells her it was a blast. Russell agrees with The Winkster.

Cuddles gives them a question why does King Beaver like ballerinas. King Beaver explains that he has a love for the ballet dancers in old films and that one day he might marry a ballerina, JD Winkerman explains to Queen Ballerina that even though she was not royal then, it was King Beaver's choice to marry a ballerina. JD Winkerman remembered marrying King Beaver and Queen Ballerina on their wedding day. Heather comes dancing in and hugs Queen Ballerina. Jodi, Oddette, Lin, Jenny Penny, Debbie, Dorothy, Phoebe, Terri, Trisha and Veronica come over to the stage and decide to dance with Queen Ballerina. JD Winkerman and Robbie put some classical music on the stereo and the ballerinas start dancing. The group really gets the hang of it to the amazement of the crowd. Queen Ballerina did a big jump and ballet spins in the air and land safely on one tippy toe. The crowd is thrilled.

Later at the banquet, Gia asks Queen Ballerina about where she learned her ballet moves. Queen Ballerina tells Gia that she was born to dance. The kids agree and Gia is amazed at this. Queen Ballerina dances one more time ending the episode.

Moral: "Always love your hobbies!"

## Trivia

* Just like in the previous episode, The Diaper Prince, The Diaper Princess and Prince Baby Mojo don't soil their diapers or have anything happen to them.
	+ Robbie, Mayor Rick, JD Winkerman, Gia, Billy, The Little Girl Skunk and White Dog also don't soil their diapers in this episode.
	+ This is the 3rd time were White Dog wore a diaper for the whole episode without soiling it, however Cuddles does pull White Dog's diaper down while Mayor Rick, Robbie, JD Winkerman, Gia, Billy and The Little Girl Skunk have nothing happen to their diapers. JD Winkerman goes potty in the toilet as he doesn't want to go potty in his diaper.
* JD Winkerman interacts with Sonya The Merfox for the first time. Gia also interacts with King Beaver and his family for the first time. This episode reveals that JD Winkerman knew King Beaver & Queen Ballerina for a long time.
* This episode marks the first appearances of JD Winkerman, Gia, Robbie, The Diaper Prince and The Diaper Princess's new diaper designs. This episode also marks the first appearance of Prince Smartypants' new underpants design to look like a diaper but with a a fly in front.
* JD Winkerman wears his diaper in the present day, but in the flashback to King Beaver and Queen Ballerina's wedding, he is not wearing a diaper, meaning that the wedding took place long before The Winkster: The Funky Diaper Skunk the episode of The Happy Tree Friends Fanon Stories Show where JD Winkerman decides to wear diapers to impress Gia who is reveled to be in diapers.