Sneezed!

**Sneezed!** is the twenty-ninth Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the sixty-third episode overall.

## Summary

When everyone catches a cold before the new year, Leonardo tries to catch one because of a rumor.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* King Leonardo
* Gene

### Secondary

* Bubbles (*no dialogue*)
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy
* Dr. Medico
* Felix
* Fever Monsters (*debut; no dialogue*)
* Gamba (*no dialogue*)
* Hover
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline (*no dialogue*)
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Milly
* Miss Yuubin
* Moonlight Man (*no dialogue*)
* Parker (*no dialogue*)
* Professor Antico (*no dialogue*)
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen (*no dialogue*)
* Snowdrop (*as a voice*)
* Tommy
* Whitehead (*no dialogue*)
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Castle Leonardo, where King Leonardo and Tommy are being solicited by Gene, asking them to order a few more monsters from him in order to help him gain the title "Employee of the Year" at Nebula Enterprises. He offers to reduce their 900 trillion dollar debt if they help him out, but they do not want to due to his monsters' shabby performance up to this point and insists that they will never pay back their debt, but Gene insists he will find a way to get them to pay up. Later on, King Leonardo orders a pizza at Peppermint's Table, but after delivering it to him, the chef ends up sneezing it at him, and reveals he has a cold. Shortly after, Tommy sneezes on King Leonardo as well. After berating the two of them, King Leonardo leaves the restaurant only to find that all of the other Puffies appear to be sick as well. A whole line of them have formed at Dr. Medico clinic, but the doctor refuses to see them, as he is sick as well. King Leonardo and Tommy head back to Castle Leonardo, as the king wonders why he has not caught the cold yet.

Back at the castle, King Leonardo discovers that all of his court have also been sick except for the Viruses and Leeko. Tommy wonders if this is due to the cold only affecting "intelligent" people, implying that King Leonardo is not among that group, but he later plays down this speculation under threat and excuses himself. Meanwhile, Manny also gets into the idea that only smart people get sick as he and Milly get over their own colds, and King Leonardo overhears this comment and becomes miffed at the implication. After failing to get any follow-up info from Tommy, King Leonardo decides to dial up N.L.E again to get answers from them. It is soon shown, however, that Gene is sick as well. Despite this, he answers King Leonardo by confirming to him that only intelligent people catch the cold while Milly eavesdrops on the conversation. After King Leonardo finishes his conversation, Milly comments on the king's gullibility and decides to play in on it. As he walks down the halls, he spots Milly and Manny with Leeko, who is now wearing a mask over his mouth. The three make a show of Leeko's sudden illness to King Leonardo and then walk off, it is then shown that they were only pretending in order to mess with the king.

King Leonardo immediately calls up N.L.E once again and demands that they give him a cold to prove he is not stupid, but Gene suggests he just get cold instead. King Leonardo runs out of the throne room and has his Viruses bring him ice to bathe in. Later on, they try placing him in the freezer, but this does not work either. King Leonardo dials up N.L.E once more and demands they give him the cold, so Gene sends him the Fever Monsters for a premium fee. King Leonardo scoffs at the small test tube the monsters are sent in, having imagined something larger that would zap him sick, but ends up swallowing them anyway. As they invade his body, he becomes sick immediately and celebrates the fact that he was "smart enough" to catch the cold. He runs through Puffy Town to let everyone know about this, as they look at him, confused. King Leonardo then returns to the castle and gloats to Milly, Manny, and Leeko that he caught the cold and then runs off.

Later on, King Leonardo begins to regret his decision, and calls up N.L.E once again to ask them to cure him of the virus. Gene, who has recovered from his cold, decides to continue to mess with Leonardo and suggests that he can get rid of the virus by passing it on to somebody else. King Leonardo proceeds to have the Viruses line up and each gets coughed on by him. After the Viruses fail to catch his cold and he fails to lose it, he returns to N.L.E once more and asks for a new suggestion. Gene suggests that he get Leeko to vacuum-mouth his cold monsters, so King Leonardo runs off to fetch Leeko and then brings him back to the throne room. Gene then sells King Leonardo a "Microlizer": a ray gun that causes anything it shoots to shrink in size and instructs him to use it on Leeko. He does so, causing Leeko to shrink down to the size of a pea, and then swallows Leeko after instructing the tiny mouse to vacuum-mouth all of the monsters inside him.

After tumbling down King Leonardo's throat, Leeko stumbles across a swarm of Fever Monsters in Leonardo's gut. The monsters form up and chase after Leeko, causing King Leonardo to suffer from the convulsions this causes. King Leonardo tells Leeko to vacuum-mouth them, and he does so. King Leonardo starts to get tickled by this action, and he ends up sneezing, which causes Leeko to fall and spit all of the monsters back out. King Leonardo then sneezes again, forcing Leeko out of his body, who, shortly thereafter, returns to his original size. With this, King Leonardo ends up right back where he started, as Gene chides him and then signs off, having made the sales he wanted. The next day, as the rest of Usapia gets over their colds, King Leonardo becomes the only one left who is sick. Gene stops in one more time to gloat to Leonardo and Tommy that he managed to get the title he was aiming for, thanks to King Leonardo's recent purchases. The episode ends as Milly and Manny laugh at King Leonardo's predicament and Leeko enjoys a toasty snack.

## Trivia

* This is the eighth episode to have a one-word title; first being Blockbusters, second being Pillowed!, third being Snowed!, fourth being Trashed!, fifth being Monsweeper, sixth being Cartooned!, and seventh being Schooled!.
* This is the sixteenth episode in *The Beginning* trilogy to not feature a Copy Ability.
* In the episode A Dark And Story Night, it shows that Leonardo can naturally get sick, as shown after he crashes into the moat while trying to escape from Thunder King.