Breaking Things Only Makes Things Worse

**Breaking Things Only Makes Things Worse** is the second segment of the first episode of *Puppet People*. In this episode, Sally tests superstitions by breaking a mirror. The episode premiered on December 18, 2022 on Waycross PBS.

## Characters

* Sally
* Megan
* Drummer Dog (*debut*)
* News Guy
* Handy
* Lil' Susie
* Background characters
* Jacob (*debut*)

## Gong Gag

News Guy finds the gong in his studio and accidentally hits it with his head.

## Plot

The episode starts with Sally and Megan making music with Drummer Dog. Sally gets bored after the song and decides to go break a mirror. She gets everything she needs to do this. She passes News Guy's studio, thus alerting News Guy and Handy of the situation. Lil' Susie warns Sally of the consequences that could happen. A crowd yells at Sally, begging her not to break the mirror. News Guy and Handy run out of the studio, begging as well. Sally eventually changes her mind because of how valuable the mirror is, which gets everybody to leave and go back to what they were doing, but it turns out that was only a trick so Sally could break the mirror by herself.

She runs to Megan and tells her what she did, and that nothing bad has happened so far, even though it's only been a minute since the event. Megan and Sally hide in a closet and talk about how they're going to look for bad luck. They start looking, and they see Drummer Dog and Handy taking a crumpled up logo off the base of the drum. Sally and Megan misunderstand this as bad luck, Now with the gong as their logo, Drummer Dog exclaims that there wasn't any bad luck and plays with the tape. Handy accidentally knocks over the gong and drums. Megan yells at Sally, saying that *that* was bad luck, and it was just one person having bad luck, and someone else could possibly be having bad luck as well. She even blames Sally for the incident, saying it was because of Sally breaking the mirror. Sally then accidentally calls Megan "Sally", which is another case of bad luck according to Megan. Sally brushes these off as coincidences. Drummer Dog has fixed his drums, putting the cymbal on. He starts playing, but the cymbal falls off. He picks it up and puts it back, but it gets stuck in the holder. He starts to think that every time something good happens, something bad will follow. The cymbal flies off the holder, floating above Sally and Megan. They all stare at it before realizing one of them has the opportunity to catch it, and they both catch it at the same time. Drummer Dog tells Sally and Megan a valuable lesson: just because you break a mirror or walk under a ladder or whatever, doesn't mean you'll get bad luck! Drummer Dog then walks into his home at the drum base, before being interrupted by Megan, who reminds him about the missing logo at the front of the base. There's now a new one that he doesn't really like, but he can just get a new one. Handy walks over and him and Drummer Dog take the logo off, but accidentally rip it in half, and the logo now just says "puppet".

Jacob looks for his missing mirror before realizing he can just a new one at Dollar Tree.

## Trivia

* The music at the beginning of the video is reused from the *Jack's Big Music Show* episode "King of Swing".
* This is the first episode where the Gong Gag takes place somewhere other than the main room.
* Alfredo doesn't appear in this episode, which is rare for him.