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Favorite episode and least favorite episode?


Whats your favorite episode and your least favorite episode of littlest pet shop?

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Least favorite: The Nest Hats Craze! (I didn't like how the Biskits were manipulating Blythe and her success for their own gain.)

Favorites: So You Skink You Can Dance (if only for the 'camera shyness' montage), Helicopter Dad and Lights, Camera, Mongoose

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Favorites: "Gailbreak!", "Bad Hair Day"...
...I also like "Bakers and Fakers", "What's in the Batter?"
Season 2 wasn't totally irredeemable, thanks to "So Interesting", the Ramon episodes, and "What, Meme Worry?" The oddly-titled "Sunil's Sick Day", and the Expo Factor finale.

I can't really think of just one most crappy episode that really sticks out--- it is probwbly What Did You Say? Also, Sweet Pepper and thw vast majoritg of episodes where a new/ guest/ one time animal is "shipped" with a main pet. Most of the main pets become stupid or boring when they have a crush on a new animal.
'Cept with Digby. Zoe is correct, Digby is actually kinda hot. He's a hunk.

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My least favorite was "Grounded"--actually, I loved most of it was and very disappointed by the lame cop-out ending. It would have made a far, far better lesson for Zoe to embrace her non-pedigree-ness (which she clearly has; the "dog shows" in LPS and Pound Puppies bear little to no semblance to any real-world canine competition), than to go the predictably pointless way they went. I was moved to write a review of the episode for TV.com, to explains my feelings on it.* http://www.tv.com/shows/the-littlest-pet-shop/grounded-3010998/reviews/

I've liked most episodes pretty well, honestly. All of the following are ones that I would pick out as specific favorites.

Bad Hair Day
Gailbreak
Dumb Dumbwaiter
Eve of Destruction (Eva Gabor dog ftw!)
Trading Places
Topped With Buttercream
Terriers and Tiaras
Blythe's Pet Project
Missing Blythe
Heart of Parkness
Pawlm Reading
The Treasure of Henrietta Twombly
A Day at the Museum
Blythe's Big Idea
So Interesting
To Paris With Zoe
Sweet Pepper
Inside Job
Plane It on Rio
Littlest Bigfoot
The Hedgehog in the Plastic Bubble
Sleeper
War of the Weirds
Some Assistance Required
Secret Cupet


*Oh, bugger. TV.com has become the worst site in the world. And like Livejournal, it utterly ignores spaces betwixt paragraphs. This is what the review was supposed to say, in full:

This is possibly my least favorite episode, all because of the ending. Throughout most of it, I was quite impressed--you had the Biskit twins' partial and (I knew!) temporary transformation under Roger's positive influence, Zoe's path from her usual self-confident diva self to slovenly mutt to proud, painted-up, strongly Jersey-accented mixed-breed (the BEST PART.)
I was pleased that the method for DNA testing (cheek swabs) was portrayed realistically--a rarity for this show. It was easy to predict Zoe's "mutt" result, and I was pleased with that as well. She did once call herself a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, but she's obviously not. Picturing her as a realistic dog, she looks a lot like a long-coated Russian Toy, mixed with a little bit of Phalene (the drop-eared variety of the Papillon breed.) No, I don't expect them to be that specific in the cartoon. (Although it was quite awesome of them to identify Philippe as a French Spaniel in "To Paris With Zoe!" The only other animated French Spaniel is Smith from Ginga Nagareboshi Gin and Ginga: Densetsu Weed. It's an extremely rare breed. Of course, Philippe is so tiny you'd have to assume he was a puppy--but then, almost all animals are unrealistically 'chibified' in this show's style, so scale means little. And yes, they all have oversized heads. I much preferred the original, realistic LPS toys, but what doesn't get damaged in remaking? Besides ponies?)
So I was counting on Zoe learning an important lesson: Being a mutt does not mean you're a lowly, common cur. On the contrary--it makes you very unique and special indeed. She should have learned to be proud of herself without being "the purest of purebreds." But what did they do? They cheaped out with the most cliche possible ending: Mrs. Twombly misread the DNA test results (and I thought she was going to test all the animals, not just two? Whatever.) From the start I had figured, "Oh, she's gonna mix them up, and they're all going to start acting like different animals or something." But no. All that happened is that Minka finds out she's not a super-exotic rare species of monkey, which suits her just fine...and Zoe finds out she is a pedigree after all, which suits her likewise. But what the what?! What kind of message is that?! "Your mixed-breed dog is inferior to your friend's purebred, kid!!" Honestly, that was just ridiculous. Zoe didn't actually have to learn anything; she was relieved of pretending to accept her "mutt self" before she even truly achieved that. (Not that those breed-ID DNA tests are completely accurate or reliable anyway, but for the sake of the show, it could have been.)
And that reaffirmed my feeling that the writing on this show is much, much weaker overall than that for My Little Pony. Not since Feeling Pinkie Keen have I felt that discomfited regarding an episode's moral, and in the case of FPK, reexamination showed me that it was actually a good message worded awkwardly. Here, I was just flat-out disappointed. But it's not the first time I've expected something rather important from this good yet fairly predictable series, which failed to be delivered. (E.g., in "So Interesting"...clearly, everyone's stories were embellished and exaggerated, if not entirely fabricated. So yes, Penny's imagination makes her interesting, but she probably doesn't have fewer intriguing experiences than the others, anyway--and most of them can also be quite inventive.)
Oh, and it still annoys me to no end that Whitney isn't the white-haired twin. What were they thinking?!



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