Season 3 Episode 19 Pet Sounds Review

Okay we have another week, another new episode of LPS and man it this one a big episode.

The plot is Blythe helps Cheep-Cheep a cousin of Minka, when he believes his scientist owner a helmet for pets to speak with humans, meanwhile Youngmee after finding out Blythe's tries to talk to pets herself. Well any of them succeed or not? Only one way to find out.

Our episode begins at Sweet Delights in which Youngmee is trying to talk with Buttercream, and like Blythe said Buttercream is the wrong pet to try that on, it is a hilarious scene and we get a Diff'rent Strokes reference. Youngmee wonders like the pets did a couple of episodes ago how Blythe can talk to pets. Blythe again says she doesn't know I wonder if this big setup, perhaps in the season finale that question will be answered.

We go to the opening scene and we start the episode proper with a man and his pet monkey at LPS, he is a animal communication helmet on the monkey, and it spouts nonsense words instead of what he is really saying. The man is a scientist and realize the helmet is a dub and plans to announce at a college in which he was hoping to gain money for his invention. He leaves his pet monkey named Cheep-Cheep at LPS and we find out he is Minka's cousin.  

Cheep-Cheep how frustrated he is, that he can't communicate with his owner, and thinking how nice it would be if that could happen, we than go into a song, a very good song, which reveals some more owners. The only real reveal was Russell's owner, Penny and Pepper's owners have been seen before but here it is confirmed that they are the owners, and we see Zoey's owner Clarissa again, though John is no where to be seen, I guess he was busy. We also get a hilarious misunderstanding scene with Youngmee thinking she could understand Russell, but that misunderstanding is quickly resolved, which surprised me at first.

But we get another misunderstanding in which Cheep-Cheep meets Blythe and assumes the helmet works and runs out of the shop and plans to go to the college his owner is at and announce it to the world that helmet works, and talk to humans on the way.

Once everyone finds out, we get a three way chase sense as Russell, Minka, Blythe, and Youngmee split up to find Cheep-Cheep, with Russell and Blythe teaming up, while Minka and Youngmee team up even though Youngmee can't understand pets, Blythe reassures Youngmee that she will figure it out.

So we have our chase, while Cheep-Cheep "talks" to some "rude" humans, at least that is what he thinks, while Minka and Youngmee try to get past their language barrier, but we do have a great Indiana Jones fantasy, and in the fantasy Minka and Youngmee do talk to each other, and that is a big deal, because even in the fantasy Blythe is the only named character human to ever communicate with the pets, any other humans that talk with the pets in these fantasies are unnamed extra type characters. We also get a funny over head shot of everything like an old school video game like Pac Man or Frogger. Back in reality, even though they can't understand each other, Minka and Youngmee were able to do some team work, which does excite Youngmee. I am so happy for her. Youngmee is so excited she wants to tell Blythe, but there is no time.

We get to the college at last, and Cheep-Cheep is about to make the announcement when Cheep-Cheep interrupts, the people in the audience think this is part of an act, but Blythe thanks to something she learned form Minka and Youngmee experience together, tells the professor just because pets and humans can't talk to each other, they can still understand each other and tries to get the audience to think that is part of the professor plan, and that saves the day.

We end at Sweet Delights again with Buttercream, and Youngmee learns a lesson of just because she doesn't have Blythe's abilities doesn't mean she and Buttercream can't communicate with one another.

What a great episode, not hard to grade. First of all we finally get a follow up on Youngmee knowing Blythe's secret. I have been waiting for this since the show came back from hiatus. It is kind of what I thought would happen, Youngmee being curious but also hoping to try to communicate with animals herself.

Also a great song, and we get to see more pet owners. The only reveal was Russell's owner, we get more confirmation of Penny and Pepper's owners, and already meet Zoey's owners. Perhaps one day we will see all the owners.

I liked Cheep-Cheep he was a great guest pet, I loved the overhead view, which was a reference to old video games. The action was great, this episode was entertaining. And Youngmee got to talk to Minka in the fantasies, that is the first time that a named human character other than Blythe communicated with the pets in the fantasies, so that is neat to see. This what I was hoping to see post "Secret Recipe" and that is Youngmee going on these pet adventures.

I love the message at the end, that you don't have to have Blythe's abilities to talk with your pets. And I loved Buttercream rant in the first scene, did I hear a Diff'rent Strokes reference.

Positives

A follow up on Youngmee knowing Blythe's secret. Also Youngmee going on pet adventure. Nice to see those two worlds of Blythe kind of get merge at least once in a while.

The song, and we get more of the pet owners reveal. This is a double dose of big events.

Cheep-Cheep, I don't know I just liked him

Great adventures, the episode was just entertaining, it was hilarious at time, there was really no bad notes.

Negative

Sunil and Vinnie don't talk, and except for Russell and Minka, the rest of the pets get sidelined, but I guess that was necessary.

We don't see Minka, Sunil, and Vinnie's owners. Maybe next time.

My score

This episode because of following up on Youngmee knowing Blythe's secret, getting more pet owners reveal alone gets a 10 / 10, but the episode was entertaining and fun, so even more reason it gets a 10 / 10. Did anyone expect anything else.