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Previous: Proud as a... Peacock?
Episode: Sue Syndrome
Next: In the Loop
Blythe: Come on, Sue! Ah! She's gotta win this race! She's won every other event in today's all-city meet!
Youngmee: I wonder if she has anything left?
Jasper: No way she does!
Blythe & Youngmee: And you'd be wrong! [Cheering]
Jasper: I never doubted her for a second!
Principal Morris: Congratulations, Sue! You've set a school record in every event in today's all-city track meet!
Sue: Thank you, Principal Morris.
Principal Morris: And you'll be presented with a special trophy as best student athlete in Downtown City at tomorrow's assembly! We're looking forward to hearing your acceptance speech!
Sue: Huh?! I have to [Gulp] give a speech? Maybe I'm not the right athlete for this award.
Blythe, Youngmee, & Jasper: What the huh?
[theme song]
Blythe: So have either of you been able to get a hold of Sue?
Jasper: Phone calls not returned.
Youngmee: Texts ignored.
Blythe: Yeah, same goes for me.
Youngmee: Well, she can't duck as at school.
Jasper: Are you kidding? If anyone can, Sue can.
[Thud]
Blythe: Okay, see you guys later.
[Phone beep]
Mrs. Twombly: Oh, Blythe. Please take today's visitor to the day camp.
Blythe: No prob, Mrs. T.
Pepper: Hey, everyone, I'm pioneering a new form of comedy! I call it laugh 'n sniff! [Laughs] It goes like this: What did the scrambled egg tell the deviled egg?
Pets: [Talking at once]
Pepper: Don't be so hard-boiled! [Laugh]
Zoe: Ohh! Oh, my! How stinky!
Vinnie: Ugh! Smells like a rotten egg!
Pepper: Really? Darn, I was going for hard-boiled.
Penny Ling: Ugh. I'm not sure our noses are ready for your new comedy stylings, Pepper.
Blythe: Good morning, pets. Just dropping off today's day camper. And Pepper, I think you two are really going to hit it off.
Mitzi: Pleased to meet y'all! I'm Mitzi! My, what a lovely day camp!
Zoe: [Sniffing] Why, Mitzi, you literally are a breath of fresh air!
Pets: [Inhaling] Oh!
Penny Ling: Wow! Now that's something to smile about!
Pets: [Chatter]
Pepper: [Glum] I guess. If you like that kind of thing...
Jasper: Where is Sue?
Blythe: She'll show up.
Sue: Excuse me. Can I get to my locker? Thanks.
Blythe: See? I told you she'd be here.
Sue: Only because we have an English exam.
Youngmee: Sue, why have you been avoiding us? And what's with the baseball cap, giant sunglasses, and very large mustache?
Sue: Ugh, I'd rather not talk about it. And I'm wearing this stuff so Principal Morris won't recognize me!
Jasper: Sue, that disguise is not going to fool anybody.
Sue: OW!
Jasper: And anyway, Principal Morris will know who you are as soon as you step up to give your speech today.
Sue: I can't give that speech today, or ever!
Minka: I don't know why, but I feel so happy!
Zoe & Penny Ling: Me too!
Mitzi: I believe you're reactin' to my signature scents. It just seems to make everyone delirious!
Minka: Ooh, Mitzi! Do you know how to make custom scents?
Mitzi: Why, of course! I pride myself on creatin' just about any pleasant scent that anyone wants.
Zoe: Oh, well then, darling, how about a big field just bursting with lilacs?
Minka: And orchids!
Penny Ling: And jasmine!
Mitzi: Aw, shucks! And here I thought y'all were gonna ask for somethin' difficult!
Zoe, Penny Ling, & Minka: Ohhh...!
Zoe: [Barking]
Minka: [Laughing]
Penny Ling: [Panting] Oh, phew! That was quite the hike!
Zoe: How utterly fabulous!
Minka: [Sniff] Ooh, jasmine!
Penny Ling: [Sniff] Mmm, orchid-y!
Zoe, Penny Ling, & Minka: [Laughing] [Sigh]
Mitzi: I do so love to make people happy, but I think I may need a little rest now.
Russell, Vinnie, & Sunil: Hello!
Sunil: Uh, we too would like to make a scent request.
Mitzi: Why, of course! What ever would you like?
Russell: Well, fields of flowers is nice, but we were thinking something recreational, like the beach! The salt water...
Sunil: A just-grilled veggie dog...
Vinnie: Ohh, the sun!
Russell: Vinnie, the sun doesn't have a smell.
Mitzi: Never you mind, honey child. I know what you mean.
Russell, Vinnie, & Sunil: Ohhh...!
[Beach party music]
Sunil: [Sniff] Mmm! There's nothing quite like the smell of a vegetarian hot dog! Oh, easy there! Whoa, whoaaa! Hey, let go!
Russell: Ahhh! Smell that salt air! Sunil, look what you've done!
Sunil: Oh, well. Plenty of veggie goodness for everyone. [Eats] Ahh!
Russell: Hey, where's Vinnie anyway?
Vinnie: Oh, yeah! Oh man, smell that hot sun! Seal-abunga, dudes!
Russell, Vinnie, & Sunil: [Laughing]
Pets: [Laughing]
Pepper: I don't know what they're so happy about! You don't even tell jokes!
Jasper: [Straining]
Sue: Hey, let me go!
Blythe: Not until you tell us what's going on with you.
Sue: [Sigh] Oh, all right.
Jasper: Ohh!
Sue: I've always been great at sports, right?
Blythe: Yeah.
Sue: Well, the thing I'm not so great as is public speaking. It scares me! I think it's called glossophobia.
Jasper: [Laughing] Glossophobia! That is a funny word! Uh, [Clears throat] I mean- Come on, Sue, how bad can you be?
Sue: World-class bad. I completely freeze and my voice goes into an ultra high squeak. Sorry to disappoint everyone, but I'm going to tell the principal to give that award to somebody else.
Blythe: We can't let you do that.
Youngmee: Yeah, you earned that award.
Blythe: Sue, there isn't a lot of time, but I know we can get you to a place where you'll be able to stand up and give a great speech.
Sue: You'd do that for me?
Blythe, Youngmee, & Jasper: Absolutely!
Pets: [Chattering]
Pepper: Hey, everybody! You want to hear my latest jokes?
Pets: [Half-heartedly] Okay.
Pepper: Great! [Laugh] Who's up for something fresh?
Zoe: Gee, I wonder if Mitzi can make it smell fresh like the first day of spring?
Penny Ling: Ooh, let's ask her!
Pets: [Chattering]
Pepper: Hey! Are you pets even aware that I'm in the room? You know, y'all are making me mad!
Pets: [Coughing and gagging]
Zoe: Mitzi!
Minka: You've got to help us!
Sunil: Please! Cover Pepper's terrible aroma with something pleasant!
Mitzi: Your wish is my pleasure.
Pets: [Inhale] Ohhh!
Pepper: Show's over.
Blythe: Okay, Sue, we've got our lunch hour to work on your speech, so let's hear it.
Sue: [Sigh] Here goes nothing. [Clears throat] I'd like to thank all of my track teammates... um, and my coaches, and my parents, and... [Voice getting higher] everyone who attended the all-city meet, and... and... everyone's going to be looking at me just like you guys! I can't do this!! [She runs off.]
Jasper: Well, at least we know she's not imagining that she has a problem.
Pepper: So a hedgehog, a mongoose, and a monkey walk into a veterinarian's office that looks at them and says, "Is this a joke?" Ha ha! Ha ha! Uhh... [Sigh] Oh, what's the use? Nobody wants comedy from a skunk who stinks.
Zoe: I'm starting to feel a little less happy than I was earlier.
Vinnie: Yeah, come on! Do another one, Mitzi!
Sunil:  Oh, pleeeeease! Your scents make us so very happy! And we love being happy!
Pets: [Various pleadings] Ohhhh! 
Zoe: Oh, how heavenly!
Minka: Ooh, what do you call this one, Mitzi?
Mitzi: Why, Georgia peach, of course.
Pets: Wow! Georgia peach!
Pepper: I call it a cheap stunt and a disgrace to skunks.
Blythe: [Gasp] Hey, Sue, I've got an idea that might help you. Mona Autumn used to scare the heck out of me until my dad taught me this simple trick.
Sue: What is it?
Blythe: I imagined Mona wearing a moose costume. That image was so ridiculous, I never feared her again. Think of anything you want. Imagine everyone looking like a clown if that works.
Youngmee: Yeah, stare out the window and imagine everyone you see looking like clowns.
[Circus music]
Sue: Aah! Uhh...
Blythe: What's wrong?
Sue: I'm t-t-terrified of clowns!
[Honking]
Vinnie: Thanks for keeping us happy, Mitzi!
Sunil: We can see - I mean, smell - how happy doing so makes you.
Pets: [Inhale] Happy!
Pepper: [Growl] I can't smell this- I mean, take this anymore! Aah!
Mitzi: Why, hello Pepper! I just want to tell you skunk to skunk how much I envy you.
Pepper: Huh? What? Why would you envy me?
Mitzi: Well, Pepper, you see...
Penny Ling: Mitzi, come do some more scents!
Pets: We want more! We want more! We want more! 
Mitzi: That is why I envy you, Pepper. I'm trapped by havin' to do the one thing I'm known for, deliverin' pleasant smells on cue.
[Mitzi]
Oooooh
Pepper: Oh! And you can sing, too.
[Mitzi]
Yeah!
Pepper: Yeah...
[Mitzi]
Everybody knows when a skunk is near
You can smell us coming from afar
Pepper: You'd better believe it, girlfriend.
[Mitzi]
But no matter how I feel
If it's joy or fear
My scent never raises an alarm
Pepper: Oh man! That's just wrong!
[Mitzi]
It's a burden every day, oooh
Doing nothing whatsoever to offend
Pepper: Yeah, I would think so!
[Mitzi]
A pleasant scent for everyone
Is a task that I feel will never end
[Both]
A skunk is a skunk, you should smell how you want to
Pepper: That's just common sense!
[Both]
Smellin' how you feel is your right
A skunk is a skunk yeah, but try as I do
[Mitzi]
I just want to be a real skunk like you
[Pepper]
Well, I was raised a skunk
I grew up smelling strong
That may not be poetic
But it's real
Mitzi: Yeah, that's from the heart!
[Pepper]
There are times when my scent's
The only thing on earth
That explains just exactly how I feel
[Both]
A skunk is a skunk, you should smell how you want to
Smellin' how you feel is your right
Pepper: Yeah, c'mon! Put your tail into it!
[Both]
A skunk is a skunk yeah, but try as I do
[Mitzi]
I just want to be real skunk like you
I just want to be real skunk like you
Pepper: You should show your real skunk emotions.
Mitzi: [Gasp] I could never do that!
Pepper: Why not?
Mitzi: Oh, Pepper, if only you knew the rest of it.
Minka: Mitzi!
Blythe: Psst! Here, I made a recording of me reading your speech. Listen to it for the rest of the study period and try to follow the cadence of my voice.
Sue: How will that help me?
Blythe: Just think of yourself imitating me. I don't care if people hear me speak, so imagine they're hearing my voice, not yours.
Sue: Hey, this just might work!
Blythe: [Sigh] Let's hope so.
Zoe: Mitzi, darling, do you think you could smell like colors? Like, how about the smell of teal?
Sunil: Ooh, I'd like to smell light blue; not robin's egg blue or sky blue, but light blue!
Penny Ling: What about beige? I've always wondered what beige would smell like!
Mitzi: Well, I haven't ever tried to make color scents, but... let me see.
Pets: Ewwww!
Vinnie: P.U.!
Pepper: You guys are making me mad! Can't you see Mitzi needs a break? She's pooped!
Mitzi: My, oh my, Pepper! How in the world do you do that?
Pepper: Oh, I don't do anything, really. I just have skunk emotions. Mitzi, haven't you ever emitted an unpleasant scent because you were sad or stubbed your paw or been anything less than happy?
Mitzi: Heavens no! But if I could, maybe I wouldn't get so many requests to make pleasant scents all the time. I guess I'm finally ready to experience my full skunk emotions!
Pepper: Well then, here's what you gotta do. [Whispering]
Blythe: Well, Sue, the assembly's about to start. Are you ready?
Sue: Yes! I listened to your recording over and over, and I'm sure I can do this. Do you want a sample? [Clears throat] I would like to thank all of my [Voice getting higher] track teammates, and my coaches, and my parents, and everyone else who attended the-
Principal Morris: And now, if everyone will take their seats, I'd like to begin today's special assembly.
Sue: [Screaming] I can't do this!
Jasper: Too bad Sue's not as good at public speaking as she is at running.
Blythe: [Gasp] That's it! You guys head into the assembly, I'll be right back with Sue!
Pepper: So you think you can do it, Mitzi?
Mitzi: Well, I can try.
Pepper: Good! Just remember what I told you, go with your feelings.
Mitzi: Right, feelins'!
Zoe: Oh, Mitzi, love. Before we were so rudely interrupted, you were working on colors. I'd just love to smell a bold chartreuse!
Mitzi: Certainly! I just love to keep y'all happy!
Pepper: Uh, Mitzi? Are you sure that's what you really want to do?
Mitzi: Why, no! As a matter of fact, I do not want to do that! I am plum tuckered out and I am takin' a break!
Zoe: Ooh!
Pets: [Disgusted sounds, coughing]
Mitzi: I'm doin' it, I'm makin' myself happy!
Principal Morris: Before we rock and roll, I'd like us to give it up for...
Jasper: I wonder how Blythe's doing with Sue?
Youngmee: She's going to need a miracle.
Blythe: Sue, what are you doing here? It's time for your speech.
Sue: Blythe, how on Earth can I pull off a speech after what just happened?
Blythe: Okay, let me ask you a question: When do you feel the most confident?
Sue: That's easy, when I'm running. I just always feel unbeatable.
Blythe: Then that's what you're going to do now, run!
Sue: Great idea! See you later!
Blythe: No, you're going to give that speech!
Sue: Huh?
Blythe: Come on!
Russell: We're sorry we got so carried away, Mitzi. It's just that your amazing scents made us feel so... happy. We didn't know it was making you unhappy.
Mitzi: Never you mind, Russell. How could you know? Turns out I wasn't in touch with my own emotions, and knowin' that makes me sad. Ooh, [Laugh] there I go again! Whoo! Isn't this wonderful?
Zoe: [Holding her nose] Ugh, it's magnificent.
Pepper: Oh, congratulations, Mitzi! You've broadened your scent repertoire to include a fuller, more natural spectrum of your real skunk emotions.
Mitzi: Oh, I feel so happy now! So this is what it really means to be a skunk!
Pepper: [Inhale] Whoa, that smells great, Mitzi! Like a rose garden!
Mitzi: Not too sweet?
Pepper: Nah! All it needs is a touch of - ah - peppermint!
Pets: [Inhale] Ohhh!
Russell: Mitzi, if you ever return to our day camp, we promise not to abuse your scenting powers.
Mitzi: Oh, don't y'all fret, I will make sure of that! [Laughing]
All: [Laughing]
Principal Morris: And now, students and teachers, the moment we've all been waiting for. Let's hear it for our school's greatest sports star - the one, the only Sue Patterson!
[Cheering]
[Doors open]
Sue: [Clears throat] I'd like to thank all of my track teammates, my coaches, my parents, and everyone who attended the all-city track meet. And a special shout-out to Jasper, Youngmee, and especially Blythe, who helped me get through making this speech today. With friends like them, how can a girl lose? Thanks, everybody!
Principal Morris: Let's hear it for Sue! Our very own best student athlete in the city!
[Cheering] 
Pepper: Oh, Blythe, you should've seen my girl Mitzi take total charge of her natural skunk emotions! She was awesome!
Blythe: Well, Pepper, I think you're awesome, and I'm really proud of you.
Pepper: Thanks! But hey, I'm hoggin' the spotlight. How was your day?
Blythe: Well, as luck would have it, I also helped a friend. And nothing feels quite as good as that.
Minka: Nothing smells as good either!
Zoe: You can say that again!
[End credits]