"Mrs. Hasagawa's Cats" and "Ace" are the two segments of the sixty-second episodenote of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. Both segments first aired on May 19, 2006. This is the first of the show's two Two Shorts episodes, the other being the following episode, "Glitch / Woops".
"Mrs. Hasagawa's Cats"
Experiments who appeared or were mentioned in "Mrs. Hasagawa's Cats":
Nearly all the below experiments except for Reuben and possibly the unseen experiments are among the titular "cats" that Mrs. Hasagawa has.- Doubledip (X-002): A purple opossum-like experiment who is designed to double-dip food; he licks candy or appetizers and puts them back in their bowl.
- Hamlette (X-024): An experiment designed to turn things into ham. The experiment pod container on Gantu's ship says they were activated, but we don't ever see them.
- Gotchu (X-031): An orange lobster-like experiment with four arms with pincers at the ends. He is designed to pinch people hard, shouting, "Got you!" when he does so.
- Forehead (X-044): A pink, four-headed mustached experiment who sings like a one-creature barbershop quartet. He is designed to sing barbershop tunes annoyingly off-key.
- Hocker (X-051)
- Zawp (X-077)
- Fetchit (X-090)
- Mulch (X-111)
- Shredder (X-134)
- Geigenstein (X-201)
- Pix (X-214)
- Boomer (X-288)
- Manners (X-358)
- Woody (X-507)
- Wrapper (X-521)
- Blowhard (X-533)
- Derrick (X-566)
- Reuben (X-625): Tries to inform Gantu about all the experiments being activated as said by the pod container, but Gantu ignores it in favor of sleeping in.
"Mrs. Hagagawa's Cats" features examples of:
- An Aesop: If you want to help someone, ask them if they need it and lend them a listening ear. Don't jump to conclusions.
- Foreshadowing: Act 1 has Lilo and Stitch try to help Mrs. Hasagawa in all sorts of ways, only for it to hurt more than help. Upon realizing the error of their ways, our two heroes apologize to her. This sets up the ending of the story, as Lilo repeats her mistake by assuming Mrs. Hasagawa's "cats" are troubling her.
- Hidden Depths: Although she may see the residing experiments as cats, Mrs. Hasagawa knows very well how to take good care of them. She knows each of their individual wants and needs.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Mrs. Hasagawa somehow managed to tame over a dozen experiments and get them to live peacefully in her house.
- Poke the Poodle: Except for Hocker, none of Mrs. Hasagawa's experiments are a danger to her life.
- Weirdness Censor: For some reason, Mrs. Hasagawa thinks the experiments that live in her humble abode are all stray cats.
- Wham Shot: When Mrs. Hasagawa offers Lilo and Stitch "apricots", she pulls a towel off a colander to reveal several experiment pods.
"Ace"
Experiments who appeared or were mentioned in "Ace":
Actually appearing in the episode proper:- Yin (X-501)
- Yang (X-502)
- Ace (X-262): This segment's Monster of the Week; a red, koala-like experiment with a heroic build who, thanks to a programming error, has no evil qualities, and is Jumba's only experiment designed for evil who is purely good from the start. His "one true place" is being a local do-gooder who balances out Jumba's evil.
- Reuben (X-625): Plays Go Fish against Gantu and tells him about how Jumba was embarrassed by 262 back in the day.
Only in video clips:
- Sprout (X-509): Footage taken from his episode.
- Richter (X-513): Footage taken from his episode.
- Deforestator (X-515): Footage taken from "627".
- Slushy (X-523): Footage taken from his episode.
- Kixx (X-601): Footage taken from his episode.
- Holio (X-606): Footage taken from his episode.
- Splodyhead (X-619): Footage taken from "Slushy".
- X-627: Footage taken from his episode.
"Ace" features examples of:
- Anti-Climax: Jumba unceremoniously loses his membership in E.G.O. when Mortlegax sees video footage of Ace doing heroic deeds, convincing him in his decision to revoke Jumba's membership. The original version of the episode would not have been as anticlimatic as the final version that was produced.
- Clip Show:note To try to prove that he's still evil, Jumba shows Mortlegax footage of his experiments doing evil things as seen in past episodes.
- Fun with Acronyms:
- The Evil Genius Organization is called "E.G.O." for short, befitting of such members' supposed egotistical nature.
- The end of the episode has Lilo forming AARRGGH, the Association of Alien Rejects, Reformed Geniuses, and Girls from Hawaii.
- Orphaned Punchline:
- Reuben's "Uh... Oh yeah! I was saying how you looked like a fish," is a leftover from a joke that was removed when the segment switched over from an original storyline to a clip show.
- Jumba's final line in the episode, "Does [the] club allow almost reformed evil geniuses?" was originally meant to follow Jumba playing a quick prank on Pleakley as the Plorgonarian was making a speech on how nice Jumba is.
- Series Continuity Error: The longest clip in the episode that Jumba inexplicably has footage of is the fight between Slushy and Splodyhead... the one where Jumba makes a point of wishing he brought his camera to record. As Experiment 600 would say... Woops.
