"Slick" is the forty-fourth episodenote of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It first aired on January 7, 2005.
When their hula school has a candy-bar selling competition, Lilo and Mertle's bitter rivalry leads to the two girls going head-to-head in a bid to outdo each other. Unfortunately for Lilo, the bespectacled brat leaves her in the dust and she just can't sell anything to anyone... until she happens to cross paths with Experiment 020, who happens to be a fast-talking, gentlemanly Experiment who has a knack for selling just about anything to anybody. Thrilled, Lilo employs him to help crush the competition, only for things to quickly go off the rails.
Experiments who appeared or were mentioned in this episode:
- Slick (X-020): This episode's Monster of the Week; a pink dog-like experiment with a resemblance to Cannonball (X-520) but with a smaller face, a purple nose, and wearing a red bow tie and straw boater hat. He is designed to sell anything to anyone, speaking like a fast-talking Southern Gentleman by wooing over customers with his sale pitches and auctioneering-style stratagems. He also won't stop selling once he starts.
- Reuben (X-625)
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- An Aesop: Fundraising and charity competitions should be about giving, not winning.
- Balloon Belly: Mertle's shown with a swollen belly after gorging herself on shave ice at the end of the episode.
- Black Comedy: This description of Slick's knack for salesman ship reeks of this:Jumba: Be careful! Once 020 starts selling, he does not start stopping! Once sold Jumba's wife for ten Kwelticredits!
Lilo: That is evil!
Jumba: But smart! She was only worth five! - Brick Joke: When Moses asks for ideas on what kind of charity fundraiser to run, Lilo proposes all kinds of vampire-related ideas including selling vampire novels. She's laughed off in favor of Mertle's idea to sell chocolate. So of course, when Lilo tries and fails to sell chocolate she runs into one man who says that he's only interested in vampire novels.
- Consolation Backfire: When Nani's freaking out over Slick selling everything in the house, Pleakley tries to cheer her up by showing her all the money he made... only to freak her out even more when she realizes just how many other personal belongings he sold.
- Door-to-Door Episode: Moses' students are selling chocolates door-to-door to raise money for the halau hula, with Lilo and Mertle stealing a salesperson experiment from each other throughout the episode to win a year's supply of shave ice.
- Gasshole: One woman Lilo tries to sell chocolate to turns it down, saying that it "gives (her) the burps". When Slick successfully sells her one, she eats it... and unleashes a burp powerful enough to knock her door down.
- Green Around the Gills: Mertle's face turns green before she runs off to puke at the end of the episode.
- Growling Gut: Mertle gets sick and runs off to vomit after eating too much shave ice, which is heralded by a loud gurgle from her bloated tummy.
- Mean Boss: Hämsterviel isn't sympathetic to Gantu's sickness in the slightest, and constantly belittles him and accuses him of faking his sickness.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Slick's a genuinely nice and chummy guy, but when Jumba says that he'll sell anything once he gets going, he'll sell anything, up to and including all of Lilo and Nani's possessions, and even himself to Gantu.
- Showdown at High Noon: Lilo and Mertle's final standoff at the mall when they make their last sale is framed like this, complete with local vendors closing up their stalls.
- Southern Gentleman: Slick, whose Dixie accent, politeness, knack for exaggeration, bowtie, and fancy boater hat all invoke the image of a friendly Southern salesman who could sell ice to an Eskimo.
