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Recap / Little Princess S 2 E 13 I Want My Crayons

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One evening, the General is sitting on the lawn, writing and the Princess is also sitting on the lawn, calling some items "lovely" and kissing them. The narrator asks what she's doing, and the Princess shows him her new crayons. The narrator asks why she finds them so great, and she says that she loves their colour and shininess, and that she likes to pretend their compartments are their beds and change their order around. She doesn't even want to draw with them for fear of spoiling them.

The Maid calls the Princess in to take a bath, but disallows her to bring her crayons in. The King promises to "look after" the crayons so he sits on an armchair with them in his lap, reading. He falls asleep, then the Chef comes in with a tray of cupcakes and wakes him up by banging the tray down on the cart. The King wakes with a start and jolts, sending one crayon out of the box and under another armchair, while the King falls back asleep.

After her bath, the Princess runs downstairs to see her crayons and is shocked to find one gone. The King suggests that someone borrowed it, but the Princess points out that they would have asked permission, so he (correctly) guesses it fell down. She can't find it, however, so she assumes it was stolen.

She storms off to investigate, while the Gardener goes to eat cupcakes and talk to the King, but the King falls asleep again. He twitches in his sleep, causing more crayons to fall out of their box and under the armchair.

The Princess goes into the kitchen and asks the Chef if he stole her crayons, briefly snatching his pen to take a look at it. This causes him to scoff that princesses have no manners. Then, the Princess goes off into the bathroom where the Queen is taking a bath and check if her pencil is a crayon, puzzling the Queen.

The Princess goes back to the King to complain, then sees the other missing crayons and chews him out for falling asleep. She then digs a magnifying glass out of her toy box and goes into the greenhouse, asking the Gardener if he's the crayon thief, making him grumpy. The King falls asleep again, kicking in his sleep, and knocking all the crayons out of their box and under the chair.

Meanwhile, the Princess searches for the crayons down a rabbit hole but unsuccessfully, so she goes back into the living room to find all the crayons gone. She screams, then yells out the episode title, causing most of the adults to run up. She asks them one by one if they stole her crayons, making them indignant. The General then arrives and things take a turn for the worse when the Princess sees he has crayons and assumes they're hers and he's the crayon thief.

However, the King finds and returns the Princess's crayons. He then makes her apologise for suggesting that the others stole them. However, she forgets about the General, so the Queen reminds her. The Princess goes to apologise to him, and then everyone plays Skittles with the crayons together.

This episode provides examples of


  • Artistic License – Sports: When "bowling" with the crayons, the Admiral shouts, "Fore!", even though that's for golf, not bowling.
  • Artsy Beret: Puss puts a beret on to paint Scruff.
  • Big Word Shout: When the Princess says that someone stole her crayon, the Gardener echoes back, "Crayon?". The Princess says, "CRAYON!!".
  • Blatant Lies: The King says he wasn't sleeping despite clearly having just been asleep.
  • Companion Cube: The Princess personifies her crayons, pretending to tuck them in.
  • Death Glare:
    • The Princess glares at the King for falling asleep.
    • The Maid glares at the Princess for suggesting she took her crayons.
  • Dramatic Irony: The Princess searches for her crayons and speculates on possible thieves, when we viewers know exactly where they are and that they weren't stolen.
  • Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Puss wears an artist's smock and no pants when painting Scruff.
  • Honor Before Reason: According to the Admiral, he'd rather walk his own plank than steal a crayon.
  • Kid Detective: Attempted. The Princess tries to track down the "crayon thief", complete with magnifying glass, but there was no thief and she wasn't a very good investigator.
  • Mistaken for Thief:
    • Downplayed at first. The Princess thinks her crayons were stolen, but she doesn't accuse or suspect anyone in particular. Rather, she simply asks everyone if they took them. Doesn't stop them from being offended, though.
    • Later played straight when the Princess sees the General with some crayons, assumes they're hers, and outright accuses him of theft, making him cry.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: The Princess fawns and dotes over... a bunch of crayons.
  • Not So Above It All: Even the narrator gets unreasonably offended when asked if he took the crayons, despite usually being a (literal) voice of reason.
  • Only Sane Woman: Subverted. Most of the adults, when asked if they're the crayon thief, get very offended, even though they should know that she's only four, and she's not even accusing, just asking. The Queen, however, initially isn't offended, just puzzled... yet, she's just as indignant as the others during the crowd interrogation scene.
  • Poke the Poodle: When asked if they stole the Princess's crayons, everyone except (initially) the Queen responds as though they were asked "Did you kick my dog?", and when the General is straight-up accused of crayon theft, he acts as though his dog has been kicked. Additionally, the Princess says that it would take "a very, very bad person" to steal a crayon.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When the adults ask the Princess why she shouted, she replies, "Someone has stolen my crayons!".
  • Serious Business:
    • Justified. The Princess spends the bulk of this episode making a huge deal out of a box of crayons, which makes sense because she's four years old.
    • When the adults get asked if they stole the Princess's crayons, they act incredibly offended, as though they were being asked if they killed someone.
  • Shaped Like Itself: The Maid tells the Princess not to take her crayons into the bathroom, because "bathrooms are for baths".
  • Take Our Word for It: The Princess tells the narrator that the crayons smell good, while he seems to think they smell bad. Their scent is not described to the audience, and we obviously can't smell them ourselves. Most crayons simply smell of wax.
  • Title Drop: When the Princess finds all her crayons gone, she screams, then yells out the episode title at the top of her lungs.
  • Would Rather Suffer: When the Princess asks the Admiral if he stole her crayons, he replies, "I'd rather walk me own plank!".

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