Directed by: Roy Burdine
Written by: Jesse Porter
Puss and crew have arrived at the Grotto of Riches looking for the Obelisk of Night, but it is guarded by a fierce ram named Angus.Being the lamb from "Mary had a little lamb", Angus agrees to trade give the group the Obelisk if they reunite him with Mary, but Puss and Dulcinea have different ideas on how to get past Mary's herd.
Tropes:
- All for Nothing: For all the effort the group goes to, Angus turns out to only have a souvenir replica of the Obelisk of Night. Though Angus helpfully informs the group the Obelisk is located in a town called San Lorenzo. Puss helpfully punctuates the moment with Angrish.
- The Blind Leading the Blind: After the incident when Angus followed her to school one day, Mary flunked out of school and decided to set up her own school for sheep, a task which she is severely under-qualified for.Sheep: Ms. Mary, what bes 8+3?
Mary: 83! - Brick Joke: After they easily find Mary with the Dousing Rod of Akhenaten, Puss wonders out loud how people found things before it. Artephius gives the same reply Guante Blanco gave a season ago in "The Muscle.""We tickled an enchanted frog! That was gross..."
- Book Dumb: Mary barely made it through school, doesn't know basic math or spelling, and thinks the capital of London is Atlantis. She nevertheless tries becoming a teacher. See The Blind Leading the Blind.
- Broken Bird: Angus helped the impoverished Mary get into a prestigious school, but when the kids laughed when he followed her to school one day, she cast him aside out of embarrassment, leaving him bitter and obsessed with wealth.
- Heel Realization: When Angus meets Mary and hears how she's been trying to run a school for sheep, he immediately feels bad that Mary has tried to do good as a result of the incident while all he's done is act out of spite.
- Only Sane Man: Dulcinea yet again has to take this role when they try to reach Mary, as Puss wants to do it in an absurd and dramatic way, Toby wants to do whatever Puss wants to, and Artephius is... well... Artephius. Her patience seems to finally be starting to wear thin by now, as she takes it with more exasperated sighing and irritation than usual.
- Not So Above It All: On the other hand, while Dulcinea angrily objects to Puss making a competition out of finding Mary, when she finally does convince Mary to leave with them the first thing she does is celebrate winning the competition. In a very Puss-esque moment, it takes her a second to remember her own point about San Lorenzo's danger being more important. When Puss shows up a moment later, in between berating him for his stupid plan she repeatedly makes sure to point out that she won.
- Second Verse Curse: Invoked when the group track down Mary and find her with a whole herd of sheep. Puss wonders if there was anything in the rhyme that indicated Mary had more than one little lamb, and Dulcinea muses that these kinds of rhymes always have all kinds of extra verses nobody's ever heard of.
- Sudden Principled Stand: After Puss plans to get to Mary with a nonsensical plan involving pretending to be Mary's sheep and overthrowing their society, Dulcinea - who's spent the entire series mostly going along with Puss' plans even when she didn't agree with them, and dissuading him with soft advice rather than direct conflict - channels some of her leader chops we saw in "Escape Goat," literally puts her foot down and tells him its ridiculous. While she does make him cower for a moment, she only succeeds in convincing him they should make a competition out of it.
- Treasure Room: Angus' Grotto of Riches, which is flowing with treasures including a healthy selection of magical artifacts.Angus: Sorry, I can't hear you from over here in the scepter wing. I have over 40 scepters! No big deal. It actually is a big deal, I'm sooo rich!
- Waxing Lyrical: Naturally, Angus explains his story by quoting the rhyme near verbatim.Angus: I was that little lamb, you see. My fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, there I was sure to go. I followed her to school one day, which was against the rules. It made the children laugh and play to see a lamb at school.
