History Recap / LittlestPetShop2012S1E16SweetTruckRide

* WardrobeMalfunction: When Zoe reenacts her jumping on to the pedals during Russel's movie, her dress gets caught on a broken spring and rips off, embarrassing her.

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: Though blended in better than many other examples, the sweets truck is clearly cel-shaded computer graphics any time it turns.

* ConspicuousCG: Though blended in better than many other examples, the sweets truck is clearly cel-shaded computer graphics any time it turns.

[[caption-width-right:300:"What happened!?" "Well, it's hard to pinpoint ''one'' thing in particular, but…this button, it turns out, [[NonAnswer does not deploy the shields.]]"]]

* [[MundaneMadeAwesome Awesome Made Mundane]]: Remember the [[http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/262/404/a19.gif amazing parallax work]] people raved about in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]"? Those same parallax techniques return in this episode for…Roger gesturing with his training dummy. This happens repeatedly throughout the episode. However, it may be a production joke that the highest-quality, smoothest animation is reserved for the training dummy.

* ConspicuousCGI: Though blended in better than many other examples, the sweets truck is clearly cel-shaded computer graphics any time it turns.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Had Russell stayed behind in the pet shop, as he was inclined to do, none of the incidents in the episode would have happened.

!! This episode contains examples of:

* CallBack: For the second time, [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E15ToppedWithButtercream Russell fails to stop the other pets from impulsively wandering outside of The Littlest Pet Shop]].

* FlatJoy: Sugar Sprinkles is genuinely pleased to see the pets visiting again, but because of her speech patterns her reaction ends up ends up sounding like this.

The pets, meanwhile, admire the truck through the pet shop window and, despite Russell's protests, sneak their way on board. Russell, in exasperation, goes in with them. In there, they meet Sugar Sprinkles, a cat who lives in the truck. (It's ambiguous whether the Songs know about Sugar Sprinkles or not.) Before further introductions, Penny Ling quickly comes and [[YouTasteDelicious licks the sprinkles off of the cat's head]]. Despite Russel's objection, Sugar actually ''encourages'' this while singing a quick tune. After her introduction, Russell climbs onto the driver's seat and fiddles with the controls. He goes into an ImagineSpot that ends in him pushing a button, causing a chain reaction that starts the car, releases the handbrake, and puts the gear onto Drive, sending the truck rolling down a hill. Blythe emerges from the shop to see the truck missing but spots it careening away in the distance, utilizing a nearby tricycle to attempt to catch up to it. The pets, inside the truck, try to stop it but only put themselves in more danger. Blythe eventually catches up to the truck, gets inside, and stops it, but not before destroying most of the desserts inside. As luck would have it, a cop pulls over and figuring Blythe took the truck out on a joyride, issues her a traffic ticket.

A livid Roger, still attached to his dummy, grounds Blythe in her room, takes away her smartphone, and makes her help Youngmee and Christie bake more sweets. The pets decide to clear Blythe's name, Russell proposing to stage a re-enactment using Blythe's phone's camera. They divert Roger's attention away from the phone and bring it into the sweets truck for the re-enactment. The other pets prove themselves incompetent at acting and Sugar Sprinkles noncooperative. A frustrated Russell inadvertently tosses his loudspeaker at the same button on the seat, once again causing a chain reaction that sends the truck down the hill. This time, the truck passes by Roger, who hops on board the same tricycle Blythe used earlier in the episode to catch up to the truck. He stops the truck in the same spot as Blythe and once again ruins the desserts. He gets the attention of the same cop and also receives a ticket. Spotting Blythe's phone in the truck, he sees the accidental footage of this second chain reaction and realizes Blythe, who is in Christie's bakery helping Youngmee replenish the supplies, was not to blame.

* DelayedReaction : The first time when Vinnie steps on Sugar Sprinkles' tail in the middle of his dance. They have this conversation before the latter cries out in agonizing pain:

--> '''Sugar Sprinkles''': Aww. Thanks for understanding.

* AbsenteeActor: Mrs. Twombly does not appear in this episode, so Kathleen Barr has to sit this one out.

* BrickJoke: Christie gets excited about round cupcake boxes. Later on, she complains that they keep rolling off the tables as we see her arranging them on their sides.

* CannotTellAJoke: Youngmee interprets Blythe warning the pets not to drive off because they dont have licenses as this.

* ShoutOut: There is an ImagineSpot from Russell based on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' with each of the pets corresponding to various characters. Russell also speaks in an exaggerated WilliamShatner tone. Sunil, a panicky guy with a foreign accent, gets [=McCoy=]'s role.

The pets, meanwhile, admire the truck through the pet shop window and, despite Russell's protests, sneak their way on board. Russell, in exasperation, goes in with them. In there, they meet Sugar Sprinkles, a cat who lives in the truck. (It's ambiguous whether the Songs know about Sugar Sprinkles or not.) Before further introductions, Penny Ling quickly comes and licks the sprinkles off of the cat's head. Despite Russel's objection, Sugar actually ''encourages'' this while singing a quick tune. After her introduction, Russell climbs onto the driver's seat and fiddles with the controls. He goes into an ImagineSpot that ends in him pushing a button, causing a chain reaction that starts the car, releases the handbrake, and puts the gear onto Drive, sending the truck rolling down a hill. Blythe emerges from the shop to see the truck missing but spots it careening away in the distance, utilizing a nearby tricycle to attempt to catch up to it. The pets, inside the truck, try to stop it but only put themselves in more danger. Blythe eventually catches up to the truck, gets inside, and stops it, but not before destroying most of the desserts inside. As luck would have it, a cop pulls over and figuring Blythe took the truck out on a joyride, issues her a traffic ticket.

The pets, meanwhile, admire the truck through the pet shop window and, despite Russell's protests, sneak their way on board. Russell, in exasperation, goes in with them. In there, they meet Sugar Sprinkles, a cat who lives in the truck. (It's ambiguous whether the Songs know about Sugar Sprinkles or not.) After her introduction, Russell climbs onto the driver's seat and fiddles with the controls. He goes into an ImagineSpot that ends in him pushing a button, causing a chain reaction that starts the car, releases the handbrake, and puts the gear onto Drive, sending the truck rolling down a hill. Blythe emerges from the shop to see the truck missing but spots it careening away in the distance, utilizing a nearby tricycle to attempt to catch up to it. The pets, inside the truck, try to stop it but only put themselves in more danger. Blythe eventually catches up to the truck, gets inside, and stops it, but not before destroying most of the desserts inside. As luck would have it, a cop pulls over and figuring Blythe took the truck out on a joyride, issues her a traffic ticket.

-> Written by Julie [=McNally=] Cahill, Tim Cahill, and Guy Toubes\\
-> Teleplay by Guy Toubes

-> Written by Julie [=McNally=] Cahill, Tim Cahill, and Guy Toubes

* WhoIsDriving: Russell denies that the sweets truck is moving because no one is in the driver's seat. When he climbs onto the windshield, he panics far more than the normally-jittery Sunil.

Youngmee informs Blythe about her Aunt Christie getting a new car. They excitedly speculate on what it could be, only to find out Christie bought a food truck that serves desserts. The girls are a bit disappointed, but they figure they can still get some popularity through the sweets. Mid-discussion, Roger shows up, attached to a crudely-made training dummy, and excitedly describes the three-legged race at his workplace's Father and Daughter Picnic to Youngmee, proclaiming that he's the six-time champion.

The pets, meanwhile, admire the truck through the pet shop window and, despite Russell's protests, sneak their way on board. Russell, in exasperation, goes in with them. In there, they meet Sugar Sprinkles, a cat that lives in the truck. (It's ambiguous whether the Songs know about Sugar Sprinkles or not.) After her introduction, Russell climbs onto the driver's seat and fiddles with the controls. He goes into an ImagineSpot that ends in him pushing a button, causing a chain reaction that starts the car, releases the handbrake, and puts the gear otnto Drive, sending the truck rolling down a hill. Blythe emerges from the shop to see the truck missing but spots it careening away in the distance, utilizing a nearby tricycle to attempt to catch up to it. The pets, inside the truck, try to stop it but only put themselves in more danger. Blythe eventually catches up to the truck, gets inside, and stops it, but as luck would have it, a cop pulls over and figuring Blythe took the truck out on a joyride, issues her a traffic ticket.

A livid Roger, still attached to his dummy, grounds Blythe in her room and takes away her smartphone. The pets decide to clear Blythe's name, Russell proposing to stage a re-enactment using Blythe's phone's camera. They divert Roger's attention away from the phone and bring it into the sweets truck for the re-enactment. Russell once again causes a chain reaction that sends the truck down the hill. This time, the truck passes by Roger, who hops on board the same tricycle Blythe used earlier in the episode to catch up to the truck. He gets the attention of the same cop and also receives a ticket. Spotting Blythe's phone in the truck, he sees the accidental footage of this second chain reaction and realizes Blythe was not to blame.

Roger and Blythe, once again on good terms, join in the three-legged race as Christie's sweets truck proves to be a hit among the participants.