History Recap / LittlestPetShop2012S3E12TheVeryLittlestPetShop

* ShakingTheRump: Pepper Clark shakes her butt when Russell asks why Penny Ling is upset.

* PottyDance: Zoe briefly does this in the beginning of the episode.

!! This episode contains examples of (YMMV entries go [[YMMV/LittlestPetShop2012S3E12TheVeryLittlestPetShop here]]):

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Dolores is a slow loris, most likely a [[http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/image/215 Sunda slow loris]].

* HairDecorations: Blythe has orange petals and a hairband; Alice has a candy-shaped pin.

* GardenHoseSquirtSurprise: Pepper does a self-inflicted version of this with her prank SquirtingFlower.

* KidsAreCruel[=/=]LackOfEmpathy: Alice is completely self-absorbed in her thinking patterns, showing no concern for anyone else whatsoever.

* GardenHoseSquirtSurprise: Pepper does a self-inflicted version of this with her prank squirting flower.

* BeserkButton: Dolores ''really'' doesn't like to be called cute, or to be laughed at. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Unfortunately, guess who's interested on comedy.]]

Later, all of the regulars stand there watching Dolores eat. Pepper comes up from behind Dolores to greet her, but when Pepper hears Dolores's voice, she starts to crack up. Russell and Penny take Pepper away before she can cause any trouble while Sunil distracts Dolores with more pet chow. Somewhere else in the room, Russell and Penny call Pepper out for not following Blythe's instructions and exascerbating Dolores's bad mood. Pepper reacts unapologetically to the whole affair, so Russell warns Pepper that he will keep a watchful eye on her. Meanwhile, Sunil tells Dolores that he will try to make sure her experience is as good as possible and to give her the space she needs. When Dolores voices her approval, ''all'' of the pets, save Russell, start snickering. Dolores gives increasingly threatening warnings, though the pets continue to laugh. Knowing that she wouldn't get through to the pets, she recounts her days of terrorizing the other animals in the Jungle of Tamango with her curses. Suddenly, Zoe gets incredibly antsy. Blythe enters the day camp to tell the pets that Mrs. Twombly will be away for some time and that Blythe must run the store. Zoe, however, demands a walk, and Blythe complies, leaving the store unattended.

!! This episode contains examples of (YMMV entries go [[YMMV/LittlestPetShop2012S3E1012TheVeryLittlestPetShop here]]):

* ArtisticLicenseBiology[=/=]ArtisticLicenseGeography: The tapirs and macaws shown in Dolores's flashback are native to the Amazon Jungle, but Dolores, a slow loris, is native to Southeast Asia. A giraffe is shown later, native to Africa.

* BrickJoke: Zoe's susceptibility to thrown sticks is brought up as a throwaway joke by Pepper in the ColdOpen and used by Alice in a desperate attempt to get the shrunken building back in Act 3.

** The tapirs return from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E8TheBigFeatheredParade The Big, Feathered Parade]]." See Artistic License above.

** Pepper refers to Dolores as crabby. She was portrayed as the Crab Queen in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E13SoInteresting So Interesting]]."

* JerkwithAHeartOfGold: Dolores isn't a bad person, just angsty because no-one takes her seriously and are constantly laughing at her.

* IgnoredEpiphany: You'd think after Dolores shrunk everyone including herself, almost got killed by giant bugs, knows Littlest Pet Shop is minutes away from growing to regular size inside an apartment which would crush her and Blythe and everyone inside... that she would learn her lesson about shrinking things. Cue her suggesting to do "another" shrinking spell on the apartment door. Though then again [[spoiler: it wasn't really her so...]]

* IgnoredIpiphany: You'd think after Dolores shrunk everyone including herself, almost got killed by giant bugs, knows Littlest Pet Shop is minutes away from growing to regular size inside an apartment which would crush her and Blythe and everyone inside... that she would learn her lesson about shrinking things. Cue her suggesting to do "another" shrinking spell on the apartment door. Though then again [[spoiler: it wasn't really her so...]]

At the front room, someone has dropped off Dolores, a slow loris, and Mrs. Twombly feeds her snacks. Blythe and Mrs. Twombly fawn over her adorability, but Dolores just stares angrily back as she eats, eventually snarling back at Blythe and Mrs. Twombly, frightening them. Nevertheless, Mrs. Twombly calms down right afterwards, and Blythe decides to figure out what's making Dolores cranky. Blythe picks Dolores up, and on her way to the day camp, Dolores tells Blythe that she hates being stared at. When Blythe starts chuckling at Dolores's voice, Dolores grows angrier, demanding not to be laughed at. Taking that to heart, Blythe introduces Dolores to the other pets and trusts them not to laugh at her--upon which all of the other pets turn to Pepper. Not long after Pepper comes down from the armchair that she starts snickering at Dolores's name. Blythe reminds Pepper not to laugh at Dolores--while Pepper complies, she is barely able to avoid bursting into more laughter.

As Blythe attempts to negotiate with Alice, a breeze drifts through Alice's open window, which Dolores warns is a signal that the curse will wear off soon. Without any time to lose, Blythe picks up the building and tries to walk out, but Alice intercepts and takes the building, running outside with Blythe and Zoe giving chase. Alice trips on a sidewalk crack, flinging the tiny building up into the air, but Zoe dashes ahead and catches it on her belly. Alice retaliates by throwing a stick for Zoe, nabbing the building as Zoe lets go. Blythe gets Zoe to re-focus on Alice and the building, and they find her around a corner, where Alice tells Blythe that she does not want to let the building go because she lost her Princess Precious and doesn't want to lose something else she found. Blythe reassures Alice that she knows who this Princess Precious is and that she'll allow Alice to come over and play with him any time she'd like. Initially hesitant about how Blythe could know who Princess Precious is, both notice the storm intensifying, now bearing dark clouds and lightning, and Alice agrees and runs home before the weather gets worse. With Blythe to herself, she takes the building and places it in its proper location, seeing Mrs. Twombly returning, albeit struggling to walk in the strong winds. Blythe lifts Dolores out of her shirt pocket, and Dolores runs inside as quickly as she can. With everyone excited to see Dolores, the building returns to its normal size and fills up the space it once occupied.

With no humans at the store, Pepper decides to try to get Dolores to laugh. She fails to get even a chuckle and instead gets Dolores soaking wet. Russell, watching from afar, can't help but laugh long and hard, and while Sunil and Vinnie cover his mouth to try to stop him, Dolores has already heard the laughing and inflicts a curse upon the Littlest Pet Shop that shrinks the building down to the size of a dollhouse. The pets step outside, in shock at their smaller size. Minka asks Dolores if this was her doing, and Dolores proudly proclaims responsibility, deeming it punishment for laughing at her. Minka points out that Dolores shrunk herself too, but as soon as it dawns upon her, bugs start closing in on the pets, and they run back in as an ant chases them.

Zoe follows the scent trail to the front of the building, and when Blythe opens the door to let Zoe in, Zoe continues to track down the scent to a door on the third floor. Turning down an offer by Dolores to put a shrinking curse on the door, Blythe and gets Alice's mother. Although Blythe initially pretends to fundraise for her school, Zoe wastes no time scurrying into the residence and to Alice's room's door. Blythe finds Alice and tries to persuade Alice to give the building back, but Alice puts up a lot of resistance. Meanwhile, the pets recognize Blythe's voice and Zoe's barking.

** Pepper brings up Russell's fear of marshmallows he mentioned in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShopS2E23ShangaiHiJinks Shanghai Hi-Jinks]]" and shown in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E20LittlestBigfoot Littlest Bigfoot]]."
** Zoe reacts to thrown sticks similarly to how she reacted to the postman's chew toy in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E5SecretCupet Secret Cupet]]". Blythe is similarly disappointed.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Minka's acts up again when the idea sinks in that she's in a miniature building. This is the third time she's had a neevous breakdown from confined spaces, the first being in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E9DUMBDUMBWAITER DUMB DUMBWAITER]]" and the second in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E26TheExpoFactorPart2 The Expo Factor - Part 2]]." She snaps out of it rather quickly though.

* TakeThat: Alice's monologue about the shrunken building, mistaking it for a dollhouse, sounds a lot like the narration for a toy commercial.