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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When Vinnie overhears Blythe venting to Youngmee about Blythe never speaking to the pets again, he, being Vinnie, interprets it as true.
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* NeverSayDie: It is all but stated that Blythe's mom is dead.
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Speedy has items stuffed in his shell that previous owners had apparently stored in there. Putting anything in a tortoise shell would be uncomfortable for the tortoise and would be incredibly stupid on the owners part.
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* TheFogOfAges: Speedy is not immortal, but he has lived long enough for some of his older memories to have faded considerably.
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* CallBack: This episode confirms that there are other people than Blythe who can speak to animals, but the idea had already existed at least as early as "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E19WhatDidYouSay What Did You Say?]]," where the side effects of Blythe's cold medicine implied as such.
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''While Blythe ponders her life's calling, a 150-year-old giant tortoise with an interesting past comes to the day camp and shares some life changing information with her.''
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-> Written by Guy Toubes
In her room, Blythe
Back in the day camp, Vinnie and Penny head over to the TV, but neither of them know how to work the DVR, so they immediately decide to go consult Blythe again about it. Blythe laments to Youngmee about how she never really gets to pursue other interests than fashion because animals keep requesting help from her, and that is demonstrated as Vinnie heads back to Blythe's room alone. Up there, he overheads Youngmee asking if Blythe will stop talking to pets, which Blythe answers in the affirmative. This being the only part of the conversation Vinnie hears, he closes the dumbwaiter and leaves in horror as Blythe says she's just joking.
Later on, as Blythe restocks the shelves of pet food, the Littlest Pet Shop regulars, hiding behind a
At the day camp, the regulars are in an
Up in Blythe's room, Blythe starts a second attempt at her video blog. This time, she chooses to talk about the next big thing she intends to do. She subsequently realizes she has no idea what it could be when she hears Speedy loudly singing in the dumbwaiter, opening the door to find Speedy in there trying to shower. Blythe informs him that he's in a dumbwaiter, not a shower, and, seeing a human in the midst of something, asks if he's interrupting. Blythe picks Speedy up and says no, but Speedy can detect that Blythe is emotionally troubled. Not long into the conversation, Speedy identifies Blythe as a former owner named Betty Smith, who was also able to speak to animals. It takes a short moment for Blythe to take it in, and by then, Speedy has wandered into an adjacent hallway. Blythe finds Speedy there and asks if Speedy really meant it, to which Speedy tells Blythe that Betty would confide in Speedy her secrets. Howeever, Blythe cannot get any more information out of Speedy as he constantly veers off topic and eventually gets too distracted practicing calisthenics to pay any further attention.
The pets ponder in the day camp about how to get Blythe to pay attention to them again. Russell suggests reverse psychology, which Vinnie interprets as doing things in reverse and Sunil interprets as going back in time. Speedy makes his way to the day camp thinking it's a bus stop, and
Blythe plants her face onto the table in the kitchen. Her father Roger happens to pass by, sees Blythe, and asks what could be wrong. She tells him that she has no idea what to do with her life, but Roger consoles her, telling her she's still young and that it's perfectly normal to feel conflicted. When Blythe talks to Roger about a tortoise downstairs who's 150 years old, Roger says that Blythe's mother used to have a pet tortoise named Speedy Shellberg. Roger also refers to Blythe's mother as Betty, and while her given name was Lauren, Roger points out that Betty was her nickname and that her surname was Smith before she married. With that in mind, Blythe immediately heads to the day camp via the dumbwaiter and frantically asks the pets where Speedy has gone. Employing Russell's reverse psychology, however, the pets ignore her...except for Penny, who informs Blythe they're using reverse psychology. Blythe asks about what happened to cause it, which she sees as getting Blythe to talk to them again. The pets cheer and crowd around Blythe, who is still confused as to where the idea came from. When Zoe says that Vinnie told this to everyone, Blythe remembers that she was venting to Youngmee and that she never meant it and explains what happened.
With that out of the way, Blythe asks about where Speedy had gone. She searches all over the day camp but cannot find Speedy, not even where Russell was certain he'd be. Vinnie mistakes his shell for a decorative rock, so they all leave the room to continue searching. As they leave, Speedy gets out of his shell to wander elsewhere for his afternoon constitutional. When Blythe questions the pets where they last saw him, Vinnie says he was waiting for the bus. Blythe figures this means he's already wandered outside, and sure enough, they see him attempting to cross the street in fast-moving traffic. In an attempt to catch up to him, Speedy successfully finds a bus stop and gets on the next bus before Blythe and the others can reach him. They give chase, only to find Speedy is now at a skate park trying to speak to a helmet. Before they reach him, the skateboard he's on rolls down a ramp and then a hill into a construction zone. A crane picks him up and hurls him to the top of the unfinished building, but as Blythe and the gang make their way up, Speedy goes into an elevator and heads back to the ground. He notices he's not in a health club and heads back up. The others realize that he must've taken the elevator back down, but they reach the ground in time to hear the elevator go back up. An exhausted Blythe takes the stairs up with the pets behind her and see Speedy jump off a plank and into a pit to be filled with concrete. She is too late to stop him from jumping, but he has a parachute so he can safely land. As Blythe and the pets get back to the ground, Blythe is able to catch Speedy in her arms slowly drifting down. Russell asks how Speedy has a parachute in his shell, to which Speedy replies that kids used to stick small objects in his shell, which he is aware of and can use as he sees fit, and in this case the parachute was part of a green army man toy.
Speedy has something else for Blythe as well--still mistaking her for Betty, he pulls out her journal, whose contents are only for Betty and Speedy to see, Speedy explaining that this journal was kept secret so that Betty's ability to talk to animals remains a secret. Blythe takes a read inside of it and discovers Betty went through many of the same emotions Blythe is currently going through. Speedy reminds Blythe that Betty wasn't sure what to do with herself either but that it turned around when she gained the ability to communicate with animals, and that "Betty" still has a lot of her life
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: In the ColdOpen, Blythe worries that her video blog might give away her secret ability to speak with animals.
* AlterKocker: Speedy exhibits traits of a stereotypical Ashkenazi Jew, such as the "-berg" suffix of his surname, his Yiddish accent, and his cranky demeanor. Oddly, if he really is 150 years old, that means he's taken up the stereotype long before Ashkenazi Jews were common in North America.
* BookEnds: This episode begins and ends with Blythe recording a video blog.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: According to Speedy, Theodore Roosevelt could converse with animals.
* BlindWithoutEm: Most of the time, Speedy can see well enough through his glasses to function, but in Act 3, he mistakes a green skateboarding helmet for a lady tortoise.
* BrutalHonesty: When Blythe explainds to Youngmee that the video blog will make her look like a weirdo who talks to animals, Youngmee responds back that that's exactly what she is.
* CassandraTruth: Russell correctly figures what Vinnie overheard must be a misunderstanding, but his attempts to prove it backfire.
* ComicalOverreacting: Penny is amazingly distraught over TV scheduling conflicts.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Youngmee doesn't seem to register why Blythe is concerned about her secret getting out, only interpreting that Blythe is afraid of looking silly. That being said, Youngmee is probably right.
* ContinuityNod: The sketches on the wall in Blythe's video blog are the sketches from the opening, minus the one of Russell in a business suit. Some of these designs were made into outfits for Sunil, Minka, Penny, Vinnie, and Pepper in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E2BlythesBigAdventurePart2 Blythe's Big Adventure, Part 2]]."
** Blythe makes mention of her award-winning kiosk at the Pet Fashion Expo from the [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E25TheExpoFactorPart1 Pet Fashion Expo]] [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E26TheExpoFactorPart2 two-parter]].
** Penny was previously shown to be a fan of ''Face-Plant'' in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E16BackWindow Back Window]]," and same goes for Vinnie with ''Shake-a-Leg'' in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E12SoYouSkinkYouCanDance So You Skink You Can Dance]]."
*** Also from "So You Skink You Can Dance," it was explained in that episode that Russell is the only Littlest Pet Shop regular who knows how to use the DVR, which is why Penny and Vinnie are stumped.
** The "do-gooder hamsters" Blythe mentions to Youngmee are Dodger and Twist from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E5HamsterHoods Hamster Hoods]]."
** The "poor post Korean ferret" Blythe mentions immediately afterwards is Jebbie from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E6TongueTied Tongue Tied]]."
** Zoe doubting Pepper reflects their total opposite stances on certain matters in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E24Frenemies Frenemies]]."
** Vinnie's future fantasy would be the fifth time in the series [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E24Frenemies Vinnie]] [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E10AlligatorsAndHandbags loses]] [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E22TheHedgehogInThePlasticBubble his]] [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E14WinterWonderWha tail]].
** Reverse psychology was previously attempted in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E21SunilsSickDay Sunil's Sick Day]]."
** This is not the first time [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E1Sleeper the pet-of-the-week gets on a bus and the other characters have to chase him down on foot]].
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: According to Speedy, Theodore Roosevelt could converse with animals.
* BlindWithoutEm: Most of the time, Speedy can see well enough through his glasses to function, but in Act 3, he mistakes a green skateboarding helmet for a lady tortoise.
* BrutalHonesty: When Blythe explainds to Youngmee that the video blog will make her look like a weirdo who talks to animals, Youngmee responds back that that's exactly what she is.
* CassandraTruth: Russell correctly figures what Vinnie overheard must be a misunderstanding, but his attempts to prove it backfire.
* ComicalOverreacting: Penny is amazingly distraught over TV scheduling conflicts.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Youngmee doesn't seem to register why Blythe is concerned about her secret getting out, only interpreting that Blythe is afraid of looking silly. That being said, Youngmee is probably right.
* ContinuityNod: The sketches on the wall in Blythe's video blog are the sketches from the opening, minus the one of Russell in a business suit. Some of these designs were made into outfits for Sunil, Minka, Penny, Vinnie, and Pepper in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E2BlythesBigAdventurePart2 Blythe's Big Adventure, Part 2]]."
** Blythe makes mention of her award-winning kiosk at the Pet Fashion Expo from the [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E25TheExpoFactorPart1 Pet Fashion Expo]] [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E26TheExpoFactorPart2 two-parter]].
** Penny was previously shown to be a fan of ''Face-Plant'' in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E16BackWindow Back Window]]," and same goes for Vinnie with ''Shake-a-Leg'' in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E12SoYouSkinkYouCanDance So You Skink You Can Dance]]."
*** Also from "So You Skink You Can Dance," it was explained in that episode that Russell is the only Littlest Pet Shop regular who knows how to use the DVR, which is why Penny and Vinnie are stumped.
** The "do-gooder hamsters" Blythe mentions to Youngmee are Dodger and Twist from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E5HamsterHoods Hamster Hoods]]."
** The "poor post Korean ferret" Blythe mentions immediately afterwards is Jebbie from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E6TongueTied Tongue Tied]]."
** Zoe doubting Pepper reflects their total opposite stances on certain matters in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E24Frenemies Frenemies]]."
** Vinnie's future fantasy would be the fifth time in the series [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E24Frenemies Vinnie]] [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E10AlligatorsAndHandbags loses]] [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E22TheHedgehogInThePlasticBubble his]] [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E14WinterWonderWha tail]].
** Reverse psychology was previously attempted in "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E21SunilsSickDay Sunil's Sick Day]]."
** This is not the first time [[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S3E1Sleeper the pet-of-the-week gets on a bus and the other characters have to chase him down on foot]].
* CoolOldGuy: Despite his cranky nature, Speedy cannot stand seeing anyone even slightly depressed and will console them. He was also quite a reliable friend to Betty, and his inner kindness he shares with Blythe.
* CrazyPrepared: Speedy has a parachute in his shell of all things. Turns out it was actually accidental and a lucky coincidence that he had something to protect his fall.
* CrypticConversation: Speedy's tendency to go on tangents in conversation makes it very difficult to get any sort of specific information out of him.
* DelayedReaction: It takes Blythe a couple of seconds to register the fact that Speedy just made mention of another individual who can talk to pets.
** Blythe does this again in Act 3 when she simply accepts that Speedy carries a parachute on him at all times until she realizes that's pretty unusual.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Speedy is lying upside-down on a skateboard zooming downhill as a helmet he has mistaken for a female tortoise he was just attempting to woo is now on top of him. Speedy asks the helmet if they're "moving a little fast." While he might be referring to the speed they're traveling, considering he thinks he's talking to a potential girlfriend...
* DumbassHasAPoint: Even Vinnie can see the holes in Speedy's logic as he complains about the sun. Vinnie is also the only pet who sees merit in Speedy's wisdom, but unfortunately, Speedy is too scattered in his thoughts to say anything useful to them until Act 3.
* CrazyPrepared: Speedy has a parachute in his shell of all things. Turns out it was actually accidental and a lucky coincidence that he had something to protect his fall.
* CrypticConversation: Speedy's tendency to go on tangents in conversation makes it very difficult to get any sort of specific information out of him.
* DelayedReaction: It takes Blythe a couple of seconds to register the fact that Speedy just made mention of another individual who can talk to pets.
** Blythe does this again in Act 3 when she simply accepts that Speedy carries a parachute on him at all times until she realizes that's pretty unusual.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Speedy is lying upside-down on a skateboard zooming downhill as a helmet he has mistaken for a female tortoise he was just attempting to woo is now on top of him. Speedy asks the helmet if they're "moving a little fast." While he might be referring to the speed they're traveling, considering he thinks he's talking to a potential girlfriend...
* DumbassHasAPoint: Even Vinnie can see the holes in Speedy's logic as he complains about the sun. Vinnie is also the only pet who sees merit in Speedy's wisdom, but unfortunately, Speedy is too scattered in his thoughts to say anything useful to them until Act 3.
* {{Eyedscreen}}: A diagonal one with Russell when he gets an idea in Act 2.
* FacePlant: Blythe does one in the kitchen out of frustration.
* GrumpyOldMan: Goes hand-in-hand with him behaving like a stereotypical old Jewish man.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Speedy can fit large objects in his shell. Nothing too extreme though. The biggest known object in there is a thick book.
* HollywoodCyborg: 150-year-old Vinnie has a lot of cybernetic parts.
* HopelessWithTech: Vinnie and Penny are not really that bright and never figured out how to use a DVR despite being major television watchers and a DVR being freely available where they spend most of their days.
* FacePlant: Blythe does one in the kitchen out of frustration.
* GrumpyOldMan: Goes hand-in-hand with him behaving like a stereotypical old Jewish man.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Speedy can fit large objects in his shell. Nothing too extreme though. The biggest known object in there is a thick book.
* HollywoodCyborg: 150-year-old Vinnie has a lot of cybernetic parts.
* HopelessWithTech: Vinnie and Penny are not really that bright and never figured out how to use a DVR despite being major television watchers and a DVR being freely available where they spend most of their days.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Speedy is initially cold and smug to others, but from when he recognizes Blythe as Betty and onwards, he mellows out more and more.
* JewishComplaining: Speedy likes to pass the time complaining about things.
* JustKeepDriving: No one notices Speedy crossing the road. Justified as he is too small to be easily visible.
* LiteralMinded: Speedy takes the word "dumbwaiter" literally.
--> '''Speedy''': Oh, I'm sure the waiter's not dumb. Maybe it's just a new menu.
** In Act 2, Vinnie interprets "reverse psychology" to mean doing everything in reverse.
* LongLived: Speedy is at least 150 years old, according to Mrs. Twombly and Speedy.
* JewishComplaining: Speedy likes to pass the time complaining about things.
* JustKeepDriving: No one notices Speedy crossing the road. Justified as he is too small to be easily visible.
* LiteralMinded: Speedy takes the word "dumbwaiter" literally.
--> '''Speedy''': Oh, I'm sure the waiter's not dumb. Maybe it's just a new menu.
** In Act 2, Vinnie interprets "reverse psychology" to mean doing everything in reverse.
* LongLived: Speedy is at least 150 years old, according to Mrs. Twombly and Speedy.
* MoonwalkDance: From Vinnie--who else?
* NonIndicativeName: No, Speedy is not that much faster than expected out of a tortoise. He can travel far away without anyone noticing, however.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Speedy apparently gets lost a lot.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Speedy is at least fast enough to pull this off.
** Blythe does this too in Act 2 once Roger confirms Betty Smith's identity.
* OlderAndWiser: Speedy's gained a lot of wisdom over his years, which was exactly what Blythe needed to get over her funk.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Blythe utters a Canadian "aboot" near the beginning of Act 2.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: How Vinnie concludes that Blythe will no longer talk to animals.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Speedy apparently gets lost a lot.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Speedy is at least fast enough to pull this off.
** Blythe does this too in Act 2 once Roger confirms Betty Smith's identity.
* OlderAndWiser: Speedy's gained a lot of wisdom over his years, which was exactly what Blythe needed to get over her funk.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Blythe utters a Canadian "aboot" near the beginning of Act 2.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: How Vinnie concludes that Blythe will no longer talk to animals.
** In addition, Speedy talks about how meditation can take one to great heights right after he was lifted to the top of a construction site, admiring the Downtown Cityscape from a high altitude.
* RamblingOldManMonologue: Speedy combines this with the aforementioned Jewish Complaining.
* ReversePsychology: Russell tries this in Act 2. It sort of works, in a weird kind of way.
* RuleOfThree: Blythe attempts a video blog three times in this episode. She finally figures out what to say on the third attempt.
* SayingTooMuch: Penny seems to have never understood the concept of reverse psychology, as she immediately explains to Blythe that they're using it.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: The reason for Speedy getting lost a lot is because he has a short attention span.
* SecretKeeper: Speedy is Betty's.
* ShoutOut: Vinnie's idea of life 150 years in the future quite strongly resembles ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''. Blythe also dresses much like Jane Jetson.
** Sunil suggests to go back in time while spinning a globe, saying he "saw it in a movie once." That movie was most likely ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', where Superman famously saves Lois Lane from dying by reversing the planet's spin until it reached a point before she was killed.
** Speedy's utterance of "I'm walkin' here!" when crossing the street is taken from ''Film/MidnightCowboy''.
* RamblingOldManMonologue: Speedy combines this with the aforementioned Jewish Complaining.
* ReversePsychology: Russell tries this in Act 2. It sort of works, in a weird kind of way.
* RuleOfThree: Blythe attempts a video blog three times in this episode. She finally figures out what to say on the third attempt.
* SayingTooMuch: Penny seems to have never understood the concept of reverse psychology, as she immediately explains to Blythe that they're using it.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: The reason for Speedy getting lost a lot is because he has a short attention span.
* SecretKeeper: Speedy is Betty's.
* ShoutOut: Vinnie's idea of life 150 years in the future quite strongly resembles ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''. Blythe also dresses much like Jane Jetson.
** Sunil suggests to go back in time while spinning a globe, saying he "saw it in a movie once." That movie was most likely ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', where Superman famously saves Lois Lane from dying by reversing the planet's spin until it reached a point before she was killed.
** Speedy's utterance of "I'm walkin' here!" when crossing the street is taken from ''Film/MidnightCowboy''.
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* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt: Apparently, one of Speedy's previous owners was the 26th President of the United States.
* TruthInTelevision: Tortoises ''can'' live to 150 years of age, though only larger species, like the Galápagos, can pull that off.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Blythe doubts a tortoise's ability to get lost when under human supervision. She never had to deal with Speedy before.
* WhamEpisode: Speedy not only had at least one previous owner who could talk to animals, that previous owner, Betty Smith, was also Blythe's mother, which drives Blythelearns that to seek out her ([[MissingMom presumably deceased]]) mother could also talk identity. By the end of the episode, Speedy has provided Blythe with animals.Betty's journal, kickstarting this season's StoryArc: Blythe's search for Betty and what she was like.
* TruthInTelevision: Tortoises ''can'' live to 150 years of age, though only larger species, like the Galápagos, can pull that off.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Blythe doubts a tortoise's ability to get lost when under human supervision. She never had to deal with Speedy before.
* WhamEpisode: Speedy not only had at least one previous owner who could talk to animals, that previous owner, Betty Smith, was also Blythe's mother, which drives Blythe
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* ContrivedCoincidence: If Vinnie hadn't eavesdropped on Blythe's conversation at just the wrong moment, and Russell hadn't tried to talk to her when she couldn't hear him, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot the story]] story would have been very different.
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* Pun: AmbiguouslyJewish: Speedy is basically a FunnyAnimal version of an AlterKocker.
* ContrivedCoincidence: If Vinnie hadn't eavesdropped on Blythe's conversation at just the wrong moment, and Russell hadn't tried to talk to her when she couldn't hear him, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot the story]] would have been very different.
* ImagineSpot: This time, it's Vinnie imagining himself, the other pets and Blythe in a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetsons]]''-esque future 150 years from now.
* {{Pun}}: The title of the episode is a pun of theAesop {{Aesop}} fable "The Tortoise and the Hare".Hare", which is referenced in the episode.
* WhamEpisode: Blythe learns that her ([[MissingMom presumably deceased]]) mother could also talk with animals.
* ContrivedCoincidence: If Vinnie hadn't eavesdropped on Blythe's conversation at just the wrong moment, and Russell hadn't tried to talk to her when she couldn't hear him, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot the story]] would have been very different.
* ImagineSpot: This time, it's Vinnie imagining himself, the other pets and Blythe in a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetsons]]''-esque future 150 years from now.
* {{Pun}}: The title of the episode is a pun of the
* WhamEpisode: Blythe learns that her ([[MissingMom presumably deceased]]) mother could also talk with animals.
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Episode synopsis from [[http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tv/littlest-pet-shop-the-tortoise-and-the-heir/EP016361010083?aid=tvschedule Zap2it]]:
''While Blythe ponders her life's calling, a 150-year-old giant tortoise with an interesting past comes to the day camp and shares some life changing information with her.''
This episode is set to air on November 7, 2015 at 12:00 ET.
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!!Tropes:
* Pun: The title of the episode is a pun of the Aesop fable "The Tortoise and the Hare".
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''While Blythe ponders her life's calling, a 150-year-old giant tortoise with an interesting past comes to the day camp and shares some life changing information with her.''
This episode is set to air on November 7, 2015 at 12:00 ET.
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!!Tropes:
* Pun: The title of the episode is a pun of the Aesop fable "The Tortoise and the Hare".
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