"Poxy" is the thirty-second episodenote of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It first aired on January 11, 2004.note
Pleakley falls ill with smelly feet, purple pimples, a swollen eye, and uncontrollable burping after swallowing a tiny experiment with his cereal. Lilo and Stitch are then shrunk down by Jumba to go into Pleakley's body to retrieve said experiment. Unfortunately, Gantu plans to send Pleakley to Hämsterviel to extract the experiment, making things more complicated.
Experiments who appeared or were mentioned in this episode:
- Poxy (X-222): This episode's Monster of the Week; a microscopic germ-like experiment who is designed to make people fall ill with a disease that causes smelly feet, purple pimples, swollen eyes, and uncontrollable burping.
- Reuben (X-625)
This episode contains examples of:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: At the end of the episode, Experiment 222/Poxy has wound up inside Gantu and makes him sick, leading to this bit of dialogue:625: So you finally caught an experiment.Gantu: I know but I didn't want to catch it like this. (Burps afterward.)
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Pleakley has two hearts and no skeletal system. He also has ear canals despite that his antennae functions as a hearing organ and that he has no visible ears or earholes.
- Bizarre Belching: Experiment 222 is a microscopic organism that infects a host and produces symptoms designed to make the victim look repulsive. One of the first signs of the illness is uncontrollable burping.
- Chainsaw Good: Stitch initially tried to operate on Pleakley this way, much to the latter's fright.
- Exact Words: When Jumba injects miniaturized Lilo and Stitch into Pleakley through the keister, he assures him that it won't hurt a bit. Pleakley then screams in pain.Pleakley: You said it wouldn't hurt!
Jumba: Is not hurting me. - "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: What the whole episode is about; Lilo and Stitch explore Pleakley's body to find and capture an experiment.
- Funny Background Event: In the first scene in the Pelekai residence, when Lilo and Pleakley are enjoying some breakfast cereal, Stitch appears and looks into the toaster, only for it to pop toast in his face, knocking him over. He then tackles the toaster for a bit before Lilo has him get milk. Note that because this episode was the first one produced, this scene is actually the beginning of a semi-Running Gag of Stitch having an irrational hatred of toasters and destroying them.
- Hand Wave: Lilo asks Jumba how he managed to get the X-Buggy inside his and Pleakley's bedroom. He starts explaining how for a moment but then stopped himself and dismissed it as unimportant. What little he did explain though was that he cut open something while doing so. (The window? The wall? The roof and ceiling? The buggy itself?)
- Laughing Gas: While being chased by Gantu through the health clinic, Lilo, Stitch, and Pleakley get away from him by hitting him with this. Pleakley mentions that he might end up laughing till he passes outnote . Lilo's response: "Who cares?!".
- Race Against the Clock: In addition to getting to Poxy before Gantu sends Pleakley to Hämsterviel, Lilo and Stitch must get out of Pleakley's body before the shrink ray wears off.
- Series Continuity Error:
- It's stated in this episode that Gantu never caught an experiment before and that Poxy is more or less the first time he caught one. However, several episodes that aired before this one showed Gantu managing to successfully capture an experiment at the end (e.g. "Amnesio", "Tank", "Fibber"). This is due to the fact that the episodes aired Out of Order (with Disney+ maintaining the original airing order), and this episode was the first one produced for the show itself.
- This episode shows that Pleakley has ear canals and can produce earwax, but "Yaarp" has him saying that his antenna partially functions as his method of hearing. This is also beside the fact that he has no visible ears or earholes.
- Shrink Ray: Jumba uses a "[size] reducer ray" (different from the Protoplasmic Growth Ray from "Short Stuff") to shrink Lilo, Stitch, and the X-Buggy down to microscopic size. Unfortunately, between disruptions over the radio and Gantu kidnapping Pleakley, he didn't get a chance to tell Lilo and Stitch that they had less than an hour to get out of Pleakley's body otherwise he'd explode.
- Sick Episode: A variant in which a living creature designed to cause a unique illness gets one of the leads sick, and the whole plot is about stopping that creature from inside the infected.
