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Recap / Lilo & Stitch: The Series S2 E16 "Wishy-Washy"

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"Wishy-Washy"note  is the fifty-fifth episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It first aired on August 23, 2005.


Experiments who appeared or were mentioned in this episode:

  • Wishy-Washy (X-267): This episode's Monster of the Week; a lavender experiment with a yellow star-tipped antenna on his head who has the ability to grant wishes, although his wishes are literal. He has a finite number of wishes as indicated by a meter on his torso; once it runs out, he's effectively useless.
  • Reuben (X-625):

Tropes featured in this episode include:

  • BFG: Gantu wishes for his blaster to become ten times more powerful. Wishy-Washy grants his wish by making his blaster huge.
  • Balloon Belly: After turning Gantu’s blaster into a giant sandwich, 625 eats it and gets really fat.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: This is the moral of the episode. In Lilo's case, "Be careful what you wish for, because you might already have it."
  • Big Eater: 625 uses a wish to turn Gantu’s blaster into a giant sandwich and then eats it, despite the sandwich being at least twenty times his size.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: Before Lilo turns him into a genius, David sees some big waves and comments “Those big waves sure are…big”.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Gantu manages to get back at Hamsterviel for being a Bad Boss by using Wishy-Washy to turn him into a rat and put him in a little cage.
  • "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: Lilo uses a wish to make David the smartest man in the world. In the end, she wishes for him to go back to normal.
  • Forced Transformation: Gantu uses Wishy-Washy to turn Hamsterviel into his pet rat.
  • Genre Savvy: After suddenly becoming a genius, David visits Lilo, since he figured out with his newfound intelligence that — being the local Weirdness Magnet — she must have had something to do with his change.
  • Giant Food: After Gantu wishes for his blaster to become giant, Lilo uses a wish to turn it into a giant salami, and 625 then uses a wish to turn the salami into a giant sub sandwich.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Lilo hoped that by using Wishy-Washy to make David astoundingly smart (as Nani thought intelligence was a nice quality), Nani would be further endeared to David so as to essentially make them a nuclear family. While Wishy-Washy does deliver and make David a genius, the problem is he's too smart. Not only is Nani driven away by David's unnatural braininess, but David later shares with Lilo how his newfound intellect makes him unhappy because nobody can understand him.
  • Help, I'm Stuck!: After Stitch and Lilo jump through one of the holes Gantu shot in how own ship, Gantu runs after them and just gets his head stuck in the hole.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Lilo's motivation for getting Nani and David together is to have a "normal" picture for her hula graduation — that is, one with a man and a woman caretakers, as opposed to a woman and three aliens. Of course, she learns to cherish the family she has by the end of the episode.
  • I Was Quite a Looker: Gantu is nostalgic for his beautiful high school girlfriend and wants to start a relationship with her. But when he uses Wishy-Washy to teleport her to his place, he's mortified to see she's no longer the gorgeous young lady she was in her youth and has instead because a bathrobe-clad hag with an obnoxious personality. Needless to say, he wishes her back from where she came.
  • Intelligence Equals Isolation: After Lilo’s wish turns David into a genius, he becomes unhappy with the fact that nobody can understand him.
  • Literal Genie: Wishy-Washy grants wishes literally. For example, he once turned Jumba into a ruler (as in the measuring tool) when he wished to become the ruler of the universe.
  • Reality Warper: Wishy-Washy can warp reality to grant people’s wishes.
  • Redemption Rejection: When Stitch tries to capture Wishy-Washy by befriending him instead of fighting, the latter knocks Stitch off the palm tree they were on. This is rendered moot, though, when Lilo simply wishes that they could "skip to the part where they turn the experiment good", causing Wishy-Washy to teleport into Lilo's arms and hug her.
  • Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: David talks like this after becoming a genius.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Being a little kid, Lilo believes this. After turning David into a genius, she dresses him up in a stereotypical nerd outfit, which includes a pair of big, round glasses, to make him look more smart.
  • The Starscream: After finding out that a wish-granting experiment has just been activated, Gantu captures him and keeps him to grant his own wishes instead of giving him to Hamsterviel, and he uses a wish to turn Hamsterviel into his pet rat.
  • Status Quo Is God: In the end, Lilo undoes all of the wishes Wishy-Washy granted, such as turning David into a genius, turning Hamsterviel into a rat, and turning Gantu’s ship invisible, by wishing for everything to go back to the way it’s supposed to be.
  • TV Genius: David becomes this when Lilo's wish makes him a genius. He loses all social competence, speaks in unnecessarily long words whether people understand him or not, and builds architectural models out of silverware in his spare time.
  • Wasteful Wishing: When Lilo leaves Pleakley alone with Wishy-Washy, he wastes a lot of wishes to get the toys from the ads in his Magnificent Man comics. He also wasted a wish to get Magnificent Man’s superpowers, and didn’t get any powers since Magnificent Man and his powers are only imaginary.
  • Wishing for More Wishes: Averted; Jumba claims Wishy-Washy will not let anyone wish for more wishes.

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