The Popcorn Thief

The Popcorn Thief is an episode in the The Little Lulu Show. It comes before The Little Tornado. In this episode, Tubby is asked to go under cover while Lulu Moppet and her friends are having a sleepover.

Doreen makes her debut in this episode.

Plot
Tubby is first seen closing a Lemonade Stand. He opens his private eye booth in the same spot. Lulu Moppet arrives and asks him for help because he is the closest detective in her neighborhood and she has a problem: every time she, Annie Inch, and the other girls have a sleepover, they suddenly lose the pop-corn they prepared at some point. Tubby then goes out of his way to help his friend, and he promises to be at the Inch household, where the girls will have their next sleepover.

Lulu is then seen deciding to ask for her quarter back if Tubby does not show up. Lo and behold, a slightly obese girl named Doreen walks up in her direction. After Doreen reveals her Hollywood career, they walk inside the Inch household. She is at first startled when Annie tells her that they are putting on makeup. Lulu drags Doreen inside before she can recuperate, but they manage to fit in.

Later, the girls, true to form according to the story Lulu and Tubby shared, lose their popcorn, and Doreen decides to help them find it. Doreen goes upstairs. The scene then cuts to inside, where Tubby and The Fellers reunite in Iggy Inch's room. Willie Wilkins is at first flattered, because he thought Doreen had entered, but Willie finds to his shock that Tubby HIMSELF had entered.

Iggy is at first shocked as well to see that his friend is wearing a pink nightdown, which is the same nightgown Doreen wore. Tubby then tells Iggy to go down to get the candy.

Lulu then asks Doreen (not knowing that the latter had vanished) for some candy, but the girls become worried when Doreen does not reply. They head upstairs, where Tubby and his gang are making their getaway. Tubby impersonates Doreen and claims "she caught them red-handed". Lulu is unfazed by this and the Fellers are punished by being forced to cross-dress for the sleepover, capping off the episode.

Characters

 * Lulu Moppet (Voiced by Jane Woods)
 * Annie Inch (Voiced by Michael Caloz)
 * Gloria Goode Darling (Voiced by Angelina Boivin)
 * Janie (Voiced by Angelina Boivin)
 * Margie (Voiced by Angelina Boivin)
 * Tubby (Voiced by Bruce Dinsmore)
 * Doreen (Voiced by Susan Glover)

Trivia

 * Tubby will later cross-dress again in Tubby's Doll, although he does not do it willingly.
 * Mónica e Amigos has a similar situation occurring in Come to my Party (Venga a Minha Festinha). However, the show's protagonist, Mônica Sousa, does permit boys to come to her party (albeit at a later time), whereas Lulu Moppet and Annie Inch exclude boys from theirs.