Tubby's Doll (episode)

La muñeca de Tubby is an episode of The Little Lulu Show. It comes after Little Sew and Sews and precedes Tuxedo Tango. It marks the third time Tubby becomes The Spider. In this episode, he gets a doll instead of a soccer ball that he wanted, since his aunt mistook him for a girl, so Tubby decides to buy your doll to the house of Moppets.

At the start of the episode, Tubby is shown crying because he got a doll. He wonders why his aunt Martha cannot give her nephew a football, and his mother tells him that Martha's eyesight is suboptimal and during their first encounter, she saw that Tubby was wearing a dress, partially referencing his disguise near the climax of The Popcorn Thief. He then decides to give the doll away by changing his appearance into an adult male (in the hopes that nobody will recognize him), but the plan goes wrong since his tuxedo and mustache are missing, so he has to make do with a girl's wig and dress instead.

Tubby gets into terrible mishaps on his way to Lulu Moppet's house. First, she recognizes him anyway, and informs everyone else, then, his aunt Martha chats with him, stalling him. The Fellers, instead of respecting him to be a great baseball player, call their own leader a coward who cannot hit a baseball to save his own life. The girls also believe he is an impostor and are hot on his tail with the boys. At the end, Tubby is intercepted by Lulu herself in his attempt to get into the Moppet household, causing him to surrender the doll. She and the others are friendly with Tubby again for his actions.

Names in the other languages

 * Español: La Muñeca de Tobi (Tubby's Doll)
 * Portugués: A Boneca da Bolinha (Tubby's Doll)

Trivia

 * This episode may take place after The Popcorn Thief, where Tubby was undercover and wore a dress to hide his identity. It is also the third episode to feature Tubby in his detective form.
 * It is unknown what happened to the tuxedo and mustache Tubby was planning on wearing. One statement is that Chubby is the perpetrator.