Jr. Detective Tubby

Jr. Detective Tubby is an episode of The Little Lulu Show. It comes after Snowball War and precedes Picnic Pirates. This marks the first time Tubby Tompkins goes detective, though he turns traitor at the last minute.

Plot
Lulu Moppet is walking around her neighborhood when she suddenly sees something scribbled on the wall: a message that says that she and Tubby are engaged. She then decides that Tubby can help her find the culprit, thinking that he will be as sore as she herself is about this.

Lulu goes to the house Tubby and his family live in and knocks on their door, and warns him about what is going on: someone has been writing, "Lulu loves Tubby" in random spots. Tubby gets his Jr. Detective supplies, and they go on the hunt for the culprit.

En route to their goal, Lulu and Tubby stumble upon Bernie. Bernie is asked to reveal his possessions, but counters. Lulu gets angry at Tubby for frisking someone without their consent. This repeats with Annie Inch (who did not learn to write yet as Lulu pointed out.), but Willie Wilkins is spared.

At an intersection, Tubby reveals his role in the situation, and Lulu roughs him up in retaliation (creating a vortex). Tubby escapes into his house before she can catch him, however, and laughs about his victory, but then, he remembers that his house's back door is still unlocked. He tries to lock the door, but Lulu has managed to barge her way in and Tubby ends up tripping over her leg and banging his head on the kitchen wall en route. Lulu sentences Tubby to community service for his actions, capping off the episode.

Name translations

 * Español: ¡Vamos, Detectivo Tomás Tubby! (Come on, Detective Tubby!)
 * Portugués: O Detectivo Tomás Tubby viene (Detective Tubby comes)

Trivia

 * This is the first time Tubby enters his guise as the Spider.
 * The Vortex that Gertie Green Bean and Wilbur Van Snobbe create when they fight in the episode Gertie Green Bean (episode) is similar to the Vortex created when Lulu Moppet roughs Tubby up for his actions. It is also a common gag in comic strips when multiple entities fight.