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Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

Ami's Secret / Taffy Trouble / Dance A-Go-Go

Season 1, Episode 3, Aired Nov 26, 2004

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Ami's Secret:
Ami is hiding something from Yumi and Kaz.

Taffy Trouble:
Ami and Yumi accidentally created a giant Taffy Ball, and they must stop it before it demolishes their tour bus.

Dance A-Go-Go:
Ami always have a dream, dancing. She wants to sign up but Yumi doesn't want to. But when she sees the girls on the show winning Scooters, she decides to sign up too. It seems that they have some opponents. Anyway, the Contest begins, the opponents are dancing. Right then, it's Ami and Yumi's turn. But Ami stubs her toe and can't continue. Now, Yumi have to do it. Will Yumi win the contest?moreless

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GUEST STAR
Rob Paulsen

Clyde Easy Glide / Electric Slide Guy
GUEST STAR
Phil Lollar

Wacky Wally

Keone Young

Kaz
Puffy AmiYumi

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Grey DeLisle

Yumi
Janice Kawaye

Ami
Yumi Yoshimura

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Ami Onuki

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This show gets better and better.

10

"Perfect"

By zillaman23, Dec 04, 2011

This episode was so good.

Ami's Secret: It's nice to see Yumi in PJs, she looks so cute in them. Ami as a clown was not that pretty, but not that bad either.
Kaz: (To Yumi) I always thought you were the weird one.

Taffy Trouble: Kaz makes the girls pay rent but they can't so they get a job at a candy factory. Ami and Yumi were actually good at taffy making.
Yumi: When do we get paid.

Dance A Go-Go: Ami and Yumi enter a dance contest. For the first time in the show we see Ami and Yumi in Hula outfits, very nice.
Yumi: I'd wather watch paint dry.

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Ami's Secret is that she was saving up money with a second job, the girls don't know enough about taffy making, and "Dance A-Go-Go" makes me think of Dance Revolution.

10

"Perfect"

By markdoublea84, Nov 11, 2008

This was probably one of the first episodes of the series that ever aired. I consider this three-some of stories a personal favorite.

In the first story, Kaz and Yumi don't know what Ami is hiding until they find out she was trying to raise money as a circus clown to celebrate their band-a-versary. When Ami and Yumi get jobs at a candy factory, they have know idea at all how to make the taffy. When they accidently make a huge taffy ball, it was up to Yumi to save Kaz and their tour bus. "Dance A-Go-Go" is the very best story from the three. Ami and Yumi decide to enter themselves in a dance competition. It was fun watching the girls dancing on stage. I just can't get that "Sui Sui" song heard in that part out of my head. While they were dancing, one of the compeditors messes things up by making Ami trip. I felt sorry for Ami stubbing her toe. Yumi was the only one to save the competition.

This episode, especially "Dance A-Go-Go," is one of the best ones they've ever done. I could watch it again and again. Hey, try doing some of those dance moves yourself. Just try to be careful. You don't want to end up like Ami...LOL!moreless
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Ami's Secret was short, Taffy Trouble really had trouble and Dance a Go-Go had us going "hysteria"

9.0

"Superb"

By dewsid, Jan 15, 2006

This is the best episode out of the otbher 2 episodes "Dis-Harmony/Collect All 5!/Ninj-compoop" and "Talent Suckers/Ole/Mini Puffs".

In Ami's Secret, Kaz and Yumi find out Ami's "secret" and thinks she will leave the band before the bandivessary. i felt sorry for Ami but nevertheless the episode was funny all the way.

Then, in Taffy Trouble, they get jobs to pay Kaz as he gets stingy about rent. I didnt really like Kaz's ungratefulness towards the girls in the end but the scenes with the taffy was funny.

The last one, Dance A Go-Go was quite good. All YUmi wants is the prize but Ami brakes her toe, so Yumi performs a rock dance but only wins a small moving thingy. Serves Yumi right! Even that bratty host deserved what was coming to him.

Even the live-action in this episode was great and I would recommend this episode to anyone who is bored.moreless
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Three trips to the old sitcoms home.

4.7

"Poor"

By jboice0, Nov 27, 2005

The cartoons in this show all had plots very familiar to anyone who watches old sitcoms- and the show didn't do any twist to them. The result was three cases of "Seen It". In "Ami's Secret" Ami is acting strangly, sneaking out at night and keeping secrets from Kaz and Yumi- which causes them to suspect Ami is going to quit the group. No points for guessing how the plot comes out. Next, in "Taffy Trouble" the writers dusted off the old "I Love Lucy" episode where Lucy and Ethyl get jobs in the candy factory- then in "Dance A-go-go" the ladies enter a dance contest and find the competition is cutthroat. Again, no surprises here.
You get the impression the writers hadn't figured out what to do with the characters yet, so they just dusted off some creaky old storylines and inserted Ami and Yumi in them. The series gets better after this.moreless
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In this episode Ami has a big secret, ami and yumi get a job at a candy factory, and ami and yumi enter a dance competition.

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"Perfect"

By ddr_freak1993, Sep 10, 2005

This episode was the first HiHi Puffy AmiYumi episode that I ever saw. It was very comical. That enitire day i was waiting until 4:30 the permier of HiHi Puffy AmiYumi in Canada and it was worth it!!!!! My favourite part in this episode was Dance A-Go-Go. My favorite part in that show is after Ami hurts her toe and Yumi has to go on herself. Loved that part :D Another part i liked was when Yumi blasted her amp on her guitar to blow up the giant taffy ball. I am dependant that there is going to be better episodes but i still loved this one. Overall 10/10moreless
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- In "Taffy Trouble," Yumi's emotions change but the skull on her shirt didn't match them for the whole episode.
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- In "Taffy Trouble," when Ami and Yumi start the taffy maker, Yumi pours something in it and then Ami pushes the button. But in the next few shots, the button that Ami pushed is gone.
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- In "Taffy Trouble," when the giant ball of taffy is about to smash Kaz, the girls tell him to get out of the tour bus. He says he can't get out because the doors wielded shut, but he's looking out a window that would be big enough to let him escape, and the window is open, too.
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- In "Taffy Trouble," Kaz tells them that they have to pay for all the damage they did to the bus before he can let them back in. The problem? Before he slammed the door, the bus wasn't damaged at all! It was in perfect condition.
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- When Yumi opens Ami's door, the sleeve of her pajamas is long. It becomes short several scenes later.
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- In "Ami's Secret," we see the face of Ami as a cake smiling. When Ami turns the lights on and Yumi and Kaz look down, we see the cake frowning.
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- In "Taffy Trouble," Kaz said he welded the door shut so he can't get out and they can't get in. But after Yumi destroy's the giant ball of taffy, we see him outside of the bus, and at the end he opens the door and slams it shut.
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- (Yumi is sleeping and is awoken by load music) Yumi: What's going on? Is the bus being attack by craze Puffy fans? Ami: Nope, it's just me grooving to the beat of Dance Party Histerya. Yumi: (looks at TV) You call that dancing? Looks like a crok of spandex to me.
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- Kaz: Something fishy's going on here Yumi: Something elephanty, too.
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- Yumi: Sorry, buddy. This isn't working out. Kaz: (dressed up as Ami) That's okay. Now I have more time to focus on my modeling career. (blows kiss)
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- Ami: The evil taffy ball has been deliciously defeated.
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- Ami: I think Kaz accidentally locked us out again. Yumi: Then we'll just have to "accidentally" wake him up.
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- Yumi: Prepare to fall, circus jerks! Wah-tah!
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- Ami: Aww, how delightfully dramatic. Yumi: Please, they should save the drama for their mamas.
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- Ami: That's what I call an entrance!
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- Yumi: We thought laying in bed of candy WAS our job.
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- Yumi: Kaz, get out of there! Kaz: I can't! I wielded the door shut to keep you girls out!
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- Kaz: Oh balloon lion, very realistic. (Lion roars and eats Kaz) Kaz: (Mumbling inside the lion's mouth, Ami and Yumi stare a while then hit their cups together) Ami and Yumi: Happy Bandiversary!
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- (Crash) Clyde Easy Glide: Ooh, that's going to cost them a few points. Yumi: Ami, are you okay? (Ami shows her big toe swelled up) Ami: You... you'll have to go on without me. Yumi: But, I don't know any more moves. Ami: Use your rockstar know-how! Yumi: Get ready for a swift victory!
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- (Ami unplugs taffy machine) Ami: THIS THING HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN!
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- Ami: Looks like Wacky Wally could use an upgrade on his Taffy Maker.
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- Yumi: (to Kaz) Come on, let's go drown our sorrows in massive quantities of junk food.
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- Look Hard: In "Dance a Go-Go", when the girls are Hula dancing after the coconut hits Yumi on the head you can see Ami's bellybutton.
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- This episode can be found on the Volume 1 DVD "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Let's Go!"
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- The scooters used in this episode are very popular in Italy.
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- Puffy AmiYumi love motor scooters. In fact, one of there songs was used in a scooter commercial in Japan.
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- Dances: 1) The Running Man 2) Cossack 3) Hula 4) Breakdancing 5) Country Line Dance 6) Tango 7) Jitter Bug 8) Lindy Hop
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- The hats Ami & Yumi wear when performing the Cossack are called "ushankas".
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- We learn that Yumi can play the Bagpipes which come from Scotland.
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- This is the first time we see Ami & Yumi wearing grass skirts & coconut bras.
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- The name of the host for Dance Party Hysteria is Clyde Easyglide.
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- Kaz is absent in "Dance A-Go-Go".
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- Featured Songs: Sui Sui Into the Beach Long Beach Nightmare Simple
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- Live Puffy Theme: Basketball.
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- First time we see Yumi wearing pajamas.
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- "Dance A-Go-Go" marks the only time that Puffy AmiYumi is referred to as Puffy.
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- Look Hard: Puffy AmiYumi own a Nintendo GameCube.
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- In "Dance A-Go-Go," the name of the company that animates this show (Renegade) can be seen as graffiti.
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- Yumi's guitar in "Taffy Trouble" went all the way up to 11.5! Usually, some guitars would go to 11, or even The Who's volume going up to "Whuh-Oh!" But Yumi's guitar power extends beyond 10 by 1.5.
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- One of the scenes in "Taffy Trouble" is similar to (and possibly a reference to) Dr. Seuss' novel, Oh Say, Can You Say?. In one "scene" of the book, two friends named Fred and Fritz were feeding each other snacks that resembled the jellybeans Ami fed to Yumi.
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- Candy conveyerbelt - I Love Lucy Ami and Yumi struggling with the candy on the conveyerbelt is a reference to an "I Love Lucy" episode where Lucy and Ethel work at a choclate factory and struggle with getting them all in wrappers.
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- Yumi's love for scooters Beast Boy, from Teen Titans, shares the same love for scooters as Yumi does.
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- Both "Ami's Secret" and "Taffy Trouble" contain Pac-Man references.
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- The giant taffy ball rolling down the road is similar to the giant boulder from Indiana Jones-The Temple of Doom.
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- Disco Heaven Angels in disco heaven wear platform shoes instead of the traditional sandals.
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- Yumi: Don't count chickens before they hatch. This phrase means "to not be over anxious".
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- Dance: Country Line Dance The biggest recorded line dance in the world was in Hong Kong with 12,168 dancers.
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- Name: Dancing Queen The song "Dancing Queen" was actually written for the first dance at the marriage of the king and queen of Sweden.
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- Action: Yumi destroying the speaker The British "Mod" Musicians of the sixties often destroyed there equipment after a performance.
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- Name: Lindy Hop The Lindy Hop was named after the famous pilot Charles "Lindy" Lindbergh.
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- Character Name and Appearance: Wacky Wally Wacky Wally's name and appearance are both obvious spoofs of the fictional character, Willy Wonka.
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