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In Harmony's Way / Time Off / Home Insecurity

Season 2, Episode 5, Aired Jun 17, 2005

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In Harmony's Way : Harmony has Ami's diary and is about to read it. The girls must stop her. Time Off: Yumi messes up Ami's alarm clock, and Ami's is reacting to everything later than when she normally would. Home Insecurity: Yumi's secruity system takes control of objects in the bus and she must stop it.moreless

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Ami Onuki

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Puffy AmiYumi

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Keone Young

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Janice Kawaye

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Grey DeLisle

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Yumi Yoshimura

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Who is this girl, and what has she done with Yumi Yoshimura?

1.3

"Abysmal"

By Roy_Stantz, Jun 17, 2006

The teaser from above voices my opinion for "Home Insecurity". Yumi is acting way out of character in that segment! It's as if the writers replaced her with someone who looks and sounds like Yumi, but doesn't act at all like the Yumi Yoshimura that we all know and love. I don't like how Yumi is acting like a jerk towards Ami all because she touched her stuff. P.A.L. is sort of an unfunny parody of H.A.L. 9000, but he sure teaches Yumi a lesson, plus I liked it when Ami kicked Yumi right in her butt! Also, Yumi defeating P.A.L. with Ami's computer virus is also interesting. During the scene with P.A.L.'s minions repeatedly shooting lasers at Yumi and missing, you can't help but think that Yumi deserved all of that for being such a jerk towards Ami! But I was glad that the segment was over, and to see Ami and Yumi make up in the end, and Kaz's remark about Ami's videogame having a real laser level, now that's cool!

As for the other two:

"Time Off" sorta freaked me out when it came to Ami being affected by the magic of time. Now we all know that it is dangerous to mess with the flow of time, according to Doc Brown from the "Back To The Future" movies. And why are Ami and Yumi sleeping in their normal clothes? Are their pyjamas in the wash or something?

The only good segment in this episode is "In Harmony's Way". I liked how Harmony had decorated her bedroom to become a Puffy shrine.

But most important of all though, no Jang Keng, no Tekirai, and not many laughs.moreless
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This episode is not one of the best I have seen, and it was quite disappointing to begin with.

7.2

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By dewsid, May 23, 2006

In Harmony's Way was not really enjoyable because I did not enjoy the return of Harmony but I did however, like the attempts Ami and Yumi made to get the diary back. It was humorous but lacked excitement. The ending was also not I would have expected a better ending.

Time Off was quite silly and nice because of how Yumi messed with the clock and made Ami time-stressed. The ending was quite good and funny because Yumi finally got to sleep.

Home Insecurity is one of those episodes where "Technology tries to kill you" which was unoriginal and I believe it ruined the episode's quality. It might have been humurous but I wanted it to be handled in a better manner.

Overall, thse three segments were alright but the way they were handled could have improved dramastically.moreless
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Yumi " accidentally " donating Ami's diary was pretty silly.Yumi setting Ami's clock 5 seconds later was really funny i'd have to say.But Yumi Buying a P.A.L. to keep Ami out was really MEAN YUMI!moreless

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By emberfan, Feb 11, 2006

I love this series. Yumi accidentally donating Ami's diary was pretty silly, But setting her clock 5 seconds later was totally in the middle ( sort of mean and sort of not mean. ) But buying a P.A.L. to keep her out was totally out of the line, totally mean Yumi. So all together Yumi did three wrongs and about 1 right because Ami had to tell her to tell them her secrets, and she didn't look that sorry when she... in fact, there are no rights as from I see it. So I still say i like Ami wayyyyyyyyyy more than Yumi.moreless
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Wow.

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"None"

By DragonBlazer200, Jul 24, 2005

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi had bad episodes before, but this takes the cake. The first segment, In Harmony's Way, reintroduces the little psychopath, Harmony, who makes Ami's diary. They are able to pay it back, but Kaz proves how cheap he is by refusing to pay a penny more than fifty cents. At the end, Ami proves to be as boring as the series and Yumi reveals her lame secrets. The second segment, Time Out, is so illogical, it is annoying. The final segment, Home Insecurity, is the worst of them all. Yumi becomes paranoid about Ami burrowing all her stuff. So, she pays a cruddy sentinal that teaches Yumi a lesson about sharing. This is the worst episode... EVER!moreless
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So far this is the latest episode in America.

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"Perfect"

By YamataDragon, Jul 19, 2005

Harmony returns yet again to learn more about Puffy. She attempts to read Ami's Diary hoping to learn more secrets about Ami, she finds out that everything that Ami wrote in her diary was stuff she already knew. So Ami found it fair that Yumi should tell Harmony some things about her because Yumi accidentally donated her diary. Yumi sets Ami's clock back 5 seconds and Ami starts doing everything 5 seconds late. She finds out what happens & tells Yumi to fix it. once again we see Ami in her sexy bikini. Yumi gets tired of Ami borrowing her stuff without asking so she buys a Personal Automated Lookout (P.A.L.) to zapped anyone who enters her room except her. After Ami gets zapped, Yumi reenters her room and ends up getting zapped. She gets frustrated & tells P.A.L. what happens & P.A.L. gets confused. P.A.L. brings every electronic thing on the bus to life to destroy everything. Yumi goes into Ami's room to borrow Ami's computer which has a virus on it. She uploads the virus into P.A.L. & P.A.L. was destroyed. A really good episode. 10/10.moreless
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- The poster of the real Puffy disappears when Harmony reenters her room after the chase.
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- How could the elephant land on Ami & Yumi when it should've fell directly on Harmony?
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- When Ami & Yumi are attempting to get Ami's Diary back from Harmony when they are skydiving, the stuff should've blown out of the box because of how fast Harmony fell before deploying her parachute.
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- When Ami & Yumi are attempting to get Ami's Diary back on the roller coaster, the stuff should've fell out of the box because the roller coaster went through a loop.
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- When Yumi accidentally turned Ami into a baby with the alarm clock, Ami doesn't shrink down the size of a baby and still as a grown body and a full head of hair.
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- Ami and Yumi sawed holes in Harmony's door, through the poster of themselves. But seconds later, during the chase sequence, the door is completely repaired.
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- Harmony: Stalk ya later!
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- Yumi: Another chase? Aren't we suppose to be a rock band?
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- Harmony: (looking at Ami's diary) This is Ami's diary, and you were trying to stop me from reading it! Well, I'm gonna read this diary and none of you can stop me! Ami: We'll chase you to the ends of the Earth if we had to!
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- Ami, Yumi, and Kaz: Our psycho super fan, Harmony!!
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- Ami: Yumi, can I borrow a pen? See? I asked first. (P.A.L. zaps Ami) Ami: You could have just said no.
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- Kaz: Whoo-hoo. I never made it to the real laser gun level before.
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- Yumi: When I said you weren't touching my stuff again, I meant it.
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- Yumi: I thought you'd be angry. Ami: I AM ANGRY!! FIX IT NOW!!!
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- Harmony: That's weird. I thought I only had one life-size cardboard cut out of Ami and Yumi.
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- (Bidding for the box) Auctioneer: Fifty cents, do I hear fifty-one cents? Kaz: Fifty-one cents? Sheesh, too rich for my blood.
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NOTES (10)
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- We learn that Kaz doesn't get jokes that much. (hint: the length of time for the joke explaination)
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- Ami appeared in her bikini the second time since "Fan Clubs" without Yumi
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- Harmony has a poster of the real Puffy AmiYumi on her door.
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- In "Time Off," we learn that Ami competed in the diving championships.
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- First time Harmony uses other emotions instead of insanity.
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- Look Hard: While Ami and Yumi trying to tire out Harmony, you'll notice that there is a Bunny Huggles from "Collect All 5!"
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- P.A.L. stands for "Personal Automated Lookout".
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- LIve Puffy Theme: They throw a man who has mangled one of their songs out of a karaoke room. He is later seen in the closing credits trying to get back in.
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- Featured Songs: Sui Sui Neholina Shoubijin USAGI CHANNEL
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- This episode marks Harmony's third appearance in the series.
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- Character Name: P.A.L. It is loosely based on the computer HAL from 2001: A Space Oddyesy.
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