The Dance of the Ruby Slippers is the 1st segment of the 7th episode of Pucca: Love Recipe.
Synopisis[]
Master Soo accidentally lets loose a pair of cursed shoes that forces whoever wears them to dance.
Plot[]
Late on a stormy evening, a desperate Master Soo heads to his secret storehouse in search of an important object. As he's shifting through various boxes, one falls from its shelf and starts inching towards the door on its own. Soo turns around but seeing nothing odd, goes on with his hunt until he finds what he was looking for: his backscratcher. As he can finally sooth his unreachable itch, he's completely distracted while the items in the mystery box slip out of the storehouse.
The next day in Sooga Village, Pucca and Ching make a noodle delivery to Panky at the dock. She lets them take any of the things she's collected from scuba diving and Ching is drawn to a pair of ruby slippers which Panky doesn't recall picking up. The swordswoman happily takes the pretty shoes, putting them on to compliments form Pucca. The girls turn to go, but Ching is dragged back again, the shoes taking command of her feet. The girl is compelled to dance by the shoes, tugging her all over the place while she calls to Pucca for help. The delivery girl can't grab hold of her, so instead strikes the dock so Ching is launch into the air, then catches her in Panky's net. She crashes to the ground but the shoes slip off, escaping into town.
At the Sooga police station, Bruce is getting ready to make his rounds when Abyo starts sowing off his new mega-punch, kicking up so much dirt he gets the police car filthy. Bruce asks him to clean it up while he goes back inside the station to use the bathroom. Abyo tries to do just the bare minimum of cleaning but finds himself now wearing the ruby slippers. They force him to dance and spin, which also gets the car clean just as Bruce returns. The officer is pleased by his squeaky clean car until his son crashes down on the roof, trying to tell him about the dangerous shoes before passing out. The shoes slip off his feet and Bruce runs after them as they escape.
The shoes become a menace through Sooga Island. While the villagers try to contain them, they can only run away when it takes a new victim, frightened of all the wild dancing (especially when the tyrannosaurus is made to wear them). Su Da tries to do a report on what to do about the shoes, but even she gets caught by them. Master Soo tries to avoid the TV crew, claiming the shoes do not belong to him. But a hidden camera catches him saying what the shoes really want: to dance the ultimate dance with someone.
Ring Ring is returning with Ayo from a shopping trip, hoping to impress Garu with her new dress. However, the shoes sneak onto her feet and make her dance, to her confusion Garu, running from Pucca, heads her way and the heiress tries to run to him only for the shoes to make her dance in an embarrassing way right in front of him. While Garu is also confused by what is happening, one of the shoes pops off Ring Ring’s foot to latch onto Garu, now making the two dance together. Garu is horrified but Ring Ring is delighted, taking advantage of the new situation to confess her love for Garu.
Pucca is angered by this and tries to break them up, but the shoes outmanuever her again, so she needs another tactic. She runs off and returns in a showgirl outfit, leading the shoes in a can-can dance. Ring Ring and Garu are froced to dance along and with all their hich-kicking, they kick the shoes right off which lets Pucca finally catch them. Officer Bruce imprisons the shoes in a cage and leaves them in his office while he goes to contact Master Soo.
Late in the night, Casano is strolling through town when he's faced with the ruby shoes sitting in his path.
Bruce brings Master Soo to the station to collect his shoes, but finds the cage empty.
Casano is the one now wearing the shoes but he actually enjoys them, recognizing they shoes only wanted to find someone who could keep up with their dancing spirt. He is more than happy to comply.
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Trivia[]
- This episode is reminiscent to the episode from the Doodlebops, "Tap, Tap, Tap"
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