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The Puzzle Place

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The Puzzle Place	label	The Puzzle Place
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The Puzzle Place	comment	The Puzzle Place is a Puppet Show for children that aired on PBS Kids, and was produced by Lancit Media (the same company behind Reading Rainbow) and KCET Los Angeles. It ran for 75 episodes over 3 seasons that originally aired from January 16, 1995 to December 4, 1998 (the pilot episode aired on KCET and KLCS, on September 15, 1994), with reruns airing until March 31, 2000. Created in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, it features a group of children from differing racial and ethnic backgrounds who hang out together at the titular Puzzle Place, where they learn to work out their problems and disagreements in a peaceful, constructive manner.The Boys Ben Olafson: European-American (German and Norwegian) from a farm in Flyover Country. Leon MacNeal: African-American from New York City. Skye Nakaiye: Apache from a reservation in Arizona. Kyle O'Connor: Irish-American (and a wheelchair user). A Sixth Ranger who appeared late in the series' life.The Girls Julie Woo: Chinese-American who grew up in San Francisco. Jody Silver: Lithuanian Jewish from Cincinnati, Ohio. Kiki Flores: Mexican-American from San Antonio, Texas.Also in the cast: a cat and dog named Sizzle and Nuzzle, who were usually the focus of the B-Plot and spent most of their time in the basement. There's also the multicolored gibberish-speaking Piece Police who run the place.
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The Puzzle Place / int_1460b100	type	Death Is a Sad Thing
The Puzzle Place / int_1460b100	comment	Death Is a Sad Thing: In the episode "The Ballad of Davy Cricket," Jody's pet cricket dies, and the others help her deal with the loss by sharing memories of their own lost pets, as well as the mourning and remembrance customs from their various cultures.
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The Puzzle Place / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
The Puzzle Place / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: One episode has Leon planning to move into the Puzzle Place permanently and run away from home after his brother James breaks a lamp and their parents will be furious. His friends are horrified and try to convince him it's a bad idea, with Kiki relating a story about a girl who worries her parents by doing the same. In the end, he and James talk it out, and James is a Cool Big Bro who ultimately agrees they'll tell their parents together.
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The Puzzle Place / int_18e2980	type	Poirot Speak
The Puzzle Place / int_18e2980	comment	Poirot Speak: Nicely averted with Kiki, who speaks strongly accented yet fluent English and whose forays into Spanish are complete sentences that always serve a purpose in context. It helps that her puppeteer is from Mexico.
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The Puzzle Place / int_195bec23	type	Gender-Concealing Writing
The Puzzle Place / int_195bec23	comment	Gender-Concealing Writing: In-universe in "Yellow Belt". The boys don't know Jodi's karate instructor Grand Master Li is a woman, and contact "him" as confirmation that boys are better fighters than girls when they refuse to accept that Jodi beat Ben at karate more than once. They catch her in the middle of a sparring match and presume the male partner is Grand Master Li, only for the man to correct them and introduce her.
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The Puzzle Place / int_1d9af117	type	Gender-Equal Ensemble
The Puzzle Place / int_1d9af117	comment	Gender-Equal Ensemble: Three girls (Julie, Kiki and Jody) and three boys (Ben, Leon and Skye). Even if you include Sizzle and Nuzzle and the Piece Police, it still counts. They did add a fourth boy (Kyle) near the end of the series, though.
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The Puzzle Place / int_1e7cf07c	type	Out of Control Popcorn
The Puzzle Place / int_1e7cf07c	comment	Out Of Control Popcorn: In one episode, Leon brings a package of popcorn, but when he turned it on to pop it, it doesn't pop. Later after they left, Sizzle and Nuzzle come across it and it finally starts to pop....and pop.....and pop; getting much bigger than the pets. Eventually, it explodes and rains popcorn all over the room.
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The Puzzle Place / int_241c2cd6	type	Go-to-Sleep Ending
The Puzzle Place / int_241c2cd6	comment	Go-to-Sleep Ending: Happens at the end of "Rip Van Wrinkle". The kids even say goodnight to the audience before dozing off.
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The Puzzle Place / int_252a7ce8	type	Instant Thunder
The Puzzle Place / int_252a7ce8	comment	Instant Thunder: Averted in the thunderstorm episode. The kids learned to count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder.
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The Puzzle Place / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
The Puzzle Place / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: The Mighty Magic Pigeon Pirates.
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The Puzzle Place / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
The Puzzle Place / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode: The subplot of "Practice Makes Perfect" has all the kids except Skye coming down with the chicken pox.
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The Puzzle Place / int_27725a69	type	Nice Character, Mean Actor
The Puzzle Place / int_27725a69	comment	Nice Character, Mean Actor: One episode had Julie and Kiki meet their idol Penny Candy, a self-proclaimed "cute" singer. They later find out she's incredibly mean underneath.
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The Puzzle Place / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Puzzle Place / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad/Missing Mom: Ben's father died, while Jody's parents are divorced and she lives with her father.
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The Puzzle Place / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
The Puzzle Place / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: "Spooky!" doesn't mention Halloween, but it aired in late October and revolves around spooky things.
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The Puzzle Place / int_2c850a3d	type	"Getting Ready for Bed" Plot
The Puzzle Place / int_2c850a3d	comment	"Getting Ready for Bed" Plot: In the episode "Rip Van Wrinkle," Julie, Skye, Kiki and Leon have a sleepover, but none of them can sleep because they lack their usual bedtime comforts: Julie needs someone to bring her a glass of water and tell her "Good night, Sugarplum," Kiki needs a nightlight and music playing, Skye needs nature sounds, and Leon needs stuffed animals. But eventually they all help each other get what they need so they can finally fall asleep.
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The Puzzle Place / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Puzzle Place / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The kids all display this: Julie is a talented musician who practices in her spare time. She also does ballet. Jodi is a rising karate student. Leon cooks very well. Everyone is impressed by his homemade pizza. He also can play drums.
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The Puzzle Place / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
The Puzzle Place / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: Kiki.
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The Puzzle Place / int_2f3b0d6d	type	Big Storm Episode
The Puzzle Place / int_2f3b0d6d	comment	Big Storm Episode: In "All-Weather Friends," a thunderstorm passes over the Puzzle Place and the kids help Leon overcome his Fear of Thunder.
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The Puzzle Place / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
The Puzzle Place / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: The Piece Police.
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The Puzzle Place / int_389b0e	type	Title Theme Tune
The Puzzle Place / int_389b0e	comment	Title Theme Tune
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The Puzzle Place / int_3be1cf38	type	Gag Haircut
The Puzzle Place / int_3be1cf38	comment	Gag Haircut: The episode "Ben's Bad Hair Day" subjects Ben to this when his brothers' attempt to give him dreadlocks like Leon's goes horribly wrong. He tries to hide it from his friends with a Brown Bag Mask at first, but the bag flies off when he sneezes, revealing the mess.
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The Puzzle Place / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
The Puzzle Place / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: In one episode they want to act out a story, and they find a fairy tale in a book where the accompanying illustration shows the main characters with light skin and blonde hair. Kiki, Leon, Skye, and Julie collectively decided that since only Ben & Jody look like that, those two are the only options to play the main characters. This makes them sad until they all decide to go find tales and myths from cultures that match their ethnicity. But it never mentioned that the parts didn't have to go to Ben & Jody and that it would be fine for any of the kids to play the Prince and Princess in a fairy tale. The Aesop came across looking more like a repudiation of the Black Vikings trope - telling kids that they should only ever act as someone of their own race on stage, and that people of color can't play leads in fairy tales of European origin.
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The Puzzle Place / int_455cd13c	type	Only One Who Likes Spam
The Puzzle Place / int_455cd13c	comment	Only One Who Likes Spam: "Leon Pizza" shows that Jody is the only member of her friend group who likes anchovies.
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The Puzzle Place / int_45d22aad	type	Sweet and Sour Grapes
The Puzzle Place / int_45d22aad	comment	Sweet and Sour Grapes: Inverted here: In one episode about decision making, the Piece Police make different varieties of doughnuts for each of the kids, but they have to choose one at a time. Leon wants the cruller, but Jody has a hard time choosing which doughnut she wants, preventing everyone else from doing so. Through the process of elimination, she rejects the least desirable doughnuts until the cruller is left. Leon eventually tries to convince Jody that the cruller is "too plain" and trade with him, but that fails. After some thought, however, he realizes that the one he has probably won't be so bad, though all that is done away with when Sizzle and Nuzzle steal and eat it behind his back. When his friends realize he doesn't have a donut, they each donate a portion so he gets to have some cruller after all.
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The Puzzle Place / int_4b4274e3	type	Second Place Is for Winners
The Puzzle Place / int_4b4274e3	comment	Second Place Is for Winners: In one episode, Ben enters his pet pig in a livestock show and is very disappointed when he loses, but the other kids are amazed when they learn he singlehandedly raised the pig from birth, and make him a special award just for that.
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The Puzzle Place / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Puzzle Place / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: One early episode had Jody sporting straight hair instead of curls with no explanation whatsoever.
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The Puzzle Place / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
The Puzzle Place / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: Discussed in the episode "Big Boys Don't Cry" where the lesson was it's okay for boys to cry. Skye mentions his grandfather crying when he first held his newborn granddaughter not because he was sad but because he was so happy.
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The Puzzle Place / int_591a76c9	type	Broken Treasure
The Puzzle Place / int_591a76c9	comment	Broken Treasure: In the episode "I Love Kiki," Kiki accidentally breaks Julie's new toy horse and angsts about how to tell her. But in the end, the toy turns out not to be broken after all – it's a puzzle toy, made to come apart and be put back together.
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The Puzzle Place / int_5f798c84	type	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere
The Puzzle Place / int_5f798c84	comment	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: When Jody was avoiding all bread during the Passover, everyone wanted her to try the special Apache fry bread Skye's grandfather had made.
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The Puzzle Place / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Puzzle Place / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: "Ben's Bad Hair Day" is full of this, as a napping Ben repeatedly dreams that he has hair like one of his friends' instead of his own mangled locks.
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The Puzzle Place / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
The Puzzle Place / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: The episode "Big Boys Don't Cry" deconstructs this mindset.
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The Puzzle Place / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Puzzle Place / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Several episodes have the kids dealing with being teased or bullied at school, while in several others they tease or pick on each other but realize they were wrong and apologize in the end.
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The Puzzle Place / int_7833ecb3	type	Cat Up a Tree
The Puzzle Place / int_7833ecb3	comment	Cat Up a Tree: Cat and a dog rather; Nuzzle and Sizzle once get stuck up a literal tree, and the second time on a gear in the puzzle place. The first time, the kids rescue them using a ladder; the second time they use a wrench to move the gear closer to the ground.
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The Puzzle Place / int_792fef74	type	Cute, but Cacophonic
The Puzzle Place / int_792fef74	comment	Cute, but Cacophonic: Julie's obnoxious, off-key singing is a running gag throughout the series. She sings perfectly nicely in the show's big musical numbers, though; this trope only appears when she's trying to show off her voice. One hilarious moment is when she starts to serenade Skye's plant, with both Skye and the plant enjoying it until she hits the high notes.
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The Puzzle Place / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
The Puzzle Place / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: Season 3, which was produced after a year-long hiatus and consists of only ten episodes, and where the puppets are obviously different than in the first two seasons (Kiki, Skye and Leon's darker skin tones and Kiki's darker hair especially stand out), Skye, Nuzzle and Jody have different performers (in Jody's case for the second time), and the episodes end with And Knowing Is Half the Battle segments that the first two seasons didn't have.
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The Puzzle Place / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
The Puzzle Place / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: As is often the case with puppet characters (see also The Muppets and Sesame Street), and enhanced by the fact that the kids sometimes display Ping Pong Naïveté. A line in one episode about Julie not having finished the third grade yet obviously implies that they're about eight, though.
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The Puzzle Place / int_82bdf1f8	type	Fear of Thunder
The Puzzle Place / int_82bdf1f8	comment	Fear of Thunder: Leon has it.
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The Puzzle Place / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
The Puzzle Place / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The Puzzle Place itself is described in one of the pilots as being "in a special place all its own," as somehow the main characters can access it despite living in different parts of the country.
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The Puzzle Place / int_86c63f9	type	Female Feline, Male Mutt
The Puzzle Place / int_86c63f9	comment	Female Feline, Male Mutt: Sizzle and Nuzzle.
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The Puzzle Place / int_8a8b2a87	type	And Knowing Is Half the Battle
The Puzzle Place / int_8a8b2a87	comment	And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Season 3 adds a segment at the end of each episode where the characters address the viewers and sum up the aesop.
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The Puzzle Place / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Puzzle Place / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Leon is stumped when he makes pizza and everyone wants different toppings. There is only one portion of dough, after all. He decides to instead put one topping on each slice, so everyone gets what they want.
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The Puzzle Place / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
The Puzzle Place / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: Jody's father, sometimes.
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The Puzzle Place / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The Puzzle Place / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: In the early episode "Train Driving Kids," the boys don't want the girls to join them in playing with an electric train set and suggest they make sandwiches in the kitchen instead. By the end they learn a proper Aesop about gender equality, of course, with Ben even realizing he prefers making sandwiches to playing with the train. Notably averted through the rest of the series, where several episodes that involve cooking feature one of the boys as the chef (e.g. "Leon's Pizza", or "Going By the Book," where Ben bakes a carrot cake), and where Skye's grandfather is the Supreme Chef in his family.
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The Puzzle Place / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
The Puzzle Place / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: When Nuzzle and Sizzle gets stuck on the gear, the kids call an actor they know who plays a superhero on TV. He tells them that he doesn't have any powers and only plays a hero on television, but reassures them they can save the dog and cat.
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The Puzzle Place / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
The Puzzle Place / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: From "The Mystery of the Fabulous Hat":
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The Puzzle Place / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
The Puzzle Place / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: In-universe. In "Yellow Belt" the viewers as well as Julie and Kiki know Jodi's karate instructor Grand Master Li is a woman, but Ben, Leon, and Skye do not. So when they refuse to accept that Jodi is better at karate then Ben even after beating him more than once, they video call Grand Master Li, who was in the middle of helmeted-gear sparring match with a male partner, and mistakenly ask the partner if boys are better fighters than girls. The man answers by introducing Grand Master Li as she removes her helmet and her hair falls down.
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The Puzzle Place / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Puzzle Place / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Kiki loves cinnamon, even putting it in her chili as part of a chili cook-off. It won first prize. Jody seems to especially like fish: her favorite pizza topping is anchovies (defying their Stock "Yuck!" status) and her favorite picnic food is pickled herring. Each kid has their own particular favorite pizza topping: Jody likes anchovies, Leon likes green peppers, Julie likes pepperoni, Ben likes onions, Skye likes mushrooms, and Kiki likes extra cheese.
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The Puzzle Place / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Puzzle Place / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Leon.
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The Puzzle Place / int_ae43d443	type	Soap Within a Show
The Puzzle Place / int_ae43d443	comment	Soap Within a Show: One episode in which Kiki accidentally broke Julie's horse figurine spoofed Days of Our Lives as part of an Imagine Spot.
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The Puzzle Place / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: Zig-Zagged Trope. Not only were there six human characters (and seven after Kyle joined the cast), the whole point of the series was to show an interracial group of kids getting along as friends.
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The Puzzle Place / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: Kiki delivers one when the kids play a Mexican musician she doesn't like at her birthday party. They meant well, and she thanks them for the gesture, but just because she's Mexican doesn't mean she likes everything Mexican.
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The Puzzle Place / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
The Puzzle Place / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: In the episode "Butterfingers," all the kids tease Ben with the titular mocking nickname after he drops his baton in a relay race, but realize how hurtful they were being and apologize by the end. In the episode "Just Kidding," all the kids tease Skye with the nickname "Mr. Forgetful" after he forgets to bring the bat for a baseball game, and have to learn the same lesson over again. In all fairness, the latter episode explicitly references "Butterfingers," complete with a flashback. Three different episodes had anti-sexism, "girls can enjoy and succeed at the same things boys can" lessons: "Train Driving Kids," "Yellow Belt" and "Spooky!"
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The Puzzle Place / int_ceef363b	type	Shameful Shrinking
The Puzzle Place / int_ceef363b	comment	Shameful Shrinking: In an episode, Ben chews out at least two characters while he's trying to work out a puzzle. They visibly shrink as he yells at each one.
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The Puzzle Place / int_d16786a8	type	Anchovies Are Abhorrent
The Puzzle Place / int_d16786a8	comment	Anchovies Are Abhorrent: The episode "Leon's Pizza" reveals that anchovies are Jody's favorite pizza topping... but no one else agrees.
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The Puzzle Place / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Kiki always calls Ben "Benny." Also, Julie can't go to sleep unless someone tells her "Good night, Sugarplum" the way her mother does - at slumber parties, her friends have to say it.
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The Puzzle Place / int_de4d1d28	type	Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
The Puzzle Place / int_de4d1d28	comment	Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: After Julie tells the others the story of Yeh-Shen:
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The Puzzle Place / int_e064dc5a	type	Plot Allergy
The Puzzle Place / int_e064dc5a	comment	Plot Allergy: In the Sizzle and Nuzzle B-plot of "Leon Grows Up," Sizzle can't stop sneezing. Nuzzle assumes she's sick and tries to act like a doctor to cure her, but none of his methods work. But in the end, once he stops affecting the doctor role, he realizes she's allergic to the sweater she's wearing.
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The Puzzle Place / int_e3bd3475	type	Stock "Yuck!"
The Puzzle Place / int_e3bd3475	comment	Jody seems to especially like fish: her favorite pizza topping is anchovies (defying their Stock "Yuck!" status) and her favorite picnic food is pickled herring.
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The Puzzle Place / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
The Puzzle Place / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: The puppets all get obvious facelifts in Season 3, with each character looking a little different than in Seasons 1 and 2. Most obviously, Skye, Kiki and Leon's skin tones and Kiki's hair are all darkened.
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The Puzzle Place / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
The Puzzle Place / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: In "The Mystery of the Fabulous Hat," Leon contacts "The Chief" (Lynn Thigpen) from Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego.
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