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| ==Summary== | | ==Summary== |
| An Italian circus flea tells Kate, Pal and Amigo about his globetrotting journey. | | An Italian circus flea tells the gang his experiences from around the world. |
| ==Plot== | | ==Plot== |
| Pal has a terrible itch and is afraid he might be given a bath. Kate and Amigo discover a flea in Pal’s fur. Amigo wants to squish it, but the flea begs for mercy and begins to tell the story of its life.
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| The flea’s name is Pepe. He and his brother Sale worked in a flea circus on the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. One day, a gust of wind blows him off the stage. He is rescued by a rat named Alessio who rescues him from being stepped on and takes him to a closed open air market where they have dinner.
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| The next morning, Pepe finds himself on a ship bound for Africa, because Alessio has decided he has had enough of humans with traps and poisons.
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| In Alexandria, Egypt, Pepe talks to some flies who offer him a ride on their camel. The camel takes him to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
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| Pepe decides to stay there with one of the flies. When he settles on a hippopotamus, the birds want to eat him as a parasite, but when he shows some of his circus tricks, they let him stay. Then the hippopotamus dives and Pepe is without a home again.
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| Pepe hears safari tourists speak Italian and hides in their luggage. Instead of Italy he ends up in Japan. There he makes friends with a cricket who makes beautiful music. When a Japanese girl captures the cricket in a jar, Pepe is caught as well. He tries to cheer up the cricket by singing. When that does not work, he jumps through an air hole and opens the jar cover.
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| Pepe lives a few months on the family's dog. Then he lands in a bottle of rice vinegar and ends up in the Read house as a gift from David Read’s Japanese pen pal (see “Dear Adil”). Pepe falls out of the bottle onto Pal.
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| Kate, Pal and Amigo suggest mailing Pepe to Italy in a letter. Pepe instead rides away on a squirrel. Mrs. Read notices that Pal isn’t scratching anymore, but decides to give him a bath anyway.
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| Some time later the Reads receive an ad in the mail announcing “Dottore Pulce's Amazing Flea Circus” with the reunited brothers Pepe and Sale.
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| ==Characters== | | ==Characters== |
| | ===Main=== |
| *[[Kate Read]] | | *[[Kate Read]] |
| *[[Pal]] | | *[[Pal]] |
| *[[Amigo]] | | *[[Amigo]] |
| *[[Pepe]] | | *[[Pepe]] |
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| | ===Minor=== |
| *[[Jane Read]] | | *[[Jane Read]] |
| *[[Arthur Read]] | | *[[Arthur Read]] |
| *[[David Read]]
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| *[[Alessio]]
| | ===Cameo=== |
| *[[Tatsuya Matsumoto]]
| | *[[Unknown Male Adult Rabbit (Number 4)]] |
| *[[Unknown Male Adult Rabbit (Number 4)]](cameo) | | *[[Rae's mother]] |
| *[[Rae's mother]](cameo) | |
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| * This episode aired on Christmas Day.
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| * Adult fleas can only digest blood and their digestive tract is in their abdomen, not their thorax.
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| * "Dottore Pulce" is Italian for "Doctor Flea".
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| *'''Moral:''' You should listen to the person's whole story before you judge her/him telling it.
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| ===Cultural references=== | | ===Cultural references=== |
| *The title is similar to the album titled "{{W|Free to Be You and Me}}". | | *The title is similar to the album titled "{{W|Free to Be You and Me}}". |
| *While trapped in the jar, Pepe sings part of the famous aria "Largo al factotum" from Gioachino Rossini's opera "{{W|The Barber of Seville}}".
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| ==Gallery== | | ==Gallery== |
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| | ===Screenshots=== |
| <gallery> | | <gallery> |
| Flea to meet you.png | | Flea to meet you.png |
| </gallery> | | </gallery>}} |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| {{Reflist}} | | {{Reflist}}{{EpisodeNav|8}} |
| {{EpisodeNav|8}} | | [[Category:Episodes]] |
| [[Category:Season 8 episodes]] | | [[Category:Season 8 episodes]] |
| [[Category:Episode pages without home video]] | | [[Category:Episode pages needing plot]] |
| [[Category:A to Z]] | | [[Category:Pages needing Character Sections]] |
| [[Category:Arthur episodes]] | | [[Category:Pages needing attention]] |
| [[Category:2003]]
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