Bully for Jody

"Bully for Jody" is Episode 24 in Season 1. It originally aired on February 16, 1995.

Plot
Sizzle is in a panic. Nuzzle tells her to calm down, but promises to protect her. However, despite his protests, she faints.

In the kitchen, Skye introduces Kiki to a dish he'd been telling her about: acorn stew. She smells it and gets disgusted. Julie and Leon had tried and liked it, so Skye decides to tell Kiki how it's made, then for her to taste it, and then decide if she likes it. She says she already knows she doesn't like it, but Skye tells her to just listen.

According to a video, Skye's Aunt Vengie uses a long-time recipe for acorn stew. She carefully cuts meat into small chunks with a sharp knife and puts it into a pot of water, and then it boils into a broth. She then transfers it into a cutting board and shreds it into bits. Then she puts it and the broth into a bigger pot. Then Skye tells Kiki to pay attention to the next and important part: acorn powder. They find acorns under special oak trees once a year, and then grind them up into a powder that tastes a little nutty. Then it is added to the stew to thicken it. Then Aunt Vengie dishes out a serving.

Skye then tells Kiki to taste a little of the acorn stew, and promises that if she doesn't like it, he will leave her alone. It takes courage for her to taste it. When she does so, she says she doesn't like it...rather, she loves it, much to their celebration, and finishes it.

Meanwhile, a hungry Jody looks for food. She even considers a piece of bad lemon candy (left from Kiki's last birthday) from the sofa, but Leon stops her. Julie finds it strange that Jody is hungry because she's been so every day this week. He jokingly suggests she eat his shoe, but Julie tells her not to and that Skye is making something delicious in the kitchen, much to her relief. Julie asks Leon how he expects Jody to eat his shoe. He suggests with ketchup, much to her offense.

Jody goes to the kitchen, and says she'll just take a little taste of the acorn stew, but then hastily eats it from the serving bowl. Kiki suggests that Skye bring a huge container of it next time. Skye figures a bathtub will do. Jody is relieved, but Kiki and Skye ask her whether or not she ate lunch today. She didn't. It was because a bully at school steals it. She walks out of the kitchen, and they pursue her. They then question her in front of Leon and Julie. She mentions that he doesn't really steal it. He instead makes her give it to him and eats it. Julie is dismayed.

Back in the basement, Nuzzle suggests Sizzle be a dog because cats fear dogs. Unfortunately, she can't bark right.

Meanwhile, Jody talks about her bully problem, especially with him eating her lunch in front of her. She fears telling the teacher because he says if she does, she'll be really sorry. Kiki says that being bigger doesn't give him the right to boss her around. She worries because he said he'd eat her lunch tomorrow too. Julie assumes he may forget, but decides she doesn't really think so. Leon tries to come up with an idea. Then he suggests two lunches, but Jody says the bully would probably take both. Then Ben comes on the scene. He expects the situation to be a joke...but Julie tells him she's heard of this sort of thing at her school. Then the bully calls via Weebus. He greets Jody while calling her a little pipsqueak. He demands a bologna sandwich. Ben suggests taking a really big lunch tomorrow, much to Skye's dismay, but Leon points out how big the bully is. He figures the following solution: be bigger. How so? With stilts. Then a video of people dancing on some for a special occasion plays. Then Jody tries them out, but despite this making her look bigger, she is afraid that even if she stopped the bully from eating her lunch, she wouldn't get to eat it because how would she get down? Leon tries another idea: a pogo stick. He notes that she won't be tall all the time, but at least half the time. It doesn't work either. They try to help, but she assures them it's not their problem. Julie disagrees because she is their friend, and that she'd do them the same favor. They comfort her ("Friends"). The bully calls again demanding her to bring a bologna sandwich on toasted wheat bread and some potato chips. Ben asks if he wants Dijon mustard on it too.

Later, real-life kids, upon asking, suggest talking to a grownup, so the kids call Sinbad. He suggests various alternatives. Upon the idea of telling a grownup, Julie questions the idea as if it's being a tattletale. Sinbad says that if the bully is taking Jody's lunch, telling is not tattling, it's taking care of oneself. After various ideas, Jody decides to stand up for herself. The bully calls again, and then she is ready to do so. She tells him he's not being tough by picking on her, as she is much smaller than him. She refuses to give him her lunch. She alternates by saying that if he wants to be friends with her, she might share it with him, but that if he tries to take it, he won't get it. He says she'll have to do better than that, for when they're going out to the playground, it'll be them alone. So she plans a surprise. The others are proud of her.

Back in the basement, Sizzle reveals that she stood up to her bully by roaring, which hurt her throat.

Guest Stars

 * Ben Ryan Ganger as the Bully
 * Sinbad as Himself

Trivia

 * This is the second time Sizzle is picked on by another cat, the first being in "Rudy One".
 * It is unknown what kind of meat Aunt Vengie was using in her acorn stew.
 * There is also a chance that Jody may or may not strictly keep Kosher, as it's unknown if the meat is pork.