- "He ate my cake!"
- —Tracy
The Dream Thief is an episode of the television series Hello Kitty and Friends. It comes after Alice in Wonderland, and comes before The Prince in His Dream Castle. Puffin makes his debut appearance here.
During this episode, Kitty and Mimmy White plot revenge when they get attacked by the Dream Thief.
Summary[]
When Kitty and Mimmy end their dreams with a black hole sucking them in, the race is on to find the perpetrator!
Plot[]
The Death Of An Artistic Dream[]
The episode begins near a backwoods cottage next to a pond. Mimmy, with her artist gear and wearing a blue beret over her left ear, decides to draw the scene, confident that her picture will be great, but a few seconds after she starts drawing, the drawing of the swan that she painted on the easel gets torn off. The camera cuts to the pond, where a black hole spawned, sucking in the scenery, and eventually, Mimmy (who screams as the vortex devours her) as well.
Did Mimmy Have A Nightmare?[]
The camera cuts to the White family's house, with Mimmy screaming in bed. Kitty wakes up as well, wondering what happened. Mimmy mentions when she and Kitty talked about what they wanted to be when they grow up. Mimmy then describes what happened in her dream: everything was perfect until her dream got "swept down a tunnel." Kitty assures her sister that everyone has nightmares once in a while.
A Dream Thief?[]
Mimmy is still salty about her dream's terrible end the next day at school, even though Kitty assures that the dream will come back happy again. Kitty then suggests that the dream could have been swept away due to a better one coming. Fifi then appears to announce that there is a rumor going around, but temporarily backs out due to gossip being rude. Apparently, someone has been stealing dreams. The other kids think that what she said is hogwash, but Fifi is adamant that a dream thief is lurking around, and eats the dreams that he steals. As the other kids do not believe her, Fifi decides to tell no more, until Mimmy asks for more information. Fifi reveals that she does not know, but the creature apparently enters the dreams and devours everything in sight.
On their way home from school, the twins think about how a "dream thief" could go on a dream-stealing rampage. Kitty then formulates a plan: if she has a really good dream, the thief could be caught during his rampage. Kitty attempts to fall asleep, only for the environment to keep her awake.
The twins talk with their father George for advice. George mentions a book in his collection about "Tappy the nightmare eater," showing a Tapirus Indicus. Kitty comments on how cute "Tappy" looks, but Mimmy protests that this dream thief ate good dreams.
Concert Nightmare[]
Kitty has her own dream about being a master pianist. As she walks up to the stage, she starts playing Ludwig Van Beethoven's Für Elise on the piano, only for the music notes to get torn off in front of her. A black hole spawns above the audience, sucking them in. Kitty herself follows, screaming as she falls into the gravitational abyss that swallowed the concert hall patrons.
Kitty wakes up in the physical world screaming. When Mimmy wonders what happened, having been shaken awake by the scream, Kitty believes that she just saw the dream thief, most likely just before her dream self was devoured by the black hole. Kitty describes the creature as a small, dark being with a wide mouth. Mimmy predicts that the creature could still be in the twins' room.
The Dream Thief Makes His Entrance[]
The twins hear a snoring noise coming from the far side of their room, and as the camera pans over, a black mass can be seen on a heart-shaped cushion on a chair. As Kitty closes in on the strange black mass, two eyes appear and a voice says, "Only five more dreams to go..." As the eyes open, the mass reveals itself to actually be a piscine creature. The being screams and flees into the fireplace as Mimmy turns on the light. Kitty and Mimmy demand that the creature leaves his hiding place, as they know that he is the "dream thief." The creature gives his name as "Puffin," and the girls wonder if Tappy the Nightmare Eater is related to him. The creature reveals that his family took over and that Tappy retired. When Kitty asks why "Puffin" is stealing dreams, he reveals that he really eats them, but Kitty likens the two. The creature explains that he needs to eat 100 dreams in order to grow up, and because he let slip that he should not eat any good dreams, Kitty surmises that "Puffin" is cheating. She asks if he could give back the dreams that he took lately, but the creature refuses as doing so would not count towards his final score. The twins, outraged, attempt to catch him again, but "Puffin" escapes.
Kitty calls another kid to warn him that the Dream Thief is on the loose, but the kid, Thomas who thought the tale to be hogwash, hangs up his phone. He enters his room, frustrated that his dream had been interrupted, but his window is open, causing him to think that the wind opened it. He closes it and goes back to his sleep, but unbeknownst to Thomas, Puffin is there with him...
Dream Thief Rampage[]
The next day, the twins enter their classroom to find that their classmates are depressed. When Kitty asks what happened, Thomas explains that he got back to bed to finish his dream. Footage of him as a superhero then plays, only for a black hole to swallow him up as the Dream Thief strikes. Jody reveals his dream to be him as a scientist who had just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for a discovery. Footage where the puppy gets his prize plays, giving into a black hole swallowing everyone. Tracy then tells his tale: he was a baker who had just made a cake, only for a black hole to gobble it up first as the Dream Thief attacked. Fifi then reveals her tale: she was a police officer. Footage plays showing her in a police suit, driving a police car, only for a black hole to gobble them up. The kids proceed to band together to get their revenge on the Dream Thief.
Time To Take The Dream Thief Down![]
Having made a plan to get their revenge on the dream-stealing creature, the kids wait for school to be over before making their strike, working twice as hard to set the perfect dream in motion. Just as they had planned, Puffin stumbles into their trap. Due to his speed, the creature dodges their attacks. However, he ends up in pain, getting caught. While the other kids believe he deserves to have a stomach ache for all the dreams he stole, Kitty is shows sympathy for the aberration. The twins offer to care for him. At that moment, Puffin's mother arrives, outraged that Puffin went out of his way to eat good dreams. She goes on to explain that he needs discipline and should only eat the nightmares that plague kids so they could have happy dreams. Puffin wonders how, since the dreams got swallowed, and his mother proceeds to give him the Heimlich, causing Puffin to spit them out. Puffin gives the dreams back, apologising for the trouble and promising that it will not happen again. Puffin and his mother leave through the portal that she used to enter the area.
Topsy-Turvy Dream Hodge-Podge Of Terror[]
Thomas touches the bubble that Puffin spat out, and a hodge-podge of dreams plays out, merged into one. First, Kitty is shown doing her concert, but Jody interrupts her performance to give his speech, and Kitty claims that she is the dream's owner, which Jody denies. Thomas flies through the scene, causing turmoil with his flying. Later, Mimmy is seen painting, but the cake that Tracy made is blocking her view. She tells him to move it, but Tracy responds by telling her that she cannot draw well. Fifi drives through as she demands that Tracy moves his cake to avoid blocking the road. Fifi loses control when she crashes through the cake, causing her to plunge into a nearby river. She and the other kids are later seen on a cliff with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. With the dinosaur closing in, the kids fall, and the dream stops after they hit the ground. As the kids wake up from their frantic nightmare of a dream hodge-podge, Kitty realizes that it was a dream, and Mimmy realises that she forgot all about that Tyrannosaurus. Tracy complains about his cake being eaten, capping off the episode.
Characters[]
Trivia[]
- The scene where Kitty and Mimmy meet their demise in their dreams when Puffin strikes is similar to what happens in the Super Mario Galaxy games if Mario blunders into a Black Hole.
- Mimmy did not have the Tyrannosaurus Rex picture in her book, but when the dreams combine into a hodge-podge, Mimmy claims that she forgot about the Tyrannosaurus Rex. It is possible that she saw the picture after school.
- The scenes where Fifi is a police officer are two of the few times her outfit could possibly involve trousers.