This
episode was 7 minutes long and featured Zack,
not Skip.
At the beginning of the episode, Zack is trying on
disguises from Mr. Bloodhound's closet. Ricardo teases him about the wig he's
wearing, then answers a phone call. After hanging up, he tells the others,
sounding a bit baffled, that it was about "an educated pig".
The
Bloodhound Gang goes to a home where a woman called Miss Grungy is trying to
sell a pig named Rosie, who's wearing a collar and a crown, to a man. He, "Soapy
Suds", is obviously bent on having a "big comeback" in show business, which he
thinks an educated pig will help him have. He is also easily talked into
spending large amounts of money-- which his pre-teen daughter, who had called
the Gang, has to lend him (Soapy: "We'll offer her half.. $3,000." Girl: "That's
half?? I'll go 200 bucks, take it or leave it.").
Vicky notices that,
while Miss Grungy is giving her spiel about how clever Rosie is, what she says
is a hearing aid falls out of her ear, and she puts it back.. in her other ear!
Then Miss Grungy says she's got to fix a flat tire on her truck, and tells
everyone to ask the pig any questions they want. While she's gone Vicky tells
Zack to shadow her-- and take off that black wig! Soapy starts asking Rosie
questions, and she squeals at the correct answers.
Meanwhile, Zack (now
wearing a curly grey wig) sneaks past Miss Grungy, who's sitting in her truck,
to a payphone, where he calls the Gang inside. He tells Vicky that Miss Grungy's
not fixing a flat, she's flipping intently through books. Vicky asks the pig a
question about owls: whether their wings make no sound in flight, or a flapping
sound; the pig squeals at "a flapping sound". She then tells Ricardo to whistle
near the pig's collar; when he does, Zack reports that Miss Grungy "looks like
she got a sudden earache". Then he says she's heading back inside, so Vicky
tells him to call the cops.
Then she explains to Soupy that owls' wings
are specially designed so as not to make a sound in flight. She's in the middle
of calling a pet shop to ask about animal collars when Miss Grungy barges in,
saying she could hear the whistle outside and threatening to sue for damage to
Rosie's ears. Soupy says he (or rather, his daughter) will only pay $200 for the
pig, and Miss Grungy agrees when he says he'll pay cash. However, she won't give
him the crown or the collar.
Soupy tells his daughter to go get the
money, but just then Vicky gets off the phone and says, "Hold on! It's a
swindle!" and tells them, "Miss Grungy was cueing the pig to squeal at the
answers!" Miss Grungy, defiant, asks who "this impertinent child" is, and is
answered, "Bloodhound Detective Agency!" Soupy takes off his hat in
salute.
Vicky then explains that Rosie was bugged-- a microphone in her
crown picked up their questions, and a transmitter broadcast them to Miss Grungy
in her truck. All she had to do was listen in with her "hearing aid". Miss
Grungy says, "Oh, fiddle faddle!" and accuses them of framing her. But Vicky
points out that her hearing aid was originally in in her left ear-- she forgot
herself. "I figured you might not really be hard of hearing, just pretending.
That isn't a hearing aid! It's a device for listening to our questions from the
truck!"
When Soupy reminds them that Rosie did answer the questions,
Vicky says Rosie's wearing a dog's training collar, which gives very small
shocks-- by remote control. "That collar's loaded with electronics!"
Miss
Grungy says, "I don't have to stand for this bad-mouthin'!" Then, picking up
Rosie, she declares, "I'm leavin'!" Just in time, Zack runs in, leading a
policeman who says, "Sally! Didn't know you were back in town!" Miss Grungy
insists, "I'm clean, Henderson!" Henderson, seeing Rosie, says reproachfully,
"Sally... You're not peddling 'educated pigs' again, are you?" When Miss Grungy
doesn't have a reply, Henderson tells her to come along & bring the pig as
evidence. Miss Grungy can only say, "Oh, dagnabbit!"
As Miss Grungy is
led away, Zack runs up to the others: "Bloodhound does it again,
huh?!"
