Baby Chimps

Baby Chimps is the thirteenth episode of the second season of Legends of the Multiverse: Friendship is Universe and the thirty-ninth episode overall. Rapunzel babysits the newborn twins of King Fredric and Queen Arianna, but she finds that the task is much harder than she initially expected.

Production
This episode is listed as number twelve on Zap2it's episode guide.

The first part of Happy Monthiversary, Rapunzel telling jokes to the Cake twins, and the Piggy Dance reappear in Cakes for the Memories.

The newborn twins
The episode starts with Rapunzel, Sheriff Mulan, Nene Amano, Spectra Vondergeist, Kairi Sparkle, and Sally Acorn looking down on the newborn baby nursery of the Multiville Hospital. King Fredrick shows his new green monkey son, Sage, and his new yellow monkey daughter, Ginger. Rapunzel goes into the nursery to start celebrating, but is soon reprimanded by Nurse Joy several times to be quiet so she doesn't wake up the other babies (eventually to the point of being kicked out of the nursery). After Mulan asks how Sage is a green monkey and Ginger is a yellow monkey, King Frederic explains why he has two monkey children even when he and Queen Arianna are Earth animals by saying that distant relatives of theirs were Two Monkeys.

"My great-great-great-great-grandfather was a monkey, and Cup Cake's great-aunt's second cousin twice removed was a Primates. That makes sense, right?"

- King Frederic explaining why Sage and Ginger are a two monkey respectively.

One month later
A month later, Rapunzel brings the babies a one-month celebratory cake and song. After singing to the babies and popping out of their cake, she plays peek-a-boo with them. Shortly after that, Frederic changes their diapers, and Arianna brings them their bottles to feed them. After Frederic burps the babies, they both run off to play with Rapunzel again.

Finding a babysitter
After being reminded about food, Queen Arianna remembers a large catering order to complete. However, they need a babysitter. They ignore Rapunzel's requesting to babysit, and begin their search by asking Spectra. However, Spectra declines, saying she promised to go on a picnic with Kiko. They then ask Kairi, who also declines because she is busy summarizing her reports to send to Princess Palutena. Mulan declines because she is too busy saving her apples from a swarm of ravenous caterpillars. Sally declines because she has tickets to the Freedombolts air show. When King Frederic and Queen Arianna ask Nene, however, she simply refuses with no given reason to her decline. Finally, they oblige to let Rapunzel babysit their children.

Rapunzel babysits the twins
King Frederic and Queen Arianna leave Rapunzel a big list of what she needs to do. After they leave, Rapunzel is immediately left with two crying babies to deal with. She tries to cheer them up with some more peek-a-boo, and pulling a face. She then begins a pseudo-standup comedy show, and begins telling jokes. While this seems to calm them down to begin with, they start crying at Rapunzel's second joke. Rapunzel resorts to singing a quick song and dancing around her stage, but this has no effect as the babies begin crying during the song. Falling over, Rapunzel accidentally knocks a bag of flour off the top of the refrigerator, which empties on her. This manages to make the babies laugh.

At snack time, Rapunzel brings the babies their prepared meals, only for Ginger to start eating the tablecloth and for Sage to end up with food on his head. Rapunzel then tries to give the two babies a bath, and has trouble to get them into the tub. Once they are in the tub, she manages to keep them shortly entertained by blowing bubbles with the soap. This is short-lived, since they start crying again after she buries them in tub toys. After they get Rapunzel wet, she brings in another bag of flour but begs them not to make her use it. The Monkey twins continue crying, forcing Rapunzel to dump the flour over her wet body, turning it into dough.

"Babies take a lot of work, and some animals are just not cut out to handle the responsibility."

- Kairi Sparkle

Rapunzel then needs to change the babies' diapers after noticing the smell. After cornering and wrestling with the twins, she ends up with the two diapers on her instead. Kairi then arrives and offers help to Rapunzel, who is more than happy to accept. However, Kairi then says that she expected that Rapunzel would need help, and implies that Rapunzel is not cut out to handle the workload and responsibilities of babies. Feeling insulted, Rapunzel tersely thanks Kairi for dropping by, pushes her out the door, and shuts it in her face. Rapunzel huffs behind the door that Kairi would think that she can't handle the situation on her own, but then she admits that perhaps that's because she hasn't experienced this situation before. She resolves to do so, and on her own.

"She thinks I can't handle things on my own! Maybe because I haven't handled things on my own. Well, I can handle things on my own!"

- Rapunzel

Determined to prove that she is a responsible monkey, Rapunzel begins to be assertive and stops Sage jumping on his crib and Ginger from chewing on a toy. Setting Sage beside her brother in his crib, Rapunzel tells the babies that it's time for their naps and to go to sleep, and unexpectedly, they comply immediately and fall asleep. Tucking them in, raising the safety rail and tossing the toy into the closet, Rapunzel leaves the room, but when she turns around to close the door, she sees that they have disappeared.

She immediately starts to search for them, and quickly finds Sage chewing on the toy in the closet. She is shocked to find Sage walking on the ceiling using his wings. Rapunzel uses suction cup boots to get Sage down, but is then utterly flabbergasted to witness Sage using her magic to move a bunch of toys from her crib to chew on. When Rapunzel puts these away, using a chain and padlock on the toybox for good measure, she grabs on to Sage to stop him flying around, but she ends up getting dragged around down to the kitchen and storefront, knocking over all sorts of baked goods before being dragged back upstairs. Sage then figures out how to levitate herself. Now faced with two flying apes, Rapunzel traps them under a play pen and tapes it to the floor, only for Sage to make the side intangible to walk through, while Sage flies upward to break the tape. Ginger uses her telekinesis to break the padlock and promptly chews on a toy while Sage zooms around the room.

Frazzled, stressed out, and feeling completely overwhelmed, Rapunzel bursts into tears. The twins feel bad of what they did and manage to cheer Rapunzel up by telekinetically covering themselves in flour. After that, she manages to get the twins to fall asleep in Sage's crib.

The King Frederic and Queen Arianna's return
Rapunzel writes a letter to Princess Palutena, saying that being a caregiver means more responsibility than just being a playmate, and that sometimes our desire for responsibility can outrun our actual ability to handle it.

After cleaning everything up, King Frederic and Queen Arianna return home. Expecting the place to be a mess, they are astounded by the immaculate condition of their home, and praise Rapunzel for her unexpected level of responsibility. They ask her if she wants to be their permanent babysitter, but Rapunzel turns them down, saying that she "should be available a week from... never!" But once she hears the twins utter her name as they sleep, she has a change of heart and says she has some free time next Tuesday.

Quotes

 * Sheriff Mulan: Now how in thunderation is one of them twins a Monkeys, and the other one a primates?
 * King Frederic: Easy. My great-great-great-great-grandfather was a monkey, and Cup Cake's great-aunt's second cousin twice removed was a Primates. That makes sense, right?
 * Sally Acorn: Aw yeah, just you wait! Once little Sage gets his wings going, he'll be all over the place.
 * Kairi Sparkle: And be careful around Ginger.
 * Nene Amano: Baby monkeys get strange magic surges that come and go. [laughter]


 * Queen Arianna: Uh uh uh Sage, no pounding things.
 * King Frederic: Uh uh uh uh, we don't chew on things, Sage.


 * King Frederic: [groans] [unenthusiastically] Rapunzel, how would you like to babysit for us?
 * Rapunzel: [gasps] I dunno. I'll have to check my schedule.


 * King Frederic: Now, Rapunzel, are you sure you really understand the responsibility of watching over two babies?
 * Rapunzel: I can be responsible. Why, responsibility is my middle name. Rapu Rapunzel O'Hair.


 * Rapunzel: Hey, you're a wonderful crowd here tonight, where y'all from? Well that's great, I used to have an ant farm, but I had to get rid of it 'cause I couldn't find tractors that small!
 * [ba-dum tish]
 * Rapunzel: Get it? Tractors that small? [pause] The other day, I spilled spot remover on my dog, and now I can't find him!
 * [ba-dum tish]
 * [Sage and Ginger cry again]
 * Rapunzel: Oof. Tough crowd.
 * [Back at microphone]
 * Rapunzel: Tell me about it.


 * Rapunzel: There. See? Nothing to this baby-sitting business. [Collapses]


 * Kairi Sparkle: Hi! I finished up the work I had to do so I thought I'd stop by and see if you needed any help. Whoa!
 * Rapunzel: Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming! I can't begin to tell you what my day has been like, I mean, these babies just won't listen to reason, and don't even get me started on their taste in stand-up comedy.
 * [ba-dum tish]


 * Rapunzel: Sage. [growls] This is a crib. It is only to be used for napping, sleeping, and on occasion with permission, as a pretend old-timey Western fort. It is not a trampoline, so stop your jumping right now, mister!


 * Rapunzel: Mm, razzleberry.


 * Rapunzel: [giggle] You know? You're right. That is funny.


 * Sage: Rapunzel...
 * Ginger: Rapunzel...
 * Rapunzel: I have some free time next Tuesday.