Parasitic Pal

Parasitic Pal is the first part of the first episode of Camp Lazlo.

Plot

Lazlo goes swimming in Leaky Lake, and a bloodsucking sea lamprey attaches itself onto Lazlo's head. Unaware of this, Lazlo thinks it is a special day at Camp Kidney because everyone is grossed out. Raj tells Lazlo about the lamprey and Lazlo goes to Nurse Leslie to receive help. Nurse Leslie's charts indicate that the sea lamprey is sucking Lazlo's blood; however Nurse Leslie tells Lazlo he is fine. After that, Lazlo names it Lamar. At this point, a song named "My Buddy Wuddy" is heard. Lazlo extolls his affection for his new "little buddy" for Buddy Day (a special day at Camp Kidney), by playing games, such as ping-pong. Edward wants Lamar off Lazlo's head, so he tells Chip and Skip to jump out of a bush and pull Lamar off. They pull hard but Lamar remains on his head. Then, Lamar sucks all the blood from him, causing him to be tired and drowsy. Because of this, Lazlo is forced to throw him back into the water, but he discovers that those are Lamar's babies and that he was a female all along. Lamar's name is changed to Lauren, Clam is seen "feeding" his blood to the baby sea lampreys and everyone else (except the Jelly Beans) ends up in Nurse Leslie's office. When Nurse Leslie sees how many patients there are, he turns the lights off and rolls off in his chair.

Quotes

• Lazlo: [after figuring out Lamar's gender] "Lamar wasn't a Lamar, she was a Lauren!"

Trivia

• The song played about Lamar in this episode is written by staff writer Martin Olson. The song's rhythm is close to the song "Polly Wolly Doodle All Day", except with different lyrics to match Lamar's description.
• In the Buddy Day Egg Toss event, if you look closely on Ping Pong's neckerchief, instead of the abbreviation of "BS" for Bean Scout, it says "AS"!
• When Lazlo falls to the water with Lamar, when he is searching for Lamar, he has no bathing suit. Until the life guards get him out of the lake, he has his bathing suit back.
• When Lazlo comes out of the Mess Hall on the wagon, when everybody is running away, Clam looks bigger. Also, on the next scene, when the swimming race was about to begin, Clam is one of the contestants.
• When Lazlo crashes through the lunch hall, you can see a couple of Squirrel scouts eating.
• When the leech first attaches to Lazlo, it is on the left side of his face. Later on, when Lazlo is on the teeter totter with Raj, it has switched to the right.
• When everyone was running out of the mess hall, there were three Harolds (The walrus). Also, Edward was running out to, even though he was a contestant.
• When it showed the scene of the swimming race, Harold was a bystander, then he was running with the crowd again.

My Buddy Wuddy

Music and Lyrics by Martin Olson
Sung by Tom Kenny

Lyrics

Verse 1
Everyone loves my little buddy-wuddy
He's my cuddly pal
Hobbily-hoob and a zingily-zee
He's sucking on my head
He's so cute
So slimy and so squeaky
Hoobily-hoob and a zingily-zee
Who cares if he smells kooky?
Verse 2
Friend's like to see my little buddy-wuddy
Hangin' oh so mellow
Hobbily-hoob and a zingily-zee
Like a heap of jiggly jello
He's so cute
He should have a show on cable
I have a hunch when we munch on lunch
Everyone will sit at our table
Verse 3
He's my little buddy-wuddy
He's my cuddly pal
Hoobily-hoob and a zingily-zee
He's sucking on my head
He's so cute
He's slimy and so yucky
Hoobily-hoob and a zingily-zee
(slows down)He's my buddy-wuddy!

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