Cart Wash

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“Cart Wash”
The Emperor's New School episode
Kuzco and Pacha
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 5a
Written by	Nina Bargiel & Jeremy Bargiel
Directed by	David Knott
Original airdate	17 February 2006
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Cart Wash is aired in a double-bill with Battle of the Bots.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Mr. Moleguaco assigns the students to a charity cart wash, a concept which Kuzco needs explaining. The goal is to raise 100 Kuzcoins (through genuine work, not by visiting an ATM). Yzma is convinced that Kuzco will fail, which seems likely given that Malina has to identify a sponge to the Emperor-to-be. While Malina and her bikini-clad friends are a roaring success, Kuzco is beaten up for abusing a customer.

Kuzco finds a bag containing 95 Kuzcoins, which he decides to pass off as his own earnings, before finding that Malina and her friends have lost the exact same amount. Kuzco realises during an audience address that keeping the coins will end up costing him. However, rather than doing the right thing, he has the royal chartmaker fired for the visual aids that gave him this epiphany.

Pacha brings his own cart to be washed, but before Kuzco can get to work on it, Yzma has Kronk slip him a potion to turn him into an elephant. Rather than hampering his efforts, Kuzco realises that this can work in his favour, as his trunk can squirt a powerful water jet. Kuzco offers his earnings to Malina, only to find that the money he found wasn't theirs, and they have made their total. Although Kuzco keeps the money he found and ends up passing, it turns out that the money belonged to Yzma, for her chin wax...

Spoilers end here.

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UK Premiere: 26 March 2006
The unit of currency is the Kuzcoin.
Kronk's advisors make a second appearance, only this time they give Kuzco the benefit of their wisdom, over the issue of keeping a discarded bag of Kuzcoins.
Kuzco's favourite soda is lemon lime.
Kuzco gets turned into: An elephant.
"Pull the lever" gag: None.
"Kuzco's doodles": Kuzco describes angering a customer, who returns with his siblings, only for Kuzco to get into a big scrap with them.
End credits (following "Battle of the Bots"): The royal chartmaker has been rehired and is hard at work making promotional material for Kuzco. Kuzco decides in voiceover that he doesn't need promoting, and has the chartmaker fired again.
Chimp and the bug gag: none