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Tex Lugie and Sloppy Sue are a collective pair of antagonists who appears in only two episodes of the Pucca TV series.

Personality[]

They are loud, obnoxious, greedy, materialistic, ignorant of other cultures asides from their own, and are inconsiderate to the safety of the environment, or even the consequences of their actions for that matter. The two are also gluttonous and they love to eat large portions of food (preferably Western food, particularly from the State of Texas), especially when smothered with barbeque sauce. Sloppy Sue is also a materialistic shopaholic with a penchant of branding things she wants to buy with a branding iron.

This wealthy Texan couple also use large quantities of oil, as evidenced in the Giganto SUV's and their giant oil tanker from the later episode Monster Truck Island.

Background[]

They first appear in the episode Sooga Size Me, arriving in their RV, which pollutes everything it passes through. They eventually end up at the Goh-Rong Restaurant and asked for the house special. Because the house special (by their standards) wasn't big enough or smothered with barbeque sauce (see Personality above), this inspires the couple to open their own restaurant, McLugie's.

When they opened the restaurant in the next scene, they claim that the food is "authentic". The panoramic view of the restaurant's interior shows how the two claim they can do "authentic", but what they do is far from it and are actually serving Western foods like steak, hamburgers and French fries, etc. It is seen that the food is cooked in crude oil. The food is also served in unnecessarily large and unhealthy portions, that eventually fattened up everyone in the village, except for Pucca and her uncles, who never ate any of it.

Pucca goes to fight the couple and the two used their RV, which can transform into a humanoid robot that is armed with a cannon that shoots barbeque sauce. However, the two (along with their robot) have a weakness as shown when they introduced their restaurant to the Goh-Rong's chefs earlier on in the episode; if they are made to listen to square dancing country music, they get struck with the urge to dance to it. Pucca used that to her advantage, playing square dancing music with a violin to lead the duo off of a cliff.

They reappear in the Season 2 episode Monster Truck Island, arriving in an oil supertanker that spills a lot of oil in the water. This time, their scheme involved selling Giganto SUV's to the people of Sooga Village, also setting up oil drilling rigs for providing fuel for the oversized vehicles. They used the "new car smell" to seduce almost everyone in Sooga Village to purchase Gigantos, except for Pucca, Ching, and Santa. This results in traffic jams and environmental damage from the smog. Of course, Pucca went to stop them, with the two using a Giganto that is able to transform into a robot. When using their weakness of square dancing music didn't work (due to the tape recorder used to playing it running out of batteries), Pucca tripped the robot in order to defeat it, forcing Lugie and Sue into retreat once again.

They have not been seen in any other episode since.

Trivia[]

  • As a running gag, the couple flaunt their wealth by literally throwing their money in people's faces.
  • The use of petroleum oil in the two episodes that they have appeared in suggests that they run a large oil company, referencing the "Texan oil tycoon" stereotype.
  • Their greed, arrogance, gluttony, ignorance about other cultures, obnoxiousness, and lack of regard for the environment are common negative stereotypes of U.S. citizens.
    • In fact, everything about them is a scathing distillation of how South Koreans viewed Americans at the time that Lugie and Sue's episodes first aired.
  • The transforming robots that they have used are references to the popular Transformers media franchise.
  • Sloppy Sue's name is a pun on the Sloppy Joe, a "loose meat" hamburger from the United States.
  • The name McLugie's is a parody of McDonald's.

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