| “ | Sarah: Now it's time for my exclusive interview with the crooks!!!
Piggy: We're not crooks! We're megalomaniacs! I am Piggy, leader of the FLEAS! |
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| ~ Piggy explaining the Fleas to Sarah in an interview. |
The Fuzzy Little Evil Animal Squad, abbreviated as the F.L.E.A.S., the FLEAS or the Fleas are the main antagonists of the Dog Man franchise.
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In the fifth book, Piggy, Crunky, and Bub have built the Robo-Brontosaurus and are planning to use it to take over the world and get revenge on Petey for what happened when they were in their youths.
Petey the Cat escapes prison and is on the run. He locates his son, Lil Petey, and tells him that they have to get out of town, and quickly. The F.L.E.A.S. are looking for Petey, and Piggy pretends to be a psychiatrist for him shortly after Piggy reveals his true identity by taking off his fake psychiatrist disguise at the jail. Chief calls Dog Man and tells him to meet up with them at the jail. Chief and Milly show up a few minutes after and wonder where Dog Man is. Meanwhile, Chief and Milly fight the F.L.E.A.S. anyway, in which case they render the F.L.E.A.S. immobile for the time being. Not too long after, Dog Man finally showed up and ran toward Chief, jumping on him and licking him once he ran after him. While Dog Man is jumping on Chief, the F.L.E.A.S. take advantage of this distraction and make their getaway. Sarah, Zuzu, Milly, and Chief notice and start going after them, and in doing so, end up getting captured by the F.L.E.A.S. Dog Man ends up captured, too, along with the others.
Later in the book, Lil Petey asks Petey for helping in saving Chief, Sarah, Milly, and Zuzu, to which Petey agrees, with the stipulation that Lil Petey has to stop calling him Papa. After Dog Man and 80-HD got to the scene and saved their friends, Petey leaving them to fight them.
While Petey and Piggy where are arguing, Lil Petey, Crunky, and Bub were catching fireflies. Piggy ends up finding them goofing off, and tells them not to associate with the enemy, whilst mentioning to Crunky and Bub that he is their boss. Lil Petey responds to this by holding a vote of who think Lil Petey should be the boss of Piggy. Crunky and Bub raise their hand, showing they think Lil Petey should be Piggy's boss.
Later, Dog Man gets chased into a growth factory by the Brontosaurus, Lil Petey and 80-Hd spray paint the Robo-Brontosaurus brown to make it look like a squirrel, Dog Man plays with it thinking it's a chew toy and destroys the Brontosaurus, thus saving the day.
After shrinking Dog Man back to his old size, they have shrunken the F.L.E.A.S. to the sizes of real fleas leaving them on Dog Man’s fur!
In book 6, they shrink Petey’s robot to the size of Dog Man and using it to frame Dog Man! Later they steal Living Spray from the That Living Spray Factory Outlet Over There and use it to bring Claymation Philly to life! After escaping from the Claymation Philly attack, But this time on Petey’s fur!
In book 7, After Petey was finally free, Big Jim gave him a hug which causes the F.L.E.A.S. to be on Big Jim's fur. After Crunky and Bub got rid of Piggy who landed on a moth called “Daryl”, Bub and Chunky hypnotized Big Jim into a cupcake theme superhero called “Commander Cupcake” Meanwhile, Piggy decided to use Daryl to help him steal the Hope Diamond Mood Ring (which Daryl thinks they are protecting it).
But after Daryl see Petey’s Ratterfly (which he thinks is Uncle Larry) cause Piggy fell into Big Jim’s hand and sending him and the other two to jail. During the time in jail, Crunky and Bub had become workers at the kitchen, and started to like their new environment. However, Piggy never enjoyed it.
In Book 11, Piggy gets mad at Daryl as he didn't bring Piggy a can of Cannery Grow. Then, Daryl puts Piggy inside of a Friendly Friends T-Shirt, just like Crunky and Bub had done earlier. Then, a dog named Mr. Stinkles had picked up Mini Jail and destroyed it by dropping it for a treat his owner would give him.
Then, Crunky and Bub go away to study Piggy's escape plans as Piggy jumps onto Daryl and flies away, leaving Crunky and Bub by themselves. Then, two prisoners from Mini Jail, Ducky the Beetle and Mike the Fly, see Crunky and Bub crying. To cheer them up, they allow them to go onto their backs so they can fly to Piggy and Daryl. When they arrive to Daryl and Piggy, Crunky and Bub create the first verse of the Friendly Friends song:
| “ | Friendly Friends, Friendly Friends! Flying through the sky! Oh what fun it is to ride on a beetle, moth, and fly-y! Friendly Friends, Friendly Friends, armed with friendly hugs! Oh what fun it is to ride on the backs of friendly bugs!! Flying through the sky! On a beetle, moth, and fly! O'er the hills so high, laughing till we cry! (HA HA WAA!) Soaring through the air, swooping here and there, what fun it is to share and care, without our underwear!!! | „ |
After the song ends, they come approach Dog Man, who was sleeping with Chief and Nurse Lady. Piggy tells the others to not make any loud noises, yet Crunky yells what in response. This causes Dog Man to wake up and chase the F.L.E.A.S up to a restaurant called The Beach, where they hide in a flap under the 'c' on the roof.
There, they meet Uncle Larry, who had created a giant lab there. Then, Piggy notices a giant submarine that can change its size. Piggy goes inside; however, the others follow him inside. Then, Uncle Larry changes its size to get out of the flap and makes it huge again. During those size changes, everyone else in the sub would change in size too, so Piggy, Crunky, and Bub have finally changed back to normal size after many, many books!
Then, Sarah alerts the media, which creates news everywhere that the F.L.E.A.S have escaped. This scares everyone in the world, which makes Piggy happy. Then, Piggy tells them that if they make them mad, then anger and fear mixed together would make them happy! So, they throw pies everywhere from the sky, making everyone mad, creating chaos! Then, Sarah, Dog Man, 80-HD, Li’l Petey, Petey, and a tadpole named Molly fly up to the submarine. Then, Piggy uses this chance to shrink the submarine to microscopic size as he escapes. Then, Piggy slaps the submarine and scratches his nose, causing the submarine to crash on Piggy's nose next to a sweat gland. Then, they start falling, however 80-HD uses his retractable arms to hang onto some of Piggy's hairs, holding the ship in the process.
Then, Dog Man, Li’l Petey, and Molly go into the sweat to fetch the fallen propeller. However, this wakes up a demodex mite named Junior, who eats everyone except for Bub and Mike, who throw pies at him. Then, Junior licks the pies and enjoys them, so he spits out their friends and chases after the pie cart back into the sweat. Then, the submarine all repaired, they change the size to make themselves giants, destroying Piggy's newly bought castle with his money he robbed while the others were stopping Junior. Then, Piggy cries, and Li’l Petey picks him up to put inside a hamster cage. Then, the Friendly Friends keep Piggy and go out to eat dinner at Dog Man's house.
In the twelfth book, Crunky, Bub, Mike, Ducky, Daryl, and Uncle Larry attend Chief and Nurse Lady's wedding.
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Trivia[]
- As revealed on Instagram by Pilkey, the F.L.E.A.S. were originally going to have a fourth member, a penguin named Honk. However he remained unused. However, Pilkey stated that he would be re-concepted for Dog Man: Fetch-22, but with a different name. However the final book did not include him either.
- The Friendly Friends song is sung to the tune of Jingle Bells.
External Links[]
- The F.L.E.A.S. on the Antagonists Wiki
- The F.L.E.A.S. on the Dog Man Wiki
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