Frustrated with Pixy Misa’s lack of success, Ramia goes down to Earth again to personally arrange a plan to defeat Pretty Sammy. After Pretty Sammy fights and seemingly defeats Pixy Misa at Umi no Hoshi Elementary, they are suddenly joined by a group of six women who call themselves Team “Lovely Madams" (Team “Sexy Mrs.”). In reality, the Lovely Madams are young housewives who were abducted and hypnotized by Ramia into becoming Pixy Misa's new allies.
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A mother is preparing dinner for her infant child when they start hearing the piano being played by their next door neighbor, Misao, after coming home from school.
Sasami and Ryo-Ohki are watching Misao play the piano in her house, and when Misao finishes, Sasami asks the name of the song she just played. Misao answers that it’s called “Misao”, a song written for her by her father. Misao shows Sasami’s the song’s composition but notes that it’s incomplete because her father was too busy with work overseas. Sasami then asks when her father will be coming back, but Misao tells her that she doesn’t know, as he’s been gone since she was very little. The mother from next door, Miyuki, then arrives at Misao’s house and gives her some spare cabbage rolls.
In Juraihelm, Ramia is beyond frustrated with Pixy Misa’s failures and starts hitting things around her home, eventually knocking Rumiya, who was secretly watching Misao in her home, into view. Ramia asks if her brother has a plan, but when he tries telling her to just give it up, she misinterprets his words and decides to abandon the “complicated” plan. Ramia decides that she's going to be in on the plan this time, which will involve Pixy Misa going after Pretty Sammy directly. She dons what Rumiya calls an "over-the-top" outfit, and they both travel to Earth. Ramia then tells Rumiya to get Pixy Misa to write a challenge to Pretty Sammy while she takes care of some preparations.
Ramia proceeds to target several young, newlywed women, including Yumi, a college student; Yukie, an office worker who’s having lunch with her husband on the roof of an office; Kaori, a housewife who is vain about her beauty; Chihiro, who’s singing karaoke in hopes of becoming a “housewife singer”; and Miyuki, who’s waiting for her husband Satoshi to return. After gathering all of them, Ramia explains that as they are women to use a lot of energy on their husband and children, they should instead lend some of that energy to Pixy Misa before proceeding to hypnotize them.
After saying goodbye to Sasami for the night, Misao encounters “Birdie”, (the name she has given Rumiya whenever he appears in bird form), and tells him that even though her parents aren’t ever around, she's not lonely because he and Sasami visit her. Rumiya flies over to her shoulder and notes how she’s just hiding her true feelings, but Ramia calls Rumiya over and quickly gets him to hypnotize Misao.
After dinner, a bath, and late-night karaoke with her parents, Sasami goes to sleep in her room, only to discover Pixy Misa has been keeping her bed warm! Thankfully, she’s just here to deliver a letter of challenge to Sasami, saying that they’ll duel tomorrow afternoon on school grounds after classes. Misa leaves, and Sasami opens the letter only to find out that it says “Sasami the Fool”. How maddening!
The next day, Pixy Misa holds a big event in the afternoon for her showdown with Pretty Sammy at Umi no Hoshi Elementary, drawing in the entire school faculty and class 4-3. Misa calls for Pretty Sammy to come out of the school, but Sasami is reluctant to fight Misa, as she’d rather visit Misao at her home and thinks that Misa might go home if she ignores her. However, Ryo-Ohki convinces her to fight Misa since she would never have to transform into Pretty Sammy again if she beat her.
Pretty Sammy confronts Pixy Misa outside and the two begin fighting. Misa jumps up and tries to hit Sammy with an overhand smash of her magical baton, but she accidentally breaks her right wrist. Misa then calls out “Haphazardly Calling Mystics” and creates two Love-love monsters out of a cigarette butt and a discarded soda can. However, they fail to change sizes, and Sammy easily puts them away with a swing of her baton.
With the battle seemingly won, Sammy points her baton to Misa, but Rumiya flies over and tells Misa to run away. Then, a bright red flash of light signals the arrival of six women who call themselves Team “Lovely Madams”. The Lovely Madams, who are the women that Ramia had hypnotized earlier, are here to protect Pixy Misa and defeat Pretty Sammy, and immediately attack her.
Mrs. One (Miyuki) attacks Sammy by lobbing a shopping basket over her head. Mrs. Cinq (Yukie), winks and shoots lasers at Sammy just before Mrs. Third (Yumi) grabs Sammy and dunks her in a basketball basket inside the schools’ gymnasium. Mrs. Sì (Chihiro) starts singing so badly that she rattles Sammy. Finally, Mrs. Zwei (Kaori) throws business cards at Sammy which are sharp enough to cut the ropes of the basketball basket and cause her to fall to the floor.
Sammy gets up and, taking Ryo-Ohki’s advice, attempts to use her Pretty Coquettish Bomber attack on the Lovely Madams. However, as soon as she surrounds them inside the Pretty Space, the Lovely Madams chants “Early Afternoon Magic” and generate their own “Lovely Space” ("Sexy Space"). Washu notes that the energy used by the Lovely Space is way stronger than Sammy's magical energy, and indeed, the Pretty Space is quickly destroyed. Sammy desperately tries to rush forward and hit them with her magical baton, but Mrs. One handles her in a second and sends her sprawling on the ground. The Magical Girl Pretty Sammy has lost!
In Juraihelm, Tsunami is speechless (even letting her tea spill) as she watches Pretty Sammy be defeated. Meanwhile, the balance of Gemini, which had been gradually shifting toward good for some time, makes a dramatic shift back toward evil.
Ramia laughs in triumph as she witnesses Sammy’s defeat from the top of the school, just as everyone else that had shown up to the fight is shocked by her loss. Meanwhile, a narrator begs for Sammy to not lose to the Lovely Madams because “the whole world wants your smile!”.
Trivia
- In two panning shots before the showdown between Pretty Sammy and Pixy Misa, as well as after Sammy loses to the Lovely Madams at Umi no Hoshi Elementary, several characters from previous episodes can be seen, including, from right to left, Peter from "The Island of Love-love Monsters", Boss, Chibiroku, Dosumasa, and Gariko from "The Fellow Called Boss", and Andou Toyokawa from "All I Want is You".
- At the left edge of the same shot, there is also a random person dressed as Superman.
- The six members of Team Lovely Madams are named after numbers in five different languages, including two of them being in English:
- Miyuki- Mrs. One
- Kaori- Mrs. Zwei (German for “two”)
- Yumi- Mrs. Third
- Chihiro- Mrs. Sì (Chinese for “four”; pronounced “suh”)
- Yukie- Mrs. Cinq (French for “five; pronounced "singk")
- Chisato- Mrs. Roku (Japanese for “six")
- When the balance of Gemini shifts dramatically toward evil, it uses the same sound effect (the "cha-ching!") used for when it shifts toward good. This is despite the fact that in the episode The Lost Baton, the shift toward evil used another sound effect (the "bonk!") instead.
- Chihiro (Mrs. Sì), is this series' incarnation of the character Chihiro Kawai, Sasami Kawai's mother in the original Magical Girl Pretty Sammy OVA series. Like her OVA incarnation, Chihiro has a love for karaoke, and when she is first introduced, she is even singing the same song that Chihiro Kawai sang at the start of the first OVA episode, "Ai no Makeikusa" ("Losing the Fight of Love"), by Rika Matsumoto
- Chihiro herself is voiced by Matsumoto, who is more famous as the voice actor for Satoshi (Ash Ketchem), the main protagonist of Pokémon.
- Yuike (Mrs. Cinq) is voiced by Yuriko Yamaguchi, who is also the voice of Matori from Tenchi in Tokyo.
- In this episode, Pixy Misa slipped—accidentally giving Pretty Sammy a clue to her true identity by claiming that the duel would mark "the end of their friendship." Naturally, from Sasami's point of view, they were never friends. Pixy Misa was, of course, referring to how, in their alter egos, Sasami and Misao are best friends. After Sasami's rebuttal, Pixy Misa remained coy, acting smug and feigning ignorance with a playful, almost teasing demeanor.