As is the case with most Urusei Yatsura episodes, this one is split into two distinct parts. The first begins in media res with Onsen-sensei castigating Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendou, and Ryuu for causing chaos, the evidence of which is the destroyed classroom and the rest of the class behind a barricade of desks.
The always-easygoing principal gives them a slap on the wrist for their infractions: cleaning his office. However, when Onsen-sensei checks in on them, he finds that the principal has been knocked out, with a small bump in his noggin. The sequence shifts into a whodunit.
Onsen goes over the possible scenarios of Lum and Ryuu, but it’s ultimately five-against-one as the kids accuse Onsen of attacking the principal for being so lenient. Ataru, Ryuu, and Mendou don detective suits and put him under the bright light of interrogation, and eventually make him crack in exchange for a still-warm pork cutlet bowl.
The thing is, Onsen did no such thing. The principal knocked himself out by trying to crack the unusually hard boiled egg on his head. In keeping with his personality, he adopts a very laid back attitude to this incident and the fact Kotatsu Cat ate his egg while he was out.
On to part two, which is something completely different: Ran is cultivating a beautiful white flower with her mouth bandaged. When Lum greets her, she learns why: this flower mimics whatever anyone says, then its flowers catch the wind and spread those words like gossip.
Ran honestly only brought them to Earth because they’re pretty, but once Lum brings up the possible nefarious use of them, Ran goes all in, telling tales of Lum being bad in the past. Lum fires back with the story of how Ran crushed a teacher’s bonsai.
The flowers get loose, but rather than repeat what either Lum or Ran said verbatim, they mix up the accusations, like a game of telephone. That’s how Ataru and Shinobu learn that Mendou is late for school because he wet the bed, or the teachers are “crushed by revenge.”
While each of Urusei’s characters has unique physical or magical abilities, it’s ultimately words that get them in the most trouble. As long as they’re always talking and lobbing threats and bile at one another, they’ll be at the mercy of the goss flowers. Chaos begetting chaos!
A third post-credits skit involves a starving Onsen unable to announce he’s at the Moroboshi’s for a home visit because their TV is too loud, and then being abducted by the Oni, which will continue next week.
