The episode begins with the Princess deciding that nappies are "yuck" and there must be something better. The Queen tells her that "the potty's the place". Initially, the Princess thinks the potty is even worse and throws a tantrum, but the Queen is insistent that she learn to use it and soon the Princess grows to like the potty.
She "plays tricks" on it by wearing it on her head and her crown on her butt, and it "plays tricks" on her by tipping over with her on it. Then, she uses the potty as a spacehopper.
The Prime Minister and his friend call the Princess "clever" and tell her she'll make a good queen when she grows up, and she's proud of the attention.
One day, however, she needs to pee while playing on top of the castle and everyone freaks out in search of the potty. The Admiral finds it in with his toy boats, but unfortunately, the Princess wets herself.
This episode provides examples of
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- The episode is only 5:35 minutes long.
- The art style is closer to that of the books, and it has all the words from the original book.
- The castle has more windows, only one tower, and a smaller door.
- The narrator actually narrates rather than simply talking to the Princess, and she's a woman, not a man.
- The lawn has a lot less grass.
- Everyone has a different voice— the Princess's has a slightly different accent, the Maid's is lower, the King's is gruffer, the Chef's, while still in a French accent, is higher and raspier, the Gardener's is higher and in a Cockney accent, the General has a stereotypical "posh British accent", and the Admiral's voice is closer to his voice in the series proper but quieter.
- The Chef is ginger.
- The Gardener is white.
- The General is lankier and with a pointy nose.
- Episode Tagline: The title and "The potty's the place" are said a lot in this episode.
- I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: When the Princess is first told about the potty, she thinks it's even worse than nappies, but then she starts liking the potty.
- Mundane Made Awesome: The Princess comes to like her potty a lot, and the Prime Minister and his friends see her using it as a sign of intelligence and being a good queen in the future.
- Potty Emergency:
- At one point, the Princess is described as being "far away from the potty when she needed it most" and is seen running frantically to the potty.
- The end of the episode is everybody frantically searching for the Princess's potty when she needs it.
- Potty Failure: The Princess wets herself at the end.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: The adults try to get the potty to the Princess, but then she wets her pants.
- Title Drop: The Princess yells the episode title several times towards the end of the episode.
- Toilet Humour: The Princess wears her potty on her head once, then uses it as a spacehopper.
- Toilet Training Plot: The plot of this episode is the Princess learning to use her potty.
- Wearing It All Wrong: The Princess once wears her crown on her butt as part of a "trick".
