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Episode 3 -	Test! Test! Test!
	hyaku-ten totsute SUKIYAKI!
	[100 Points Means Sukiyaki!]
First aired -	18th October 1996

It is the day after Sasami's first confrontation with Pixy Misa, and word of Pretty Sammy is spreading throughout the school thanks to Kenji and Hiroto's eyewitness accounts of her performance. Sasami is still terrified that everyone will find out her secret identity. When class begins, their teacher, Mihoshi, has some test results to give out. Two students have scored 100% - Kenji and Misao. Misao is embarrassed to stand up and be congratulated by the class, but Sasami encourages her.

On the way home after school, Sasami and Misao stop to buy ice creams and a copy Sasami's favourite manga (comic book) anthology, Dragon A magazine. Ramia, watching from her home on Juraihelm, is vexed to see them both so carefree, and sends her reluctant brother Rumiya to interfere again.

Misao arrives home and is pleasantly surprised to find the door is not locked, meaning her mother is home for once. Misao is eager to show her mother her perfect test score, but she barely acknowledges her, merely giving her reprimand for being late and a reminder to go to her prep school class that evening. Her mother then rushes off to work, leaving Misao home alone once again. As Misao gazes forlornly at her test report, Rumiya, in his bird form, lands on the tree outside her window and hypnotises her in the same way Ramia did when they first met.

Meanwhile, Sasami walks home reading her magazine. Ryo-Ohki has met her on the way and tells her that her parents have agreed to let her keep him as a pet. Sasami, who is not keen on carrying on her magical girl role, runs home to demand an explanation. When she gets there, she finds her parents have been waiting for her to congratulate her on the results of her test.

Across town, Pixy Misa has arrived at the Success Preparatory School, her next target for her own brand of magical chaos. Rumiya asks her why she chose the school, to which Misa replies that she simply feels it is the right thing to do.

Sasami's parents have discovered that Sasami scored just 60% on the test. For a moment, Sasami is worried that they will be angry, but they are quite pleased. However, they suggest that with a bit more studying, she could score even higher, so Ginji, Sasami's dad, suggests she go along to the free trial class at the Success Preparatory School. Honoka, Sasami's mum, gives her some extra encouragement by promising to cook a sukiyaki dinner if she does well.

At the cram school, Pixy Misa is already causing trouble. She has taken over as teacher of the class, and none of the students are too happy. Konoha, a girl from Sasami's class, makes a particularly vocal protest, but Misa discovers a copy of Dragon A magazine in her desk and, with a wave of her magic wand, transforms it into a Love-Love Monster, Comic Girl, a woman with a comic book for a head and another for her body! Misa amuses herself by getting Comic Girl to flip the pages of her head comic, changing her face each time. The class are stunned into silence, so Misa turns Comic Girl on them, using a magic beam to absorb the students into the comic pages and turn them into living comic strips!

Just then, Sasami and her father arrive. Her dad thinks the chaos in the classroom is all part of the lesson and leaves her to it. Misa's attack becomes even more intense, and almost the whole class gets absorbed into Comic Girl's pages. Sasami beats a hasty retreat from the classroom and finds Ryo-Ohki waiting for her outside. He gives her the magical baton and she transforms into Pretty Sammy.

Back in the classroom, Comic Girl is trying to turn the last few students into comics when Pretty Sammy steps in. Unable to hit her with the regular absorption beam, Comic Girl creates a huge comic book which snaps shut on Sammy, trapping her. She flips her pages again, becoming a monster with a huge blade for a nose. It seems that Sammy is done for, but Konoha saves her by barging Comic Girl aside, and the giant comic disappears. Sammy raises her baton and opens up the gateway to Pretty Space ("The same as last week", Misa observes). As Misa beats a hasty retreat, Sammy's Pretty Coquettish Bomber spell vaporises Comic Girl and frees the trapped students.

The fight over, Sammy leaves and changes back into Sasami. She meets Misao in the corridor and explains that she was supposed to have a free trial lesson at the school, but as the newly-opened hole in the roof is testament, there was a little trouble in class!

As Sasami and Misao ride home in his motorbike and sidecar, Sasami tells her dad about Misao's 100% score on her test. To congratulate her, he invites Misao to join the family for the sukiyaki dinner they promised, and they ride home together cheering "Sukiyaki! Party!".

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