License To Punch (Unikitty!)

License To Punch  is the 24th episode of the 2017-2020 Cartoon Network show Unikitty! This is the worst episode from the first season.

Summary
After Hawkodile gets caught by two members of the Action Police for battling a giant monster without an action license, Unikitty and her friends try to help Hawkodile get rid of his action urges. If Hawkodile does not keep his urges under control, he will lose his shades. There is only one way to earn his action license: take the action test at "The Department of Mayhem and Violence". With Unikitty's help, he may be able to get it even when the Action Police plan to make sure he doesn't pass.

Why It Needs To Be Punched In The Face By Hawkodile

 * 1) It is nothing but a shameless 11-minute long Hawkodile torture episode.
 * 2) So much needless destruction scenes.
 * 3) Let's get Unikitty out of the bag: This episode is extremely mean-spirited because Hawkodile tries to save the city of Unikingdom by fighting a giant monster while he doesn't have an action license, and gets caught by the police over not having an action license.
 * 4) The police officers in this episode are jerks and they are super careless.
 * 5) Hawkodile (who is still likeable in the show) gets himself in so much trouble, even by the police. He also becomes a big punching bag in the episode, despite doing nothing wrong.
 * 6) A lot of plot holes:
 * 7) *In a past episode, "Action Forest", it was revealed that Hawkodile earned his shades, and yet the police officers want to take it away from him.
 * 8) *If you needed a license to punch, than how did Hawkodile even get hired to be Unikitty's body guard?
 * 9) *Further more, how does Unikitty not know this rule? She is the princess after all, you'd think she would have been told this rule before.
 * 10) *How was Hawkodile not told about this rule before either?
 * 11) *How was Hawkodile not caught doing this before?
 * 12) *Why do you even need a license to punch at all?
 * 13) The police also does horrible things to Hawkodile just because he can fight a big monster to save the city with no action license.
 * 14) *They try to make Hawkodile blind without his shades so that they can destroy and smash them.
 * 15) *They even threaten to kill Hawkodile.
 * 16) ** Even the action police officers are very mean to Hawkodile in this episode.
 * 17) If it wasn't Hawkodile's fault for destroying buildings, then why does he refuse to apologize to the police for that?
 * 18) Master Frown is really unlikeable (like he is in the entire series itself until "The Birthday To End All Birthdays, Part 2") in this episode because he made fun of Hawkodile in this episode by laughing at him for no reason whatsoever then Hawkodile gets into a rage when he laughed at him, and Master Frown gets his head dumped in the trash can by Hawkodile, and then he made Master Frown eat the trash from a trash can while he was inside of it. That's really disgusting.
 * 19) It has a pretty horrible message about how the police catches you battling something while not having an action license.
 * 20) There was a scene where Hawkodile covered Unikitty in his tears which made Unikitty become dripped and soaked by Hawkodile's tears.
 * 21) Not only the police officers and Master Frown are unlikeable here, but every villain is unlikeable here:
 * 22) * The bullies are very rude to Unikitty just because she is covered in Hawkodile's tears.
 * 23) * If the bullies are smart, then why do they act stupid when they met Unikitty in this episode?
 * 24) It leaves a pretty bad taste in the mouths about who gets infuriated over the biggest mistakes.
 * 25) Unikitty and her friends do absolutely nothing when Hawkodile is caught by the police. Instead, the police just gets angry with Hawkodile. He never even said sorry to the police about not having an action license.
 * 26) Hawkodile still gets a hard time learning to punch stuff, and he mistakenly destroyed the buildings.
 * 27) A very offensive scene where Master Frown commits identity theft by hitting a trash can on the ground in public.
 * 28) Speaking of WIS#7, Even Hawkodile didn't yell "Shut up!" to Master Frown for making fun of him, which got on his final nerves.
 * 29) The action police never apologize to Hawkodile. Instead, he only gets angry and really disappointed in them for what they did.
 * 30) It's not confirmed if Hawkodile was forgiven for the destruction and big trouble he caused in the city of Unikingdom, and he didn't even say sorry to anyone in the episode. He just doesn't want to go to jail or his feelings to be hurt for what he did.
 * 31) Hawkodile didn't even learn from his mistakes until the end of the episode.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Thankfully, Hawkodile did not get arrested because his test was taken and he now has a license.
 * 2) Good animation and acting as usual.
 * 3) Unikitty, Puppycorn, Dr. Fox, and Richard finally helped Hawkodile with leaving his urges.
 * 4) It actually had a great subplot about Hawkodile trying to kill a monster to save the Unikingdom.
 * 5) To include this, Hawkodile is still an interesting character.
 * 6) The ending is really decent.
 * 7) The action police sometimes became better characters as they were reduced into minor characters as the series progresses in a few episodes.
 * 8) At least it's not Hawkodile's fault for destroying the buildings.

Reception
This episode received mixed to negative reviews by scoring a 5.3 on IMDB.

Trivia

 * Avicii (Tim Bergling), a Swedish DJ, remixer, record producer, musician and songwriter, died at the age of 28 from suicide on the same day that this episode first aired on TV.