FIND LOO-KEE
Loo-Kee
Loo-Kee is the small woodland creature hidden somewhere in nearly every episode of Filmation She-Ra, found by the viewer in a closing segment where he delivers that episode's moral. Twice he steps out of the segment entirely and becomes the actual story, in "Loo-Kee Lends a Hand" and "Loo-Kee's Sweety."
Loo-Kee is the small woodland creature hidden somewhere in nearly every episode of Filmation's She-Ra: Princess of Power, found in a closing segment where he delivers the episode's moral. He steps into the plot itself in "Loo-Kee Lends a Hand" and "Loo-Kee's Sweety," and Erika Scheimer voices him.
The record
The facts
FIND LOO-KEE
A character the viewer has to find
Loo-Kee is not written into most episodes' plots the way an ordinary supporting character would be; he is hidden somewhere in the background of the action, and at the end of the episode a closing segment challenges the viewer to spot him before he steps forward to deliver that episode's moral directly to camera. The game is built into the show's structure, and the closing line is almost always the same shape: "Hi! I'm Loo-Kee," followed by a plain statement of the lesson just watched.
That segment is why he turns up in so many episodes. It runs at the end of nearly every single-part Filmation She-Ra story, so Loo-Kee closes out 87 of them. The five episodes that make up The Secret of the Sword have no find-Loo-Kee segment, which is why "The Sea Hawk" is his first appearance.
Loo-Kee's own episode, sent tumbling across the stars.
Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Loo-Kee Lends a Hand (She-Ra: Princess of Power, 1985), 11:36 to 13:27, 1 minute 50 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.
HIS BIGGEST EPISODE BY PLOT INVOLVEMENT
The one time the segment character carries the plot
"Loo-Kee Lends a Hand" breaks the pattern entirely. Hordak's Timestop device freezes everyone in the Whispering Woods, Adora included, and Loo-Kee is the only one left moving. Light Hope tells him Adora's secret, that she is She-Ra, and that He-Man is Prince Adam, then opens a portal he cannot aim and sends Loo-Kee to Eternia anyway. He lands in Snake Mountain instead of the Royal Palace, blurts out Adam's secret to a listening Skeletor, and ends up carried to Eternos by the very portal Skeletor built for himself. It is the rare Filmation crossover where the hidden-object character, not He-Man or She-Ra, is the one who closes the gap between the two shows, and his own sign-off afterward says so plainly: "I helped She-Ra and He-Man today."
HIS SECOND STARRING ROLE
Caught in the act, then asked to help
"Loo-Kee's Sweety" gives him a second full story the following season. He opens the episode caught stealing one of Adora's thermo franks, and that small theft sets up the moral his closing segment delivers: "it was wrong to steal, even if you think you have a good reason." In between, he helps rescue Laa-See, whose father is a prisoner on Beast Island, and this time he is in the story from the thermo frank onward. "One to Count On" does something similar on a smaller scale: he gives the closing talk and is also written into the plot, standing in a curio shop and swinging off a vine carrying a stolen crown.
IN BRIEF
Loo-Kee, episode by episode
"The Sea Hawk"
Voiced by Erika Scheimer, per that episode's own cast credit, the only one of his confirmed appearances to name the actor directly.
"Loo-Kee Lends a Hand"
The one hero left unfrozen by Hordak's Timestop device, sent through an unaimed portal to fetch He-Man and winding up in Snake Mountain instead.
"Loo-Kee's Sweety"
Caught stealing a thermo frank, he helps rescue the father of Laa-See, one of the small creatures called conceals, from Beast Island and learns to give back what isn't his.
"One to Count On"
He gives the closing talk and is also written into the story itself, standing in the curio shop and swinging off a vine carrying the stolen crown.
Questions
Loo-Kee questions, answered
Who is Loo-Kee?
The small woodland creature hidden somewhere in nearly every episode of Filmation She-Ra, found by the viewer in a closing segment where he delivers that episode's moral.
What is Loo-Kee's biggest episode?
"Loo-Kee Lends a Hand," where Hordak's Timestop device freezes everyone else and Loo-Kee is sent through a portal to fetch He-Man, landing in Snake Mountain instead.
Who voices Loo-Kee?
Erika Scheimer, credited on "The Sea Hawk": "Erika Scheimer as Sea Elf 2 and Loo-Kee."
When does Loo-Kee first appear?
"The Sea Hawk" (1985).
Does Loo-Kee ever get a real story of his own?
Yes, twice: "Loo-Kee Lends a Hand" and "Loo-Kee's Sweety," both of which write him into the plot rather than just the closing segment.
Is there a Loo-Kee figure to buy?
Not new. His only figure, a 2014 Masters of the Universe Classics subscription release, is long retired.
Compiled by the heman.org desk from the She-Ra: Princess of Power episodes he appears in, especially "The Sea Hawk," "Loo-Kee Lends a Hand," "Loo-Kee's Sweety" and "One to Count On," with their on-screen credits and closing morals. Base character record: heman.fandom.com (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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