Finally feeling completely sure that his friends would be okay - Scrooge being back in the kitchen helped a lot with that - Louie spoke up, because now that he wasn't worried to the point of feeling literally sick to his stomach, he realized that Gobo had just been on his back, all muddy.

"Uh, I'm going to go wash off my hoodie," he said. He knew there was too much going on for Scrooge to draw attention to the fact that he was actually doing... Laundry? But he still got out of there quickly, a little embarrassed.

He wasn't about to let Boober's work the other day be for nothing, though.