Sour

A Sour Macaraccoon.

Sours, as their name might hint at, are grumpy Piñatas that get their kicks from making cheerful piñatas gloomy. Sour Piñatas are easily recognized due to their deep red and black coloring. There are eight different sour species, and twelve in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, each with their own bad habits, like starting fights or scaring off residents.

When broken in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, the sour Piñata will drop seeds for weed plants. If the seeds are not handled correctly then the weeds can create a problem for a garden. When broken in Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise, they release Sour Candy instead.

To prevent a Sour Piñata from entering your garden, you either need to tame the species, which automatically gives you the related block for the Tower of Sour, or buy the associated block from Costolot's Store. The Tower of Sour block for the sour piñata blocks sour piñatas of that species from entering the garden when activated. All tamed sours can help you out when they live in your garden.

Once the Tower of Sour is completed with all eight or twelve blocks, the Appear requirements for the Galagoogoo will be complete.

Sours in Viva Piñata

Name	Appear	Visit	Requirements to Tame	Sour Habits	Tame Habits
Sour Shellybean	4	5	Has eaten an Apple Seed	Spits out sour seeds, sour candies, and eats flower seeds.	Shellybean will eat any Weed Seeds they come across, with no ill effects.
Sour Sherbat	9	10	Has eaten a Jack o' Lantern	Makes Piñatas ill by draining them.	Sherbat can momentarily distract Dastardos.
Sour Crowla	14	15	Have a birdbath in the garden. Has drank a Bottle of Medicine.	Eats ill Piñatas.	Crowla can momentarily distract Dastardos.
Sour Profitamole	19	20	Have two mushrooms in your garden Has eaten a Red Flutterscotch	Attacks and eats flowers.	Profitamole can eat the patches of dirt left by a Mine, Mine Workings.
Sour Macaraccoon	23	24	Have 5 Master Romancer awards. Has eaten 1 Cluckle.	Eats eggs.	Macaraccoon can be sent to find Romance Candy.
Sour Cocoadile	27	28	Have 160 Pinometers (16%) of water in your garden Has eaten 1 Sweetooth. Has eaten 1 Swanana.	Scares helpers away.	Cocoadile can fertilize plants with its tears.
Sour Mallowolf	31	32	Has eaten a Pigxie	Prevents visitors to your garden.	Mallowolf can scare-off ruffians.
Sour Bonboon	34	35	Has lost a fight against a Syrupent, Twingersnap or Fourheads.	Starts fights with Piñatas.	Bonboon can stop a fight between other piñatas.

Sours in Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise

Name	Appear	Visit	Requirements to Tame	Sour Habits	Tame Habits
Sour Shellybean	2	7	Has eaten a Blackberry Seed. Has eaten a Radish Seed.	Spits out Weed Seeds and eats other Seeds.	Shellybean will eat any Weed Seeds they come across, with no ill effects.
Sour Lemmoning	6	-	Has eaten 1 Bowl of Stew. Has eaten a Bowl of Horse Radish. Have 3 square pinometers of snow.	Explodes, spoiling nearby produce, fruit, etc. and disappears. Only found in the Piñarctic.	Lemmoning can eat and convert any Sour Candy into Happy Candy, with no ill effects.
Sour Sherbat	9	11	Has eaten a Clove of Garlic	Makes Piñatas ill by draining them.	Sherbat can momentarily distract Dastardos.
Sour S'morepion	12	-	Has eaten 2 Buzzlegums. Have 5 square pinometers of sand.	Stings piñatas, making them unhappy. Only found in Dessert Desert.	S'morepion can scare-off ruffians.
Sour Profitamole	14	16	Has eaten 2 mushrooms. Has eaten 1 Bispotti.	Attacks and eats flowers.	Profitamole can eat the patches of dirt left by a Mine, Mine Workings.
Sour Crowla	17	19	Have a tombstone in the garden. Has drank a Bottle of Medicine.	Eats ill Piñatas.	Crowla can momentarily distract Dastardos.
Sour Smelba	21	23	Has eaten 4 Roses.	Breaks romances-in-progress and spits out Smelly Candy.	Smelba can scare-off ruffians.
Sour Macaraccoon	26	28	Have 5 Master Romancer awards. Has eaten 1 Cluckle.	Eats eggs.	Macaraccoon can be sent to find Romance Candy.
Sour Cocoadile	27	29	Have 16 square pinometers (16%) of water in your garden Has eaten 1 Pengum. Has eaten 1 Cherrapin.	Scares helpers away.	Cocoadile can fertilize plants with its tears.
Sour Mallowolf	30	32	Has eaten 3 Hogurts.	Prevents visitors to your garden.	Mallowolf can scare-off ruffians.
Sour Bonboon	34	35	Has lost a fight against a Syrupent, Twingersnap or Fourheads.	Starts fights with Piñatas.	Bonboon can stop a fight between other piñatas.
Sour Limeoceros	36	38	Has eaten 3 Parmadillos.	Destroys structures in the garden.	Limeoceros can ram Professor Pester.

Tips

• Remember, not all sours show up as soon as you get a quarter to a new level. Some show up halfway. Also, some may take longer than you think.
• Feeding a Sour a Joy Candy can prevent it from ruining your garden and coughing up sour sweets, However, it will stay in the garden until the effects of the sweet wear off, once it does, it will immediately leave the garden.

In the TV Series

As revealed in the episode My Sweet Sours, the Sour Piñatas were invented by Professor Pester in an attempt to ruin the reputation of Piñatas in the parties so that they don't go to parties, and thus stay full of candy that he can steal and eat for himself. He mixed some ingredients to no avail, until one of his then five Ruffians sacrificed himself and fell in the pot which was the last ingredient to make the Sours. However, he was unable to control the Sours, so his experiment was deemed a failure.

Some Piñatas that were previously Sour Piñatas and turned into a regular Piñata can transform back to a sour Piñata, presumably if too much stress is incurred on the pinata. For example, Mongo Macaracoon transforms into a regular Macaracoon after eating Cluckles legs, but then turns back to a Sour Macaracoon after Franklin Fizzlybear sends him to go on a concert.

Unlike the game series, regular piñatas can be transformed into sour piñatas, as seen in Shirley Shells Out in which Shirley Shellybean drinks a potion offered by Professor Pester and transforms into a Sour Shellybean, and runs so fast she breaks the sound barrier. However, she transforms back into a regular Shellybean before she reaches the finish line of her current race, and she gives up winning the race after realizing all the bad things she did as a sour while in the race.

Quotes

Franklin:	Uh, dudes... did one of you maybe take a bite out of my surfboard, you know, by mistake?�
Paulie: �	This is no mistake, Franklin. This is the work... of a sour.�
Fergy: �	Oh fudge! We're doomed!�
Franklin: �	What's a sour?�
Fergy: �	What's a sour?! Only the most notorious garden vandals ever to vandalize a garden! Wild pinatas, untamed, uncontrollable!! Crazy!!!

--Quote from "Mad Mongo" episode