How to Learn Emotions from Dr. Shrunk in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Upgrading the Nookling Junction

Wait 10 days. To get Dr. Shrunk’s club, Club LOL, you must first upgrade Nookling Junction to T&T Mart, which can only be upgraded if you’ve upgraded your tent to a house. Before you can do this, though, your town must be at least 10 days old. If you’ve been playing the game for more than 10 days, proceed to upgrade your tent. You can skip ahead days, if you desire.

Upgrade your tent. Do this by giving Tom Nook a down payment of 10,000 bells. Your tent will upgrade to a house the next day.

Spend 12,000 bells at the Nookling Junction. You can find Nookling Junction in Main Street. Once you’ve spent 12,000 bells there, after completing all of the above requirements, Nookling Junction will close for a day of renovations. After this, it will reopen as the T&T Mart.

Raising Approval Rating

Check your approval rating. Before you can approve the construction of new stores, your approval rating must be 100%. To know how much approval rating you currently have, journey to the Town Hall (the purple marker on the map at the bottom screen). Enter the Town Hall and sit in the mayor’s chair located behind Isabelle’s desk. Isabelle will approach you once you sit down, and speak to you, giving you a variety of dialogue options. Select “Check approval rating” to see how the villagers view you. If it is not yet 100%, there are several things you can do to quickly reach the perfect goal. If it has, you are ready to start constructing Club LOL. This only word on your mayor save file, which should be the first one you made.

Perform actions worth three points. There are several actions that can raise your approval rating by three; however, you will only receive points the first time you do the action: Changing the town music—Speak to Isabelle at her desk in the Town Hall. She will give you the option to change the town music, but only if your town is two in-game days old or more. Changing the town flag—Speak to Isabelle at her desk in the Town Hall. Putting something up for sale at Re-Tail—Visiting Re-Tail (the pink arrow icon on the map on the touch screen), and talk to Reese, the pink alpaca. Posting something on the bulletin board—Go to the bulletin board next to the train station (northernmost part of town) and hit A on your console, and then enter your message. Donating a fish, bug, or fossil to the museum—This can be done after capturing a fish with the fishing rod, catching a bug with the net, or digging up a fossil with the shovel. Enter the museum, which is on the far left or right side of Main Street, and talk to Blathers.

Perform actions worth one point. These actions can be repeated: Removing trash from the water by fishing—At times when you fish in the sea, rather than pulling up an animal, you will come up with a piece of junk, which can later be disposed of. Note that this is a random occurrence. Introducing yourself to villagers—This can be done by approaching villagers and hitting the A button to converse with them. Sending letters—Buy letter paper at the Nookling Junction. Open it in your inventory, enter a message, and send it by giving it to the pelican working at the Post Office (found on the left hand side of Main Street). Pulling weeds—This can be done by standing over weeds, which appear as brown or green sprouts of grass, and hitting the Y button. Clovers and wilting flowers do not count as weeds. Watering flowers—This can only be done if you own a watering can, which can be purchased at the Nookling Junction. With the watering can equipped, stand in front of the flowers and hit the A button to water them.

Play Animal Crossing: New Leaf daily. You will earn three extra points every day simply by playing. Again, you can time travel if you dislike waiting.

Constructing Club LOL

Talk to Dr. Shrunk. The day after you completed the requirements mentioned in the previous steps, Dr. Shrunk will be waiting for you outside your house. He will inform you of what he wants to build and ask your permission for the construction. After giving him the OK, he will hand you a petition and request that you collect six signatures from your villagers. The petition is an item that cannot be dropped, put into storage, sold, or thrown away; you are stuck with it until you collect enough signatures.

Approach a villager. Any villager will sign the petition, and they can be asked while wandering around town or while in their homes. When you find a villager, hit A to talk to them. This does not include villagers who work in the town, such as Reese, Porter, or Tom Nook, they must have a home constructed in your town.

Get the villager to sign the petition. One of the options that will pop up after the initial greetings is asking them to sign the petition; select that option, and the villager may sign the petition. Don't worry if they don't, sometimes this happens. Continue asking for signatures for the next five villagers.

Talk to Dr. Shrunk again. Once you have collected all six signatures, go talk to Dr. Shrunk, who can be found walking around the Main Street in the shopping district, and give him the petition. Within the next four to eight in-game days, Club LOL will begin its construction and open.

Learning Emotions from Dr. Shrunk

Visit Dr. Shrunk, and bring with you a piece of food. This includes fruit, coconuts, bamboo shoots shoots, candy, and mushrooms. After Club LOL opens, pay Dr. Shrunk a visit during its daytime hours, 12PM to 8PM. The club can be found on the left side of Main Street.

Talk to Dr. Shrunk. Dr. Shrunk will thank you for helping with the construction of the club, and mention his ability to teach emotions. The first time you talk to Dr. Shrunk after his club opens, he will hand you a joke book, which contains all the emotions you learn.

Have him teach you an emotion. If you brought a snack, when you talk to him, a “I brought you a snack” option will appear. Select this to give him the food, and in return, he will teach you an emotion. Right after the exchange, the new emotion will be accessible to the player. Only one emotion can be learned per day for each save file, and Dr. Shrunk can only teach them before 8P.M After 8, the club will become a dance floor or concert hall (on Saturdays). The emotion you learn on a given day is random, but the last one will always be the Shrunk-Funk-Shuffle.

Perform the emotion. Access the joke book by selecting the purple book button on the bottom of the screen. Click an emotion to have your character perform it. Some villagers may respond to emotions or copy you.