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{{familiar|
famid=3|
H1=An eye for an eye|
H2=Hey, hovering potato|
H3=Might trip up your foes.|
ability=Prevents enemies from attacking you|
function=Trips your foe, might make them miss their attack|
throne=[[Combat Initiative]] +20%, sometimes restores 5-6 [[HP]] and 3-4 [[MP]] in combat|
hatchling=potato sprout|
equipment=many-eyed glasses|
ucm=0|
sh=1|
oc=2|
hns=3|
hands=0|
wings=0|
animal=0|
clothes=0|
eyes=1|
mechanical=0|
sleaze=0|
undead=0|
hot=0|
biting=0|
quick=0|
flying=0|
evil=0|
bug=0}}

*Regular message:
*:<name> entangles your opponent with powerful vines, preventing <it> from attacking you.
*Enthroned in the [[Crown of Thrones]]:
*:<name> uses his vines to give you an invigorating head massage. It's not the same as giving you a foot massage, but it's in the same ballpark.
{{HP|amount=5-6}}
{{MP|amount=3-4}}
*Bjornified in the [[Buddy Bjorn]]:
*:<name> uses his vines to give you an invigorating shoulder massage, then pats you on the back as if to say "You can do it, buddy!" Good ol' <name>.
{{HP|amount=5-6}}
{{MP|amount=3-4}}
*With [[lucky Tam O'Shanter]] equipped:
*:<name> eyes your slain foe and finds some extra meat it had hidden away.
*With [[miniature gravy-covered maypole]] equipped:
*:<name> grabs the maypole with a vine and swings around it.
*With [[wax lips]] equipped:
*:<name> smiles a tuberiffic, tubular smile with his wax lips.

==Arena Messages==
*When entered in an Ultimate Cage Match:
*:<name> is a lover, not a fighter. Well, not really -- potatoes just suck at this event.

==Notes==
*Blocking occurs 1.5 &times; wt% of the time, with a maximum of 90% (attained at 60 pounds and above), where "wt" is the weight of the familiar.
*Monster criticals do not bypass the potato's ability.
*If initiative is lost, then the potato will never block on that first round. It can block normally on the rest of the rounds in that combat, however.
*[[The Sorceress' Levitating Potato]] was one of the pets which appeared in The Sorceress's Chamber.

==References==
*The Levitating Potato is very similar to the hovering potato which Bender has to peel blindfolded, in the episode entitled "[[Wikipedia:The 30% Iron Chef|The 30% Iron Chef]]", of the animated television series ''[[Wikipedia:Futurama|Futurama]]''.
*The second line of the haiku references the song ''[[TMBW:Hovering Sombrero|Hovering Sombrero]]'', by [[Wikipedia:They Might Be Giants|They Might Be Giants]]. (Note that this familiar predates the introduction of the [[Hovering Sombrero]] familiar.)
*The first line of the haiku refers to the phrase "[[Wiktionary:eye for an eye|eye for an eye]]", from the [[Wikipedia:Hebrew Bible|Hebrew Bible]].
*The Crown of Thrones message refers to the foot massage discussion from [[Wikipedia:Pulp Fiction|Pulp Fiction]].
*The [[wax lips]] message puns on "[[wikipedia:tuber|tuber]]s" being the name for the plant structure that makes a potato.