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The Magic Roundabout

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The Magic Roundabout	comment	The Magic Roundabout is an English dub for a French stop-motion show that aired first on the ORTF, Le ManÃ¨ge EnchantÃ©. When it was translated into English by Eric Thompson (father of actresses Emma and Sophie), rather than voice act the characters, he chose to narrate the whole thing himself. He dubbed the show based purely on the animation, including many gags that appealed to parents. It subsequently became a Cult Classic in the United Kingdom and was adapted into two feature films. Many viewers of the French show, unaware of the redub, were baffled by the show's English popularity.In the early 1990s, after Thompson's death, Channel 4 acquired some episodes and hired Nigel Planer to adapt them in a pastiche of Thompson's style.Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970/1972), the first movie, was itself a cult classic. It contained a satirical parody of racism (Blue is beautiful! Blue is best! I'm blue! I'm beautiful! I'm best!) as well as the first (and only?) songs to appear in a Magic Roundabout setting. The other film, a CGI version titled simply The Magic Roundabout (2005), had a much more epic plot and was later released in the US (with all but two of the original British voices re-dubbed) as Doogal. Despite its promise, the American release failed to capture the spirit of the original series and fell into obscurity.The 2005 film was decently successful in Europe, which led to a 2007 CGI reboot of the show being produced. The series directly follows the film's events and was produced by the same animation studio that worked on the film. This version of the series ran from 2007 to 2010 with two seasons and an overall total of 104 episodes.As of 2022, Method Animation is currently in development on a second CGI reboot for 2024, with a new style that is based on Danot's original puppets.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Magic Roundabout / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Zeebad did not exist in the series. The same applies for Soldier Sam and Mr. Grimsdale, who would later appear as supporting characters in the revival series. Fly and two of Dougal's relatives, his Australian cousin Digger and Auntie Primrose didn't exist in the original series and were created for the revival series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_119eebd9	type	Redubbing
The Magic Roundabout / int_119eebd9	comment	Redubbing: The film was redubbed for the American version and retitled "Doogal" from "The Magic Roundabout".
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Magic Roundabout / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: As mentioned above, Dougal's voice was based on Tony Hancock. And Dylan's voice is, well...
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Magic Roundabout / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: Dougal does this in the CGI episode "A Very Dodgy Exercise" to avoid attending Soldier Sam's exercise class.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1618ca18	type	Picnic Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_1618ca18	comment	Picnic Episode: The original series featured an episode where Mr. Rusty, Florence, and Zebedee all prepare for a picnic in the Magic Garden. They meet up with Dougal, Brian, Ermintrude, Dylan, and Mr. MacHenry. All throughout the episode, the characters remind each other to make sure they haven't forgot anything. Mr. Rusty brings a corkscrew, Brian brings salt-and-pepper shakers, Ermintrude brings glasses, Dylan brings cushions, and Mr. MacHenry brings the eating utensils. However, in the end, they all realize that they have forgotten to bring any food. The CGI episode "A Nice Day Out" also has Ermintrude inviting Dylan, Brian, Florence, and a grumpy Dougal for a day out in the countryside to try and satisfy Dougal who was bored at the beginning of the episode. When they are having their picnic, the ants steal all their food. While waiting for Train to bring more food, everyone plays a game of cricket. The ball hits Dougal, prompting a switch over to hide-and-seek, where Dougal decides to run off. He does come back to the picnic when he returns the cricket ball to everyone after they hit it in the bushes. After that, Dougal is genuinely satisfied with the day out.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
The Magic Roundabout / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: The characters can summon Zebedee this way—more specifically, by saying his name three times.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Magic Roundabout / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: A trailer of the canceled CGI movie "Stupid Invaders" note Which was going to be in development and Xiliam and Action Synthese would've produced it. But since Action Synthese ended in a compulsory liquidation and went bankrupt on March 25, 2013, it was scrapped by the time that the studio's closed. makes a brief appearance in the "The Magic Roundabout" (CGI reboot) episode "Who's Taken the Moon?". At one point in the episode, it can be seen on the TV while Dylan is at home, depressed after seeing that the moon completely disappeared.◊
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
The Magic Roundabout / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: Two in fact. Or three, if you count Doogal as a separate movie.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Magic Roundabout / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: In "Dougal and the Blue Cat", Buxton has "I Am King" when he has passed his seventh test and earned his title as King Buxton. It doubles as an "I Am Great!" Song. This is followed by "We're Blue" as a Villain Recruitment Song.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Magic Roundabout / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of the Eric Thompson version of "Quiet and Not So Quiet" (or "A Peaceful Day") when Zebedee says that it is time for bed. In the Eric Thompson version of "Watch the Birdie", this exchange about why Zebedee wanted a photograph of everyone. Several episodes of the Eric Thompson version have Dougal reference The BBC (where the series was broadcast), including "Dylan's Bagpipes" and "Moody Concerto". Every episode in the 2007 revival series will begin with Zebedee telling the viewer the summary of what will happen in each episode. Most often, he would speak to the viewer about what is going on and what he will be doing.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
The Magic Roundabout / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Ermintrude is a cow, Dougal is a dog, Dylan is a rabbit, Brian is a snail, Buxton is a cat, and all the characters talk.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_1f60add	type	Locked in the Dungeon
The Magic Roundabout / int_1f60add	comment	Locked in the Dungeon: This happens to Florence and everyone else, except for Dougal, where they are chained up in the treacle factory dungeons. To make matters worse, they couldn't escape because Buxton has possession of Zebedee's mustache much to the wizard's fury. During Madam Blue's Villainous Breakdown in the climax, Dougal frees Florence and all his friends from their chains.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_20c11a5c	type	Second Episode Introduction
The Magic Roundabout / int_20c11a5c	comment	Second Episode Introduction: In the original series, the first two characters to appear in the pilot were Mr. Rusty and Zebedee. Florence and the other children were introduced in the second episode, while Dougal (the later main star of the show) appeared a couple of episodes later. Brian, Ermintrude, Dylan and Mr. MacHenry were introduced a little later. (Interestingly, Brian and Ermintrude's introductory episodes are switched between the French and English adaptations, with Brian being introduced first in the French version, while the English show first introduced Ermintrude.) Oddly, some sources (including the 2003 documentary The Magic Roundabout Story) incorrectly claim that Ermintrude and Dylan first appeared on the show after the series switched from black-and-white to color, when they were actually introduced in the black-and-white episodes.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
The Magic Roundabout / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: In "Ermintrude's Toothache" where Ermintrude is in a lot of pain from the toothache, so Dougal suggests to pull the tooth out, despite Florence's concerns. Nevertheless, they all got together to pull the tooth out.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_2200d9ec	type	Engineered Heroics
The Magic Roundabout / int_2200d9ec	comment	Engineered Heroics: In the CGI episode "Read All About It!", in order for Dougal to get a good story in the newspaper, Florence plans out a dramatic situation where it will have her in Train running out of control, but she reassures her friends that the situation is only pretend. They go along with the plan and they managed to get Dougal involved. Just as it was going so well, Train runs over a rock which knocks out some gears, making him go genuinely out of control and puts Florence in real danger. Fortunately, Dougal came to the rescue and manages to apply Train's brakes.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Magic Roundabout / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Despite being a young girl, Florence is the most level-headed member of the gang and the more sensible one. Dougal himself will sometimes have shades of this.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Magic Roundabout / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Zebedee has this in the French version, in tandem with his catchphrase "Tournicoti, tournicoton!" (Usually after a sentence, he would say "Tournico-" followed by the ending adjective of the last word he says. For example, in the American English dub for Pinwheel, he would say something like, "There he is, tournico-tis!")
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The Magic Roundabout / int_26e749fc	type	Garbage Hideout
The Magic Roundabout / int_26e749fc	comment	Garbage Hideout: Dougal occasionally does this in the CGI Series, with "Dougal's Bad Smell Day" being one example as he hides in a rubbish bin as an attempt to hide from everyone.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Magic Roundabout / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The entire plot of "Dougal and the Blue Cat" happens entirely in one day.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_29c480a3	type	Good News, Bad News
The Magic Roundabout / int_29c480a3	comment	Good News, Bad News: In the CGI series' episode "Mr. Rusty's Luck", this exchange between Dougal and Florence after what happened to Mr. Pickles, Mr. Rusty's lucky teddy.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
The Magic Roundabout / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Florence, the children, Mr. Rusty, Mr. McHenry, and Dylan all wear their signature outfits in each episode of both the original and the revival series. Though Dylan changes his outfit respectively in "Rockstar Dylan" and "The Carrot Patch Challenge".
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The Magic Roundabout / int_2c2bde0d	type	Not-So-Forgotten Birthday
The Magic Roundabout / int_2c2bde0d	comment	Florence also has two birthday episodes. In one of them, "Florence's Party" from 1970, she is given a Not-So-Forgotten Birthday surprise, with the entire gang putting on a talent show. In the second from 1976, her birthday is only the subject in the English version, not the original French version. (In the French version, Dougal brings back a large sphinx statue of himself from vacation, where he, Brian, and Ermintrude accidentally get themselves locked in. The English version hasn't been recovered yet, but it's likely that Dougal had gotten the statue as a birthday gift for Florence.)
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The Magic Roundabout / int_2ef005ab	type	Vocal Evolution
The Magic Roundabout / int_2ef005ab	comment	Vocal Evolution: Originally, Eric Thompson never changed his voice for any of the characters (with the possible exception of Dougal who he intendedly based on Tony Hancock) when narrating the stories. During the early 70s, when the series was broadcast in color, he gradually began doing this for all of the other characters as well. (As he explained in an interview, he had been narrating the series for so long to the point that each of the characters eventually became identifiable enough.) Also, in the CGI reboot series, Brian's voice (provided by David Holt, who also voiced Dougal) was originally deeper during the first few episodes of the first series (almost to somewhat match with Jim Broadbent's voice from the 2005 film), but became much higher for the rest of the show.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_2ff7b138	type	Cheer Up Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_2ff7b138	comment	Cheer Up Episode: The Nigel Planer re-narration of "Hide and Seek" is this where Florence is feeling agitated and couldn't find a way to get herself relaxed, so she and friends play a game of hide and seek to cheer Florence up and make her feel better. The CGI Series episode "Barmy Army" is also this when Sam feels disappointed that his soldier friends are delayed and couldn't come to his party. Feeling sorry for Sam, Florence, Dougal and their friends cheer him up by being acting soldiers in hopes of Sam letting them come to his party.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_3360dc2c	type	Mellow Fellow
The Magic Roundabout / int_3360dc2c	comment	Mellow Fellow: Dylan.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
The Magic Roundabout / int_34e89418	comment	The French version of "Dougal and the Blue Cat" is also set entirely on Florence's birthday. It starts off good when she meets Buxton the blue cat who arrived in the garden, until Florence along with her friends, minus Dougal, are captured by Buxton's army and imprisoned in the dungeons.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_3743ef88	type	Feud Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_3743ef88	comment	Feud Episode: This happens in the 2007 reboot series episode "Kiss and Make-Up", due to Dougal believing that Ermitrude is shouting and screaming at Mr. Rusty and Brian, he and Ermitrude fall out and refuse to speak to each other, with Dylan and Brian having to send insulting messages back and forth to and from each sender. It's only when Dougal realizes that he got the wrong end of the stick when Mr. Rusty and Brian reveal that she was only helping them (Mr. Rusty asked her to shout down his hearing trumpet to see if it was working and Brian asked her to scream down the mic of his sound recording device) and he was sent by Florence to apologize to Ermintrude in person. The ending of the episode shows them reconciled.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_37ad8d62	type	Heavy Sleeper
The Magic Roundabout / int_37ad8d62	comment	Heavy Sleeper: Dylan.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_3c628a94	type	Exercise Excuse
The Magic Roundabout / int_3c628a94	comment	Exercise Excuse: In an episode, Ermintrude is leaping about because she is afraid of mice. However, she is too embarrassed to say so and claims she's doing a traditional dance.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_3dca808a	type	Babysitting Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_3dca808a	comment	Babysitting Episode: The CGI Series episode "Arthur" starts off with Florence finding a baby penguin alone on her doorstep and takes him in to look after him as well as giving him a name Arthur. Ermintrude, Dylan, Brian and eventually Dougal (who is warming up to the penguin) take turns to look after him while Florence asks Sam to search for the penguin's parents.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Magic Roundabout / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Mr. Rusty is this to Florence and the other children when necessary (the parents of Florence and the other children are not present, and are only occasionally mentioned in the French version of the original series).
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The Magic Roundabout / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Magic Roundabout / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Zebedee serves as this in the original series (and occasionally in the CGI reboot series as well) to solve the protagonists' problems.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_411bd9ee	type	Body Wipe
The Magic Roundabout / int_411bd9ee	comment	Body Wipe: A few of these happen in the 2007 revival series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
The Magic Roundabout / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: The episodes from the original series has a few of these: The 3-part trilogy "Mr. Rusty's House" focuses on Florence and her friends planning on building Mr. Rusty's new house when his old house is badly damaged by the storm. Another 3-part trilogy "The Rainbow" involves Dougal and Florence traveling through different colors of the rainbow to find the missing green color. A 2-part story arc "Glasses" features Florence staying over in the garden with her friends to watch a musical rehearsal performed by dancing glasses.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_43273c71	type	LongRunner
The Magic Roundabout / int_43273c71	comment	Long Runner: In the UK, the original series initially ran for 12 years, and since then, reruns have been airing until the mid-2000s.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
The Magic Roundabout / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The entire plot of "Vote for Me" could have been avoided if Dougal asked Florence if he can bury his bone in her garden. Even Dougal states that Florence could have told him that before he he went through all that trouble to campaign for mayor and get into rivalry with Brian for nothing. Florence lampshades this in "Dylan's Big Gig" while responding to Dougal's remark about the fairies as they were searching for them in order to get them to light up Dylan's stage for his gig that night.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_458bd7d	type	What Does This Button Do?
The Magic Roundabout / int_458bd7d	comment	What Does This Button Do?: In the 2007 revival series episode "Litterbugs", while Dougal and Florence use Train to vacuum the litter around the village, Dougal notices the Big Red Button and unwittingly pushes it out of curiosity (which both he and Florence didn't hear Mr. Grimsdale's word of caution after they left with the parts needed), causing Train to zoom around wildly sucking everything up in his path, including Brian. Fortunately, Florence stops this by pushing the red button again which turns off the vacuum device.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
The Magic Roundabout / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: In the Nigel Planer narration of the original series' episode, "Once Upon a Time", Dougal talks rudely about Ermintrude to Brian and Florence and starts calling her names (like a "barrage balloon on stilts"), unaware that she is listening nearby. This shatters Ermintrude's self-esteem, but Dylan convinces her to be herself no matter what others say.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Magic Roundabout / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dougal. Some would argue he's a bit more of a Jerkass in Nigel Planer's re-narration of the original series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Magic Roundabout / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Dougal would get a fair share of this as a result of either bad luck or being outsmarted.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Magic Roundabout / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: A few episodes from Season 1 of the 2007 revival series will have small scenes right after Dylan drifts to sleep when Zebedee throws a party just before the closing credits start.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_49c68dd3	type	Magic Carpet
The Magic Roundabout / int_49c68dd3	comment	Magic Carpet: The original series episode "Flying Carpet" has Dougal getting caught up in a magic carpet that flies him all over the garden. The revival series episode "The Flying Carpet" has a similar plot about Dougal and the magic carpet, except he uses it with Fly to give rides to his friends (with exception of Brian) so he can get many pies as he wants.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_4a235e15	type	Happy Circus Music
The Magic Roundabout / int_4a235e15	comment	Happy Circus Music: The opening theme is an upbeat, bouncy organ tune meant to create a cheerful mood for the show, and to fit the titular Magic Roundabout or carousel.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Magic Roundabout / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: This happens to Florence on a few occasions, with the dungeon scene from "Dougal and the Blue Cat" being one major example.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_4b9a9cef	type	Children Do the Housework
The Magic Roundabout / int_4b9a9cef	comment	Children Do the Housework: Florence is shown to be quite capable of doing the housework at her age. In Dougal and the Blue Cat, she is shown to be dusting around her bedroom before she leaves to meet her friends at the roundabout. In the 2007 revival series as she is shown to be living independently at her house, Florence regularly keeps the house tidy as well as cooking pies for Dougal.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Magic Roundabout / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: For the first few of the earliest episodes, the mouths of the children were briefly animated and moved. For Fly's first appearance in the CGI reboot series premiere "Dougal's Bad Smell Day", he is a lot smaller and barely seen. For all subsequent episodes, beginning with "Dougal Goes to the Moon", he is bigger and more visible.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
The Magic Roundabout / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: In the Eric Thompson version of "Florence's Party", the narrator states that Florence weeps tears of joy as she leaves with the gifts her friends gave her for her birthday, with Dougal saying "Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears." At the beginning of the CGI Series episode "Snails Alive!", Florence sheds tears of joy after reading a book of a handsome prince who was turned into a frog, and only the kiss from a fair damsel with pure of heart and kind of nature will turn him back into a Prince.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_5619ea34	type	Blowing a Raspberry
The Magic Roundabout / int_5619ea34	comment	Blowing a Raspberry: Ermintrude does this to Auntie Primrose after their quarrel in "Auntie Primrose Strikes Again!"
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The Magic Roundabout / int_570be107	type	Sleepyhead
The Magic Roundabout / int_570be107	comment	Sleepyhead: Dylan.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_58b70952	type	Failure Montage
The Magic Roundabout / int_58b70952	comment	Failure Montage: This one occurs in the 2007 revival series episode "The Flying Carpet" where Florence tries to give the carpet something else other than pies - which Dougal refused to give up any of his own pies, but the carpet rejects them.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The Magic Roundabout / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: The villain of Dougal and the Blue Cat is (who else), the blue cat, Buxton, whose motivation is to become the Blue King and turn the entire world the color blue.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_5ac47fa6	type	Erudite Stoner
The Magic Roundabout / int_5ac47fa6	comment	Erudite Stoner: Dylan, although obviously he was never actually said to be stoned. He was just tired a lot. Really.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
The Magic Roundabout / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: In "Dougal and the Blue Cat", Florence blames herself during her sad song for not believing Dougal's warnings about Buxton that resulted in her, along with everyone else with the exception of Dougal, being captured and imprisoned by Buxton's army.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_5e2c927c	type	Heroic Canines, Villainous Felines
The Magic Roundabout / int_5e2c927c	comment	Heroic Canines, Villainous Felines: "Dougal and the Blue Cat" has Dougal as the main hero and a loyal dog on the side of good, while Buxton the blue cat is the main villain who wants to take over the garden.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_5e965a73	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
The Magic Roundabout / int_5e965a73	comment	Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Out of the gang, we have the male characters Dougal, Dylan, and Brian to fit in the roles. Dylan (nice) is easy-going and rarely loses his cool, Dougal (mean) is grumpy, selfish, and sarcastic, and Brian (in-between) is happy-go-lucky, but is sometimes cynical and would show a bit of a cheeky side with Dougal. Whenever Florence is involved in helping out Dougal and Brian, she's the nice one as Florence is more calm, sweet, caring, and sympathetic while Dougal and Brian retain their respective roles.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
The Magic Roundabout / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: Florence says this out of annoyance when the school bell hidden somewhere rings for the second time that abruptly ends the Maths lesson she's teaching in "School's In, Out and Roundabout".
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The Magic Roundabout / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Magic Roundabout / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Buxton in the ending, when he comes to the garden to beg Dougal and everyone else for forgiveness after an outraged Madam Blue has stripped him from his title.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Magic Roundabout / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Florence sometimes does this to Dougal in some episodes in the 2007 revival series to show her disappointment or displeasure if he did something bad. A good example of this happens in "Higgledy Piggledy" where she gives Dougal one when he is about to strike the potato into the final hole after she had caught him cheating earlier at the previous hole to try and make Ermintrude lose.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_66c725b6	type	Inconsistent Spelling
The Magic Roundabout / int_66c725b6	comment	Inconsistent Spelling: It's supposed to be "Dougal" and not "Doogal", no matter what the 2005 film's American re-dub might tell you.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_6e92a631	type	Four-Fingered Hands
The Magic Roundabout / int_6e92a631	comment	Four-Fingered Hands: Dylan, Zebedee and the human characters, including Florence all have four-fingered hands. Averted with the KFC figure of Florence from the 2005 film as she has five fingers on each hand instead of four.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Magic Roundabout / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: The French version of the original series' episode, "Dougal Stands for Parliament" has Dougal in an advertising-crazed mood, becoming obsessed with taking care of his brand image to reach the top. Brian (who continuously tries to avoid getting hit by Dougal's car) and Florence both notice how this crazed obsession is preventing Dougal from taking the time to enjoy life, as it's even kept him too busy to eat any sugar. To teach him a lesson, Zebedee changes it so that Ermintrude's brand image is advertised instead. An enraged Dougal tries to sabotage this, but almost injures himself while driving in his car, causing him to finally admit defeat. Florence then gives Dougal a sugar to make him feel better, as the dog begins to marvel how wonderful sugar is. This puts him right back in his advertising mood again, this time planning to advertise sugar, much to Brian's dismay. The CGI Series Episode "The Cow in the Hat" has Ermintrude acting really bossy under the influence of the "bossy hat" she is wearing and orders everyone to take the one way routes and disallowing them from activities they find fun. Very fortunately, Florence manages to persuade Ermintrude to swap the bossy hat with a beautiful brimmed hat, thus changing her back to normal. Afterwards, Dougal is tasked to throw the bossy hat in the bin, but he initially pauses when he gets to a bin. When the episode begins to end with Zebedee throwing a party and Dylan drifting off to sleep, Dougal immediately arrives wearing the bossy hat, acting completely bossy the same way Ermintrude was being throughout the episode. In "Interior Des-aster", After Ermintrude accidentally wrecks the interior of Brian's house, causing him to stay over at Florence's house whilst Ermintrude redecorates the interior to make it up to Brian. Dougal, of course, is less than pleased when he has to spend the day with Brian, and even tries to deliberately leave him behind by running off, only to get caught out by Florence, Mr. Rusty and Zebedee (who was asked by Florence to keep an eye on Dougal). Ermintrude arrives to show Brian the redecoration of his house interior, but Brian isn't particularly fond of the result, prompting Ermintrude to redecorate again and for Brian to stay over at Florence's house longer, much to Dougal's dismay. In "Special Delivery", when Dougal sees Fly pestering Mr. Grimsdale, he runs to stop him from eating his pies, but causes Mr. Grimsdale to crash into the bandstand. The accident resulted in Mr. Grimsdale injuring his back and his bike being broken that Florence forces Dougal to do the rest of the deliveries on the pull cart. While delivering the things that Dylan needed, Dougal uses Train to do the rest of the deliveries, leaving behind the cart which Dylan falls asleep in and rolls into the village. After finishing the deliveries where he delivers the pies at Florence's house, Dougal sets out to look for her only to encounter the scarecrow that Dylan has built. Mistaking it for a monster who has kept Dylan hostage, Dougal rallies Ermintrude and Brian to help him tackle the monster. When they do, they realize their mistake as they have destroyed the scarecrow just as Dylan shows up with Florence and Mr. Rusty. Just as Dylan begins to feel devastated, Florence reassures him that Dougal will make up for it by helping Dylan make another scarecrow, as well as having to force Dougal into doing that by clearing her throat when he tries to worm his way out of this.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Magic Roundabout / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: In Dougal and the Blue Cat, Brian is seemingly killed when he rushes back to retrieve Zebedee's magic mustache from Buxton's factory, just before it collapses.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: The original series episode "Letter to Father Christmas" is this where Dougal writes a letter to Father Christmas and Florence thinking on what presents she wants, but says that she doesn't expect it all.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
The Magic Roundabout / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: Dougal often tries to cheat to try and win: The French version of the original series' episode "Clairvoyant" involves Zebedee giving Ermintrude powers, which causes her to guess any object in front of her, while blindfolded. Dougal also tries to imitate this, but by cheating. In the CGI episode, "The Race", Dougal orders an electric skateboard to zoom his way to the finish line and setting up bait for the contestants. He nearly succeeds, but Zebedee (when he and Florence find the box of the skateboard behind the windmill earlier and realising his scheme) reverses the skateboard, sending him back to the start and only Brian (who is slow and steady) manages to win the race. In "Higgledy Piggledy", Dougal becomes annoyed and jealous with Ermintrude's love of the game and her winning streak, so he plans to cheat by secretly rigging the game. However, he gets caught by a displeased Florence where she scolds him for cheating, saying that she will be very cross with him, as well as reminding him how much the game means to Ermintrude. Upon hearing that he might win, Dougal makes his way to the final hole and is about to hit the potato into the hole when he sees Florence glaring at him, making her displeasure of Dougal's cheating very clear, and Ermintrude's worried look. These what prompts him give in and deliberately misses the final hole by striking the potato far away from it. In "The Vegetables Are Revolting", Dougal plans to win the vegetable competition by using some of Florence's compost to grow his pumpkin to be large, as well as telling stories to the contestants, i.e. stopping watering the plants because of a water shortage. However, Zebedee soon teaches him a lesson by growing the pumpkin to be that gigantic and carved a Jack-O'-Lantern style face into the pumpkin before making the enchanted pumpkin to chase after Dougal.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_73f51de7	type	Jerkass Ball
The Magic Roundabout / int_73f51de7	comment	Jerkass Ball: Ermintrude would sometimes grab it in some episodes in the post-2005 CGI era. In "The Cow in the Hat", she became very bossy due to being under the influence of the bossy hat she is wearing, and spends the whole episode acting as a bossy and strict traffic warden where she forces everyone to take the one way route and obey the traffic lights. She even goes that far to clamp Mr. Grimsdale bike in the beginning before she later on plans on doing the same to the Magic Roundabout. This what prompts Florence to get a beautiful brimmed hat from Mr. Grimsdale and convince Ermintrude to swap hats. It manages to revert Ermintrude's personality back to normal when she puts the beautiful hat on. In "Mirror, Mirror", thanks to Zebedee's mischief by enchanting Ermintrude's mirror, she thinks that she is a magic mirror and invites everyone over to her place not only to show off her beauty rather vainly and arrogantly but to show off the magic mirror. This is what prompts Dougal to swap the mirror over with a standard one and acts as the magic mirror where he insults Ermintrude when she talks to the mirror, causing her to almost smack the mirror until Florence and everyone stop her. When everyone, including Dougal and Florence, expresses their discomfort about Ermintrude's vain behavior, she realizes how rude she's been and apologizes. In "The Enchanted Garden Make-Over", upon being inspired by Florence's warm compliment about her garden, Ermintrude spends the day and night making plans to make changes for everyone's gardens before showing them to everyone, against their will and discomfort where Ermintrude doesn't take a hint. When everyone complains to Zebedee about this, he immediately does an entire re make-over on Ermintrude's garden in his style which horrifies Ermintrude and makes her realize the error of her ways that she can't change what everyone likes in their gardens. Dylan also grabs it in "Rockstar Dylan", when he becomes an arrogant and rude rock star under Dougal's mentoring when his guitar begins to sound like an electric rock guitar, due to Zebedee's mischief. Eventually, Dougal realizes how rude Dylan is being and leaves him, leaving Dylan alone to realize the error of his ways until Florence later comes to comfort him after hearing his sad song. She and Dylan realize that his guitar has been tampered by Zebedee's magic and they call him over to reprimand him for tampering with Dylan's guitar.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_745bb9ab	type	Green Around the Gills
The Magic Roundabout / int_745bb9ab	comment	Green Around the Gills: Dougal's face turns pale green in the revival series episode "Emergency Measures" as a result of feeling dizzy after he was spinning in Train's carriage which was tied to the Magic Roundabout in an attempt to stop it from spinning out of control. He shakes his head to get rid of the nauseated dizziness afterwards.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_7477c7c5	type	Resistance Is Futile
The Magic Roundabout / int_7477c7c5	comment	Resistance Is Futile: Zeebad says this while advancing on the gang where they back away after refusing to let slip of the third diamond's whereabouts.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_74c9cf33	type	Two Girls to a Team
The Magic Roundabout / int_74c9cf33	comment	Two Girls to a Team: Florence and Ermintrude are the only two female characters in the gang.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Magic Roundabout / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: For unknown reasons, Mr. MacHenry the gardener fell into this in the 2005 CGI film and was somewhat replaced with a new character, Mr. Grimsdale. Thankfully, he returned (albeit with a redesign) for the 2007 reboot series. (Unlike the original series though, the French dub of the reboot series uses his English name, instead of "Bonhomme Jouvence", while Mr. Grimsdale has the gardener's French name instead.) Later black-and-white episodes of the original series introduced a few additional characters that appeared occasionally amongst the main cast. The characters included a knitting spider named Penelope and a pair of twin birds. Those characters stopped appearing after 1971, although some of the color episodes featuring the characters were resurrected during the early 90s when Nigel Planer began re-narrating the series. Also, the other three kids (Paul, Basil, and Rosalie) who occasionally accompanied Florence made only four appearances in the 1970-1971 color episodes, until they eventually stopped appearing all together starting with the 1974-1977 episodes (although they continued to appear during the show's opening and closing titles).
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The Magic Roundabout / int_76cbbc0b	type	George Lucas Altered Version
The Magic Roundabout / int_76cbbc0b	comment	George Lucas Altered Version: Believe it or not, the original French version of the series went through this. Sometime around the 70s and 80s, Patricia Danot, who voiced Florence (Margote), re-recorded her character for the 1970-1971 color episodes that were made before Pollux et le Chat Bleu (Dougal and the Blue Cat), probably due to a case of Vocal Evolution, since her voice became deeper by the 1974-1977 episodes. Another revision was done in 1983, when the show went into reruns on FR3, and a new theme song was used, along with new scores by Carlos Leresche, replacing the original music by Alain Legrand. The most notable change came around 1989, when AB Productions bought the rights to the series. Along with a new batch of episodes (which were broadcast during the 90s), the original carousel theme was replaced again, this time with an entirely different pop tune, and all of the color episodes also had their original music tracks replaced with new underscores of said pop tune. (These underscores were also used for Nigel Planer and Jimmy Hibbert's English re-narrations in the UK, although the original carousel opening and the closing theme was kept intact.) All the color episodes also used the opening and closing footage from the series 3 episodes, along with a modified opening title card.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
The Magic Roundabout / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me!: In "Dougal and the Blue Cat" after finding out Buxton's intentions, Dougal tries to warn his friends, but when Buxton starts to shed tears, they refuse to believe him and feel sorry for the cat. They do realise their mistake once Buxton has them captured and imprisoned in the dungeons.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_77e73dc7	type	Food as Bribe
The Magic Roundabout / int_77e73dc7	comment	Food as Bribe: In the revival series when it comes to getting Dougal to do some housework chores or any tasks for her, Florence would offer him a bone or some pies if he did what she asks him to do.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
The Magic Roundabout / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: The animation in the 1974-1977 episodes of the original series, is much more energized and fast-paced, compared to earlier episodes from 1965-1971. Also, gradually throughout the color episodes, certain characters gain eye expressions (Dylan, in particular, gains eyelids whenever he sleeps).
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The Magic Roundabout / int_8084141a	type	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
The Magic Roundabout / int_8084141a	comment	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: At the start of "Kiss and Make up", Dougal, from a distance, sees Ermintrude shouting and screaming at Mr. Rusty and Brian, he then leaves, without stopping a bit longer to see that Ermintrude was actually helping them. Zebedee also gets the wrong end of the stick in "No More Magic, Zebedee" when he sees the inhabitants complaining about their favourite things without realizing what they were actually complaining and grumbling about (until he finds out near the end) - Florence was trying to shoo away the insects who are trying to eat her flowers in her garden, Dougal was worried about if he has got all of his bones in his patch, Dylan was getting exhausted when struggling to pull his carrots out of his patch, Ermintrude was worried if she has got all of her cooking equipment, Brian was worried if all of his items are all there in his collection, and Mr. Rusty was trying to get his barrel organ to work. When he takes all of their favourite things away to cheer them up, they were none too pleased, leading Mr. Rusty to give Zebedee a taste of his own medicine.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_82a60dce	type	Signature Laugh
The Magic Roundabout / int_82a60dce	comment	Signature Laugh: In the French version, Mr. MacHenry had a constant chuckle in Dougal and the Blue Cat, but in the series, this was more of a Verbal Tic, which has him saying something like "Hep, hep hep!"
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The Magic Roundabout / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
The Magic Roundabout / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care: Dougal particularly loves eating sugar cubes, but in real life, granulated sugar isn't good for dogs.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Magic Roundabout / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Dougal (red) is grumpy, mostly rude, and sometimes selfish while Florence (blue) is more polite, kind-hearted, and caring.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_87b73405	type	Signing-Off Catchphrase
The Magic Roundabout / int_87b73405	comment	Signing-Off Catchphrase: Most episodes in the English dub of the original series ended with Zebedee saying, "Time for bed". Similarly, episodes of the 2007 reboot series end with Zebedee announcing "It's time to party!" to which the characters do so, with Dylan drowsily saying "I wish it was time for bed, man..." (or simply "I wish it was time for bed..." in the second season)
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The Magic Roundabout / int_8af2a61f	type	Camping Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_8af2a61f	comment	Camping Episode: The original series episode "Camping" has Dougal and Brian setting up a camping tent and leave to surprise Florence. But Dylan unintentionally collapses it when taking the strings to replace the broken ones on his guitar. Two of the CGI revival episodes "The Supersonic Spotted Stagbeast" and "The Call of the Wild" are this.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_8bc5b86e	type	One-Shot Character
The Magic Roundabout / int_8bc5b86e	comment	Also, the aforementioned blue scarecrow (see One-Shot Character above) is a male was named Jasper in Nigel Planer's English re-dub, despite having a female appearance.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
The Magic Roundabout / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: In the CGI series' episode "Brian's Gift to Dougal", because it's Dougal's birthday, Dougal actually acts really pleasant to his friends, especially Brian who is giving a jigsaw puzzle of the picture of Dougal to him as a birthday present, and never makes any rude remarks whatsoever.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Magic Roundabout / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: In the revival series episode "Read All About It", Florence plans out a staged dramatic situation in an attempt to get Dougal to write an interesting story in the newspaper where it involves Train going out of control with Florence in the carriage. She does reassure her friends that the situation is only pretend and they play along with it. Unfortuantely, Florence didn't consider the drawbacks of what would happen if it went awry until Train runs over a rock which knocks out some gears which causes him to speed out of control for real with Florence now hanging on in the carriage for dear life. In "Mr. Grimsdale's Holiday", when Dougal is tasked to do the deliveries while Mr. Grimsdale is away on holiday, he leaves the delivery cart with Dylan and assigns him to do the deliveries just so he can get out from a bit of work. It's only when Dougal realises that his pies were in the cart after Florence mentions them when he came back whilst claiming that he done the deliveries.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_8e3a59aa	type	The Killjoy
The Magic Roundabout / int_8e3a59aa	comment	The Killjoy: One episode features a hat called the "Bossy Hat" which makes the wearer grumpy and bossy, disallowing activities the others find fun.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
The Magic Roundabout / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: In the original French version, Dougal has a heavy English accent, Zebedee has a Spanish accent, and Dylan has an Italian accent. In the original French show, Dylan simply has maÃ±ana attitude. For the French dub of the 2005 CGI film, Dylan's Italian characteristics are replaced with that of his British hippie personality. (This even results in the character having a deep baritone voice, as provided by Eddy Mitchell, causing him to sound nothing like he did in the original French show.) Also, in the original French version, Florence is Chinese. In the English dub of Dougal and the Blue Cat, Buxton has a Northern British accent.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Magic Roundabout / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Dougal will get hit with this whenever he tries to do a nefarious scheme in the original series as well as the CGI series. In "The Experiment", after he tried the hair-growth experiment on Brian and Ermintrude, Zebedee pours the antidote onto Dougal's head which makes his fur come off his ears in order to teach him a lesson before restoring the aforementioned two victims back to normal. In "School's In, Out and Roundabout", Florence's lessons are abruptly ended by the sound of the school bell much to her annoyance when she was trying to teach Dougal and everyone. She and Zebedee find the school bell hidden underneath Dougal's cardboard box desk where they realize that Dougal is secretly ending the lessons by ringing the bell whenever he chooses. So Florence confiscates the bell before the last lesson and when she returns to teach the lesson, she catches Dougal red-headed after seeing his crude drawing of her on the chalkboard complete with his signature that she recognizes and prepares to punish him by keeping him behind after school. Dougal tries to ring the bell to end the lesson but to obviously no avail and Florence reveals the confiscated bell to him before everyone laughs at him.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_9139687c	type	Hates Baths
The Magic Roundabout / int_9139687c	comment	Hates Baths: Dougal, as shown in the CGI Series episode "Dougal's Bad Smell Day". He then spends the whole episode evading Florence and everyone else when they try to catch him, even when using a cake for bait fails, due to Dylan dosing off and forgetting to drop the cage on Dougal when arrives to eat the cake. However, after eating it whole, he does fall asleep afterwards, giving Florence and everyone the chance to take him away to clean him up with a bath, much to his irritation.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Magic Roundabout / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Buxton in Dougal and the Blue Cat.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
The Magic Roundabout / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: During one scene in "The Carrot Patch Challenge", the original creator Serge Danot's name appears on the side of a crash mat as "S. Danot".
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The Magic Roundabout / int_97928805	type	Barefoot Cartoon Animal
The Magic Roundabout / int_97928805	comment	Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Dylan the rabbit.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_9b5a308c	type	Crocodile Tears
The Magic Roundabout / int_9b5a308c	comment	Crocodile Tears: Buxton uses this on the gang in Dougal and the Blue Cat to keep them from getting suspicious about his plans, despite Dougal's protests.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_9c5ed17	type	Singing Voice Dissonance
The Magic Roundabout / int_9c5ed17	comment	Singing Voice Dissonance: In the original French version of Dougal and the Blue Cat, Buxton's singing voice is deeper than his speaking voice.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Magic Roundabout / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: In the 2007 revival series, there are a few episodes that are respectively focused on the new characters from the 2005 film: Mr. Grimsdale and Soldier Sam. There are also a few episodes that are focused on Fly, a new character introduced for the series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Magic Roundabout / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In "Follow That Piano!", Florence lets Ermintrude borrow her piano so she can use it for her singing and asks Dougal to bring it to her in exchange of rewarding him with a bone. When she tells Zebedee that she will be missing her piano, he replies that it may come rolling back to her. When Dougal and Brian get the piano to Ermintrude, it somehow rolls its way back to Florence's house and it occurs thrice, prompting Florence to figure out that it was all Zebedee's doing. In "Bones Are For Eating", when Dougal finds Ermintrude in order to get her to sign a petition to protest about bones to be eaten, not for looking at, Ermintrude is seen scratching her back against a tree as she has misplaced her backscratcher. Later when Dougal tries to steal the bone back from Florence and Brian, Dylan and Ermintrude arrive with the latter asking them what they were doing with her backscratcher, revealing that the "bone" Dougal found was none other than Ermintrude's backscratcher that she brought back from holiday as a souvenir.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_9f240209	type	Gag Dub
The Magic Roundabout / int_9f240209	comment	Gag Dub: The English version of the original series used a script that was not a translation of the French, instead it was a new comedic script in English that Eric Thompson thought would suit an English audience
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
The Magic Roundabout / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: Most, if not all episodes of the original series were this. This is lampshaded by Florence and Dougal in the English version of "Washing Machine".
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a0955420	type	She's a Man in Japan
The Magic Roundabout / int_a0955420	comment	She's a Man in Japan: Train is a female-only in Thompson's English dub of the original show (as well as Dougal and the Blue Cat). Also, the aforementioned blue scarecrow (see One-Shot Character above) is a male was named Jasper in Nigel Planer's English re-dub, despite having a female appearance.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a15af1f3	type	Sugar Bowl
The Magic Roundabout / int_a15af1f3	comment	Sugar Bowl: Would almost certainly count if it weren't for both of the movies.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Magic Roundabout / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Everyone, including Mr. Rusty, has that reaction in "No More Magic, Zebedee" when they see the devastated Zebedee beginning to leave the Enchanted Gardens with a bindle, due to his magic powers being stripped from him when Mr. Rusty removed the magic gasket from the Magic Roundabout to try and teach him a lesson for taking away their favorite things (unknown to them, however, Zebedee only took away because of what he thought he saw them grumbling and moaning with them earlier). Fortunately, Florence, who was against this at the beginning, and Brian, who begins to feel bad for Zebedee after seeing how upset he became, tell Mr. Rusty to stop this and place the magic gasket back in.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a20ff0b5	type	Bindle Stick
The Magic Roundabout / int_a20ff0b5	comment	Bindle Stick: Zebedee carries one in "No More Magic, Zebedee" after his magic powers got stripped from him.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a23b07cd	type	Ordered Apology
The Magic Roundabout / int_a23b07cd	comment	Ordered Apology: In the Nigel Planer narration of the original series' episode, "Once Upon a Time", Dougal talks rudely about Ermintrude and calls her names (unaware that she's listening), which doesn't please Brian or Florence. In "School's In, Out and Roundabout", Dougal, overcome with jealousy with Brian's knowledge of Maths, begins to argue with Brian and starts insulting him, causing Florence (who is the schoolteacher) to stop the lesson to tell Dougal off for his behaviour and orders him to apologize to Brian. Of course, Dougal refuses and Florence tells him that she will keep him behind after school if he doesn't apologize. In "Kiss and Make-Up" after finding out that Dougal and Ermintrude's fight happened because of the former's rudeness and misunderstanding earlier, Florence crossly tells Dougal to go and apologize to Ermintrude immediately. Right after Florence went inside her house, Dougal instead sends Fly to pass on his apology message to Ermintrude. This fails anyway, and when Florence finds out within earshot of Dougal and Fly's conversation, she was more displeased with Dougal but manages to convince him to apologize to Ermintrude in person for everyone's sake, which Dougal reluctantly obliges where he and Ermintrude make up.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
The Magic Roundabout / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: The 2007 CGI revival series has this for all the episodes (with an exception of "Dylan's Big Gig") where Zebedee throws a party when all the problems are solved. While the main characters and whoever's involved dance, Dylan droopily says "I wish it was time for bed, man." before he drifts off to sleep. The second season has Zebedee throwing a party in the village with all the main and supporting characters gathered as they dance. As before, Dylan drifts off to sleep after saying "I wish it was time for bed."
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a46881f2	type	Believer Fakes Evidence
The Magic Roundabout / int_a46881f2	comment	Believer Fakes Evidence: One episode focuses on Dougal refusing to believe in fairies, despite knowing magic exists. His friends get so frustrated at this that they pretend to be fairies in an attempt to trick him, but this backfires when he catches them out... then, real fairies show up, proving once and for all that they exist.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
The Magic Roundabout / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Brian in "Let's Stick Together" after everyone accidentally catapulted him out of his shell and onto the roof of the roundabout when trying to rescue Dougal who has got himself glued to Brian whilst looking for Florence's hankie.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Magic Roundabout / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Mr. Grimsdale was a minor character when he debuted in the 2005 film, but in the 2007 revival series, he became a recurring supporting character where he has a few episodes centered around him.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a65975e5	type	All-CGI Cartoon
The Magic Roundabout / int_a65975e5	comment	All-CGI Cartoon: It switched to CGI in the 2005 film and continued on with the 2007 Revival series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Magic Roundabout / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: In the French version of the original series, the formula for getting to the Magic Garden is by counting to three. In "Follow That Piano", Florence's piano somehow rolls its way from Ermintrude's tower back to Florence's house thrice throughout the episode. On the third time that the piano rolls back to her house and saw it happen with her own eyes, Florence realizes it was Zebedee's doing and calls him over where she chastises him for magically making her piano roll back to her house.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_a89b8f21	type	Musical Chores
The Magic Roundabout / int_a89b8f21	comment	Musical Chores: In "Dougal and the Blue Cat", Florence sings her song "Florence, it's a lovely morning" while dusting her bedroom before she leaves her house to meet her friends at the roundabout. In two episodes of the revival series "Florence's Squeaky Toys" and "Pretty bubbles in the Air", Florence was heard humming as she is cleaning her house. Ermintrude herself would be singing opera when she does the washing or any housework around her tower.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
The Magic Roundabout / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: In "Let's Stick Together", Dougal gets his nose stuck to Mr. Rusty's brush with glue on it whilst looking for Florence's hankie that was presumably dropped (until Florence later finds out that her hankie was in her basket all along and was hidden behind her groceries) and gets himself stuck inside Brian's shell where the two ending up rolling through the gardens before they settle in Ermintrude's house. Fortunately, Florence finds them and she and everyone manages to pull Dougal free from inside Brian's shell, as well as pulling Brian out of his shell by accident.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Magic Roundabout / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Dougal (his English voice is based on Tony Hancock). Florence would occasionally have her moments in the Nigel Planer episodes.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
The Magic Roundabout / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: This is one of Ermintrude (AzalÃ©e)'s character traits in the French version of the original show, as well as Dougal and the Blue Cat, especially with Dougal.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Magic Roundabout / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: This was said by the titular character to Dougal in "The Wishing Tree" after the latter foolishly used his third wish to make his friends go away, upon making the first two selfish wishes. Fortunately, Dougal makes a bargain with The Wishing Tree to grant him a further wish to return his friends under a condition he must do to his friends.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_b3393a2e	type	Trip to the Moon Plot
The Magic Roundabout / int_b3393a2e	comment	Trip to the Moon Plot: Nigel Planer's re-narration of "Flower in the Sun" which was retitled "Dougal the Astronaut" involves Dougal going to the moon to search for the plant fertilizer. The third act of "Dougal and the Blue Cat" has Dougal, under the disguise of Blue Peter, being sent with Buxton by Madam Blue to the moon where they are tasked to paint it blue. There, Dougal's true identity was accidentally exposed when the dog fell into the crater filled with water.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Magic Roundabout / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: In "Dougal and the Blue Cat", Florence and her friends, save for Dougal, were captured and imprisoned in the treacle factory dungeons by Buxton's army. Even though they finally see his true treacherous nature, they couldn't help but feel sorry for Buxton when they find him crying in the garden after Madam Blue expels him from his title as king and forgives him. Florence may not like any of her friends' wrongdoings where they are being rude, but this doesn't stop her from being sympathetic with them when they are depressed. An example of this occurs in "Rockstar Dylan" where she is disgusted with Dylan's rudeness when he is acting like a rockstar, but she comes over later to comfort him when he is playing a sad tune after nobody comes to his concert. Also, in "No More Magic, Zebedee", Florence may not like some of Zebedee's antics, but she isn't keen on Mr. Rusty's idea of upsetting Zebedee by stripping him from his magic. She nevertheless reluctantly goes along with the idea, and later tells Mr. Rusty to halt the action once she and everyone else saw an upset Zebedee preparing to leave the garden.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_b680713e	type	Melancholy Musical Number
The Magic Roundabout / int_b680713e	comment	Melancholy Musical Number: "Florence's Sad Song" is this which was sung by Florence herself in the dungeon scene in "Dougal and the Blue Cat". Dylan also sings a rather gloomy song in "Rockstar Dylan" after he sees that no one comes to his gig due to his rudeness. A sympathetic Florence, despite being annoyed with his rudeness earlier, gently applauds for Dylan as she comes to comfort him.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_b6e554c8	type	Slow and Steady Wins the Race
The Magic Roundabout / int_b6e554c8	comment	In the CGI episode, "The Race", Dougal orders an electric skateboard to zoom his way to the finish line and setting up bait for the contestants. He nearly succeeds, but Zebedee (when he and Florence find the box of the skateboard behind the windmill earlier and realising his scheme) reverses the skateboard, sending him back to the start and only Brian (who is slow and steady) manages to win the race.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_b73a2a6f	type	Finger Wag
The Magic Roundabout / int_b73a2a6f	comment	Finger Wag: In the Eric Thompson version of "The Lost Boing", Florence gives Brian one when scolding him for using Zebedee's lost spring.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Magic Roundabout / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: In Series 3 of the original series, most episodes have the focus leaning more on Dougal, Florence, Zebedee, Brian and Ermintrude whilst Dylan, Mr. Rusty, Mr. McHenry and Train are reduced to having supporting roles and even sometimes background appearances or cameos on occasion. Regardless, they still have a fair amount of appearances in this series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Magic Roundabout / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Dougal is usually self-centered and arrogant where he brags about himself. Ermintrude in "Mirror, Mirror" where she acts completely vain about her beauty and brags about the magic mirror. This what prompted Dougal to try and play a trick on Ermintrude in order to bring her back to her senses.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Magic Roundabout / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Only in Nigel Planer's re-narration of "Dylan's Bagpipes", at least, where Dougal says "Come on, you retarded rabbit." at one point.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_bf2412a1	type	Recap Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_bf2412a1	comment	Recap Episode: The first episode of Season 2 of the revival series "Sweet Memories" is this where Dougal interrupts each character's chance to get a word in about their holiday by recapping memories from previous episodes from Season 1, "Interior Des-aster", "Digger!", "Dylan's Wake-Up Call" and "Dougal Goes to the Moon".
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The Magic Roundabout / int_c067b082	type	Black Bead Eyes
The Magic Roundabout / int_c067b082	comment	Black Bead Eyes: The characters, with exception of Dylan, Brian, Mr. Rusty and Zebedee, have these kind of eyes in the original series before the post-2005 CGI era changes them to having normal eyes. However, the new characters Solider Sam and Fly will have these bead eyes.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Magic Roundabout / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Florence is a sweet-natured and very well-mannered young girl who is always kind and caring. Brian the snail is usually very cheerful and happy-go-lucky (especially in the French version) despite Dougal's insults.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
The Magic Roundabout / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: In "Dougal and the Blue Cat", everyone, with the exception of Dougal, had no idea that Buxton was a evil cat who is plotting to take over the Magic Garden.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Magic Roundabout / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: In "Dougal Sees Double", after Dougal mistakes the double version of Ermintrude for her sister and the double version of Brian for his cousin due to him wearing glasses that make him see double, he actually sees them in person where they respectively look just like Ermintrude and Brian. Dougal has two relatives who bear a similar resemblance to him. His Australian cousin nearly resembles Dougal, but he has Auburn fur and has a maroon nose, along with wearing a cork hat. Auntie Primrose is also similar to her nephew, except she has dark brown fur and wears green lipstick along with spectacles and a hat.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Magic Roundabout / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Dylan, the stoner/folk musician rabbit, after Bob Dylan. This line from Dougal and the Blue Cat referencing Hamlet: In the Eric Thompson version of "Dylan's Bagpipes", Dougal references the RSPCA (infamous for their nightmare-fueled PS As). In Nigel Planer's re-narration of the Scarecrow episode, Dougal more directly recites the original Hamlet quote. In Nigel Planer's re-narration of "Chimney Sweep", Brian hums the "Um-diddle-um-diddle-um-diddle-ay" scat from "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" In Nigel Planer's re-narration of the second part of the "Mr. Rusty's House" trilogy, the characters all recite the chorus line of "Heigh Ho". Also referenced in Dougal and the Blue Cat are NATO, United Nations, Blue Peter (which Dougal names himself as in a disguise to fool Buxton), Snow White (the "Magic Mirror" line, which Florence sings to herself), and NASA.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Magic Roundabout / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: In "Dougal and the Blue Cat", after seeing everything in the Old Treacle Factory, Dougal tries to tell Florence and everyone that Buxton is evil, but thanks to Buxton shedding crocodile tears, they refuse to believe him, until they realize their mistake when Buxton's army captures them, with the exception of Dougal, and imprison them in the dungeons. In "Dougal's Ball", Zebedee had secretly swapped Dougal's ball (which Florence bought to try and keep him active) with the same one, only enchanted and moves and flies on its own with Dougal trying to catch it. After losing it, Dougal informs Florence of this, but she doesn't believe him. Although, Florence is informed by Ermintrude that something is causing chaos in the gardens, she still doesn't believe Dougal when he thinks that it's the ball that causing the chaos to happen. It isn't until she sees it with her own eyes and after Dougal caught it, Florence apologizes to him for not believing him.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d13a03f0	type	Everybody Cries
The Magic Roundabout / int_d13a03f0	comment	Everybody Cries: When Florence sings her sad song in "Dougal and the Blue Cat" when she and most of the gang (except for Dougal) and imprisoned by Buxton's army, she begins to cry and everyone else cries with her. Later near the end of the film, the gang (this time with Dougal) along with a remorseful Buxton, cries again when Brian was seemingly killed after the treacle factory collapse. In addition, when Brian returns alive and well, he also cries Tears of Joy, moved by Buxton's pleas for forgiveness.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d16fa512	type	Was Too Hard on Him
The Magic Roundabout / int_d16fa512	comment	Was Too Hard on Him: In "The Party", while feeling very hurt and upset that her friends, including Dougal, avoided her when she came to ask them to help her mend her fence, Florence angrily leaves to visit some friends who will have time for her. Her friends, who are actually preparing a surprise party for Florence, realise what they've done when Zebedee informs them of Florence's departure, try to convince her to come back, but she crossly refuses, still very hurt at them for avoiding her. Afterwards, Florence begins to feel very bad for being angry with her friends just as Zebedee secretly diverts her back home where they manage to pull off the party for her. In "Sweet Memories", Florence begins to feel that way after she sternly puts her foot down with Dougal for continuously and rudely interrupting everyone's chance to say about their holidays. She, along with everyone else, sets out to find Dougal so she can make it up with him, only to find Dougal (who realises how jealous and rude he's been earlier) giving everyone presents as an apology.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d1e332e8	type	Crush the Keepsake
The Magic Roundabout / int_d1e332e8	comment	Crush the Keepsake: Discussed at the beginning of "Clocks Away", Dougal receives an old cuckoo clock from his great-grandmother, which is a family heirloom. Both Dougal and Florence are then startled by the loud cuckoo from the clock, prompting Dougal to suggest getting a big hammer to smash the clock up, but luckily Florence refuses to allow that to happen, saying that it is a present from his great-grandmother.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d1f4d528	type	Treasure Map
The Magic Roundabout / int_d1f4d528	comment	Treasure Map: In the beginning of "Pirate Treasure", Zebedee magically slides one in Florence's book about pirates as she was talking to Dougal about stories about pirates. She finds it and invites her friends for a treasure hunt. However, unknown to Florence and everyone else, Zebedee magically moves the "X" in different places prompting everyone to dig everywhere. Florence manages to solve this by burying the kind of treasure that everyone wants with Dylan's help and marking the exact location herself.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d21249bf	type	Token Wizard
The Magic Roundabout / int_d21249bf	comment	Token Wizard: Zebedee is the only main character who can do magic. However, one episode of the CGI series, "Magic Fairy Ring" reveals that fairies exist (although they are only one-shot characters).
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
The Magic Roundabout / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: "'Time for bed,' said Zebedee." ("Tournicoti, tournicoton!" for Zebedee (ZÃ©bulon) in the French version) "'Oh, what's the use,' said Dougal." One of Dougal's expressions in the original French version is "Douce reine" (translating to "Sweet queen") Also for Dougal whenever he's surprised or shocked, "What? What-what-what-what-what-what-what?!" (or "Qu'est que Ã§a que ce que Ã§a?" in the French version) "I'm so evil" for Buxton (in the French version, his catchphrase is "Moi, le chat" which is literally "Me, the cat") In the French version, Mr. Rusty (a.k.a. PÃ¨re Pivoine) has the catchphrase "Tourne tourne, mon beau manÃ¨ge" whenever he operates the roundabout. The French version also has Brian (a.k.a. Ambroise) frequently exclaim, "Oh va Ã§a alors!" out of shock, surprise, or joy. Dylan's catchphrase in the French version is "I'm very tired" ("Je suis bien fatigant") or "How tiring it is" ("Que c'est bien fatiguant")
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Magic Roundabout / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Florence says this nearly word-for-word at the end of Eric Thompson's narration of "Alarm Clock" when Zebedee announces that it is time for bed after she called for him.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Magic Roundabout / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Florence and Brian call Dougal out in Nigel Planer's version of "Once Upon a Time" for his rude name-calling of Ermintrude. In the revival series, Florence would deliver some well-deserved ones to Dougal whenever he is caught out on his selfish, mean or deceitful schemes. A good example of this occurs in "The Sorcerer's Mate" where she finds Dougal, after finding out from Brian that he was wearing the same sorcerer's hat as her, and severely scolds him for tricking her into letting him wear the hat so he can secretly replicate it where he would play tricks on Dylan and Brian.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d48cd19a	type	Concert Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_d48cd19a	comment	Concert Episode: The original series episode "The Orchestra" has Zebedee's orchestra consisting of Dougal, Florence, Brian, Ermintrude and Dylan for his concert. Things don't go according to plan such as when Ermintrude holds them up and Brian's dilemma when he is stuck on top of the harp. Another original series episode "The Moody Concerto" involves Dougal, Dylan and Brian playing some music. But due to the music sheets being the wrong way up, the music they playing was so bad that Florence couldn't stand much of it and sorts this issue out by turning the music sheets the right way up. In "Can't Sing, Won't Sing", Ermintrude plans the concert at night to raise money for charity "Save the cows" and has a choir on Zebedee's suggestion which consists Dylan, Brian and the reluctant Dougal who schemes to try and get the concert cancelled. In "Dylan's Big Gig", Dylan wants to organise a rock night which is a real big gig. So Florence decides that everyone will help Dylan with his gig. Dougal, of course, isn't keen on the idea, but after accidentally spilling juice on the light and sound system, he makes it up to everyone by helping them fix things to find a solution in order for the sound and the lights to work for Dylan's gig.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
The Magic Roundabout / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Dougal, Dylan and Brian qualify in "The Moody Concerto" where their music was so awful that Florence, who was listening and couldn't stand anymore of it, has to step in and fix the issue by turning the music sheets the right way up. Mr McHenry became this in the CGI revival series episode "Windbag!" due to Zebedee tampering with his bagpipes giving everyone headaches and causing them to leave. When Basil and Coral made their bagpipes, they quickly become this because Zebedee has tampered with their bagpipes. Fortunately, they still use them to scare away the magpies away from Florence's garden whilst Florence herself is having a lie down inside her house from her headache.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d5b7a6e3	type	Denied Food as Punishment
The Magic Roundabout / int_d5b7a6e3	comment	Denied Food as Punishment: Happens in "Emergency Measures", Dylan, Brian and Dougal threw water through the open window of Florence's house to put what they thought was a fire, but this prompted an annoyed Florence to come out, holding a drenched pie in her hand. As she was explaining that there was no fire since the pie only let off smoke because it was a little singed, Dougal tries to take a bite of the pie until Florence sternly moves it away from his open mouth as she continues to tell them off, making it clear that she is not letting Dougal having a bite of the pie or giving it to him for dinner after what just happened, before she angrily went back inside. Afterwards, Dougal notes to Dylan and Brian that the pie that Florence cooked and got drenched was going to be for his dinner.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d61848a6	type	Four-Leaf Clover
The Magic Roundabout / int_d61848a6	comment	Four-Leaf Clover: The entire plot point in "Dylan's Lucky Day", Dylan finds a clover which brings good luck. Dougal finds out about it and offers to look after the clover for Dylan, hoping to get good luck, but it only brings bad luck to Dougal throughout the episode, prompting him to give back the clover to Dylan at Ermintrude's concert. A black-and-white episode of the original series featured Dougal and Brian looking for four-leaf clovers, with some help from Florence.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Magic Roundabout / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: In the original series, Dougal and Brian are a Type 1 example. Dougal often gets annoyed with Brian and insults him on a regular basis, but on occasion, genuinely considers him his best friend. In the French version of the original series, Dougal is more of a Type 1 example with Ermintrude than with Brian. Unlike the original series, Dougal, Ermintrude, Brian, and Dylan seem to be a Type 2 example in the 2005 film.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d84c356e	type	Amateur Film-Making Plot
The Magic Roundabout / int_d84c356e	comment	Amateur Film-Making Plot: "Dougal Makes a Film" involves Dougal trying to make his film that stars Florence as his leading actress with Brian helping as a cameraman. But things don't go according to plan when Dylan and Ermintrude interrupt his filming.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_d92701be	type	White Gloves
The Magic Roundabout / int_d92701be	comment	White Gloves: Dylan and all of the human characters (including Florence and Mr. Rusty) used to wear these during the original series, until the post-2005 CGI era. Zebedee wears them too, although they were blue during the original era.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
The Magic Roundabout / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Since his debut appearance in "Florence Wins a Surprise", Dougal became the most popular character and appeared frequently in merchandising.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Magic Roundabout / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Ermintrude often calls her friends "dearheart".
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The Magic Roundabout / int_defd0c58	type	A Taste of Their Own Medicine
The Magic Roundabout / int_defd0c58	comment	A Taste of Their Own Medicine: In the English version of the 1974 episode "Dougal's Experiment" after Dougal used his mixture on Brian and Ermintrude that engulfs them with a lot of hair, Florence calls for Zebedee who then produces a mixture of his own which he poured onto Dougal's head to teach him a lesson before restoring Brian and Ermintrude back to normal. In "Growing Pains" when Dougal made a rude comment to Brian about his gravels, the snail worked with Zebedee to get back at Dougal. As their plan goes, Brian pretends that he has some "magic powder" where he explains the plan to Florence and manages to trick Dougal into thinking that the powder was magic by having him closing his eyes and counting to ten while Brian secretly whips out a gravel tree. Dougal promises to be pleasant with Brian and everyone through the whole day so he can grow a bone tree with some of Brian's powder. Throughout the day, everyone, sans Florence and Brian, were rude to him and Dougal later realises that this was done to teach a lesson at the end of the episode when Florence tells him that it was his rudeness that started the whole thing off. In "The Enchanted Garden's Make-Over", Ermintrude makes plans to redecorate her friends' gardens without their consent and brushes off their discomfort and disapproval to her ideas by saying that some things have to go. When everyone complains to Zebedee about this, he redecorates Ermintrude's garden to make her realise how her friends feel about her plans.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Magic Roundabout / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Both the original and reboot series have no Big Bad, while the only exceptions are the film adaptations (Dougal and The Blue Cat and the 2005 film).
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The Magic Roundabout / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The Magic Roundabout / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Ermintrude (especially in the French dub), Brian, and Dylan can come off as this in the original series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_e35a1ad4	type	Sweets of Temptation
The Magic Roundabout / int_e35a1ad4	comment	Sweets of Temptation: In the film Dougal and the Blue Cat, Dougal dyes his fur blue and pretends to be a different dog named "Blue Peter" to infiltrate Buxton's lair. However, Buxton has found out about Dougal's love of sugar. Dougal tries to hide his true identity by claiming he hates sugar. So Buxton puts him to the test by locking him in a room full of sugar. Dougal has to try very hard to resist eating the sugar, because if he does, his true identity will be revealed. Dougal manages to resist eating the sugar by reminding himself that he needs to focus on saving his friends.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_e54482ee	type	Keet
The Magic Roundabout / int_e54482ee	comment	Keet: Brian is this in the original series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_e54a07ac	type	Wipe
The Magic Roundabout / int_e54a07ac	comment	Wipe: As with the 2005 film, it was used for some of the scene transitions in several episodes of the 2007 revival series.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_eb99df21	type	Funny Animal
The Magic Roundabout / int_eb99df21	comment	Funny Animal: Mainly Dougal but there are several others.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
The Magic Roundabout / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: Used in some of the episodes from the 2007 revival series. One example is "The Flying Carpet" when Florence is watching Dougal using the flying carpet high in the air as she stands on the ground, the scene fades to her riding the flying carpet in the sky with Dougal.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f2ced7b8	type	Surprise Party
The Magic Roundabout / int_f2ced7b8	comment	Surprise Party: In the CGI Series episode "The Party", everyone, including Dougal plans and prepare a surprise party for Florence to thank her for all her help. However, Florence's fence was blown over and has a hard time trying to ask everyone, Dougal included, to help her fix her fence, but they had to avoid her in order not to let slip of the party to her. This made Florence very upset that no one came to help her, and almost leaves to visit some friends with everyone failing to convince her to come back, until Zebedee secretly lures her back home where everyone manages to pull the party off for her.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Magic Roundabout / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: At the end of "Dougal and the Blue Cat", the gang, including Dougal, forgives Buxton for his evil actions when they see him tearfully remorseful and begging for forgiveness.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f38490bd	type	Incessant Music Madness
The Magic Roundabout / int_f38490bd	comment	Incessant Music Madness: Happens in "Chilled-Out Brian" where Brian plays loud music at night whilst trying to be cool, and this woke up Dougal, Florence, Dylan and Ermintrude who all got very annoyed with this, as well as his "cool" attitude.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f4b1129f	type	Anger Born of Worry
The Magic Roundabout / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: Towards the end of "Dougal and the Blue Cat", everyone, including Dougal was mourning for Brian, until the snail shows up alive and well. While out of relief that Brian is alive, Dougal expresses this briefly to him.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f5f2747a	type	Space Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_f5f2747a	comment	Space Episode: Dougal goes to Mars in "Flower in the Sun" to look for flowers that grow on Mars. The Nigel Planer version, which was retitled "Dougal the Astronaut", has Dougal going to the moon to look for the plant fertilizer. This is averted in the CGI revival series episode "Dougal goes to the Moon" where Dougal thinks he has gone to the moon in his makeshift rocket, but crash lands back in the Magic Garden where he mistakes his friends for aliens due to his goggles. Florence and Brian are aware of this and play along with it while Dylan and Ermintrude are just confused when Dougal mistakes them for aliens.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f7903e81	type	That's Gotta Hurt
The Magic Roundabout / int_f7903e81	comment	That's Gotta Hurt: Near the end of the revival series episode "Arthur", Florence winces and says "Ouch" when she sees the baby penguin biting Dougal's tail from behind.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f870d50	comment	Consolation Prize: After Dougal lost the race to Brian in "Bicycle Race" and feels defeated, but Florence gives Dougal a lump of sugar. In the English version, she names it as a consolation prize for his best effort in the race.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
The Magic Roundabout / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The English version of the very first episode starts with Mr. Rusty playing his barrel organ, feeling very sad that none of the children came to ride the Magic Roundabout anymore and that the magic has gone.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_f8e52439	type	Birthday Episode
The Magic Roundabout / int_f8e52439	comment	Birthday Episode: Dylan's and Ermintrude's birthdays are celebrated in the original series. In "Happy Birthday, Dylan", his presents are all of ties, and the last one from Zebedee is a box to keep them in. For "Ermintrude's Birthday", Dougal presents a fireworks show (which Dylan almost ruins), topped off with a cannon of flowers. Florence also has two birthday episodes. In one of them, "Florence's Party" from 1970, she is given a Not-So-Forgotten Birthday surprise, with the entire gang putting on a talent show. In the second from 1976, her birthday is only the subject in the English version, not the original French version. (In the French version, Dougal brings back a large sphinx statue of himself from vacation, where he, Brian, and Ermintrude accidentally get themselves locked in. The English version hasn't been recovered yet, but it's likely that Dougal had gotten the statue as a birthday gift for Florence.) The French version of "Dougal and the Blue Cat" is also set entirely on Florence's birthday. It starts off good when she meets Buxton the blue cat who arrived in the garden, until Florence along with her friends, minus Dougal, are captured by Buxton's army and imprisoned in the dungeons. The CGI reboot series has Basil and Coral's birthdays celebrated in the episode "Florence's Squeaky Toys". In the episode, Florence has ordered some toys for her two friends, but Mr. Grimsdale (who has lost his glasses) mixes the deliveries, and they are sent to Dylan and Ermintrude instead. Further confusion arises when the presents end up with Dougal, who unawarely gets annoyed with the toys and hides them. Another CGI reboot episode celebrates Dougal's birthday in "Brian's Gift to Dougal". In the episode, Brian's jigsaw puzzle is left unfinished when some of the pieces mysteriously go missing. Unbeknownst to everyone, Zebedee has taken the pieces to block the pipes of Mr. Rusty's barrel organ, which apparently doesn't seem to be working.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_fae9d016	type	Injury Bookend
The Magic Roundabout / int_fae9d016	comment	Injury Bookend: In "Egg-head Dylan", after Florence pays the sleepy Dylan a visit to drop off the things he needed, she leaves in the lift where its rattling in Dylan's home caused Dylan's guitar to fall off the shelf and hit him on the head, changing his personality to be completely activate where he is now wide-eyed and plays cricket non-stop. Although everyone plays along with Dylan's game of cricket with no one is aware of how this happened until Mr. Rusty later points out the bump on Dylan's head where everyone formulates a plan and managed to revert Dylan back to normal by letting a cricket ball to hit Dylan in the exact same spot on the head, returning him back to his sleepy and laid-back self.
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The Magic Roundabout / int_fb2136ec	type	Big, Thin, Short Trio
The Magic Roundabout / int_fb2136ec	comment	Big, Thin, Short Trio: Out of the gang, we have Ermintrude (big), Dylan (thin) and Brian (short).
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