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Episode
1-Night Of The Hunters
When Cassie accidentally put a price on her father's head, the meanest bounty
hunters in the galaxy rush off to kill him. Can the hamster stop the Psychic
Slug Sisters, Abnormality Jane and The Horse With No Name before it's too
late?
Notes: This was the first episode. We meet the Hamster and Cassie and
discover the hamster's embarrassing name (Marion: I was wrong to share-_-)
and find out Cassie has put a price on her father's head. It has some really
funny parts in it like Marion's comments on the slug sisters and he also gets
called "cute" for the first time too (and does a really wicked sounding
growl!) The ending's funny too when Marion appears in front of the camera
with the black behind him and says that they managed to escape the bounty
hunters when Jane's voice from off screen yells "There he is, in front
of the hole that gets smaller! Get him!!"
Additional Characters: CP30 robot, The Horse With No Name, Moose,
Abnormality Jane and the Psychic Slug Sisters (who get killed off with
salt)
Episode
2-Somewhere That's Green
A bizarre garden floating in space seems the answer to all our hero's food
supply problems, until they meet the gardener; an insane robot who plans to
plant them too!
Notes: I have to say this episode was very amusing, especially the
part when Marion controlled the plants to try and save Cassie (Cassie: Horray
for the cucumber squad! *sarcasm*) but for most of it, Marion was a plant
himself, which, since it was the only episode I had taped was disappointing
'cos of course I wanted to see more of him!
Aditional Characters: C3P0 robot, C4 the gardening robot with a
farmer's accent and the Little Shop Of Horrors style plant.
Episode
3-Chin Raiders
Our heroes find a asteroid
monastery with a fabulous treasure; a treasure that could help them on their
quest. But it is guarded by fearsome warrior bats - and someone else wants
to get their paws on it too! Features Moose, our regular lower grade villain,
plus the mystical power of The All-Seeing Chin!
Notes: I watched this episode about 10 times before the following Thursday
when the next ep would be shown. The All-Seeing Chin was a laugh (mainly 'cos
it looked more like a bum than a chin) and the bats were fun. Marion's little
problems with sliding around on his butt amused me too. It was like a parody
of Indiana Jones and even had the famous rolling rock scene from the film.
Additional Characters: C3P0 robot, The Bat Knights Who Guard the
Chin and Moose.
Episode
4-Dog Day
When Marion discovers
a cute robot puppy in a derelict spacecraft, Cassie thinks she has found a
new best friend. But then our heroes ship starts falling to pieces. Is her
pal really an enemy in disguise?
Notes: This episode was OK. Spot, the robot dog resembled an Aibo (those
REALLY expensive Japanese robot dogs) that is until he got mad towards the
end and turned into Mega Spot who was made out of kitchen appliances like
a cooker and a blender. Mega Spot wasn't animated like the rest of the show
but rather CGI'ed on the computer much like Keith and the Space Wales. Still,
you get to see Marion in a neat pair of shades and a red cap, scratching record
discs in the den room Spot made for him.
Additional Characters: Spot
Episode
5-Just Deserts
When Abnormality Jane
wins Cassie in a bet, the hamster has just three days to rescue her before
she's fed to… well, let's just say, it won't be pretty!
Notes: This is the first ep with Abnormality Jane being one of the
main characters. Marion just can't stay off betting and loses Cassie as a
stake in a bet. Jane's good at everything so Marion turns to "ACMEE"
and there's an appearance by a slightly familiar looking coyote. We also discover
Marion's secret collection of Baggy Bean Babies (Marion: I don't have a secret
collection of....oh yeah *blushes*) Jane's a great character, although a little
odd looking and Marion's attempts to steal Cassie back result in some very
funny (and reminiscant of the Road Runner cartoons) antics.
Additional Characters: Abnormality Jane, Skull Crusher Rex, Baggy
Bean Babies (if you can call them characters) and at the beginning
in the crowds, Moose and Ecto Hella who's in the next episode!
Episode
6-Trading Spaces
When a criminal steals
a device that allows him to swap bodies, no one is feeling themselves be anymore.
Our heroes have to find him fast or remain relocated in their new bodies forever!
Notes: I LOVE the beginning of this episode with Marion showing off
his muscles to the camera (actually, it was good to see he actually had some
because in "Dog Day" he said he liked to work out!) and his blue
furry y-fronts are hilarious!! This is also the episode where I got the name
for this site from ("Tough Guys Don't Wear Pants!!") you can see
that quote among the others on the quotes page. When they were in each other's
bodies I kept having to remind myself that although Hella looked like Cassie,
he was not (as Marion discovered because he liked to "Live fast, die
young and leave someone else's corpse") This was a really fun episode!
Additional Characters: Ecto Hella, The Horse With No Name, The Space
Wales and Professor Notgerman.
Episode
7-The Good, The Bad and the Adorable
When our heroes try to
help the Humbles - a race of mild mannered, show tune loving aliens - fight
back against a cruel oppressor, they soon realise that with them on their
side they don't stand a chance!
Notes: The beginning was funny with Marion bashing the engine about
trying to make it work, but once I saw the Humbles the fun....kinda....ended.
They were REALLY annoying and cute to the point of urging one to throw up
(which I suppose was the point). Moose came every day to push them around
so they persuaded Marion to train them to be tough. Trouble was...they were
naff at it. They did all their best thinking through song. Still, you get
to see Marion and Cassie sing a duet and Cassie shows her engineering skills
by fixing Keith while Marion's training the Humbles. Plus when Moose said
the word cute and Marion (as usual) found it to be an insulting reference
to him, he leapt in the air and did a REALLY scary thing with his eye (see
pic at the top of the page. Scary huh?)
Additional Characters: The Humbles and Moose.
Episode
8-Lonely Planet
Our heroes try to find
a new population for a lonely planet, and wreck an exclusive inter-dimensional
holiday resort as a result!
Notes: This has to be one of the funniest episodes so far and it's
jam packed with parodies, from Star Wars to The Simpsons. Marion and Cassie
ruin a posh resort called Kubrix in order to get the people who are staying
there to go to "Walter World" (sounds like Water World, doesn't
it?) because a planet named Walter told Cassie that if she got people to live
on him again he'd tell her where her father is. Marion disguises himself as
the renowned fashion critic, Jean Jaques LePetitespois (10 points to anyone
who can pronounce it lol! oh and by the way, petitepois is the French word
for little peas), who's name sounds very suspiciously like the name of the
captain in Star Trek the Next Generation, Jean Luc Picard. Mazzy looks totally
cool in disguise might I add and there's also another (very) brief cameo by
the C3PO type robot and Llama, who looks, sounds and has the same job as Homer
Simpson. That was a real laugh! And the bugs in Marion's room (Bugs Bunny
that is!!)
Additional Characters: Jean Jaques LePetitespois, Walter World,
Professor Notgerman and a Humble makes an appearance too.
Episode
9-Forget Me Knot
An entire city seems
to losing it's memories - or is it having them stolen? Our heroes have to
catch the culprits or they will never find Cassie's dad.
Notes: This episode
was a laugh, especially the part when Gill got a taste of his own medicine!
Gill is a goldfish-like baddie (who looks to be the same species as Jean Jaques
LePetitepois) who used a device to take peoples memories, leaving nothing
more than a zero shape on their foreheads. He could then release the memories
around anyone else and that person would experience the other person's stolen
memory, such as Cassie remembering someone's memory of their first kitty or
accordian lessons. There was also a brief but funny Titanic parody (Marion:
I'm King of the Universe! Cassie: *points* Iceberg.....lettuces!! *they fly
into some lettuces*)
Additional Characters: Gill, The Space Whales
Episode
10-Bringing Up Baby
Our heroes are left holding
the baby; a baby that seems to be growing up VERY fast indeed! Can they find
it's mother before it's - gulp - too late?
Notes: This one had a surprising end for me. Marion and Cassie were
lumbered with a baby given to them by a distraught mother on the run from
someone. So they started trying to look after him. Problem was, Junior was
growing at a very fast rate and in no time he'd started to walk, talk, reach
puberty and grow into a fully grown man...then an old man.....then an old
man on the brink of death. Finally the mother found them and thanked them
for looking after him, but our heroes were trying to hide the old guy, rather
worried now. As soon as they turned round though he'd become a baby again.
I didn't expect that. It turned out the race that these creatures belonged
to did it all the time and it also turned out the so called mother was not
a mother, but the little guy's twin sister. They were reprimanded by their
nanny (who had a brief feature in the episode, "Lonely Planet" as
someone coming to stay at Kubrix) and they went on their way. Keith has been
stolen! So Marion and Cassie take up robot dog walking to try and save up
and buy a new ship. This bit is hilarious! Throughout the episode, the robot
dog tags along with them, but repeatedly gets run over or squashed, only to
go back together again and it happening again. I dunno why but I found it
so funny. Poor robot dog. It even saved the old bloke from getting run over!
And in this episode, we find out Marion likes being thrown out of windows
in club brawls.
Additional Characters: The baby, the robot dog and Moose makes a
brief appearance too.
Episode
11-Off To Work
When an experiment goes
wrong the hamster is split into seven grumpy, sneezy, bashful, dopey (etc)
parts of his personality. Cassie has to find them all or he will remain divided
forever!
Notes: This has GOT to be my favourite episode (with "Chin Raiders"
being the second) mainly cos of all the Marions! Trying to earn some money
to buy a new ship since Keith has been stolen and Cassie and Marion can't
get off Golgotha 13 without one, they are hired by Professor Notgerman and
become his helpers. The Professor has invented a Fragmentation device that
separates things, such as coffee and sugar. Unfortunately when Marion has
had enough of being a guinea pig (no offence to my 20 guinea pigs, I personally
don't like that reference but anywho...) he accidentally mistakes the door
of the machine for the exit and gets "fragmented" into 7 different
parts of his personality. There's Grumpy Marion (closest to the original guy
of course!), Sleepy Marion, Dopey Marion (complete with big front teeth),
Sneezy Marion (with a large red nose), Doc Marion, Bashful Marion (cuuuuuute!!!!!)
and Happy Marion. Then they all get jobs because Doc Marion suggests this
would be more logical-they'd earn 7 times as much. Trouble is they seem to
get the wrong jobs i.e. Happy Marion is an undertaker (and laughs at the deaths
of beloved relatives because he's so happy), Sneezy Marion is a roadside car
window washer (with hilarious results) and Dopey Marion helps out with rocket
science and brain surgery! Not to mention the colour-blind old lady who keeps
trying to sell poisoned apples. Red ones are poisoned but green ones are fine;
unfortunately for her she sees red as green and vise versa!! I was laughing
all the way through!
Additional Characters: Professor Notgerman, the old lady and the
Space Wales make a brief appearance too.
Episode
12-Free Lenny
When our heroes rescue
a giant scrap yard robot from it's cruel master, it develops a serious crush
on the hamster. And we do mean - CRUSH!
Notes: This episode was a bit sad. I felt sorry for poor Lenny but
I liked the bit when Lenny was up a very tall building near the end and Marion
saved Cassie as they jumped off him by inflating his cheeks like a parachute!
It was such a novel and unexpected idea! I also found the part when all Marion
could pull out of his cheeks was toasters very amusing and the big coins.
When Lenny died and Cassie cried was sad, but I loved the ending where Lenny
got revenge on his cruel owner! Plus Cassie and Marion finally get Keith back
so they can be on their way again! Oh and this seems to be the first episode
where Marion has encountered a Humble and not tried to harm it.
Additional Characters: Lenny and The Scrap Yard Owner. Professor
Notgerman and a cute little Humble also make an appearance.
Episode
13-Save The Wale
Yikes! Our heroes are
trapped in the cargo bay of a space travelling whale, with a big, bad, very
sarcastic bomb. Can they defuse it before it explodes - or will the whale's
cargo eat them first?
Notes: This episode was really funny, especially the bits with Marion
pulling down a blind of a desired scene such as a beach or Paris and pretending
he was there. He wanted to go on holiday but ended up helping Cassie diffuse
a bomb on Biggest Bertha, one of the cargo carrying space whales. It was good
to see more of Biggest Bertha because she's a cool character you don't see
enough of really...plus she's purple, my favourite colour lol! I also love
the way she's animated in CGI. It gives her a smooth flowing movement as though
she's swimming underwater. The bomb was funny too, especially when it said
"Bang!" after the little alien guy diffused it. Gill and Moose also
appear, although briefly. Lets all keep our fingers crossed next week's episode
on CiTV is the one below and not a repeat.
Additional Characters: Moose, Gill and Biggest Bertha
Episode
14-Wish You Were Here
Cassie is finally reunited
with her father - or is she? Sometimes happy endings are just too good to
be true.
Notes: You learn some more about Marion's past in this episode and
also get to see Cassie's dad talking for the first time. Little do they know
of course that the whole thing is fake, an existance based on wishes granted
by a giant fish that materialises from a cloud in the sky. Marion was adopted
by a pair of wolves and he has two wolf brothers, which is a cool and unexpected
twist to the story. There's a funny scene where Cassie is searching through
Marion's cheeks for something he put in there and she pulls out brightly coloured
handkerchieves like a magic trick. I also love the Fish's ship! Like the other
ships, it is CGIed but it looks awesome, in the shape of a flowing fish. We
also get to see Marion in a dress!
Additional Characters: Moose makes a brief appearance and that C3PO
type robot is back.
Episode
15-Beached
When our heroes are swallowed
by a giant space slug, there seems only one way out; a dangerous journey through
it's body to the back door!
Notes: We meet Marion's old Bounty Hunter academy friend, Greymar the
crab in this episode. Poor Greymar is marooned on a deserted island inside
a giant space slug with only a fizzy drinks dispenser named Fizzy for company...that
is until Marion and Cassie join them, then it's a fast paced race to get out
of the slug before it's upset stomach, that Fizzy caused with it's drinks,
gets as Cassie put it "upseterer" There is also a cool Matrix parody
as Cassie and Marion dodge Fizzy's drinks in slow motion. Fizzy has a tendency
to give drinks whenever anyone says a number. So if someone said four it will
announce "Four Fizzys coming up!" and shoot out four canned drinks.
However it also shoots drinks out when it hears anything that sounds like
a number, too... (Two Fizzys coming up!)
Additional Characters: Greymar and Fizzy
Episode
16-Fashion Victim
When Cassie joins an
exclusive space fashion school the hamster smells a rat. He has to get in
there and rescue her, even if it means… gulp… dressing as a girl!
Notes: When Cassie wanted food with a face, she never meant her face.
Cassie was moaning that vegetarianism was boring but she soons finds out it's
safer than being made a meal of yourself. In this episode we meet Claud La
Fraud and his "School of Fashion" however, it turns out it's more
of a school where he fattens you up to feed to his dinner guests. Marion once
again donnes a dress, this time to save Cassie but gets an admirer in the
form of the school's bouncer. So he's running around looking for Cassie and
trying to lose the bouncer! This episode was very funny, seeing Marion in
a dress was hilarious! Poor Marion! I liked the part where Marion inflated
his cheeks and used them as a float to get to shore when he was in the water
and also the part where he buffed himself up to show Claud he could look good
too!
Additional Characters: Claud La Fraud and the Gorilla Bouncer
Episode
17-Frozen Stiffed
Our heroes swap their
ship for an asteroid made entirely of ice, which will be worth a fortune on
a distant desert planet. The trouble is, they have to get it there first,
and someone wants to stop them!
Notes: Bertha returns in this episode, as well as Moose and Gill who
are working together again to try and sell water at an outragious price to
the poor people of Planet Aridon who rarely get any rain and have to have
their water shipped in. The people of Planet Aridon are the same species as
Emile The Liar (episode 1). Marion has a short lived wedding with Bertha to
get her to come back and help them, but Bertha falls for a saber tooth tiger
who has been preserved in the ice of the asteroid and Moose's hot water bottles
awaken again. We also find out for some reason Moose has 20 thousand hot water
bottles because he gets cold at night. Space must be very cold at night!
Additional Characters: Biggest Bertha, Gill, Moose, a Humble, the
C3PO robot and the Old Lady from episode 11
Episode
18-Mutiny On The Bounty Hamster
When our heroes are picked
up by a giant space liner ( that ploughs through the tiny ice asteroid they
are clinging to after last week ) they find themselves in the midst of a rebellion
by it's robot crew!
Notes: Cassie and Marion find themselves on the Space Liner Humungus
in the middle of a robot revolt in this episode, which has a very exciting
ending! I love the Evil Laugh FM radio idea, when they hear evil laughter
they think it's a ghost on the ship at first but no, it's just Marion's radio
which is tuned into Evil Laugh FM. With the help of the guests on the liner
(there are only 6 since they are the only 6 in the galaxy that have enough
money to travel on it) 2 cats, 2 Gnues, a lizard and a goat, they shut the
robots down only to discover that since Marion and Cassie have no money, the
guests and the captain make them cook for them. So they power up the robots
again and the guests end up doing all the cooking! But who do those evil eyes
belong to at the end of the episode? This is the first episode that has ended
on a cliffhanger.
Additional Characters: Robots
Episode
19-Screaming Blue Murder!
Aghhhhhhh! There's a madman aboard the giant space liner and he's wrecking
robots. Can our hamster detective find the machine hating maniac in time…
or will he just arrest Cassie by mistake?
Notes: The ending was very good. You never really find out who the
culprit is because he keeps changing as though he's wearing costumes one over
the other. But I think the most likely culprit was the vacuum robot. He destroyed
the other robots because for some reason he hates robots, we don't find out
why exactly though. However, what we do find out are the guests names: Sir
Tibbles the fat cat, the black cat is Veronica Felinni, then there's Rupert
Gnu and his wife (who's name we don't find out but I call her Lady Gnu), the
horse Lady Victoria and the lizard is Lesley Flybreath. Also, these guests
(apart from Veronica) appeared in episode 8 when they stayed at Kubrix, the
posh resort.
Additional Characters: Robots
Episode
20-The Lost World
The search for her father
takes Cassie on a dangerous trip through a black hole to a bizarre land of
the lost. But some lost things are better left that way and soon our heroes
are facing some familiar enemies.
Notes: In this episode, we find out how Marion gets all that stuff
from his cheeks. It comes from the place where people lose things. We also
see him eating Cassie by some miracle that he can actually fit her in his
mouth, but then his mouth is pretty amazing is he can get a photon energy
blaster out of it! He also eats himself too. We meet a cute duck who is also
a father and is also lost, he shows Cassie the room of lost dads. He's Irish
and plays a flute. There is an in-joke here, the duck is Shaun's dad from
the short film, The First Snow Of Winter. And we also find out where all those
lost woks go. Yes, people do apparently lose woks. This episode made me think,
where does all that lost stuff go? I think the duck was the most surprising
character in the episode but of course, people get lost too, not just objects
as Cassie and Marion later found out when they encountered a bunch of bad
guys.
Additional Characters: Gill, Moose, Abnormality Jane and the Duck
Episode
21-A.I. (Artificial Idiocy)
Someone is hunting the
hamster; a vast star ship, like nothing he has seen before. But at its heart
lies a secret - and an old friend who now wants revenge!
Notes: This episode was written but never made. To save money, The
Trial episode was made instead of it. A.I. would have been part of the show's
continuity as it explained how they got Keith back after selling him earlier.
An enhanced thinking version of Keith was the villain, wanting revenge on
the Hamster for all the crashes he had had! - Many thanks to Alan Gilbey for
telling me this!
Additional Characters: Enhanced Keith
Episode
22-Planet Of The Japes
When our heroes are hijacked
by a ship full of monkey practical jokers they find themselves on a planet
where you can be thrown in jail for not having a sense of humour!
Notes: Cassie and Marion end up on Prankaria, looking for fuel because
they've run out in this amusing episode which is full of custard pies and
monkeys. We also see Marion using his brain....although not for doing sensible
stuff. Instead we find out he's a very good prankster, even out pranking the
monkey citizens of Prankaria and being made king. I loved the ending of this
episode too, again another surprise ending when Marion and Cassie find out
they were being pranked all along, even after they left the planet (Cassie:
Why are our fuel tanks full of custard?) I wonder how far they get on custard.
I like this episode because all the characters in it are new, there are no
appearances by the bad guys or any other space creatures that have appeared
in other episodes. It's also really funny watching the tricks the monkeys
and Marion play on each other.
Additional Characters: Monkeys
Episode23-Twin
Cheeks
When another version
of the hamster ( a refugee from an alternate universe ) asks our heroes for
help, Marion finds himself pushed out by his smarter, smoother rival. Will
he lose Cassie to this interloper forever?
Notes: I've been looking forward to this episode for a long time as
I got the script off Dirty Negative Productions Ltd's site and I love the
idea of a Cassie and Marion from another dimension. The episode however, differs
from the script. The rough storyline is the same but there are a few differences
such as Marion's appearance and there wasn't any singing in the script. I
love the singing though, Marion doing karaoke at the beginning and Cassie
singing at the end, I just love watching my favourite characters sing for
some reason. Incidently, the song Marion is singing is the original, abandoned
theme tune for the show! You can read the lyrics on the Quotes page. As for
Marion's appearance, from reading the script, I imagined him looking the same
as Marion but with his eyepatch on the other eye. In the episode he has a
mustache and no eyepatch and a funky hairdo. It was more imaginative than
what I read, but I still would've liked to see the version of him I read in
the script for some reason. Anywho, we also get to see Bounty Hunter Cassie
(Cassie from the other dimension) and she rocks!! She looks like Cassie but
with black hair and an eye patch and cool clothes. She still doesn't have
as much guts as Cassie though, despite her tough image! Then we see a short
intro if Cassie was the main star of the show and was a bounty hunter and
the show would be called Bounty Cassie, which was hilarious. Even though it
was different from what I read, I thouroughly enjoyed it. I think this is
my favourite episode from the second half of the series so far.
And once again I am left waiting because CiTV still has 3 more episodes to
show. I still can't understand why they don't show all of them.
Additional Characters: Professor NotGerman, Bounty Cassie and Marion
Episode
24-Monster Island
On a tiny planet our
heroes are mistaken for marauding giants and imprisoned on monster island
- but they soon learn that the big, ugly guys aren't always the real monsters.
Notes: This was a brilliant episode, found it very funny because a
lot of the jokes were about things I am a fan of. For example there was a
joke based around the Japanese animé, Pokémon because a small
boy wanted to collect all the monsters and even tried to get Marion to get
into a Pokéball! We get to see Marion running along on all fours and
also find out he can get different items out of either cheek if he wants to.
He pulled a music box out of one cheek and a battery out of the other. At
one point the Bunny Boy pulls a sheet off an experiment he's working on to
reveal a model of the ship from the next episode. It turns out its the wrong
sheet but its a great in-joke! The real experiment is actually next to it.
There are elements of Jurassic Park in the Monster Island of the title when
the monsters are held captive on an island and forced to act fierce for a
guided tour of it. Basically the planet used to belong to the monsters but
these tiny bunny people came and took over, imprisoning the monsters on the
island. There is also a funny joke involving the "Don't call me cute!"
catchphrase. At the end, everyone starts saying it! All the characters in
this and the last two episodes are new ones with the exception of two (not
so humble) Humbles at the end.
Additional Characters: Bunny People, Monsters and Humbles
Episode
25-Gone Fishin'
Aboard a flying ship,
an obsessed robot captain is hunting the great white sand worm - and guess
who he's using as bait!
Notes: A parody of Mobey Dick, this episode sees our heroes' ship swallowed
by The Great White Worm and they end up aboard the good ship Crazed Obsession-and
rightly named it is too! The captain, Captain Rehab is obsessed with catching
this worm. The worm ate his leg... The crew of the ship are cool, they seem
to insist that all their captains must be mean and heartless once they lose
Captain Rehab to the worm. Marion enjoys being captain but Cassie gets her
revenge when he makes her swab the decks. This was a good episode, the robot
Captain Rehab was funny even though he was a bad guy and there are lots of
funny jokes in it especially when they're all inside the worm and the captain
is waving his (lightsabre-like) sword around.
Additional Characters: The Crew, Captain Rehab, the worms
Episode
26-School's Out
Cassie's world crumbles
when she discovers she is just an ordinary schoolgirl in an ordinary school,
and that her space adventures are just a fantasy. Or are they? The school
hamster does seem terribly familiar!
Notes: Sadly for all of us fans, this is the very last episode. The
quality of animation is higher in this one and the storyline is very unusual.
Basically our heroes get arrested for various crimes and are sent to a holochamber
where they must live out their own worst nightmares for ever. And also they
think these nightmares are real, they have no memory of another life...until
that is, Warren the bully calls Marion "cute"! In this episode we
find out Cassie's sirname, it's Harrison. I am not sure if that's her real
sirname though because she wasn't in the real world. Marion ends up in a cage
with two pet hamsters called Hammy and Punchy. One is crazy and the other,
serious. Kinda like Pinky and the Brain (they were lab mice and wanted to
rule the world...well Brain did anyway). But as we all know Marion hates being
in a cage. He was also smaller and more hamster-like (running around on all
fours). There's a fancy dress party at Cassie's school towards the end of
the episode. The children all come dressed as aliens from previous episodes.
There's one as Gill and a couple of Humbles and a Judge Dredd Duck. I noticed
something different about the style of the animation in parts of this episode
too. Also my friend pointed out something interesting. Marion has Cassie in
his mouth because he's hiding her. When he spits her out, for a split second
she's wearing her school clothes, you can only really see this by slowing
the animation down. I have no idea if this was meant on purpose or not but
it is certainly interesting. It was a great end to a brilliant series. The
only problem I have is their not making any more episodes. Thanks to Peafur
Productions, Silver Fox Films and all the other people who made the show possible,
it's one of the best I've seen and certainly the best in comedy for a kids
show I've ever seen.
Additional Characters: Judge Dredd Ducks, the Judge, Hammy, Punchy,
Heather Twins, Warren and David
Episode
27-The Trial
When Keith gets a wheel
clamp and Marion and Cassie are held prisoner and contacted by the Tribuneral
who is putting Marion on trial for being a bad bounty hunter, it looks like
it could be bars for our blue fuzzy hero. Can Marion manage to talk his way
out of trouble or will he lose his bounty hunter badge forever?
Notes: This is an interesting episode because it is made entirely out
of clips of previous episodes. There is literally no new animation in this
episode, which is what makes it so clever, it's not just a clip show but the
animators have improvised with things that have already been done. The reason
I think it is so clever is because they can play a clip and for example Marion
would have said something in the first showing of it, but in this episode
he says something completely different and his mouth still stays in sinc with
the words. I just think its clever how they do that. This episode is mostly
Marion and Cassie relating to various scrapes they got themselves out of,
mostly Cassie getting them out of them and Marion trying modestly to say that
he got them out of scrapes too. Ultimately, it is Cassie who manages to save
the day by telling the tribuneral that even though they've faced good and
bad times (lots of bad times), Marion has always been a good friend and had
the loyalty to stick with her through thick and thin (most of the time anyway!)
This is a surprise episode, since it is not shown in the episode guide on
Peafur's site.
Additional Characters: The Psychic Slug Sisters, C3P0 robot, Moose
and Abnormality Jane |