Episode Guide!
Here's where you'll find a complete guide to all the episodes of Bounty Hamster, plus little things I've added like my opinion on each ep or interesting things I noticed like inside jokes and stuff.
~Enjoy ^_^
Here's where you'll find a complete guide to all the episodes of Bounty Hamster, plus little things I've added like my opinion on each ep or interesting things I noticed like inside jokes and stuff.
~Enjoy ^_^
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!
Additional 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
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!
Additional 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
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