Gumby Adventures - Season 1 Episode 18 Funtasia / Rip Van Prickle / Great Mastadon Robbery
Funtasia:
It's too soon for another one of these. Okay, so Pokey and Prickle are playing catch with a wooden block, which suddenly turns into a guy with a camera, who takes their picture, eats his camera, and turns into a variety of monsters. Ooo! Suddenly, Gumby drinks a milkshake, turns blue, and starts rolling around on a bridge in a different scene, occasionally jumping into the water. This wasn't what he'd bargained for when he decided to drink his milkshake, so this time he opens his head and pours it in. He's quite happy with this until a thirsty animator opens his head, sticks in a straw, and sucks out the shake. Finally, Gumby and Prickle arrive at an outdoor restaurant where they're waited on by a Blockhead, who does something terrible to Prickle's face every time he passes by. Unfortunately, when he sprays Prickle with water, Prickle becomes huge and crushes the Blockhead, eats a nearby cake, and carries Gumby away. Gumby reads a book about Origami and promptly folds together a thing, which flies away. Unhappy with his work, he takes a new sheet of paper and folds it into a horrible mechanical monster, which terrorizes him and Pokey until the Groobee arrives to capture it. So Gumby decides to ride his skateboard around, at least until the Blockheads smash him flat and steal his board. But Gumby has his revenge, molding himself into a giant boulder and chasing them around. With the Blockheads locked away in a Lego jail, Gumby rides happily away. Surprisingly, the cartoon still isn't over. Gumby and Prickle take a moment to color in a beach scene in a coloring book. Then they enter, presumably to take a nice, peaceful vacation after this strange head trip.
Rip Van Prickle:
Prickle sleeps for many, many years, as evidenced by the long hair and beard he wakes up with. Gumby's farm and studio have fallen into disrepair. On his way to reunite himself with his lost friends, Prickle makes many startling discoveries:
Pokey is president of a delivery company, "Pokey Express"
Granny is his secretary
Goo is Secretary of State, and she's negotiated lasting peace in the Middle East
Professor Kapp, as head of NASA, has created a new space craft and a miracle fuel source
And Gumby is, of course, president of the USA. One of his accomplishments, as revealed in a terribly exposition-oriented press conference, was to create some vague equal rights bill.
And yet, like in an episode of The Twilight Zone, none of his friends recognize him, and he's hauled off, thought to be a nut case. Fortunately, it was all a dream, but his friends torment him a bit by pretending not to know him.
Great Mastadon Robbery:
The Blockheads lure Denali out of his home with a trail of peanuts, take him to the zoo, and sell him for a giant wad of money! Money! The plan goes off without a hitch. Well, except for the fact that the zoo has no way to safely contain elephants, seeing as how Denali easily busts his door open and escapes. He finds a phone and calls Gumby, who picks Denali up and still finds time to make sure that the Blockheads and their peanut truck get stuck in a lake. The money floats away and a lucky fisherman goes home with a giant wad of money! Gumby and friends sing a bar of "Merrily We Roll Along", since the cartoon wouldn't be complete without that finishing touch.
Year: 1988
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: United States of America
Studio: Nickelodeon, Syndication
Director: Art Clokey
Cast: Dal McKennon, Art Clokey
Crew: Jaime Kibben (Dialogue Editor), Lynn Stevenson (Editor), Jerry Gerber (Music), Rich Zim (Animation), Gloria Clokey (Supervising Art Director), Chris Peterson (Key Grip)
First Air Date: Jan 02, 1988
Last Air date: Aug 20, 1988
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 36 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 5.50/10 by 2.00 users
Popularity: 10.973
Language: English
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Season
Season 1
Episode
The Music Ball / Shrink-a-Dink / Hatching Out
Mirror-Aculous Recovery / As the Worm Turns / Wild Girls
Lost Treasure / The Beetle and the Caterpillar / A Smashing Hit
Gumbot / Guitar Magic / Gumbitty Doo Dah
A Miner Affair / All Cooped Up / Gumby's Circus
The Elephant and the Dragon / Denali's House / Ostrich Feathers
Birthday Party in the Middle Ages / The Big City / Of Note
Humbug / Fun Day / Denali Blues
The Fliver 500 / Minga Sitting / A Real Seal
Melon Felons / Merry-Go-Pumpkin / Time Kapp-Sule
The Search / Educational TV / Band Contest
The Big Squirt / Little Lost Girl / Command Performance
Witch Way / Children for Sale / Sleepytime Robbers
Strange Circus Animals / A Gumby Day / A Cottage for Granny
The Wind Bag / Lotta Hot Air / Wild Horse
The Plant / Naughty Boy / Young Granny
Balloonacy / Picnic / Gumbastic
Funtasia / Rip Van Prickle / Great Mastadon Robbery
Wild Train Ride / Arctic Antics / Runaway Camel
The Abominable Doughman / The Astrobots / Blocks in the Head
Geese Grief / Fox Hunt / Goo's Pies
Moving Experience / Gumby's Close Encounters / Flying Carpet
Minga's Folly / High as a Kite / Proxy Gumby
Goo and the Queen (Part One) / Prickle's Baby Brudder / Goo and the Queen (Part Two)
Little Denali Lost / Clay Play / Gone Clayzy
The Knight Mare / Lost in Chinatown / Joker's Wild
My-O-Maya / Gumball Gumby / Pokey � la Mode
The Forbidden Mine (Part One) / Robot Farm / The Forbidden Mine (Part Two)
Space Oddity (Part One) / To Bee or Not to Bee / Space Oddity (Part Two)
Skateboard Ralley / Goo's Music Video / Best in the Block
The Birthday Present / Just Train Crazy / Wickiups and Bulrushes
Kangaroo Express / Kid Brother Kids / For the Graduate
Clayfully Yours / Gumby Music Video / Time Out
Dolly for Minga / Lost Arrow / Clay Trix
The Funny Bathtub
Chicken Feed