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Wheezie's Last Laugh is the first segment of the twenty-fifth episode of the first season of Dragon Tales.
Summary[]
Mr. Pop steals Wheezie's laugh, plus he switches all the animal sounds around too. During a merry chase, everyone in Dragon Land learns that everything has its own special sound, especially Wheezie.
Plot[]
In the playroom, Emmy finds Max getting ready to play soccer in the front yard. But upon hearing the sound of their dad’s lawnmower, they decide to go play in Dragon Land instead.
Once they arrive, they begin playing soccer with Ord, who tail-whips the ball into Zak and Wheezie's knuckerhole. The duo emerge and join in, sending the ball into the tall grass. Ord goes to retrieve it, but he is distracted by a dragon frog crowing like a rooster. The gang is both surprised and confused, as not even in Dragon Land would a frog sound like a rooster.
Suddenly, a little man named Mr. Pop appears, and shows the gang his Sound Switcher, a device that allows him to remove sounds from anything and replace them with other sounds or put the sounds in other places. At first, everyone is amazed, but once Wheezie starts laughing, Mr. Pop expresses interest in keeping her laugh for himself. When Wheezie laughingly declines, Mr. Pop uses the device to steal it when Wheezie was off-guard and runs away.
The gang chases after him, but despite getting ahold of the Sound Switcher, Mr. Pop gets away after putting in a decoy bottle. After the gang comes across a Dragon Rooster mooing like a cow and a Dragon Cow croaking like a frog, they then decide to use it to switch the animals' sounds back, along with the earlier Dragon Frog. After switching the sounds back to normal, the dragon cow tells them where to find Mr. Pop, pointing in the direction.
The gang hangs towards a waterfall in front of a cave. However, the waterfall is making the sound of a lion’s roar (presumably to keep intruders out), much to Ord's fear. After realizing the misheard sound was Mr. Pop's doing, they go into the cave and find a bunch of stuff, like a trumpet, a bike horn and a bell, that are now silent because Mr. Pop removed their sounds. They soon find him deep in the cave and demand to get Wheezie’s laugh back. But they end up making a mess of things when Ord causes all the sound bottles to scatter everywhere. The gang hears Wheezie's laugh twice and try to put it back into Wheezie, but wind up putting in a trumpet note (which they put back in its proper place) and a foghorn sound by mistake.
Determined, Zak decides to give Mr. Pop a taste of his own medicine. While Mr. Pop is laughing, Zak uses the Sound Switcher to remove it and replaces it with a donkey sound and makes him understand how Wheezie has felt when he took her laugh. Zak agrees to give Mr. Pop back his laugh, but only if he agrees to give Wheezie back hers, which he does. After they both get their laughs back, Mr. Pop apologizes to Wheezie and the gang has a bit of fun with the sounds in the cave.
Soon after, Max and Emmy return home and discover their dad has finished mowing the lawn and could now go to play outside. As they head out the door, Emmy notices a hiccup sound as Max is walking, thinking that Mr. Pop must’ve switched the sounds of his footsteps before they left. But Max says he was laughing so much, it gave him the hiccups.
Cast[]
- Emmy
- Max
- Ord
- Zak and Wheezie
- Mr. Pop (debut and only appearance)
Transcript[]
Wheezie's Last Laugh (transcript)
Memorable Quotes[]
- Emmy: Who are you?
- Mr. Pop: Me? My name is Mr—
- [The little man makes a pop sound with his mouth.]
- All: Mr Pop?
- Mr. Pop: Delighted to meet you.
- (The dragon frog hops away, looking a little bitter.)
- Mr. Pop: You haven’t heard anything yet, ladies and gentle-dragons. I have a zillion more where that came from.
- (he pulls open his jacket, revealing numerous bottles of sounds in pockets.)
- Mr. Pop: I have good sounds and bad sounds. Happy sounds and sad sounds. Quiet sounds AND LOUD SOUNDS!!!
- Ord: Wow!
- Max: Great!
- Wheezie: I want one of those Sound Switchers!
- Zak: Me too.
- Wheezie: Where can I get one? (Laughs)
- Mr. Pop: (surprised) What did you say?
- Wheezie: I said ‘where can I get one?’
- Mr. Pop: No, no, no, no. After that.
- Wheezie: Uh…… after that, I just laughed. (Laughs again.)
- Mr. Pop: Ha! I got your laugh.
- Wheezie: Got my laugh? You’re so funny.
- (Wheezie tries laughing again, but nothing comes out.)
- Wheezie: Huh?
- Zak: He does have it.
- Max: Give it back!
- Mr. Pop: Gotta run!
- Wheezie: Hey! I heard my laugh!
- Zak: There it is!
- Wheezie: (sad) Oh, if I don’t get my laugh back, I’m never gonna laugh again. Ever!
- Zak: Don’t worry, Wheezie. Your big brother will get your laugh back.
- [This time, Zak picks up an empty bottle while Mr Pop is still laughing.]
- Mr. Pop: Oh, I’m laughing so much, it hurts!
- Zak: Uh, Mr. Pop. I found a great sound for you.
- Mr. Pop: Really? A funny one? Oh, let me hear it! [Laughs]
- [As Mr. Pop keeps laughing, Zak uses the sound switcher to remove the laugh from his mouth. Zak takes another sound and puts that into him. When Mr. Pop tries laughing, it sounds just like a donkey.]
- Mr. Pop: [gasps] My laugh! [Donkey bray]
- Wheezie: Now you know how it feels to lose your favorite [imitates Mr. Pop’s laugh].
- Mr. Pop: I sure do. And it feels…..awful.
- Zak: I’ll give you your laugh back, if you give my sister her laugh back.
- Mr. Pop: Okay, you win.
- Emmy: The lawnmower sound stopped.
- Max: We can play soccer now.
- [As Max and Emmy head for the door, a hiccuping sound is heard.]
- Emmy: Max! Did you hear that?
- (Max stops walking and turns around.]
- Max: What?
- [Emmy points down towards Max’s feet.]
- Emmy: Mr. Pop must’ve switched your footstep sounds before we left Dragon Land.
- [Max turns his left foot and another hiccuping sound is heard.]
- Max: Nuh-uh. All that laughing gave me [hiccups] the hiccups.
- [The two kids laugh as Max hiccups once again.]
Home Video release[]
VHS[]
- Follow The Clues (2000)
- Let's Think About It! (2002) (Reader's Digest tape)
Goofs[]
- Cassie is heard gasping when Mr. Pop is first shown even though she was not in this episode.
- Mistakenly, Zak says that he is the older twin. Normally, especially as noted in "The Giant of Nod," it is Wheezie who is older, as she has often claimed that her head was the first to pop out of the dragon egg.
- When the dragon rooster and dragon frog get their sounds back, they are seen leaving. However, in the next shot, they're standing next to the dragon cow when the gang run off to find Mr. Pop.
- The dragon cow does not have an udder even though it's a female.
Notes and Trivia[]
- Morals:
- Every sound has a special place where it belongs.
- It’s not nice to take things from other people without their consent.
- Cassie is absent in this episode.
- Mr. Pop having his laugh changed to a donkey braying may be an indirect reference to an adult-oriented joke seen on Tom & Jerry.
- A bit of the animation where Emmy enters the playroom is reused in the previous episode The Greatest Show in Dragon Land.
- This is one of the several episodes where Max and Emmy arrive in Dragon Land off screen. In this case, where they are not seen spawning after the transportation scene. This also happened in "Frog Prints" and "Sand Castle Hassle".