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Fossil Fools - Part I
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Fossil Fools - Part I is the 75th episode of theKirby: Right Back at Ya! series. In this episode, a tyrannosaurus fossil is discovered inDream Land, which gets everybody in the kingdom interested in dinosaurs; particularlyKing Dedede. After looking through several picture books of dinosaurs, King Dedede becomes obsessed with finding live ones, but is told that they had all gone extinct. Refusing to accept this, he contactsNight Mare Enterprises to give him dinosaurmonsters, but instead they send him a mad scientist namedDoctor Moro who tricksTiff and her friends to help him re-create dinosaurs using genetic engineering. Once the dinosaur eggs are secured, King Dedede andEscargoon host a dinosaur theme park inBabagahara and invite many of the townsfolk on a boat ride through the jungle, where they encounter agiant carnivorous dinosaur that resembles King Dedede. The episode ends on a cliffhanger here as the dinosaur attacks, which is followed up on in the next episode:Fossil Fools - Part II.
This episode and the next are heavily based off of the science fiction filmJurassic Park and the H.G. Wells storyThe Island of Doctor Moreau.
Characters[edit]
The following characters appear in this episode:
| Cast of "Fossil Fools - Part I" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | Selected quote | |
| Primary characters | ||
| "Poouuh... Uhh, poyo! Pooyo!" | ||
| "I'm not sure if we should, Doctor. I dunno if I'd feel right fooling around with nature like that!" | ||
| *laughs*"I got me a dinosaur! I s'prised a tyranno-ma-saurus, here! Stronger than a stego-ma-saurus, an apato-ma-saurus, and a verlocirapt-agon! Ain't that right?!" | ||
| "Well what are ya waitin' for, Sire! Steal credit, will ya?" | ||
| "I'm Doctor Moro. I came to your village when I heard about your great discovery! I've set up a new laboratory at the castle!" | ||
| Secondary characters | ||
| "Ehh, the King left those yesterday. I haven't sold a one of them!" | ||
| "Did you remember the camera?" | ||
| "This better be worth the wait!" | ||
| (no dialogue) | ||
| "Get your dino-dumplings right here!" | ||
| "Let's keep the shovin' to a minimum--augh!" | ||
| "Or maybe they just ran out of food to eat!" | ||
| "As long as they're extinct, who cares!" | ||
| "But how could they be real?" | ||
| "Keep it away!" | ||
| "Kirby's the one who found the rib-cage!" | ||
| "Talk to your mother." | ||
| (no dialogue) | ||
| "How could there be such a place?" | ||
| "What a frightening idea!" | ||
| "This discovery could be quite an economic boom for Cappy Town!" | ||
| "What's all the hubbub?" | ||
| "Sorry, D! Dinosaurs have been out of stock for 65 million years!" | ||
| "We could find an entire skeleton! What a momentous discovery!" | ||
| "The dinosaurs roamed right where we're standin'!" | ||
| "I've never heard such blatant balderdash!" | ||
| "Woah! That's the longest neck I ever saw!" | ||
| "Dinosaurs, huh? You brats oughta' have your heads examined!" | ||
| "Looks like Dedede's really into this dinosaur stuff, huh?" | ||
| "I dunno about you guys, but I believe the comet theory." | ||
| (no dialogue) | ||
Locations[edit]
- Dream Land
- Babagahara
- Dino Kingdom
- Doctor Moro's laboratory
- Cappy Town
- Professor Curio's collection
- Castle Dedede
- Babagahara
Plot synopsis[edit]
The episode begins out in theDream Land countryside, whereTiff is reading a book about dinosaurs toKirby,Tuff, and theCappy children, who have never heard of dinosaurs before. As they do this,Tokkori flies by and mocks the notion that dinosaurs once roamed in Dream Land, and carelessly crashes into a cliff face. Kirby pulls Tokkori out of the dirt, but in the process causes the cliff to collapse and reveal a fossilized foot of a giant dinosaur. Later on, many Cappies from the village gather as formal excavations begin in the area to discover more fossils, led byProfessor Curio. As he and the kids dig, they uncover more pieces of the skeleton, and try to reassemble it; assuming it to be similar to a tyrannosaurus. Shortly into this process,King Dedede andEscargoon arrive in theRoyal Racecar to find out what the Cappies are gathered for. King Dedede then decides to join in the excavation, and - due to extraordinary luck - manages to find the remaining pieces of the skeleton after collapsing the cliff further.
Later on, King Dedede becomes more interested in dinosaurs and starts perusing his castle library for more information. After going through several books, King Dedede dreams of riding a fire-breathing tyrannosaurus and battling other dinosaurs. The next day, he insists on going on an expedition to find more dinosaurs, but Escargoon points out that they are all extinct, and has Dedede confirm this with Tiff. Still not satisfied, Dedede then runs over to Professor Curio's shop and antagonizes the poor man, but Curio also affirms that all the dinosaurs went extinct. Saddened by this news, King Dedede runs crying out of the shop, insisting that there must be some dinosaurs left. He tries to convince people by mentioning theLoch Ness Monster onChannel DDD, and promoting a book called "Dinosaur is Alive" that does not end up selling any copies. Later on, he tries to fool the Cappies by using aWaddle Dee-powered crane to pound giant "footprints" into the ground, but they catch him in the act, and Dedede finally loses his temper.
King Dedede calls upNight Mare Enterprises and asks them to send him a dinosaurmonster, but theN.M.E. Sales Guy insists they cannot do that. Instead, he sends them an expert geneticist namedDoctor Moro who offers to "make" a dinosaur for them in exchange for funds to build a research facility and a capable assistant to help him in this task. After failing to qualify to be assistants themselves, King Dedede and Escargoon rope in Tiff and her friends for the job. Meanwhile, Tiff herself is trying to get the Cappy kids to stay enthusiastic about the excavation, but they grow bored and leave, since they would rather see a living dinosaur. At that moment, Doctor Moro introduces himself to the remaining excavation group and leads them to his new laboratory deep in theBabagahara jungle. There, he explains that he aims to modify the DNA of existing lizards to transform them into dinosaurs, and requests that Tiff aid him in this task. After already being impressed by the laboratory, and seeing Moro deride King Dedede and Escargoon as "bumbling fools", Tiff earnestly accepts the proposition on the condition that nothing is harmed in the process.
To help with the experiments, Tuff and Kirby go hunting for lizards in the forest and catch some. Meanwhile, Professor Curio and Tiff help set up the equipment in the laboratory and monitor the zygotes they injected with the modified DNA. As King Dedede and Escargoon watch from their monitor at Castle Dedede, the research team manages to successfully produce dinosaur eggs, which Doctor Moro explains will be ready to hatch very soon. As the research team spends the night sleeping at the laboratory, a loud crash startles them awake, and they run back into the main research room to discover that all of the eggs are missing. The next day, Escargoon and King Dedede promote a new dinosaur-themed attraction on Channel DDD called "Dino Kingdom", and insist that there are real dinosaurs there. Despite initial doubts, most ofCappy Town comes to the park, the entrance of which is situated on the edge of Babagahara. There, Tiff and the research team tellChief Bookem andMayor Len what happened in the laboratory, explaining that Doctor Moro disappeared along with the eggs, but they have little to offer in return.
King Dedede and Escargoon then direct everyone to the main attraction of the park, telling them to hop into boats on the river and go for a ride. Tiff, Tuff, and Curio complain to Dedede about having their research stolen, but they hop into the boat anyway with Kirby and several of the Cappies. After passing through a gate into the park proper, King Dedede and Escargoon act as tour guides to the assembled group, and murmur to each-other about whether or not Doctor Moro pulled through. After getting far enough in, King Dedede stops the boat and pulls out a cage containing several sheep stolen from Mayor Len's villa, intent on using it to bait out the dinosaurs. At that moment, agiant blue dinosaur appears and gobbles up the sheep. It then reveals itself, having a face and hat resembling that of King Dedede. The episode ends on a cliffhanger as the dinosaur proceeds to chase after the boat, intent on gobbling up everyone inside. The story proceeds from here inFossil Fools - Part II.
Differences between versions[edit]
- In the Japanese version, many objects (such as the covers of books) have text on them that is not present in the international versions.
Dialogue differences[edit]
- In the Japanese version, Kirby calls out (translated) "Dinosaur!" when he captures the lizard near the beginning of the episode. Later on, he also repeats the other characters when they are all startled awake as the eggs are stolen.
- In the Japanese version, King Dedede accuses Professor Curio of "letting the dinosaurs go extinct" and threatens the death penalty on him for this.
- In the Japanese version, the caption in the "Dinosaur is Alive" book has King Dedede claiming that dinosaurs must be real because he saw them in a dream.
- In the Japanese version, Doctor Moro's last two test questions are different, asking "The dumbest person alive is...?" and "The second-dumbest?". King Dedede and Escargoon answer with "His Majesty Dedede" and "Escargon", respectively.
Trivia[edit]
- When Doctor Moro introduces himself to Tiff and the others, he claims that his laboratory is at Castle Dedede, when it is actually deep in theBabagahara woods. This appears to be a mistake on part of the English version, as the Japanese version does not state the laboratory to be at Castle Dedede.
- On the display screen in Doctor Moro's laboratory, after showing a lizard morphing into a tyrannosaurus, it proceeds to cycle through several other animals, includingNruff, a sparrow, the monkey fromWar of the Woods, and the cobra fromFlower Power (though the cobra is green rather than yellow).
- This is the first two-part episode which does not feature narration in the 4Kids version.
- In Biblio's book store, a poster depictingPappy Pottey and two other Cappy-like characters can be seen behind Biblio.
- This 2-part episode shares its title with aPokémon episode, which was also formerly voiced by 4kids.
Gallery[edit]
Tiff reads a book about dinosaurs to her friends.
Tokkori gets his head stuck in a cliff while mocking the kids.
Tokkori gets pulled out, revealing a fossil foot.
The excavation team discovers a femur fossil.
The team begins to assemble the fossil.
King Dedede causes the cliff to collapse on himself.
King Dedede gloats over his accidental completion of the fossil.
King Dedede dreams he is riding fire-breathing dinosaurs.
King Dedede asks Tiff if dinosaurs really are "extunct".
King Dedede harasses Professor Curio as he confirms that there are no more dinosaurs.
King Dedede tries to convince people into believing in the Loch Ness Monster.
One of the pictures from King Dedede's book "Dinosaur is Alive"
Chef Kawasaki discovers massive "footprints" in the main road of Cappy Town.
King Dedede orders his Waddle Dees to lift and drop a footprint-shaped slab.
King Dedede and Escargoon confirm to Doctor Moro that they are not fit to be his assistants.
Doctor Moro and his colleagues gather in the laboratory.
Doctor Moro explains DNA to his assistants.
Kirby sets out to capture a lizard for Doctor Moro.
Tiff reports a successful zygote fertilization to Doctor Moro.
Doctor Moro and his assistants observe the dinosaur eggs they produced.
King Dedede and Escargoon promote their new "Dinosaur Kingdom".
The Cappies rush into the Dinosaur Park to see if there really are dinosaurs there.
King Dedede and Escargoon cut in line to hop onto the tour boat.
The tour boat departs.
Some of Mayor Len's sheep are revealed as bait.
Tiff and Kirby notice a rumble that shakes their tea.
The final shot of the episode
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 夢の恐竜天国! 前編 Yume no Kyōryū Tengoku! Zenpen | Dream of Dinosaur Heaven! - Part 1 |
| Italian | Un'avventura preistorica (prima parte) | A prehistoric adventure (part one) |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Fósseis Vivos - Primeira Parte | Living Fossils - First Part |
