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Tale of the Tail/Mr. Pickles

Episode Number: 4    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday July 22, 2005    Prod Code: 104A/104B
Originally aired: Friday July 22, 2005 on Nickelodeon
Writer: Mitch Watson
Director: Michael Girard
Show Stars: Wayne Knight (Mr. Blik), Rob Paulsen (Gordon), Maurice LaMarche (Hovis), Liliana Mumy (Human Kimberly), Kevin McDonald (Waffle)
Recurring Role: Maurice LaMarche (The Kraken)
Guest Stars: Tom Kenny (Bum #1)
Production Code: 104A/104B

Tale of the Tail:

The episode starts out with Gordon holding up a piece of the "Candy Gummie Unicorns" and says that they are Human Kimberly's favorite food. He has a whole basket of them in which he wants to give to her. When he sees her, he runs up to her to find that she has friends over. Kimberly's friends start to tease him about his tail, upsetting Gordon. Kimberly tries to stand up for him, but they ignore her.

Later at the mansion, Gordon is looking at himself in front of the mirror. Mr. Blik commands him to stop saying that he is half a cat and asks how many times he has said that, Waffle answers that question. Gordon continues to whine about his little tale. Mr. Blik tells him that he should go fishing with him and Waffle. Gordon refuses because of his tail, so Mr. Blik convinces him to go by telling him about the kraken and that if he defeats it, he will grant him one wish.

Later in a ship, where Hovis is steering, Mr.Blik is relaxing and waffle is "Fishing", Gordon is searching for the Kraken. Fusterated, he asks Mr. Blik about when the kraken will come. Mr. Blik assures him that the kraken will come soon. Just about when Gordon is telling him what he would do if this was a trick, Waffle finds out that he cought something. Gordon and Mr. Blik come up and help him get the fish. They then realize that the fish is the kraken. Mr. Blik and Waffle is frightened while Gordon is happy that he has a chance to defeat the Kraken. Mr. Blik and Waffle want to get away from it, but Gordon does not want to. Mr. Blik then tells him that he made the whole thing up. Waffle criticizes him for lieing to Gordon. Gordon tells Mr. Blik that he does not believe him and that he is going to defeat the kraken. He tries this, but ends up being dragged down through the water into an air filled space. Gordon gives the kraken a speech about how he is going to be eaten by him and that at least his brothers are safe from him. As he is doing this, he accidentally gives the kraken the idea of eating them.

Meanwhile back at the ship, Waffle starts crying about the loss. Mr. Blik says that it is tragic, but also that the good news is that the kraken is gone and wants to leave, but Waffle doesn't want to leave Gordon and then start arguing about who should be controlling the ship. At that point, the kraken pops up and both Mr. Blik and Waffle run into a room in the ship. While Waffle successfully makes it into the room, but Mr. Blik gets caught by the kraken. Waffle is able pull him away from the kraken, but with his tail pulled off by the kraken and eatened by him. Mr. Blik becomes upset that he has lost his tail. The kraken catches them and holds them.

Meanwhile, back at the air filled area, Gordon finds a submarine and uses it to get to Waffle and Mr. Blik. He shoots himself out of the submarine and dives threw the kraken's head which kills him. The kraken sinks into the water. Waffle praises him for defeating that kraken and Gordon says that he done it even without a big tail. Mr. Blik tells him that "He was a little late". Waffle criticizes him for lieing in the first place and tells him that it was his fault. Mr. Blik acts like it is not his fault and that only an imbacial would believe that if you defeat that the kraken, you get a wish. Suddenly, the kraken pops up out of the water and tells him that it is true and that he will grant Gordon one wish. Gordon wishes a new tail for Mr. Blik (He decided that he no longer needs a big tale). Mr. Blik accepts this and is happy with the new tail he received. The kraken tells Gordon that maybe he will defeat him again some day and that until that day, hi ho kraken! The kraken then floats up into the sky. Gordon says hi ho back to him and then the episode segment ends with an overview camera shot of the ship in the on the ocean.

Mr. Pickles:

The segment starts with Mr. Blik combing his fur and feeling happy about his beautiful fur. After he combs his fur he opens the curtain to his bathtub to see that Gordon is in there. Mr. Blik asks him why he is in his bathtub. He says that he made a pickled cabbage pond in his bathtub. Mr. Blik complains about him putting it in his bathtub and tells him to get it out. He then walks out of the room, only to get caught in a slingshot made by waffle. Waffle says that he made it out of elastic wastebands (Which he got from Hovis's underwear). Mr. Blik tells him to take it down. While he tells both Waffle and Gordon that they would mess up the house without him bossing them around, he started walking up to him, still caught in the elastic wastebands, and slips on the pickled cabbaged stuff that was on the floor. He then gets flinged back and falls into the pickled cabbaged bathtub. Gordon rushes up to him to tell him that he is going to spoil his pickled cabbages. As Mr. Blik tells him that he does not care, he pops out of the stuff in which he is shown that he turned green. Gordon and Waffle start laughing at him. Mr.Blik looks at himself in the mirror all upset. He tells Hovis to wash him down. This failed, Gordon and Waffle start making fun of him, calling him a wee lepardcon and Mr. Pickes. Mr. Blik leaves the room in anger. He decides that just because his fur turns green, doesn't mean that he is not the cat in charge, so he starts giving his brothers and Hovis commands, but they all just laugh at him and tease him. Mr. Blik decides that because nobody is respecting his authority anymore, he is going to run away. While he does this, he sees a group of hobos in a train and asks if he could live with them. They say that he could.

Later, Waffle and Hovis gather around Gordon who is reading a letter that Mr. Blik left them. Waffle and Gordon feel sad at first, but then start cheering out loud, followed by Hovis's "laughing". The next scene shows Gordon, Waffle and even Hovis doing whatever they want. The mansion becomes very destroyed.

Meanwhile back at the train, Mr. Blik is shown showing off his new hobo outfit and asks the hobos what they do everyday. One of the hobos tells him that on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays they hunt for filth, on Thursdays they rest, on Fridays and Saturdays, more filth and on Sundays they have band practice. When they pull out and play their "instruments", Mr. Blik dances to it.

Meanwhile back at the mansion, Gordon and Waffle were sitting on the couch. Gordon tells Waffle that this is the life and starts to get some pain in his tummy. Gordon tells Waffle to turn on the t.v. but nether him or Gordon knows how to turn on the t.v., so Waffle decides to call someone. But nether him or Gordon know how to use the phone or dial the number. Waffle starts to go crazy because Mr. Blik has always done those things. Gordon tries to get him to calm down and they both end up getting slinged by the slingshot of elastic wastebands and into the wall, which makes it fall down. Waffle cheers about it, but Gordon tells him that he shouldn't cheer and that they have been living like slobs. Both of them decide that they need Mr. Blik and start crying. Hovis comes up and says they he sadly needs him too because he signs his pay checks.

Meanwhile back at the train, the hobos gives him "food" to eat. Suddenly, he hears a call for him and looks to see that his brothers and hovis had come for him. He tells them that they look like the people he knew. They tell him that it is them. Mr. Blik asks them how they find him here. Gordon says that they could see the fire from the mansion and that they want him to come back and live with them. At first, Mr. Blik does not want to go back, but then after he makes a really good insult, he realizes that even though he is green, he is still superior and decides to go back to living with them again and says that he wants to drive. After they all go into the car and that Hovis says that he is glad to have him back, Mr. Blik says that being green is actually the best thing that has ever happened to him. After everybody fastens their seatbelt, Mr. Blik accidentally crashes the car into the house, causing it to break. The episode then ends with one of the hobos popping up on the screen and making a chicken sound.

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