Gumby Adventures - Season 1 Episode 17 Balloonacy / Picnic / Gumbastic
Balloonacy:
It's Denali's birthday, and Gumby and Pokey get some balloons for the party. Besides your standard helium balloons, they decide to pick up some magic, self-inflating animal balloons. When Denali sees the amazing balloons, he yawns and falls over. Oh, then the Blockheads show up and start popping balloons, prompting Prickle to declare that it's up to them to put a stop to those hooligans. Alas, there isn't enough time to show their capture, so we cut immediately to the Blockheads, who have been bundled together in a net tied to a giant helium balloon, and Gumby and friends let them drift away into the sky to their inevitable death.
Picnic:
Gumby, friends, and family all go on a picnic one lovely day. When ants start crawling all over the chocolate cake, Gumby decides to shrink himself down and reason with them. Unfortunately, the queen doesn't like green, and refuses to talk to him. Luckily for Gumby, the anthill is attacked at that moment by the Block-ants. Gumby horribly crushes the invaders and threatens further violence toward them if they don't leave the non-block ants alone. The queen decides that she likes green after all, and Gumby gives her a piece of cake.
Gumbastic:
Hope you're hungry, 'cause I got a big plate of stream of consciousness for you. We begin with Gumby's battle with a vending machine that won't give him his soda. After it sprouts a face and spits soda on him, Gumby sticks his hand up the slot where the sodas come out, only to get sucked in. Fortunately, Minga comes along to let him out. Gumby walks down the block to the local old west town to rip off a high noon gunfight scene from some popular western movie. Three hours later, Gumby gets a hankering for some ice cream, so he tosses a nickel into a wishing well. He's rewarded with a microscope. Looking in, he sees some microbes visiting an ice cream stand. When one of the microbes appears next to him (as tall as he is) and offers him an ice cream cone, he drops another nickel in the well, this time producing a pad of paper, a pencil, and an eraser. He draws the microbe and erases it, causing the microbe to be annihilated in real life. Then he draws himself some ice cream. Then, Gumby finds a nice quiet spot to sit and read his dictionary, when suddenly, a red dot comes along and zips around by him. He accidentally smashes it into tiny multi-colored dots, then mashes them together into a green dot. The dot turns into another Gumby with red eyes, which turns out to be the Blockheads (with cylindrical heads instead of cubes), who laugh at Gumby a bit, turn themselves into red dots, and zip away. Gumby turns himself into a green dot and follows.
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: 8.432
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