Mr. Bogus/Recap/S2/E04 Bookstore Bogus

"Bookstore Bogus"

"Written by Michael Maurer"

First Act

Bogus and his good friend, Tommy Anybody, go to a bookstore to find some books worth reading. The first book that they check out is "The Man in the Iron Mask" by Alexander Dumas, with Bogus humorously removing the mask from the main character. Bogus then decides to split up from Tommy for a little while, where he checks out a book about bugs. However, a pair of fierce-looking worms emerge from the book and start chasing after Bogus, until they chase him into a book about a mad scientist's laboratory. Unfortunately for the worms, it looks like that they might end up possibly being dissected by the scientist who approaches them, but it's Bogus to the rescue as he is able to rope the worms and save them from the scientist. The worms are now grateful to Bogus for saving them.

Meanwhile, trouble is brewing when Ratty and Mole, who are up to their no-good rotten tricks again, enter the bookstore by use of the ventilation duct. It turns out that Ratty plans to enter a book about the Aztec civilization and steal the treasures that were being kept for safekeeping. Ratty and Mole do just that, but Bogus shows up and demands for them to return the treasure. After the two rodents make a run for it, Bogus pursues them until approaching a copy machine, but can't seem to find them anywhere. Ratty and Mole then show up and slam the lid of the copy machine right on top of Bogus, causing the machine to go to work and start making copies of Bogus doing his trademark dance. With Bogus eluded for now, Ratty and Mole escape once again.

A girl then finds the stapled-together papers that had the copies of Bogus, then starts flipping them in a flipbook-style manner. Bogus, now back to normal, thanks the girl for freeing him by blowing her a kiss, which she is repulsed by. Bogus resumes the pursuit for his two adversaries, where he enters a superhero comic book and becomes an Evel Knievel-esque superhero. Bogus then manages to confront Ratty and Mole, but not before comically running into the pole of the building that they are standing on top of. However, he is able to make it back to the top again, but Ratty cuts a rope that a safe was suspended on, causing the safe to fall on top of Bogus and send him crashing to the ground. Ratty and Mole think that they have taken care of Bogus, but Bogus emerges from the safe, completely unscathed, then uses a whip to knock over a water tower, flooding Ratty and Mole out from the comic book. The flood knocks over the Bookstore owner in the process as well too.

Second Act

Bogus and Tommy are now looking at books of various fairy tales and nursery rhymes, such as Humpty Dumpty, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rapunzel. Bogus is rather enamored with Rapunzel, as she is with him. However, Ratty and Mole show up again and kidnap Rapunzel, to make her Ratty's bride. Bogus hears Rapunzel's cry for help then quickly rushes off to save her. He manages to make a paper airplane to pursue Ratty and Mole, but he winds up crashing into a bookshelf, which knocks a barrage of books off the shelf and on top of himself, Ratty, Mole, and Rapunzel.

Even in spite of this, Ratty and Mole manage to escape with Rapunzel into a science fiction book about spaceships. Bogus then realizes that in order to save Rapunzel, he'll need some help, so he calls on the help of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf and Humpty Dumpty as they, along with Bogus, jump into the space book and become involved in an Affectionate Parody of Star Trek. Even Brattus is part of the space crew. Red Riding Hood then informs Bogus that they have an incoming message. Turns out that the message is from Ratty, as he tells Bogus and his crew that there is no way that they'll get Rapunzel back.

Ratty then has Mole fire phasers at the ship, as well as the fact that the impact has caused Humpty Dumpty to suffer major damage. Bogus then sends Brattus down to the engine room, where he finds that the engine's wires are being sabotaged by some Dirt Dudes. Fortunately, Brattus uses a fire extinguisher to chase the Dirt Dudes away from the engine room. By now Ratty's ship starts closing in on Bogus's ship as Bogus tells Brattus to get the engines started up. After much difficulty, Brattus manages to plug the wires back in (while also getting electrocuted in the process), which causes the ship's cloaking device to become activated, just as the phasers from Ratty's ship hit.

Thinking that they've gotten rid of Bogus for good, Ratty and Mole celebrate while Rapunzel cries in sorrow. However, Bogus's ship then reappears from behind Ratty's ship, as Bogus then beams aboard the enemy ship and provokes Ratty and Mole into coming at him. Ratty uses a space pistol to fire a shot at Bogus, but Bogus uses a tennis racket to reflect the shot back at Ratty and Mole, chasing them into the phaser that they used. Bogus then uses the phaser to fire Ratty and Mole directly out of the space book and into the trash, taking care of them for now.

Having accomplished the mission of saving Rapunzel, Bogus and the others beam back to where they came from, with the fairy tale characters back in their respected books once again. But not before Bogus and Brattus are now both hanging out with Rapunzel.

Third Act

This time, Bogus and Tommy are reading the story of "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne, where Bogus uses his own windpower to blow away the balloon. After that, Bogus then splits up from Tommy once again, where he enters a book about art and painting. Bogus then decides to unleash his inner artist as he begins work on his greatest masterpiece. After several failed attempts, where he paints pictures of Brattus and an escaping chicken, Bogus paints a picture of a dinosaur that comes to life.

The minute this dinosaur comes to life, he immediately causes a lot of grief for Bogus, which prompts him to paint a picture of a girl dinosaur so that the dinosaur will have a female companion. After a few seconds of misunderstanding, in which the girl dinosaur falls for Bogus, Bogus is finally able to convince her that the male dinosaur is the one for her, as well as painting a picture of a prehistoric setting where the dinosaurs will live.

After setting up some homey touches for the dinosaurs, like a cave for them to live in, Bogus finds that the dinosaurs still need to learn the basics of spending time with each other. However, the dinosaurs are not to happy about this, as they chase Bogus out of their cave. Bogus is sitting on a nearby cliff, when he accidentally causes a rock slide which then turns into a fierce rock dinosaur that starts going on a rampage. Unfortunately, Bogus falls off from the cliff, where he finds himself in the path of the rampaging dinosaur.

Just when it seems that Bogus is about to become dinner for the dinosaur, Brattus shows up, wearing caveman attire, and provokes the dinosaur into chasing him out of the art book. Brattus then tears up the page that the dinosaur is on, crumbles it up into a ball, then both him and Bogus start stomping on it, then use it for football practice. After that is over, Brattus then conjures up a vine from out of nowhere and swings away, as Bogus looks on in amazement.

Tropes

 * Affectionate Parody: As stated above, the second act where Bogus is in a space environment is a parody of Star Trek.
 * Agitated Item Stomping: Both Bogus and Brattus begin stomping on the page that the mean rock dinosaur was on, after crumbling it up.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Brattus gets one in the final act, just when the dinosaur was closing in on Bogus.
 * Breath Weapon: Not exactly a weapon, per se, but Bogus is able to suck in the biggest breath he could and blow away the balloon after he and Tommy just read "Around The World In Eighty Days".
 * Damsel in Distress: Rapunzel falls victim to this, thanks to Ratty and Mole.
 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: The final act of the episode had Bogus interacting with some dinosaurs.
 * Eye Pop: Bogus does this twice when he is chased by the worms.
 * Gondor Calls for Aid: Bogus calls on the help of Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf, and Humpty Dumpty, in order to help him save Rapunzel from Ratty and Mole.
 * Illogical Safe: This happens to Bogus while he is in the Evel Knievel setting.
 * Shout-Out: The Star Trek references used in the second act.