Week 5 Summaries
Episodes 9 and 10 Summaries:
Episode 9 (Boartato-kun, Straight Ahead!) begins with a bang as half of the inhabitants of Veggietown are bowled over by the brazenly blazing Boartato. He finally stops after wiping out Dogtato-kun, who asks him if theres any chance he could try walking slowly. Boartato-kun tries his best, but its no use: when he attempts to take a small step, his entire body goes into contortions and then he shoots off as usual. He stops after smacking into a tree and announces his intention to go on a quest: he will run until he has found a way to cure himself of his habit of running! Boartato zooms off to the narration of Croconion and his psychotic shadow. The next day the inhabitants of Veggitown start to get a little bit worried about their peripatetic friend and Dogtato-kun, Cabbopotamus, Hedgetato, and Eggplooch all follow his trail of destruction to see if hes OK. They find him wedged in a tree root, and Cabbopotamus has to yank the little brown thing out with his mouth. As they walk home (with Boartato riding on Cabbopotamus back) Boartato apologizes for being such a bother to everyone but then his chance to redeem himself comes in the form of fallen rocks blocking the road. Boartato smashes through them and makes a handy tunnel that the others can take home and then continues straight on into Veggietown, and begins wreaking havoc once again
Episode 10 (Tomatoink Wants to be Slim) introduces us to Tomatoink, a porcine creature who finds it incredibly difficult to remain upright: his legs are too short, and he just keeps on rolling around. As he lies on what could generously be called his back he hears an ominous rumbling and gets hit by Boartato, who sends him pinballing back and forth between every plant in Veggietown until he finally lands in the river. Dogtato-kun and Hedgetato-chan kindly pull him out, but Tomatoink is very depressed. He wants to be slim! Dogtato-kun points out that all the slim vegetanimals are kinda weird (harken to the pot!) and Hedgetato says that Tomatoinks just fine the way he is. Tomatoink is heartened by Hedgetatos cheerfulness and suddenly realizes that his shape is ideally suited to bouncing. He boo-iings higher and higher until finally he comes down and gets stuck in Lettuphants nose. The other inhabitants of Veggietown gather around to survey the uncomfortable situation and try to come up with a way to get poor Tomatoink out of the very unhappy Lettuphants nose. They try having her blow out, but that does nothing; they try tickling, and that doesnt work. Finally Cabbopotamus offers to pull Tomatoink out, but as soon as his enormous mouth comes close to Lettuphant she panics and runs away and straight off a cliff. Tomatoink save the two by grabbing onto a projecting tree branch, but things look hopeless for our newly conjoined pair but fortunately when the rest of the group shows up gravity has solved the problem for them: Lettuphants nose has stretched until she could reach the ground. Tomatoinks body has also stretched, so now he is as thin as he wanted to be (if entirely unable to move). Hooray for happy endings!