Right, on to the story. A bunny who is allergic to flowers is a florist. Right off the bat, we're making sense. She references her beautiful sign, which is really just block letters. Apparently, the F is missing, and she's quite upset about it. Apparently, a lazy citizen saw a green puppy running off with it and didn't do anything except tell the bunny. Green... puppy. OK. The kids offer to check their dog's stash. They find a big hole, but they don't know any of the letters, because apparently, somehow these kids got to being old enough to run off to other planets on their own without their parents teaching them the alphabet. I never see the parents in these, no wonder these kids know nothing.
Anyway, the boy frog finds a horn and squeezes it, expelling a
They arrive at the park and it's empty. The firefly is ever so confused, and in trying to start up a ride gets himself flung across the park. The boy yells, "Cotton candy!" when Edison flies through it, but it sounds like he says the GD word. Now their supervision is a firefly stuck by cotton candy to the Ferris wheel and the kids are welcome to run amok! No, of course not, they're good kids.
Soon they are saved by the green puppy bringing them a magic box with a hologram of an elephant in a ring leader outfit. He's the owner of the park, and for some reason thought that kid-friendly controls would be a safe way to ensure the park's power. Apparently, the kids have to take letters from the rides and put them in a panel to turn on the rides. Once all the rides are powered up, they can get their chaperone out of trouble. So they get to the first ride and the hologram responds on its own to give them instructions. In rhyme. Terrible rhyme. The kids mix up the letters regularly throughout this in silly ways that by the time a kid's old enough to know what they're saying, they should generally know what the letters are, but whatever. The ride powers up, but the cars won't go! The hologram comes back and reveals that they have to pull something, but leaves what it is out. How helpful. I'd be out of this park. Forget that stinkin' elephant.
Well, the elephant's back on screen to lead a song about what rhyming is, with words that are used wrong and some that don't actually rhyme. The instructions that are missing a word repeat, and their green puppy finds a ring to pull on the cars to start them. Knowing Edison is stuck to a Ferris wheel and desperately needs free, they take their sweet time to ride the bumper cars a while and have fun. He even comments that he needs them to hurry it up a bit, so on to the next ride. Wrong letters again, and finally they get through. No songs this time, just finding the rhyming word to make the carousel go, which is apparently activated by sound. That'd be great in a loud park full of ankle-biters.
Again, they enjoy the fun of riding the carousel while Edison's just stuck there. That's considerate. The animals take off of the carousel like in Mary Poppins, too. Apparently, carousels everywhere do this, and I've just seen knock-offs? What's going on here? Back to the park, where Edison's really in a lot of trouble, and probably would have gone into a panic attack or something by now. The puppy runs into the fun house, which conveniently has a doggy door! Why on earth would a ride at an amusement park have a doggy door? Who thought this up? The kids get into the fun house with the letters, and chase the puppy around an MC Escher nightmare.
At this point, other than mixing up letters again, it's a pretty simple story. They get off the roller coaster and the dog chases a bunch of balloons that come out of nowhere with the park owner's face on them, to lead the kids to the next ride. They don't even mix up the letters this time, they're just as bored as we are. They get on the ride, and their puppy joins them, 'cause that's safe. These kids can't recognize the letter F, they don't need to be on rides that suspend them from air and without an adult running them. Last ride, no mixup, but no water for the water ride! Of course, one more rhyme, which they totally didn't anticipate somehow. Yeah, kids, turn the round meal, that's the rhyming word... So they fill up the water deeper than they are tall, which again is totally safe, and ride the water ride.
Then all they have to do is start up the Ferris wheel, and in a blaze of starlight-like power it begins, and the bug is able to free himself from the ride. The kids are transformed with hats and canes to sing through the alphabet. Kind of useful as a review, I suppose. The song goes on long enough for my kid to get into it and bob his head a couple of times.
The owner of the park materializes out of nowhere (!!) and reveals that he'd shut down the park because he thought nobody wanted to learn (even though he secretly wanted someone to restore it, or he wouldn't have set all of these processes in place). He now owes them a life debt.
They return home and give the bunny her letter F back, and the puppy gives her a rose. What a nice gift to give someone allergic to flowers. He probably yanked it off of her store anyway.
The repetition of letters is helpful for a toddler, but most of the dialogue is just boring filler. It's good to leave in the background for a kid while they run around the house. Just don't let it be an example of good manners, and definitely don't take it as an example of parental guidelines.
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