Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Now with English subtitles! :) As always, thanks goes to yogunmm for helping me out ;)

Originally released on the 4th volume of the French VHS collection by AB/TF1 Video in 1994, later reissued in 1997.

This is one of the few (at least four) color episodes during series 2 to feature Florence's friends, Paul, Basil, and Rosalie (Coralie), who stopped appearing after the original black-and-white series, apart from the opening and closing sequences. The other color episodes they appeared in were "Wine Making", "Snowman's Scarf", and "Le voyage extraordinaire" (which may or may not have been dubbed into English, given the currently available online sources of Thompson-episode broadcast dates in the UK)

Curiously, both the names and the voices of the two boys are switched in this episode, as well as in "Wine Making". Usually, it's the boy in the blue jumpsuit who always quotes his dad's sayings. Their names (Paul and Basil, or Pio and Basile) are also inconsistent in various episodes/seasons as well. For the black-and-white episodes, as well as "Dougal and the Blue Cat" and UK book adaptations of the English version, Paul (Pio) is supposed to be the one in blue, while Basil (Basile) is the one in yellow. For the four color episodes and merchandise, their French names are switched. For the CGI era, Basil no longer appears, with Paul being given Basil's name in both English and French.

In the UK, this was originally broadcast on February 18, 1971.

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