Fair Weather Friend

Fair Weather Friend is part 2 of the 36th episode of Clifford the Big Red Dog. It's the second short story of Mac being disappointed. It aired on November 7, 2001.
==Characters==
*Clifford
*Cleo
*Mac
*T-Bone
*Jetta
*Emily Elizabeth
==Silent Characters==
*Mrs. Diller
*Horace Bleakman
*Violet Bleakman
*Miss Carrington
*Ms. Lee
*Dr. Dinh
*Charley
*Samuel
*Mark Howard
*Caroline Howard
*Sheriff Lewis
== Synopsis: ==
Mac is particularly disappointed when rainy weather threatens to ruin the upcoming Back-To-School Barbecue held every year at Jetta's house. The other dogs, seeing his disappointment, vow to find a way to stop the rain from falling. It doesn't take long for them to realize that you can't change the weather. But Mac's disappointment is replaced with delight that his friends would go to such lengths to try and help him.
==Plot:==
The episode starts over in town where Jetta is shopping for clothes. Meanwhile with the dogs, T-Bone and Mac are playing tag with Clifford who unsuccessfully tags one of them while they hid under a table. As T-Bone and Mac run from Clifford, Mac notices his owner Jetta walking right towards him and tries to stop, skidding right past her along with T-Bone. Clifford then runs past Jetta causing her to nearly drop her stuff, he goes back to help her and Jetta thanks him. 
Mac explains that Jetta was getting stuff for school and that she's having a back-to-school picnic at her house in the afternoon, an event Mac looks forward to every year especially because Jetta's Aunt Sandy brings him bones from the shop to eat. Mac's excitment soon drops to worry when he hears thunder with a possibility of it getting ready to rain soon. As the sky fills with dark clouds, Mac is upset that the picnic will possibly be cancelled due to the weather and hopes for a solution to prevent it from raining. Seeing Mac's disappointment, Clifford and T-Bone decide to help come up with ways to stop it from raining.
They go over to see Cleo who is wearing a raincoat as ordered by Ms. Diller since it's going to rain. The rain starts to fall much to Mac's chargin, he protests and pleads for the rain to stop. T-Bone comes up with a solution. Grabbing a bucket, he uses it to catch the falling raindrops from hitting the ground and getting it muddy. Cleo stops T-Bone saying it's a great idea but he won't be able to catch all of the rain. After T-Bone's idea fails, Mac begins to lose hope and decides to accept the fact that the picnic will be cancelled. Clifford then believes the weatherman is in control of the weather since it rains whenever he says it will and that he might have something to do with the weather. The dogs head over to the TV studio where the weatherman is broadcasting the weather for Birdwell Island saying there will be plenty of rain all over the island throughout the day. The dogs get the weather man's attention by howling but to their dismay, the weatherman tells them he only talks about the weather but can't actually change it unless if they find a way to get rid of the rain clouds. Mac realizes the rain clouds are the main source of the problem. Clifford comes up with an idea believing he can blow away the clouds. 
Later, the dogs head up to a mount. Clifford attempts to blow the clouds away with all his breath, but they end up not budging. Clifford then attempts a 2nd time by giving a mighty blow but a heavy shower of rain falls and it begins pouring. Mac, now soaked is upset as he realizes the picnic is now officially ruined. The other dogs feel bad for Mac and apologize wishing they could've done more to help. Despite being disappointed, Mac is grateful at the other's attempts to stop the rain and thanks them for being good friends. Sometime later, the picnic takes place in Clifford's doghouse. Cleo arrives and struggles to take off her raincoat however after Jetta and Emily Elizabeth adore Cleo wearing her raincoat, she begins to accept it more. Aunt Sandy arrives with a big bone for Mac to enjoy 
==Quotes:==
*Mac: "You can not break a cloud T-Bone"
==Trivia:==
*This episode takes place in late summer/early fall due to the fact that Mac mentions school is about to start and Jetta is seen shopping for new clothes in the beginning.
*The title of this episode is somewhat ironic as Mac previously showed examples of being a fair weather friend in False Friends where as in this episode, he's more nice.
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