Saving Little Bluebell

"Saving Little Bluebell" is the second episode of Butterfly Valley (1998 series). It is a remake of "Princess Butterfly to the Rescue," the ninth episode of the 1969 series.
==Synopsis==
Princess Butterfly is painting a pretty picture when the twins accidentally ruin it. They apologize to her and proceed to clean the mess, but when Princess Butterfly left off duty, Bluebell was captured by the troll guards, so who will save her from being caged in the insect collection?
==Plot==
The first scene of the episode is set in Princess Butterfly's flashback. A small ladybug lands on a dandelion in a scenery, then it gets startled by a sudden crashing sound and flies off.
Inside the nearby Celestial Palace, a young Princess Butterfly falls over after struggling to reach her favorite storybook kept up high, which is where the crashing sound derived from. Her mother later came into her room as she gets up. Her mother tells her to learn not to make any mistakes as she was a responsible princess.
Princess Butterfly moans that she will do anything that she wants to, but her mother says that she also has to be responsible. She tells her that every princess has to respond to her people and that she will be a great ruler of the Butterfly Kingdom.
The scene then fades to present time and Princess Butterfly is painting a picture of herself and her mother in the art gallery. She stops to grab more paints from the paint shelf. While she looks for the right colors of the picture, the twins are outside with their pet dog Amadeus.
Petunia asks Amadeus if he wants to play fetch and he nods his head in acceptance, so she throws a big tennis ball for Amadeus to get, but it flies into Rose's flower cottage. She blames her sister for ruining her beautiful flowers and Petunia apologizes to her, then they find the ball.
After they found the tennis ball, the twins decided to visit Butterfly Valley, but they had to make sure that Amadeus should not follow them to the valley. They enter the art gallery and observe various paintings and sculptures, then they look at something that Princess Butterfly had painted. Petunia, not knowing that the paint has yet to dry, leans on the picture and it falls down, ruining it in process.
When Princess Butterfly returned with the right colors of what she painted earlier, she gets shocked at her now-ruined artwork. Rose claims that it was her sister's fault and Petunia apologizes, promising that she will not touch any paintings if the paint is not dry yet, to which Princess Butterfly accepts the apology and promise, then the twins proceed to clean the mess.
Meanwhile, Bluebell wanders outside, wondering where everybody has gone. She looks around the area and notices a sign that tells her to look away, then a troll guard appears out of nowhere and takes her to the Great Troll Palace.
Queen Peregia looks through the telescope, seeing that the trolls had successfully captured Bluebell to the palace. King Boogieman later came in the balcony and stated that Bluebell will become the latest addition to their insect collection. The troll guards arrive in the insect collection room and put Bluebell in a cage.
Princess Butterfly talks with the ladybug from her flashback, discussing about everything happened to her, which makes her shocked to the fact that she was irresponsible for leaving the Butterfly Kingdom unprotected, not even telling the Vizier that she has left off duty.
Princess Butterfly goes back into art gallery and tells the twins, who are still cleaning the mess, that she had made a mistake, claiming that it was much bigger than Petunia's mistake. Rose notes her that Bluebell is in danger, which makes her worry about Bluebell.
She transforms into a hummingbird and goes into the Great Troll Palace to find Bluebell. King Boogieman noticed her, knowing that she was rescuing Bluebell. Princess Butterfly sneaks into the insect collection room and finds Bluebell caged across. Bluebell felt glad that Princess Butterfly came to save her.
Meanwhile in the art galley, the twins have already cleaned the mess and a visitor came in to see a pretty painting, but the twins already put a draped cloth over it. Petunia claims that it has not been finished yet, to which the suspicious visitor decided to view another painting. The twins soon exhale in relief when she left.
Back in the Great Troll Palace, the troll guards appear in the insect collection room and the butterfly fairies fight against them. Princess Butterfly traps a handful of the guards in vines, while Bluebell, who has already been freed, shoots a string of light at them by crossing her arms. They run down all the way to the court, but more troll guards appear to stop them.
The butterfly fairies soon escaped from the troll guards, but King Boogieman noticed them and tried to grab the fairies, then Princess Butterfly traps him in vines and Bluebell tells him that he should dress like that for the whole time. Princess Butterfly and Bluebell soon transport back to Butterfly Valley.
Queen Peregia returned to the court and noticed her husband wrapped in vines and flowers in disgust. King Boogieman asks her to free him from the vines. The troll guards laughed at him for wearing the vine "dress", angering the monarchs.
Now returned to Butterfly Valley, Bluebell asks Princess Butterfly why did she saved her, to which she responded that it was all due to her responsibility, which she learned a long time ago from her mother, and caring for her, then Rose and Petunia returned from the art gallery and were glad that she came back. Bluebell soon says that when she grows her wings someday, she wants to be as brave as Princess Butterfly.
Back to the art gallery, Princess Butterfly unveils her finished painting of herself and her mother to the applause of many people. Petunia suggested her to put the picture in the dining room and she agreed.
The twins bid farewell to the butterfly fairies and return home using the magic flower, then Petunia tells Amadeus about her and her sister's adventures in Butterfly Valley, to which he gets befuddled, so Rose tells him about Butterfly Valley and its inhabitants. Amadeus soon licked her, but he felt hungry, so Rose feeds him some dog food and the episode ends when he licks her again.
==Differences from "Princess Butterfly to the Rescue"==
*The original version opens like a black and white film, but it was redone as Princess Butterfly's flashback for the remake.
*Princess Butterfly paints her picture in the art gallery, whereas in the original version, she paints it in the palace.
*Originally, the twins ruin the painting by knocking the easel, but in this version, Petunia ruins it by leaning on it.
*Unlike in the original version, Princess Butterfly does not become resentful to the twins when she noticed her ruined painting.
*The trolls do not leave a hostage note to the twins like they did in the original version.
*Princess Butterfly does not create a forest, which she did in the original version to vent her anger out.
*The twins have finished cleaning the mess much later than in the original version.
*The butterfly fairies fought against King Boogieman in their fairy forms instead of their bird forms as in the original version.
*The troll guards do not laugh at King Boogieman after he got wrapped in vines and flowers in the original version, but in the remake, they did laugh, which angered him and Queen Peregia.
==Trivia==
*This episode was produced after the film Butterfly Valley: Adventures in Pleasant Island was finished, but was broadcast after the premiere episode "Welcome to Butterfly Valley."
*Despite the official synopsis claiming that both twins ruin the painting and apologize afterwards, only Petunia did so in the episode itself.
*This episode was included in the VHS compilation video The Best of Butterfly Valley, Vol. 1.
*It is never explained how Bluebell wandered away from Butterfly Valley. It is also illegal for a young child to leave behind their parents, considering that Bluebell is a child.
*One of the paintings in the art gallery had the name "Jones" written on the bottom left corner, a reference to Avery Jones, the art director of the 1969 series.
*A scene involving Bluebell crossing her arms like a plus sign to fire a string of light is a reference to the Japanese superhero Ultraman, who must cross his arms to fire his famous "Spacium Beam" attack. The producers of the series have pleaded Tsuburaya Productions, which produced the Ultraman series, for this.
*This is the first time Rose used her magic flower to return home with Petunia in the 1998 series, since in the series premiere, Princess Butterfly transports them back to their backyard.
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