Magic Lessons

"Magic Lessons" is the third episode of Butterfly Valley (1998 series). It is a remake of "Practicing Magic," the second episode of the 1969 series.
==Synopsis==
After getting infected with butterfly magic, Rose and Petunia must learn how to perform spells with a little help from the wizard Morpheus the Magnificent. However, Morpheus had trouble with his own magic, resulting in a very big mess in Butterfly Valley.
==Plot==
Rose and Petunia are attending a school magic show with their friends in the Floral Showgrounds, sitting in between their neighbors Celia and Ernie.
The show begins with Sam and his floating wand trick, which he tries to make his magic wand levitate by sheer will, but Petunia points out that there was a string connecting the wand and his finger. Mackenzie goes next, trying to change the color of her handkerchief to yellow, but Petunia noticed another handkerchief behind her.
The next act features Jessa tearing her poorly drawn picture into pieces before reforming them into a neat artwork, bewildering the audience. The announcer states that Rose is the next act, but she gets nervous as Petunia tries to cheer her up.
She tells Rose that Princess Butterfly will help her overcome stage fear, so they went to Butterfly Valley using the magic flower, but they almost fall into a steep pit. Petunia grabs Rose's ankle, hoping not to fall down the pit, but Rose loses her grip over a rock and the twins fall into a big pot filled with the butterfly magic potion. A butterfly fairy wizard came upon the pot and prepares his latest creation.
Unbeknownst to the wizard, the twins are still inside the pot, infected with butterfly magic as he stirs the potion. Much to his surprise, the twins exit the pot, coughing out the potion. Petunia asks what is his name and the wizard introduces himself as Morpheus the Magnificent. He soon reminds the twins that they fell into his magic enchanting potion.
The twins clean the potion off each other and Morpheus thought that they should practice their magic skills, so he brings them out of his lair for their first lesson: to shoot a beam of light at a troll dummy. Rose and Petunia hold each other's hands and a flowing light drafts toward the dummy and destroys it. They soon head to the next lesson: to grow plants and fruits.
Rose wanted to grow several flowers, while Petunia decided to grow bananas and watermelons. After they succeeded, they head to the third lesson: to transform an object into a different one.
Rose tries to transform an old ragdoll into a live fairy, but when she is about to fire a ball of light at the ragdoll, she sneezes and the light transforms a busy butterfly fairy into a frog. The transformed butterfly fairy blames Morpheus for turning her into a frog, but Rose tells her that it was her fault and apologizes, then she transforms the butterfly fairy back to normal.
Petunia wants to turn a small rock into a big friendly golem, but she misses it and the light suddenly transforms one of the pumpkins in a farm into a menacing monster, which then begins invading Butterfly Valley.
The twins and Morpheus encounter the pumpkin monster, who then growls at them. Morpheus tries to calm it down with his purifying spell but it fails and instead makes it grow into a larger size. He tries again, but the spell transforms an apple to another monster.
The pumpkin monster then heads to another area in Butterfly Valley and approaches Bluebell, who is drawing a night market against a tree. She does not notice it until when she puts her sketch book in her bag. She turns around and freaks out upon seeing it. Bluebell runs off and calls for help, but she left her bag, to which she transports it back.
Meanwhile in the Celestial Palace, Princess Butterfly is sitting to her throne, feeling rather bored, then Bluebell went into the palace, alerting her that the pumpkin monster is coming to eat the palace. Princess Butterfly tells her not to worry and heads to the Butterfly Square.
Once again, Morpheus tries to use his purifying spell, but it instead transforms more fruits and vegetables into monsters, which soon invade the valley.
The fruit and vegetable monsters indulge on houses and night markets in the valley, only to be stopped by Princess Butterfly, who tells them to stop destroying things. The monsters do not listen to her and resume attacking the valley.
Morpheus tells Princess Butterfly that his purifying spell cannot calm the monsters down, so she teaches him how to use his spells purifying spell properly, with the help of the twins, and it actually works, calming the pumpkin monster down. They then calm more monsters, starting with the apple monster. Once they calm the monsters down, Princess Butterfly shows Morpheus how to revert them to their original forms, which he does so by crossing his arms. Morpheus thanked her and the twins for helping him.
Meanwhile in the Floral Showgrounds, the school magic show has ended and the kids try to find Rose and Petunia, thinking that they magically vanished. They look through various things in the place, including the bushes, inside a magic hat, behind the curtains and underneath the stage
The twins bid farewell to the butterfly fairies and before they leave, Rose does a finger snap, which soon causes the Troll Kingdom to shake violently. King Boogieman tells the troll guards to escape from the Great Troll Palace while he and Queen Peregia try to stop the kingdom from shaking.
Rose and Petunia return to the Floral Showgrounds using the magic flower and their friends came to them, feeling glad that the twins appeared again. Brad tells the twins that they missed the rest of the magic show, which made them disappointed, but Mackenzie cheers them up with ice creams and the kids laugh as the episode ends.
==Differences from "Practicing Magic"==
*This episode opens with a school magic show instead of a real one as in the original version.
*In the original version, Rose and Petunia attend the magic show with their family, but in this version, they attend it with their close friends.
*The butterfly magic potion is colored pink rather than green.
*Rose and Petunia were soaked in the butterfly magic potion rather than drinking it as in the original version.
*The butterfly fairy magician is named "Morpheus", not "Marvin" in this episode.
*Rose and Petunia practice their spells outside various places in Butterfly Valley as opposed to inside the wizard's lair as in the original version.
*Only fruits and vegetables transform into monsters, leaving other inanimate objects unaffected by the transformation spell.
*Bluebell is drawing against a tree instead of playing hopscotch in a playground.
*By the time Rose and Petunia is about to leave Butterfly Valley, the school magic show has already ended, whereas in the original version, the magic show continued even when the twins leave Butterfly Valley.
*The trolls only make minor appearance near the end instead of throughout the episode.
==Trivia==
*This episode was included in the VHS compilation video The Best of Butterfly Valley Vol. 1.
*This is the last episode to premiere on the same date in both the United States and Canada.
**Starting with the next episode, due to Butterfly Valley moving to the Thursday morning timeslot on the latter country's Family Channel, episodes now premiere two days later in Canada.
*Unsurprisingly, this is one of a few episodes where the trolls made minor appearances.
*This is the first time the Sideview Beach Middle School is physically seen, which means more of Rose and Petunia's friends made their first appearances. 
*A scene involving Rose and Petunia holding their hands together, which caused a ball of light to appear is a homage to "Arrival," the first episode of the 1969 series, where in one scene, the twins hold each other's hands to shoot a beam of light towards King Boogieman.
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