Episode 14

**"Primeval Dinosaur VS Dilophosaurus"** is the 14th episode of **Chikkun Takkun**. It originally aired on Fuji TV on July 27, 1984.

## Synopsis

A mishap occurs when Chikkun, Dr. Bell, Andre, and all their cohorts tug on the Waruchin Encyclopedia, causing it to malfunction. The group is split up, sent back in time, and stranded in the prehistory era. Chikkun's group runs into a tribe of early humans who worship a god who looks almost exactly like Giji-Giji. Giji-Giji is worshipped like a god and develops a power complex, while the group must find a way back to their home era.

## Characters

* Miko Nanda
* Waruchin Encyclopedia
* Chikkun Duck
* Dr. Bell
* Giji-Giji
* Takkun Hat
* Mechatan
* Andre Harrowchild
* Prehistoric villagers

## Plot Summary

One afternoon, Miko is bored and reading a magazine on the Nanda house lawn. This boredom is swiftly interrupted by the noise made by Chikkun, Dr. Bell, Andre, and all their cohorts, chasing each other around Miko's house. Chikkun has somehow gotten his hands on the Waruchin, and everyone else wants it. Miko looks at this from a distance, until the Waruchin tumbles out of the scuffle and she picks it up. She too is pulled into the fight, and everyone else tugs on the Waruchin to grab it for themselves - until it short-circuits in a shower into sparks.

Miko, Chikkun, Takkun, Giji-Giji, and Dr. Bell find themselves in a strange interdimensional space. This soon opens up and drops the group in the middle of the prehistoric era. They hurry away from a wooly mammoth, and take refuge in a nearby cave. Before they can get too lost, they run into a group of cavemen who are less than thrilled to see intruders. They draw their spears, but soon notice Giji-Giji, and begin excitedly calling him "god".

The group is taken to the cave peoples' village in the middle of a rock quarry. There stands a large rock pillar covered in old prophecies and cave carvings, some of which depict a god figure who looks just like Giji-Giji. This begins to overwhelm Giji-Giji, but Dr. Bell sees the opportunity, and acts as Giji-Giji's hype man who demands for his outright worship. That evening, the group is having dinner with the cave people when Dr. Bell tries, yet again, to put the moves on Miko. She rejects him, so Giji-Giji has Miko, Chikkun, and Takkun restrained at Bell's request. However, Bell goes to reach for some of the food, and Giji-Giji slaps his hand.

Dr. Bell and Giji-Giji begin to argue. Dr. Bell soon realizes what a power trip his cohort is on, and gets a taste of his own medicine: Giji-Giji thoroughly wallops Bell and makes him treat him like a god. Giji-Giji takes a moment to think about how far his life has come; back on Star R, he was in a loveless marriage with disrespectful kids and a dead-end job, but now, he's finally able to boss Dr. Bell around and be doted on by the cave people.

Giji-Giji takes special enjoyment in making Dr. Bell and Chikkun do his bidding. He has Dr. Bell, Chikkun, and Miko act out TV shows, and then has the guys pull a primitive car for him and Miko. This drive in the park is interrupted when a solar eclipse scares the cave people. Their lead elder explains to Giji-Giji that this is part of a prophecy about a "demon" coming to the village, which Giji-Giji is supposed to defeat. In private, Giji-Giji begs Dr. Bell to help him defeat the demon, if it comes; Dr. Bell's only recommendation is that they just leave the cave people to die. Giji-Giji instead chooses to sacrifice Miko as an offering to the demon. He makes a fake, extremely-specific prophecy tablet and begins to stage the sacrifice.

Before anything can get too bloody, the eclipse comes to fully block out the sun, and a tyrannosaurus rex enters the village. Suddenly, a dilophosaurus appears on the scene, with the Harrowchild family logo on its nose - it's Andre's custom mecha, but it's not enough to defeat the T-Rex. In a last ditch effort to ward off the dinosaur, Takkun shows Chikkun Princess Leah's compact video message.

Chikkun has a burst of energy and runs towards the T-Rex. He's quickly eaten, but not yet defeated, as he notices the dinosaur has a chipped tooth. He jumps on and irritates the tooth to the point where it knocks the T-Rex out. The villagers quickly declare Chikkun their new god.

That night, the group is having dinner with the cave people again. One of the cave people comes up to the group, holding the Waruchin, and unknowingly asks Chikkun to read it to them. The Star R expats begin to fight over the Waruchin once again, and just like before, it malfunctions and sends them back through time. They reappear in 1984 Japan, albeit at the garbage dump in Miko's hometown. She looks on as the aliens go back to fighting over the Waruchin. Chikkun has the Waruchin once again, and Dr. Bell and Giji-Giji are back to acting like boss and henchman.

## Allusions

This episode features dinosaurs and human beings living in the same time period, which is historically inaccurate. However, in 1984, it wasn't mainstream knowledge that humans lived thousands of years *after* the demise of the dinosaurs, so this was just an accident on the writing team's behalf.