Dr. Lamput

"**Dr. Lamput**" is the 12th episode of the third season of *Lamput*, and the 79th episode of the series overall.

## Summary

*After a series of mishaps, Lamput ends up back at the Lab, working undercover as the newest Doc on the block. Doc Lamput turns out to be pretty good at this science stuff.* ~Official description taken from Foxtel.

## Characters

* Lamput
* Fat Doc
* Slim Doc
* The Boss

## Plot description

Fat Doc and Slim Doc give a group of other docs some simple instructions to find Lamput and catch him, illustrating their message with a slideshow. When Fat Doc pulls the projector curtain up, Lamput is found resting through the window of the van the group is in, and they set out to catch their bounty. Lamput notices who's after him and runs, but falls into a white bucket of and becomes covered with blue-gray paint. The bucket itself also gets stuck on Lamput's head, and he can't get it off. The docs appear and, thinking Lamput is one of them due to his similar color scheme and appearance, ask him where he's gone. Lamput shrugs, and the docs go back to their van. Lamput tries to walk off, but Slim Doc calls for him and brings him into the vehicle with them.

The car arrives at the docs' laboratory, with Lamput looking in awe at all the workers walking around inside. A voice comes in over the PA speaker, and the docs who are with Lamput all run into the kitchen room. As Fat and Slim talk to the others with cups of coffee in their hands, Lamput finds them in a "Doc of the Year" picture on the wall above them, but is distracted when one of the other docs shoot a toy gun at a toy dartboard of Lamput, with a couple of others joining in after him. Lamput runs to the bathroom, where he is surprised to find Fat Doc after leaving the toilet and going to wash his hands. As Fat Doc washes his face, Lamput realizes washing his hands has rubbed some paint off him and his hands are now orange, leading him to hide his hands. Fat Doc is distracted by a bell, allowing Lamput to run out of the bathroom and try to find another room.

Lamput accidentally winds up in a chemistry classroom, with the teacher pointing out he's late and having him wear safety goggles. When the teacher asks him to hold out his hands so that she can put some gloves on him too, she notices they're orange like the gloves, assumes he's ready, and gives him a thumbs up and a nod of approval. Lamput is given several beakers filled with chemistry liquids and pours all of them into a bigger, empty beaker, which causes his hands to become blue-gray again but also creates a big glowing atom within the big beaker. Lamput simply shrugs at his scientific achievement while Fat and Slim look in shock.

The docs all run to a meeting room, where Lamput sees a bowl of candy and grabs a piece. Fat and Slim have their new scheme to capture Lamput illustrated on a chalkboard - they want to make him trip and put him in a jar. Lamput objects to this idea, redrawing the illustration to point out that he could morph into a bird and avoid the trip and the jar entirely, then drawing a new plan - make a trail of candy that he'll follow into the jar. Everyone in the room is shocked at these ideas, with even the Boss who coming in to congratulate the new "doc" on his cleverness, and Fat and Slim become angry.

At lunchtime, Lamput is going to a table to sit down and eat when the Boss beckons him forward. Fat Doc and Slim Doc go to investigate, peek through the keyhole of the Boss's room's door, and walk off still angry. Lamput quickly becomes popular with the laboratory and its workers, with Fat and Slim noticing that he now has a "Doc of the Year" picture in place of theirs. Lamput also manages to create a DNA strand in the chemistry room, which he also shrugs off while the various docs cheer him on for it. Later, Fat and Slim see Lamput singing autographs and then being brought to the Boss's room again. The Boss is quite jovial in regards to new doc, but he then calls Fat Doc and Slim Doc to his place to ask if they've captured Lamput. When they say they haven't, he immediately fires them. The two make their leave, carrying bindle stick with them as they do, and Lamput goes to try to convince them of who he really is.

Lamput brings the docs to the bathroom so that he can use the sink water to wash off his paint, but the sink pipes are being repaired by a plumber and the docs continue to make their leave. Lamput then finds it's raining and manages to wash the paint off by going outside, but he's hit by lightning and the docs are still unconvinced because he still looks to be their color. The docs exit the building, at which point Lamput falls into a janitor's bucket, reverting him to his normal orange hue. Everyone in the building looks in shock and Fat and Slim convince the Boss that they finally have Lamput cornered, but the blob runs away and is chased outside by all the docs.