The Quest

**"The Quest"** is the seventh episode of season 1 of *The Excellent World of Rumball*.

## Synopsis

Rumball and Hammer Bro lose Coiny's Tom the Teddy Bear and have to get it back from Dina Rex.

## Plot

The episode starts with Coiny trying to retrieve his pull string donkey, Tom, from Eric and Carrie, who are throwing it around on the bus. He asks Rumball to get it back from them. Rumball says he is a coward, but reluctantly agrees. Rumball tries to threaten Eric in order to get the teddy bear back, but Eric throws Tom out of the window onto the street, where Leslie takes him. At school, Rumball and Hammer Bro try to find Tom, but Tom eventually ends up in the hands of Dina.

Too scared to tell Coiny that Dina has gotten hold of Tom, Rumball and Hammer Bro give Coiny a cheap replacement which looks and acts nothing like Tom - when the string of this toy is pulled, it sings in Chinese, and it spontaneously combusts after a few seconds of use. Anais, after figuring out that the boys are lying due to their sweaty hands and their nervous body language, demands to know where the bear is. Rumball and Hammer Bro reluctantly admit that Dina has the doll, to Coiny’s horror.

That night, Coiny makes Rumball and Hammer Bro go to Dina’s house and get her toy back (with some cute eye persuasion). At the dump, which is where Dina lives, they find Tom under Dona’s arm. Coiny tosses a pole that Rumball fails to catch and hits Hammer Bro right in the face. They mess around with the sleeping Dina and get the doll back, but soon get chased by Dina after they get the doll back. Dina chases them into an abandoned car and smashes the roof just as the trio escape, continuing the chase from Dina. Coiny is holding Tom and trips. Rumball told Coiny to throw Tom to him. Rumball then said that since he can not catch it, it will fly somewhere else. Rumball ends up catching Tom and gets cornered by Dina.

Coiny succeeds in trapping Dina under a crane claw, and Dina explains that she has never had a toy before and that Tom helped her sleep and that it gets scary at night. Coiny decides to let Dina keep Tom, as she has Rumball and Hammer Bro to take care of her. Dina then tells the trio to start running, as her dad eats trespassers, just as her dad walks into the scene and roars, ending the episode.

## Trivia

* In an early storyboard for this episode, Sussie was supposed to be tossing Coiny's bear around with Eric, but the storyboard artists replaced him with Carrie for unknown reasons.
	+ Jamie and Banana Joe were also present in early storyboards for this episode, but they were ultimately dropped from the final product.
* There is a game on the Keynote Network website that is based on this episode.
* This was the first episode of Season 1 to be produced.
* Eric is the first character to speak in this episode, making him the first character to speak in the series if one goes by production code.
	+ Rocky is the first character to appear in this episode, making him the first character to appear in the series going by production code.
* Dina is shown to live in a junkyard, which may suggest that her family is homeless, or that they live there because it is the only place big enough for her and her family to live comfortably.
* Mr. Robinson's car is visible in the junkyard.
* On August 12th, 2013, this episode was aired in the US with the UK opening. It is likely that this was accidental as it (along with the other episodes) is usually aired with the US opening.
* The song that the robotic Tom sings in Chinese can be translated into: "I am Tom the teddy bear, I love to dance. I am Tom the teddy bear, I love to... *[burns up]*"
* In recent reruns, the title card and opening credits are cut out for unknown reasons.
* The scene where the Hatterson children are sneaking to get Tom from Dina reappears in one of Banana Barbara's prophetic paintings in "The Oracle."