The Magic Roundabout (Doogal)

**The Magic Roundabout (Doogal)** is the eighth episode of Season 3 of Theater Junkies: Dan & Friends' Film Reviews and the TBA episode overall. It was originally uploaded to VidSpace on January 9, 2015. It is also the first Theater Junkies episode to premiere in 2015. Dan and his friends review the UK English dub of the 2005 French animated film, The Magic Roundabout and compare it to its infamous 2006 US dub, Doogal.

## Video description

Dan has just returned from a vacation in England with a brand new accent, an autographed photo of Idris Elba, a chauffeured TVR, loads of British candy, drinks, snacks, merchandise, some English Marmite, but more importantly, a copy of The Magic Roundabout, known in the US as the infamous Doogal! Today, our ol' chap Dan and his pals review the true English version of America's most hated animated film, and come to realize that the original isn't so bad as Doogal was. Thank god Harvey never fucked up the UK dub, and thank god the original UK one was better...

…Wine gums.

## Plot

The episode begins with Logan, Tom, James and Choki waiting for Dan to arrive to start the review. After a brief conversation, Dan arrives in a chauffeured TVR Sagaris and speaks with an English accent. When Logan asks Dan where he got the accent and the chauffeured TVR from, Dan explains that after their review on The Nightmare Before Christmas, he decided to take a vacation to England and came home with several souvenirs: an autographed Idris Elba photo signed by Idris himself, a TVR Sagaris, sacks full of British junk food like Calypso lemonade, wine gums, drumstick squashies, Swizzels drumsticks, Walkers (Lays) chips, Lion candy bars, Zeo and Tizer soda, Brisk sweetened iced tea, Aero candy bars, Nestlé Smarties, Cadbury Double Decker and UK Dairy Milk bars, among others, plushes of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, some Marmite containers, and, what Dan says is the most important souvenir of all, a copy of the 2005 animated film, The Magic Roundabout, which surprises everyone, who recognizes Dougal on the cover of the film's case from the infamous US dub of the film, Doogal. Dan explains to them that The Magic Roundabout and Doogal are all the same movies, except that Doogal was released in the US a year after the original film and was dubbed over its original UK voice acting, while The Magic Roundabout is, "considerably better" than Doogal. Dan then tells them that though Doogal may have sucked, when Dan watched the original UK version, he realized that Doogal wasn't originally meant to be a bad movie, and that due to The Magic Roundabout being better than its US dub, the five decide to review the movie's original UK english dub.

After the film ends, the five discuss the differences between The Magic Roundabout and Doogal, where they talk about how Doogal redubbed over the voice acting with only Ian McKellen reprising his role and Kylie Minogue redubbing over her original voice in Doogal, the addition of several outdated pop culture references in Doogal, and how the film was originally meant to be the start of a reboot franchise to the 1965 French cartoon of the same name. After the discussion, Dan and Logan conclude that had it not been for the American dub of The Magic Roundabout failing in America, the film would've introduced young Americans to the first generation, which is actually the second generation of The Magic Roundabout franchise. Everyone agrees to the point and Dan decides to take the guys on another vacation to England next week, exciting them all.

## Trivia/Gags

### Trivia

* Dan speaks with an English accent throughout the episode.
* This episode marks the first time a gag was repeated in the same episode.
* In the scene where Dan tells Logan, James, Tom and Choki about his trip to England, Logan tells Dan that "some of the soccer players over there have weird surnames, like Ince, Gascoigne, and Seaman", referring to Paul Ince, Paul Gascoigne, and David Seaman, respectively.

### Gags

* **The Running Ones**: There is a running gag throughout the episode where Logan gets confused by some of the scenes that were edited in the US dub, even after Dan explains to him the dubbing differences in the beginning of the review. For instance, he believes that Dougal's dream sequence was the end of the movie like how it was in its US dub.
* **Joke-Killer**: When Dan was about to compare Soldier Sam's clumsiness to Olympic Champions being too show-offy about their gold medals, his friends thought he was going to say, "chink" and shut his joke down, only to realize later that he was only mentioning Champions of the Olympic games. Dan then tells them to get over killing his jokes that start-off racist-sounding.
* **Dramedic Effect**: When an ice needle lands on Dougal's bag of gobstoppers, Dan dramatically says that it was the only one he had, and an ice needle landed on it, leaving only one gobstopper left. Choki tells him Dougal having only one gobstopper is not that important, but Dan, per usual in the Dramedic Effect gag, tells Choki that he just wants to be dramedic for one minute.
	+ This gag also mirrors a previous Dramedic Effect gag in their review of Les Visiteurs, where Choki dramedically tells Jacquasse and Godefroy to stop destroying the Renault a postman was driving in, only for Dan to tell him that they were knights from the 12th century transported to the present.
* **The Big Lip(-Sync)**: Choki pretends to play his guitar and lip-syncs along to "Magic" by Pilot in the film's opening titles, and Dan and his friends lip-sync along to Mr. Blue Sky in Dougal's dream sequence while pretending to play instruments in adjacent with the song's instruments. This is combined with Almost Like We're In The Movie, where Dan, edited into the movie, lip-syncs along to Ermintrude's part of Mr. Blue Sky. This also marks the first time a gag was repeated in the same episode.
* **Almost Like We're In The Movie**: Dan is seen standing on the windmill with Ermintrude lip-syncing to the part of Mr. Blue Sky with her.

## Transcript

*Main article: The Magic Roundabout (Doogal)/Transcript*