The Magic Roundabout (Doogal)/Transcript

The following is a transcript for the Theater Junkies Season 3 episode, *The Magic Roundabout (Doogal)*.

## Pre-Review

*(The video opens up at the recording studio, where Logan, James, Tom and Choki sitting at their chairs,, while Dan is seen absent from his chair)*

* **Logan**: Hey guys, have you seen Dan? He should've been here by now.
* **Choki**: Yeah, where is he? We're about to do our review.
* **Tom**: I just hope he ain't bein' hypnotized by McNeese again.

*(Dan opens up the door behind the recording studio carrying a sack and DVD case, behind him is a blue TVR Sagaris)*

* **Dan**: *(in British accent; to chauffer)* Thank you for the ride, Charles, I'll call and let you know when I'm ready to come back.
* **Charles**: Anytime, Daniel. Cherrio!

*(The Sagaris drives off as Dan closes the door, he walks up to his chair)*

* **Logan**: Dan, there you are! Where have you been? We were about to start the review
* **Dan**: *(sits down in his chair)* Oh, nothin' really, just got back from a lil' vacation, is all.
* **James**: Why do you have a British accent, and where did you get that car from?
* **Dan**: Oh, that. You see, after our review on The Nightmare Before Christmas, I decided to take a week-long vacation to good ol' England.
* **Logan**: England, huh? Gee, some of the soccer players over there have some weird surnames, like "Ince", "Gascoigne" and "Seaman".
* **Dan**: Yeah, true. I had a marvelous time, especially all the stuff they have that us American blokes don't. I even came home with some souvenirs.
* **Choki**: You did? What are they?
* **Dan**: Oh, you'll indubitably love them, Choke.

*(Scene cuts to blue background with Dan, Logan, James, Tom and Choki's head bubbles. Where Dan shows off his souvenirs)*

* **Dan**: I've got an autographed photo of Idris Elba, great black British actor, a TVR Sagaris, which you saw me arrive in, and some sacks packed with British junk food.
* **Logan**: You bought *that* much junk food?
* **Dan**: Oh, yes. I've got Calypso lemonade, wine gums, don't worry, they don't have alcohol, drumstick squashies and lollies, oh, and one question. What are Lays called in the UK?
* **Logan**: Hm...I don't know.
* **Dan**: I do. They're called Walkers. What else have I got? Lion bars, Tizer soda, Brisk iced tea from its native country, Aero candy bars, the original M&M's, Nestlé Smarties, Cadbury Double Decker and UK-native Dairy Milk bars, among so much more! I've even got some plushes of Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London, and some Marmite, too.
* **James**: Those are some cool souvenirs, Dan! *(James grabs a Lion bar and starts eating it)* Mmm! This is so good, I can't get enough!
* **Dan**: I agree, mate. But it's not just an autographed Elba pic and some English junk food and merchandise I got. I've even got, what I think is the most important souvenir of my trip.
* **Choki**: What is it?

*(A drumroll is heard for 5 seconds before a cymbal crash plays when the UK DVD cover for The Magic Roundabout appears)*

* **Dan**: A copy of 2005's The Magic Roundabout!

*(Logan and the rest of the cast besides Dan gasp in surprise)*

* **James**: I recognize the dog on the cover. That's Doogal from that crappy, pop culture reference-clogged movie we watched back in 1st grade.
* **Dan**: A crappy movie to Americans, but for the rest of the world, a mid-2000s children's classic! You see, Doogal wasn't always the crappy animated movie written by the creator of the Fairly OddParents, it was actually a good movie written by Paul B. Davies. You see, Doogal and The Magic Roundabout, are actually the same movies! The differences are, the US dub came out a year after its original 2005 release in Europe, and in fact, The Magic Roundabout was actually a movie intended to be the start of a reboot franchise to the original 1965 French children's programme of the same name. However, due to the bloomin' American dub of the movie replacing the original actors with more American-familiar celebrities, those plans were sadly scrapped, and the animation studio behind the movie, Action Synthese, were only able to make the 2007 TV series. Then in 2010, they filed for bankruptcy. So, you see, The Magic Roundabout is considerably better than its crappy American dub, and though Doogal sucked big time, after watching its original version, I realized that the movie, was actually pretty decent!
* **Tom**: Oh, that's interesting. But wait a minute, that movie's made by a French film company, so isn't that movie gonna be in French? If so, I can turn on the subtitles like we did in our review on Les Visiteurs.
* **Dan**: Well, it *is* French, but I'm talking about the British English dub, mate.
* **Tom**: Oh, yeah!
* **Dan**: But anyway, this is what we'll be reviewing today! The Magic Roundabout, known in America infamously as Doogal! Now, let's pop the DVD in the player, shall we? Grab your English sweets and popcorn, and let's enjoy the show!
* **Logan**: Man, I can't believe that movie actually came out in 2005 and wasn't always intended to suck. But is it better than Doogal? We shall see. We *shall* see...

## Review

*(Dan opens the cover and takes the disc out. He walks up to the television set and presses the eject button on the DVD player. He then inserts the disc into the disc drive, presses play on the player, grabs the remote, and turns on the TV. The film starts playing as the screen, per usual, zooms into the screen. segueing into the movie. Movie time: 0:01:22, Logan's bubble appears)*

*(Movie time: 0:00:50, Logan's bubble appears)*

* **Logan**: Per expectancy, we begin with the dream sequence, one of the only good parts of Doogal.

*(Movie time: 0:01:13, James' bubble appears)*

* **James**: Wait, Zeebad had a lair?

*(James' bubble disappears. Movie time: 0:01:22, Logan's bubble appears)*

* **Logan**: Aaand this is the part where...Wait, shouldn't Zebedee have woken up by now?

*(Dan's bubble appears next to Logan's)*

* **Dan**: I'll explain that later.

*(The bubbles disappear. Movie time: 0:02:03, Dan and Logan's bubbles appear)*

* **Dan**: Anyways, about the extra footage. You see, Weinstein had cut out about 5 to 10 minutes of The Magic Roundabout's original footage when it was dubbed into Doogal.
* **Logan**: You mean there was a little extra footage in the original movie?
* **Dan**: Not just that, but there were also some more differences from The Magic Roundabout and Doogal. For instance, right now, there's no narrator, only the opening titles, and the opening credits show the original voice actors, *(Pictures of the aforementioned actors appear one by one)* Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Kylie Minogue, Bill Nighy, Robbie Williams, not to be confused with American comedian, *(Robin Williams' photo appears with an X on it)* Robin Williams, who, sadly, died last year, *(The images disappear)* among a few others.
* **Logan**: T. Baker's in this movie? He's a legend among us, Whovians.
* **Dan**: Mmm-hmm, Fourth Doctor.

*(Choki's bubble appears)*

* **Choki**: So, who does Robbie voice?
* **Dan**: Dougal.
* **Choki**: Oh. Robbie's big in Eurasia.
* **Dan**: I obviously know that.

*(The bubbles disappear. Movie time: 0:02:45, Choki's bubble appears)*

* **Choki**: Man, this song is so awesome, it makes me want to sync along to the vocals, and that's *exactly* what I'm gonna do.

*(Choki grabs out a guitar and plays it silently in sync to the guitars on the song, he also lip-syncs to it until movie time: 0:03:46, when his bubble disappears. Movie time: 0:03:48, Tom's bubble appears)*

* **Tom**: Here comes our hairy, sugar-obsessed friend now.

*(Tom's bubble disappears. Movie time: 0:04:05, the movie is paused as James' bubble appears)*

* **James**: Hey! Dougal sounds a bit older in this version.

*(Choki's bubble appears)*

* **Choki**: That's because in this dub, he was voiced by an older actor rather than a child actor.
* **James**: Oh...It kinda suits him better.

*(The bubbles disappear as the movie resumes. Movie time: 0:04:29)*

* **Dan**: Now, in case all of you were wondering, that's Kylie Minogue, who actually redubbed her voice in the crappy American version with an American accent. *(laughs for two seconds)* Kinda funny, innit?

*(Dan's bubble disappears. Movie time: TBA)*

## Post-Review

*(The camera zooms out of the TV for 5 seconds before Dan turns off the TV)*

* **Dan**: Well, what did you all think?
* **Logan**: To be completely honest, that version of the movie was *really* better than its American dub. Not that it was the greatest, but that it was an improvement over Doogal, even though that dub came *after* the original.
* **James**: Yeah, I agree.
* **Tom**: Ditto, yo.
* **Choki**: I never watched the US dub or Magic Roundabout in general, but I also agree with you if Doogal was *that* bad.
* **Logan**: Oh, Choki, Doogal was *(imitating Jean-Ralphio; singing)* the woooorrrst! *(normal voice)* Why did it need another English dub in the first place? It was already dubbed in English. They had to replace *all* the voice actors with more American-familiar ones, and the only people that kept their roles were McKellen and Minogue, the latter redubbing her voice with an American voice. They could've at least kept another British cast member. Tom Baker, obviously, since he's the greatest actor ever to come from Britain. That bastard, Harvey should be banned from dubbing movies *already* dubbed in English because of Doogal.
* **Tom**: If you thought *that* was the only thing bad about Doogal, think again, my friend! They changed the script *entirely*, cramming it with unneeded fart jokes, extra lines, and worst of all, outdated pop culture references, including some that little kids who watched the movie wouldn't get. Lord of the Rings, Shining, Matrix, Karate Kid, Star Trek, Monty Python, Thomas The Tank- what the fuck does Thomas, no, better yet, all of those pop culture references have to do with Magic Roundabout? *Absolutely* nothing!
* **Choki**: Whoa. It was *that* bad? Thank god & Toriyama I never saw that crappy dub, then.
* **Tom**: Yeah, the original UK dub was *100%* better than Doogal. First off, the lip-syncing is perfect for a dub of a French animated movie, there were no fart jokes or pop culture references, the moose didn't talk, even though the train never did in the original French version, Ermintrude sounded more like what she looks like rather than some whitewashed cow with her voice dubbed over by Whoopi G., and Zeebad sounded more villainous than in the US dub. I mean, for the Fourth Doctor, he makes Zeebad *literally* sound good.
* **Dan**: You wanna know what else? It was meant to start a reboot franchise of the original 1965 series, but, TWC killed those chances with Doogal, putting its animation studio in bankruptcy, and cancelling further plans for the planned franchise. Had it not been for the jerks at TWC, the film would've introduced young Americans to the first, actually the second generation of one of the staples of British pop culture other than Doctor Who, *(to Logan)* no offense, Logan.
* **Logan**: None taken.
* **James**: I agree with Dan. Maybe one day, we'll actually review the US dub of Magic Roundabout.

*(A 3-second beat occurs)*

* **Dan**: Yeah, like we'd *ever* review that scum of an English dub.

*(Everyone all laughs at Dan's joke for 5 seconds)*

* **Dan**: Tell y'all wot, why don't we all take another trip to England next week? I'm sure we'd appreciate more things Britain has to offer than just The Magic Roundabout. Whaddya all say?
* **Everyone (ex. Dan)**: We're in!
* **Dan**: That's good. *(to camera)* Oh, and to all our proud blokes out there who were forced to watch Doogal as tots or kids, thanks for tuning in wit' us. We're the Theater Junkies, and thank you for watchin'. See ya'll next review!

*(End of transcript)*