A Lick of Paint

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**A Lick of Paint** is the eighth episode of the first season and is narrated by Tom Conti.

## Plot

Orbie and Tiffo are playing one morning. Tiffo is chasing Orbie but as fast as goes, Orbie bounces faster. Not everyone has time to play this morning, Bilbo needs to repaint his boat as it hasn't had a coat of paint of ages, he thinks blue will be a good colour for his boat, but Bilbo can't reach all the way down the sides of his boat. Tiffo and Orbie wonders what Bilbo is doing so he tells them he is painting his boat but he can't reach the bottom bits. Tiffo says he isn't very good at painting because he hasn't got hands to hold the paintbrush. Orbie says he can't help either but he knows someone who can so he goes to find Andy Pandy. Andy is looking for something to play with in his special cupboard when he hears a knock at his door so Andy goes over and opens the door but Orbie comes bouncing in quickly and crashes into his table, luckily he is not hurt. Orbie tells Andy that Bilbo needs help painting his boat so Andy makes his way to the boathouse.

Teddy is nearby and wants to play with Orbie so the two of them start playing together. As Teddy and Orbie play, Looby Loo arrives home carrying a tray of flowers which she has bought to plant in her garden. As Looby goes into her house to find a trowel and a garden fork, Teddy and Orbie's game takes them to Looby's garden. But when Orbie bounces away, Teddy accidentally runs over Looby's new flowers. Teddy is worried that Looby will be very cross when she finds out her flowers have been trodden on, then he thinks that if he hides them, perhaps she would think they've been blown away in the wind so Teddy takes the tray of flowers away. Looby comes out of her house with her trowel and fork and is very surprised to see her flowers have gone so she decides to go and look for them.

Andy is working very hard on painting Bilbo's boat. Naughty Teddy has hidden the trodden-on flowers at his house and is hoping to keep out of Looby's way so goes to visit Bilbo. Just then Teddy has an idea, he runs back to his house to find some tissue paper and scrunches it up until it looks a bit like Looby's flowers. While Andy and Bilbo aren't looking, Teddy dips the tissue paper in the blue paint pot turning the paper blue. Now Teddy has four blue tissue paper flowers, but he needs green stalks for the flowers as well so Teddy goes to look for some small twigs.

Andy has now finished painting Bilbo's boat and it looks very smart. When Teddy arrives, Andy asks him what he thinks of the newly-painted boat. Teddy says he thinks it looks very nice but it would look even nicer if it has green stripes and Bilbo thinks that is a great idea. Andy paints some green stripes on the smart blue boat and while his and Bilbo's backs are turned, Teddy dips his twigs into the green paint pot and creeps away to finish making the flowers.

Teddy has stuck the blue tissue paper to the green twigs and is now planting the pretend flowers in Looby's flowerbed. Looby still hasn't found the missing flowers and is just thinking about going to buy some more when she sees the flowers that Teddy has planted. Teddy says to Looby that he has found some flowers and thought she might like them. But Looby discovers that the flowers aren't real and sees that Teddy has paint on his fur. Teddy realises that he has to tell the truth so he tells Looby the true story of what he had done to her flowers and says he is very sorry. Looby can see Teddy really is sorry and she forgives him, and when Andy arrives back from the boathouse, Looby asks both him and Teddy to tea.

## Characters

* Andy Pandy
* Teddy
* Looby Loo
* Bilbo
* Orbie
* Tiffo

## Compilations

### VHS/DVD

* Charming Stories
* Teddy's Sunglasses and other stories
* Hide & Seek

### YouTube

* Fun In The Sun
* The Complete Series 1
* Oscar Barnett's Favourite Memory Characters: Volume 22