Bubble, Picture, Mirror

**Bubble, Picture, Mirror** is the tenth episode of the first season in the series *A Little Curious,* and the tenth episode in total. It aired on April 5, 1999. It focuses on the subjects of the words bubble, picture, and mirror.

## Segments

### Bubble Love (Live Action/CGI blend)

Bob blows a bubble which causes him to follow it all around a live-action environment, such as streams, fields, and a playground. Eventually, it pops, which makes Bob feel sad, until another bubble comes floating by that he chases again.

### Soda Bubbles (Cel)

A bottle of soda is opened and is poured into Little Cup, with a singer singing about the floating soda bubbles in the drink.

### A Little Reality

In this segment, various kids are blowing bubblegum bubbles, all popping.

### Mr. String Looks in a Mirror (Cel)

Mop wants to take a photo of Mr. String for her scrapbook and tells him to look his best as she wants to capture the real him. The camera is out of film, so she gets some more. Mr. String looks in a mirror and then thinks if the String in the mirror is really him, or if the *real* String is the real him. He starts to panic and makes some quick touch-ups to himself, such as straightening his tie and fixing his hair, claiming that someone will mistake him for a pineapple bush, and then he'd have to wear a Hawaiian shirt and do a hula dance in the sand and complains that sand is too sandy and lies on the ground. Mop runs back and tells him to hold his pose, and captures the picture of the frazzled Mr. String as that's the "real him". String groans off-screen.

### A Little Reality

A group of classmates gathers and moves around for picture day. The camera snaps a photo of them, and then another one.

### Mop's Mirror (CGI)

Mop is hopping in a field with puddles, and she spots one where she can look at herself like a mirror. Meanwhile, Bob is bouncing around in the puddles. Mop makes her hairstyle Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, and then a doctor, and then a surfer. But Mop says she could just be herself, when Bob splashes her as he jumps in the puddle, making her wet. She complains that now she's definitely not her.

### Just Like Looking in a Mirror (Fish in a Bowl; Stop Motion)

Mr. String finds a fishbowl with a Moorish idol inside, who he transforms into one and copies everything it does inside it's bowl. But when the fish jumps out of the bowl, Mr. String tries to copy him but ends up getting swished around. He laughs as the segment ends.

### Moving Pictures (CGI)

Doris shows us a black and white picture of Bob right next to the seesaw, another of him getting closer, and a couple more of the same photos. Then she tells us to add color and sound, and we got a moving picture. The picture forms a clip of Bob jumping around on the seesaw, spinning in the air, and leaving the scene.

### Back at Mop's Mirror (CGI)

A sequel of "Mop's Mirror". Mop is looking in a puddle again, unaware of Plush now looking in the puddles in the area. She turns herself into a space princess blasting herself in a spaceship, and a rock star, and a TV cartoon character who makes people laugh. Plush dives into a puddle, and comes out of the same puddle Mop is looking in, making her wet again.

### More Bubbles (Acrylic Painting)

Little Cup makes lighter chocolate milk, as well as bubbles in the milk. This segment ends with Bob going "Ahh.." and blowing more bubbles in the milk.

### A Little Reality

This segment features various large bubbles floating around evening skies and parks, bursting.

### A Picture of Doris (Cel)

Pad tells everyone they are painting pictures of Doris, each of them painting in their own different way. Pencil makes his picture using "Lots and Lots of Dots", which is also the name of the picture, and Pad says how she's amazed by all those small dots making a big picture of Doris, which makes Doris comment "Who are you calling big?". Mop is painting Doris using her hair, explaining that the many strokes make it look different, and she wants something so open, yet, so closed, and Doris states she resembles that remark. Meanwhile, Mr. String is shaping himself into a Doris model, and Pad compliments it saying that she could picture Doris right there in the room. Doris shouts that she is right here and her knocker is getting cold, but Bob tells her not to move and jumps into orange paint and splatters it on his painting that is just nothing but splatter effects. But Pad says even though it doesn't resemble Doris, he still captured her true beauty. Bob says she's pretty, and Doris also says she's "pretty as a picture".

### A Little Reality

A boy is finger painting strokes of color all over a large canvas messily, and at the end, Bob states "Nice picture!"

### Get the Picture (CGI)

Bob and Undercover Cup are on another case to see who's been writing bad checks in Pad. Pad explains that the bad check writer was tall and handsome, so Pencil draws a "rough sketch" which is a fat pencil, and draws another one that has the bottom of his tip is bigger than the top, and he ends up drawing himself perfectly. Pad says that the checks he writes aren't wobbly, but Pencil states he was quivering for her, and the two hug. Bob and Cup walk off with the case being closed, with Cup stating "that was a rough one!".

### A Little Reality

In this segment, a person hovers a picture frame over various things, such as a girl sitting above a rock cliff, a boat, and various other things in the area.

### Back at Mop's Mirror Again (CGI)

Mop is back looking at a puddle again, now Bob and Plush are both bouncing in the puddles. Mop lifts up the puddle and dodges the two, and makes a hairstyle, only for the puddle to collapse down on her, making her soaking wet again. She groans and shakes herself.

### Bubble Bath (Stop Motion)

Bob is seen floating in a bath when all of a sudden, he farts, which makes a bunch of bubbles burst behind him, causing the toys around him to float away. He looks around and laughs at the camera.