Rosie's Fuss Attack

**Rosie's Fuss Attack** is the thirteenth and final episode for Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone. It aired on November 30, 1990.

Plotline

The episode begins with Rosie startling a boy named Nigel, who Rosie is supposed to act nice to, plus the children around school, but this fails and Nigel walks away. Rosie's friends discipline her for her 32nd insult (despite Rosie having insulted only 31 children) and she confesses that she was born fussy, before being distracted by a girl in purple.

In the Dream Zone, Keiko encourages Rosie to not pick on anyone there, but Rosie dismisses the idea and insults about the Grand Dozer's pajamas, before she instantly wears them. Rosie also talks about the Grand Dozer's big nose, which also happens to her. An embarrassed Rosie makes her looks more horrible, even after looking in a mirror Carter painted, by insulting a Snooze Patroller with big shoes and then Murphy, Nick's dinosaur doll.

The Grand Dozer claims that Rosie sees his personal doctor, Dr. Ackenhoffer, to cure her from the fact she's transforming into whatever she insults about. Once at Ackenhoffer's office, Rosie, however, makes insults about Potsworth and Ackenhoffer, before Ackenhoffer says that Rosie has "snootus fuss-itus", a rare Dream Zone disease caused by constant fussing and complaining. Ackenhoffer is out of fussy-weed tea which is the only cure for Rosie's condition, but the Midnight Patrol agree to try to find it.

After traversing Clown Land and a field of crabgrass, the Midnight Patrol reaches Fussy-Weed Meadow, full of bushes with fussy-weed berries, to which Rosie, now with a clown face, insults again, against Keiko's plea not to. Rosie, now with a fussy-weed for a head, is then confronted by a ogre named Oot, whom she also insults, and as a result is now a ogre herself, and taken into a cave and into a room full of ogres, and then to her new "ogre house", where she is later forced to be engaged to marry Oot.

Rosie's friends are unable to get inside the cave door despite various attempts, until Potsworth has a plan. While the wedding ceremony takes place, Rosie's friends take on the disguise of a ogre and Rosie claims she tried to run away. Oot gives up Rosie until he notices Potsworth's tail, thereby backfiring the plan to rescue Rosie after Oot throws a tree-shaped house into the cave entrance, thereby backfiring the Midnight Patrol's escape plan.

Now in cooking pots, the Midnight Patrol are worried that if they get eaten, they won't wake up on Earth. Rosie distracts the ogres by making up insults of her own, by saying that the beauty pageant was a waste of time and that comic books are childish, the latter turning her into a giant mechanical T-rex and thereby defeating the ogres and destroying their house. Rosie says she was a big jerk for the trouble she went through, turning her back to normal and plummeting the Midnight Patrol back on solid ground.

The Midnight Patrol return to Ackenhoffer's where he can make the fussy-weed tea, and upon doing so, Rosie drinks. She is warned that she won't be able to pick on anyone else or she might get a relapse.

The next night that they're in the Dream Zone, the Midnight Patrol is on another adventure and Rosie notices a funny man with a long nose, and everybody stares at her. The episode concludes with Rosie confessing that she will not say a word about it.