Math Blocks: Journey to Laughterland

Math Blocks: Journey to Laughterland is a Movie from the Math Blocks franchise.

## Summary

Three, a Math Block who loves to laugh and tell jokes. After one
 of her jokes backfires against Squar, another of the Blocks, Three
runs away to find a place where others can appreciate her talents
better. She discovers a town known as Laughterland, where laughter and
humour are the order of the day, and soon becomes the area's "Queen".
Unknown to the Block, a block named Sir Funnyman is using her that way in
order to possess an important object called the Royal Sceptre.

## Plot

The Math Blocks live in a cloud-filled land known as Numberland ("With
 All Your Heart"). One of the Blocks, Squar, is working on a rainbow carousel
 for the upcoming Math Block Fair. His fellow Math Blocks come by for a
look; one of them, Three, loves telling jokes and making the other
Math Blocks laugh. After they reluctantly agree to try the carousel, it
goes out of control and sends them into the sky before crashing down.
Squar feels even worse after Three tries to cheer him up with a joke
 on height restrictions, which the other Blocks find funny. Squar is
not amused and even goes so far as to tell Three that if she doesn't
understand that cheering up isn't making fun of, then maybe Three
doesn't belong in Numberland. As a result, the Blocks take Squar to
force him to make up Three. Reading from a note, Two
realizes that Three has felt sorry for Squar and has gone in search
of a place where her talents can be better appreciated. The other Blocks
 are worried about her fate; as they cannot hold their Fair without her,
 they decide to look for her regardless and bring her back to
Numberland. Five of them— Two, Squar, Five, Ten and Septablock
volunteer, while Tenny, Sester, Six, Four, Nine Jr.,
and Fourteen stay home to get ready for the fair.

The day after she runs away ("Make Em Laugh"), Three hears
circus music in the distance and strays from her camping spot to find
out. Taking a seat on a bumper car,
 she embarks on a long ride which leads her to Laughterland, a town where
humour is dominant ("In the Land of Laughterland"). The area's residents
are astonished when he lands via parachute upon the town square; a
girl called Cara tells him where he now is. Then a block named
Sir Funnyman arrives at the scene and dubs Three the area's
long-lost Queen (although Three insists otherwise). Funnyman
actually placed the car within the woods so that he could begin to gain
his own power; he tells that to his henchmen, a trio of blocks named
 Belly, Pen, and Lucky.

Eventually, Three learns the hard way that "serious" is a very
 bad word in Laughterland. The Laughterland residents celebrate a
"Laff-Fest" in her honour; Funnyman gives her a tour of the town and
takes her to his Royal Palace, where Three learns of the last two
Kings and is introduced to the Royal Sceptre. Stored in a vault within
the voice-activated Royal Treasury, the sceptre holds the Royal Jewels
of Laughterland, which Funnyman says are "the source of the magic power
behind all the fun" there; only the queen is granted access. Three
wants to look, but Funnyman tells her that a coronation is about to
take place. He plans to take command of the sceptre, now in the hands
of a slow, elderly block called Grand Old Laugh.

At the coronation, Laughterland's new "queen" tells his audience two
 jokes to pass the time, before Grand Old Laugh proceeds to give her
the sceptre. Meanwhile, the other Math Blocks find her belongings and
take the same ride that she did. After they crash into the Royal Palace,
 Three is delighted to see them, but the Blocks are a bit puzzled over
 what she has become. They miss Three and want her to return to
Three where she belongs. Thus, she must make a very difficult
decision—to head back home with them, or remain Queen of Laughterland
("Here I'm a Queen") and no longer live with her fellow Math Blocks. She
then announces that she will go home, but Sir Funnyman wants her to stay
 as queen.

During the "Laff-Fest", Cara gives the sceptre to the new queen.
 Funnyman orders Belly, Pen, and Lucky to steal it when Three is
not looking. He gets into the Treasury with it, unlocks the Royal
Jewels, and escapes with this loot on a pink dirigible.
 As Squar is fixing his carousel, the other Blocks must use it to stop
Funnyman. The machine spins onto the dirigible, bursting the balloon
and sending it aground.

When the Math Blocks come to Funnyman, he reveals his real name and homeland—Basil Ratbone, from the No Fun Atoll, whose inhabitants have lived through a "serious" *modus operandi*.
 He wanted the jewels so much to enliven his fellow residents that he
planned on stealing them from Laughterland, and even pretended that
Three's "tummy symbol" was the royal birthmark. Instead, the real
one—a "smiley mouth"—was at the back of Cara's ears. The other Blocks
open the chest to find a jack-in-the-box, and other toys, which Three
 assures them are the real magic jewels. Funnyman apologizes for his
misdeeds, and soon all of Laughterland attends a coronation in which Cara
becomes their Princess (though she is really more like a Queen). The
Blocks promise to return to Laughterland some other day and ride home on
the flying horses from their carousel.