Episode 36: Wubbzy's First Holiday

**Wubbzy's First Holiday** is the thirty-sixth episode of *Wubbzy's Fun* from the season 5.

## Characters Present

* Wubbzy
* Darla Jacobs
* Maddie Fretz
* Cat
* Kermit the Frog
* Steven Gordon
* Kylie Michaels
* Daniella Winters
* Kate Sneddon
* Hoots
* Megan Mouse
* Horse
* Butterfly
* Snail
* Boris
* Horace

## Summary

When Darla Jacobs and the characters of the Wubbzy's Fun house gather for the holidays, Steven Gordon and Kylie Michaels show us a special present, two videos showing everyone when they were young. They take a look back and see young Maddie and baby Darla as well as baby versions of many of the characters. Find out about how Maddie first got Wubbzy in "The Day We Met Wubbzy" and the very first time that Maddie and Wubbzy ever played Wubbzy's Fun in "Wubbzy's First Clue". The gang also gets a special phone call from Maddie.

## Elements

* **Question** (In Wubbzy's First Clue)**:** Where is Joe's duck blanket?
* **Clues:**
	+ 1. Circles
	+ 2. A Carrot
	+ 3. Snow
* **Answer to Wubbzy's Fun:** By the snowman
* **Living room picture:**
	+ A snowman with ice cream (has a top hat and faces left during the Mailtime segment)
	+ Doodle of Little Maddie and Baby Darla (childhood video)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the last official appearance of Maddie's Handy Dandy Notebook.
* Baby Kermit is the only one who didn't receive a holiday gift.
* This is the last time Maddie Fretz is ever mentioned, heard, or appeared, in the original Wubbzy's Fun series, however, she's seen as a child.
	+ She last appeared in person on the 100th Episode Celebration.
	+ Maddie would not appear again until Meet Aidan!.
* Like Maddie, in the Season 3 episode Wubbzy's Big Holiday, Joe wears a sweater version of the shirt he wears.
* In the Season 4 episode Darla Jacobs' First Day, Darla said she made Boris himself.
	+ At the beginning of Steven Gordon's video, the camera zooms in on baby Darla Jacobs and Boris. Boris was sitting right next to him.
		- This either probably means he is some kind of prodigy tailor for making him all by himself, she lost Boris and decided to recreate him himself later on in life, or her off-screen parents had made Boris for as her first present.
* This is the second episode where the Play Wubbzy's Fun was not featured because that song didn't exist back in those videos.
* Darla has had her duck blanket when she was a baby and still has it with her today.
* When Mailbox is about to deliver the mail and the different music starts, Young Maddie runs around the room shouting "The mail is here, The mail is here" and finally yells out "MAIIIILLL!"
* All the babies talk except for Darla Jacobs.
* Snail was revealed to have been living in the house since the time of the 1st movie (he appeared as a baby between the cushions by the windowsill where young Maddie read his book).
	+ He can also be seen after the 2nd movie from behind the VCR on the TV interacting with the others.
* There was a playing of Wubbzy's Fun and it happened on the second video titled "Wubbzy's First Clue" which told the story about the time the characters played the game of Wubbzy's Fun for the first time.
* This is the last time that The So Long Song was sung, it wasn't sung for 15 years until "Meet Aidan!". Starting with "Love Day", it will be replaced with The Goodbye Song.
* In the first Mailtime segment, when Baby Kermit brings Young Maddie the mail he is shown wearing the same flag warmer that Maddie did not give her until she grew up. Possibly, Kermit grew out of the one he wore in the video, so Maddie made him another one that fitted with help from Hoots and Megan.
* This is the 7th and final time that the telephone was sitting on the floor.
	+ The 1st time it happened was from "Pool Party".
	+ The 2nd time it happened was from "Wubbzy's Big Musical Movie".
	+ This is also the 1st time that the telephone was answered while it was sitting on the floor.
* In the 2nd Mailtime segment, Kermit delivers a holiday card. It featured 4 different kids celebrating a different kind of observance. There was Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Ramadan. Each of the 4 kids explained the holiday and the corresponding kid narrating that kind of observance explains their favorite part.
* During the fading to the next shot, Baby Horse and Baby Butterfly are standing looking at the viewers briefly before it cut to them looking at Young Maddie reading "About A Gerbil" (Where Baby Wubbzy was born, and finally comes to life the next morning. This took place after the story in the next episode: The Legend of the Yellow Gerbil.)
* This is the last episode of Season 5.
* This is the final episode to air in the year 2003.
* There are no Talking Clues in this episode, since Maddie has never used them.
	+ However, in Maddie Goes to College, Season 5 episodes ending with Wubbzy's Predictions, and The Scavenger Hunt, Let's Write!, D.J.'s Messages, Wubbzystock and Meet Wubbzy's Baby Sister, Darla doesn't use them, since it was part of the Season 6 OPT.
* This is the first episode where Cat's voice sounded more grown-up.
* This is the last pure Wubbzy's Fun episode, as the future episodes will involve Blue's Room.
* Baby Horse's toy bear resembles a purple version of Winnie-the-Pooh (specifically the Disney version).
* This is Darla's version of Wubbzy's Big Holiday.
* Boris can be seen wearing Maddie's green striped scarf.
* This is the last episode (if one counts the baby versions of Maddie and Darla as different live-actors) to feature live-actors that are not Maddie Fretz or Darla Jacobs (not counting the kids in the letters).
* This the second episode where the ringing of the telephone is mistaken for something else (in this case, the doorbell), after Darla Jacobs' First Day.
* During the scene where Wubbzy leaves his third clue, a holiday version of the music track that is cued when it is time for the Thinking Chair can be heard (with a trombone playing the "Wubbzy skidoo, we can too" tune).
* When Wubbzy and Darla go sledding, Kylie Michaels, Hoots, Melody Mouse, Horse, and Butterfly start chasing them.
* Darla Jacobs wears an orange squared sweater in this episode.
* The characters all appear as babies during the credits. In order they are Wubbzy, Kermit the Frog, Melody Mouse, Cat, Wubbzy again, Horse & Butterfly, and Hoots.

## Goofs

* Cat is in the living room, she cannot move. Next, Cat can move when it's present time.
* During "The Day We Met Wubbzy" movie, in the scene where Maddie is still sleeping, Wubbzy's ball can be seen right next to Maddie's bed and the purple table. After Blue skidoos out of the book, the ball mysteriously moved far away from the bed and the table.
* Jennie McAlpine (actress of Young Maddie) is credited as Jenny McAlpine.
* This episode (the Season 5 finale) was supposed to be the last episode with the Season 5 OST. However, the Season 5 OST reappeared in the season 6 episode "Playdates".
* The viewer does not say, "Maddie!" after Darla says, "Who do you think that is?" with a pause following it.