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Season 1
Episode 21

The Mirth of a Nation

August 10, 1992

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Adventures in Wonderland - S1 - E21

While attending her "Mirthday" party, the Queen bumps her funny bone and loses her sense of humor. When she subsequently decides to ban all laughter from Wonderland, her subjects get serious and plot to restore mirth to Her Majesty.

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Adventures in Wonderland: Season 1 - 71 Episode s

1x1 - Herstory in the Making
March 23, 1992
Alice lacks the confidence to write a story for a school assignment, so she enlists the help of her friends in Wonderland. Thinking that she’s gotten them to do her homework for her, she quickly discovers that, when other people do your work, it doesn’t always turn out the way you’d like.
1x2 - Lip-Sunk
March 30, 1992
The Queen is slated to give a speech at a royalty convention when she suddenly loses her voice. While the Wonderland characters literally scramble to look for her lost voice, Alice tries to convince them that it’s just an idiom and there’s no need to search.
1x3 - Red Queen for a Day
April 6, 1992
When Alice becomes Queen for a day, her royal decisions alienate her Wonderland friends, and she learns that being in charge also carries responsibility.
1x4 - Objets d’Heart
April 13, 1992
The Queen decides to take up sculpture as a hobby. Thinking that everyone loves her creations, she gives them away as gifts. In the end, though, the work ends up in a pile of quicksand, and the Wonderland gang decides to say what they mean from that point on.
1x5 - Arrivederci, Aroma
April 20, 1992
The Queen orders perfume from The Royal Catalog at the same time the Hatter orders spray paint. Unfortunately, there is a mix-up of parcels. Alice and her friends learn a lesson about the value of reading directions.
1x6 - The Bunny Flop
April 27, 1992
The Queen and the White Rabbit appear on "Lifestyles of the Royal and Famous", but the live interview goes awry when the Rabbit, who was awake all night, has trouble keeping his eyes open and his mouth shut.
1x7 - Pop Goes the Easel
May 4, 1992
On the day the Queen’s official portrait is to be unveiled, the White Rabbit trips and puts his head through the canvas. All in Wonderland attempt to restore the painting.
1x8 - Through the Looking Glasses
May 11, 1992
The Cheshire Cat gives Rabbit a pair of rose-colored glasses and convinces him that they magically make everything beautiful. Eventually, everyone (but the Queen) realizes that the glasses were a hoax. They learn that it’s not how you look at things, but how you think about them that counts.
1x9 - That's All, Jokes!
May 18, 1992
A practical-joke marathon sweeps through Wonderland, and soon everyone is obsessed with getting even. The potpourri of pranks finally stops when the Queen falls victim to a trick. As a result, Alice learns that, by "getting even", a person sometimes gets more than they expected.
1x10 - Forget Me Knot
May 25, 1992
The Queen goes to "Professor Memory" to improve her memory, while the Rabbit goes all over Wonderland in search of the book in which he put the Queen’s theater tickets. Rabbit, Alice, and the Queen learn some new memory skills.
1x11 - Boo Who?
June 1, 1992
The Queen thinks the palace is haunted when she spies a ghost wandering the halls. It appears the famished phantom is gobbling up the jelly beans meant for the Royal Jelly-Bean Counting Contest. The Queen orders the Rabbit to stand guard, but actually there is merely a sleepwalking White Rabbit.
1x12 - Double Your Bunny
June 8, 1992
The White Rabbit’s identical cousin comes to Wonderland to look at vacation property. But Rabbit is unable to meet his cousin’s train, forcing this White Rabbit look-alike to wander Wonderland alone. Confusion and crabbiness abound when Wonderland’s residents don’t realize there’s a new bunny on the block.
1x13 - Diary of a Mad Hatter/Keep It Under Your Hat
June 15, 1992
The Mad Hatter finds his great-grandhatter’s diary, which contains clues to a hidden treasure. The ensuing treasure hunt leads Wonderland’s residents on a merry chase, but eventually the treasure is found. To everyone’s surprise, the treasure is a collection of -what else?-hats!
1x14 - How the West Was Wonderland
June 22, 1992
A rodeo is coming to Wonderland, and the Queen resolves to be "Queen of the Rodeo", except she is required a ride a horse, which scares her. Her pride keeps her from admitting her fear, but Alice and the White Rabbit figure out her problem and provide her with a way to save face.
1x15 - The Rules of the Game
June 29, 1992
Alice gets a lesson in playing by the rules after several frustrating rounds of Meewalk, a game in which the rules can be changed at any moment. The final straw comes when the Queen changes the rules after the game is over so that she, instead of the Tweedles, is declared the winner.
1x16 - Something to Sneeze At
July 6, 1992
The Mad Hatter suddenly becomes allergic to his best friend, the March Hare. But the March Hare is determined not to allow the Hatter’s sneeze to put the freeze on their friendship.
1x17 - Off the Cuffs/Hare-Raising Magic
July 13, 1992
The March Hare’s magic act goes awry when his "Magic Handcuffs" fail to open. First the Queen, then half of Wonderland, get "tied up" -until the Hare finds the missing key.
1x18 - Tooth or Consequences
July 20, 1992
The White Rabbit has a toothache that just won’t quit, but his fear of going to the dentist causes him to procrastinate.
1x19 - The Wonderland Enquirer
July 27, 1992
The Queen, annoyed with dull stories in the Wonderland daily paper, orders the editors (Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee) to print every juicy rumor they hear, whether the stories can be verified or not. The Queen loves the newspaper, until she becomes a victim of the rumor mill herself.
1x20 - The Hatter Who Came to Dinner
August 3, 1992
When the Mad Hatter's back is thrown out in the line of duty, the Queen and the White Rabbit feel obliged to put him up until he’s better. The Hatter proceeds to take advantage of "the royal treatment", until they find out he’s faking and call his bluff.
1x21 - The Mirth of a Nation
August 10, 1992
While attending her "Mirthday" party, the Queen bumps her funny bone and loses her sense of humor. When she subsequently decides to ban all laughter from Wonderland, her subjects get serious and plot to restore mirth to Her Majesty.
1x22 - For Better or Verse
August 17, 1992
Rabbit gets rhymitis and is banned by the Queen until he gets rid of it. The irritating condition is passed all around Wonderland, until at last it hits the Queen, right when she needs the rhyming disease in order to beat the Duchess in a contest.
1x23 - Technobunny
August 24, 1992
With the White Rabbit on vacation, the Queen gets a temporary robot replacement to do his work. The robot is so efficient that it looks as if the White Rabbit may be out of work permanently...until the Queen’s failure to follow directions causes a surprising malfunction.
1x24 - Party-Pooped
August 31, 1992
The Mad Hatter is annoyed with the March Hare’s chronic tardiness to the tea party. The resulting quarrel splits up the friends, and, in a fit of pique, the Hare throws his own party at exactly the Hatter’s teatime. When Wonderland’s residents find this two-party system too tiring (and too filling), they resolve to get the Hatter and the Hare back together.
1x25 - Up and Anthem
September 7, 1992
When the Wonderland national anthem is deemed unsingable, the Queen decrees an anthem-writing contest to choose a new one. The White Rabbit, who authored the original anthem refuses to write a new anthem. But the competition makes him realize that his song could stand a little improvement, so he decides to "change his tune".
1x26 - Pretzelmania/The Missing Ring Mystery
September 14, 1992
It appears that the Rabbit has dropped the Queen’s diamond ring into the Hatter’s new pretzel machine…thereby baking it into one of the 100 pretzels. But which one? The Rabbit’s friends pig out on pretzels, hoping to find the ring before the Queen finds out about the whole silly mishap.
1x27 - White Elephant Sale
September 21, 1992
At a royal garage sale, the Queen unloads a (real) white elephant. In the hands of its new owners, however, the useless item is recycled into a whirlpool bath, a barbecue, and, finally, a prized art deco lamp sought after by none other than the Queen.
1x28 - Rip-Roaring Rabbit Tales/Rabbit Without a Cause
September 28, 1992
The White Rabbit, who has become convinced his life lacks excitement, imagines himself in a series of storybook adventures. But, when he narrowly averts disaster with the Queen’s flower-vase collection, he decides that sometimes it’s best when excitement is only found in the pages of a book.
1x29 - Happy Boo Boo Day
October 5, 1992
The Queen tells the Rabbit she doesn’t want a birthday party this year, because her subjects always manage to goof it up. Despite the Queen’s wishes, Rabbit sets into motion plans for a surprise party, to prove that they can throw a successful party. Of course, the party gets goofed-up big time, but the Queen learns that "it’s the thought that counts".
1x30 - What Makes Rabbit Run
October 12, 1992
To prove how popular she is, the Queen decides to run for office in a Wonderland-wide election. She orders the reluctant White Rabbit to be her opponent, assuming it will just be for appearances. But the Rabbit’s popularity grows, and the Queen is forced to rethink her way of ruling Wonderland.
1x31 - Friday the Umpteenth
October 19, 1992
When Alice tells the Hatter and Hare about the superstition that Friday the 13th is bad luck, she unknowingly sets off a Wonderland panic. Fear of bad luck keeps Wonderland’s residents from enjoying themselves, until they realize that good luck is sometimes a matter of perspective.
1x32 - Pizza De Resistance
October 26, 1992
Disgusted with the quality of take-out pizza in Wonderland, the Queen dubs the White Rabbit "Royal Pizza Chef". He doesn’t want the job, so he convinces the Queen to hold a contest instead and choose the Royal Pizza Chef from the entrants. Everyone's happy to participate-but in the end, the best pizza is made by none other than the Queen herself.
1x33 - A Litter Help From My Friends
November 2, 1992
When keeping Wonderland litter-free becomes a bigger job than one bunny can handle, the White Rabbit enlists the help of all of Wonderland’s residents. The blustery weather seems for a moment to be helpful in blowing away trash-until all the loose litter lands right in the middle of the Wonderland picnic site.
1x34 - Busy as a Spelling Bee
November 9, 1992
The Queen is appalled at the bad spelling in thank-you notes from her subjects. When Alice explains that her school holds spelling bees every year as a way to help children improve their spelling, the Queen decides it is time to schedule Wonderland’s first spelling bee. Her homonym word choices, though, ensure that everyone loses-but Alice and her friends discover that everyone losing can be more fun than one person winning.
1x35 - Hic-Hic Hooray
November 16, 1992
After volunteering to transport boxes of the Queen’s fragile new dinnerware, Tweedle Dum develops a severe…and tremulous…case of the hiccups. En route back to the palace, he solicits a wide and weird variety of Wonderland cures
1x36 - He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Hatter
November 23, 1992
After indulging in too many of his grandmother's cookies, the Mad Hatter is forced to go on a diet and exercise program. He tells the Hare to hide the offending cookies. When his resolve weakens, and he tries to find them again, Hatter unknowingly burns up the calories as he searches all over Wonderland for the hidden cookies.
1x37 - Invasion of the Tweedle Snatchers
November 30, 1992
When the Cheshire Cat commandeers a remote-controlled toy flying saucer, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare think that Wonderland is being invaded from outer space. The Hatter and Hare manage to get most of Wonderland in a panic, until finally, everyone discovers that there are no little green space invaders, just a big, purple, mischievous cat.
1x38 - Bubble Trouble
December 7, 1992
The Queen cuts costs at the palace by canceling the bottled water delivery and tapping Wonderland’s own underground spring. Armed with a book from the Caterpillar, the White Rabbit, newly-appointed water monitor, keeps the Wonderland residents from polluting the spring. But eventually, the Queen ignores her own example and pollutes the spring herself, learning a lesson about practicing what you preach.
1x39 - The Bunny Who Would Be King
December 14, 1992
Movie star Rabbit DeNiro is coming to Wonderland to see his brother, the White Rabbit, whom he thinks is the King. The White Rabbit’s friends help him ascend to the throne, and the charade seems to work…until the Queen returns.
1x40 - Welcome Back Hatter
December 21, 1992
The Hatter wins what appears to be a huge castle via a mail-order sweepstakes and prepares to move out of Wonderland. The Hare is sad that his best friend is leaving, but decides to hide his true feelings to avoid upsetting the Hatter.
1x41 - Noses Off
December 28, 1992
While trying to help Her Majesty come up with an original costume for an upcoming masquerade ball, the Hatter and Hare accidentally attach a ridiculous rubber nose to the Queen’s face, then can’t get it off. The Queen scrambles to get out of her predicament before that afternoon’s photo session with "Palace Beautiful" magazine.
1x42 - This Bunny for Hire
January 4, 1993
The White Rabbit breaks one of the Queen’s vases, which he assumes is valuable crystal. Rather than tell the Queen what happened, he works nonstop, moonlighting to make enough money to buy a replacement-only to discover, too late, that the original vase was merely inexpensive glass.
1x43 - All That Glitters/Forbidden Fruit
January 11, 1993
Tweedle Dum ignores Caterpillar’s warnings and eats a dangerous new fruit that can make him stronger, but may also make him very sick. A bellyache results, and Tweedle Dum learns to heed future warnings.
1x44 - Whose Carrots Are They, Anyway?
January 18, 1993
The Rabbit is proud of his carrot crop, and would like to invite his friends from Wonderland to a simple carrot-tasting party. However, many of the Rabbit’s friends proceed to turn his simple party into the biggest, glitziest event of the season.
1x45 - Say It Again, Ma’am!
January 25, 1993
The Rabbit misunderstands a royal edict, but is too intimidated by the Queen to ask her to repeat herself. He enlists help from Wonderland’s other residents to deduce what the Queen meant, but comes to a conclusion that only adds to the confusion.
1x46 - Lady and the Camp
February 1, 1993
The White Rabbit buys flowers for the Queen, only to find out that the blossoms are full of bugs. While the Hatter and the Hare de-bug the palace, the Queen camps out in the woods for the night and discovers that it’s too tough to rough it when you’re used to the soft life.
1x47 - Gowns and Roses
February 8, 1993
The Red Queen hears there is money to be made by putting her name on a clothing label, so she designs her own fashion line. When the model fails to arrive for the fashion show, the Queen is shocked to see Rabbit on the runway.
1x48 - Dinner Fit for a Queen
February 15, 1993
When the Tweedles submit a tape to "Wonderland’s Silliest Home Videos", the Red Queen’s dignity is destroyed. She attempts to reclaim it with a staged dinner party for "Royalty’s Favorite Home Videos".
1x49 - Toot-Toot-Tootsies, Goodbye
February 22, 1993
Cheshire Cat hoaxes the existence of the legendary monster "Big Tootsies", fooling everybody but the Red Queen.
1x50 - The Red Queen Crown Affair
March 1, 1993
When the Red Queen’s crown disappears, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare set out as private investigators to find it…which they do, underneath the Mad Hatter’s own hat.
1x51 - Copy-Catter Hatter
March 8, 1993
The Mad Hatter’s reputation is at stake after his royal hat designs are copied by the rascally Copy-Catter Hatter. The Mad Hatter foils his plagiarizing cousin by leaving out a design that the Red Queen is sure to dislike.
1x52 - Queen of Beasts/The Greatest Story Never Sold
March 15, 1993
When the Red Queen decides her life lacks excitement, she becomes a wild wobear tamer. The Wonderland inhabitants are impressed, until they discover that the ferocious wild animal is a cute, cuddly wobear cub.
1x53 - Vanity Hare
March 22, 1993
When the March Hare inadvertently helps the Queen solve her crossword puzzle, she bestows upon him the Smarty Pants Medal. Soon, the Hare gets too high an opinion of his own intelligence, until he finds out that being a smarty pants sometimes means being too big for your boots.
1x54 - The Best Ears of Our Lives
March 29, 1993
When White Rabbit tires of being ignored, he tries to get attention by yelling and then by being silent. However, he discovers that the best way to make people curious about what you have to say is simply to speak softly.
1x55 - Fiesta Time
April 5, 1993
When the Red Queen is invited to King Ricardo’s Fiesta, she balks because she can’t speak Spanish. The other put together a Wonderland Fiesta to teach Spanish to the Red Queen.
1x56 - Hair’em Scare’em/The Girl With Green Hair
April 12, 1993
After the Mad Hatter send a bottle of his new shampoo to the Red Queen, he discovers that the shampoo has turned Alice’s hair green. The March Hare tries to retrieve the shampoo before the Red Queen uses it, while the Mad Hatter tries to restore Alice’s true hair color.
1x57 - A Change of Heart
April 19, 1993
It’s Valentine’s Day, and Alice is dismayed to discover the Red Queen has ordered her subjects to show their affection. Alice show the Red Queen the true meaning of the holiday.
1x58 - On a Roll
April 19, 1993
The Mad Hatter’s cousin Hedda Hatter is coming for a visit. Hedda is differently abled (she gets around in a wheelchair), and, when she writes that the only drawback is "stairs", the Wonderland gang thinks she means "stares", so no one will look at poor Hedda. Once the confusion is cleared up, Hedda teaches everyone that people in wheelchairs can do anything an able person can.
1x59 - The Grape Juice of Wrath
April 26, 1993
The White Rabbit spills grape juice on the Queen’s throne and enlists Wonderland’s other residents to help him remove the spot before the Queen returns from a day of picking blueberries. Their efforts are unsuccessful, to put it mildly. Finally, Rabbit tries to admit his mistake to the Queen, only to find that she doesn’t care, since she had planned to get the throne reupholstered anyway.
1x60 - Homing Pigeons
May 3, 1993
After losing his house key for the umpteenth time, Hatter invents a house key homing device. Hoping to cash in on his invention, he stages a demonstration. He collects everyone’s house key on a key ring, and then has Alice hide it. Before Hatter can track it down, the Cheshire Cat finds it, fancies it as a necklace, and disappears with it…leading all on a merry chase.
1x61 - From Hare to Eternity
May 10, 1993
When the Red Queen saves the March Hare from quicksand, the March Hare carries out an annoying vow to protect her from all danger...until the Red Queen tricks the March Hare into "saving" her.
1x62 - Chalice in Wonderland
May 17, 1993
Hatter and Hare go on an archaeological dig and uncover a beautiful, ancient chalice. Rabbit intercepts the treasure on behalf of the Queen, only to discover a curse written on the bottom of the cup. The Chalice exchanges hands, as one coincidental accident after another occurs…until, finally, the curse is revealed to be not a curse at all.
1x63 - Hippity Hoppity Hypnotist
May 24, 1993
The March Hare accidentally hypnotizes the Red Queen into acting like a chicken when the word "red" is spoken. The White Rabbit isn’t aware of this, until the Red Queen is about to go on Wonderland TV.
1x64 - Christmas in Wonderland
May 31, 1993
Christmas is nearly ruined when the Red Queen hears about Alice’s "white" Christmas and decides she won’t be happy until she gets her own snowfall-which is impossible, as it never snows in Wonderland. It turns out that her happiest Christmas memories stemmed from the one holiday when she and her parents vacationed in a snowy cabin. Moved, the Wonderland gang tries to bring the Queen snow. It does not work, of course, but the Queen learns that the real meaning of Christmas is the joy of people being kind to each other. As soon as this lesson is learned, Wonderland's first-ever snowfall begins.
1x65 - The Day of the Iguana
June 7, 1993
When the Red Queen banishes a fortune teller from the palace, the White Rabbit fears a retaliatory curse has turned Her Majesty into an iguana.
1x66 - I Am the Walrus
June 14, 1993
News of a walrus is moving panics Wonderland, because they heard that walruses are rude, smelly, and liars. When they can't get the Queen to tell the Walrus to leave, they decide to exclude and ignore him. Alice is the first to meet the Walrus and learns the rumors are completely false. But when her friends refuse to believe and leave the Queen's party to not associate with him, the Queen treats them the same way and teaches them that it is wrong to exclude someone without getting to know them first.
1x67 - Weed Shall Overcome
June 21, 1993
The Red Queen’s plans for a new royal tennis court are delayed when the Walrus discovers a rare plant growing on the site. Wonderland’s residents band together to convince the reluctant Queen to save the poor plant from extinction. Their words fail to move her, until the Walrus reveals that the weed is actually a crucial part in a biological chain that protects the Queen's roses.
1x68 - Deface in the Crowd
June 28, 1993
All of Wonderland’s residents are alarmed when a mysterious vandal begins defacing every available surface with graffiti. Attempts to catch the vandal fail, but, finally, he turns himself in when he realizes his attention-getting ploy is actually costing him dearly in lost friendships.
1x69 - TV or Not TV?
July 5, 1993
Prospects for good attendance at the annual Wonderland spring picnic look bad when the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, Tweedle Dum, and Tweedle Dee all begin watching television. They seem in danger of becoming true couch potatoes, until a cautionary nightmare jolts them off the sofa.
1x70 - Days of Vine and Roses
July 12, 1993
The Red Queen’s chances for having her palace make the cover of "Better Palaces and Gardens" magazine are jeopardized when some of Wonderland’s residents fail to follow the care instructions for an exotic plant. Soon the palace is completely overgrown by a massive tangle of vines.
1x71 - The Clan of the Cavebunny
July 19, 1993
A simple spelunking expedition turns up the discovery of the year: a bunny frozen in a block of ice. It is really a prehistoric cavebunny? All of Wonderland will soon find out, because it suddenly comes to life.

Adventures in Wonderland: All seasons

S1: Season 1
100 Episode s

1x1 - Herstory in the Making

1x2 - Lip-Sunk

1x3 - Red Queen for a Day

1x4 - Objets d’Heart

1x5 - Arrivederci, Aroma

1x6 - The Bunny Flop

1x7 - Pop Goes the Easel

1x8 - Through the Looking Glasses

1x9 - That's All, Jokes!

1x10 - Forget Me Knot

1x11 - Boo Who?

1x12 - Double Your Bunny

1x13 - Diary of a Mad Hatter/Keep It Under Your Hat

1x14 - How the West Was Wonderland

1x15 - The Rules of the Game

1x16 - Something to Sneeze At

1x17 - Off the Cuffs/Hare-Raising Magic

1x18 - Tooth or Consequences

1x19 - The Wonderland Enquirer

1x20 - The Hatter Who Came to Dinner

1x21 - The Mirth of a Nation

1x22 - For Better or Verse

1x23 - Technobunny

1x24 - Party-Pooped

1x25 - Up and Anthem

1x26 - Pretzelmania/The Missing Ring Mystery

1x27 - White Elephant Sale

1x28 - Rip-Roaring Rabbit Tales/Rabbit Without a Cause

1x29 - Happy Boo Boo Day

1x30 - What Makes Rabbit Run

1x31 - Friday the Umpteenth

1x32 - Pizza De Resistance

1x33 - A Litter Help From My Friends

1x34 - Busy as a Spelling Bee

1x35 - Hic-Hic Hooray

1x36 - He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Hatter

1x37 - Invasion of the Tweedle Snatchers

1x38 - Bubble Trouble

1x39 - The Bunny Who Would Be King

1x40 - Welcome Back Hatter

1x41 - Noses Off

1x42 - This Bunny for Hire

1x43 - All That Glitters/Forbidden Fruit

1x44 - Whose Carrots Are They, Anyway?

1x45 - Say It Again, Ma’am!

1x46 - Lady and the Camp

1x47 - Gowns and Roses

1x48 - Dinner Fit for a Queen

1x49 - Toot-Toot-Tootsies, Goodbye

1x50 - The Red Queen Crown Affair

1x51 - Copy-Catter Hatter

1x52 - Queen of Beasts/The Greatest Story Never Sold

1x53 - Vanity Hare

1x54 - The Best Ears of Our Lives

1x55 - Fiesta Time

1x56 - Hair’em Scare’em/The Girl With Green Hair

1x57 - A Change of Heart

1x58 - On a Roll

1x59 - The Grape Juice of Wrath

1x60 - Homing Pigeons

1x61 - From Hare to Eternity

1x62 - Chalice in Wonderland

1x63 - Hippity Hoppity Hypnotist

1x64 - Christmas in Wonderland

1x65 - The Day of the Iguana

1x66 - I Am the Walrus

1x67 - Weed Shall Overcome

1x68 - Deface in the Crowd

1x69 - TV or Not TV?

1x70 - Days of Vine and Roses

1x71 - The Clan of the Cavebunny

S1: Season 1