Purple Potato Eaters
Adventures in Wonderland - S1 - E91
When Wonderland’s residents get a whiff of a batch of purple potato pancakes the Walrus is eating, they want to try them. The complicated recipe, however, makes them reluctant to help make more batter. After the Cheshire Cat tricks them into helping prepare the pancakes in spite of themselves, they learn that working for something helps one to appreciate it.
Adventures in Wonderland: Season 1 - 60 Episode s
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 the 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 - The 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.
1x72 - Metaphor Monday
July 26, 1993
As all of Wonderland celebrates Metaphor Monday by preparing for the Metaphor Ball, a grand event in which everyone comes dressed as their favorite metaphor, the Tweedles become so consumed by sibling rivalry that they nearly let their inter-Tweedle competition ruin both of their chances to win the metaphor costume contest.
1x73 - Game Shows People Play
August 2, 1993
After the Duchess ridicules the Red Queen’s use of adverbs, the Queen goes on the TV game show "Name That Adverb". She does fine, until she takes a bath in the bonus round.
1x74 - The Adventures of Spectacular Man
August 9, 1993
When a falling star gives the Mad Hatter super powers, he takes to the air as Spectacular Man, protector of Wonderland. The Red Queen is jealous of her new media rival, until he travels north by northwest to save her at the dedication of Mt. Wonderland.
1x75 - For Hare Eyes Only
August 16, 1993
When the Mad Hatter gets caught peeking at the March Hare’s mail, Hare sets a trap by asking Hatter to pick up a tempting-to-open, but booby-trapped box. Two packages arrive, and Mad Hatter succumbs to temptation and opens one-but not the rigged parcel. Even so, the package turns out to be just as good at teaching Hatter a lesson about respecting people’s private property.
1x76 - To Tear Is Human
August 23, 1993
When Alice rips her pants during a game of charades, the others kid laugh at her good-naturedly, then apologize when they realize that she doesn’t see the humor in the situation. They all tip-toe around the crabby girl, until an even sillier mishap teaches Alice that the only way to get over being embarrassed is not to take herself so seriously.
1x77 - Odd Woman Out
August 30, 1993
When Alice is prohibited from joining a Wonderland guys-only club called the Oddballs, she conspires with the Red Queen to fool the lodge brothers into changing their antiquated rules and admitting their first female member. Her manly disguise works, but Alice wants to be accepted as she is. The guys soon realize their mistake and vow to form a new club for everyone in Wonderland.
1x78 - Time Warped
September 6, 1993
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare believe they have invented a real time machine and resolve to use the goofy gadget to "go back in time" to prevent the Red Queen from doing something they know "she’ll later regret".
1x79 - Give Ants a Chance
September 13, 1993
Due to his extreme fear of ants, the Walrus seems destined to go through life avoiding picnics. Wonderland’s other residents attempt to help him overcome his fear, but he finally realizes that, if he doesn’t want to lose out, he’ll have to decide on his own to stop letting ants bug him.
1x80 - Card 54, Where Are You?
September 20, 1993
The Red Queen becomes obsessed with collecting "Famous Bunnies of Filmland" trading cards, particularly when card 54 eludes her and ends up in the hands of the Mad Hatter.
1x81 - Your Cheatin' Red Heart
September 27, 1993
The Red Queen, tired of losing every Boffo-Bingo tournament to her rival, the Duchess, gets desperate and cheats. Much to her surprise, her conscience kicks in, and she’s unable to savor her victory.
1x82 - Wonderland: The Movie
October 4, 1993
Wonderland’s residents watch a documentary on the subject of friendship, featuring the rather rocky royal relationship between the Red Queen and the Duchess.
1x83 - Bunny, Can You Spare a Dime?
October 11, 1993
When the Red Queen thinks her royal savings have bottomed out, she is forced to auction off some royal possessions, including the fabulous Hop Diamond. Unfortunately, she outbids everyone at her own auction, forcing her to borrow money from her royal rival, the Duchess.
1x84 - The Royalty Trap
October 18, 1993
On the day the Red Queen is to be feted by the Royalty Hall of Fame, she accidentally locks herself in the royal tool shed. The Duchess seizes her chance to "help" the Queen by standing in for her at the ceremony-in hopes of grabbing all the attention that was meant for Her Majesty.
1x85 - Just the Fax, Ma’am/Duchess Treat
October 25, 1993
With the annual fund-raiser for the Wonderland library on deck, the Red Queen is intent on upstaging the Duchess in the fashion department and finally getting her picture on the society page. In her eagerness to get the fashion scoop, the Red Queen learns that sometimes the faz can be confusing.
1x86 - Take the Bunny and Run/Other People’s Bunny
November 1, 1993
The Red Queen learns just how nice it is to have a bunny around the house after recklessly losing White Rabbit in a bet to the Duchess. When she finds Rabbit is just as unhappy about the change of employers, the Queen makes plans to get the bunny back.
1x87 - Gratitude Adjustment
November 8, 1993
The Red Queen cancels "Thanks-a-lot Day", a day dedicated to gratitude, because she doesn’t see the point of the holiday. Wonderland’s residents try to help her understand what it means to be thankful, but it takes a call from her mom to finally get the ungrateful Queen to realize that even royal folks need to say "thank you" sometimes.
1x88 - Pie Noon
November 15, 1993
When the pie-throwing bully from the March Hare’s high school day arrives at the Wonderland train station at high noon, the Hare panics, because none of his friends will stand with him against the bully.
1x89 - Untwist of Fate
November 22, 1993
The denizens of Wonderland are worried that Alice won’t be able to play Juliet in Shakespaw’s "Rabbit and Juliet" because she has come down with a bad case of "tongue twisters" and can only speak in silly phrases.
1x90 - Queen’s Best Friend
November 29, 1993
The Cheshire Cat plays a trick on the Red Queen and leads her to believe that the stray dog she found can talk. The Queen, sure that a talking dog will bring her fame and fortune, books a spot on a TV program to showcase her talented terrier. But, to the Queen’s chagrin, the previously garrulous dog is as quiet as a mouse once it’s on the air.
1x91 - Purple Potato Eaters
December 6, 1993
When Wonderland’s residents get a whiff of a batch of purple potato pancakes the Walrus is eating, they want to try them. The complicated recipe, however, makes them reluctant to help make more batter. After the Cheshire Cat tricks them into helping prepare the pancakes in spite of themselves, they learn that working for something helps one to appreciate it.
1x92 - The Queen Who Came in From the Cold
December 13, 1993
The Red Queen, crabby about all the anonymous letters in the paper complaining about her rash of newly imposed taxes, dons a disguise and goes undercover to root out the letter writers. To her surprise, she ends up agreeing with the writers’ gripes, and must face the difficult task of admitting she is wrong.
1x93 - The Color of Wobucks
December 20, 1993
When the White Rabbit gets bamboozled by a con man into spending the Red Queen’s money on a seed for a phony money tree, his friends try to help out by "planting" one of their own. When this scheme backfires, the Queen herself comes up with a plan to bamboozle the bamboozler.
1x94 - Take My Tonsils, Please
December 27, 1993
The Mad Hatter has a sore throat. Because of his reluctance to seek treatment, the Dormouse takes the liberty in phone calling a doctor. Judge Reinhold plays the doctor who performs the tonsillectomy on the Hatter.
1x95 - The Sound and The Furry
January 3, 1994
After the crabby Red Queen orders an afternoon of silence, the March Hare’s hearing-impaired cousin, April Hare (Marlee Matlin), visits to teach everyone sign language. A misunderstanding leads to the Queen banishing the cousin from Wonderland and nearly turning a deaf ear to her own mistake.
1x96 - Hats Off to the King
January 10, 1994
After hearing the Mad Hatter perform a simple, down-to-earth song, the Tweedles arrange for him to compete on "Wonderland Star Hunt", where Ed McMahon hosts the Best Male Singer Contest. Alas, the Hatter succumbs to all things "flashy, glitzy, and showbizzy", and he makes a fool of himself on the show.
1x97 - Those Tusks, Those Eyes
January 17, 1994
The Walrus gets roped into performing his old precision creampuff-throwing act, with the Red Queen as his assistant. He has become very nearsighted, however, since he last did his act. At first his vanity keeps him from wearing glasses, but, when it becomes clear that his choice is either to wear the glasses or make a spectacle of himself -and Her Majesty-he finally visits the eye doctor.
1x98 - Bah, Hamburger
January 24, 1994
Tweedle Dum learns about good eating habits and the consequences of his obsession with eating junk food, when he is visited by the spirits of Nutrition Past, Present, and Future.
1x99 - White Rabbits Can't Jump
January 31, 1994
The White Rabbit gets some help from his hero O.J. Simpson when the residents of Wonderland hold an annual athletics competition and he's afraid he will lose.
1x100 - A Wonderland Howl-oween
February 7, 1994
At the traditional nighttime Halloween picnic, the Wonderland residents try to outspook each other with scary stories.