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Alphablocks A-Z (also known as Alphablocks, Meet the Alphablocks, or just A-Z in a YouTube release) is the first episode of the first series of Alphablocks, and also the very first episode of the Learningblocks franchise.
Synopsis[]
The adventure of twenty-six lively letters who can make words come to life by holding hands.
Plot[]
The Alphablocks introduce themselves one by one.
Mascots[]
| Letter | Description |
|---|---|
| A | A comes in and gets hit by an apple and temporarily receives "amnesia". |
| B | B rocks out on her guitar before sliding. |
| C | C creates cracks and crevices. She also breaks the fourth wall, by damaging the screen. |
| D | Pretty much like B except D is seen drumming instead, though almost falls over. |
| E | E is first seen as Silent E. After attempting to say his noise, he changes to regular E and says his sound in a megaphone, with the addition of an echoing effect. In the American dub and in BBC iPlayer, the scene where Silent E appears is omitted. |
| F | F is seen blowing around, emitting gas from her mouth along the way. |
| G | G drinks water, causing the grass in her hair to grow. |
| H | H is shown running and panting. She eventually gets tired while breathing heavily. |
| I | I looks in the mirror while singing loudly. At the same time, this sound cracks her helmet. |
| J | J thinks that she is supposed to fly, and then says her noise loudly and repetitively. |
| K | K kicks his football up to a high altitude. It's nowhere to be seen when he kicks it that high until he gets hit by it, causing K to receive amnesia. |
| L | L sings lullabies. This turn of events causes her to hibernate. |
| M | M eats a chunk of terrain (even if anything is inedible). |
| N | N refuses to introduce himself. When the screen transitions to O, he stops the camera from being seen. |
| O | O breaks the fourth wall by actually looking at the screen, as he observes it for a few second before running somewhere. |
| P | P is nowhere to be seen until she pops out of nowhere. This repeats nine to ten times again and again. |
| Q | Q attempts to say her noise, to no avail, until Q brings U to help her say her sound. |
| R | R swings on a rope, hoping to come across the other side but fails, and instead falls off of it. |
| S | S is shown inflated. She deflates, then reinflates again and the process repeats until it transitions into T. |
| T | T attempts to have tea with a friend. However, he doesn't have any, and then tuts off the screen before it transitions into U. |
| U | U is shown, despite him being with Q. The letter then chases him away. |
| V | V is seen driving around. |
| W | W trips and cries, but greets the audience to the viewer after weeping. |
| X | X comes out from an cross-shaped crater, and creates a cross shape, with it resembling that of the Xbox logo without the white exterior. He then flies away. |
| Y | Y is shown waving at the edge of a cliff, but he manages to get up. |
| Z | Z has a dream of himself. He wakes up as soon as the bubble pops and goes to the ending credits. |
Characters (in their order of appearance)[]
Most of the Alphablocks appear in alphabetical order and only say their sounds, however, U appears after Q and before R.
Digraphs[]
- QU
Words[]
No words are spelled in this episode. Total words: 0
Trivia[]
- This is the very first episode in the entire Learningblocks saga.
- This is the first Alphablocks episode with a transition to the credits. The second time is the special The Wonderful Wizard of Az. All other episodes and specials have the credits abruptly appear.
- This episode is similar to the Series 2 episode On, only this episode doesn't have words.
- E is first seen in a black suit that may or may not be the same as Magic E.
- U is the only one to be seen before he says his sound.
- This is the one of the two Alphablocks episodes with zero words made, with the other being An Alphablocks Adventure.
- Q is the first Alphablock to connect with another one, namely with U.
- This is the first time when a digraph was formed.
- Strangely enough, O is the first Alphablock to actually say something other than his sound -- despite his usual inability to make sounds that the letter O doesn't spell.
- There's a scene in another version where Silent E becomes "un-silent".
- This is one of the three Learningblocks episodes to have no dialogue, the others are Black and White and Grey.
- However, the latter two still have some dialogue with the speakers, but this episode doesn't include any word spoken out at all, making it the only episode to have no dialogue at all at 0, if you are deaf and can't hear the sounds that the Alphablocks make.
- At the end of the episode, instead of saying "© 2009 Alphablocks Ltd." (when the show was first in development), it says "© 2013 Alphablocks Ltd."
- In Canada and the UK, W says “Waaaaaa!” In the US, however, W says “W-w-w-w-w!”. His mouth is different in both versions.
- This episode is the first to imply that CBeebies are unaware that Q can indeed be pronounced without U, albeit not as /kw/. Examples of words with a pronounced Q, but no U following it are the Asian countries Iraq and Qatar, and various Arabic words when romanized.
- A video with the episode posted on YouTube is the most viewed video in the Alphablocks YouTube channel with 70 million views.
- In the British and Canadian dubs, the Q symbol lacked a hooktail. However, in the American dub, the symbol is shown to have a hooktail.
- This is the first episode with a digraph, and with a consonant digraph, QU.
- This episode is 3 minutes long, just like the rest of Series 1.
Video[]
https://youtu.be/BScgKbbxObk?si=43HPWPg-rKPGv7Rx
- ↑ Officially, at least. If we were to include J, Q, V, W, X, Y, and Z, it would be Orange Level 2.