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Plusman is the fourth episode of the fourth series of Alphablocks. It is the 82nd episode overall.
Synopsis[]
Plusman to the rescue! A new superhero arrives in Alphaland to save the day by joining words together.
Plot[]
X is seen sleeping when he is suddenly awakened by his alarm. He uses his X-ray vision and flies up, but accidentally hits the ceiling so hard that his X gets tilted and turns into a plus symbol, and X turns into his alter-ego Plusman. Plusman then flies through the exit and meets R, who is on a treasure hunt and needs to find something with five points that lives underwater. Plusman helps and brings in three Alphablocks.
s-t-ar, STAR!
A star appears, but it's not what R is really looking for. She says it also lives underwater. Plusman helps and brings in three other Alphablocks.
f-i-sh, FISH!
A fish appears. R says she really needs something that has five points and lives underwater; a fish shaped like a star. Plusman has an idea. He adds a plus between "star" and "fish", combining the words together.
s-t-ar, STAR! f-i-sh, FISH! star-fish, STARFISH!
The star and fish combine; a starfish appears, which is what R is looking for. R thanks Plusman for help, and Plusman flies off.
Meanwhile, D, O, and G are admiring an unhelpful dog at play; SH, EE, and P are chasing sheep nearby. Neither group does any good until Plusman combines "sheep" and "dog" together.
sh-ee-p, SHEEP! d-o-g, DOG! sheep-dog, SHEEPDOG!
A sheepdog appears to make the sheep do wonderful tricks; it then rounds up the sheep.
Next, Plusman flies off to L, U, N, and CH, who are planning a picnic lunch but missing something to carry it in. While thinking of a solution to the group's problem, Plusman slips on a banana peel and turns back into X. X still has to help, so he brings in two other Alphablocks.
b-o-x, BOX!
A box appears, but it's only a medical box. However, the cross on the box does remind X of a plus sign. Although he thinks Plusman is a silly name (being unaware that he had become Plusman earlier), X figures out how to make compound words. Writing his letter in the air, X then rotates it to make a plus sign; as it did in Plusman's earlier compounding feats, the symbol combines "lunch" and "box" together.
l-u-n-ch, LUNCH! b-o-x, BOX! lunch-box, LUNCHBOX!
A lunchbox appears and stuffs in all the food. B asks X for a banana, but X shakes his head, declining.
Characters (in their order of appearance)[]
- X
- Plusman (debut)
- R
- S
- T
- A
- F
- I
- H
- Fish
- Starfish
- D
- O
- G
- Puppy (becomes a herding breed)
- Sheep (several)
- P
- E
- L
- U
- N
- C
- B
Digraphs[]
- AR
- SH
- EE
- CH
Words[]
- Star
- Fish
- Starfish
- Sheepdog
- Box
- Lunchbox
Total words: 6
Trivia[]
- J, K, M, Q, V, W, Y, and Z are absent in this episode.
- When X is asleep, he makes his sound while snoring and his letters can be seen floating in the sky, just like Z.
- A, F, G, I, S, T, U, and digraphs EE, CH, and SH only say their sound in this episode.
- E stays doubled and stuck together in this episode, making him the third Alphablock to stay like this in an episode, the first two being O (in Zzzzz) and L (in Little Red N and Ink).
- This is the final episode in the main series to feature X until Band Together. He will only appear as an alphabet letter in the next episode.
- X is implied to be clumsy. When he gets a concussion, his reaction implies he does it a lot.
- This episode teaches compound words.
- The only compound word made by Plusman which isn't an animal is "lunchbox", although technically, it wasn't made by him, but X. Not saying it's wrong, since they're the same person.
- X seems to react to the banana as if it could seriously hurt him.
Errors[]
- O's magnifying glass doesn't magnify like in Meet the Alphablocks.
- Debatable error: At one point, N seems to have no arms. However, he could just be crossing his arms, because his arms and body have the same colour.
- Another debatable error: Plusman's eyelids are miscoloured throughout the entire episode. They should be red, not blue. Although this is what X's eyelids are coloured, his whole body is meant to be recoloured so the eyelids go with the forehead.