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Bus is the eighteenth episode of the first series of Alphablocks.
Synopsis
S, T, O and P get caught on a runaway bus - what can they do?
Story
T and O run quickly so that they won't be late. P pops in and tags along with them. B, U, and S run too. S tells them to stop.
b-u-s, BUS!
A bus appears, and T, O, and P steal the bus. S thinks...
s-u-b, SUB!
S, U, and B hop in a submarine, but it can't move. So they chase after the bus. On the bus, P pops downstairs, finds that there's no driver, and pops back up. S hops on the bus.
What will they do?
Words marked with an asterisk (*) are game-exclusive.
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- POST - Mail letters fly out of nowhere. However, T finds a bus pass.
- POTS - Pots start falling on the passengers.
- SPOT* - O gets covered in yellow spots.
- TOPS* - Spinning tops fly out of nowhere, with T commenting on them being "no use".
- STOP (star word) - The bus stops at a bus stop and everyone hops off. B and U hop on, and S flies in. As the bus leaves them behind, it reappears, thanks to P, and O and T hop on. But O doesn't know where they're going.
Unusual word
- The one and only word is OPTS.
Characters (in their order of appearance)
Words
- Bus
- Sub
- Top (stealth word)
- Pots
- Post
- Spot (game only)
- Tops (game only)
- Stop
- To (stealth word)
Trivia
- Total words: 5 (TV version), 7 (game version)
- A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, Q, R, V, W, X, Y, and Z are absent in this episode.
- U only says his sound in this episode.
- The bus returns in ABC, complete with a stealth word.
- This episode aired on Halloween 2010 and 2011, with it airing twice on Halloween 2011. (one instance being in the morning, and the other in the afternoon)
- This was the only episode at the time to air on two consecutive Halloween days before Book became the second episode to do so, airing on Halloween 2013 and 2018.