Fred

This episode has the same name as a character! "I don't think I've seen Fred before!" — Four This page is about the episode. For the character(s), see Fred (character).

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Fred is the twelfth episode of the second series of Alphablocks. It is the 38th episode overall.

Synopsis

When a flying saucer crash-lands, F makes a new friend: Fred, who misses his mummy and wants to go home. Can her friends give F the boost she needs to fly Fred to the final frontier?

Story

F was seen flying, then sees E and T, who are in uppercase mode and look at the crash-landed flying saucer. F meets an alien. The alien says his name is Fred. F introduces him to E and T, who both turn back into lowercase mode. T then gets a cup of tea to Fred. F asks where Fred is from. Fred points to his home planet, which is far away from Alphaland. Fred wants to go home. F wants to fly him home, but he's too heavy. F has failed.

f-o-g, FOG!

With all that fog, F mistakes N as Fred, and N refuses to take Fred home. Then, Fred turns into N. T brings the vowels to help them.

Help Fred get back Home! (Fred is N)

F_N

• FEN - Fred, F, T, and the vowels are in a fen.
• FIN - F has a shark's fin on her head. They try to swim to Fred's home, but they can't reach.
• FUN - F, U, and Fred bounce so high they can almost touch Fred's planet, but they don't make it.
• FAN (star word) - F has a fan on her back. After counting down from 5 to 1, they blast off and fly to Fred's home. Fred is happy to meet his mum again.

Characters (in their order of appearance)

• F
• E
• T
• Fred
• O
• G
• N
• A
• I
• U
• Fred's mum

Words

• E.T. (stealth word, reference)
• Fog
• Eat (stealth word)
• Fun
• Fin
• Fen (game only)
• Fan
• Fon (game only, nonsense word)
• Ftn (game only, nonsense word)

Total words: 4 (TV version), 5 (game version)

Nonsense Words

FON

“Fon” can be the name of a wireless company incorporated and registered in the United Kingdom that provides wireless services.

"Fon" can also be the extension of a Windows 3.x file referenced by programs that access system fonts. They cannot be resized, unlike a TrueType font.

It also means "hair dryer" in Italian.

FTN

Short for Fruit Tech Natural or FTN Fantasy.

Trivia

• B, C, D, H, J, K, L, M, P, Q, R, S, V, W, X, Y, and Z are absent in this episode.
• The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are also used on the Number Aliens in UFO.
• Everyone, including O, speaks properly, except for A who only says her sound in this episode.
  • In the game version, she only says her sound as her solo line, only when FAN is sounded out. After FEN is sounded out, both female vowels (A and I) say "A boggy marsh" in unison, as if they were stuck as digraph AI.
• The only English words Fred knows are "Fred", "up", "Fun", "Fin", "Fan", and "Mummy (or Mommy)". (It is unclear whether Fred joined other characters in the 5-1 countdown before flying home with F.)
• In the game version, T is the only moveable consonant. When you place T between F and N, they sound out the nonsense word FTN.
• This is the first episode in chronological order (only in the game version) to have a nonsense word (fon).
• F clearly kissed Fred when they first met. If she didn’t, it means the only kiss shown in the franchise was during K’s episode of the Word Magic spinoff.
• E and T being in uppercase mode refer to a movie from the '80s called "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" somewhere in the episode.
• The Numberblocks episode Building Blocks has a similar plot to this episode. Interestingly, both episodes have the same writer.
• When the word 'fin' is spelt, music plays which resembles the theme used in the film 'Jaws'.
• When the word "fun" is spelt, those three Alphablocks play together as they had done in Glow.

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