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UFO is the fifteenth episode of the first series of Alphablocks.
Synopsis
A stargazing expedition for the Alphablocks leads to a close encounter with some very unusual visitors.
Story
The vowels look at their constellations that look like their letters. They glow as one of them say a vowel name.
I A E O A U I
F and R join the vowels.
A E I U F O
U, F and O hold hands to make the word.
U-F-O, UFO! (this causes the lowercase letters to become capitalised into their uppercase counterparts)
A UFO appears.
A E I U O
The UFO repeats what they say. Suddenly, a wrong buzz is heard.
O U I E A
The UFO repeats what they say, however, the same wrong buzz is heard.
A E I O U
The UFO repeats what they say, and access has been granted. The UFO lifts them up high.
f-ar, FAR!
The UFO rises upwards, away from them.
oar, OAR!
The UFO comes down with an oar before being overriden by a humanoid-like ear, then fur and eventually a fair.
ear, EAR!
The UFO grows a humanoid-like ear before being overriden by fur and then a fair.
f-ur, FUR!
The UFO grows fur before being overriden by a fair.
f-air, FAIR!
The UFO becomes a merry-go-round.
f-our, FOUR!
A large black numeral 4 appears. The UFO lands and opens up to reveal five Alphablock-like Aliens; four of them have the numerals 1, 2, 3, and 5 under their caps The 4 belongs to the alien whose cap is blank. After he reclaims the numeral and joins the other aliens inside, then the UFO leaves and the episode ends.
Characters (in their order of appearance)
- A
- E
- I
- O
- U
- R
- F
- Alien One (no lines)
- Alien Three (no lines)
- Alien Two (no lines)
- Alien Four
- Alien Five (no lines)
Digraphs / Trigraphs
- AR
- OAR
- EAR
- UR
- AIR
Words
- UFO
- Far
- Oar
- Ear
- Fur
- Fair
- Four
Trivia
- Total Words: 7
- F, O, U, and R didn't sound out FOUR. This is the same as ONE in Note.
- However, this time four is decodable and regular unlike one, as our also make the vowel sound in other words like course and pour, so O, U, and R should've teamed up.
- Of course, the sounding was probably skipped simply for the episode to be short enough to fit the three-minute mark.
- This is the only episode to feature the trigraph OAR.
- This is the first episode to feature the digraphs AR and UR, and the trigraphs EAR and AIR. EAR and AIR reappear in the episode Fair.
- The numbers on the aliens are used again in Fred.
- E only says his sound and his name as his solo line.
- The only consonants who appear in this episode are F and R.
- This is the only episode where the five Number Aliens have appeared.
- R uses her spyglass in this episode.
- F joined the group of vowels in this episode, although she is a consonant.
- This is the first episode where an Alphablock (or Alphablocks) change their Letter from lowercase to uppercase.
- This is the only episode with an all-caps word: UFO.
- The Number Aliens were called "Numberblocks" by fans; but only the name, not the design. The name was reused for actual characters in the later show.
- Alien One looks incredibly similar to the One we know and love. Both have one eye, a number one on their head, and are complementary colours with the aliens being green and our One being red.
- This is the last chronological episode.
- This is the only Alphablocks episode with Alphablock-like characters who usually display Numberlings instead of letters. Fred, however, had them while counting down.
- This is the first (if not only) episode where an acronym is sounded out.
- This is the first Alphablock episode which only a trigraph is used to make a word without any other Alphablock. Only exception being the word “fair” as F, A, I and R do not make a tetragraph.
Errors
- For unknown reasons, this episode is not on BBC iPlayer.
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