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It's time for a battle of the bands to see which is best, rock or pop.
Season 1
Episode 8
Air Date January 28th, 2010
Level Green Level 4
Learning Competency the -ab word family
Writer Max Allen (Lead Writer)
Director Unlisted
Band is the eighth episode of the first series of Alphablocks.
The episode starts with BAND rehearsing for their next song. B plays her bass and A sings calmly, but N shreds his No Guitar and D bashes on his drum too loudly. B tells them to keep it down, but N and D's noise was too loud for them to even hear. B then yells at them to finally get their attention. B states to the boys that she and A couldn't hear themselves. D explains that he and N were loud because he wants BAND's next song to be rock-themed. But B and A want it to be pop. B and D agree of doing a band battle to see which music genre is better.
B and A are busy forming their band. They need one more consonant to join them.
Words marked with an asterisk (*) are game-exclusive.
_ab | Available letters: c, g, b, l, f, r, m
cab* - A taxi appears and A, B, and C go for a ride.
gab* - G, A, and B chatter.
jab - J, A, and B dance the jab before being tickled altogether.
lab* - A laboratory appears.
fab (star word) - F, A, and B become fab and sing a song called "We're FAB".
This was eventually interrupted by a by D, I, and N, who just formed their band: DIN. They play their song very loudly. FAB and DIN fight via music until they are stopped by X. He needs some help to fix this duel. F and I join him and form another new band: FIX. X sings that B, A, N, and D hold hands to see who is the best. The four Alphablocks soon learn no matter what genre they play, BAND remains on top.
Jab
Cab (game only)
Lab (game only)
Gab (game only)
Mab (game only, nonsense word)
Rab (game only, nonsense word)
Fab
Din (stealth word)
Fix (stealth word)
Band (stealth word)
Total words: 2 (TV version), 5 (game version)
Song: We're Fab
M only says his sound in this episode.
G, L, and R only appear in the game version.
E, G (TV), H, K, L (TV), O, P, Q, R (TV), S, T, U, V, W, Y, and Z are absent in this episode.
An instrumental version of "We're FAB" was played in the episode "On", and in Three's part of the Numberblocks Episode "Ten's Top Ten".
C doesn't speak in the TV version.
Other common "-ab" word family words are DAB, NAB, and TAB, but those words weren't made.
This is like the special: Band Together, but a bit anticlimactic.