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At least UN isn’t here.
It's O's birthday, but R has forgotten to get him a present! Can she magic up a big wheel, a helter-skelter and a hall of mirrors from thin air?
Season 3
Episode 23
Air Date January 18th, 2013
Level Yellow Level 3
Learning Competency Trigraphs AIR, URE, and EAR, also digraph ER
Writer Max Allen (Lead Writer)
Director Helen Arntsen
Fair is the twenty-third episode of the third series of Alphablocks. It is the 75th episode overall.
Plot
Plot
It's O's birthday, and R has gotten him a present, but she isn't sure what it is. She sticks with A and I, forming trigraph AIR. F flies by.
f-air, FAIR!
A funfair appears. O starts at the ferris wheel, but doesn't find anything to sit on.
ch-air, CHAIR!
A chair appears. O sits in and the ride goes. P pops in.
p-air, PAIR!
O splits in two as the ride continues. Next, he comes to the helterskelter. After 3 times going up and down, he gets ill. Trigraph URE makes sure he gets better.
c-ure, CURE!
O feels better. Next, he goes to the hall of mirrors. O goes to the first mirror. E and R sticks, forming ER. B, I, and G appears.
b-i-g, BIG!
In the first mirror, O's reflection is big. G doubles herself up.
b-i-gg-er, BIGGER!
O's reflection grows bigger. O goes to the second mirror. TH, I, and N appears.
th-i-n, THIN!
O's reflection in the second mirror is thin. N doubles himself up.
th-i-nn-er, THINNER!
O's reflection grows thinner. O goes to the third mirror. A drops in between E and R.
ear, EAR!
O grows an ear.
h-ear, HEAR!
O hears distant voices.
It's B and X singing Happy Birthday.
n-ear, NEAR!
B and X come near singing Happy Birthday to O.
Happy birthday, happy birthday O! Here's your present tied up with bow!
b-o-x, BOX!
A box appears. O opens it and finds an inanimate miniature version of him that springs out like a jack-in-a-box.
Words
Words
Air (stealth word)
Fair
Chair
Pair
Cure
Big
Bigger
Thin
Thinner
Ear
Hear
Near
Box
Total words: 12
Trivia
Trivia
D, J, K, L, M, Q, S, V, W, Y, and Z are absent in this episode.
Other common "-ear" trigraph words are BEAR, PEAR, and WEAR, but they are not included because the sound the "-ear" makes in them is pronounced /ɛɚ/ (like "air") rather than /ɪɚ/ (like "ear"), and what’s more, W doesn’t appear in this episode.
A, C, E, G, H, I, N, digraphs CH, TH, GG, NN, ER, and trigraph EAR only say their sound in this episode.
A, E, I, N, digraphs CH, GG, NN, and ER are the only ones who say their sound outside of word magic.
T only appears as digraph TH for the whole episode.
Since TH's sound stays sounding like /θ/ (unvoiced), then it's possible that only one voice (maybe H) says it.
T and U have no solo lines.
No words are made with the digraph OO.
This episode marks the only appearances of digraphs GG and NN, and trigraph URE, meaning that this episode introduces 3 one-time letter combinations.
“Cure” is the only word in the series to use the trigraph URE. This is because the trigraph -ure is mainly used in words with two or more syllables, like “picture”.
The song in this episode is also used in Birthday Girl.
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