Tom J. Astle — Writer
Episodes 73
Herstory in the Making
Alice lacks the confidence to write a story for a school assignment, so she enlists the help of her friends in Wonderland. Thinking that she’s gotten them to do her homework for her, she quickly discovers that, when other people do your work, it doesn’t always turn out the way you’d like.
Read MoreLip-Sunk
The Queen is slated to give a speech at a royalty convention when she suddenly loses her voice. While the Wonderland characters literally scramble to look for her lost voice, Alice tries to convince them that it’s just an idiom and there’s no need to search.
Read MoreObjets d’Heart
The Queen decides to take up sculpture as a hobby. Thinking that everyone loves her creations, she gives them away as gifts. In the end, though, the work ends up in a pile of quicksand, and the Wonderland gang decides to say what they mean from that point on.
Read MoreArrivederci, Aroma
The Queen orders perfume from The Royal Catalog at the same time the Hatter orders spray paint. Unfortunately, there is a mix-up of parcels. Alice and her friends learn a lesson about the value of reading directions.
Read MoreThat's All, Jokes!
A practical-joke marathon sweeps through Wonderland, and soon everyone is obsessed with getting even. The potpourri of pranks finally stops when the Queen falls victim to a trick. As a result, Alice learns that, by "getting even", a person sometimes gets more than they expected.
Read MoreBoo Who?
The Queen thinks the palace is haunted when she spies a ghost wandering the halls. It appears the famished phantom is gobbling up the jelly beans meant for the Royal Jelly-Bean Counting Contest. The Queen orders the Rabbit to stand guard, but actually there is merely a sleepwalking White Rabbit.
Read MoreDouble Your Bunny
The White Rabbit’s identical cousin comes to Wonderland to look at vacation property. But Rabbit is unable to meet his cousin’s train, forcing this White Rabbit look-alike to wander Wonderland alone. Confusion and crabbiness abound when Wonderland’s residents don’t realize there’s a new bunny on the block.
Read MoreDiary of a Mad Hatter/Keep It Under Your Hat
The Mad Hatter finds his great-grandhatter’s diary, which contains clues to a hidden treasure. The ensuing treasure hunt leads Wonderland’s residents on a merry chase, but eventually the treasure is found. To everyone’s surprise, the treasure is a collection of -what else?-hats!
Read MoreHow the West Was Wonderland
A rodeo is coming to Wonderland, and the Queen resolves to be "Queen of the Rodeo", except she is required a ride a horse, which scares her. Her pride keeps her from admitting her fear, but Alice and the White Rabbit figure out her problem and provide her with a way to save face.
Read MoreOff the Cuffs/Hare-Raising Magic
The March Hare’s magic act goes awry when his "Magic Handcuffs" fail to open. First the Queen, then half of Wonderland, get "tied up" -until the Hare finds the missing key.
Read MoreTooth or Consequences
The White Rabbit has a toothache that just won’t quit, but his fear of going to the dentist causes him to procrastinate.
Read MoreThe Wonderland Enquirer
The Queen, annoyed with dull stories in the Wonderland daily paper, orders the editors (Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee) to print every juicy rumor they hear, whether the stories can be verified or not. The Queen loves the newspaper, until she becomes a victim of the rumor mill herself.
Read MoreThe Hatter Who Came to Dinner
When the Mad Hatter's back is thrown out in the line of duty, the Queen and the White Rabbit feel obliged to put him up until he’s better. The Hatter proceeds to take advantage of "the royal treatment", until they find out he’s faking and call his bluff.
Read MoreThe Mirth of a Nation
While attending her "Mirthday" party, the Queen bumps her funny bone and loses her sense of humor. When she subsequently decides to ban all laughter from Wonderland, her subjects get serious and plot to restore mirth to Her Majesty.
Read MoreTechnobunny
With the White Rabbit on vacation, the Queen gets a temporary robot replacement to do his work. The robot is so efficient that it looks as if the White Rabbit may be out of work permanently...until the Queen’s failure to follow directions causes a surprising malfunction.
Read MoreParty-Pooped
The Mad Hatter is annoyed with the March Hare’s chronic tardiness to the tea party. The resulting quarrel splits up the friends, and, in a fit of pique, the Hare throws his own party at exactly the Hatter’s teatime. When Wonderland’s residents find this two-party system too tiring (and too filling), they resolve to get the Hatter and the Hare back together.
Read MoreUp and Anthem
When the Wonderland national anthem is deemed unsingable, the Queen decrees an anthem-writing contest to choose a new one. The White Rabbit, who authored the original anthem refuses to write a new anthem. But the competition makes him realize that his song could stand a little improvement, so he decides to "change his tune".
Read MoreRip-Roaring Rabbit Tales/Rabbit Without a Cause
The White Rabbit, who has become convinced his life lacks excitement, imagines himself in a series of storybook adventures. But, when he narrowly averts disaster with the Queen’s flower-vase collection, he decides that sometimes it’s best when excitement is only found in the pages of a book.
Read MoreWhat Makes Rabbit Run
To prove how popular she is, the Queen decides to run for office in a Wonderland-wide election. She orders the reluctant White Rabbit to be her opponent, assuming it will just be for appearances. But the Rabbit’s popularity grows, and the Queen is forced to rethink her way of ruling Wonderland.
Read MoreA Litter Help From My Friends
When keeping Wonderland litter-free becomes a bigger job than one bunny can handle, the White Rabbit enlists the help of all of Wonderland’s residents. The blustery weather seems for a moment to be helpful in blowing away trash-until all the loose litter lands right in the middle of the Wonderland picnic site.
Read MoreBusy as a Spelling Bee
The Queen is appalled at the bad spelling in thank-you notes from her subjects. When Alice explains that her school holds spelling bees every year as a way to help children improve their spelling, the Queen decides it is time to schedule Wonderland’s first spelling bee. Her homonym word choices, though, ensure that everyone loses-but Alice and her friends discover that everyone losing can be more fun than one person winning.
Read MoreHe’s Not Heavy, He’s My Hatter
After indulging in too many of his grandmother's cookies, the Mad Hatter is forced to go on a diet and exercise program. He tells the Hare to hide the offending cookies. When his resolve weakens, and he tries to find them again, Hatter unknowingly burns up the calories as he searches all over Wonderland for the hidden cookies.
Read MoreInvasion of the Tweedle Snatchers
When the Cheshire Cat commandeers a remote-controlled toy flying saucer, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare think that Wonderland is being invaded from outer space. The Hatter and Hare manage to get most of Wonderland in a panic, until finally, everyone discovers that there are no little green space invaders, just a big, purple, mischievous cat.
Read MoreWelcome Back Hatter
The Hatter wins what appears to be a huge castle via a mail-order sweepstakes and prepares to move out of Wonderland. The Hare is sad that his best friend is leaving, but decides to hide his true feelings to avoid upsetting the Hatter.
Read MoreNoses Off
While trying to help Her Majesty come up with an original costume for an upcoming masquerade ball, the Hatter and Hare accidentally attach a ridiculous rubber nose to the Queen’s face, then can’t get it off. The Queen scrambles to get out of her predicament before that afternoon’s photo session with "Palace Beautiful" magazine.
Read MoreThis Bunny for Hire
The White Rabbit breaks one of the Queen’s vases, which he assumes is valuable crystal. Rather than tell the Queen what happened, he works nonstop, moonlighting to make enough money to buy a replacement-only to discover, too late, that the original vase was merely inexpensive glass.
Read MoreSay It Again, Ma’am!
The Rabbit misunderstands a royal edict, but is too intimidated by the Queen to ask her to repeat herself. He enlists help from Wonderland’s other residents to deduce what the Queen meant, but comes to a conclusion that only adds to the confusion.
Read MoreLady and the Camp
The White Rabbit buys flowers for the Queen, only to find out that the blossoms are full of bugs. While the Hatter and the Hare de-bug the palace, the Queen camps out in the woods for the night and discovers that it’s too tough to rough it when you’re used to the soft life.
Read MoreToot-Toot-Tootsies, Goodbye
Cheshire Cat hoaxes the existence of the legendary monster "Big Tootsies", fooling everybody but the Red Queen.
Read MoreCopy-Catter Hatter
The Mad Hatter’s reputation is at stake after his royal hat designs are copied by the rascally Copy-Catter Hatter. The Mad Hatter foils his plagiarizing cousin by leaving out a design that the Red Queen is sure to dislike.
Read MoreQueen of Beasts/The Greatest Story Never Sold
When the Red Queen decides her life lacks excitement, she becomes a wild wobear tamer. The Wonderland inhabitants are impressed, until they discover that the ferocious wild animal is a cute, cuddly wobear cub.
Read MoreVanity Hare
When the March Hare inadvertently helps the Queen solve her crossword puzzle, she bestows upon him the Smarty Pants Medal. Soon, the Hare gets too high an opinion of his own intelligence, until he finds out that being a smarty pants sometimes means being too big for your boots.
Read MoreThe Best Ears of Our Lives
When White Rabbit tires of being ignored, he tries to get attention by yelling and then by being silent. However, he discovers that the best way to make people curious about what you have to say is simply to speak softly.
Read MoreFiesta Time
When the Red Queen is invited to King Ricardo’s Fiesta, she balks because she can’t speak Spanish. The other put together a Wonderland Fiesta to teach Spanish to the Red Queen.
Read MoreThe Grape Juice of Wrath
The White Rabbit spills grape juice on the Queen’s throne and enlists Wonderland’s other residents to help him remove the spot before the Queen returns from a day of picking blueberries. Their efforts are unsuccessful, to put it mildly. Finally, Rabbit tries to admit his mistake to the Queen, only to find that she doesn’t care, since she had planned to get the throne reupholstered anyway.
Read MoreFrom Hare to Eternity
When the Red Queen saves the March Hare from quicksand, the March Hare carries out an annoying vow to protect her from all danger...until the Red Queen tricks the March Hare into "saving" her.
Read MoreHippity Hoppity Hypnotist
The March Hare accidentally hypnotizes the Red Queen into acting like a chicken when the word "red" is spoken. The White Rabbit isn’t aware of this, until the Red Queen is about to go on Wonderland TV.
Read MoreChristmas in Wonderland
Christmas is nearly ruined when the Red Queen hears about Alice’s "white" Christmas and decides she won’t be happy until she gets her own snowfall-which is impossible, as it never snows in Wonderland. It turns out that her happiest Christmas memories stemmed from the one holiday when she and her parents vacationed in a snowy cabin. Moved, the Wonderland gang tries to bring the Queen snow. It does not work, of course, but the Queen learns that the real meaning of Christmas is the joy of people being kind to each other. As soon as this lesson is learned, Wonderland's first-ever snowfall begins.
Read MoreThe Day of the Iguana
When the Red Queen banishes a fortune teller from the palace, the White Rabbit fears a retaliatory curse has turned Her Majesty into an iguana.
Read MoreI Am the Walrus
News of a walrus is moving panics Wonderland, because they heard that walruses are rude, smelly, and liars. When they can't get the Queen to tell the Walrus to leave, they decide to exclude and ignore him. Alice is the first to meet the Walrus and learns the rumors are completely false. But when her friends refuse to believe and leave the Queen's party to not associate with him, the Queen treats them the same way and teaches them that it is wrong to exclude someone without getting to know them first.
Read MoreWeed Shall Overcome
The Red Queen’s plans for a new royal tennis court are delayed when the Walrus discovers a rare plant growing on the site. Wonderland’s residents band together to convince the reluctant Queen to save the poor plant from extinction. Their words fail to move her, until the Walrus reveals that the weed is actually a crucial part in a biological chain that protects the Queen's roses.
Read MoreDeface in the Crowd
All of Wonderland’s residents are alarmed when a mysterious vandal begins defacing every available surface with graffiti. Attempts to catch the vandal fail, but, finally, he turns himself in when he realizes his attention-getting ploy is actually costing him dearly in lost friendships.
Read MoreTV or Not TV?
Prospects for good attendance at the annual Wonderland spring picnic look bad when the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, Tweedle Dum, and Tweedle Dee all begin watching television. They seem in danger of becoming true couch potatoes, until a cautionary nightmare jolts them off the sofa.
Read MoreDays of Vine and Roses
The Red Queen’s chances for having her palace make the cover of "Better Palaces and Gardens" magazine are jeopardized when some of Wonderland’s residents fail to follow the care instructions for an exotic plant. Soon the palace is completely overgrown by a massive tangle of vines.
Read MoreThe Clan of the Cavebunny
A simple spelunking expedition turns up the discovery of the year: a bunny frozen in a block of ice. It is really a prehistoric cavebunny? All of Wonderland will soon find out, because it suddenly comes to life.
Read MoreMetaphor Monday
As all of Wonderland celebrates Metaphor Monday by preparing for the Metaphor Ball, a grand event in which everyone comes dressed as their favorite metaphor, the Tweedles become so consumed by sibling rivalry that they nearly let their inter-Tweedle competition ruin both of their chances to win the metaphor costume contest.
Read MoreGame Shows People Play
After the Duchess ridicules the Red Queen’s use of adverbs, the Queen goes on the TV game show "Name That Adverb". She does fine, until she takes a bath in the bonus round.
Read MoreThe Adventures of Spectacularman
When a falling star gives the Mad Hatter super powers, he takes to the air as Spectacular Man, protector of Wonderland. The Red Queen is jealous of her new media rival, until he travels north by northwest to save her at the dedication of Mt. Wonderland.
Read MoreFor Hare Eyes Only
When the Mad Hatter gets caught peeking at the March Hare’s mail, Hare sets a trap by asking Hatter to pick up a tempting-to-open, but booby-trapped box. Two packages arrive, and Mad Hatter succumbs to temptation and opens one-but not the rigged parcel. Even so, the package turns out to be just as good at teaching Hatter a lesson about respecting people’s private property.
Read MoreTo Tear Is Human
When Alice rips her pants during a game of charades, the others kid laugh at her good-naturedly, then apologize when they realize that she doesn’t see the humor in the situation. They all tip-toe around the crabby girl, until an even sillier mishap teaches Alice that the only way to get over being embarrassed is not to take herself so seriously.
Read MoreOdd Woman Out
When Alice is prohibited from joining a Wonderland guys-only club called the Oddballs, she conspires with the Red Queen to fool the lodge brothers into changing their antiquated rules and admitting their first female member. Her manly disguise works, but Alice wants to be accepted as she is. The guys soon realize their mistake and vow to form a new club for everyone in Wonderland.
Read MoreTime Warped
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare believe they have invented a real time machine and resolve to use the goofy gadget to "go back in time" to prevent the Red Queen from doing something they know "she’ll later regret".
Read MoreGive Ants a Chance
Due to his extreme fear of ants, the Walrus seems destined to go through life avoiding picnics. Wonderland’s other residents attempt to help him overcome his fear, but he finally realizes that, if he doesn’t want to lose out, he’ll have to decide on his own to stop letting ants bug him.
Read MoreCard 54, Where Are You?
The Red Queen becomes obsessed with collecting "Famous Bunnies of Filmland" trading cards, particularly when card 54 eludes her and ends up in the hands of the Mad Hatter.
Read MoreYour Cheatin' Red Heart
The Red Queen, tired of losing every Boffo-Bingo tournament to her rival, the Duchess, gets desperate and cheats. Much to her surprise, her conscience kicks in, and she’s unable to savor her victory.
Read MoreWonderland: The Movie
Wonderland’s residents watch a documentary on the subject of friendship, featuring the rather rocky royal relationship between the Red Queen and the Duchess.
Read MoreBunny, Can You Spare a Dime?
When the Red Queen thinks her royal savings have bottomed out, she is forced to auction off some royal possessions, including the fabulous Hop Diamond. Unfortunately, she outbids everyone at her own auction, forcing her to borrow money from her royal rival, the Duchess.
Read MoreThe Royalty Trap
On the day the Red Queen is to be feted by the Royalty Hall of Fame, she accidentally locks herself in the royal tool shed. The Duchess seizes her chance to "help" the Queen by standing in for her at the ceremony-in hopes of grabbing all the attention that was meant for Her Majesty.
Read MoreJust the Fax, Ma’am/Duchess Treat
With the annual fund-raiser for the Wonderland library on deck, the Red Queen is intent on upstaging the Duchess in the fashion department and finally getting her picture on the society page. In her eagerness to get the fashion scoop, the Red Queen learns that sometimes the faz can be confusing.
Read MoreTake the Bunny and Run/Other People’s Bunny
The Red Queen learns just how nice it is to have a bunny around the house after recklessly losing White Rabbit in a bet to the Duchess. When she finds Rabbit is just as unhappy about the change of employers, the Queen makes plans to get the bunny back.
Read MoreGratitude Adjustment
The Red Queen cancels "Thanks-a-lot Day", a day dedicated to gratitude, because she doesn’t see the point of the holiday. Wonderland’s residents try to help her understand what it means to be thankful, but it takes a call from her mom to finally get the ungrateful Queen to realize that even royal folks need to say "thank you" sometimes.
Read MoreUntwist of Fate
The denizens of Wonderland are worried that Alice won’t be able to play Juliet in Shakespaw’s "Rabbit and Juliet" because she has come down with a bad case of "tongue twisters" and can only speak in silly phrases.
Read MoreQueen’s Best Friend
The Cheshire Cat plays a trick on the Red Queen and leads her to believe that the stray dog she found can talk. The Queen, sure that a talking dog will bring her fame and fortune, books a spot on a TV program to showcase her talented terrier. But, to the Queen’s chagrin, the previously garrulous dog is as quiet as a mouse once it’s on the air.
Read MorePurple Potato Eaters
When Wonderland’s residents get a whiff of a batch of purple potato pancakes the Walrus is eating, they want to try them. The complicated recipe, however, makes them reluctant to help make more batter. After the Cheshire Cat tricks them into helping prepare the pancakes in spite of themselves, they learn that working for something helps one to appreciate it.
Read MoreThe Queen Who Came in From the Cold
The Red Queen, crabby about all the anonymous letters in the paper complaining about her rash of newly imposed taxes, dons a disguise and goes undercover to root out the letter writers. To her surprise, she ends up agreeing with the writers’ gripes, and must face the difficult task of admitting she is wrong.
Read MoreThe Color of Wobucks
When the White Rabbit gets bamboozled by a con man into spending the Red Queen’s money on a seed for a phony money tree, his friends try to help out by "planting" one of their own. When this scheme backfires, the Queen herself comes up with a plan to bamboozle the bamboozler.
Read MoreTake My Tonsils... Please!
The Mad Hatter has a sore throat. Because of his reluctance to seek treatment, the Dormouse takes the liberty in phone calling a doctor. Judge Reinhold plays the doctor who performs the tonsillectomy on the Hatter.
Read MoreThe Sound and The Furry
After the crabby Red Queen orders an afternoon of silence, the March Hare’s hearing-impaired cousin, April Hare (Marlee Matlin), visits to teach everyone sign language. A misunderstanding leads to the Queen banishing the cousin from Wonderland and nearly turning a deaf ear to her own mistake.
Read MoreHats Off to the King
After hearing the Mad Hatter perform a simple, down-to-earth song, the Tweedles arrange for him to compete on "Wonderland Star Hunt", where Ed McMahon hosts the Best Male Singer Contest. Alas, the Hatter succumbs to all things "flashy, glitzy, and showbizzy", and he makes a fool of himself on the show.
Read MoreThose Tusks, Those Eyes
The Walrus gets roped into performing his old precision creampuff-throwing act, with the Red Queen as his assistant. He has become very nearsighted, however, since he last did his act. At first his vanity keeps him from wearing glasses, but, when it becomes clear that his choice is either to wear the glasses or make a spectacle of himself -and Her Majesty-he finally visits the eye doctor.
Read MoreBah, Hamburger
Tweedle Dum learns about good eating habits and the consequences of his obsession with eating junk food, when he is visited by the spirits of Nutrition Past, Present, and Future.
Read MoreA Wonderland Howl-oween
At the traditional nighttime Halloween picnic, the Wonderland residents try to outspook each other with scary stories.
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