Of course, it is funny when Eric is splashed with water after Bobby jumps after Uni but misses. Nobody laughs except for Eric, showing his friends’ hypocrisy: if that had happened to Eric, they would have busted their guts. Uni slips from Bobby’s grasp, dumping Bobby into the water. Too much of a chance for misunderstandings.
It is correct, though, that no one should have a dirty unicorn around a 9-year-old boy. “Nobody likes a dirty unicorn.” I can’t imagine that’s even remotely true, especially since - I assume - a “dirty unicorn” is a sex act somewhere … in the Realms, if not in our world. Uni is having none of it, even though Bobby insists, “This is for your own good.” When we finally get to the party, about 15 seconds in, Bobby is trying to give Uni a bath while everyone else looks on. I praised Toei last episode, but this opening is not among its more distinctive efforts. The episode starts not with its usual danger but with a long, loving pan over a pastel landscape, following a pair of birds. (No matter what anyone tells you, there was never an episode where the kids got to go home. Reaves wrote six episodes and co-wrote another most importantly, he wrote “Requiem,” the unproduced series finale. This is the first episode by Michael Reaves, who - after Jeffrey Scott - is the series’ second most prolific writer.
