Television Summary XXII (Hamtaro: "A Summer Festival Adventure")


Make yourself comfortable and brew yourself a coffee. Maybe a really strong coffee. We've got ourselves a filler episode here.
There's a festival happening in town and Laura and friend are heading off to enjoy the event.

Hamtaro being the brainless rodents that is wants to figure out what the a Festival is.
So like all other problems in his life he heads out down to the clubhouse with all the other Ham-hams to try and discuss the issue.

This leads all the other little hamsters wondering what a festival is and they decide to ask Boss.
In a rare scene of events boss actually knows what the hell he's talking about for once.
Not only does he decide to describe the festival but also figures they might as well take a look.
So they go through this massive network of tunnels which leads them to all different areas surrounding the festival.

Some of which involved fry foods and other ones involving very loud sounds that spooked the ever-living hell out of a hamster's.
At first they're a little dismayed by the whole thing.
It's very loud and as far as they're concerned it's kind of dangerous, as they weren't able to make heads or tails of popcorn.
It's not the food popcorn that they had so much of a problem with. It's more the loud popping noises.

So the hamsters head back home and decide that maybe the festival isn't for them. But then Maxwell the book reading hamster opens his big fat mouth and describes the event of fireworks. Only they don't seem to know what fireworks are*.
So he describes them as giant flowers that bloom in the dead of night at the highest points. Which gets all the hamsters incredibly excited. One of which become so excited she decides to head off on her own in the dead of night to look for these flowers.
Which leads all the other hamsters into a massive frenzy as they try to find her. On the way several the hamsters will get into arguments because they all have the male-gaze (Or would that be Hamster-gaze?) about her and really really can't let the poor thing be.

They eventually do find her sitting on top of roof incredibly depressed. She wasn't able to find the flowers and is now completely upset that she wasted so much of her time and she's scared out of her mind from loud noises and nearly falling 20 feet off the ground. Which to a hamster is the equivalent of falling off the Chrysler Building.

And then we get to the filler part of the episode. The little dance number.
Hamtaro and friends decide the best way to cheer her up is by doing this little dance routine and they do it for about a minute and a half if not a full 2 minutes. They were padding out time at every possible moment.  then luckily for all of them a firework goes into the air explodes and they're all happy because they finally found their mystical skyflower. They also comment on how it's super loud which confuses me a bit as they were spooked by loud noises before. Maybe all the drumming and people stomping got them use to loud noises.

Oh and peppered throughout this whole episode is Laura walking through the festival with her friend just kind of doing stuff. There's barely any time dedicated to them and absolutely nothing happens within it.
Which leads to the end of the episode where Laura is recounting her day to her diary and Hamtaro sitting around being his usual adorable self.
Also Laura's mother has fallen back on calling her daughter the hamster's name. So I guess whatever problems she had previously is returning. Perhaps an incredibly rare onset of early-stage Alzheimer's.

* The one hamster has the ability to read and has made himself something of a bookworm. Now that I'm fine with if you need an excuse for one of your characters to have some information that's fine. But he doesn't just read he reads little tiny books that must be made by hamsters for hamsters. Especially because half of them don't describe actual human events as they happen.

They try to describe them in the best way that a hamster might understand it.
So a firework becomes a giant flower and stars in the sky become trapped little balls of light or maybe they're fireflies.
Filling in the blanks of information with perceived knowledge is opposed to no knowledge. But who the heck is making these books?

For that matter who makes the little tiny hamster TV. I know it's one of those silly stupid things you're not supposed to think about. But all these hamsters live within the real world and they all have actual human owners. They don't have an anthropomorphic life where they live in their own specialty Hom with a tiny little market for all their own needs. Or at least they don't yet.

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