TULIP'S WORM

'Tulip's Worm' is rather an unusual episode in season 3 of Courage the Cowardly Dog, featuring a gigantic space worm.

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Plot

Trivia

Plot

Two alien teddy bears are taking over Nowhere, blasting everything in sight, seeking a worm. At the Bagge farmhouse, Courage comes across a worm that reacts when he plays the tuba. Muriel is impressed by this, and then the teddy bears arrive on the scene. They begin to pull the worm out of the ground and it is revealed to be a gigantic, beastly creature. The worm eats the bears and Muriel. Courage uses the tuba to control the worm, and in the bears' spaceship flies into outer space and under the instruction of the bears (who are being slowly digested) he finds a gigantic alien blue girl named Tulip, far bigger than the worm itself. The worm and the bears are actually her pets, and she gets the worm to let them all go, except Muriel, who was still inside the worm. Courage enters the worm to rescue Muriel and uses a sandwich Muriel had made earlier to make the worm throw them up. Tulip wants to keep Muriel and Courage as pets, but Courage manages to get away and return to planet Earth.

Trivia

★ This was the last time the voice of Lionel Wilson, the original voice of Eustace, was heard. He died before any of the later episodes.

★ The design of Tulip's worm is similar to the alien worm Jeff in Men in Black II: a huge vicious worm with teeth and a small worm-like growth in its head which is at first sight mistaken for the actual worm.

★ This episode is not particularly well-liked by fans because it lacks the depth and style of other episodes in the series. This episode, along with Feast of the Bullfrogs, got a 6.7 out of 10.0 on tv.com.