Ollie and the Magic Spree

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A weeping woman claims her boyfriend was turned into a flower by strangers in togas.

The episode begins with Ollie encountering a woman crying by a pond, who claims her boyfriend has been turned into a flower by a group of three people in togas. Ollie then finds a man with his arm stuck deep in the ground, unable to let go of a piece of fruit, and later discovers a goose wearing a wide-brimmed hat that scratches a plea for help in the mud. Ollie calls his friend Wally, a wizard who runs the Wizard Magic Emporium, for assistance. Wally deduces that the magic is based on Greek myths, such as Narcissus (the flower), Antaeus (the ground-stuck man), and a nod to Odin (the one-eyed goose). While Ollie tails the toga-wearers to a diner, Wally uses a portal to reach the victims and reverse the spells with creative methods like painting sunglasses and using a magical towel. Ollie finds everyone in the diner turned to stone, reminiscent of Medusa, and Wally joins him to undo this with a mirror and light. They confront the toga-wearers, who reveal they found a bag of magical items in an antiquities closet at Johns Hopkins and were merely playing with them. Wally scares them off with a dramatic display and retrieves the items. The episode ends with Ollie and Wally having coffee at Paper Moon Diner, examining the bag of magic tricks.

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A whimsical neighborhood mishap that moves from flower trouble to a neat magical rescue.

A neighborhood walk gives way to a neatly unruly patch of magic in the Wyman Park Dell, where someone is crying by a pond because a boyfriend has apparently been turned into a flower.

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You want a strange little rescue where a wizard, a magical towel, and one very determined helper turn a pond-side problem into a clean getaway.

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