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I dreamed that Kirby was after somebody... Me.
— King Dedede • Prediction Predicament - Part I

Prediction Predicament - Part I is the 38th episode (41th in Japan) of Kirby: Right Back at Ya!.

Synopsis[]

King Dedede is having nightmares about a monster-sized Kirby engulfed in fire. Tiff and Mabel try to find out the cause of these appalling dreams.

Episode Summary[]

The episode begins one night at Castle Dedede. King Dedede is sleeping in his bedroom when a light shines through his window. King Dedede wakes and investigates only to find something resembling Kirby walking through the air toward him. As this Kirby-like figure gets closer, it grows larger, gains sharp teeth, and becomes surrounded by fire. King Dedede tries to get away from it, but it traps him against his locked bedroom door. In desperation, King Dedede swings his hammer wildly at it, when he wakes up realizing he whacked Escargoon in his sleep. After getting his bearings, King Dedede tells Escargoon about his nightmare. Later on, still reeling from his dream, King Dedede issues an order to his castle guards to not let Kirby attack him under any circumstances. Captain Waddle Doo steps up and tells King Dedede that Kirby is already in the castle playing with the kids, prompting Dedede to cower in fear. Meanwhile, Tuff is handing out lollipops to Kirby and the Cappy children. When Kirby gets his, he jumps in joy and accidentally drops it into the courtyard where it lands and sticks onto the back of King Dedede's robe. Kirby chases after it, making King Dedede believe that Kirby is indeed out to get him. As Dedede tries to run away, he passes by Tiff and Escargoon and then crashes into a wall, and Kirby snatches the lollipop off his robe.

King Dedede becomes fed up, and decides to go into Cappy Town to get his dream "interperated" by Mabel. As he enters town, however, King Dedede is blocked in the road by the assembled Cappy villagers, who issue a long-standing request to him to build a park for the Cappy children. Dedede brushes them off and drives forward, prompting them to scatter. They watch as Dedede enters Mabel's parlor and wonder at his motives, and Samo nearly gives away a trade secret while commenting on it. Inside Mabel's establishment, King Dedede gets his fortune read. Mabel tells him that he is not being hunted by Kirby, but instead, by his long-repressed conscience. She insists that until he builds the Cappy children their playground, he will continue to be haunted. King Dedede outright rejects this fortune, and leaves without paying after declaring her a fraud to the town. Tiff, Tuff, and Kirby then show up and learn from Mabel what Dedede told her. This gives Tuff an idea to use Kirby to scare him and the two run back to the castle. Tiff meanwhile is worried about Mabel's reputation, and Samo appears to invite her into the bar so they can discuss the situation. After serving Tiff a fruit punch, Samo explains that Mabel is not really a fortune teller, and instead serves as the town's counselor. During the chat, Samo nearly reveals his hidden affection toward Mabel, but manages to change the subject.

Later that night at the castle, King Dedede endeavors to never sleep again so he can avoid having another nightmare about Kirby. Escargoon helps by giving him loads of coffee to drink, but despite this, King Dedede falls asleep almost immediately, and then proceeds to sleep-whack Escargoon with his hammer repeatedly. Meanwhile, Tuff, Kirby, and Fololo & Falala prepare to scare him while Tiff, Samo, and Mabel try to divine the significance of Dedede's dreams. Mabel ends up spilling the beans about her and Samo's business relationship, and Tiff decides they should go to the castle to investigate directly instead. Once there, Tiff and Mabel stumble into an observatory and discover a giant telescope there. Mabel looks in through the eyepiece and discovers an ominous red star. Meanwhile, King Dedede falls asleep again and Escargoon decides to leave him to it in order to get out of potential whacking range.

Shortly after, Tuff and Kirby sneak in and Kirby uses a flashlight to shine a light on his own face in front of the snoozing King. When Dedede wakes and sees this, he runs screaming out of the room as the kids laugh at his paranoia. They continue to torment him with the flashlight as Dedede runs through the halls. In desperation, King Dedede calls Night Mare Enterprises and begs them to send him a monster that can put out fires. Through the Night Mare Enterprises Teleporter comes Fridgy; a woolly mammoth-like monster that can blow freezing blasts out of its trunk. The monster proceeds to crash through a wall and attack Kirby, shooting him repeatedly with ice and chilling him. Kirby tries to inhale the ice shots, but is unable to, and is knocked around the castle. As Fridgy inches closer, Meta Knight appears and offers Kirby a torch to inhale instead, which grants him the Fire Copy Ability. Using this, Kirby fights back against Fridgy and overpowers it, causing the monster to melt into a puddle of water.

King Dedede is left to stare in horror at Fire Kirby and tries to run for it, but is stopped by Mabel, who explains that Kirby is not the monster from his dreams. Instead, she shows King Dedede to the observatory and shows him the bright red star through the telescope. She explains to him that the object is an asteroid that is heading directly toward Dream Land and may end up destroying the whole kingdom. Despite this ominous warning, King Dedede is relieved that Kirby is not the monster from his dreams, and decides to catch up on some sleep right then and there. Mabel then turns to the kids and reassures them that the asteroid will not actually arrive for another thousand years. However, seeing this asteroid, eNeMeE decides he'll speed the asteroid up so that it destroys Dream Land much sooner, and Kirby is left to monitor the red glow as it grows in size from a smaller telescope at the castle. The episode ends as the threat of the asteroid is established for the next episode: Prediction Predicament - Part II.

Changes in the dub[]

  • Several scenes where King Dedede and Escargoon are leaving to see Mabel and saying she's bogus was removed from the English dub due to time restraints.
    • This scene was later used on the The Fight for the Fox Box special.
  • In the Japanese version, Mabel tells Tiff that the star is not heading towards Dream Land. However, in the dub, she said it will arrive in a thousand years.

Errors[]

  • Kawasaki's feet are colored orange instead of red.

Trivia[]

  • In the original, the star is called "Gerath," a reference to the Japanese movie Calamity Star Gorath.
  • In the Japanese version, when King Dedede is sleeping on the second night, he said: "Z's are good for snoring". This relates to the cartoon logic where the letter Z is often used when someone is heard snoring while sleeping.

Other languages[]

Language Name Translation Airdate
French Situation cauchemardesque 1ère partie Nightmarish Situation Part 1 Unknown
German Ein Traum wird wahr, Teil I A dream comes true, part I May 27, 2004
Italian Incubi di fuoco parte 1 Nightmares of Fire Part 1 August 25, 2006
Korean 메이벨의 대예언 (상) Maybell's Great Prophecy (Award) March 10, 2005
Spanish (Latin America) El predicamento de las predicciones - primera parte Prediction predicament - part one November 20, 2003
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