Alfred decides to become a clown on a whim, and is hired rather quickly because the regular clown is too sick to perform. He develops a crush on a trapeze artist, but she's already in love with the human tamer Horst.
Tropes:
- All Part of the Show: The audience laughes when the human shows up.
- Circus Episode
- Body Horror: The ways Alfred contorts his face and Columbo contorts his whole body can easily be seen as this.
- Filler Episode: Almost nobody else besides Alfred is in the episode, nothing really important happens, and none of the new characters are ever seen again. It also comes between two two-parters.
- Extremely Short Time Span: The episode's events take place over a few hours, most likely not even one full day.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The brown bird woman Alfred shows off to on the road resembles Dolf's mother, just in different clothes and grayed.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: Said bird woman has a cleavage, strangely on the underside.
- No Name Given: In the finnish dub the ringmaster Valentino, the human Leo, and the lion Pavian go unnamed.
- Dub Name Change:
- Horst's name is Orhi in the finnish dub. It retains it's meaning: "horse".
- Gersomina's finnish name is Gersomina.
- In the english dub, Horst's name is Simon.
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Unfortunate Implications: The animal-like circus human Horst trains (similiarly to a lion tamer) is dark-skinned. - Trrrilling Rrrs: Valentino speaks like this, even when not in the ring.
- Furry Confusion: The monkeys use non-sapient horses as a part of their act, but there's also an anthropomorphised horse in the circus, Horst the human tamer.
