"Love at First Sprite" is the seventieth episode of Aladdin that aired on February 6, 1995. It is the fifty-seventh episode to air in syndication.
Plot[]
While flying around with Carpet in the sky one day, Aladdin is spotted by several tiny sprites who follow him home to the palace. The sprites are curious and inquisitive, not to mention destructive.
The sprites soon exhibit the ability to lift Aladdin and his friends into the air, thus allowing them to "fly" on their own without Carpet. Feeling left out, Carpet wanders off to be with Iago (who shouts at the sprites that he already knows how to fly) and Abu. Things start out friendly but quickly turn ugly when the sprites carry Aladdin and company away in the clouds and refuse to let them go home.
Genie believes he can convince them, and makes himself very big and starts yelling, demanding the sprites end their fun, but the sprites make a plan, and work together to fly around genie in circles, causing genie to involuntarily shape-shift and find himself tied-up completely in a knot. Genie is left to try to free himself, while the sprites make it clear to Aladdin and his friends that they're in control. Their demands of endless play anger Aladdin and the others, to which the sprites reply that they "don't like them anymore".
To teach Aladdin and his friends a lesson, they lift the palace into the air, throw Aladdin and company inside, and drop it to the earth. Genie strains to save the day but it's Carpet who comes to the rescue by tricking the sprites into chasing him around and around the falling palace, thus slowing its progress. Everyone praises Carpet, and Aladdin vows to let Carpet do the flying from here on out. Genie then presents Carpet with an award for best heroic efforts to which a crowd from offscreen cheers for him. As confetti and balloons fall to the ground, Iago and Abu wonder if they have to clean it up, too. Genie puts Abu and Iago in janitors clothing and tells them, "Every speck of it, party animals." Carpet then gives the audience a thumbs up as the cheering from offscreen continues.
Cast[]
- Scott Weinger as Aladdin
- Linda Larkin as Jasmine
- Dan Castellaneta as Genie
- Nancy Cartwright as Sprites
- Gilbert Gottfried as Iago
- Frank Welker as Abu
- Val Bettin as The Sultan
Trivia[]
- The episode title is a play on the saying "love at first sight".
Gallery[]
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