Editing Fossil Fools - Part I

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|image= [[File:E75 Scene 23.png|300px]]
|caption= [[Tiff]] and her friends realize they were used as unwitting pawns by [[Doctor Moro]].
|release={{Released|Japan|March 22, 2003|NA|October 9, 2004}}
|episode=75
|4kids=75
|ability= {{N}}
|monster= [[Doctor Moro]], [[Chimera Dinosaurs|D-Rex]]
|character= [[Kirby (anime character)|Kirby]], [[Tiff]], [[King Dedede (anime character)|King Dedede]], [[Escargoon]], [[Doctor Moro]]
|previousepisode=[[Caterpillar Thriller]]
|nextepisode=[[Fossil Fools - Part II]]
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'''Fossil Fools - Part I''' is the 75th episode of the ''[[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!]]'' series. In this episode, a tyrannosaurus fossil is discovered in [[Dream Land (anime)|Dream Land]], which gets everybody in the kingdom interested in dinosaurs; particularly [[King Dedede (anime character)|King Dedede]]. After looking through several picture books of dinosaurs, King Dedede becomes obsessed with finding live ones, but is told that they had all gone extinct. Refusing to accept this, he contacts [[Night Mare Enterprises]] to give him dinosaur [[monster]]s, but instead they send him a mad scientist named [[Doctor Moro]] who tricks [[Tiff]] and her friends to help him re-create dinosaurs using genetic engineering. Once the dinosaur eggs are secured, King Dedede and [[Escargoon]] host a dinosaur theme park in [[Babagahara]] and invite many of the townsfolk on a boat ride through the jungle, where they encounter a [[Chimera Dinosaurs|giant carnivorous dinosaur]] that resembles King Dedede. The episode ends on a cliffhanger here as the dinosaur attacks, which is followed up on in the next episode: [[Fossil Fools - Part II]].

This episode and the next are heavily based off of the science fiction film ''[[wikipedia:Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'' and the H.G. Wells story ''[[wikipedia:The Island of Doctor Moreau|The Island of Doctor Moreau]]''.

==Characters==
The following characters appear in this episode:
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!colspan=3|Cast of "Fossil Fools - Part I" &nbsp;
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!colspan=3|Primary characters
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Kirby.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Kirby (anime character)|Kirby]]'''}}
|''"Poouuh... Uhh, poyo! Pooyo!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Tiff.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Tiff]]'''}}
|''"I'm not sure if we should, Doctor. I dunno if I'd feel right fooling around with nature like that!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 King Dedede.png|100px]]<br>'''[[King Dedede (anime character)|King Dedede]]'''}}
|<small>*laughs*</small> ''"I got me a dinosaur! I s'prised a tyranno-ma-saurus, here! Stronger than a stego-ma-saurus, an apato-ma-saurus, and a verlocirapt-agon! Ain't that right?!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Escargoon.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Escargoon]]'''}}
|''"Well what are ya waitin' for, Sire! Steal credit, will ya?"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Doctor Moro.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Doctor Moro]]'''}}
|''"I'm Doctor Moro. I came to your village when I heard about your great discovery! I've set up a new laboratory at the castle!"''
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!colspan=3|Secondary characters
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Biblio.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Biblio]]'''}}
|''"Ehh, the King left those yesterday. I haven't sold a one of them!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Buttercup.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Buttercup]]'''}}
|''"Did you remember the camera?"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Cappies.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Cappy (anime)|Cappy villagers]]'''}}
|''"This better be worth the wait!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Waddle Doo.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Captain Waddle Doo]]'''}}
|(no dialogue)
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Chef Kawasaki.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Chef Kawasaki (anime character)|Chef Kawasaki]]'''}}
|''"Get your dino-dumplings right here!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Chief Bookem.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Chief Bookem]]'''}}
|''"Let's keep the shovin' to a minimum--augh!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Gengu.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Gengu]]'''}}
|''"Or maybe they just ran out of food to eat!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Gus.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Gus]]'''}}
|''"As long as they're extinct, who cares!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Hana.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Hana]]'''}}
|''"But how could they be real?"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Honey.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Honey]]'''}}
|''"Keep it away!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Iro.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Iro]]'''}}
|''"Kirby's the one who found the rib-cage!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Dad.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Minor characters|Iro's father]]'''}}
|''"Talk to your mother."''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Mom.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Minor characters|Iro's mother]]'''}}
|(no dialogue)
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Lady Like.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Lady Like]]'''}}
|''"How could there be such a place?"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Mabel.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Mabel]]'''}}
|''"What a frightening idea!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Mayor Len.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Mayor Len Blustergas]]'''}}
|''"This discovery could be quite an economic boom for Cappy Town!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Melman.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Melman]]'''}}
|''"What's all the hubbub?"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Salesguy.png|100px]]<br>'''[[N.M.E. Sales Guy]]'''}}
|''"Sorry, D! Dinosaurs have been out of stock for 65 million years!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Curio.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Professor Curio]]'''}}
|''"We could find an entire skeleton! What a momentous discovery!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Samo.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Samo]]'''}}
|''"The dinosaurs roamed right where we're standin'!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Sir Ebrum.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Sir Ebrum]]'''}}
|''"I've never heard such blatant balderdash!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Spikehead.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Spikehead]]'''}}
|''"Woah! That's the longest neck I ever saw!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Tokkori.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Tokkori]]'''}}
|''"Dinosaurs, huh? You brats oughta' have your heads examined!"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Tuff.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Tuff]]'''}}
|''"Looks like Dedede's really into this dinosaur stuff, huh?"''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Tuggle.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Tuggle]]'''}}
|''"I dunno about you guys, but I believe the comet theory."''
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|{{center|[[File:E75 Waddle Dees.png|100px]]<br>'''[[Waddle Dee (anime character)|Waddle Dees]]'''}}
|(no dialogue)
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==Locations==
*[[Dream Land (anime)|Dream Land]]
**[[Babagahara]]
***Dino Kingdom
***[[Doctor Moro]]'s laboratory
**[[Cappy Town]]
***[[Professor Curio]]'s collection
**[[Castle Dedede]]

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==Plot synopsis==
[[File:E75 Scene 8.png|thumb|150px|King Dedede becomes obsessed with reading (albeit using picture books) for the first time in his life.]]
The episode begins out in the [[Dream Land (anime)|Dream Land]] countryside, where [[Tiff]] is reading a book about dinosaurs to [[Kirby (anime character)|Kirby]], [[Tuff]], and the [[Cappy (anime)|Cappy children]], who have never heard of dinosaurs before. As they do this, [[Tokkori]] flies by and mocks the notion that dinosaurs once roamed in Dream Land, and carelessly crashes into a cliff face. Kirby pulls Tokkori out of the dirt, but in the process causes the cliff to collapse and reveal a fossilized foot of a giant dinosaur. Later on, many Cappies from the village gather as formal excavations begin in the area to discover more fossils, led by [[Professor Curio]]. As he and the kids dig, they uncover more pieces of the skeleton, and try to reassemble it; assuming it to be similar to a tyrannosaurus. Shortly into this process, [[King Dedede (anime character)|King Dedede]] and [[Escargoon]] arrive in the [[Royal Racecar]] to find out what the Cappies are gathered for. King Dedede then decides to join in the excavation, and - due to extraordinary luck - manages to find the remaining pieces of the skeleton after collapsing the cliff further.

Later on, King Dedede becomes more interested in dinosaurs and starts perusing his castle library for more information. After going through several books, King Dedede dreams of riding a fire-breathing tyrannosaurus and battling other dinosaurs. The next day, he insists on going on an expedition to find more dinosaurs, but Escargoon points out that they are all extinct, and has Dedede confirm this with Tiff. Still not satisfied, Dedede then runs over to Professor Curio's shop and antagonizes the poor man, but Curio also affirms that all the dinosaurs went extinct. Saddened by this news, King Dedede runs crying out of the shop, insisting that there must be some dinosaurs left. He tries to convince people by mentioning the [[wikipedia:Loch Ness Monster|Loch Ness Monster]] on [[Channel DDD]], and promoting a book called "Dinosaur is Alive" that does not end up selling any copies. Later on, he tries to fool the Cappies by using a [[Waddle Dee (anime character)|Waddle Dee]]-powered crane to pound giant "footprints" into the ground, but they catch him in the act, and Dedede finally loses his temper.

[[File:E75 Scene 17.png|thumb|150px|left|Doctor Moro approaches the excavation team to recruit his assistants.]]
King Dedede calls up [[Night Mare Enterprises]] and asks them to send him a dinosaur [[monster]], but the [[N.M.E. Sales Guy]] insists they cannot do that. Instead, he sends them an expert geneticist named [[Doctor Moro]] who offers to "make" a dinosaur for them in exchange for funds to build a research facility and a capable assistant to help him in this task. After failing to qualify to be assistants themselves, King Dedede and Escargoon rope in Tiff and her friends for the job. Meanwhile, Tiff herself is trying to get the Cappy kids to stay enthusiastic about the excavation, but they grow bored and leave, since they would rather see a living dinosaur. At that moment, Doctor Moro introduces himself to the remaining excavation group and leads them to his new laboratory deep in the [[Babagahara]] jungle. There, he explains that he aims to modify the DNA of existing lizards to transform them into dinosaurs, and requests that Tiff aid him in this task. After already being impressed by the laboratory, and seeing Moro deride King Dedede and Escargoon as "bumbling fools", Tiff earnestly accepts the proposition on the condition that nothing is harmed in the process.

[[File:E75 Scene 30.png|thumb|150px|The tour boat is attacked by a Dedede-like tyrannosaur.]]
To help with the experiments, Tuff and Kirby go hunting for lizards in the forest and catch some. Meanwhile, Professor Curio and Tiff help set up the equipment in the laboratory and monitor the zygotes they injected with the modified DNA. As King Dedede and Escargoon watch from their monitor at Castle Dedede, the research team manages to successfully produce dinosaur eggs, which Doctor Moro explains will be ready to hatch very soon. As the research team spends the night sleeping at the laboratory, a loud crash startles them awake, and they run back into the main research room to discover that all of the eggs are missing. The next day, Escargoon and King Dedede promote a new dinosaur-themed attraction on Channel DDD called "Dino Kingdom", and insist that there are real dinosaurs there. Despite initial doubts, most of [[Cappy Town]] comes to the park, the entrance of which is situated on the edge of Babagahara. There, Tiff and the research team tell [[Chief Bookem]] and [[Mayor Len Blustergas|Mayor Len]] what happened in the laboratory, explaining that Doctor Moro disappeared along with the eggs, but they have little to offer in return.

King Dedede and Escargoon then direct everyone to the main attraction of the park, telling them to hop into boats on the river and go for a ride. Tiff, Tuff, and Curio complain to Dedede about having their research stolen, but they hop into the boat anyway with Kirby and several of the Cappies. After passing through a gate into the park proper, King Dedede and Escargoon act as tour guides to the assembled group, and murmur to each-other about whether or not Doctor Moro pulled through. After getting far enough in, King Dedede stops the boat and pulls out a cage containing several sheep stolen from Mayor Len's villa, intent on using it to bait out the dinosaurs. At that moment, a [[Chimera Dinosaurs|giant blue dinosaur]] appears and gobbles up the sheep. It then reveals itself, having a face and hat resembling that of King Dedede. The episode ends on a cliffhanger as the dinosaur proceeds to chase after the boat, intent on gobbling up everyone inside. The story proceeds from here in [[Fossil Fools - Part II]].

==Differences between versions==
*In the Japanese version, many objects (such as the covers of books) have text on them that is not present in the international versions.

===Dialogue differences===
*In the Japanese version, Kirby calls out (translated) "Dinosaur!" when he captures the lizard near the beginning of the episode. Later on, he also repeats the other characters when they are all startled awake as the eggs are stolen.
*In the Japanese version, King Dedede accuses Professor Curio of "letting the dinosaurs go extinct" and threatens the death penalty on him for this.
*In the Japanese version, the caption in the "Dinosaur is Alive" book has King Dedede claiming that dinosaurs must be real because he saw them in a dream.
*In the Japanese version, Doctor Moro's last two test questions are different, asking "The dumbest person alive is...?" and "The second-dumbest?". King Dedede and Escargoon answer with "His Majesty Dedede" and "Escargon", respectively.

==Trivia==
*When Doctor Moro introduces himself to Tiff and the others, he claims that his laboratory is at Castle Dedede, when it is actually deep in the [[Babagahara]] woods. This appears to be a mistake on part of the English version, as the Japanese version does not state the laboratory to be at Castle Dedede.
*On the display screen in Doctor Moro's laboratory, after showing a lizard morphing into a tyrannosaurus, it proceeds to cycle through several other animals, including [[Nruff]], a sparrow, the monkey from [[War of the Woods]], and the cobra from [[Flower Power]] (though the cobra is green rather than yellow).
*This is the first two-part episode which does not feature narration in the 4Kids version.
*In Biblio's book store, a poster depicting [[A Novel Approach|Pappy Pottey]] and two other Cappy-like characters can be seen behind Biblio.

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==Gallery==
<gallery>
E75 Scene 1.png|Tiff reads a book about dinosaurs to her friends.
E75 Scene 2.png|Tokkori gets his head stuck in a cliff while mocking the kids.
E75 Scene 3.png|Tokkori gets pulled out, revealing a fossil foot.
E75 Scene 4.png|The excavation team discovers a femur fossil.
E75 Scene 5.png|The team begins to assemble the fossil.
E75 Scene 6.png|King Dedede causes the cliff to collapse on himself.
E75 Scene 7.png|King Dedede gloats over his accidental completion of the fossil.
E75 Scene 9.png|King Dedede dreams he is riding fire-breathing dinosaurs.
E75 Scene 10.png|King Dedede asks Tiff if dinosaurs really are "extunct".
E75 Scene 11.png|King Dedede harasses Professor Curio as he confirms that there are no more dinosaurs.
E75 Scene 12.png|King Dedede tries to convince people into believing in the Loch Ness Monster.
E75 Scene 13.png|One of the pictures from King Dedede's book "Dinosaur is Alive"
E75 Scene 14.png|Chef Kawasaki discovers massive "footprints" in the main road of Cappy Town.
E75 Scene 15.png|King Dedede orders his Waddle Dees to lift and drop a footprint-shaped slab.
E75 Scene 16.png|King Dedede and Escargoon confirm to Doctor Moro that they are not fit to be his assistants.
E75 Scene 18.png|Doctor Moro and his colleagues gather in the laboratory.
E75 Scene 19.png|Doctor Moro explains DNA to his assistants.
E75 Scene 20.png|Kirby sets out to capture a lizard for Doctor Moro.
E75 Scene 21.png|Tiff reports a successful zygote fertilization to Doctor Moro.
E75 Scene 22.png|Doctor Moro and his assistants observe the dinosaur eggs they produced.
E75 Scene 24.png|King Dedede and Escargoon promote their new "Dinosaur Kingdom".
E75 Scene 25.png|The Cappies rush into the Dinosaur Park to see if there really are dinosaurs there.
E75 Scene 26.png|King Dedede and Escargoon cut in line to hop onto the tour boat.
E75 Scene 27.png|The tour boat departs.
E75 Scene 28.png|Some of Mayor Len's sheep are revealed as bait.
E75 Scene 29.png|Tiff and Kirby notice a rumble that shakes their tea.
E75 Scene 31.png|The final shot of the episode
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==Names in other languages==
{{Names
|ja=夢の恐竜天国! 前編
|jaR=Yume no Kyōryū Tengoku! Zenpen
|jaM=Dream of Dinosaur Heaven! - Part 1
|ptA=Fósseis Vivos - Primeira Parte
|ptAM=Living Fossils - First Part
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