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The Night of Wishes

The Night of Wishes: Or the Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion is a book by the German children's book author Michael Ende that was first published in 1989 and awarded with the Swiss literary award "La vache qui lit" in 1990...

by Michael Ende

Michael Ende

Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German author of fantasy and children's literature. He is best known for his epic fantasy work The Neverending Story; other famous works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver...

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In every episode, a wizard named Bubonic and his aunt, a witch named Tyrannia, must wreak havoc on the city in which they live or suffer a severe punishment from their supervisor, Maledictus Maggot. To be able to do so, they use an ancient magical parchment that, once utilized to activate a spell, said spell must be reversed within the next seven hours or then its effects will become permanent. To make sure the spells are reversed, Bubonic's and Tyrannia's pets, Mauricio and Jacob, must seek for Aunt Noah, an old turtle at the local zoo

Zoo

A zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred....

and head of the Animal Council, for a riddle on how to reverse the spell, which they usually do at the nick of time. One of the episodes, Night of Wishes, is particularly inspired by the book. In that episode, the animals foil the spell by dropping a bell sound at the potion cauldron and Maledictus Maggot punishes Bubonic and Tyrannia by attaching their homes, forcing them to live together. Unlike the other known punishments, that never last enough to be seen in later episodes, this one seems to be permanent and has lasted at least five years (the animals recall it's been five years since then). Bubonic and Tyrannia are so clumsy that some of their spells bring trouble to themselves and, when the spells are undone, they fell a temporary relief that quickly ends when Maggot shows up to punish them for their failure.

Episodes

• 01. Plant Panic - Tyrannia and Bubonic make the plants grow and evil.
• 02. Double Trouble - Tyrannia and Bubonic make any mirror to create a double of a person who will look at it.
• 03. Worst Noel - Tyrannia and Bubonic ruin Christmas by making the toys alive and evil.
• 04. Terrible Toddlers - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into children.
• 05. Colorless Chaos - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone lose their colors.
• 06. Off the Walls - Tyrannia and Bubonic make the paintings alive.
• 07. Prehistorical Populace - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into cavemen.
• 08. Big Feet - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into giants by making their feet grow.
• 09. The King's Aunt - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the city into Middle Ages. As he wished, Bubonic becomes a king and Tyrannia becomes his slave.
• 10. Appliance Alliance - Tyrannia and Bubonic make the electrical appliances live and do what they want.
• 11. Invasion of the Giant Insects - Tyrannia and Bubonic make the insects become big.
• 12. Wishful Thinking - Tyrannia and Bubonic make anyone's wish come true, but turn against the person who wished that.
• 13. The Beastie Brew - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into animals.
• 14. Once Upon a Potion - Tyrannia and Bubonic make the stories' characters live.
• 15. Car Wars - Tyrannia and Bubonic transform everyone into cars.
• 16. The Wild Wild Pets - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the pets into beasts.
• 17. Wacky Weather - Tyrannia and Bubonic make the weather change every time.
• 18. Lost Spell - Tyrannia and Bubonic make anyone's thing get lost.
• 19. Poubelle and Back - Tyrannia and Bubonic make the garbage return in double to the place of the person who threw it.
• 20. Sand Witch - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the city into a desert.
• 21. Bubonic Plague - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into themselves (men are turned into Bubonic and women are turned into Tyrannia).
• 22. Ghost Town - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the city into a ghost town.
• 23. You Must Be Joking - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into pranksters.
• 24. By a Hair's Breadth - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone's hair grow in the anyone's whole body, but not on the head.
• 25. Goin' Garbanzo - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone's heads into fruit and vegetables.
• 26. Night of Wishes - This episode is based on the books. This episode recalls how Maurizio and Jacob first met and Tyrannia and Bubonic's first spell which poisoned the city.
• 27. Life with Maggot - Maggot takes Maurizio and Jacob away from Tyrannia and Bubonic to his house. Maurizio and Jacob seem to have a great time with the Maggot family. Meanwhile, to have pets around, Tyrannia and Bubonic separate the pets from owners.
• 28. Let's Break a Deal - Bubonic meets a mysterious wizard who helps him have great powers. Bubonic uses his advanced powers to turn the city upside down.
• 29. Slowly But Surely - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone slow while they're sleeping.
• 30. Gloom With a View - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone depressed.
• 31. Mayor For a Day - In order to not have an amusement park in their yard, Tyrannia decides to switch Bubonic's body with the Mayor Plaga's. It works, but everything goes out of control when Bubonic and Mayor have decided to stay in each other's body and Maurizio and Jacob have switched bodies too.
• 32. Good For Nothing - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone be useless in anything in which are useful.
• 33. Fancy Footwork - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone's shoes dance without stopping.
• 34. Shadow of a Doubt - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into shadows.
• 35. Nice Wizards - Tyrannia and Bubonic decide to make Maggot good. Maurizio and Jacob decide to do the same with their owners. It works, but Tyrannia and Bubonic's goodness goes out of control when they put anyone into trouble while helping.
• 36. Inspector Maggot - Tyrannia and Bubonic make Maggot control everyone in the city.
• 37. Vanity Spell - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone be selfish and not pay attention to children.
• 38. Drop Me a Line - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone stay in a line.
• 39. Money Can't Buy Happiness - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone rich.
• 40. Happy Valentine - Tyrannia and Bubonic ruin Valentine's Day by making someone's lover turn against the person after reading a Valentine card.
• 41. Simply Irresistible - Bubonic reluctantly agrees to help Tyrannia become irresistible to the men in the city.
• 42. Ty-Me Travel - Tyrannia and Bubonic go back in time to prevent Maggot's parents from meeting to not let him be born and get involved in their life. They take Maurizio and Jacob along.
• 43. The Great Escape - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone enter through the walls and ruin anyone's privacy.
• 44. Two Cute - Tyrannia and Bubonic "glue" the ones who are arguing. Maurizio and Jacob are arguing for that which of their owners is better and are "glued" to each other too.
• 45. Quiz the Wizard - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the city into a game show.
• 46. Achoo! - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone sneeze every time.
• 47. The Big Shrinking Spell - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone shrink during a contact with the water.
• 48. Abominable Behavior - Tyrannia and Bubonic make every snowman to live.
• 49. The Pinocchio Syndrome - Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone lying and their noses to become large.
• 50. Perchance to Dream-Not - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone's dreams into nightmares which later become real during the day.
• 51. It's a Dog's Life - Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into dogs.
• 52. The War of the Sex - Tyrannia and Bubonic make the city's men and women turn against each other.