What a magical lady.

I spent several minutes just staring at them (and trying to convince them to bite my fingers.) When my sister’s violin lesson ended, her teacher came out to the yard and explained that these goldfish were the same small creatures that were often unfortunately sold in plastic bags at state fairs. They were only about two inches long apiece, when she bought them and put them in the new, empty pond. In essence, they were like every goldfish I had seen before, but they had been given a much larger, much richer environment in which to flourish. As a result, they had grown into some of the most remarkable, vibrant creatures my twelve-year-old self had ever met with. All because of a pond. 

John Cleese as Albert the Magic Pudding: A bad-mannered, living steak and kidney pudding who lasts forever and turns into different sorts of puddings.

Geoffrey Rush as Bunyip Bluegum: An accomplished young koala that leaves home in search of his lost parents.

Hugo Weaving as Bill Barnacle: A human sailor who leads the noble society of Pudding owners group.

Sam Neill as Sam Sawnoff: An emperor penguin who is a shipmate of Bill Barnacle's cruise.

Jack Thompson as Buncle: An evil wombat who is looking for the magic pudding for himself to eat forever. Also a former shipmate of Bill Barnacle's cruise.

Toni Collette as Meg Bluegum: The mother of Bunyip Bluegum.

Roy Billing as Tom Bluegum: The father of Bunyip Bluegum.

Greg Carroll as Watkin Wombat: The nephew of Buncle who is one of the pudding thieves who has to catch and bring the pudding to him.

Dave Gibson as Patrick O'Possum, a possum who is The wombats helper of the pudding thieves, and as Wattleberry: the uncle of Bunyip Bluegum.

Mary Coustas as Ginger: is the right-hand mouse of Buncle.

John Laws as Rumpus Bumpus: A wise old friend of Bunyip Bluegum.

Sandy Gore as Frog on the Log: a female frog who helps Bunyip to finding his parents.

Michael Veitch as Fergus the Bandicoot: He carries the Watermelon.

Peter Gwynne as Benjamin Brandysnap: An elderly Basset hound who owns a grocery store, once a friend of the pudding thieves, now betrayed by them after they stole his grocery bag and joined the pudding owners for revenge.

Robyn Moore as Henrietta Hedgehog

Martin Vaughan as Parrot

Context: she always gets SUPER excited the first time Stoic (Hiccup's actual dad) comes on screen. "THAT HICCUP'S DAD!" (Dads and moms are very close to a two-year-old's heart and must be identified across all media).

After careful analysis (watching the first movie approximately 1,000,000 times), she was staring intently at the screen watching Hiccup interact with the blacksmith, a Very Intense Frown on her face. Finally, she turned to me.

Baby: Hiccup has two dads?

Me, inserting mental calculus meme in my own head as I realize that writing those two as married would fundamentally change nothing in their first movie dynamic and the blacksmith does indeed fill the narrative function of Second Parent: ...Yes baby, some people have two dads.

atheist bad driver: I will rely on my own skill to see myself safely home after a mere 8 drinks

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