Marlon is now slightly older and is faced with the problem of how to amuse himself, having exhausted all the appeal of creating intergalactic battles with his long-suffering mum's furniture. "I wish I had someone to play with" complains Marlon, and goes off in search of companions Alligatina, Boomps-a-daisy and Basher.
He finds the friends dressed as the three Musketeers, but they're reluctant to let him join in their fun—"We'll think about it" being their refrain. Marlon persuades his mum and grumpy Granny to help him put together a dressing-up costume, but finds that his monster friends keep changing their game and he's still excluded! However, the tables are turned when Marlon's luxurious paddling pool appears in his back garden.
Lester Learns A Lesson
Lester loves to muck around on his skateboard, especially when baby Lucy provides a willing audience.
Lucy is delighted when Lester goes a step too far and breaks one of Mrs Large's china ornaments - a pink elephant.
At first he tries to cover up his deed. Unluckily for him, his brother Luke has returned from the toy shop with a new detective's outfit and is hot on the trail of the missing ornament.
Lester asks Laura - who's good at making things - to try and help him fix it.
Luke overhears them at work and mistakenly believes that it was Laura who broke it.
He enjoys telling his mum about this and Mrs Large gathers the children to get to the bottom of it all.
Lester finally owns up, and learns that honesty is always the best answer.
