This time, Rupert and Bill are playing with a boomerang when their day is interrupted by a Flying Carpet with an oil lamp being chased by a Feathered Fiend. The boys get captured along with the carpet and lamp and taken to Shandalar, a city in the "Arabian Nights" Days. Rupert's instantly suspicious of the grateful "sultan" who "invites" them to spend the night in his palace as a reward for finding his lamp. The two friends quickly discover there's more to the situation than the sultan is telling them, and that the lives of everyone in the city depend on them getting that lamp back.
This episode provides examples of:
- Action Girl: The Flying Carpet who helps the boys fight a Giant Flyer, an evil genie, and a magical army of mooks turns out to be a human woman under a spell.
- "Arabian Nights" Days: The Middle Eastern city the boys get taken to is several centuries behind the 1920s Middle East (not unusual for the magical villages Rupert finds).
- Balcony Escape: Since the door to the room they're given is heavily guarded, Rupert climbs down from the balcony.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The carpet saves Rupert from falling out of a tree, so Rupert trusts it over the genie from the beginning and goes searching for answers when it's captured. This allows him to show up at just the right time to distract its guards and help it escape.
- Blessed with Suck: Granted, being turned into a carpet with no voice is a big step down for a human, but how much of a punishment is it when you give them the power to FLY?!
- Borrowed Catch Phrase: When Bill notices his friend get a familiar look in his eye, he says in dread, "He's got a plan!"
- Catch a Falling Star: In the climax in a high tower, the lamp falls out the window, Rupert dives after it, and Bill manages to grab him and keep him from falling to his death.
- Censor Suds: Done with Bill in the palace's bubble bath.
- Didn't Want an Adventure: Bill complains twice about being dragged along on another adventure with Rupert.
- Exact Words: The old woman only refers to the rightful "ruler" of Shandalar. It's Rupert who then uses the term "sultan."
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: The carpet saves the boys from falling out of the sky at the expense of letting the giant bird catch the lamp. No loss, given that they all get captured immediately anyway.
- Flying Carpet: The main one of the episode is actually a human under a spell, but the ending reveals these are still common in Shandalar.
- Forced Transformation: Instead of killing the rightful ruler of Shandalar, the villain turned the ruler into a Flying Carpet.
- Genie in a Bottle: The oil lamp variety.
- Gilded Cage: The genie has Rupert and Bill stay in a luxurious palace suite, but as Rupert notes, they aren't exactly given a choice in the matter.
- He Knows Too Much: When Rupert and Bill are brought in with the lamp, the genie tries to stop them from going home because they now know too much about the lamp and the carpet.
- Kill It with Fire: The genie tries to get rid of the carpet by burning it, but Rupert interrupts just in time.
- Mook Maker: The genie makes his army of flying, silent, eyeless, four-armed lackeys called the Black Turbans.
- Mr. Exposition: While hiding from the Black Turbans, Rupert and Bill meet an old woman who tells them the story of how Shandalar was taken over by an evil genie and why they need the lamp to defeat him.
- No Ontological Inertia: Once the genie is trapped in the lamp, all his spells are undone.
- Our Genies Are Different: In this case, they have unlimited magic powers and are tied to a lamp, and the possessor of the lamp can control the genie because rubbing the lamp would imprison the genie inside. Presumably, this is why the genie would also (usually) grant wishes to appease whoever has the lamp, but as the only one we get to meet demonstrates, they can be evil and power-hungry.
- Prophet Eyes: The Black Turbans have no pupils or irises.
- Reconstruction: This portrayal of a genie is probably the most consistent in children's animation with the classic version of a djinn, a powerful spirit who could just as easily be malevolent and could only be made to serve someone if they, say, possessed the lamp that could imprison them.
- Roc Birds: Given the setting, the giant bird the heroes have to deal with must be one of these.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The enchanted ruler steals the lamp that can be used to defeat the villain and helps the heroes fight every step of the way.
- Samus Is a Girl: The ruler of Shandalar was a woman all along.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: This episode's villain is defeated this way.
- The Speechless: The carpet can't speak and is forced to try to communicate with the boys via gestures.
- This Is Gonna Suck:Rupert: The first thing to do is to get the genie to show us where he keeps the lamp...Bill: Uh oh. He's got a plan...
- Trick-and-Follow Ploy: Using a mundane oil lamp, Rupert tricks the genie into going to the hiding place of the real one. The genie, who still wants to find Bill and the carpet, decides two can play that game by keeping an eye on his new prisoner until the others inevitably return to rescue him.
- The Usurper: The so-called sultan of Shandalar the boys first meet is actually an evil genie who took over the kingdom.
- Villain Ball: Killing the true ruler of Shandalar would have been the safest course of action, but the genie transformed the ruler into a flying carpet because "I thought keeping you underfoot would be amusing."
- Wham Shot: Once the genie's spells are broken, the carpet transforms into... a woman?!
- Xanatos Roulette: Rupert tricks the genie into showing them where he hid the lamp. The genie plays along until Bill and the carpet show up so he can capture them all. Fortunately, Rupert and the carpet were prepared for him to show up...
