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* MistakenForPrankCall: A shrunken Rupert manages to dial the operator and get connected with Constable Growler on the phone, but Otis picks it up before he can say anything. Since Otis is a total {{ditz}}, Growler assumes it was his poor idea of a joke.

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* MistakenForPrankCall: A shrunken Rupert manages to dial the operator and get connected with Constable Growler on the phone, but Otis picks it up before he can say anything. Since Otis is a total {{ditz}}, [[TheDitz ditz]], Growler assumes it was his poor idea of a joke.
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* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: After finishing second place 27 years in a row to the Professor in every science fair, Domina is so bitter she now plans to steal his inventions and first place by force.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Podgy seems to believe that the [=Bigsmall=] machine changes the size of everything in the world except him rather than the other way around.

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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: ComicallyMissingThePoint: Podgy seems to believe that the [=Bigsmall=] machine changes the size of everything in the world except him rather than the other way around.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Podgy seems to believe that the [=Bigsmall=] machine changes the size of everything in the world except him rather than the other way around.
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* ShrinkRay: The BIGsmall Machine.

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* ShrinkRay: The BIGsmall [=BIGsmall=] Machine.
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It's almost time for the annual Inventors' Fair, which the Professor has won 27 years in a row. He's finally finished the machine he invented for this year -- the [=BIGsmall=] Machine, which can make anything it fires at shrink or grow. Unfortunately, this is the year his arch rival Domina has decided she's sick of coming in second 27 years in a row. While the Professor goes to join the Bears for a picnic, she breaks into his lab and starts helping herself to his inventions. Her bumbling sidekick accidentally activates the [=BIGsmall=] machine, which shrinks Rupert and Podgy. In between dodging stampeding insects, hungry frogs, and giant spiders, they have to stop the thieves from making off with the machine, or they'll be shrunk forever!

First of only two episodes to feature a female antagonist.
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!!This episode provides examples of:

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
-->'''Domina:''' How do you think it makes me feel being second best for 27 years in a row...?
* ContinuityNod: The Professor mentions [[Recap/RupertS02E03RupertAndTheLeprechauns Old Finley Manor]].
* DontBeRidiculous: After Podgy zips by in a model plane.
-->'''Domina:''' Who's flying that thing?
-->'''Otis:''' It looked like a... like a... pig-spider.
-->'''Domina:''' Don't be ridiculous. Pig-spiders can't fly.
* EvilLaugh: Domina loves indulging in these.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Complete with all the usual obstacles and threats, from giant spiders to dialing a phone.
* MistakenForPrankCall: A shrunken Rupert manages to dial the operator and get connected with Constable Growler on the phone, but Otis picks it up before he can say anything. Since Otis is a total {{ditz}}, Growler assumes it was his poor idea of a joke.
* NoEnding: The plot stops just as the oversized Podgy is being shrunk down to normal. While it's likely the thieves were caught and obvious the Professor was able to return himself and Rupert to normal size, we never see how it all resolves.
* RivalTurnedEvil: Domina's gotten so sick of being beaten by the Professor that she's now willing to steal his inventions and kidnap him to get some glory for herself.
* ShrinkRay: The BIGsmall Machine.
* StupidCrooks: The villain’s sidekick Otis. Ex. He introduces himself on the phone as "Otis the Thief."
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
-->'''Domina:''' ''(seeing Otis hanging up the phone)'' Otis, who were you talking to?
-->'''Otis:''' No one! Certainly not the police, in any event.
* VisualPun: The villain is a female dog. She's a real bitch.

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