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For examples specific to the 2005 film and its American redub, see here.


In general

  • The relationship between Dougal and Florence. Despite his grumpy nature, Dougal genuinely cares for Florence and is never rude to her like he tends to be with the others.

The original series

  • In the French version of "Ermintrude's Birthday", Dougal presents a show of fireworks (which almost goes awry), topped off with a rocket for the finale, which, instead of blowing up, opens up to reveal a bouquet of flowers. Ermintrude is ecstatic by this to the point where she even says Dougal's name correctly (whereas Accidental Misnaming is one of her character traits in the French version).
  • The French version of "Let's Play at Cats", with Dougal and Ermintrude actually playing tag together (or as they call it in French "a chat perché" or "a perched cat"). When you consider how often Dougal is usually rude to Ermintrude, especially in the French version, it's nice to see when the two genuinely get along.
  • The Nigel Planer version of "Once Upon a Time" (which is retitled "Calling Ermintrude Names") has Dylan comforting Ermintrude, who was hurt when she witnesses Dougal talking rudely about her to Brian and Florence. He convinces her to be herself, no matter what others say before he picks some flowers as well as a tree for Ermintrude to eat as comfort food.
    • Also, Florence and Brian, who are not pleased with Dougal's mockery about Ermintrude, stick up for her by trying to get Dougal to stop.
  • In "Florence's Party", her friends show off their surprise show to Florence to reveal that they haven't forgotten her birthday after all which delights and entertains the young girl. They individually present Florence with their gifts one-by-one during their acts. She thanks all her friends for putting on the show for her and the presents as she leaves.
    • In the Eric Thompson version, Florence was so delighted that she weeps Tears of Joy as she goes with her gifts.

Dougal and the Blue Cat

  • Dougal surprising Florence with a bouquet of flowers when she arrives in the garden. In the French version, it's mentioned that it's also her birthday.
  • Dylan's lullaby for Buxton, while Ermintrude and Brian make a bed for the cat.
  • Mr. Rusty comforting a tearful Florence in the dungeon, especially after the latter sings her sad song.
  • Near the end, when Buxton cries in remorse over his actions after having been stripped from his reign of power, Mr. Rusty is the first to forgive him, despite everything that's happened. In the original French version, he even invites the cat to live with him, so he can be tame.

The CGI series

  • The moment from the opening sequence of the revival series where Florence finds herself in the Magic Gardens while riding the Magic Roundabout after being magically teleported there by Zebedee and she is met with a warm welcome from everybody, especially Dougal who is genuinely excited to meet her. When he comes up to her as she is meeting the inhabitants, Florence gives him a nice comforting hug.
    • The theme song for the opening sequence is just generally sweet and cheerful with the upbeat music and the lyrics.
  • Dougal and Ermintrude apologizing to each other in "Kiss and Make Up" after their big fight.
  • In "Interior Des-aster", after Ermintrude accidentally ruins the interior of Brian's with Mr. Grimsdale's bike which made Brian very upset, Florence kindly invites Brian to stay over at her house while Ermintrude makes it up to Brian by redecorating his interior. This shows that in her character trait, Florence is definitely the nicest girl in the Enchanted Gardens where she cares for her friends when they are depressed.
  • In "Vote for Me", after Dougal and Brian, who were both campaigning to be mayor, ended up drawing (which was part of Florence's plan to get everyone to withdraw their votes from Dougal and Brian after seeing their competitive rivalry is causing chaos around the village) and Dougal was disappointed that he wanted to bury his bone somewhere, but Florence kindly informs him that can bury his bone in her garden. This shows how much she cares for Dougal within their relationship.
  • In "The Party", it transitions from a tear jerker moment for Florence when she feels bad after she was so cross with everyone for avoiding her when she asks them to help her fix her fence, where everyone manages to surprise Florence with a thank-you party at her house just as Florence went through the gate. This instantly made Florence so happy that she forgets her moment of being upset that everyone avoided her and she thanks them for throwing a party for her. In addition, she decides not to go away after all and instead celebrates with her friends.
  • In "Mr. Rusty's Luck", after Dougal explained what happened to Mr. Pickles, Mr. Rusty is hesitant to place in the magic gasket in the Magic Roundabout and tries giving it to Florence, but everyone, including Ermintrude, reassures him that he doesn't need luck when fixing things. This inspires Mr. Rusty with enough confidence to place in the magic gasket and manages to get the Magic Roundabout working again.
    • When Zebedee shows up with his magic powers replenished back to full power, he manages to restore Mr. Rusty's lucky teddy where Mr. Rusty instantly hugs it.
  • In "Sweet Memories", when Dougal realises how rude and jealous he was earlier for not giving everyone a chance to get a word in about their holiday due to him bragging about his memories with them, he acquires homecoming gifts to give to everyone as an apology for his behaviour before Florence (who too wants to make up with Dougal when she feels bad after sternly telling Dougal off for not letting everyone get a word in about their holidays) and everyone else arrive to find him. Shortly after, Florence thanks Dougal for getting everyone homecoming gifts as she and Dougal make up with each other.
  • In "The Magic Lamp", after Dougal tries to get his paws on the titular object, he gets into trouble with Ermintrude and Dylan. Realizing how selfish he has been, he uses the three wishes to make up for all the trouble he caused. After using the first wish to clean up Ermintrude's house (which he had messed up while looking for the lamp), he makes his second wish for the two to forgive him, to which Ermintrude and Dylan see how sorry he is and forgive him anyway, proving that he didn't need magic for them to do so.
  • In "Dylan's Lucky Day", Dougal looks after a lucky clover that Dylan finds, upon finding out that it brings good luck. However, the clover only brings bad luck to Dougal. Later, at Ermintrude's concert, when Dougal gives the clover back to Dylan, the latter wins the number on the raffle ticket he has, but seeing how dismayed Dougal is, Dylan gives the ticket to his friend in appreciation for looking after his own good luck charm.
  • The episode "Arthur" involves a baby penguin who unexpectedly arrives at Florence's doorstep. Everyone takes turns watching the little guy, but it seems that the penguin likes Dougal best. The usually grumpy Dougal starts to warm up to the baby himself, and seeing them play together is really sweet to watch.
  • In "Dougal Bakes a Cake", after Dougal and Ermintrude's attempt to bake a cake for Florence (which Dougal wants to repay the favour by doing something for her when she gives him a pie) goes horribly wrong when the oven exploded inside Florence's house whilst Florence herself was out in the village. Unknown to Dougal when he tries to unsuccessfully stall a suspicious Florence (who has heard the explosion whilst she was talking with Mr. Grimsdale), Zebedee arrives to restore the interior of the house and develop a splendid cake just before Florence returns. When Dougal hears Florence calling out his name, he begins to get worried and thinks on how to explain this to her, but when he enters, Florence was overwhelmed with joy that Dougal has baked a cake for her and gratefully thanks him and Ermintrude. Dougal secretly and personally thanks Zebedee for helping out.
  • In "The Blue Ermintrude", Dougal plans to give Florence the rare blue flowers that Ermintrude found earlier, but however, when he took the flowers, he caused everyone to think that they were stolen and they board Train to chase after Dougal after Dylan alerted everyone of Dougal's presence with a whistle. Dougal and Fly come across a meadow of the same blue flowers before everyone finally catches up with Dougal. They see the meadow for themselves, despite the fact that the flowers didn't show up in Brian's book, and Dougal explains to everyone that he was going to give Florence the flowers as a present, but he tries to return them after they found out the flowers were taken. However, everyone, including Florence forgives Dougal as they were touched by his thoughtfulness about getting the flowers for Florence and Zebedee tells him that he can now give Florence the flowers, which she gladly accepts and thanks Dougal for giving the flowers to her as a present.
  • In "No More Magic, Zebedee", although everyone is annoyed with Zebedee's mischief after he has magically taken their favourite things (due to his misunderstanding of what he sees and hears from a distance) and Mr. Rusty has a plan to strip Zebedee from his magic by removing the magic gasket from the Magic Roundabout to everyone's agreement, Florence is against this as she clearly doesn't like the idea of upsetting Zebedee despite being reassured that it is only temporarily, but she reluctantly goes along with it. That shows that Florence never wants to do anything to teach Zebedee a lesson whenever she gets annoyed with his mischief.
    • When everyone sees how devastated Zebedee is as he begins to leave with a bindle, Florence is the first to tell Mr. Rusty to stop, followed by Brian, who, along with everyone else, begins to feel bad on upsetting Zebedee.

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