- "When the outlook isn't good, try the uplook!"
Airdate: December 3, 2006
This episode has three stories in one, all revolving around eyes. Russell visits the eye doctor due to his failing eyesight and gets an eye contact. The Mole goes to town with his seeing-eye dog as the lightbulb for his lamp burns out. Finally, Sniffles creates a robotic paper airplane for Toothy, but with Toothy's luck when it comes to his eyes, it's going to get painful.
"A Sight for Sore Eyes" contains the following:
- Accidental Murder: This being a Mole episode, it was bound to happen.
- Blind Mistake: The Mole, as per usual:
- The Mole mistakes an active lawnmower for his seeing-eye dog and accidentally shreds the top of Handy's head while walking.
- He also mistakes a pear for a lightbulb and sticks it in his lamp. It ends in a deadly explosion.
- Central Theme: Vision problems.
- Russell's one working eye is having problems.
- The Mole is blind and Lumpy tries to mend this.
- Sniffles needs new glasses after his old pair breaks.
- Nutty's eyes perceive everything as candy.
- Toothy, as usual, suffers a gruesome eye injury.
- Downer Ending: Russell loses his eye contacts, Sniffles gets crushed by a pair of giant glasses, and the Mole loses his seeing-eye dog and is killed by an exploding pear.
- Eye Scream:
- Toothy's eyes get sliced horizontally by Sniffles' invention (pictured).
- Nutty's corneas are also sliced off by Sniffles' invention.
- Gory Discretion Shot: We don't see much of what happens with Mole's pear lamp, except for a bloody stain on his window.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: Lumpy is an optometrist.
- Random Events Plot: Aside from the Central Theme of vision problems, this episode mostly has a slice-of-life feel to it with most characters doing their regular day-to-day activities.
- Smart Ball: Lumpy is so far the only character to actually do something about the Mole's blindness.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Nutty, Handy, The Mole, Toothy, and Sniffles die.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Russell, Lumpy, and Cuddles survive. Most notably, this is by far the only episode in the series that Russell has a starring role in and survives.
