Timothy won't eat his food. He's warned that if he continues to leave it, the Spaghetti Man will snatch him and turn him into pasta, which is exactly what happens.
Felicity's soppy father calls her 'his princess' and buys her everything she wants. Her clothes collection is the envy of the world, until Miss Shears turns up with her magic scissors and the princess's clothes are slashed to rags.
In the Kentish summer of 1952, adventure-seeking gang, The Chipper Chums, ride their bikes into the meadows for an adventure-seeking picnic by Farmer Tregowan's apple orchard.
Lorelei Lee shams illness to get off school. Her GP is so fed up with her fake symptoms that he prescribes Doctor Moribundus, an old fashioned quack who remedies Lorelei Lee's complaint with a big needle.