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Episode 1: "Aragosta's the name, guiding is my game! Come now, line up! You there! Line up by height, short everypets in the front! Move! Move! We have to have order here! When I call your name, respond 'Aye'! Hold it! HOLD IT! My pencil lead has broken, I must sharpen it to a point before we can move on."
"I will be expecting you to be on your best tour group behaviour while here at the Musee!"
"ARE YOU CHEWING GUM IN HERE?!"

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Episode 2: Wish You Were Here is a lighthearted look at tokens of esteem, keeping in touch, and the value of friendship.

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Episode 3: "Here we have Classic Refreshment, a reference to a well known pop culture icon" Aragosta explains, waving a claw dramatically and giggling at his play on words.
Babbette appreciates the enlightening descriptions, but is suddenly thirsty. Where is that vending machine they passed earlier?

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Episode 4: "Trio has been much debated by contemporary art critics," explains Aragosta, "do these creatures represent pets unknown to us? Do those blank stares see past our facades, and into our very souls?"
Babbette doesn't know about facades, but they do look quite cuddly...

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Episode 5: "This pop culture icon is sure to bring a smile to any true patron of the arts, and will certainly become a valuable classic" Aragosta gushes ecstatically.
Babbette wonders cynically if the lobster is a little biased on the subject?

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Episode 6: Lunar New Year Dress
From the Pauli Hoh collection
Get out that little red dress for the Lunar New Year festivities! The colour red is vitally important to Chinese culture, representing fire and energy, vitality, good luck and prosperity. This dress, with its narrow waist and bell shaped skirt, in vivid shades of red embellished with bamboo leaves is the perfect fit for this time! The Festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and for the next fortnight visits are made to family and to friends. The visitor will come bearing a small gift to the household, most often citrus fruit, which is said to bring wealth and good fortune. Guests are welcomed with tea and sweet treats served on a round or octagonal tray, symbolising togetherness. Usually the sweets are arranged in amounts divisible by eight as this is a lucky number. The first day of Lunar New Year represents new beginnings with renewed hopes for prosperity and happiness. There is excitement outside provided by Lion and Dragon dances performed in the streets.

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Episode 7: Purple Joy is one of Aragosta's favourite works of art in the Musee! Purple Joy was created by one of PnF's finest purveyors of tiny art, so it is hardly surprising that Babbette and the whole tour group are mesmerised by the level of detail and the sense of whimsy this piece evokes!

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Episode 8: "This untitled masterpiece is a fine example of multimedia" Aragosta explains.
Babbette and the rest of the tour group begin to discuss their thoughts on what the picture means, and Aragosta has a hard time getting them to focus on the next picture.
Aragosta mutters "tourists!" as he finally gets the tour moving again...

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Episode 9: Babbette stands in front of this piece, transfixed by its whimsy! Aragosta explains that the Musee staff refer to this piece as Freedom, because there is no lid on the jar to prevent the butterflies from flying off into the updraft... Babbette feels a sense of balmy warmth emanating from the art, possibly due to the warm pinks and purples in the background?

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Episode 10: Rosie’s Follow Your Dream is a whimsical landscape that cleverly uses light to draw viewers into the image, until they can virtually feel the slippery rocks and icy water under their paws, and then feel compelled to move towards the deeper blue water in the distance… Babbette feels sure that their hooman will be very pleased with Babbette for bringing home such a delightful print of this famous PnF landscape!

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Episode 11: "Oh noes!" thinks Babbette, "Another food art, and I am starving! But the Musee Gift Store only sells art works, and none of them are edible arts...boo hoo hoo!"

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Episode 12: "Sweets is a lovely metaphor for all the good things life has to offer," Aragosta explains, raising his squeaky lobster voice to try to cover the sounds of tummies rumbling.
"Peasants!" Aragosta mutters, as he grudgingly leads the tour group over to the snack bar AGAIN!

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Episode 13: Entitled, simply Self Portrait, the wistfulness of the artist's expression evokes a sense of curiosity, felt by Babbette and the rest of the tour group. Aragosta explains that there are currently very few miniature portraits in the Musee, but he hopes they will be able to add more to the collection in the future...

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Episode 14: "This piece is long thought to be a representation of good vs. evil, and scholars have long debated the veracity of the claim," said Aragosta.

Personally, said Babbette, I think it looks a lot like a delicious drink by the fire under the full moon.

Aragosta scowled and grunted................

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Episode 15: Kirsten’s Rainy Encounter was inspired by a series of oil paintings by RL artist Leonid Afremov. The Rainy Encounter series uses the play of vivid colours reflecting off wet ground and through rain to soften the image and create depth perception. Babbette jumps up and down in glee at receiving a print of this beautiful scene, because they really, really want their hooman to make an art with it and put them in it, so they can splash in the puddles and dance in the rain!

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Episode 16: Aragosta points to Pictures Within Pictures, creatively done by an up and coming artist at the Musee. "One can only imagine laying your head upon your pillow and dreaming of a birthday party, and conjuring up these delightful presents".

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Episode 17: Piggyback is one of Aragosta's favourite works of art in the Musee! Piggyback was created by one of PnF's finest purveyors of tiny art, so it is hardly surprising that Babbette and the whole tour group are mesmerised by the level of detail and the sense of whimsy this piece evokes!

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Episode 18: Babbette is feeling in the pink admiring the elegant form of the bubbly beribboned pink butterfly drink, which the more adventurous little koala is attempting to climb, while his companion stands (or sits) lookout below. Be careful little koala, because that glass could become quite slippery if condensation forms on the outside!

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Episode 19: Lunar New Year Dress
From the Pauli Hoh collection
Get out that little red dress for the Lunar New Year festivities! The colour red is vitally important to Chinese culture, representing fire and energy, vitality, good luck and prosperity. This dress, with its narrow waist and bell shaped skirt, in vivid shades of red embellished with bamboo leaves is the perfect fit for this time! The Festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and for the next fortnight visits are made to family and to friends. The visitor will come bearing a small gift to the household, most often citrus fruit, which is said to bring wealth and good fortune. Guests are welcomed with tea and sweet treats served on a round or octagonal tray, symbolising togetherness. Usually the sweets are arranged in amounts divisible by eight as this is a lucky number. The first day of Lunar New Year represents new beginnings with renewed hopes for prosperity and happiness. There is excitement outside provided by Lion and Dragon dances performed in the streets.

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Episode 20: Teamwork shows everypet that no matter how big or small you are in the great big universe, everypet matters and is able to help someone else. Here you can clearly see that working slowly together, they will persevere and overcome, getting that slug back out of the bottle!

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Episode 21: Aragosta is very pleased that Cannelle has included one of this lovely artist's amazing miniatures! Babbette agrees, thinking that there is always a timelessness and sense of magic about this artist's creations, that Babbette would like to be able to emulate for the weekly art submissions!

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Episode 22: "Don't Follow the Crowd is a delightful piece, lighthearted and sweet, but with a deeper underlying message worthy of further scrutiny" Aragosta explained to the tour group, then immediately had to contradict himself in order to get the stragglers from the group to catch up!
Babbette wasn't trying to be a rebel or anything, but it was rather funny watching the lobster get all red in the face as he tried to round everyone up!

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Episode 23: During the celebration of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, sugar skulls are used to decorate the offerings to the dead, and have also become a pop culture decoration. The artist here is clearly toying with the adorability of the panda and combining it with the starkness of skulls. One wonders what's in the punch bowl and how good it must taste...

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Episode 24: Babbette thinks how funny it is to see the tour group divide up at paintings like this. All the spider lovers move to the front, while a few get as far away as possible!
Aragosta is pointing out the mother/child bond displayed, but Babbette wonders if the baby in that egg is just afraid of heights!

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Episode 25: After viewing all of the inspiring works in this section of Musee d’Art de Cannelle, Babbette is feeling a little sad to have to return to a gourd house that looks exactly the same as every other gourd house in PnF Land, which is not terribly exciting...because if you've seen one gourd house, you've seen them all!

But suddenly Babbette stumbles upon an abandoned shack, which looks very similar to one in a Chagall masterpiece....
"A present for me?" asks Babbette, hardly daring to hope!