Bartholomew tries to stop him, but he's not fast enough.

The Captain of the Guard, trying to prove that the oobleck is harmless, decides to demonstrate by eating some.

The trumpeter has already grabbed it and winds up with his hand stuck inside the horn. Bartholomew, who already knows the oobleck's sticky nature, tries to tell the Royal Trumpeter not to touch it when some flies into his horn.The only thing holding it back is the presence of An Aesop about saying sorry, and even then the closing lines about the current weather being the only things that ever should be is subtly sinister. A greedy person bored with ordinary life orders his magicians to summon new weather, which results in the arrival of an ambiguous, borderline-unstoppable phenomenon of potentially apocalyptic proportions. Cosmic Horror Story: If you think about it.The king wished for different weather, but soon found out that it was wrong of him to change things for his own pleasure. Be Careful What You Wish For: Basically, the above mentioned Aesop.Assurance Backfire: Bartholomew tries to calm down the King by assuring him that no king before him has ever succeeded in ruling the sky.The king learns that the weather he was once tired of is the only weather good enough for anyone. An Aesop: Be careful what you wish for.Adaptation Name Change: In Marvin Miller's dramatization, the king's name is Grimalken, not Derwin.Adapted Out: The trumpeter is completely absent from Marvin Miller's dramatization of the story.Can page boy Bartholomew Cubbins save the kingdom before it's buried? But the new stuff - oobleck - turns out to be sticky as glue. King Derwin, tired of only the same four weather conditions, calls upon his magicians to make something new. Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a book written by Dr.

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