The World of David the Gnome - Episode 03 - David to the Rescue (Restored)

David is called to Italy to treat a gnome girl. She had eaten a strawberry that had been sprayed with pesticide. The only plant that can cure her is the Shining Begonia. David travels to the Alps and outsmarts a snake to find the flower. On the way back, he meets Pot, one of the trolls.Pot challenges him to a dancing contest, and David cleverly keeps Pot waiting until the sun comes up. The troll turns into stone in the sunlight. David goes back to the palace and revives the gnome girl.

[@ivandillardmusic2042]

They’re over here explaining how to have an environmentally sustainable homestead on a show for 6 year olds back in ‘85

[@LchanOtakudom]

I never realized how much this show meant to me until now. Watching it again from the beginning, smiling and near tears from the start... we 80s and 90s children had an awesome childhood, didn’t we?

[@kingkillerstripe1211]

Yes we did in fact the 2000's was he last decade to sell your d cartoons

[@kingkillerstripe1211]

And after that all the cartoons went down hill

[@dreamguardian8320]

Yes, we did. But now that we live over the 2000's, what's left for us?

[@LchanOtakudom]

@@dreamguardian8320 Nostalgia, of course!

[@rippingtons60]

That snake scares the hell out of me as much as it did when I was 5 years old, some things never change even after almost 30 years.

[@lazlow8788]

love how they speak directly to the audience at the beginning and end of the show. This was supposed to be a pre-school/adventure series based off a children's book. Which why it aired on Nick Jr. when I was a little boy.

[@fubukifangirl]

I don't know if it was a children's book. There were some instances of female gnomes with their breasts on full display.

[@HellhammerSS]

Hahaha did David fart when he landed from swinging on the vine!? 😂

[@soniaforrester9310]

my husband and i watched this in are younger years this just reminds to love each other and now we share these with are youngest, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Grayald]

Wow how fast is Swift that he was able to casually run to Italy from Germany? And why could the kingdom's greatest doctors not identify simple poisoning? Most importantly, why am I analyzing a show for 4-year-olds?

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

Because it’s a surprisingly well-written kids’ show.

[@travisford2147]

If they played that today on TV it would probably upset someone and say it was offensive to Trolls.

[@eleanorhogan8643]

Yes maybe, despite the fact that trolls do not exist.

[@joeywomer]

Right. Because we live in a world where everyone nowadays will get butthurt by something.

[@Grayald]

Welcome to 5 years later where they won't just get upset. They'll try to kill you via soft execution by making it impossible for you to support yourself.

[@giascott-heron]

Yeah they’d call for it to be “cancelled”, but LITERALLY because there’s no such thing as thick skin anymore. People would rather be in their feelings 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@kkurova9345]

They would be considered an antisemitic stereotype

[@PC-lu3zf]

Great series

[@AxelXGabriel]

Geezus, Swift must have a jet engine on him somewhere to make a trip to Italy, then to the Alps then back to Italy in what's assumed to be a short amount of time.

[@stephenholloway1748]

AxelXGabriel They don't call him Swift for nothing.

[@DreamDancer82]

+Izumi Kongouseki I always assumed they set in Norway, considering some of the decorations on the cabinets in David and Lisa's home.

[@MrOrthopedia]

+ghfdfhfdndxhcg I think he and Lisa live somewhere between East Europe and West Asia

[@LchanOtakudom]

AxelXGabriel I always thought it was magic that helped him get around so fast.

[@chriss2031]

@@LchanOtakudom probably the case given the nature of those Gnomes.

[@joeywomer]

The idea to have Swift laughing at certain points was pretty cute.

[@kemchobhenchod]

Reminds me of Muttley

[@wilsonray7209]

all characters in this show, be they animals or these little dudes, look just too adorable, and even some of their movements do. the ending song is always the cutest one across the globe if you ask me, for all their movements being TOO cute! I notice quite many scenes in these BRB toons are very cute in full innocence and sweetness. SOmetimes my heart melts sweetly when I see their cute faces and lovely moves.

[@Y0WMS]

This use to be my show when I was a little dude

[@benparson4526]

Pot leave swift alone

[@maxamillion2140]

I get that Swift theme song stuck in my head every once in a while, but in my head it's on a string section in an orchestra. It's so weird because I hadn't heard this since I was about 5 in 1991.

[@kemchobhenchod]

I feel like I've heard that somewhere too

[@nightwolf1342]

This episode made me so sad when I remember that all rain water is toxic now 😥

[@eleanorhogan8643]

The trolls on this cartoon are the nasty cousins of the spiky haired trolls.

[@heranmouada9864]

Magic, excitement, enchantments, wonders, imagination, action, fantasy, thrills, and adventures. What an epic adventure to save the day. In one of my books, some trolls have a weakness, the sun. If they get touched by sunlight, they turn to stone like it did to Pot. But not all of them. I wish I could find and enter the kingdom of the gnomes for real. The people with pointy hats may be small, but they have oversized brains and hearts. I love them. Nothing ceases to amaze me with magic. I still believe in fairies and magic, I do! 🧚🧚‍♂🧚‍♀

[@eleanorhogan8643]

I had the books of this.

[@harliquinedance3526]

I had this book and the Fairy book also.

[@benparson4526]

Oh that poor child

[@bettyottman1718]

Pesticides are Harmful to Gnomes, Especially Younger Gnomes.

[@beanbaggamer8623]

Remember David said Gnomes are always twins? What happened to Gina's twin?

[@jessicaknowlton7809]

Sometimes,gnomes might have a single child.

[@PrenticeBoy1688]

Italian gnomes have a one child policy. :-(

[@crimson3532]

Bean Bag Gamer I was thinking that too maybe they are bad parents to the other twin or maybe just maybe the writers forgot about that one rule but no that can't be it

[@Ms.Delphine1204]

Bean Bag Gamer the parents were pretty neglectful so I assumed they’d already let one kid die.

[@eleanorhogan8643]

@@Ms.Delphine1204 not necessarily, the twin might have been eaten by a snake, a troll, a wolf or something.

[@jrreedve2825]

THIS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!

[@joeywomer]

Were some of the designs for the gnomes so easy to draw that they just redid the same ones over and over for different characters? Which made me wonder why some of the characters looked similar to David and Lisa?

[@julialny25]

This brings back very nice memories 😁😁☺️

[@crimson3532]

Was anyone else thinking how useless all the other doctors were in the situation how were they not able to diagnose the child the parents said they where the best but it doesn't seem like it

[@trionabyrne72]

Pesticides are poisonous to most creatures such as Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, Goblins and insects, but David the gnome's right, pesticides are poisonous to a Child Gnome, Child fairy, Or a Child Elf.

[@lokiskywalker]

4:07 Man, I realize Italy is probably pretty far from where David lives but that was a FUCKLOAD of padding just now.

[@trionabyrne72]

Most People go to Italy by plane.

[@Aleon7291]

Thank you 👍😎😊

[@MalachiteMaenad]

David was a smug bastard wasn't he? I didn't remember that.

[@pantsonacracker]

yeah, back then we didnt really think about it but it is pretty hardcore environmental to the full crazy extent at times. lol.

[@Ms.Delphine1204]

😂 I was just watching the final episode and he was so condescending towards Lisa for being sad and wanting to take her time before traveling to DIE.

[@AMVMaker26]

go swift go

[@suecurtis8313]

nice job david sue!

[@DreamDancer82]

As horribly evil and ugly as those Trolls are, I have to admit, they were pretty entertaining at times.

[@chrismaccool9097]

I wish this show was more Like Gummi Bears and In The Middle Ages and had human friends and was more like Lord Of The Rings.

[@gilbertramirez6626]

I just noticed that Harvey Weinstein and his brother were executive producers of this series.

[@giascott-heron]

😫 Noooo! Not this too!! Ruin my childhood why don’t you? 🥺

[@Socialbiter]

they just produced it to be in America\ in English ... they didn't create the series

[@FreddyFernandoGonzalez1987]

The bunny is so cute 🥰 and cunning

[@bloodshotmoonlightOFFICAL]

6:14 *music intensifies*

[@DaryckReese300]

The Trolls, They Be Petrified by Sunlight.

[@DJ_Black_Tourmaline]

this fox is mvp like every time

[@nunyabuizness2953]

Do they really have snakes that huge in that region of the world? Going by the rabbit's size that snake looks like it could take down a large mammal like a dog or even a human.

[@pompe221]

And at one point it looked like it could swallow Swift in one gulp. What is it -- a megaconda?

[@benparson4526]

Please hurry David

[@brentfry8961]

the World of David the Gnome episode 04 baby troll part 1 baby troll part 2 baby troll part 3

[@Hazel.Eyed.Gemini]

David could twerk

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

21:32 - 21:27 hahahahaha

[@mikefarmer9165]

Round up

[@jaslynkingston7533]

No it all snide red hat poser just using swift for personal transportation offers Swift no food or water

[@odiumimbues]

lmao

[@ImCurrentlyNaked]

Hopefully that naughty strawberry thief learnt a lesson! (also, it's so silly that he knew that a flower, that no one else knew the location of or had ever found, was the only cure for the pesticide)

[@mikefarmer9165]

It's a cartoon

[@ImCurrentlyNaked]

@@mikefarmer9165 And that excuses odd plot/story inconsistencies because...?