The Toy

The Toy
Episode Information
Season	4 : 1
Episode	79A
Series	157
Airdate	June 20, 2019 July 1, 2019 July 22, 2019 August 5, 2019 August 26, 2019
Production company(s)	Bagdasarian Productions Technicolor
Written by	Janice Karman
Pitched by	Amy Serafin
Viewers	0.72 million (US)
Viewer Rating
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Preceded by	Father Daughter Dance
Followed by	Bloodline
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The Toy is an episode of the ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks series.

Synopsis

Theodore's favorite toy was lost on a rafting trip but then mysteriously shows up at the house, and it's alive.

Plot

At the beginning of the episode, Theodore is sad while with two Alvin and Simon dolls. When Jeanette sees how sad he is, she immediately asks him what's wrong, prompting Theodore to retell the story of the day he lost T2. Soon after, Theodore gets a package which has T2 in it and a note saying he is a special doll. Theodore went up to his room with his brothers and the new doll and reunited T2 with the other two dolls. After leaving the room and coming back later, they came back to see that T2 had fallen over. The next morning, Theodore was surprised to see that even though he had gone to sleep with T2 next to him, he was in a completely different spot in the room. After a few more incidences of T2 moving, one night, Simon decided to put a video camera so they can see if T2 really was moving on his own. The next morning, they saw T2 had moved again. When they checked the tape, something had blocked the camera. This was the final straw for Simon and Alvin, and they decided to stay awake all night, which didn't work because they fell asleep anyway. In the middle of Theodore's dream where all of the toys were alive, a light woke everyone up. They looked around only to see Jeanette, who explained everything. She had sent T2 to be replaced after his accident and had been trying to fix the color of the shoelaces for the past couple of days. The episode concluded when the boys found three toys that didn't belong to them, but they were ones that were alive in Theodore's dream.

Characters

• Alvin Seville
• Simon Seville
• Theodore Seville
• Brittany Miller
• Jeanette Miller
• Eleanor Miller
• Dave Seville
• T2

Songs

• "Best of Buddies"

Trivia

• Disney's Pinocchio is referenced in this episode, mentioned by Theodore.
  • Then later by Simon.
• T2 also appeared in the season one episode A Room of One's Own, and in the season two episode Monster Madness.
• The toy cat that Dave found in the electrical box in Good Luck Mr. Whiskers, the stuffed elk Alvin won in Something's Fishy, the rubber duck from Switch Witch, the toy plane from Wish Upon A Star, and the robot toy from The Paperboy all make brief reappearances.
• Alvin's comment to Theodore, "Loco en la cabeza." is Spanish for "Crazy in the head."
• This episode shares some similarities Disney-Pixar's Toy Story.
  • Ironically, this episode was aired in the US only one day before Toy Story 4 was released in theaters.
• The clip of The Chipmunks in bed with toys moving around their room is included in the third series opening theme, first seen at the start of season five.
• The song in this episode was written by AwkwardMarina.
• Goof: When Theodore sees T2 on the windowsill, the doll isn't smiling and is lacking the two front teeth sticking out of its mouth.
• When this episode premiered in the US, it aired with a rerun of Father Daughter Dance.