Curse of the Weredeer

"Curse of the Weredeer" is the Halloween-centered episode of Bambi, the seventh episode of its second season, and the fifty-first episode overall. It first aired on October 28, 2000, on ABC as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning.

Summary
When a werewolf bites Bambi one night, the entire forest fears that there's a weredeer on the loose, but he and his friends don't seem to know about the events that have occurred that night. However, their fears are soon realized when Bambi becomes a weredeer at full moon! Can Thumper and his friends try to cure Bambi and restore him back to his deer fawn self, or will Bambi's friends succumb to their werewolf curse when the full moon rises?

Plot
One night in the meadow, Bambi and Thumper are lost and are trying to find their way back when they heard the cry of a werewolf, then noticed a full moon in the sky, becoming scared as the werewolf starts circling around them, hoping to bite its next victim. Bambi and Thumper, both worried that they might get bit, run away from the werewolf, as it starts chasing after them. While trying to escape, Thumper hits a tree trunk and falls off Bambi, as he is nearly at the mercy of the werewolf. Bambi realizes this, and pushes the rabbit away to save him, only to get bit himself in the process. As Bambi recovers, he sees the full moon and runs off to a spot where Thumper can't see his transformation easily, and can only get a glimpse of his new form, leaving the rabbit shocked.

The next day, the entire forest claims to have seen a werewolf-like deer with claws, sharp teeth, and he even howls at the moon. Thumper tries to deduce Bambi was the weredeer, but his friends don't believe him, as they think that it's just the cry of a werewolf. Bambi arrives at the scene, wondering if a weredeer was let loose by accident, unaware that he is a weredeer thanks to what happened last night. However, he doesn't get any responses, so he just assumes that a random deer must've got bitten by a werewolf, and The Great Prince determines that they must be more careful if they don't want to get bit by the weredeer and become a werecreature themselves. That night, as Bambi is trying to sleep peacefully, he slowly wakes up to see the moon, but even though it's not full, he's still concerned about how frightened his friends would be to see him become the weredeer at full moon.

The next morning, Bambi meets up with Thumper and Kitsune, but is looking tired, as if he didn't sleep well last night. When Thumper asks him why he's looking a bit sleepy, the deer replies that he just can't stop thinking about what would happen when the full moon arrives. Bambi tries to reveal that he got bit by a werewolf, but he couldn't bring himself to do it, and instead decided to rest up before he can play with them. This makes the rabbit and fox more worried than ever, as he may be hiding something from them, so they decide to enlist Friend Owl to spy on him and see if there's anything off about the deer.

As the days passed, Bambi becomes more and more afraid, leaving Friend Owl to believe that Bambi might be under a curse. The following day, he tells the other forest animals that Bambi is under a curse, and that they could be in danger, so the Great Prince suggests to them all that they should be careful out there tonight. Later that evening, as sunset turns to night time, Bambi struggles to return home, fearing that he might reveal his weredeer form to his friends, when Thumper, Flower and Faline arrive to ask what he is doing in the middle of the forest at nighttime. As they try to reassure him that it's safe to return, he just refutes them until he gets exposed to the full moon light, causing him to transform into the fabled weredeer and reveal his curse to them, shocking the three non-werecreatures as the weredeer, Bambi, proceeds to howl at the moon.

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Production
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US

 * Disney's Frightening Halloween (DVD)
 * Disney TV Halloween Favorites (DVD)
 * Bambi: The Complete Second Season (DVD)

Reception
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