The Magic Roundabout (film) carousel. He goes so far as to place a tack in the road to pop a sweet cart's tyre, thinking to be rewarded for watching the cart. After convincing the driver, Mr. Grimsdale to leave, Dougal accidentally starts the cart up again and causes it to crash into the titular magic roundabout at the centre of the village. Zeebad from Zebedee's nightmare emerges from the top and flies away, followed shortly after by a Foot Guard figurine that is thrown off the roundabout. The roundabout freezes over, trapping repairman Mr. Rusty, Dougal's young owner Florence, and two other children named
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane her mother, her landlord, and the molester. Writer Anthony Synnott placed "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" in a trend of sexualizing children in film, calling Rynn the "murdering nymphet" and comparing her to Foster's child prostitute character Iris in "Taxi Driver" (1976). Anthony Cortese also referred to Foster as giving an "encore performance" of "Taxi Driver", calling Rynn "a 13-year-old imp of maturing sexuality". Scholar Andrew Scahill described it as fitting a cinematic narrative of children in rebellion, one in which the child appears seemly, as with "The Innocents" (1961), "The Omen" (1976) and others. The genre