Dr. Slump Manga, volumes 3 and 4

Volume 3

Arale and Gatchan run into a young girl. Gatchan disintegrates a tree. They later go to the girl's house and Arale and Gatchan get dressed up. In a way. In a very strange way.

Senei gets in trouble with a lady cop so he makes an invisibility potion to try to get even. He leaves his underwear showing, though, and a bunch of funny things happen.

A couple of aliens are on their way to take over the earth. They capture Arale and Gatchan. They should have known better. Of course, their butts are on the tops of their heads along with their nostrils, and one of them uses a Brooklyn accent, so they aren't your typical space aliens.

They blow up Mars but before they can do anything to the Earth, Gatchan eats their spaceship.Senbei offers to make then new transportation, but it turns out to be a car.

Arale swallows a mole cricket and starts behaving like a normal girl. Everyone is concerned but things return to normal when the cricket escapes.

Senbei finds a videotape from his father that has instructions on how to make a love potion. He needs to go to Wonder Island to get an ingredient. They confront an ogre king, make the potion, Arale spills it, and a tree falls in love with Senbei.

Senbei invents a machine that can put a person into a book and live out the events in the book, so Arale and Gatchan immediately try it out. It's Momotaro, the Peach Boy story.

Akane and Arale plan to play a joke on Senbei by having Akane dress up to look like Midori, the teacher. This is followed by a funny section where Midori has the kids in class do good deeds.

Suppaman makes his appearance. He 'flies' while riding on a skateboard on his belly. He has a terrible personality. Later he encounters Arale and Gatchan and finds he can't do anything better than they can. Then there's a funny section where Arale goes shopping for ramen and returns with a bra.

Volume 4

(There are various extras in the manga as normal.)

The Attack of Dodongadon is next. The adults are scared (that is, the adults that aren't selling snacks to the onlookers), but Arale and Gatchan aren't and are playing with the monster which is beginning to wish it hadn't shown up in the first place.

Things get much worse for the monster. Much worse. After that Gatchan has her own cute story. The next story has Arale at the zoo where she and Gatchan confront a tiger. The tiger is fierce. Arale is fiercer.

Dr. Slump is going on a date with Midori. In outer space. Meanwhile the two space aliens from an earlier issue plan to hijack his spaceship. They hijack a toilet, instead.

Meanwhile, in space, Dr. Slump has to use the restroom so they land on a star (?), encounter a monster that nearly eats Midori, who Dr. Slump changes into an ant and stomps her. Accidentally.

They land back on earth, but fifty years in the future. Supposedly.

A gang boss confronts Arale and then decides he wants to go on a date with her. Big mistake. For the boss.

Parzan, King of the Jungle, makes his appearance. He encounters Arale. He loses.

Dr. Slump tries to pass himself off as Santa Claus. Without much success.