Overview:Split into episodes 8, and 9 in syndication: The Fantastic Farmer Gopher Trouble Run time: 10 minutes, 57 seconds. Gum’by goes to Farmer Glenns Ranch to help Pokey. His crops are not growing properly, so Gumby helps in every way he can and finally divides himself into a lot of Gumbys, which go over the fields with many different farm machines. It turns out that the wild growth of the crops is the result of a gopher who In order to feed his large, hungry family, injects roots of corn plants with a chemical that makes them grow into giant ears and roots. Gumby solves the problem by inventing a root machine that makes tasty roots out of weeds.