The Animal Show- Babirusa and Narwhal Part 2

 Jake: And now, let’s see what’s cooking in the kitchen with Yves St. La Roche.

(cuts to Yves in his kitchen)

Yves: Bonjour, bonjour little animals out there! If any of you are either fish, shrimp, or cephalopods, change the channel and watch Dog City, instead. For today’s dish, we need 50 pounds of Greenland halibut, 50 pounds of Arctic cod, 50 pounds of shrimp, and 50 pounds of Gonatus squid. I placed an order earlier today, but Lawrence hasn’t shown up yet. (Lawrence the Orangutan walks over with 50 pounds of shrimp)

Lawrence: Here you go, Yves! 50 pounds of shrimp. Do you have the money?

Yves: Oui, I have a credit card with 1,000 dollars on it. Mommy gave it to me as a birthday present!

Lawrence: Okay, but you better get the barrels ready. Here come the fish! (fish and squid fall from the sky)

Yves: Who dropped those things? Vultures?

Lawrence: Actually, it was a flock of albatrosses. What are the fish for, anyway? Roaches don’t eat fish.

Yves: It’s for the guest, who happens to eat fish. Anyway, we take the seafood, put it in a pot, and serve it to the narwhal ice-cold!

Lawrence: (looks at the camera) Can we cut back to Stinky and Jake?

(cuts back to Stinky and Jake)

Jake: And now, all the way from the Arctic Circle…

Stinky: Circle.

Jake: Please welcome Bastilla the Narwhal!

(FanFair plays, but no one appears)

Stinky: Where’s Bastilla?

Bastilla: I’m in the back in this tank! (Stinky and Jake walk over to see Bastilla)

Jake, is that you?

Jake: Yes, Bastilla! It’s me!

Stinky: You’re a narwhal? But where’s your horn?

Bastillo:  Number 1, they’re called tusks. And number 2, only female narwhals have tusks. By the way, where’s the food?

Yves: Here it is! (dumps the pot into the tank)

Bastilla: Thanks, I’m starving! (sucks up the food like a vacuum)

Stinky: That’s how narwhals eat their food? I thought they used their horns to skewer fish!

Bastilla: We don’t use our tusks to skewer fish! That’s just silly.

Stinky: Then what do you use it for?

Bastilla: Stunning fish, like here.

Jake: I’ve been around narwhals since I was a cub, and I’ve never seen you do that!

Bastilla: That’s because we keep it a secret.

Stinky: Tell us more about the tusks!

Bastilla: Of course! Narwhals also use their tusks to break ice and fight other males. However, a narwhal's tusk, which can measure up to 10 feet long, is also rather sensitive.

Stinky: Ten feet!? I’d hate to see the dental bill.

Jake: Do you suppose you could sing us a song, Bastilla?

Bastilla: Sorry, but that’s a no. I might break the glass.

Jake: That’s okay. Instead, here’s a clip of Endangered marine animals set to the song ‘Saying Goodbye.’

Disembodied voice: Saying goodbye, going away

Seems like goodbye’s such a hard thing to say

Touching a hand, wondering why

It’s time for saying goodbye

Saying goodbye, why is it sad?

Makes us remember the good times we’ve had

Much more to say, foolish to try

It’s time for saying goodbye

Don’t want to leave, but we all know

Sometimes it’s better to go

Somehow I know, we’ll meet again

Not sure quite where, and I’m not sure quite when

You’re in my heart, so until then

It’s time for saying goodbye

La la la la, la la la la

It’s time for saying goodbye. (cuts back to Stinky and Jake, with Stinky taking off his tusks so he can cry)

Jake: Stinky, why are you crying? There’s still hope!

Stinky: There’s hope?

Jake: Yes! As well as conservation, humans are also working on machines that will bring back extinct animals.

Stinky: I just hope they don’t use it on dinosaurs.

Bunnie: And now it’s time for the Animal Awards! Today, the animal with the strongest bite. Could it be… the saltwater crocodile?

Armstrong: The great white shark?

Bunnie: The hippo?

Armstrong: Or the jaguar?

Bunnie: And the winner is.. The saltwater crocodile, which has a bite force of 3,700 pounds per square inch!

Armstrong: Ouch! Good thing there are no saltwater crocs around here.

Bunnie: Back to you Stinky and Jake!

(cut back to Stinky and Jake)

Jake: And now, it’s time for a story. This is about an animal with tusks- a walrus. “Once upon a time, there was a walrus named Kalt. Kalt lived in the tundras of Greenland, and he was sick of doing what other walruses do: Swim into the cold ocean to eat clams. One day, Kalt noticed that the sun was shining, so he decided to lie on his stomach and sunbathe. The other walruses called him strange, since it was unusual for a walrus to sunbathe in cold weather. ‘You’re absurd for sunbathing!’ Said one of the walruses. ‘That’s something landbubbers do in the South!’ ‘I was just trying to do something different for once.’ Replied Kalt. ‘Besides, we eat up to 800 clams a day! We could go on a diet once in a while.’ And so, the other walruses decided to join Kalt in sunbathing, and they actually liked it! ‘I could get used to this.’ Said another walrus. The end.”

Stinky: Is that how walruses started sunbathing?

Jake: Not really, but that’s something a human would speculate about.

(cut to Armstrong and Bunnie in front of the habitat door)

Bunnie: Okay, Armstrong. It’s Habitat Time, and today, we’re going to Australia!

Armstrong: What are you talking about? There are no tusked animals in Australia!

Bunnie: You’ll be surprised, Armstrong. (opens the door) Come on, let’s go!

Many people call Australia the land down under because it’s found underneath the Equator!

Armstrong: What’s a pig doing here? He’s supposed to be on the farm!

Bunnie: Wild boar were among many animals that were brought to Australia by accident. These also include foxes, camels, rabbits, and cats.

Armstrong: I found a bird!

Bunnie: This is a galah, one of the most widespread birds in Australia.

And here, we have a frilled lizard.

Armstrong: He doesn’t look thrilled to me.

Bunnie: No, not thrilled. Frilled! It’s named after the frill around their neck. When threatened by a predator, this lizard opens its frill like an umbrella to scare them off.

Armstrong: Kind of reminds me of peacocks.

Bunnie: And we can’t have a visit to Australia without kangaroos!

Armstrong: Talk about hopping mad.

Bunnie: Many male kangaroos, like these red kangaroos, fight each other to win the rights of a female.

Armstrong: Why do I feel like I heard this before?

And what is that, a mouse?

Bunnie: That’s not a mouse! That’s a bilby, though it’s also named the rabbit-eared bandicoot. You can guess why it’s called that.

Armstrong: Its habit of eating carrots?

Bunnie: No, because it has long ears like a rabbit!

Armstrong: Can we go home now? We’ve seen our five animals for the day.

Bunnie: You’re no fun.

(Bunnie and Armstrong leave Australia and head back to the Animal Show studio)

Bunnie: For Habitat Time, it’s Bunnie Bear-

Armstrong: And Armstrong the chickenhawk.

Bunnie: Just back from the Outback.

(Tizzy flies around Stinky and Jake again)

Tizzy: Quiz time!

Jake: And what’s the quiz this time?

Tizzy: Well, here it is! (cuts to the screen below)

What's an eerie nickname for the narwhal? Give it a think. Back in a buzz!

(cuts back to Stinky and Jake, who are having a trouble finding the answer)

Jake: Eerie nickname for the narwhal, huh? How about ghost whale?

Stinky: Not crazy enough. How about zombie whale? Or corpse whale?

Tizzy: You’re actually right! An eerie nickname for the narwhal is ‘Corpse Whale’! Bee-lieve it, because it’s true!

Jake: Thanks for the quiz, Tizzy! That’s all the time we have for today, and remember to keep… (Stinky runs over with a box)

Stinky: Look, Jake! I found a box of extra tusks, and it’s just your size! Want to try them on?

Jake: Stinky, you know how silly it is for a polar bear to wear tusks?

Stinky: I’m wearing tusks, and look at me!

Jake: Okay, I’ll try them on. (puts on tusks six-inch tusks) Well, what do you know? These tusks fit me like a glove!

Author's Notes: Stinky trying on tusks is inspired by this scene from the Animal Show episode 'Walrus & Warthog', which had Yves St. La Roche demonstrate how tusks work while wearing them.

Lawrence the Orangutan was an ape who was helped out on two episodes of The Animal Show: 'Pika & Chamois' and 'Rattlesnake'.

'Saying Goodbye' was a song from The Muppets Take Manhattan. After the dogs, frogs, bears, chickens, and whatevers fail to find a financer for Manhattan Melodies, they decide to split up and go their own ways. Here's a link to the song below.

Saying Goodbye - The Muppets Take Manhattan - YouTube

Yes, mankind has found a way to bring extinct animals back to life: The dire wolf, which lived during the Ice Age, was brought back from the 10,000-year grave by using ancient DNA and gene-editing technology, creating hybrid pups with 99.9% gray wolf DNA.

In the next episode, you'll learn about animal superpowers when the guest stars are an electric eel and a basilisk lizard!

The Animal Show- Babirusa and Narwhal Part 1

 Stinky and Jake: Here on the Animal Show.

Here on the Animal Show.

Here on the Animal Show!

Bunnie Bear: From under the ocean, over the clouds, and around the world…

Armstrong the Chickenhawk: Here comes the wild side of wild life.

Bunnie: The Animal Show!

Armstrong: And now, let’s have a wild welcome for your furry friends-

Bunnie: Stinky and Jake!

Stinky and Jake: Now it’s The Animal Show!

Jake: Hello, all you animals out there!

Stinky: I’m Stinky.

Jake: And I’m Jake. And today, we are going to meet the babirusa and the narwhal, both of which are animals that are famous for their tusks! You remember what tusks are, Stinky?

Stinky: Yes I do, Jake! Tusks are teeth that stick out of animals like elephants, warthogs, and walruses!

Jake: Correct, Stinky! Speaking of which, here’s Bunnie with today’s edition of…

Bunnie: That’s amazing! Today, we look at the wooly mammoth!

Armstrong: The wooly mammoth? But isn’t that animal no longer alive?

Bunnie: You are right, Armstrong. Even though it’s extinct, it still had an impressive tusk length of 10 feet! They probably used them to sweep aside snow to reveal frozen grass for it to eat.

Armstrong: Now, that’s something that will make you say…

Stinky and Jake: That’s amazing!

Jake (looking at Stinky, who is wearing small detachable tusks): Stinky, what are you wearing?

Stinky: I want to see what it’s like to wear tusks.

Jake: You never cease to amuse me. And now, all the way from Indonesia…

Stinky: Indonesia.

Jake: Please welcome Kecil the Babirusa!

Kecil: Hi, Stinky. Hi, Jake. It’s a pleasure to be here today.

Stinky: You’re a pig! A big pig.

Kecil: Yes I am. Babirus translates to pig-deer in the Malay language, because our tusks look like antlers.

Jake: Those tusks do look like antlers! What do you use them for?

Kecil: We’re not telling anyone! Humans may be watching. However, they used to think that we used them to fight with.

Jake: Then what do you fight with?

Kecil: Our front legs. Humans and kangaroos call this sport boxing. (Stinky runs into Kecil’s side) Ow!

Stinky: Sorry. I was trying to fight you.

Kecil: You’re lucky it wasn’t a sow.

Stinky: What’s a sow?

Jake: That’s a female pig, Stinky. Like this one.

Kecil: Yep, that’s my girlfriend Lina and my nephew Tongle. They’re looking for food right here.

Stinky: What do you eat?

Kecil: We’ll eat almost anything, such as leaves, fruit, berries, nuts, mushrooms, tree bark, bugs, fish, and even small mammals.

Stinky: Yikes! I hope skunks aren’t on the menu.

Jake: But Stinky, there are no skunks in Southeast Asia.

Stinky: Oh, I knew that.

Kecil: Before I go, can I ask why Stinky is wearing tusks?

Stinky: I want to know what it’s like to have tusks.

Kecil: Interesting. Just try to avoid people at all costs. They love to collect tusks for some reason.

Jake: Well, that’s enough for our first guest. Besides, we’ll see some more pigs with…

Jake and Stinky: Baby talk!

Warthog piglets: Let’s wake up mommy! We need breakfast!

Warthog mommy: There you go children. Drink all you want. Just let me be for a few hours after breakfast.

Warthog piglet: Okay. Lets bug daddy!

What are we digging for, daddy?

Warthog daddy: We’re digging for bugs to eat.

Warthog: Bugs? But we just had breakfast! I’ll see what Sue and Sounder are doing.

Sounder: You’re going down, Sue!

Sue: No, you are!

Sounder: No, you are!

Warthog piglet 1: What do you think they’re doing?

Warthog piglet 2: Maybe it’s something they’ll do later in life.

Tizzy the Bee: Tizzy here. Time for a quiz!

Do all pigs have tusks? Give it a think. Back in a buzz!

(Tizzy flies back to Stinky and Jake, who are trying to find out the answer)

Jake: I’ll have to say no. What do you think, Stinky?

Stinky: But domestic pigs don’t have tusks!

Tizzy: Well, here’s the answer! (flies back to the previous screen) Do all pigs have tusks? Yes, actually, even domestic ones! Bee-lieve it.

Pigs have tusks because it helps them with self-defense, like my stinger. Domestic pigs need their tusks trimmed every 10-12 months to keep people and other animals safe. Just like warthog piglets from Baby Talk earlier, adult male warthogs use their tusks to fight one another, usually for a female.

Bee-lieve it, because it’s true!

The Animal Show- Osprey and Peacock Part 2

 Jake: And now, let’s see what’s cooking in the kitchen with Yves St. La Roche.

(cuts to Yves in his kitchen)

Yves: Bonjour, bonjour little animals out there! Today, in honor of our feathered friends, we will make birdseed cookies. First, we open a can of instant cookie dough. (opens a can of Pillsbury-esque cookie dough) Now, we get the birdseed. (goes to the cupboard to get birdseed) Now, we place the bird seeds inside the cookie dough. (places the seeds inside the cookie dough) Now, we place the cookies in the oven for them to bake. We’ll take them out at the end of the episode!

(cuts back to Armstrong and Jake)

Jake: And now, all the way from India, please welcome Tavi the Peacock!

Tavi: Hi, Jake. Where’s Stinky?

Jake: He’s with my cousin Bunnie for this episode.

Armstrong: What’s with the fancy tail feathers?

Tavi: Just look!

We use our tails to get the attention of peahens. That’s what female peacocks are called.

Armstrong: Do you eat fish, too?

Tavi: Yuck! We wouldn’t be caught dead near fish. We mainly eat grains, berries, insects, and small reptiles and mammals.

Jake: You’re pretty small for a bird. Aren’t you afraid that you might get eaten by tigers, jackals, and civets?

Tavi: We fend off predators the same way we court peahens- Fanning out our tails!

Armstrong: You don’t look that scary.

Tavi: Well, it makes us look bigger. Not to mention that it looks like we have more eyes than we already have. We also have sharp claws on our toes.

Jake: That’s cool, Tavi! Do you suppose you could sing us a song?

Tavi: I’d love to.

Jake: And now, here’s Tavi and Armstrong singing ‘What a Bird’.

Armstrong: What a bird!

Tavi: What a bird!

Armstrong: What a bird!

Tavi: What a bird!

What an absolutely super-duper bird!

Armstrong: I can most most anything, fly the oceans while I sing

Taki: Sing the world my special way

Armstrong: Turn it upside down today!

What a bird!

Tavi: What a bird!

Armstrong: What a bird!

Tavi: What a bird!

Both: Do we really have to add another word?

Tavi: If a friend gets in a scrape

Armstrong: Or gets bent or out of shape

Tavi: We hold out our helping wings

Armstrong: All gets bright with everything

What a bird!

Tavi: What a bird!

Armstrong: What a bird!

Tavi: What a bird!

When you suddenly cannot simply observe?

Armstrong: I can travel anywhere

Tavi: And he does with real flare

Sing at the end of day

Armstrong: Oh, it’s just my way

Tavi: If I want to, I can sing that’s tweet, tweet, tweet!

Both: What a bird, what a bird, what a bird!

(cuts to Bunnie and Stinky)

Bunnie: And now it’s time for the Animal Awards! Today, the award for the fastest flying bird. Could it be… the Peregrine falcon?

Stinky: The golden eagle?

Bunnie: The gray-headed albatross?

Stinky: Or the common swift?

Bunnie: And the winner is… The Peregrine falcon, which can fly up to 242 miles per hour!

Stinky: Sorry that you didn’t win, Armstrong.

Armstrong: That’s okay. Besides, I don’t think I’d win in a race, anyway.

Jake: You’re in luck today, Armstrong! It’s an old favorite with ‘The Cuckoo and the Warbler’. “Once upon a time, there was a cuckoo who found the nest of another bird, a little warbler. Well, the cuckoo took one of the warbler’s eggs out of the nest and put one of her eggs in its place. Now, when the baby cuckoo hatched, it pushed all the other warbler eggs out of the nest. Well, when that mama warbler got back, she was very upset. ‘All my eggs are missing.’ She said. ‘But look, here’s a baby.’ And the momma warbler took care of that baby cuckoo and fed it every day, and the baby cuckoo grew and grew and grew. Now, by the time that young cuckoo grew up, it was much larger than the warbler. ‘Wow!’ Said the momma warbler. ‘This is one big baby’. When the cuckoo got big enough, he flew away to Africa. But it always came back to visit it’s dear loving mother, Momma Warbler. The end.”

Armstrong: That was horrible! Poor warbler chicks. They could’ve died before being hatched!

Jake: Sorry, but that’s what cuckoos do. They lay their eggs in other bird’s nests.

Armstrong: What moochers!

(cut to Stinky and Bunnie in front of the habitat door)

Bunnie: Okay, Stinky. It’s Habitat Time! Today, we’re going to India, and we’re sure to see some amazing birds there.

Stinky: Do you think we’ll find another peacock?

Bunnie: I’m sure we will! Peacocks are very common birds. (opens the door) Let’s go!

This is India, a country so big that it’s sometimes called a subcontinent!

Stinky: Looks like a jungle to me.

Bunnie: That’s because India has quite a few jungles.

Stinky: That looks like Bradley from the climate change episode.

Bunnie: You are so close, Stinky, but that is in fact an Indian stick mantis. It disguises itself as a stick to sneak on other insects!

Bunnie: Ooh, that is a slender loris! That mantis better be careful. Slender lorises love to eat bugs, regardless of their toxicity!

Stinky: You mean it can eat poisonous animals without getting poisoned himself?

Bunnie: Correct!

Bunnie: There’s a cousin of mine- the sloth bear!

Stinky: Is it a sloth or a bear?

Bunnie: A bear. They call it a sloth bear because of its thick claws and unusual teeth. If it makes you feel any better, they’re also called Indian bears.

Stinky: I recognise that bird from last season- That’s a hornbill!

Bunnie: Correct, Stinky! This is a Malabar pied hornbill, and they have homes in India.

Stinky: I didn’t know peacocks can fly!

Bunnie: Yes, Stinky. Peacocks actually can fly, but they prefer to walk.

Stinky: Speaking of flying, I miss Armstrong. Can we go home now?

(Bunnie and Stinky leave India and head back to the Animal Show studio)

Bunnie: For Habitat Time, it’s Bunnie Bear-

Stinky: And Stinky the Skunk.

Bunnie: Just back from India.

(Tizzy flies around Armstrong and Jake again)

Tizzy: Tizzy here! Time for a quiz! (cuts to the screen below)

How does a male riflebird impress a female? Give it a think. Back in a buzz!

(cuts back to Armstrong and Jake, with Armstrong being confident about the question)

Armstrong: I know what it does: A mating dance!

Tizzy: Sorry, but that’s wrong. (flies back to the previous screen) How does a riflebird impress a female? Well, like a peacock, it fans out its feathers, but it ends up almost looking nothing like a bird.

Bee-lieve it, because it’s true!

Jake: Thanks for the quiz, Tizzy! Once again, that’s all the time we have today, and remember to…

Yves St. La Roche: Cookies are done! (hands out birdseed cookies to Jake and Armstrong)

Jake: Thank you, Yves, but I don’t eat seed.

Armstrong: I’d like one. (grabs a cookie with his beak) Hey, not bad. Hey Stinky! Want a cookie!

Stinky: What flavor is it? Chocolate chip? Oatmeal raisin? Nutmeg?

Yves: Seeds. Birdseed.

Stinky: Birdseed? Yuck!

Yves: What? Why, you little stinker! (chases Stinky around the studio)

Jake: Anyway, remember to continue seeing the world through the eyes of animals. Bye!

Author's Notes: As you could probably tell, the ospreys flying for the first time were taken from PBS's YouTube channel.

The song 'What a Bird' was originally from the Sesame Street special '20 Years and Stil Counting'. It was later used in the Animal Show episode 'Koala and Ostrich', though it had different lyrics.

The story of the cuckoo and the warbler was also told in the Animal Show episode 'Koala and Ostrich'.

Animal Show | Koala 🐨 / Ostrich | Jim Henson Family Hub | Kids Cartoon - YouTube

In the next episode, you'll learn about tusks when the guest stars are a babirusa and a narwhal!