Jake: (yawns) Now, let’s see what’s in the kitchen with Yves St. La Roche.
(cuts to Yves in his kitchen)
Yves: Bonjour, bonjour little animals out there! Tonight, to help wake up our friends, we will make two types of animal-friendly energy drinks: One with chocolate for Stinky and Bunnie, and another with pineapple for Stinky and Armstrong. First up is your bear drink, which is just like coffee but with chocolate syrup instead of cocoa beans. Luckily, I already brewed up a batch during the pangolin review. (takes out coffee) As for your skunk and hawk drink, you simply take a pineapple (takes out a pineapple), squeeze the juice out of the pineapple (gets out a corkscrew to get the juice out of the pineapple, and places a glass underneath the hole in the pineapple), mix it with water, and viola! You have drinks to perk up bears, skunks, and hawks! I’ll give them to Bunnie and Armstrong first since the little Stinker is nocturnal.
(cuts back to Stinky and Jake, though the latter is sleeping)
Stinky: And now, all the way from Madagascar, please welcome Maska the Fossa!
Masaka: Good evening, Stinky. Why is Jake sleeping?
Jake: He’s not used to night life. (Yves St La Roche walks over to Jake)
Yves: I know how to wake him up. (opens up Jake’s mouth and pours coffee down his throat, making him jolt awake)
Jake: Huh, huh? What did I miss?
Masaka: I’m your guest, Masaka the Fossa.
Jake: A fossa! Can we see clips, please!
Maska: Ask and you shall receive.
Stinky: You look like a cat, but does that mean you’re not a cat?
Masaka: How did you know?
Jake: He’s been taking a course on convergent evolution. Tell me Masaka- What do fossas eat?
Masaka: We like to eat lemurs, like these.
Stinky: Lemurs?! Like Billy-Bob and Mel?
Masaka: Who?
Jake: They were aye-ayes we had on the show before.
Masaka: Yes, we may eat aye-ayes, but they’re hard to come by.
Jake: Can you tell us more about fossas?
Masaka: Similar to lemurs, we use our long tails to grab tree branches.
We’re also the largest carnivorous mammals on Madagascar. Only the nile crocodile and boa constrictors are bigger than fossas.
Sorry, but that’s everything I can share with you. We prefer to keep ourselves reclusive in case humans are watching.
Jake: Does that mean you don’t want to sing for us?
Masaka: That I can do.
Jake: And now, here’s Masaka the Fossa singing ‘Good Things Happen In the Dark’.
Masaka: Good things happen in the dark
Good things happen in the dark!
When you notice the daylight starts to fade
There’s no reason to ever be afraid!
Take my advice, nighttime can be very nice!
Stinky: Good things happen in the dark!
Masaka: Sing a song of fireflies
And then the stars above
Because darkness brings so many things
So many things to love!
And to eat.
Stinky and Maska: Good things happen in the dark
Good things happen in the dark!
(cuts to Bunnie and Armstrong)
Bunnie: And now, it’s time for the Animal Awards! Tonight, the Award for the Longest Sleeper. Could it be… the lion?
Armstrong: The snail?
Bunnie: The koala?
Armstrong: Or the grizzly bear?
Bunnie: And the winner is, the snail, which can sleep for as long as three years!
Armstrong: That’s a long time! Speaking of which, I need to catch some Zs. Hawks need up to 12 hours of sleep, you know.
(cuts back to Stinky and Jake)
Jake: And now, it’s time for a story. It’s an old favorite with Percy the Pangolin.
Stinky: Is Pemalu still here?
Jake: No, she’s back in Southeast Asia. “Once upon a time, there was a pangolin named Percy. One day, Percy set out to prove that he, Percy Pangolin, could eat more ants than anyone. You see, Percy had the stickiest tongue in the whole wide world. He knew he could do it, so Percy started slurping. Slurp! He got 20 ants. Slurp slurp! He got 57. Slurp, slurp, slurp, he got 982 ants! But it still wasn’t enough, so he slurped some more. ‘If I want to be a real record breaker, I have to slurp more ants.’ Well, Percy the Pangolin slurped and slurped and slurped until he’d slurped every bit of that log inside and out, and when he was done, Percy jad set a new record for eating the most ants. And now, he has the stickiest tongue in the world and the biggest tummy ache anywhere. The end.”
Stinky: That’s a good story, Jake.
(cuts to Bunnie in front of the habitat door)
Bunnie: It’s Habitat Time, but I have no one to accompany me. (Maska walks by) Masaka! Do you suppose you could accompany me while I visit the Congo Jungle?
Masaka: The Congo Jungle? Where’s that?
Bunnie: In mainland Africa!
Masaka: Africa? Sure, I always wanted to see what it’s like beyond Madagascar. Maybe the animals there are as tasty as lemurs!
Bunnie: Sorry, Maska. We can’t hurt any animal we see on Habitat Time. (opens the door, and the two
end up in the Congo Jungle)
Welcome to the Congo Jungle, which is located in the middle of Africa. In fact, humans call Congo
the Heart of Africa!
Masaka: Ooh, is that a lemur? I forgot to have lunch!
Bunnie: No, but you’re close. That’s a potto, which is closely related to the lemur. Just like lemurs,
pottos live in trees and eat bugs. They also have amazing eyesight and can turn their head 180 degrees
like an owl.
And here’s another lemur relative- the bushbaby! When threatened, they will freeze like ice and then
try to escape unnoticed. Bushbabies are also called galagos.
Masaka: Can I eat that galago?
Bunnie: No! As soon as we see three more animals and return to the studio, we’ll send you back to
Africa.
Masaka: I definitely know what that animal is- a tenrec!
Bunnie: Super close, but that’s an African forest hedgehog. Like their cousins the tenrecs, hedgehogs
roll into a prickly ball when threatened.
Masaka: Don’t remind me.
Is that a mongoose?
Bunnie: For once, you’re actually right! You probably know this already, but mongooses are famous
for killing and eating snakes!
I don’t think I’ve seen that creature before.
Bunnie: That’s a serval, a wildcat native to Africa. It prefers to live among reeds and rushes fringing
wetlands, where it hunts rats, birds, and lizards.
Masaka: STOP TALKING ABOUT FOOD! I'M STARVING!
Bunnie: You’re just as bad as Armstrong.
(Bunnie and Masaka leave Tasmania and head back to the Animal Show studio)
Bunnie: For Habitat Time, it’s Bunnie Bear-
Maskaka: And Masaka the Fossa.
Bunnie Just back from the Congo Jung- (gets interrupted by Yves St. La Roche holding chicken nuggets)
Yves: Bonjour, Masaka! I overheard that you’re hungry, so I cooked you up chicken nuggets!
Masaka: Thank you so much! (devours the nuggets hastily) Not as good as lemur, but will do in a pinch.
(Tizzy flies around Stinky and Jake again)
Tizzy: Tizzy here! Time for a quiz! (cuts to the screen below)
Which of these animals is the fossa related to? The mongoose, the hyena, the serval, or the weasel?
Give it a think. Back in a buzz!
(cuts back to Stinky and Jake, who are trying to figure out the answer)
Jake: It has a long body and tail. It must be related to the weasel!
Tizzy: Ding-dong. You’re wrong. (flies back to the previous screen) Which of these animals is
related to the fossa? It’s the mongoose! Bee-lieve it, because it’s true!
Jake: Thanks for the quiz, Tizzy. That's all the time we have tonight, and until next time, keep
seeing the world through the eyes of animals. Bye!
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