- This is me, eliza thornberry,
Part of your average family.
I got a dad, a mom, and a sister.
There is donnie-- we found him--
And darwin-- he found us.
Oh, yeah, about our house:
It moves, 'cause we travel all over the world.
You see, my dad hosts this nature show,
And my mom sh**t it.
Okay, so we're not that average,
And between you and me, something amazing happened,
And now I can talk to animals.
It's really cool, but totally secret.
And you know what?
Life's never been the same.
[Yelling]
[Upbeat tropical music]
♪
- Marianne, children, somewhere along this magnificent river,
We will find the solitary russian lynx.
- Great, dad.
Somewhere along this river,
I will finally and completely lose my mind.
- Ah, that must be the quaint hamlet
Of bolshoi koty.
- You don't mean thebolshoi koty?
- Well, I shouldn't think there would be two.
Still, one never knows.
There are many a town called columbus in america.
[Laughs]
- Dad, forget the geography lesson.
That's the town where the slavniks
Held their benefit concert!
- Who are the slavniks?
- Only the best band in all of russia.
They had a concert in bolshoi koty
To save some furry animal.
- Really? The endangered barguzin sable?
- Yeah, whatever.
The point is the only place
You can get the cd from their concert
Is in that town!
So can we go?
- I wish we could, honey,
But we have only one day to film the lynx.
- Can't you use some other cat footage instead?
- Heavens, no, deborah!
The lynx has distinct markings,
And cuddly, cute tufts of fur in its ears.
It is adorable.
- Ugh! Fine.
But can it sing?
- Deb, it's your turn.
- Ugh!
How can I play games when I'm being deprived
Of my inalienable rights to music?
- [Sighs]
Cool! Did you guys see that beaver dam?
- Ugh!
How can we even be related?
- Who wants the last piroshki, girls?
- No, thanks, mom. - No, thanks, mom.
- I might be convinced to consume the savory morsel.
- [Chattering]
[Moaning]
- Oh, oh, of course, donnie.
[Cheering]
- [Chattering]
- Nigel, we better pack up.
Girls, don't forget to do your chores.
- Ugh!
Drudgery.
- [Chattering]
- [Laughs]
- Camera equipment?
- Check.
- Canteens?
- Filled.
- Hammock?
Well, it never hurts to be prepared, love.
- Excuse me.
[Grunting]
All cleaned up! See you later!
[Clattering]
Oops. [Laughs]
- My hammock.
Good show.
Oh, you can get in there. I know you can.
- Girls, according to the chore rotation,
You were supposed to clean out the cabinets
And inventory the supplies.
- Oh, yeah.
- Let me see that chart.
- We can't let the emergency supplies run low.
- But we're only here for one day.
- Now, remember what happened the last time
We didn't take inventory?
We had to eat freeze-dried tuna noodle for a week.
- Yuck! - Yuck!
- We also need you to monitor the weather reports
And alert us to any storms.
This region is famous for its unpredictable weather.
- Okay, dad.
- Sure, whatever.
- Bye, girls.
- [Chattering]
- [Grunting]
Oh, thank you, donnie.
- [Cheering and laughing]
- Okay, let's get this over with.
Snowshoes go in the subarctic pile.
Tropics pile.
Hey, these are perfect.
- [Chattering and laughing]
- So how's it going?
- It would be going a lot faster
If you were actually helping.
- I can't work without my music,
And why don't I have my music?
Oh, yeah, because we couldn't stop in town for five minutes
To get my slavniks cd.
[Screams]
Get this thing off of me!
- Deb, it's okay.
It's just a raft.
- Oh, yeah, a raft.
Where are the oars?
- [Chattering]
- Where are you going?
- Back to that town.
- What, where that group had that concert?
It's at least five miles down the river.
- So?
It'll take me, what, like, an hour, tops?
Then I'll help you do the inventory.
In fact, take a little time off yourself.
Go play with your fuzzy woodland creatures.
Who will know the difference?
- [Chattering]
- Come on, donnie.
We're going for a little ride.
Bye!
I'll pick you up a souvenir thermometer or something...
[Laughs]
After I get my cd.
- Bye!
Have fun!
Not as much fun as we're going to have.
Come on, put yours on.
- [Sobbing] oh, no.
[Thunder rumbling]
- Hmm...no sign of anything furry, pointy, or catlike.
Mm, yep, I stand corrected.
We now have furry, even endangered,
But a barguzin sable is no lynx.
- Buck up, dearest.
I'm quite sure we'll find the lynx in this very vicinity.
- Wherever this vicinity is.
- Location being everything and all,
Ours is easily traceable
Via my pocket global positioning satellite.
You see?
[Gasps]
Aha, and, if my eyes serve me,
There's a pair of lynx right there in that thicket.
[Grunting]
- Hey, guys!
- Eliza, you scared them.
- Wait!
I won't hurt you.
- Where? What emergency?
- Sorry, I guess I have to work on my technique.
There's no emergency.
I just wanted to get a tour of your dam.
- Uh, I'm kind of busy.
We've got to finish this dam so no one will see
The tunnel to our lodge.
- Where's that?
I won't tell anyone.
- It's just above the water,
But you have to dive underwater to get to it.
- I've got to see one of those.
Couldn't you just duck out for a little while?
You could catch up when you get back.
Who'll know the difference?
Come on, darwin!
- It's freezing!
- That's why you got to dive right in,
Right...what's your name?
- Kastorsky.
And I don't really have time to show you.
- Oh, it'll just take a minute.
- No, no, no, no, no! Wait!
It is this way.
- I'll just stay here and get used to the water...slowly.
[Screams]
- And so we conclude our segment
On the divinely regal yet hauntingly beautiful lynx,
Who, as you can see,
Take their play every bit as seriously as their hunting.
- Cut!
Great job, honey.
Just in time too.
I don't like the looks of those clouds.
- They do look rather ominous,
But surely the girls would have notified us
If the weather reports indicated any cause for alarm.
- Thank goodness they're both doing chores.
One of them is bound to hear the radio
If the other doesn't.
- [Speaking russian]
A large storm, earlier expected to miss this region,
Has shifted course.
Residents are urged to take shelter immediately.
A flash flood warning is in effect.
I repeat: a flash flood warning is in effect.
- Oh...eliza, it's starting to rain!
- Here they are.
That's the secret entrance.
I'll take you, but then I really have to get back to work.
- Oh!
This is so cool.
- Yes, it is, isn't it?
Twig?
[Thunder booms]
- Uh...sure.
Thanks.
[Laughs]
I'll just save mine for later.
- Kastorsky!
- [Yelps]
[Thunder booms]
[Grunting]
Kastorsky.
Isn't that your section of the dam?
- It's okay!
I can stop it!
[Grunting]
- Oh! No, I can't!
[Coughs]
[Dramatic music]
♪
- Eliza!
Oh, thank goodness you're safe!
- Yeah, you too!
I've got to help them!
[Grunting]
- Kastorsky, forget it!
Get out of there!
- What about your lodges?
[Screams]
- [Laughing]
Donnie, you've got to hand it to the master.
I got the cd, we've only been gone half an hour,
And I was smart enough
To buy this seriously stylish rain ensemble.
- [Chattering]
- Okay...
The water wasn't moving that fast before.
Will someone please tell me
How I'm supposed to paddle upstream in this?
Where is everyone, anyway?
You'd think they were expecting a flood or something.
- Stop the flow!
Pack the twigs in!
Go! Come on!
- Got it.
- A little more reinforcement at the end
Should do the trick.
Oh, don't get me wrong.
I think you're all doing a wonderful job.
- Darwin, help us!
The storm is getting worse!
- Oh, all right.
- Go help kastorsky pack the mud.
I'm going to get more logs.
Hurry! This is their home!
- Oh!
[Grunting]
- Oh, we're not lost, dearest.
We simply continue through the next glen--
- But I'm sure we came from that direction.
- Hmm...curious discrepancy.
But nothing that can't be resolved
With a quick check of the handheld.
It seems the batteries have expired.
- But eliza was supposed to change the batteries
In all the equipment last week.
Well, she wouldn't forget to do the radio.
Thornberry to crombey, come in.
Oh, why do I even bother
Making that chore rotation chart?
- Don't fret.
We'll simply follow the river back.
Hello!
Could we trouble you for the use of a radio,
Or at least some batteries?
Oh, perhaps I should try my russian.
- They'll never hear you in all this rain.
Besides, whoever they are,
They seem to be having a worse time than we are.
- [Grunting]
Donnie, get out here.
- [Chattering]
- No, I am not giving you a ride.
You are going to help push.
Get it?
- [Chattering]
- Oh, nothing is worth
Being this miserable ...
Except the slavniks.
Sorry, guys.
- [Laughing]
- No!
[Thunder booming]
- Wow, I hope debbie and donnie are okay.
- They're probably back at the convey,
Drinking hot chocolate and eating cookies and--
Eliza?
- I know you're wet and hungry.
Look, we just can't go home yet, okay?
- That's okay, because home is coming to us!
- [Gasps]
Oh, no, I left everything outside!
All the stuff is gone!
- Forget the stuff!
What about the convey?
[Dramatic music]
♪
What are you doing?
You can't drive.
- We have to get the convey to higher ground before we--
- Eliza, do something!
- Don't panic.
We'll just put the convey in amphibious mode
And ride out the storm!
- Eliza?
- The compressor's out of air.
Oh, no, I was supposed to fill it!
- What does that mean? Speak chimp!
- It means we're going under!
[Screams]
- We're completely submerged!
- I know!
We can use the air from the scuba tanks
To inflate the raft.
- You mean those scuba tanks?
Oh, there goes the tropics pile.
- Hey, what about the tires?
They're full of air!
- Oh, that's a wonderful idea,
Except for the fact that they're outside and we're in here.
♪
[Coughing]
- [Chattering]
- Ugh!
I can't believe I let eliza talk me into this ridiculous plan
Of taking the raft.
When we get back, the first thing I'm gonna do
Is take a nice, hot shower,
Wrap myself in a warm, comfy robe,
And grab a piping hot cappuccino.
- [Chattering]
- Why is the convey floating by with my sister on top?
[Screams]
- [Chattering]
- Debbie, grab this!
Attach it to the raft's valve!
The convey needs more air!
- But then I won't have a boat!
- We're going to lose the convey
If we don't get it upright!
- Ugh!
[Screams]
- Debbie, hurry!
You're sinking!
- No kidding!
What are you doing?
Get in here!
- Go ahead! I'll be right there!
- Just be careful!
- Kastorsky!
Beavers!
- What's wrong?
Where is the emergency?
- I need to save my home!
I just need something to balance it out.
- Like wood?
- Kastorsky, that's it!
It'll be just like a dam.
Can you pass me that branch?
Then I'm going to need a whole lot more.
- No problem!
- I could swear this is where we left the convey.
[Gasps] the girls!
- Now, don't fret, marianne.
You know the girls are very resourceful.
I'm sure they're on high ground,
Completing the inventory.
Rather, it's us that I'm worried about.
[Laughs]
- You can find humor in this?
- I'm just chuffed at being so well prepared.
- I'm not following.
- You never know when one of these might come in handy.
We'll hunker down here, lovely.
- [Grunting]
- At least we'll have a bird's eye view
To locate the convey.
Come here.
- Oh, I'll just snuggle you.
- You did it!
Thanks, kastorsky, all of you guys!
- Don't mention it.
But we really have to get back to work now.
We've got a whole new dam to build.
- I've got a few things to do myself.
- Okay, bye-bye.
- Okay, everybody back to work.
- Well, I'm just glad you girls are all right.
Things can be replaced.
- I'm sorry, mom.
I just really wanted to see a beaver dam.
- Yeah, me too.
I just wanted the cd.
- Well, it is awfully unlike the two of you
To behave this way,
So I'll only garnish your allowance
For the things you actually lost.
- Hey, I got something!
- Oh, great!
We only have to hook about more things.
- At least most of the gear floats.
- Well, I'll leave you girls to it.
Your father and I are taking the dinghy to shore
To send the lynx footage to the foundation.
- You mean you're going to bolshoi koty?
- Yes.
- Mom, I swear I've learned my lesson.
I will never leave my responsibilities again.
So can I come along and get another copy of my cd?
- I don't think so.
There's still that little matter of the inventory.
- Ready for our voyage, my dear?
- Uh, daddy, there's something I would really like
For you to pick up in town.
- [Laughs] nice try, dear.
The only thing we're getting is batteries.
- Quite right.
I'll see what I can do.
What are they called again?
The slobniks?
- No, no, they're the...
Oh, never mind, dad.
I suppose I'll just have to stay deprived.
- Nigel, what was the name of that band
Debbie likes again?
The bolsheviks?
- Marianne, you're not thinking of--
- Of course I am,
But she's not getting it until her birthday.
- Don't get me wrong.
I think you're all doing a wonderful job.
03x16 - All Work and No Play
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Eliza travels the world with her unusual family, as her parents make wildlife films.
Eliza travels the world with her unusual family, as her parents make wildlife films.