02x17 - The Deal with Eels / Skip It!

[bunniefuu]

That's me, Fred the house cat.

When my family leaves for the day,

I don't just sit inside watching the world go by.

I become...

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Nature Cat, backyard explorer extraordinaire!

♪ Oh, go go go ♪

Tally ho!

♪ Go go go ♪

Tally ho!

♪ We're climbing up the trees now ♪

♪ We're swinging through the breeze now ♪

♪ We're getting muddy knees now ♪

♪ With Nature Cat ♪

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪

♪ So what are we waiting for? ♪

♪ We're so excited to explore ♪

♪ All that nature has in store with Nature Cat ♪

♪ Go go go Tally ho!

♪ Go go go Tally ho!

♪ He's our favourite nature guide ♪

♪ We just can't wait to get ♪

Outside!

♪ We're swinging through the trees now ♪

♪ We're jumping in the leaves now ♪

♪ We're getting muddy knees now

♪ With Nature Cat!

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat Tally ho!

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪

Tally ho!

Daisy: The Deal With Eels

Squeeks: Okay, listen up everybody.

Tonight's Scary Squeeks 'Story is...

Rum Da Daa!

The Mystery of the Swimming Snake!

Nature Cat: Swimming Snake?!

Squeeks: Yes, my friends,

it's a tale about a slimy snake that swims,

travels thousands of miles, changes color,

even grows teeth.

Where it comes from, nobody knows.

And just as mysteriously as it arrives,

many years later it just... Disappears!

Nature Cat: (Shivers)

Nature Cat: S-s-snakes?

Why does it have to be snakes?

Daisy: Ah! I'm sure it's only a story. Ha...

Right, Squeeks?

Squeeks: No, swimming snakes are real, all right.

Check it out! Yes!

Nature Cat: Woooah!

Hal: Hey, I've seen them, but like, mini versions,

traveling up the stream in Sunset Park, baby.

Nature Cat: What?! They're close by?

Hal: Oh, don't worry, Nature Cat.

They're actually pretty cute.

Nature Cat: Cute? Kittens are cute.

Hal, Daisy, Squeeks you are all cute.

Squeeks: Heh, tell me something I don't know. Heh.

Daisy: But aren't you curious to learn something

new about nature?

Squeeks: Guys, I have an awesome idea!

Let's forget my scary story and go to the stream!

Maybe we can see those critters in person!

Who's with me?

Hal: Oh, me, me, me. Pick me pick me pick me.

Squeeks: Ok, Hal. You're on the squad.

Hal: Yes! You picked me! I didn't see that coming!

Daisy: Oh yeah!

I am always down to learn more about nature.

Nature Cat: Uh ha ho! You want me to come with you to the water

and look for a snake.

Aha! Sure!

Ooo! Just let me check my calendar...

Nature Cat: Oh would you look at that!

Tonight I have a Pilates class.

Or is it a dentist appointment?

Either way, I have somewhere to be.

But you guys have fun.

Toodles!

Daisy: Nature Cat, let's be honest,

since when have you ever turned down a nature adventure?

Nature Cat: Hmm, how about right now.

Squeeks: Aww it's too bad, Nature Cat, because,

I just remembered the swimming snake is looking for true love.

Nature Cat: Did you say...true love?

Nature Cat: True love gets me every time!

Nature Cat: Do not despair!

For I, Nature Cat, will lead a fearless expedition

to locate the mysterious swimming snake!

Tally ho!

Squeeks: So, Hal, this is the spot where you saw the

little snakes heading upstream? Huh?

Hal: Yep. But they're hard to see

so you'll have to watch suuuper closely.

Nature Cat: Wait, yikes here comes something.

Is it the s-s-snake?!

Nature Cat: Ah! Haha! You're not a snake.

Turtle: Obviously, Nature Cat.

Squeeks: Hey-o, Lorraine! What's happenin!

Turtle: Hey, Squeeks. Just hunting for a snack.

You know, the ushe.

Hal: Little snakey creatures, it's me, Hal!

Where are you?

Are you in there little snakey creatures?

Nature Cat: I'm sure Hal just imagined the swimming snakes.

That Hal, he has such a vivid imagination.

Squeeks: Psst. Hey guys, look over there.

Hal: Hey, there they are.

Nature Cat: Those?

But they don't look nearly as scary as that thing

from Squeeks' picture.

Hal: Excuse me, pardon me, teeny tiny snake.

Hi, it's me, Hal.

Fancy seeing you here again.

Hal: Hey, we're trying to find this creature.

And we thought, because you're swimming snakes too,

you might know where we'd find it.

Hal: Okay, good chat.

Yeah, they're not talking.

Daisy: Hmm...We haven't seen these cuties come up for air!

I think I know why!

Look! Those are gills.

That means they can breathe underwater.

That is very cool, and very strange.

Hal: That is strange, Daisy. That is so, so strange.

But just a quick little question here on the strange topic.

Why is that strange exactly?

Daisy: Because snakes are reptiles and don't have gills;

snakes breathe through lungs like we do.

Squeeks: And you know what else is weird?

Those look like fins! Snakes don't have fins.

What's going on?

Squeeks: They're getting away! Follow those snakes!

Daisy: These sure are unusual animals.

How they can swim against the current like that is amazing.

Squeeks: Where'd they go?

Nature Cat: Aha! They're over yonder.

Hal: Where are they?

Daisy: Oh! There they are!

Daisy: Look, they're headed towards a waterfall.

Nature Cat: Looks like the party's over, little snakes.

Hal: Eh, the party looks like it's still raging, Nature Cat.

Squeeks: Woo ho ho!!

Daisy: Whaaaaaat?!

Hal: Oh boy, what do we do now?

Nature Cat: Hold on and brace yourselves, g*ng!

Nature Cat: Tally ho!

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Daisy: They stopped at the pond?

Squeeks: There's something very strange going on.

I mean you got true love and snakes with gills and fins,

spending all of this time in water?

It's all very fishy.

Daisy: Fishy. Squeeks, you may be on to something.

I don't think what we're dealing with here are snakes.

Nature Cat: Ha ha! Right! And I'm not Nature Cat! Ha ha ha!

Daisy: No, Seriously.

Think about it, they have gills and fins,

which fish have and snakes don't.

Nature Cat: So exactly what are you saying?

Daisy: That I think they're fish!

Daisy: Man oh man! It's true!

Fish that looks like a snake.

Look!

Daisy: These here are called "Elvers."

Nature Cat: Elvers? What praytell are those?

Daisy: Hmm... An An elver is a young eel

and eels live in water and are fish.

It says American eels come from the Sargasso Sea.

That's in the Atlantic Ocean. Huh.

Nature Cat: Ahhhh! A snake!

Save me, Hal.

Leslie: Ha ha ha. Hi there. Don't be afraid. Besides,

I'm not a snake. I'm an eel. And eels are fish.

Name's Leslie Eelsen.

Daisy: Wait a second. You're an eel too?

Hal: But you're now a different color.

And a lot bigger!

Squeeks: Oh! Leslie what gorgeous slippery skin!

I take it the slime is for protection?

Leslie: Bingo! It makes me so very hard to catch.

I used to be small, and looked like that,

but after spending lots of time in the pond

I've gotten quite big.

Hal: Wow! You sure must've eaten a lot

to have grown this much!

Daisy: So, if you're an eel.

You didn't always live in this pond?

Leslie: Mhm. Yes. That's right.

Nature Cat: So if you came here from somewhere else,

where did you come from originally?

And what about true love?

Leslie: I can't say for sure where I came from.

But I have a distant memory of hatching from an egg,

then rising close to the ocean's surface.

Then I floated a long way in the salty ocean water.

Daisy: Oh right, the Sargasso Sea.

Oh, but that is so far away from here!

Hal: Well, how'd you get here? How'd you know where to go?

What is going on?

Leslie: The ocean currents carried me

to a distant coastline.

I started to look like this elver,

but I was still transparent.

You could practically see right through me!

Leslie: Then I traveled like it did,

upstream from the salty ocean to freshwater.

Scaling rocks and dams that got in my way and even across land,

until I ended up here.

Hal: A fish walking on land, whoaaaaa.

Squeeks: Wow. Leslie that's insane.

Heh heh, respect thy elvers. Am I right? Heh! Heh!

Hal: Do all eels end up in this pond?

I mean, is this like,

the best eel pond in the world or something?

Leslie: Actually, there are many ponds

where we eels go for food and shelter.

Lakes, streams and rivers, too.

But now, after so many years living in this one spot,

it's time for me to leave.

Nature Cat: To where, may I ask?

Leslie: I can't quite describe it.

All I know is, I'm about ready to head back the way I came

so very long ago.

Nature Cat: So you don't know exactly where you're going.

But why are you going there?

Leslie: I feel that I need to find a mate,

a male eel that will father my offspring.

Hopefully one with a good personality.

Intelligent.

Charming.

Nature Cat: True love!

It's all about true love.

True love gets me every time!

Hal: Oh, I bet you're so excited to find true love!

Leslie: Yes.

My body is already starting to change to prepare for the trip.

I've stopped eating.

My eyes are growing to help me see better in deep water.

And my underbelly is just starting to change

from yellow green to silver.

Squeeks: Ohh, silvery, suave, sophisticated.

Swimming with style. Leslie Eelsen?

Gorgeous!

Leslie: Ha ha, yes I suppose.

But it will also help provide camouflage to help me avoid

sharks and other things that like to eat me.

Squeeks: Right, right, and there's also that.

Yeah, obviously.

Nature Cat: Hmm.

So that would explain why Leslie

and the elver are different colors!

Hal: Will the elver be going with you?

Leslie: No, the elver isn't ready yet.

It needs time to grow up, just as I did.

It may not leave for many years.

Now, if you'll pardon me. Farewell.

Nature Cat: If only we could see where Leslie goes,

to find out how this incredible story ends with true love.

Daisy: Wait! Remember,

Leslie said that she's heading back to where she came from.

Squeeks: The majesty of the Sargasso Sea!

Nature Cat: So that must be where Leslie is going now!

Squeeks: I'm game to follow her if you guys are.

Hal: Oh, I'm always game, baby.

Daisy: Uhh, Nature Cat, to do this,

we're gonna have to travel on water.

Nature Cat: For a story about true love, 'tis worth it.

Onward, and Sargasso Sea-ward!

(upbeat adventurous music)

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Daisy: Leslie looks different.

Squeeks: So so-fish-ticated?

Aha...sorry...

All: Ahh, true love!

Squeeks: Hey, where'd she go!?

Nature Cat: Huh?!

Nature Cat: We've lost track of her.

She's gone!

Oh, to have come all this way, and not know how her story ends

it's just so unfair!

Daisy: Nature Cat, I know it's disappointing.

But did you ever think that maybe, just maybe,

there are some things about nature

that we don't yet understand?

Nature Cat: (Sigh)

Nature Cat: I suppose we can't know everything...

Hal: Ahh yes, the wonders of nature... (Echoes)

Squeeks: Viva la nature!

Squeeks: Farewell, our Leslie Eelsen, wherever you may be.

And stay safe.

Daisy: Ahh, I sure hope she finds true love out there.

Nature Cat: So do I, Daisy.

So do I.

Daisy: Skip it

Nature Cat: Ah, what a perfect day to be at the lake!

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the water is...

Nature Cat: A safe distance away...am I right?

Daisy: Well, what should we do first, guys?

Hal: We could play with Harold, baby!

Squeeks: Or build a sand castle.

Nature Cat: Alright! Squeeks: Yeah!

Hal: Or maybe we could play with me, Harold?

Everyone's favorite.

Daisy: We could fly a kite!

Hal: Oh I know, we could um--

Squeeks: Let me guess, play with Harold?

Hal: Hey! How'd you know I was gonna say that?

Can you read my mind?

Nature Cat: We can do it all, g*ng!

Isn't that right, Rocky?

Nature Cat: My most favorite, loyal rock friend.

No rock is more perfectly sized, more perfectly flat,

more perfectly smooth

or more perfectly perfect than you.

There's nothing that could ruin this perfect day!

Ronald: Oh hello, Nature Cat.

Nature Cat: Ronald!

Ronald: So getting some practice in before the big competition,

huh, Nature Cat?

Nature Cat: What big competition, Ronald?

Ronald: Oh just The-

Fourth Annual Neighborhood Rock Skipping Championship

Of The World, that's taking place today.

Ronald: I've skipped my way to first place

three years in a row. He he he!

But who's counting?

I guess I am! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Ronald: You are competing, aren't you Nature Cat? Hm?

Nature Cat: Competing?

Of course I am!

I skip with my rock all the time.

You could say I'm an expert on the subject.

Watch this!

Nature Cat: Skipping with my rock!

I'm skipping with my rock!

I'm skipping with my rock...

Jimmy/Ronald: Ha! Ha! Ha!

Daisy: Uh, Nature Cat, that's not how you skip a rock.

Nature Cat: It's not? I mean, of course it's not! Ha ha ha..

That was just part of our warm up.

Ah ha ha ha, right, Rocky?

Squeeks: No, Nature Cat.

Skipping rocks is when you throw a rock across the water so it

bounces along the surface before it sinks.

Ronald: Let the champ show you how it's done.

Ronald: Rock me! Jimmy Cat: Here ya go, champ.

Daisy: Man oh man! Look how far it went!

Squeeks: How many times did it skip?

Hal: I ran out of fingers and toes to count with! Uh oh!

Nature Cat: Think that was good? Watch this!

Nature Cat: Uhhhh... Wait!

I can't throw you, Rocky!

How about you watch safely from my pocket.

Squeeks: Okay buddy you got it!

Rock and roll, rock and roll, Nature Cat.

Nature Cat: Huuh!

Ronald: Woo-ee! Mm! Mm! Mm!

Better keep practicing, Nature Cat.

Looks like my victory is set in stone.

Muaha ha ha! Get it? Stone?

Ronald/Jimmy: Ah ha ha ha!

Ronald: I cr*ck myself up!

Nature Cat: Why didn't my rock skip?

Squeeks: Well that was the first time you ever skipped a rock.

With practice...

Ronald: ...lots of practice! Ha ha!

Squeeks: ...you'll be able to win the tournament.

Nature Cat: You're right!

Come on g*ng.

Victory is only a stone's throw away!

Squeeks: You want rocks?

I give you...ROCKS!

Nature Cat: We've hit the rock jackpot!

Great thinking, Squeeks.

Squeeks: There are all different kinds of rocks,

but we need to find the right rock for the job.

Daisy: I bet this rock would probably be good for building

big things like walls and bridges...

Squeeks: Oh! This rock is good for writing on it with chalk.

Wow!

But uh, we're looking for a good rock to skip!

Hal: And these little rocks would probably be good for

...uh...duh, I dunno being little and cute!

Or something?

Nature Cat: Ugh! There are so just many different

sizes and shapes of rocks!

Squeeks: I know, pretty cool, huh?!

I learned about this in my Rock Stars club.

See over time.

Big rocks get broken into smaller rocks by wind

or water or other rocks.

Hal: Wait. So this was once a bigger rock? Ha! Ha!

Say hi to your big brother, little pebble!

"Hey bro!"

Nature Cat: Huh.

But what will make a rock right for the job of skipping across

the water really really far?

Hal: Yeah, how do we find that out?

Daisy: By skipping lots and lots of different kinds of rocks.

Squeeks: Well you don't have to ask me twice.

Nature Cat: Okay g*ng!

Grab as many rocks as you can carry.

Tally ho!

Daisy: Okay, let's first test the size of these rocks!

Nature Cat: Rocks at the ready...

Squeeks: Little pebble ready!

(splish)

Daisy: Medium size stone ready!

(splish, splish, splash)

Hal: Bigger rock ready!

(splish, splash)

Nature Cat: And even bigger rock ready!

(splash!)

Nature Cat: Ahhh! My rock didn't even skip once!

Hal: But Daisy, your rock skipped the most

and went the farthest.

Nature Cat: What kind of rock did you throw?

Daisy: I'd say it was kinda like this.

Daisy: Medium sized.

Not too big, and not to heavy for me.

Nature Cat: Yes, yes! Not to big or heavy for us!

Tally ho!!

Squeeks: I got a medium sized rock for me!

Nature Cat: So do I!

Daisy: Me too!

Hal: Me too too as well as well!

Nature Cat: Now... onward and throw-ward!

Daisy: Eyahh!

Squeeks: Huup!

Nature Cat: Huup!

(splash)

Hal: Yuuup!

(splish, splish, splish, splish, splash)

Hal: Hey, mine skipped five times!

Nature Cat: Hmm... But we all used medium size rocks!

Squeeks: Yeah, big dog,

why did yours skip so much better than ours!?

Hal: Well, mine had a flat bottom...so that might help?

Daisy: Hey wait, that's right!

My first rock was pretty flat too!

Nature Cat: Sounds like we just narrowed our rock search, g*ng!

Medium sized, flat rocks!

Nature Cat: Got one! Daisy: Found one!

Squeeks: Me too! Hal: Me too too as well too too!

Daisy: Okay, so we each have a rock that is not too heavy,

not too light but just the right size for each of us AND

is pretty flat.

Squeeks: Yeah, but look!

Mine is round, yours is really jagged,

yours is long and skinny.

Do you think the shape of the rock matters, too?

Nature Cat: Only one way to find out, g*ng!

All: Ready!

Nature Cat: Now, let em fly!

(splish, splish)

(splish, splish)

(splish, splish)

(splash)

Nature Cat: Ugh! Mine just sunk again!

Daisy: But Squeeks' rock skipped the most number of times!

Squeeks: It was like this one!

Flat and smooth!

Shape didn't seem to have much to do with it.

Daisy: So maybe flat, smooth rocks

that are not too big and not too small skip the best.

Nature Cat: We need to test more of these flat, smooth,

medium shaped rocks!

Nature Cat: Ha ha! Yes,

that is definitely the right shape and size!

Mine just skipped three times!

Ronald: Three times! Oh ho! Wow that's really great, Nature Cat.

Almost as great as... this!

Ronald: Ooof!

(splish, splish, splish, splish)

Jimmy Cat: Yeah ha ha! That'll show 'em champ!

Nature Cat: Ah! But still none of our rocks

went as far as Ronald's.

Ronald: Nope! Never have, never will!

Oh, and it is almost time for the contest to start!

Good luck! Toodle to the oo! Ronald/Jimmy: Ha ha ha ha.

Nature Cat: (Sigh) I'm doomed. Oh come on, Nature Cat!

Need to think think think...

If only it were a flying disc throwing competition.

Hal: Ha ha ha!! Ho he he he!

Daisy: Wow, did you see how that skipped across the ground?

Just like a rock on the water.

Nature Cat: Hmm...

Daisy: Just throw your rock like you throw Harold!

Waist level, using your wrist to give it a spin!

(splish, splish, splish, splish)

Nature Cat: I'm getting better!

Mc Ferret: The competition is about to begin!

Skippers, to the stage! Haha!

Nature Cat: Let's skip!

Aye-what!

Mc Ferret: Welcome to the Fourth Annual Neighborhood Rock

Skipping Championship of the World!

Are you ready to rock?

Skip rocks, that is! Ha ha ha!

Crowd: Yeah! Woowhoo!

Mc Ferret: Skippers, take your positions.

Mc Ferret: In ... ... !

Throw-waah!

(splish, splish, splish, splish)

(splish, splish)

Mc Ferret: And the winner is...

Wow!? Hold your horses everyone!

I can't believe it! We have a tie!

Ronald/Nature Cat: A tie?!

Nooo!

Mc Ferret: That's right! Nature Cat and Ronald

skipped their rocks the same distance.

Looks like we'll have to go to a tie breaker!

One final throw!

Ronald: Hm, beginner's luck!

Jimmy Cat: Go get 'em, champ!

Ha ha!

Nature Cat: I need another rock.

And not just any rock, the right rock for the job.

Squeeks: I don't see any more around here!

Ronald: Pretty hard to compete if you don't have a rock,

Huh, Nature Cat? Guess they'll just have to crown me

the rock skipping champion.

Again! Ha ha ha ha!

Nature Cat: Hmm...I just need a flat, smooth, medium size

Wait. I have the most perfectly sized, most perfectly flat,

most perfectly smooth,

most perfectly perfect rock there ever was.

Daisy: Rocky? But Nature Cat, you love rocky!

You can't throw him!

Nature Cat: I do, love you, Rocky.

But as the saying goes.

If you love something, let it skip across the lake.

Goodbye, Rocky!

Okay Ronald, let's do this!

Mc Ferret: Competitors, take your marks!

Mc Ferret: ...

Mc Ferret: ...

Mc Ferret: !

Nature Cat: Tally throoooow!

(splish, splish, splish, splish)

Crowd: (Gasps)

(splish, splish, splish, splish)

(splish, splish, splish, splish)

(splish, splish, splish, splish)

Mc Ferret: Nature Cat wins! Ha ha ha ha ha!

Crowd: Hurray!

Mc Ferret: Give it up for our new rock skipping champion,

Nature Cat! Ha ha ha! Ahh yayeah!

Crowd: Woowhoo! Yeah!

Daisy: You did it Nature Cat!

Nature Cat: No we did it!

I couldn't have done it without you guys!

Daisy: What do you say we keep skipping rocks?

Nature Cat: Come on g*ng.

Let's rock!

Announcer: Nature Cat, Squeeks, Daisy,

and Hal are cartoon characters

and not real animals.

To keep all of our animal friends safe,

check with a grown up before you bring a pet

on your next nature adventure.

Whoa!

Ha ha!

(theme song)

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