♪ Zoboomafoo!With the Kratt brothers ♪
♪ While walkingin the woods one day ♪
♪ Chris and Martin sawsomething strange ♪
♪ A little leaping lemurwho liked to bounce and play ♪
♪ They followed theirnew bouncing friend ♪
♪ Not knowing wherethis adventure would end ♪
♪ The animals were headedjust around the bend ♪
♪ Where they going?I don't know ♪
♪ How do we get there?Come on, let's go ♪
♪ Me and you and Zoboomafoo
♪ Come along andsee what's new ♪
♪ We're doing the thingsthat animals do ♪
♪ New animal friends to see
♪ Animal Junction'sthe place to be ♪
♪ Elephants chargingBaboons are leaping ♪
♪ Wild dogs runningAnd nobody's sleeping ♪
♪ Me and you and Zoboomafoo
♪ Come along andsee what's new ♪
♪ We're doing the thingsthat animals do ♪
♪ Me and you and Zoboomafoo
♪ Come along andsee what's new ♪
♪ At Animal Junctionwe're waiting for you ♪
Zoboomafoo!
[Chris and Martin]:- See if you can put it through
the window, Chris.
- Okay, here goes. Oof!
- Nice one!
- Thanks, bro.
- And it's not just humanswho like to play with balls.
- Lots of creatures like to playwith balls. And all sorts of
ball-like things. How aboutjackals?
- They're having a great time.
And a lot of other creatureslike to play with ball-like
things. They toss them, rollthem over, push them, spit them
out and they bury them. Hey! Doyou wanna help us call Zoboo?
- Come on. Zoboo!
- Zoboo!
- Zoboo!
- There he is. And here hecomes, bouncing like a ball.
- Hey Zoboo! How are you doingbuddy?
- We got a great day going ontoday. Let's go.
- What's your favorite kind ofball, Zoboo?
- Well you know Zoboo, noyacking until he's done some
snacking.
Garbanzo beans!
Hey, Zoboo!
Do you ever play with garbanzobeans or do you just eat them?
Want some? Yeah! There you go.
Well you can't have them all.
Here just take one, justtake one. There you go. Good,
huh? You want another? Allright, just this time. Here I'll
give you another one.
[Together]: He likes those.
- Burp! Excuse me.
Zobooomafoooo!
Ah! voky, voky, voky! Oh hi! Mylittle belly is so voky, it's
round like a ball. Is yours?
- All right Zoboo, so what aboutthe answer to our question. Do
you play with garbanzo beans?
- No I just eat them. I playwith purple basketballs. First
I fake left, then I dribble fora bit and then I and then I...
- Oh! What do you do?
- Coming through!
Zoboo over here.
- Oh yeah! Over to Chris!
- Then I bounce it off the wallto Martin. Coming at you, bro.
- Ally oops, Zob.
- Leap through the air.
He sh**t, he scores.
- Yeah! Great one! That lemurcan really leap.
- Yeah, goal!
- It's not a goal, Zoboo.
- Touch down, touch down, yeah!
- It's not a touch down, Zoboo,it's a basket, and a good one.
- Oh thanks.
- But you don't have to gothrough the hoop with the ball.
- But I like to. It's fun. WellI like my purple basketball,
yep! We're buddies, we like to,oh no, oh no! I got to hide you,
you're in danger, oh no, no, no.
She's coming!
- Who's coming?
- Guys, she's been here before,you got to guess, guess, guess.
Who could it be?
♪ Who could it be? ♪ This animal who I did see
♪ Can you help me guessthis mystery ♪
She was orange with lots ofblack stripes all over
her body.
♪ Who could it be? ♪ This animal who I did see.
... ♪ ♪ ...
And she had big eyesthat could see everything.
Even a bouncing ball!
♪ Who could it be? ♪ This animal who I did see
♪ Can you help me guessthis mystery ♪
- A black-striped,ball pouncing creature.
Do you know who she is?
- All right, so it'ssomebody we know.
- Somebody who's been herebefore.
- I think I know who the who is.
- Do you?
Yeah! Popper the tiger!
- The mystery animal is here.
- Mangatsika! It's Popper. Hi,Popper! Uh-oh! I think I know
what you're looking for.
[Together]: Oh hide the balls!
- Popper loves to pop balls.
- I'm hiding this ball.
- Popper is on the move. Uh-oh!
This is trouble. Popper foundall the balls.
Popper, stop! Popper, please!
Run balls run, hide balls hide.
Popper, not my green one!
Hide balls hide, hide, quickly.
She's looking for another one.
Oh, oh. No, oh no!
No whoa! Oh Mad throw.
- Oh no!
- Popper. Oh no, she popped it.
I told you she never gets voky.
I'm gonna miss that purple ball.
Well, the bad news is she poppedthe ball. It's what she does
best. But the good news isthere's a tiger here. And I love
tigers!
- And Popper loves balls somuch, she likes to play with two
balls at once. She has one inher mouth and she's after
another one.
- I can't believe my mind.
I love tigers, I especially lovePopper, that prowling, pouncing
never gets voky of balls tiger.
But why does she always do that?
- Do what, Zoboo?
- Pop balls.
- Oh that! That's her huntinginstincts in action.
- That's right, the huntinginstinct. It's so much of who a
tiger is, that it just can't becontrolled. You see, a tiger
only catches about one in ten ofall the animals she hunts, so
she always has to be ready tohunt, ready to pounce, she's
always practicing her huntingskills. She's always on the
hunt.
- Where's Popper? I didn't evenhear her go. Where do you think
she went?
- I don't know, Zob, maybe she'sout hunting.
- Oh, well that's why shecouldn't stay, because there is
no hunting in Animal Junction.
But where exactly did she go?
- Well it's hard to say, becausewhen a tiger wants to disappear,
he can really disappear. It'sthose stripes that blend in
anywhere. So I don't know whereshe is.
- I don't know either, but I doknow one thing. Now's my chance
to save all the balls in AnimalJunction before she comes back
and pops them all. You can'tkeep a tiger away from balls,
but you can keep balls away froma tiger.
- That's our Zoboo, the superhero of balls everywhere.
- Oh! That's a great idea, I canbe a super hero and battle for
balls everywhere. Look out forZoboo the Super Lemur! Don't I
need to wear something orsomething? What's that thing
called, hum!
- Ruff, ruff!
- Yeah! that's it, a costume.
Where do I get a costume? Hum!
Yeah! The closet!
♪ I'm going to the closet ♪ I'm going to get a costume
♪ I'm going to the closet ♪ I'm going to hide some balls
♪ Now all the balls are safe with Super Lemur on their side♪
Ha! Ha! Ha!
- Huh?
- Okay, okay, what else, oh amask. Never fear, Zoboo...
Zoboo the Super Lemur is here!
I'm a Super Lemur and I'm hereto help you, balls. I'm gonna
hide you so that no tiger getstheir claws on you EVER AGAIN!
I'll save you balls, Super Lemurto the rescue. The Super Lemur
is here. He defends balls notonly for the sake of the balls
themselves, but for the sake ofball-loving creatures
everywhere. That's right.
I'm Zoboo Super Lemur!
I help balls everywhere!
Hoo! Ha! Ha!
- Hey, Martin, do you thinkthose garbanzo beans were a
little too ripe?
- I don't know, either thator he just really loves those
balls.
- Look at this, this is no placefor a defenseless soccer ball.
We'll have to get you to safetywhere no tiger can find you.
Never fear, Super Lemur is here.
I'll save you, soccer ball, I'llhide you. There. Oh Hi! How am I
doing? Oh thanks, phew! Thissuper hero stuff is tiring. Uh!
Maybe you can help me out andkeep your eyes peeled for any
tigers. Yeah? Oh great, thanks!
Bounce, bounce and away!
Oh no, a tiger! Such a sneakylittle villain, I'm coming.
LEAP.... Oh!
I meant to do that.
The ball popping tiger shouldonly defeat the Super Lemur
this one time.
- Whoa! Popper is playing up astorm. Oh, and he's just getting
started. Look, another tiger!
One thing we forgot to tellZoboo is that tiger cubs are
rarely alone. They're born inlitters of two to three cubs and
they stay together for up to years.
- Well Zoboo's gonna find outsoon that there is another tiger
here.
- Zoboo, we got another tigercub.
- What, another one? I can'tbelieve my mind. Trying to save
these balls is going to be atougher job then I thought.
Oh no! look, oh no, she's comingfor this ball. I'll hide you,
quick hide, oh, oh, no, notagain.
- Did you see that pounce?
- Did you see this slide?
- Easy with that ball, easy,just take it easy with that
ball. One bite with thosepowerful jaws and canines,
goodbye ball.
- I'll save it!
[ Ball bursting ]- Too late, she popped it.
- That's it. Super Lemur isretiring. Even Super Lemur's no
match for tigers with bighunting instincts.
- You got that right, Zoboo. Andtigers aren't the only big cats
with those instincts. All bigcats hunt, because if they don't
hunt, they don't eat.
Like a cheetah. She'll spother prey, sneak up and then...
charge!
Wait not yet, okay now...
CHARGE!
It takes a lot of power, speed,agility and determination to get
your next meal when you're a bigcat out in the wild.
- Those two tiger cubs aresisters, Zoboo. Popper's the one
with the yellow ball, but hersister doesn't have a name yet.
- Hum, Pop-Up. Let's call herPop-Up. And you know what Pop-
Up? With that ball, you remindme of a time in Zobooland. I was
leaping along, leap, leap, leap,leap, leap, leap...
and then I saw something thatmade me not believe my mind.
Baby Zoboomafooasaurus wasthrowing something up and down
with his mouth. And thatsomething was Cy.
- I love playing ball.
Up and down, up and down.
- Stop throwing me, stop!
- Baby Zoboomafooasaurus, that'snot a ball, that's Cy, stop!
- Oh, what? Oh my ball,my ball's bouncing away!
- Someone help me stop BabyZoboomafooasaurus. He thinks
Cy's a ball and he might pophim!
- Oh my, oh my, I'll help Zoboo.
[Together]: We'll help tooZoboo! Stop baby, stop!
- Gooble, help me stop BabyZoboomafooasaurus!
- I want my ball!
- Baby Zoboomafooasaurus,I'm not a ball, I'm a Cy!
- Sorry, Cy.
- The end.
Well, you should playwith Baby Zoboomafooasaurus
sometimes.
♪ I feel different ♪ not the same
♪ This kind of feeling ♪ I can't explain
♪ There's only one thing ♪ I can do
♪ I feel tiger-ish ♪ How about you
♪ Tiger-ish ♪ I feel tiger-ish
♪ Tiger-ish
♪ I'm a tiger striped popper ♪ sharp claws in my paws
♪ Tiger-ish! Looks like Pop-Up
is taking a breakfrom all that playing
- Yeah, you're right Zob.
- I got to think of a way thatwe can play with balls so you
don't pop the balls. I got to goup high and make my mind think
on this. I always do my bestthinking up high in the trees.
- So while Zoboo's off to have athink, let's get to know these
tiger cubs a little better.
- Uh-oh! There goes the soccerball. Here comes your sister!
[ Roaring ]Whoo!
Tigers are one wild cat thatlove water. They love cooling
off in it in hot weather,they like swimming in it and
they hunt in it too. Andit looks like Pop-Up likes to
play soccer in it. Popper reallyloves to play in the water. On a
hot day, a tiger likes to take acool swim. So next time you're
in the water, pretend you'rea tiger.
Check this out. Look atthe stripe pattern on the
tiger's face, every tiger has adifferent stripe pattern. You
got a nice one. Yeah!
- The pattern on each tiger'sface is unique. Take a close
look at Popper's. A tiger's facewith all those stripes is kind
of like a finger print. No twoare ever the same. Look at this,
Pop-Up has two stripes that makea "V", but Popper's are
different, they don't join up.
So, if you look really closely,you can tell the difference
between Pop-Up and Popper.
- Zoboo!
- Zoboo?
- Where did Zoboo go?
- How do I keep Popper and Pop-Up from popping the balls?
Think, think, think, think,think.
- Hey! I've got an idea downhere, Zoboo. You know what,
maybe this ball is one they canplay with without popping. It's
a thick leather basketball.
Let's see. Here catch!
Well she likes it!
But will the ball last,that's the question.
- Depends how strong her teethand claws are.
[ Ball popping ]- They're strong, she popped it.
- Even a basketball isn't safe.
- I know! I've got the answer toour ball popping problem. Okay,
first I need something round,oh! This will be perfect. Yeah,
let's see...
- What's all that racket?
- Is that Zoboo over at the workbench?
- Come on, let's find out.
- Ta-da! It's finished, you wantto play?
- What is it?
- What does it do?
- It's an indestructible superball made especially for playing
with ball-popping tigers.
- Well it looks pretty good.
- And the tigers lookinterested. But first, incoming!
- DUCK!
- It's not a duck, it'sMoonface.
- The barn owl.
- Yeah, see, even Moonface'ssharp claws can't pop this ball.
- And it's a good thing thatthey didn't rip up the message
from the Animal Helpers.
- Hi, guys, hi, Zoboo, Amy here.
My friend just adopted a petpuppy. And one thing we found
out is puppies love to chew.
Don't you boy? He likes to chewso much that a lot of the time
he chews on things that heshouldn't. So we thought, what
are we gonna do about this? Wehave to get him something to
chew on. But what?
Easy! We decided to makethe ultimate chew toy and you
can do it too. Take a rope,and some tennis balls, a rag and
a bone; and anything else that'sokay for a puppy to chew on.
And put it all together likethis. Then it's a perfect toy
for a puppy who loves to chew.
Now the puppy can chew and youdon't have to worry about your
new shoes. Right boy?
Let's go make some more animalfriends.
- I can't believe my mind. TheAnimal Helpers and me had almost
the same idea. Those kids aresmart, almost as smart as
lemurs.
- Looks good, Zoboo, want togive it a try?
- Yeah!
- All right, let's put Zoboo'ssuper ball to the test. Hey
guys, look at this.
- Try to break that one tigers.
- Okay, so far so good.
- It's working!
- I think Poppers giving up.
- Yeah, but now Pop-Up is goingto try.
- Zoboo, they love yourcreation, but they just can't
break it.
- They love it and it's notpopping either. I did it.
- Congratulations, Zoboo,you sure did.
- Thanks.
- Oh, what's that button for?
- No! Not that one. Oh no!
Ooooh!!! Hoohoo!
- Zoboo, hit the stop switch!
- Stop switch? What stop switch?
- What? You didn't build a stopswitch?
- I have a feeling this is goingto take me to where the wild
tigers are.
- ♪ They're going ona cool adventure ♪
♪ And they don't knowwhat's in store ♪
♪ They're comingfrom the closet ♪
♪ And they're headed outthe door ♪
Bye!
- Hold on, Zob!
- We're coming to get you.
- Aaaah!!!
- Zoboo's right. That crazy ballis headed right to where
the tigers are. India!
- Well, according to this radar,he should be straight ahead.
- I'm flying!
- Do you see him?
- Hmmm! Let's see.
- Hi, Brothers!
- Whoo! There he goes.
- Oh, hi vulture! Have you seenany tigers?
- Here he comes.
- Let's follow him.
- Step on it, Martin.
- We're on your trail Zoboo. Nowhe's sailing above the trees.
- How long do you thing he'llstay up there?
- I don't know, Chris,but look down.
- Tiger tracks!
- And they're pretty fresh too.
- That means the tiger'sclose by.
- Tiger claw marks!
- Tiger prey!
- Cheetah alarm call!
- And languor monkeys too. Thatmeans the tiger is really close.
- Time to get back in the Jeep.
- Yeah!
- A tiger...
Straight ahead. Tiger.
- It's a female tiger. She'sthe largest predator in all
of India.
- Here she comes.
[ Roaring ]
- Maybe she has cubs around.
- Maybe. Every time she snarls,she's saying "that's close
enough". We'll stay right here.
- What's she up to now? She doeshave cubs.
- Two of them. Wow!
- You can tell from theirbellies that they just had
a full meal.
- Well that means that mom's agood hunter. Oh yeah! Look at
those bellies.
- Now the tiger can just take asnooze and listen to the sounds
of the forest.
[ Trumpeting ]- Like elephants.
- Whoooo! Brothers!
- And lemurs.
[Together]: Zoboo!
- He's headed back to AnimalJunction.
- Animal Junction, here I come!
I meant to do that. Yeah! Huh!
Oh no! I ended up breaking thesuper ball myself. Oh well,
something else for the tigers toplay with.
- What happened?
- We're too late.
- They popped all the ball!
Wait a second!
- Except this one. It's stillfull of air, it's still
breathing. Wait a second,how can a ball breath?
- Because this ball is no ballat all, it's a balled-up
hedgehog.
- I can't believe my mind!
It's a creature.
- Yeah! An African Pygmyhedgehog. And hedgehogs are
amazing insect-eating diggers.
She's not very fast or verystrong, but she does have a lot
of sharp spines to protecther back.
- I still don't get why sherolls up into a ball.
- It's for protection Zoboo. Notiger would want to pounce and
no elephants would want to stepon a ball of spines.
- Oh a spiny ball! I get it.
- Yeah a lot of animals becomespiny balls. Like an echidna or
a porcupine and lots ofdifferent kinds of sea urchins.
- So she rolls into a ball toprotect herself.
- Right!
- Hey! We needed protectiononce. One time in Zobooland.
I was leaping along, leap, leap,leap, leap, when I got hit
by a snowball.
- Hee, hee, hee. Got you.
- Sensit's little sisters gotGooble, then Noggendrill and Cy.
- Who turned out the lights?
- So I said come on everybody,let's hide behind the rocks!
- I'm wet.
I'm cold.
- They're getting us good Zoboo.
What do we do now?
- Anybody got any idea?
- Then my mind got a mangatsikaidea. Let's hide behind Baby
Zoboomafooasaurus. His skin's sothick, snowballs won't bother
him. He'll protect us.
- Ha, ha, can't get me now.
Nope, nope not now.
- Can't hit me.
Ouch!
- So we were safe behind Baby Z.
The end!
Hmmm! What is that?
That's a crazy looking ball.
- He's not a ball Zoboo. He's athree banded armadillo. And this
little guy has an incredible wayof rolling into a ball.
- I can't believe my mind.
- Look at this. An armadillo hasstiff plates that overlap each
other so that he can roll into atight ball. Look at all that
armor. He has a triangular headplate and tail armor that fit
perfectly so he can wrap up intoa natural super ball.
- Now that's a super ball.
- You know, creatures don't onlyroll into balls for protection,
they also roll into a ball tokeep warm.
- Whoa! Let's put him down andwatch him run.
Look at him go.
I love balled-up creatures.
- And you know what? Me too.
I love this little ball creaturewho won't get hurt. And I love
you too, Armadillo, and Popperand Pop-Up too, my tiger
friends. Hey! Where do you thinkyou're going?
♪ This animal isa friend of mine ♪
♪ From the tip of his noseto his funny behind ♪
♪ All the friendsthat we met today ♪
♪ Are special in their own way ♪ We've all got different names
♪ But we're really all the same♪ Thanks for dropping by
♪ We're glad you came ♪ These animals
are friends of mine ♪♪ They jump and swim
crawl, fly and climb ♪♪ One more thing we have to say
♪ Go make an animalfriend today! Yeah! ♪
- I'm popping home now brothers.
The tigers are on the prowl,so I'm gonna prowl too.
- Just make sure they don'tthink you're a bouncing ball.
- Oh yeah! Thanks. Bye.
- Bye, Zoboomafoo.
- See you later, buddy.
- And we'll see you next time.
- Right here in Animal Junction.
Hey, Chris, let's go sh**t somebaskets.
- Sounds great!
- Hi, my name is Marina and thisis my pet bunny Oliver.
- Hi, we're the Kratt brothers,every creature adventurer knows
you have to be careful aroundanimals.
- Because sometimes an animalcan get a little scared of you
and then she might think she hasto defend herself.
- That's why you should only gonear an animal when an adult
says, "It's okay." Right, Zoboo?
- To find out more about
AND NOW A JOKEFROM ZOBOOMAFOO...
- DID YOU KNOW THATAN ELEPHANT'S TRUNK
IS THE LONGEST NOSEIN THE WORLD?
AND AN ELEPHANT CAN DOALOT WITH THAT TRUNK.
FIRST OF ALL, ANELEPHANT DRINKS
BY SUCKING WATERINTO HER TRUNK
AND THEN SQUIRTING ITUP INTO HER MOUTH.
AND WHEN SHEGOES SWIMMING,
AN ELEPHANT USES HERTRUNK TO BREATHE.
SHE STICKS IT OUT OF THEWATER JUST LIKE A SNORKEL.
AND OF COURSE, THERE'S NOTHINGBETTER ON A HOT SAVANNAH DAY
THAN A COOLING DUST BATH,
WITH DUST BLOWN OUTBY THAT TRUNK.
- HEY MARTIN.
- YEAH BUDDY.
- HOW ARE A TREE ANDAN ELEPHANT ALIKE?
- TELL ME ZOBOO.
- THEY BOTH HAVE A TRUNK.
WHOA!
- HEY ZOB! IT WASN'T THAT FUNNY!
02x07 - Pop Goes the Tiger
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Each episode has a theme. The arrival of the "mystery animal," generally used as exposition, leads Zoboo, Chris and Martin into a conversation about the animal.
Each episode has a theme. The arrival of the "mystery animal," generally used as exposition, leads Zoboo, Chris and Martin into a conversation about the animal.