Feathered Turtle

**"Feathered Turtle"** is the nineteenth episode of the first season of *Sammy & Co*. It premiered on December 25, 2015, on Netflix.

## Synopsis

The seagulls lure Ricky and Ella to the beach to put them on their dinner menu, and the duo's one seagull ally gets hit on the head by a coconut.

## Plot

The episode begins at the island where Paul, Ringo, and George are all discussing what they should be eating next. Ringo rants that he's sick of eating fish for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which George agrees and he wants to savor a little turtle instead. Paul notices a cage nearby, it gives him an idea to satisfy their hunger. The three seagulls all admire the trap and they suggest that they should trap a turtle inside. Since John isn't around the island, they're going to take advantage of the time they have left to capture the turtles from the reef village for their meal.

At the reef village, Ricky, Ella, Pipo, and Annabel are all playing around near the seaweed garden. Suddenly, Ricky notices a "jellyfish" in front of him so he starts chasing after it. Ella notices that the "jellyfish" is actually a bait and she tries to warn Ricky about it, but her best friend is too busy distracted by it to listen to her. And since Pipo and Annabel both didn't notice that Ricky is being lured by the jellyfish bait and they swim away from them, Ella is forced to follow Ricky to stop him.

On the island, George is luring Ricky to the cage by using the jellyfish bait. Ricky is oblivious that the jellyfish he's chasing after is actually a bait and finds it strange that it's "swimming" on land, unaware that it is George who pulls the bait away from him after Ricky catches it. Ella once again tries to tell Ricky that it's a trap, but Ricky still doesn't listen and concludes that he's dreaming. When he sees jellyfish corpses inside the cage, he crawls into the cage to eat them. Ella sees a coconut falling from a nearby tree and she immediately crawls over to the cage to get Ricky out, but another coconut falls near Ella which startles her that she leaps inside the cage instead. The seagulls are all happy that their plan works and they are able to swoop down to grab Ricky and Ella. But John suddenly arrives and when he sees his two turtle friends are in the cage, he gets mad at his flock that he flies down to talk to the two turtles.

After Ricky finishes eating all the jellyfish in the cage, John arrives and scolds him and Ella for "roaming around the island" when it's full of seagulls around. Ricky tells John that everything's fine and there's nothing bad happening to himself and Ella yet. But before John tells the kids that they should get back to the water, a coconut above him falls down and bonks him on the head, knocking him out. After John regains consciousness, he sees Ricky and Ella, who're both out of the cage, checking to see if he's okay. Ricky notices that John has a large bump on his head and asks if he's okay. John assures the kids that he's fine, much to their relief. Ella tells Ricky that they should head home now and she says goodbye to John.

But while Ricky and Ella are walking back to the water, they noticed that John suddenly starts walking like a sea turtle and he follows them. Ella asks John why he's walking like a turtle, but John only laughs and thinks she's joking. He informs them he is a turtle, much to the surprise of both Ricky and Ella. The two come to the conclusion that John has amnesia after the coconut falls onto his head earlier and because they're the first things he saw after regaining his consciousness, John really thinks he's a turtle just like them. Wanting to get John back to normal, they tell John that he's not a turtle and he doesn't even have a shell just like them. However, John misses the point of what Ella is saying because when he looks at his back, he panicked that someone "stole [his] shell". So he grabs a coconut shell and wears it on his head like a hat, thinking that he found his "shell". However, Ricky and Ella know that they can't have John thinking he's a turtle for the rest of his life and they have to help him get his memory back before Paul, Ringo, and George found out. Since the three aforementioned seagulls are perching on a palm tree a few miles away and are watching them, Ricky asks John to go behind a large rock to "play a game" to prevent the three seagulls from suspecting anything. Though the three seagulls did notice that John is walking like a turtle, George dismisses John's strange behavior since he knows that their boss "would never be that stupid".

Behind the large rock, Ricky and Ella try to do whatever they can to get John's memory back. Ricky knows that John thinks he's a turtle because of a bump on his head by the falling coconut, so he concludes that he and Ella have to give John another bump on his head to reverse the effect. He climbs up to the top of John's coconut shell hat and hits it very hard, but John mistakenly thinks they're playing a game to figure out what song Ricky is playing when he bumps on his head so he starts bobbing back and forth which causes Ricky to fall onto the ground.

At the same time, the three seagulls are examining the cage to figure out why the cage didn't close earlier after Ricky and Ella were both insides. When Paul and Ringo get inside to look around, George gets inside too and he accidentally traps the three of them after he steps onto a spring when he demonstrates that the reason why the cage didn't close is that Ricky and Ella both didn't have enough weight to step on it.

Meanwhile, John feels hot so he's about to take a dip in the water. Ricky is about to protest that John doesn't know how to hold his breath for very long, but Ella has an idea that if he sees that he can't stay underwater very long, he'll understand that he's not a turtle. John then notices his flock all trap inside the cage and starts to panic because he thinks they're going to eat them. But Ricky assures John that he doesn't have to worry since the seagulls are all stuck in the cage so that means they're not going to eat "him". While John, Ricky, and Ella are on their way to the water, the seagulls all overheard John saying "dunk our shells" and "safe from the seagulls" and the three all conclude that John lost his memory. However, George doesn't show any concern for his leader's amnesia since he sees that John won't be around to stop his own flock from chowing down Ricky and Ella.

While John accidentally causes himself to drown after diving down into the water and Ricky and Ella have to both rescue him, the three trapped seagulls have to find a way out after they noticed a few coconuts falling from the trees. After Ricky and Ella perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation by pushing the water out of John's beak, Ella informs John that he can't hold his breath for too long because he's not a turtle. But once again, John misunderstands what Ella is trying to say and concludes that he's not a sea turtle, but rather a land turtle who's made to live on solid ground. This gives Ricky and Ella another idea to restore John's memory. Ella concludes that if she and Ricky awaken John's bird instincts, he'll remember that he's a seagull. Ricky, liking Ella's idea, tells John if they could teach him how to fly, but John thinks it's a joke and asks if he gets a bump on his head, ironically unaware that John himself did get a bump on his head. Ella tells John that he's right that turtles like herself and Ricky can't fly, but "turtles with feathers" can. Ricky mentions to John that he's "definitely a feathered turtle" so he and Ella are going to "teach" John how to fly.

After Ricky and Ella fail to try to "teach" John how to fly, John's flock have escaped from the trap after a coconut landed on the cage and freed them. Ricky, Ella, and John all panicked that the seagulls had escaped, so John sees the beach hut and the three all head inside it to hide. Upon entering the hut, the three all see a mirror shard on the floor and John looks at his reflection which surprises him to see that he is a seagull himself and not a turtle just like he's assumed he was. John, feeling depressed about what he really is, walks outside the hut, right when his flock all arrives. He stops them from entering the hut as he mopes about his true self. Paul, seeing that it's an opportunity for him to get John back to his old habits, manipulates John into thinking that since he's a seagull, he's supposed to defend the turtles but rather eat them instead. Ricky and Ella are both horrified that the seagulls are brainwashing him into making John forget his promise to never eat turtles again after what happened seven years ago. When Paul enters the hut, he sees the two kids and he's about to eat them. However, John shoves Paul out of his way and tells him that "they're [his]".

John grabs Ricky and Ella by his beak and flies away from the hut, but his flock doesn't care nor bother to follow him, and instead, they complain that John could've at least shared the turtles for them. While in the sky, Ella demands John to put her and Ricky down and tries to get him to remember his promise. John suddenly tosses up in the air and they happen to land on his back instead of in his stomach. It turns out John is only pretending to be back in his old habits to rescue the kids from his flock and he tells his turtle friends that he hasn't forgotten his pledge. He flies back down to the island and places the kids in the water. He thanks them for helping him get his memories back and informs them that while he's only a seagull, from then on, he'll also be a turtle in my heart. As John waves goodbye to the turtles as they swim down to get back to the reef village, John's flock once again complains about having to eat fish again later that day after they realize that they've been tricked by their own leader.

Back at the reef village, Ricky and Ella swim back to where Pipo and Annabel are and the two aforementioned non-turtle friends ask them where they've been since Pipo and Annabel have been looking everywhere for them. Annabel informs Ricky that she and Pipo have spotted a big school of jellyfish not too far from the reef, so Ricky and Ella both follow Pipo and Annabel to get a bite to eat.

## Characters

### Major characters

* Ricky
* Ella
* John
* Paul (antagonist)
* Ringo (antagonist)
* George (antagonist)

### Minor characters

* Pipo
* Annabel
* Jellyfish

## Trivia

* In the French version, the episode is called "Tortue à plumes".
* Despite this episode is the nineteenth to aired on TiJi like its US airing order, it's the twenty-first episode to aired in France on M6.
* Ricky, Ella, Paul, Ringo, and George all visited the human hut for the second time after "Trapped". However, this is the first episode in which John is seen entering the hut.
* This is the second episode in which Ricky and Ella are seen riding on a seagull after "Flying Turtles". However this time, instead of Ringo, they're riding on John.
* This episode reveals that Ricky likes to eat jellyfish which is something he inherits from his grandfather Ray.
* Ricky is shown to not yet overcome his fear of heights following "Flying Turtles" when he's riding on John.
* This is the third episode that heavily features Ricky and Ella having to avoid getting themselves eaten by the seagulls after "Trapped" and "Flying Turtles".
* This episode reveals that because of John's friendship with the inhabitants of the reef village, he forbids his flock from eating them and makes the three seagulls forced to eat only fish every day. This was first hinted in "The Walk of the Butterfly Fish" when the trio is searching for a fishing boat and John doesn't mind them as long as they didn't eat any fish that's from the reef village.

## References

1. ↑ https://instantwatcher.com/title/80042306
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/m6/11-11-2014/
3. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/08-03-2015/