The Case of the Yucky Slime

**The Case of the Yucky Slime** is the third episode of the first season of Fishtronaut and the third episode of the series.

## Summary

When playing volleyball, Fishtronaut and Marina encounter a slimy ball, thus interrupting the game. When Marina wipes the slime of the yucky ball, the ball is actually a P.O.P., which is covered in slime.

**P.O.P. Clues:** glass of algae bloom and a strainer

Receiving the clues, Marina is curious what these clues are for. Fishtronaut is curious about the strainer, thinking this object is used for spaghetti. He uses the glass of slime and pours it on the strainer and then into a bowl. Marina is curious if the slime is algae. Fishtronaut explains to her that there are many types of algae underwater and Fishtronaut has never seen a strange-looking slime before. Rosy and her friends are disgusted by the polluted lake that is full of slime while Fishtronaut asks Rosy via Web Clam to see if she has seen that type of slime before. Talking to Rosy, she tells him that she has seen slime all over the lake. Fishtronaut asks her if there are people throwing rubbish in the lake, but Rosy says there's not a single piece of rubbish found in the lake and doesn't know where the slime is coming from. Fishtronaut needs to check where the slime in the lake is located, but must return refill his bubbles in he lab before he can continue the mission.

While testing the water from the lake, Fishtronaut puts a drop inside the gadget and the machine tells him that it is algae bloom. Fishtronaut is surprised that there is too much algae inside the lake, which causes the cater to have the same colour as the glass of slime from the P.O.P., and the green slime in the glass is actually algae bloom and both contain the same type of slime. Fishtronaut, however, is curious of the strainer, since he only used it once for cooking spaghetti and seaweed balls. He is unsure which is the connection between these clues and decides to ask Happy Plumb for help. Talking to Happy Plumb, Fishtronaut told him that he find out that the slime in the glass is same as the slime in the lake. There, he gives Fishtronaut the riddles which are inspired from the clues. Fishtronaut asks Marina via Web Clam to meet her at Sloth Forest. Seeing a trail of yucky slime that leads to Sloth Forest, Fishtronaut uses his magnifying glass to follow the trail to Sloth Forest without disturbing the sleeping sloths. Walking through Sloth Forest, Fishtronaut indicates that people go back and forth to the lake and the park for a new popular activity known as boating. The agents then see the polluted lake, which is same as the slime in the glass. Marina says that they cleared more shoreline to make room for more boats. Fishtronaut says that the water is clear where there are trees and bushes by the shoreline, but Marina convinces her that the other side has less water and bushes near the shoreline, due to algae pollution in the lake.

Fishtronaut uses the strainer to get rid of the slime from the glass of water as he remembers Happy Plumb's thought indicating that the shoreline acts like a strainer for the lake, filtering rainwater on the surface of the land and a great increase of material is produced when the bushes and trees are cut. Marina thought of a memory from her grandfather who thought her that the plants keep the lake from being polluted by stuff from going into the lake. Fishtronaut is surprised that algae bloom is everywhere after searching for a while. He later shows the lake balance between algae and the boats causing major problems for them, including fish being unable to eat all of them, due to a major pollution. The agents decide to replace the plants that were part of the shore, thus the lake has no more algae for placing new plants near half of the shore. Having solved the case, the agents receive another P.O.P..

**P.O.P. Rewards:** volleyball

Having received the volleyball back, the agents play volleyball again after solving the case. We later see some images of the lake that was cleaned and with no more algae inside.

## Trivia

* When Fishtronaut mentions about a strainer in which most are used for making spaghetti, he sings one bar from "O Sole Mio", thus donning a chef's hat and a moustache in imagination. Both, the chef's hat and moustache and the song "O Sole Mio" originate from Italy.

* This is the first appearance of Rosy's friends.