Madagascar: Jungle Excursions

Madagascar: Jungle Excursions is an American computer-animated comedy streaming television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television. It is the fourth TV series in the Madagascar franchise and takes place between Madagascar (2005) and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), making it a prequel. The series will debut on December 19, 2024, on Hulu and Peacock.

The series stars thirteen characters from the DreamWorks' animated film *Madagascar franchise*: Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Gloria the hippopotamus, Melman the giraffe; the penguins, Skipper, Rico, Kowalski and Private; the lemurs, King Julien XIII, Maurice and Mort; and Mason and Phil, the chimpanzees. Characters from All Hail King Julien also return in the series with minor changes in their backstory.

## Characters

**Main**

* Alex: a African lion. (voiced by: Crispin Freeman)
* Marty: a plains zebra and Alex's best friend. (voiced by: Chris Rock)
* Melman: a giraffe and one of Alex's friends and Gloria's love interest. (voiced by: Stephen Stanton)
* Gloria: a hippopotamus and one of Alex's friends and Melman's love interest. (voiced by: Jada Pinkett Smith)
* King Julien XIII: a ring-tailed lemur who is the king of Madagascar. (voiced by: Danny Jacobs)
* Maurice: a fellow aye aye who is Julien's royal advisor. (voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson)
* Mort: a Goodman's mouse lemur. (voiced by: Andy Richter)
* Skipper: the leader of the penguins. (voiced by: Tom McGrath)
* Kowalski: Skipper's right hand man. (voiced by: Jeff Bennett)
* Rico: a penguin. (voiced by: John DiMaggio)
* Private: a penguin. (voiced by: James Patrick Stuart)

**Supporting characters**

* Mason: a chimpanzee. (voiced by: Conrad Vernon)
* Stevie: a leaf-tailed gecko.
* The Lemurs: King Julien's 'peoples' (various voices)
* Pancho: a crowned lemur (Voiced by: Danny Jacobs)
* Hector: a black-and-white ruffed lemur who hates everybody and everything. (voiced by: Jeff Bennett)
* Willie: a red lemur who shouts "**WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!**" (voiced by: Jeff Bennett)
* Mary-Ann: a female fossa who is the former queen of the foosas and Horst's wife (voiced by: Debra Wilson)
* Queen Clover: a female crowned lemur and Julien's former bodyguard who is Queen of the mountain lemurs. (voiced by: India de Beaufort)
* Ted: a nervous golden bamboo lemur. (voiced by: Andy Richter)
* Dorothy: a mongoose lemur and Ted's wife. (voiced by: Sarah Thyre)
* King Sage Moondancer: a brown indri/sifaka hybrid who is King of the mountain lemurs. (voiced by: Jeff Bennett)
* Jeremy: a golden bamboo lemur who is Dorothy's other husband. (voiced by: Milo Manheim)

**Villains**

* Hare-iet: a villainous jackrabbit who tries to eliminate Marty. (Voiced by: Jeff Bennett)
* Julianus Khan: an Extraterrestrial version of King Julien and the intergalactic leader of the Julien armada. (Voiced by: Danny Jacobs)
* Chuck: a Bornean Orangutan and Hare-iet's bounty hunter who also tried to kill Marty. (Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson)
* Spider-Monkey: a criminal Geoffroy's spider monkey and sly con-artist wanted by the residents of Madagascar. (voiced by: Malcolm McDowell)
* the Fossas: the native predators of Madagascar who prey on the lemurs. (Various voices)
* Bone Foosa: the tyrannical leader of the foosas. (Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson)

## Episodes

Season 1

1. **Still Marooned -** Set after the events of the first film, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are forced to start a new life in Madagascar. Meanwhile, the fossa, the lemurs' worst enemies, plan to attack King Julien's kingdom and lift their own exile. the penguins become jealous when Mary-Ann, Horst's fossa wife shows up in the kingdom. *Note:* this takes place after the events of the 2005 animated film.
2. **The Invasion has Begun! -** the penguins build a satellite dish online in order to watch Nature Shows. the fossa sees this and believes that they are secretly signaling Aliens. Julien decides to prank the fossa with a fake alien invasion broadcast, created by Xixi. This broadcast is sent to real aliens, which resembles Julien and sound just like him. When they show up in Madagascar, on Earth, the animals must stop and stall them while they figure out their weakness, before they conquer and destroy the planet.
3. **MartyBoy! -** Marty wants to be a superhero, but his friends aren't interested in his antic. Fortunately, when Marty saves the lemurs from the fossa, the other Zoosters decided to join him as superheroes.
4. **Cuddly Catastrophe -** the evil jackrabbit, Hare-iet plots to destroy MartyBoy. When King Julien is kidnapped, Marty, his friends and the penguins must save him from his new arch-nemesis.
5. **All Hail King Mort -** When Julien gets injured, Mort decides to take his place, and when he recovers, Julien realizes that his people think Mort is a better king than he was. Dejected, he tries to leave, but the Zoosters remind him that he is still the greatest king of Madagascar.
6. **Ape Escape -** Hare-iet summons his bounty hunter to catch MartyBoy: a orangutan!
7. **Melman's Melancholy** **-** a mysterious insects bites Melman, turning him into an old hermit, leaving Hector jealous. His friends try to find an antidote to change him back before it's too late and Melman becomes grumpy forever.
8. **The Return of Clover and Sage -** King Sage and Queen Clover return from the Mountain Lemur Kingdom for a baby shower, leaving Alex jealous.
9. **Mother Alex -** Alex finds a lost egg in the jungle and decides to hatch it, Worried that the egg will turn out to be that of a cold-blooded monster, Julien tries to get rid of it only for its disappearance to start making Alex depressed.
10. **A Really, Really Wild West -** After Alex is knocked unconscious, his friends, the penguins and the lemurs play along when he wakes up believing he’s living in the Old West.
11. **Who Framed the King of New York? -** Alex stands trial for a crime he didn't commit after being framed by criminal mastermind, Spider-Monkey. the Other Zoosters race to clear his name before Alex is found guilty.
12. **Lemur Alone -** When Ted discovers that he is getting a divorce from his wife, Dorothy, who has fallen in love with a smooth-talking lemur named Jeremy, Ted asks the Zoosters for advice to get back together with Dorothy.
13. **Mort's Day Out -** after touching Julien's feet, a guilty Mort leaves the kingdom, only to be encountered by Hare-iet.
14. **The End of Madagascar -** When Timo discovers a meteor (about the size of Madagascar), sent by the Julien armada, to impact Earth and destroy the island, He pleads with Marty as MartyBoy to help destroy it.

## Trivia

* King Julien wears the same crown with Steve on it from Madagascar 1 and 2.
* Characters from All Hail King Julien (2014-2017) return in the series.
* This was the second Madagascar series to be distributed by Hulu and Peacock after Madagascar: A Little Wild.
* This was the second Madagascar series to be animated by Bardel Entertainment after All Hail King Julien (2014-2017)
* Danny Jacobs, Andy Richter and Kevin Michael Richardson return to reprise their roles from All Hail King Julien (2014-2017)
* Tom McGrath, Jeff Bennett, John DiMaggio, James Patrick Stuart. Danny Jacobs, Andy Richter, Kevin Michael Richardson and Conrad Vernon returned to reprise their roles from The Penguins of Madagascar (2008 - 2015).
* Chris Rock and Jada Pinkett Smith reprise their roles from the Madagascar films and TV specials.
* This was the sequel to All Hail King Julien (2014-2017).

## Theme Song

* Get Wild (Madagascar: Jungle Excursions theme) **Performed by:** The Crystal Method feat. Olly Murs