Insecurity System

## Stats

**Insecurity System** is the 47th episode of the series *Babar* that aired on February 25, 1991.

## Summary

The elephant soccer team is practicing for a big game tomorrow. Cornelius asks Babar for his signature on Rataxes' invitation, so he can deliver it to him for the banquet tomorrow. Rataxes meanwhile, spies on the field with a telescope, and Basil writes down the moves they do in a book so they can design a foolproof plan to beat them. Cornelius arrives in the palace but the guards are all sleeping. He makes it in the telescope room and gets caught by Rataxes, so they throw him in a jail cell. Basil thinks this might be going too far, but Rataxes is enraged that he let an elephant spy in his kingdom and wants the palace be made impenetrable.

Babar's children ask if they can go to the palace to fly their new kites with Victor, so he agrees that they can, also worrying a bit about Cornelius who should've been back. Cornelius manages to free himself by using his belt to get the key hanging up to the right of the cell, but he quickly runs back in when Rataxes and Basil come in with a security system. When they leave, Cornelius is trapped nonetheless in the room when a sliding door closes in. The children fly the kites until they all fall down once Alexander does a loop-de-loop around them, except Flora's. Victor brings up the security system and Alexander wants to see the room, but Victor says it is top secret. Alexander comments that if he knows about it, it isn't top secret anymore, so he agrees to show them and not to tell anyone else about it. Babar meanwhile calls Rataxes asking for Cornelius, but he says that he shouldn't be held responsible for his disappearance, even though he is.

The children enter the security room and see the system. Alexander presses a button on the machine which sounds an alarm and closes all the doors in the palace, which happens to have locked Basil out of the palace. The guards start panicking, believing they are under attack. Cornelius rips off pieces of his quilt to make a secret message for Babar to signal help, which is put on one of the kites. However, due to Alexander pressing another button, the window closes and the kite snips in half. Fortunately, Babar, Pompadour, and Zephir see it out the palace window. Babar can read the code that says that Cornelius must be in distress. The three drive to the palace and meet Basil outside. Basil mentions that he is not at liberty to say where Cornelius is and it is top secret. He says that only the head of security can enter the security room, and he can't even get in the palace.

Looking at the blueprint, Basil sees that there is one part of the chimney isn't booby trapped, which Pom and Flora beging climbing out. Zephir agrees to go into the chimney, but that would mean he would need to obtain the secret password. Basil is extremely hesitant to tell it to him, as not only is it supposed to be super secret, but he later says that it is also embarrassing. Although, he has no choice but to whisper it to him. Once he goes down, Basil remembers that the chimney is booby trapped after all and was just left out of the blueprint by mistake. Babar, Pompadour, and Zephir yell out for Zephir, but he doesn't notice them. Zephir is attacked with spikes, but none of them really get him. Zephir and the two children go back down and Zephir tells them to turn around and cover their ears as he says the secret password: an excerpt of the song "We're Going to Kentucky". The machine opens all the doors and Rataxes enters, but one of the booby traps goes off and goop falls on him, which hardens him. Rataxes gives him the invitation after all. Because he is still hardened, he can't see the action going on at the game, but Babar's team wins after being tied.