The Case of Zeek's Banana Grove

**The Case of Zeek's Banana Grove** is the forty-fifth episode of Season 2 of Fishtronaut and is the ninety-seventh episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Zeek planting seedlings thinking his dream about lots of bananas would come true known as "Zeek's Banana Grove". Zeek finally finished working on the banana field, telling the seedlings that Fishtronaut and Marina won't know about the seedlings until they are big enough. Meanwhile, Fishtronaut and Marina decide to play a game known as "Elephant on Many Colours", but Marina says this game requires at three people to play. Suddenly, Zeek arrives to Fishtronaut and Marina so the three can decide to play the game. Marina then explains that in order to play, one must touch an object the same colour of the elephant (the first player) and the colour Fishtronaut and Zeek must find is yellow. While finding yellow objects, a P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a bowl of fruit with a gardening shovel on it

Receiving the clues, Marina is curious if there is a problem with the fruit trees in the park. The trio decides to go to Adventure Forest to investigate the fruit trees if there are problems with them. The trio begins tasting red currants and cashew fruits in which there are no problems with the trees at all. The trio decides to go to the jaboticaba trees during an investigation for the fruits from the P.O.P. as it did not bring a banana. Upon seeing the jaboticaba trees, macaws begins snacking on the tasty jaboticaba fruits on the tree. Fishtronaut begin tasting a jaboticaba as the macaws love snacking on the jaboticabas and Marina explains the more the macaws eat, the more seeds they spread, which is the process for new trees to grow. Marina also tells Zeek that not every animal likes bananas and if there were only banana trees, the park would be an enormous banana grove. The trio decides to find the açai and cecropia trees. Suddenly, a sloth appears near the trio, saying that he loves to eat cecropia fruit. Fishtronaut asks the sloth to know where the cecropia trees are. The sloth explains that there is a cecropia tree behind the trio as Zeek tells the sloth that the trio doesn't need any cecropia from the nearby tree during an investigation. The last piece of fruit to finish the mission is the açai. Zeek explains that there are some açai trees near the palm trees in Coconut Grove (not too far). The trio decides to follow a flock of toucans to the açai trees.

It is then revealed that there is nothing wrong with the açai trees as the toucans do not complain about eating açai, and neither the armadillos, the guans, or the capybaras. Suddenly, a capybara explains that the place where his family used to live was full of palm trees, but the palm trees were struck by a lightning during a storm, burning the palm trees and leaving a hole in the forest and the capybara family had to find other places with food. It is revealed that the mission is to replant the trees in the area where palm trees were struck by lightning with different kinds of trees with the fruits from the P.O.P. that make the animals happy. Having solved the clues, the trio arrives to the site where the palm trees were struck by lightning during a storm. It takes a lot of work to replant the part of the park, but Zeek put banana seedlings to replant them before. Zeek didn't tell Marina and Fishtronaut about planting banana trees on empty land to have a banana grove. It is revealed that the replanting *doesn't* need only bananas, but with other fruits with different trees, plants, and animals. The trio decides to get help from the animals to replant the part of the park with different fruits.

With the help from the animals, the trio was able to gather all of the fruits from the P.O.P. as well as other types of fruits. Suddenly, another P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** painting supplies and papers

Receiving the rewards, the trio decides to make drawings of trees that trio planted. They drew pictures of a red currant tree, a cashew fruit tree, and an orchard.