Eggheads

**"Eggheads"** is the thirty-fifth episode of the first season of *Sammy & Co*. It premiered on February 29, 2016, on Netflix.

## Synopsis

When a pregnant turtle lays her eggs on the beach, Ricky and Ella go to watch them hatch and discover that the eggs have been stolen by seagulls.

## Plot

The episode opens on the outskirts of the reef village where Ricky, Ella, and Sammy are about to return to the reef after a stroll to a little outing Just then, a female loggerhead swims pass them and alert that she's being chased by a shark. Sammy, Ricky, and Ella all turn around and see a shark swimming to them. Sammy quickly grabs Ricky and Ella, and the three all hide in a cave with the loggerhead. While hiding, Sammy recognizes her as Coralia who's an old friend of his. Remembering the shark outside the cave, Sammy tells her and the kids his plan to get past him by covering the three while they're dashing towards the rift straight ahead. Ella calls out to her grandfather that his plan is too dangerous, but Coralia advises her and Ricky that "when those you love ask you to trust them, you'd better listen to them". Listening to Coralia's advice, the three turtles all head to the rift, but when the shark notices them, Sammy appears out of his hiding place nearby and bravely pushes the shark away. This gives an opportunity for the turtles to escape and swim to the entrance to the reef village for their safety.

While swimming around the reef, Coralia announces to Sammy and the kids that she is pregnant and she was on her way to the beach where she was born to lay her eggs. But because the shark chases her away farther from her destination and her eggs would be coming out at any moment, Sammy offers her help by informing her that the island above the reef would be a nice, peaceful spot for her to lay her eggs. Ricky asks Sammy if he and Ella can help her, but Sammy tells the two kids that "laying eggs is the most important moment in the life of a turtle" so "Coralia needs to be alone". However, Sammy requests the two kids to get Lulu and tell him to guard the nest just in case.

While Ricky and Ella both get their teacher, Sammy takes Coralia to a spot on the island that he found safe enough since there'll be no coconuts falling off from the nearby tree and the view is breathtaking. Coralia thanks Sammy for his help and Sammy walks back to the water to leave her alone while she's in labor. Above her, Paul, Ringo, and George are all perching on a nearby palm tree and the three all noticed Coralia had laid three eggs in her nest. Lulu then arrives and tells Coralia that Sammy has sent him to come to watch over her eggs. Coralia thanks Lulu before she covers the nest with sand and walks back to the water to tell Sammy and the kids her good news about her eggs. While Coralia heads back to the reef and Lulu guarding the nest, the seagulls on the palm tree are all hungry so George tells his friends that he has a plan to get rid of Lulu so they can steal the eggs.

At the same time, Coralia meets up with Sammy and the kids and she announces to them that she has laid three eggs, but she's going to go rest a while before the hatching takes place since she is very exhausted after her long journey to give birth to them. Coralia even lets Ricky and Ella come with her after her rest to see her children hatch.

Meanwhile, at the island, Paul gets Lulu distracted from guarding the eggs by throwing a rock nearby which makes Lulu mistakenly assumes there's a predator coming to eat the eggs. After Lulu leaves his post to search for the "predator", Paul swoops down and digs up the eggs from the nest. After the three seagulls place the three eggs on a nest on the palm tree, Ringo is starting to worry that the eggshells are going to be disgustingly crunchy to eat, so Paul suggests the three wait until the eggs hatch by putting them back in the sand and they'll swoop in to eat the newborn hatchlings right after they come out. However, George finds his friend's idea to be too risky and he suggests they should sit on the eggs themselves. But since it's George who comes up with the idea, he is forced to sit on them while Paul and Ringo both leave to look for anchovies to accompany the dish.

Below, Coralia has arrived with Ricky and Ella on the island when they notice Lulu isn't at his post and since Coralia can't remember where her nest is because everything looks the same on the island, the three all search for Lulu. After calling out his name, Lulu cries out to them to come to help him.

Above them, George is still waiting for Ringo and Paul to come back when he suddenly hears a crack. He looks down and sees that the Coralia's triplet children have already hatched; two sons and one daughter. But because the triplets are recently born and are therefore very naive of the world around them, one of the sons innocently asks George who he is and the daughter cheerfully questions George if he's their "mommy". George, finding the triplets too innocent and pure to know what he's planning to do with them, decides to cover up by lying to them he's their "Uncle George" and when he notices one of the sons is about to climb out of the nest, he immediately stops him and the rest of the children from getting out. One of the sons whines "Uncle" George that he and his siblings are hungry so George tells the triplets to stay where they are while he goes get them something to eat. Before George flies away, he wonders out loud what he gets himself into that makes him have a sudden urge to protect the triplets when he's supposed to eat them right away.

Below the tree, Lulu arrives at where Coralia, Ricky, and Ella are and announces to them there're no snakes around the reef. When Ella asks her teacher where is Coralia's nest, he points to it. But the four all surprised to see that the eggs are not in the nest where it should and to make matters worse, they also notice three seagull feathers in the eggs' places.

Meanwhile, above them, George has come back with some earthworms for Coralia's triplets, not knowing what turtle hatchlings actually eat and he disgusts them instead. Just then, the daughter said out loud to her brothers that she sees "more Uncle Georges", which alerts George that Paul and Ringo have both come back and they're about to head to the nest. Coralia's children all innocently and cheerfully wave at Paul and Ringo from afar, but George, not wanting the triplets to find out that their other "uncles" are going eat them, tells the three that they're "going to play a game with Uncle George" which is to hide and don't make any noise to prevent Paul and Ringo from seeing them. As soon as Paul and Ringo arrive at the nest, George immediately sits on the triplets and the eggshells so he could prevent them from knowing that the triplets have already hatched. When Ringo asks George about the eggs, George fibs that there's still nothing and he stops his friends from taking a look by proclaiming that "when one sits on eggs, uh... one must never move" since it'll be "bad for the quality of the turtle meat".

Just then, the seagulls all hear the sound of an angry Coralia so they all look down to see her, Ricky, Ella, and Lulu all glaring at them. Lulu accuses the seagulls of stealing the eggs, but Paul declares himself and his friends being innocent for thievery. When Coralia informs them their babies are supposed to come out of their shells later that today, however, Paul is surprised to hear it and he motions George to move aside so he and Ringo can take a look. George, fearing that he's been discovered, covers his eyes, but he didn't expect to hear Paul wondering out loud what Coralia is talking about when the eggs "haven't hatched yet". After George looks down at the nest and sees that the eggshells didn't seem to hatch, Paul and Ringo both swoop down and start flying in circles around Lulu, Ricky, Ella, and Coralia to taunt them.

As soon as Paul and Ringo leave the nest, George looks down and sees the loggerhead triplets all come out of their hiding place inside the eggshells after they have placed a crack eggshell on top of their heads to make it seems like they haven't come out yet. George is impressed by how clever the triplets are despite their extremely young age, affectionately calling them his "little eggheads". But when he looks down and sees Paul and Ringo are still taunting their enemies, George realizes that he can't let his friends eat the triplets any longer and he needs to get them back to their mother without getting caught by either Paul or Ringo. George alerts Ricky and Ella's attention on the ground and shows them Coralia's daughter who waves at them very innocently. Ella can tell by George's expressions that he wants to let them know that they have to come back later to retrieve the triplets without neither Paul nor Ringo knowing. Ella tells Coralia that they have to leave right away, but when Coralia refuses, Ella reminds her of her earlier advice that "when those you love ask you to trust them, you'd better listen to them". Coralia listens to Ella's request so she, Lulu, Ricky, and Ella all walk away from the tree. As soon as Lulu and the turtles all left, Paul and Ringo both fly back to the nest and they tell George that they're going to stay with him until the eggs "hatch" since they feel bad for not being very nice to him earlier on and the three need to stick together. George, however, finds it more complicated than Paul and Ringo are both guarding him, meaning there's no way he'll return the loggerhead triplets back to their mother right away without getting caught. Nearby, Coralia, Lulu, Ricky, and Ella are all watching the seagulls from behind a large plant. Coralia asks Ella if she's sure George really wants to give her babies back to her, and Ella said she's certainly based on George's expression. Since Paul and Ringo are guarding George at the nest, Lulu and the turtles know that they will have to save the newborn hatchlings at nightfall when Paul and Ringo are both asleep.

At night, George wakes up to see the rescue party have arrived back at the palm tree with Sammy and Ray as backups. Since George can't get down from the nest without either himself or any of the triplets accidentally waking up Paul and/or Ringo, Ella notices a large bamboo and tells the rescue party her solution. George sees that the turtles are trying to adjust the bamboo and when he looks inside the bamboo, he sees Ella on the ground at the other end. Knowing that it's time, he checks to see Paul and Ringo who're both still sleeping before he looks down at Coralia's children. He tells them that they're "going to go down a slide" since there'll be a "big surprise" awaits them from the ground and the triplets must do so without waking up "Uncle Paul" or "Uncle Ringo". George picks up one of Coralia's sons by his beak and places him in the bamboo slide, which makes him slide down safely to the ground. After George does the same thing with the daughter, two of the triplets are happily reunited with their mother.

But when George picks up the last triplet, the son innocently shouts very loud in excitement which inadvertently wakes up both Paul and Ringo from their slumber. George drops Coralia's other son in the bamboo slide in surprise, but before the son makes it to the ground, Paul and Ringo both carry the bamboo with him still inside and they fly away with it. George, realizing that the final triplet is in danger, follows Paul and Ringo to rescue the young turtle. In the sky, Paul and Ringo are carrying the bamboo on both ends. But when Paul tells Ringo that they both have to split the baby loggerhead between them, George lands in between them to stop where they're going. From one of the ends of the bamboo, Coralia's son cheerfully jumps down from it, but George flies down and grabs him by his beak just in time to prevent him from falling into extreme heights. Paul and Ringo both drop the bamboo and they fly to where George is and cornered him while still in the air. Below them, George notices the turtles and Lulu all get into the water so he deliberately drops Coralia's other son into the water too. The son lands safely in the water and his mother catches him before the turtles all swim away with Lulu tailing after them as they all get back to the reef. Paul and Ringo are disappointed by George losing their meal, but once they're out of his sight, George sadly says goodbye to the loggerhead triplets.

The next morning, the turtles are all at the exit of the reef village to say goodbye to Coralia and her children. Coralia is very thankful to her friends for rescuing her children from being eaten by the seagulls. When one of her sons asks his mother when they'll come back to see "Uncle" George again, Coralia, who's aware of George taking good care of them in spite of their innocence of not knowing that seagulls are actually their predators, tells her children that when it's time for them to have kids of their own, they'll come back to the island to see George again. Coralia and her children then leave the reef together after they say their last goodbyes to Sammy, Ricky, and Ella.

Later, at sunset, the seagulls are all sitting on a palm tree while taking a moment of silence after their failure to eat the loggerhead triplets and they're all starving because of it.

## Characters

### Major characters

* Ricky
* Ella
* Lulu
* Coralia
* Coralia's children
* George
* Paul (antagonist)
* Ringo (antagonist)

### Minor characters

* Sammy
* Ray (non-speaking)
* Shark

## Trivia

* In the French version, the episode is called "Têtes d'oeufs".
* Despite this episode is the thirty-fifth to aired on TiJi like its US airing order, it's the thirty-sixth episode to aired in France on M6.
* The shark that chased after the turtles at the beginning of the episode shares a similar character design as Boris.
* This is the first episode of *Sammy & Co* in which both Pipo and Annabel are absent.
* George's nickname to Coralia's children "eggheads" is a slang to refer to someone with great intelligence. It is given to the triplets because while they're all very naive and innocent to the world around them, they cleverly hide inside their eggshells to avoid getting being spotted by Paul and Ringo after George tells them that they must hide as part of a "game".
* This is the second episode in which George temporarily cooperate with Ricky and Ella after "The Walk of the Butterfly Fish".

### Errors

* Coralia has laid a total of three eggs at the beach and they all hatch a few minutes later. However, this can't happen in real-life since actual female loggerhead sea turtles can lay an average of between 100 to 126 eggs in a nest and the eggs would hatch in about 45-55 days.

## References

1. ↑ https://instantwatcher.com/title/80042306
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/m6/01-12-2014/
3. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/22-03-2015/
4. ↑ https://www.netflix.com/title/80042177