The Case of the New Food

**The Case of the New Food** is the second episode of Season 2 of Fishtronaut and the fifty-fourth episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Fishtronaut telling Marina and Zeek to play a game of "Hot Potato". After playing, Marina and her friend Julia decide to have a picnic after Marina thought of the game that makes her hungry before playing the game again. While talking to Marina on her vacation, she shows her a box of delicious crackers in which Marina doesn't need any. Suddenly, two squirrels who were seeing Marina and Julia having a picnic are bored of having nuts by throwing them; thus, the two walnuts hit Fishtronaut's helmet. Meanwhile on Monkey Island, Zeek encounters a marmoset enjoying a bag of Crunchy Banana Wheels, a snack with banana flavour. Zeek then asks the marmoset if he likes actual bananas rather than banana-flavoured food; the marmoset says that the Crunchy Banana Wheels have more crunch than actual bananas. Fishtronaut then suggests Zeek to play tag with his friends Marina and Julia. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards the trio and Julia.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a square apple and an egg with a necktie

Receiving the clues, the trio and Julia to find out what is happening to the animals enjoying these new types of food. The trio then encounters a hen whose box has one piece of corn; Julia then points to some corn on the ground in which Marina suggests the hen that she wouldn't need to eat more corn from a box. The hen then tells Zeek that she likes the corn in the box better than the corn on the ground. Fishtronaut finds an image of buck teeth on the box of corn, in which the logo reminds Julia of rabbit teeth. Fishtronaut then asks the hen where she found the box; the hen says that the box is from a special delivery. The trio and Julia then encounter a rabbit who has a blue carrot in which the rabbit doesn't like the carrot in blue colour that much. Marina then suggests the rabbit if it would be better to eat actual carrots (the colour of the carrot is orange). The rabbit says that he's tired of eating orange carrots and decided to eat blue carrots instead.

Marina then started thinking of the blue carrot which is linked to the square apple clue. Julia then asks the rabbit to know where he received the blue carrot. The rabbit then explained to her that the carrot was delivered to his burrow when he woke up. Fishtronaut then found out that he saw the same buck teeth logo on the carrot box (the logo also appears on the corn box). Fishtronaut then decides to examine the boxes with his gadget the Super Whatzit 3000. The Super Whatzit 3000 scans the buck teeth logo on the carrot box and then shows images of a beaver, a guinea pig, and a squirrel. Marina then thought of the two squirrels that were with Marina and Julia having a picnic after playing "Hot Potato". The trio and Julia decides to go to the squirrel's den; upon reaching the den; Julia sees the logo with buck teeth on a sign. Fishtronaut then decides to look for the entrance while Marina, Zeek, and Julia are getting hungry. After Fishtronaut found the entrance to the den, inside is a factory where squirrels are turning ordinary food with different flavours as they sing the working song about trying food with different flavours. The trio and Julia found out that the squirrels are altering the normal food, in which the food alternation is linked to the egg and the apple clue. Having figured out the clues, Fishtronaut tells Marina, Zeek, and Julia to convince them to close down the factory for animals to enjoy the food they usually enjoyed before.

The two worker squirrels exit the factory in which they thought Julia gave them the idea to make this factory. Marina found out that the two squirrels were actually the same ones she and Julia saw when playing "Hot Potato". It all started when the squirrels saw Julia's box of crackers and decided to change the food. Fishtronaut then takes the squirrels to look at the normal food in the park. Fishtronaut also explains that the peels and husks of foods are later eaten by insects, where they decompose the food to fertilize the land, so the food doesn't need to be altered or be put in boxes. The squirrels say that they were doing something different, decided to close down the factory in their den, and went back on eating the walnuts. Marina then explains that the squirrels should enjoy the walnuts with their hard shells, because without the hard shells, other animals would eat the walnuts as explained by Fishtronaut. The squirrels decide to go back on enjoying the enjoying the walnuts and quit their factory job.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** a wheelbarrow

Receiving the reward, the trio and Julia see Zeek who ate a lot of bananas and decided to use the wheelbarrow for transportation.