The Case of the Disappearing Picnic Baskets

**The Case of the Disappearing Picnic Baskets** is the first episode of the first season of *Fishtronaut* and is the first episode of the series altogether.

## Summary

The first episode opens with Marina having a picnic basket while Zeek arrives towards her and is curious what she has inside her basket. Agent Fishtronaut arrives towards Zeek and Marina, who were about to have a picnic and realising only their picnic basket that disappeared. Other park visitors are worried that their picnic baskets are stolen by the animals of the park, so Fishtronaut tells Marina and Zeek that he'll find out what is causing the picnic baskets to disappear. While doing so, the S.E.A. sends a P.O.P. that has something to do with what the case Fishtronaut and his team are investigating. Marina asks the viewer to help open the P.O.P. to get the clues inside it.

**P.O.P. Clues:** juice box and trail mix

After receiving the clues, Zeek is excited and tries to consume them, but Fishtronaut prevents them, because the clues are important to the case and worried if a juice box took the picnic basket, which doesn't make any sense (as said by Marina). Looking at animal tracks, Fishtronaut decides to use his latest invention known as the "Track Tell-o-Meter", which can help which animals feet actually came from. While scanning, the gadget includes pictures various creatures that do not exist in the park (such a 100-legged Picnic Nabber) as Marina has never heard of this creature. But before Fishtronaut can continue, he returns underwater which leads to a path to Bubble Station. As her grandpa Dr. Green arrives, she tells him that he has never seen this creature exist in the park. Fishtronaut goes to the wise Happy Plumb who is eligible to help. He asks him that the picnic baskets in the park have been vanishing with the clues not making sense. Happy Plumb replies that something goes in the juice box and the trail mix as Fishtronaut returns to Bubble Station to refill his water gauge.

Arriving back towards Marina and Zeek, Fishtronaut uses the Track Tell-o-Meter and sees images of mixed up animals on the screen, as Marina's grandfather was right about more than one animal and telling them about Happy Plumb's riddle and hearing a loud rumble, which is coming from the animals wanting to reach the pile of food. It is revealed that there are no natural food sources in the park while the agents go out investigating by looking at the animal tracks, while hearing Billy and Mac trying to fend off the animals trying to reach the food and refusing to leave, despite the twins trying to break the record of a large pile of food. It is revealed that Billy and Mac were the main cause of forcing the animals of taking the picnic baskets, who took all the food and made it into a large pile. Fishtronaut and the other agents prompt them to bring down the food for the other animals to eat. Billy and Mac pushed down the pile of food for the animals to eat, thus failing to break the world record. Having solved the case, the visitors return to the park to have picnics again. However, when Fishtronaut with Marina and Zeek enjoyed the picnic, another P.O.P. went towards them.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** squid-ink sundaes

The squid-ink sundaes are delivered by the S.E.A. for the agents' victories.

## Characters

* Fishtronaut (first appearance)
* Marina (first appearance)
* Zeek (first appearance)
* Happy Plumb (first appearance)
* Dr. Green (first appearance)
* Billy and Mac (first appearance)

## Trivia

* This is the first episode in the series.

## Errors

* The pile of food that Billy and Mac called are "nuts and berries", but there are other foods included inside the pile of food (apples and bananas).