The Case of the Plastic Bottles

**The Case of the Plastic Bottles** is the forty-second episode of Season 1 of Fishtronaut and the forty-second episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode begins with Marina playing jump rope with Fishtronaut and Zeek while she and Zeek take turns playing with the jump rope. Meanwhile, at Cicada Beach, a sea turtle is surprised that she is seeing plastic bottles popping out of the water. Back with the trio, Fishtronaut and Marina are feeling tired spinning the rope for Zeek to jump over. Also at Cicada Beach, the sea turtle then buries her eggs in the sand while she returns to the water. However, plastic bottles start appearing in the water. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards the trio playing jump rope.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a little crib and a small red trashcan

Receiving the clues, Marina and Zeek are curious of the crib and the trashcan clues. Fishtronaut explains that there are no human babies in the park, but baby animals here and is curious that one of them must be in trouble. Zeek is curious about baby raccoons that are always around trashcans. The trio decides to find raccoons to know if they are in danger. Marina then arrives at the spot with the separate garbage bins near a raccoon burrow. Marina knocks on the burrow to know if there are any animals home. However, a female raccoon threw an empty can and it almost hit Zeek. Marina is curious to know if everything is safe with the babies. Two baby raccoons arrive with the last bottle and the mother raccoon explains that her two children are cleaning up by collecting garbage found in the park due to their messy home. Marina then decides to help the two raccoons by explaining about the different types of objects in separate garbage bins to make it easy to recycle the waste.

Fishtronaut thought of the red trashcan clue and thought one baby animal is in trouble because of plastic objects thrown around the park. He then decides to use his invention the SniffSniff 2.0 to smell different types of waste that shouldn't be scattered around the park. As Fishtronaut turns the pointer to the plastic bottle, the SniffSniff 2.0 starts beeping and begins taking Fishtronaut to one spot with a plastic bottle. After Zeek puts the bottle in the red bin, Fishtronaut is then taken to Cicada Beach with a plastic bottle lying down. Zeek then throws the bottle in the red bin; behind him is a nest of turtle eggs in which he confuses for ping-pong balls. Marina warns Zeek that no one can touch a sea turtle's egg, since these eggs are fragile. Fishtronaut and Marina decide to talk to Dr. Green in order to ask for help at the Beanstalk Care Center. Inside, Dr. Green tells Fishtronaut and Marina about the behaviour of the sea turtles. Marina is then worried that baby sea turtles would be in danger when out on their own and Dr. Green agrees with her that someone might accidentally step on an egg without noticing them. Fishtronaut and Marina decide to go back to Cicada Beach, but before they can leave the Beanstalk, Billy and Mac appear and tell them where they are going. Marina tells them that she and Fishtronaut are on a mission to save the sea turtle's eggs and she then tells the twins to come with Fishtronaut and Marina.

Back at Cicada Beach, Zeek catches a plastic bottle and tries to throw it at one of the bins, but Fishtronaut catches it and tells him that the bottles are a hazard when littered on the beach. He then suggests to use it as a crib for the turtles. The trio then decides to help the turtles by recycling waste. The trio and Billy and Mac began collecting plastic bottles to save the sea turtles and Fishtronaut turns it into a crib to protect the turtles. Later that night, the baby turtles began hatching from their eggs and then begin swimming on their own. The mother turtle thanks the trio and the twins for saving her babies. Billy is curious to know what the twins and the trio would do if the bottle crib is left behind. All of a sudden, another P.O.P. arrives towards the gang.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** crafting materials (a pair of scissors, a set of strings, and a bottle of glue)

Receiving the clues, the gang decides to build things with the bottles and use them as chairs during the next day. One of the bottles is used to make the model of a sea turtle to remind the gang about the newly born turtles. Zeek then starts playing with a model of the mother turtle in which Zeek starts playing with the model of her.

## Gallery

A recycled scene from The Case of the Gopher Frenzy with macaws.A recycled scene from The Case of the Gopher Frenzy with a butterfly.
## Trivia

* Some of the scenes are recycled from The Case of the Gopher Frenzy, where we see images of a flock of macaws flying and a purple butterfly. However, the scene with a squirrel is replaced by a scene with Marina playing jump rope with Fishtronaut and Zeek and with Marina and Zeek taking turns.