The Case of the Kiwi Bird

**The Case of the Kiwi Bird** is the twenty-sixth episode of Season 1 of Fishtronaut and the twenty-sixth episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Billy and Mac pretending to be paleontologists by digging for strange things underground (confused to be dinosaur's track) and trying to examine the objects in the Treehouse. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards Fishtronaut, Marina, and Zeek. Marina tells the viewers to dance along to the rhythm of the P.O.P. to open it.

**P.O.P. Clues:** two kiwifruits and a nest

Receiving the clues, Zeek confuses the kiwifruits for a bird's eggs, which would grow into kiwi trees and the nest actually reminds the agents that a bird and its home may be in danger in the park. The gang decides to go to the Orchard to find a nest in danger to begin the mission. While at the Orchard, Fishtronaut found out there was no sign of a nest in danger so Fishtronaut and Marina tell Zeek to continue following them before he can continue playing in the tree. All of a sudden, a foreign-speaking frog arrives towards Zeek in the tree and Zeek tells the gang that he saw someone speaking in a foreign language.

Fishtronaut asks the foreign-speaking frog to know if there are any birds or nests in danger. Fishtronaut decides to use the World Language Translator to translate the frog's dialogue. Upon asking the frog, the Translator tells the gang that the frog did not see a weird thing. Fishtronaut then asks the frog if he is from China. As the frog responds to Fishtronaut, the Translator says that the frog is from China, like the kiwifruit. Fishtronaut then asks the frog if the kiwifruit is a fruit from China; the frog then responds to him and the Translator tells Fishtronaut that the kiwifruit is a fruit from China, just like the Chinese-speaking frog that is leaving.

As the frog leaves, Fishtronaut tells Marina and Zeek that the frog is not one of the animals from China in the park. Zeek thought of which animals are from China and Zeek thinks of the giant panda which is one of the animals from China living in the park. Marina tells Zeek that the panda is an animal from China who can help the trio on their journey. Upon meeting the pandas, one of them says that he only knows about bamboo and doesn't know much about kiwis. The panda is curious that the only thing he learned about kiwi is that once he picked up a kiwi, it was angry at the panda and it bit him. The kiwi creature is confused to be a fruit, just like the panda was telling the trio.

After leaving the pandas, Fishtronaut tells the gang to ask the birds (and a moth) if they see other birds that look like kiwifruits. Neither the woodpecker nor the owl moth (not a bird) have seen a bird that looks like a kiwifruit. As Fishtronaut asks a hummingbird if he saw a kiwifruit, the hummingbird responds to him that he saw some strange birds that look like kiwifruits at Adventure Forest and can't remember if he saw one or two of these birds and the birds are very hairy; Fishtronaut tells the hummingbird to ask them where he saw the kiwifruit-like birds in Adventure Forest. The hummingbird could not remember if he saw the kiwifruit-like birds in Adventure Forest and he states that he is a little confused. Fishtronaut thanks him for leading the gang to the path to Adventure Forest.

While looking for the kiwifruit-like bird, Zeek finds a strange brown feather and Marina found some weird animal tracks that lead to some strange birdlike creatures hiding in their burrow. Zeek confuses the two birds as "hairy penguins", but the birdlike creatures say that they are kiwi birds, a type of bird that originates from New Zealand. The father kiwi tells Zeek that kiwis can't fly, just like penguins. Zeek asks the kiwis if they are named after the kiwifruit; the mother kiwi asks the gang that the kiwifruit is named after the kiwi, due to her species' appearances. The gang introduces themselves and the mother kiwi isn't very happy, because she can't find her missing baby which disappeared earlier in the morning. Zeek asks what a kiwi's egg looks like; the father kiwi responds to Zeek that the egg is very large, which is large like an ostrich's egg.

While looking for the egg, Marina found Billy's toy dinosaur and Fishtronaut saw several footprints while scanning the ground; this reminds Marina that Billy and Mac were playing earlier this morning and she thought the twins took the kiwi egg while pretending to be paleontologists. The father kiwi decides to help the trio while the mother kiwi stays in her burrow to hope their egg arrives and approach the Beanstalk. While near the entrance of the Beanstalk, they found out Billy and Mac stole the kiwi's egg and Dr. Green says that the twins can't take someone else's egg without permission. Billy and Mac thought the kiwi's egg is a dinosaur egg, but Dr. Green says that the kiwi's egg is not a dinosaur egg. Dr. Green explains to the twins that there are different birds that lay different types of eggs (ostrich and rhea for example) and he can't remember other birds that lay different types of eggs. Marina tells her grandfather to meet their kiwi assistant named "Kiwi", the egg's father.

Dr. Green found out that the egg belongs to a kiwi, which is from New Zealand. He also explains that female kiwis only lay one egg at a time, which could be the reason why Kiwi's wife is worried. Kiwi is impressed that the agents found his egg while Billy and Mac apologize to Kiwi's wife for taking her egg. All of a sudden, her egg begins to hatch and out came a female kiwi chick. Kiwi decides to call the baby chick "Marina", named after one of the secret agents. Zeek and Kiwi decide to give the newborn chick two suggested names that are named after the agents who helped the kiwis. The gang decides to have a picnic and another P.O.P. arrives.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** binoculars

Receiving the reward, Marina decides to use the binoculars to find things that are hard to see. The gang then decides to play with the binoculars to see other birds.

## First Appearances

* Chinese-speaking Frog

* Kiwi

* Mrs. Kiwi

* Kiwi chick (*no lines*)

## Trivia

### English Dub Edits

* In Portuguese and Spanish, one of the birds mentioned by Dr. Green is a rhea. In English, the bird was incorrectly called an emu, probably as a translation error. Coincidentally, both are flightless birds and are both ratites, a type of flightless birds.