The Case of the Missing Crickets

**The Case of the Missing Crickets** is the thirty-ninth episode of Season 1 of Fishtronaut and the thirty-ninth episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with some of the park animals, including Zeek and Marina, sleeping in a peaceful night when we wear the sound of the crickets. All of a sudden, the chirps of the crickets have stopped and the animals, including Zeek and Marina are awake at night as they couldn't sleep without the chirping crickets. The next day, children are playing happily in the park while some tourists are confused with two giraffes sleeping during the day (the cause was a night without the sound of chirping crickets that prevents the park residents from sleeping). Suddenly, Fishtronaut wakes up early and tries to wake up Zeek. He is then confused why Zeek and Marina are sleeping during the daytime. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards Fishtronaut. However, Marina and Zeek are distracted by the nearby P.O.P..

**P.O.P. Clues:** a bicycle bell and a paper boat

Receiving the clues, the trio decides to look for clues near the ocean at Cicada Beach. All of a sudden, two crickets start emerging from the leaves to know if there are any strange creatures they would't play their music. While at Cicada Beach, Fishtronaut sees a box that was washed up ashore by the waves and behind the trio is a trail of animal tracks in which each track has five toes. The trio decides to follow the tracks which ends at the lake and Fishtronaut sees a tree frog in which Zeek confuses for an alien. Fishtronaut then asks the tree frog what she is afraid of. The tree frog is afraid of the giant frogs that were the cause of the disappearance of the crickets and none of the park residents have heard a single chirp of a cricket during the giant frog invasion. Marina thought of something missing last night: the sound of chirping crickets and the silence preventing the park residents from sleeping peacefully. Fishtronaut also doesn't know what a cricket chirp sounds like as he couldn't hear the chirp at the bottom of the lake and Zeek explains to him that crickets make a noise similar to the ring of a bicycle bell.

Before trying to bring the crickets back to the park, the trio decides to make a plan to find the giant frogs and Marina asks the tree frog what they look like. The tree frog describes a giant frog with spots, huge eyes, long legs, and a high jump. The trio decides to go to the Beanstalk Care Center to get help from Dr. Green and to find out what the giant frog looks like. At the Beanstalk, Dr. Green found out that the giant frog that jumps high and has giant eyes is a bullfrog. Dr. Green explains that bullfrogs come from another country and found out that bullfrogs have five toes while some other frogs have four toes. Dr. Green is curious about how the bullfrogs arrived in the park. Fishtronaut found out that the bullfrogs came out of the box washed up on the beach and the box came via boat (which is linked to the paper boat clue). Dr. Green started making a plan to get the bullfrogs out of the park, since bullfrogs could eat the available food and there wouldn't be anything left for little frogs to eat with the bullfrogs in the park. The trio decides to send the bullfrogs back home. The trio decides to go to Yellow Frog Swamp to find the bullfrogs.

At Yellow Frog Swamp, the bullfrogs are distracted by the ringing sound of the bicycle bell to confuse them for a cricket. The trio surprised the bullfrogs and before the bullfrogs can leave, Zeek thought of a plan to return them back home. The bullfrogs explain that they missed their home and giving out the reason why the bullfrogs ended up in the beach: a notorious smuggler captured them in the forest and locked them in a box for illegal pet trade in another country and in the middle of the storm, the box fell out of the ship and the box washed ashore in Cicada Beach. Marina found out that these types of frogs should belong in nature, and not to be sold in pet trades. The trio decides to send the home by plane while Fishtronaut decides to used the box to be rebuilt as a plane. Upon rebuilding the box as a plane, the gang then sends the bullfrogs to the plane while Fishtronaut brings the plane to Dr. Green's track. Dr. Green sends the bullfrogs back to the forest where Dr. Green has a friend who lives in the forest. All of a sudden, the crickets arrive and are satisfied that the bullfrogs have left and the crickets can continue chirping. Marina then explains to Zeek that crickets produce their sound by rubbing their back wings together and they use their front wings to hear. All of a sudden, another P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** concert props (a baton, two coconut shells, and a flute)

Receiving the rewards, the trio decides to have a concert with the crickets and the crickets begin dancing to the music.