The Case of the Little Sheep

**The Case of the Little Sheep** is the thirty-fifth episode of Season 1 of Fishtronaut and the thirty-fifth episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Fishtronaut, Marina, and Zeek sailing their sailboats made of logs and leaves attached on them on a stream at Wavy River. However, Zeek started blowing on one of them to catch up with the opponent boats and Fishtronaut shouts out "That's not fair, Zeek!". All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards Fishtronaut and Marina. Marina tells Zeek to join in dancing with Fishtronaut and Marina to open the P.O.P., but continues blowing instead to win the sailboat race.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a wheel and a faucet

Receiving the clues, Fishtronaut and Marina are confused what the clues mean. While trying to blow his sailboat to reach the finish line, Zeek accidentally jumps on a mountain sheep that yells at Zeek to be cautious when he jumps. He also sees other sheep in which one of them yells at him for being a clumsy monkey. Fishtronaut and Marina arrive at the spot where Zeek is with the mountain sheep. Fishtronaut is curious why there are so many sheep grazing on the lower spot near the stream. Zeek is also curious where the sheep come from. Marina explains that the sheep are from the Green Hills and is curious why the sheep have left the Green Hills. One of the rams and the ewes explains that they came to the lower spot, because there is no more water and grass left at Green Hills. Zeek asks them if the sheep need a shepherd to take the water for the sheep. The ram also explains that the sheep that trio encountered are wild mountain sheep and this type of sheep doesn't need a shepherd to help; the ewe also explains that Zeek was thinking about their cousin: the domestic sheep, which are the types that give wool. The ram also says that their cousins live in the lower spot and the mountain sheep can't live there, because the weather is too hot for these types of sheep (since these types have no wool). The ewe also explains that the sheep must climb up the mountain up and down every day to find grass and water.

Fishtronaut then explains that the faucet clue is linked to the water for the sheep. Marina then explains that there must be a plan to take the water up to Green Hills. Fishtronaut then explains that the answer has something to do with the wheel. Zeek thought the wheel means the trio can take the water up the hills on a cart, but Marina says that this plan wouldn't work and the sheep need lots of water. Suddenly, the lead sheep brings the other sheep to their home as Marina says that sheep follow their leader to see who's the oldest and strongest of the herd. The trio decides to follow the herd of sheep to the Green Hills while Fishtronaut tells Zeek to conserve his energy as the path to the Green Hills is very difficult. While trying to reach the top of the Green Hills, Zeek started feeling tired and couldn't reach the top of the hills. Upon reaching the top of the hills, Fishtronaut found out there's not a single patch of grass left in the mountain and Marina found out there's not a drop of water in the stream. Marina then decides to take a picture of the drought to show it to her grandfather Dr. Green and then leave the Green Hills before the weather gets colder.

Meanwhile at the Beanstalk, Dr. Green explains to the trio that there isn't a sign of rain for a few days. Marina explains to them to know if the sheep need to keep looking for water far away from their home and Dr. Green then agrees that they should keep looking for water in case there is no rain and he thought that the same thing would happen to many animals that drink water anytime there's a drought. Dr. Green then explains the behaviour of two different types of sheep: domestic sheep can go to anywhere the shepherd takes them while mountain sheep prefer colder places, such as the tops of the hills. Fishtronaut and Marina have problems, such as the Green Hills far from the Beanstalk and Wavy River and the Green Hills are have high elevation. The trio then decides to go back to Wavy River, which is the same spot where the sheep started grazing near the river.

Zeek decided to use pipes to bring the water up to the Green Hills, but this plan didn't work and Marina explains to him that the water won't go up by itself to the river at the Green Hills. Fishtronaut tells Marina that the water always flows downhill and never flows uphill. Upon seeing a whirlpool that can make things spin, Zeek arrives carrying a pole with two buckets and as soon as he tries to fill them, he starts spinning to fill the water. Marina and Fishtronaut thought of a waterwheel. Fishtronaut starts making a plan to build the waterwheel, so he, the sheep, and the gang to work together to build the waterwheel. Having built the waterwheel, Fishtronaut then puts thread to connect the other waterwheel while the twins and Marina work together to put the buckets on the hooks to collect the water and bring it to the river of Green Hills. Having solved the case, the sheep then suggest the gang to celebrate the water's return to the hills. Marina then tells the sheep that it's too cold to celebrate with them. All of a sudden, another P.O.P. arrives.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** chullos and scarfs

Receiving the clues, the gang decides to celebrate the water's return with the sheep.

## Gallery

A recycled scene from The Case of the Gopher Frenzy with macaws.Another 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 a hippo diving into a pool with other hippos.

* This episode was included in the film compilation *Fishtronaut: Secret Agent of S.E.A.*.