Grandmas to the Rescue

**"Grandmas to the Rescue"** is the forty-fifth episode of the first season of *Sammy & Co*. It premiered on February 29, 2016, on Netflix.

## Synopsis

When Sammy and Ray get captured by a fishing boat, Ricky, Ella, Rita and Shelly have one night to find their way aboard and save the two grandfathers.

## Plot

The episode begins with Ray taking Sammy, Ella, and Ricky to a big school of jellyfish somewhere outside the reef village that he could figure the four of them could have a heyday. When Sammy expresses his concern that there's a little too many of jellyfish just for the four of them to chow down, Ray reveals that he would've invited both Rita and Shelly to join them if they haven't stayed behind at the island for their yoga class, though Ricky teases his grandfather that he didn't tell Rita about it because she doesn't allow him to eat too much jellyfish. Ricky and Ella are about to dig in, but Sammy and Ray both refuse to let them join them because the jellyfish are truly enormous and “they could be dangerous for children”. Sammy and Ray tell their respective grandchild to stay where they are and they promise they'll bring them back the little jellyfish for them to feast on. The two elderly best friends proceed to swim to the school of jellyfish and happily eat several of them, which Ella points out how Sammy and Ray are the ones who are behaving like real children because of their playful spirit while chasing after the jellyfish for their meal. But everyone's fun time gets abruptly interrupted when they see a large fishing net approaching them. Sammy pushes Ricky and Ella out of the way, but he and Ray are too late to get out of the way and they get captured by the fishing net.

Ricky and Ella both look out of the surface and see a fishing boat dumping Sammy, Ray, and the captured jellyfish onto a tub full of water. With their respective grandfather in danger, Ricky and Ella immediately swim after the boat to rescue them, but the boat goes too fast for the two juvenile sea turtles to catch up. Luckily, Ricky notices a rope dangling from the boat that he and Ella grab the rope and places it into the boat's propeller, causing the propeller to jam and the boat to come to a full stop. Ricky and Ella both look out of the surface and overheard a fisherman talking to someone on his phone that they'll wait for the repairmen later that night to come to repair the boat. This buys enough time for Ricky and Ella to rescue their respective grandfather before the repairmen arrive. Ella suggests they should go get help from the reef, but Ricky worries that by the time they come back from the reef with their rescue party, the repairmen would arrive and it would be too late for them. Ricky decides that they should climb up an anchor chain to get onto the boat to rescue Sammy and Ray as soon as possible. However, Ricky starts to regret his decision because of his acrophobia that he is starting to feel dizzy while he and Ella are climbing up the chain. Just then, Ella sees a seagull approaching that she has to retreat and lets herself fall into the water to protect herself from being eaten. She tries to get Ricky to get down immediately, but Ricky is afraid of heights that he refuses to let go of the anchor chain. But much to the two juvenile sea turtles' relief, the seagull who is approaching them is only their friend John. Ricky and Ella tell John what happened to their grandfathers so John carries them back to the island as fast as possible to get help from the reef.

At the island, Lulu is teaching his yoga class to Shelly and Rita. Just then, Ricky, Ella, and John all arrive and explain to the three about their situation. Ella asks her grandmother how they're going to save Sammy and Ray since she and Ricky have tried after they found it impossible to get up on that boat. Rita and Shelly assure the kids that the two of them, John, and Lulu are all going to help them infiltrate the boat to rescue their grandfathers. Shelly explains to everyone her plan that they have to pull it off. When the rescue party arrives at the fishing boat, John will drop Ricky and Ella onto the deck before he will fly up to the top of the mast to stand guard and guide her and Rita. Ricky and Ella have to let Sammy and Ray know about their plan so they can help pull it off without a hitch. If the fishermen aren't nearby, Lulu will climb up the anchor chain and get on the boat to deal with the ropes that he'll bring to Shelly and Rita. The ropes are connected to a wooden raft that Shelly and Rita will have to both lower down so that Lulu, Sammy, Ray, Ricky, and Ella could all climb onto it from the tub. Rita and Shelly would then have to pull back the rope to carry the raft and the four turtles and Lulu would all make their escape from the boat. Lulu and John both like Shelly's idea, but Ricky and Ella both express their doubts because of how complex and elaborate it is and they're worried there'll be something wrong while they're following Shelly's plan. Rita assures the kids that before they all live in the reef, the two turtle families have been confronted with all sorts of dangers so they know what they're doing when Shelly told everyone her elaborate scheme.

When night falls, the rescue party all arrive at the boat where they're ready to initiate their plan. Luckily for them, the repair boat hasn't arrived and the two fishermen are fast asleep in their cabin so the rescue party must take the time they have left to rescue Sammy and Ray. Everything goes off exactly what Shelly planned, but they run into a problem when Lulu can't get the second rope from the raft undone so he gestures to John to come down from his mast to help him. However, John flying down from the mast causes Shelly to mistake it for the signal to pull onto the rope, which causes the raft to start swinging around the boat. Ricky and Ella both conclude that nothing is going as planned and there'll be disastrous consequences at the end so they decide to do things their own way to avoid getting all of them caught. They tell John that they should forget about the ropes and instead, Ricky and Ella are going to use the fishing net as a ladder for Ray and Sammy. John grabs onto a fishing net that's near the tub, and Ricky and Ella are both pulling onto a net knot. However, it is Ricky and Ella's plan that causes a disastrous consequence when they accidentally knock a plastic bin over which causes a loud racket and wakes up the fishermen.

The fishermen both wake up to see Ricky and Ella on their boat and they suggest they'll sell the kids along with Sammy and Ray when they wonder out loud how the two get onto the boat all by themselves. With Ricky and Ella in danger, Shelly tells Lulu and Rita that they must improvise. Since Lulu can't get the second rope undone, Rita suggests they should use a more radical solution to rescue Sammy, Ray, Ricky, and Ella. Shelly tells Lulu that instead of trying to undo it, he should cut it instead, which Lulu does and he manages to knock the fishermen out cold when the raft falls down onto them to prevent the fishermen from grabbing Ricky and Ella. Lulu hands John the second rope that's still connected to the raft, and he gives it to Rita. Shelly and Rita both pull the ropes, causing the raft to move stably. Ricky and Ella are impressed to see that Shelly's plan works after all despite their worries.

With the repair boat approaching at any minute, Sammy pushes Ray onto the raft so he could get out of the fishing boat. However, Sammy is unable to fit onto the raft so he needs to take the next ride. Rita and Shelly both pull on the ropes, carrying Ray, Ricky, and Ella on the raft. Once the turtles are all above the water, Shelly lets go of her rope which allows Ray, Ricky, and Ella to all fall into the water. While Ray is happy to reunite with his wife, Rita and Shelly both pull on the rope again to rescue Sammy from the tub. Just then, one of the fishermen has woken up and he grabs onto the rope of the raft to stop it moving when Sammy is on it. Lulu leaps down from the mast and lands on the fisherman's face, attacking him which knocks him back out. This allows Lulu to get onto the raft and signals Shelly and Rita to pull onto the ropes. They carry Sammy to safety and he gets down into the water along with Lulu, happily reuniting with his clan.

While Lulu and the turtles are all heading home after their long rescue mission, Ricky and Ella both apologies to their respective grandmothers for not listening to them when they told them they should trust Shelly's plan since they're worried about it falling apart when they're initiating. But before they can get back to the reef, Ray notices another school of jellyfish and chases after it since he's very hungry after all their adventures, much to the rest of the turtles' amusement as they watch Ray feast on another jellyfish.

## Characters

### Major characters

* Ricky
* Ella
* Sammy
* Ray
* Shelly
* Rita
* John
* Lulu
* Two unnamed fishermen (antagonists)

### Minor characters

* Seagulls
* Jellyfish

## Trivia

* In the French version, the episode is called "Mamies tortues à la rescousse", meaning "Turtle grannies to the rescue".
* Despite this episode is the forty-fifth to aired on TiJi like its US airing order, it's the thirty-eighth episode to aired in France on M6.
* This is the second episode of *Sammy & Co* in which both Pipo and Annabel are absent.
* Sammy and Ray are both captured by a group of fishermen once again after *A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures* and *A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise*. However, this is not the third time they get captured because the opening illustration and animation of "Sammy's Reef" shows Sammy, Shelly, and Rita all trying to rescue Ray from another fishing boat.
	+ This is actually the second time Sammy and Ray both got captured by accident after the flashback of *A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures* since the fishermen's intentions are to catch fish and not the two turtles. However, it's later revealed that the fishermen have decided to sell Sammy, Ray, Ricky, and Ella after they catch them on their boat, which makes the fishermen are actually poachers.
* This is the second time in which Ricky and Ella have to rescue their respective grandfathers after they get captured by someone after *A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise*. The only difference is that Shelly, Rita, John, and Lulu all tag along to help them, and Sammy and Ray are both not deliberately captured, unlike the sequel film when the two turtles were captured by poachers and only Ricky, Ella, Annabel, and Margaret have to come to rescue them.
	+ And just like the sequel film, the episode's plot is similar to *Finding Nemo*.
* During the rescue mission, Lulu has trouble undoing the second rope of the raft. This is because Ricky and Ella have place it into the propeller of the boat earlier to stop it from going any farther. So as a result, the second rope gets jammed into the propeller and Lulu is unable to pull it out.
* When Ricky climbs up the anchor chain to get onto the fishing boat, he's shown to still haven't overcome his fear of heights yet after "Flying Turtles", "Feathered Turtle", and "The Clown Fish Syndrome".
* This is the third episode in which Ricky and Ella both ride on John after "Feathered Turtle" and "The Clown Fish Syndrome".
* This episode reveals that other than teaching the students of the reef at the shell school, Lulu also teaches yoga classes for Shelly and Rita.
* At one point, John mentioned to Ricky and Ella that if it wasn't for Sammy and Ray, then he wouldn't be there to help the kids get back to the island. He's referring to the events of *A Turtle's Tale 2: Escape from Paradise* when a group of poachers arrived at an island to capture Sammy and Ray, but they accidentally capture John as well when they throw a large fishing net over him. And while John is caught, Sammy and Ray have helped him escape which results in John becoming friends with them and the other reef inhabitants after they saved his life.

### Errors

* While chasing after the fishing boat, Ella doesn't appear in one frame from the edge of the screen until she suddenly appears slightly behind Ricky in the next.
* In Shelly's fantasy sequence, the rescue party initiates their plan at sunset. However, during the actual rescue mission, they initiate it at night.

## References

1. ↑ https://instantwatcher.com/title/80042306
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/m6/19-12-2014/
3. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/29-03-2015/
4. ↑ https://www.netflix.com/title/80042177