The Case of the Banana Gang

**The Case of the Banana Gang** is the ninth episode of Season 2 of Fishtronaut and the sixty-first episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Zeek getting some bananas that are dropped by four big monkeys who are hiding on top of the trees and taunting him and laughing at him after slipping on one of the banana peels. Zeek tries to escape from the big monkeys, but they prevent him from doing so and one of them calls him "Big Ears", despite Zeek not having actual big ears and Zeek is bullied by the four monkeys. Meanwhile, Zeek towards Fishtronaut and Marina to play cartwheels like the two. However, they see Zeek with hair that has a resemblance to the big monkeys (in which Fishtronaut and Marina like). Meanwhile, Zeek meets the big monkeys again and confuse him for having big ears as Zeek tells the monkeys that he must meet Fishtronaut and Marina. The big monkeys then continue taunting him for his hair that has a resemblance to one of the big monkeys. One of them says that Zeek cannot join the gang, because his is different from the other four and the four big monkeys decide to eat bananas.

Back to Fishtronaut and Marina, Zeek changed his hair with another resemblance to one of the big monkeys. Behind the trio is an anteater who tells the trio if he wants to play with him as Fishtronaut makes a suggestion to play tennis. Zeek insults the anteater by calling him ugly and his nose for being too big and Zeek tells Fishtronaut and Marina that "no one cool wants to play with an anteater". Fishtronaut then tries to tell the anteater that he didn't mean to be rude, but the anteater refuses to return to him; Marina tells Zeek that the words that he said to the anteater are very rude and insulting towards him. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a thermometer and a jar of hair gel

Receiving the clues, Marina tells Zeek that why is he getting ideas from hairstyle having a resemblance to the naughty big monkeys' hair. The trio decides to go to Monkey Island to see if they can discover something in which Zeek thought the other monkeys won't like his hairstyle. Meanwhile, the trio hears the laughing big monkeys in which Marina thought the big monkeys are laughing at funny jokes and confuses them for Zeek's friends. The big monkeys approach Zeek in which Zeek doesn't want to be taunted by the four and crashes into a tree as the worse part is when the four monkeys continue bullying him for not walking right like the four are. The four big monkeys decide to leave for better stuff to do.

Meanwhile, Marina and Fishtronaut are having a talk with Zeek, which could be the reason why he doesn't want to arrive towards the big monkeys as Zeek should have told him what was going on with him (one example would be like telling Fishtronaut and Marina that the monkeys are being rude to him). Zeek then remembers when he was rude to the anteater by insulting him and this thought is shared with the big monkeys who were rude to him by insulting and calling him "Big Ears". Marina tells Zeek to apologize to the anteater for being rude to him. Zeek then sees a female anteater (which is confused to be the same one that Zeek was rude to him, as this is a different anteater who was not insulted by Zeek) as Marina tells her that she is worried. The female anteater says that her male friend has disappeared and was very sad, because of Zeek being rude to him (which is linked to the thermometer clue). The trio decides to find the female anteater's friend and apologize to him. At a cold area in the park, Zeek then apologizes to the anteater for being rude to him. Having apologized to the anteater, Zeek is worried that the Banana Gang (the four big monkeys) is making fun of Zeek and Zeek thought that he would never return to Monkey Island, because of the rudeness of the Banana Gang. Fishtronaut makes a suggestion to show that the big monkeys are wrong towards Zeek. All os a sudden, another P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** animal costumes

Receiving the clues, the trio decides to put on a costume party in the park with everyone in costumes to show how everyone is different. The animals then started wearing costumes to show how everyone is different. Meanwhile, the Banana Gang arrives towards Zeek (who has spiky hair and dressed as an anteater). Zeek escapes from the Banana Gang and does a cartwheel towards them. The Banana Gang is impressed that Zeek did an awesome cartwheel in which one of the members says that Zeek could teach them how to do cartwheel. The Banana Gang apologizes to Zeek for being rude to him and for calling him "Big Ears". The animals are happy with each other in a situation of being different from each other and started being themselves.

## Musical Interlude Lyrics

**Singer:** *We're animals in the park in harmony with nature, and we'll never be apart. Every day is an adventure.*
*And we'll never be apart, every day is an adventure!*