The Case of the Hidden Treasure

**The Case of the Hidden Treasure** is the twelfth episode of Season 2 of Fishtronaut and the sixty-fourth of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Fishtronaut and Zeek who encounters a squirrel in which Zeek plays with his yo-yo made from a walnut. The squirrel says that he must go to his mother who is waiting for him for lunch. Having untangled Zeek, he and Fishtronaut decide to meet Marina at the Beanstalk Care Center. Inside, Fishtronaut and Zeek encounter Marina who has a muffin piggy bank, in which Marina explains to Zeek that he puts money inside the piggy bank. Fishtronaut tells Marina to know what would she do with the coins; Marina says that she saved the coins to buy a giant encyclopedia of flowers for her grandfather. Marina explains to Zeek that an encyclopedia is a very big book that has sorts of information about a subject; the encyclopedia she was talking about has the flowers around the world. Marina tells Fishtronaut and Zeek that the encyclopedia is very expensive to buy and she doesn't have enough money to afford one. She then explains that the round objects that Zeek sees are coins, a type of money that was used for purchasing. Marina says that a banana is worth one coin as a parrot is curious that he sees the coins from Marina's piggy bank. Fishtronaut then explains that the animals in the park don't need to buy anything, because of resources of foods encountered in the park and Marina says that people need to pay for bananas with money. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a treasure chest and a golden banana

Receiving the clues, Marina is curious that there is buried treasure in the Banana Grove. The trio decides to go to Banana Grove to see what is happening there. While going to Banana Grove, the trio sees a sloth who is trying to find bananas; Zeek is curious to know why the animals are going after the bananas. Suddenly, a marmoset tells the trio that the bananas at the Banana Grove have disappeared. The marmoset then finds the last banana that was from the Banana Grove at lunch time and he explains that the banana trees are empty and only one was left. The trio decides to find the missing bananas while Marina thinks that the missing bananas are buried, like treasure and Fishtronaut explains that the clues are related to the missing bananas in the park. Fishtronaut and Marina decide to ask the ants if there are any buried bananas in the park.

Meanwhile, Zeek is trying to find bananas and he finds an anteater who is mistaken for a thief who stole bananas. The anteater says that he never talked to the parrot and the parrot was the one who traded the anteater his bananas for his coloured pencil. Meanwhile, Fishtronaut and Marina encounter an ant carrying a birdie. The two are both happy that she has a beautiful birdie in which the ant bought the birdie from the parrot for one banana. The ant also explains that the parrot paid one banana for her pink box and used the banana to buy this birdie. Marina found out that the bananas are being used as currencies, just like coins to buy things. Fishtronaut and Marina then decide to find and talk to the parrot.

The trio arrived to a tree where items have a price tag with an image of bananas on it. While trying to dig to find buried bananas, the parrot yells at the trio to stop taking the bananas he collected from the other animals. Marina tells the parrot to know what the park's bananas were doing under the tree. The parrot tells Marina that he wants to have a lot of bananas in which Zeek tells him that the parrot *doesn't* own the bananas and Marina tells the parrot that the bananas in the park belong to everyone and bananas are not to be used as coins to buy things. The parrot says that each banana is worth one coin, in which he remembers Zeek saying this at the Beanstalk Care Center; Marina says that a banana is worth any coin, depending on a person who goes to any supermarket to buy or sell a banana and this doesn't mean a banana is a coin. The parrot doesn't know what a coin looks like, so Marina explains to him that a coin is made of metal and there are different sizes and worth the amount written on them. Marina also tells the parrot that coin trees do not exist; she also explains that adults earn money at work and some children get allowances. Fishtronaut says that here in the park, animals do not have to worry about money and the parrot decides to take away all the items that have banana price tags on them. Having solved the mission, another P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** a key

Receiving the reward, Marina uses the key and inside the treasure chest clue is full of party decorations. The trio decides to have a surprise party with Dr. Green on his birthday. Billy and Mac arrive towards the trio and Marina tells the twins to put their money together to buy the giant encyclopedia of flowers for him. At the Beanstalk Care Center, Dr. Green is happy with his friends who celebrated his birthday and Marina hands him the giant encyclopedia of flowers as a birthday present for him, in which this is the book he really wanted.